skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is we spent all our money on scientists studying global warming. Had we split the spending between studying global warming and studying how to propagandize people into caring about / believing global warming we would have spent half the money and solved the problem by now.

Take my country, Canada, for example. If you think about all the money and blood we poured into WW2 and you compare it to what it would cost to move to a carbon neutral economy it just pales in comparison. It's like laughable how fixable this is. WW2 was like 30 global warmings. So why didn't people balk in the 30s and 40s?

Because they cared and they believed they could do something about it. I feel like the world has this sludge about it these days. Almost nobody does anything anymore. They kinda float around and raise taxes a point here or there. We more than doubled them to fight the Nazis.

I can kinda see why Elon Musk is freaking out and building five different companies trying to save the world.
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I used to do the same thing using foobar2000, typically by providing the playlists as CDs, often even with a nice label. At some point people started to have no CD player anymore and just used Bluetooth from their phones. That's certainly a nice thing too, but it made me stop doing CD playlists. Therefore I wonder: what is your typical medium/platform for doing this nowadays? For just bringing a playlist with me, I could use my phone, sure. But how to actually give a playlist to people, especially for some rather rare music or own recordings? A Spotify link doesn't do it all the time.
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Won't this just push more puppy mills to sell, ahem re-home, animals on Craigslist?

I don't see this solving the problem it was intended to solve.
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Wait what , any number with 911 will be redirected ?

Does that for a 10 digit phone number out of 10! all possibilities, 8! are gone ?

Can there only be 3588480(10! - 8!) safe phone numbers ever ?
> 99% of companies will never hit big company VCS scaling issues

A much higher percentage of developers will. Number of companies is not a good metric for whether a topic is worthy of discussion.
has a vision of a world where mobile OSes look like their messaging app portfolio

Prepare for 5 different Google OSes all of which support a slightly different featureset
If it's a problem that will follow anywhere experiencing strong economic growth, that's a problem that can affect everyone indirectly. It probably hurts young opportunity-seekers most though.
"People may still buy dogs or cats directly from breeders."
How AI Found Flint’s Lead Pipes, and Then Humans Lost Them
Finger-printing is not PII. And the people blackmailing you because you're interested in both finger painting and the orficial applications of pine cones would not be entirely sure it was you. If they had an email address, name, or IP address with a timestamp, then they could be quite certain it that it was you.
I think this was understood even in the earliest days of bitcoin. The centralized system of "playing fair" was the protocol, which as you point out, is a centralized community standard. Blockchain is independent actors following a common protocol. If the actors don't follow the centralized, common protocol then the economy disintegrates.
At Lord and Taylor, Everything Must Go. A Daughter’s Guilt Will Remain
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Overpriced and due for a correction
I've seen C-like, Rusty, and ___Script (meaning related to JS). Lisp is a family. I'm not sure why you think "Pythonic" is some new vein of elitism, because to me it just seems like it's telling people that Coconut is easy to learn if you know/like Python already.

That said, it immediately told me that I wouldn't be interested in Coconut, so I also found the label valuable as a non-Python person.
Right, and it is right up there with https://www.blackhat.com/us-18/briefings/schedule/index.html, whose security value was unappreciated by some very smart folks.
Well in Finland you can (eg. Elisa has opened the first 5g networks already). Only the client hardware is missing now :)

And we are "soon" moving to 6G anyhow, maybe I'll skip 5G :) https://www.oulu.fi/6gflagship/
It's important to recognize the serving size of these cereals, as you pointed out. CTC and Special K Oats are comparable (12 and 11G of sugar), but Special K Oats is a sugary cereal. It is not original, plain Special K. It's not really healthier than Cookie Crisp despite the "healthy" branding.

Unsweetened/barely sweetened cereals like plain Special K and Rice Krispies are much better for you than CTC or equivalents.

Also, just about nobody eats one single serving of any of these cereals, either. Probably multiply by 2 for a typical person. They have basically no protein or fat so they don't fill you up. 1.33 grams of protein per cup for Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Breakfast cereals don't make you feel full for a long time.

Obviously bacon isn't necessarily something to consume a lot of. You could substitute a lot of other similarly easy to consume proteins.

Let's go with another easy one: plain greek yogurt. Per 150G container, it's got 80 calories, 6g carbs, and 15g of protein. It's got exactly the same amount of sugar as 1 1/4 cups of unsugared cereal like Rice Krispies (before adding milk), while giving you 15x more protein. It's going to keep you full a lot longer than that bowl of cereal. As a bonus, yogurt is even easier to prepare than cereal.
Reframe "Carbon Taxes" as a "Carbon Dividends" and you might be able to change the psychology of the populace. The recently failed bi-partisan Carbon Tax bill attempted to do just that by establishing a revenue neutral carbon tax where the proceeds were distributed as "dividends" directly to citizens.

But I agree, getting popular support has been very hard and will continue to be problematic.

Ars Technica writes that although this bill failed, it will help shape the debate to come.

Oh and Exxon Mobile spent $1mm to support the group lobbying for the Carbon Tax.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/bipartisan-carbo...
> The idea of actively controlling a rover rather than having it perform pre-programmed routines seems highly desirable.

Rover, probably (which I considered payload functions). For delivery vehicle during passive parts of the trajectory the value is doubtful.

Plus, the standard way of getting a ground station outside a country's land footprint is to put one on a ship. That's what Soviet Union did and I suspect this is what China is doing now.
I've seen some videos of Canon Cat, but I must be missing something because I'm not aware of it being any sort of GUI. It looked to me like a text editor with "no save" (always automatically synced to disk), and keyboard support for Emacs-style isearch (very cool).

For ideas on how to map keys to nodes/edges, there's other places I'd look. For example, lots of video games let you easily move along edges of a graph using just 4 (or 8) direction arrows.

"State transitions" are one very specific kind of graph, and my thought is a generic editor. Think lower level. State transitions as comic frames could be a major-mode that the user installs, if they know they'll need to edit a lot of transitions, but it should also support "I know nothing about this except it has nodes/edges", like fundamental-mode is for text.
> if I merge a refactor that changes everything from Pascal case to 100% SHOUTING, reviews now need to take this into account.

To be fair, if you get away with merging that refactor, the review that needed more attention was of that refactor ;-)
Those immigrants want to move to the same urban centers because they're looking for work, not a retirement home, so the issue remains.
My only gripe with this is that I like to get in early in the mornings to get work done before everyone else comes in and the distractions start. There is one other person that comes in as early as I do, and he will occasionally come over and start a conversation and just won't stop. It doesn't matter if I'm wearing headphones or anything. He's a nice guy and I will sometimes go along with it, but other mornings when I have a lot to do it drives me crazy.
It's not hard to detect that, either.

A $2,000 "rescue" animal for sale at a pet shop clearly isn't a rescue. (Especially if it comes with a purebred certificate!)
A cookie wouldn’t let you continue from another computer (or browser) where you left off. If it stores scores from different “levels” or any significant amount of data local storage would be better than a cookie. Still, that wouldn’t let you continue where you left off on another machine/browser.
>They see it as adding mind altering chemicals to water, which couldn't be further from truth.

>We've added lithium to drinking water which has been linked to decrease in dementia.

Pick one.
One of these classes is wildly better equipped to care for an animal.
The are considerably simpler than the equivalent feature in C++ (template metaprogramming).
I'm not sure I agree. While there are obvious benefits to cooperation, competition has benefits too.

I think the best cooperation is in terms of emergency rescue, backup communications, and sharing scientific results.

Emergency rescues mean compatible docking systems to that if an opportunity arises technical problems don't stop the rescue. Of course actually catching something in space in time to pull off a rescue is nearly impossible, but just in case the orbits line up...

Emergency rescue also means that moon/mars missions should plan to land ~10km from each other - while the area of exploration is greatly limited it means in the worst case you can walk to the other for safety. It also means a party in the middle one day - moral is itself an emergency.

Backup communication means that radio frequencies are compatible. That way "our relay can't reach our rover" can turn to "but we can - let us control it".
Yeah I missed this HN; it's in my area of expertise.

I don't mean to be hostile, but I don't know how else to say it: I don't know why or how posts like this, and most of what Taleb posts, get this much attention, because they're so ironically unscientific and poorly written. Taleb doesn't know what he's talking about, he selectively cites research, and makes assertions as if they are citations. The citation you provide is one example; there are scientists (e.g., Lubinski) who have successfully demonstrated over the course of years of research the validity of scores on the upper end of the intelligence distribution. Taleb comes across as an uninformed idiot.

Taleb falls into these common fallacy traps regarding intelligence and individual differences research:

1. Some improper use of intelligence theory historically (e.g., racist, overapplication) doesn't mean the idea of intelligence is invalid or not useful.
2. A trait such as intelligence can be highly but not perfectly stable; environment can contribute to stability and genetic factors can contribute to changes.
3. Measures can be imperfect but still useful and valid, throughout the range.
4. The contribution of other factors to outcomes other than intelligence doesn't mean general intelligence isn't contributing as well.
5. The phenomenon of general intelligence doesn't preclude the existence of more specific ways of describing cognitive abilities (e.g., verbal memory, processing speed, visual mental simulation).

Someone else posted something about how political IQ and individual differences research is. I feel about these topics how I imagine ecologists must feel about global warming research: lots of gish gallop by people who have a political or narcissistic axe to grind.

Another problem is that people want to believe that problems in behavioral sciences can be reduced to really simple black or white positions, or apply analogies from other fields directly without any modification. Yes, you can measure behavioral attributes, but no it's not quite ordinal and not quite ratio, and that's fine. Yes things can be somewhat stable and somewhat not. The list goes on and on.

Finally, there's this narcissistic status-asserting behavior that drives a lot of this. It's like the pecking order in science that goes something like physics > chemistry > biology > behavioral science is driven in part by people feeling the need to assert that they're smarter than people lower in the hierarchy. The problem is that this hierarchy is basically wrong, and driven in part by the system complexity of the fields, but it doesn't stop people like Taleb because he needs someone to bully to make himself look smarter.
To be fair, back in the day, both Java and C# were intended to be C++-ish. Javascript itself was famously remodelled to be Java-ish. When Coffeescript came out, it intentionally modelled itself after the brevity of Python. There are lots of Lisp derivatives and Forth-likes (Forth-like is even a pretty established term). ML derivatives are popular. I don't think it's just Python.

Edit: Of course I should have read TFA before replying. Of course this is not a Python like language, but a language that compiles to Python. I agree the cute name is confusing, but if the point is to compile to a specific language, saying what that language is is pretty important ;-)
They used javascript and that airplane crashed because of no dependency issues
Just as an FYI, “disingenuous” means that you think that the person making the argument actually believes that the argument is false, or is purposefully omitting relevant facts. It is more or less synonymous with “insincere”. I’m assuming that “disingenuous” is not what you meant.
Zandi is the chief economist at Moody's Analytics.

Does Moody’s stand to benefit more or less directly from the policy changes being advocated here?
But Coconut seems to be a superset of Python (all valid Python is valid Coconut). Seems like a very good and succinct adjective to use to attract Python users who otherwise wouldn’t be interested in a new language.
I feel like a lot of arguments against monorepos assume micro services are the _only_ option on the other side.

I tend to break up most of my projects at the edge of business logic or domain logic and lean on a
package manager to “deploy together” like any other dependency that’s not in your repo.

This allows teams to work independently without a large sprawling repo. If you’re following anything semver-ish hopefully your other teams in the company aren’t breaking releases and you can auto-upgrade on patch level changes. If not, we’ll thank goodness CI is there.

I’ve always had difficulty working in projects with too many purposes. This helps me focus where to put things and gives an easy point of escape if a dependency needs to become a service in the future.
Aren’t you possibly doing the reverse with your anecdote?

The points raised: higher interests rates, higher construction costs, flat home building stats, slower price growth, and historically low homeownership rates are countrywide facts, not specific to San Fran.
My grandmother died from this, and it is a horrible death. I really fear becoming a victim to this disease. Anything that can help, even a little, is so encouraging.
It really does just mean idiomatic python. The word itself is almost a mash up of those two.

And I don't see how that's a problem? Every language has a subculture around it, language specific jargon, even inside jokes.

Pythonic stems from the idea of simple ways to do "stuff", and that's pretty much it.
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But if we are talking about embedded, we shouldn't be making comparisions with ReactJS then. Of course the latter is going to be easier to get into than embedded C++, but not because of JavaScript vs. C++.
At some point blaze added the concept of visibility to control dependencies, so teams can whitelist users of their code. Though you can always comment it out while developing locally.
This is a key point. If the false positive rate is 18% (as noted in other comments), and the rate of Alzheimer's is 36/100k[1], then for every patient the test correctly identifies, there are 500 patients that tested positive but did not have Alzheimers. There needs to be significant improvement before such a test becomes useful.

[1] that's mortality rate which I am using as a proxy for incidence rate, though the actual incidence rate is presumably higher (mortality rate from the CDC)
All of the things you listed are in the miners control. Of course this requires economic means, but just having economic right is not enough, you still need to contribute to mining.
I think that "pythonic" does mean something, and that when they say "pythonic" they are actually trying to communicate something.

JS and Java... well they're not something I think a lot of programmers want to be. JS has a pretty complicated ecosystem that a lot of developers don't like. Java is good at what it's good at, but it's not very fun.

What I see a lot of is "lisp" or "lisp-like" and "pythonic". Those languages are notable for being considered fun by a lot of programmers.

But yes, it's idiomatic. Python is an idiomatic programming language that has sacrificed a lot for that ideology. Now that guido is gone it's less ideological, and we're getting things like type-hinting.

When people try to apply that same ideology to other fields, sometimes they call it pythonic. When they try to apply the lisp ideology to other fields, they just call it a lisp dialect instead of lisp-ish.
ISS is in freefall though, which simulates 0G. Yes technically gravity is almost as strong as on the surface where ISS orbits, but there is no normal force opposing gravity.
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To be fair, he was 17. I think you learn a lot about how to be an employee on the job.
I'm aware of Cython and RPython. RPython is super cool but it isn't really a general purpose programming language. Cython is superficially similar to what I want, but it's always put me off; not sure why off the top of my head. I do love Go, however. :)
I think it stems from Python's "There's only one right way to do things" philosophy. You can write Python that looks almost identical to Java, but that will likely be seen as overly verbose and complex in Python circles. I don't know if this is elitism, or just a desire for consistency and brevity among tools and libraries
I'm also running PeP-free mode and I'm satisfied with it. I'm thinking that maybe after initial configuration it just works so the problem is largely setup.

As for keyservers even GnuPG is diminishing their role. Web Key Directory is promoted as a replacement for discovery and updates of keys. Coincidentally Enigmail will automatically fetch recipients keys using WKD when composing an email. For example kernel is using it (https://www.kernel.org/category/signatures.html#using-the-we...) so does ProtonMail.
Are you familiar with F#?
You certainly have to write several logic yourself like making the physics engine (minimal one), object detection, resource loading hiding logic etc, which is not trivial in scratch. There may be other built for games platform that provide these features for free..
Looking to frozen frogs for clues to improve human medicine
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Coconut seems anti all of those. In particular all of the weird infix operators ( ` $.> `, ` :&$ `, etc) [1]. Gives me flashbacks to dealing with Haskell.

[1]: I just made those up, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were real.
No, this assumes you know how dementia forms. There are no evidence that lithium alters the brain in any way.
Note that Scratch 1 could also be distributed in the browser using the Squeak VM plugin. Except school IT people wouldn't allow students and teachers to install that as too dangerous (meaning, they hadn't heard of it) but they would allow the Flash Plugin to be installed. So the rewrite was to solve a political issue rather than a technical one. Sadly, this happened right when some key people decided that Flash was evil, so a second rewrite became necessary.
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Nope. It’s fine to have the substring “911” in your phone number. This guy must have experienced a hiccup in the system somewhere. What I want to know is how he managed to get a secret landline installed in his parents’ house.
Kind of where my mind went. People who go to shelters know or have a generally good idea they're getting a pet that may or may not have a history.

Sometimes that history is an aggressive one and the animal is going to need a LOT of attention to train out undesirable habits. I have such a dog and we went through such a period.

Is the 17 year old at Petsmart trained for those types of rescue animals? I sure hope so.
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