skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, the information from the 1989 AP article is correct. I believe we are well past the point where anthropomorphic climate change is stoppable. All we can do is reduce the impact.

It's clear from the article's text that the statement was not that the predicted problems would occur by 2000, since "UNEP is working toward forming a scientific plan of action by the end of 1990" would give an absurdly short timeline.

It says "The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, said Brown."

Conveniently, that was 30 years ago. I went to https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/ . In 1989 the temperature anomaly was about +0.25°C. It's currently +0.82°C. A change of 0.57°C is just over 1°F. As predicted by the most conservative estimate.

I have been unable to find the report. The only people who talk about that newspaper article appear to be climate change denialists, who don't link to the actual report, and misread the article to believe that there's a prediction of a 3 foot sea rise by 2000.

The late 1980s is when the majority of scientists - and associated people like Isaac Asimov, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfB7Hzb7G2Q - were convinced of the evidence of global warming and its potential problems.

That built upon earlier work. Eg, "In 1982, Exxon's environmental affairs office circulated an internal report to Exxon's management which said that the consequences of climate change could be catastrophic, and that a significant reduction in fossil fuel consumption would be necessary to curtail future climate change. It also said that "there is concern among some scientific groups that once the effects are measurable, they might not be reversible." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_cont...
> The problem with implementing these taxes are political; people with vested interests will argue long and hard against any new taxes.

Why not have these taxes and also have subsidies that cancel them? At least you're naming the problem then, which would be a great step forward.

> and any working solution needs to be global.

I suppose you could introduce import taxes to solve this problem.
What's wrong with putting plastic in landfills?
Is coffee production polluting?
What is the number breakdown?
Is there a standalone client based on pdfium ?
It's disingenuous to refer to their relationships as merely dating, when they have lasted for more than a decade. And when it's not dating, you don't really have a point.
it will additionally incentivise AC manufacturers to find more carbon-efficient ways of cooling.
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> pkg upgrade @person-a/some-package

"You're on the latest version 1.2.3 of @package-a/some-package, however @person-a has officially transferred ownership of some-package to @person-b and there is a newer version 1.2.4 available at @person-b/some-package. If you'd like to upgrade, please update your dependency to @person-b/some-package"
What is the current status of medical tourism in Kenya?
The simplest explanation is that it's 'acceptable' to be trans in 2019. Plastic didn't make people gay, but the gay population increased in the mid to late 1900s just as the trans population is increasing now.

There aren't just the social factors with coming out, but also the education around being being trans. Some people live their entire lives not knowing and only find out after watching youtube, meeting people in the community, or going to therapy (which is also becoming more commonplace and acceptable). The stigma attached to trans people as mentally unwell 'others' prevented people from even considering it for most of their lives.

Also, I do not believe there is an unbalance of trans woman to trans men. Trans women are more controversial (bathrooms) than trans men, which puts them in a public spotlight. Trans women often present themselves as stereotypical women, and if they've not fully medically/surgically transitioned yet, it makes them easy to pick out in a crowd. Trans men, on the other hand, wear men's clothes, which happen to be gender neutral if worn casually. They are often seen as 'butch' women if not fully transitioned, not trans men. You oftentimes probably wouldn't notice or identify trans men when you see them.

Disclaimer: I'm a trans woman.
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It uses custom google build systems that are difficult to use independent of a chromium build. Last time I tried I was unable to get it to build.

It's not packaged as far as I can tell separately from chromium and chromium doesn't ship it as a reusable library. Not sure if it has a stable interface, probably not.

It doesn't have any frontend other than chromium.
A bit of a tangent, I went to the Pompeii exhibition in the British museum and having seen the goat statue thought that Romans were not "just like us"
By selling a bond before maturity, you're open to price fluctuations of the bond. It's not that the investor is exiting early, it's that by exiting early he is no long guaranteed the yield of the bond when he purchased it. Thurs, the yield is not "risk-free", and the risk is that the price moved in the market.
Terrible article. "Scientists have invented a new thing which could (i.e. doesn't yet) power drones, and houses and space ships and cars, and computers and ..... (10 paragraphs later). Oh btw it works by adding a mirror or something. The end."
In higher end they are marginal next to Tesla share. Low end, Nissan, VW and BMW gained some foothold simply by entering it earlier than Tesla with model 3.
How is it cynical? If something, it's wholesome to see people make nontraditional things work for them.
It is more illustrative that it is inconvenient to type in the HN commento box from mobile.
That is actually what I thought this OpenPDF thing was.

I feel that the name is very unfortunately chosen - it's too generic, should have had a "J" in it at least to denote that it is a Java library. JOpenPDF, perhaps.
That's just a normal environment that most middle class people who use debit/credit cards are already used to.
The woman profiled in the article would get in her car and _drive_ her recyclables to other towns that had programs for them?
Not much. The high level view is like this:

Burning fossil fuels -> CO₂ emissions -> Climate change -> Widescale ecosystem collapse, people dying.

Disposable plastics under open sun -> Microplastics -> Unknown damage to the whole foodchain -> Possibly (we don't have good data to work off), widescale ecosystem collapse, people dying.

These two issues are frequently conflated together, to the detriment of the overall discussion. But it is true that they both ultimately are results of the same failures of market-based economy. If you do root cause analysis on both, you'll end up in the same place. But since it's (AFAIU) unpractical to address the root cause directly, we need to consider which of the two problems to focus on; I'd argue we should focus on the emissions first.
The biggest thing will be changing their thinking. See The Challenger Sale. If they don't want to do security properly, then they will lose trust with their customers and go out of business. Economic Darwinism.
Disagree with maintenance: electric motors are enormously simpler than ICE, and really well understood. Removing high temperatures, fuel, lubrication and exhaust from the system is a huge advantage.

Agree on digital scrapheap, although this applies to a lesser extent to ICE vehicle too. We should be demanding open sourcing of car code after warranty expires.
To be fair I think it depends on the kind of person you are. I'm pretty happy with the person I'm with, but ultimately if I didn't have her I'd probably have someone else and that's fine too.

Not to mention, in the nicest way I can put this, I don't really see how any relationship can last forever. I don't mean this as a criticism of my partner, I'm genuinely very happy with her, but I'm also well aware of just how much I change over time.
Previous discussion (on seemingly geo-blocked link) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2284007
In Germany you pay a deposit of 0,25 € for your plastic bottle of water, which you get back when you return it empty in the supermarket. The empty bottle gets shredded, not sure where it ends up, though. This could be probably be extended to other kinds of plastic.
I do not think it is trivial to prove at compile time that an a comparison operator is correct: I think you need a fancy type system for that. Asserting correctness at runtime is of course possible, but it has non trivial cost. Most std libraries provide a debug mode that will catch these sort of issues.
I don't know why you think this is a part of some conspiracy.

Knowing about more types of relationships is extremely useful for designing software. It helps to avoid baking in assumptions about relationship status and the implications thereof.
Direct Air Capture can pull carbon out of the atmosphere for ~$200 per tonne. Flying generates about 0.1 tonne per passenger-hour. We can make flying carbon neutral and it'd only be ~20% more expensive.
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WebRTC connectivity is challenging (a free video course)
And we found out that they interpreted the law wrong.
GH pages are not trade, neither computer communication or services. "Following the law" should first require to read and understand the law, not blindly blocking everything.
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Volkswagen might do well in electrics, but that remains to be seen. Personally it'll take a while for the dieselgate stench to leave that company, at least for me. (I don't care so much about the actual emissions, for me it showed the contempt they have for their customers.)
> It's possible that Tokyo is an example where due to the high density of people / restaurants, the "economy of scale" takes over and makes good food much cheaper.

I don't think it's just Tokyo, you get this all across Europe too. I think there might be an economy of scale just in the fact that almost everyone in Japan/Europe buys fresh food as the primary component of their diet.

I live in the UK, and the idea that you could live somewhere where there isn't a local (aka walking distance) grocery store or supermarket that sells reasonably priced fresh produce is completely alien to me (if you live a rural area, then I suppose you might have to drive, but then you would need to do that to get to any shop at all).
I find it interesting that you assume true love requires someone to prefer to live together.

I didn't find the article cynical at all - on the contrary there were stories of several couples who had found a way of being happy and staying in lasting relationships that worked for them despite differences that might have driven them apart if they'd tried to compromise enough to live together.

How is finding ways of making love work for you "part of some cynical narrative" just because it doesn't fit the conventional pattern?

A more positive reading would be that the article shows that love finds a way.
Your second point equally applies to ICE cars and EVs.
Hong Kong protestors deal with tear gas
Reducing overpopulation is a solution, not a very popular one.
Earth can sustain 20 billion humans that live a vegan lifestyle and use virtual reality instead of travelling as mentioned by Martin Reese during a talk at the Long Now foundation not too long ago.²

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² i belive it was this event http://longnow.org/seminars/02019/jan/14/prospects-humanity/
That code doesn't match what actually happens. It will only trim a single character. Have asterisks been trimmed in your copy-paste or something?
We have actually solved a lot of problems like that through ecological and other regulations. Just from the top of my head:

- worst pesticides (DDT)

- sulfate aerosols from coal

- CFCs

- chloride based plastics

- asbestos and dust

- leaded gasoline

- heavy metals

- nuclear non-proliferation

We have also made strides in monitoring our environment.

So it might look like lots of doomsday predictions, but the reason why these didn't pan out was that humans actually put the work in to prevent that from happening.
Actually the dairy industry contributes a fair amount of the total CO2 production as well: http://www.fao.org/3/k7930e/k7930e00.pdf
So Gaussian curvature reuses the words "convex" and "concave" to mean things entirely different from the everyday/lens usage?
With every revision of the C++ standard Boost becomes both less hairy and less necessary.

The direction of the language is towards greater cleanliness and consistency.
cannot make sense of this library. whats this for?
We've been doing that. However, we have been selecting particularly for obedience which limited their intelligence.

We don't want actually a dog that is super-intelligent but just one that is funny, protective and smart-enough.
not to mention you can have a middle ground with a curated list and an open repository - think arch user repository
Neat.

This feels quite a bit like Vert.x from the Java world, which flows data between components via an event bus.

Noob python question: does Python support reactive extensions and chaining? That would fit well on top of this too.
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New weather satellite composite covering whole world, which is super-fast
Ah jeez, must have rained again
What will the certification process for the next plane from Boeing look like?

The FAA certified a plane that had obvious flaws. From what I understand they out sourced the certification process to Boeing but that doesn't remove their responsibility, it's still their "stamp". The real certification process started after the accidents and only needed a few weeks to find additional flaws. I'd assume the process is normally months long so "a few weeks" would be finding it early.

But why should I trust the FAA? They seem to be working hard now projecting an image of a for-the-people agency while throwing as much dirt as they can on Boeing but I haven't really seen anything addressing their own problems with out sourcing, corruption, and political interference.

Have I missed something?
It reduces confidence because warez is associated with running cracked software of which you don't know exactly what was modified/added/etc.
MSVC also does interator validation and bounds checking in debug mode, alongside its macro based contracts.

Some things are actually more productive in MS land for security conscious coding. A nice side effect from all those Windows 9X exploits.
Ha I also navigate here

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ngosang/trackerslist/maste...

And paste the list in my torrent app. The above list updates daily or so, so just by visiting it you get the latest and greatest.
I have all my best ideas while riding my bike. It’s mental exercise of a different sort.
no container for paper?
There's already plenty of open source implementations of PDF parsing: Ghostscript, MuPDF, XPDF, Poppler, Pdfium, just to name the first few that come to mind.
I think you don't actually disagree with Chomsky. This is what you'd expect (1) shifting resources from the public sector to the private sector and (2) financializing the economy because a corporation is by design oriented towards short-term profits and highly trained workers such as mathematicians and physicists are being tied up in finance.
I feel like this is only part of a wider attack - like by causing this not to download, it meant that users do some other action which opens them up to the real attack.
Netflix may want to be a small fish in a big pond but its spend makes it a very large fish in a very small pond.

This means that its problems are addressed first regardless of what kind of general rules the "cloud" has. One can see it everywhere -- the larger and the bigger the customer the more important it is.
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Anyone can be part of ISO process, you just need to write a paper for your change and be willing to champion it, or find supporter to champion it for yourself.

https://isocpp.org/std/the-life-of-an-iso-proposal
Did you point with your fingers or just talked. That would be really amazing if you just talked without finger-pointing as that would require more guess-work from the dog.

I don't think the dog understands exactly what you are saying but they are doing guess-work and trying to please. I had a puppy that I was trying to potty-train outside the apartment.

It didn't go very well. Until one time I'm back home and I found out she did it near the sofa. I screamed. She became quite disciplined after that. She guessed that potty-location is very important and something she has to care about.
As someone who has written comparison functions in C++ (probably incorrectly), yes, this would have been a godsend.

Similarly, recent-ish innovations like std::move and std::unique_ptr may look complicated at first, but they genuinely made life a lot easier.
Holy. Good Story...
Having experienced the few last summers at 80% humidity and 32oC+, i can say from my experience that the extreme is becoming the norm now. In fact i am enjoying it right now, and it has just rained half an hour ago!
Seems to be pubsub for asyncio.
Actually recently the C++ standardisation has become significantly more open. Anyone can submit papers and attend meetings (attendance has skyrocketed in the last few years), only full members and national bodies can participate on formal votes, but every body participates in informal votes.

The biggest issue is that the language is first defined by a standard and there are multiple implementations, which makes it much harder to iterate, and, as it is hard to get any moderately complex proposal through, often you can see the lack of an overall unified design.

I do believe that c++ lacks a strong benevolent dictator figure. Stroustup abdicated his position probably too early.
Depends what you care about. If you're writing apps it shouldn't.
Not when you don't have a choice _not_ to use one.
A factory may put in batteries to prevent the cost of demand/surge power.

An apartment depending of where it is may put in batteries if it is in a location where power sagging/failures happen often.

Remember the entire world is not North America or Europe.
That’s pretty neat!

I’ve used Redis in the past for lightweight pub/sub and zeromq for IPC before we had adopted Python 3 (and I left that job before then). I hated juggling threads and queues before that and then having to run Redis just to run your program was a pain.

The syntax looks similar enough to both of those to get started quickly and easily.

I’ve been writing Go so much I don’t know how much this is “needed” in Python but the examples using context managers ring the “it’s Pythonic” bell.
It's the usually game of MPUs becoming cheaper or more stuffed for the same price because the demand allows to manufacture bigger batches, and the demand is to allow more portability by the means of more stuffed MPUs that allow more abstractions...

But it's a miniature of the same tragedy as Node.js applications that consume ten times the resources needed just because it allows people to do more with more... In a logarithmic way.
C++ isn't my favourite language but it does have a special place in my heart. It wasn't the first programming language I learnt (that was Visual Basic) but it was the first language I did something serious with that was used by other people.

It has been a few years since I did any C++. I looked into it when C++11 came out and it was very much like a new language with foundations of the old language I both loved and hated. Since then I haven't had a need to use it. However I have a few little side projects I want to work on and C++ would be a fine choice for most of them so perhaps I will sit down sometime and get myself acquainted with the newer standards.

Side note: I was gifted a copy of Professional C++ by Gregoire a few months ago so if anyone reading this has read the 4th edition it would be nice to know if this is a good book to get myself up to speed again or if I should look elsewhere :)
Forestry in the Congo
I realize it's only one anecdotal datapoint, but my 4.5 year old electric LEAF has literally never the dealership or any other mechanic since delivery and all I've had to do is charge it, add washer fluid, plug a tire leak, and change the wiper blades once.

I think that a fleet of 10 electric cars owned over 10 years is likely to cost less than half in maintenance costs than a comparable fleet of 10 ICE cars over 10 years.
https://www.fos.org.au/custom/files/docs/ccmc-special-report...

Quote:

"Indigenous Australians are around twice as likely as non-Indigenous Australians to be financially excluded –that is, to lack access to appropriate and affordable banking services and products. "

Too often, Australian Aborigines lack proof of identity:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/aborigines-lack-proof-of-ide...

"MANY Victorian Aborigines are barred from obtaining a driver's licence, voting, opening a bank account and receiving social security benefits because their births were never registered and they officially don't exist."

"The sharing of devices leads to insecure banking, causing some to avoid online banking and Centrelink accounts altogether."

Just one more in a grand litany of incidents where Australian Aborigines are excluded from the society that stole the land from them ..
If I understand correctly, 2 is a problem
of how already existing torrents were created. But if we, say, somehow could convert all torrents to [{pathname, hashes:[...]}] of 64k 0-padded blocks? (Not zero-pad blocks on a wire, only hash this way.) If such tech were seen as useful, it seems that clients only need to rehash contents once, save a map to original torrent and let data go, sort of a backwards-compatible upgrade step.

Ed: seen your edit, will read later, thanks for your thoughts on this.
"That little box shown in the photo will never work unless they give it a way to expel the heat in excess"

So, what I'm hearing here is that in the future, fashions will incorporate massive shoulder pads with fins and spikes, and large metal cat ears to cool the head mounted equipment.

Anime had it right all along!
It seems a bit of a grand scheme of Prisoner's Dilemma. "If other people just drive less cars, I'll be able to keep driving mine. No, I won't quit driving mine, you quit yours, cuz I important!"

Driving cars is just an example, the other ones being flying less, procreating less, eating less meat.
If you remove dotted predictions from your comic it suggests the temperature increase in the last 2000 years is about 0.3 - 0.4 Celsius degrees (also supported here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature...). This is pretty stable and is not matching past fluctuations, which are more accurately depicted here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature....

Another thing is that we're assuming that the current climate conditions on earth are becoming less optimal, which is unsupported. The current climate might actually be better. There are many examples, both negative but also positive, of the climate change.
Thank you.. you're correct, but there are some nuances.
The defacto status is a qualitative status.

My statement of 6 months is incorrect: it is two years of cohabitation, unless there is a child, or other circumstances.

In regards to splitting assets, there is no hard and fast rule: meaning it could slice either way.

https://www.armstronglegal.com.au/family-law/defacto/