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Unpopular Opinion: There is no viable solution to climate change through policy or political action.

No one wants to give up their own personal comfort or lifestyle for the sake of "the planet." Even people I know who are self-described ardent environmentalists still fly in planes frequently to all manner of touristy destinations so they can keep "collecting experiences."

Shit, look at Paris. They champion this climate accord and the minute the government raises taxes on fuel to help pay for some the policies, the people riot and destroy things and the government backs down.

The only "solution" to climate change, if you can call it that, is through technology and adaptation. As the Earth warms and the waters rise, people will need to move, and we will need to create new technology to ensure our agricultural production doesn't lessen and we can keep feeding people.

Honestly I don't really think it's gonna get all Mad Max/Extinction Level Event, but who knows, it might!
note that a human doesn't recognize a bus after seeing one once. A human takes thousands, maybe millions, of examples of various things before it learns to look at a new thing and recognize it afterwards

Actually, not sure if humans are even really good at recognizing a never-before-seen object...hmm
> Filesystem performance is closer to windows than linux

Well.. filesystem performance is just bad under WSL period. Much worse than native NTFS or ext4 on the same hardware. It's so far from both that saying it's closer to one or the other doesn't _really_ make sense.
You know that information pretty well about one job - your current one. If you like your co-workers, if they do their work well, if your boss is reasonable, if management is sane, and if the pay isn't awful, think well before you leave.

The better the current job is, the less probable it is that the next one is an improvement...
I did exactly this once before, except I gave two week notice.
I walked into the meeting knowing I had offer in hand but wanted to give my current employer a chance to do the right thing. The manager literally giggled and told me I may have to leave to get an increase. I had saw this company let several "rock stars" walk over money so I wasn't expecting much, almost felt bad for the manager cause he knew that corporate approach was laughable
The last few minutes of Martin Scorsese's (wildly uneven, but still) Gangs of New York found a good way to tell the same story 100% visually. The movie starts with a huge street fight between the followers of the two characters at the heart of its story, Bill the Butcher and "Priest" Vallon, battling over who will control the streets of 19th-century New York. Then at the end we see their tombstones, and in a sped-up time-lapse we see those stones get overgrown and forgotten as the modern city of New York we know today grows up around them, fading out on one last shot of the completely overgrown headstones -- with the Twin Towers looming over them, as if to say, this too shall pass.

You can watch the ending here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-8Lu7MRjQs

It's a really good little example of visual storytelling.
it's a direct descendent of the original Smalltalk so all 3
We call it carpooling, and it's not that uncommon, I've done it. Some highways have special "High Occupancy Vehicle" lanes to encourage it.
Why would Switzerland effectively offer a negative incentive towards people holding conferences there? Are you advocating that they should make attending climate conferences become more expensive and harder to attend?
Announcing Ignite Bowser 3.0 – The Flattening
The EU has multiple forms of laws, some of which require ratification by the national parliaments and some of which don't. EU Regulations are the equivalent of Acts of the United States Congress--they have automatic effect in all member states and override any conflicting national law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union).

Treaties have their own intricacies, but they do not necessarily require ratification either. The EC initially asserted that CETA did not require ratification by the national governments, but backed down citing the "political situation": http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7... (page 13).

I think many EU supporters really don't understand the sweeping powers of the EU. All the legal underpinnings are in place to turn the EU member countries into demi-sovereigns inferior to an EU government, just as happened to the U.S. states. They may be used sparingly now, but Brussels is getting bolder all the time.
At some point, they'll have to be escorted by the military wherever they go, as more and more people will get angry at their unwillingness to fight (if not their contribution to) the ecological collapse.

I hope it isn't too late to escape this vicious cycle.
Tesla Provides Legal Safe Harbor for White Hat Hackers and Will Not Void Waranty
>>> four jobs in four years

That does look not so good to me tbh. 2 jobs in 2 years would look ok to me. But I guess it depends.
Max-Pooling a 1024-cell output LSTM will result in a 1024-sized vector.

Looking at the code for the Encoder (https://github.com/facebookresearch/LASER/blob/fec5c7d63daa2...), each LSTM has the same amount of hidden cells. (although the default parameters of that class don't quite match the ones used in the post; so I assume it's 512x2x5).
I was not aware of that. Good to know.
The only place where I've lived that didn't have yards, parks within walking distance, and could be considered overcrowded was in California. I briefly visited Dallas once, and I could see that as being similar.
Sadly this isn't true. The changes required to make any significant difference would likely involve the end of capitalism as we know it, and thus they will never happen until a catastrophe occurs. You're living in a dreamworld if you think even something like the Paris accord is anywhere close. And climate change is just one small way in which we are ruining the world. Imagine what things will be like with 10 billion! Yet population control is taboo because fee fees. It's liberalism gone suicidal.
If HR ever asks specific groups(as a way to dismiss you), feel free to bring up LGBTQIA+ and CSA (child sexual abuse). That tends to really light a fire under some asses.
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
The right thing to do would be for Apple to offer extended warranty replacements for this issue (like they finally did with the whole keyboard fiasco).
To get a better filtration effect you need to force air into the root zone through an active carbon layer in the soil media. That is the method used in the original nasa paper and subsequent public labs designs when trying to remove VOC's such as those emitted by printers. Active carbon adsorbs the VOC's so that the root microbes can metabolize it. Since it is a microbial filter, it becomes more effective at filtering the contaminants that it's most exposed to. Active carbon can also remove CO2, but must be recharged with lower CO2 air periodically.

The public labs design uses a aquarium bubbler to push the air, but the flows are pretty low - with retention time in my 10x12 office at 1 month. Since the VOC's are usually heavier than air, if you place the pump inlet on the floor it performs better though.
Just do it and write, "Cons: we're pressured to leave positive reviews here."
I've often thought: "What if I bought a nice big piece of land somewhere, along with a digging machine and spent the rest of my days making a hole in the earth. That is my current thought on how to make the biggest, lasting impact on this earth.
Dude, you send your friends greeting cards or invitations run off in Print Shop, that thing will be worth its weight in gold!

EDIT: Apparently this printer is the predecessor to the ImageWriter.
I believe several terms here need a context, without which they are meaningless. For example, what is an acceptable security model to download and install an OS, how do you exactly define "defense in depth" for the act of downloading and installing an OS, etc.. That will help us define what controls should be in place for the overall OS-download-and-install experience to be secure.
Thank God for Brexit
Also this journalist: https://www.storypick.com/uranus-headlines-journalist/
Use the tools you are used to. I doubt there is much advantage in any particular stack. They seem to catch up to each other. Ruby has some kind of type checker nowadays (can't recall the name). .NET has dynamic types if you need them etc. etc. I like the idea of using Haskell but really I can never be more productive than using my "home stack".
OTOH, people remember (in a distorted way, to various degrees, highly dependent on culture)

Genghis Khan

Attila the Hun

Jesus Christ

Buddha

Moses

A few other prophets

Archimedes

Gaius Julius Caesar
I Built It – Bootstrapping a Used Toy Marketplace
So, someone like say, Pythagoras or something?
Notwithstanding the memory complexity, I love that they reach such impressive results with relatively straightforward components: theres no attention mechanism, and encoding into latent space is simply max pooling over the last LSTM layer.

I don't fully understand how the training step works though. They train only on translation to english and Spanish?

Anyway very cool stuff.
Cities Used to Help All Americans Find Prosperity. Not Anymore
What changes did you make to the hiring process to better filter such people out?
Rails for me, or one of the new crystal lang web frameworks if I'm feeling adventurous. Rails has the syntax you wan't, and crystal has both the syntax and the speed, but it's not quite yet 1.0.
The full list is here: https://flexgate.me/
College is fundamentally a positional good - many job markets will preferentially hire applicants with a college degree over those without, particularly for well-paying and white-collar jobs. What the college graduate earnings indicate is that the people you are willing to preferentially hire end up making more money. When you have more college graduates, this preferential hiring effect is less significant, since you're now looking at the top X% of jobs rather than the top Y% of 50 years ago.
There's a pretty simple, viable solution.

Carbon taxes.

Yes, it's hard to get 195 countries to agree to implement a carbon tax, but you could have said the same thing about the ozone layer / CFC problem.
Worry Dream: Links 2013
The standard is expect [1]. There are also libraries for many programming languages which perform a similar task, such as pexpect [2].

[1] https://core.tcl.tk/expect/index
[2] https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Like everyone, I know lots of divorced couples. If you listen to the man, his ex is 100% to blame. If you listen to the woman, her ex is 100% to blame.

So when I hear a rant from someone about their ex, their boss, etc., I nod sympathetically and think to myself "I wonder what that person would say about you."
>note that a human doesn't recognize a bus after seeing one once.

I disagree. If I showed you a single picture of a distinctive aircraft, you could recognize it on a runway. Likewise, birdwatcher's books rarely have more than a few pictures of each bird (nowhere near thousands), and birdwatchers seem to be able to identify the birds they are shown there.
AMD beta tester here.

AMD separated HDCP and DRM related silicon from video acceleration units some time ago to be able to open source their GPUs completely sans the NDA bound stuff. Even this is a very big generosity and step from them for the Linux community.

I'm sure that the firmware contains some highly proprietary and revealing information about some of their secret sauce. So, they won't be able to do it even if they want to.
Do you trust the reviews on Amazon? Especially from cheap Chinese suppliers? Those reviews come from somewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingual_machine_translati...
Agreed. I only buy storage for personal use, but I've learned to avoid Amazon entirely. There are just way too many reports of fake or repackaged HDDs, SSDs, SD cards etc.

I can generally get the same or relatively comparable prices at local computer stores that I trust significantly more than Amazon.
I think it is unfair to expect a PR strategy to be intellectually consistent. And that is what Dyson is founded on.

Dyson is a ringing endorsement of Britain as a marketing and PR powerhouse. They made people across the world believe a story that sold millions of mediocre vacuums. It is a huge success that we should be proud of. But it has little to do with the virtues that Dyson likes to project.

In that sense it is a good parallel to brexit. A PR blitz designed to push bullshit.
I hate non-competes, non-disparagement,and IP assignment clauses. I've had two (smaller) companies that had them in their offer letter and in both cases I've had the non-competes and non-disparagements removed. I'm not sure I'd have as much luck with a larger company, however it definitely does happen on occasion.

First time was as a new grad. The non-compete literally prevented me from working within 200 miles of my home in the same industry. I noped out. Even when they removed it I wasn't interested because that's shady.

Second time was at a different company. I just let them know I wasn't comfortable giving up my 1st amendment rights just to work somewhere and they considered it and let me take it out. My HR person was awesome and the company treated it's employees well.

Not disputing your other points, just want people to know they should at the very least make sure to ask. It may end up with a no, but it could end up turning out alright.
Though I agree with your quantitative impact approach, there is also a “do as I say not as I do” attitude at stake that I find hard to swallow.
Email your mom right now with a secure password from your vault, and do it in a way that she won't have to call you about it.

That's why I recommend LastPass.
I think "yes" to all of those, apart from "open a linux shell".
Why hasn't Microsoft just _bought_ Valve?
Promote cross-play between xbox and PC, give developers incentives to put out games on both platforms, and nuke the games section of the Windows store in favour of a link to Steam?

Other than legacy enterprise stuff, gaming is the one area where consumers continue to be tied to Windows. It seems like a no brainer for Microsoft to lock down that market. The average Joe/Jane that needs to do write some emails, pay bills etc. is fine nowadays with an iPad, Chromebook, etc.
I got an iPhone and still don't have cute people lining up. I was misled.
> "how the EU is hobbling the UK"

Sorry if I'm misreading, but do you mean "how the EU is being hobbled by the UK"? In the sentence above it sounds like the EU wanted the agreement but the UK (and May's veto) prevented the EU from doing it.
I strongly recommend AMD. After a long time of using NVIDIA due to their superior Linux drivers, I got myself a Vega 64 when I built a new desktop computer last year. After so many years of driver woes, it was almost unreal having accelerated 3D graphics work out-of-the-box after installing Fedora. For my personal machines, I don't see myself going back to NVIDIA anytime soon.
do you live in LA and know this firsthand or are you repeating a cliché?

i live in LA and walk often. it's great. the weather is awesome (60's and sunny today, in the middle of winter), i have dozens of good restaurants and cafes within walking distance, as is most of my shopping needs. parks, theaters, museums, bars, and other entertainment can be easily reached by walking. LA is a big city so not everything is right there, but everything i need day-to-day is.
They must? But who decided, exactly? Should they really be in charge if their decisions are bad for everyone? Shouldn't the people have the last word on such matter -- in a democracy at least?
Research.

Use LinkedIn. Talk to people currently at the company and those who have left it.

Look at glassdoor. It's not all truth, but it is data.

Read through the company's website, especially the tech blog if they have one.

Ask questions at the interview about your concerns.

Notice how they treat you during the interview when you ask questions. It's probably the way you'll be treated as an employee.
I have never seen a train this empty during commute hours. An empty seat on each side of a person? Standing room only and packed like sardines is more realistic (and a needed density for economic viability of trains not subsidized by others).

BTW, cars are also a mode of "transit".
In any case, I'm not one to judge a programming system by its artwork. I hope people don't get discouraged by it and not try it out, It's a phenomenal system for translating thoughts to programs.
I'm confused, I don't see anything new here. I looked at the youtube channel and don't see a demonstration...
To be pedantic, there's debate about what is "actually markdown". No one would say it's the flavor HN implements, but the easiest way to win some games is to simply not play
Hence my second paragraph, yes. You’d definitely be sued, and it would definitely be expensive. You might not lose.
The Oracle example was more a kind of figure of speech regarding the kind of clients that are willing to pay for commercial Smalltalk, based on the listed customers use cases.

How was your experience?
I have other values. I dont need the absolute best performance and I'd rather spend money on a product from an OSS-friendly company. AMD is probably what will finally make me abandon intel integrated graphics for my Linux computers
Google: The end is nigh
Economies of Scale Killed the American Dream (2013)
tragedy_of_the_commons.torrent
Yeah, this was just comparing within a specific kind of housing. So I didn't even compare 2 and 3-flat condos to high rise condos.

I would not drive to work just because the train isn't within walking distance, because, yeah, not worth the time and stress and expense. Having to take a bus or ride a bike to get to the nearest train station doesn't add that much time to a commute.
Is this really a threat? Because I haven't seen a shred of evidence to believe that Windows is going to block Steam. Hell they are actually releasing Xbox games on Steam!

But I guess Valve is flush with cash to throw at their hobby projects.
Looks like I'll have to just start randomly clicking on videos like that to skew the suggestions.

I have no idea why I'm getting the kinds of suggestions I am. Thankfully they're an increasing minority as I get more music these days. And Trailer Park Boys haha.
Hey, thanks for your feedback.

One of the biggest reasons that I decided to distribute on the Mac App Store was to establish trust. If I embraced its limitations (i.e. sandboxing), it'd help me build a product that was more secure and have some sort of proof that it was.

Also, the company (me) behind the app is based in France, which has some of the toughest privacy laws. The privacy policy, although in English, is compliant with French law. The short version is that Emporter doesn't collect user data, or perhaps most importantly, user content.

I have quite a lot I want to discuss about this via the company blog, which ironically is part of the reason I decided to post a "Show HN". I wanted contextualize the product a little bit before inviting this kind of discussion.
Depending on what you consider a direct subsidy, the US subsidizes fossil fuels to the tune of $5-15 billion per year. There was a study that came out claiming that around half of US oil production is only profitable because of these subsidies.
Did I ever say they were leading in unit sales? Please don’t twist my words.

Apple of all companies has never been about mass volume, but instead higher revenue and profit per unit. It’s the same with iPhone compared to Android.

I’d much rather own a company with 1000 units sold at 10mil revenue over 100,000 units with the same revenue.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276308/global-apple-mac-...
Look, One person's exceptional is another persons routine life. I'm 60, started as an electronic hobbyist in Silicon Valley wire wrapping computers for startups - worked for a bunch of early famous names in Silicon Valley, then studied for an EE and started writing software all over the valley. I've been a PM three times, managed multiple dev teams, managed support and training, and written many hundreds of thousands of lines of code. Part of that was at NeXT where I sat next to Steve as he was creating his conference talks (he didn't sit in his office to create them.) So grow up. The world doesn't match your limited perspective. And it isn't appropriate for you to play policeman when you don't know what you're talking about. I consider you one of the people who makes Hacker News a less welcoming place for those who might have actual insights - as opposed to opening their minds to hear others perspectives.

(And every major CEO that I know of has PR teams. Bill Gates was reported to have all three of the major PR companies working on his personal image. So open your mind to new things you haven't experienced. Isn't that why something like Hacker News should exist?)
Automation is just "Outsourcing to a computer" Seen that way, many outsourcing companies are just a halfway house to stuff that isn't quite fully automatable yet, but which might become so soon.
It really depends. I try to view Glassdoor like the way I read amazon reviews.

I'll see a bunch of "good" reviews. They do me nothing.

Yet those bad reviews have a trend that the battery hatch clip keeps breaking off and they had to do hacks to make it work. ... Or the multiple Samsung refrigerator water filter were fakes and leaked all across the floor (0).

In a office setting, it's the similar thing. There will be a lot of good, but the details and consistency of the bad ones are the thing to watch.

(0) https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Da29-00020b-1P-DA29-00020b-Re...
That’s not limited to HN
"Legacy media" is itself a misnomer, unless you're suggesting that something replace "editorial policy?" What could that something be?

On reread, is it actually about "editorials?" Because that's not what editorial policy is entirely about. Partially, yes, but not completely.
AMD has the worst open source drivers for Linux. Pretty sure Ryzen APUs still aren't even properly supported. I would love to use AMD on everything, truly would. They are the best for a tight budget but the support just isn't there.
It's not published yet. It's scheduled for Jan 24.
"DeepMind has been hard at work training their AI (or agent) to better understand StarCraft II. Once it started to grasp the basic rules of the game, it started exhibiting amusing behavior such as immediately worker rushing its opponent, which actually had a success rate of 50% against the 'Insane' difficulty standard StarCraft II AI!"

Well, that's fun. I mean, if it works, it works.
You're not doing anything wrong. That's just how SCP looks. I agree it is not the best programming font and find it a bit odd to hear people saying it's the best, but that's subjectivity for you. Hack is a good one, though I still find it too vertically compressed in terms of line spacing. Input Mono Narrow is what I prefer personally. I get fewer lines per screen as a result, but hey, that's what scrolling is for. And if a chunk of code is too big, that's a cheap signal that it might benefit from refactoring.
CA-model requires "extra" investment, that not many are willing to make. Plus there is a secure way to distribute an OS, which does not require https [download over http, obtain signed check-sums from a trusted source, verify, and proceed with installation].
>On January 24, at 19:00 CET
Guess we have to wait