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This is exactly the sort of position that manufactures new climate change skeptics.

If there can be disagreement over something as basic as "are temperatures actually going up", then that throws all of climatology into doubt. Global temperature is the question that motivates this field, yet you're arguing here that whether it was going up or stable was merely an "idea" rather than a matter of measuring physical reality. It is absurd that such a basic question is actually a matter of dispute at this point: reading thermometers and averaging them just isn't that difficult compared to what other scientific fields routinely accomplish.

There's also an interesting social viewpoint on display: you claim the "climate science community" is a completely separate group from "skeptics" and they only "had" to spend time answering the "question" of a pause due to "beating the drum".

Are there no climate scientists skeptical of beliefs in their own field, like there are in every other field of science? If not, why not? Why are people asking obvious questions like "why does it seem temperatures stopped rising" seen as nuisance outsiders rather than fellow scientists seeking the truth? From an outsider's perspective this looks a lot like groupthink.

There was never some broadly held idea that warming dynamics had paused.

This is not true, as refurb already showed. To spell it out, his [2] link starts by saying: "The United Nations panel of climate science experts mentioned it in a 2013 report, scientists have published more than 200 papers analyzing it, and climate deniers said it was proof that climate change didn't exist, but in reality the global warming pause or hiatus never occurred."

Over 200 papers published analysing a pause is clear evidence that this was a broadly held idea.

There seems to be a problematic tendency in climatology to try and retroactively rewrite history. Prior disputes or false predictions are recast as "scientists didn't actually believe that" or "scientists weren't actually wrong after all" using dubious, Orwellian style practices. Even temperature records themselves are constantly being rewritten: basic questions like "what was the temperature on date X at location Y" had different answers in the past to what they do now.

As another example, elsewhere in this thread [1] the author of the paper we're discussing claims he couldn't find any papers that predicted global cooling. Predictions of a new ice age were widely covered in the media and discussed in the literature in the 1970s. There were global conferences and scientific summits held about it. Embarrassingly, some random Hacker News commentator was able to produce a list of six such papers within an hour of that post being made.

What is wrong with climatology? Other fields like physics or medicine don't have problems dealing with their past history of wrong experiments, theories or measurements.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21709263
I think China has a well enough set of different traditions to gather from (that perhaps have common antique roots), rather than having been influenced by US' or European's puritanism currents. :)
As feelgood a quote as that may seem, this line:

> Nobody would steal if he could get something of his own some easier way. Nobody will commit burglary when he has a house full.

is complete nonsense when contrasted against modern times.
All the thieves in jail are not there because they stole to feed their family or some other noble deed.
If you're going to do that, at least send it to a security company to test for malware... or you could end up in deep trouble if unlucky?
It’s angry making. But I wouldn’t blame those farmers. They’re trying to make a living, and farming is probably the only realistic choice. We would all do the same if faced with that situation. What’s more important to you, climate change or feeding your children?

The blame goes all the way back to the consumers, which are probably people like us living in First World countries. We are reaping the benefits of deforestation (lots of cheap beef) but now we are seeing the downsides.

Living our First World lifestyles and simultaneously criticizing deforestation are contradictory.

I believe we ain’t seen nothin yet. Just imagine if the other 6.5 billion people live like us. Who can blame them for wanting to? I’m talking frequent worldwide travel, plenty of meat, having our own cars (doesn’t matter if electric or not), living in nice single family homes like we all want to (even if not all of us can), having 2-3 kids and giving them the same lifestyle. There would not be a single tree left.

I think this destruction is difficult to stop because while we all admit to the damage, nobody is yet willing to make the sacrifice.
The Link light rail project won't even reach Everett until 2036. That's about 40 miles of track in the 40 years since the project was approved. How is this supposed to work?
I was momentarily confused by these when I saw them in some old journal articles on PubMed. There's a load if you search a really generic term and sort oldest to newest.
What do you do when you wake up? Assume you're in the same place as when you went to sleep. You won't be surprised to find yourself on the other side of the bed - slightly more surprised to find yourself on the floor, and very surprised to find yourself in another country. A large belief update is always a bit of a shock.
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I hear you, but FWIW CRA continues to do a pretty admirable job hiding the complexity. I think it's fair to say that the 3 tools you referenced by name are elementary / required knowledge before working on a Node-based project, and it'd be impossible (or crazy) for CRA to try to abstract them away: `yarn` is a generally superior alternative to `npm`. `npx` is a convenient alternative to globally-installed packages.
It’s not. This is a pork project for anyone paying attention. If approved, this would be another disastrous boondoggle.
Yet the reality is Americans do work long hours.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/12/americas-white-collar-w...

You might not realise it but this stuff gets exported to the rest of the world. I frequently see American lobbyists on British TV pushing a low regulation agenda with the intention to weaken workers rights.
You can see it as Debian, with a web gui for managing virtualized resources. Ceph is not required, but it is something nice to have if you have many hypervisors and no central storage.

But it is meant for using the machine mainly as an hypervisor, not as a desktop with the ability to ocasionally run a few virtual machines (in that case kvm+virt_manager or virtualbox are more desktop friendly).
That's a fantastic find. Interesting how some of these we now take for granted and some we shall likely never have. Modest ambitions too! My own todo list is a bit less interesting.

The one that jumped out to me as likely unattainable was "A Ship not to be Sunk", as much on the wishlist then as now and so much harder to achieve than to talk about that I think it will be forever beyond our reach. Oceans are fierce.
It would cost far more than 50B. If you think that cost is accurate, I have a boat to sell you.
Without even opening the story, I'm guessing that there's a link in the story to either a Gawker or Vice News site and that "the internet"is probably a random sampling of a handful of Twitter users.
UK - SWE - 3y - totally worth it (compensation wise)
> There are, like, five people in the world who have any business manually configuring Webpack+Babel+SASS+TypeScript+$WHATEVER, and all of those people are already working on CRA.

I didn't find manual configuration of all that to be all that difficult to learn. I feel like people get a ton of use from CRA when learning, and then are told never to touch the magic black box of CRA because it is just so hard. So they never do. And never realize that it isn't as bad as all that.

I do think it provides a great service for new coders, or small projects. So I do recommend using it in many cases. But I completely reject the idea that only 5 people in world are smart enough to set up their own build configs.
That is blatantly wrong - they have more forrest than they did centuries ago.

Second they are right to expect better of the 9th largest nominal GDP nation.
Interstate 5 goes many places other than just Portland and Vancouver. Of course the train can add in additional stops, reducing its speed advantage but will never be able to compete with a road in terms of destination count or the network effect. Which doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad idea, just that there needs to be enough people going between just the destinations served to compare to the number that would the additional road lane.
Induced demand exists but is a sign of success of utility of the road. The comparisons even when everyone is being honest aren't all that clear cut and involve a huge number of variables. Also consider most companies that build roads can also build rail infrastructure or at least parts of it. A rail line isn't starvation for them and they would likely get a piece of that pie.
Because perhaps you see an OS not as a hobby, but as a tool, and you may swim across other streams in life such that you feel your time is spent in better ways.

For instance, I enjoyed being a janitor for my Arch Linux install for a while - it taught me a lot - but eventually I switched to MacOS because I actually wanted to ignore my OS and focus on the code I was writing and connecting to WiFi reliably.

If you are putting your time into something, it makes some sense for it to be something you value.
I wouldn’t use language quite as strong as yours, but I have always preferred working without it outside of a quick prototype. It’s just so many dependencies that aren’t really needed... I can’t justify it.

I’ve seen some messy, messy work as a result of it. It’s not even CRA’s direct fault, but it has a lot of people convinced that everything is there and you can just run with it from there.

That is extended by some of the advice that if you need a small utility function you should just install a package instead of writing the 3-liner yourself. I find that kind of advice seems to be aligned with CRA in the community.

And on a personal level I prefer having more control over my build methods. Not an overly huge fan of react-scripts on that note, either.

All this said, I haven’t touched it for some time.
I've been running proxmox since v3.0 with lots of success. I admit that back then you could break stuff easily if you did not know what you're doing. Over the time I've been running it continuously with every version in my homelab and it just got more awesome. I tried ESXI and Microsoft Server.. But in the end I always went back to Proxmox and the very stable debian that runs it. Now with the latest version ZFS encryption is also native and I have pretty much everything I could ask for. Can only recommend!
The appointment of supreme court justices in the United States looks to outsiders as though political operators do their best to stack the deck in their favor in case they ever need a get-out-of-jail-free card.
In my comment I noted that I think that even at double the price I still think it would be worth it.
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I've worked on multiple projects of different domains and both in large organizations and greenfield projects (in one in particular, I was first developer and responsible for choosing the entire stack).

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It's an attempt to avoid cronyism or an inherited/bequeathed type of situation. If the public doesn't like how the judge/prosecutor or any gov't position is working out, then they get the chance to replace them. For the people, by the people.

Lobbying/special interest has pretty much ruined that though.
That's pretty much true for everything related to construction...
I don't understand how the above principle can distinguish anything, at all.

You could reasonably argue that every piece of code is completely and only expressing functionality, because it's all inherently directing the computer to do stuff. So only comments would be protected.

On the other hand, you could instead argue that every piece of code can be translated into another language, and in fact is, whether interpreted or compiled, so the source code is exclusively expression only as the functionality is never tied to it.

But it doesn't seem to me to make any sense to say that some part or aspect is expression and another is functionality. It's all or nothing.
i used to love AquaDataStudio, but their license price went nuts sometime ago, since then, i have been orbiting around datagrip.
There is an active biohacker movement. Take a look at https://www.the-odin.com/ which sells courses and supplies. Jane Metcalfe (one of the Wired founders) has a website, email newsletter, and blog, neo.life (http://neo.life) that covers biohacking.

Of course, as human being you are equipped to reproduce. A careful selection of partners is a form of genetic engineering.
That's true. When the recaptcha was two words, one of it was the control word (which would make you fail the captcha if wrong) and the other was the word you were actually OCR'ing. I would always enter the control word correctly and put "fuck" as the other word. I would get it right 90% of the time :)
He didn't say anything about abolishing government prosecutions, he said stop giving them unlimited power.

A good example I can think of is over charging a defendant. Aaron Swartz is a good tech example.

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

The only ray of light is Kamala Harris got killed in the presidential primary. She basically ran on throwing people in jail and the old, "tough on crime" trope. She probably would have been much more successful if Tulsi Gabbard hadn't mentioned her prosecutorial record. Many prosecutors have political ambitions and prosecute accordingly.
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It only really takes two mechanisms. Simple progressive taxation with no loopholes, and investment into education which mostly removes the 'other people would spend it on entertainment' factor. There will always be some quantity of deadbeats, but the societal cost of providing them with a minimum standard of living is far smaller than the societal cost of putting the overwhelming majority of wealth/power into the hands of a tiny number of individuals.

I'm not advocating for evenly sharing all wealth between all people. I'm advocating for compressing the extreme outliers on both sides of the wealth distribution curve and uplifting the bottom 10% while also exponentially taxing the top 10%.

If we taxed the top 10% of income earners on a curve from 50% to 99% marginal tax rate for 90th to 99.9th percentiles respectively, pretty much all the major problems like expensive healthcare, poor infrastructure, lack of social safety nets, etc, would be completely financially covered with billions of dollars left to spend on other stuff. Instead we write PR-piece headlines every time some billionaire is 'charitable' and donates to some cause that he personally chose.
"Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship." - Wikipedia.

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Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Yeah that nag is my only nitpick with Proxmox. It's a bit too much in the face everytime I login. You can easily disable it with a code snippet, but I think the devs should just advertise the non-subscription model differently.
The sweet spot would be something like Sciter supporting WebAssembly.
Fortunately, the WYSIWYG-bit is non-mandatory. You can also edit the source directly.

I assume Google Drive files can be simultaneously edited by multiple people? If so, then this represents a real competitor to Overleaf.
Do you think the 100B number for the highway is aaccurate?
National Geographic did a documentary called “Mission to The Sun” on the launching of this mission that was really interesting. I stumbled across it on Disney+ of all places, not sure where else it’s available. I would definitely recommend watching it.
The iPhone is a progression of PDAs more than phones. There are plenty of interesting devices to look at including Apple's own Newton, the Sony Dynabook, the Palm Pilot and all its versions up through Sony Clie as well as Windows CE and its many devices. My 1998 Casio CE at some level is very similar to a modern iPhone. Both have a home screen with a gird of app icons to tap to launch them.
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I think CRA does an amazingly good job for the standard non-ejected scenario. Ejecting and hacking on the output is educational, but rarely a good idea. Which is fine. My chief complaint is the lack of robust, non-ejection extensibility. Projects like CRACO, and babel macros, IMHO should be standard and officially supported.
It seems when I read arguments like this it's always about what I lose. For every job that I lose somebody else wins perhaps also because of data gleaned from surveillance. It isn't necessarily negative.

The insurance argument is pretty persuasive though. Effective insurance requires a big pool. For the same reason that ultra-precise categorization for insurance ruins insurance, ultra-precise targeting of individuals ruins advertising if we want ad-supported platforms.

Regulation is more important than ever.
Here is a good blog post [1] that explains backscatter and some ways to help prevent it.

[1] https://willem.com/blog/2019-09-10_fighting-backscatter-spam...
Here you go https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-sdny/legacy...
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The German legal system works very differently. I can see how US citizens would be comfused about that. In Germany, the Judge asks questions and arrives at a verdict. The prosecution and the defense state their cases and bring evidence, also question the witnesses etc... but the Judge has a lot of control over the process of examination. So the nature of the court proceedings is not fundamentally adversarial as both parties have to convince a person who tends to ask hard questions about the arguments that are brought before the court. I have witnessed judges tear through bullshit arguments with ease.

Judges may be guided by personal biases. That does happen. To balance that, ordinary citizens are drafted as layman judges (Schöffen) to assist in more important cases for fixed terms (not individual cases). They are present to balance out professional judges and any biases they may develop as part of the system. They are passive observers in the court room, but have an equal say in deciding the final judgement. So this may lead to panels of up to five judges presiding over a case.

The resulting system is not perfect. But I got the impression from my personal experience that it is quite fair and balanced over all. It isn't a perfect system, and some egregious errors are made. Some have ruined lives unnecessarily. But on average, it still looks fairer to me than what I hear about the US system.
Hi! I'm from the RWTH team (https://paperswithcode.com/sota/speech-recognition-on-libris...). Our best system (2.3% WER) (trained only on the Librispeech data, i.e. much less data than your model) currently is a hybrid HMM/NN model, and you are right, the acoustic model uses a BLSTM. However, we have shown in other work (https://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/publications/downlo...) that you can expect similar performance in an online system, or not much worse (there is also many related work, which often is maybe 5-10% relative worse than the offline system).

I guess you prefer an "end-to-end" model over a hybrid HMM/NN model, for simplicity, right? As far as I remember, you use CTC, right? I always wondered why you have chosen CTC, and not some better model, like RNN-T, RNA, or some of the streaming attention variants. They should give you all the same properties (online capable, low latency, simple, end-to-end), but much better WER performance. Or is this simply because there currently is no simple ready-to-use implementation for those? Note that we published some TF code recently for some streaming attention variants, and plan to publish some RNN-T/RNA code soon.
Docker has been on the wishlist for a while but it seems like the developers refuse to integrate it. I just installed docker-ce manually and added portainer as a systemd service.
That way I can manage containers with a 2nd webui.
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Have you ever looked at the list of companies, which mwere massively fined by the EU?

It's not that European companies get the kid glove treatment if they violate the law.
This is what we already have in place, the idea is to get the data off-site in case the DC melts down.
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Yeah, the system needs to be fixed. Instead of rewarding people for number of convictions, right or wrong, they should be rewarded for reducing crime by independent measurement. Or simply be rewarded for doing their job as honestly as possible, with proper accountability and all that.

But rewarding police and prosecutors for the number of convictions is like rewarding programmers for the number of lines of code. It rewards bad code and unjust convictions.

Maybe there should be a justice-equivalent of code review for police and prosecutors.
Isn't that worrying? That your country cannot do large infrastructure projects anymore. The US mamaged to build the interstates in the past and other poorer countries like Spain have successfully built extensive high speed railway networks.
Is the article factual and if not, can you quote some credible sources to dispute it? Is it merely a Bolsonaro hit piece or is it one among many worrisome factors contributing to climate change? I don’t think Maduro gets less hate in the mainstream media.
Thanks for the suggestions :)
While I agree about it making more sense that way, you only need one state to veto such a measure, and further integration is on hold right now. Plus the EU has it's hands full with Syria, Russia\Ukraine and Brexit.

So Spain can act now, or wait a few more decades...
"A nice way to solve this would be for the governments to require all software provide their source code to them in the event where the source code is lost before the copyright expires." (And also be legally liable to replace all copy-protected goods for no fee other than the cost of manufacturing a copy for the duration of copyright.)

There, fixed that for you. ;)