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I remember when I was in my 20s and rather fit I had some surgery planned that was made up of 4 separate procedures and originally the surgeon suggested doing the work in 2 operations - for some reason I talked him round to doing everything at the same time even though he did warn me that I would feel like I had been "hit by a bus" (his exact words).

I did indeed feel pretty awful after - was off work for six weeks. Now I am a good bit older I'd be pretty reluctant to undergo surgery requiring general anaesthesia unless it was really required.
“know that if climate change is significantly man made”

Im trying to understand how someone could possibly believe that it isn’t man-made at this point. I’m pretty sure this viewpoint would require the belief that atmospheric carbon and global temperatures are completely unrelated, which seems totally insane in late 2019.

Maybe you can enlighten me?
Possibly for the bug/feature that causes an iPhone connected by USB to connect and disconnect repeatedly on a ~2sec cycle, The bug leads to endless modals appearing on the iPhone, and sometimes iTunes opening with each reconnection.
In a hypothetical society that might be the case. In our situation though, we have large countries like India, Indonesia and perhaps some African countries, that will need to grow their energy consumption per capita and it is unlikely that this energy will come only from renewables or nuclear. So it seems to me to that it will get worse before it will get better. It's just difficult to tell them to restrict their economic growth just because we in the west have filled the rest of the CO2 pie.
All the events in the wikipedia articles are localized, whereas the current global warming is a a global event, which is what is referenced by xkcd.

What this means is that the frequency and/or the intensity of these local outlier events can increase significantly. This is what man-made climate change means and we can still avoid most of the negative effects if we want to.

Often these local climate change events are taken as proof that 'climate has always changed'. Well, yes of course - but not on a global scale during human civilization as we know it.

Personally, imagining these events occuring during our lifetime, maybe several at once or just a couple of decades apart scares the crap out of me.
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Fun and useful tool. I created a button that will show me the NASA photo of the day: https://getbitbar.com/plugins/Science/apod.1h.py

The other ones in the Science category are also quite interesting.
The trees drop huge amounts of bark, branches, leaves, etc, that don't rot (because high heat and lack of humidity), and that have to burn. It's a very different environment from Northern Hemisphere forests, there's no thick soft layer of damp, rotting leaves. It's all just sitting there on the ground waiting to burn. Bark peels off the trees in great sheets, falling to the ground where it sits there until it burns. Leaves pile up in dry drifts, waiting to burn.

You could chop the trees down, but that would leave you with no forest. It's not just mature trees that drop fuel, even growing trees do this.

If you have a forest in Australia[0], it has to burn regularly. It's not like Europe or America, where you can cheerfully build your house in the woods and it's all very pretty. If you build your house in the bush, then you have to cope with the fires.

Good to see the Guardian article talking about adaptation for once. One possible answer is to create houses that won't burn, and that are sealed from the heat and smoke.

[0] I gather that Tasmanian forest are less reliant on fire, so the situation may be different there.
Note that this has actually been used by people developing Android and web apps on Chromebook. See for example

https://dev.to/petermbenjamin/a-minimal-chromebook-setup-for...

(Nowadays chromeos has native support for it)
What is the likely cause of this event?
It's not the editor part that uses all this RAM I suppose, but the code parser and indexer that by default includes scanning & interpreting all your dependencies (system headers, boost, other third-party frameworks). There is a clang process that has the full AST for all of your code + its dependencies in the background all the time, so you can get search, index, autocomplete, syntax check, refactor etc. that actually works compared to the half-baked solutions you get with VIM plugins (and I've tried all of them).

I guess you can switch all of that off of course, but that's what makes it an IDE and not an editor. I think the memory tradeoff is perfectly fine for this kind of application.
But you still know it. Pretending not to know doesn't render it unknown knowledge.

To the other person/parents they don't know that you know, but that's looking at knowledge of party a vs. party b, which is mot quite what all this is about. Yo your parents it's still a known unknown (hence why they ask you).

I believe the closest to unknown knowns would be temporary loss of knowledge, where at a given moment you don't manage to make the right connections between the known knowns. So it's a "could know" given the right moment or prerequisite calculation step/thought, but right there you don't so it's an unknown known.
Is this entire talk up on YouTube somewhere?
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But that is a major problem right? You are consuming digested news that is obviously biased. There is no way of getting out of your bubble if you consume news like this.

There is a spectrum between difficult to consume raw news and completed digested news.
I don't approve of extorting all of Twitch for one companies corporate copyrights including blocking Twitch across an entire country. This is a scorched earth corporate authoritarian/oligopoly approach.

Not a fan of these types of blanket Moltov cocktail extortions that affect 99% of all people using the service normally.

Also, it strangely targets a property of a large American company that they do not like in Amazon. This is opening up for more of this only. Probably the beginning of fully blocking streaming on foreign sites as there is lots of money in it now. Basically the China market control approach that helps again with the authoritarianism.

There is copyright / pirating all over the internet in every country. Would you approve of shutting it all down because someone is leeching?

Ultimately people that watch streams / pirate means that the original product is either badly priced, inaccessible or the user can't afford it anyways. Most people that can afford these things will pay eventually. There have been studies on piracy being mostly people that would never pay at that time. Further, in the end pirates turn into people that buy more content [1]. Easily accessible products that are easier than piracy use the market to reduce it. [2] Tuning products to stop a small percentage of users will lead us to tyranny of markets and horrible product experiences for paying customers which will then either pirate [3] or tune out.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-...

[2]https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/02/26/2233257/studies-keep...

[3] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/piracy-is-back.html
Quite a lot of native Australian flora has adapted to bushfires and requires fire to drop seed or germinate. eg. seed pods that open after being burnt, dropping the well protected contents onto fresh, fertile ash.
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Great post @nraf, really practical set of ideas.
There are plenty of people selling cheap computers, I’m just glad there is someone selling expensive ones.
> By all accounts this was textbook pilot error and Airbus's "fault" - a frozen pitot tube - also happens on Boeing (actually, all) aircraft. You don't hear about it because a trained crew following CRM can diagnose and deal with this failure without much fanfare.

It's a bit more than that; it was exacerbated by design choices. 1. Position of other sidestick is not clear to a pilot (there's no mechanical coupling of control forces). 2. Presenting a crew with a simultaneous "overspeed" and "stall" warning in cruise is an interesting test. 3. Training of aircrews that full-power, pull-the-stick-back-all-the-way is a valid and sometimes valuable technique (thanks to the envelope protection that is only available in the normal law).
> Logically, they have the right to do it

Says who? Please let's not start thinking that this kind of silly absurdities are logical or acceptable. What's next, random monitoring to identify wronthink?
Anybody know of large .org sites that reconsidered or perhaps already have changed their URL(s)?

I do hear from contacts .org are more often not renewed when prompted for yearly fee, I did not either for my shelved .org domains.
Yeah, it's intentional, since the site periodically gets Ddos'd.
Ask HN: How does any product go viral over a social platform?
You're saying that as long as you do everything perfectly all the time you're (mostly) safe. Real life proved again and again that there no such thing as "all perfect all the time". Mistakes will happen and when they do HF is far less forgiving than other instruments of the devil.
> That either happens with small fires frequently, or big fires infrequently.

It's not like there haven't been any "small" fires in the preceding years?
I've been to talks by Guardian devs (on more than one occasion) where they talk about the techniques they use to make the site as performant as it is. From critical path css to font fallbacks etc. Variants of this talk over the years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfweWyVScaI

I applaud their efforts, but am continually underwhelmed by the final result. Without an adblocker the website is simply too slow, jumpy and exhibits strange behaviours that I'm not sure the problem can be solved - as long as advertising pays (most of) the bills.
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Yep I'm always astonished at how these things are taken for granted.
Not to mention the thousands of little subcultures that exist. I've seen people offended by others leaving notes that seemed polite to me - "please refill coffee pot if it's empty" as passive-aggressive, etc.
> Would you, as a developer, implement a workaround for disabling an OS security mechanism for _at most_ 0.2% of your user base, most of which will probably work around it themselves by flashing an Magisk module anyway?

I wouldn't write the code to disable the functionality of the device.

Obviously, that means I wouldn't end up on the team to begin with. So it goes.
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With market "liquidity" that evaporates in milliseconds exactly when it's needed most...
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What happens if that 737-8200 crashes? It doesn't even need to be due to a fault of the plane, people will simply not trust the FAA and Boeing's explanation.

It may bring down the Boeing entirely, together with the operators who use Boeing aircraft. "If it's Boeing I am not going" can turn into a real thing, drastically reducing the occupancy of the flights. These businesses operate on thin margins, not being able to fill the aeroplanes may give rather short runways before their collapse.
I use hs.hotkey.modal to make Alt-Space pop up a modal window that tells me what I can do. Various keys open specific apps, e.g. Return opens Finder and Space opens iTerm. Other keys move and resize the currently window to specific areas. For example, I have a specific size and position for browser windows, another one for Finder windows, a third one for instant messaging windows, and a fourth one for terminal windows.

Very very rarely do I have to manually move windows around -- I find that almost all of my needs are covered with a set of specific window positions and sizes.

I also have a window selector that displays all windows and their names and allows me to use substrings to filter the list. But I find I never use it.

I used to use Hammerspoon to implement a "vi navigation" mode, toggled by tapping the Cmd key. In vi navigation mode, hjkl move the cursor, x deletes a character, and so on. But I discovered that Karabiner Elements can do something similar, and now I'm using that instead.

I used to use Hammerspoon for a "vi
Well you guys better protect that system cause where I live it's like a factory assembly line with well programmed robots herding people through without too much thought to long term outcomes.

I have had good experiences only after putting in a lot of research (that too after some painful lessons). And thats an option if it's not an emergency.

I have had to deal with a couple emergencies over the last couple years, where decisions had to be taken quickly. And I have seen both good and bad outcomes. The bad outcomes almost always are some guy at the ER acting as if palliative care is some unimaginable option.

They frame it simplistically "We have to move patient to the OR or they will be dead in X hours/by tomorrow etc". Just because it's possible to operate doesn't mean a surgery has to happen. Especially on elderly people.

It creates all kinds of cascading problems if it's a bad call. Good outcomes are possible but it needs a certain personality type and experience.
Sometimes he gets topical, and it stops looking quite so satirical:

https://twitter.com/Scarfolk/status/1177130150833610752

My favourite - the new festival of Brexit poster: https://twitter.com/richard_littler/status/10463220391146741...
Back in 2006 I was contracted to design a power amplifier prototype for the civil engineering department of a university.

We built an adjustable 500W h-bridge based amplifier (operating between 50kHz to 300kHz+) which was used to drive transducers to create standing waves for waste water treatment, and it seemed to work alright in a bunch of our tests, but at fairly low flow rates.

We passed the prototype on to the client (I think it was for a joint project between Monash University and Melbourne Water), not sure where it ended up. Great to see the technique being applied in consumer applications :)
It's the invisible hand of the market at work. Obviously, patients are preferring to pay premium for treatment hospitals with expensive art and swanky facilities.
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How much of the IPCC reports have you read? It would indicate where the appropriate starting point for the conversation is.
Except there are reports some pilots had already raised concerns about the safety of the MAX, even before both of these crashes.

If true, that would indicate these pilot reports were not given the full scrutiny that they deserved.
www.reuters.com ? It loads for me in both Firefox and Chrome on Android. The SSL labs report looks good, in particular it includes good trust chains for all browsers/operating systems. What IP does it resolve to for you? Is it possible you're being MITMed? What certificate is being presented to you?

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.reuters.c...
> Would you approve of shutting it all down because someone is leeching?

Well, maybe I wouldn't. What about copyright holders and their exclusive licensees though? We know what their positions are on this particular issue.
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Yeah, unless this is powered entirely by nuclear or renewables, or unless the emitted carbon is then extracted from the atmosphere, the carbon footprint of all this is most definitely not zero. It's like all those celebs buying carbon "offsets" after flying private to climate summits of all sorts. Dude, your carbon footprint is way, way, above zero, and you paying for "offsets" doesn't reduce it one iota.
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This is incorrect. And this has been dispelled by multiple commercial pilots including Juan from the link above who is one of the most experienced pilots in the country.

The origin of this noise is sensationalist news coverage and misinterpretation of FAA rules. I expect a higher standard on HN than perpetuating myths. You guys are like the flat earthers of aviation.

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

As Juan points out in either that or another video, the 767 has a stronger pitch-up characteristic and yet doesn't have MCAS and doesn't fall out of the sky from stalls.

Another myth and piece of sensationalist news bullshit is that Boeing made a safety feature that would have prevented the accidents optional. The safety feature in question was AOE Disagree Indicator. The reason it was optional is because AOA doesn't mean anything to civilian pilots and the option only made sense for airlines who hire ex-militaray pilots who can actually read the AOA indicator and make sense of it.
> I don't approve of extorting all of Twitch for one companies corporate copyrights including blocking Twitch across an entire country. This is a scorched earth corporate authoritarian/oligopoly approach.

I'm not saying that I condone what's happening right here, but if the nationalities were flipped Twitch would've had their domain taken away world-wide and have to play a game of domain whack-o-mole like libgen currently does.
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Why is it hard? Isn't wasm designed so you can statically and quickly compile pieces of it or the whole thing to native code, rather than needing to do all the tricks dynamic language runtimes do?
'The law states a child would have to be terminally ill, face "unbearable physical suffering" and make repeated requests to die - before euthanasia is considered. '

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26181615

Perhaps the law is not being applied this way, but I think the idea here is "this poor child is in agony with no hope of improvement and keeping them alive is torture in a sense" - not "let's take terminally ill children lightly"
Better to just watch the video than blogspam that just extracts still images from it and adds "insightful" commentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyrTgtPTz3M
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A commenter elsewhere in this thread [0] is claiming to have built a bed frame from pallet wood and soda cans found in the street - I'm almost certain it's inviting a descent into the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21798728
This doesn't fit the empty narrative of false hope that currently prevails. People can not accept that fact that we can not fix this within the next decades and get angry. It's like telling a cancer patient that, yes, he will die within the next few months.
Just read it, that comic does sum it up.
WarpScript, the best timeseries language ever!

Go on folks! Write more tutorials!
I think "pre-packaged" approaches like this (or hugo, gatsby etc.) try to solve a very specific purpose.

As I see it from a quick glance this one is for people who want to publish math/science work and therefor it supports rendering LaTex.

I read about people building shops with SSG's and I myself use hugo for many tasks.

Sure I could still do it manually but I prefer writing content in markdown and SSG's like hugo because I am way faster and don't tend to forget something. When I build the site then everything is included and I am ready to deploy.

SSG's work with neat little plugins to ease your work with SEO, links and whatnot and while I didn't understand this in the first place I sure did when I finished my first project with hugo.

Just give it a shot and tell us why you still don't need an SSG but rather stick to coding everything yourself.

I will never look back and I enjoy working with SSG's.
How much fairer and frictionlessier do they become for every picosecond? Is there a limit to fairness and frictionlessyness?

Arguing about HFT feels like you're questioning people about why they're spending billions on excavating single, individual sand grains and the defense you get is "well, sand is an incredibly important building material. It is used in concrete, and we wouldn't have modern society without it". Sure that's true, but why is it that nobody can tell me how what you're doing is actually necessary for that.
What the actual fuck.

Why are you even considering such a position?
Here's all the likely causes of warming - earth's orbit, sun, aerosols, volcanoes etc each overlaid on observed over the last 125 years as you scroll down. You decide.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wo...
>In fact, the last time the atmospheric CO2 amounts were this high was more than 3 million years ago, when temperature was 2°–3°C (3.6°–5.4°F) higher than during the pre-industrial era, and sea level was 15–25 meters (50–80 feet) higher than today.

Doesn't this mean that the correlation between CO2 levels and temperatures isn't that big?
The currently vocal environmentalist movement started from the left and picked up a lot more in the way of anti-capitalist sentiment, strong overtones of guilt and a real push to undertake acts of repentance and sacrifice. Their focus has pronounced overtones of repentance for our sins against the environment and has some very classically Christian themes.

Things like the 'how dare you' comment to the UN help brand her as part of that specific branch of the environmentalist movement. She may personally care about who knows what, but the phenomenon that she looks to represent is a specific branch of environmentalism that is pushing different agenda to general environmental concerns.

The environment-should-serve-humans-and-be-managed-to-do-so style environmentalists that used to be present in Australian right-wing politics have all but disappeared as the environmental issues they cared about are drowned out by people like Greta. I expect that has happened elsewhere too, and it is very easy to imagine that they don't see people like Greta as representing the environmental conservation issues they care about. The rather important concepts of practical sustainable living are drowned out by apocalyptic doomsayers who imply that the environmental costs of the rise of China and India are too great. Which just isn't going to gain traction, China and India represent 35% of the worlds population. We aren't going to give the environment some sort of primacy over the material comfort of 35% of the worlds population. People first, environment second.

(My favourite graph at present: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... )
> Behrens agrees: “Doi didn’t create amae, he just identified it to be unique to Japanese people.

...and this was the point where I suddenly got the urge to break things.
LLVM IR is unstable, way too big in scope, and not as machine-independent as people think. There have been several efforts to use it as a target-independent high-level bytecode, and they either are very platform-specific single-vendor affairs (Apple) or were retired in favour of a simpler new language that doesn't have its problems (SPIR became SPIR-V, PNaCl became WebAssembly).
It is unlikely that energy growth in India and China will be met with renewables and nuclear only because there is insufficient political will to help or force them to do so. They build coal plants because that's the cheapest option. Politics can change that.