skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So i tried to find the actual UN report. The article linked to this http://www.grida.no/publications/431 but it doesn't appear to exist anymore (??) Luckily there is a Google cached version http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:w_-_g9l... which links to the report https://gridarendal-website-live.s3.amazonaws.com/production...

In the cbc article, they say "According to one study cited in the report, up to 70 per cent of Arctic infrastructure could be threatened because of thawing permafrost by 2050. ". This refers to page 17 of the report, which cites this study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07557-4

In the abstract, they clearly state "We show that nearly four million people and 70% of current infrastructure in the permafrost domain are in areas with high potential for thaw of near-surface permafrost." While the CBC sub-headline says "70% of infrastructure will be threatened because of thawing permafrost by 2050"

Seems quite misleading. CBC will have people think that 70% of all infrastructure is threatened (subjective interpretation) whereas the study clearly indicates it's 70% of the infrastructure in the permafrost domain, which affects a whopping 4 million people. I'm sure there will be plans to help those affected in time.

I'm not saying it's not a problem, I'm just saying, as usual, the media hypes and sensationalizes it, most likely for some ulterior agenda.
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> Is it not worth Linux running on mainframes because mainframes are expensive?

Honest question: what is it worth to me? I don't but into this "any linux usage is a win" mentality. Linux being used on tivos is worthless to me (https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-tyrants.en.html), and it's hard to see why Linux running on hardware I will never have the opportunity to own should be worth anything to me either. Am I expected to cheer for the linux team no matter the circumstance?
A nine-figure death toll seems optimistic, unfortunately.
You will be in a tough spot if you're in the USA. All the nice Nokias and decent low-tech phones are rapidly becoming useless as carriers phase out 2g (and even 3g) coverage to free up bands for LTE and now 5g.

If your "dumbphone" doesn't support VoLTE you'll be frustrated with dropped calls and spotty service everywhere. I know this from experience.

I settled on T-Mobile's only "dumbphone" - the Alcatel GoFlip [1]. It supports LTE, the battery lasts for days and it even has a rudimentary IMAP and CalDAV client.

I tried turning my smartphone into a "dumbphone" and using it less, but I honestly lacked the self-control to put the stupid thing down. Having a kid made me realize how many moments I was pissing away just scrolling.

These things are designed to be addictive, and some people (like myself) can't compete with the entire teams of "engagement engineers" many tech companies employ to exploit your dopamine-reward cycles.

I had forgotten what it was like to be alone with my thoughts. I feel as though I am rediscovering a part of my brain that was suppressed by having a boredom-prevention device at my fingertips all these years. Also other humans now look like phone-zombies everywhere I look. It's kind of dystopian honestly.

[1] https://us.alcatelmobile.com/alcatel-go-flip/
You know, PostGres is a great database system, but its core data structure is prone to awful performance degradation if you have a lot of out of date rows, and sometimes the autovacuumer can't keep up.

There is something to be said for simpler B-Tree style databases like MySQL that are harder to screw up!

Also perhaps there could be an optional mode for Postgres that did something to the effect of immediate vacuuming for all modification statements. Collecting garbage as soon as its made. At the cost of slower statements, but no long term degradation. More predictable performance.
The SQL Server tuning advisor has historically been terrible for any database of any complexity at all. It imposes an enormous load, and the results are usually contradictory and often very sub-optimal if not detrimental. Works great for a hello world style database, though.

There was a post earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19422554) that I assume inspired this post and it was someone who benefited by correcting the DBMS' very wrong assumptions about the cost of random IO, and this was always the Achilles heel of SQL Server as well with any sort of fast storage -- it absolutely refused to accept that anything could be faster than about 150 IOPS, and would try to brute force through with terrible approaches. In this case the guy could just change the configuration and it would properly calculate query plan costs and execute accordingly, where SQL Server, to my knowledge, still doesn't let you change this costing, nor does it dynamically determine it.
It works with docker, so you don't have to worry about having perl.

>docker run -it --rm jfcoz/postgresqltuner --host=dbhost --user=username --password=pass --database=testdb
Phones stripped of anything that could be corrupting. Browsers, etc;

More information here: https://www.quora.com/What-are-Kosher-cell-phones
There was a front page story about it in the New York Times last week (in fact there is still a story on the home page below the fold about it [0]) but it got bumped for coverage of the attack in NZ

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/us/flood-facts.html?actio...
It looks like there is some catch. https://golantelecom.co.il/web/plans is the most deceptive plans page I have seen.
Having worked for a tiny company, where this is pretty much inevitable, I'd say you define what your job is at the moment by what you commit yourself to do.
> It looks like the Twin Cities (MSP) have a large amount of flooding given how backed up the work crews and insurance adjusters are.

I'm from ND originally and remember that flood, and yeah, it floods here in the cities a lot. This was more due to the super: zomg cold+snow, to... zomg its 40F and the entire streets a river cause nobody cleans out the drains in the fall prior to winter so that thaws are ok.

I'll just say in St Paul, rapid thaws means almost everyones basements flood. Even on the hills, its insane how easily it happens.
You're not wrong; the ads for 7-eleven (if I remember correctly) were some dude walking around, and then the logo, followed by the line "Oh Thank Heaven!".

I doubt my habit of eating unhealthy fast food all the time stemmed from those commercials. I just found it a bit bizarre.
Different finger-drag combinations does cover a lot of use cases for rotation, panning, resizing, rescaling, etc.
It's definitely a vague phrase, sorry. Here's some more detail: my situation's a bit different from other employees (I'm hourly, not salaried), so I can only take guesses, but I think the performance measurement scale is longer-term around here. Basically there's yearly goals/key performance indicators you need to hit. One on one's are the preferred method of checking in to see that work is being done, but the ones I attend are pretty informal—I just provide a general summary of what I worked on that week and where the long term projects are at. The level of formality can depend on your manager, I believe. I think some managers are a bit more clerical and ask for written weekly lists of what you accomplished and things like that. From what I can tell though, there's mostly just an understanding around here that you should be invested in the work and as such be sure to accomplish your goals, whatever that might entail. So, yes, in that sense it is a structure/culture susceptible to things like weekend hours and extra grind. It's not uncommon to see people committing work on weekends or at 10pm on weekdays either--it's not super frequent but it's also not shocking when it does happen. Keep in mind though that NYC in general is quite a bit different than other places when it comes to working. There's a lot of "hustle" around here. I'd go so far as to say it's probably not uncommon for workers in any industry to work more hours if they work in NYC (there's probably some study on this out there somewhere).
Same, and you can use it as a 4g hotspot if your plan allows it.
Related question – Is it possible to have two phones with the same phone number? Maybe an iPhone and a flip phone, for example.
What we value. The scientific method can be used to make better paints, but we decide what styles of art we prefer.
Does this not have any relationship to Construct, the python library for doing the same thing? https://construct.readthedocs.io/

Seems weird that it's not even mentioned. I thought it would be a port.
Absolutely. If a restaurant wants to charge me for a reservation on top of the cost of the meal, and make me pay up front for that, I would have no problem with it at all. I like that a lot better than asking me to pay for the entire meal up front. But that's a very different model, with very different price-discovery dynamics, than what Tock does.
I’m in my early 30s and bought an iPad last year to give digital art a try. I ended up falling in love with it and regularly use it to draw. I also now draw all my graphics for my indie game development with it. I primarily use Pixaki and Procreate. It certainly beats using a mouse to draw or even any other drawing pad I’ve used previously. It’s also, imo, a far smoother/natural experience than a Wacom.

I was then very surprised by the long battery life and now also use it to watch Netflix.
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Have you... read the passage, or done the slightest research into the historical context in which it was set?
Either way they're expecting to make that money back in a reasonable timeframe. Eventually the costs need to be passed onto the customers.
I enjoy Prolog just sitting off by itself in the simplified picture.
Jeez, here I get 10GB for £5 ($6). To be fair I do get this price because they're also my ISP but it's not hard to find a similar deal. Speed at home is 57Mbps down, 15.6 up.

UK 4G speeds are generally not as great as most of Europe either from what I know.
If you buy an unlocked phone, you get Android tethering. Only buying/leasing a phone from a carrier (bad idea as usual) risks a custom hotspot app since maybe Lollipop or Marshmallow?
Imagine not wanting to have someone in your neighborhood only because that person is black, without you needing to know anything else. That sole fact of their skin color makes up your mind that you don't want them in your neighborhood, without asking if they're a good person, an honest person, a friendly person.. they're simply disqualified without you asking any additional question.

You can imagine if someone doesn't want black people in their neighborhood how they might feel about their children marrying one.

I don't know how to read people's minds, so I tend to gravitate towards a functional definition of racism which measures it based on someone's action - i.e. if someone being treated in an unfair manner based on their skin color.
I think it's likely that if we were to see them as "alien" they would need to be the same or very very similar to human form. Otherwise, it's likely we'd just call them a beast of some sort. Would you say a Gorilla is alien to a Human? They're not that different. Would you say a Dolphin and a Human are too different? They both have the capacity for independent thought, a consciousness, and are self-aware.
Having the cheaper iPads use lightning makes sense as long as the phones keep using it. I personally would love to see USB C across the board but I think normal people would scream bloody murder if Apple tried to phase out lightning.
I would imagine enterprise (POS, conference rooms, etc) is a big use of the Mini and they appreciate not having to switch out entirely different connectors. We easily use about 200 for our meeting rooms and the decision to upgrade them if it ever comes will probably be made easier by having the same connector.
After the opioid crisis why should I trust my doctor?
Termination is achieved in brian_cloutier's example (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19423320) by the use of different clauses (e.g., `Path` vs. `Edge`), so that all recursion is productive.
Url changed from https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2019/03/the-mysterio..., which points to this.
> a “monster-in-the-middle” or MITM

What happened to man-in-the-middle?
I’m 42. My first computer was a ZX Spectrum+ back in the 80s.

I bought the first iPad the day it came out because I’m a(n Apple) nerd. I loved it, because it was amazing. Then for a while I fell out of love with it, because I wasn’t sure what it was for.

Now I work from home and this thing (10.5” Pro, previous model) is like my pet dog. It follows me everywhere. It plays music via AirPlay, it plays podcasts from its speakers while I’m in the shower, I text on it, answer calls, do most of my casual internet, do most of my casual notes (Bear, with the Smart Keyboard), calendar ... everything.

I sometimes look at this device and really think that in many ways, here we are. The future. I have this impossibly slim, sturdy, beautiful tablet, whose battery life is extraordinary, which does everything I could possibly want. It’s a little bit Star Trek.

Now, for proper work, the MacBook Pro on the desk upstairs plugged in to the 27” monitor is the way to go. But I type this to you from my kitchen bench as I make my girl her morning coffee, and that’s just fantastic.
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> gaming

Heh. Ask how many friends know how to play Nokia's "snake" game.

> multimedia

People didn't really use PCs to watch videos back then. I mean, you could, but DVDs were usually played on DVD players, maybe your game console. BluRay didn't exist yet, and I'm sure you would have still come across VHS Tapes at that time.

2005... yeah, I distinctly remember renting movies from DVD-rental stores back then. I think Netflix (the DVD-rental part) was gaining in popularity at that time, so people figured DVD-rental stores were going away.

If I remember 2005 correctly, it was a time where you'd have to play with DivX and XVid codecs before anything actually played on your PC. Definitely not easy for casual users.

> Internet browsing

Typical users back then didn't even have broadband yet. 2005 was kinda magical when you could send emails through your phone. For the kids out there: 56kbps (~7kB/s speeds) dial up connections would take 5-minutes to download a 2MB Newgrounds video.

Oh yeah, and Youtube didn't exist yet. Mostly because 2MB files were already difficult to distribute.

With that being said: those 2MB to 5MB Newground games were certainly what the casual people would do on the internet, at least at my school back then. Either that, or distribute TI-83 calculator games (TI83 phoenix).

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It was a different time, with different computing expectations.
This would be a good start. For some reason there is this irrational belief that there are no side effects or ill-effects from vaccines.

There are a number of doctors I have heard from that say vaccines can cause all kinds of debilitating side effects. But even "questioning" the status quo will get you down-votes, ridicule and draw ad homenim attacks.
> ... but, who cares?

Well, I presume the restaurants care. If I'm a chronic no-show, a restaurant may not accept a reservation from me, or maybe limit me to off-peak times. I can think of a lot of ways that information could be effectively leveraged.
Right, I forgot those are a thing now (and just pinned a few repos). They certainly help a lot with that.
Check out Datahike aswell, if you are interested in a durable datalog database.

https://github.com/replikativ/datahike
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

This might count as a dumb phone for your intended purposes, given how it separates the baseband from the CPU and has killswitches.
Hi Joel.

You can give http://www.dlvsystem.com/dlv/ a shot!

Alternatively, if you prefer open-source solutions, check https://abcdatalog.seas.harvard.edu/.

Due to a number of complications on my machine, I used DLV.
IIRC, PBS already has their own “Passport” streaming option. This is just a play to expand their potential audience. But if you don’t want to deal with Amazon, you’re free to deal with PBS directly.
I'm not completely convinced. High-end purchasers often fund newer more efficient development, especially with cars and jets.

Old jets and old cars are much less efficient than their modern equivalents, and airlines need sufficient capital and demand in order to invest in new vehicles.

https://www.treehugger.com/cars/25-cars-are-causing-90-air-p...

There's also the common misconception that buying a newer more efficient car is bad for the environment due to manufacturing. That is very rarely true:

https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2014/0804/Which-i...

We need to solve environmental issues by moving forward and innovating, rather than attempting to get 7.5 billion to agree to reduce their standard of living.

Indulgences did not actually offset the negative externalities, where as carbon-credits do, at least to a significant extent, so I'm not sure the two are directly comparable.
Didn't know that. Thanks! Does Shakti not have the same problem with Python? Or is Python only mostly for visualization once you get back your dataset?
I'm a fan of not doing presents during the party at things like birthday parties.

It's boring for pretty much everyone involved. It intensifies the pressure everyone feels to not only bring the present, but try and bring the best present. Which then increases the volume of presents, which then makes it even more boring. I suspect it also reduces the quality of individual presents, too, since the public-ness of the might psych people out a bit. Depending on the kid's personality and whether or not they like being on display like that, it might also be exhausting or intimidating for them.

Long story short, parties are more fun when you spend your time at them partying.
I don't want to pay Amazon tax (additional $10 per month prime fees) to be able to use this service.

If your kids want to watch new episodes of Sesame Street, you already have to pay an HBO tax (varies by geography).

Since 2016, children whose parents can afford HBO get to watch current Sesame Street. Poor kids have to wait for nine months for sloppy seconds on their local PBS station.

Meanwhile, PBS and Sesame Workshop wonder why there are people who don't like how corporate "public" television has become.
This is amazingly cool. I could definitely see using this on a project soon!
Stupid question: would that really be better (from a privacy perspective) than a smartphone, without using the "smart" part of it? Arguably by using a dumb phone you would avoid sharing data with either Apple or Google, but you will still share everything (location, phone numbers, who you are calling, etc) with your telco company.

Calling/texting with a dumbphone might actually be worse, from a privacy perspective, than using something like Whatsapp (until Whatsapp was acquired by Facebook).
I always see this argument around here and Reddit. Even as a huge Apple fanboy I think it's stupid.

Touch is a great input method. Cursors are a great input method. Apple is the only computer company not offering a device with both.
Urban environments can often be less noisy than suburbs next to highways/freeways; due to extensive use of subway infrastructure - which moves the associated noise underground. Also, a suburban commuter spends a lot of time in a car commuting, being subjected to the very noise the parent poster is referring to.
Not if your home is 3ft above sea level.
Just check out this Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6315913
Myspace apparently lost 12 years’ worth of music, and almost no one noticed
Isn't India data cheap because one person who owns one giant telecom decided he wanted data to be cheap in India? Similar to the original Google Fiber philosophy.

Ah, per other comments: Jio
Standard config and actual use are very different things. The first one implies adequate performance for most use cases, while actual use implies adequate performance considering current use case.
This tool seems to be analyzing current use case.
That's my question also. If I were to create a programming language today, it would be influenced by everything I've ever worked on, not just a few specific languages. I wouldn't be able to say it was derived from any particular languages.
How is a laptop any worse? You gotta hold the tablet upright or prop it up with a flimsy case-stand whereas the laptop just sits upright and has all the features and more, unless you like to jab at the screen with your greasy thumb. Back in the day when laptops were 7lbs and lasted 2hr on charge with a sub 1080p screen and worse speakers than your phone, I could see it, but macbooks are 2lbs now and last 10hrs. No streaming service is going to give you video that's not compressed, wiping the benefits of that fancy screen, and apple wants the soul of your first born if you want enough local storage to store large video files.
tl;dr: Boeing said, "trust us", FAA said, "OK cool, less work for us. Golf Friday?"
I was talking about this tech. You get solar electricity as well as hydrogen that you can later burn to get electricity at night when no sun.
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/03/20190308-kul.html
I omitted a few. Qedit makes the list.
I used a Motorola FONE for a few years. E-ink display, the most basic basics (single-case text messages, twelve characters at a time). Pretty good battery life, nice form factor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone
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Can anyone justify the connection between Java and JavaScript? They seem like very different languages to me.
Doesn't run well per say compared to optimized applications, but it runs.
I bought the 3G version. It was bad. Really bad. I think we've collectivley forgot how much of a UI bump the iPhone was.

I ended up never using it because there wasn't any way of of getting my contacts from my iPhone to it and I'm not spending several hours keying in my contacts.
Typically the latter.
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India is not as rich as developed economies, so the optimal price point for monopolists in general is lower (due to more people becoming unable to pay monopoly rents at lower prices).
I have the Nokia 3310 and like it. Aside from not being great at receiving multimedia texts, it works pretty well. Also it has Snake, but sadly not the original version.
The thing is that is much more complex than just “stepping out of the way”. There’s a cost associated with it and you can’t just get some to buy into it, you need everyone to buy into it for it to work.
If they have content on catalog that's fully paid for and controlled by them... they should just throw it up on the Internet Archive and link to it from their website.

There's already a PBS streaming app on AppleTV and other platforms. I'm not sure why/if PBS is doing this.

If the current PBS app dies because of the Amazon deal, it'll be at least the second streaming app PBS has killed.
If the ticketing system significantly detracts from the experience for you, then you shouldn't eat at those restaurants. That makes sense. But if you're arguing that restaurants that implement a ticketing system lead to a decline in quality or actual dining experience, then you'll have to provide some evidence.

I disagree that restaurants that use a ticketing system lose their incentive to deliver the best experience they can. These aren't one-off encounters. Repeat business, reputation, reviews, and word of mouth are all based on the actual experience. If the food or atmosphere is bad, then a fine dining place won't last, regardless of the payment dynamics they have.
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