skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to discuss how this fits into the broader context and ask some stupid questions. In attempt to quell some downvotes, let me state upfront that I'm fully convinced climate change is real, human-caused, should be reversed even if the cost is very great, etc.

That said, articles like this frustrate me because I don't think they provide enough context for why we should care. Literally no one I know is going to give up their creature comforts of smartphones, electric lighting, driving the car they want to drive, eating meat, having kids, A/C, commercial air travel, etc. just to save a species of butterfly.

What's the ultimate consequence if Monarch butterflies no longer exist? Is it just early warning of other bad things? What are those things?

And the big question that I don't see answered much: if we lose a bunch of species to climate change before we get our act together, why does that ultimately matter? Is it just sad? Is it that we don't know what will happen if things start changing really rapidly? What could happen in the worst case scenario?

Wikipedia lists [1] a bunch of North American species that have gone extinct in the past 1500 years. I'm surprised by how short the lists are, and how few there are in the past decade. And no one seems to care about these species...I don't know anyone lamenting the loss of the Eelgrass limpet or the Ash Meadows killifish.

I'm very pessimistic about our ability to get a handle on climate change in the next 50 years. Our civilization is not built for this challenge. I hope I'm wrong though.

But at the same time, I'm very optimistic about the biosphere for the next 1000 years. We'll switch to renewables or fusion, probably do large-scale geoengineering to correct some damage, and we'll adjust as a species.

That doesn't mean hundreds of millions or even billions of people won't suffer and die in the transition. We absolutely should fix it before hand if we can.

But the people claiming that humans will be extinct in 50 years because of climate change are completely out of their minds. It sounds like a religious argument to me, not one based on the science. Humans are cockroaches; we're not going anywhere unless an asteroid hits the earth. And it completely undermines the rational case to be made for why we should address climate change.

On the non-human front, a lot of plants and animals will either go extinct or almost go extinct but then most populations will recover. Our descendants mostly won't care about the species we lost, just like we don't care now about the "missing" species we lost a long time ago. We may even figure out ways to revive extinct species.

But I'm not a biologist or climate scientist, so I may be completely wrong. Don't tell me why I should be alarmed, because I already am. Tell me why people who don't care about butterflies should be terrified about the prospect of them disappearing. And whatever that story is, start telling it more, and connecting the butterfly story to it more, because otherwise it's just noise.
Yeah, I realized that recently as well. Apparently when they first rolled out the chip readers, people complained that the authentication took too long (5-15 seconds), so now all you have to do is stick the card in the chip reader, no PIN required (in most stores at least). Brilliant! Consumer behavior effectively turned the chip back into the old mag-stripe system.
So if anyone is curious, the way to prevent this is:

scp_if_ssh = false
Lambda calculus was introduced in the 1930s, so Curtis’s statement is literally correct.
Successfully ported Matplotlib to the Scheme
Best win-win outcome IMO would be for Facebook to pay itself this $300M as an incentive to stay completely out of news, local and otherwise.
K2pdfopt: Convert pdf´s to e-readers
The real question is not how to visualize the data (or any of the conclusions)... its how the author cleaned the data. This particular data set is fraught with input errors, intensional mis-direction, and cultural bias.

A simple example that has major implications are the number of full time people that put in < $15K a year salaries. Which in the real world is not legally feasible in the US or any western country. Further analysis leads to input errors, and cultural differences (Like stating monthly salary versus, annual salary... or Net versus take-home pay).

I would be interested in how they handled these aspects and what the author thinks about the historical data from the stack overflow surveys.
Wow! I was able to successfully recreate all sorts of letters and sounds just by imagining how my own mouth works, and then manipulating the different components on the pink trombone in the same way. I'm impressed!
Stickers come on laptops for free, just move them
Constant dripping wears the stone is my advice. You have to phrase/wrap your critique in positive words or your opinion will be met with disdain.
You're looking at the future all wrong
How Will AR Fuse Online and Offline Shopping?
You may not intend it, but when you write, "created by billionaire bankers" it doesn't add to the conversation much (specific behavior influenced by that funding would be more useful, if it exists) and is recalls some kind of unpalatable language/imagery used by far right groups - which I'm definitely not accusing you of, to be clear.

One thing you may not know is that they publish their full financials, in accordance with the mission statement around transparency. You can see their full 2017 finances here: https://assets.propublica.org/2017-Financial-Statements-for-... (and you can see they are financially conservative, but are very much in need of funding to support their operations).

I have no connection to them other than admiration for how they are operated and their mission.
You got me with your link.
> Writing record layer in C++ would be overkill

Mind to elaborate on why C++ would be overkill? I understand the layered architecture decouples data model from underlying storage so it can be implemented in whatever language. To me, Flow and not having GC makes C++ a good choice.
>> Has anyone felt that Netflix’s UI has deteriorated massively?

I feel like this is related to the amount of content they have now. When I signed up, I was hunting for stuff to watch, and today, I can't keep up with all the stuff I'm interested in watching. There's too much coming too fast, and the UI just can't handle the volume.

In fairness to Netflix, the iOS App store had the same problem once there was an explosion in the number of apps. It got to the point where I could only use the App store if I knew the name of the app I was looking for.

I don't know if there's an easy UI solution for finding and discovering the right content in rapidly growing libraries, but that seems to be the dilemma for companies like Netflix, Apple, etc.

With respect to pricing, I can live with the hike because I feel like I'm still getting value for my money, especially considering how much I was paying for cable before I cut the cord.
You get what you pay for :-)
> BTW, this isn't a real thing

Yes, the dark side of the Moon is a real thing. It's the side that doesn't get Earth-lit nights.
Are you asking how can you influence law making in a country that you're not a citizen of?
Reading elsewhere, OP isn't aware of what the word "machine gun" means so it's hard to glean what they were referring to: police/military presence at airports or civilian gun ownership.
Because it looks like we are in the early stages of a mass extinction event caused by us. The extinction rate today is 100 to 1000 times higher than geological norms.

Loss of biodiversity (i.e. individual species dying out) makes the entire system less stable, since remaining species are less adapted to the environment. In the extreme, even if the individuals of a species, e.g. a particular breed of ant are displaced by another species, the system moves closer to a monoculture, which is prone to population shocks and other chaotic behavior.

Ultimately, all of Earth's ecosystems are connected through a vastly complicated food web. Even us. We've been blowing holes in that food web, roasting it, setting it fire, chopping off limbs, eradicating the places where it grows, etc.

This is actually very, very bad.

Asking questions is fine! It's great. It's how we learn. But cavalier comments like the OP are downvoted not because they are asking serious questions, but for stinking of militant ignorance.
Home Depot Might Be a Buy at These Levels as Markets Whip Back Up
Assuming the caregiver is a trusted party who can learn to check whether patients have actually responded to the software's recommendations and also do basic configuration work, it potentially makes it a lot easier.

It also opens up a different problem which software can also play a role in: non-intrusively monitoring the elderly person when the caregiver is away so the caregiver can ask relevant questions and take relevant steps to help.
This should be the bread and butter of a company like this, no matter how much hassle the technical implementation details are. In today's world, getting people to bootstrap a completely new app with content is a very hard ask. Want customers? Have great onboarding.
What is terrible about iteratively refining a complex design as you gain feedback from its implementation?
Criminal prosecution of shareholders of oil companies? You do realize this basically includes every human with pension, mutual fund or ETF holdings right? The notion is unfounded. Shareholders are not breaking any laws.

It is up to the government to set the rules and allow the market to play within them. Expropriation of oilfields would imply the government pick winners and losers and would be a devastating blow to property rights. If you advocate change, you should focus on advocating (fair) change in the regulatory framework.

Why not simply let the market decide which carbon emissions are of the most marginal value to society. You do this through cap and trade or carbon taxes, not from picking winners and losers.
One of the ESTA questions is

> Have you traveled to, or been present in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen on or after March 1, 2011?

I wouldn’t recommend answering this or any other CBP question untruthfully.
Clojure Style Guide Redux
Guix does use Hydra, yes: https://hydra.gnu.org/
>You can't lie

Demonstrably false.
> Once people have reached the stage where they're starting to not recognise people or remember what year it is, [re]discovering a disembodied voice in their living room that sometimes answers questions intelligibly and/or does what they ask of it could be a bit disturbing.

On the other hand, there are people who exist now who will, in old age, have had helpful (but occasionally stupid) disembodied computer voices around since childhood.
>UBS hired professionals to tear down a model 3 and they think the raw tech is way ahead of the competition. Read the report yourself: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3wfof8kfw02cbbf/Teardown%206.pdf?d....

That reads like an ad paid for by Tesla
It was iirc
I haven't stylized myself as anything other than a person who advocates not having children. I over consume. I've come to grips with this fact. I deal with it by not having children as a means of assuaging my guilt. I've got just one life and I'm going to enjoy it as much as I can. I'm not going to sacrifice for the greater good when it's just me and a handful of other people doing it.
The headline is a bit misleading and if you look at the landscape of cancer immunotherapy research you will see this generalization does not hold at all i.e. tumor mutational burden is not necessarily a good predictor of response in all types of tumors. See apathy's response above.
W.r.t spontaneous remission, there have been a few lines of research that would seem to lend credence to your hypothesis (e.g. - see http://www.fevertherapy.eu/) but it has never been studies systematically enough to draw any conclusions one way or the other.
London is a rich person's theme park to which tourists are permitted some restricted access, for an exorbitant price. ("tourist" includes people renting for the short to mid term, who simply could not afford to buy, and will move out of London to do so)
If you refer to `if constexpr`: There is no dark magic. Most of it is already possible with C++11 meta programming (i.e. with std::enable_if [0]). However, it's much more readable now (and it's more fun to write :D). I think we're on a good way that compile time programming will be more easily accessible.

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/enable_if
Agreed. To rephrase, I just think that people spend too much time arguing what they can do on an individual/moral level (i.e. veganism, etc) and too little time discussing political solutions, and I believe this is mostly a political issue.

I do feel guilty about my carbon footprint and have been trying to decrease it. For instance, I would love to not drive to work but there's simply not good public transportation where I live, what can I personally do about that?

If, for instance, a corporation dumps toxic waste on a river because it's cheaper than the fines, what can I do about that besides political action?
Incidentally, I still consider my HP-50G the best calculator ever made. I bought two physical units and I use the Emu50G app on my iOS devices (which sadly seems to be no longer developed, I might have to pick it up one day).

I think we are losing the art of calculating things quickly. There are many calculators, but they seem to be designed for either accountants or students. And no, tools like the python REPL, wolfram alpha, or siri/alexa do not replace an engineering calculator. I also find the emphasis on "graphing" bizarre: for graphing, a computer is always going to be better and more convenient.

HP had a great team that designed calculators that made just the right compromises. There were some better ones (the real game-changers were HP-25, HP-35, HP-42, HP-48 and the financial HP-12) and some not-so-goot ones, but they iterated and in the process managed to produce a number of great tools. Sadly, that team is gone, and the company seems to be no longer interested in designing calculators.

I guess I will hold on to my HP-50G and some day take over the maintenance of Emu50G, if I need to. I find a good engineering calculator much too useful of a tool to just abandon it just because it went out of fashion.
Tesla implements innovative way to avoid gas cars 'ICEing' Superchargers
"Gosh, I must have slept through the whole thing!"
This is amazing. I can get it to make almost any speech sound, but one I can't get is [s], because the model lacks teeth!
I mean they make me happier.
Ideally an app could be a big _help_ to friends and family (assuming someone has those).

I'm surprised the author didn't get into this question at all, they sort of touched on the app being an alternative to friends and family controlling your life, but if folks are helping you manager you affairs they'd need to be able to influence the app too.

For example, what if you need to start living in a new location afterwards? It makes sense that you would need to build trust with the app on your own ahead of time (or maybe just with apps in general), but folks helping manage your affairs will need access to do things like update your "fences"

To your point though -- there is a need for a technological solution. Friends and family should be helping make the decision "grandpa shouldn't being leaving this geofence between 8pm and 6am". After than, watching grandpa all night every night, trying to talk to him first when he starts wandering, having to find out and go find him when he does...these are all things where a technology solution CAN offer huge help and relief to the friends and family
If I recall correctly, ESAP is a CPUC program that the utilities (PG&E, SCE, SDG&E, etc) administrate, but the funding comes from the state. LiHEAP is a federally funded program. I worked as an auditor for CPUC energy savings programs, including ESAP - these are statewide programs and not specific to a given utility.

Dissolving PG&E wouldn't remove the CPUC program funding, nor would it remove the work. Contracts would need to be renegotiated, but whatever utility springs up in PG&E's place (publicly or privately owned) will still need to comply with the CPUC mandates for energy efficiency, and the state funding will continue, so that work will still happen.
Strong agree on the "but this isn't how OOP typically works" part.

I think one of the reasons that Rust doesn't have a traditional OO model is because you can't actually enforce mutability controls in that way. At the very least, when I tried to think of how I would find a way to enforce mutable and immutable data using java / c# style OO, I couldn't think of a way that wasn't kind of crazy or hard to use. On the other hand, structs with traits is actually pretty easy to enforce immutable data (hey, this requires a mutable borrow and what you have is an immutable borrow, so compile error).
You can run your own Sync server if you want [0]

[0] https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...
It's likely that all matters of unsustainable behavior will eventually be looked upon that way by a more enlightened future. Unless we continue to dumb ourselves down with misinformation, willful ignorance, and the banishment of uncomfortable/unpopular ideas, of course.
This was a little disappointing to me; the paper[0] pitches as a design principle it’s efficiency and embeddability but it’s not clear to me how one could achieve this except in another JVM-based language. This is in contrast to the core fdb client library, which is ~easy to embed all over as it’s in C.

So it seems like services in languages like Go, Rust, python, node, etc are essentially forced to dream up a bespoke wire protocol and revert to the client-server approach. Am I missing something?

[0] https://www.foundationdb.org/files/record-layer-paper.pdf
Have you considered letting your children decide whether they want to be alive on whatever the future has in store for this planet? Life is optional; they can opt out at any time. But my hunch is that they'll appreciate being alive and decide to make a go of it, however tough it is. After all, there is no alternative; the only life they can have is the one you give them.
My favourite story involving Facebook and the news is when Facebook's head of news - Campbell Brown (the former CNN anchor), went down to Australia. She was hired after the 2016 election as a go-between for Facebook and news organizations.

According to a report in "The Australian" she is quoted to have allegedly said "We will help you revitalise journalism... in a few years the ­reverse looks like I’ll be holding your hands with your dying ­business like in a hospice" and "We are not interested in talking to you about your traffic and referrals anymore. That is the old world and there is no going back – Mark wouldn’t agree to this"

Then Facebook denied that this happened.

So to summarize:

- Facebook is accused of not doing enough to combat fake news

- Facebook hires Campbell Brown to be a point person to deal with the fake news situation

- A newspaper reports that Campbell Brown allegedly tried to push them around

- Facebook says this is fake news
The "policing" bit was actually about doing that. Strategies varied, from smooth shaping to randomly dropping packets to force TCP window resets and drastically lower throughput.
It's more to do with dissing any -stan country by using the phrase I reckon. I think we strive to be better than that here.
I inherited a house and condo from my parents. They are in California and purchased long ago, so the property taxes on them are ridiculously low (the condo, worth about 700K has a property tax valuation under 150K ... thank you California taxpayers).

I rent them both out I pay a management company to handle maintenance. I screen tenants myself, and so far I've been lucky getting tenants who stay for fairly long periods. I clear about 5K/month after maintenance fees, taxes and insurance. Its very little work.
How real is Los Angeles' notoriety for rainy weather driving?
Why is it every time I see a new article about C++ features my eyes glaze over? Am I just getting old, or has C++ jumped the shark?
What you write makes sense but I don't feel right about having children. The world sucks and it will suck much more in the coming decades. I have no desire to put my progeny through that mess.
> His real belief was not exactly that the PR broke it, it's that the root cause of the break was isolated to his code changes. This is evident from the debugging procedure he described. And that distinction is very important, because that detail, and not some abstract piece of philosophy, is also the real source of the challenges that motivated describing the situation in a blog post in the first place.

Yes, but the exact same point can be made about the Gettier case. The problem is inappropriately specified beliefs. The problem with that is that it's impossible ex-ante to know how to correctly specify your beliefs.

For instance, you could just say that the problem with the Gettier case is that the person really just believed there was a "cow-like object" out there. Voila, problem solved! But the fact of the matter is that the person believes there is a cow - just like this person believes that their PR broke the app.
>For instance, they built a really nice hallway at the Parliament, but when it came time to name it, they assigned 76 diplomats and the president of the EU to work through the name. That alone ended up costing something like 11 million euros.

Citation please? I can't find anything about that online, and I'd expect that to be a scandal that'd be easily found!
Defense Innovation Board Ten Commandments of Software [pdf]
Mmm. Maybe it's off their mission, but the first thing I expect somebody serious about security to think about is the question: What exactly are we trying to achieve here?

That Tech Solidarity checklist does say who it's for, which is a start, but it doesn't tell them what it's aiming to achieve for them if they follow the advice.

For example, maybe WhatsApp makes the list because it uses the Signal protocol design and they assessed that this was especially resistant to attacks on the confidentiality of individual messages. Or, perhaps they felt WhatsApp would protect a journalist's sources especially well due to the large volume of other WhatsApp users acting as cover for any analysis. Maybe they felt the method users follow to confirm that there's no MITM was better (easier to use, better documented) in WhatsApp than competitors, or maybe they felt its owners were more likely to tell the FBI to fuck off if they turn up with a warrant.
with every other car brand you'll need to bring the car to a certified dealership to have a mechanic (!= computer engineer) install the new firmware.

This is not true. Some FiatChrysler vehicles have OTA updates. And if FCA is doing it, others are, too.
The hole in your argument is that it is trying to generalize my opinion as if it were some sort of Kantian categorical imperative, to then twist my words to mean an extreme form of what I am proposing: that everyone must have their extreme wishes honored because "empathy" and who am I to stop a cannibal from eating me?

I am talking about using pronoun words. That's it!

I'm not here to discuss my deeply personal world view philosophy. I am simply trying to show how gendered pronoun misuse sucks and is really easy to fix. No ulterior motives.

I am not open to the very common internet trope of "criticize by reducto ad absurdum with no alternative proposal". It's an online game of faux intellectualism I abhor and refuse to play. I prefer it staying on Reddit and not leaking here.
I second this. It also doesn’t help that they auto play trailers for whatever show you’re hovering over so you get distracted and can’t focus whilst trying to remember what show you were searching for. It really isn’t as user friendly as it used to be.
Concurred & concurred.
Use Nix, respect Guix, can confirm

The only reason I'm not using/learnign Guix (or contributing meaningfully to Nixpkgs these days, for that matter) is time