skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing the shape of the slope needed now and comparing it to the shape we have needed in e.g. 2000 and knowing the current political climate in the U.S. makes me very pessimistic that the 2 deg limit will be achieved, and knowing how dramatic e.g. 4 degrees or more are going to be, I doubt anybody can expect much “progress”. More some medieval developments.

The current estimate is +3.2 deg in 2100, but it still assumes that the current actions progress:

https://climateactiontracker.org/global/temperatures/
>can arguably be credited for VHS winning over BetaMax

This is something that is always mentioned, but sometimes I wonder if it is not a myth, or a simple exaggeration or simplification.
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Even feature phones ten years ago were pretty capable and MS and Nokia had plenty of smart phones priced at feature phone prices back in the day. I used to work in Nokia when they were still the biggest phone manufacturer.

A cheap phone does not have to be lacking in features. Mostly the reason we don't see them a lot in the west is because manufacturers prefer to sell you a more expensive phone. It's that simple. Operators and manufacturers conspire to keep these thing out of the market because they want to sell more expensive products.

What's happening elsewhere is that the competition elsewhere is heating up for the rest of the world. For the last decade that market was dominated by landfill Android and a multitude of cheap rip offs and legacy products. E.g. Nokia kept milking S30 well into this decade and there might still be a few variants that they are selling. The original version of that dates back to the early nineties.

Before they sold their phone business, Nokia had big plans for bringing linux to feature phones and they had a platform in advanced stages of development before they layed off the entire unit. They actually had two different linux platforms, meego for smartphones, which did launch publically before killing it off and Meltemi (internal code name) which they never launched. Meltemi was intended for cheap phones (replacing the S40 platform, not Symbian in case you confused that with S60) and based on QT/QML and linux running on cheap hardware. S40 was actually a quite capable system and effectively the money maker for Nokia.

The Meltemi strategy is basically what is happening now almost a decade later in the form of SailOS, KaiOS and other linux based platform trying to fill the gap left by a mostly indifferent Google and Apple when it comes to low end platforrms. Apple simply does not sell to poor people and Google isn't much better. They like talking about it but it's an after thought in their platform strategy.

Samsung tried pushing Bada (basically an evolved Meego) for a while. LG had WebOS and there have been a few more. The problem with all of these (and Nokia) is that electronics manufacturers are not great at developing software. Apple is a lone exception and arguably they are a software developer that happens to produce hardware instead.
It does stop for me.
I wonder if there's a consumer perception around big file sizes for expensive software, e.g. they're getting more for their money.

The commercial 3D programs bundle a lot, including: extensive documentation, video training, example files, material/light databases, example textures and assets, 3rd-party software (e.g. additional renderers). Arguably those things do provide value.
Sometimes it’s basically that the person in charge of fixing it didn’t. A year ago one of the fixes for a widespread remote execution flaw was to see if the user agent was curl.
its because google wants exclusive access to your browsing data.
Whats wrong with a pseudo-random number generator? You start the universe with 1 million random bits and then just iterate your function on them. How would we detect repetition at the 2^1 mil level? Maybe the universe would repeat itself after a while, but how would we know?

Superdeterminism also plays nicely with the simulation hypothesis. You seed the virtual machine with some randomness and the physical laws and then you run the simulation.
There are still several bits of data, like plugin support, touch support, platform, language, screen size, and timezone, that have to be actively manipulated if you want to reduce the likelihood of unique tracking.
Elephants' computational machinery look almost exactly like ours, except much larger. I can measure the thermodynamic properties of any rock's machinery and conclude with certainty it has no familiar intelligence. The only thing elephants have against them is they don't have technological civilization and just sort of bumble around, but so did Socrates. To me it remains an open question.
The article mentions this:

> A June executive order signed by Trump requires all federal agencies to slash a third of their independent advisory committees by September 30, with the goal of ultimately reducing the total number of such committees to no more than 350 from about 1,000 now.

That indicates that Trump is directly responsible for these events. How is that politicizing?
In case anyone is in need of immediate assistance, Experts Exchange is still working (make sure to include the dash.)
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What are the best practices when advising IT? iAm and SSO and windows authentication stuff are strange other worlds to this firmware dweeb
They seem to address the question of at what point animals become part human and what that entails ethically but what about the reverse? Do we ethically become any less human when we have animal parts?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessmen...

This is like when Gingrich killed OTA to make room for lobbyists and consultants to run roughshod. Guarantee this is going to lead to a fat contract for someone
My goodness you are a crazy person
How does that factor in with locked-down platforms like iOS? Can you effectively fingerprint one of those devices?
I think the same thing every time I download it. I hope the Blender foundation is able to keep it that way, as things do tend to get more and more bloated over time.
One major change in 2.8 is that it defaults to left-click for selection. At least from my experience, right-click selection was the big thing that made Blender feel very alien to pick up.

You could change it before, but defaults matter a lot for new users.

EDIT: I just tested it and I might be misinformed on this. Either it's still RMB selection or I have an old config that it loaded.

EDIT2: Load factory settings put me on LBM select. Yay!
Z has very, very simple syntax. Weird, but simple. Here's how it works, function application is of the following form:

name argument

This was the explicit design of Smalltalk. (Also of the non-C parts of Objective-C.) Subject verb.

nameReference keyword: arg1 withArgs: arg2

The nameReference is the subject. The keyword:withArgs: is the verb.
Oof, I regret you posting this comment because I had to go look. Rampant litigation of gender pronouns, if me saying that saves someone else some time and brain melt.
Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video
From my experience people who are searching for something specific enjoy finding a tool specifically made for what they are looking for.
or it decomposes
It was TS's 2.0+ idea to stick to Stage 3 like glue. Especially prior to 1.0, but even during 1.x, TS implemented proposals in stages earlier to 3 (or even not yet staged). One of the regrets you sometimes hear from TS devs is that they added decorators way too early (it's still not Stage 3 and increasingly likely if it ever hits Stage 3 it will look very different, and it may never hit Stage 3 because there is a bunch of opposition), even though that is behind an "experimental" flag, there's a huge amount of "Production" code written with decorators in Typescript. (Largely thanks to the Angular ecosystem that became hugely dependent on decorators.)
Perhaps. There's two problems:

(1) The current system in the West is rights based. First person to make productive use of water gets the right to use that water forever. It's an odd system, but it's basically land-ownership for water resources. It's easy to see the flaws in the system.

(2) You have to invent a new system. It's a fun thought exercise, but there are a lot of things to consider. The environment needs water. Should a farm making productive use of water have to pay as much per unit as an urban household using it to water a lawn? Lot's of considerations. Now that you've done that, you have to get the law changes across the entire West. The entrenched interests will lobby energetically against the change. The people who would benefit probably aren't paying enough attention to care. So the change loses.
Personality matters more in your job interview than you might think
A political appointee appointed by Trump cut the committee. It's not politicizing, its just fact.
this is an excellent scam and like ten levels higher than moving your kid into a crappy high school senior year to qualify for similar assistance.
> The current scene is that most people don't know what the real difference between arrow and function notations

That's hard to believe unless you're working on the most amateur of teams.

There's a point where you have to expect people to understand the most basic concepts of the language/tools they're hired to use. This shouldn't require more than a simple 5min pull-aside of the junior developer.

Also, you can't change function(){}'s dynamic scope without breaking the web, which is a major downside for your suggested upside of developers not having to learn the distinction. function(){} was always confusing from day one. ()=>{} is a move back toward intuitiveness.
There are also a ton of CLI tools to generate TOTP if thats what you're using authy for.

https://github.com/WhyNotHugo/totp-cli
I’m really happy to see this. There are so many segments that could benefit from Blender’s non-existing cost of entry that were running into too much friction with the user interface and general oddities of it’s interaction models, and this may help bridge that gap.
Anecdotal, but many of them end up in the Bay Area (my dad is one of them).
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The human brain has, what, about 7 registers in medium term memory?
This is an ad, but they're not wrong.

At my work, we use Azure ML Studio. I think the solution for deployment is to run some scripts to save the model information to git and automatically deploy from there. It will take a little bit of effort to set up, but I think it should work.
If you try to find out which are tainted by speculating about the wishes of the thinkers, you are merely making
a fool of yourself. You must first find out on purely logical grounds which of them do, in fact, break down as arguments. Afterwards, if you like, go on and discover the psychological causes of the error.

- C.S. Lewis
I don't think that's fair. The majority of the book is a straightforward history of money that doesn't accept received wisdom. Near the end, the author's more anarchist leanings color the narrative. The last two chapters are not as informative, but that doesn't mean one should discount the majority of the book.

A few takeaways I have from that book:
1) In rural/traditional societies, debt (measured and stored in people's heads) and other reciprocal social obligations were enough to run an economy. Simple example: you give your neighbor some grain when the harvest comes, and you neighbor repairs your tools the whole year long. The classic economy-textbook idea that we invented currency so we don't have to barter with the goods we produce has never been observed in history.
2) Governments induce the creation of currency. Any government can change the currency by requiring the repayment of taxes in that new currency. Often this is for the purposes of paying armies.
3) Traveling merchants need to use currency because they can't rely on social obligations at each place along where they travel. Money allows anonymity.
There's continuing scientific inquiry into determining how much of Kenyan and Ethiopian dominance (specifically, dominance by members of the Kalenjin tribe) in long-distance running is due to genetic factors. However, the point still stands that genetics are certainly a factor, by an amount that is unknown (and possibly unknowable given how hard it is to design interventional experiments). There is no scientific debate on this front that I'm aware of. For example, here's an article published in 2012 that summarizes research (and controversies) surrounding the genetic component of distance running: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/wh...

The abstract to which you linked points out that "Kenyan and Ethiopian distance-running success is not based on a unique genetic or physiological characteristic." That seems like a strawman, as I don't think anyone ever claimed that any single characteristic or gene has been making all the difference. The abstract calls out "favorable somatotypical characteristics lending to exceptional biomechanical and metabolic economy/efficiency." Sure, but how much of these characteristics and exceptionally favourable response to training and living at altitude is potentiated by genetics? The answer of "none" would be an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence.

> You say "would not be expected to be" because, of course, no-one has actually done this experiment and no-one knows what would actually happen. Nor indeed would we be able to verify that any given individual from the Netherlands does in fact lack the putatively relevant genes, since we don't know what they are.

I'm not aware of any interventional study that, say, separates high-altitude-native twins so that one twin grows up at low altitude but with everything else being equal. That sounds completely impractical. However, there exists observational evidence from human migrations to and from high altitude. Some examples:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4201282/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17329275

Finally, to address your earlier comment that "all we really know is that - not surprisingly - people who grow up at high altitudes tend to use oxygen a bit more efficiently than people who don't," this is a grossly inaccurate summary of scientific understanding of the multiple examples of convergent evolution that have produced genetically altitude-adapted populations in Kenya/Ethiopia, the Andes, and Tibet.
"Smartphone" was originally a Microsoft coinage intended to refer to devices running Windows Mobile, which were in many ways closer to modern smartphones than to feature phones: they had large (for the day) touch screens, could run sophisticated apps like a Web browser or a cut down version of Office, etc.

"Feature phones" were at one point the high end of a carrier's phone lineup, as they offered features, such as music playback, a camera, or WAP internet access, that a basic phone did not. Usually they could only run very limited applications, written in things like Java ME, that were available for sale through your cell carrier. When the iPhone was released, feature phones became the new low end. (Pre-iPhone smartphones were quite rare, usually being carried by on the go execs and the like.)
I find this article more compelling than Yossi's article: http://blog.shippable.com/our-journey-to-microservices-and-a...

Yossi's comes off extremely pretentious, without really explaining why people consider multi-repo projects to begin with.
Why are the downvotes confusing? You are making completely unsubstantiated claims.
If you experience a build lasting more than six hours, seek rockstar ninja help immediately.
Stick to tutorials from the same 2.x line and there aren't many UI changes. They've had betas and release candidates for 2.8 for a while now, so there's already a pretty good body of tutorials available.

Outdated tutorials aren't totally useless, since they'll still give you an idea of how to approach a modeling problem. But the UI won't match what you're working in, so I certainly wouldn't recommend them for trying to learn the software.
How do you cancel promises?
Project Zero also regularly publishes on flaws in Google's own products. Check out https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com: they do a fair amount of reports on Chrome, ChromeOS, Android, etc.
Yes, as it says in the article. The tag returns a class that's an instance of SQLQuery. All the @databases clients only accept SQLQuery instances and don't accept strings. This means you get a runtime error if you're using JavaScript, and a type error at build time if you're using TypeScript.
> So, that 30% cost is really just the price

That's wildly inaccurate. It's easily disprovable: Apple's costs aren't proportional to the pricing of software sold through it's stores. Does your refrigerator maker charge you as 30% premium on groceries stored in the fridge, or are there limitations on what groceries you can stock there?

The app store is wildly profitable, and Apple admits as much. While I have no objection to profits, we're all here discussing the issue because it's a tool used to unfairly thwart competition, impose monopolistic & unfair trade practices, which is why the EU and supreme Court, and possibly FTC are all involved in various complaints against Apple. If your fridge maker isn't allowed to regulate your groceries, Apple shouldn't be arbitrarily blocking and price gouging apps on their platform.
I really love the Ruby naming conventions around this: `!` indicates mutation.

2.4.1 :001 > a = [4,3,5,1,2]
=> [4, 3, 5, 1, 2]
2.4.1 :002 > a.sort
=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
2.4.1 :003 > a
=> [4, 3, 5, 1, 2]
2.4.1 :004 > a.sort!
=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
2.4.1 :005 > a
=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
I wonder what kind of infrastructure they had set up to find these vulnerabilities and extract names of classes and methods. Do they jailbreak iPhones and run fuzzers directly on the device? Do they analyze IPSWs directly?

Edit: and explains how to set up tooling to test these components. I'll wait for the BlackHat slides.
I got this email too
I still get failing marks in FF testing on panopticlick.eff.org with that set, though?
I always liked how thepiratebay.org seemed to make that tracking really transparent. Visit that site on a machine and observe the advertising. It’s not the deep shadow fingerprint we evolved into. But it’s something that has informed me over the years.

Just visited on my mobile and didn’t get the same effect. It was different back in the day.
This might be a dumb question as someone who isn't a pro on this topic but isn't it really simple to just log the IP of the request for the article and meter it based on IP instead of cookies, browser fingerprinting, or however they are doing it now? Won't that solve like 99.9% of the problem? I would imagine the amount of people that will rotate IPs just to read free articles is exceptionally small.

I suppose that might pose an issue with shared IPs at offices, for example. Also might cause a minor issue with people in the same household trying to read articles on the same site. But seems like a vast improvement over nothing at all, no?
We're going back to a time in America (ie Making America Great Again) when the lights are candles and that cough just doesn't go away if we keep this up. MURICA!
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I'm guessing here but the price of currencies or anything else tends to get set by supply and demand. According to Wikipedia at the time:

>The wars waged by Louis XIV left the country completely wasted, both economically and financially. The resultant shortage of precious metals led to a shortage of coins in circulation, which in turn limited the production of new coins.

So there may have been a short supply of money especially the metal variety. Someone selling say grain may have taken paper money representing not much silver because there were no alternative buyers with bags of silver available.

Bitcoin also trades for a lot despite not having much value because some people want them and there aren't many available.
I 100% agree with the premise of this, I certainly attest to run tracking being a critical component of my own personal model development/training/tuning pipeline. Not sure how I feel about using yet another 3rd party data science platform though - it'd be nice if the run tracking piece was just a component I could import into my notebook, and have it automagically track things for me (like... how seamless tqdm is for showing progress bars while iterating over loops).

Regardless of my uncertainty around trying another 3rd party platform, the premise is spot on.
This depends on the degree. My computer science degree had CS classes all the way from freshman year, and I think the pre-requisite graph required at least 3 years, so the standard ‘2 years of core classes for an associates and then 2 years of degree-specific courses’ wouldn’t have worked well for people like me and it would have taken me 5+ years of relatively light classes to finish college with a degree rather than 4.5 (130+ credits required for my CS degree)
Hey! I just added some basic benchmark numbers in case it's useful: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthonynsimon/bild/master/...

This will hopefully also make performance regressions over time a bit more visible.
JavaScript was very simple compared to most languages. Adding a bunch of extra syntax variants, different types of scoping rules, magic syntax has made the language overly complex. Thankfully you can still use the "good parts".
23andme will let you download a zip file of your sequence data. But if I recall the data had only about 4 million nucleotides. So I assumed that I need to get their "baseline" human full genome somewhere and my file is just the difference.

But the above assumption can't be correct given that it still costs $1000 for a full sequence according the the parent article. Can anyone clarify ?
> allowed us to test a previously untestable hypothesis

So it is testable now? Is everyone here using the word "untestable" in the same way, i.e. "untestable today with the current state of the art, but it might be tomorrow" vs. "untestable ever, as a principle, even with perfect tech"
I feel like you're mentioning forward compatibility instead of backward compatibility. ES5 code should run fine in ES6 AFAIK, and that's the extend of backward compatibility that should ever be needed. I haven't touched node all that much, and I'm in the camp that while it's good to just write one language everywhere, javascript still exhibits many of the key features of a browser language, which makes running it locally 'unnatural'. Same with trying to get python to run in a browser, maybe we should just embrace that we need to learn more languages as that is generally the case for us software engineers.
Other security updates released on the same day last week caused Macs to kernel panic every time they went to sleep [0]. Apple software quality is not what it should be, and hasn't been for quite some time.

[0]: https://eclecticlight.co/2019/07/24/dont-apply-high-sierra-s...
The interface overhaul is a huge accomplishment.

I suspect adoption will grow considerably. The previous interface conventions were unusual and clumsy, and were the primary barrier for those curious about switching packages.

I switched to Blender after using the beta for several months. I have put thousands of dollars into licenses for Modo and Maya over the years. I would much rather put that into Blender donations, now that I can actually use it. The things a good user interface team can do.
And some people believe that making a tulpa is just intentionally giving yourself a mental disorder.