skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not for aluminium smelting, which is done with electricity rather than heat.

This is why aluiminium has only recently become a cheap resource, or indeed a resource at all, despite being incredibly common and having a low melting point.
The comments here are just absolutely insane, STOP MAKING EVERYTHING POLITICAL. Fake Intellectuals are trying to destroy STEAM by making everything boring and everything about "This people are evil". WTF, it's COMPUTER SCIENCE NOT POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Just a few remarks, notwithstanding your/my opinions.

Physics has not "one of the better reproducibility rates" but 100%; per the Scientific Method any valid theory must:

- be reproducible (verifiable empirically)

- have predictive power

- not negate existing theories

This constitutes 'acceptable proof'.

It yields a 'compound effect' to theoretical research: for instance, Newton's Laws were never wrong, just narrower in scope than Einstein's. No future valid theory will ever prove any of these two wrong, it can only generalize more, because we know these two to be true. True is true forever, barring a fundamental change in this universe itself. So we keep the theoretical foundations forever, they're solid.

Their interpretation, however, may change as we widen the scope, and that is the 'human' part in science, the art of it, to produce valid representations linking the math with the experience of reality. That changes a lot, in time, and even from person to person.

The 'why' things are is another matter entirely and not a concern for physics nor science in general; we search for the root causes to explain 'how' things work the way they do. We stop there in theory for beyond is mere interpretation, opinion, belief.

Now this would exclude all social sciences and biology and countless others from the realm of 'science' and that's not fair; these fields yield very usable results despite the nigh impossible search for pure theory. I like the 19-20th century view that 'empirical sciences' gain value when we try to the best of our ability to apply the Scientific Method and mathematical tools to account for fuzziness.

Deep learning is certainly a formidable upgrade to the tooling of empirical sciences, brute-forcing 'how' things work for lack of a better truth than retrospective.

Just don't compare it to e.g. physics, don't ask for predictability (as you wouldn't ask a fish to fly), it's pointless and only serves to undermine the value of empirical sciences, while overemphasizing that of theory.

Because you know, in theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they're not... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm fine with that day-to-day. Has literally never been a problem for me. But when it's affirmative action, sports divisions, or in this case, people discussing if a study is reflecting biological sex differences or things people choose to express in a study, yeah let's be really fucking clear that someone is choosing to express social stereotypes and that's not always the same thing as "being a woman".
Please explain to me how Fourier and later Tyndall were wrong about the effect of (misnommed) greenhouse gases on the atmosphere, and how 200 years later no one disproved them.

Your analogy is creative, but if you really think the IPCC have no statistician (or that you are a better statitician than them), you might want to read more about the work of IPCC WG1, that will cure the Dunning-kruger while allowing you to work the statistics by yourself.

And yes, the IPCC WG3 is alarmist and ignore some conclusions from the WG2, but their job is to push the politicians.

I was like you (well, i was skeptical about the WG3 conclusions and the human greenhouse contribution) so i did something really special: i read the rapports! Yes, i know, its crazy, but this is something i think every skeptic should do: read.
This is crazy that learning to read scientific papers is not taught until year 3 of college (at least in my country), but i assure you its not that hard, even if you never went to college.
Weird. Every country I know of has a legal system for ownership of water extraction rights.

Though, come to think of it, that may only be two countries...
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Can you please recommend dinner IRC channels?
> Even today I'd guess close to half couldn't tell you the defined difference between the two.

I kinda halfway try to follow this stuff, and honestly, I'd have trouble defining most of the terms involved in a way that didn't step on someone's toes—and I'd be trying not to! No wonder people are put off by it.
>enough time to react and fire
You mention the intercept window, but it's more complex than interceptable / not interceptable, and time is not the only factor at play.

It's much easier to intercept the missile earlier rather than later, even if the window allows for a later intercept.

It's easiest during ascent phase, because: 1) the rocket is still accelerating (slower target), 2) the rocket is still burning (bright target) 3) before the payload(s) has separated from the booster (big target) 4) before warheads and decoys deploy (single target)

There are some other aspects to consider as well, like a trajectory-changing near-miss during early ascent will have a much greater impact than the same in late ascent, (depending a lot on the target type).

Which is why US missile defense began as an entirely ship based program, to be deployed where ascent interception would be possible.

Although this has changed a great deal since then; technical abilities and limits revealed through testing, as well as political/ budget constraints have shifted the tactical role of the system more state-side, not without controversy.
Surprisingly insightful post IMNHO.

From the mistakes section:

> Dragging windows and assuming that’s related to performance of the rest of the shell. It’s not always. We found that dragging windows had its own unique reason (78) for being slow on top of everything else.

And from that bug/mr:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/568

> compositor: Don't emit size-changed when only position changes

> Waking up gnome-shell and triggering JavaScript listeners of size-changed every time a window was only moved was wasting a lot of CPU.

> This cuts the CPU requirement for dragging windows by around 22%.
1 mm of PTFE on a 10 kV cable is not even remotely close to human safe. Nick the insulation on such a cable and you turn your user into a quickly expanding cloud of plasma. Cables for that sorts of voltages and currents come heavily armored for mechanical stability, not only dielectric strength.
I've seen a lot of "Fuck you and your SUV" stickers lately. Now I understand why.
I think this is a bigger problem where downstream countries rely on a river that passes through their neighbour first.
What will stand in the way, at least for a bit, are interests that have tied their outlook to fossil fuels. In the case of transportation, its the oil industry down to the local gas stations.

I think we should work from the bottom up to turn this case around. Incentivize gas stations to install rapid chargers, which will help to shift car buyers' mindsets. IIRC, gas stations make very little margin on gas anyways.
I had the same issue with my mother in law. She said she isn’t able to share to an iCloud group. She was used to the fact that the iCloud option was part of the upper rows. And having an iPhone 6s she was also left with any indication to scroll down.
Reproducibility is terrible in this field but for this particular study they explain their statistical methods as well as provide links to the data. You could do your own analysis if you wish.

The recruits were found via email in an Austrian University so I don't think the authors would make any cross-cultural claims.
New Zealand has the problem where the smelter has such huge power usage that they get to wag the dog. That is a situation that is probably hard to avoid.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/116851413/ri...
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To make them always visible, search Settings for "Automatically hide scroll bars in Windows" and untick the checkbox.
There should be a law against this. If you are an utility, you cannot refuse customers
I am sorry, what? I do not dismiss my own culture as inferior to the cultures of other countries. Not at all.
Even those that believe in climate change seem to have a problem with naming overpopulation as a principle cause of the problem.
Yes, and trees will produce shadow and store water in trunks but also in leafs and flowers that would be directly available to animals. The effects of dry season would be mitigated, even in a desertic area.

The culture to burn wild plants each year to avoid fire will eliminate the water. Is a vicious circle. Less water in soil equals to more risk of fire, so you start burning the soil, so you have less and less water and you need to keep burning .
Hm, yes, I see what you mean. You have to infer that Monty is always choosing a goat door to open.
I think this is the danger of social science. Everyone has anecdata, and you tend to believe (and share) the studies that support your anecdata.

> time that removes any negative view?

I was taught in college psychology that most people start to forget the negative aspects of relationships and cling to the good aspects.

A quick Google search suggests I was misinformed, though: https://www.google.com/search?q=humans+forget+negative+thing...
Electrons are a perfectly adequate model for reality. I do not read the previous poster as disputing this point.

Instead, they appear to be asking, “is there another model for reality which would also work well enough to build a MOSFET?”

I do not know either.

That said, people keep telling me that both QM and GR are known to be incomplete, so perhaps electrons are no more real than phlogiston? I would certainly be surprised, but that’s besides the point, and even if someone is currently rolling their eyes and preparing to explain why I am wrong and electrons can’t possibly be “like phlogiston” (not a position I actually hold so don’t waste your time), an alien civilisation could make an analogous mistake and fill the electron-shaped gap in their physics model with something completely different analogous to the way phlogiston filled the oxygen-shaped gap in chemistry.
>The exclusion of sex from gender is an extremely recent development that isn't widely accepted yet.

This is not an extremely recent development in the slightest, the distinction was being made almost 60 years ago in modern dictionaries.
*Can you please recommend some irc channels?
Gender doesn’t exclude sex. Gender relates to sex, but it is not the same thing.

> The exclusion of sex from gender is an extremely recent development that isn’t widely accepted yet.

What are you talking about? The use of gender as a sex “role” was coined in 1955, over 60 years ago. Before that “gender” referred to grammatical gender, not to people. So if you use “gender” relating to people, that form of the word has always meant the social aspects of sex, not the biological aspects. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender

There was never a time when “gender” meant the same thing as “sex”.

> Also, motherhood and fatherhood are biologically gender-linked roles.

You’re confusing yourself. Being a mother & father are sex based facts. Fatherhood and motherhood as words that can mean that someone is factually a mother or father, or it can in context be referring to the gender roles of motherhood and fatherhood. The stereotype of a father playing catch with a son is a gender role, not biology. You’re choosing words which have both meanings, which doesn’t help you understand what sex and gender actually mean.
It is an odd review mixing negative comment and positive appreciation. The last bit did me as I am not historian but what to know the latest development of the field. And the Zeno etc kind of philosophical discussion lately.
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The distinction between a social construct and biology is artificial. Reading and writing are a social construct but learning to read and write at a young age has a profound impact on your brain structure.[1] I think what you mean to say is that there is no instinctual sense of gender identity that people are born with... that it is purely a learned identity. I'm not certain that is true as gender distinctions are pretty deeply ingrained nearly every culture around the world including most hunter-gather cultures, (The exact extent and nature of the distinction varies, but mere existence of an distinction is close to a constant.) and there is reason to believe that the sexual division of labor was key to the evolution of human sociality, which would make gender identity distinction hundreds of thousands of years old at the youngest. I'd be interested in any studies demonstrating that there is no instinctual component.

1. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23273798.2018.1...
Wait, how do you do that on Android? Do you mean with Gboard?
"I worked hard to get you this token raise."

"Work hard and the promotion come. Eventually."

"You'll be a paper millionaire at IPO time."

"This bug needs to be fixed before you go home."
If only you had commented a few moments later (added a link to paper). Apparently, all the climate experts haven’t kept up with the climate news, so what I thought was common knowledge is not commonly known at all. I guess CNN is where most of the expert information comes from these days. That’s the Dunning-Kruger part, or?

Also, somebody else replied with something similar (something about me denying the greenhouse effect existed)… I’m not quite sure how either of you came to the conclusion that I didn’t believe the greenhouse effect existed. I think it’s a pretty big leap in logic to go from “the greenhouse effect exists” to “because the greenhouse effect exists, the greenhouse effect via CO2 from human activity is the primary cause of global warming”.
We don't have to globalize everything. Yes, it's wonderful that we have the potential for people around the globe to work on and benefit from a particular project, but it is not necessary for every project to work that way.
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I think about it the other way. Use land regulation to no longer permit zoning, permitting, or construction of gas new stations. If existing gas stations think they can compete as a place EVs will come charge, let them install vehicle charging hardware. More likely, gas stations lose out to places people will be at anyway to charge (grocery stores, work places, parking lots/structures, etc). I already Supercharge my Model S at the local grocery store if I've been driving more often than my 120V garage wall outlet can recover in range over a day or two (currently renting; when I buy, I'll pull 100amp service to the garage and never need to Supercharge locally again). Where do cars dwell for hours each day already (average vehicle isn't moving 90% of the time)? That's where you get chargers installed. The electricity and parking spots are usually already there, it's just a matter of getting the conduit, conductors, power conversion gear on site, installed, and painting and signing the parking spaces as EV only.

In an EV future, gas stations are (mostly) a relic (IMHO). Think of the real estate cost savings, the reduction in truck traffic to deliver fuel, etc!
Likewise! Well the 1200s are packed down but I still know Moodymann.
The first section of the article doesn't clarify that losing track of your private keys is a bad thing (infers private and public keys are the same).

Saying that, I'm a big fan of the design Cloudflare are doing here and it greatly limits the attack surface. There are however other ways of doing this but I suspect CF's approach will get more traction due to the lower setup cost.
>when for a few years the boots were fashionable

Are you referring to that time frame where Timbs became a fashion thing?
At least you can make sure that the home page shows that it's only free for 3 sessions a week, then users have to pay, even if you can't/don't-want-to show the exact pricing.
The Pirsig book, I'm sure.
This philosophical approach to mathematics is still rooted in conceptions of mathematics from the beginning of the previous century, perhaps even earlier. This may very well be because professional philosophers have not really engaged with mathematics since then and so don't have the experience required to ascertain its current philosophical undercurrents. Even more, most mathematicians also understand the philosophy of mathematics from this outdated point of view, perhaps because most professional mathematicians have not engaged with philosophy since then.

For a philosophical exposition of recent mathematical activity, I don't think there's any book other than Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics by the mathematician Fernando Zalamea. The translation reads a little clumsy to me, but the ideas are very much worth it.

https://www.urbanomic.com/book/synthetic-philosophy-of-conte...
How about insurance though? If it’s included it could easily be the best deal around.

For young drivers like me my premiums are through the roof.
I'm not sure that this high level assembler assumption still holds for SIMD-capable CPUs. C compilers are asked to do quite drastic code transformations like autovectorization on these architectures. With these, the tight relationship between the high level code C code and the generated machine code is removed.
Thanks for posting this - it's remarkably hard to search for.
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They output to a PDF with very limited formatting...

I mean something like these:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/826083/0001193125131...

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/826083/0001193125131...

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/826083/0001193125131...
I'd prefer language like "I [am/am not] persuaded by the evidence I've seen"

Small difference but I think it properly orients the discussion around evidence
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I don't understand the jenkins hate in the comments. It's very flexible, and if you limit your plugin use you can use it to do pretty much anything you want.

It's also easy to run locally despite what some people have said in the comments. You can literally download a war file and run it with java -jar jenkins.war.

Jenkins is powerful, flexible, and easy to set up. Just avoid most plugins and run your own Groovy/python/shell scripts. Easy peasy.

Also - what are people running in place of jenkins? The only tech I've seen mentioned is gitlab.
> In fact, that’s one of the reasons why people often use “keyword-ese,” typing strings of words that they think we’ll understand, but aren’t actually how they’d naturally ask a question.

Funny thing, I've seen people mention right here on HN that for DuckDuckGo you need to adjust the style of your queries. This notion puzzles me, probably because I kept the habit of ‘keywordese’ from the olden days. Most of the time, results are about the same for me in Google as they are in DDG and even in Yandex—with the exception that Google is better at grouping related or similar results, and also if there's one or two sources having the search phrase almost-verbatim then they're at the top in Google. Apparently, I already need to learn talking to the site like it's self-aware, to regret ditching it.

Now, if some wondertech helps me to home in on the answer to my exact software or programming troubles instead of hundreds of vaguely related SO posts—I could really dig that.
A transmission line broke near where a fire ignited in California
Yeah, with RxDB, we are tied with RxJS, PouchDB and CouchDB.

Anyway, database is hard, opensource is great. We love them both, RxDB or Meteor.
That's quite the strawman you've built here
FWIW every job I've had in my 7-year career came from connections that stated though Stack Overflow. No one's hiring on the basis of reputation score, but many employers do reach out to users who have repeatedly demonstrated their technical communication and knowledge.
They’re loosening the physical fitness requirements for cyber-reservists who will never be sent out on a mission.

Idea is that that will make it easier to find such reservists. That seems to be the case.
Really? You think this is about individual mindset? It's about governments and governments around the world. And about the future of our race and planet. Money should not stop us from tackling existential threats to everything we know and hold dear.
I installed it last night on a ThinkPad T440p, coming from Pop_OS. My initial impressions were of polish, but it felt slow compared to the former distro.
I think for the HN headline at least, the word "may" could fit after "men".
> Physics has not "one of the better reproducibility rates" but 100%

I'd ask if you ever taken a good look at cosmology, but your username would suggest that you have. Which makes it all the more surprising to me that you make a claim like this.
> If you just raise the prices, there's no guarantee it would actually lower water usage enough to help.

Sure it will. If water costs these farmers $1,000,000/gallon, they would use 0% of what they do now, since nobody would buy a $4MM avocado. That's absurd, but it does demonstrate that there is a price for water that will lower its usage.

The goal should be to price water such that enough is left downstream for personal consumption. Doing so will raise prices on agricultural goods, which will decrease demand, also lowering water consumption.
> Doesn’t mean capitalism is wrong in this case, though.

Edit:

Wes it does, in this case. This is not some software startup. The water, which ostensibly belongs to all, is the input to this wealth.

Plus, that's a stupid use of water that should not be rewarded.

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of course it does. It's "captialism" and we must bow down before it and not question any of the inputs to the money being made.
Facetime?
It's gatekeeping all right. It's a statement about what real adults should like and not.

What you're doing is an absurd straw man, please don't behave like that.
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A 100um thick layer of foil mid-way through the PTFE, together with capacitance testing between the conductor and the foil will allow software to detect any knicks before they get deep enough to do damage. Adds <5 grams to the weight. Also, any high voltage system would use a balanced +- non-ground-bonded (ie. floating) supply, so a human could touch one or other bare copper conductor without risk anyway.

Far more user and environmentally friendly than todays engineering approach of "just make the insulation really thick and weigh a ton while the electronics are dumb and wouldn't even notice if you hammered a nail through the conductor".
If someone wants you to refer to them as $GENDER, then just refer to them as $GENDER. Don't treat people differently because they don't conform to the traditional gender binary. Don't treat attraction between the same sex as being fundamentally different than attraction between opposite sexes.

That's 99.9% of it, right there.
It's not great even in the learning scenario. First I have to Google how to solve the problem and then I have to Google how to translate the function names to Swedish.