skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weirdly enough this actually gives me a lot of hope for humanity and is the beginning of a realistic and scalable solution to climate change.

The main problem with the free market has been lack of accountability and dollar damage projections on environmental damage.

Most fossil-fuel energy companies have lobbied against it because it would make their product a lot more expensive to produce if their customers had to pay a market-rate fee for it's burning/disposal. The ammount of carbon that can be dumped out is finite, yet the cost is artificially set to zero/free which makes no sense unless you live in a communist system.

By accounting this into credit risk, it makes it more expensive for governments to ignore the environment. It means they have to pay a lot more interest on their debt which puts maximum political pressure on them to address the money problem regardless of their ideology beliefs.

This also makes clean energy companies actually competitive at market rate since they have very little carbon dumping to pay for.

It also puts a lot more pressure to improve the measurement accuracy of carbon emission if it is actively being traded. It also greatly increases insurance costs for new fossil fuel development because now they can face liability when people's homes are flooded for the first time.

On the positive side, It also makes local farming produce more competitive and economically stable too because it needs to burn a lot less gas, thus pay for less carbon waste for delivery compared to a similar product that's shipped from extremely greater distances.

Because shipping does not pay a market rate for carbon waste, it creates some absurd situations.

For example a lot of pepper farmers here in Ontario actually ship their produce all the way to China for packaging and then ship it back here to sell because it saves them a small margin this way in the current cost.

By enabling the market to factor in environmental costs, you're basically letting a distributed graph-based computer, a giant hive mind, the market, address the problem a lot more efficiently and with massively more processing power than you would have with central planning.
When you open that argument with “what about the widows and orphans depending on MLP dividends”, I stop reading.
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Difficulty should not overrule importance when it comes to federal elections.

> " need to make sure people can easily get an id"

I agree. I don't think it's as simple or generic as a single political party preventing it though. Is there a clear example of what is stopping people from obtaining these IDs?
Edith Stein
If I can’t have European sane labor regulations and universal healthcare, I’ll still take my suburban low density housing. So...no. I stick by my claims (Europeans have a different value system than Americans, which I argue is a substantial component as to why they’re happier with “less” than Americans).

Also, I am flattered (truly!) that our conversations have left a lasting impression wrt my opinion on American housing.
Disappointed it wasn't reported as a blow to the coal industry.
It is up to their alley. Giving birth to less children, raising them better, solving poverty. Knowing Bangladesh, unlikely
I am a computer hacker that has dipped into physiology to perform at athletic extremes to good success. I always rely on data and evidence, and refuse to take advice on physiology from anyone (including doctors), because very few stick to evidence-based strategies (and doctors seem uninterested in sports physiology). Physiology is many orders of magnitude more complicated than any computer system I've worked on. It is easy to create abstractions that try to explain some of the data, but you must always be ready to have them proven wrong when you look at the next layer down. Evidence must rule.
The effect that is being suppressed is the natural deflation of manufactured and technological goods. A new manufacturer, or really any new vendor, wins marketshare by doing more for less. And computing power gets cheaper analogously to Moore's law (as we all instinctively know). So in a steady state economy (no resource shocks/depletion, etc), we should expect to see continuous natural deflation due to the progress that we are all working to create. But yet the Fed insists on targeting price inflation, to keep workers from directly seeing those gains!

This played out quite nastily in regards to consumer goods. Walmart et al came to town, promising low prices based on foreign production and domestic economies of scale. But they destroyed local towns' commercial economies, putting many people out of stable living-wage work. Economic orthodoxy would expect the remaining local economy to cope by providing the still-employed more purchasing power (say, dual income families being able to drop to single income, now-richer still-employed people hiring household help, etc). But any lower prices were only temporary due to that policy of forced inflation, and everybody kept needing the same level of income. So the net result of that innovation ended up being to lower the standard of living with lower income and poorer quality goods. (Then along came heroin from Afghanistan, but I digress).
Texas resident here. If you have ever driven by a refinery of any type you will see where energy goes. The shear amount of energy to convert oil to usable gas/plastics/etc. is pretty crazy.

Texas has the biggest oil refinery presence in the US (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_refining_in_the_Un...)

Refineries don’t just make gasoline, but plastic, engine oil, industrial lubricant. That being said, wiki will tell you 85% of refinery output goes to gasoline, diesel, home heating oil, and aviation fuel.
Just because there is more vegetation over all does not mean that food crops produce higher yields. Climate change decreases yields by creating more extreme patterns in precipitation and temperature fluctuation.
Why did it take this long? Serious question. Was weather not considered an insightful input/value until now? Why?
Actually I do have dynamic pessimizations steps in my compiler.
It's done when boxing raw stack values back into typed heap values. A series of ops acting on typed values might be faster with the unboxed variants, but only if all ops exist to work with unboxed values. If not, we need to pessimize back into boxed values.

Don’t Box Me In (feat. Stan Ridgway)
Stewart Copeland
https://youtu.be/8j6Tln0lN0c
Yes and yes, mostly. Some libraries (like three.js) still support loading "Classic VRML" as a scene format, but I don't think it's a popular target these days.

On a similar nostalgia train, does anyone else remember Cycore Cult3D? It was a sort-of-WebGL-ish browser plugin targeted at rendering 3D parts and product views in the browser.
A fundraising appeal for this project was posted to HN in 2017:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15618494

I contributed. It's great to see the results published.
Moody's rate co2 AAA. Just like distressed debt securitisation...
Naming is an interesting thing. I'm wrestling with it from another contex presently.

I'm reminded of the lines from Homer. in which the hero (himself given at least two names within the text, including one in its title) unambiguously (and rather rashly as it happens) identifies himself to Polyphemus:

Cyclops, if any man of mortal birth
Note thine unseemly blindness and inquire
The occasion, tell him that Laertes' son,
Ulysses, the destroyer of walled towns,
Whose home is Ithaca, put out thine eye.

Ancestry, name, deeds, place.
I'm not loving this, but there are far bigger problems. Unless we're preparing to undo the mergers that made Verizon and AT&T huge, it wouldn't be fair to stop a couple piddly little companies from merging. Maybe they need to merge for survival.
Fixing Random, part 40 of 40
In the leaked emails in 2016, Tulsi Gabbard was threatened by Democratic party officials that she would be cut off from the Dem's fundraising and shut out in other ways, and given Google's support for the Democratic party, it doesn't seem highly improbable (although still unlikely).
That's when you buy it. I'm not an accountant, but AFAIK if someone gave you stock for performing a service you would pay taxes on it at that point in time. Then if you sold it you would pay taxes on the difference in value.

I think the key might be that the IRS is viewing bitcoin as a payment for the service of mining.
Major automakers strike climate deal with California
True both situations are not good, however right's are still subject to legal requirements when being exercised. For example, the right to bear arms still requires a background check to ensure you can own a weapon. You can also lose your right to vote if you commit a felony but this significant
disenfranchisement affecting millions gets no coverage.

Why is voting, which is critical to a democracy, considered onerous for requiring identification when driving, employment, banking, business and govt. programs all require it? Isn't that a strange balance?
I think it is mainly an irritation for "power users". Can't imagine the average person using function keys or caring that they are gone, they just use the GUI to do everything. The touchbar is great for those people because it takes options that they might normally have to use multiple clicks to get to, and puts them on the keyboard.
You might want to look into pentile displays. You are correct in that they provide higher resolution than rectilinear displays (see the controversy tab in [1]), but they have largely fallen out of style because it is impossible to draw a straight line so everything looks blurry upon close inspection.

One cool trick is that you can sprinkle in more efficient white pixels to allow the display to reduce its power consumption.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile_matrix_family
My point is: Those things aren't ancillary. They aren't a waste of time. Good developers can figure out how to use logs to debug issues. They can figure out how to fix the build and deployment system when it's broken. They can figure out how to set up testing environments. If not them, then who? Managers look for people who are self sufficient. All of this stuff is a necessary and important part of the job.
Thanks for the correction, totally mixed up the terms.
I wish Apple sold MBPs without a touchbar just so I could stop hearing about it in every single thread.
Thanks! Duly noted
The government(s) were the ones who built the roads and mandated minimum parking lots.
I'd wager those are exceptional cases, but even if they're the norm, being able to read is above and beyond many.

In Chicago, my peers were promoted to the point of graduation still being functionally illiterate. In Northern Virginia, my 4th grader was barely a 1st grader by ability - math, reading, and general knowledge - but kept getting promoted.
Not so long ago Trump mocked and disparaged the idea of global warming because it was cold in and around his general bubble. Of course he's not commenting on the current spate of weather events affecting all of North America and most of Europe right now.
I'm also curious about it's potential to be built from recycled/junkyard resources, instead of needing access to rare earth metals. (Perhaps post-apocalyptically...)
These damn ethics committees are just slowing down much needed progress. Let's not pretend that DARPA and other black military scientific experimentation sites around the world have, and are, operating under the ethical radar and keeping their findings classified and to themselves and highly doubtful to the betterment of mankind. Let's just call a spade a spade and loosen the restrictions on the scientific community that actually operates with the public good in mind.
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vcpkg seems to be an honest attempt by Microsoft. They've recently introduced Mac and Linux support. It suppose to replace the pkg-config backend for cmake's find_package() but I haven't yet managed to get it working across platforms.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Can someone show that a company that does not install wind turbines at your house can guarantee that you will be receiving power only produced by wind turbines?

I could be misunderstanding something, but it seems that two neighbors(one using “wind”, the other using standard power) that share the same power line simply cannot be getting power from different sources.

Edit: Hmm, now I’m getting downvoted, still without an explaination.
Interestingly, Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius mentions "Galileo Galileo" on the cover.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereus_Nuncius

I wonder if this is at all related to the question asked in this article.
I 100% agree with you, but definitely check out pock.dev. Saw it on HN a little while ago, it shows your dock in the touchbar and you can customize it to add music/brightness/volume controls as well. At least for me, it actually makes the touchbar useful since I can hide the on-screen dock and still see at a glance if I have notifications, which apps are open, and what Spotify is playing (I’ve heard bettertouchtool can do something similar too)
Richard Branson's "Losing my Virginity" is pretty cool.
It's all but certainly too late for birthrate changes alone to reduce population within the anticipated timeframe.

That leaves emigration or mortality increases, barring further food miracles.
Not to mention the northern passage isn’t anywhere close to passable by any serious cargo, even in a decade it will be questionable.
It won’t burst unless there is an Extraordinary cascading event that triggers a waves and waves of selling. Like lots and lots of nasty financial news
very poetic. I like it because it made me look at the positive side first (woah.... never thought of that)... and then made me decide I don't want that.
I had a stint as a manager in my company at which i miserably failed. Team started leveraging technologies I didn't understand and some developer suddenly develop consistent passive aggressive attitude toward me which i had to deal with. Upper management eventually scrapped the project and critisized choice of technologies to build the project.

I survived.

Then my manager gave me a budget to hire outside consultants to do project.

I greatly succeeded in that because i didn't have to play politically correct diplomacy and follow infinite "proper" BS processes, standups, babysitting team, sprints, do agile scrum crap, etc...

Basicaly i found consultants, negotiated rate to fit available budget and told them to do shit or else.

They came back with shit done.

I reported to my boss that shit is done and ready for more.

Rinsed and repeat.

Skunkworks does wonders.
Or they could maintain the same birth rate and use technology that was well understood before anyone in this board was born. Huge portions of the Low Countries have been prosperous and below sea level for centuries. It requires dykes, ditches, windmills and uninterrupted competent engineering organisations. Dutch history shows that’s adequate for keeping land 2m below sea level inhabited and rich. Any rise greater than that and they might have to break out technology more advanced than windmills. It’s a massive engineering challenge but unless Bangladesh is built on limestone so the bedrock is porous it’s an engineering challenge that WWII technology would have been sufficient to.
Just For Fun - The Story Of An Accidental Revolutionary.
The stump acts as a biological cistern for the neighboring trees. In return for nutrients, it stores water when demand is low (night) and supplies water when demand is high (day). I imagine that the main survival advantage is that the neighboring trees get to grow leaves and branches into the stump's canopy void much faster than if they had to expand their own root system. This should give the trees a big advantage over other nearby species competing for the newly available sunlight.
If swaps are the only thing you are counting, selection sort is O(n).

I can't come up with a reasonable way to consider insertion sort O(n) though.
How to Build Minesweeper with Elm
Disclaimer: Not the author, but I was on the team that migrated our infrastructure to GCP.

As a startup with limited resources, it's important for us to invest all our engineering strength into the things that create direct value for our business. We'd rather pay Google to manage machines and run services like Kubernetes, Spanner, Pub/Sub and others and free up the engineers to work on our core analytics platform.
The major powers attempting to put roadblocks in the way of China's ascent were quite instrumental in aiding China's decline over the past couple centuries.

I think the trust deficit coming from the East towards the West is more warranted than many in the west like to admit.
I've seen Siri activate in error on at least two different phones this week. Not uncommon at all.
Yes and no.

There are __provably correct__ and __provably incorrect__ mathematical works.

That strong binary classification is not found in "other art".

But otherwise, yes.

You might say mathematical proofs have characteristics of quality that once agreed upon, can be somewhat objectively applied: brevity, clarity, innovation, difficulty, relationships to other works.

While abstract art is famously arbitrary in its judgement, most art (dance, music, painting, sculpture) have similarly objective criteria.
Meanwhile, tmobile.com has been down (at least intermittently) for more than a week. Purely coincidence I'm sure.
Are hybrids greener? They emit less NOx so I am in favour but is their total lifetime carbon lower than a pure ICE?
i heard the same things 5 years ago when latest revolution in Ukraine took place, when swamp was about to be drained.

who do you think Benya is - not a power hungry oligarch? who is Ze's chief of staff? ahem, Benya's personal lawyer... will you ever see the pattern?
I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that a long time ago Al Gore being a major advocate for legislative change, and of course, if the other side of the aisle says something, it has to be wrong and bad. Simple partisanship.
This is the start of what I’ve been waiting for. But I don’t think we’ll see real action until the risk starts getting priced into coastal real estate, both directly and indirectly (i.e. insurance and reinsurance).
An uptick in crop failures due to irregular growing seasons has lead to things like the Syrian civil war, which is a fairly direct cause of the immigrant crisis in Europe which is a fairly direct cause of the rise of ethno nationalism in Europe.
Yep, same exact thing keeps happening to me. I kinda can’t believe it never occurred to Apple to put haptic feedback in the touchbar, at least then you’d feel it when you accidentally press a button instead of wondering if you’re going insane because you keep unintentionally lowering the screen brightness
Unfortunately the geology and geography of Bangladesh means that dikes won't be effective. What worked in the Netherlands won't work there.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-unfoldin...

Closer to home, South Florida will eventually have similar problems. The whole region sits on permeable limestone so dikes are pointless.
It was possible to do so before that date, but you could also not treat it that way, as well.

The IRS then released guidance that after Jan 1st 2018, it was not acceptable to do so.
For coal, maybe the focus on climate change and CO2 is the wrong way to fight this.

If an ideology forces people to deny established facts, that ideology is pernicious and pathological. I don't think such problems can be sidestepped. If it's come to "don't mention CO2 pollution or you'll offend" when it's literally threatening the planet, well, offending becomes necessary.
I came here to say exactly this. And I don't even own an MBP.
I prefer the approach to Xinjiang deradicalization over our methods in Iraq and Syria.
besides the US
$20 + S&H if you want it.

IDK if I'd feel right donating it to anyone. Its that bad.
Literally the only thing they seem to say for sure in that paper is that they expect to see bone evidence they don't see. While I don't doubt the earnestness of the paper's authors, their primary study seems to be in Egyptology first. They practically gush about how the ancient Egyptian medicines are still in use today...but then only list ones based on papyrus. They don't account for the fact that our sedentary lifestyle is shown to increase cancer rates, they barely explore different cultures, with only a passing reference to Greece, who has numerous treatments, including excision to remove cancer, and admit that the ancient Egyptians didn't even classify benign tumors differently than no-benign. They don't account for the increased consumption of meat in a western diet. They don't account for massively higher numbers of humans.

Based on their paper alone I can think of at least 5 other hypothesis that they didn't even cover.

1. Periods of fasting and lack of food decrease cancer.
2. Less sedentary lifestyles decrease cancer risks(this has actually been shown to have some promise, with HIIT workouts showing improved response rates and decreased reccurance)
3. Decreased infant mortality caused an increase in susceptibility to cancer because weaker physical specimens are surviving.
4. Firearms. Cancer rates have increased with the output of firearms.
5. Decreased prayer to the Egyptian gods. As these gods declined cancer rates increased.

Some of these are obviously less serious than others, however it doesn't excuse the plausible possibilities. These aren't oncologists, their paleontologists, also known as historians who guess about things based on what they dig out of the ground.
HDMI Freeze Button
So here's what I was wondering for quite some time: if, let's say, hypothetically, there were an object approaching Earth at nearly the speed of light, is there any way in our frame of reference to even detect it?

And is it possible for such an object to exist in our universe, and if not, why?

The math seems to work out such that the object the size of a US quarter (5.67g) at 0.999 C will have a relativistic kinetic energy around 2.6MT of TNT.
I feel like this comparison would be more accurate if you split up the address portion for both of them. The corporation is also going to require payment information which is going to tie into all the identification requirements of the banking system.
> Most languages’ baseline sort operations implement quicksort under the hood, including the standard C library’s gsort() and JavaScript’s Array.prototype.sort()

There isn't any "JavaScript's Array.prototype.sort()". Different implementations use different algorithms.

I know V8 used to use Quicksort with insertion sort for (sub)arrays smaller than 10 elements (the implementaion has changed since I last looked, but I don't know what).

But SpiderMonkey has and still does use a bottom up mergesort with insertion sort for subarrays of length 3.
Oh whale. It's actually a fantastic suggestion. I think I'm actually going to use it based on the pricing and offering. Thanks for bringing it up.
Apple should make the touch bar larger like Asus had done: https://mashable.com/article/asus-zenbook-pro-duo-dual-scree...
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