skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In several decades of it experience , I've not known or heard of a nontrivial system like the one you describe in the first part of your message.

In the latter part, that must be a disingenuous dichotomy. You don't really believe that just because an avenue exists we should include it in an evaluation?
That's pretty much it - have enough energy and you can solve any environmental issues - sort an filter out any poisons, catch all the excess CO2 and turn it into somwthing useful, etc.

That's why it worries me that scaling energy production is not getting the focus it needs. We don't need to reduce our energy needs and replace dirty sources of energy, rather we need to get at leas one magnitude of energy more & in a clean manner, to solve all our environmental issues.
Probably someone found a mine already.
> How much good will is lost if, say, the WSJ gives a column inch or two about that new feature is just window dressing?

Nothing, that’s free advertising. Domino’s would likely receive order spikes or at least see an increase in brand recognition.
I think you've misread that, they only found three recent economic analysis of recycling that dealt purely with plastic. (Quite possibly because it makes no sense to set up a recycling system for just one output, since the additional cost once you've started is minimal)

They also found 20 papers that dealt with the climate change emissions and total energy use and ranked them on those factors as well.

The comment I replied to specifically said that we shouldn't worry about landfill space as we have more important issues like climate change, so that's 95% of studies found suggesting that opinion isn't based on facts and that landfill would be a worse option than recycling plastic for greenhouse gas emissions, which we've agreed is a serious problem. (And landfill broadly tied with burning it for energy on greenhouse gas emissions with different assumptions giving different answers).

To your point about total energy use, landfill comes out worst consistently and recycling best.

You could make the leap and assume the process that uses the least energy and releases the least greenhouse gases is also the least expensive economically (if you account for externalities) but that's a bonus on top of providing useful information that could change opinions related to greenhouse gas emissions.

You seem to doubt that governments made decisions based on facts, yet the facts now support their decision, while your stated beliefs about energy usage are contradicted by the science.

Is it not possible that the environmental benefits of recycling plastics had actually been considered by governments that brought in legislation? Where does your belief that it was ever considered likely to be a counterproductive activity come from? Did they convince you of anything else, like solar panels not making sense or EVs being worse for the environment, or wind turbines boondoggles? All those were similarly supported by effective government support programs and repaid the investment greatly.
Uncertainty does not favor continued status quo.

In fact even the climate models of decades ago have turned out to be dead on.

There is no reason to believe the planet favors conditions we are used to, but our civilization depends on those conditions. Drive the planet to another norm, and civilization collapses, and billions starve. A minority survive and rebuild, and (who knows?) maybe learn something. In a thousand years, it will be as if nothing happened, except with a hell of a lot of species missing.
That space is three dimensional is one of those propositions drilled into us as schoolchildren, and which most of us accept on faith.

Yet, since it is a statement of the real world, it can only be validated by experiment and not by a mathematical proof. Trying to contort one's fingers or sticks in various mutually perpendicular orientations isn't satisfactory since we could be limited by lack of imagination of the dexterity of our hands.

The existence of physical phenomena satisfying the inverse square laws is one of those observations which constrains the geometry of the world.
It's nowhere near as good as a next page button.
I've been in a similar boat. We've been splitting up or converting large Python 2.6/2.7 applications into Go services (and doing the same to large Perl applications) for a long time now.

Go has consistently been 10-20x performant (allowing for dramatically reduced hardware needs), easier to maintain, and more productive to produce code in than our previous Python (Twisted) and Perl (AnyEvent).

Hopefully KhanAcademy has solid telemetry data in both legacy and new code so they can quantify benefits. They will also have a learning curve for managing multiple micro services vs monoliths. Accessing shared data will be a problem they will likely have to solve. We've opted for each service controlling its own data - no reaching into another service's data behind its back. Everything through APIs. This gives the microservice the ability to alter its datastore as it needs to and not be blocked by other teams' need to update how they access the data.

Debugging a distributed solution is much harder than a single service. Distributed tracing, consistent structured logging with log aggregators that let you do fancy searches (like Splunk), and application telemetry and metrics will be even more important than before.
Beatlejuice is 642 ly away. So it might have popped off already.
> I just don’t believe we’re that close to a tipping point.

Your beliefs matter not one tiny little bit. We either are, or we are not. If a large enough body of scientists in a field that is not my expertise appear to agree on something then I am going to believe them regardless of what I as a layperson in their field could come up with to say the opposite.

Yes, it is complicated. The earth hasn't been livable for 'billions of years', and enough little people like us doing things that have never been done before and such balancing factors as there are can be upset.

The Earth has many modes of existence, the current one is not a guaranteed one at all.
I hear ya. And I think that web accessibility has gotten better in the last year. But many sites are still squint-ville.

Yep, Reader is really great for seeing the main article on a page, no question. But sometimes there's a lot left aside. And you just need a little help seeing it.

Take a look at the 'Dark/Light' addon, I've used all day every day for over a year. Very little fiddling involved. You get to set the background, text, and link colors for everything. Finito, all problems solved (apart from using control-scroll to zoom font-size).
Even if it were true that the climate has changed as much and as rapidly in the past, what difference does that make to our current situation? All but a few years in the next 3 centuries will be hotter than all but a few years in the past 3 centuries, and look at the impacts we're experiencing already.

> There's no doubt we have impact, but it's not certain that it's the major driving force

Just false. There is no reasonable doubt that human activity is responsible for about 100% (could be less, could be more) of the current warming.
If you are limited to one statement you could still do something along the lines of the following (no particular language):

foreach ( $item in $list )
{
if ( 1 == some_function( $item ) )
{
continue;
}
else
if ( 2 == some_function( $item ) )
{
break;
}
else
{
another_function( $item );
}
}

But I would immediately concede that it is starting to miss the entire point of why it was enforced in the first place...
How is the app called, that you use for your accounts?
At least it's fun to write modern Perl code compared to Js which is kind of annoying. Raku is also a very nice language but it's still too slow and hasn't gained much traction. Someone who's proficient in Perl can probably become productive in Python in less than a month.
Yeah. I never doubt that. That is the reason I believe this will actually happen. It makes sense.
Agreed, my company's biggest problems all come from a lack of basic software/programming skills which they've decided is not something they need to spend any effort on. In the words of my managers, "we are not a software company" and "learning to code is easy" and "eughhh I don't want to learn any of that computer science stuff". That latter one was when I mentioned something about clean code.
How do you know when an entire language is ready to be thrown in the trashcan? When you are having a debate about what "all" means.
I was working at a company of like 400 employees using MSSQL, so simple CRUD is not limited to simple crud app. Simple CRUD operations are insert, select, update, delete. Given that we auto generated the code and sql (stored procedures) and pasted it into the codebase made me think, why bother with this if I could develop new features without SQL at all.

Why should my queries be a stored prod or prepared stmt if all I need is get, insert, update, delete an object. Yes, the auto generated code wrote to the database as an object as in all fields included in the query. Why? There's no transactions, foreign keys, etc. since some tables where stored in different databases. Using a relational db as object store included people inefficiently using it as an object store.

In my own projects, if I need the speed, columns are indexed while unindexed data is binary. I can explode out (unserialize) the binary data into cache.

Point of my post was centralizing database access tends to be a bottleneck for team efficiency. If not the devs then the db owners. Augment my abilities to execute don't try to completely change it where it brings a whole set of unwanted problems that were not there before.
Here in India, local interbank transfers take less than 5 seconds with zero fee. I still can't understand why the ACH system is the US takes 5 working days.

NEFT/RTGS is the system in India which is equivalent of the ACH in the US and it takes maximum 1 hour to transfer funds.
How about just not reporting mouse movements to the website at all?
Use Concent, release react hook's maximum energy
Create react app latest ver doesn't include latest webpack dev server ver
I tried to upgrade my webpack dev server to 3.10.1 but the react scripts, version 3.3.0 which is supposed to be the latest version requires webpack dev server 3.9.0. It created a conflict with the earlier version higher on the tree, so I had to delete it from my package.json and do an npm install. I really want to use the latest version of the web pack dev server though. I saw mention of craco in some threads, but I am very new to the web dev scene, so I am looking for the simplest way to achieve this without creating more errors. When I did my webpack dev server update, I did it in the project folder. Perhaps this was my mistake, as it added it as a dependency to the react application? how can I get the react scripts to require the latest webpack dev server version instead of the earlier one using an npm command? thanks.
Star Wars Spoiler Generator
I have been dealing with cancer for the last year. And they do radiation and chemo, and then I get a break for a few months and another PET scan, more radiation, a few more months and a CT scan and pembro. Another scan and another spot. More radiation (last Friday to be precise).

I have accepted that I will probably be dead in a few years. It is why I haven't had the PEG removed. I'm keeping it in so I can dump pills and vodka directly into my stomach if things hurt too much.

I have accepted things. I have all my end of life stuff sitting in a envelope on my desk. I have already paid for my remains to be taken care of. Sigh, the funeral home I paid in advance is probably going to end up on a episode of of American Greed.

But yeah, don't take it personal if we give up. There is a point where the bad is greater than the good and just checking out is the smart thing to do.
And what will make you think the same reason will not be applied to web pages. It makes absolutely sense to me.
It's not just phones. And you don't need GPS to get GPS-level location accuracy. All that you need is WiFi capability.

Because WiFi devices scan for APs. And there are databases of GPS-located APs. Located by other GPS-enabled pawns, as it happens. So if you're using anything Google related, or other apps that access such data, you can be tracked. Just from WiFi. Without a cellular radio, or GPS.
I have 6 accounts:

A for income, ex. when I get a check I put 80% here

B taxes, when I get a check I put 20% here (taxes in Poland are 18%)

then:

C for business expenses, I know how much I spend each month, and I wire that amount each month from A

D personal account - whatever is left in A after business expenses, I wire here

Finally:

E, joint account with my partner, I know how much we spend each month and I wire that from D -> E

F, saving account for myself. Whatever is left in D at the end of the month, I put here

ING lets me manage all these accounts from their app, and wire money instantly from one to the other. All these accounts cost about $2/mo. each, but if there's enough action (ex., if you spend at least $500/mo.) the price drops to 0.

This setup is useful to not go splurge every time you get paid.
Or file a bug report with Todoist. Showing a dialog on every page is not very user friendly of them.
Go already cross-compiles to WASM, so if desired, Go code can be run via WASM. But on the server, you probably rather want to run the Go code natively. For the client, this should be quite interesting.
I have heard about it. Do you have a link? Thanks.
Yes, built-in since Perl 5.20, released mid 2014.

use experimental qw(signatures);

sub plus_one($x = 100) {
return $x + 1;
}

# Says 6.
say plus_one(5);

# Says 101.
say plus_one();

(The subroutine signatures feature is still marked experimental, which is a shame.
I use it in virtually all my code, unless I want pre-5.20 compatibility.)
Optical Communication Using LEDs Alone
For reference this is just a silly quote from Monty Python's Life of Brain.
How to Paint a Realistic Nose Tutorial #5
> I’ve stopped using Reddit on mobile.

"Slide" is a free (as in freedom) reddit client for Android. Needless to say it's much better than either the mobile website or official app.
Thanks for the reply, your line of thought makes a lot of sense. Most people I know, even the ones that care about the climate don't know about carbon offsets. If your primary purpose is to reach a wider audience, I applaud your efforts!
Yes, I realize this, and my belief is that American needs to decouple with China and bring the total net trade between the two down by 70-80%, leaving rare earths, agriculture, and some manufacturing left in the balance of trade. When two systems are so far off of each other, there cannot be fair agreement between the two. As a result the only three options are containment, playing by communist rules, or walking away. In my mind oppression and state communism are not ethical, and so the only option is to walk away.
How does something like this get created in the first place?
Cheeky. Love it.
There is no bank "behind the fintech boom".

Clickbait, thy name is Forbes.
Your ad hominem aside, it is an attempt to be safe instead of sorry.
The process of generating the WASM is entirely different. C, C++ and Rust all generate x86 assembly but they have very different trade offs. Following this line of reasoning writing raw WASM would also be a fine choice!
Earlier: the LISP I Programmer's Manual from 1960

http://history.siam.org/sup/Fox_1960_LISP.pdf
Nonsense, simply put. Past climate change has been driven by all sorts of factors, from bolide impacts through volcanic eruptions to large-scale forest fires. In several cases these changes came abruptly, far more so than the change caused by human activity. Also, the previous interglacial period was warmer than the current. During the Viking age wine was being grown in Scandinavia. The Roman empire arose and thrived during a warmer period, its fall coincided with a marked cooling which only lifted at the end of the 'little ice age' - when the Thames was frozen and all those famous Dutch masters painted scenes of Dutchmen and -women skating over canals and lakes.

May I suggest looking back into the rich history of doomsaying? All the way back to Malthus who, even though he was wrong in his prediction of the planet being incapable of feeding more than a billion human beings, actually did touch upon the problem of overpopulation which is a larger threat than any of the ones subsequently dragged up by the latest crop of doomsayers.

To name a few causes more worthy of attention than the current CO₂ hysteria:

- Population growth. Malthus thought the planet could not feed more than 1 billion people. He was wrong, he failed to foresee the industrial revolution which makes it possible to feed 7 billion and has the potential to feed the 10 billion which is expected to be the number of humans reached before population starts to decline.

- That industrial revolution has given its blessings but it also came with the curse of large-scale environmental pollution. While these problems are being tackled in some parts of the world the same can unfortunately not be said about others.

- Population growth also leads to increased migration which has the potential to lead to increased conflicts which has the potential to lead to the undoing of many of the efforts currently put in the negation of the negative aspects of the industrial revolution. People at war have different priorities from those at peace. Just like with the doomsayers it makes sense to use history as a guide here. Genghis Khan (who, when seen in the percentage of the world population killed (estimates range from 5% to ~10%) still reigns supreme as the biggest killer of them all [1]) started a wave of migration which was felt all the way to the west and north of Europe with one displaced population on the move jostling for space with the next.

So, what can be done about these? The population growth will, bar the intervention of any catastrophic events, probably follow the predicted curve with the total world population reaching about 10 billion people somewhere in the 2100s. It took the west more than a century to realise than unbridled industrial growth and the accompanying pollution was a recipe for disaster, hopefully the now industrialising parts of the world will have learned this lesson well so they don't continue to make the same mistakes. Migration will lead to conflicts, this is probably unavoidable. It can only be hoped that these conflicts don't escalate too far.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_E...
> You could make a statement like that about any law.

If you can, you should. There are too many totally bogus laws!
I brought a Nintendo switch and the initial install was pretty quick (sub 3 minutes I think) didn't require a Nintendo account until I brought a game on their store, and I could literally just plug-in the physical cartridge and get started with Zelda.

Granted the price is outrageously high considering the graphics quality, but still at least it worked.
I wish the pipeline operator were standardised so we can stop fiddling with prototypes.
Again you're treating this as-if its a problem of finding a sufficiently smooth function over data points.

The problem is that the right behaviour is not a model fitted to that data. It isn't "fitted" at all.

When I turn the thermostat the temperature in the room increases. If the thermostat is broken, the temperature does not. The predicting the effect of the thermostat on the room requires intervening in the room to find out if it is broken; it requires having a model of the room, of the thermostat, etc.

No system that is not in direct causal contact with its environment can adapt to it. The system -- as it is in contact --- needs to be explicitly modelling the causally relevant features of that environment.

This isn't a statistical problem. You cannot learn a function over images to actions because the environment is absent from those images.

An infinite number of 2D images contain no 3D information. An infinite number of 3D images contain no skeletons (ie., inner-structure of objects). An infinite number of images of object pieces contain no information on object behaviour. An infinite number of videos of an object behaving contains no information of its behaviour when broken. An infinite number of videos of all possible breakages in all existing environments contains no information about behaviour in new environments.

Animals solve this problem by playing with objects, building models of those objects (their causal properties, ie., how they interact with other objects). That requires being-in an environment and explicitly modelling it.

There cannot be a "non-bogus" system arrived at via ML. Statistics itself is deficient in providing tools to design systems that "do what they should".

Any paradigm which makes the cartesian assumption that "behaviour is a function of data" is necessarily incapable of intelligent adaptation. Environments "as data" are infinities.

ie., For statistics to work you need all the relevant variables of an environment to make the "correct decision", and all the data needed to train against those. That's infinite.

The "child on road" column isn't going to be fed into the machine. The machine does not, and cannot, even model what a "child" is. Patterns among fractions of infinites is not a basis for saftey (, nor for intelligence).
What’s wrong with controlling spacecrafts with JavaScript?
In a more strict sense being "good with computers" involves programming the machine, which requires a certain type of access to the machine and its resources. Provided, we're not dealing with bare metal, this means access and intimacy with a certain operating environment – which may be subject to change, as preferences for languages change, as do operating systems or the underlying hardware.

In a broader sense, being "good with computers" may mean a certain familiarity with a certain type of paradigm of interaction, as embodied in a certain suite of applications, which may and will be subject to change, as well.

So nobody is "good with computers" per se.
Great feature. Though it feels like a UI misstep that the user had to use npm to switch between recording and browsing. A nicer solution could be a chrome extension button, or access the archived version via a synthetic domain. E.g. example.com.archived
He is not the first, Andy Grove worked on a similar thing last years, but he worked mostly alone, and without community you cannot take off such ambitious project: https://andygrove.io/2018/11/datafusion-2019/
Theres no way a tesla roadster is beating the current record holder, the 919 evo. The roadster would be magnitudes heavier, plus it wouldn't have the aero for the downforce.

https://youtu.be/PQmSUHhP3ug
> Failure of interpretation, really: I can't see how any of that could be considered personal data.

Theoretically, you could enter some personal in a free-text field and it would be stored in the log files. I am not saying that people actually would do this, but they could. Now they cannot.
I'm glad i'm not the only one who feels this way.
"John told me he considered FP a failure because, to paraphrase him, FP made it simple to do hard things but almost impossible to do simple things." -- Grady Booch, https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1153348388827480065
Hah you're right. That makes more sense, the other angles looked like he was holding it down the entire time. Thanks :D
I’m curious of why did you go on the path of using chrome debugging functionality instead of implementing an HTTP proxy which would provides the benefit of behind browser-agnostic too.

May you expand on that please?
This is why some orgs did an "internal outsourcing" of their IT / training / other "shared services" - they bill the other departments for what they do. It both disincentivizes waste for the client departments and prevents the "IT department is a cost center" mindset, at the downside of a boatload of bureaucracy if every purchase of, let's say, a broken HDMI cable has to go through countless approval loops.