skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlike Climate Change Modelling, Limits to Growth never had the support of 97% of domain-relevant scientists.

And before someone says "Yes, but..." - just because someone is a contrarian doesn't make them right.

Galileo was right because he was a more honest scientist than the fact-deniers around him.

That's exactly where we are today - with the difference that the fact-deniers are the ones running the climate change denial PR outfits and think tanks.
Scapple, inshort
I’ve seen this before and I really have to wonder what the point is other than sensationalism. An image labelling AI will label images according to its training data. Yes, of course it will. This isn’t a psychopath AI and it doesn’t shed any light on anything, what’s the point?
To elaborate with an example: Germany has much stricter driver licencing (21 hours of theoretical courses, 9 hours or practical lessons with a certified instructor, practical and theoretical exam, and on top of that many people take more lessons to be able to pass the exams. And that's just for normal cars below 3.5 tons). Some small percentage of people try multiple times and never pass the exams.

These strict requirements are certainly a factor why we can have the Autobahn with no speed limit (on 50% of the total length) while still having significantly fewer road deaths than the US (4.2 vs 7.3 per billion kilometers traveled, 6.4 vs 14.2 per 100k vehicles).

But we can only do that in Germany because our public transit is at least passable and our cities and villages are built densely. Public transit could be much better, but in any place with at least 500 inhabitants you can live fairly comfortably without a car if you have to.
Negotiation is never a sure thing. Don’t say it unless you mean it, it can always go either way.
All the fossil fuel deposits and companies in the world are worth probably at least 10 trillion dollars. Not to mention the value of all the businesses that depend on the products they sell. You think they’re going to just write that off? They’re going to fight with every bit of strength they have to make sure that the fuels are available to extract, and every government in the world is going to help them. I just want us to all understand what we’re up against.
Nope. At least not for me. My blood sugar was too high and rising. I exercised all the time and ate a low carb diet. My blood sugar continued to rise, but the spikes were only while I was sleeping.

My doctor gave me a prescription, my blood sugar immediately went down and stayed down, and in four months I had lost 25 pounds. I don't feel hungry all the time (a problem that got a lot worse when I cut down on carbs). I don't think there's anything I could have done naturally to prevent diabetes.
Sure, just like quantum mechanics and evolution are "just theories". In other words: our current best understanding of the world, provisional (subject to further revision or even deeper, more fundamental understanding), but extremely well established and most definitely the most rational position to hold.
Yes, some billionaires do good things and some do bad things. And some do a mixture of the two. It's hard to wrap your head around, but there it is.
where will it stop!
This is cutting your nose off to spite your face. Who cares why people who are unqualified to agree with scientists agree with scientists?
Psychopathy is defined by lack of empathy. Are they really saying that all other AI agents have normal human levels of empathy? Because I don't think they do.
Not very practical, if you need to use a lot of APIs. One of advantage of Objective C is that it's easy to interop with C.
This point was raised many times in the last rolling blackout gamed events in California nearly two decades ago.

> S. David Freeman, who was appointed Chair of the California Power Authority in the midst of the crisis, made the following statements about Enron's involvement in testimony submitted before the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on May 15, 2002: [1]

> "There is one fundamental lesson we must learn from this experience: electricity is really different from everything else. It cannot be stored, it cannot be seen, and we cannot do without it, which makes opportunities to take advantage of a deregulated market endless. It is a public good that must be protected from private abuse. If Murphy's Law were written for a market approach to electricity, then the law would state 'any system that can be gamed, will be gamed, and at the worst possible time.' And a market approach for electricity is inherently gameable. Never again can we allow private interests to create artificial or even real shortages and to be in control. [1]

> "Enron stood for secrecy and a lack of responsibility. In electric power, we must have openness and companies that are responsible for keeping the lights on. We need to go back to companies that own power plants with clear responsibilities for selling real power under long-term contracts. There is no place for companies like Enron that own the equivalent of an electronic telephone book and game the system to extract an unnecessary middleman’s profits. Companies with power plants can compete for contracts to provide the bulk of our power at reasonable prices that reflect costs. People say that Governor Davis has been vindicated by the Enron confession."[1]

Hopefully stored battery energy on households can help prevent rolling blackouts impact, but until then any company running a crucial service needed for survival should be under heavy scrutiny, and switched to state/public run if they feel the need to game it.

In the Enron triggered emergencies, they were 'overscheduling' on purpose and 'megawatt laundering' [2]

> "There is a single connection between northern and southern California's power grids. I heard that Enron traders purposely overbooked that line, then caused others to need it. Next, by California's free-market rules, Enron was allowed to price-gouge at will." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis#...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis#...
Shouldn't there be an elevator?
Yes they can, it’s called inflating away the debt - presuming it isn’t debt issued in a foreign currency.
Not everyone, just almost everyone with power.
Has anyone become truly proficient with multiple layouts? Can you shed light on what it's like to switch throughout your day or week?
The Republicans have been in support of nuclear power since before you ever even heard of "climate change." Back then we just called it "clean air." Are you interested in saving the planet, or are you interested in shaming Republicans?

https://news.gallup.com/poll/248048/years-three-mile-island-...

>Republicans (65%) are more likely than Democrats (42%) to favor the use of nuclear power.
Grapher is very well done. I used it a lot when studying calculus. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/grapher/welcome/mac

Edit: I'm no longer a Mac user, I remember Coda (by Panic) being ahead of time as a text editor for coding.
Because they pay for sewage and libraries
What is an "ecofascist"?
Nir Eyal on how to beat tech addiction: ‘We need a new skill set’
Gretta of Arc would disagree with you.

(But really the subject is so complex that angry pontificating is just as valid and additive to the debate as any mathematical model)
Another good book in that vein, but more in the political arena (think tanks etc.) is Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer.
The difference in impact between an email accidentally getting lost in the spam folder, and having your social media account getting banned, can be a rather vast one.
Unless they include the pronoun by their name... good luck.

There could be a macro that expands into the pronoun or whoever you're responding to.
Only one side acknowledges the existence of a problem.
> That means you Galileo.

Who was not the only one, there were many more in his age and time, and was backed by measurable facts.
> Do you in USA have some kind of protection of politicians being deflamed? [sic; defamed]

We do, but our Supreme Court has ruled that, under the First Amendment to our Constitution, a public official (or candidate for public office) must prove that the defamatory statement was false AND that it was made with "actual malice," meaning that the accused libeler / slanderer either (i) knew the statement was false or (ii) recklessly disregarded whether or not it was true. [0] This is a pretty tough burden of proof for the plaintiff to carry, so most politicians don't bother suing for libel or slander.

[0] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan
Point me to the disaster
Put another way, it’s an average 4:35 mile sustained for 26 miles. It’s hard to even get my head around how a human being could accomplish this.
The species that this seems modeled after went extinct 550,000 years before this was made? Something is amiss here.
> model of psychopathic behavior

Maybe "broad strokes" elements of behavior, but no more. Whatever your Pixel is doing to recognize objects in pictures looks almost nothing like what your brain is doing to do a similar task.
At this pace he would beat lots of amateurs ON A BIKE!
Wow, that was not heated but toxic. I had to nope out of that after reading the first 2 pages.
>> Because politicians cut its budget while requiring 24/7 operation, not because the subway operator doesn't have ~profit motive~

The MTA's dysfunction and inefficiency scale to accomodate whatever budget they are given and this will continue until city and state politicians are actually held accountable for its performance.
This is also why rockets have multiple stages. A single rocket can’t make orbital velocity with significant cargo, but a bigger rocket can get the small rocker part of the way there. It works because the second stage’s lower weight allows for smaller engines and fewer fuel tanks etc.
Hm, a lot of the article focuses on optimizing your interaction with a database (rdbms/sql), which has nothing to do with the performance of ruby (some of it arguably has to do with _Rails_).

Even more of the article has to do with Rails, and not ruby in general.

But the larger point, are you suggesting that in a language that is "performant enough", developers need no performance advice, they can write however they want and get adequate performance, for any performance needs?

Maybe, although I'm dubious. The existence of advice for programming does not mean a language/platform isn't "something enough" until we have AI writing code. At any rate, if such a language exists it is not ruby. But I disagree with that suggestion. The existence of optimization advice does not mean that a language "is not performant enough". If Shoppify is still happily using ruby/rails, I would say it indeed demonstrates they are performant enough for them.
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The cookie notice obscures the page and cannot be made to go away without JS.
This explains Standard Oil and Ford during WWII pretty well. They provided material support to the Nazis. It was just profit. The war worked out well for some of those who supported it.
But unlike this the people like Ford were fighting for their aryan ideals.
But they were slapped with the "* denier" label of the time heretic and either executed, exiled, or put on house arrest for life by the "good" government scientists.
I’d rather no one be threatened with prison for not paying taxes. I don’t think the state (or anyone else) should be able to throw you in prison because you haven’t paid up. It’s just the modern day threat of debtors prison.
Ok folks, if there is a first prize I think I’m going to win with this entry:

Scrivener
And clearly this Climate Denial Movement has spent its money well: witness the huge amount of gaslighting, denialism, whataboutism, conspiracy mongering, and anti-science behavior on this very page.
The 'Readlax' Platform Trains the Brain Using Games and More
Here's a Lisp that's whitespace sensitive to avoid parens:
http://dustycloud.org/blog/wisp-lisp-alternative/

Other techniques to make them less prominent is to use a text face or syntax highlighting to make them less prominent, e.g:
https://github.com/tarsius/paren-face/

It's not that Lisp has many more parens as that it's simplicity mandates only 1 block structure is used to define s-expressions (lisp's AST), whereas other languages adopt multiple syntaxes for defining their different blocks structures, e.g. () {} [] <>, lisp only uses ().
Somehow I feel StackOverflow is preparing itself to be bought. Part of contract is for SO to deal with these hard problems before the it is made public.
No they are asking to enforce a standard of "demonstrably false"
So you disagree that climate change is a systemic problem?
Strup – how to get rid of email in college
So PG&E get to make unlimited profits but the public has to eat the cost of their liabilities?

They should just be a public utility in that case. Since someone is going to wind up eating the costs, and if not PG&E, then the public/taxpayer. Therefore may have well cut out the profit inefficiency and use that money to maintain their equipment correctly (or pay for damages).

Private entities running natural monopolies never made sense to me anyway. PG&E don't even pretend to do it well.
That is a legitimate criticism of a lot of the environmental movement, but the viewpoint you’re describing is not from the mainstream of conservative thought.

Conservatives are invited to put themselves at the heart of tackling climate change, by proposing policies which can reduce carbon emissions at a fast enough rate without overturning the economic system. I personally think that is the most credible way of tackling the issue.

But first they have to stop denying warming is happening, stop denying the pre-eminent role of greenhouse gases from human civilization, and then propose mechanisms which are credible to tackle the problem.

Such a position does exist in conservative movements, for instance you can see it in the British Conservative party, but it is unusual in the English-speaking world. Most English-speaking conservative leaders have reduced themselves to bringing snowballs into Parliament, or calling climate change a Chinese hoax.
The unfortunate part with enterprise software, is that in the end its all bought on tender basis. Every minute the programmers and architects spend participating in the actual job, they do not spend creating new features. So your product will either have less features than the competition, or your product will cost more than the competition.

Dogfooding enterprise software is mostly impossible, since the people developing it are pushed to deliver features, because that is what administrators/managers use to choose between software. They don't care about usability, because it is not something tangible you can check.
If you are content with letting any company or executive off the hook with everything because “the purpose of a corporation is to increase shareholder value” then you have given up on democratic society.
This is a terribly worded title by NPR, should be "Canada's Decision To Make More Clinical Trial Data Public Puts Pressure On FDA."

Having said that I really hope the FDA will follow suit.
I came across Dash last week - a very cool offline API documentation browser. Super useful and very well done.

https://kapeli.com/dash
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The whole Omni suite is a classic answer to this. I use OmniFocus daily, and in my opinion OmniGraffle is still by far the best choice for flowcharts and similar.
>The keyboard has been an important part of the success of at least one major laptop brand.

Which one?
It'd surely have impact in the related fields. However, I'd save the "biggest discovery" title to findings that debunk and completely change our assumptions, rather than more evidence for assumptions we already hold. Perhaps, having another life origin to study will lead us to new understandings. But the mere discovery of alien life is not that disruptive.

Given all theories and evidences we've observed thus far it's expected that we are not the only living things in the universe. Except for some fringe theorists, everyone expects life to exist in other places besides Earth. Finding out that life exists elsewhere in the solar system would just be more evidence for what we already belive to be true. So, not really huge news in itself.
When I first woke up, the title here matched that of the article. Why change it?
Feels like you're implying that this is not true anymore for modern for-profit companies? If I misread what you wrote, I'm sorry.
A public entity has an incentive to maintain appearances to the public. That incentive might accidentally be aligned with providing a quality service, but more often it is not.
Fwiw I never really got this approach to caching b/c the keys are always based on calling the db, and calling the db is usually what you're specifically trying to avoid with caching, not just the transform of db content to json/html, which should be cheap?
I can do so too. However, I would never really discover all those great options if I haven't seriously tried to limit my meat consumption in past few years.

I do eat meat, but these days ~90% of my diet is vegetarian. My favorite burger place around is... a vegan one. I never tried it before, now it's my number one when I crave for a burger. Go figure.

Some people go vegan because they care about morality and "purity", but the fact is - if everyone really tried to consider alternatives to meat and eat it only occasionally, even without taking any moral stance about it, the environmental impact of meat production would look completely different than it does now (and would actually be less problematic morally as well).
> They resent people who use climate change as a proxy for another agenda

In my experience, it's more a question that whenever action is proposed, they simply claim as an axiom that it those proposing action actually have another agenda.

"You want to introduce tax on carbon emissions? You clearly want big government to control our lives and destroy American industry".

This kind of paranoid thinking is problematic in introducing effective measures.
These both look neat, and they're apps I'd legitimately never heard of before!

To save others the bit of Googling I did:

Scapple: Mind mapping software, looks almost like a modern version of Inspiration. Drag notes together to connect them. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview

Inshort: Flowcharts, and Gantt charts. Says it integrates with Calendar, which could be very useful. Wonder how it compares with Omnigraffle, though. http://www.shortki.com/inShort.html
Unless you pay a private firm to drill a well and put a septic tank in the ground.

Cost a few thousand dollars, and a few hundred every few years to have them come and pump the tank.

I pay Amazon ~$10 a month for access to more reading, listening and video content than most major university libraries have access too.

No late fees either.

Of course sewage is better handled at the municipality level in dense areas, and I'm not okay with private firms having control over access to information, but Federal level governments are highly inefficient.
It's hard to be sure this isn't satire.

You mentioned 'for HN' twice in the same sentence.

Your 2nd, 4th, and 5th sentence all try to assert the same thing - older comments are less relevant than newer comments - despite there being no evidence, anywhere, that this is the case. Your 3rd sentence is partly true, though there's some historical record aspect to HN comment threads that you're discounting.

Your second paragraph is a non sequitur. Sites that correlate points in time with timestamps are ubiquitous, and there's rarely a compelling case for using wildly different approaches to displaying same.
Meybase
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What possible benefit would AR provide in this situation?
I remembered this article also, thanks for digging it up again.

Its predictions were pretty spot-on:

- Predicted in November, actual mid-October

- Predicted in Debno, actual in Vienna, but both are very flat courses (I can't find if Debno is flatter)

- "The pacemakers will form a human wall" - yes, pacemaker strategy seemed critical here.

- "Mindblowing pay-day" - No clue, no articles seem to mention it.

- "Kenyans who dominate world marathon lists generally do little, if any, weight training, which may represent an untapped source of improvement." - "To his normal preparations he added workouts focused on core strength" (though unclear if weights were a focus).

- "5' 6" and [120lb]" - Kipchoge is 5'5" and 125lb.

- "access to [technology] we can't imagine" - the shoes I guess - I don't know how big an advance these are - compared to his last attempt the pacemakers and location seem more relevant.

- "early 20s" - complete miss.

- "I’m saying the year is...2075" and two generations late.

Interestingly, it predicts very precisely the characteristics of the run and the runner, except for time - both the runner's age, and the time until it would happen.
I've had it, wasn't overly impressed. Maybe it was just the preparation, but I remember thinking I'd never have it again unless I wasn't paying for it.
It that location correct? I've got family in mariott hotel and according to https://www.google.com/maps/@35.7451047,139.6196198,9z/data=... - it's much closer. https://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/1919l.html - is not very accurate. Is it true that it passed north of Tokio?
Cooperative Threading
Expect to see this once unbreakable limit now be broken in rapid succession by other world class marathoners. It seems the limit is every bit as psychological as it is physical.
The underlying study is misleading, and the article’s characterization of the findings is outright deceptive. The article claims that “nearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the organized climate change counter-movement.” That billion dollars is the total funding flowing into a variety of conservative and pro-market organizations, which advocate on a wide variety of issues.

The underlying study and the article also lump all of these organizations into a “climate change denial” movement. That’s totally false. The official position of organizations like Heritage Foundation is not to deny that climate change is happening. Their position is, basically, the potential risks of climate change are overstated and extreme solutions are not worth the cost. That is not a climate denialism position, it’s a costs-and-benefits analysis. The IPCC’s own estimates of the business as usual scenario show modest economic impacts even under a business as usual scenario out to 2100. (Large in absolute terms but relatively small in terms of the total world GDP.)
I walk slower because I have smaller legs.

Pff, but then I can swim faster than quite a lot of younger people, for longer, and daily.

And run.

WTF.
I find Richard Lindzen's work & view very interesting on the subject. He adds more color to this.

"He has published more than 200 scientific papers and books. From 1983[1] until his retirement in 2013, he was Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] He was a lead author of Chapter 7, "Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks," of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Third Assessment Report on climate change. He has criticized the scientific consensus about climate change[3] and what he has called "climate alarmism."[4]"

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