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Has anyone noticed climate change has pushed all hurricanes away from Mainland USA?
The alternative is risking war with a nuclear power for food and land that can be used for agriculture.
If you think that the government under Obama didn't do anything for improving quality of air and water in the US, you are just trying not to see the facts. And if you haven't noticed, there is a whole oil lobby that has been pushing money into the GOP machine trying to discredit climate change for decades. US is (for the better) a federal structure, and nothing happens by fiat forever.

Could the democrats have done better? Definitely. Are they better than the republicans in responding better to these issues? You have to be obtuse on purpose to believe otherwise.
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I think part of what's happening there might be that what you describe as "hot = abroad", on closer consideration, would actually expand to "hot and not raining = abroad".

Global warming might be delivering "hot", but it hasn't been delivering "not raining". So this might be connected to the discrepancy you've noticed between the language of climate change, and people's opinions about the weather.

I've certainly spoken to people who've tried to tell me that increased rainfall is the reason why they don't believe global warming is occurring, presumably because: (a) they conflate warming with "good weather" (for some definition of good weather), and (b) they're not well acquainted with how the water gets up in to the sky in the first place.
Do people have doors like that? Mine looks like a bog standard wooden door. Even the fanciest condo I lived in had a massive heavy fire door with hella heft but it didn't look metal.
More than a quarter of their profits were being used to pay interest on loans taken out after years of decline.

The management seem to do a good job of diverting attention from the debts but the company was seriously badly managed, it was only a matter of time before it went bump.

That's not to mention the 2006 Carbon Monoxide poisoning incident which meant people like me resolved never to use the company again.
Do you mean the c style for loops? The were removed in favour of iterator style loops (for foo in bar { ... }). Or are there some others I haven't noticed?
NRX is all about romanticizing the history of kings around the world as if their history wasn't one of pointless gang wars. (So is a fair bit of fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction, and so is the Aeneid, really; it's a pre-medieval narcocorrido.) So it's no surprise that neoreactionaries would talk as if these were opposite ends of a spectrum.
That would be fun to see for sure!

Further, i imagine top/professional sales, advertising, and marketing firms would look to recruit soldiers from these type of units - much like professional security firms recruit people from military and intelligence agencies. ;-)
Kids are simply used these days to deflect any criticism, HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE A 16 YR OLD KID

The truth is most of these children are just that, children, they are being used by capitalistic parents as a walking billboard for whatever agenda or service is being promoted.

Awareness is great and all but not many people are looking to be more aware, we are looking for practical solutions, none of which are being offered with all the attention goes to idolizing a child.
There was an article this past day or two criticizing We, with an "old vs. new" business model graphic as Exhibit A of how fucked up We is. Except I looked at it and said, "I dunno, looks reasonable to me." Because it was a graphic of just what you describe: take disparate parts, put them under the We umbrella, profit. To me, that wasn't Exhibit A of their fuckedness, it was what might have saved them if anything was going to. Exhibit A is what you allude to: I had forgotten We bought Meetup until you mentioned it. Now why, as a person immersed in the tech industry, was I allowed to forget that?

EDIT: "...are looking to focus on WeWork’s main business of leasing office space, refurbishing it and renting it out to businesses on shorter terms." (emphasis mine)

Oh, man, they are so doomed.
Left-accelerationism IS some form of socialism. The goal being to heighten the contradictions of capitalism. And yes, an accelerationist tendency has existed for a long time, since Marx I think.

Right accelerationism differs from fascism in its relationship to capitalism I think.

But honestly, I think these groupings are a bit iffy. There are connections between Zelzany, Land, and leftist acceleration, but they are slight.
I am genuinely curious - how did you end up with such beliefs?

thank you in advance.
Android aside, the use of JVM might offer a better alternative (because of bytecode validation).

One way to achieve security is to enforce what an application/process can do is via specialized interfaces. For example, java.io.File will only see a virtual application filesystem, and one would need to grant special permissions (via a different interface) for file access outside of the app sandbox.

These permissions should be controlled (and audited) by the user. Possibly at more levels than currently (blocked/allowed always/while running).
But dogs are a lot closer genetically to humans than octopuses are. Perhaps dreaming has something to do with intelligence, perhaps it has something to do with how our brain is structured.
The thing to worry about is the rate of change. I'm a fan of the visualization that XKCD did here: https://xkcd.com/1732/
When the rate of change is too fast, life struggles to adapt. Feedback loops are so tight that it accelerates even more. For instance, a slow permafrost melt means some trees die and rot, but new ones grow to replace them at similar rates. A fast permafrost melt means all the trees die and rot quickly. Their carbon is added to the atmosphere. The other plants and animals that depended on them lose all their habitat.

Think of climate like a car going 100 MPH. Climate change is changing the speed of the car. Do you want to be in a car that goes from 100 to 0 in 0.5 seconds, or in 20 seconds? The climate is changing quickly and we don't even have proper seat belts for everyone.
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Note that the parent did not say "survival and reproduction will select for intelligence". They said, intelligence if possessed will be put to that use. Livestock may be dumb, but males will still sneak out of their enclosure to mate with the herd, if they can figure out how.

The implication is that if octopuses could make technology, pass on culture etc, they would.
Do you have any speculation about why they would do this?
It also takes cooperation to build cities, and octopuses aren't terribly social.
I think you mean a quarter of their revenue.
What you are describing is a common leftist trolling tactic that is highly effective. Here is a video on woke brands that describes the process. https://youtu.be/06yy88tLWlg essentially they take a person that Is in some protected class or group, make them say something thats slightly left but not super controversial, then invite right wing trolls to the party and give the trolls a bunch of publicity while playing victim. It’s a super popular viral market strategy right now.
Yes, installing Chrome requires an admin password.
Would you perhaps be willing to debate the fact that ISIS grew their territory to the size of Belgium, enslaved thousands in Syria, and executed a number of high profile terrorist attacks in Western Europe - all during Obama's 8 years in office? Then Trump comes in and ISIS all but collapses within a year.

Let's debate how can this happen without "willful incompetence".
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There is absolutely a difference between middle and working class people. To suggest there isn't is a complete lack of understanding with regards to what it means to be working class.

By definition middle class people work, it's in the middle between people who have to work to survive and the independently wealthy. However, the middle class has the capability to build wealth, own a home, retire someday, leave a little over for their kids to get their lives started. Working class people are often life long renters, would go bankrupt if they got cancer or any other serious medical illness, would be in significant financial strain if their car broke down, they very likely do not have the means to save up 6 months worth of expenses as a safety net.

Yes, these terms are rather antiquated, but with each and every passing year, there is an increasing distinction between the professional & managerial class (often referred to as the middle and upper middle class), and the precariat class (the working class). Also note that the former makes up ~34% of the population, and the later makes up 45% of the population, with the 1% on the upper end and the truly poor on the other end.
What?! That's the opposite. Not to be crass, but people in uniform are the least likely to go periods without reciprocation from advances. Both being in uniform plus the fitness aspects of being in the military make officers and enlisted personal incredibly attractive. It may be anecdotal, but people I know in the military talk about how they often clean up any time they're in a bar.
Note that cotton clothes leave exactly 0 microplastics no matter how much water is used to wash them. Prevention is still the best cure - just stop buying plastic clothes. Kind of like how the way to adapt to the Roman habit of sweetening wine with lead and then serving in lead dish ware was to not drink leaded wine and eat out of wooden or other dish ware.
I did not appreciate life as a young person. It is only in recent years that I am absolutely enthralled by the beauty of life. Seeing how complex life is, it is surprising that it even exists. I sometimes question my own motivations about how I frivolously I have lived my life without paying much attention to suffering in the lives of other living beings. I also feel powerless in front of the huge economic forces that I have to come to depend on for my sustenance. I wish we were better equipped to comprehend the suffering in another life. I know it only when I am told explicitly. I see all the painful ways we hunt and find it extremely painful. And much of civilization thinks of hunting as a sport. Causing pain to another species is sport!
I usually go with a Django or RoR monolith, something that I know I can run on a cheap DO droplet or similar, and while there's a fixed monthly cost it's reasonable and I can scale up with ease (albeit manually). If I were explicitly needing the realtime DB aspect I'd probably look to Phoenix with the same hardware approach.
The cuttlefish are the orangutans to the octopus's chimps
I don't think they have to want to do anything. This is just the reality of a faceless bureaucracy which isn't accountable to anyone or anything. To the dev, their app is their livelihood— to Apple, it's just a ticket in a queue somewhere.
I would, because interviews require someone from the other organization to be there. Time is a valuable resource, and as long as the employer is showing their commitment, I have no problem reciprocating. Skin in the game is the key.
Fun with Functors and ReasonML
I don’t know what the exact process is, but one can simply create something like https://codesnippet.stackexchange.com and benefit from the established network.
This is (mostly) wrong. Sivers himself seems to have regretted how his talk was interpreted and posted this semi-retraction: https://sivers.org/zipit2

But identity-based goal or not, the conclusion that you make yourself less likely to achieve a goal by telling people about it defies common sense. I mean, here's the peer-reviewed science saying my common sense is wrong -- http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gollwitzer/09_Gollwitzer_Sheeran_Se... -- but this is a psychology paper from 2009 so I'm willing to bet real money on common sense, despite seeing no obvious flaw with the paper.
Yeah this is the common excuse for torturous technical interviews but it just doesn't fly with me. What is the end game of the interviewer who is lying? They'll get found out when asked to deliver and lose their job eventually. This is not without cost to the employer, but it gets harder to explain so much turnover in your resume as you accumulate early exits.

In addition, there are levels of technical chats that become very difficult to fake, further reducing the pool of lying interviewees people claim to be defending against.
Looks like bad advice for someone with fair skin and family cancer history (me).
To show extents - including sharing - of a file you can use the tool filefrag -v, it's more general than btrfs filesystem du since it uses the fiemap and fibmap ioctls that are supported by multiple, but not all, filesystems.
No because no vaccine protects everyone 100%. There are the young as of yet unvaccinated, the old, immunocompromised individuals and even those who are vaccinated can still actually get the virus just with far less likelihood.

An increasingly large population of infected risks giving the virus a foothold first in vulnerable populations, then in everyone especially as mutations in an increasingly large reservoir provide exponentially more chances to find more effective forms that bypass existing immunity.

A minority of stupid people can put everyone at risk. Ultimately diseases continue to wipe out species. There is no particular reason to suppose we are immune to calamity just because we have better tools to respond to it than dumb animals.
To be fair, no language is going to be perfect. I don't mind them, but I remember how odd enumerations and mappings felt at first in Python. IMO, overall, the pros of Swift vastly outnumber the cons, when the alternative is Objective C.
Solar, wind, and storage technology is a viable path for powering the world according to the people who study such things.
That's neat, what tech did you build it with? The github link didn't go to a particular repo so I'm guess it's private for now?

The wider site has some interesting games: https://kosmi.io

I could see this being popular integrated into one of those viral social activity apps like https://www.houseparty.com or https://www.airtime.com/ where you watch videos together with friends w/ voice/text/stickers/etc. Most of the reviews for those tend to be teenagers stuck in the bedrooms socializing with friends through their phones.

A group game of an SNES rom with a remote friend would be fun even for my adult friend group.
That's because genetic algorithms and simulated annealing algorithms are really similar.

You could imagine a GA as being a multiple simulated annealing algorithm in which you occasionally cross pollinated your solutions.

Technically, in GA you keep the top solutions and SA you will move to a less optimal solution with some probability. But the mechanics of them are quite similar.
Do you hire people to write code like in the example, plotting mine routes? These things don't test for relevant technical ability, they test for compliance, they test for algorithmic knowledge, and they test for being a young person without technically being age discrimination.
Oh, absolutely! I still remember reading about a fantastical cell-phone-for-every-vehicle concept in 2600. How the engineers had taken the prototype car for a joy ride, and an operator came on to warn them about engine temperatures or some such.

Six months later, On Star was announced.
I've made an increasingly conscious decision to give up flying. I never really liked the flying itself (well waiting in airports) but every year my family go to some random bit of the UK, and all have been nice holidays, it helps that I'm not one for sitting on the beach, and I don't like it too hot to do anything. I won't rule out doing a trip of a lifetime, but compared to a package holiday to Spain, Greece, Ibiza. Britain can hold its own.

I've found an inverse correlation between supposed touristyness and what I actually enjoy, so I don't rule out those countries, but it's getting to the non touristy parts of those countries, when all the flights are to tourist destinations.
What specific work do you do?
I just think its weird when someone blames Apple for being so much in control of their app store
Previous record holder was the well-known Arecibo telescope at 305m diameter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory

500m may not seem like a huge improvement over that but here's a picture that puts it in perspective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp...
You're describing liberals who may often feel that way, liberals are absolutely not leftists (where by the standard international definition of left/right politics, both the democratic party and the republican party are liberal parties with differing views on social issues).
It was mostly their £1.7bn debt: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/23/thomas-cook...

Without that they could have shrunk or restructured.
Virtually every mass extinction in the history of the planet we now think was caused by climate change caused by CO2. The K-T asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs is the outlier. The worst in history, the P-T extinction that nearly wiped out all complex life, happened after a volcano in siberia flowed into a coal bed. We're currently releasing CO2 10x faster than that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/science/climate-change-ma...
> I think it's an important distinction to say that is isn't a space issue, it's a money issue.

It's not even a money issue in general, it's what money is untouchable, vs what money can be freely cut into.

Working conditions for regular employees? Sure, brand it as "increased collaboration" and cut that sucker down to the bone.

Number of yachts per CxO? Nope, can't touch that.
Is there anything preventing them from tuning up FAST so it's as or even more sensitive than Arecibo? Like, is it just a matter of better sensors or dish design? Maybe we don't need it, but cleaner data would be nice at least.
I love rosetta code!

I do agree it needs improvement. It would be nice if it had an interface to browse and do a:b comparisons in a more fluid manner. The programming idioms site does this well.
I dont think that they want kill my app, seems like they kills apps by random.
Related: is it possible to reliably maintain physical disk space quotas in Linux (similar to cgroups)?

Furthermore, is it possible to say how much "space" you would use if you were to create a file with a given size, accounting for block-size, fragmentation, and metadata? Matters such as block-size, inode usage, and metadata seem to make this very difficult even if you add special integration to the userspace application, for example by using stat or statfs. This could help prevent quota overruns for example.

These seem like hard problems unfortunately, and I suspect the best solution is to just create separate disk partitions for each quota group.
8-9 tons of A/C split across three units. High ceilings. All windows, some of them quite large, are on the east and west side of the house. They are double-paned, but still. We have shutters but they are mostly open because we like the light. I work from home, and we home school our kids, so the house is always occupied.

We don't keep the house exceptionally cool. 78° during the day, 74° on the second floor at night just before bed.

I really need to try and track things down a bit better. I've got two sub-panels and it's a lot of circuits to track it down. I can start by monitoring the obvious things though: A/C units, refrigerators, dryer. I recently replaced two of the A/C units, but around the same time switch from natural gas dryer to electric and that seems to have been a wash.

Power comes from a nuclear plant less than 10 miles away, so at least it's clean? :-(
I think it does based on my theory for the strong evolutionary benefits of dreaming. If consciousness is a result of total brain and body function, then some level of that consciousness is needed in order to carry out survival-based simulations while you sleep.

The level of consciousness can vary between organisms and dreams. As an active lucid dreamer I frequently enjoy full "consciousness" in my dreams, able to fully make decisions instead of subscribing to my brain's prestructured rules for navigating the simulated construct. I can even often control the parameters of the simulation itself.

Most people however never experience this kind of dream, and are completely slave to the dream. The only thing which imparts their subjective experience is the ability to recall the dream. Memory is definitely a key component to a subjective experience.
Is it really safer than solar?

"The problems with today’s reactors, such as the risk of accidents, can be solved through innovation." - this is an example of wishful thinking. We don't know how we would solve the problems, we are just assuming someone will figure out a way. That assumption is probably influenced by survivorship bias. There's a bunch of technologies where the problems weren't solved, but we don't hear about them much.

The mean time to build a reactor is about 7.5 years[1], so if you wanted to transition all remaining fossil-fueled electricity generation in 12 years, currently with 120,000 TWh of fossil fuel consumption[2], assuming 1GW of generation per nuclear power plant, you would need to start building approximately 14 thousand (edit: originally read millions, corrected as pointed out in comments) nuclear power plants today.

[1] http://euanmearns.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-nucle...
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels
You can make concrete changes now. Vote with your dollar. Do not support industries that flippantly disregard the beauty and sanctity of life in its many forms.
At the time of writing, this story has 186 points and is 2 hours old. It doesn't appear on the front page of HN anymore whereas plenty of older stories with fewer votes do. This pattern can be observed with all submissions related to climate change. Can someone explain this to me?
How about these wild weather patterns are happening a lot with a lot more frequency and severity.
Since when is HN a news-only aggregator? The top story right now has a click-bait headline as well and is about octopodes.
I don't think we have to be very precise. It doesn't really matter if a blob of uranium orbits the sun for a few thousand years.
Surrogate modeling techniques have been around for a while. They come standard in many optimization software e.g. DAKOTA.

https://dakota.sandia.gov/
oh woops! didn't catch it
They’re talking about transparent caching HTTP proxies like Squid.
As a rule, discussion of CPU usage of network protocols aren't important for 99% of the people. IO performance is the dominant metric.
Would be nice to somehow display or directly link to the caniuse entry for each applied filter setting.
On what basis could he make that claim? A sense of dissociation?
But the test time is actually unbounded, although of course they're hovering over you with a stopwatch.

Which means the candidate will be under incredible stress still, no matter what the supposed target time is.
They are paying their engineers to conduct interviews, write feedback, and sit on hiring committees. The hiring process is hardly free for them either.
Usually these try to replicate the Instagram filters. For example, here is the description of some of them:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/instagram-filters-his...

https://www.seventeen.com/life/tech-social-media/news/a36748...
part-time vegetarian based on location (maybe has family overseas or something).

Sounds legit to me.