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Long term viability and neoliberalism are at odds. Why do you want to invest in a company long term when you can squish it and buy another two more functional ones with the profits?

We are ripping planet resources for short term gain. I hope that out there are some good planets on sale, because in the current course of action we will need one.

> "As oxygen-rich regions become scarcer, current fish habitats will also shrink and force economically important species—such as tuna, which globally generate an estimated $42 billion annually—into new ranges."

Most of the articles seem to cater to that line of though. Think about the economy! Will we let the planet die if it was good for the economy?
It’s like, right there, in the actual link...

>>>The changing climatic conditions, from temperature to wind speed, didn’t appear to impact the species.
Climate change could be a civilization-ending event. Even if the odds of catastrophe are low, say 10%, do you really want to bet the future of humanity on your assumption?
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We clearly possess an autopilot and an actual pilot function.

Actual piloting (critical thinking, reasoning, creativity) requires more mental effort and is much slower. Perhaps our brains are optimized to have the pilot train the autopilot (so to speak) when necessary, but otherwise leave things to the autopilot? I suppose that's why training, muscle memory, and practice are so important.

I don't think any of this is controversial but it does seem a lot more human activity runs on autopilot than we thought.
I forgot I live in the ocean..
Very cool. He had Redis Cluster in mind then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495711
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Sateen Dura-Luxe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabo_Karabekian
The ocean produces 70% of the oxygen that you breathe.
What value does the expensive building offer the city if it's exactly the same?

You've actually just convinced me rent control might do a city good by pushing capital investors into more useful pursuits, rather than simply "investing in land" which effectively does nothing of value for people.

I do think it's silly to treat the symptom without fixing the main problem which is zoning law and permit restrictions on building more housing stock. But why not both?

Might as well add the Land Value Tax while we're at it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
How? If I need a stocker who can unload trucks, put product on shelves, and spent the rest of their day greeting customers how could I be compelled to hire someone incapable of doing 2/3 of the job?
Servers are cheap enough so buying a few and keeping on standby is no brainer and they are good for 5 years generally.
We’re always 10 years from total annihilation and destruction.

I know people talk in hyperbole to make a point but can you point to any credible source in the last 30 years stating we are close to total annilhilation within the next 50 years? No one doubts the Earth will be fine. The doubt is whether or not human civilization will be fine.
So Go has Generics now or not yet?
What a good man and great inventor! All hail Thomas!
Thanks. I have Firefox 60.3.0esr (64-bit) in Debian jessie. So maybe it's the age, or that I block WebGL. Or maybe spoofing referrer. Or blocking local storage. Or something else about NoScript.
Satire, I presume! Cue polite laughter

They've been preoccupied with "Error Values"

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29934
I can cut down a tree, mill it into lumber, and build a house out of it. It does not follow from this that a tree is a house. Once a tree is "treated and arranged" in the particular way that turns it into a house it is no longer a tree. Likewise, once beach sand is "treated and arranged" in the particular way required to make it compute, it isn't beach sand any more.

> The ability to compute is present in all matter.

No, it isn't. If you think it is, tell me how to build a computer out of a single hydrogen atom.
most of that is spent in the network stack, not the userspace->kernel layer
The fact that Go is mostly controlled by Google doesn't bother you, but that does?

(I consciously avoided getting a Gmail account for years until I bought an Android phone which requires such an account, so I understand where you're coming from but this issue seems meh to me.)
I like this a lot. Will definitely try it out at some point.
> damn does this world have a lot to worry about.

Around 7.55 billion with something like three more every second. [1]

[1] https://www.census.gov/popclock/
I agree. I tend to skim through articles and even books, and that's no good. Instead of the ten books I "read" last year, had I put in effortful attention, focused and thought through only two books last year, I would have come out ahead.
Sea levels rising is just one of the symptoms. Complete ecosystems dying, including many we rely on for food, is another. Extreme weather patterns including higher frequencies of devastating natural disasters is another. This isn't just in other places either, no matter where you live, highland, lowland, tropical, arid, you will be affected. What good is $50t when the economy that accepts it is going haywire as countless resources are "refactored" by the environment.
It's at least conscious of its energy.
What are the use cases? This looks like a fun project without any real applications. A react component makes sense because it hooks into an existing ecosystem but how would something like this get used in an existing cli?

Edit: React has an ecosystem for things like this. Cocoa/Obj-C has an ecosystem for things like this. Tiny single purpose UI elements. Python does not have this because there is no UI framework for doing console applications that doesn’t already provide this capability as part of a batteries included tool.
I lean left and green as much as the next guy, but I believe markets and liberalism can and must be a part of the solution. The really hard part is to work out how to get the environmental externalities priced in. My personal gut feeling is that if we can't do that, we're screwed environment-wise.
Yes, because I believe in the community. I was not stating the blog poster was not worthy, I was simply saying that even a single line of information by the OP would help to everyone. No hard feelings.
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Great story, amazing and gruesome pictures! Thanks.
Doesn't the extraction of fish have a positive impact on the O2 balance?

I thought that overfishing the kinds of big fish we like to eat will just lead to a growing population of smaller fish and other marine life.
Ah, yeah, my bad.
Are JBOD-like array's of SD slots available? For the write once read often case it might be nice.
Lovely science!
Problems were fixed because we did stuff about them. The abandonment of cfc gasses was huge. Treaties on fishing and hunting has saved tons of species.

Any single person can probably get away with not doing anything, and the problems will seem to magically go away, but they only do so because some people act. (And usually it takes a lot of people.)
> I don't think we do have a (single) innate goal.

Survival. And that includes many subgoals such as feeding, safety, autonomy, being part of a group, curiosity, and making offspring, all preprogrammed into the brain by evolution.

Artificial agents would have goals preprogrammed by humans instead, such as 'winning at Go'.
One factor would be the speed of communication and interaction would help expedite the normalisation of the weather.

Though we clearly have an ability to adjust, an area this is highlighted would be driving in snow. FIrst snow, drivers are weary, you get accidents, snow sits about for a week (increases even) and people adjust. Same with temperature changes as a whole, up or low, you adjust and after a week or two, you have a new norm.

What needs to be looked at are unusual weather that is short lived and unusual weather that lasts a couple of weeks. As the latter, whilst still unusual weather, would of been the norm for a two week period and you can't expect people to be as reactionary to it on day 14 as you would on day 1 of such an event.

I would question the usage of social media as an insight into any human traits, as would it encompass a full snapshot into personalities when some groups more represented than others upon social media platforms.
Never go public. It's solely for the bean counters selling Pepsi and Coachella
"We made a principled decision that we're not going to withhold technology from institutions that we have elected in democracies to protect the freedoms we enjoy..."

Wow! This is really a nice way to present his argument, which captures how I feel about this issue.
It feels like us humans are unable to solve the challenges ahead of us. One could argue the sort of effort and organization required to make an appropriate change would take a couple of hundred years, yet here we are with only a decade to meet the unattainable IPCC goals. Let's hope we don't see each other on the battlefield, in wars that are surely to come. I will lie down and die before I kill a fellow human being.
3 feet sea level rise is not the worst outcome, it's practically locked in according to NASA.

https://weather.com/science/environment/news/nasa-sea-level-...

Note that we have been underestimating the long-term effects of climate change routinely for the past 20 years, and even then people are calling the conclusions "exaggerated" and wonder what is the point.

If you read some of the sources from Wikipedia, some projections estimate more than 2.4 meters rise.

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

Bangladesh is the poster child for rising sea level dangers. It's not just about loss of coastal areas (40%), but also increased salinity in drinking water, less fertile lands. People will lose their houses and starve.

https://judithcurry.com/2013/10/07/bangladesh-sea-level-rise...

Globally, the consequences are so spread and so complex that it's really hard to grasp. So, yes, we should do something. Unless you say you understand all the consequences and assume them, but frankly I would not believe you.
Care to tell us why/how?
I find accidentally pouring a drink into the speaker(s) seems to solve the problem too, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Not to imply that population isn't going to be an issue (especially since we're likely going to flood a bunch of arable land in the next few decades) but if the graph "Yearly Population Growth Rate (%)" here (http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/) is to be believed, there's been a pretty significant drop-off in world population growth in the last ~50 years and we're certainly nowhere near the exponentially exploding population crisis that people were fearing in the mid 20th century.
Tesla's filed a SEC form 8-K[0] on 2013-11-05 that elevated both Musk’s and Tesla’s Twitter accounts to Disclosure Channels:

>Tesla Disclosure Channels To Disseminate Information

>Tesla investors and others should note that we announce material information to the public about our company, products and services and other issues through a variety of means, including Tesla’s website, press releases, SEC filings, blogs and social media, in order to achieve broad, non-exclusionary distribution of information to the public. We encourage our investors and others to review the information we make public in the locations below as such information could be deemed to be material information. Please note that this list may be updated from time to time.

>Interested in keeping up with Tesla?

>For more information on Tesla and its products, please visit: teslamotors.com

>For more information for Tesla investors, please visit: ir.teslamotors.com

>For the latest information from Tesla, including press releases and the Tesla blog, please visit: teslamotors.com/press

>For additional information, please follow Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s Twitter accounts: twitter.com/elonmusk and twitter.com/TeslaMotors

[0] http://ir.tesla.com/node/13651/html
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How does Elm do it?

Because Elms error messages were actually mind blowing. They fundamentally changed my view of what a language and compiler is capable of. It honestly makes every other language laughable.

I seriously want anyone who ever designs a language to spend even one weekend playing with Elm just to see what's possible, because prior to that I would have never even considered a compiler could be so helpful. At times it was so clear and accurate it seems like it could've just fixed my code for me.
See “thinking fast and slow”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
if it was important, govt would do something, instead germany govt just decided not to punish car industry for fraud and it's not pushing for higher taxes on cars in general... so.. it's not important enough to do something xD
I can think of a lot of simple scripts that I could easily plug this into. When I’m writing a little script to do something for me, the last thing I want to do is write any sort of UI
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Where I work we use Azure, but I was wondering if any other EU government employee of HN had insights on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or possible something entirely different, they wanted to share.
Top level predators plays a key role in balance and sustainability of ecosystems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q
I do truly hope insect biomass decline is uncorrelated to global climate change, and has more to do with local land use (farming, concrete, fertilizer, etc). That would mean we could make significant progress on restoring land-based insect biodiversity even with smaller community initiatives.
We're always 3 missed meals away from anarchy too.
Yes, while being threatened with extinction if they do it wrong. That's the key ingredient - self replication and natural selection. Keeps the learning honest to reality.
Would love to hear your personal reasoning you feel you're overpaying for gasoline, in the context of your demand for it.
> does not apply here

It does. Because culling the human population by, say 50% in one step, would that lead to positive or negative effects in the context of climate change, ecosystems and overpopulation? Esp. if you choose the "right" half of people who are least essential for the global economy?
It is not people are performing validation on the test set, that would be straightly cheating.

What #3 has described is a totally normal workflow:

1. Conceptualize a new model idea

2. Implementing and training is totally legal without involving test set.

3. However, once finished, the model is evaluated on test set, the performance of which will decide whether this idea is worthy of publishing or not. If not, they go to the first step and repeat.

Such loop essentially makes the test, the actual validation set, if you think human as his/her own optimizer, and he/she takes a look at the test set periodically, and decide whether to pursue the current idea or not. Sounds like early stopping, isn't it?

Remember back in 2015, there is a debacle from Baidu, where a researcher had fabricated multiple accounts to run unlimited tests against ImageNet's own reserved test set, which the competition straightly forbade.

If a test set is a 'true' test set, then it should work like a test in a real world: be kept secret before revealing to the public, once evaluated, the same problems/examples shall never appear in the later tests ever. But such approach would not be accepted because the cost is simply too high.
I think people who have been using c for the last 15 years and haven't started using c++ for a given application are unlikely to ever start using c++, so it's not really a replacement. Additionally c++ keeps piling on complexity, so I suspect adoption is going to slow; C will likely outlast, not be replaced by, c++, since it's use as the foundation for operating system kernels and vms is going to be hard to assail, not to mention it's use in native function interfaces.
> but can't a single big cell also escape a filter predator that's also a single big cell

Maybe if it's big enough, but there's a huge cost to being big and the cot is harder to bear for more herbivorous cells. For most organisms the better survival strategy is probably to be more numerous and accept a certain level of attrition, hence ants outnumbering humans.
How about you stop being a little cunt? You ever think about that bitch?
Observability? Where do we go from here?
So apparently, Elon's twitter account is seen as source of official news about Tesla by investors [0]. Given that, it is reasonable for SEC to take this position.

But on a bigger scheme, it is sad to see this happening while "puffery" is legal and the damage it is causing is far bigger than anything elon's tweets have caused. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0CyBv18A5k

0. This line is in the 2013 8-K filing by Tesla:
"For additional information, please follow Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s Twitter accounts: twitter.com/elonmusk and twitter.com/TeslaMotors "
You live in the oceans ecosystem.

I am also just baffled you would put some monetary tokens we literally made up as higher priority than the real, physical environment you live in. We will spend countless more money surviving and adapting. It will be an economic disaster as well as an environmental one.
My point was more that this is a thing which has apparently been going on for decades...and we just didn't notice. What else might we not be noticing?
I'm with you. we need to act even if it means the end on economic growth. Economy is a mean to an end not the end on itself.
The original quote of "the customer is always right" referred to"the customer" as the market as in the collective group of customers is always right.

As anyone who has worked in retail or has had customer interactions can attest to, individual customers can be very wrong.
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I don't quite follow you here. It is a library for making some simple UI for command line applications.

If you have a command line application in python you could implement this for fancier list selections.

I'm unclear on how you relate this to React components. Python libraries have been part of an existing ecosystem long before React. The python ecosystem.
> That means this has more to with ability to communicate/signal your consciousness.

Communication is the only data you have to support the theory that there are conscious beings other than yourself. Hypothesizing a conscious being that can't communicate at all (not to be confused with the temporary inability to communicate brought on by sleep or locked-in syndrome) is like hypothesizing an invisible leprechaun living in your pantry.
> unattainable IPCC goals

They are quite attainable, it is just that most people don't feel the urgency of preventing an extinction event or they feel like "individual change" is more important than societal change. (Eg, Extinction Rebellion is one subgroup that does get the urgency)
Isn’t it basically an established fact that at least Russia has exactly that?

I know linking to wiki isn’t exactly scientific, but the article contains a lot of decent source references and it’s easier to just post one link.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency

I’m sure other countries have something similar, but I’m not sure it’s been as well examination as with the Russians.
Empirically verified physics, not philosophy, does not allow any properties of matter to be appealed to when trying to explain consciousness in the human brain other than those described in the Standard Model. You can assume that matter is made of consciousness or chocolate or whatever you like, but you cannot use that assumption in trying to explain consciousness in a brain according to the results of the Standard Model. Got it???

If you think this physical fact is not true, then explain why.
Though I think your time would be better spent familiarising yourself with McDonald's menu for your future career rather than pondering difficult questions about consciousness...
Ok so not exactly the "early days", but I learned java in 2009 around when android came out; most of my heavy duty c++ experience was with the beos API, and there were some initially confusing concepts (like the factory pattern) but my first impression was "oh, this is what object oriented programming is supposed to be like". The syntax was very easy to understand and I was able to teach myself java and turn around an Android app in about 5 weeks.
So the next corollary to this would be - if you wanted to sneak information past people, what would you need to do to their concentration in order to achieve that?
Generally this could include collection, verification and implementation of solution proposals.

If a proposed solution is accepted by the community its progress can be tracked. I think it is important to have some kind of status and goal, ideally in numbers, to encourage people to participate.
For many issues we currently don't receive positive feedback, even when we are actually making progress (often on a small scale) and I think this is a real problem.

For the matter of climate change this could be setting personal goals like reducing your own CO2 footprint.

Or community efforts on a local/regional scale. For example collecting signatures to support a green energy project.

Or financial investments in the renewable energy sector or donations to NGOs, etc.

Users of the platform could get a estimate of what impact various measures would have (in this case for example mass of CO2 or raise in global temperature, etc.) and could see who actively works on a solution.
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Currently there's an ongoing project to create a free and open PowerPC laptop based on NXP T2080 for non-x86 hobbyists. I've donated for this project.

https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/
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There's a good animated video that explains this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348
Is this the presentation you are referring to? https://youtu.be/0MJ_oxzJ2zc
Markets and liberalism have been failing so drastically for decades that fascism is rising across the globe. What evidence do you see that this is going to change in time to prevent unimaginable catastrophe? We all need to sprint lefter and greener before it's too late.
You're right, the earth has had worse and will be just fine. After all the earth is just a rock, it's not concerned about emissions or life.

It's not the earth anyone needs to worry about, it's the humans. We've not been through worse and our smaller challenges often have catastrophic outcomes.
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