skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> French energy company EDF stated that it would shut down two nuclear reactors in an attempt to limit the amount of heating water used to keep the reactors cool at Golftech nuclear power plant.

I don't see why that would be a necessary or even good thing? Surely they must have higher demand for power from AC loads with the heat, even if AC isn't quite as prevalent in the EU as the US.
You joke (I think) but that's the path we're headed down. I'm fully expecting over a billion people to die within my lifetime from disease, malnutrition, and war spurred by climate change. It's foolish to think humans are so different from other life that we won't have a population crash after such rapid growth.
I understand your objection. Should is just a word for human expression to be shared from me to you. Maybe, not the best word. Although, I thought as a whole the post answered your original point.

Yes, we're similar as the rock because of no agency that's truly our own. We assume typically the rock has no individual conscious and for all we know panpsychism exists contrary to our assumption. Basically, we cannot know what's right or wrong and if a rock should avoid hitting a child. It all factors into fate in the end. Might be favourable for being hit by the rock or not.

One could argue, except that's a rock & a human. I think (human & human) could be treated the same as (rock & a human) but we're dealing with equation of humanity and the emotions of deeper similarity shared. The majority consensus favour our deeper similarities for connection. So the majority consensus doesn't want (human & rock) treatment to be the same like throw the rock away like a piece of trash that's been used up.

Anyway, Fate will decide in the end if we should treat all other objects equally and even while knowing cause & effect. I think cause & effect and with our humanity connection thus favours the rehabilitation modal if the majority consensus ever updates by fate.
There was a recent discussion on the FOI-L listserv about when a private entity is subject to public records requests: https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=FOI-L;326b96b.190...

While the example applies only for Washington state, I imagine other states have similar laws.

Edit: Appears you need to be logged in to view the message. Here's the message:

> In Washington, we have well-established case law that allows private entities to be considered the functional equivalent of an agency, based on a four-part test established by the court in the Telford case. There’s a lot of info online about it, but here’s a concise article: http://mrsc.org/Home/Stay-Informed/MRSC-Insight/January-2017.... The factors of the test are:

> 1. Whether the entity performs a governmental function;

> 2. The extent to which government funds the entity’s activities;

> 3. The extent of government involvement in the entity’s activities; and

> 4. Whether the entity was created by the government.

> It’s been applied to entire agencies, and to individual contracts being performed on behalf of public agencies. We’ve also seen individuals be deemed the functional equivalent of a government employee for purposes of PRA compliance.
Hi, interesting article.

Anyone care to expound on this part:

>>> and without any way to distinguish a deliberate disconnection from a transient network issue
Politics, bureaucracy, incompetence. Munich wasted a lot of money.

Edit: here [1] is a good article (unfortunately in German) about the reasons.

[1]: https://www.golem.de/news/limux-die-tragische-geschichte-ein...
Visual C++ linking speedup by 2x-3x in latest Visual Studio 2019 16.2 release
Methane is definitely a more potent greenhouse gas, but it doesn't accumulate in the atmosphere for as long as CO2 does, so I wouldn't be so sure about it being more problematic.
This looks great. Do you have plans to support an offline version?
It even shows why some aquifers may never replenish. The layer of the aquifer is not tightly compressed and can hold water. When the water is released and the layer starts to compress from the weight from above, its ability to hold water is permanently diminished.
I'm not. I'm alluding to what a government can do with this data.

This data/backdoor/power in the hands of a communist autocratic government with complete disregard for territorial and human rights is an infinite times worse, on a completely different scale, than in the hands of a democratic government.
So you fall into the "Tesla is saving the world" superfan category.
The problem is that they aren't, and as someone else said, the fans are just really annoying.

I know you don't mean to come off that way, but even your defense of Elon and such in this thread comes off as a combination of "ends justify the means" and sheer sycophantry.

Nobody likes that.
It's not as bad as some, mind you.
Reading Teslarati makes me feel like these people need a cult deprogrammer, stat.
Great, didn't know that. Thanks
I randomly ran into an old high school friend at a gas station in Breezewood. We were living 2000 miles apart at the time and were traveling in separate directions and just happened to meet. A few years later, in his late 30s, he contracted skin cancer and died, and that chance meeting in Breezewood was the last time I saw him.
Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals with a synthesizer
GitHub blocked my account and they think I’m developing nuclear weapons
Ecosia: Financial reports and tree-planting receipts
What is the personal benefit to believing in climate change? Now you get to feel bad about doing all the things you're going to do anyway? If you're going to go cognitive dissonance, you might as well go all-in.

Lifestyle choices won't affect climate change as long as we keep fueling the machine that's chewing through the resources. "It's the economy, stupid" - the modern economy doesn't just depend on consuming many resources as possible, its tenets are fundamentally based around it. Every call for more jobs is a call for more waste. Every push to lower interest rates is a judgment of valuing the present over the future. We've figured out how to make more stuff than we can actually ever use - now we need to figure out how to dial it back instead of throwing the excess away.
> If this were actually a serious issue, we would

I fail to see how the choice of response (or not) determines seriousness of the issue. We've seen plenty of people stick their head in the sand in the past.
"You don't live up to your own argument!" is an attack on the person, not the argument -- a form of ad hominem. Just because someone doesn't take their own advice doesn't mean that the advice itself is unsound.

As the old saying goes, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Expected $5B Dish deal paves way for T-Mobile, Sprint approval
> The article specifically argues that the retweet button causes problems that manual retweeting didn't, and so he did invent the thing that's actually a problem.

Did he? Twitter clients already had one-click retweet functionality by the time Twitter subsumed/operationalized it, IIRC.
The Strange Rites of Celebrity
The book is actually also based on comprehensible input.

The learning through an SRS happens only for the 1.000 most common words of a language and its grammar.

After that, learning is intermixed with speaking, reading, writing and listening to learn vocabulary through comprehensible input.

Still, I have to say that learning the top words and grammar, I got to an impressive level, giving the effort. I can listen to some podcasts, read what people write on Facebook and some articles, and speak with friends in noisy contexts.
No it wasn't. I actually looked into the whole saga as I kept on hearing about it (back in 2015ish).

From what I could gleen there were some individual women that said disparaging remarks about a whole group of individuals and were surprised when they got push back from the rest of the community which btw included women.

I've noticed more generally that one person will say something quite rude about a whole group of people, people quite rightly tell them to shove it and leave them alone and then that individual claims harassment.
Blameless post-mortems are a thing for a reason. Honesty about mistakes should make you trust an individual/company more not less.

Just my 2 c
Are you the Don Turnbee?

Area Man Holding Out Until Next Exit For Better Fast Food Options
https://local.theonion.com/area-man-holding-out-until-next-e...
> Grant's Pass, OR

When I first passed through this place due to work, driving from one work location to another, I stayed the night because I could and "was allowed" [by the job] to break up the drive. It was a nice demarcation; some catching-up on "The Shield" was had.

As jobs and life moved on, since I have some extended family and friends around the Portland area, Grant's Pass remained a demarcation but in different respects: as a boarder-crossing signal, as a sign-post, as a pit-stop as needed whilst I just kept going "straight on 'til morning" [I preferred one long drive back then, can't be sure now for reasons].

I cannot tell you anything particularly special about Grant's Pass other than "it's near the border" and "I-5 goes through it". No offence intended to people living there.
If every disaster contains opportunities, what are they here?

The obvious thing would be investing in green technology, but what else? Are HVAC equipment producers about to see a big uptick in sales?
Because taking gamma correction into account when doing blend operations is pretty vital if you want good results.
Depends on 'the action'. One technique would be to include context in the flashcard. Sth along the concept of Implementation Intention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implementation_intention
Good comment. I loathe Texas, but I'm here because of the wife and her family. I would prefer to live someplace where it's overcast 90% of the time, and where it rains at least twice a week. I also prefer snow on the ground for a couple of months. Here in the Houston area, the heat, humidity, insects, and sheer amounts of concrete all contribute to the lack of comfort. Moreover, there are too many people here all shoved into a space that really cannot accommodate them.
> you'd see fewer mentions of spaced repetition over time, rather than more

Only if they start learning the meaning behind it by using it ;) As long as they ignore it, it will just reappear in a fixed interval.
Apollo 11’s Transcendent Leadership Lessons
For those interested in exploring the political and social consequences of this in a near-term (albeit fictional) world, I highly recommend reading "The Water Knife" by Paolo Bacigalupi. From the Goodreads description:

> In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, leg-breaker, assassin, and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her luxurious developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get dust.
The quality of music in their YouTube videos is pretty awful. Do they have better samples suitable as video soundtracks?
> http://tools.suckless.org/ii/

I can't even
Does he believe smoking causes lung cancer?

Edit: This is what I was trying to remember:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-risks-as-...
Conflate weather and climate, I thought that's what "deniers" do?
YouTube isn’t for kids, but kids videos are among its most popular
As someone who's neither a heavy social media user[1] nor an engineer on one of these projects, I think this perspective doesn't really make a lot of sense in context. The consensus that social media is a horribly damaging drug that's destroying our democracy is quite recent.

Someone, a decade ago, decided to slightly lower the friction of the already-existing practice of retweeting by formalizing it as a feature. Expecting them to have the clairvoyance necessary to interpret that as an unethical act is beyond insane. The same is true of pretty much everything else on the product side of social media companies: you'd have to have a much keener, more cynical sense than average of how deeply horrible most people are in order to predict that social media would've evolved the way it has. "Not internalizing the fact that most people are mostly shitty people" isn't really a reasonable bar to tar people in knowingly being unethical. The new public square and its ability to unleash unfiltered humanity is _sui generis_, so nobody has a schema for how to handle this. The closest you come to people who've grappled with this question are people like The Founding Fathers.

(and to be clear, I'm no fan of these companies: I explicitly avoiding applying to Facebook and Twitter out of college because I either didn't agree with their ethics or thought itthey were shit at product. My opinion hasn't changed, but I don't think it's valuable to look back and place unreasonable standards of clairvoyance onto employees).

[1] I suppose depending on how broad your definition is, I use HN fairly regularly, but the frequency and level of interaction on a site like this seems categorically different to the kinds of social media usage you're talking about when you say "grow a conscience before building them".
It could have from Dr. Benjamin Batmanghelidj, author of Your Body's Many Cries for Water in which he claims that chronic dehydration is the source of most disease (and thus water is the cure). The 8x8 was a minimum threshold for his water treatment protocol as I recall. According to Dr. Batmanghelidj, feeling thirsty was not reliable as an indicator of need for water, as dehydration was more likely to manifest as pain or hunger than a feeling of thirst. His methods have been called into question. however.
U.S. immigration policy gives Canadian tech a great opportunity
Historically, though, the restrictions placed in pursuit of your proposed ideal have caused enormous suffering and destroyed entire communities through mass incarceration, corruption, and gang/cartel violence fueled by black market money. Attempting to stamp out negative desires by decree through large-scale force has plausibly caused far more damage to society than simply accepting that a small fraction of people will burn up their lives, smash in some car windows, and eventually kill themselves in pursuit of their vice. And the former problem hasn't even replaced the latter, now we just have both.
I think I understand that argument, but I'm not convinced that it's really all that true or that the actual button being added to Twitter was all that consequential.

Is a manual task like copy/paste and writing quotemarks really enough "friction" to reduce what seems like a pretty natural human drive on social media? Would doing it over and over again not make it just as "automatic" as a single button push for power users, even if it's not as convenient?

We also don't have the benefit of looking at the counterfactual situation where the retweet button wasn't implemented.

Maybe keeping manual retweeting would just result in a worse kind of "dunking" that had the extra dynamic of the retweeters subtly tweaking the wording of the quoted tweet.

Besides, if Twitter didn't implement the retweet button then the hoards of 3rd-party apps or some Twitter alternative probably would anyway.
I believe Microsoft's main argument is that CERN doesn't teach or award degrees. Last time this was posted I saw someone say it's also due to them making a little bit of money licensing stuff to industry [1], but universities do the same thing [2] so I don't think that's a strong argument.

[1] https://kt.cern/

[2] e.g. https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/innovation-and-partnership
There isn't much value in memorizing vast amounts of facts like that anymore (you already mentioned two key areas where that's still needed: language and medicine). Nowadays it's better to remember where to find facts and learn quickly than to simply remember facts upfront.

It's fine for you to have a personal goal of using spaced repetition to learn dozens of languages, historical events, etc, but it's really not a tragedy that it's not integrated into our society. It's good that we've moved on.
Europe’s Cities Weren’t Built for This Kind of Heat
Good filtering has traditionally been one of the killer features of userscripts for enhancing imageboard experiences. Things like filtering by image hash, regular expressions and recursive filtering (also filter content that engages with filtered content; repeat) are pretty powerful tools for fighting abuse or, at minimum, making the daily grind not quite so terrible. Stuff like that is generally accomplishable client-side, so as a non-Twitter user I'm a bit curious why this isn't already a widely used thing.

Makes me want to mess around with a browser extension that uses perceptual hashing to filter smug frog images or whatever.
I thought conflating climate and weather is what "deniers" do?
> I don’t have data-intensive applications or problems of scale, but rather policy-intensive applications.

As I understand it, this problem - "policy-intensive" - is a lot of changes of requests from the customers of the system. In other words, customers don't know fully what they need and produce a stream of requests. This stream or requests may converge on some stable "global" requirements, or, alternatively, may represent "moving target" (not converge).

Additionally, some of those requests are caused by different (supposedly better) understanding of the nature of data - the object of the system. That is, with evolution of the system customers (with the help of developers) understand more and more specific details about the data - missing parts, ambiguous parts, alternative sets of attributes etc.

The approach for such problems, which so far is most promising, is to organize the system as a set of independent, composable as much as possible operations. When another request comes from a customer, or another detail about the data becomes known, the system built from such composable components better allows incremental modifications towards processing such a change.

A good set of operations sometimes develops with time. This approach requires constant reflection on what a particular change mean to the existing process, uncovering assumptions and making them explicit and changeable...
Transwomen in elite sport: scientific and ethical considerations
I missed the part where "deadly heat wave" was a framed as a good thing.
I also enjoy this and have found that a good heuristic for whether or not someone else will is essentially "how much do you enjoy Seinfeld?"
That seems true for all the occupations in this list except "teacher", which in the US is a thankless, disrespected, and underpaid occupation.
Genetics-specific treatment is what medicine should be working toward.

Currently it is structured to make-pill-mint-money for drug companies. If a disease/treatment isn't mass produced, THEY DON'T CARE.

Medical devices are a bit closer to what is needed, but fundamentally they are run by the same business models.

Instead what will probably be required is a lot of specific testing (labor intensive), computational analysis (some labor and analysis) that produces the necessary treatment formula (or CRISPR design, etc), and then something that produces it.

The margins won't be great, so no MBA-driven healthcare will care about that.

The biggest disease that needs this approach to approach a "cure": CANCER. Cancer, even the "common" ones, are the result of dozens of varieties/combinations of gene malfunctions.

First world nations should pool money to start a multinational infrastructure that includes continuous improvement. Sections of this can probably be make profitable, but those will probably be lots of small companies.

All of which would be GREAT for employment.
I know you're in triage mode helping the immediately-affected get safe, but given the climate change undercurrents of all this, a statement like

> I'm not even noticing it's as hot as it is since the airconditioning is doing an amazing job here.

...just leaves a frustrating and poor taste.

What's powering all that air conditioning? It's not free.

Get safe now, but don't lose sight that it's all inter-related.
Example: across much of the US in the last few years there have been record colds because of polar vortexes. A few weeks of record colds doesn't negate climate change. A few weeks of record heat isn't the proof of it either.

I keep saying that ocean acidification needs to be the forefront of the argument more. The data is so much clearer and dramatic that it's so much harder to deny the harm being done by greenhouse gases. "It's hot today" is a terrible way to start a discussion with someone who doesn't believe in global warming, just like "it snowed today" is a terrible counter-argument from them.
i find it hard to believe that people think it's as simple as gamers just plain hating women for no reason, but it seems to be repeated all the time
Because it creates a dependence on the OS they use in school, and a OS is not necessary to teach the things I mentioned. The teaching can be done abstractly on a board and paper, or with interactive games. The practice can be done with microprocessors on educational board with plenty of easily accessible I/O.

And when there is a need for an operating system, which I don't see in basic and mid-level teaching in school, schools should use libre software, because it relates to public infrastructure.
To me this seems like taking a photo of a sausage factory and saying: This is what Italian food is like.

Err... yes. It's the worst part of the food creation process. Ugly and brutal.

This is a big part of America. The highway systems and the towns and businesses that support it.

Like sausage making is to Italian food. But I feel that seeing this and saying 'this is it', is unfairly failing to see the larger whole. This is the method that allows American's to travel anywhere within their country in a super efficient way that other countries can only dream of. Where I'm originally from, if you can plot a 100 mile line from where I was to some destination I wanted to go, it was a 200 mile road trip that would take 7-8 hours. Here in America, most destinations within a 100 mile radius take a 120~ mile drive which will take under 2 hours. I have explored a ton of places in this country because of the ease of moving around. The sausage factory sucks, but I do love sausage.
For sure: https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-france-fore...
Whats the rational response to that?
I keep getting into these discussions but I myself am not versed enough to counter it :(
"You've completed your member preview for this month, but when you sign up for a free Medium account, you get one more story."

Is medium becoming completely pay-to-read?
growth in people/year is surprisingly constant over the last 50 years

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
Growing up in the US then living for quite some time in Europe it was initially weird for me to not see AC everywhere, but I quickly realized it was much more comfortable for me. Something about being in a cold building and then going out into a swamp heater just makes it more miserable. Maybe its slow acclimation or some subjective thing.
Glaciers formed them, but probably have little to do with sustaining them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes
Me too. I remember sitting there up front(in the room @ the stage) waiting for the doors to open... and then seeing all the folks flood in. I had never been able to see what it looked like outside until now.

That show, and the times surrounding it was probably some of the best of my life. It's such a shame I didn't appreciate it as much at the time as I should have.... I took it all for granted. I remember after that show, I think we went back to Larry's house and Linus and family were there with all the kids... Such an amazing time.
Let's remember that equation the next time Arctic ice field expands...