skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your post just made me chug a glass of water. Having seen many people go through it (most of my family as well), I am terrified of stones and drink a lot of water and thus pee annoyingly often. Staying in the lane between stones and water intoxication is a hassle.
I've gotten similar responses arguing with climate crisis deniers. I think a reasonable retort is: how do you know there were countless high and low temperature phases? If you listened to overwhelming science for climate history why don't you agree with equally overwhelming science that we are the cause of the climate crisis?
I'll add in my $0.02 - the author set himself up for this.

Here's his GitHub Profile:
https://github.com/Hameds

Not only is he accessing SaaS from an embargoed country but it looks like he's forked repos which contain calls to embargoed crypto libraries. Does this mean he's doing something conceptually bad? Probably not, but he's still in violation of the embargo.

The fact that he's been able to participate in GitHub at all is basically an oversight on GitHub's part and people are wrongly blaming MSFT for this.

Does it suck for him? Yup. This guy was deplatformed by GitHub there's basically zero he can do about this.
Well maybe he could defect, thats where I'd have to defer to an expert...
Maybe back in 2013 that might have been possible, but it seems like nobody figured out how to effectively use those boards back during that timeframe. And since then GPUs and then custom ASICs took over.
I live in Southern Europe and >40 degrees is the normal and has always been the normal. I am not particularly preoccupied, myself.
I’m hoping one day we can be done with this money obsession. To live in the Star Trek Next Generation universe would be a dream come true.
It's a funny kind of fooled by randomness, the argument that there is variation, so it wasn't caused by a specific effect.

Suppose Iceland were to win the World Cup. Would people be saying that Iceland had spent a bunch of effort training players, or would they be saying that it's natural for different teams to win, and that it had to happen eventually?

One major issue is that probability and statistics are very far down the pecking order of what is considered part of a good education. A huge number of people think "it varies randomly" means the same as "there's no way to know any more".
Same topic from a week ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20459075

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/american-kids-would-...
> As long as we keep shoveling meat into our faces 5x per day

Right, because that's your biggest problem.

It couldn't be the fossil fuels used for transportation (29%) or the industry that produces the goods and the raw materials like cement (22%), the production of electricity (28%), or even the commercial and residential emissions (12%).

Oh no, our biggest problem has to be agriculture (9%). And let's not talk about the use of fertilizers, or of the transportation of food for thousands of miles before it reaches the table. Let's also not talk about the practice of burning crop residues, or of the seas of plastic.

The problem has to be meat and the solution is to shame meat eaters.
> I was really impressed with how you've made your own book-building script [0], which I assume you found comfortable iterate off of from your previous book [1].

Yup, though I ended up significantly expanding it over time. This book is a lot more complex because the snippets interact across chapters. Also, I wanted the ability to test the code as it exists at different points in the book.

> but did you ever look into other bookmaking frameworks

Briefly, yes. But, in general, I'm not much of a "framework" person. I'd rather spend time rolling my own thing than reading docs or fighting with the limitations of some other framework.

Of course, doing it from scratch can be a large undertaking, but I think people often overestimate the effort of writing bespoke software. The build script for my book is not a general-purpose build system for generating book sites. It is literally hard-coded to be used for only one single book on Earth.

That makes it much simpler. It doesn't need extensibility or configurability. It has nothing like an "API" or even docs or tests. The output is its tests — if I like the resulting HTML, the build script is by definition working correctly.

It's also easy to add hacks in there that only make sense for the book, like:

# The "(?!-)" is a hack. scanning.md has an inline code sample containing a
# "--" operator. We don't want that to get matched, so fail the match if the
# character after the "-- " is "-", which is the next character in the code
# sample.
EM_DASH_PATTERN = re.compile(r'\s+--\s(?!-)')

If I was trying to make a general purpose book-building framework, I'd have to design some elegant or extensible solution for escaping or recognizing false positives in the code that converts `--` to em dashes. But because this is just a bespoke script, I can just toss a hack in and be done with it.
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I don't know about France, but domestic AC is almost unknown in the UK.

I wonder if "heating water" implies that coolant is being plumbed through buildings to heat them, which could be dangerous to the occupants of those buildings if they were already too hot. Or maybe France is suffering a drought at the moment.
Still doesn't explain what it is, therefore it is almost pointless to answer this. Not sure how whether it came first, second or third matters to explaining what it really is and its relationship on reality.
The network stack by itself is incredibly fast. I am talking about the Linux TCP/IP stack here, but I suppose that other vendors do just as well if not better.

I wrote a simple web server in C and I was impressed by how tight my code had to be to reach the limits of the OS.

Even the internet is fast. Just look at fighting games. The simple fact they are playable over the internet is quite a feat. Fighting games require reaction times at the limit of what humans are capable of, and some moves require a 1/60s accuracy.

The problem is that there are so many layers of abstraction. You have the OS, JS engine, layout engine, frameworks, etc... Networking is just one of the layers.
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The real problem is pension funds. And when you look at who's benefiting from the pension funds, you'll see another problem; People aren't dying and the pension funds are being asked to fund way more than they expected to. We have hoards of people who haven't worked in 40 years still getting paid out of a pension that expected to pay them for 20.
Bacigalupi's near-future fiction is all too believable.
"If climate change was happening and a massive problem, we would be morally obligated to advocate for the most effective methods of prevention - no matter their side effects. Nuclear, geoengineering, a carbon tax, making sure that Africa never industrializes - everything would be on the table. Since we don't like those solutions, climate change must not be that large of a problem."

They aren't as bad as the Republicans, but let's not try and pretend that the Democrats are particularly great either. If the Green New Deal is what they'd actually attempt to do, we're fucked.
If you're trying to develop any technology which requires trade secrets or IP protection -> you should not be using a public SaaS.
It's kind of ironic that when the Earth gets hot we turn on more devices that heat up the Earth (via CO2 emissions).

I don't have AC at home in the Bay Area -- when it gets hot I just go to a public air-conditioned space for the day.
Israeli Researchers Develop Vibrating Vest to Communicate Wordlessly with Dogs
Quantopian looks amazing, I hadn't seen that. How much historical data and fundamentals do they have for equities?
If your alternative is to just stay hot, it doesn't really help. Those places will be in AC whether this person goes there or not.
To later become island front?
Correct, GitHub would then become the exporter and be in violation of ITAR.
> Staying in the lane between stones and water intoxication is a hassle.

It's a really, really wide lane. If you're drinking that much water for fear of kidney stones, you may want to address your anxiety/compulsivity as well as your risk factors for kidney stones.
In the US, if you want to "make up" for the rest of the world, then since the US releases 5 and the world releases 40, then it means as a citizen maybe you aim for going negative by a factor of 8.

Average carbon footprint of a us citizen is 20 metric tons. The lowest a us citizen can go "naturally" is 8.5 tons, like if you're a homeless person eating in soup kitchens.

To go negative to "make up for the rest of the world" what is that, -140 metric tons? I guess you have to buy carbon offsets. At about $10 / ton, that's $1500 - $1600 / year per US citizen, depending on how much you cut your own emissions naturally.

You could also plant trees, but it takes 40 years for it to absorb a ton. So maybe donate your money and plant 160 trees per year, and then 40 years from now you can stop donating money.
How is it not a reflection on the argument? If I say something is good advice but don't follow it, I clearly don't believe it myself in every respect. That seems highly relevant.
Source? This seems just as unsubstantiated as the article.
Thats a good one! One more reason not to use Slack.
Is it truly possible to know if this was a deliberate strategy of Gamergate? I’ve heard this statement before and when I try to politely challenge it...the results aren’t as kind in return.

Hoping that isn’t the case here, because I am perhaps inappropriately curious if an answer exists.
that is not strictly true for the statement in the article. Deliberate disconnects can be identified by implementing tombstoning, in which a connected node sends an epitaph message to the channel prior to disconnecting.
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Then you didn't look at it that deep because it's generally agreed that what started the saga was a jilted boyfriend of a woman who created a video game accused a publication of giving her game a favorable review because the reviewer slept with her.

The entire accusation is bunk because it wasn't even the person accused of that didn't even review the game.
Retweet is like gossip but easier. There are people who are wired to enjoy gossiping. They can have this stupidity.

On the other hand I prefer to avoid Twitter all together and get my news from actual journalism.
Appreciate the comments. My brother lived in Denver for a few years. It's not really my cup of tea when I visited. Too much sun, and too high in altitude. I could barely breathe when I was there and my nose bled every day for the first three days.

My preferences would be Vermont, Snoqualmie, WA, Bellingham, WA, or the AK peninsula. Me and the sun are not friends.
Glad! You liked it.

Should I edit the title of this post and append "Show HN:"?
The nuclear reactor of Grohnde in Lower Saxony, Germany is also currently being shut down. Like many reactors this one depends on a river (River Weser) for cooling. The water temperature of the Weser will reach 26° Celsius by tomorrow, which is a threshold value for serious damage to the ecosystem along the riverside – so the decision was made to not let the reactor contribute to further heatup of the river. The shut down is expected to last until sunday or monday.
Turning a 5 minute read into a 10 minute one.
obligatory link to lesswrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/
There seem to be a growing idea in Silicon Valley minds that we (IT crowd, devs, techies, managers) are in fact great! Way smarter then those stupid peons around us which use our products. So logically we have a mission to bring those unwashed morons to the bright side, and we must manipulate them for their own good.

While it's certainly pleasant illusion for us, there are two glowing problems:

1. We are not necessary better (neither morally, nor intellectually) then other people, it's just a current importance of IT economy which makes us a bit more successful, and and sometimes gives us some sort of influence.

2. There's an empirical evidence of activist journalism which suggests the only achievable result on this way is loss of respect, and growing animosity.
There is a growing number of people who were on board in 2007 but now are expressing doubts. I think support ebbs and flows depending on the weather/what movies are popular.
The more accurate answer is that to not cook everything downstream they are forbidden from releasing to hot a water. If the upstream is already hot, they have no margin to not cook the fish downstream so they close shop. (It’s a bit more complicated since it depends also on the River size, but the main factor is downstream temp.)
This argument against vertical integration sounds a lot like United States v Paramount Pictures, inc [0], which forced Hollywood to end the vertical integration of the “studio system” [1].

Honestly, I’ve wondered if Apple has deferred manufacturing to Foxconn et. al. just to avoid being ruled a (vertical) monopoly with this precedent.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_P....
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_system
> Because it creates a dependence on the OS they use in school, and it is not necessary to teach the things I mentioned.

How? Moving a mouse around is the same in KDE, Gnome, Windows and MacOS. A keyboard is the same. The terminals aren't even that different (many Linux and DOS / Powershell commands have equivalents). Almost all modern programming languages are cross platform.

You aren't explaining how it creates this dependence, because I don't see it.

> The teaching can be done abstractly on a board and paper, or with interactive games.

You can't learn how to program or really know what the computer is doing unless you are using and trying to create something on there.

> The practice can be done with microprocessors on educational board with plenty of easily accessible I/O.

This sounds more like electronics class than anything else.
This is like 95% of startups and companies who've raised under $100m USD.
Why is the shark basically unchanged for 450 million years? Perfect adaptation to the environment.
For a print publication, maybe.

If you go above 50% ads, some print pages will be ads on both sides, and both may easily be ripped out and discarded--the earliest ad-blocker tech.
Really, when was the record set?
One factor I think is "the Copenhagen interpretation of ethics" which means if you point out that there are people starving on the planet, and you don't immediately give up your entire wealth to do something about it then you are judged as worse than people doing their best to not focus on bad stuff outside of their immediate vision.

https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...

Tesla/Musk obviously fall into this trap with climate change.

Also the parallels in some attacks with what gets used for people like Al Gore makes me think that pointing out a problem that people have staked their political capital on being a hoax, provokes a certain reaction too.
Basically yes: https://icannwiki.org/Brand_TLD

I agree with the move away from .ch, since it's an international organisation, but .int would have been the correct choice IMO
Psychologically speaking, I always felt the original RT kind of forced the RTer to put the words into their own mouth.
No, record-breaking means it broke a record. If it was used almost exclusively for positive things, you might have a point, but it is routinely used for negative things as well. For example, "storm" is the third most related topic based on Google trends.[1]

1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=record-breaking&g...
I don't think there are a lot. For the PA turnpike, there is only one other interchange like this left in Middlesex, PA at I-76/I-81/US 11, with another near Philly being fixed. And even then it is a much more built-up 4-lane section of US 11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breezewood,_Pennsylvania#Unusu...
Ask HN: Tips for Outdoor Computer Work?
As a remote worker, I would love to spend more time outside, but it's hard to overcome the inertia of just staying indoors in my home office. Does anyone have any recommendations or ideas to share for:

- Portable outdoor chairs that are comfortable and relatively ergonomic for working on a laptop?

- Semi-permanent outdoor setups involving weather-resistant monitors/desks/etc for working out on the porch during warmer months?

- Any other good locations, equipment, tips, tricks, or personal experiences?
According to normal variations around the long term average, these kind of temperatures would be happening once every 50 or 100 years, but they are happening now every few years. There’s only so many times you can roll a six before you conclude the die is loaded, and you should really start worrying when the die starts rolling sevens!
> Free will as a concept is much simpler than God as a concept

How so? I assume the opposite when it comes to what's simpler. A person sees creation by God as cause & effect. The free will concept doesn't even make sense if thought about. Your actions are cause & effect from the summation of all events experienced.
It's necessary because the water used to cool reactors is rejected in rivers. In normal circumstances the temperature increase this causes is under control, but right now it risks endangering the wildlife in said rivers.
You're kind to ask. The paper was written a long time ago and very thinly sourced, more of a toy of dubious value. As we've agreed in this thread, attempts to directly translate asset values and income from a radically different economy will be frustratingly wrong.
Shelf Engine (YC S18) is hiring an engineer in Seattle – Help us stop food waste
You mention backlinks for seo. I would expect most submission based websites use nofollow links thus providing no link juice. Can you comment on how many of these 100 sites do or do not use nofollow links?
5G hype is being driven by companies in telecommunications and networking. It’s absolute nonsense.
"No electricity for six hours a day" at an individual/consumer level is not the solution and obviously never will be even if the math lined up. Think economically, not individually. Commuting is normal but it is not necessary. Suburban and rural living at consistent standards of living (necessarily higher-consumption factors due to diseconomies of scale) are not necessary. You're right in that people won't do it, but that doesn't make it necessary.

And I'm putting enough solar on my roof to run the house and charge my in-the-near-future EV, so, yeah...
Warm seas kill coral reefs, and ecosystems depend on these coral reefs for sustenance and protection (hard for a colorful fish to camouflage itself in a bleached reef). It's also allowing Jelly Fish colonies to multiply out of control, which are pretty much devoid of nutritional value.
"Choose two out of three" triangles are sexy, but I fail to see how this applies here. Doing nothing doesn't really mean choosing to be impartial and righteous at the same time, and there is no way to both moderate and be impartial if you actually run a platform.

I see it as every platform being able to choose a point on a sliding scale between enforcing its morality and being impartial. The more moderation you do, the less impartial you are, sure - but nobody actually wants the extremes of this scale.
Yes, the argument would be that someone was forced by circumstance to rehabilitate.
Scientists: Megadroughts Are Likely Coming to the U.S. Southwest Within Decades
So I don't remember this well enough to find a link, but some time ago there was a viral clip of someone tripping on the subway steps in NY. They drop all their stuff, look like a dork, everyone's fine, whatever. But then someone takes a longer look at security camera footage from the station (or someone independent sets up a camera, I forget), and finds that lots of people trip on that particular step. Turns out it's slightly taller than the others, so it's easy to catch your foot on it.

One possible solution is to convince everyone individually to pay really close attention to their feet all the time. Or you could fix the steps.

No one had to go around and convince people to be shitty to each other on the internet. A structural change made it easier and more rewarding, and our dumb monkey brains went wild. If your solution is to change the dumb monkey brain part and not the structural part, you're gonna have a bad time.
It's not just gamergate that uses that ambiguity -- think of how the "okay" symbol ("o" formed with thumb and first finger, remaining three extended upward) has been repurposed as a white power gesture; all of the group photos of proud boys and other white supremacist groups now have them all holding up that distinctive "okay" hand gesture, because it's a call out to their values and to the people that share them.

But when the 4channers were first starting to use it this way, it could be dismissed as "what, it's just an okay symbol"...

The ambiguity ("it's just a joke, it's just this, it's just that") is part of their discourse.
For a long time, I've made the argument that the First and Second Amendments of the US Constitution are indistinguishable from each other.

Previously, when the government was attacking encryption, I made the argument that this was gun control for software. "What you have is too powerful. No one needs 'military grade' encryption. Some people are misusing it, and we need the government to control it. No one's coming for your encryption, we just want key escrow." Of course, encryption is not only a protection for banking, it's a protection for free speech.

I agree that words can be a "weapon"--but in the same way that a scalpel can be a weapon. It depends how you use it. It's frightening that people are now starting to apply the "gun control" thought process to "retweets".

Before anyone jumps down my throat with "but Twitter isn't bound by the constitution", no duh. But regardless whether it's a company or a government, hearing someone with a lot of power advocate for suppressing freedom of expression isn't a great thing.

Whatever happened to the "Free Speech Wing" of the "Free Speech Party"?
"Designed for at most once, at least once and exactly once message delivery"

Exactly once message delivery cannot be guaranteed from a theoretical point of view (if it does exist then the Two Generals Problem can be solved, which has been proven to not have a solution). I don't know how MQTT can get around that, especially in an environment where transient network issues are expected.
The same phenomenon is happening is happening in China & India and probably many other parts of he world as well. As we become more a more affluent society, our on water consumption increases. We need to raise awareness at a global level about preserving and saving water.

https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/04/28-000-riv...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/rivers...
The article says Twitter saw a lot more retweeting after implementing the button. (“After the retweet button debuted, Wetherell was struck by how effectively it spread information. “It did a lot of what it was designed to do,” he said. “It had a force multiplier that other things didn’t have.”)

It seems like they saw an immediate change in behavior and results, enough to conclude the button directly affected behavior. My anecdotal experience was similar. Though I agree we will never know how effective would have been the third party tools or how much the delay in third-vs-first-party development would have affected Twitter’s growth.
The people who are in a position to remove it aren't the ones who said it's like handing a loaded weapon to a 4-year-old, so they don't have the reason to remove it that the question was referring to.

They have a more nuanced view and are quoted in the article saying that they're looking into how to modify the interface to "encourage more consideration before spread".