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If I said human activity doesn't affect the stock market -- it just operates on cycles. It goes up for awhile, then it goes down for awhile, you'd rightfully laugh at me. But that is exactly what you are doing about AGW.

Yes, the climate has changed in the past. But that doesn't mean the driver of those historical changes is driving the current change. People have always died, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't require safety devices in automobiles. Second, "cycles" is just way too blithe of a summary, as if there was a clockwork mechanism driving things. The gaps between the ups and downs is irregular.

> Why doesn't this [Milankovich cycles] ever come up?

I'm 100.00% sure climatologists are well aware of it and it has been modeled and found unable to explain the trends we are seeing.
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Ask HN: Why are so many HN readers anti-crypto ?
You would think that the HN population would be a subset of the crypto community, but I have found a lot of anti-crypto sentiment here.

I am studying the space and welcome all shades of view.
Void, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, NixOS, Slackware, Guix System, Tiny Core, and Mageia are the independent distributions I know of that have 32-bit images. Also, most distributions support multilib; Ubuntu is actually the first I've heard of dropping it.
Analyze voidnull's use of pronouns and do a sim search over other users' accounts on HN and the Web.

"Our most forgettable words, such as pronouns and prepositions, can be the most revealing: their patterns are as distinctive as fingerprints." [1] - Prof James W. Pennebaker

[1] https://www.secretlifeofpronouns.com
Here's a solution: have tech companies settle in other regions.

There's a reason why companies have large offices in the Bay Area and are willing to pay the exorbitant salaries and rent there.

If they could reasonably relocate to middle America where land and salaries are cheap, they would - they all know how expensive it is to operate in the bay area, yet they choose to do so.
The $1 donation is just there to prevent people from mass-creating new accounts. It can be waived if someone vouches for you.

The non-ARPA and above users are somewhat limited in what they can do[0].

I've been a card-carrying metaSDF user since 2006 and it's a wonderful $HOME away from home.

[0] https://sdf.org/?faq?MEMBERS?01
This is a really accurate account of what it's like to go solo on a book project. It can be brutal.

I'm surprised and a little sad there isn't a full discussion of how to line up friends and admired colleagues to make the journey easier. They can help with the early brainstorming. The best ones are invaluable advisers on scope, pacing and cadence. They will remind you about the merits of your best ideas when you feel lost, and they will help you cull with a lot fewer tears.

I tried doing my first book solo and stalled out after a year. Rounding up an advisory circle let not only brought that book back to life -- it also created a trusty new process that has let me write four more books more quickly and with less stress.
Can you expand on your Google comment re. RCS? All I’ve seen recently is that they’re taking the reins from the carriers (at least outside of the US) to speed-up rollout.
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What was it about this guy that freaked you out? Was it his observed behavior, rumors, just a bad feeling,...?
They explain their policies here[0]. Notable is:

>Any illegal activities which includes, but certainly isn't limited
to spamming, portflooding, portscanning, unauthorised connections to
remote hosts and any sort of scam can really not be tolerated here.
Why? Because there are many here on this system that can suffer from
this sort of abuse. If you want to use SDF, you really have to care
about this system and the people here. If you don't want to care,
then you really shouldn't use this resource.

[0] https://sdf.org/?faq?BASICS?04
That's not the only root cause. It is also trivially easy for Google and other BigCo's to hire from outside the Bay Area (college recruits, etc) and those people move here without a plan of where to live. They arrive and set up in a small apartment and soon discover there's no other housing option, but the job is too lucrative and interesting to leave. Another 1000 follow the next week.
They are referring to a single system... Here is the quote:

>> And to think that there is likely an Easy Mode system out there.

>> A habitable planet on the low end of the mass spectrum needed for a stable atmosphere with other habitable planets in-system. And all that close to another star with habitable planets, possibly in the sub-lightyear range.

Yes, they mentioned another star system as an additional point, but that wasn't the main idea.

> Hardly within shooting range

Mars is only 6 months away. We have the technology today to launch boulders weighing hundreds of tons to Mars. Those make for pretty good weapons.
When you don't follow the law regarding safety and your employee dies you should go to prison.
> You absolutely can reduce the demand for anything by making it more costly. Prostitution is far more prevalent where it less costly in dollars and punishment (e.g. Canada vs USA) You can’t just assert a falsehood as axiomatic.

Meaningfully reduce. The only meaningful reduction is to near zero, the point where human trafficking becomes impossible to profit from. That doesn't seem to be the case even in the USA.
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That's more or less what Steam Greenlight was and one reason why I love it even if it goes by a different name now. I can pick up something interesting, play around with it, and then catch up on it's progress over years.

I've done this with Subnautica, Starbound, Rimworld, and The Long Dark. I don't regret going on a journey with the developers at all.
Any initiative like this (language on top of the Erlang VM) with static typing out-of-the-box?

I really want to love Elixir but dynamic typing is a NO for me.
More corporatist propaganda FUD desperately trying to undercut democratically-elected governments.
Microsoft and Salesforce joins Hyperledger blockchain consortium
Getting Clojure by Russ Olsen. It's the most recently published of the introductory Clojure books and imo the best written.
I do wonder if you're joking when you say "some" controversy.

A quick check of property values shows that these are estates in the $5M - $20M range:

https://www.zillow.com/homes/Atherton-CA_rb/
IIRC Jeff Sessions, former GOP senator and not a scientist, quoted him extensively for congressional hearings for climate skeptics' point of view to oppose the US government panel on climate change. He complains here on twitter about extreme politics so that should make politics fair game in the discussion here - but isn't climate change denial only seriously brought up in the USA/UK by conservatives and fossil fuel company representatives (same thing a lot of the time)?
Let's play a game of predictions.

Regardless of HN's opinion of Facebook (and regardless of my own for that matter) I predict that this thing will work.

This is only one thing my crystal ball showed me.

Facebook's presence in developing economies is massive. To the point of being synonymous with "The Internet" in a number of places. But they've had a nagging problem. People in these economies consume contents, but do not buy. Even when they have some buying power, access to credit cards is harder to come by. So they're basically seen as online leeches, and you simply fit them in the "expense" category of your media production. Also, due to their buying impotence they're almost immune to advertisement. Over the next few months it's all going to change. Multiple agreements will be signed with various financial institutions and probably more with various telecom in those regions, to allow people to load up their accounts with fbcoins and join the Great Internet Spending Frenzy. Basically turning them overnight into consumers, ripe for the picking.

I foresee big media producing companies in the developed world to be the first to take advantage of this (Disney, Valve, Netflix, YouTube, NYT, various online courses and certifications, etc). Shipping to those regions remains a challenge, so only soft goods for now. IKEA and Walmart will allow fbcoins, but just to be able to sell through their Facebook Store, oh I forgot about those. Anyways.

Next year, Google and Amazon will announce their own stablecoin.

The year after that, Google will announce that they're shutting theirs.
I read somewhere couple of years ago the entire Capitol hill is bugged and they literally have tear down the whole place to get rid of them. The bugs have been planted over years, some inside curtain rods, wood paneling and electrical equipment.
It's much better for the environment to pack the people into a dense urban area where they area easily served by transit (or can walk to where they want to go), goods delivery, etc than to have people commuting 60 miles from Tracy where they live in a 3000 sq foot house on a half acre of land.
That could cause a crash by itself because it inspires loss of confidence.
Objective-C and Swift also. Though my favorite implementation is AVISynth, the best language and most interesting execution model nobody uses.
Call me ungrateful but I can't think of anything I'd less like doing than being forced into a dinner with coworkers that I already spend more time with than my family or friends.

Get the money, then go home.
A form of geoengineering is seeding Fe and P into appropriate places (good currents) of the ocean. This kickstarts aquatic life and removes carbon fast ... and as a by product creates whole new fisheries. It is fast and cheap enough that small countries and multimillionaires (and up) can do it as a DIY solution to climate change ... so why has this not been done, forcefully? There seems to be tremendous social opprobrium! A ~proof of concept has already been done.

~proof of concept

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/24/18273198/climate...
This is my best guess interpretation. I might have misunderstood some parts, so I would love it if someone else could correct me.

Imagine a distributed system where nodes in the computation compute some result by communicating intermediate results between each other, and can withstand some number of nodes failing. This is possible because, with careful design of the algorithm and edges between nodes, each node has enough self-sufficiency to detect when its neighbors are misbehaving.

Dave Ackley starts off with the following observations:

1. It becomes harder to maintain the deterministic properties we love as we scale the complexity of the nodes.

2. A node's random access to memory/state becomes less reliable the more state there is because the complexity of the node must also scale.

3. 1 and 2 make it harder for complex nodes to guarantee correct results.

So, he proposes the following: what if we scale nodes way down to the point where their messages are very small (on the order of bits). This moves the problems that might otherwise be observed within the nodes to the network structure between nodes. At first, this might not seem like this offers much; however, this allows us to reason about resiliency at a much finer granularity. Ulam is a programming language for such a system, running on a machine model that resembles a cellular automata where the cells are slightly more intelligent. He illustrates this via a line that reconstructs itself as he manually disrupts them, but a more familiar and practical (though much more complex) hypothetical use case might be a network of many adder-circuits that can dynamically tolerate some number of random bit flips.

If one were to program for such a system, you could think of a program as a living organism that repaired itself statement-by-statement even on faulty hardware.

Edit: There is a more in-depth article available at https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ARTL_a_0021... I haven't read it yet, but I will.
Reminder what happens when WeChat becomes your currency: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-48552907
Tesla drivers seen sleeping at the wheel
Well sure, but GCC and co have that too.

It's a pretty good counter to people who think you should always use -Werror. One wrong deprecation could take you a month to fix!
Dope idea using Slack as the central UI!
Senate bill would make CDA Section 230 conditional on political neutrality
This reminds me of an internship. During my midterm review, my manager confessed to the org always giving interns terrible projects, the ones no one wanted to do, and later in the meeting procedes to dock me for not being enthusiastic enough about my project.

For my final review, I got high marks without changing a thing.
Perhaps more relevant for the concerns of the user: has any bank ever used this excuse?
...the submarine.
The statement is that the internet will find the truth. Not that they will all agree on the truth or not also find untruth. For almost every single issue the truth exists on the internet.
OK, I have an update. Google came within an iota of matching my "local competitor" offer. The original numbers went up just under 50% in a single round of negotiation. So I guess I've added one more supporting data point to the "get competing offers" heuristic for Google jobs.
Here's Alan Kay.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851
Wow. That guy attracted serious railroading and pushback by people who didn’t like that his data didn’t align with their talking points.

He’s not denying climate change, he’s presenting scientific data that contradicts the narrative thst climate change results in increased losses due to weather events/disasters.
Nothing I hate more than devices auto-connecting to "partner wifi".

One day my phone browsing was interrupted by a starbucks terms-and-conditions webpage. wtf? Turns out my phone had auto-connected to an attwifi access point in range.

What's more disturbing is that companies work with "smart device" manufacturers so they can connect this way without you ever knowing.

What if your smart tv, only ever plugged into HDMI, was connecting to your neighbor's xfinitywifi without you knowing it?
Great share! Also surprisingly reflective for a 2008 JM.
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How stupid are we, to never think of this before the vehicle were mass produced, even after the USB type-C crisis!
I believe that one of the scariest aspects of living in proximity to a person with severe mental illness is that their actions and responses are not necessarily rational, or predictably irrational, or even consistent day-to-day. Any random action (or lack thereof) is capable of triggering a disproportionate response, and there can be no warning signs ahead of time. This is mentally exhausting, since the healthy person must devote a large portion of their emotional energy decoding and understanding the current mental state of the ill person, proverbially "walking on eggshells" to avoid a negative situation.
It's not surprising that a large or corporate project would need an HR department, which is what the CoC is. Anyone who objects to that probably has never worked at a large company, or used a forum with no mods.

But the important thing isn't the rules, it's that there's someone to enforce them. Ideally, the rules exist to constrain them, not you.
Can't wait for the DSL portion of the write up -- keep up the nice work!
It's not 1000X.

NYC's population density is 27,000 people per sq mile, SF is 18,000.

The entire NY MSA has a density of 1700/sq mi, compared to 1100 for the SF MSA.

If you look only at Brooklyn, it has a density of 36,000/sq mi.

Worldwide, Manila has the highest density, at 100,000/sq mi
The knockoff came from Craigslist.
I really love that CNN refers to the sub by its _last_ name. “The discoveries by McBoatface”

Brilliant. Also a really interesting discovery!
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Can you imagine how much more valuable property in Queens would be if it was zoned so you could build at Manhattan densities? You can create value just by increasing density, by making building more housing legal where it isn’t. In the very long run this may not be an obvious win for all property owners, as a group. But they’re not a group, and if you can be one of the first people to build a lot of housing in a supply constrained market you’ll make a lot of money.

If building more housing in the Bay Area was legal there’d be more housing. If they built enough housing prices would even fall eventually.
Oh you mean like, felon/child/etc. suffrage? I'm fully in favor of extending the franchise to every living American; I think it's a fundamental right and morally outrageous that we ever deny it.

But I don't think that that means representative democracy in the US is a sham, equivalent to the level of representation I have at Facebook (again, zero). That would be a strawman.
That's really interesting, thanks for sharing.
The linked one is original Xiaomi. I bought a clone off of Craigslist. The welding is not as nice and it uses MiniRobot app instead of Mi Home, but the battery and motor are holding up well. Here's a good video describing Xiamoi original vs. clone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiXiKr47T8g
I agree with using linters that are very strict. They save a lot of time by making sure things are uniform. Most of the time I need to fix stuff in a codebase is because the style was all over the place and if the style was consistent then refactoring or making the code simpler wouldn't have been much of a problem.
Have you considered self-publishing? If the books are complete and would be wasted otherwise... may be worth a try.
I think that it would be more accurate to describe "14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud" and "a plot to launder $1.2 billion from Venezuela's state-owned oil company" as fraud and dishonesty, rather than regulatory violations.
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Don't forget streams. Streams are my go-to for anything simple these says
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One bit of advice if you are using CI checkers is to start with few rules and add them as you need them.
Living somewhere, and contextualizing geopoltics and the difference between a citystate like St. Petersburg and a nation state (Russia), is highly recommended before concluding from afar. Though, it is certainly the mindset of our culture to do so.
You can also use a polyfill for WebP that renders it as a single frame video which is supported almost anywhere. Then just serve WebP everywhere. Sure polyfills are slow, but unsupported device are probably slow anyways
Not sure. It's on a facebook group and I couldn't find it in search and I looked in the group I thought it was posted in, but I can't find it.
> the only plausible explanation

I personally don't find it that plausible. Is it the least implausible explanation? Maybe.

> If it had been an accident, it would make a lot more sense to have crashed much sooner or otherwise have been more like Helios Airways Flight 522.

This is just hand waving, we can just as easily say "if it was a pilot suicide it would have been like the known pilot suicide crashes". The fact is that there are all sorts of mechanical events many of which bear zero resemblance to the most common or best known ones.

> Given MH370 making multiple turns over a long period, and transponder and other electrical systems probably having been manually switched off, it's the most likely explanation. We may never know for sure though.

This is circular reasoning. There's no shortage of other reasons the plane could make multiple turns. There are plenty of reasons the transponder stops working. Both could happen due to a mechanical event.
Not reasonable at all.

This needs to fail. Harm reduction alone is reason enough.
In the 80s I worked with Industrial Apple IIs - which I’ve only ever heard about at that job!

They were networked though, as they were not attached to forklifts

By the end of the 80s, the floppy disks with the code were running a bit thin!

That company made non-prescription drugs
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GLEAM - its Ocaml + elixir
I work for a AAA studio.

I even work(ed) on a game that was actually embroiled in a scandal regarding E3.

I can probably shed a little insight as to why:

1) Once you show gameplay footage, you’ve promised. This isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the world but a lot of the time the “promise” is a mega polished version of what you want to show, it’s on rails, it’s going to show all the best features of the engine, you control the pacing etc. Even if those things make it into the game (as, my game actually was in 100% parity graphically, but we ran out of budget for animations) then people /perceive/ it worse, regardless.

2) what is shown isn’t actually a game- even if it looks like one. It’s a prototype. And there’s many reasons that the final product has to be trimmed down. Either it’s required because the budget goes towards something else (such as smarter NPCs, or better animations) or it wasn’t ever possible to produce what was shown due to things that were not known at the time of creating the demo or footage. The fact is simply that you’re showing something that may not be able to exist. So that is in direct violation of my first point.

3) we got burned the last console generation, we thought the machines were going to be at least twice as powerful as they ended up being. (You May notice that my publishers “downgrade” scandal happened post-E3:2013). What we had prepared was geared towards significantly more powerful hardware. (So, number of props on screen can’t be as high, number of light sources can’t be as high, issues with streaming “pop-in”) My publisher won’t make this mistake again and with a new console generation around the corner it doesn’t makes sense to underpromise (and use the current gen, which our competitors may not have done this E3) or overpromise, and guess what the next console gen will have.

As an aside: I know it’s a trope that “console gaming holds gaming back”, and there’s a grain of truth there, but I would caution allowing developers to use as much hardware as they can, our work machines have obscene hardware (latest high end Xeon with 64/128g Ram and a gtx2070 is common), if we were not optimising for a limited platform then pc would suffer too, I just don’t know how much it is currently limited.
How does Facebook intend to support anonymous transactions without running afoul of Anti Money Laundering laws? If Facebook were to implement Libra in marketplace (for example) they would be obliged to do KYC on their sellers in some jurisdictions. That potentially means they would be handling identity documents and would be required to ban anyone (from all of their services) found to be involved in a criminal enterprise.
I have always had to run all the infrastructure when working for clients. I have used mostly VMs for the last two years but before that it was always a real bare metal box in the office for work.
It's been a while since I looked at Elixir but the different syntax for invoking named functions vs lambdas really left a bad taste in my mouth...

Also I remember trying to do something with the pipe operator that I couldn't get working due to the syntax of the language but which would've been trivial in Clojure using one of the threading macros.
Thanks, this is much easier to understand. Much appreciated!
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20214062.
On the other hand, is a social media platform and private company with a fairly bad track record of respecting human rights to privacy and democracy the best group to solve these issues?
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Because in the context of consumers, that is what internet is, social media and forums (which are social media in my book). Bloggers and other professional reports are a different story.
Same here. I’ll take Erlang’s conciseness and readability over Elixir’s prolixity any day.