skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Archeological evidence in China indicates surface mining of coal and household usage after approximately 3490 BC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coal_mining

The underlying causes of this drying and desertification has previously been attributed to subtle changes in the Earth’s orbit, which in turn influenced atmospheric weather patterns and led to a reduction of the amount of rainfall in northern Africa. But Wright, whose scientific research has led him to exploring Neolithic-age archaeological sites all over the world, suggests that this is not the full picture. “In East Asia there are long established theories of how Neolithic populations changed the landscape so profoundly that monsoons stopped penetrating so far inland”, explains Wright, also noting in his paper that evidence of human-driven ecological and climatic change has been documented in Europe, North America and New Zealand. Wright believed that similar scenarios could also apply to the Sahara.

https://blog.frontiersin.org/2017/03/14/did-humans-create-th...
this is the most hacker news post i have ever seen that doesnt involve Rust
Breathing App Launch
I was also reading that one of the reasons might have been his war wounds that were apparently agonizing him ...

They probably reminded him constantly of the fact that he didn't get the promotions he expected.

It's definitely an interesting case and we won't really ever now for certain what actually happened.

Whether he was legitimately scoured by the congress or if he was just a sociopath expecting things he didn't deserve.

... I think the comparisons to Trump aren't valid though.

At least Arnold was accomplished and competent. Trump is neither.
If your wife doesn’t like your friends, there is usually a reason. Your friends may be not respecting the marriage or trying to get you to do the same types of things you did when you were single.
Both maybe? Trying for the We trademark money after cashing out 700m seems like picking up the penny, and the various We spinoffs seem like the job too many.
> You mean other than Bin Laden being there, of course.
The Taliban provided shelter to a guy who committed a terrorist attack on the US, and refused to give him up. We would never have gone in otherwise.

The US was involved in large scale operations in the 1970s and 1980s to destabilize the secular Afghan government. The US bankrolled and armed bin Laden, and much of what would become the Taliban, in their jihad against Afghanistan's then secular government.
I am so happy to hear that he's been acquitted. This was posted on HN after it happened:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20881509

It made me really angry then, and I think it's both hilarious and sad that it took the jury less than half an hour to rule on such an obvious case.

"Judge Lucido replied that there were "limits" to free speech. When Somberg asked Lucido to clarify which of the Facebook posts presented to the court were threatening, Lucido said that they 'alluded' to the judge and did not explain his reasoning any further.

Lucido raised Vanderhagen's bond to $500,000, an amount Somberg told Reason was tantamount to a bond "you would expect for a murderer or rapist.""

Seems like an obvious abuse of power. I hope there are consequences, but cynical me doubts it. At the very least, it shows a good legal precedent and I hope will guide future case law.
I'm not sure the combination of downturn and co-working spaces pitched for relatively short-term startup spaces has existed before.

I would note that I know of larger companies that are shifting people to remote who don't consistently use their assigned office space if capacity has gotten tight.
Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and Daily Patterns of Rainfall in Sumatra
Expecting good faith from shanley given her track record is like yet another frog offering a ride across the river to the scorpion, despite the frog corpses nearly damming the flow downstream. This is just not a person who deserves to be taken seriously.
I actually think it's actively harmful to hide problems that can be otherwise fixed. If the CPU is too busy to keep filling the audio buffer, the solution is to increase the buffer size to put less stress on the scheduler. I recently reduced my buffer size in Ableton Live, but I knew I had to increase it because I could hear pops. If these pops were being covered up, I wouldn't have realized my buffer size was too small and I'd be unknowingly introducing subtle artifacts into every recording.
Call it emergent behavior then; whether through uncoordinated coordination of the media/marketing world, or uncoordinated coordination of peer/social pressures, these expectations exist.

I have literally been shut down in a conversation, in person, at work, more than once, because I was a white male in tech.
Have you ever been in a Regus office? They're horrible spaces. They don't get it. WeWork is a lot nicer. That's why they're worth a lot more.
I see several people suggesting that men should get more hobbies in order to meet with other guys, the issue is, hobbies don't form deep friendships (much of the time). You just end up talking about the hobby and nothing else. At least that's how I feel. Talking about anything more than the hobby suddenly becomes unusual.
If you wanted to make normal market forces work, the easiest way to do that would be to make web platforms liable for hosted content, and let the litigious American adversarial legal system take care of the rest.

Of course, this would be a major disruption to how the Internet currently works and has a whole separate host of issues.
Can't tell if satire but if not can you provide us with some links as to why you decided to try it and how you decided on the specific setup?
More and more websites are so advanced that they can’t even use an <a> tag anymore. Instead they do some convoluted onclick-scripting that breaks all standard behavior and accessibility functionality.
This is the number that shows if we are making progress or not: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

Spoiler, we're not. It's getting worse and it's accelerating.

Interactive graph: https://www.co2levels.org/
I tend to prefer to frame it slightly differently as "given this same situation again in the future, how do i ensure that the outcome ends up favorably for me instead?" or "how do i enure that i don't encounter such situations in the future?"

The root cause to me is only useful in that it might provide insight in how to improve my life going forward.
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I think it was an episode of Planet Money a couple of months ago, that had an interview with someone senior in the bond world. She seemed really quite worried about the current state of the market.

There is so much capital desperately trying to find a home that they are having to invest in companies with very little oversight or influence. In the past they would have been the grown-ups in the room, applying some scrutiny and skepticism to everything. But now companies can simply go somewhere else if you turn them down.

She seemed to think that there were a lot of companies being kept afloat by this easy money that could easily go pop in the near future, or companies that should have gone bust ages ago but are limping along with cheap credit.

It does seem that whether or not we are headed for an imminant bust, the economy is in a pretty peculiar place at the moment with negative interest rates etc.
Short answer - it probably doesn't do too much outside of making you better at tasks similar to n back.

Long answer - https://www.gwern.net/DNB-FAQ
STL has nothing to do with OOP . In Alex Stepanov (the ST in STL) words "object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence"
It improves your skill of doing Dual N-Back.
Most new studies show that brain games (like dual N-Back) are not transitive (unfortunately).
> But since We is a real business with real users and a successful one, We can't just coast on its cash.

If it were a real successful business it wouldn't need emergency cash injections to stay alive.
> I only give personal data to websites when I have to

This is a great policy that I think more people should use. Not everything needs your real name, real birthday, or your real home address. Definitely not your real phone number. You often do need a real email address.

> you don't usually need to give much personal data anyway

This is where it gets tricky. Anonymized aggregate data can be surprisingly identifying. You only need 33 bits of information to uniquely identify any individual in the world. If your IP tells me you're from San Francisco, then I need just 20 bits of information to uniquely identify you.

Data mining 20 yes/no answers about one of your users is ... pretty easy.
Invisibility and Holodecks are exact, geometric inverse forms of each other
A relentless optimization process executed over decades is always fascinating! Of course my 7-yrs quipped "Is that Fortnite?" to which followed a mini lecture in the history of FPSes.
I feel like this question is begging for self promotion...

But, I'll resist the urge - I met a ton of interesting startups in Startup School.

One that I found particularly interesting was Voco: https://sayvoco.com/

They were installing Alexa devices in nursing homes for seniors, while I dislike the privacy implications I can see a massive quality of life improvement.
> There is really no such thing as 'instantaneous frequency response'

Yes that's true, I'm proposing something that uses an approximation of it.

Consider it from a different angle: the inner ear essentially performs a Fourier transform. At every moment the "instantaneous" spectrum determines which hair cells are triggered. Now what I propose is to keep triggering those same hair cells (and not any others) when the buffer runs dry. The exact way of accomplishing this is left as an exercise (though using short windows where you take a FFT could be a good approximation).
Memory is just one kind of resources. Games do tons of I/O, often gigabytes/second. To illustrate, any PC game has a lot of places which call GPU driver like this:

D3D11_MAPPED_SUBRESOURCE mapped;
context->Map( buffer, 0, D3D11_MAP_WRITE_DISCARD, 0, &mapped );
// Write memory address pointed by mapped.pData
context->Unmap( buffer, 0 );

With C++ RAII, you can do something like that instead:

MappedBuffer mapped{ buffer }
// Write memory address pointed by mapped.pData.
// No need to do anything else, the destructor of MappedBuffer will unmap.
I would argue that a so-called "new era" has already begun, regardless of whether Stallman is physically the chair of any organization. So much time has passed since the formation of the FSF, and (though HN likes to pretend otherwise), tech doesn't exist in a bubble.

Different issues are driving decisions today than were a few decades ago; that's just the flow of time. I don't think it's a bad thing at all that standards and goals have changed.

I think this "new era" began with the rise of FAANG companies, so really, these trends have been in motion for a while. I'm excited what new developments in AR/VR, AI, compiler theory, etc. will come in the approaching years.
Ok, but a large buffer size means more latency.

Also, the settings you use for development do not have to be the same as those used in production.
Yes my family is my number one interest, but not my only interest. My (step) sons who loved to spend time with me when we met and they were 9 and 14 - now one doesn’t live with us and the other is 17 with his own friends and interests.

My wife’s interests and my interests are well enough aligned that we like spending time together, but she has her own interests and own set of female friends.
American Emergency Rooms Confront a Crisis of Violence
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."

- Isaac Newton on the South Sea Company Bubble.
Perhaps under an alternative definition of the term "concentration camp" which would also include prisons and jails. Whether or not you believe the law is just the people being detained have committed the crime of illegal entry, and they are being detained because of this crime.

The mainstream definition of concentration camp is one where people are interned on the basis of a national, ethnic, or religious identity [1]. The term came to prominence during the Boer War [2] where Afrikaners were imprisoned on the basis of their ethnicity, not for any particular crime. Detaining people illegally crossing a border is not a concentration camp under the commonly accepted definition.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_concentration_camps
On a first take, I assumed the title was referring to microplastics (e.g., the literal consumption of plastic), but then I realized we probably have no idea how much microplastic is inside humans (and all other animals), and what the long-term consequences will be.

I'm fine with the idea of plastic, but single-use plastic has got to go. We shouldn't accept the disposal of plastic into our waterways and food chain without scientific researching proving that microplastics are safe-- though it's doubtful they are. Why do we invent new physical things without first considering the consequence of the lifecycle of the product? If plastic was invented today, no regulatory body would allow us to use it as we do.
They did some things that countries do in 1776, but failed to do others for example a national court system. I think the usual description in such situations is to say they had a government, as it’s not uncommon historically for things like governments in exile to exist.

That said as the colonies had been doing stuff like enforcing laws and collecting taxes it’s more reasonable to call them a collection of governments than say the United States existed as a country in 1776.
If you're into CA natives, a good resource of videos, albeit low quality and requiring Flash, can be found at http://naturebytesvideo.com/

Also, https://www.laspilitas.com/ is a great resource as well as a nursery providing CA native plants.
> I suspect reducing emissions is cheaper in the long run than dealing with the effects.

I'm not entirely sure. People seem to be convinced that climate change will destroy all civilization, but in the distant past the earth has flourished with significantly higher temperatures than what we have today. Once our climate reaches a new equilibrium, humanity will adjust and everything will probably be OK.

And we can be certain that there will be a new equilibrium, otherwise life wouldn't have lasted for hundreds of millions of years.
Except they aren't. No group is being concentrated for being members of religious, political, or ethnic groups. The people in ICE detention facilities are there having been arrested for crossing the border illegally and awaiting a hearing in which a judge reviews their case usually to determine if their refuge claims are valid. By your standard jails and prisons would be concentration camps, which is also ludicrous.

If you want talk about concentration camps then I would direct to the crimes being committed against Uyghur's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGYoeJ5U7cQ
You need to read Clifford Simak's "The Way Station"
> But if the dental schools aren't producing enough minority dentists, those communities may not have access to quality dental care.

Sorry, I must have missed the memo that citizens can only visit dentists of the same ethnicity.
Developing a deep friendship outside of shared interests is a skill some people need to build, not everyone has it built in.

Sometimes it involves a little awkwardness initially. Don’t let that hold you back.
Even without such a rule, it's still a social win over 5 two-tops with one patron each, as far as I'm concerned — and it's probably a wash for per-square-foot revenue.
I don‘t think I would. I just don‘t see the point anymore. Don‘t get me wrong, I once was a romantic too! :) I used to spend entire afternoons after school in the bookstore or libraries and had a pretty good library. Now when I see paper books I groan a little. Too heavy, too much material/waste, too impractical, and most of all kind of fusty. What‘s the point.
Employees would like to cash out enough to get downpayments on pricey Bay Area homes too, but screw them amirite?
Nice - I love Feynman! Actually, QED was the big reason why I got interested in the question in the first place! I think that what he poses there is more of: 'there's no way for me to explain to you what this field is - since I can't formulate an analogy that you're familiar with, so I won't even try.' I love Feynman's sense of curiosity: it was absolutely divine and he's a personal hero of mine. One thing that I never understood about him though was the fact that whenever someone would pose the question of existence or why the laws exist, he would always shrug it off and say that he didn't understand and that there was no point in trying to understand it. It is what it is - we do the mathematics and take it as is. My take: I think that explaining it is possible, and I think it's a question that's definitely worthy of trying to answer. Even if we can't get there, the pursuit itself I would think would be a worthy cause!!
>The only applications strongly sensitive to latency are video games

paining with a pen/tablet/mouse
What are your thoughts on Golang?
It's a matter of perspective. Your general example sounds like it's from the perspective of WeWork's CEO, who is obviously responsible for his decisions.

But what about the perspective of SoftBank's shareholders? If they're unhappy about this, they ought to be unhappy with the dealmakers at SoftBank for creating a situation where SoftBank is exposed to volatility of this kind.
The Mate 30 is a moment of truth for Huawei
I also really, really second this. I am currently studying and took some interest in how other parents managed the situation (because of how my parents dealt with it).

If your life revolves around your kids you have to keep in mind that this is not for life. Loosing all your hobbies and all your friends will lead to a bad awakening when you realize that your previously laughter-filled house is now quite, your children left for university and only you and your partner are sitting at the dinner table. Now the house is too big, there's nothing to do in the evenings and you're kinda lost.

A suprising amount of marriages failed and some parents really lost their way. When you don't have any real friends, friends that help when you struggle, it gets tough. You can't fill that void with half-assed hobbies. Eating out on wednesday and going to the gym on friday are probably not really helping.

Writing this, I think I realized something. I think one of the problems is that parents understimate the speed of change and are taken fully by suprise when they move out. One moment they are 16, quite grown up but you still notice the children in them. But then they turn 17 and then there's only one year left until they move out, until they live by their own and explore the world on their own. They maybe move to another city and that turns your complete life upside down. That's a rapid change and it's only 2 years.
As explained here [1], it uses a variation of Duff's device. So the claim that Protothreads were invented by Adam Dunkels with support from Oliver Schmidt is slightly misleading IMHO.

But fair play for turning it into a working library.

[1] http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/expansion.html
This is interesting, more?
So you agree with Ellen May Ngwethu (Cassini Division) that uploads are flatlines even if they exhibit free will and have all the memories of their original?

I recommend anyone interested in this subject to read The Cassini Division by Ken McLeod and Accelerando by Charles Stross.
How is this not the #1 story? Why do we even bother with all the other trivia?
The number don't add up. Being scared of terrorist attacks is like being afraid of winning the lottery. Your chances are lower than you think.

I’ve heard this said before, but I don’t know if I believe it. How do the chances change if, let’s say, you live in a major city that has been attacked before (perhaps more than once)?
None taken :), and my comment was about the snide in great (x3) grand parent comment(s). The whole fanboy/vegan/how do you know chain.
Is it bad to have blue blood ? I think it could be kind of novel if it didn't have any nasty side effects.
I don't have a question, I just wanted to let you know what you did was extremely based.
I don’t get it. What did the control group do? Did they go on a retreat of some kind? Or did they just go on with their normal stressful lives of picking up at daycare, commuting through traffic jams and passive aggressiveness of laundry rooms?

I would like to see the effect of the meditation itself.
I agree, if the Ferengui most of the time were semic-comedic, I think that when they were not the starkness of it helped highlight the point and some episode do play on that subtly.
Frankly this kind of doomsaying view has no basis in reality. While it's true that unmitigated global warming will impose a very large economic cost, it's simply not the case that it's going to turn the world into some unlivable hell-scape. There's just no basis for that belief in the actual evidence.

The best estimates say that global warming will lower per capita GDP by somewhere between 5-20% by 2100. That's a tragedy, because in aggregate it represents a huge amount of unnecessarily lost wealth. But a 5-20% in GDP per capita does not mean that we'll be dying in the streets.

Let's be very conservative and assume global GDP per capita grows at 2% per year. In the baseline scenario, the median world citizen would still be 390% richer than the average person today. Applying the worst global warming impact (20% of GDP), the median person would still be 290% richer than the average person today.

Unmitigated global warming will make the people of the future substantially poorer. But not nearly by enough to cancel out the effect of continuous economic growth and technological development. It's almost certainly the case that the people of 2100 will enjoy higher living standards than the present.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/20/climate-change-to-slow-globa...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impacts_of_climate_ch...
There are reasonable people today who buy "RFID wallets" and are not generally considered to be overly paranoid.

It seems at least a possibility that we will enter a future where similar people will buy the related product of "RFID hats" [as branded with whatever acronym this technology adopts, and perhaps as an "also suggested by Amazon" to boot].
Compare the Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, Pew, and MacArthur foundations, for the US. These don't represent the interests of Standard Oil, US Steel, Ford Motor, Sun Oil, or Bankers Life & Casualty.
Extremely based? I’m not sure I understand your comment.
I still have my HP48G I bought in 2000 for college calculus. Introduced me to reverse polish notation, loved the tactile feedback from the keys. I bought a simulator for it on my phone.
Isn't that sort of what going solo on a startup is trying to do?
Disney’s Bob Iger walked away from a Twitter purchase because of “nastiness”
I wonder if the answer to this is adopting the mechanical royalty model from the music industry. Anyone can stream the movie but a royalty must be paid.
The tiny but mighty Olympia oyster regains a foothold in Washington waters
All but one major extinction event in the past was because of global warming. What you are missing is that during those times , the temperature change was over a much longer period of time than now. What we are doing is unprecedented and there is little reason to believe anything will flourish.
20 person study of people who already practice meditation is pretty much worthless.
Not necessarily. For example just switching over coal-fired plants to gas-fired plants reduces carbon emissions by 50%. (This is a big reason why the US's emissions have decelerated since 2000.) Yet that would be almost entirely invisible at the consumer level.