skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the south-east of France.

I started to simply collect seeds along hike paths and public spaces, where they wouldn't have the opportunity to grow, and either throw them or plant them farther where vegetation is more poor, dry, and decreasing year after year

That can be oak, hackberry, pine, fig trees seeds or cuttings. I clear up the ground around, uprooting a few weeds, and leaving them at the top with dead branches under, I think it helps keeping moisture, and hope it'll grow. I'll monitor the results

Also I eat a lot of fruits (bought at supermarket, produced in France or Italy), I keep their pits and seeds (peaches, apricots, clementines, mandarines, oranges, lemon, peppers, and other green garbage, and bury them in those places (instead of throwing them away in the garbage bin). They might not be able to grow, but at least it should be interesting for the soil life and it saves up garbage bins weight, etc..
It's funny how "you're holding it wrong" is the go to response whenever somebody criticizes Erlang. Why is that?
Because everyone involved in the IPO would have benefited from making the company public?

Powerful incentives are a hell of a drug.
It really appears that way. Even the "earth" surrounding the leaves is odd. I'm not sure it could be attributed to any weird artificial lighting.
Do we know if that myopia is caused while in prison, or if it is just picked up while they are in prison. Because it would be very unusual to see myopic changes from emmetropization (eye remodeling) occurring in adults.
>It’s very hard to near impossible to do or enforce all it takes is a country just by you that is willing to accept them.

You can set up treaties with your neighbors to enforce the same regulations. Also, if your country is sufficiently large enough, it's not really a concern because any savings from not having to follow the regulations will be wiped out by the increased cost in transporting the goods across the border.

You could also impose a tariff/charge on goods that transit through a neighboring country for no apparent reason (eg. China -> Mexico -> LA rather than China -> LA).

>People aren’t going to take a huge price hike

Source on the huge price hike? According to http://www.worldshipping.org/benefits-of-liner-shipping/glob..., the shipping industry contributes 183.3B to global GDP, and transports more than 4T worth of goods. Based on that, shipping accounts for approximately 4.5% of the cost of goods. Therefore, a 50% increase in cost because of emissions controls (very generous estimate) would only cause a 2.2% increase in the price of goods.

>and countries that are dependent on imports won’t ever enforce such requirements which would leave these vessels out there.

If it's announced years in advance, either shipping companies would adapt and get the vessels ready before the regulations take effect, or local manufacturers come online now that they're more competitive. No ships is ever going to be "stuck".
So would Elon.
Agreed. It's entirely possible that high murder rates drive support for the death penalty, for example.
I'd rather they grew the flowers!
The term public relations was actually an explicit rebranding of the term Propaganda after it started to develop a negative association in the public eye. Look up Edward Bernays, it's a fascinating bit of history that's not really talked about much.

http://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-...
This article rings true of my experience with accomplishing projects both in and out of software but I think it also describes my approach to life generally (optimism + grit) which makes me think it’s less a thing learned and more a personality/behavior thing. I know several people who’s approach to life, the universe, and everything is “everything is terrible, I’m going to fail” and have built up defensive mechanisms to manage to still succeed.

Also, I would have liked this post to touch on “what do you do when things actually fall apart” too.
British employees sabotaging workplace robots over fears machines will take jobs
GitHub: The Salesforce of Open Source
I understand your scepticism, and was thinking hard about this before I published the linked post.

Anti-trans and anti-CoC sentiment are certainly part of the issue at hand, but likely not by Monica. Some of the resignations may be partially motivated by hate, many of the responses definitely are. However, there are many other aspects of the firing that are problematic by themselves, regardless of the reason for the firing.

It doesn't matter what Monica believes, only how she acts and speaks. It is my understanding (based on hearsay) that at no point in this incident did she make statements that would be considered transphobic by a reasonable person. While she was uncomfortable with upcoming CoC changes, she was also asking for clarification and guidance in good faith. Definitely not in that “I'm just asking a question!” trolling style. Asking sincere questions would be the sign of a potential ally, it is illogical to shut those down. However, some of the relevant correspondence is in personal emails, so we'll never know the truth.

I'm confident that she didn't say or do anything that would violate the current or upcoming SE CoC, but that the director firing her felt that Monica's questions were evidence that she would not uphold the upcoming CoC. This is silly: if a mod feels they are unable to fulfil their position they can just resign, no need to boot them in advance. I dislike the “thoughtcrime” meme, but here it might actually fit.

There's also an aspect that I find more troubling, which is the legitimacy of CoCs. They only protect the community when violations are investigated fairly. Normally the problem is that the CoC is not enforced enough. Here, a CoC was enforced without there being a violation, and that gives ammunition to the idiots who think the sole purpose of a CoC is to silence insufficiently progressive speech.

Edit 1: the first resignation is in that explicitly lists the CoC as reason for resignation [1]. The CoC will apparently require that correct pronouns are used.

Edit 2: the new CoC will allegedly require pronouns, i.e. will not allow the avoidance of pronouns. As a person who prefers non-standard pronouns, such a requirement is counterproductive because it requires some people to act against their conscience, whereas avoiding pronouns still avoids misgendering and lets everyone save face.

[1]: https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6718/b...
IR is only really effective in the short-range (see an aim-9 which is only effective less than 20 nm (really less than that practically speaking). When they talk about this, they mean protection against beyond visual range missiles.
IR seekers have very (in air-air combat terms) short effective range, ~25km at best. Thus, a missile with an IR terminal-stage seeker needs to either be launched from close range (which would indicate the F-35 was probably detected via Mark 1 Eyeball) or the missile needs to be guided into range by radar. Guiding the missile that way involves painting the target with a fire control radar and having a passive radar seeker on the missile follow the return. Reduced radar signature obviously helps in the second case.

Edit: fixed seeker range
LG 27UD58-B

At some point, I'll probably get a larger one.

And for sound, a 100W per channel amp driving a pair of ancient JBL L96s.
My point isn’t about the substance of his remarks (though I’m firmly in the “adults shouldn’t fuck children” camp if my position were somehow relevant).

My point is that there are a bunch of people nitpicking that the Minsky remarks aren’t a tacit endorsement of pedophilia, and maybe they’re not. But RMS has a tacit endorsement of pedophilia on his website, so if that’s a bad enough thing to fire someone over then that ship sailed a long time ago.

If tacitly endorsing pedophilia is something MIT is cool with, that’s a different conversation. I very much doubt they’re cool with it, but I’m not affiliated with MIT, so you’d have to ask them.
> If more and more people are competing crimes then doesn’t that suggest the deterrent effect is minimal

It's a multi-variable system. It could be that other conditions and effects override what is, in other circumstances, a solid deterrent.

Threat of long imprisonment works great on the guy who doesn't want to lose his cushy job and easy life. It doesn't work as well on someone with nothing and no hope of gaining anything.

Saying it doesn't serve as a deterrent for a certain class of individual is a fair statement, saying it doesn't work, full-stop is most certainly wrong.
> The absolute best way to fix the problem is to develop new technologies which are cleaner and cheaper and equivalent or better than what they are replacing.

Yes and no. We absolutely have to pursue cleaner technologies but many of those technologies are not mature yet. We shouldn't continue driving full throttle towards the cliff when we don't actually have fully developed solutions to go carbon neutral yet. It would be absolutely irrational not to cut consumption.

> It is absolutely possible to discourage “dirty” production by taxing the externalities to drive production to cleaner methods at a higher cost. The effect of this is to drive up costs and this causes inefficiency, which is an economists way of saying it is harmful (to the economy and therefore to people).

Yes, and this is part of what has helped renewable energy develop. If fossil fuel energy sources don't have their negative externalities priced in, they're going to be more economically attractive than renewable energy than they should be. When the true price is factored in, renewables are far better. In absence of a carbon tax, subsidies are another way to make the develop of renewables more favorable.

> Similarly with EVs you have a product which now that’s it’s gotten to a point where you can make one that is better in every way than an ICE vehicle, manufacturers are racing to switch. You can’t tax your way to an EV future, but you can subsidize the R&D which ultimately allows a superior product to come to market.

Part of the reason EV's have gotten to that point is because of tax subsidies and government investment. Without those helping hands EV's wouldn't be as far along as they are.

> The alternative — that we need to sap trillions of dollars out of the economy to deploy substandard products and infrastructure which will deliver the same or worse service at higher cost, ban scores of products which people use, enjoy, or rely on, and increase taxes on a massive scale, I think that’s not only a losing proposition but that’s where you end up with the disastrous politics we have today.

People need to let go of this idea that somehow we can make a shift to 100% renewables without any sacrifice. In some places the shift will be painless, in others it won't be. But make no mistake, the pain of climate catastrophe is going to make the pain of going carbon neutral look like a paper cut.
Given the siting of most abandoned malls (low density suburbia) and how large they are, I don’t think they’re appropriate for WeWork.
Maybe because the initial spike in CO2 came from lifestyle choices. Industry keeps up with consumer demands. And trying to advocate for lifestyle changes respects the free market.

I'm not saying it's the best or only way to address climate change but it does seem consistent with addressing how it started.
Artificial blood developed for patients of any blood type
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20951578
Link to abstract: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/trf.15427
From reading this it seems that this is unrelated to the SIM Swapping attacks that were in the news recently and are mostly customer service exploits and not technical issues.
This really hit the nail on the head I think
Affiliate, referral and influencer marketing will game your model.
I'm not sure if scleral remodeling the reason. My understanding was that the lens part of your eye became less elastic as you aged, you can't focus as near, and you became more farsighted as a result - a phenomenon called presbyopia. Thus, if you were nearsighted before, you'd be closer to regular vision or maybe even a little farsighted, needing reading glasses to focus closer up.
Why does it say image processing? How did they record the experiment if they had to process or maybe even render the picture?
It doesn't matter if some of them keep to themselves. What matters is that those communities continuously spill out and if that has detrimental effects. I contend that they do and they have.

In addition to that, allowing those communities to exist legitimizes them and allows them to recruit impressionable people.

The combination of these two things lead to things like gamergate and "doing it for the lulz" and ends with things like the march in Charlottesville and the El Paso shooting.
We could always try to convince the US middle class to convert over to consuming roaches. It's a much more eco-friendly approach. Also, roaches are a super food. So besides being able to survive nuclear holocoast they are actually good for you.

https://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/a20950388/cockroach-mil...

Oddly though, ground beef and chicken are the two substances that are the easiest to replace. There's almost nothing that doesn't taste a little like chicken once properly prepared. Similarly, there are plenty of ground up things that can substitute for ground beef. Then you can go into cost and life cycle. The cost of chicken is lower because of cycle cycle. The cost of ground beef is lower because it's low quality.

I'm fairly certain it's not the ground beef and chicken industry that are holding up the meat industry on the whole.
Eating local in inefficient in many Northern countries like UK, as transportation is far less polluting than heating:
http://freakonomics.com/2011/11/14/the-inefficiency-of-local...
A lot of people just spout slogans like "eat local" without ever looking at the numbers.
The post has been widely disseminated on 4chan's /g/ for many years. So it wasn't totally forgotten.
EU Copyright Directive's Link Tax Won't Lead to Google Paying Publishers
Your argument is logical but if you had served in the military (at least the US military...can't speak for others), it's laughable.

The day-to-day of the average reservist's military (even a senior officer!) is mind-numingly boring and not important in the big picture. In a MISO unit (the new US Army name for PSYOP), an officer's day is spent planning training events and doing simulations of what their job might be "downrange" in wartime.

We're not scheming on ways to infiltrate our civilian employers--we're too busy trying to get hold of the lazy DoD civilian at Fort Bumblefuck with the full voicemail to get our training area allocated for the mandatory annual trip to the rifle range in November.

Now, is it possible that if we went into full-scale conflict with Iran and the Middle East was on fire that the UK and US might call upon this Twitter exec/reserve officer to help out? Sure. But, it would be above-the-board. He would get orders to active duty and turn in his Twitter laptop before heading off to spend the next year and a half at a military installation advising on Middle East info campaigns. This happens all the time and happened to a lot of us during OIF and OEF. The whole reason for existence of the reserve forces is to leverage critical knowledge learned in the civilian sector.
You get that that chart is completely made up, right? That is, despite being an extrapolation of the future, there are no error bars as a function of time?

Furthermore, we lack a fundamental model for how cloud cover will change over the course of a deep minimum. And therefore we cannot accurately predict what the future will hold.

The Svensmark experiment from December 2017, confirming it:

Increased ionization supports growth of aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02082-2
Can't comment on your other issues (I'll say I have noticed the complete opposite in practice, where the same team working with Java vs Erlang led to far more reliable, performant systems in Erlang, but I obviously can't speak to your experience), but for (2) -

You always care about exceptions/errors. The thing is, most you won't predict/can't handle. Those you do predict, and know how to handle, you should, because they're not really errors/exceptions at that point; they're just edge cases.

The point of Erlang is not to make it so you just throw instead of addressing an edge case; it's to make it so you reason about how, if something you don't predict and don't know how to handle happens, you can get back into a known good state. It's actually phenomenal at doing that. I've had complicated user facing production systems work without noticeable issue for years (even while under active development) in Erlang. I've never seen that in any other language. Not to say it can't happen, I just haven't seen it, and the operational lift to achieve that was no different for us than just "make it work"; we were spending the same amount of time thinking about failure cases with the Erlang system as other languages. The difference was a better approach to handling the things we didn't think of.
Yeah, it's pretty impressive in this day and age that someone read the S-1.
TL;DR; DoD Manual says subordinates have an obligation to question morality of orders. Lack of empathy is a severe handicap and liability for a soldier.

The DOD is pretty clear on this point ( https://tinyurl.com/yxqfwyrx [link to PDF of the DoD Law of War Manual] )

"""
5.10.2.4 Duty Not to Comply With Clearly Illegal Orders and the Principle of Proportionality.
In the context of the principle of distinction, it would often be clear whether a given situation implicates the duty not to comply with clearly illegal orders to commit law of war violations – such as the duty of a subordinate to refrain from complying with an order to attack the civilian population. However, the nuances involved in applying the principle of proportionality could make it more difficult to know whether an order given is clearly illegal. The duty not to comply with orders that are clearly illegal also applies to violations of the principle of proportionality, in particular, the case of a commander who orders subordinates to conduct an attack that is expected to result in civilian casualties that the commander himself or herself acknowledges would be excessive
"""

You're absolutely right that the ability to make those assessments in the field isn't always going to be there, but that doesn't mean that there is no requirement or need for subordinates to be able to assess orders and actions.

I'm assuming the type of person who has no issue at all with taking life lacks (or has seriously damaged) capacity for empathy. Beyond the basic issues of morality and human decency, someone without the capacity for empathy is severely disadvantaged when it comes to assessment and awareness.

Being able to conceptualize and examine the intellectual and emotional state of another human provides a huge predictive advantage. Assessing someones potential to be a threat is far easier when you can understand what could potentially cause them to justify violence towards you.

To sum up, If you have no qualms with taking life, and you lack the capacity for empathy, you are not properly equipped to serve in the military.
Blah that's hard and costs the rich some profits; lets talk about customers using plastic straws and eating beef instead! We have products we can sell them for that stuff!

A financial collapse is the only thing that will prevent an ecological collapse. World War 3 is the planets best hope.
British terms not widely used in the United States
It's quite a change going from not exporting any F22s to the F35s, which feels like they'll sell them to anyone that wants some (minus the usual suspects). Especially when the F35s stealth technology is said to be more advanced.

It's hard to get your head around a plane the can climb over 1000 feet per second (F22: 62,000ft in 60 seconds).
> He was then given a suspended sentence citing that he already has been through enough.

I wonder whether this is typical, or he was given special treatment.
> The difference is that with a little help (e.g. 10M) I can start a (serious) gitlab competitor tomorrow.

You are greatly overestimating your abilities.
dude I think you underestimate how important social media plays in interfering internal affairs of a country
Wait, the passive detector was set up only "a couple kilometers" away from the jet? At that range, I'm not surprised you can detect it up with passive radar. You could also detect it with an infrared sensor, a pair of binoculars, or even just listening for the jet engine.
Spot on. Many of these companies have devolved into little more than pump-and-dump schemes for executive compensation. All that’s undergirding them are their BS “disruption” and PR narratives, gobbled up and regurgitated by the media.
> Peloton is one that comes to mind

Is it not possible that both investors and the public will find the shine off the apple of pairing two independently somewhat unattractive things--a stationary bicycle and a hefty monthly fee--as used models start to hit the secondary market?

Have you ever tried to sell a used stationary bicycle? It ain't easy! The evidence of the gulf between good intentions and regular use is right there.
I'm curious why "whichever happens first", rather than "whichever takes longer". (My gut reaction is probably biased towards "whichever takes longer" with a crime-appropriate level of "prove".)
I'm a little surprised not to see any of William Hertling's series on this list

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

The first one is essentially about software engineers working at a thinly-veiled Google who accidentally develop sentient AI.
Even then, some of us cannot realistically go vegan/vegetarian (legume allergies, t2d, do not respond well to grains). Also, farming works better with and can use better integration of animal and plant farming in support of each other. Much more than the large mono-crop farms we have now. It's about supporting an ecosystem, not force feeding humanity as much mutant grain and legumes as possible.

I do think that all options should be on the table, and moving the needle is an overall good. For the upper-mid US, a couple more nuclear power plants. For the mid-west, more wind. Southwest, more solar. Continued support for electric tax credits. Expansion of efforts to increase forests in terms of trade policy. Reducing/elimination of farming subsidies to large mono-crop farming, especially where using patented seed. Nutrition policy based on science, not religion.

Reduction of pollution as a primary focus would help a lot as well. Abusing pollution and climate change to push a political agenda brings out a lot of resistance. It also shows that most of those screaming the loudest really don't care as much about it as they claim.
Smalltalk is amazing to work with, shame it did not get wider adoption.
Photoshop is a city for everyone: How Adobe endlessly rebuilds its classic(2013)
The Free Prison Tablets That Aren't
Its a very well studied dataset in (graduate) Stats. So many contingency tables where you correlate onset of myopia - myopia vs Asian/non-Asian, myopia verus Male/Female, with/without computer, w/wo smartphone, w/wo outdoor time, w/wo myopic parents, on & on.

If you know how to run a ChiSq, you can look at some 2x2 tables here. You can convince yourself with 1 line of R.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1771677/

Or if you want someone else to run the analysis & just skip to the interpretation of results, try this -
http://astro1.panet.utoledo.edu/~terencezl/projects/myopia.h...

But honestly, there's a ton of data on this subject. Conclusion is mostly the same - if you spend more time outside, less likely to be myopic. That's the one factor you can control. The others (being Asian or male or having myopic parents etc) is luck of the draw.