skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I worry about.

At this point, it's not a matter of if people will die, but how many people will die. And if millions of people dying is enough to motivate enough people to do something.

We're about to find out if the idea of the 'Great Filter'[0] is true or not.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
For every Shenzhen there are ten Kangbashies and a couple of Tianjin financial districts.
Try on arm! You'll wish you hadn't! >.<

I think I spent 3-4 days compiling rust, almost forgot I started it at the time.
One of the best features of MQTT that is often overlooked is that the topics are created on the fly and also destroyed on the fly. The protocol does not require the server to maintain topics lists (assuming no retained messages). The server therefore scales based on the throughput and the number of clients (and their subscriptions) but not the size of the topic tree. The topic tree designer is therefore free to use enormous topic spaces with billions of topics if they so desire.
The Unsexy Threat to Election Security
I like the viewpoint that while yes its the hottest summer for the last few decades, its also the coolest summer for the next few decades.
This particular question was answered at the founding of our country, and doesn't need to be answered again.
Also - attempts to do so since have mostly been naked racism/sexism[1]

Calling it a "political, pro-active stance" is, well, ridiculous.

I guess you can try to label everything, but i don't think you are going to find a lot of support for your attempt.

[1] I'm speaking about poll taxes, poll tests, etc.
Ask HN: Are You Carbon Neutral?
Most of us here are aware that climate change is a real and very serious problem. Are you taking action? Do you invest in green energy? Are you carbon neutral (https://cotap.org/monthly/)?

What steps are you taking to reduce your footprint?
Slashdot-esque post:

1. Set up AC company in Europe

2. Wait for panicked calls from sweltering people

3. Profit!!
That’s not true. Methane is a significantly more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, so if the tree is absorbing CO2 but the decomposing needles and leaves are emitting methane, it could easily be a net GHG emitter.
Looks very nice! It would be helpful to have a page that compares it to some of the other popular scripting languages for C++.
The problem is everything. I sometimes have discussions with people about unnecessary flights. People always point out, that there is no need to change their flying habits as long as industry is producing even more CO2. The thing is that if we want to turn this around we have to change our behavior in everything. We need to radically adjust our travel patterns, our consumption patterns (why a new phone every 2 years?), our eating patterns, our energy sources, etc.

Unfortunately, I fear that it is too late to turn things around. Climate change has been a known serious problem for at least three to four decades. But politicians do not want to bring the bad news that we need to change our lives drastically in order to get their votes the next election.

But we should still try for future generations. No more holidays by plane. Switch to renewable energy. Live close to work and travel by bike or work remotely. And yes, perhaps eat a little less meat.
Interesting. Proceeding to read your link this moment

I admit-despite being someone who plays a lot of video games quite frequently I didn't wade into these waters because from the sidelines it looked like a lot of people painting things with very wide brushes and a lot of static noise that made trying to sift through any of it more annoying than it was worth.
Perhaps other people have been discussing your personal issues in written form?
Me too. These are the best sort of road trips, where you still need to plan things out and when you do finally stop it's a dusty service station with a local diner next door, not another McDonalds.
OK, you're correct that it's not the federal FOIA law that is the issue, but most states have similar state laws that have been used in the past for this sort of thing.

See, for example: https://www.acenet.edu/the-presidency/columns-and-features/P...
Not the parent commenter that you are replying to, but yes LineageOS even gets the radios working. Its a full mobile android distribution that works great
Love the espresso shacks! In addition to having very proper coffee, they are also great sources of local information if you need it. I am always astonished at how well-distributed and ubiquitous they are even in the very rural West. Every country road far off the beaten path with any sort of local traffic at all seems to have (at least) one. It is a neat bit of rural West culture.

I've always wondered about the economics of espresso shacks. Obviously the fixed costs are very low, a literal shack and bit of nigh worthless rural land. Each one appears to be a unique and creative local business with no underlying corporate chain tying them all together but the sheer pervasiveness of them makes me wonder if there is a well-oiled corporate business model underneath it all.
Also to add, the water doesn't have to be hot enough to literally cook fish to be an issue - a big concern is how the different micro-organisms/plants/fish/etc react to the temperature change of there normal habitat.
>JSON is really nice for your quick proof-of-concept where you have relatively few developers working on a small system.

This is really, really bad thinking and will always cause you a timebomb that will 100% explode on you in the long run.

"just a quick POC" will always end up being the actual product, and once you start down this path you end up with "let's just use mongo, it's schema-less, it'll be faster for devs and we can use a proper db later"... "let's just use nodejs for the POC, all the devs already know JS so it'll be great"... a few years later you end up with some gargantuan monstrosity that nobody wants to maintain, your "quick" language/db-du-jour is dead and unmaintained, you're EOL on four different software fronts and you now get to explain to the bosses why you need to rewrite the last four years of dev work.
Cut the military and substantially cut emissions. Consumer decisions aren't up to this task: consumers accept what is sold to them, and what is sold is driven by profitability - the ability to make something that can be made exclusive and sold repeatedly. That is a requirement which walls off most good ideas and forces unlimited consumption of natural resources.

https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s...
Banks are going to love this. It's called regulatory capture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

Less threat of competition just means their margins get to stay high. I'd rather be looking for ways financial regulations can encourage more players to enter the market.
I joke because the parent statement had so much fear and emotion. Sometimes things are out of our control. The world has systems for balancing everything.

On the positive side without population crashes evolution doesn't work so in some ways things are working as as designed.
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you can thank the teacher's union for that bit of gem
It's the concept of "Terroir":

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

The same crops acquire very specific characteristics based on the geographical location they are planted.

I never tried salad tomatoes as sweet and flavorful as those I used to eat as a kid in Sicily...
Protestant Work Ethic
Also because it's by far one of the most common things people get wrong, or could do better, when implementing alpha blending.
I recommend downloading the audio from this site and creating both text and audio Anki cards for each phrase. It’s a bit like the Pimsleur process except you’ll learn 2,000+ phrases.

https://www.goethe-verlag.com/
In metric units: a 90kg person should drink about 3L of water a day.
We are bombarded daily with hysteria about the world ending due to climate change caused by humans. There are lots of opposing views but they are almost invariably laughed off because 'it's been decided'. I'm on the fence about Corbyn but he's serious enough to warrant attention
GitHub doesn't want to be in violation of ITAR, its a bad thing to get stuck under.
Having passed a few stones, I like to say that they make my legs tired. I now drink a lot of water and make many trips to the restroom.
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Opioid abuse: A quiet but real talent concern for CIOs
Spaced repetition is essential to learning Chinese characters because the language doesn't contain an alphabet. Glad to see it getting some love.

I recently created an SRS app specific to learning Chinese vocabulary. You can check it out at:

https://www.dailychinese.app
Don’t you need gcc to compile the Linux kernel? At least it was like this for a very long time.
Yes, like I said fate decides. I'm not saying we have control and I wrote responses but they're dead. I think they're still good responses and even if fate decided.
It is actually pretty cold July here in Poland, after hot June. Few nights before I have used electric blanket. We have northern circulation for 4th week.
A lot of the people you're referring to don't think it's "as simple" as "just plain hating" for "no reason". Reality is more complex, but it's a pretty reasonable opinion, based on observation and direct experience, that a lot of Gamergate revolved around calling any women involved whores, calling any men involved cucks, and calling any Jews involved kikes. I'm not sure how it's possible to expect people to not get from there to the feeling that one of the primary front-facing attributes of Gamergate was hatred.
Have to normalize that into utilitons first. :)

Giving one 4 y/o a gun is pretty bad. Giving one teen a retweet button is much less bad. Giving _all_ teens and teen-minded people retweet buttons is as bad as a sum of all negative (and positive) consequences.

Once you do that you might reasonably arrive at equivalence.
>The actual amount of water you need varies by exertion, and diet and all sorts of things, it's not a fixed amount.

I completely agree with this statement.

>If you drink that much, you'll just pee a lot, it won't actually do anything useful.

I drink on average 6L of water a day. When I first started water-only fasting I was urinating constantly. I discovered that this was because I would drink a lot in one sitting, (as a 'meal' replica) and then interspersed throughout the day.

Once I changed my consumption style to ~150mL frequently I found that my body used the water better. Once it realized that a "constant supply" was readily available (and didn't need to worry about feast/famine cycles) I retained what I needed and more casually urinated the processed water.

My body can better manage itself when I drink 150ml 40x a day then it can manage 1L 6x a day.
> I always thought, if there’s a code that officially signals what we’re trying to signal, we should use it, and rely on it as “the signal”.

This is a line I hear a lot in regards to this general situation, and the interesting part is that the 400 code really does not signal the thing the developer is trying to signal, not at all. But a lot of devs have a weird hang-up about this for some reason, and will go to any lengths to not send a 200 response. I blame the REST cultists.
You can choose one or none if you want to. You just can't choose all three, because then you're doing what the article's subject described as 'handing a loaded weapon to 4 year olds'.
If you're a Chrome user, an incognito window also does the trick.
They would finally be able to take care of Paypal.
Flagged because linking to producthunt, rather than your actual site, is a spammy behaviour.
E.g. every compiler uses control flow graphs; so why doesn’t every language give me a batteries-included digraph ADT, that has every feature you’d need to implement a control flow graph, such that the compiler’s CFG is just a stdlib digraph instance?

By the same token, I'd like to see dynamic languages with a tracing JIT, show what types are used in the actual runtime. There was an article posted to HN a few years back, where some researchers noted that most dynamic language servers seem to go through an initial startup period, where there's some dynamic type shenanigans, then settle down to a state where the types are basically static.
But there's no reason quadcopter software should require trade secrets or IP protection. It could just as easily be open source, and yet it still sounds like the rules prohibit it.
In what kind of situation would a month of delay and complete redaction of any information given in confidence by other people?

Almost anything involving potentially criminal conduct where you need to collect robust evidence without tipping off the suspect might qualify, for example.

Or anything where the suspected misconduct happens regularly but at less frequent intervals, such as theft from a monthly or quarterly supply delivery.

Also, who says you get to completely redact other relevant information just because someone thought they gave it in confidence? There is no blanket protection under GDPR for such confidences, and each case will need evaluating individually, probably with guidance from a lawyer.

The GDPR requires you to balance the rights of all involved parties.

Which, like all the other aspects of the GDPR that impose ambiguous rules with no guidance on how to apply them in practice, is not particularly helpful.

And of course the GDPR is very far from the only relevant law if we're talking about disciplinary procedures.
Thanks for the comments! Interesting experiment - I wouldn't be surprised if better RNN architectures were more effective for this example.

Appreciate the softmax tip, I'll update soon.
For me, the motivation is that it's interesting to see someone grapple with the consequences of their work.

This guy is clearly no guru. And the sensationalism of the title is just media being media.
How do if conditions handled? They are not differentiatable right? So are loops?
> 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 don't know about these polar vortexes in particular, but climate change predicts wider swings in both directions, as there is more energy in the system. In other words, the vortex would not have gone as far south if it had had less energy.
Yes. I DESPISE THAT PLACE. Nothing like adding an hour of stop & go traffic to a 12 hr drive. Out of principle i don't buy ANYTHING there. I'd rather break down on a "Deliverance" Pennsylvania rd @ midnight while going around it-- yes, that happened.
Lets stop wastefully watering lawns as a starting point. Some places are probably already doing that, but the use of native landscaping needs to spread further.
At what cost? Desalination is not cheap in terms of the energy it uses or even the environmental cost of what to do with the left over brine.

We can certainly be less wasteful at home. Flushing toilet waste with potable water and even to some extent using potable water to bath in are incredible wastes of a precious resource.
according to the article, 70 years ago.
Huh...I stop at that exact spot. A lot. Mostly because it's a good spot to fuel up before (as I do) one disappears for 50 miles onto PA back roads (and 50 miles back...) with no more gas stations. I never realized it was 'a thing', but it _is_ a decent place to stop.
Silicon Valley is falling short on climate change
Piers CORBYN is a timecube level nutcase and climate change denier.
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What Happens in The Dark Knight – Aaron Swartz
This discussion reflects an additional problem. There is no agreement about the solution.

Try selling people a problem without a solution. Good luck!
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What kind of psycho drinks water by the 8 fl. oz. glass?
I'm having the dickens of a time understanding who Facebook built this for. Marketers, right?
Aside: Thanks for doing so. These 6 char throwaways are getting crazy recently, or maybe this is just me.
Well to be fair to them, I think their benefits card provider is a white labeled product from the neolithic era.[0]

Normally I'd say no excuses, but it seems like this was a regulatory necessity if they wanted to provide benefits cards at all. I'm a founder as well, so I can understand the need to provide a significant feature in the short term, even if it sucks a bit.

Being a founder (especially in compliance) I think you could be a bit more forgiving on your stance. A bad experience with a third party benefits card sucks, but saying they "completely fucked you over" feels fairly extreme - especially if your payroll has otherwise been running smooth.

[0]https://www.alegeus.com/demo/wealthcare-administration
Adaptation is an innovation if few others are doing it.
Carry your own tea bags or loose with a filter and ask for hot water.
RIP. I have one of those boards from Kickstarter that's dead due to thermal destruction of the chip. They ran incredibly hot and didn't have sufficient throttling. Not that it was very useful anyway, but I liked the company's mission and attempt.
If you’re in CA you could try to start a referendum.
It's funny how people used to complain that code.google.com did this but github didn't, and didn't like the answer that "the difference is that Github is not compliant with the law".

I suspect people will now complain that github does this but <x new service> does not :)
For the record, here's the spot on streetmap (the exxon is now gone) https://goo.gl/maps/wFx9ESH6vyBKk9mYA

Looks a lot less...interesting than the photo.
The worst project manager ever
Again, that says something about you, not about the argument.

I say people should get some exercise every day. In practice, however, I only get to the gym once or twice a week. That means I'm a hypocrite (and a lazy one at that), but it doesn't mean people shouldn't get some exercise every day.
> impossible to detect the absence of data

There are other ways:

- Check if the value different than the default, e.g., empty string

- If your data is repeated, then check number of data elements != 0
A mouse is not necessary to understand computers nor to interact with them. I don't want schools to prepare the next generation of Web users that can create an account with Google, but barely anything more; that way the democratic oversight of technological changes and powerful companies fails, because the citizens aren't informed and competent.

Humans are strongly bound to habits. I have seen that personally, and in reports about institutions doing the change. Some people were strongly opposed to change away from Windows because the alternative doesn't look and feel the same, so they don't like it. And that even if the alternative offers the same capabilities.

Building a habit around Windows is part of Microsoft strategy to bind people to its platform. That is why academics and schools get discounts. Public infrastructure like schools must not fall for this fixation.

Children learn how a combustion engine works, and how it can be controlled. Why don't they learn how a CPU works, and how to program it?

> 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.

This is incorrect. The principles of a computer can be explained and understood with pen and paper. Even the execution of a simplistic computer can be worked out with pen and paper, just as algorithms can be thought and reasoned about that way.
The JVM is less dynamic in its ability to reload code, but the payoff is that java code can be 10-100x faster than smalltalk code. I personally think the performance gain is worth it. Hotspot has some limited support for hot code reloading, which is a pre-requisite to being able to "code in your debugger", but it's limited enough that I don't bother with it. Alternatively, you can code in a dynamic language on the JVM such as JRuby or Clojure and have full support for "coding in the debugger". These languages are also a lot slower than Java.
I've tried a couple of other introductions to building a programming language and this is hands down the best. The care and attention to detail that has gone into this book are incredible. Thank you @munificent.
It's interesting to see the path towards increasingly sophisticated question in --> answer out. The way people do this is with dialogue, but that doesn't fit as easily into standard supervised learning with an easy-to-collect dataset.

If you asked me "What's a good restaurant nearby?" I wouldn't answer with a list of restaurants, I'd say "What kind of food do you feel like?" Seems like we aren't even working our way in that direction. Maybe the sample complexity of RL and language modeling needs to come down a ton first.
I do.

As long as the hardware has been tested, and the software update tested on different hardware, then as long as the test hardware and my hardware are nominally the same, and as long as the software has basic "self test the basics of every component on startup", then I don't see a reason to do more tests.
US car sales down for most (but not all) brands YTD 2019
This is poor reporting and possibly poor science. It's not enough to say that it will vanish. We need to know on what timescale it will vanish. I suspect that it will last at least several centuries at current extraction rates. Several hundred years from now, the climate may be completely different, energy might extremely cheap, new continental water distribution might be constructed, etc.
If I were writing it, I might start with a physical interpretation of alpha as a blend of transmission and reflection of light (it basically does this) but emphasizing that has to be actual luminance, which RGB isn't. I'm not even sure I'd add a whole lot of content as rearrange it so the role of linearity in blending was closer to the top.
I don't.

Always a good time to reference an essay that influenced me a lot: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
For me it’s easy to accept that climate change is happening but predicting what will unfold in the next 30-50 years seems nearly impossible. Humans have historically been bad at predicting what will happen even 20-30 years in the future. The media is even worse (https://skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s-in...). Articles can be found from at least the sixties predicting the end of the earth in X years due to climate change. Can you really blame people for being skeptical given what they’ve been told over the years? On top of that, climate change isn’t the only existential threat that humanity faces. How do you rank its importance, and thus the level of focus and resourcing it gets, relative to other threats? I understand that we shouldn’t do nothing. I also understand that some of the extreme climate change proposals likely over estimate the magnitude of the problem.