skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear can play a role, but
it's already too late to build a sufficient number of reactors, let alone wait until new reactor designs are proven. What we can do right now that doesn't have a 10+ year waiting period is reducing energy demand and building a shit ton of wind, solar, and storage. Wind turbines can be build in a matter of weeks and start reducing GHG emissions immediately. Houses can be insulated and equipped with solar panels in days. Switching heating to heat pumps can also be done in a matter of days.

If we want to we can start building reactors too, but the big changes need to start yesterday.
More incorrect statements labeled as "facts".

#1 🇨🇳 China 9,839 27.2%

#2 🇺🇸 United States 5,269 14.6%

#3 🇮🇳 India 2,467 6.8%

India's total emissions are a fraction of US and China's. You are guilty of the same hyperbole you claim to be fighting from the other side.

"Per capita" is not a narrative. It is a measure of how much room there is to reduce emissions while maintaining quality of life. It's not like you can just go to war with India and China and clear this up. You can't bring them to the negotiation table claiming moral superiority.

What you are suggesting is not a strategy for efficiently negotiating our way out of this deep hole, but rather a dictatorial approach which can only be enforced by a dictatorial regime across the world.
There is a very small portion of individuals who will have a bad reaction to vaccination and experience negative consequences up to and including death. These negatives are much much less than would be experienced by all people if the disease was allowed to thrive.

Its possible to imagine that given unlimited resources we could discover ahead of time whom might react so and avoid vaccinating them or further reduce such negatives but resources aren't unlimited so currently some die.

We are already killing some kids so that others may live and the majority already supports that as do I.
> someone might be super successful at another company but not work out well at yours

I don't actually buy this. Environment makes a difference, sure, but if someone goes off and succeeds technically[1] at a another company in a big way they would have succeeded at yours as well. If that person can't succeed with you, then there is something fundamentally wrong with your organization. My experience, though, is that such organizations have much lower hiring bars.

[1] I say "technically" because it's quite possible that the person is not very good technically, but landed at a place where that didn't matter and some combination of non-technical skills led to their success.
I'm watching a case on a personal basis right now. A friend of mine was raped at gunpoint by an Uber driver, who was stalking her neighborhood looking for her the next day. And NOLA cops aren't exactly helpful to the poorer residents there... "911 Is a Joke" indeed.

We'll see what Uber does. The thing is, they own a device that tracks the driver's movements. They know who he picked up, and where, and if the car stopped, and where. That's a lot of evidence to hand to police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhUHVGTa8mQ

the youtbe description for context

Why does my bank's website require my MFA token but Quicken sync does not? How is using Quicken or any personal financial software different from using my bank's website? How are they communicating with my bank? These questions ran through my head when balancing the family checkbook every month.

Answering these questions led me to deeply explore the 20 year old Open Financial Exchange (OFX) protocol and the over 3000 North American banks that support it. They led me to the over 30 different implementations running in the wild and to a broad and inviting attack surface presented by these banks' digital side doors.

Now I'd like to guide you through how your Quicken, QuickBooks, Mint.com, or even GnuCash applications are gathering your checking account transactions, credit card purchases, stock portfolio, and tax documents. We'll watch them flow over the wire and learn about the jumble of software your bank's IT department deploys to provide them. We'll discuss how secure these systems are, that keep track of your money, and we'll send a few simple packets at several banks and count the number of security WTFs along the way.

Lastly, I'll demo and release a tool that fingerprints an OFX service, describes its capabilities, and assesses its security.
But is there anything subjective left if all information is accessible and available to observation, study and even replay on other simulated brains?

The QM analogy does not hold because it is about things that are not observable. All information in a hypothetical simulated brain is observable.
For anyone who would like further reading on this, there is a great (readable) article here:

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2019/09/25/unde...
They can't. They were required to pay into a fund to insure their customers against a collapse, and the British government repatriated the customers using money from that fund.
>If you eliminate US/EU production of CO2, atmospheric CO2 levels would rise 24% slower.

Thank you for confirming my point.

>If you added in a carbon tax that it levied on imports from countries that don't implement an equivalent system you can bet that China would lower its emissions too. If you're very fancy you can also offer to install alternative energy in foreign countries at cost price.

So the pitch here is... Let's risk war with a Nuclear power with a tariff stick and for a carrot offer a way to a worse standard of living then US/EU. This sounds real viable.
> I have discontinued multiple interviews because they demanded 4-5 evenings of work for free on short notice, if I am going to spend 10-20 hours per company I have to take two weeks off from my current work to do it.

Honest question: Would you feel differently if these companies had 1-2 days of onsite technical interviewing instead of take-home problems?

In practice, I rarely get pushback from candidates for our 4-hour take-home problem. We provide clear instructions about expectations, constraints, and boundaries. All candidates have thanked us for allowing them to work on their own time in their own coding environments.
You can access bluetooth settings from the control center now.

And you can create a shortcut that will turn off wifi/bluetooth if you put shortcuts on your homescreen or homerow and make that shortcut one of the first 4 you can access it with force touch.
It makes "don't be evil" a lot easier.
Tribes, gangs, kingdoms, mafias, mobs, all the same thing. Centralized authority, including the power to end the life of another human inside or outside of your authority without consequence from within.

What is the natural state of human kind? Is it war? At the very least, it's obedient service to your group. Groups are forming more along ideological boundaries now, rather than racial or ethnic (at least in the developed world).
I was hoping this article would explain why they suddenly left 600k people stranded instead of winding-down the business, but no such luck!
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Kate 19.08.1 released in the Windows Store
motives are simple (for both sides):

advocates = the planet is in peril
deniers = fossil fuel companies are paying us (or, "I hate liberals")
Bear with me.

One of the criticisms of Javascript developers is that they make things slow with bad practices and by adding needless frameworks to their apps. Then in order to solve that problem, they bolt additional frameworks on top to do complicated, hard-to-debug compilation steps, or to optimize specific code paths, or to defer loading to make things appear faster than they are.

What they don't realize is that all of the bloat in their apps came from things that seemed like good ideas at the time. If they were actually smart enough to engineer their way out of the problem, they would have also been smart enough not to engineer their way into it in the first place. So when they add their new speed-solutions on top of the existing codebase, often they introduce new bugs or limitations that end up making their app even worse in the long run.

Wherever possible, a solution should not be significantly more complicated than the problem. Occasionally, you can get genuine speedups from adding new libraries, but this should not be treated as the norm. Usually, the best way to make apps faster and lighter is to stop using so much stuff.

And as it is with Javascript, so too is it with climate change and geo-engineering projects.
It is only great during a time when there is no instability between nations (which is not the case today). When you have nations that are vying to become a hegemonic world power , your own nation better be as damn efficient in building out its capabilities and protecting itself.
Yeah I think you're right on that. Challenge a pop musician to make a song using only a banjo and a synth and they'll produce something cool and unexpected. Good cuisine has come over time from the scarcity of food, and people putting effort into making what little they have taste good. Etc.
So you don't think a person deciding whether to go on a date with someone deserves to know they were convicted of rape 15 years ago?

> Life is messy and sometimes unfair, but we have to strike a balance and take some risk sometimes.

I don't think we should choose what risks someone else has to take. If someone has a rule 'I will never, ever, date anyone who has ever raped anyone', who are we to tell them, "Nope, sorry..... you don't get to have that rule for yourself.... we have decided for you"
That's illegal - but not because it's trolling, but because they 're underage.
PSYOPs sounds like their operations are funny, but what has been leaked is actually quite chilling and terrifying.

I highly recommend the book The Men Who Stare at Goats. Don't bother with the movie; they fictionalize a lot of it and changes the names of the very real military operatives.

One theory proposed by people interviewed in the books goes back to Abu Ghraib: the soldiers seen posing with the sexually abused Iraqis were pawns. Others reported plain clothes operatives in the facility encouraging the photos and the interrogation techniques.

The various people the book's author interview suggest that it wasn't because of a lack of procedure leading to abuse, but the opposite: intentional abuse. Photos were encouraged to be taken and intentionally leaked to the public, in an effort to scare Iraqis by showing how they could be humiliated in prisons.

This is a terrifying military division that probably does operations similar in ethics to MK Ultra. (The book I mention even suggested one of the suicides in MK Ultra may have even been a coverup for more bizzare PSYOPs operations).
In the tropics you'll find a lot of food unsecurity. Hawaii is a good example of this, importing 80% of its food. Now, climate change brings about more than just temperature rise, we're talking about more powerful storms causing more inundation along coastlines. Hawaii is vulnerable in this way because all of the shipping infrastructure which supports 2 million people is at the coastline and could easily be knocked out by a category 5 hurricane. The flooding from such a storm can also salinate farmlands, slosh salt water, chemicals or pathogens into the aquifer. It is clear how shit goes south very quickly from there.

Closer to the equator you'll find Kiribati, where salination of farmlands and aquifers has already happened. Luckily the rest of the world is still online and willing to keep their country on life support, but the prospects for kiribati to independently support itself in the long term are non-existent.

Carbon dioxide also raises ocean acidity which kills off corals and crashes fisheries, leaving coastal communities without reliable protein sources.

I hope you can see how an indifference to climate change on the part of predominately white countries to can be construed as racist. When someone says that, he or she is talking about all the non-white people who are currently suffering due to changes in their climates.
>female overall partner disirability peaks in their 20-30s and then falls off. Male continues rising until their 80s.

There's a downside to this. Sure, as a man, you'll have a somewhat easier time as you get older because the male population is decreasing faster than the female population, but you have to be realistic: if you're 65, you're probably not going to be dating any pretty 30yo women, but you might have plenty of 55+ women to pick from. But if you only want to date physically attractive women, this imbalance in your favor isn't going to help you much, because at that age the women aren't looking too hot any more (especially in America, where obesity among women is rampant). So you might have tons of women chasing you, but you have no interest in any of them. And sure, you can proclaim that people shouldn't be motivated by looks, but men generally are, and that's usually how life-long relationships work out: the couple meets when they're young and there's physical attraction helping to bring them together, then they marry and age together, so when they're older their relationship is already established, so they don't need physical attraction too much. But for people looking for a new relationship, it's more important, and makes it harder to find a new relationship.
The article defines the acronym:

> SIP, as system integrity protection is usually abbreviated, was introduced in 2015
Super cool! Thanks for sharing
Or as in Sweden, if you work hourly you usually don't get PTO. Instead you get it as cash, about 12% extra on the salary a normal worker would get.
They are solitary creatures, and they do not live very long. The social aspect is missing, but maybe this could eventually evolve.
Part of the niche they where in have seen margins and bottom lines decline for a long time.

Airlines focusing on the budget segment has been going out of business for years. Is Norwegian next in line?

If the European airlines keep going out of business we might see airlines from outside of Europe operating intra-Europe flights. Maybe an Emirates flight from Paris to Marseille or Qatar Airways flying Stockholm-Helsinki?
Any idea why they would want to kill your notes app? There are already a bunch out there and Notes has been around forever.
As a language itself, I love Swift. Optionals, the guard statement, protocols and protocol extensions standout as awesome productive features. However, (at least 1 year ago, I'm on React Native now), the tooling around Swift was still crappy. Expect longer compile times, occasional hair tearing issues, broken autocompletion and a flickering syntax highlighting. Overall though these issues aren't enough to make me want to go back to Objective C.
I suffer from the same affliction. Daydreaming forward often reveals additional functionalities and synergies and implications, so it even "feels" like progress, but I've learned the hard way that skipping to the last page of the book is counter-productive.
Read up on prevalence of engineers in Islamic terrorist groups and you'll be amazed at how different reality is from what we've been served.

Those people are smart and well educated in both engineering and Islam.
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Ask HN: Please make your SASS' invoices filenames human-friendly
I have a favor to ask.

Please make your SASS' invoices filenames human-friendly and save your clients hours of frustrating, menial, error-prone work.

Every month I and countless other paying customers of yours have to download your invoice and have it processed with my company's accounting.

I need to do this for 5-10 SAAS services every month.

Most of these files are named completely randomly, often like this (ex. - 'Browserstack: Invoice-8a28fd166d2cace7016d34cbe6f06e11-20190915.pdf') or just the word "invoice", or just a hash, or sometimes, the invoice date but no company name. Some don't even allow a downlnoad so I have to save the screen as PDF myself.

Here's what would make mine and many, many others' lives easier and happier:

Use a filename like this:

saas_name--date_of_invoice--amount_of_invoice.pdf

This is what my accounting dept is asking for and is a major PIA.

It is trivial to automate and would make me and countless other paying customers delighted by the thoughtfulness and care of your company much much more than any PR initiative you can think of.

Please, please bring this up to the decision-makers in your company.
I've owned a lot of very moody animals of all kinds in my past which make a strong case for subjective experience in advanced lifeforms. If you disregard those external phenomena as a simple cause-and-effect relationship without subjective experience, you could easily do the same for human beings. Most of my goals in life can be traced back to the need for food, shelter, reproduction, and lack of stress.

IMO emotional capacitance is one of the leading contributors to the kind of consciousness that we feel, but is not a prerequisite for consciousness in general. It just depends on what you consider consciousness.

Some people think that all orchestrated matter has a proportional level of "consciousness" related to its thermodynamic complexity arising from quantum phenomena, but without the ability to "feel" (emotional circuitry) and "think" (logical circuitry) you're hard pressed to tell me a rock is alive in any sense of the word. But an octopus? C'mon, they're contenders for #2 intelligence on the planet. If anyone has subjective experience, it's them.
What do you have against that little Alaskan airport?
What does this even mean? How can we not be 'really' conscious? How can I deny my own 'qualia'? I think you cannot explain subjective experience as a vector in latent space because it transcends any space in which you 'project' it in. My subjective experience is that which experiences that latent space, not identical to it.
Bankruptcy in the UK is significantly different than in the US where companies often continue to operate under Chapter 11 in a way that may not be noticeable to customers. The UK as far as I know doesn’t offer such protections.
India is a current example of this btw. They've been facing much more devastating floods recently. We can also tract hurricanes in the Atlantic and is is easy to see that the frequency and intensity is increasing. Equatorial regions are also subject to more droughts. There is also a correlation between equatorial countries and many being 2nd or 3rd world countries, which do not have the technological nor economical resources that deal with these events as well as 1st worlds.
That's a different problem than the one we used. We added some additional complexity that required a search of the entire solution space to get a provably optimal answer, and then we made the maps & allowed # of moves large enough that brute force was impossible. So people had to build sub-optimal search solutions that pruned in intelligent ways.
That's an American definition of "middle class", though, and the problem with it is that's rather fuzzy, since it merely delineates some arbitrary income range. In the UK and other places, the term was linked more to being your boss (e.g. being an independent professional and/or owning a small business). Of course, now that (as a song in my country put it), "one has to study to be a slave", this may be harder to cleanly distinguish.
Pardon me if you're being sardonic and I'm not detecting it, but you're pointing out the flaw is this form of criticism yes?
More distractions have been introduced since open spaces had been “invented”. Simple as that.
Tech groups rally against Congressional calls to ban facial recognition
Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms
Not only is this offensive, it's just wrong. Lots of women at that age are single now because they were married, and are now divorced for some reason (like a good friend of mine whose husband shamelessly cheated on her and also stole their family money for unknown purposes (likely gambling)). This is around the age when lots of people, both men and women, find themselves back on the dating market because their marriage (or other LTR) fell apart, not because they were just avoiding serious relationships.
I think you’re both missing marcosdumay‘s point. If you just want to say go to Mars then you can very quickly got far from earth and easily avoid space junk. The IIS is huge and most days has no problem with space debris. It’s only when you start talking about spending months and years in earth orbit that Kessler syndrome becomes a real concern.

Put another way, if you had 1,000 tons of mass to spread around earth orbit it would be difficult to effectively block rockets from leaving. Try to do the same thing with random orbits and it’s even less of a concern.
FWIW, you might want to check with @dang. Lots of comments of yours were flagged and I vouched for them.
I refuse to do so. The companies have no skin in the game and could easily be giving the same assignment to hundreds of people fighting for the job.

I would entertain the idea later in the interview process, especially if there were some token payment to show that the potential employer is just as invested as I.
I'd say `if err != nil {}` all the time is an awful lot of cognitive load. Heck, just `nil` turns everything into a minefield.

Functional programming constructs rarely add complexity, they are excellent tools for handling and reducing it.
The google store operates in the same way. Application developers need to band together and quit accepting these locked down store monopolies. They aren't good for consumers either. The usual justification is that these stores reduce fruad and malware, but I have found the opposite to be true. Having a single store leads to an aggressive race to the bottom, where gaming the store ranking is priority one. Last two times I tried to find a rather obvious piece of software on apple store (a chess program, and a stopwatch program) I couldn't even find stuff that wasn't misleading adware ridden crap.
Also related: Thomas Nagel's 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/study/ugmodules/hum... ) wherein he argues that subjective experience transcends objective materialism.
Surely you're just trolling the majority users of this site? UK's vacation minimums dwarf the grand total of zero in America. Granted 10 days per year is fairly standard amongst most careers in the US.
This is typical marketing speak. The device is measuring EMG. The motor neurons can fire without causing overt/obvious muscle movements, and these can be picked up still.
and how many points for encouraging depression or suicide? Facebook teams would probably score higher than anyone.
I'm not sure the article truly gets to the key points of why they went out of business. The travel industry in Europe is still growing, Brits are making more foreign trips than ever before.

The real problem was that the holidays they were selling weren't making Thomas Cook any profit. The holidays needed to be competitive against online travel agents with much lower wage costs. By booking with Thomas Cook, you could get an experience where there were more staff on hand to help you, but actually people didn't value this and hence weren't prepared to pay more.

The real nail in the coffin for Thomas Cook was their huge liabilities and huge concerns about their business viability so of course they were paying huge amounts of interest. Lenders were only lending to them on the hopes that they could collect enough interest rather than repayment. They were hoping that other parties (such as governments) would make cash injections such that they could profit. Everyone knew that eventually the debt would catch up with them, no one would want to be left holding the bag and the company would collapse.

The only reason Thomas Cook's balance sheet didn't look horrific was because they had assigned the brand a goodwill value of over £2.5 billion in 2018 which they wrote down to £1.4 billion after the first half of 2019. This was clearly a huge over-estimate as I doubt anyone will be paying much to purchase their brand now!