skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is going to drown. People will do some combination of building walls, raising land, and moving. It will play out over a period of a thousands years or more. There will be a non-zero cost associated with diverting resources for these things, but that's not the end of the world. I'm not saying it's an excuse for not acting though. We have a responsibility to take care of our own mess, rather than just dump it on our children.

I still think the comparative lack of low-lying coastal land, plus ample freshwater, increased growing season, and increased arable land will be net benefit for Canada and Russia. Plus if things are as bad as you say, they'll benefit from increased demand for immigration as well (even if you don't take on more people, you can select more desirable immigrants.)

This is not a crash situation like 2008, this is more like a glacier that's flowing towards you. You have plenty of time to plan your response, like moving out of the way, but you can't stop it. Trouble in other countries will have unpredictable, but not necessarily all bad effects.
> Similarly, they have us to make safe airplanes and complex satellite equipment.

This sounds borderline tongue-in-cheek [1].

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-crash-...
Sure, and any PC has tons of analog circuits too, for example speaker output. The calibration and scaffolding in quantum computers isn't a model of anything. Not in the same way as opamp board in this article is an analogy of integral.
If the software is foreign made and used in US, americans are still vulnerable. And opensource isn't American/national
"Addresses are encoded in Base32 which means there are 32 characters available. So there are 32^16=1.208925819614629174706176×10^24 addresses available."

As a defense against the parent comment, though, this proves way too much. It doesn't matter how much k8s you throw at that, you're never going to so much as find your first site, if you're looking at the problem that way.

That's not really a relevant number here.
One problem is that of distribution. Many Chinese families are seeing their livelihood improved by the "underwear" jobs. However, a small group of US families are profiting from the sales of "satellites".

2nd problem is we're buying $336 billion more underwear than selling satellites. At some point we have to have a balanced flow or we'll go broke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_tr...
Yeah I'm sure Canada will welcome a billion people moving from India without any issues.
Then you go on your news outlet and meet your friendly facebook "like" button that keep stalking you.
Although I agree in theory, in reality, it's very difficult. Friends from college that I'm close to are all far away.

I think it's a downside of a loosely connected global social circle, versus a tightly connected local circle.

If you have achieved what you say, would love to hear more about how you got there, how to sustain it, trade-offs, etc.
Well it's not going to happen in our lifetime (half those places are still covered in ice), and if it does happen, will do so gradually, and based on the world becoming more and more peaceful over the centuries I believe yes, it probably can happen without war.

A couple centuries ago there were wars all over Europe, Asia, Africa, in the US alone the Revolutionary war and Civil war, wars with the Spanish, natives, etc...

Yes, I think over the timeframe where global warming will actually force true mass migration (if we don't reverse it first), it'll probably be peaceful.
> * Minsky went to Jeffrey Epstein's pedo island. * Everyone agrees he was offered a 17 year old girl * Someone else, who was also on pedo island for some reason, says he didn't take the offer, even though they were on pedo island * RMS described the trafficked child as "willing" * RMS has also made public arguments for legalizing pedophilia * People somehow still take RMS seriously

I see one wrong thing and one omission:

- The woman in question did not claim Minsky took the offer either. She only testified that she made the offer. There's an argument here that if Minsky had taken the offer, she would have said so.

- RMS did not describe the trafficked child as "willing". He said she presented herself to Minsky as willing, and suggested she might have been coerced by Epstein. I'll quote RMS here:

"We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates."

That RMS said "she was willing" is one of the two biggest lies the news headlines told about the situation (other being that he defended Epstein.)

I do not disagree with the rest of the statements you wrote (as quoted above).
They're finally doing something with all that cash they have on hand. Good. Congrats Texas.
At least telling people not to drive big cars and consume leaves increasingly more people feeling good about themselves.
Too Much Data: Prices and Inefficiencies in Data Markets
How do you prevent populists from gaining power and reducing it to 0€?
You're joking, right? I'm currently looking at the Mac Pro build page on Apple's site and literally every component upgrade costs nearly twice as much as if you got it individually - £360 to upgrade to a 1B pcie SSD (as opposed to 170 on amazon), just as much for 16Gb of DDR3 ECC memory (180 on other sites), etc.
One side is clearly favoring landfill over recycling and the other is horrified that stuff they thought was recycled is going to landfill.

One is suggesting avoiding nearly all plastics, while they other has studies showing that replacing plastic bags with organic cotton bags is 20,000x worse for the planet and will probably give you salmonella.

One complains that recycling is too hard, because you have all the different boxes and people only do it to punish themselves out of some puritan impulse and the other thinks it's too easy and people do it to make themselves feel better about their consumption.

These are not the same thing, they only seem to agree that recycling is bad, but for opposite reasons.

The answer almost certainly involves more (genuine) recycling but that seems to be the only thing people are united against, so it's not likely to end well.
Seems like the Hilux are made in 2 to 4L engines, while the Tundras are 4 to 5.7L. I'd say the Tundras are way way bigger, both in engine and shape.
I use both Lambda and EC2 a lot. The decision on which route to go for a particular service/feature/app is pretty straight forward for me: need to support high loads or super low latency? EC2. Low volume, unknown/unpredictable loads? Lambda.
There are many economists that think the acquisition of IG should have warranted antitrust.

This is a good case on it:

https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...
Mostly likely scenario: all-out war for resource or land.

> Or maybe everyone will simply move to Canada, Russia, Greenland and Antarctica.

So, which country is going to invade Canada to force them to allow in all these migrants? Or do you think they'll just do it willingly when people were screaming about 10,000 Syrian refugees? At the rate that global warming is progressing, there's no time for this kind of massive re-settlement without equally massive geopolitical upheaval.

> Either the Earth's systems will adapt...

I mean - duh - of course they will. The danger is not that global warming wipes out life on earth. It's that it sends human civilization back to the Stone Age or wipes it out completely (if Stone Age technology doesn't allow for survival). The idea that there's a technological solution assumes that we can manufacture and power such a thing without using even more fossils fuels to do so. I'm not convinced.
I had no smartphone up until like 2012 (and even afterwards for some time I didn't have mobile data, just WiFi when available).

It's sometimes inconvenient and you may "lose" quite some time for sure (e.g. miss a train because you could not check a platform change).

But for sure you can manage reading off street signs, looking at maps and perhaps asking passers-by. Asking for directions used to be a very common superficial interaction even in the socially "coldest" countries and it is very rarely happening anymore. Asking for directions was also one of the first things you learned in a foreign language.

For timetables you can just go and check the physical timetable at the station. Buy tickets at the station. Surely less convenient, but I'm pretty sure you'd manage, just like everyone did. It was just a few years ago.
I was responding to a commenter who enumerated their list of perceived fiscal failings of the government, from Bush to Obama to Trump.
No, banks do not have the legal right to withhold a customer's funds with an account freeze if they don't have a warrant signed by a judge. It's still "your money" on loan to the bank. The silliness of being scared of a big-bad bank needs to end.

If a bank does this to you, you call up (in the USA) the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency). They do a check on you to make sure no law enforcement agency considers you a terrorist. Once cleared, they tell the bank to release the funds. No court needed. This literally happened to me after depositing a check for my business.

I agree, banks, especially the top 5, can be cunts. But don't go all tin foil hat about it. Don't watch 10 minute youtube cartoons about "how money really works because the lizard Illuminati actually control it". It's bad for your mental health.
Can't wait until proper food gets too expensive for the working class scum. They are the ones fighting all the climate change initiatives - it will be a fair ending if they munch down on GMO corn and insect sandwiches while I'll be able to afford fish, steaks, organic chicken, etc.
They were supposed to move it to China and shut down the facility in Texas. But they reversed after I assume tariff threat from White House? Not sure but that's what I'd imagine.
We're basically as significant to the Earth existing as a mold strain is to a mountainside. If we're idiotic enough to trigger a climate catastrophe that wipes us out, this ball will keep on spinnin'...
I had bad eyesight when I was younger but didn't realize it. Whiteboards were so much easier to read for me.

I also, unrelatedlely, hated getting my hands dried out with chalk. So whiteboards won in every measure.
NASA's Guide to Black Hole Safety
I love this metaphor. :)
>Technology amplifies our nature. It is a neutral force.

On the whole, and in general, I agree. But I think it's worth digging in a bit deeper here.

Technology can amplify the nature of its users, if it's designed to do so. The extent to which this will or won't happen, however, also depends on design decisions made by its creators, whether intentionally or not. Technology in the abstract may be a neutral force, but specific technologies in practice very much are not; its creators have an outsized influence on what ends up happening on the platform. (See Facebook's surfacing of posts in the News Feed by "engagement" for example.)
It's made sense to build Japanese and European cars in the US for a very long time. Honda has had 2 plants in Ohio for at least a couple decades now, and Toyota, BMW, and others have had plants here for a long time too. The US is the world's largest auto market, and US labor rates are lower than Japanese or German labor rates, plus there's a savings when you don't have to ship a 3-5000 pound object across an ocean, so of course it makes sense to build the highest-volume models here where they're bought (especially models that don't sell outside the US).

As for "cowboy cosplay", the Tundra doesn't make much sense elsewhere because gas prices are generally higher in other industrial countries, and in less-wealthy countries with low gas prices (like the middle east) they buy smaller trucks (and wealthy people there don't buy trucks at all), so a large pickup truck obviously isn't going to sell well there. America is just a unique place where 1) gas prices are low, incentivizing buying larger vehicles, and 2) personal wealth is high enough for middle-class people to afford a very large truck, and 3) owning a truck for use as a commuter vehicle (rather than a utilitarian vehicle) is esteemed for some odd reason.
T-Mobile gives one 2g data overseas. I often just use that unless I'm staying somewhere an extended amount of time or need a local still for work tethering. It's fine. Uber is slow as hell but most apps are fine (maps, text, translate, etc.)
Ok, I understand you now!

It's not straightforward just how to apply those theories, and takes a lot of experimentation and adaptation. And getting the established education system to change is a Sisyphean task.

Instead of thinking of SimCity as a way of directly teaching urban planning, or financing, or building construction, you can use it to motivate and indirectly develop language, logical argument, and debating skills. You can ask students to write about their cities, by describing their aspirations, proposals, platforms, campaign promises, then promoting and defending and discussing the issues, then holding elections and voting for which plans to implement, then implementing them, then discussing and writing about how they turned out.
I beg to differ. The App store is known to have a higher quality bar for apps than the play store, and that’s helped by the $100 developer fee and strict review processes.

Not to mention Google tries hard to employ the same practices (you have to do some really roundabout stuff to install non-Play store apks).
No, the US builds lots of real stuff. It’s not just assembly. Not by a long shot.

The reason the trends are in opposite directions is because of increasing productivity. The number of worker-hours needed to build a car is much lower than in the past because of improved efficiency.
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> I personally try to avoid brilliant code.

"Brilliant" code that is hard for engineers to understand is not necessarily brilliant code.

The things I consider to be my finest moments are not opaque in that way.
Social Security funds aren't allowed to be invested in the stock market, and are held in the form of US Treasuries [0]. There was talk of changing that under Bush 44, but his reform plans never gained any serious traction.

[0] https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/policy-basics-...
Private Parking Goes Deluxe
Plenty of people who would have reason to know think the IPCC's reports are overly conservative because they are trying to spur action / avoid defeatism, and because they have to reflect a baseline consensus of many researchers.

https://skepticalscience.com/ipcc-scientific-consensus.htm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/10/30/clima...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43e8yp/the-uns-devastatin...
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I don't understand what you mean with turbulence envy?
>as much as I detest socialism, I don't see a peaceful way out of where we are not involving the "tax the wealthy... a lot"

Socialism != taxing the wealthy a lot.

Maybe part of your "hatred" of socialism comes from a misunderstanding of it? I make the suggestion because the rest of your comment pretty much outlines some of the many major problems with unlimited accumulation and concentration of wealth.
You can legislate IP as much as you want if all your engineering jobs have followed production.

Not sure what the analogy with planes is all about, it's exactly the thing they are both manufactured and designed in the same country.
Take Apple's non-compete scandal with other tech companies that effectively kept the salaries of engineers across the entire industry down. If you are a programmer, Apple hurt you salary prospects. [0]

Or what about collusion with other publishers for price fixing. Literally that Apple violated federal antitrust law. [1]

It's not a company's job to do illegal things.[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#Antitrus...
> they have us to make safe airplanes

You make safe airplanes? :)
> Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm not sure it is the business of government to be deciding what is or isn't healthy debate or trying to encourage it.

I think it's the business of government to encourage debate, as that's really the same as encouraging education. The government wasn't providing agendas on what ought to be discussed when the Fairness Doctrine was in place, just forcing people to debate a little more
Agreed, but anything is better than some 3rd-party tool (that may or may not be integrated into the build) doing one-off ad-hoc code generation. I think any C# meta-programming facility would be a good step. Certainly the TP interface(s) could be simplified for C#.
Functional programming alone is not very compelling. It's just a slightly different way of organizing your code and data, with different tradeoffs in terms of what code is easy and what code is hard.

If all you do is present examples of using higher-order functions and algebraic data types, people will be pretty justified in saying "this doesn't really change anything important." And that's because it doesn't!

Even in Haskell, once you learn the language, code is code. Sure, laziness means learning new ways to think about composing code, but that's just a small detail. In the end, the things that matter are same. Everything you know about performance optimization still applies. The only difference is the look of the code used to express it.

You replace for loops with higher-order iteration combinators! Woo! It doesn't really change anything. You replace goto with recursion. Big deal! It's all the same thing. (At least in a language with proper tail-call elimination.)

There is no giant breakthrough happening because there really isn't anything to break through... At least as long as all you care about is "functional programming".

There are languages where more interesting things are going on than just functional programming, though. And those have actual promise for providing real benefits. Haskell has a type system that provides real benefits in terms of documentation and correctness. That is actually useful. But it's not "functional programming."

So yeah. I don't care about functional programming. I care about things that are actually improvements.
For those, like me, who had no idea what this was, here's the product summary from Amazon:

> Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples.

> It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages―Teutonic, Romance, Greek―helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a languages as it is actually used in everyday life.

> But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech. It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures. Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know.

[Source](https://www.amazon.com/Loom-Language-Approach-Mastery-Langua...)
Google isn’t helping me here, other than mainframes which sectors does IBM dominate?
Dells are always on "sale". It's part of some game involving enterprise sales and negotiated discounts off list price.
A hot take from 1986
It's really, really hard to do this when it goes against the bottom line, no matter how good of a person you are.

The company will eventually act in ways that serve to increase revenue. Thus, if your incentives are misaligned, the actions you take to increase revenue will be harmful to users.
Australia Is Using New Technology to Catch Drivers on Phones
Nice. But instead of cleaning up licence and all digital protection looks like we are adding more to it.
Thank the EU. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/smes/support/late-payment_en:

”Main provisions of the Directive

Public authorities have to pay for the goods and services that they procure within 30 days or, in very exceptional circumstances, within 60 days.

Enterprises have to pay their invoices within 60 days, unless they expressly agree otherwise and provided it is not grossly unfair.

Automatic entitlement to interest for late payment and €40 minimum as compensation for recovery costs.

Statutory interest of at least 8% above the European Central Bank’s reference rate.

EU countries may continue maintaining or bringing into force laws and regulations which are more favourable to the creditor than the provisions of the Directive.”
I would say it's something you should work _with_ not _on_. Being introverted means you gain your energy from time alone and you typically drain energy in social settings. It doesn't mean you can't function around others, but that your alone-time is not optional.

Learning that about myself and figuring out how to work with that has made life a lot easier.
A slightly different framing than openness that is used from time to time is owner controllable. Older x86 systems were underdocumented, but at least there was the hope of reverse engineering to replace boot firmware, limit device firmware and develop libre device drivers. Not so on today's OEM systems, the CPUs are coming cryptographically fused to only accept the OEMs boot firmware and with locked down, privileged, security co-processors.

I don't want to live in a world where everything new is an iThing that says I can't help you Dave. That could turn retro-computing from a hobby to an essential life skill to preserve freedom!
Hi GitLab employee, I can assure you we won't sell out, Sid our CEO is very adamant about going public in 2020 and we're currently on track (actually ahead of it wooo) https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/being-a-public-company/

Also FYI, Sid is Dutch but we're registered in the US, although our entire company is remote :)
What's crazy is that this is what C# should have always been. I was into Mono way back because I thought niavely it was going to be more successful, but I think if C# had gone this route earlier -> the whole python / go etc popularity boom might have been softer and MS would have had a first class player that would have increase # of folks easily able to build in windows.

That and I never got to develop successfully beyond Forms - which I wish was not in preview from designer standpoint. I know old tech, but frankly for older programmers I find it easier and quicker to get stuff up with.
The chip he appears to have bought is a 90W TDP part. I have a pretty beefy 650W power supply in my Blackbird, but I think that was overkill, and it was $94. I would certainly try another PSU but I wouldn't immediately think that would be the problem.
You argue that climate change is "normal". However, the rate at which it is happening is the problem. And moving the entire population "to Canada, Russia, Greenland and Antarctica" doesn't seem desirable. So we need to fight climate change to minimize it.
I guess auto-immune disease is an example of where it also goes the wrong way for somebody. Probably most of us know somebody with IBD, lupus, or any of the others. It's very common for the body to reject something benign, or ourselves.
https://ec.europa.eu/growth/smes/support/late-payment_en