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"Storms of our Children"? Were you the same person recommending "2012 end of the world" books a decade ago?

Also, "science" hasn't refuted anything I said. I'm the only one who linked to science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum#/media/Fi...

That is a list of significant climate changes just in the last 20000 years ( a very short time period relatively speaking ). We don't know the definitive "why" of any of those natural shifts in climate. If you know why these climate changes occurred before humans started using fossil fuels, please let me know. And please let me know the percentages in temperature increase that nature is responsible for and humans are responsible for.

I went into greater detail here if you are interested.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19991130

My advice is not to read mass market "oh think of the children" rubbish like "Storms of our Children". Instead look at the facts and think for yourself.

If you have a climate model that works, let me know. If you have any climate scientist who knows why climate shifted in the past, let me know. It's amazing how when it comes to "end of the world nonsense", people will believe anything without any real science behind it.
The experience and security of a bank, without the middleman
>Governments will not oblige their citizens to make steps on their consumption if it means reducing their comfort and their economic power.

The UK government is currently delivering on all three, though I suspect not for any ecological reasons.
That's incorrect.

There were other tabulating machines (for example the Bull[1]) and of course there were (and are) other deforesting agents. The governments in both cases would have found another supplier.

It also would have made a difference! There's a reason the Nazis picked IBM and the US picked Dow.

If it's the case that Amazon could do better work than Tencent and Alibaba - then their abstention is laudable. If it's the case that Amazon is inferior, then they'd get out-competed in a winner-take-all marketplace so they both save money and have clean hands. So win-win.

[1] http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/projet/bull_t30/tabu_t30.htm
For more info, see this TSA document that lists the "Eight Signs of Terrorism" for general aviation (page 11) https://www.tsa.gov/sites/default/files/2017_ga_security_gui...

1. Surveillance
2. Elicitation
3. Tests of Security
4. Funding
5. Supplies
6. Suspicious people
7. Rehearsal
8. Deployment
I like the article and totally get it, agree with it to the extent that agreeing makes sense here.

I do want to defend patagucci real quick. These puffies are legitimately incredible over a wide range of temps. I can comfortably wear my down hoodie from 25F to 65F. At 25F I probably have another layer depending on conditions, and at 65F I'm probably looking to get rid of it if possible, but in either case it's manageable. These bros might be wearing it for culture, but the product is high quality.

Patagonia appears to be a great company. The founder and company seem legitimately interested in fair wages and treatment of all humans involved in the process whether they're in the fields, on the floor, or in the office. They appear to be serious about fair treatment of animals and the environment. Repairability and longevity of the products is a priority as well.

I think the comparison to clothing with BROOKLYN printed on it in some distant nation is unfair, the owner named the company with the intention of saying "this is what you would wear in that environment", which he spent a lot of time in. Conditions vary wildly, clothing will get beat up. Will most of it get there? No. Will most of it end up in some corporate office and never see adverse weather, probably.

I feel guilty wearing their stuff (and I buy all of it on their past-season 50% off sales, their mailing list is literally worth it) because it does scream a certain kind of preppy person. But at the same time, the products I have from them (not tshirts and caps, but legit technical garments) are the best I own, full stop.

Would have been nice to see the author at least nod towards that instead of smearing them with Wall Street.
Wondering how .flat() compares. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Medication, exercise, and mindfulness meditation were game changers for me.

Meditation was effective because it sharpened my ability to detect when I lost focus and course-correct. With daily practice, this habit (mind wanders -> notice mind wandering -> gently redirect focus back to original intent) became automatic. I was surprised to notice myself "waking up" and clicking back into place over and over throughout the day, whereas before meditation I seemed to "wake up" only at the end of the day with nothing done.

At work I listen to ambient music and use Pomodoros to pace myself. I also asked my supervisor to start requesting daily status updates on my projects. Without the extra accountability, I let things slide off the radar too easily.

It's difficult sometimes. Russell Barkley likens these habits/calendars/medications as a sort of prosthesis. That framing helps me to accept these things as one part of a unique life experience instead of a debilitating setback.
When I had the chance to use it seriously many years ago, what I found about WPF is that once you got the hang of it, you could literally look at any sufficiently complex application UI and know immediately how to build it using WPF in record time.

It's that composable.
I often wonder if I would have been able to achieve command-line fluency if I had been born 10 years later. GUIs just weren’t a thing when I was learning computers, so I had no choice but to learn to work on the command line. I can tell that it was time well spent now - I can script solutions to things that GUI-only folks sometimes spend hours repetitively doing “by hand”, but it took years to get to that point. I can’t entirely blame somebody for giving up and saying, “meh, the ‘long way’ is good enough”.
Automatic assault weapons are not freely available. You need a class 3 FFL license to possess fully automatic weapons and private ownership of any fully automatic firearm made after 1986 is banned.
I recall listening to either a video or reading an article but:

You can screw over an entire city for a week+ by renting a car, parking it in a particularly busy street, and then leaving it there. If you + a few of your friends do this, then you can gridlock the entire traffic flow of a city, as tow trucks cannot get into the area.
Chrome 74.0.3729.157 here on Windows. No EV indicator for paypal here.
A lot of it certainly isn't making Chinese manufacturing management lose sleep.
> I just wish it could be on an open platform.

It could be. Letting GitHub get away with this without criticism feels like a failure of imagination. They could have done integration of an open platform (heck, even one they created) if they gave a fuck :(
the complexity of Terraform does not come from the happy path. It comes from when things go wrong and now you have to understand what went wrong and how to correct it. Now you’re in a world of pain since TF just throws its hands in the air and you’re left holding the bag.
i have hear several people referring to terraform as Terrafail. I have also observed good dev/devops people struggling to make it work when shit hits the fan.
You don't need a new programming language for that - any type safe, memory safe language with capabilities can do it. Java or C# are good candidates. Especially with the work on Project Loom in the JVM, you could get cooperative multi-tasking controlled by the compiler rather than using processor interrupts (in theory). See Singularity for an example of what kind of interesting OS architectures are enabled by it.

The elephant in the room is Spectre. It's no longer clear you can actually keep any secrets inside an address space on speculating CPUs. So if all your code runs in a single address space, even if it works in theory, it may not work in practice. But this opens up the interesting research problem of Spectre mitigations :)

One idea I've wondered about is whether you can use the very new Intel features to rapidly change access permissions on page table entries, such that you could have a totally unified but segmented heap, but entering or leaving lower privileged code modules triggers a fast address space transition.
That's sort of in line with the "starve the beast" ideology. Take on a lot of debt now so the next generation has no choice but to shrink government.
Paper is not just another form of papyrus, despite the etymological relation. Paper is vastly superior to papyrus, and it's a hugely important invention in human history.

It's very difficult to see what you're actually trying to argue here. Chinese civilization generated a large number of important inventions, including (but obviously not limited to) the stirrup, paper, gunpowder, silk, the compass and paper money. It's about as silly to try to deny this contribution as it would be to deny the contribution of the Greeks to civilization.
If participation in the program was purely under completely voluntary terms then it would be fine but it isn't. Instead Brave extorts sites to participate in their program by blocking their current funding method and forcing Brave's terms upon them if they want to recover some of the lost revenue.
I have an OP-1 and an OP-Z. More and more I use the OP-Z, the sequencing workflow is just incredible. I don't have an ios device and after climbing the learning curve it's totally functional without a screen.

Also, the OP-Z can be used to sequence several pieces of external hardware at once [0]. Definitely not a toy. It has it's quirks (e.g. adding your own samples requires chopping them to exactly 6 seconds or all hell breaks loose, and no ability to "zoom in" on your sequence if you have multiple trigs per step) but it's a trade-off for all the power in the form factor.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHfCl6-xamM
In practice, it is not strange at all.

The person you replied to tried to highlight why that particular framing a bad metric to highlight in an OSS project.

People respond better to something like:

this repo needs $500/mo to achieve X;

$1000/mo to achieve Y and;

$2000/mo to achieve Z. We have received $200 in funding for this month."

rather than the example given above:

"this repo receives $500 per month"

The first framing emphasizes your needs, the second framing emphasizes your current situation. The first is better because it gives any potential donor actionable information to decide whether you need a donation or not, and more importantly, how much impact their donation will make if they choose to donate.

A donor can make an out-sized impact on a project with a stretch goal of "$2000/mo to achieve Z" that has only received $200 in donor funds by providing the $1800 balance for instance.
Don't mistake that normal occurrence for anything aching to ADD tho. Saying "I got a little bit ADD because I something loose focus when I find something boring" is equivalent to saying "I got a little bit cancer because sometimes my stomach hurts".
If they think I'd good at it perhaps I should try it?

It's like having a parent who believes in you. :D
How many sponsoring circles have you detected already ?

I can't believe people able to be sponsored aren't doing background stuff to make sure they get free $5K a month from github, since it's a simple as doing a reciprocal sponsoring.

Heck, anyone with a bit too much cash can just offer to be payed to sponsor, let's say you give me 1 unit, I sponsor 0,9 upon payment, you get 1,8 from github.

TL;DR : really surprised you went with matching sponsoring, aren't you worried about this, is this just cost of doing business, or are you actively detecting it ? (and how if discloseable ?)
If a system identified individual has a 0.4% chance of being on the FBI most wanted, then that is 'much more likely' than an individual picked at random who has a likelihood of 1 in 30 million.
Conor McBride's primary research area seems to be puns, which he publishes via programming language theory :P

My favourite title is "I am not a number, I am a free variable"

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vO7qGKwAAAAJ&hl=en...
Patreon only takes a 5% cut.
I have Korg Gadget and I also like Groovebox. It's more limited than Gadget but I think that makes it easier to get started.
Is it possible to develop several parallel technologies per iteration of standards and license them a la carte at a range of prices?

In other words, could QCOM effect price discrimination organically without knowing the cost of the full device?
Aside from inheritance there are mutations that are not based on previous work and are unique.
I think that's human culture, not tech culture. Skaters and musicians and preppies and punks and goths and snowboarders and devout religious groups all have their own norms and behavioral and clothing signaling and most of it is not written down.

If I showed up to a half-pipe in full wedding garb or to a wedding in skater garb, people would reasonably give me weird looks.

Being able to appropriately adapt to different situations is a needed life skill. “In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.” —Thomas Jefferson

The benefit I see in tech is you can wear whatever “weird” clothes you want and be accepted and given a chance to prove you can do the job much more than in most workplaces. Try showing up to a law firm or investment bank in flip flops and shorts vs showing up in a suit in tech. You’ll get a lot farther in the latter than the former. To me, that's fair (or at least wildly more fair.)
Introduction to Learning Rates in Machine Learning
These are not "spontaneous public response". Hiring people to distribute flowers to look like spontaneous bystanders is. Marching with fake posters with fake hashtags to look like spontaneous gatherings is, these are already fake personas. If you add "on social media", you can infer all the rest.
I think the difficulty here is getting a consensus on #1.

If it's an international effort, there's going to be disagreement on how to set a budget. Does a country with an emerging economy get a higher budget because they're behind more advanced economies who benefited from fossil fuels in their past growth? Getting advanced economies to make a disproportionate sacrifice will be a hard sell. And what is the accountability/oversight mechanism at the international level?

If instead the budget was set at the national level, you're going to have a hard time getting countries on-board if they see other countries not doing the same. "Why should we hamper our economy when country X isn't making a sacrifice?"
Ah okay. But still, hg vs git is a good example of doing the same things, but (the former) dividing the functionality along more natural boundaries. You still have the unavoidable complexity of defining precisely what you mean by "reverting" a change, but hg (from all I've heard) is more intuitive.
Because they can control it and use it as a moat.
Expensive but they are pretty solid.

Is there a way to use an Android device as a PC by plugging in kb, mouse, and display?
If you just want to learn the software, you can set up Hercules mainframe emulator for free. Finding an image of z/OS is left as an exercise to the reader, but won't take you long.

http://www.hercules-390.org/
This is kind of where I am. My job requires I carry an iPad around. I have a keyboard and mouse and use Jump Desktop to remote into a Windows 10 VM and Mosh, Blink, and tmux to remote into the Linux server itself.

I still find I’m wanting more though. Having a locally available machine would solve a lot of issues with bandwidth. For example, iOS is capable of using Cryptomator but using it with WebDAV on my server at home means every file needs to download each time it’s opened. Or say I capture some great video and want to move it to the VM for editing or download content from server for local editing. This takes forever on LTE or WiFi.

I’ve been looking at the WD My Passport Wireless but I think longer term a better choice may be an ODROID-HC1 with a large SSD. Think of it as like a mobile cloud. It could act as the WiFi gateway for all devices, run through a VPN, provide local storage via SMB, SFTP, or WebDAV, run a Plex server without needing connectivity, and provide a local Linux environment for or the times you don’t have connectivity. Additionally nearly any tablet or phone like device could be setup to access it.
The crime free nature of Japan will be a thing of a past. The quality of life for natives will decrease vastly. Wages will be pushed further down. Having worked together on many projects with Japanese I know immigrants have nothing of value to offer to the Japanese people.

Personally I'd rather live in a homogeneous society having seen how multiculturalism has decreased the quality of life for everybody in my country. I can see why the Japanese would want to avoid that. I hope they revolt.
If you don't mind me asking, how do you support yourself and why did you choose to dedicate your time to this project?
>Have you ever heard of Marilyn vos Savant or Chris Langan or Terence Tao or William James Sidis or Kim Ung-yong ? These are, as far as IQ tests are concerned, the most intelligence members that our species currently contains.

>Whilst I won't question their presumed intelligence, their achievements are rather unimpressive

We talkin' about the same Terry Tao, Fields Medalist?
Actually, yeah, something like 99% of working scientists in climate-related fields agree it's human-caused. There've been a number of meta-studies about this.

If you want to know more, you can google this. It's a discussion that, if not for the fossil fuel money being pumped into stirring up controversy (also well demonstrated, also google-able), would have been settled long ago.

As a depressing parallel, there are also HIV deniers, too. There's one prominent scientist, I think the guy who invented PCR, who claims that HIV has nothing to do with AIDS, and he's got a small following. It's dwindled over the years, but he's still out there, trying to raise doubts despite the mainstream science on HIV leading to treatments and even possible cures, while his work leads to nothing.

Edited to mention: of course! There are also evolution deniers! Why does everyone dismiss them, but open their arms to skeptics of human-caused climate change? What's different about human-caused climate change and evolution?
> The fact that Elon Musk (and similar brains) already have a ridiculous amount of power and are using it to change the world proves that Elon-Musk level intelligence is enough to gain a lot of power and change the world.

Surely the null-hypothesis should be “being rich makes it easier to get richer, and their initial breakthrough was luck”? Personally I would guess that there are a lot of smarter or equally smart people who never get close to that level of power.
The issue here is that the author wants to merge one array into another, so they wrote a = a.concat(b), but that is implemented as:

temp = a.concat(b)
a = temp

In creating `temp`, JS copies all the elements of a and all the elements of b.

Whereas,

a.push(...b)

Only copies all the elements of b.

The code you propose copies all the elements of a and b, so it wouldn’t be faster.
detecting resources that are already there may be useful in a limited set of scenarios (prototypes / retrofitting) but definitely should not be the way you build things. thinking through what your cloud infra is doing and expressing it is the way to go.

there is also a way to do this for cloudformation. look up cloudformer.
Where’s the paper? After looking at your site, it’s not obvious to me what paper to look at.
These functions do different things though, right?

push() mutates an array in-place, and concat() completely duplicates the existing array and adds another array to it.

> x=[]; x.push(...[1,2]); console.log(x);
[1, 2]
> x=[]; x.concat([1]); console.log(x);
[]

So clearly push should be faster in general in usecases like these, since it does not need to copy.

Edit: grammar and copy paste failures from my console
Our cultural obsession with work = time = virtue comes from the Agricultural Age and early Industrial Age when there was a more direct linear relationship here.
Assuming ample money, resources, and support, height isn't a big deal (for solid state rockets).

From my experience as a part of a collegiate (liquid) rocket club, just getting to manufacturing is a major hurdle.

There's legal red tape, university specific red tape, insurance/liability, material sourcing, funding, manufacturing, testing etc.

Note that some of these steps may require specialized facilities/equipment, transport, etc. Outsourcing (e.g. manufacturing) trades off for added red tape. ITAR is fun.

This makes working towards great heights a slow process, and if something goes wrong during testing/launch it's a major set back.
Wouldn't a call to Array.prototype.splice act as a language defined (and hopefully optimized) means of adding elements in-place?

Slightly ugly because you'd need to specify the start index, a command to delete 0 elements, and a call/apply to inject the array, but it should do.
Generating and Manipulating Faces Using Deep Learning
> I highly doubt most of china's people would side with the US against their own government.

Every week there's another article about a new way Chinese citizens are circumventing their government's censorship. Nobody likes being kept under heel. And I seriously doubt the concentration camps would have widespread support - most likely their existence is censored from the rest of the population altogether.

They wouldn't be siding against their own government, they'd be siding against the authoritarian communist party. They'd be choosing things they really want (economic growth) in exchange for the ending of actions they either don't care about or dislike. The CP is already in a precarious balance, trying to maintain strength without turning the general population against them. Some in China already wish it would bend to the sanctions. The above kind of deal would raise the pressure on the party, weakening the tumor sitting on top of a major new contributor to the world economy.
Firstly, you're the one who keeps going off on tangents, first on tobacco, then on the Holocaust and finally on other British "sponsored" famine in Bengal none of which are relevant. Even a cursory googling of the 1943 famine will demonstrate that the causes for it are far from settled as far as the academic community are concerned. You, however seem to have no doubts on the matter. That doesn't inspire me to believe that your knowledge of it runs deep, rather the opposite in fact.
It's not 945x faster, it's O(N) faster.
You would likely be mistaken. Real time kernels (like Redhat's MRG product, or the -rt patchset from Thomas Gleixner) have less jitter aka more predictable timing. However, in virtually every average case, they have slightly higher latency than the stock linux kernel.

The reality of 100G+ networking or low latency networking is the kernel can't keep up with the interrupts from the hardware, so you turn interrupts per packet off (adaptive coalescing / ethtool -C for ethernet), so userspace tcp/ip stacks such as Intel / Linux Foundation's DPDK[1], Solarflare's OpenOnload[2], Mellanox's VMA[3] and Chelsio's Wire Direct[4] exist to fill this need. Heck, even the BBC wrote their own kernel bypass[5] networking layer! Note that Solarflare, Mellanox, and Chelsio are all heavily used in High Performance Computing supercomputers along with finance such as electronic trading. If there was no need, there wouldn't be so many options due to the market wanting them.

[1] https://www.dpdk.org/

[2] https://www.openonload.org/

[3] http://www.mellanox.com/page/software_vma

[4] https://www.chelsio.com/nic/wire-direct/

[5] https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2018-04-high-speed-networking-...

Source: have worked in electronic trading as a Linux engineer for 11-12ish years.
The IPCC reports speak a pretty clear language. For what reasons do you not believe them?