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Assume your audience is highly intelligent but knows little about the subject you're writing about.
The best systems to proactively invest in are renewable energies and technologies that reduce our energy demand, like building insulation, heat pumps, and electric cars.
Deciding on what choices to make in response to the climate changing is inherently political. Science can inform the process but can't tell us which selection of responses is "most valid".
They have a large engineering office in Austin, too.
"...and I saw how to the tribe factor plays a huge role in one's allegiance and political stance."

Unfortunately, it gets even harder.

Scene: Bloomington, IN Saturday city farmers market.

A vendor named "Schooner Creek Farms" was outed by an FBI informant and a hacktivist collective that the owners were Identify Evropa. Because the market is run by the city, the city refuses (or has no cause to) throw them out.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/farmers-markets-have-new-unwel...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/18/us/indiana-farmers-market...

Even worse, there was a spraypaint attack on a church locally. Swastikas, and the like were some of the things done. Turns out, one of the 2 white males worked at the local co-op food market. The co-op runs their own 'Nazi-free farmers market' sinice the city is unable/unwilling to eject Schooner Creek Farms.

This whole situation is still ongoing. We had last week the head of Identify Evropa, now called "American Identitarian Movement", make a presence and buy produce in support. It's pretty terrible, with no end in sight.

But yeah, even organic veggies have significant politics enmeshed - and sometimes those politics are ones that nobody in their right mind would ever buy from had they know. I know I bought unwillingly from them.
Exactly. Those of us who grew up with albums aren’t buying them now. We’re intimately familiar with the limitations of that medium. I have zero interest in going back. And this from someone who still buys a lot of music.
Who's pretending? All we need is for the billionaires to stop fighting, work together and save the world.
Correct. These are tiny seedlings, not trees. The majority of them, if planted poorly, won't survive the 1st year.

It's also telling that the article doesn't have any pictures. You would think that if you're breaking a Guinness record and doing a good thing for the planet, you would take some pictures and document it quite well.
> 150 degree weather

Now that's a hyperbole.

> No water

Invest in desalination, like Israel and other rich middle eastern countries.
Forestry is hard. If you plant the wrong species, in the wrong soil, with the wrong fertilizer or in the wrong climate, you are likely to completely fail. Early attempts at forestry often ended up with every single one of the planted trees dying.

Luckily forestry is a pretty seasoned science by now and people mostly know what they are doing. I trust that the Ethiopian forestry scientists did their job though before this and they end up far more successful then these early attempts, before the science was known.
I don't understand, why Microsoft is porting features from Wunderlist to their To-Do instead of just shutting down To-Do and add small shiny MS logo to Wunderlist? As far as I can see, WL is more feature rich and has better user base, no?
You misunderstood parent. He is worried that the vinyl format is sold at Walmart. Nobody cares what music is on that vinyl, it's all about the format.
I think this varies a lot by professor. Typically failing a student involves a lot of extra paperwork on the professor's part. Doubly so if it's for academic dishonesty.
For example strlen: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57650895/why-does-glibcs...
"It's too late for meaningful action" doesn't sound like a slogan that inspires unprecendented change.
All this reminds me of the late 1990s, when 50% of academics who knew HTML ran to a dot-com. It didn't last, and a few years later an awful lot of former professors begged for their jobs back. Some of them got it, but most didn't.
...neither of which existed when the question was asked.
There maybe a window opportunity in the todo space at the moment for a GTD oriented app. Look at thing that is only available for iOs. There's only NirvanaHQ coming close and it's not moving much at the moment.
Thing is, it's more subtle than that.

Unlike most of the vague or meaningless standards, care and production labelling and logos, Organic is a legally defined and enforced standard. It may be a weaker standard in the US compared to the EU, but it's a definite marker wherever you are.

Most of the organic production results in far better animal treatment, and lower carbon methods than conventional agriculture, and tries to create processes that are sustainable. Unsurprisingly it's not perfect.

If I want the most animal friendly meat rearing standards, the "most free range" free range eggs - with more space and better conditions than those labelled free range(!), most grass fed dairy cows, most sustainably produced veggies and so on, I should buy organically labelled. In the EU at least - there may be higher legally mandated standards of rearing elsewhere - though I think not. That's regardless whether or not I care about organic aims or dislike the rejection of GMO or some specific product or process.

If I buy conventionally produced I am reliant on non-binding marketing phrases and trust of the producers. Of which I have little.

Dismissing organic as illegitimate chemtrail bullshit that should be dismissed, when there is nothing better is incredibly counter productive. Far better to try and improve organic standards bodies to be a little less dogmatic about accepting new discoveries and processes that fit the sustainability aims, or to agitate for better mandated definitions, accepting GMOs on the precautionary principle of approval as the EU does for conventional use.
I have honestly wondered whether a rational, amoral planner would be readying the release of some pathogen(s) from which a reasonable number of people would survive.

I wonder what the signs of such preparation would be?

Obviously you would want to make sure that nuclear power stations, refineries and dangerous chemical plants were either capable of a graceful shutdown or that there would be enough trained operators in place.

You would want some sort of armed forces under your control.

Food production chains would need to be local and secured and self-contained.

What else?
"Backsies" is reversing the original deal, not just half. This founder is asking for backsies by definition.
Frankly there’s no saving the people concerned about quantization issues with digital vs vinyl. They clearly don’t understand the basic physics and that mechanical of PVC severely limits dynamic range such that with about 10 bits of signal and some noise you can quite comfortably transparently recreate vinyl. 16 bits is more than enough to record vinyl.

There’s no reasoning somebody out of something they weren’t reasoned into the first place, so usually this isn’t an argument worth having.

A modern laser interferometer could easily get well past the resolution that is limited by the vinyl structure itself.
> and I haven’t been able to upgrade to any of the newer releases

Why not, i use iCloud to store my 1Password data, and i still use the latest macOS 1Password version (7 i believe).
It's a standalone app without a subscription (i would never pay for a subscription just because they tacked on a cloud service I don't need, to justify the subscription model...)
I grew up with albums (plus learned to DJ with vinyl) but I also strongly believe in physical ownership and find this rental/streaming model abhorrent. It boils down to feelings and one's relationship with their music
Probably the same answer to "how do people form beliefs?"

Off the top of my head, I'd say a combination of genetics (studies show political leaning has a genetic component) and input (from social circles and reading).
It really doesn't. Either the system is working, or it isn't. People might be using it, but people use all sorts of broken systems.

It is indeed worth weighing the cost of making a breaking change, but given that it happens all the time in all sorts of projects, it's clear that only very few projects subscribe to your notion that breaking users are an absolute sin.

Even Linux has broken userspace programs when fixing bugs. It's only happened a few times, but it happens.
Wasn't this done early on in the form of HashCash?
Well no. As I pointed out in another comment. All have vaping in common...only some have THC associations (with some allowance for underreporting).

So they're right to ere on the side of caution here. The CDC isn't exactly incompetent...if they could pin this down to THC pens only they would.

I do think you're right in that this is probably some dodgy THC solvent, but based on current known info I think CDC called it cautiously...but right.
Always been a huge fan of Wunderlist, used it for my iPhone development project, 1st time using a to-do list app and really loved it!

Here is one guy hoping/praying it comes back!!!!
That's a myth. When was the last time you reviewed the technical aspect of heavily specific platform code in the glibc ?
> (famously) there is no regex to detect balanced parentheses

God, I remember running into this wall with an in-company domain-specific language that used regex as its tokenizer/parser.

Adding support for nested structures required us to untangle the whole thing and rewrite the regex into explicit algorithms. Fortunately the regex was only a few pages long..

In short, I agree with you that regex cannot parse regular expressions completely. Would be happy to be proven wrong, though!
GPT-2 is not as dangerous as OpenAI thought it might be
The book "Superfreakonomics" had a chapter on simple, cheap solutions to problems, and suggested one for global warming -- there was a 'year with no summer' in which a volcano introduced chemicals into the atmosphere (sorry, I don't have the details handy) which cooled down the earth, and that we have huge amounts of the stuff as a waste material -- we'd just need to put it into the upper atmosphere.

Now, I see that the science is disputed, and I understand that there'd be political problems with who controls the thermostat, but the idea was really cheap -- something like $40 million to get going and a million every year to continue. Way cheaper than government initiatives that haven't actually done anything.

Why can't we pursue something like this, or even try them out?
Python just doesn’t scale. Th language isn’t typed enough to be safe in a large program. Eventually you will iterate over a string or access an attribute of None. And the runtime is too slow. SRE at Google years ago banned new projects in python because the incredible slowness of the tools was extending the time to repair outages.
Read about the start of eugenics a hundred years ago.

There were people who really believed in instituting some really dark policies “for the greater good.
They ignore you for weeks, then complain about every line of code and solution you've produced and tell you how you should have done it. Repeat every month or two until crazy.
I hugely admire working with my American colleagues. They are indeed far more talented and it has always been a great learning experience. In fairness, if America wants it can cut India off. And the country will be many years behind without these opportunities. I always thought that investment in India is to integrate it into the world better and give people chance to be self supporting. And there's a hope that it will pay off on the world level to everyone. I do understand many Americans suffered from global pressures. But their sacrifices and continued persistence to add value is a great model for all of us. Well, at least for me.
Because tapes are cool.

Or for a longer answer. Bands don't need to release vinyl. Fans appreciate the physicality, and will pay for it. But tiny bands probably don't have the resources for a vinyl pressing. I was also making reference to back in the day when your options were vinyl/cd or tape. If you wanted to release an album, tape was your only choice unless you were likely to sell at least X hundred units. And as I said, tapes are cool :)
I upgraded to 7 with the license payment ($49 seemed fair to me). Biggest value add with the upgrade is the google authenticator integration which is useful for sites that support it.

I would stop upgrading if agilebits ever drop local vault support though.
they are ok at it, far from great. netflix is a good example of engineering at scale.
The Moral Rot of the MIT Media Lab
I'm still a TVC. This could be a separate discussion on the scope of how TVCs are treated and it could complement all the recent articles in the media, however, my main focus was on something common, such as tech stack, restrictions and constrictions that will impact you when you go out and work somewhere else.
Is climate change more of a scientific problem, or a political one? Will the problem de-materialize as soon as some scientists finally figure it all out?
This post would be much better with just the middle two paragraphs, which make your point just fine.

The first paragraph is supercilious baiting and the second is a snarky putdown. Can you please not do such things on HN? We've had to ask you this repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A lot of people like to literally read their order off the screen, even though internally they know exactly what it is they want. It's a habitual thing. So it does throw off those people when they get to the cashier, and what they were looking at is no longer there. Especially when there is a limited-time product available.

I see it happen almost daily in the cafe I frequent in the morning. The cashiers must be cursing the new digital menus, since there wasn't such a delay when the same menu items were in more permanent formats.
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This is very exciting. BEVs that were made before 2016 (I think that was when the last breakthrough trickled down to BEVs in the market) typically had a battery lifetime of about 70k miles or maybe a bit more before reaching 70% capacity. Fast-charging regularly might reduce capacity by several percent points within a few hot summer months. Basically, you bought a car for €30k and it might become useless 5-7 years later. Within a couple of years, we have gone from "I don't know, it's a bit risky to buy" to "My grandkids might be able to use this battery in their static storage system in a few decades".
I'm literally a engineer who does DSP, so yeah I do understand it.

24-bit doesn't tend to matter, because somewhere in the mastering pipeline will inevitably be 16-bit nine times out of ten.

And the compression they use in 16-bit to try and have their cake and eat it too has more noticeable than the issues with vinyl IMO. Yes, there's technically plenty of room in there for the signal without compression or clipping, but like I showed above there's systemic reasons why they don't use the bandwidth effectively.
You can suck carbon out of the atmosphere faster than the geological processes that do it naturally. But that of course doesn't matter if you work on the assumption that it's ridiculous to stop burning fossil fuels. Many people believe that it's possible and actually not hard, just expensive.
With vinyl revenue growing by 12% in the second half of 2018 and first half of this year, and CD rates barely changing at all, it could see vinyl revenue overtake that of CDs by the end of the year.

If it does happen, it’ll be the first time that vinyl has generated more revenue than CDs since 1986.
Probably grooming it for enterprise use cases/customers
The issue of the two tiered justice system which exists for the benefit of plutocrats is separate from and in addition to the issue of plutocrats associating with a known and confessed child predator, in exchange for god knows what favors. Whether or not they did anything criminal, these individuals' "mere association" with Epstein after his 2008 conviction demonstrates extremely poor character judgment at best, and makes it completely reasonable to wonder whether something more sinister was at work. Why did people like Gates and Hoffman, for whom the amounts Epstein donated were a rounding error, have anything to do with him in the first place?
> Google for web calculator, nothing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=atan(42)

https://www.google.com/search?q=atan(42)+in+degrees

(Personally, I usually do quick-and-dirty arithmetic directly in the shell, as ksh expressions include floating point.

echo $((atan(42)))

)
ITT: People who read nothing past the first paragraph saying, 'Yeah, but only in zebrafish ppl'
CDs are dying, but they are mostly being killed by streaming services, not by vinyl. Digital music formats are still the king by far. The vast majority of people don't even care that their streamed music is lossy and they lose out on high frequencies that their ears can't hear and their headphones can't reproduce.

Vinyl appeals to hipsters and dumb audiophiles (there are smart audiophiles, but they aren't buying vinyl), both communities that are prone to buying into hype. Hipsters move on as soon as something becomes mainstream, and dumb audiophiles will move on as soon as there is a more expensive option with newer/cooler buzzwords attached to it. Cassette tapes could replace vinyl someday as the hip alternative to digital music- it's retro and analog, plus they are portable and don't skip/lose track during heavy movement (which a record player would do if you could go jogging with one).
The thing that got me to stop buying CDs for the most part is how badly they are mastered.

In past it was some labels that put out badly mastered CDs, these days artists that once produced excellent albums now seems to accept a final result that tries to win the loudness war.
Is there a way to access nytimes without signing in?
All good and I agree, but consider likewise that scientific prestige is sometimes a figleaf for poor behavior, and at the same time this has been happening India has taken an entire province subject to a disputed territorial claim and placed it under a near-total total communications blackout. For Indie to then lose contact with its own spacecraft just before its moment of triumph thus seems like poetic justice.

I presume that by 'enemies of India' you allude to Pakistan, but it's also possible that vindictively negative comment could come from racists in the US or other countries who feel antipathy towards India. This isn't uncommon in software development where such people seem sadly over-represented.
Why should we believe Benford? How do we know there weren't other incidents?

Given Minsky's well-established long-running ties to Epstein, I don't think we can afford not to believe the allegations against him. I find it especially painful because I was once a student in one of his courses, it was a great experience and I didn't suspect a thing about him - but you never know.

Never meet your heroes. Never have heroes.
That's why this feels like a publicity stunt to shame Microsoft.

If you've made millions of dollars from selling something - I don't feel like you have the right to shame the buyer especially if you're only offering 25% back. He should have kept the offer he made private.
Germany plans to ban single-use plastic shopping bags next year
You need to listen "Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy":

https://www.soundcloud.com/user-56712817/deep-adaptation

Or read it:

https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf
Oxy-Acetylene Explosions at 330k FPS [video]
Exploitability is relative,as in compared to other bugs of a similar class. Subjwctivity is not always bad.

CVSS score is better than nothing.like i said before, high/medium/low is not granular enough. How is it different than having a 3 point numerical scale? Do you disagree with the granularity?

Just MS patch tuesday could be dozens of patches. If you have the process you can use cvss as a starting point for generating final risk score. If you don't CVSS provides you with some guidance as to what you should prioritize. It's meant to be an aid not a rule. In the end you should patch all vulns and prioritize as it makes sense in your environment
doesn't end up with zero at the end, rejected?
Sorry, maybe I am missing something here. For local admin, I agree re context switching etc.
But for O365 admin, we have a similar setup and I admin O365 through a separate container tab or Powershell where you need to connect to Azure separately anyways. Seems straightforward to me.
It blows my mind that todo list app can be worth $200 million... Then again a chat app is now worth several billion... I don't have any idea of how this works.
Great! Looking through the suggestions I actually really like them, good job!
That's the plan of Thanos in Avengers Infinity War.
Truth is, if you have the resources to make half people disappear with no consequences you also have the resources to fix climate change directly.
Building gas plants is not terribly stupid, because we'll probably need power-to-gas technology unless somebody finds cheaper ways to make batteries.
Modern microcontrollers can run on a fraction (uA range) of the power that those 80s credit card calculators ran on (mA range), and still have millions of times more powerful processing abilities.
Because we don't understand enough to be sure it wouldn't cause unintended negative side effects.

I read that one possibility is less rain. Which is obviously something we don't want. It's already not enough.
It doesn't matter in the least if you agree with a candidate on everything. This one specific subject should be a deal breaker though, regardless of just about any other stance. Your opinion on free market is irrelevant in the face of Extinction.
Virus Lasers for Biological Detection
Have these people never seen Twitter?!?