skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answers below are misleading by omission. While being on a river delta makes for fertile land, Bangladesh was nowhere near food independent a few decades ago. It was made so due to modern crop varieties and modern farming methods:

> During the last two decades and a half, important changes occurred in the realm of rice production and profitability. First, the cost of producing rice is several times higher than potato but the rate of profit is more than double for potato. Second, the yield of wheat, jute and potato has increased over time but the yield of rice has almost doubled from 2.16 t/ha in 1988 to 3.7 t/ha in 2000 and about 4.6 t/ha in 2014.

More than a factor of almost four increase in the yield of a staple crop that has been grown in that region for a thousand years is a technological miracle.
There are at least 5 positive feedback loops operating right now, ocean water temps, phytoplankton populations which impacts both oxygen production and cO2 conversion, phytoplankton is also the basis for the marine food chain, and their populations is down 40% since 1950. The other positive feedback loops are permafrost thawing, glacier melts and ocean salinity.

The earth and climate are already driving each other. We disrupted a delicate balance, creating these positive feedback loops.

Usually positive feedback loops run until they exhaust the resources, unfortunately the amount of greenhouse gases sequestered in the oceans, permafrost and glaciers is absolutely massive, when these feedback loops exhaust their resources it’s going to be vastly different planet, and it’s going to happen a lot quicker than anyone expects, we are seeing the acceleration already.

The only thing that disrupt these feedback loops is a global event, like a super volcano erupting, or a huge meteor strike, but both would have devastating impacts to the current life on the planet.
That's a great question that I don't have a solid answer to. But one change that I think could be beneficial is at least an expedited judicial process for foreigners like Hutchins, visitors that only intended to stay in the United States for a short period of time before being arrested on suspicion of a crime.

Hutchins was fortunate that he had some money and a sort of safety net in the form of donations, a network of people who knew him, etc. For most people without that type of support, I would imagine being prevented from leaving the States for an extended amount of time would be nothing less than devastating.
Finnish company makes food from thin air
Northern passage is opening up, trade with Chinese goods will be much cheaper. There is a lot of profit to be made on top of dead bodies of millions of future victims of the climate catastrophe.
Might be financially a good idea - perhaps we are just lazy and leaving money on table? Hard to say.

But it is such a pain keeping track of who's got what features enabled, what the pricing structure is, more complex invoicing, customers are paying already etc.

We would for a new major "product" but we do not for smaller features.
> When I teach graphics programming, I will continue to tell students that pixels are like little boxes.

There’s certainly a sweet spot, where too much theoretical background takes away from learning graphics, and too little could leave students unprepared, or worse, uninterested.

It’s certainly good & fun to go through at least a little sampling theory.

You might also be interested to know the guy who wrote this paper co-founded Pixar. His graphics advice is worth careful consideration.

> It turns out that thinking of them as little boxes arranged in rectangular grids is very useful.

Do keep in mind that the shape and the arrangement are two separate things. Alvy’s paper is talking about the sample shape, but not talking about the arrangement. The grid arrangement is useful, and Alvy would agree.

> Because that is how computers deal with them. Not as point samples.

I’d be cautious drawing that line. I realize you were talking in part about grid arrangements. But computers treat samples however we teach them to. It’s uncommon and unlikely you’re writing a lot of code that truly handles pixels as finite square geometry rather than a point sample. Plus, if you’re teaching things like magnification filtering using bilinear or bicubic, then you’re already treating pixels (or perhaps texels) as point samples.

Here’s what you get when you treat pixels as squares: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17845460
Bilingual Lexicon Induction Through Unsupervised Machine Translation
A slight sea level rise will cripple farming in a large part of Bangladesh. I'm not optimistic about their future.
I think many energy companies would love (or at least not be opposed) to get a large amount of renewables and energy storage...etc. The problem is that doing so costs money (a lot of it) which means raising customer rates which are highly regulated. Many of those companies are still paying off coal assets and aren't allowed by regulators to retire those units until they're paid off even though they aren't economic anymore due to falling gas prices and the prevalence of renewables. I'm not saying that the system is perfect, rather there are so many many factors at play here and it isn't nearly as simple as people think. Make no mistake that transitioning to 100% renewables is a monumental task, but we're getting closer all the time.

With that being said, we're starting to see coal being retired at a very fast pace Nationwide and no new ones are really expected to be built. Change is happening every day in this industry which has traditionally moved at a glacial pace. Please do keep up the interest and spirit.

One of the key industry drivers here are the production tax credits (wind and now solar + storage) that come from government and make wind so crazy economical right now to where they can have extremely negative offers (think corn and ethanol). This is why it is painful to me to hear about politicians being bought out (ok, I'm sure some have fallen to for lobbyists) as the production tax credits have done so much for clean energy. Public opinion is also important in this space as many utilities are making green investments because it is good for PR.
I had a very jarring experience a few months ago with pocket casts. I had bought the app on play store a long time ago to listen to podcasts in my car. I had it set up to auto download my podcasts and certain other automations.

I get into my car in the morning, put my phone into a clamp, open the app and it plays through my car Bluetooth.

One morning I was in a hurry to leave because I was running a bit late. I open the app and it's like a completely new app! Nothing was left unchanged. My download and automation settings were either reset or those features had been removed. The app now looked like some design interns over-zealous first attempt.

I gave up and turned on the radio. Until this day I haven't been able to set it back up exactly like I had it before. And this is an app I paid for. It was very cheap, sure, but still.
> Largely, hospitals ALL have a basic level of competence in the US (meaning medical training and certification and subject to regulation) and it's disrespectful to imply otherwise. There is no benefit to people dying in a hospital. Nobody wins and the penalties are stiff. The staff are people, which are imperfect (often overworked) and situations are fluid.

No way. Look at the Centers for Medicare Services ratings and check out the shitshow that lower rated hospitals are. When you see high cdiff infections, that’s a sign of general incompetence — poor hygiene, undertrained or untrained staff, or insufficient staffing levels.

Disrespect is allowing patients to suffer needlessly. The people running those facilities deserve none.
'Practice makes progress' is the name of the game
https://futurism.com
Google Sheets has a version history.
Stuxnet had some pretty program time traces in the code.
We might consider where tools like nmap are advertised. The language used.
What can we do as computer scientists to best militate this risk and protect human life?
Aahhh, this is the Brazilian football/soccer player naming phenomenon [1] : Zico, Ronaldinho, Sócrates, Pelé, Ronaldo, Edú, Falcão ...

( A Zico free kick in particular was such a joy to watch. )

[1] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/06/how-brazilian-so...
Or you can enforce FIFO/average cost basis and avoid all the hassle/micro tax optimizations.
Wouldn't this also be related to the European requirement for companies to account in their filings a measure of how climate change may impact them ?
Exactly. Deportation proceedings are a separate issue from visa issuance and entry. Courts show far greater deference to the executive on visa issuance and entry decisions to non-residents (and temporary residents) than they do in deportation.
This one book is filled with so much information. Hands down one of my favourite books. If you ever wanted to understand how sugar shaped the world.

https://www.amazon.ca/Sugar-Barons-Family-Corruption-Empire/...
I hadn’t realized you thought that. Will you then withdraw your claims in other threads that American style suburban sprawl is necessary for happiness and quality of life? That American cities far less dense than their European counterparts are full?
Investors are already snapping up real estate in southern Canada creating a housing crisis.
We're actively trying to address this problem, it's not new.
Don’t know. Where and how do you draw the line?
> Programs like these break down mystique, fill gaps in experience and provide the relaxed, necessary assurance that failure is an option, and growth and bravery are more important than looking cool — a lesson that’s arguably just as applicable at 50 as it is at 5.

This is what caught my attention. We need more of this in every field. Perhaps, that is already the case, but from what I can see, it looks like it can get better.
Not really. Wrists never rest between touchpad and keyboard.
I am confused by your use of the word cost hiding. Do you mean cost saving?
Almost certainly, nothing. Wrong skill set.
http://whymirror.github.io/

But potion is now maintaining by me under perl11.
libsyck also needs a minor revival I think.
I once stood at his front porch but didn't dare to ring the bell. He's doing fine I guess.
Why do you say that tax breaks to renewable energy or letting greener vehicles use the diamond lane is irrational?

I'll note two things, by the way

1. O&G companies also get tax subsidies.

2. The Republican led government of Texas approved giving electric cars the right to use the HOV lane with one person in the car, so you must thus acknowledge that they are at least as irrational
Interesting. Just northwest of Georgetown is Lake Georgetown, a reservoir created with a dam created by the USCorps in 1979. It was for flood control and drinking water.

https://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=30.651111~-97.681389&style...

Maybe they ought to consider pumping water into it on those windy nights and adding a generator.
Application of machine learning to predict NBA All-Stars from the 2019 draft
This was only 100m. Those probably hit semi-regularly and would have usually gone unnoticed or at least unrecorded before modern times.
+1 for discovering that a polymer used in diapers for absorbing moisture is a cheap and effective ion-permeable separator membrane.
The problem is that most audiophile behaviour is driven by emotion and psychology, not by facts and evidence. In that respect it's perfectly analogous to religion—and we know how futile it is to challenge religious thinking with facts and evidence.

The underlying frustration is that objective (measurable) and subjective (unmeasurable) improvements in sound quality could ever be placed on equal footing with each other. It just wrecks my brain that people would ever spend a dollar on improvements that has an unmeasurable or negligibly measurable impact on the when there's still so much opportunity for substantial, measurable improvements.

If you want to improve your audio, focus on speakers, speaker placement, room acoustics, bass management and in-room calibration. Most everything else is relatively marginal (e.g. fancy amps, fancy DACs) or negligible/unmeasurable (e.g. fancy wires).

For most people with mid+ range audio gear, the number one upgrade they can perform is almost always to add targeted sound absorption to their room, not to change any of the electronics.
No myth. It was the first CARD and line of credit that could be used at multiple merchants. Prior to that, you had a line of credit with each individual merchant.
Unless you're hooking up your rural house to a turbine, your comment is misleading.

The power going to your house will still be a mix of coal, natural gas, wind, solar, and others.
lake/river fish usually have parasites and must be cooked.

I was under the impression that ocean fish don't have the same level of parasites.

You would never eat a catfish raw.
They got close...look at Plan9.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

Everything on the network was just a mount, file system, sound, cpu, etc.
Corporations still have to file taxes, unclear how corporate registration requirements lead to tax fraud.
UFO city’ spotted on Google Moon map – ‘NASA missed editing this out’
I disagree as a product of the southern education system. Worth noting that some schools can't even afford to stay open five days a week.

Gems from my public schooling in South Carolina:

1. A teacher telling me to put my Harry Potter book away as it was written by Satan. Not that it was satanic or written by a Satanist. No, written literally by the hand of Lucifer himself.

2. The moon landing might not have happened. I got sent to the principal's office for refusing to back down over this.

3. Dinosaurs might not have been real.

4. Evolution probably isn't real.

5. Having sex before marriage will give me herpes.

6. The civil war was a war for state's rights.
Heard of Algonote?
Actually, most of my managers have dragged their asses behind low hanging blue jeans and shown overt contempt for the brand and any form of idealism; at one company I learned 'initiative is punishable' -- they seem to squirrel themselves into a cozy position with a director and the 'sheen' you describe is more of a greasy film to which on accountability can ever stick
Authenticating to EKS Using GitHub Credentials
Subsidies? Not really.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drillinginfo/2016/02/22/debunki...
Anyone can file a lawsuit at any time. The question is, what is the odds of success? Non-greencard holders who are refused visas for the US, or refused entry to the US, have a very low likelihood of success, given which most immigration attorneys will advise that (absent some special circumstances) filing such lawsuits is a waste of time.

(If you can make the case that the visa/entry refusal was due to some improper reason, such as racial or religious discrimination, political vendetta, government corruption, etc., then you might have some chance, but even then the odds are not that great. But if your case is simply "they won't let me in due to my prior felony conviction in a US federal court but I don't think that's fair", then your odds of success are almost exactly zero.)

(Disclaimer: IANAL.)
The problem of mindfulness – loaded with troubling assumptions of self/cosmos
Unknown Material Says Former Head of Advanced Systems Lockheed Skunk Works
OP here.

This IDE started as a final project in Gerry Sussman's LISP class at MIT.

When programming and debugging, you often want to know what your code is going to do without the possibility of unintended side effects (state change) by actually running the code.

Towards this goal, we added a concept we call "preview execution." That is: you can preview the output of code in our IDE simply by highlighting a section of code. The IDE will show the output of the highlighted section, but when you de-select the section, there are no side effects: no state is changed in the Scheme instance.

It's downloadable as a Mac app, but also open source. Would love to hear people's thoughts on it!
There is also 15% more green vegetation on the planet right now than a few decades ago, due to recent warming, much in formerly marginal areas. Some millions of people potentially dead from famine are likely still alive thinks to the extra food resources. (Along with quite a number of assorted non-human critters supported by it all.)
> northern Canada

I've been frequenting r/collapse and one of the perspectives there is that increasing heat in the north will create desertification and thus not a very hospitable place to live. Which leaves me wondering, where at all would be? Maybe no where... I live near the equator at low elevation and I can't imagine it will be better here either.
At the founding of the US, China was the #1 economy in the world. This view of the world among Europeans is partially based of racism and racist accounts of the world going unchecked.

The most investment-worthy economies on the planet have been in Asia for the past couple centuries (if you understand buying the dip), this fact is an economic threat to Europeans with a zero-sum view of global capitalism (has been for at least 2 centuries). The rest writes itself....
Survey HN: Did the Moon Landing Happen?
I haven't followed mix panels development. I was surprised that a company which went as far as writing their own time series database apparently decided to go all in on Google cloud.
The same attitude persists long after graduation: if the task is to build a website/app/project, completing the project is what's measured and rewarded. Learning how to work with the tools provided isn't valued. At my previous shop, it was called a wasteful tendency for curiosity...until you urgently needed an answer that was only available because someone sought to answer a question that wasn't purely tied to a deliverable.
Cheaper for who? The Panama Canal is a pretty direct route.
He made the most out of his situation, and was lucky that he was even afforded the chance to. But there clearly was a lot going on behind the scenes.

Additionally, he was quite open about his depressive episodes and legal frustrations on Twitter.
As opposed to oil which isn’t subsidized at all by taxpayers?
Do you have any references to back up these claims, especially the assertion concerning famine?
The other perfect application of Comic Sans was (wait for it....) Microsoft Comic Chat!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat

>Microsoft Comic Chat installed a custom font, Comic Sans MS, that users could use in other applications and documents. In 1996 it was bundled with several other fonts in Microsoft's Core Fonts for the Web project and subsequent versions of Microsoft Windows, leading to its notoriety among the internet.

https://chrisgliddon.com/a-trip-down-memory-lane-microsoft-c...

>While Microsoft’s Comic Sans was first introduced in 1995 as part of a Windows 95 Plus Pack, the font was more likely cemented into many people’s minds for one or two reasons: 1) well-meaning, yet not-necessarily-design-savvy educators, and 2) being selected as the default font in a new internet chat application called Microsoft Comic Chat.
I’m just talking about rendering one edge (infinite line) separating the plane into two regions.

If you want to deal with pixels near multiple edges, it needs to be more complicated.
Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards
Selection sort and insertion sort are not O(n) algorithms...
Is an infrastructure planning issue, if they don’t plan for food while expanding population, the population wouldn’t expand anyways!
People tend to miss obvious things when their mortgages depend on them doing so.

Places dominated by extractive industries tend to be run by he money behind those industries. That transcends party traditionally, but has become a pillar of the right wing of the GOP since Nixon. Unfortunately, that means that people who run those industries basically control the Senate and soon the Supreme Court.
Pay for their plane tickets out of there
I'm stage 4 Stomach cancer, started there because it's super aggressive, the OS for 5 years at stage 4 is 5% at last reading, based on my current treatment outcomes I've got at least another year in me based on available treatments as I'm still first line and the cancer is still responding to chemo. I'm aiming for 10 years, because go big or go home right? It was all through my periodontal cavity, but apparently aside from the primary tumor my cancer cells are too small to be seen on imaging, PET or CT. I'm apparently supposed to be dead already, and yet here I am kicking around. I get "you don't look like you have cancer" a lot, because I'm on the bigger side. It was the best damned weight loss program I was ever on though, lost 60lbs before my first chemo. It took me a while to realize just how stupendously lucky I was. Every single day I wake up terrified that it could be my last and every single night I go to bed terrified I might die in my sleep. Every treatment has a risk of death, or get this, causing new cancers. I'm heading into my 16th treatment of 5FU and just recently dropped the Oxaliplatin, which causes permanent nerve damage in most people, but it's way better than death, which it can also cause if you have a bad reaction. I've been planning out a Youtube channel for younger people like me who get cancer, and I suppose older people would appreciate it too. I've missed very few days of work over this whole thing and it's been mostly an inconvenience. I've got mostly good days, been way more chipper since getting diagnosed oddly enough, I have some bad days, and nights I straight up cry in the shower so my wife doesn't see. I think the best thing about getting cancer is that I have an excuse to make people in a cancer ward laugh with my dark humor and no one will say anything because we all need to laugh, it's the only time that constant nagging in your head about how close you are to death seems to go away. I suspect that's kind of like soldiers in long-term dangerous deployments, there's a lot of waiting and everything is normal and you get into a routine, and then without warning you're in danger and everyone's moving and serious, and there's no time for jokes because everyone's just trying to focus on staying alive. But again, I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm still lucky enough to have the privilege to worry about this. I'm still lucky enough to wake up and see the amazing person my child is becoming. I've been lucky enough to be able to finally push myself into doing the charity work I've always wanted. I want everyone to have the opportunity to feel this lucky.
The insistence on a surname is quite annoying for people who don't have one or use one. In India, there are many cultures where a surname or family name isn't used or isn't passed down from one generation to another and to the next and so on. There are cultures where a surname is used. But what's very common across the country is addressing people by their first (or only) names whether or not one is close to them. Even in writing (except in newspapers and TV), it's common to refer to people by their first (or only) names or to use the person's full name.

Most websites that need a name assume that everyone has a last name and make it mandatory. What's more ridiculous is that this habit is prevalent even in places where it may be uncommon (like in some parts of India)! Even Jesus didn't really have a surname that was used everywhere. Jews in those times (and for a much longer period) didn't have surnames either.

Instead of celebrating and appreciating the diversity among humans and human naming conventions, today's world thrives on forms that want to normalize things. It's just laziness and/or ignorance and/or unwillingness to learn.

See "Falsehood programmers believe about names". [1]

[1]: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Same issue on iPhone 6
After observing some neighbors, I tend to think that Fox news and the likes are not really misinforming but mostly a reflection of these people. Echo chambers etc etc