skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've provided a very good examnple of where private enterprise and the markets fail. If the sea rises and weather becomes more catastophic, people will indeed device solutions and mitgations.

Those mitigations won't necessarily include carbon reduction - they'll be increased levee construction, abandonment of low-lying cities and building codes adjusted so that '1 in a century' storms are encountered every couple of years.

What we are trying to do at this point, ius avoid such grim consequences, now and the market can't help us unless we promote panic, which isn't a great strategy.
Basically all civilizations end like this. There were many before, there might be some in the future.

If we'll destroy biology completely we still have a small chance a new type of existence can emerge - silicon based intelligent form, what we call AI right now. It probably can survive without oxygen, even without planet. But it's a big MAYBE yet.
I’m guessing millions of people feel the way you do. I certainly do. My wife was really depressed about climate change to the point where she saw no reason for living. It took us a long time, moving countries and changing everything about our lives for her to move on from that feeling. Now, I’m the one who feels hopeless. It feels like a lost cause.
Realistically, can anything be done without turning off electricity at the whole globe at once? "Going Amish", one might say?

It's not just about burning coal or going green, we are also using resources which are not replenishable. Even if all cars become electric and we switch to nuclear power and start eating bugs, we'll keep producing plastic, chemical substances and so on.
A Kalman filter is a specific instantiation of the Bayes filter, which is very elegant and intuitive. Then once you plug in a bunch of Gaussians and linearity in the Bayes filter and crunch the math, a Kalman filter falls out.

This is how it's treated in the book Probabilistic Robotics by Thrun, Burgard, Fox and I found it to be one of the best treatments on Kalman filters. A really great book overall.
What is now called ADHD or ADD, has been observed and commented on in medical literature since the 1800s. It is well researched and understood by those who study it, but it is commonly misunderstood even by practitioners who don't understand it.

The main problem is in the name. People fixate on the attention deficit aspect of the impairment because it's right there in the name, however an attention deficit is simply one of a number of symptoms that are caused by ADHD.

ADHD is a developmental disorder that results in a generalized impairment of ALL executive functions. This includes the ability to purposefully direct attention, to modulate emotions, and to perceive the passage of time. It also impairs ones ability to hold an inner monologue, or 'voice'.

There are also other psychological illnesses that may present as "co-morbidity" with ADHD because of the detrimental effects of ADHD on ones quality of life, such as depression.

It is know that the disorder has an unusually high correlation to heredity, and no environmental causes (save one virus which may causes a similar executive function impairment). It is absolutely clear that it is an inherited disorder. It is not caused by modern society and constant interruption.
> The fact that certain medications and therapeutic interventions are so demonstrably effective at improving the quality of life for people with ADHD means that refusing to recognise it as a genuine disorder is actively damaging to them.

Or perhaps those drugs and treatments might also provide benefits to "normal" people. The true damage being that normal people are unable take advantage of them.
Curious about the other variables affecting it. Perhaps facial feature ratios compared to some gold standard?
The merits of deploying a complex Rails app on Lambda are debatable, mainly due to the fact that larger code bases will result in slower cold request times for Lambda functions. For HTTP APIs in general, however, the three main benefits of being operational on Lambda are:

* Paying only for compute time/requests, if the API is not being accessed for a period of time, it's free - on a regular instance, you'd be paying for idle time

* Automatic scaling

* Simple deployment

The downsides include:

* Irregular response times due to cold containers

* Slower request/response cycle due to overhead in Lambda + API Gateway
>The thing is, you and I are no more qualified to speculate on the future than someone from 100 years ago would be qualified to speculate on the Internet.

I'd say we are.

We don't expect the speed of light to change for example. Whereas people in the 1800s didn't have any such hard limit (e.g. based on Newtonian theory).

We also have the benefit of hindsight, and can see the rate of technical development (and e.g. that the low hanging fruit were on the late 19th century, increasing on early 20th century, and dropping down after the later half of the 20th century.

>However I can say one thing: if we even make a fraction of the progress in the next 100 years compared to the progress in the last, I don’t think we have anything to worry about when it comes to energy or transportation.

Compared to the progress in the last 100 years, or the last 50 years? Because already the progress in the last 50 years is laughable compared to the progress up until 1970 or so.

E.g. we had electricity, nuclear energy, combustion engine, radio, tv, film, digital imaging, lasers, microwaves, satellites, internet, computers, airplanes, transistors, rockets, radars, and tons of other fundamentals already available by 1960s -- not so much huge progress later on aside from evolutionary stuff.

(Well, we did have the slinky)
it is usable.

For ubuntu/debian there is a package that installs everything. The config is very simple, more simple than openvpn.

For mobile there are "official" clients, that use QR codes for config.
The other way to look at it is that enemy combatants have no problems using innocent civilians as human shields. If US decided it would not harm human shields, the world would find out, and US would never win another battle again.
does China's micromanagement of the domestic flow of information result in more or less prosperity for their people?

The assumption you're making is that the Chinese government, or any government actually, optimizes for the prosperity of the people. Governments optimize for the prosperity of some people. In China that appears to be the ruling elite. In America it's the wealthy. Here in the UK it's the establishment (which is the existing upper class and the newly wealthy).

I don't think any government genuinely has the interests of all the people at heart, but I am massively pessimistic and cynical so maybe it's me.
junior PHP dev. basically on the job training.

it's always very costly, because it requires a very involved supervisor.
It's more than hope, it's engineering. Future generations don't need to figure anything out, because the last two generations already did.

The Integral Fast Reactor was a reality in 1994, including a reprocessing scheme and inherent safety, when congress cut its funding. It's not my favorite reactor. My favorite, the molten chloride fast reactor, was theoretically investigated in 1972, including its potential for transmutation of actinides (excellent), I-129, Tc-99 (both good) and even Sr-90 and Cs-137 (both rather pointless).

What could go wrong and in fact did go wrong is politics. That's what prevents the practical investigations.
Did you try different footwear? I went through a period of this as a child but it completely went away when I got my next pair of shoes.
> what are the checks on judges?

Other judges. This is why appeals and petitions to higher courts exist.
I started programming in 1989 and I still don't know exactly how to approach understanding big existing codebases in a productive way. I am pretty well career wise, though. So, don't worry too much about that point.

I also hate meetings from the bottom of my heart. Maybe that's why you find it hard to pay attention?

Like with the big codebases point, I have a taste for small and simple, so when I start plunging in a big codebase, I have too much moments when I get nervous by how stuff was badly done and that emotional state does not help me focus on the task.
I'm no climate change denier, but there is a complexity to the effects which NASA has identified (and recently updated) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
In particular the Sahel, famously arid and increasing in size a few decades ago, is now becoming more fertile again to the extent that people are moving back there.
Reminds me of mathematics. Shortest solution is usually the best (many Pythagorean theorem proofs) but they take effort and time. Law is also formal languages using logics.
Tomorrow it will be 416 ppm first time in human history!
Buy for durability instead of trendy stuff. Favor trekking or work clothes.
It's interesting how all these events have precipitated over the past month.

* Ecuador ends Assange's asylum

* British police raid the Ecuadorian embassy and seize Assange

* Assange is held in prison

* US begin extradition papers

* Swedish rape trial is revived

* Grand jury opened into Wikileaks

It just shows you how the machine of bureaucracy can move fast nationally and internationally when there is blood in the water.
The question is whether there is room for anything between actually cross-platform web technologies and actually native toolkits.

So far, the success of technologies in between those two has been rather modest.
This is such a great initiative.

I work as a dev at Futurice and I've been enjoying the opportunity to the fullest. I would be tinkering with stuff and releasing my projects as open source regardless so it's such a great perk to get little extra cash for that as well.
Label is crazy ok ok but think your reading it will entertain while you brush teeth oh no not this Bronner use other bottle ok ok good stuff ok.. peppermint have good smell hands... Man the label jive drove me crazy.
When I was a child (80s in the Netherlands) it was definitely the case.
I really don't get this type of defeatist thinking, and I see this in basically every climate discussion.

It's pretty simple - it either happens (along with renewables etc.) or we face the consequences. It either happens willingly or forcefully. And as a matter of fact, veganism/flexitarianism are on the rise, so it is happening. Some people just get it and act.
This makes me sad. Wikipedia is surely one of humanity's greatest accomplishments to date. Having such a resource be off limits to a large section of our population is truly depressing.

Of course, there was always the language barrier, but zh.wikipedia.org could definitely have been as high quality as the English version given the chance.
> individual actions ALONE will not fix the problem, but they might be necessary to encourage broader societal change

If there are ever enough bleeding heart, average, first world, wealthy (by global standards), vegan converts who will "encourage broader societal change" then I will eat my hat.

I'll eat a whole shop full of hats.

A billion dirt poor Bangladeshis would kill you and your whole family for the luxury of having a hotdog and a flip phone. They don't give a shit about you and your vegan burger, or that you switched you whole house to LED lights because they're 82% more efficient.

That's why we're fucked.

To curtail global climate change you would first need to forgo all modern luxuries and then wipe all third world countries from the map.

good luck with that.
I don't know how you consider it "lowest hanging fruit" when beef is so tasty.

My current diet, I do not wish to state. However, I was a vegetarian in some phases of my life. If motivated enough, I could be a vegetarian for life. However, it would be a folly if I were to start believing that everyone can make sacrifices of this kind. For some people, giving up on things they like to eat is very hard. For some, giving up on using their car is hard. People can do different things to help and not everyone needs to do every single thing. An extreme approach is not practical and it's next to impossible to "sell" such an idea.
Central control is efficient, if you can get the right signals to the controller, and do it fast enough to have a tight feedback loop. Humans alone can do none of this at scale, but modern computing can do the "feedback" part easily. It's now the "signals" and "controller" parts that need to be figured out.
So they are writing their own kernel, but moving to using a VM? Why not use an existing kernel if they are moving to using a VM...?
> there are no security issues, since as the name indicates its a “waste”; you can’t make a bomb out of it

Without applying a lot of imagination, I can think out about some non trivial security issues in the idea of adding deplected uranium waste to a bomb as shrapnel. Definitely a bomb can be made with this stuff.
I think you summed it up very nicely. It's unfortunate that people are in that type of a life situation, but we can't really do anything about it yet.
> Yet none of this matters

This is provably false. The effect of not commuting and avoiding animal products is measurable and very relevant.

Not to dismiss the important of collective action against industrial pollution.
Which is really the problem, isn't it? However, no politician says this publicly because Western economies are built on a gigantic Ponzi scheme where we need more and more people to be born and create wealth for our ever-increasing retirements.

Am I simplifying things excessively here?
I don't understand the sensationalism behind this news.

Why couldn't the coin just have been taken there by someone long after it was minted?
They're likely using a commercial facial recognition system which includes that feature for demos at trade shows. People love getting external validation, which also explains why the scores are all greater than 70.

Edit: E.g. this article mentions a system being demoed with that feature: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/03/598012923/...
The modern implementation of reCaptcha is quite possibly the worst plague of the internet. If you're using Tor or any non chrom*-based browser, you're out of luck. Piece of garbage really should have been decommissioned by now.
BTW: Where are shares of North Stream 2? Nobody can found them. They are even better than cash or cushy post when goal is to corrupt officials.
Ask HN: Is HN Enforcing Conformity?
En therefore actually removes possibly to discover novelty defeating the purpose of the website?
If SNI poisoning does not work for censoring, the whole IP range of service would be blocked instead. You cannot always count on changing IP addresses which would be a cat-and-mouse game.
I believe "so it doesn't save nothing." should be written as "so it doesn't save anything." [0]

Feel free to ignore me.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Is-the-sentence-dont-do-nothing-correc...
I have dominion over my flat but that doesn't mean I'll just shit into the corner. Quite the opposite actually.
Guo looking to stay on Foxconn board despite Taiwan presidential bid
And Google already does it: take a look at the stories of small towns wishing Google would stop routing people through a certain surface road and not knowing how to make that request. People trust their navigation apps because in general those apps have earned their trust.

In general I am skeptical of "Communism is bad because the government will X" arguments where private industry is capable of doing X in as thorough a way for the average citizen's practical liberty and especially where private industry is already trying X.
Can confirm the above. I'm greatful for my diagnosis and the medicines that exist. Also, there is close to zero stigma surrounding AD(H)D and related medication in my personal and professional circles. I was diagnosed at age 21, and I would have benefited immensely from a more timely diagnosis. Medication (Concerta) allowed me to take charge of my life. Instead of being swamped by endless impulses and their echoes, I had a say in the matter of what I wanted to do. Imagine continuously sinking into yourself with no predictable way to resurface. Buoyancy is a nice thing to have, and taken for granted by those who don't know better.
Most people warning about climate change don’t say it is the end of the world, they say climate is complex, we never did this before, nature will be fine, but if whether human civilisagion will be fine is not very sure.

It is a huge experiment on a planetary scale and staying on the safe side here is simple the rational approach.

The irrational approach is to hope it will somehow turn out great, despite the already grim looking damage predictions.

And the simply evil approach is working against scientific evidence and rational arguments for personal gain. People like these are like cancer, destroying civilization from within for personal growth.
Fossil fuels have an energy density that’s peanuts to Uranium. And lucky for us, there’s enough of it in the oceans to power humanity for centuries. If oil does get expensive enough and the ROI flips for economies of scale to apply to nuclear generation, we will have enough energy for SUV-sized flying Teslas in a century, no problem.
Spin? Doesn't seem like spin, more the best prediction on available data. Few sciences are perfect. Do we talk of spin from gravity science because we haven't yet proved that?

For the Eocene, also according to science, we see fossil evidence of crocodiles at the poles. That likely makes most of the temperate to equatorial zones uninhabitable for humans, whilst being lovely for the "snakes found in the tropics that would require much higher average temperatures to sustain them".

I notice you don't mention that "All the members of the new mammal orders were small, under 10 kg", and "Eocene mammals were only 60% of the size of the primitive Palaeocene mammals that preceded them. They were also smaller than the mammals that followed them".

So whilst it was lovely for species evolved to those conditions, and life as a whole, for large species such as those of the size of say humanity, it seems to have been exceptionally hostile.
The Chinese government knows that peace and quiet comes partly from improving the economic well-being of the general population.

The vast majority of the Chinese population has seen dramatic improvements during the last 40 years.
Does wikipedia have any read only mirrors?
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It is. But environmental narratives fed to people are confused; they're mixing up "protect the nature because it's cute" with "protect the nature because our food depends on it".
So you're saying the climate is changing?

But seriously, the article you link to is directly stating rising CO2 levels as one of the causes as CO2 is good for plants.
I agree, that's the central question: is a government for promoting the prosperity of it's people or perpetuating itself. Would be nice if they could do both but there are so many examples of governments choosing themselves over the greater good.
" There are many situations where someone does not “want” to testify, but it is necessary to better understand the truth."

In my opinion, such a belief is extremely dangerous for a society, even if I suppose that it is shared by most US citizens, who grew up believing that they live in a "free" country, where they should trust justice.

Many years ago, USA advertised itself to the world as a champion of "human rights".

In my opinion, the most important "human right" is to be free to refuse to answer to any question, in any context, including during a testimony.

I do not know if there exists at least a country where this right is recognized, but this just prove how abusive are most state constitutions and laws.

Unlike most of you, I know very well the importance of this right, because I was born and raised in a country which was governed by a gang of thieves and murderers, who were installed in power by the Russian invaders.

Where the thieves make the laws and where the main purpose of the "law enforcement" is to prevent any attempt of resistance against the government and their servants, who share the spoils, do you believe that it is right if anyone who refuses to testify can be severely punished ?

About testimony being required in a "democratic society", unfortunately nothing guarantees that a society that is democratic now will remain democratic tomorrow.

After 1990, it seemed that democracy will improve in most of the world, but it did not happen so. While im many formerly communist countries there were modest improvements, during the last 30 years the western countries and especially USA have become each year more and more like the communist countries from before 1990.

This has happened not only in the many new abusive laws and in the more and more incompetent governments, but also in the economy, where every year brings more major merges & acquisitions, increasing the power of monopolies.

There was a single important difference between the "socialist" economies and the "capitalist" economies. In the socialist economies there were only monopolies. Everyone can see the results.
The carbon footprint is extremely unequal and correlates very clearly with income/wealth.
I'm probably not the target audience but I'd say that it's usable but still not very straight forward to set up. Yes it has less options than OpenVPN but with a bunch of tutorials I was usually able to get OpenVPN set it up and have my traffic flow through it in 30 min.

Following tutorials like this https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-to-configure-wireguard/ (which seems like a good one from a fellow HN user) always seems to work that I'm able to connect to the server but my internet doesn't work after running it. Probably something related to the IP tables rules or firewall I assume?

I'm using the official mac client and Ubuntu 18.10 running on a server at OVH.
Blocking the greatest encyclopedia that ever existed is the best example of what this kind of censorship is.
I think most governments do want to improve the life of the people, but it simply gets lost in the power struggle. You can't gain power without agreement from the king-makers and that agreement comes with strings attached. You also have to deal with the opposition and at least in American politics, they seem to be quite unreasonable at times. (Regardless which party is the opposition.)
I thought so, but at the same time I've seen some of these comments that have very high positive scores?

and how do you downvote something, anyway?
Perhaps they are prosecuting him with the intention of granting asylym afterwards. Somehow it feels like a grab.
Russel Barkely, foremost thought leader, Psychiatrist on ADHD, would strongly disagree as well. Also, that article has a pay wall.