skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the goal were 5 years out, I’d believe they’d actually make some progress during the current politicians’ terms, which is a start.
I give non-native speakers a lot more leeway for typos, grammar and odd expressions for, hopefully, obvious reasons.

A lot of people use English as it's the language of tech, which means that the potential audience is significantly larger.
It's interesting to note that he's being attacked in part because republicans are relying on him. Of course they don't do this because of any sort of scientific integrity on their part, but only because they happen to agree with him on some specific points. And of course the democrats do not point that hypocrisy out since they're doing the same thing.

He's also only addressing his area of expertise, extreme weather events and their cost, not the overall risks triggered by climate change (such as ecosystems collapse, or triggering additional release of greenhouse gas via thawing). That is, at no point is he denying other areas of this (large) topic.

And yet this is sufficient to get lies (including in this thread) about him being a climate change denier, which clearly he's not, or that he's "against the consensus scientific view". He's against the consensus political view. His work is based on the IPCC. The IPCC has its problems, but it is an international body that's pretty mainstream and recognized as such by many countries. The IPCC assess the validity and importance of papers published around the world, their reports are the opposite of fringe.

To me an important point is that this is just one more example of the supremacy of dogma over facts in US public discourse, and that it impacts both the left and the right. For us non-American it is (I assume) pretty easy to spot crazy republicans and their agenda: they're usually quite shameless about it and not very subtle. And so we are somewhat immune to their ideas. What I'm growing increasingly concerned with is that we tend to consider the democrats as the comparatively "reasonable party", the ones that accept facts and science, the ones that are more humanistic. I don't think they are, I think they're just a hell of a lot more insidious about it.
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I think India, or most other countries, will deem facebook coins an exception. It's probably being negotiated right now.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15676737
The source code for the fix is public. Presumably the bug report includes working exploit code. I don't see how this is "damaging" for forks.
I agree, even those based on Mimblewimble, Casper should alleviate my energy concerns. Then again I can't posses them with the risk of jail term looming around.
Health care is not a bazaar.
No, it's named something more like "Calculator.exe", but calc.exe is a stub that will just activate the UWP app if present so that people and software can still invoke calc.exe.

The old calculator was briefly shipped as a separate component called "win32calc.exe" in 10-based versions without apps, and that's what the calc.exe stub defers to in those cases.
You are assuming they use those laws to lock up Libra users and not just the competition. It seems likely they could allow censorable cryptocurrencies like Libra.
Yes, and there are also projects like chia [0] that aim to be a green digital currency.

[0]https://www.chia.net/
This is the start of a very good podcast, the Program
http://www.programaudioseries.com/

Each episode is a character explaining how the Program changed his/her life, episodes are very moving. The first one describes how it all started by a social network controlling money and thus people actions. Oh and it's mainly optimistic, that's a nice change for the subject!

"The Program is a historical podcast, but a one that’s set in the future and examines the present day. The world of the future is exactly like ours, except that Money, State, and God became fused into a single entity called the Program. This hardcore sci-fi premise however is just the backdrop, and the series focuses on stories of ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world."
Take that, overpriced desalination system in Sim City 3000!
Yeah, it would be really nice if the function has no local return errors could be more specific.
Dedicated bike lanes exist in Europe, so I assume this is a solved problem and US cities could just buy whatever European municipalities use to clean bike lanes.
Ask HN: How would you estimate the cost of testing as part of a dev project?
I'm a software engineer working mainly in the browser. I work for a digital marketing company. As part of an ongoing improvment of our process and dev practices I've been asked to 'Estimate and document the cost of testing as part of a development project'.

I can and do, write tests for my code but I want to make a decent effort at the above question.

There are some smart people in here. How would you go about this?
Long working hours and other pressures faced by early-career researchers
One thing I find interesting, and which I like: As far as I can tell, this commit was merged without the submitter needing to sign a CLA or otherwise assign copyright.
I see no reason to believe that we won't, unless you think we'll suddenly lose all technology that we've developed over the past 5000 years.

Also, here's a list at some of the dramatic swings in temperature and sea levels over just the past 2 million years, including many events impacting modern human history, such as the Little ice age: http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7x.html
I didn't even say that I am a homophobe. I support gay marriage and everything.
Just don't like the new politically correct social stance. See all the hate I get for posting this sub-thread and what I suggested in the first post readily seems plausible. People are going to vote for this s*t
Facebook's 'Free Basics' didn't work in India in spite of negotiations and even 'hugging'[1].

[1]:https://www.google.com/search?q=Zuckerberg+hug+modi&prmd=niv...
Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency, Libra, which will let you buy things or send money to people with nearly zero fees.
Here is more information: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/18/facebook-libra/
or accept the fact that there is a spectrum of decentralization. It's not binary.
A "month" is a poorly defined unit of time and shouldn't be used to describe a duration.
It's not important, but you're definitely wrong here.
Here in Germany, at enterprise level it is pretty much .NET, Java, C++ and Web, while most mobile apps tend to focus either on mobile Web or hybrid solutions (Xamarin, Ionic, C++ with native views).

Everything else are just small campings.
I don't know, I've always liked the "if you have money, you can buy it" part of capitalism. You can make money, but you can't change the fundamentals. In a racist white society, having money will not help you if you're black. In a politicized society, having money will not help you if you don't have the right worldview, or were born into the wrong family. In my home town, having money will not help you get into a (private) housing cooperative if you don't match the social criteria.

What you describe in Stockholm has happened around here too. Still, I prefer it: this way I do have a chance to get a (nice) apartment, even though I was born to a family where nobody was a member of the local ruling party. Sure, I may not get the great flat at the greatest location for a third the market price, but at least I can get one, even if it's more expensive. I'm happy to pay a higher price to be able to actually buy something.
My TRS-80 Model 100 computer on a table at Starbucks, as I wrote this story.

Closes the page instantly.
The proposed law is generic to any cryptocurrency, in-fact it was proposed before the Libra was in news.

It's not about censorship, it's about taxation.
Thank you for stating this so clearly. Something always seemed off to me about the argument that punishing Backpage was going to backfire because all it would do drive exploitation and child abuse more underground. This claim would have merit if Backpage hadn’t been explicitly enabling a market for this terrible stuff via those keyword suggestions. I’m not going to shed any tears for the poor site owners having to face penalties for this.
Without Prop 13 the pensioners and older people who lived in Bay Area most of their lives and built it will be effectively evicted from their homes as their real estate taxes will be much more than they can afford.

You really agitate for this? Don't be an a*le.

If cities lose money it's because they spend too much and because they give their employees too much benefits. Fix that first.
My assumptions are based in that I’ve worked in the industry. There’s plenty of small restaurants that are cash only, because they operate on the thinnest of margins. Gas stations as well. To the merchant, a fee of 3% + .10c per transaction is very common. More for Amex.

The second point sounds like an economics 101 conclusion. Network effects are real. Regulatory capture is real. Starting a new card network is harder than beating google in ad revenue in search.
The author signed a CLA. "7 checks passed", and if you click "View Details" you see:

> license/cla All CLA requirements met.

Also mentioned in https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/blob/master/CONTRIBU...
I don't think I agree with using objects as the public interface to an algorithm, especially if its primary purpose is to apply some transformation over the input (i.e. a natural fit for a function). The examples given have a bit of a two-phase initialization smell: initialize some internal state, then run the algorithm: steps that are never performed separately.

Objects as an algorithm internal state might be a better approach: the caller doesn't have to worry about the algorithm's internal state, they only need to call the external function entry point (and you'll destroy or otherwise forget the internal state at the end of the function, rather than putting the burden on the caller).
Firefox 56 is unlikely to ever receive security patches every again. You are incredibly vulnerable by staying behind.
> EA isn’t promising a drastically new game every time.

Every couple of years they promise "completely new engine from the ground up" and deliver an incremental improvement on the previous years. I don't necessarily consider the result a bad thing, but the marketing is always BS.
Being a Danish citizen and holding Krone at least in theory you may vote to control its inflation and claim social benefits from the issuer (Danish State). I mentioned the benefits because often they are financed through money printing by the government.
With libra you won’t have those rights at all. One can argue that they basically get the same 4% as credit cards by depriving you benefits or voting power.
And it tends to peak in the critical point of game adoption: at the outset.
That energy can be recuperated.
I've noticed a new way GitHub can show tests. There's a new checks tab at the top of the issue. There[0] you'll find thatall unittests were successfull.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/pull/553/checks
Boy, imagine a system where part of your taxes could go towards a publicly funded healthcare system which would prevent problems such as this from arising in the first place.
k9-mail, for its independance and ability to set up advanced features (like sender aliases).
Someone I know was hit by this in a very targeted attack on June 6th. They managed to capture the binary it dropped on their mac with some other gatekeeper bypass vulnerability (perhaps https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-unpatched...). It is a mac port of the binary discussed in this research paper by Exatel: https://exatel.pl/advisory/paranoicy-raport-socexatel.pdf
This has far more to do with customer expectations than it does with safety. It would be much harder to sell a car with a different kind of steering mechanism than a wheel. The wheel is a leftover design element. Just because it's what we have doesn't mean it's good.
Maybe turning everything gaming related into a SJW minefield was not a very productive decision, either.
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Just to fill in details of the other responses. There are multiple concept here: latent heat, specific heat and relative humidity. The latent heat of a substance is the amount of energy required to transform it from one phase to another (in this case from liquid to gas). It varies on the temperature, but basically it's about 2250 - 2500 kJ/kg. However there is only so much water you can evaporate at a particular temperature/pressure. At room temperature it's a lot less than at boiling. If you want to evaporate a lot of liquid, then you need to boil it. This requires you to heat it. The specific heat of water (the amount of energy you need to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree C) is 4.2 kJ/kg. So if we need to raise the water to boiling and then boil it, we will need about 2600 kJ/kg.

If the sun can provide 1 kW/m2, the in 1 hour we can produce a maximum of 1 kWh/m2. That's 3600 kJ. That means we can boil 1 kg (or 1 litre) of water per hour per square meter of sunlight at maximum efficiency. So it's just not feasible.

I welcome fixes to the inevitable errors in the above :-P
I’m with you. Im not that old but new cars really have no appeal to me. Will be interesting to see how it goes hanging onto a 2010 for 50 years
Is that special/better than common keyboards of today?
>Reverse Osmosis seems so energy intensive at a fundamental level when you consider that the sun naturally distils and desalinates water all day long.

Sun does it but it does so over large surface area and the distillation per unit area that naturally happens is much less than what we require.
Sorry age between 3 and 6
Mozilla was, Zdnet was not. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-1...
Good fit, but I think Elixir already _is_ Clojure on BEAM in spirit (sans Lisp syntax).
Come on, historians like epicycles. Which would be a proper name for that riding implement in English. (Presuming it's the stationary one.)

Anyway, we have math to prove any semistationary sequence can be broken down into a bunch of cyclical patterns "plus error". That says nothing about predictive value of that model.
It takes days on Linux Mint. I just installed the binary directly from Firefox website and I get instant updates.
Building a convention for configuration saver and reader module in Python
It’s also great for iot devices. Gives them access to the internet with no access to other devices in your home. You do have to spoof their mac address on a device with a browser to get them online though.
It's true that you could build a condenser and pump the steam through the next batch of water, but I doubt you will ever get anywhere near the efficiency you need to make it reasonable. I'd be incredibly happy to see any links that would prove me wrong, though!
And yet people do.
IANAP but this process will increase the entropy of the energy and result in it being more difficult to utilize
Out of curiosity how did you implement this? I looked briefly to see if I could make something and call kit seemed to require a blacklist (I figured this is why no whitelist app existed).

Do you do something special?
Chrome: Search autofills now default to the most recent query
Ok, I'll have to dig in to find out why this is important, as all the explanations I have seen are too technical for me
Yep! Last I checked (which admittedly was a while ago), 00:00:00:00:00:01 was valid for xfinitywifi
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I doubt this is quite what you are looking for, but https://github.com/fazibear/export provides simple Elixir/Python interop.
"Give us your data, you can trust us". Remember how that went?

"Give us your money, you can trust us". Hm...
The largest change was actually going from Closure modules (namespaces) to ES6-style imports.

TypeScript just keep getting better and better. I am looking forward to better Google Bazel support for TypeScript to help with monorepos.
To provide a little more context. They built out a "strip words from ad" feature that relied on a large list of words provided by the moderators to strip out terms. Most of these words were related to prostitution and only a few related to anything underage.

But there's also this.

> Similarly, in a June 7, 2011
email, Ferrer told a Texas law enforcement official that a word found in one
Backpage ad, “amber alert,” “is either a horrible marketing ploy or some kind of
bizarre new code word for an under aged person.”142 He told the official that he
would “forbid[]” that phrase—without explaining that, inside Backpage, this meant
filters would simply conceal the phrase through automatic deletion.143 Ferrer
forwarded the same email chain to Padilla and noted that he had instructed a staff
member to “add [amber alert] to strip out.”144 A June 11, 2012 version of the filter
word list indicates that “amber alert” was indeed deleted by the Strip Term From
Ad filter.145 In short, Backpage added such terms with full awareness of their
implications for child exploitation.

You'd imagine a normal person would think "we should ban this user, or report this to the authorities" instead of "we should definitely filter out that phrase".
Never underestimate stupid people in large groups.
I think Rob Pike, one of the inventors doesn't see the value of the functional style, at least that is what I gather from the readme of https://github.com/robpike/filter :P

Personally, I would love if the language design was a step closer to I.e. ocaml, especiall if I see the 'this is a struct, but only one of the fields should be not-null' hack to implement sum-types, or when I see how closely select over a channel resembles pattern-matching.

But the library ecosystem is good and 'just using forloops' is fine.
Why is the URL referring to a space shuttle, when the vehicle lost was an expendable Venus probe (Mariner I)? It wasn't even the probe that failed, but rather the Agena (second stage on top of the Atlas) that failed.
Time is hard.
But like what does it even mean to say something is 4 months away when the months could be different lengths? 4 months is a shorter time if that period includes the end of February. This fixed result is strange but does it even matter?
I fly reasonably frequently and factor the plane if its going to be longer than 2 hours or I am flying with kids. I've taken somewhat more expensive tickets when flying long distance with kids because it makes a huge difference when they are comfortable. On long flights, not just the equipment but the airlines makes a difference too. Under a 1 hr flight, I wouldn't care if I had to stand all the way.
Book Depository is always a good option for deliveries outside US.
That's site's borked for me. Instead here's google's text-cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:O79WUSl...
This Calculator project was added to GitHub 5 months ago in January now the project has 17,000 stars.

Are these real people liking the project or has Microsoft got bots to boost it's open-source reputation... it's especially suspicious now since they own the platform now...
Just enough to buy the monitor stand.
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Meritocracy produces moderate social mobility.

Making success (income, etc.) uncorrelated between generations would require a lottery. This includes a lottery for parental care, for DNA, for attractiveness, and so on. It really isn't possible. Getting close would require severely restricting choice. We'd have to assign employment and spouses by lottery.

Going the other way, making success fully determined by parental success, would also require severely restricting people from choosing their own lives. It might be a bit less extreme. We'd still have to assign everything to people, but it would be according to parental success instead of a lottery.

The closest we've gotten to those extremes seems to be communism and feudalism. Either one forces people into choices against their will. Either one creates inefficiency.
It's honestly really strange that you'd suggest Rails and Django don't exist in the public conversation. Yes, I literally woke up in the middle of the night thinking about this. Rails 6 is on the verge of release and has nearly 4000 contributors. It powers some of the most valuable companies in the world, and is by far the fastest way to get an API/fancy JS combo up and running. According to Github, there are over 1.1 million projects using Rails. Laravel doesn't report usage, but with 500 contributors there's a disparity in the strength of the communities between the two projects.

Anyhow.

One of my favourite things about the Ruby community is that nobody would ever suggest that we're popular because we're cheap. I don't want to work with people that are an easily replaced commodity. Nobody good is cheap.
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What you're saying does make sense, but can we please not use this as an excuse not to know better?

Maybe the citizens of some Spooky Third World country don't really have a choice due to their unique circumstances, but many of us do.

Let's not use the Spooky Third World country as an argument for why the dominance of Libra is inevitable before it even starts existing. Let's not be so hasty to become a dystopian novel.
Also copy-pasted 3d models from previous games, flying iron snakes and floating seagulls. And they didn't even bother copy-pasting all of the models from the previous games so people are really in the mood for nitpicking.
Cool. I'm suddenly conscious of all the USB plugs that exist in my immediate surroundings.
The Python "dateutil" library includes a "relativedelta" that works how one would typically expect. Though, I've usually used it to add known deltas, not to subtract two dates and arrive at a delta, so IDK if it supports that.

(It has rules, of course, for dealing with 30 day months when you're on the 31st and you add a "month". The normal timedelta class from the standard library doesn't do "months", since, as you note, it's not really a measure of time.)

In Unix timestamps, over a leap second, a difference of 1 Unix second is occasionally 2 seconds long.
While I agree to a certain extent with the point you made in your first paragraph, I'm not sure why you doubt quoted coding with regard to Minecraft and Roblox. Both games have Turing complete languages. Roblox uses Lua.

Minecraft uses javascript on Bedrock, but also has a command block scripting language along with redstone, which together form a unique and mentally stimulating coding environment.

This isn't even mentioning mods which add different languages (Forth or Lua) or modding the game itself, which isn't that difficult to stumble into these days.
The story builds up over time -- it points to major problems at Boeing. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os (The Boeing 787: Broken Dreams)
Years (decades?) ago, it was standard practice to include a watermark text that said something like "Alpha version footage, not representative of final release" in trailers, and everybody was ok with it. It was honest and straightforward.

But AAA game industry doesn't do honest anymore, they do marketing instead.
It's a JIT bug, you can see the fix here: https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/99a829d2...
I think you'll find that a running your healthcare expenses and approvals thru labyrinth of private, corporate bureaucracies, each siphoning off a portion of of the available money and incentivized to increase that amount however possible while offloading all expenses possible onto you, is in fact the ultimate expression of freedom. Please report to your local consumer reeducation camp for programming.
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How true is that?