skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no question that the climate is changing. But what is the crisis here ?

The core problem is that humans (and most other living things on earth) evolved to live in a certain climate. For each organism, the tolerance for change differs. If we lose an intolerant, important organism (let's say plankton, for example) and it goes extinct, then there's a chain reaction that ends up making the planet uninhabitable for us.

> Are the apocalyptic warnings anywhere close to reality?

It depends on the warning. Will human life on earth end in 10 or 50 years? Probably not. But will we have a mass migration crisis that will threaten every wealthy country? Yes, and it will happen in less than 50 years as natural disasters and poor crop output drive people from their birth countries.

Climate models from Exxon and public-sector scientists have been pretty accurate at describing the current state of our climate, so predictions from sober, professional scientists are worth paying attention to.

The rest of your arguments fall into a few categories:

A) Attacking a straw man. No one seriously things that going meatless would instantly solve the problem. There is no single solution. It requires many large changes to small aspects of our lifestyles. Eating less meat (not zero meat) for people who can afford it is helpful.

There is a helpful list and rank of different approaches[1].

B) "Green energy (excluding nuclear) is too expensive and can't compete with fossil fuels in an open market." This is not true[2].

C) "Nuclear must be part of the answer." I think this might be true or might not. It's another huge prediction, isn't it? Why are you skeptical of some predictions about 2050, but not others?

D) "Celebrities are hypocrites." Yes, they are. But it has nothing to do with the argument environmentalists are making. I find them irritating too, but it doesn't make environmental concerns any less reasonable. Celebrities are a tiny fraction of environmentalists.

E) "Taxes are bad." Taxes in the US have rapidly gone down in the last few decades, but increasing them is a separate argument from the environment. Taxing carbon producers is a serious proposal, but that's not taxing Gates or Bezos -- it's forcing companies to pay for the damage they do to the air and environment the rest of us need to survive.

1. https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2019/05/29/renewa...
Thank you. I have not been following the information about Buttigeig, and was unaware of this.
They seem to be addressing fake labels, like Nike shoes not made by Nike. And they're working with Nike to identify the fakes.

But there are also whole sections dedicated to products that are labeled as approved by some agency that really aren't, like DOT approved LED lightbulb replacement for car headlihgts. Amazon is not doing anything about those, and DOT cannot do much either (DOT neither tests nor approves headligts).
Interesting, according to Wikipedia the results of the popular vote was: Pro-democrats (57.10%), Pro-Beijing (42.06%), Non-aligned others (0.83%)

Seats were divided like this: Pro-democrats (81.00%), Pro-Beijing (18.58%), Non-aligned others (0.42%)

Looks like some democratic reform is in order even if HK is able to gain universal suffrage and keep the one-country two-systems indefinitely.
UK Political Party Websites in the 90s
We have a free tier, and the caching and firewall is good enough on that tier - I use it :)

The DDoS protection is the same across all tiers - it's built in and you aren't charged for that. You even see other features (like the Rate Limit feature cited in the article) explicitly structure their pricing so that you are not charged for attack traffic even if you are on a paid plan or feature.

For small denial of service attacks the Security Level switch is very good at stopping the vast majority of attack traffic, and then the IP blocking and User Agent blocking is good too - this is available on the free plan, as are a handful of Firewall Rules that can allow complex expressions to match and drop traffic.

So you can get a very long way on the free plan.

Paid features I'd recommend if you want to stay on the free plan month-to-month yet go paranoid for a small cost:

1. Rate Limit, configure it on your dynamic endpoints to minimise the costs to you but have it highly effective against attacks. Predicted cost is relative to how many requests for dynamic endpoints you have... you can be smart here and combine with Firewall Rules to drop traffic that does not have auth credentials.

2. Argo Tunnel, to hide your IP.

There are other plan level benefits, and the most notable is the quantity of Firewall Rules per plan level and the complexity they allow: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/plans/
You should hit f11 if you're working in an app and are upset with the browser bar. Go full screen or go home.
There must be a happy medium if we consider there is another class of people who live very cautiously - avoiding the pleasures of food, spirits, the flesh, of danger and risk and reward, to live as long as possible, and ultimately implode in a sudden cacophony of regret and self pity. Split the difference, invite the neighbors over for cocktails once in a while.
Yes, probably.

Guess, I'm seeing it like that, because I worked with control freaks.
Many PhD programs in Europe are thesis-only; i.e. you don't have any classes. Typically this is because you need a master's to apply in the first place.

No classes means that you only need to be around to meet with your advisor occasionally.
This looks really great. Thank you for making it. Will be trying it out on a WordPress site very soon.
Oh, by "js contexts" do they mean "all the javascripts related to the page?" If so, then I guess this file tree-like explorer of js is the Firefox equivalent?

https://imgur.com/a/YvA9Hdw
For the uninitiated, The Beaverton is a Canadian satire news site, similar to The Onion in the US.
> Edit: to clarify I can't believe that diabetics were left to die without insulin and I haven't heard anything like that in the news.

It certainly wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-cell-where-a-s...

> Video obtained by ProPublica shows the Border Patrol held a sick teen in a concrete cell without proper medical attention and did not discover his body until his cellmate alerted guards. The video doesn’t match the Border Patrol's account of his death.

> The video shows the only way CBP officials could have missed Carlos’ crisis is that they weren’t looking. His agony was apparent, even in grainy black and white, making clear the agent charged with monitoring him failed to perform adequate checks, if he even checked at all. The coroner who performed an autopsy on Carlos said she was told the agent occasionally looked into the cell through the window.
consciousness does not require a brain. consciousness is fundamental to the universe
Indeed.

Survival rates:

- Cardiac arrest (outside hospitals): < 6%

- Cardiac arrest (inside hospitals): < 25%

- Heart attack (myocardial infarction): > 90%
Totally agree with you. In fact feature and syntax bloat seems common is most popular languages today, like Javascript, C#, Python or even C++, as they keep adding things to compete with new languages like Rust or Swift (and these languages keep adding new things on every iteration too). It's very tiring to keep up.
The obvious answer is that the facts prove you wrong. The market reigns supreme in the USA compared to Northern Europe, and yet it is USA that looks like a third world country. Collapsing infrastructure, untold poverty and homelessness for huge chunks of the population, shrinking middle class, world leader in putting people behind bars and antidepressant prescriptions...

Not exactly the picture of a prosperous society.
I occasionally run into people that want to deter even thinking about the idea of life saving options because of the universe/god’s plan

I met the most spiritual woman who was also in a crusade against Abrahamic religions say that

What a completely unfalsifiable version of logic when the “plan” could just as easily be the treatment

I got through the impasse by saying it just gives people choices even if the choice is already written in stone

Schrodinger’s free will
>> ... highlighting search results in the scroll bar...

This. I find any browser that doesn't do that to be unusable. The alternative, in long documents or source code, is to blindly hit NEXT and visit all locations where a search term is found rather than scrolling quickly to see the different context regions.

I tried a plug-in or two but they were not nearly as functional as the native Chrome experience.
Alter Carbon:

A key concept in Netflix's cyberpunk series Altered Carbon is the 'stack', an advanced hard drive installed on the brainstem on which a person can save a copy of their consciousness. The main effect of stack technology is a form of immortality, because a stack can be installed into another body if the original body dies. But there’s another a major implication only hinted at during the first season of Altered Carbon: If you could choose your own body, would you go with the one you were born with? That's an especially important question for gender fluid or transgender people. The topic was only hinted at in the first season, but Altered Carbon creator Laeta Kalogridis told The Wrap it's something she would like to explore in greater detail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon_(TV_series)#The...
Dunno, I feel that both Dylan and Julia are somehow good enough approaches.

Dylan failed because Apple losed interest, if they had Swift like motivation back then, it might have turned out differently.

Julia, lets see how it goes.
Maybe the people get what they deserve, but the poor animals get screwed without having any say in anything.
Facebook’s Privacy Tool Launched Months Ago. Or Did It?
There is an extension [0] that kinda (highlights are next to the scrollbar) fixes that. Just in case you didn’t know.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/highlightall/...
On reading what was then the top comment on this article, I saw that it asserted as undeniably true a highly debatable proposition. I was about to reply, when I saw that the second did the same. The third was more of an aphorism that looked profound until you thought about it... There do seem to be a lot of people who want our consciousness to remain a mystery. I guess that it is vitalism's last stand.

FWIW, I think there is a 'hard problem' (more than one, in fact), but not the one Chalmers identifies; perhaps the hardest is 'how come we (think we) have free will?'
Matt Levine recently summarised this argument is his usual folksy style:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-02/the-bl...
This button on the top right is the closest you get, I think:

https://puu.sh/EMtaR/0f9c88cbd9.png
It wasn't, but I get it.

Too many mistakes in it now that I read it again. I shouldn't use my phone for text entry.
You need a membrane permeable to negative ions too for that.

In fact, I think you'll need that membrane for electricity generation too. Otherwise you will only get to make a single layer of it, what is underwhelming.

But it is a large breakthrough.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make, but in that way you can put almost everything under the umbrella of natural selection. That does not mean that it is natural or desirable.
Show HN: Ethereum for Dummies: Difference Between SideChains and State Channels
ok ... another go: https://pastebin.com/WhQtdWaR

I actually WON the game ... that was actualyl quite satisfying.
The parallels to the Roman Grain Dole[0] cannot be missed. The Cura Annonae warped Rome from top to bottom, from calories, to shipping, to politics, to military; nearly every aspect of Rome was touched by it. Heck, it likely outlasted Rome herself.

Those subsidies, like the current ones, run deep.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_Annonae#Politics_and_the_...
Jeff Rothschild (On the Metal: Episode 1)
Excellent product from my brief examination. Does this work on mobile?
I’ve tried every tangentially related addon at least twice and they’re all pretty terrible.
Ask HN: Leftover Cash Startup Dissolution
We have startup that going to dissolve. It currently has a small amount <500 dollars in the main account after all costs and fees.

We have a convertible KISS note outstanding that was never converted.

do we distribute the <500 according to liquidity preferences in the KISS or the shareholders?
> otherwise I’ll live like I’m immortal until I’m not

Yeah. I recall a cancer surgeon commenting, roughly, that they thought people with an early onset, and then a long life, were the lucky ones. And among the saddest, those healthy until blindsided by discovering they were mortal. And always had been. But now had little time to live shaped by that realization.

As with many things, it can be cheaper to learn from others' experiences. Or to notice and successfully learn from hints in one's own.

But it can be hard. I was friends with someone with a large extended family. So funerals were recurrent. Some expected, some randomized blows. For days after, it was easier to treasure time, life. But with passing weeks, the effect would decay. Easier to be distracted. To forget that some very few things are important, and most not. Until the next funeral.
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> Jeff has had a fascinating journey solving all sorts of fun problems at various levels of the stack. He is most widely known as being a co-founder of Veritas Software and the first VP of Engineering at Facebook, but his story does not start there. Join us as we hear Jeff’s stories from his impressive technical endeavors including disassembling MS-DOS, editing machine code in an octal editor, trolling coworkers in error messages, the origin story of `ftruncate`, and more.
consume some 5meo-dmt and it's suddenly not beyond us anymore
HK has been over-reliant on these businesses to provide employment for a long time. Most of the F&B outfits that are closing are fly by night outfits which would only work when everyone in CBD has more money than sense. It will be a good thing if this leads to us diversifying our economy a bit more.
Ugh. Another attempt to box in geographical regions so the author can make a name for himself.
This. If building a conscious machine was as simple as building a machine that looks conscious on MRI, then it would be as simple as tape-recording a human brain.
Who said anything about expectations of openness?
They used a CC license, while at the same time adding further restrictions. They could just have claimed full and proper copyright, instead of this impossible misunderstanding that they ended up with.
Care to recommend a virtual terminal client app that supports Emacs keybindings well? Preferably available from Ubuntu 'apt'.
I don't think access to capital is a mitigating factor. It doesn't really matter why you can't pay a wage that a worker can live on. If you can't do it you should go out of business.
It converts thermal energy into usable electricity (that is, the water gets cooler), at the cost of the increased entropy in the mixing of fresh and saline water.
Search the page and you'll find several mentions of Brave.

What I want to know is why someone would pick Brave instead of the Epic Privacy Browser...

... though personally, I think it's far better to support Firefox as it's now the only viable alternative browser that isn't based on Chrome.

Chrome is now so dominant that people can just ignore open web standards and develop for Chrome instead. This is a Bad Thing.
I'd much rather prefer them to spend their time to add stuff to the CLR to remove the boiler code required for simple things.

We need more of the likes of "System.IO.File.ReadAllLines()", one liner functions that take care of the most common things. Like if you want to encrypt with AES you need a 8-10 lines of codes, if you want to convert a byte array to a hex string or do case insensitive string comparisons, you need to create your own helper functions, etc. Until recently there was no json serializer out of the box.

For some of the features mentioned here, I can only wonder how many developers will really use them, while the cost is to make the syntax even more cryptic to a beginner.
The battle is already lost. There's really only two serious options today for browser engines, which is even fewer than there are for OSs! And the reason is the same: it is far too complicated to create new implementations of either.
PICK UP THAT CAN.

SORTED.
Instead of patching the source, the Makefile should be patched to use sdl2-config to set LDFLAGS and CFLAGS (instead of hard-coding them), i.e:

CFLAGS := [other flags...] $(shell sdl2-config --cflags)
LDFLAGS := [other flags...] $(shell sdl2-config --libs)

That will set the correct compiler and linker flags for you installation, and you can leave the include as just "SDL.h".
Putting Upstate into one bucket is going to be problematic no matter what label you give it. The southern tier is definitely Appalachia, the eastern side is Yankeedom, and WNY is heartland.
Chicago is in Yankeedom? I don't understand that entire western half of Yankeedom, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

SLO, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego are El Norte?
From the article :

> Although PodShare may seem a lot like a hostel (bunk beds in a shared room, for example), the company prefers to call it co-living.

:)
Password generation landed in 69, right?

Latest on Keychain sopport is in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106400#c130 as WONTFIX due to macOS changes.
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Yeah, the web is unusable at this point without an ad blocker IMO.

With uBlock Origin on Firefox I don't have any of that and it's down to 5.29 MB.
Chrome started out as a fork of Safari, or at least WebKit.
> An obituary is not written for you, it's written for the deceased person.

Actually it is not. It's quite the opposite. The obituary is written and published for the living, to inform everyone of your death and to let family and loved ones express themselves. You are dead, so you don't care or read the obituary. the ones surviving you will handle that.
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That massage joint is quite popular with HK locals. We cross the border and get hotpot and cheap (legitimate) massages. I've been there for a few times. Most of the masseuses are middle aged men and women.
Greater Appalachia definitely extends through PA in a T shape across the center of the state and the northern border (sometimes called Pennsyltucky) and covers at least the Southern Tier in New York.
Right click

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This destroys the filesystem, but not the physical disk, right? I mean, will the SSD be usable after that, albeit, by installing a new filesystem and reformatting?
Hit me baby one more time – What are cache hits and why should you care?
It drastically reduces the occurence of me clicking another video.

If I want to see a video I have to read all titles and it gives me a chance to think if I want to stop watching.

An added bonus is that it takes me at least a couple seconds to find a video to watch when I open the front page and I don't end up subconsciously clicking the first interesting thumbnail.

PS: Also let me add that I'm using youtube signed off with no cookies in a browser that doesn't remember history so the front page is usually the same videos that I don't want to watch for a couple days or a week at a time.
Also, the environmental cost of keeping river estuaries blocked by impermeable membranes so you can maintain the gradient of salt/fresh water.
Indeed. To go even farther, I suspect that there is nothing other than consciousness. There are no particles and forces, only awareness and will. The stuff of physics is emergent from statistical properties of consciousness over a large scale.
When you say fork are you talking about the desktop environments or the whole distros?

Pop's desktop environment looks like a barely customized Gnome3 session to me. I'm not sure I would even call it a fork. Looks more like just a theme.

Pantheon (Elementary) is more of a fork of Gnome3, reusing some low level parts but presenting a much different experience to the user.
Only 30MB? If it's based on text adventures, can't you get way more data than that?
2nd amendment is doing ok I’ll walk that one back. 4th amendment is dead and buried. Totally agree that the public not giving a fuck is a severe problem. Cheers
I wonder if this could work in places with no ocean nearby just using rain water and rain water with added salt. Would you need an obscene amount of new salt/rain water?
Glad I’m not insane, or not the only one insane. Whenever I read one of these highly-voted “I switched to Firefox and nothing’s degraded” post I wonder if I’m the only one searching on web pages, or if I’m the only one whose productivity is massively boosted by knowing where search results are located and how they are clustered at a glance. But then, modern code editors do tend to have this feature, so apparently it is important to a non-negligible audience.
fundamentally physical? consciousness is fundamental and eternal, no beginning no end. forms change and are not fundamental at all.
Lynchings were post-war, mostly post reconstruction. I think second-class citizen is close enough to work.
Humans are really good at vocals, and it would thus be very hard to replace, eg. making a speech synthesis model sing well. Melodies however are more mathematical and could possibly be generated by a computer.
What Motivates Workers in the Gig Economy?
So then he had badly injured soldiers sit really close to the fire?
@elect_engineer:
Well, as many here already pointed out, I do not see here cancer grows. The 16,000,000,000 page views per month is something really huge.

For some perspective, I run servers for a commercial company, and with such traffic, we would pay about $7,000,000 per year. But of course, we run on the latest and overprovisioned hardware for best performance and safety, and in reputable, but a very expensive company. In this scenario, $2M for hosting such a big infrastructure globally is not looking too bad. I assume that they need a lot of sysadmins to manage such big infrastructure (maybe 500-600 servers?), and those needs to be paid well. I won't be surprised that this would be much over $10M per year. Maybe this data is available somewhere, those are only my pure estimates.

Anyway, with revenue of $100M and $20M of excess every year, dramatic mails and notices I get from MediaWiki and Wales itself, how bad Wikipedia needs my donation, looks now a little disgusting for me...
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