skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point of both 'geofft and 'bradleyjg is that these writings are mostly opinion pieces, and it's justifiable to not trust them based solely on popularity and author's status - none of which involve anyone actually verifying the soundness of all this advice. It's also justifiable to ask for more concrete evidence, since an ethical responsibility of an author is to not waste people's time.

If you were building a bridge, you wouldn't accept that you have to use particular type of beams just because a certain well-known bridge architect Fartin Mowler recommends it, and tells stories of how good bridges are when they're using these beams. You probably wouldn't discard the advice either, but you'd ask for more detailed, first-principles explanation, you'd ask to see the plans and the studies of the bridges with these beams, etc.
> OK, but that was during the First World War

That was kind of my point though. The guy I was replying to was using this particular sale to justify why selling Greenland in 2019 wouldn’t be ridiculous.
Since Google Places API doesn't allow storing any data, are you just footing the bill for the site to be "re-created" every time a user visits it?

You're offering this for free, which is great, but I'm not sure how this works out financially.
The paper that you cite is talking about small changes.

> Under the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) RCP8.5 scenario, approximately 100Gt (gigatonnes) of O2 would be removed from the atmosphere per year until 2100, and the O2 concentration will decrease from its current level of 20.946% to 20.825%.

2018 209460 ppm
2100 208250 ppm

That's 15 ppm per year.

From Stolper et al. (2016) A Pleistocene ice core record of atmospheric O2 concentrations:[0]

> We present a record of Po2 reconstructed using O2/N2 ratios from ancient air trapped in ice. This record indicates that Po2 declined by 7 per mil (0.7%) over the past 800,000 years, requiring that O2 sinks were ~2% larger than sources.

That's 7000 ppm decrease over 800000 years, or 0.009 ppm per year. And so yes, atmospheric oxygen concentration is dropping lots faster now. But TFA's point that it's slow, and regulated by long-term processes, is still valid.

0) https://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6306/1427
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Just a piece of anecdata: a (large) bank we work for struggles with this all the time. Because of historical/branding reasons, they use several different domains. The services used to be quite independent, so everything used to work fine. Because of PSD2 APIs and other developments, they moved on to a central (SSO) authentication page, used from all services on various domains (needing the common authentication cookie). Since then, we fight with the various privacy protections, people blocking third-party cookies, etc. (I'm not saying it's technically impossible to solve, or even saying it's wrong to block third-party cookies. Just... we'll have a lot of work to do, as everyone moves in that direction.)
As real as The Onion can be. In truth, sometimes even more than reality itself.
It would seem to be a well kept secret branch if so
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This comment is perfect San Francisco. We welcome the homeless as props that reinforce our moral superiority for welcoming them. More extreme or visible distress, behavior further outside social norms, etc. suits us even better. But God forbid we make any tradeoff whatsoever to actually improve their situations or bring behavior within norms.

Please, let's bring in as many migrants as possible who don't like looking at poor people, then we might actually do something about poverty.
I bet that you will find plenty of credible sources if you study biology and learn some basic ecology (ecology as science, not as ideology). None of what I'm saying is a secret and is also easily verifiable empirically.

There are also parts of this science that deal with the study of stress in ecosystems. A low or medium source of stress can increase the biodiversity. A mix of healed and degraded ecosystems can provide habitats for different types of life beings. A big source of stress otherwise will distroy all the job done by time and simplify the ecosystem. Moreover, the damage can be so deep that the new state of organisation enters in a loop. The remain is just too flammable to advance and the only species surviving benefit from fire so they need fire to keep competitors at bay, germinate and survive. And they make fire creating flammable structures. Fire triggers water quiting the area and will distroy soil organic structure. Without water the future of the area enters in a reverse path, to savanna, then arid, finally desert. Is happening in California for example.

For climate change figthing purposes, the closer to the ecological climax, the better chance for long-term human survivorship.

Climate change will actively distroy climactic ecosystems also (more hurricans, etc), so the problem is more complicated that "just stop chopping trees and damaging coral reefs with tourist cruises". We can expect a lot of problems and extinction cascades in the future.
Here's an even better proposal - lets try immeasurably hard to stop re-inventing words and maybe use words that people would generally understand without an accompanying definition. Where, for instance, software actually means software and tech actually means technology. :p
Slatestarcodex has a good roundup of different arguments and metrics (world lead production):

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/15/were-there-dark-ages/

> Although I sympathize with the feelings behind both positions, I say the Dark Ages happened. I think the best evidence we have suggests the fall of Rome (and the period just before) was associated with several centuries of economic and demographic decline, only reaching back to their classical level around 1000 AD. I think it was also associated with a broader intellectual and infrastructure decline, which in some specific ways and some specific fields didn’t reach back up to its Roman level until the Renaissance. I think that common sense – the sense you get when you treat the question of the Dark Age the same as any other question, and try to avoid isolated demands for rigor – says that qualifies for the phrase “Dark Age”.
yes. what I wanted to say is that the emperor in Japan had a minor role for the longest time, i.e. it had a middle age that was not unlike Europe, with a steady development of warfare techniques and other parts of culture, as well as a constant trickle of foreign influences. Until edo period, where Tokugawa Shogunate was able to grab all power and basically freeze development and shut down borders. In Meiji, Japan industrialized rapidly under a US-backed emperor and with Germany as an ideal. There's a deeper reason why Japan wanted to become a European-style colonial power - because it was already on that path before the 250y stasis anyways, almost taking on Imperial China during Sengoku-jidai.
What's Rosario Granados has to say on Hitler & Napoleon?

List some worst things happened in history.
It's one of the readings of the Japanese character 軽, which means light (as in not heavy). That would be my guess, but I can't say for certain.
For my neighbour comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/cutlyk/who_is_mor...

As for the stuff that gets flagged off the front page, here's just random things I noticed, some were slightly penalized, some were sunk like a brick very quickly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17756823 From laboratory in far west, China’s surveillance state spreads quietly

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18564433 Tracking China's Muslim Gulag

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18674885 China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tribunal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19286107 Database Leak Gives Us a Window into China’s Digital Surveillance State

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19665495 China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19714401 China is working to silence critics of its prisonlike re-education camps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19712564 China Bans the Word 'Leica' on Social Media

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20278943 China Warns World Leaders: Don't Talk About the Hong Kong Protests

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20304526 I Felt the Fear of Abduction by China in Hong Kong. Appeasing Bejing Has to Stop

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20318279 China pressured London police to arrest Tiananmen protester, says watchdog

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20315905 They Come for Us at Night: China's Vanishing Muslims

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336543 China's Vanishing Muslims: Undercover in World's Most Dystopian Place

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20466312 China Is Drafting Urgent Plan to Resolve Hong Kong Chaos, SCMP Says

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20578900 China's capital orders Arabic, Muslim symbols taken down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20702738 Medium suspends account that investigates Chinese concentration camps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20719470 Hong Kong protest: What is mainland China hearing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20712762 A Walk in Hong Kong

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740626 Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20748615 China’s Soft-Power Fail: Condemning Hong Kong’s Protests

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20777236 Why China’s assault on Cathay Pacific should scare all foreign firms

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20780772 Google refused to call out China over disinformation about Hong Kong

While all that is swept under the rug by user flags, that's not enough, some even complain that even the most fluffy criticism of China that manages to get discussed for a bit is some sign of some terrible bias. Goes with the territory, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IingQPPEh0

I'm a simple man: Never again means never again, no ifs and buts, no negotiations.
My family in South Australia has lived a 10h drive from this their entire life and no idea it existed. I should really visit.
The Royal Crescent Resident's Lawn in Bath is protected by a ha ha.

It's more of a discouragement than a fortification. It's not hard to scramble over it if you really want to.
Nice article thanks for sharing it. What definition are you using for forward converter? The definition I always use, which I thought I got from Erickson’s Fundamentals of Power Electrons, is any topology where the inductance is charged in series (as opposed to parallel like a boost or fly back) with the load. I’ve always liked this definition because it still conveys critical meaning even when engineers do trivial topology changes from the “standard” forward converter topology.
In the early 80's, my parents pulled me out of California's public schools when the state/county ditched phonics for some unproven nonsense, to a private school that was founded on proven teaching methods (name of the school was Challenger). When I reentered a different public school district in grade 3, I was ahead of other students by around 2 grade-levels. In retrospect, the private school was far superior to the public school system, even in an upper-middle class area because the public schools experiment/ed arbitrarily with curriculum in unproven ways on a large scale and didn't seem to be held accountable at a large-scale for playing with children's futures. Instead, individual teachers are micromanaged with outcomes of BS standardized tests. And also, US public schools were further ruined by NCLBA of 2001, and now the head of Navient is in charge of the DOEd. sigh

Bottom line: Find a Waldorf forest school that instills curiosity, excellence and basic subjects using proven methods, because US schools are rearranging the deckchairs while the band is playing... glurg, glurg, glurg.
There utility of disposable income is perhaps not linear. But I can tell you I enjoyed my second raise a lot more than my first. My first raise gave me just enough to start saving money over time, no room for quality of life improvements. My second raise is what allowed me to start spending money to enjoy myself.
> I'm arguing that the "what" is simpler when human actors are involved.

Where would you get that idea? It is definitely the other way around.

In hard sciences at least you can easily construct experiments and find out truths with time, which while complex, are basically predictable. In human sciences everything is much more complex and chaotic effects and problems with definitions and inherent unpredictability of humans make everything more complicated.
It used to be, maybe it still is https://github.com/wting/hackernews (7 years ago)

Iirc they didn't want to publish details of the ranking algorithm at some point, to prevent "hacking" of submissions.

Maybe they stopped publishing the code since then.
Same, thank alone is very useful takeaway for me :).
Why do you believe that the woman owes the man anything after ending the relationship? A woman is not obligated to feel emotionally conservative just because her former partner does.
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There's 350 year old books that more or less use phonics - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/06/phonics-taught-3...

Before that ... who knows? I think English was mostly phonetic at the time, with modern inconsistencies being a more modern innovation. Sight-reading was almost unheard of, everyone read by sounding words out aloud (presumably subconsciously sight-reading as they got better at it). Presumably teachers used phonics of some kind since it never even occurred to anyone that people did anything other than read phonetically.
> The blogger is completely wrong on this point as well.

I think you may not have read the article closely enough:

>> Plants produce oxygen through photosynthesis (green arrow). However, the the same plants consume the equivalent of over half the oxygen they produce in their own respiration ... my own team's research suggests this is more like 60%

>> The remaining 40% of the Amazon oxygen budget is consumed mainly by microbes breaking down the dead leaves and wood of the rainforest, a natural process called heterotrophic respiration

> Similarly, we should all be reminded that when skimming blogs and comments you're likely to come across misleading and inaccurate content

The "blogger" who wrote this article is "Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Oxford" and "Founding Director, Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests" and probably knows more about this than you or I. This is not a peer reviewed paper, but it is probably more accurate than science journalism by a non-ecologist on this topic.
Perhaps people should stop making open source b2b tools, and focus on things that they actually want to make for their own use.
It’s more than possible for non-living but still harmful substances/chemicals to be on the floor.
I don't even think Higgs was being defiant with saying "nothing", I don't think it was that unusual in UK Academia in the 70's and 80's for people not to publish for several years.
If he has to write in a hurry, I wonder how much his font reverts to the old habit. This strikes me as something built in quite deep in muscle/nervous system. Unlikely to trivially change it.
I've long thought that about all those zen masters and so on. Maybe they are just happy because they get to lecture and make fun of their pupils?

Maybe some real wisdom exists out there, that unfortunately involves not telling other people about it.
Looks like some of the people interviewed in the article are unhappy with their job change, and some are satisfied.

The bottom line is it's a big risk to take, and such a choice may mean having a more fulfilling career but also having a lot less money in retirement. It would be interesting to see how many of the happy people in the article will still be happy when they are retired.
AR in a few circumstances, maybe. VR has better connection options. Remote surgery is definitely not using a cell connection.

5G is not a revolutionary tech when we already have wifi and 4G.
EU nationals have a right to work in Switzerland anyway, but there simply isn't a huge pool of unemployed, well educated and ready to move engineers and craftsmen anywhere in Europe.

Even if these workers were available, I doubt that bringing them in would have much effect on exchange rates. Changing money supply proportional to the size of the population shouldn't do much, but correct me if I'm wrong.

Migration certainly has a lot of benefits, but I don't think it's the right tool to manage exchange rates. Peoples' lives are less flexible than short term market gyrations.
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I can add some perspective. One and a half years back I took a 80 percent pay cut to join a 10 member startup. My salary now has improved to almost 60 percent of my previous company. I don't really regret that decision though and here are few things I clearly thought about before making the decision.

1. Learning and growth opportunities at the new place

2. Autonomy around my work

3. People

I think people derive meaning when they see that their ideas are appreciated and users care about the product. I liked the people at my previous job, however the first two items were somehow missing.

It also helped that one of the co-founders at the startup was a friend from undergrad.
This would interest me as well, especially since someone here on HN wrote that Intel has more software developers then AMD has employeess (10.000), which wouldn't surprise me considering that Intel has 10 times as much employees in total. So AMD has to be more selective about what they can explore/support/etc.
OP is asking for ways of being less argumentative. You're telling him to continue doing the same thing he's been doing. Not an invalid response, presuming you have new reasoning for why that he may not have considered, but neither are other suggestions of how he might do things differently.
There are perfectly valid electromagnetic methods for doing wireless power.

Not that you'd ever use them for a light bulb.
>Romans after all, which likewise produced little (not none) new math.

They had Archimedes of Syracuse
> and never have more than one address

That’s important if you don’t control all the systems. Back to there being no rules some systems prepend addresses at each layer and some append them. And if you don’t know or don’t control the behavior at each layer it’s useless IP soup. I’ve not dealt with that in a long while but your comment brought back memories.
Exactly, it goes into the plant, and is then released as the plant decomposes - so in a stable rainforest, where the total plant mass isn't increasing, the new plants growing (creating O2 and absorbing CO2) is fully balanced by old plants decomposing or burning (absorbing O2 and creating CO2); so there's no net creation of O2.
Geordie

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordie

Quote of the day:

"poems by the Anglo-Saxon scholar the Venerable Bede translate more successfully into Geordie than into Standard English"

The Venerable Bede will for evermore have a Geordie accent.

I also like to call people for Norfolk, Norfolk (as in folk), I don't think that's standard though.
> Adding caveats is no way to get people to engage with you.

Shrug. Works for me.

> it's better to baldly assert something as confidently as possible

Oh Noooo! That misleads people who don't know better and pisses off experts who do, and makes you look stupid when you're told you're wrong - which in my case I don't mind but for some people public embarrassment will cause them to double down, driving them into a corner, igniting long chain posts based on ill feelings, and wasting everyone's time. Happened between me and another just 7 days ago - check my postings.

I know the bit about the best way to get a right answer online is to post a wrong one, but I don't find that so, in fact the opposite. Maybe it works best in toxic communities?

> Adding caveats and exceptions directly in the post usually just obfuscates your point

Simple rewrite rule is simple:

X does Y! -> does X do Y?

I'm afraid we have to agree to differ.
yea, it's most people that are like that. i think libertarians letting shitting things happen is far worse.
I'm not familiar with that, how does it look? Docs maybe
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> because it leaves with me a lot of time in the evenings to pursue my hobbies and also pick up new fun technologies to learn.

As someone who has hired developers in the past. This "12 hours CTO" missed a good opportunity. It's much better to work 7/8 than 12. As frequently, developers when they get home. The itch will get too much and then start tinkering and learning new things in their personal time.

Of which, the time spent will benefit the company and they can put those new skills to use in a professional environment. Win-win for everyone.

Being visible at a keyboard for 12 hours is not.
> the piece seems to fly in the face of professional work on the subject.

The blogger does professional work on the subject. The article makes it pretty clear that the net positive production of oxygen the the Amazon is so close to zero that it is only relevant on the time scale of millions of years.
this is how they market themselves to HN
Paper makes you productive. Romans did not have it.

They had papyrus, parchments and wax tablets, none of them were as convenient or affordable as paper.

The adoption of paper was what really set things in motion in Europe, the Renaissance.
The whole notion of IQ seems like a mostly masterful plan to project and instill insecurity in as many future adults as possible:

0. Make the "dumb"/ADD/poor kids feel inferior. Paradoxically, a percentage of people who were told they would never amount to anything often are driven to prove others wrong, and over-achieve later on. Props to them.

1. Make the "smart" kids feel on-the-spot and ashamed that they're embarrassing the "dumb" kids. Also, pulling kids out of class to make them arrange triangles with a timer (IQ "tests"), dropping them into music lessons like trained monkeys and skipping grades because they are expected to be omnipotently-capable might be a bit stressful.

Maybe it would help if there were more striations of progress levels, or with technological assistance, more custom individual edu plans (IEPs) that could maximize each child's progress acceleration vector... do away with collective punishment of outliers by making classes stick to the mean average. Also, if teachers got more involved (maybe with social workers and other support resources) to make sure each student is safe, fed, treated humanely at home and has their needs met so they can learn, that would be awesome.
People from Cambridge are Cantabrigians.
127.0.0.1 I get (server misconfiguration, etc...)

How do we explain the 2 edits by 8.8.8.8: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/8.8.8....

Perhaps before that IP was owned by Google? But 8.8.8.8 the service was launched in 2009, but the two Wikipedia edits are from 2013 and 2014

Edit: Mobile friendly link
There is enough porn to watch on PornHub for 70 years only at letter "A". Tell me why porn still makes money then?

You missed my point entirely.
Is that the most notable example? I mean... "Around 1 in 100 people has epilepsy and of these people, around 3% have photosensitive epilepsy."