skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a small sample, the observed effect needs to be large in order to cross the threshold for statistical significance. It could still be a fluke and the true effect zero or even negative.
You make a good point - even humans have problems with context.

Classic example being that in some areas of the UK, close friends will greet each other with a joking insult. If you don't know they're friends or you don't have the verbal clues to work from (the 'I'm joking' intonation), it looks a lot like the start of a bar fight.

If humans can't get 100% accuracy on this - how can we expect it from business rules, machine learning and so on?

To pinch a line from ST:TNG, "Life is an exercise in exceptions".
Everyone is a sacrifice of ideology, it's easy to merge into one ideology then see the surface and judge the other, but if you look from the outside of ideologies, things could be much complicated than it seems to be.

I am Chinese people in Shanghai, and not happy about the status of democracy/free speech/privacy either. But I feel like things are improving, by the progress of economical development, but this is not my point, just feel some observations of the current China is biased.

My point is, The protest in HK is trying to stimulate Beijing to make an action, which will be a disaster for all people, except the politicians from the western world would love to see it, and some protester love to see it because that will prove China is evil.

The reason Beijing must take action is because the building is too tall to fall, just like US must send troops to Iraq, the ideology must prove itself is righteous.
Perhaps they didn't know about the checkbox and thought they had to write a custom solution. It could also be that they knew about that really subtle bug that is caused by un-checking that checkbox and thus understood why that didn't actually solve the problem long term if though it looked like a good solution at the time.

Or perhaps they're so used to getting away with quoting 6 month for a 6 hour job, it never crossed their mind not to.
> We need massive mobilization at the federal level to hit the necessary emissions reductions within the next 12 years if we are to avoid a catastrophic rise in temperature.

That doesn’t really make sense IMHO, global warming isn’t a US problem, it’s a worldwide issue. Let’s say the US becomes a benevolent dictatorship with the mission to reduce CO2 emissions by any mean necessary (and is somehow successful), you still have the global problem. And then what, do you go to war against other countries?
His argument distills to: solve it all-at-once, or don’t solve it at all.

This is an uninteresting and uninspiring line of thinking that ignores the nature of socially dynamic systems which don’t exist in a world of instantaneous cause-and-effect.

His conclusion states that electric cars make a difference, but they don’t make a real difference: “I do think they can slightly reduce unsustainability” but “by switching from a regular car to electric I might think that I am making a real difference”.

I’m sorry that the author doesn’t consider a real reduction in emissions a real difference.

Look, it’s simple, climate change will require a concerted effort to change in multiple markets across multiple arenas. And the solutions are not mutually exclusive. People that buy electric cars to help the environment or become vegetarian, are probably more likely to make additional changes in their life, and persuade others to make changes as well, to reduce emissions.

Most people arrive at the decision to purchase an electric vehicle exactly because they are questioning their way of life. Electric vehicles are not a talisman of false hope, they’re a singular step in the right direction.
We're going to have to reverse it at some point. If we keep accelerating it there won't be any learning to live with it.
> Why can't those comforts we "sacrifice" be cruises, gasoline/diesel cars and all advertising?

This is only my opinion, but cutting out meat is incredibly easy. If you're in an area with no public transport then it's hard to stop driving your car especially if your livelihood depends on it.

It's just a lot of time and money trying to fix the meat industry when the solution is 'stop'.
Love this comment, 100% agree
Norway is a petro-economy. That doesn't really work as a role model for countries that don't have vast easily-exploited natural resources.

Lucky for Norway that they've transitioned out of petroleum before the climate disaster comes due.
Ok, so the author suggests nothing.. He fails to describe the solution(if any). May be the solution is population control.
As an asthmatic I'm looking forward to a drastic reduction in the pollution in our cities.

We still need to move to car free cities at the same time though.
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17494226

Can't imagine this catching on. Ordinary chains are already really efficient, and the efficiency of this will only last until dirt gets into all those tiny little open bearings. (Sealed bearings would eat into the efficiency gains.)
This video [1] about how to do the Charleston dance got demonetized, and there only hypothesis is because it had "Charleston" in the title a mere year-and-a-bit after the Charleston church shooting.

That's not exactly subtle.

I understand there could be other reasons for being demonetised, but it's hard to see what it could be in a very very inoffensive video about how to do a vintage dance.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdgCq1IGmsY
I think my argument is a bit different -- sure, this is an interface (maybe to a COBOL copybook in this case?). And yes, it's not "JSON".

Agree it's a leaky abstraction. Equally agree it should be documented. Often legacy systems have weirdness after seeing decades of edge-cases. Weirdness that makes them robust in all sorts of unlikely ways. Equally makes them poorly documented, leaky, opaque, and frustrating.

But I certainly have a lot of pause with the sentiment of "some idiot checked the JSON order checkbox on DataPower". My first thought is instead "I wonder why someone thought this was necessary."
Time spent producing noise in a given location decreases with speed. The worst thing in terms of noise is not a car passing by every 10 seconds. It's a bus idling for 2 minutes in front of you.
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Isn't as user friendly as three words
How do you expect human remote control to work reliably enough for safety critical situations when our existing cellular data network fails so frequently? What happens when a construction crew accidentally cuts through the backhaul fiber?
Oh, don't worry. If I'm capable of improving, so are you ;)
Not answering directly, but the advantage of us humans is that our culture is pretty malleable. Something that was trendy a few decades ago might become horrifying by today's standard.

For example, I would say that colonization was still regarded by some as mostly positively until the 1950s or 1960s, and today would totally look out of place (even if countries keep annexing their neighbors).

So it is possible the change will come quickly, not necessarily only because of regulations, but also because of the social norms. See recent articles about "flying shame".
Something which would be cool would be a electric hybrid drive. Electric generator + electric motor.
I'm surprised that everyone's looking confused here. Yes: since 2016 (React Native v0.32), at least on iOS, React Native apps in development mode try to open WebSocket connections to standalone React DevTools at startup and indeed flood your console with cryptic messages.

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/10027

The issue has been locked and is still open.
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You also can't choose inaction over at least attempting to get things back to a known stable state by reversing the base factors (greenhouse gas concentrations).
We can imagine that the energy mix in EU will lean towards more renewable energy, increasing the benefit of electric cars over conventional cars.
If indeed not decreasing yet, the number of cars sold seems to flatten and I can see that Europeans cities are transforming to make life more complicated for cars owners (ie LEZ tax in London) and easier for pedestrians and bikes.
Several reasons to be optimistic.
I didn't mention canonicalization. My point is that serialized JSON is ordered - which I think is exactly the same property you're referring to.
Yeah, this. Also, I suspect there are significantly more people who give up too early/don't put in enough effort than there are who work on doomed projects/ideas for years on end and put tons of effort into something that'll never work out.
While it does support a few additional options according to the README, I think this whole project could have consisted of no code at all and just cowsay template files that you’d copy to the cowsay template directory. Typically /usr/share/cows/

Here is an example of a third-party template for cowsay: https://github.com/lochsh/alpacasay/blob/master/alpaca.cow
Total freedom of speech would imply that you're allowed to make movies about cartoon mice and publish information about military designs. No country has total freedom.
What are the efficiency numbers when using normal, grease and shield laden bearings? This might have a place in cycle sprints or other short distance disciplines where you have a lot of time for prep, but the benefits are quite moot if you have to swap or service bearings every hundred km.
That was a twist ending, indeed. I was expecting a resolution, not "I gave it a good whack and guess what, that fixed it."
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For a summer project, we decided to create a Chrome extension that can generate highlights from Twitch VODs by scrapping and analyzing chat log.

Since the definition of highlights or even good / bad highlights is very vague, we really approciate if you can test, play with it and give us some feedbacks. It would help us improve the algorithms.

Here is the link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twitch-highlights/iomjhbgodingcabgedefaihonckchibo
Wow, thanks for the great question. The thing is, the tool can also scan bytecode for some platformes, which includes Android and iOS. It's kinda spoiler, I saved this info for the next article)
As a non-expert in the specific industry, but a tech person who reads S-1s with interest, I like the look of Cloudflare. It is providing a global infrastructure product and clearly building something that other companies will use and integrate in way that makes it sticky to leave.

I can't remember who said it, but I definitely subscribe to the idea that cloud providers are essentially a tax on businesses that use the internet to drive their business.That makes CF attractive.

My feeling is that the risk that will affect it in the long run are macro: global downturns, over reliance on a specific sector, regulation, freezing out of markets due to unfair competition from local players and spikes in energy costs (curious why this wasn't mentioned in the S-1 specifically)

They also have no outlined plan for the capital they will raise, this may be a good sign, no bold bets, just keep the marketing spend going and achieve greater scale.

It's getting harder and harder to judge if something is a good bet these days. Nobody is actually making a profit, the dual stock structure is troublesome, and the access to capital feels too easy. Ir frustrates me that it's impossible (for a mere mortal with €500 a year to invest) to get in at an early stage when you can watch the value rise and feel a connection with the company.
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Is it disrespectful to seek accommodation to work remotely when it isn’t easy to meet in person?
komali2 is referring to the long-standing issue in the React Native repo (#10027); see my comment for an explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20713612

Maybe the Chrome/Firefox DevTools don't, but the standalone React DevTools most definitely depend on WebSockets. My custom React renderer can't connect to them without shimming in a WebSockets implementation, for example.
They are adding new features all the time next to all behind the scenes integrations, optimisations, performance improvements, and A/B tests.
I’ve had two shaft drive motorbikes now and appreciated the low maintenance and general cleanliness but they are heavier than chain drives. On a bicycle, this looks great, although it would be better off enclosed for protection - but fewer showhorse points.
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> For profit companies are often quite unethical.

this is why i m an advocate of making the law === to ethics. The reason a company is unethical is because those that are ethical are punished by the market (as an unethical, but completely law abiding company can outcompete them by virtue of having less costs involved).
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Well this is terrifying.

It's like a grim metaphor for our alienation from modern food production and how we are as autonomous as newborns.

If this was a science fiction novel it would be written off as crass and clumsy.

:(
Scammers are aware of this, and will often use a tactic of gradual escalation. At first, you have no reason to hang up and call them back, because the call seems harmless.

Good example would be someone claiming to be your ISP apologizing for recent slow internet speeds (when doesn't this happen), and wanting to confirm you're now happy and not experiencing slow speeds. Why would you doubt this and go to the trouble of calling back?

The other problem is businesses being so extremely dumb. I've had and heard of man cases of Banks calling people, asking them verification questions on cold calls and offering no way to call them back. Not just stupid in that it limits your strategy, but it actually trains people to be more vulnerable to scammers.
I didn’t say it was better, I doubt it would be worse. You vastly overestimate how much variety, or vegetables, are necessary to maintain health. The following are nutritionally complete; if you eat them you will not get any deficiency diseases, potatoes and milk, rice and beans, peanut butter and bread. Note that they all include a source of carbs and protein, like burgers. Hell, as long as you eat fatty meat you can eat nothing but meat with no ill effects on health. Over the course of a day you’d get enough lettuce and tomato to stave off deficiency diseases, and that neglects ketchup, otherwise known as concentrated tomato.
Cows are carbon to methane convertors.

AFAIK, although methane dissipates more quickly (good in the longer term) it has a more powerful effect in the shorter term.

So the rationale while we are stick deep in the shit is not too think so much of the long term, but just to survive the short term - i.e reduce the methane.
you don't, except to cover your ass. And so the problem remains unsolved. The law, and regulation, needs to step in.

It should be as frowned upon by the law as a restaurant not meeting sanitation requirements.
My guess is that this is what Google really wants. Now that all the hobbysists have helped get Android/Play Store where it is today, they don't need us any more.
From what I remember when trying to use it, it looked nice but it was very buggy

Not sure it even supported threads for a while
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One advantage is that it produces high-purity graphite, which is a moderately expensive commodity, used for electronics manufacturing (especially power components in batteries), structural carbon composites, and machine lubricants.

The percentage of carbon captured is also damn near 100% - quite a bit better than gaseous carbon capture techniques I've heard of.

You do leave quite a lot of energy on the table (losing somewhere between 30% and 50%), so this is a technology that is only economically viable with high emissions pricing. But that seems like the way Europe is going anyway.

And yes, SMR is the proven and clearly superior technology right now; I'd call this TRL 4/5 right now. But with another decade of development?
You are right, and checked back, La Defense -> Chatelet is 9.4km (that's the two RER stations left open after shutting down CDG Etoile and Auber. And they basically shut down anything between these stations)

They shut down 36 stations in total at the peak of the demos:
https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/502926/article/2018-12-07/la-rat...
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I am having problem log-in to my two gmail accounts. I get the error the device is not recognised. I tried log-in from different devices and I get the same error. Is anyone else facing this problem? What could be the cause? Anyone know of any solution?
There are examples of change, but most of the times after disaster stuck.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/fire-...

That's human nature: if it ain't broken, don't try to fix it. And ignore those marginal, annoying naysayers, what do they know? But first let's install AC, nobody can work in these heatwaves :)
Depends on the country and culture. Where are you?
I think you can take one more step backwards and still have an argument.

X is a huge country. Y is a small island/peninsula nearby, with shared cultural roots, but very different recent history (decades to centuries) and different government & economic structure. People living in Y are free to leave Y and move to X. Then I think it's better if Y continues to exist.

Even if Y is worse on some measures, e.g. if it were Y that had an "authoritarian regime that has no rule of law, president has self declared perpetual status ", then I'd like it to continue. It's good to have a diversity of approaches to problems. Even if Y gets 90% wrong, maybe it discovers something in the 10% right, or maybe it's just an interesting study in what not to do. Its people are (by assumption!) free to leave, and have a culturally similar neighbor that will take them.
Just thank you for sharing that.
>> Next time I'll consider paying a twitter influencer to impersonate me

That seems like a great idea in general :)
> For most people that's simply not an option. But, if all people were eating just a little less meat, that would be an incredible improvement already.

Completely agree!
Depends on the job, the reason why you can't meet and other context. Currently, I wouldn't say it's disrespectful since it's pretty normally accepted for jobs that don't REQUIRE a physical presence. But if it's just a matter of not wanting to meet someone just because, then yes, it might be disrespectful.
That's a way. A way that, IMHO, vastly diminishes its expressive power on the reader's side, which I do not consider a very good thing. Most solutions to the issue are of this nature.

Consider serialized JSON already has a natural ordering, which is thrown away for some reason (probably parsing convenience).
Yes I agree with you nationalism is ingrained from childhood and this makes it harder for minority who are against blind nationalism. This has been true for all the 70+ countries I lived and traveled. But I still believe in this quote:

"Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live."

By a Noble Laureate.
The argument isn't that doing _something_ is bad, it's that the amount of effort people put into obtaining their shiny non-paleolithic-compost-fueled-but-rather-battery-powered 2 tonne sledgehammers would be better spent changing policies that operate on organizational rather than individual units.
How about we just stop buying as much shit from halfway across the world? Global trade requires us to spend stupid amounts of fuel in engines that have never been optimized for emissions. This of course involves making changes to global trade, this is a lot harder, but surely all those people who are capable of shelling out at least 30000$ (but in reality, barely anyone gets the cheapest model because this is a luxury item) could be doing things that make a bigger difference.
Simple solutions for simple problems. More complex solutions for more complex problems. It's quite possible that the problem Homebrew solves is much simpler than the problems Google is hiring engineers to solve.
“Still, in most cases an electric car is slightly less bad for the living planet than a comparable car with an internal combustion engine – if you can afford to buy one.”

Bad article all around. There is bias in that statement alone referencing the price of EV’s after an admission that they are actually better for the environment already. This article also references almost every negative trope about BEV’s.

What many of these articles fail to explore is any future advancements in technology that can solve some of the issues listed. Nothing in BEV technology is static, almost everything is improving from motor efficiency all the way to removing things like cobalt from batteries. It’s also possible that we will see a lot more localized solar and wind power for charging stations over time.

Lastly, autonomy is coming which will be a game changer when paired with BEV technology.
then why not run faster or further? regarding the ligament strain - this contraption adds 5kg to your weight, so i'd say there's some (tiny) additional ligament strain. i.e. the suit would just be a runners back pack weighting 5kg. fill it with water and food and you get a lightening load over time/distance too.
Feel free not to follow the links - but please don’t tell others what to do and not do.
Async and await solve a different problem to epoll (and do so in a cross-platform manner). A “basic epoll loop” won’t help you for file IO on Linux, for example.
I’m discounting the story. Some of the complaints are ridiculous. ‘Too many different languages’?
This looks cool, but I'm not sure what it has to do with devops? It just seems to be automated test environment provisioning, am I missing something?
Generally they tend to mostly go after games starring their characters, and usually leave other types of fan works alone. They also don't go after all fan games either, with 99% of them being left alone and close to 100% of ROM hacks being in the same boat. It's also mostly remakes/games rather similar to remakes or official games that get targeted in most cases too.

So no, I don't think this is going to provoke a cease and desist. It's not competing with anything official, and barely even counts as a fan work at all.
Because in America, human decency is a luxury.
Here I am, a 40 something very mediocre webdev with 2 kids and a mortgage, taking home 30K / year struggling to learn the framework-du-jour my boss thinks I should be using, unable to find another job cause I'm too expensive, wondering what the hell to do with my life.

And then there's a kid in Malaysia of all places selling frigging vapers, taking home every month what I take home per year.
lies are being spread. Indian Govt's precautionary measure ensured no loss of life. Pakistan and its sympathizers spreading fake news to cause disturbance in Kashmir so that a large scale loss of life happen and then they can cry and do drama on world stage and accuse India. Don't fall for that propaganda.
A nuclear power plant does not work 'technically', if it harms the environment.
Im having a hard time grasping one particular thing - what exactly constitutes this "Deep State" and what solutions is anyone proposing?
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Using snapshots to roll back and lose 89 days of work/system changes is quite an inconvenience though. Circumventing the need for snapshots/rollbacks is still not ok
You can already buy electric bicycles. But regenerative braking on such a light vehicle doesn't gain enough to be worth the extra weight.