skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exxon is one of the top 5 investors in renewables research. They're not idiots, they know they're going to run out of oil, and they're legally obligated to make sure their shareholders don't lose all of their money. So they're preparing for the future.
The article actually makes this clear: if you believe that "climate change is up for debate, or that climate change is no big deal"...then you are a "climate denier".

I wonder if the guys at Smithsonian read some of the research on this from the 70s. Much of that turned out to be woefully inaccurate - Limits to Growth most famously - and that did massive damage...lesson learned? I think not.
I'm actually fine with HN's system because I think most of us know how to get at text which appears unreadable. But this seems like a very fair & reasonable suggestion.
Might not be the best citation

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/4/23/1850729...
I don't know about others, but at least myself I felt there was a kind of "zeitgeist" of the 1990s/2000s-era Internet, that we're supposed to be above witch hunts and other similar stupidity. It feels as if new levels of idiocy were inserted into the Internet over the last decade.
Yes. We should have zoning requirements for fire resistant construction and have minimum setbacks from tree lines etc... whatever makes sense.
Just so I clearly understand, if I have a lot of files and directories in say /repositories or /projects and go to upgrade, there’s a chance I won’t have that any more because I mistakenly treated it like any other *nix filesystem? That’s... not disconcerting in the least.
Mods: (2013), please :-)
We were so focused on the speed and relevance of search that we abandoned the copy... You are the second person who told that normally only a person or animal can be curious. When I was told it first time I checked Merriam-Webster and confirmed that curious is "exciting attention as strange, novel, or unexpected" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curious Will polish and clarify, thank you for the feedback!
I'm aware. In many batteries, though, those cells are welded together and the cases are additionally glued or welded. This makes it much more difficult to repack those batteries with new cells than it needs to be.
I totally agree, just the absolute minimum and the initial goal is matching or slightly surpassing that level. Once that happens I guess you'd expect it to get much better pretty quickly as well, which is good.
Long term the ideal is to bury the lines.
Billionaires fund "Climate Denial"...oh, evil billionaires using their secret dark money trusts.

Billionaires fund Extinction Rebellion...oh, virtuous enlightened billionaires, so smart, so moral.
A friend of mine told his boss “I’m going traveling for three months starting in January. Am I quitting or just taking a leave of absence?”. It worked.

To negotiate more vacation days at hiring, you need multiple offers. Then you can tell them “I will accept your offer if it includes six weeks of vacation. Otherwise I’m going to Facebook”. It probably means negotiating a little less hard on pay since you need to focus to get it. But that’s probably fair.
This was nothing for Tokyo this time. But it tested the rivers going through the kanto area and almost spilled the Arakawa and Tama rivers. That could have been a great disaster!
Sure, but NHK were talking about a potential tsunami warning for a moment at the time, though I'll admit that this is also par for the course. I was just taken aback a bit by the potential of water from above, from inland via the flooding rivers and more coming in from the sea.
Have you looked at Julia?
From HowStuffWorks:[0]

> The design of the Twin Towers is often called a "tube within a tube," referring to the fact that all of the weight of the building was supported by the external walls and an internal column. Previously, the exterior walls of a skyscraper were called curtain walls -- they weren't relied upon for strength, so it wasn't imperative that super-sturdy materials were used for them.

And from 9-11 Research:[1]

> The system of design of the World Trade Center Towers is called tubular framing, since the perimeter frames of the building are designed to act as a cantilevered tube in resisting lateral forces. This design concept (the so-called tube within a tube architecture) has been employed in the construction of many of the world's tallest buildings. These include the John Hancock Center (1105 ft), the Standard Oil of Indiana Building (1125 ft) and the Sears Tower (1450 ft).

I wouldn't rely on much else in that site, though.

0) https://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/structural/wor...

1) https://www.911research.wtc7.net/mirrors/guardian2/wtc/nova....
So we should have just a little bit of reasonable mass surveillance? I don't see how to construct a nuanced or "sophisticated" viewpoint about this.
I think it has more to do with politics than anything else.
Because coders are mostly considered to be line workers.

They're comparatively well-paid labourers but their work more often than not is perceived as a cost centre with the actual value creation happening elsewhere (product development, design, marketing).

At least partly, coders have themselves to blame for that. By identifying as a "Java / JavaScript / Whatever developer" rather than someone who solves business problems developers commoditise themselves and their services.

If you're essentially marketing yourself as a set of TLAs you become a fungible resource.
That is the evidence. Science is often done indirectly. We know that the Sun is made up of hydrogen gas but no one has been there. We know black holes exist, and that the big bang took place 15 billion years ago, that atoms are made up of protons, electrons and neutrons, and that gravitational waves ripple through spacetime. No one has directly seen these things, but we know them to be true based on indirect evidence.

Similarly, the above list of facts is indirect evidence for life on Mars.
How's the editor support with Mercury?
Outside climatologists, geophysicists, biologists and other people with scientific training, I am not sure most people are really equipped to argue against evidence of human impact on the climate, or that human activity is a non-factor in change. However, I do think that the policies countries and even municipalities institute in response to the evidence are fair game. Wild lands conservation, green belts on cities, reducing suburban blight and car dependency, not importing garbage, and using tariffs to reduce dependency on globalized supply chains are viable policy options, but ones that are unpopular with many of the very people who use climate change as a motte for global equity, justice, and economic central planning.

The people I know who dismiss climate activism and its acknowledgement don't disagree with the science. They resent people who use climate change as a proxy for another agenda that is unrelated and inconsistent with the needs of reducing human impact on the planet (beyond reducing birth rates in wealthy countries). These activists, whose insistence that everything is connected and systemic, are not interested in solving problems, rather they use this conflation of all things to muddy the waters and place themselves at the centre of it, conveniently gate keeping what policy options are acceptable to talk about.

Climate changes, it's a fact, and humans are impacting it, that is not seriously controversial. What is controversial is freighting the solutions with a destructive, class war agenda designed to leverage a crisis, spread poverty, and centralize governance.
> Eliud Kipchoge runs so fast that he used a number of fresh pacers for this particular effort

And of course the pacers are also among the fastest runners in the world. (Here's a list: https://live.ineos159challenge.com/pacemakers - if you follow running you may recognise many of them)

This may be an artificial setup and in part a marketing gimmick, but it's also an impressive team activity as well as an individual success.
Size matters, particularly when it's a multinational behemoth with a strong track record of manipulating their users. Thank heavens regulators appear as disturbed as I am with the idea.

Here's the issue, well my issue. I've read more than enough history to know what happens with company currency or scrip. It doesn't have to be the mining town paying the miner in mining dollars to use at a variable rate solely at the overpriced mining store, valid only whilst they work at the mine and don't upset the foreman or his wife. Each step and use gave opportunity, gladly taken, for the mine to extract more profit.

Currency regulators permit local dollars and pounds which are an attempt to keep money in a local economy. Their constraint is fair to both the public and the market, they are purely parallel to cash, and they are tiny enough not to matter - crucially there is no profit in and of themselves. A "local California dollar" might well deservedly get a different reaction.

With Libra, well it's not hard to create a Company Scrip 2.0 scenario. In fact it's disturbingly easy. Actually, to imagine dozens upon dozens of them. Then a few dozen more purely because it's supra-national. Then a few dozen more because they are large enough to squeeze out cash without needing to be a remote company town. Yeah actually I want regulators to squish that before birth, with extreme malice.

Just one example: Facebook and Ford do a deal for FB advertising and a bit of personal data swapping, in return for Ford F150s, or maybe just a particular model to start, solely being available for Libra. You want that Ford truck, well convert some dollars into Libra. You don't see how it's disturbingly easy to create an inevitable and easily manipulated stronghold down that route? What about if the local supermarket does the same deal? Breach the licence, well you're not shopping in these stores... Even stealing universal currencies, such as dollars, does not remove your future use of or right to use dollars. Only the stolen loot is taken from you.

I'm perfectly comfortable with the anarchistic cryptocurrencies such as BTC as there is no threat to the universality of exchange, even if it did take off more than BTC yet has. Even though BTC's main use seems as medium of speculation until the bubble bursts. They can reasonably be a currency. Libra feels more universality of control than of exchange.

A currency as product - that's inherently a bad thing, as I wrote in my other reply. Even if the company is not Facebook but is behind the crypto currency alone, with a built in route to profit just by the "currency" existing. That's diametrically opposed to the needs of a currency - a universal token of exchange and legal tender. It rather removes the ability to be a currency. It should not be a product in and of itself. I expect, and pray, that regulators will erase any that have chance of becoming widespread enough to be real alternative currency beyond speculative toy. Otherwise everyone except shareholders is worse off. Now a central bank backing a cryptocurrency - held as universal and legal tender - that's an entirely different, and interesting thing.
How is Apple betraying their ideals here? The entire point of Apple as a for-profit company is to earn a profit. They are doing what they are saying is the most important for them. Big surprise?

Seems many Americans think that companies somehow have to have a moral or something. The explicit purpose of setting up a for-profit company is to make it explicit that the company is out after earning a profit.

If there is a choice between two options, and one will lead to less profit, the choice is obvious to them. If you think Apple is "for encryption" because they are just the good guys, you're missing the picture of why a company exists in the first place.
Original site isn't loading. Here is the MIT site for the project [0] and a popular mechanics article [2]

[0] http://norman-ai.mit.edu/

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21246473/meet-n...
> Clarifying the institutional dynamics of the CCCM can aid our understanding of how anthropogenic climate change has been turned into a controversy rather than a scientific fact in the U.S.

I know how unpopular this comment will be in some circles, but I feel I have to say it anyway: Anthropogenic climate change is not a “scientific fact”. It is a theory, and (to the best of my knowledge) an untestable one at that.

I believe in anthropogenic climate change, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to abandon the scientific method and intellectual honesty in some desperate attempt to convince others of this. I fear a world without truth and science more than I fear one a few degrees warmer.
I browse the "new" tab almost every time I browse HN, every 2-3 days, usually 2-3 pages back.
I almost always find some interesting stuff there, some days more so than in the "main" tab. I regularly upvote stuff. Also, like others said, I also browse it right after I submit a new link, but that's because it's shown right after I submit.
OMG I've just reproduced what you reported. In Firefox. Obviously it is a bug. We tested only fresh Chrome and Safari browsers... Thank you!
And arguably his 90s work has been caricatured and mischaracterised, too.
Shorter you

a. I don't justify this

b. I know you didn't care about government-sponsored child abuse before Trump, because your protest (to the thing that had yet to happen) wasn't in my news feed

c. btw, here are my justifications for why they had to do the child abuse
The framed-tube structure of the original Twin Towers was pretty novel at the time. It allowed the building to have wide open floor plans without the need to have a grid of support beams everywhere like most other skyscrapers up until then. It also likely would not have collapsed if built the traditional way. Then again most modern skyscrapers are built more like the original WTC and less like the Empire State Building, so it's not really a design flaw.

The visual design of the towers was also striking in it's minimalism, and quite controversial too. I think people got used to them but after they were first opened many saw them as a blight on the skyline. IMO, I prefer the old towers to the new, not that the new one is particularly ugly or anything. They were kinda like the Pyramids of skyscrapers; just build a shape, as big and tall as you can. Maybe if 9/11 never happened a future civilization would have called them "The Rectangles".
This could probably be an interesting model of psychopathic behavior.
Typhoon Hagibis: Biggest Japan storm in decades makes landfall
>Why do people blame PG&E?

People blame PG&E because investigations have traced several colossal fires back to electrical equipment.

Shutting off the power isn't a panacea. But California's electrical grid was built for the climate of the past, and is increasingly looking dangerous on high-fire-danger days in the climate of the future. So shutting it off on those days is going to have to become a component of prevention, unfortunately.

I have many friends in an area devastated by one of the large fires a few years ago, and the sentiment I've seen over the past few days is largely gratefulness. A recognition that, as bad as blackouts are, if they can prevent a catastrophe, they're worth it.
Interesting, because HN's CSS only goes as high as #ddd.

Also, you can use text selection via mouse or appropriate touch gesture in order to read even the lightest-colored comment.
he's also the 'normal' marathon world champion. He just didn't exceed his own previous record with this because it didn't qualify in this category.

You wouldn't allow a rocket propelled and self driving formel1 car into the same bracket as the normal league either.... Though the difference is significantly less here

His achievements are listed on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliud_Kipchoge
No, the real question is why do you think that "the government" is entitled to a percentage of your money, and why you think they can spend it better than the private sector.
I didn't set up my phone with Colemak (maybe in the future)
How is it an improvement over Arc? What issues does Arc have that Bel solves/addresses?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck

Great example
The presumption of malicious intent is what's off putting. Plus its a fool's errand, you cannot retrain a few billion people by public shaming. I'm a liberal, and this is stupid.
The benefit of the support runners wasn't just to help him keep pace (he could probably do this with music). They also provide a drafting help to limit any head-on air resistance.
It was damn close to a race, and they got a result that is damn close to the world record.
I love this. I'm definitely appropriating the phrase "MBA-type." Seems to have fallen out of fashion as MBA-types become increasingly common in tech.
First rule of negotiation is you have to be willing to walk away if you don't get what you ask for. Could be you weren't willing to say "no thanks" if they didn't budge on vacation time.
Right. The revolution devours its children.
> Then you can tell them “I will accept your offer if it includes six weeks of vacation. Otherwise I’m going to Facebook”

I've used that exact line, and they didn't budge, so I went to Facebook. I guess everywhere I've applied is large tech companies. It might work better at smaller firms.
Might want to use an electric car to avoid the fumes. I do wonder if the car, even a larger distance ahead, does more for drafting than a human in front of the runner.
Interesting theory. In the USSR, there were no private entities. It must have been a utopia, no? Obviously, it was not, and there was widespread devastation of the environment, unreliable service, etc.

Whether a company is for or non profit is almost beside the point. What made utilities work was that the private corp ran the business and the government board provided oversight. This eventually broke down as people are people whether they work at a for profit or non profit organization.

If the board becomes filled with people with a different agenda than providing cheap, safe, reliable power, then they will take actions that, over the long term, will make it impossible for the utility to do those things. The signs of this are not allowing new transmission lines or power plants, and directing that the company use specific technologies that are not part of the (cheaper/safer/more reliable) core values.
I think there is a law in Canada against mis-gendering people. Lot of popular tech companies have explicit CoC guideline against mis-gendering. StackOverflow recently fired a moderator for proposing to use gender neutral pro-nouns instead of individual preferred pronouns, even when there is no official CoC defined as such.
Here, educate yourself:

> Four years ago, she was diagnosed with Asperger’s, on the autism spectrum
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/23/greta-...

Just watching any of her public speeches makes obvious that she is a poor ill person. And as they say, whenever the government wants to make some especially heinous laws, they use children. It's especially disgusting to see the media use a mentally ill child to further its agenda, but the fact remains.
also a classic breakbeat track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zckpMLsMBYo
It spilled Tama, not sure what you mean by almost.
I have municipal electricity, I've had it for more than a decade over three different apartments/houses. I flippin' love it! The service has been absolutely top notch and cost has been reasonable. The surrounding area is serviced by the publicly traded company and the difference is noticable.

When I was a kid I got most places using public transportation and it was fine.
While I see lots of problems with PG&E, the fact that they can basically face unlimited liability from something that is nowhere near entirely their fault (i.e. PG&E may be responsible for their equipment but the fact that climate change means one small spark is more likely to cause billions in damages and widespread destruction isn't PG&E's fault) means the system is broken.

This is a case where normal tort liability makes for a failed system. Would be much better if there was a regulated system describing what PG&E is responsible for, and for building up a reserve for the fires that are inevitable.
> Karl Popper argued that we need to use violence to cull intolerant ideas even if they aren't violent

Incorrect.
I can’t speak for all Americans, but it’s fantastic and sadly inaccessible. Grocery stores either don’t have them, want to charge an unreasonable premium as if it’s exotic, or ideally will give them away. However that’s a perk the butcher gets for friends, family, and loyal customers. Unfortunately, I don’t have such a relationship with a butcher, so it’s a rare treat. Those who do have access are very much into it.
"Plan" suggests people got together and arranged it. It is the generally acknowledged most likely outcome given our demonstrated inability to overcome the people attempting thwart collective action. Maybe this seems like a slim distinction, but I think it's important to say that not everyone recognizing the likelihood of this outcome is actively planning it.
They probably have read it but discount it's inaccuracies the same way failed implementations of Marxism are discounted.

> "Well we know how to do it right this time"

Which is what was said last time too, but who's counting
I've been following Andreas on Youtube for a few weeks now. His video on porting DOOM was my first foray into his work. His videos are very interesting if - like me - you have done plenty of web and app development, but less systems-level work.

Keep at it Andreas :)
And this is the beginning of the end of SE. They should never have gotten anywhere near involved in such a controversial topic. Especially, given their site is _international_ and I'm assuming a huge amount of their customer base is coming from conserved, third-world countries, who are simply not ready to change to make a first-world minority feel better of factually correct wording.

Save yourself the burden:
$ echo "127.0.0.1 stackoverflow.com www.stackoverflow.com stackexchange.com www.stackexchange.com" >> /etc/hosts
Julia is compiled to machine code, not interpreted
Freelancing: Zero to Hero
> Yet among the computable numbers, what our computers can

> represent in any language is but a small subset of them.

This is only true because of physical limitations of the machine (say, it has only finite memory). In the same way not all Turing machines cannot be implemented on actual computers. This is not a restriction of the languages we use. There is nothing stopping an actual programming language representing all computable real numbers.

> (Although computable numbers are equinumerous with the naturals.)

This is only true in classical mathematics. In constructive mathematics we are free to assume that all real numbers are computable (And hence, not equinumerous with the naturals, per cantor’s argument).
The art of communication and its mechanisms
Through their actions, CA has practically required it.

Who is John Galt?
There is a great book: "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming"

Two things to learn from the book:

1) The are same people and organizations behind many science related denials: DDT, tobacco, SDI defenders, acid rain, ozone hole, and climate change denial are linked to same group of people. They try to "maintain the controversy" and "keep the debate alive".

2) The usual suspects don't do this just for the money. Sure, they take money from business sponsors, but the merchants of doubt themselves are not purely cynical operatives and money grabbers. There is type of Manichaean paranoia and ideology behind it. It's related to cold war mentality and free market fundamentalism.

George C. Marshall Institute (GMI) was one of the centers of this ideology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Marshall_Institute