skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're already geoengineering without intention to create energy.

This moral question is a red herring.

It's more that those against geoengineering have unrealistic expectations that things can go 'back to the way they were' - some idealized past where the balance of nature is achieved and everything stays static. A fiction created by popular media.

The world hasn't ever been static. With or without humans.

We need a new basic narrative to get out of this way of thinking. It's really that intrinsic. We see the idealized past in Tolkien's work, in Avatar, in Disney movies - they create an idea that the only solution forward is reverse entropy. This is a damaging idea because it removes agency from us humans and leaves it up to the gods in which we'll inevitably come up empty-handed.
Yes, two or more orders of magnitude of improvement are very much expected by most researchers in this field, simply because the current state of the hardware is infantile compared to what we know is possible (it just takes a lot of work to put all the different improvements in a single experiment).
It seems like they support both Latin and Cyrillic transliterations.
Is Bill Nye's opinion relevant in this either?
I helped work on getting that number from ~400ms to ~150ms maybe 18 month ago for the v1.0 release. FWIW, a big part of it was shedding a couple excess C libraries with bad load times (usually now lazy loading them when required instead). The next big jump will take more internal effort, but I don’t think there’s any serious showstopper. The bigger short-term interest though has been towards reducing the latency of loading external (user) code/libraries.

For an example of what I mean by the latter, python seems to be pretty fast initially, but then seems to take a huge hit from just trying to get numpy loaded.

$ time python -c '0'
real0m0.024s
user0m0.016s
sys0m0.008s

$ time python -c 'import numpy'
real0m0.165s
user0m1.508s
sys0m2.312s

$ time ./julia -e 0
real0m0.215s
user0m0.240s
sys0m0.144s
Perhaps the point is that the basement of a castle is also called a dungeon.
It is informal and means that mistakes hurt less than non-mistakes help.

A hypertechnical article that gives the gist:

https://www.edge.org/conversation/nassim_nicholas_taleb-unde...
> Actually users benefit: they can get games without paying for them

That wasn't really the thing in the 80th and early 90th. The thing was, that especially on the C64 the games got streamlined by good crackers by being one-sided, fast-load added, and trained as well. This means, that cracks actually featured a lot more benefits than the original. That's why many of us refused to buy originals. There was one saying: "Good software is worth buying".

Sometimes the crackers even fixed bugs, added highscore savers, level picker etc. The list could go on and on.

This is comparable to DVDs and their silly copy protection warning vs mpegs without this thing.
It seems to succeed at being understandable, but I’m guessing it will be on par in difficulty to learning another Slavic language if you already speak one.

Also, the written part is not hard - if you pause enough most Slavic language menus at a restaurant for example can be understood. It’s the spoken version that often makes it hard to communicate across these languages.
Thought experiment: tomorrow we delete the countries of Africa. Literally gone, the continent ceases to exist.

Maybe we keep SA and the northern bits like Tunisia etc.

Global GDP probably declines less than 10%, right?

You can't reduce everything to money in these terms.
The simpler and more elegant the proof, the less likely we are to commit an error
The EU and the British establishment will do everything they can to punish the UK for their insolence. All the more reason it was a good idea to #Leave. Better to take whatever lumps that come now.
Considering the Ghostbusters were operating an unlicensed nuclear reactor, I actually think the EPA was right in that movie.
I think people are downvoting this over the word "indoctrinated" but I think it's a pretty accurate take. The whole democracy/freedom of speech/criticism of the government thing is an explicitly western position (though by now adopted at least in name by large parts of the world).

People in the west like to think that our cultural ideas are objectively superior and that anyone intelligent/reasonable/well-read enough would support them, and that's why you often see people act surprised when intellectuals in countries like China hold mainstream Chinese views.

In reality the main reason why we have the cultural ideas that we do is historical, and we all have them because we've been raised to believe these things since childhood. I think that's what the parent meant to say by "indoctrinated".
StrictYAML[0] is a YAML subset that removes some of the problematic features.

The implementation is in Python.

[0] https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml
At some level, they understand what people who go into best buy look for and buy. But those who work there usually have big personal preferences, so it may wash out. They are rarely the super casual user. At the very least they're not on commission (though they DO have sales targets, and sometimes those can be for specific brands). Best buy built their business on taking the commission model and not paying anyone commission.
In france it's even forbidden if I'm not mistaken
From the article:

> I also loved Louisa Gilder’s The Age of Entanglement and Kip Thorne’s Black Holes and Time Warps. That one was slow for me, but it was like being in the kind of physics class I always dreamed of taking. At Harvard I had taken a class, Physics for Poets. The professor said in an impatient way, “If you can’t follow the math, then you don’t have to, but I can’t really explain it without the math, so just do the best you can.”

And this is true. You can't learn physics by listening to a physicist talk or by reading popular science books. The title of the article gave me the impression that the author picked up a university-level book in physics and worked through it. As far as reading popular science goes, I think a lot of SF authors do that. And there are also SF authors who dig deeply into the science they write about (e.g., Greg Egan, Peter Watts, etc.).
Agreed. The eu is basically a german/french dictatorship. The thing is, once the uk recovers after the leave event, many other eu countries will follow suit.
Yes, but anyone smart enough to run a quantum computer to solve the private keys and steal bitcoin is also likely to be smart enough to first examine the blockchain for balances that would not get complained about. Apparently, something like 20% of all BTC is just stranded inadvertently lost or destroyed keys -- starting with 'accounts' after the closely watched genesis block, but which have seen no transactions for maybe 5-8 years should net a lot of funds without being noticed.
I didn't try Zork 1, I tried a couple games that were listed online as good for beginners (this was already in the '00s).
Political opposition leaked a scare document? Welcome to politics.
I can't believe this was downvoted. It's literally what happened.
It’s a fixed overhead like the JVM, CLR or any substantial runtime that includes a JIT.
...yes. It's pretty common to talk in terms of worst case...

The unicode extensions for SMS only allow 70 UCS-2 code points. So from the perspective of ASCII, SMS can too big to fit into a tweet, and from the perspective of Unicode a tweet can be too big to fit into SMS.

Tweets to me look like a product manager liked the constrained aspect of SMS, but didn't dig hard into the details.
It is general enough to be useful at a startup too.
You could pay with gold or silver.
Somehow these comments reminded me of a rant by John von Neumann. In an essay he says something like "mathematics is actually very shabby, just have a look at the extremum principles. Extrema? So we can't even tell if it's a minimum or a maximum?" It amuses me how software developers think of themselves as precise, when, actually, there is a lot of shabbiness in sw development. Hickey's example is one.
Can’t do disaster capitalism without a disaster!
“Hey boss, I worked 20 days in a row, I’m gonna take Sunday off!” :)
> None of the 35 photos are pretty (other than the film-photo haze), but it's worth remembering what US cities used to be like before we cared what we put into the air, soil, and water.

IMO, this is disingenuous. I think that there's a very good argument made against federal agencies that are run by bureaucrats with zero skin in the game. These kinds of sytems are also ripe for corruption. The counter-claim that there's no way local governments could come together and offer a comparable solution is dubious. Fun fact: the EPA spends ~16 million tax dollars a day.

As a side note, it's also interesting how HN has sort of politically migrated from moderate-center-libertarianism (when I first started reading it) to left-leaning-federalism.
My first computer was a PC XT clone with a monochrome monitor - but there were plenty of simple action and some strategy (like The Ancient Art of War) games that were more appealing (to me) than IF.
> I do not see a constructed language catching on with the mainstream public any time soon.

Doesn’t Indonesian technically fit the definition of a constructed language?
> " Julia might have good performance for simple array/matrix operations and loops, but we already know how to make them fast in Python "

Yes, by not executing them in Python, the universal trick to make anything fast in Python.

Julia's whole shtick is avoiding having to drop down into C.
A peculiarity: the "south east" is the area most typically associated with the Conservatives and their voters, who have been in power for the past 9 years and who have driven most of the Brexit rhetoric. The south east is also nearest the Channel Tunnel and ferry ports to the continent, and so their food, drugs, etc. will suffer the least delay, least spoilage, etc. in the case of a "No Deal" Brexit.
"Some Home Depot workers built a walker". That's information.

That is not (all) reporters do.
If true, would this not point towards avoiding such unions in the future?
It’s a govt risk assessment document, not just “politics”. Assuming you’re a brexiteer....what exactly is the positive case for brexit now? Because no one I can hear is making it, merely saying it has to happen, like a visit to one’s in laws that destroys the economy and fractures society.
Not really related to the topic at hand, but it's just occured to me that this is what passes for journalism now.
Gore Vidal said the Property party has two wings, D and R.
I'd also like "Sweet" to be true and "Stink" to be false.
Now what? Nuke India/China?

Also: What's the source of this information?
If the author can move the coins then they could probably get a lot of people on-board with a fork, however all a fork really does is make satoshi the god of 2 chains, with enough coins on both to kill either at a moments notice.

I am guessing that part 2 will be how he has lost access to the coins and so cant move them, and is skint and needs donations.
I don't see how it is even thermodynamically possible for there to be no wind period. It is produced by temperature differentials and it would take some very extreme geoengineering to not have those - like a planetary superconductor grid.

Not to mention geographic distribution of grids levels it out.

At that point you may as well ask what if positive and negative charges repel each other?
In Czechia, English is definitely the most reasonable L2 to learn, by far. Even for L3 I wouldn't be sure Russian is a better choice than German, which is just super useful around here.

I learned Russian basically for irrational reasons. I'm glad I did, but I can't say it is very useful.
There are a lot of weaknesses in this admittedly-apocryphal story -- why didn't he just audit the classes, for instance? -- but the core elements are true enough.

Should the business school give preference to applicants who say they have a real business in their hands?

Yes, when the student's business grosses $73 million in its first year of operation and he come backs to you, hat in hand, asking for more training, that should count for something.

The business school, like the rest of UT, is there to serve the public interest. If a former student needs help with a fast-growing company that would eventually spend 25 years on the Fortune 500 list, the matter of his previous grades could have been overlooked, and should have been. Finding a way to accommodate him would have been the right thing to do.
Haven't we seen from the steele dossier that these things can essentially be made up, outdated, or inaccurate, and then be leaked to a salivating press to push an agenda? I feel like this is a tired plot by now. There's no reason to take this seriously without more context and input from the counter-perspective.
Thanks for the heads up! I've got different extensions running in Chrome and Firefox, but according to Activity Monitor, Firefox's energy impact is 26.29, and Chrome's is 3.25. I've got Hacker News up in both, and that's the only tab that's open.

When I open a new video on YouTube, it spikes to 160ish, then drops to 100, then eventually settles into the lows 60s.

In Chrome, it shows similar... spiking when the video starts to stream around 160, but then quickly drops down to the high 30s.

Keen on seeing what the changes bring! (=

I just did a reinstall. Hope it helps the crashing issue.

At the end of the day, I really don't trust Google. But... if it comes down to having an extra hour on my laptop it's a bit of a tough call.

Thanks!
That’s totally unrelated to startup or compilation time. It’s due to a bug in the crufty old Windows CMD.exe terminal—if you use a real terminal it doesn’t happen.
I quit drinking cold turkey a little over 5(!) years ago. It was the single best decision in my life. I lost 50lb's and look and feel 10 years younger than my 41 years on this earth.

The biggest downside? Everyone wants to hang out in bars and drunk people are annoying and the drinks _suck_ for non drinkers. The soda is flat, the fruit garnishes they give you are NASTY (seriously don't touch that stuff its dirtier than the toilet). It's exciting to hear that there might be a market for people like me.
I never understand why bones are such a deal-breaker. Fry whole. Eat slowly.
Modern C – Jens [pdf]
It's easy to make self-contained scripts with dependencies using Pex: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex/
I'm pretty sure they have skin in the game as they live in this country
> doesn't quite cut it

I think the underlying assumption here is that some approaches are too simple to "cut it", ie to be called machine learning. And eg PCA is too simple, and so should be excluded, and perhaps categorised as "just" statistics or linear algebra depending on your point of view. But in my view, it's better to let go of this view which implicitly hypes ML in a damaging way. F = ma is still physics, even if simple. k-NN and PCA are still ML.
Or does it...? Case in point, the fifth axiom of geometry, attributed to Euclid, that through a point there is exactly one line parallel to a given line has been shown to be unprovable, and Lobachevski and Rieman have built alternative geometric theories assuming that axiom wrong.

I find it hard to believe that Math is that different from physics or other sciences in its robustness.

Some advantages that math has had over other sciences is low resource consumption (pen and paper), easier reproducibility(thinking), and it has gotten a long head start of 2-3 thousand years.
That's easily explained: jealousy. Slovio was the only Slavic-based auxlang available on the internet for a few years. However, it was not received well among Slavs, who found it too artificial (Slovio is basically Esperanto with Slavic - mostly Russian - words), and thus it became a complete failure. When Interslavic was initiated as a more naturalistic alternative, the author of Slovio first tried to ridicule it, and once it became successful, he started claiming they had stolen his idea and propagating Slovio under the name of Interslavic. Both languages have absolutely nothing in common, except that they are both based on Slavic material.

That was years ago though. Slovio has been dead for the last eight or so years.
Please provide some support for your assertion that environmental laws are the reason for the decline of US manufacturing.

In my view this is just a right-wing talking point to try to destroy our ability to keep clean the commons in a working economic system.
Don't be absurd, nobody is trying to, or needs to, punish the UK. This is simply what happens when you jump without a parachute. There are so many things broken in the Brexit process, broken things that exist inside the UK alone, that the mere notion that the problems are caused intentionally by some foreign bad guys is just, well, absurd.
> Something I’ve come to realize after working with new and old school developers: younger, junior developers tend to propose improvements to the current design, and older, senior developers tend to reject them.

The article doesn't support this sweeping stereotype with even a single anecdote (not that a single anecdote would be very convincing). I guess we're just supposed to nod our heads and believe it. Call me "old school", but I prefer it when assertions are backed up by evidence.
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Seems to fit just fine. Unicode characters ≠ non-ascii characters.
I'm not sure why Flask is often recommended either. It seems to me that it's somewhere between Bottle and Django, playing the strange role of a not-so-lightweight, not-so-unopiniated framework. But I should probably reserve this rant for another thread.
I think that's over-egging it a bit.

You can drive from Dover to almost all of the mainland UK in 8 hours.

The Scottish Highlands will take a bit longer.

It'll be a problem, but I doubt being close to the port will make a difference.
The more boring answer correctness is testable. If I present a proof that two equations are equal, you don't have to trust me. You can try some values and see if they work, look for a contradiction, try to produce your own proof, or any other test you can think up.
The positive case for brexit is no longer being a part of the EU.
This article would have someone believe Common Lisp is any other UNIX language, where near-meaningless UNIX configuration and other things abound. It indents the Lisp in an odd fashion, with closing parentheses on their own lines, and it doesn't mention the REPL but in one paragraph.

As for Steve Losh's article, I don't recommend that one either; it recommends using a Discord server; it recommends using C libraries; it discusses performance and representation characteristics that are allowed, but not required, in interfacing with things such as graphics cards; and it has other characteristics that I don't believe someone new to Common Lisp would recognize it, so I don't recommend that article to novice Common Lispers.
They won’t recover, that’s not how trade works.
Firefox settings. Fingerprint resistance (privacy.resistFingerprinting) will auto-reject the canvas and show a relatively non-intrusive icon in the address bar that lets you re-enable it for that website[0].

Since webGL requires you to use canvas, this should also block that attack, although I'm currently going a step farther and disabling webGL entirely (webgl.disabled), since I've seen a few sites (panopticlick for example) get around the prompt specifically with webGL, and I don't know how they're doing it.

Firefox's fingerprint resistance efforts are showing a lot of promise, although you will have to put up with some quirks (like learning to read UTC time).

[0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...
You can estimate this because there is a known amount of energy around in the visible universe (energy, mass, etc.). We know from inflation that this number changes at a given rate. We also know that time and entropy are connected, so when entropy of the known universe is at the maximum, it would be essentially meaningless to say time could continue, i.e ‘the end of time.’
Why would it even mean for mathematics to collapse? It's obvious that if a branch is based on rules that don't make sense, at some point that branch will break. But it only breaks to the root node, which is fine. But why would the whole edifice collapse?
Solution-processed transparent ferroelectric nylon thin films
If you're building new structures I'm positive that the economics work out better for simply doing separate solar farms. Building them above a road has no major advantages and potentially both increases construction costs and increases the chances of unfortunate interaction (eg an accident taking out panels).

The sweet spot for solar roads would be in places where the generation benefit outweighed the extra cost when a road was being redone anyway - and even then only if the materials were up to the task.
I once ran into a woman with stage IV cancer and a nasal medication infusion pump who was on her way to a bankruptcy hearing to justify keeping her clothes and living arrangements while the hospitals, doctors and insurance companies vampiricly liquidated her life and all of her possessions. That's where America is right now. If you're sick, you'll likely go bankrupt (it's the leading cause) and you still won't necessarily be able to afford proper treatment.. and then if you die, your family will be most likely be destitute.

PS: "rugged individualism" based on "pulling oneself up by their bootstraps" was taken from a children's fairytale about an impossible task.
Well they'll also have to put up with 30 miles of lorries as ports are overrun. I'm sure through all the chaos though, people won't connect the dots.
Right, which is what I meant by "you had to be there at the time" - I had a computer very early but by the time I was able to read and understand English well enough to play IF I was well into my teenage years and the mid/late 90s (I mostly played RTSs like *craft/c&c and story-rich RPGs like the Fallouts/Baldur's Gates).
That's really close to [RFC 7464](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7464), JSON Text Sequences. It uses U+001E RECORD SEPARATOR. The `jq` tool supports those if you pass a flag.
I’d reply ... but first I need to do a handstand on my toilet cistern.
So because one leaked document is controversial (and last I checked the Steele dossier isn't confirmed to be all that inaccurate) we should disregard all leaked communications? That feels like faulty logic.

Should we have dismissed Watergate because it was based on leaked information?
Scaremongering headline; I thought NPR was better than that.

The document doesn't "predict" any such thing. It considers a number of worst-case scenarios of things that could happen, but that's a far cry from predicting that every worst-case scenario will actually come to pass.
Please elaborate as to exactly why that is a positive?
Well, I think it’s clear that the prospect of deep lifestyle changes, specifically downgrades, will never prove very popular. Especially since upper class lifestyles are not likely to change nearly as much as working class.

But also, measures to control population strike deeply dystopian chords, and result in similarly adverse reactions.

I think most people realize things have long not been sustainable... but it isn’t obvious what to do about that. I think that’s why the focus has been on technology that can buy us more time. Anything else that could help is probably not gonna happen in short order...
EU is more than just a trade agreement and there is nothing preventing trade agreements between the UK and the EU from being developed post-brexit.
Project Fear hard at work I see. Nobody believed it before, but by all means keep pumping this out if you are getting paid for it!
if it's a simple basic script, i wouldn't even go through the pain of using argparse. i would just manually check sys.argv.
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