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>The Rhodium report is not the first clue that 2018 was basically a terrible year for the climate. Last month, two studies also found that worldwide carbon emissions surged in 2018. This change is a discouraging sign, since global emissions stagnated through the middle of the decade.

Between this article and events such as the fuel tax protests in France, I have no hope of coming up with a political solution to global warming before it's too late. Our only hope is a technical solution.

If you look at population growth, starting with Malthus, people warned of the dangers of overpopulation and urged people to abstain from sex, so as not to have too many children. Despite grim warnings that didn't happen. Then medical science came up with a pill a that a woman could swallow once a day which would prevent pregnancy. As people over the world gained access to it, the population growth rate has declined, and the population is projected to stabilize. I sincerely hope that something like this will be the story with global warning.
I have worked both in academia and in the industry. Academia is heaven when compared to some of the serpentine performance evaluations in the industry. I have even seen people in the same team undermining each other's work because the top 2 in the group would earn a bonus.

The real merit of academia is that people can be alone in a corner doing one's work, if they choose to. Industry enforces socialisation, conformity to norms, and shmoozing.

Also, the track record of the academic world vis-a-vis disruption is impressive. The oldest western universities are around 900 years old.

That said, the article seems to be a fluff piece about a good but not groundbreaking paper. (Nature MI is not Nature, not by a long shot. It does not have any prestige, yet.)
Yep. People often ask me how I remember so much stuff and I really just remember a skeleton of knowledge that I reconstruct when needed. Like I know a general ordering of historical events for example and a few years, but I don’t remember the year everything happened. And I don’t even memorize the order but rather causal connections. If someone asked me when something happened or who the president or the king of England was, I try and piece it together from what I know of the context.
I was excited to see all of the new forms of communes showing up in Rojava (see https://itsgoingdown.org/the-communes-of-rojava-a-model-in-s...). Now it appears that the big governments aren't too happy to see them flourish.
I had some involvement with sears holding back in 2006-2008, and I remember thinking why were they selling all these clothes? Who the F buys clothes at sears?? It’s going to die of irrelevance. Cut it down to the Kenmore / craftsman brands that actually are unmatched by anything at target, Walmart, or Amazon, and build an awesome services biz supporting.

My biggest surprise is they managed to survive this long. At some point I realized it was a money grab by the CEO, lose money today, get valuable real estate for years to come.
They still look absolutely ridiculous. The way they hover above the nose just looks silly...They either need to look EXACTLY like a normal pair of sunglasses, or embrace what they are and make them look very different from sunglasses.

They should've gone for full-on 50's bottle bottom nerd glasses. Maybe take a cue from Brutalism, Frida Kahlo, and EletroBOOM and branched out with it's own pseudo monobrow aesthetic. (Is it just me, or do a lot of Brutalist buildings seem to be trying to convey an abstract sort of monobrow look?)
A market of 512M well situated people surely is not an issue to ignore, great business advice here...
I moved all my automation from HA to Node Red about 8 months ago and can't imagine switching back. I had a few advanced automation scripts written in yaml and Jinja2, which were really difficult to get right in the first place, and then annoying to maintain and worse to debug.

Node-Red isn't perfect, but it's far better, in my opinion. Also it's great to be able to watch the automation step through in the UI while debugging and tweaking things.

HA is an excellent hub for getting everything to talk to everything else and their recent updates to the z-wave integration, especially allowing me to name entities in the UI makes it really powerful for me. Their list of hardware and API integrations is mind-blowing to me. I just _really_ don't enjoy the way they went about scripting automation.
Surely you can connect WWII with the early years of computer science at the very least :)
There's a pivot point for when going to college doesn't have the ROI, IMO. I got a CS degree at 22 and did an MBA in my 30s. When I did a law degree in my late 30s I quickly realized it wasn't worth it unless I was doing it for the pure academic PoV. But I wanted a law degree to practice law but decided that it wasn't worth it in my case. I was almost 40.

FWIW, I also discovered there are two types of law degree. A Harvard law degree and a non-Harvard law degree. It was quite an eye opener that one.
The economics/politics of it is a different issue. I am concerned about the danger of tricking people's minds into thinking the body has consumed something with nutritional value other than it really has. Humans have been consuming beef for a long time.
There's increasing evidence showing that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption and that the supposed benefits are outweighed by the harms:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-45283401

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Development_of_a_rat...

I think outlawing it now would be about as successful as the first Prohibition in the USA (i.e. not at all) but I do think it should be regulated more closely (e.g. very strong restrictions on alcohol advertising and perhaps plain packaging and black box warnings similar to cigarette packaging) and that the dangers of alcohol should be taught more widely.
won’t make a successful product if they don’t solve the fashion problem first

How about Daft Punk inspired Sci-fi helmet? Lots of job site functionality could make use of hard hat plus safety goggles aesthetics. Welder's masks?
Agreed. Worth checking his other posts as well, he has some fantastic articles on a wide variety of subjects.
Taking it to an even further extreme, what about competing private countries? Or even economic alliances like the EU, ... for-profit world government even?
I felt the same way but I tried playing implementing a quick idea in Lazarus last year and I swear it was the fastest ramping up I've ever had. Pascal/Delphi are a little weird but I found them easy to pick up.

Then again my very first programming experience was in VB so I might be biased :)

If anything is wrong with it, I'd say some of the widgets are little out of date or lacking, but since most of that maps to GTK primitives it's only when you need something weird that you might have to start hacking, since there probably isn't an open-source tool lying around like we'd be used to with JS/ruby/go
The parent has specifically mentioned that they love animals, and it's pretty easily to see why: animals are much easier to relate to, can show pain easily, and are much more similar to us than plants are.
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Is ground beef considered processed meat?
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Beer in the medieval period through 19th century was hardly alcoholic, so this is a foolish argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_beer

>At mealtimes in the Middle Ages, everyone could drink small beer, including children, while eating a meal at the table. Table beer was around this time typically less than 1% ABV.
Like Wii We would have been better
My interest was rekindled by the Acquisitions Incorporated Podcasts with Chris Perkins and Penny Arcade.
WeWeChat

It's basically a Weception at this point
I don't think it is overlooked. JavaScript doesn't scale, both in terms of code complexity (callback hell) and across cores, and the "gold standard" these days is microservices, which has a ton of issues.

If you want to look at bolt-on async working, check out C# or Rust. They've basically taken JavaScript's new async/await and added threading (at least Rust has, not sure about C#). You can write an async app and have it run in a thread pool without much fuss.

I don't know what the story is for Java, but seeing as C# is effectively the same thing, it's not hard to imagine adding async being easier than adding threads or performance to JavaScript.
Oh, and Web sites are limited to one notification per day and those are not emails of course.
We do have faux leather. I have yet to find one that behaves like leather for footwear, however: Faux leather causes me to develop foot fungus. I can wear cloth, but by the time it gets treated as necessary, I'm not sure we are improving over the leather. But hey, it can improve.

Nut milks are an odd thing. They aren't really nutritionally the same nor do they behave similarly while cooking. The taste is lacking and I highly doubt they can make cheese. And if I remember correctly, many nuts milks are also bad for the environment - much better to just eat the nuts. I don't know if this is the same for oat milks. Soy milk is simply not edible. (I don't personally drink milk, but do cook with it).

Milk is truly one of those things that has to replace all functions for it to be a viable switch. The same goes for eggs.

All this basically to say that just because there is an alternative doesn't really mean it is viable. Cotton doesn't replace wools and neither do synthetic fabrics, for example. Not to mention that at least some synthetics are made with petroleum products. I always hope they are otherwise waste products from producing fuel (like many other plastics), but I'm not sure.
Not drinking can have a negative sociological and emotional effect regardless of how society views alcohol. I've had numerous interesting/strange life experiences that probably wouldn't have been possible without alcohol. I'll gladly pay the price of having a few bad hangovers and worse factual recall to (hopefully) continue to have those kinds of experiences.
Successful consumer product, which is what they are going for according to the article
I'm a big fan of what you're trying to do here - have been using the app for a while now. Feel free to contact me - my email is on my profile. I put on dinners in SF that might be helpful too.
> how we spoon fed them with corpses since their very first moments

I have not seen meat recommended as food to give newborn infants, ever. They don't even eat solid meals!
I'd beg to differ, XUL produced very clean native UI yet accepted styling with CSS years before I'd seen anything else like it. At the time I was writing Firefox addons and I was blown away but what I could do with it vs. WinForms or somesuch

RIP XUL, you died too early
The question is, what are you going to say when you have an office in the EU? Or you use one of the EU states to launder your money (Ireland is very popular, for example)? The big firms are affected by it and about the small ones... I doubt, "dragging executives off their private jets" is the most effective strategy when it comes to handling business related to money. Don't be too pride, it is a big market after all, you are talking about.
> "That's selfish" Yes, just like the millions of people who use adblock software on their browser.

If advertisers had gotten together and said, "people have limited tolerance for ads, so we need to work out a scheme to put limits on how much we throw at them," there never would have been any demand for adblockers.

> Adblocking also ushered in sustainable models for journalism, blogging, etc.

The new model of direct patronage is much better than advertiser funded content. They actually listen to their supporters, what a concept!

> Maybe that's because the ones that didn't went under, but I apparently didn't notice.

That's a major function of a market, forcing non-performing market entrants to shift their resources towards a function they're better suited to. It's not pretty, because it means going out of business, but it's necessary.
Very dumb argument. There is no cart and there is no horse. Eliminate the bail system and something has to fill the void.
Neverwinter Nights 2 had some solid tools for campaign building that were the closest I've seen to creating a world with scenarios like those you see in DnD. It helps that the game was almost literalally DnD, but still impressive.

I don't think DM'ing is necessarily fun though. Most everyone I know who DMs sometimes, including me, finds it to be pretty stressful and a lot of work. The real value to me, is that a really good DM knows when to break the rules to enhance the game experience, and how to do it without making people angry. They create scenarios that specifically challenge the characters that are playing, not just for combat, but for role-playing purposes. Ie, a Lawful wizard is tempted to steal a scroll that would contain the knowledge he seeks the most, or a cleric who must decide whether to uphold her team's plan to ally with an unscrupulous NPC, or to go rogue in the name of their ethical code and deliver justice to said NPC. Good storytelling and cooperative play is just something that comes very naturally to some people, and having a human in the loop to respond to events in the context of an overarching narrative and party experience is really hard ot beat.
This is an example of a Blog post that is converted realtime to a high quality audio, the technology used is Text To Speech and Artificial Intelligence, where combined allows consumers of web articles have an option to listen to the content while they are busy or on the go!
Similar: In the recent baby gene editing controversy around He Jiankui it became apparent that he just had co-authored a paper proposing a set of ethical rules around human gene editing, which he promptly broke himself.

https://www.wired.com/story/he-jiankui-crispr-babies-bucked-...
Not wrong at all, but not wanting others to have access to drugs and supporting laws that marginally accomplish it at great cost (esp. to other people who may not be around you) are two different things.
What a shame that all this attention goes to D&D. There are so many other good tabletop games with exquisite worldbuilding, languishing for attention... Vampire: The Masquerade, RIFTS (my personal fav)
Infantile might be a bit of an exaggeration. Juvenile, perhaps?
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Interesting that this only comes out now. Something I feel should have been a part of github for a long time.

I used to love the old 'explore' page. It had a feeling of going on an adventure, digging into a dark cave of unfinished projects and people's brains.
Basically we just roast it slowly in an oven in a cast iron pan on a low heat for a long-ish period of time. The skin gets crispy, but the inside seems like it's melting as you push your fork through it. I don’t know the exact details but I’m sure we got the recipe online, so it’s likely Googleable.
5e made great progrsss by stripping down rules and making things more accessible. I think they should do it even further.

The core game is fun, but combat is quite slow, tedious, and, in my opinion, not much of a good role play experience. Nix weapon stats, health, spell slots, etc. Differentiate more heavily on specialties. Ward off fear of death with a system of injuries and what not. Fighting can still be a huge part of the game, but it shouldn’t be the underlying goal of most mechanics.
> Could a electron interact with a neutrino for example

Could, and it does happen. Observed about sixteen years after the first direct observation of a neutrino interaction:

https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S02177323930... (PDF directly at https://cds.cern.ch/record/248487/files/ppe-93-065.pdf )

More modernly and generally, neutrino-lepton scatterings are part of the weak interactions in the Standard Model: https://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~playfer/PPlect11.pdf

(and of course there is an even weaker gravitational interaction between leptons and neutrinos that we cannot demonstrate directly with current technology)
pretty much... the main one I tend to ask is the 6 falsy values, clarified as needed. The responses tend to be a good overall indicator of how well the person knows JS.
On a tangential note, I have heard that the impulse in native English to avoid repeating a word over and over is not universal; in some languages, it's perfectly normal. In some cases I think this impulse does nothing more than swap one repetitive word for a repetitive sequence of words (count the number of news pieces where the second reference to an earthquake is a "temblor").
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Haha, that's interesting to hear.

So if Sears invested in Microsoft in 1980, Sears of today could've been like Yahoo, whose investment in Alibaba kept Yahoo afloat a few more years but ultimately continued down the downward spiral?

I gather that the few people at Sears who were aware of the investment invite from Bill Gates may not even be alive, considering it was 39 years ago.
I haven't done anything but one of the quick D&D campaigns with the prebuilt characters but I am REALLY enjoying gloomhaven as an alternative. I know there's some vision required there but it seems similar to D&D.
Neither C# nor JavaScript provide guaranteed tail-call optimization. The sine qua non of functional programming is using recursion instead of iteration, therefore without TCO you can't actually program in a rigorously functional manner (whether pure or impure).

When people discuss "functional programming" they're typically discussing high-level, idiomatic functional interfaces like map-filter-reduce. Though without TCO implementing those interfaces often requires some internal ugliness, and without first-class functions and lexical closures they won't compose as well.

TL;DR: Sprinkle the identifiers "map", "filter", and "reduce" in your code and it'll magically become functional-oriented as far as most people are concerned. But if you really want to begin to think in a functional mindset, rewrite your program structure to use recursion instead of iteration. When you do that for non-trivial code you'll naturally discover and appreciate all the other functional-oriented approaches, like first-class functions, closures, currying, etc, even without being told the formal names of those concepts; and increasingly use functional- rather OOP-based data encapsulation, which in turn makes it more obvious how and why to minimize data mutation in favor of pure functions. FWIW, JavaScript supports many of these concepts quite well, but because of the TCO limitation they're applied rather inconsistently and not always in the best way.
Crazy fast video that is hard to follow, but thanks for the link.
This evidence is extremely weak. I urge you to read the actual paper itself. Basically you can nullify all that evidence if you don’t drink and drive.
I am saying I believe the creditcard-sized card that contains a fresh prepaid SIM card, probably contains an RFID loop antenna.

This is trivial to verify or falsify, just buy some acetone in the hardware store:

https://learn.adafruit.com/rfid-iphone/dissolve-the-card

I already bought the acetone, but I did not yet dissolve the SIM card, I want to do this in front of my sister, so she understands why I attach importance to finding out the origin of the unused expired SIM card she sent.

The card is supposedly expired anyway (well to be honest the validity date is printed on a sticker on the outside of the plastic foil package, so in theory it may be a still valid card with a fake early expiration date to encourage my sister to hurry with giving it away...).

I did not yet dissolve the card, but I feel pretty certain there is an RFID coil inside, and that is how they detected and stalled the letter without opening it. Stalled to determine if it is OK or not to allow the card to be sent on or not. "insufficient postage" to increase the possibility of the recipient deciding not to want the letter.

If you can't wait a couple of weeks to hear back from me if there is an RFID tag inside, you can try buying a prepaid SIM card and dissolving in acetone yourself. If you or someone tries this before february, I would like to know the result.

The whole story got me thinking that the human analysts that process and interpret red flags can easily build a repertoire of tricks to arrange for a red flag concerning a person to go off.

If my sister provides me with a name (perhaps even an address) of whoever gave her the card, I could consider tagging the person back (by sending the SIM card to him).

However I think it is unwise:

1) the person who gave it to her would not necessarily be the analyst, it may be an informant (perhaps a criminal turned informant, in which case I am effectively tagging myself into association with a criminal!)

2) if the person who gave it to her was the analyst, and I addressed the letter to Mr [name] "The Tagging Spook" [surname], and possibly arrange for the letter to have insufficient postage, while hilarious that my case file would then contain a red flag associating me with the analyst called out as a spook, it's unclear how he would react. Any future analyst could notice the burnt name of a colleague. He might need to self-report his bypassing of the automated system raising supposedly spontaneous red flags... Also, I estimate it would not be wise of me to go and poke the hornets nest. So I think I will stay with just observing and learning...
In my experience the reviews are most useless for small items, where fake reviews can easily manipulate the reviews or are even the only reviews available.
Baking certain apps into the system partition is typically how vendors ship an out of the box experience, since apps are generally downloaded via the Play store, which requires the end user to first log in with Google.

In that case, the only way to delete apps is to 'root' the phone, which generally isn't enabled and not something Facebook has control over.
This is a good idea too. I guess I always assumed I would need to “work my way up” from entry level. But I do have a lot of experience running teams and managing budgets.

Thanks for the input. I’m going to broaden my search and look for these roles, and see what happens.
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Win10 makes it easy to automatically empty the Recycle Bin and Downloads (but sadly, not other locations). One major PITA is that Firefox does not use the standard Downloads folder/directory, but has its own. It's configurable, of course, but I never remember until I've already got a zillion things in it, and I try to run everything with a minimum of customization.
Soy is actually one of the the top 8 food allergies, which is why it's required to be listed on labels.
As far as the housing design: The way it is cylindrical, suspended from above and half lit in a dark room instantly made me think of the Poop Machine at MOMA.
Mostly because we haven't been running around talking about wiping other nations off of the map. Obviously we have our own issues, but you can't honestly be proposing a moral equivalence between the US and Iran.
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Are people on hn really this stupid?
Wow, I'm floored at how well that worked on my phone. Even the interactions were intuitive.
I disagree. Once you shift your thinking in the other direction and cherish their life and only eat them if its the only option for survival you will feel greater love and appreciation for animals. I've eaten meat only once in the last 2 years and when I did I actually wept.

> Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends. --George Bernard Shaw

https://gist.github.com/samueleaton/cccfd86dcca72bc33f72bdfa...
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