skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IPCC predictions tend to be too conservative:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-p...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43e8yp/the-uns-devastatin...

It's just that "catastrophic" changes meaning over time. Permafrost melting on a massive scale? Catastrophic prediction thirty years ago, just another item in the news today. Losing almost all coral reefs? Today it's just something we can't prevent anymore.
> The soldiers on all sides of this one were, by and large, eager to be anywhere else

No doubt they were. But we do tend to forget that large swathes of them had originally volunteered, often with enthusiasm.
Of all the 36 dogs. Soju is in an ad: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Animal-Plush-Squeaky-Christmas-East...
There is no way to prove that a supposedly random source of information is not effectively a PRNG. Similarly, the Born rule must apply unless and until we learn that there is some deterministic process that QM reduces to, and even then, unless we know how the PRNG was 'seeded', we must progress _as if_ the process was in fact random.

The deep point here is, arguably, randomness is in the eye of the observer.
My so does raytracing of sound to do spatial auralizations. I feel like a differentiable rayracer could be useful, for example, to help architects make sure their designed spaces meet code. Is it reasonable that this package would help for those sorts of applications?
This proposal makes me scared for my bet on going full with NixOS.

To me it seems like a really complicated technical solution to a social problem(the monorepo approach doesn't scale).

If more people are needed to maintain the nixpkgs repo why instead not focus on ways to increase the community size.

Missing docs have been a problem for NixOS for a long time, most awesome features are lost on some proficient users tweets. Having better docs would do wonders for the community.

I think if NixOS wants to copy some of Rust strengths, quality docs should be its first priority.
> personally, I think a fine ought to be a rough estimate for the excess risk you exposed other people to.

Ok, but that's not actually what a fine is for. It's meant to be a deterrent against future offenses, both by the party it's levied against and for others.[1]

1. https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/fines.html
horses can go though terrain no bike ever could
Skill Set 365 Transforms Cloud HR and Payroll Management by Moving to Amazon AWS
Not really. If you look at the inria pseudocode they check if the posit is negative or positive before doing addition, and convert, in the style of 754 one's complement encoding, but you shouldn't need to do that with posits since the encoding is two's complement.

I mean, I helped design the posit spec and the twos complements treatment is something not even John Gustafson understands... The key insight is that the hidden bit is -2 for negative numbers (instead of 1 as it is for positive numbers). It's kind of nonobvious and I happened upon it by accident one night while fooling around with circuit diagrams. If people really get serious about it I'm sure though that it will get rediscovered by EDA folks smarter than I.
The underlying message is good, but the horrifyingly poorly chosen phrasing overshadows it.
This is total submarine marketing by AWS. Im sure some very smart people with good intentions at AWS produced this, but the fact is they're not an independent academic providing objectively "the best" practices, they're a company trying to sell you something. They probably in full belief in their own abilities believe the AWS way of doing things is best, but frankly, I know as much as you do, or at least if you want to win me over you need to comprehensively prove it, not just preach from the hill.

TL:DR stop telling me you're doing better architectures in the same of selling me something
Of course, my mistake.

I also updated the 1700X to 2700 this year, the "marginality problem" ([0]) affecting some of the early Ryzens (random segfaults after some minutes of heavily parallel workloads with lots of process creation - e.g. builds!) was getting more annoying when Rust needed to download and compile a bunch of crates. I'm very satisfied - more or less the same performance (3.2 vs 3.4 GHz), but 65 W instead of 95 W TDP.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ryzen-Se...
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So, you think this article is some shill..to what end? Just a potshot at John Oliver? Who is this 'shadow' you perceive?
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That looks like a Turing-complete DSL. Not like JSON at all. Do we need yet another Turing-complete language for writing package metadata?
Thank you! (I'm the author and the poster.)
Post modernism generator reminds me of a 9 year old trying to impress me with big words but all in all clever but schizo jumping from topic to topic.

Postmodern philosophy should explain simply and most of them do: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCSkzHxIcfoEr69MWBdo0ppg
This attitude is tiring. F-droid is fine and appreciated, but I really wouldn't want anything critical (say a journalist or whistelblower) to depend on it. If you have to depend on f-droid doing builds, there are no guarantees (it's all best-effort). Firefox and its flavours are routinely outdated. Firefox klar(focus) was outdated for six months because they couldn't build it. Now, let's say that f-droid is poor and run by hobbyists, and upstream ought to do better FOSS builds. Even with that, they don't even have the bandwidth to serve packages. They have one main server which is routinely swamped. It's a struggle to download anything from f-droid reliably. They added mirrors recently, but the main server is still the bottleneck without which the mirrors are useless.
Deutsch is a many-worlder so he would say there is nothing to resolve because there is no randomness. Everything in the time-evolution of the multiverse is deterministic.
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Dividends are sticky: once the level is set, they are expected in perpetuity and any reduction is assumed to be indicative of poor performance or future performance. Buybacks have the benefit of not having that expectation attached.
I did a ray tracing based project in high school and can also confirm that PBRT is awesome. Gets the point across really well and the authors are (was) active on the mailing list.
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"...and their ability to extend their windpipe, snorkel-like, outside their mouths, so they can breathe while their mouths are entirely occupied with swallowing"

this is a pretty incredible fact about pythons!
Interesting, my brother is in the Air Force, too. He's had to counsel some privates who wanted to spend all their money on sports cars and tell them, no, you really should be investing that money in an IRA or something similar.
Aren't there PS functions to modify GP?
Does bfloat16 have any other uses than deep learning?
From what I understand, the newer very-high-density procsses are far more sensitive to voltage and temperature than the older larger ones.
I suspect you can, although I it's been years since I last used QNX.
The whole "waves of differentiation" idea is quite an interesting one and certainly seems to me to be an almost physical description of philosophical concepts like free will and determinism. Perhaps these waves themselves interfering are what gives rise to what we consider consciousness, since what we experience subjectively is changing at every moment. Maybe the only reason we are able to "think" at all and remain "coherent" and "self-subjective" in our own brains is that these waves create images of the past on all their neighboring matter that have a continuous time-evolution. There certainly (to my mind at least) seems to be an element of randomness to thought that feels quicker and less coherent than could be easily explained even by a large-ish number of neurons with a comparable but larger number of interconnections.

I dunno, it seems a little overly-philosophical but surely there are meaningful connections to be made between physical reality and the transience of subjective experience.
I understood it to be a manliness thing. 'we too can do risky things too', that kind of thing. I'm not Russian though.
On the early web, mit.edu had this:

I ate your web page.
Forgive me, it was juicy
and tart on my tongue.
Here are some good comments and discussion about the possible industries.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/aop378...

tldr; Most likely food, makeup, toothpaste etc. Especially food safe and biodegradable glitters. They are also located close geographically (New Jersey) to those industries.
I feel like at least in the US very little is known about the Venera missions (and Venus landings, there were several; 2 of the motherships then also approached a comet using Venus' gravity assist), and Buran, which has flown and landed only once, but fully autonomously in 1986 (something we haven't seen until Boeing X-37 24 years later).

The UK might have a more balanced view of events as a non-participant of the hotly contested space race. Hardly anyone in the US today knows about Gagarin (first man in space), not to mention Leonov (first spacewalk) or any of the other Soviet "firsts" besides Sputnik.

Which, to me, is understandable, the Moon landings were such dramatic overkill that they loom large in the public consciousness and overshadow all the other "firsts", even now after five decades, and rightly so.
A (Very) Close Look at Carbon Capture and Storage
Does this provide some benefit over a Wireguard setup? (https://www.wireguard.com/)
WW1 just boggles the mind. The sheer slaughter that came from armies trying to adapt to the new reality of mass warfare and new weaponry seems incomprehensible, maybe because of how coldly logical it was. You read these accounts of charges on fortified machine gun positions across flat fields, the only cover being the mounds of bodies that eventually piled up, and you wonder how anyone could go into that.

I've been wondering how the story of Sleeping Beauty would play out if she'd gone to sleep in, say, 1846 or so, waking up just after the end of WW2. Imagine a royal family held in a time capsule emerging to demand their kingdom back from people who've just gone through the absolute hell raised by the collapse of the old monarchies, twice. What would that fairy tale look like?
Who would win? A hundred giant pythons or 1 Florida Man?
> Horses where still useful outside of battle in WWII.

They were still useful in battle in WW2. My regiment fought on horseback during WW2. And the US still trains soldiers to fight on horseback to this day.

> Consider a man lugging around a 35lb anti tank rifle, ammunition, and gear would have loved to have a horse.

Yes but that’s not cavalry is it - that’s just an infanteer on a horse.
The issue is that John Oliver whole business is to try to make humorist exaggerated content look like real life facts.

Every other week there is a John Oliver monologue that gets hyped and it seems that no one looks at it with a critical eye.

John Oliver is to the left what Fox News is to the right.
My writing-a-vi video is longer (by about ten minutes).
the oldest is 7 going on 8.

my plan is to not give them independent screen time until they have learned how to use it properly and are old enough to deal with unexpected things they might come across, also not sharing personal data, etc.

it also works as an excuse to spend more time with the children.

my wife and her family have a different attitude about this, so the kids do get some independent screen time to watch tv that is beyond my control. but they are not getting access to computers in our home without supervision.

the advantage is that i don't need to bother with parental controls that the kids might figure out how to circumvent (intentionally or not) and i get to teach them responsible behavior.

ask me in a few years how well that's working :-)
There's a comparison section on GitHub [1] – WireGuard doesn't support TCP while this does.

[1] https://github.com/jedisct1/dsvpn#why
Elizabeth Warren’s simple case for breaking up big tech
I remember the day I realized that most of "journalism" is basically a narrative confirmation machine.

each newspaper or media got a well defined narrative and they make the facts look like the narrative by using the "omission" technique: Basically removing the inconvenient facts and publishing the edited facts that fit their world view.
And the obverse is true also.

Mounted infantry are typically about speed of movement, similar to bicycles. Each still has slightly different trade-offs
It looks like a standard 32 bit float but with the mantissa truncated to fit in to 16 bits of storage.

I imagine it still keeps most of the performance benefits since it's eliminating around 2/3rds of the longest binary component.
Sydney Australia came up with 0.4 cigarettes today,

Except that the closest air monitoring station is 504km away.
I think even one on one, a sufficiently large constrictor could take down (asphyxiate, if not eat) a full sized floridian. But that's not accounting for tool use, which changes the matter completely.
Nope. I believe they claim to do almost the same thing. But this project never took off.
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That's just a lack of imagination. The worst case option is that we pay them to stop. The best case option is that they balance getting their population out of poverty with ensuring they have a population at all in the next 100 years on their own.

But there is a massive spectrum of options in there: import-side carbon tariffs to make their goods less competitive, WTO policies to mandate carbon taxes, literally paying them to put emission mitigation in,...
Almost certainly because Firefox Mobile's share is too low for them to test on, which would mean it's safer to serve a stripped down results page that is guaranteed to work on any browser than to risk breaking search entirely for those users with shiny features. The fix is to encourage everybody else to use Firefox Mobile too and use an extension in the meantime like I do.
> scrollwheels were a major source of my RSI issues

You might be interested in trying a touch-scroll mouse—it's somewhat like touchpad scroll, only needs a gentle sweep of the finger and a bit easier to scroll continuously a desired distance.

Personally, I'd particularly like to try Logitech Zone Touch T400 (https://i.imgur.com/cjmP0tc.jpg), but it disappeared from the local market so I'm using a meh Genius mouse instead, which is still better than a scrollwheel.
Germany has been reducing CO2 emissions at a lower rate than the US recently. The US has benefited from cheap natural gas displacing coal, while Germany has gutted its solar program and (more recently) stopped building new wind turbines. Meanwhile Germany still burns lignite to supply about 25% of its electricity (a rate that has been fairly stable for as long as I can find numbers, at least thirty years).
Yes, F Droid builds it itself. Then compares with your build minus the signature. If it's the same it publishes with your signature. No need for any private key handling.
pip uninstall Florida
Not when they get sick every year the last week of December.
I guess that counts as a haiku, no? Very cool.
Nope. Ellen only came out two weeks before her sitcom character came out. The people watching the sitcom would not have known that Ellen was gay when they started watching, and Ellen certainly wasn't outspoken about gay rights at the time.
No, this is a lack of political will problem, worldwide. Renewables can supply all the power we need. We just need to build a lot of them and switch heating and transportation over to electricity.
Warriors win fights, logistics win wars, or something like that
> The UK might have a more balanced view of events as a non-participant of the hotly contested space race. Hardly anyone in the US today knows about Gagarin (first man in space), not to mention Leonov (first spacewalk) or any of the other Soviet "firsts".

Hardly anyone in the US today knows of comparable US astronauts either.
Quillette is not an alt-right publication. It probably doesn't feed easily into your liberal world-view narrative, but they are the other side of the spectrum of publications like the NYT and it is more needed now than ever.
House passes bill to hike the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour
I think the other key part of a senior engineers role is to ensure that product doesn't trump quality. When you have no senior engineers, what often happens is without an advocate for doing things right, product 'wins', and teams turn into feature factories with little time for quality.

Yes, quality is everyone's responsibility. But without an advocate with the right title and respect, it becomes secondary or even tertiary (behind velocity and features)
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> Postmodern philosophy should explain simply

It's not always possible when precisely what is being attempted is to sketch ideas inexpressible with simple denotational language and concepts. What late Heidegger & much of Derrida write is outside the limits of 'commonsense'.

Of course one can contest whether the whole enterprise is meaningful at all, or whether their specific attempts succeed, but 'explaining simply' just isn't relevant to what they are trying to do. It's like claiming you're asking a poet to be more prosaic, which amounts to asking them not to write poetry at all.
> Lee could have done that at any point in the four years prior (or held to his oath and not killed fellow citizens at all).

You could say the same about Grant or any of the Union generals. Since the Union refused to accept that the Confederate states had seceded, all of the Confederate soldiers killed were fellow citizens.

And if we're going to talk about what could have been done, we should also talk about why the US didn't just pay off the slaveholders, the way Great Britain did, and end slavery peacefully. Why did it have to cost a million lives? Or we could ask why the North didn't secede from the Union, as many abolitionists were advocating, in order to free itself from any obligation to uphold the fugitive slave clause in the Constitution?

If we're going to de-mythologize, we should do it impartially, not just to one side.
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Satellite images show nothing if JavaScript is disabled.
Is there any benign reason why they don’t just use <img src?
> Yes, if everyone on the titanic had just believed a bit harder then it would have floated.

That was one of the stupidest similes I’ve heard. A more accurate one would be: if everyone just stopped hauling up buckets of water from the sea to pour them into the intact ship, we could avoid the disaster.

And this is illustrates something very important. Climate change isn’t an inevitable catastrophe out of our hands. It is a catastrophe everyone of us us creating with our individual actions every day. If each of us just stoped, there would be no catastrophe.
"We shouldn’t be surprised by this. What we ought to do is ignore it."
Impressive challenge. Rush Limbaugh was a voice for Gen-X neocons much in the same way John Oliver is today for Millenial neo-libs. In their time, they are hard to ignore..it's the diet being consumed.
I've lived a large part of my life in a house that is about a hundred years old. The house I'm currently living in is about sixty years old. That's really not a long time in the life of a city.
ah excellent. Everything makes sense now. :-)
The Liberal Democrats (Britain’s centrist, pro-European party) have a nice line in 404s: https://www.libdems.org.uk/aaaa

I recycled an ancient found image for my own site (OpenStreetMap-powered bike directions on quiet roads/trails): https://cycle.travel/aaaa
What kind of software was this?

I've been in a similar project where we would get beautiful requirements from the client and implement them flawlessly on time, every time. I've also been puzzled by this a lot and wonder why other projects can't be the same. The thing missing from the story is the complexity of the software and how long the client spent upfront on designing those requirements before handing them off. This was very trivial applications with few states, no UI and clear input and outputs, nowhere near a big modern web service. If our implementation was according to spec but not what the end customer really needed it would still not be counted as a bug, it was the clients responsibility for writing a bad spec, the client was very much aware of this so we also hardly ever got any bug reports in that sense.

It was waterfall it a nutshell, assuming the first design is correct and resource optimizing every step of the way for it. You couldn't replicate that process onto an app with a big UI footprint and quickly changing requirements which requires more iteration rather than upfront design.
I had to open a second browser to see what was so funny — in Brave, it just gives a normal-looking 404 error.
One should not underestimate Florida Man :-)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/smarter-living/attachment...
Time Travel does not allow to browse Internet
Yep. Maven (ugh) even has switched off entity expansion, a basic feature of XML/SGML, in favour of their own ad-hoc ${property} syntax.
> Commonly held central tenets of Western Civilization seem to be: the scientific method, judeo-christian values, and classical logic. All of these things weren't state-sponsored beliefs for most of what most people would consider ancient Rome

So what if they weren't state-sponsored beliefs? State-sponsored beliefs aren't supposed to be part of Western Civilization (although it's hard to tell these days in many so-called Western countries).

As for "commonly held central tenets", those are tenets of Western Civilization now, but they weren't for most of the time that Western Civilization existed, at least not in the form we have them now. But if you look at where all those tenets came from, Western Civilization plays a central role. (I would also add individual liberty and the rule of law to the list.)
Might want to read another of his other articles then..like 'Goodbye Herman Wouk"...everyone with an opinion can be called a shill.
There was this excellent video about the misconception that technology and knowledge advances over time.

It does not. It fades, gets lost. Where are the Steve Wozniaks and bill gates? Where are the people truely understanding this stuff. Where are the people who can optimize code like back in the days?
Detailed explanation is here;
https://medium.com/@brooke_91161/what-is-the-ayurvedic-clock...
This kind of Question might be unpopular but do those wildfires have any quantitative relevance in accelerating global warming?
Or ask differently how much of Siberia would have to burn to make any noticeable difference In the CO2 balance
The example lacks functions / flow-control statements (ok, apart from "import if not defined", but it's more of a default value than a branch) / references to other elements. It's pretty much key-value dictionary. Not sure how you got an impression of Turing-complete DSL from that, since it would require at least one of them.
Data didn't show that at all. The market seems to be doing the exact opposite of what the fed had been wanting it to do. They have been so bad at it all they've managed to do is invert the yield curve on the short end.

YOY the crb commodity index is down as well as the metal index. Gold is even only up a little since beginning of 2018.

All of this would be the opposite of the fed was pumping too much liquidity into the system or controlling interest rates at all.
Thanks. That helps. Looks like you can build a middleware using hooks alone. I found a good video from a React guru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUzLlHFVXx0. He builds a few Redux concepts in the video.