skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don’t you do the research yourself and find out? Unless you think you know the answers, in which case go ahead and cite your sources.

The truth is generally: humans have contributed to most of the warming since the beginning of the industrial revolution considering the near-doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere and that climate sensitivity is between 3.5 and 5.5°C. (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019...)

If humans disappeared tomorrow, three things would happen:

1. The surface of the planet would immediately warm by at least 1°C due to the lack of pollution-sourced atmospheric aerosols (such as sulfur) from planes, ships, coal plants, etc.

2. The temperature would decline, but do so very very slowly due to CO2 remaining in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. (https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/SPM1...) This is why some sort of long term geoengineering involving carbon removal will probably be necessary even after halting all emissions.

3. Wild plant and animal populations would immediately begin to recover as their native habitats re-grew.

And yes, I agree: Capitalism is the best system for destroying our natural environmental as efficiently as possible — what some would call “the externalized costs of economic growth”. This system has clearly proven itself unworkable. Sure, maybe with enough regulation we could have equilibrated capitalism within the bounds of our ecosystem, but those changes would have needed to been made decades ago. Now, no more time remains even for reform.
Cosmopolitan cities are full of people coming from around the world and making something greater than the sum of its parts.

Tourist destinations, though they're also full of people from around the world, make something less than the sum of its parts. Tourists in this mode don't bring their own culture to the place. I'm sure most of the tourists are interesting people back home, but for some reason they adopt a globalized extruded tourist persona on vacation.

For example, parts of Bali are full of Australian tourists. Bali is interesting, and Australians are interesting. But mobs of Australians picking over the gift shops in Bali are ghastly.
Did they mean expensive to produce, or an expensive price tag (or both)? The Volt was a good car, but it was a $17,000 premium over something like the Prius when it launched. Even with price cuts for later model years, it was still not an easy sell for a buyer focused on economy.

I think it would have sold a lot better if they had positioned it as a more upscale vehicle to match the asking price, or at least had given it some other value proposition beyond economy. I've never been able to figure out exactly who the target market for the Volt was.
> Python happily went along with it, used an uninitialized value

There is no such thing in Python. You should get NameError if a name doesn't refer to any object.

>>> def f():
... name
...
>>> f()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "<string>", line 2, in f
NameError: name 'name' is not defined
I actually started with Python, and ended up on PHP because of job changes in the last 2 years (my employer closed their satellite teams so I jumped to a local university. Turns out Drupal is huge in university land, and so PHP. Has not been a stellar experience. I think I had some pre-formed notion that I'd at least be working on more interesting problems, but alas).

I would love to get back to Python, but where I live I mostly see Java/C# job openings (I don't want to live in the Bay Area. My wife has health issues and its complicated to get her care set up again).

and I can't seem to find any places hiring remote Python devs (I did web backends in Python, for reference, not data science. I don't have a CS degree, so I feel timid trying to pushing into Data Science even though I'm a quite knowledgeable Python programmer. I still keep up with all the latest Python news and libraries even).

I'm torn on what to do next. I really would love writing Python full time again. Hell, I'd love to do just front-end web development full time even. I have so much more passion for either than I have writing PHP code. I feel like a glorified Forms creator. Nothing of remote interest is happening in PHP land for me.

When I wrote Python full time we did real-time networking and web back ends. Lots of websocket programming. Async/Await had just taken hold (I came up on Python 3.4 and by the time I was writing it full time we had updated to Python 3.6+). DataClasses was sooo exciting to me. I just miss that energy.

Now with static site generators becoming so vogue I can see all the potential in the world Python has to make the day to day web development experrience so good (IMO, its better at munging data than even gatsby is. Numpy, SciPy, etc. combined with a gatsby-like platform that normalizes all your data into consumable views would be mind blowing)

I know this is a bit of a rant, but I really miss that energy I had when I was living in Python all day. Things just made sense to me. And if I ever had a real performance bottleneck, I could always write a C extension.

Maybe I just need to job hunt better. Unforunately if I can't do C#/Java it needs to be remote work, and I don't feel like I meet the qualifications for any places that hire remote workers. They all want super engineers and I don't really know if I am one :(
Maybe EV isn't the answer. But there is opportunity for something else out there, because right now https is not living up to the "authentication" promise when you have Firefox, Chrome et al. kotau to company proxies and all kinds of dubious state CAs in the trust root.

That's before you get to the UI failures, where phishers can trivially get that lock for their microssoft.com domains.
It’s because the existing system is built around greed more than quality identity verification. I wouldn’t be able to verify the identity of someone in (ex:) India and, I assume, it’s just as hard for them to verify mine. Every time I’ve done verification for code signing I’ve dealt with someone who, IMHO, wasn’t qualified to verify my identity.

One of the worst experiences I had was getting docs notarized just to have the CA turn around and ask me to send them a list of notaries in my area so they could call the one I used.

The whole system is terrible and the margins are so huge that nothing will ever be fixed unless the CAs are forced to come up with something better.
I am just happy to see that debates on whether some programming language is awesome or the worst are still popular on HN.
How do you feel about the EQC?
Even though your website serves static pages, I don't think that's a good idea to hide all the contents when JavaScript is disabled... I'm surprised the "SEO analysts" did not notice that.
A joy to write and read. But a pain to debug and maintain. Coded a big project in Python once. When the project was still small everything was perfect. When the project grew it became unsustainable. Of course I was an already experienced C# dev, just getting started with Python but the problem is there. A whole lot of errors spilling to runtime is a big pain. But that's a problem with every dynamic language at variable levels.
Monster has negative connotations. The word he should have used, if an alternative to "Man" is needed, is "Marklar". No negative connotations, and is objectively even more fun than "Monster".
Already done in Poland.

https://reposti.com/i/m/0W.jpg
I find this strategy to be a huge bet on decentralized energy and desalination/ moisture collection never taking off? How can anyone seriously invest in this without the certainty that technology will not render this monopoly on a life-important good obsolete?
You can get a 2019 eGolf for about the same price. Dealers are willing to negotiate big time.

I got mine almost two months ago for 10k off msrp + state and federal.
Unfortunately, this is not so. The John Muir Trail has seen extremely rapid growth [1] in the number of thru-hikers (many of whom are first-time backpackers). It’s the same story for other popular “named” trails that become bucket-list items. There is a cap on the number of permits, but people skirt around those restrictions.

Maybe the solution is to develop additional long-distance hiking networks and increase the area of protected land in the US, realizing that the cost-benefit ratio of doing so is outrageously high.

[1] https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/images/jmtgraph_2.png
You can find video of MacKay's lectures covering parts of the book online. I'm more of a reader but I really enjoyed them. And the book is excellent.
Israel:

annual tuition of BA 2019: 10,289NIS

annual median salary 2018: 12*7,452NIS = 89,42NIS
Is it true that in England, the person sitting next to the driver IS the driver?

:)
They are fairly common in Massachusetts where they are called rotaries, which to me is much better than roundabout.

Some more recent signage uses the incredibly sterile and clunky "traffic circle," and I guess I would take roundabout over that if I had to.

All the same thing, just different names. I don't see them often outside the northeast though.
I once had a BevMo cashier in California ask me, “Massachusetts? Is that in Canada?”

Very little faith left.
Uber and Lyft: Unprofitable Powerhouses
I'd rather mark a function as "async" than to constantly do the mental gymnastics of whether a function is going to run synchronously or asynchronously, or even worse, always assuming that it'll run asynchronously and always have to deal with callbacks / triggers and the like just to get things to execute in order.
As much I dislike this form of tourist, it's actually more responsible then those trying to go "off the beaten path". They are sticking to infrastructure that is built to accommodate tourists instead of staying in Airbnbs and going to the "local" places that inevitably will cater to the tourists.

It's an easy parallel to going off the trail when hiking to get away from the crowds: it might not appear to be a problem on an individual scale but as more people do it the vegetation and fungal colonies are damaged, a new social path forms, more people are invited by the easier path and erosion becomes a problem. It clearly forms a feedback loop - the more people that come, the more others feel encouraged and invited, and the more that those on the "cutting edge" feel emboldened to go farther to escape the new crowds.

I was a digital nomad for awhile, too, but even after months in a place you are still a tourist. You are never really living like the locals do, even if you go to their bars and grocery stores.
I'm not reacting to you or attempting to dis-engage your view point .. I'm just saying, when electric is done properly and you use it as a daily, it really, really rocks. This may, or may not .. be an outlier to your point of view.

But truly, done properly, the end of ICE seems quite plausible.
I'd be really interested to see how the UI handled signposting for those handed-off functions, because I don't think the idea is inherently unwieldy, it just needs a good clear implementation.
For any given query there are thousands of people giving that same query with slightly or largely different intent and a universe of results that suit different portions of the users better or worse.

Reducing this to a singular desired result and "what google wants you to see" is absurd. Google still provides pretty good results for most things for most people. Pretending otherwise is a waste of breath.

Statistical matching results in platforms helping con artists find victims and helping crazy people spread their poisonous crazy. If you try to avoid noxious end results you will be accused of interfering. If you don't you will be declared complicit.

Where does the appropriate middle ground lie?
FWIW, I was actually, honestly wondering whether this is now an EU rule. Didn't know Sweden initiated this, good for you guys, obviously it's a fairly advanced society so one would expect a lot of the good EU ideas come from you. But I was merely wondering if it was just mimicked everywhere, or it is now a formal EU rule (I suspect the latter since unfortunately our politicians are not quick to adopt good ideas, unless said ideas are somehow forced on them)
Agreed. There is nothing remotely close in terms of depth and quality on off-mainstream supplements.

I suspect Google is really coming down on anything that might be construed as "alternative" medicine. Somehow Examine.com gets clubbed with the "just take essential oils to cure cancer" crowd
Are there any curated directories left? It seems like they were all killed off by search, but this sort of thing underscores that curation itself actually has value.
"I don't understand the glee, schadenfreude even."

Because he has personally been on the front line of the debate, been told by lots of people and entities with power in the relevant domain that he's wrong, and events are proving him right, at least in terms of his predictions about what would happen. Taking a bit of a victory lap is only human. I thought he was suitably discreet about it.

Separately, I think it there is improvement here, which is that the system is no longer claiming to be securing an element of the connection which it isn't really securing. Sometimes if you want to make progress you have to clear the fake solutions out of the way that are just sitting there creating the illusion the problem is solved, so that nobody tries a real solution. Personally I'd say that what we have right now does a good job of being what it is, it's just that there's a mismatch between what it is and what people thinks it is. This makes room for other potentially better solutions by helping to resolve that mismatch.

(In a nutshell, the system is good at asserting that you are speaking to someone who has convinced the world that they are capable of serving web requests issued using a particular domain name (I tried to write that carefully), and that nobody in the middle of that connection can intercept or modify the contents. We can now clearly see a problem in how we connect that legal entity to the domain name, without EV certificates sitting there pretending to solve that problem.)
> with the power to kill or support nearly any online business

Absolutely untrue. Almost every startup I've worked for considered search traffic to be negligible. I've also worked at a place where google traffic accounted for 70% of sales and they actually went out of businesses a few months after we dropped off the front-page, but there is no inherent reason why our company deserved the top spot any more than those that replaced us on the front-page.
DC fast charging is pretty fast to be fair. If you change your habits you likely wouldn't notice. Charge up while shopping or eating.
I chose the word carefully - the US is definitely, as you say, very cruel with immigration enforcement (due to all the reasons you pointed out), but it is not restrictive, due to the large legal immigration.

For example, if they allowed everyone in the world to immigrate, except for 10 guys, but they enforced the border using flamethrowers against those 10 guys, then they would be cruel, but not restrictive.

As for implying that you said the US was engaged in anything similar to genocide, that was not my intention either, sorry. The sentiment was more that, if you were to compare the US to Nazi Germany, then almost every other country would compare even closer (on the topic of immigration, at least).
Your replies are mostly hostile, sadly. The electric vehicle "future" has yet to identify how to handle this. The charging infrastructure is incredibly weak unless you have a garage with a charger installed. A lot of people rent or have a small plot of land w/o a garage and they park on the street.

The public charging infrastructure outside of California cities is weak. There are very few fast chargers, and the electric vehicles charge slow unless they're a Tesla.

The Chevy Bolt from GM? The fast charger is optional and is only 50kW. This means about 50 miles every 17 minutes. That's over an hour to refill the tank.

The rebuttal to how slow the public charging charging is is always "top off at home" and the rebuttal to no at home charging is always "public fast charging". Yet we see neither is doing well.
If they pull this off I just might return to PHP for a lot of work.

I love PHP's pragmatism, I love that it's batteries included, and most of all I love the deployment story. It's basically zero-config AWS Lambda without vendor lockin. If they manage to split off a better language without splitting up the community like Python 2/3 or Perl 5/6 did, then that's a spectacular win in my book. Having a little header on top of each file is real nice (and it also opens the door for mixed PHP/P++ projects, another thing Perl and Python failed at).

I find it telling that the PHP community keeps getting this sort of stuff right (they also got the php4->5 migration right back in the days, through collective community action; they fixed the error that was PHP 6 before it was too late, and so on). Pragmatism to the max, things have to not just keep working, but also stay convenient (like Hack wasn't).
How is me making a script to take a screenshot of my screen every 5 seconds and then putting them in a folder for each day any different?

The only thing feature I can see from the apps page is that you can play back the screenshots at whatever speed you want, which hardly warrants $30.
Medium keeps track by setting a cookie. If you have a ad-blocker that blocks cookies, or use incognito, or clear the cookie by hand, then medium won't know the difference.
This is kind of the "Year of Linux on the Desktop" of EVs. I'll believe it when I see it. I live in a community with an incredibly high number of EVs, but I can't get one because I am not a homeowner and there's no charging anywhere besides people's garages.

The above thread suggests there's going to be free, ubiquitous inductive charging in a few years. Just look how far we are from that. Even in putatively EV-friendly areas, it's still really hard for someone without a garage to consider an EV today. California can't even find the political will to fund its EV rebate for the whole year. How likely is it that there will just be magic free electricity everywhere in 10 years?
A Deep Learning Approach to Improve Emotion-Cause Extraction
Why not just call that individual a jerk then? Names like "Teshole" are an attempt to create stereotypes of a broad swath of people. It is no different than using something like "libtard" and is only a step or two away from stereotyping people based on something like gender or race.

If you encounter a jerk, you are fine labeling that person a jerk, but that doesn't mean that everyone who shares a random trait with that person is also a jerk.
>Avoid backticks in passwords.

Is there even a reason to include special characters in passwords? They add 10% more security[1] but cause all sorts of issues with systems. Just use an alphanumeric password that's 10% longer, and if special characters are mandatory, use a safe character at the end like _ or -.

[1] 6.55 bits per character (all printable ascii characters) rather than 5.95 (only alphanumeric)
The first likes PHP roughly the way it is - dynamic, with strong BC bias and emphasis on simplicity

Personally, I have a strong AD bias. Seriously, though, what does this term mean?
Yeah, just b/c he is stubborn enough and doesn't wish to give up his vanity plate instead of folding. Pretty much nothing that hard/uphill battle has happened to him.
> It's also difficult for visually impaired people to navigate roundabouts, so it can be hard to be ADA-compliant.

So how do the they deal with this aspect in the EU countries?
Venmo Launches Instant Transfer to Bank Account
Really neat and clean. We were looking for such a service these last days. Nice job guys!
They don't need to lay mines. They just need to put up signs telling people that there are (hypothetical) land mines.
BC = backwards compatibility
> I think the car makers have to accelerate integrating solar charging into their cars.

Nah. Solar on cars is a dead-end -- even with perfectly efficient solar panels, a clear sky, and the sun at the zenith, the most power you can possibly get is 1.3 kW/m² (cf. [1]). I don't know exactly how large of a solar panel you could put on a car, but even with a huge 5 m² panel, you'd still be looking at over 12 hours (i.e, multiple days of charging) to charge a Tesla's 85 kWh battery. With realistic panel efficiency and sun conditions, it'd take even longer.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_constant
Leader-Member Exchange Theory
Is application Programming is largely piping?
I know this to be true, because I have a mental model of this, developed by reading a few books here and having a strong grasp of OOP and FRP. But how do you argue to people whom have weaker backgrounds that this is the case ?
Ok. But why?
I upvoted you, because I had the exact same question, but I also wanted to comment. It seems SOOO common, especially for technical writers, to overuse, or invent, acronyms and to expect that people automatically know what they are talking about. I've been in software for about 20 years, I'm very familiar with the concepts around backwards compatibility, but I have never seen it abbreviated 'BC' before.

If you want to use uncommon acronyms, please be sure to spell it out (e.g. "backwards compatibility (BC)") the first time you mention it.
But it has only impacted sites in the health niche. There's a lot of really bad advice and information being circulated in this niche. The antivax insanity didn't just spring out of nothingness.

I run a site that covers musical equipment (I'm an amateur musician) and my rankings have been stable for over a year with almost zero work.
50 years from now we'll look back on hybrids as a brief transition phase in the history of automobiles. They're much more complicated than ICE cars and vastly more complicated than electric cars. Once good enough, cheap enough batteries happen (i.e. now) there's no reason for hybrids to exist.
That's not going to be an easy life, but it's not going to be boring either.
Amazon, in particular, has policies that restrict making games above and beyond their existing side project policies.
Backward compat - something that's been pretty holy in PHP land for ages and hence got abbreviated in the internals community. Pretty fair IMO to abbreviate something that's so core to a language's vision. Don't forget that HN isn't the target audience of this post: it's people who are involved with PHP internals.
Absolutely.

Sometimes, unfortunately, you can get away with a worse product and better marketing!
Execution Context and Hoisting Inside Out
I use NJ transit buses (check 190, practically the same route). Was using those small buses you are talking about and it was a complete nightmare. Agree that it’s not consistent but after a while You get to experience stuff that is just horrendous!

Also the fact that decayed commuting services like that are considered vital for some commuters is a sign of how bad of a state NJ infrastructure is in. Those busses are a clear sign of corruption and a symptom of a much larger problem.
The federal tax incentive is a refundable tax credit. So it doesn't interact with deductions.

It's regressive in the sense that you need to be buying a new car to get it. But it passes to used car owners in the form of a lower residual value for the car. A one year old plug-in hybrid lease-return can be a great deal.
Yes, but it's not easy:

https://faq.ssa.gov/en-US/Topic/article/KA-02220