skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's best to look at this as mass preservation problem. Trees absorb CO2 from air and store in their bodies. Once they die, the CO2 gets released.

Since there's a limited tree mass per area unit that the ground can support, once you reach that mass the input and output need to zero out, since there's nowhere to store any additional CO2.
I gave it as a Christmas gift two years ago. Picked it up because of the funny title, saw that it was backed up by "science" according to the back cover and bought it... just apologized for the crappy gift to my brother in law.

We were all confused by the colors. I had a little bit of all colors. My mom used to be red but is now more of the other colors... it really is pretty useless.

I still enjoy taking "personality tests" but I try not fooling myself into thinking that MBTI, Strengths Finder, or DiSC says much more about myself than a horoscope would. If anything it might tell me a little bit about how I perceive myself, but that's not how it's sold.

Thanks to VoF for their work!
I've had trouble finding a good source to actually purchases these for hobbyist projects. Any pointers on sellers?
Ya it is called climate change. Swedes are some of the most brainwashed people in the world. Having lived there I realized how they all had such identical opinions... Not a coincidence!
If you had hired competent people to begin with, the configs would have been backed up.

I don't agree with the other posters recommendation, but I understand the sentiment. The same incompetence that allowed the event to happen is the same incompetence that allowed it to be swept under the rug for almost 6 years.

I've seen paragons of hiring get upset because failures were made visible, not understanding that the failures were there all along and they were playing a game of chicken with reality, only now they have a chance of winning.
I’m going to overlook your incredibly insulting tone and just cite a few readily-available sources in English:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/25/national/politi...

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201910260032.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46267868

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190405/p2a/00m/0na/00...
Wasn't the PS3 refund only like $10-$20? Why even go through that effort for a Chromebook?
I read My First Summer in the Sierra and found it depressing the way he would describe fantastical trees and plants and landscapes in great detail - and then say the sheep trampled and ate it all.
must feel bad not getting a response on this thread! crickets
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I don't know the source other than Elon Musk stated it in one of his presentations, but according to him we have five times as much fossil fuel reserves as we would need to utterly destroy ourselves with climate change. If that's right, waiting until we run out is not a solution. I realize the context was mentioning some speculation that we could push the timeline out some by planting trees. That speculation aside, we can't just wait for the oil to run out and be fine.
I think low interest rates are a huge part of this. Rates dropped again recently and prices are taking off all around the world. Its nuts.
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Being a developer, my main gripe is 30% app store fees. It is like I am paying tax for my customer being apple user, when the device is already paid in full.

Second issue is, well, poor documentation and no sdk support for these mandatory practices.

But it seems all this has already been discussed in detail.
You know, I realize I'm the weird one here, but: when writing code, I almost always turn off autocomplete. Sometimes you basically have to have it on (when the language is demands it) but I usually turn it off. It's too much visual noise, too distracting. It's a thing that pops up that demands your attention. If I want to type

if (myVector->empty()) {
fillVector(myVector);
}

autocomplete will pop up a window like 4 times while writing. For no real reason: i can type "empty()" on the keyboard faster than I can look at a screen and choose "empty()" from a list, and having having the list pop up is distracting.

In fact, I strongly disagree with this:

> If I were writing a sophisticated user interface today—say, a programming language or a complex application—autocompletion is one of the primary constraints I would design it around. It’s that important.

Ugh, no, I don't like this at all. This is what leads to nightmarish Java type names ("AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean") that makes this language practically demand auto-complete. A programming language should be easily typeable on a keyboard without having to resort to auto-complete for everything.
> Note that the exit value of true is 0, and the exit value of false is 1. This is somewhat counterintuitive, and it's the exact opposite of most programming languages.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle
You can't outrun a bad diet. Sure we can plant a ton of trees to recapture carbon, but we also need to cut down emissions.
In South Africa the citizens are facing a crises of such a service and its our electricity system. Predominately coal power plants, that are at end of life, and rolling blackouts is a common occurrence. It is necessary action, to avoid a blackout, given it would take weeks to get the system going again. Furthermore, high inequality and unemployment, makes it paramount to grow the economy, so these rolling blackouts have a huge impact socio-ecomically. It is a service that can't simply be restarted.

Transitioning risky services which can't be restarted, is clearly complicated, especially for complex systems. I wonder if there is body of knowledge with principles that could apply to not only to these massive nationwide scale, but to that of web-services and alike. Does anybody have resources in this respect?
That's my reading of things.
There's still plenty of references and small but essential stuff. One notorious example that comes to mind is the KURL name that stuck: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink.git/+/maste...
My parents used to burn peat in Scotland when I was growing up - probably why I'm particularly fond of some products flavoured by peat smoke...
In fairness Bash can do that as well. It's not a shell specific thing, autocompletion is just a shell script after all, the issue is whether someone has written those scripts (which they have for Bash) and if your package manager ships them (which some do but others do not).

However I do agree that Bash generally feels outdated these days. In fact autocompletion was the primary reason behind me writing my own readline API
It may in fact make things worse.

>The Implicit Association Test has been used in online studies to assess implicit racial attitudes in over seven million participants. Although typically used as an assessment measure, results from four pre-registered experiments (N = 940) demonstrated that completing a Race IAT exacerbates the negative implicit attitudes that it seeks to assess. Increases in White participants’ negative automatic racial evaluations of Black people were observed across two different implicit measures (SC-IAT and AMP) but did not generalize to another measure of automatic racial bias (Shooter Bias task). Results highlight an important caveat for the Race IAT, but also for many other forms of psychological assessment: that by measuring, we often perturb the system that we wish to understand.

https://psyarxiv.com/vxsj7/
As often, the top HN comment is an answer to comments that very few people made. Almost nobody complains here, and even the article states that Chrome Apps weren't widely used.
Please keep the title as in the article "Technology Can't Fix Algorithmic Injustice" unless it's linkbait or misrepresents the content.
From the top reddit comment:

> This paper is amazing. What is missing from the description above is that this is the first example of how human neurons are qualitatively different than rodent neurons (not only more computation power, but categorically different computation).

> ELI5: the way the biological human neuron implements XOR is by a formerly unknown type of local response to inputs, which is low below the threshold, maximal at the threshold and decreases as the input intensifies above the threshold. We never saw anything like that in any other animal. (link to the relevant figure from the paper)

Rodents being presumably the go-to non-human object of study.
I think the main reason is that they were well-built centuries ago, and, by the time something really better could be built, the Netherlands was rich enough and fond enough of their looks to not demolish them.
It _could_ have that effect, but it would depend on signed integers wrapping.
I am surprised that getting rid of tipping is not a bigger political platform. It would benefit both the consumer, by being more upfront about pricing, and the workers, by being able to have a more predictable income. The only one it wouldn't benefit is the companies who use tipping to display dishonest pricing.
> it's different in a local context where they never leave the device

Until the next round of FBI tools, where they extract the fingerprints to their database as part of their unlocking process.
The downside of TabNine is that it removes predictability. With regular completion, semantic or not, if I have a long function name I can reliably write a couple letters of it and get the completion without even having to look at the suggestions.
When the designers’ and data scientists’ goal is to squeeze rather than entertain, then its bullshit.
Interesting problem. There's some good ideas in here, and I think you might get some better ones if you add more details.

You said that you have been assigned the task of replacing the "zombie" program, which I assume means that you are to write a new one that interfaces whatever depends on the zombie.

If the zombie were to die right now, how severe would the consequences be? On the scale of total disruption of business to minor inconvenience that could be worked around until it's fixed?

How complex is the zombie? What is the nature of the state that was supplied by the lost configuration file? Is it stuff like which port to listen on and how to connect to its database, or is it more like huge tables of magic values that won't be easy to figure out again?

Do you currently have enough information about the zombie to write a replacement? Do you have what you need to test your replacement before deploying it?

If you are confident you have sufficient information to write the replacement, how long do you think you need to write and test that?

You said the zombie runs on a physical server. What operating system? What language/runtime/stack is the zombie based on?
I'm down for a world with "less" work but when I think back to the moments when I'm not working and they suck, I always get anxious and depressed usually start binge drinking and getting super fucked up. :/
Okay, but... you could also have left the nuclear plants on, not turned on the gas ones, and switched a few labels around. It's the same result.
Why not just charge money for games? Seems like a reasonable way for them to make money...
Probably as good a place as any to highlight how broken the Chrome extension approval process has become over the last month or so.

Updates that would take an hour now take up to 10 days, including minor updates like a change to an extension's description.

Having your deployment date be determined by one of Google's algorithms is ulcer-inducing.

And the support is...well, see for yourself: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/chrom...

They can fix this. G Suite support is fine. I would pay for this process not to suck.
Not only does it do nothing, but the purported problem—implicit association tests (IATs) “demonstrating” a high degree of racism in an organization or individual—is artificial: the IATs are themselves fraudulent; there is no evidence whatsoever that they measure racism at all. https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/psychologys-racism-measuring-...

EDIT: Downvoters, what's wrong with this comment? Are downvotes disagreement? If so, do you have anything to substantiate your position? If it's not disagreement, what could I do to improve the quality of my post to make it acceptable?
My guess is that his dislike stems from the fact that this lady only made things better for herself and her family, and not GP, or anyone else on the flight.

If everyone can't do it (bringing more luggage than will fit above you) then doing that seem like you're doing it because you're better than everyone else, which is offensive to most people for good reason. If her whole family had flown first class, that'd be a different story. (They'd probably still be annoyed at the family for basically cancelling out some of the perks of paying extra for flights, though.)
+1, I'm on the Chromebook Pixel 2 (2015) and have been running Arch Linux for years now. I can't recommend it enough.
Doesn't look too different from most "self-help" books out there.
I don’t understand why people repeat a story they know is false as if it still somehow contained wisdom. If anything the reality suggests the opposite where people will eventually react if a room slowly gets warmer over time etc.
As someone who's had to read C and C++ code using `double`, it's been a few years since I've heard of `feclearexcept` and how important it is.

Great, thanks, now I have to go back and restart some of those code reviews I've been doing of certain third party matrix math libraries...
Sometimes I hate that I can give only one upvote to a story.

Back when the iPad 1 was new, I was actually playing games on mine. Then everything turned into a mess of IAP bullshit and now I don't even look at mobile game releases any more. Hopefully this site will help me find something to play.
Many company's IT departments don't find it worth downloading, supporting, and updating external applications just to access the web when the OS provides that functionality out of the box. You could argue that's "wrong," but that doesn't change reality. I even had a government customer remove IE, clicking on the IE icon launched Edge.
A big part of this is that the Dutch capitulated to the Nazis in WWII before they got to Amsterdam. Pretty much every other major city in the area was reshaped by the war, but Amsterdam avoided the major conflict.

Compare with Rotterdam (which was destroyed by the Nazis).
> That system WILL FAIL.

I think that the key point. We have a system that can't easily be restarted and won't automatically start after a server is rebooted. The developers of the software don't care, because "what are the chances of a virtual machine spontaneously restarting". Turns out, those chances are rather good.

Servers, virtual machines, containers, doesn't matter, unless that thing is running on a mainframe, it will crash.
> There is no one single clever solution to the climate problem.

There is. Just stop emitting greenhouse gases.
The planet as a whole is not on fire, sure. But there are much bigger than normal wildfires in equatorial regions - Amazon, Africa, Australia. Australia is the one getting the most attention as it's closest to "western" cities.
Antitrust laws are applicable when one company controls an entire market.

As has been noted exhaustively, Apple is a MINORITY player in the smartphone market. Antitrust doesn't enter into it.

MSFT, OTOH, absolutely WAS in a monopolistic position when the browser wars were raging, and was found to have abused that monopoly power. Apple isn't even CLOSE to that level of dominance, unless you define the market as "people who use Apple devices," which is transparently risible.
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Exactly! I had 'unconcious bias' training at work, one of the learning outcomes of which was to understand the 'scientific basis' for unconcious bias. After reviewing the material and finding myself somewhat dubious of its claims, I - as a good scientist working in a technical role in a technical company - went off to research for myself. Turns out the supposed scientific basis is deeply flawed. And yet, this training is being rolled out in many companies across the UK: training based on nonsense. What's deeply insulting - and worrying - is that this should be pushed on educated, intelligent people whose jobs in no small part depend on sniffing out bullshit. Do they think we won't find out the truth? Are the management so clueless/compromised that they actually believe in it? IDK.
One format that doesn't seem to get much attention nowadays is RTF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format), but there's no reason it shouldn't be readable for years to come.
Thanks for your answer.
Factually, kickstarter is not a business model, it's a way to get some seed money from future players.
Once the game goes out you still need to have a business model.

Making a game can be an artist job but it also can be a business which is expected to grow, fast and strong as any business.

I found the use of the word "greed" extremely opinionated. Is CEO of Amazon greed ? Greed let suppose that it's accumulating money in a selfish way, which seems to be a pretty bad stuff. I might not understand the nuance as I'm not a native english speaker but I find really strange to link the desire of making money with the "greed" word.

You are maybe right, maybe it's only possible to consider video games as a sustainable business with freemium addiction. I really ask the question
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Thanks for sharing the English article. I decided to share the french version because it has way more details (it's a huge phenomenon here), but that's for sure more interesting if people can actually read the content :)
Sago Mini might work for you if you’re willing to pay and your kids are the right age: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/sago-mini-world/id874425722
How come dividing personality into introverted and extroverted (1 dimension) is generally accepted, but dividing personality into more dimensions (disc has 2, mbti has 4, big five has 5, etc), people tend to feel uneasy (e. g. "I am more than just this")?

All traps aside (confirmation bias, overdoing it), I do believe these categorizations do make sense as a way to learn about behavior, especially for the general public. That people misinterpret the meaning of the results is obviously bad, but it doesn't invalidate the theory.
Well, if there's anything that the environmentalists hate more than petroleum, it is nuclear power. So there's the sticky wicket.

We have the solution in hand, but no will to embrace it.
IPython dev here,

Thanks to you (and the author) for being happy users of IPython; but if you don't have complaints you are not using it enough :-) We do our best to provide good completion; but most of the work is thanks to Jedi (Dave Halter) for the completion and prompt_toolkit (Jonathan Slenders) for the UI , at least in terminal.

There is a lot of improvement that could be done to completion (time and funding missing), and we are always looking for Feedback and Pull Requests.

Side Note while I agree about the statement about Julia and bar(foo) vs foo.bar(); nothing prevent the completer to add text not at the cursor position. Having foo)<tab> suggesting to prepend `bar(` is a possibility.

(also hijacking top comment...)
But _do_ you need doctors, police, plumbers? Robots can handle all of these tasks in this hypothetical future. Even today, AI can better diagnose you than doctors can, according to the leading research.
But there IS another option, so your argument falls apart.
That's pretty clear and I understand this definition. But then, having IAP, ads, DLC, subs does not make a game a bullshit game if it's balanced.
It's amazing how much power we -- developers, users -- have at our hand, at least if everything runs smooth (most likely with UTF-8 and the like). Somehow we are left in a world where I need the feel to transliterate German umlauts (ue instead of ü, ss instead of ß) while somewhere else I happily can use all the symbols so easily reachable on smartphone »softboards«. I guess software support still has a way to go, such as some help from the GUI for proper whitespace characters, especially when doing copy&pasting.
I thought about this and had an idea that I don't know if it can work, but I couldn't find any major problem with it.

Specifically, what if we start burying dead trees or those who reached peak mass in places where conditions will transform them into coal in 100(00..) of years?

That way carbon is captured and stored until we burn them again.
I really like how vulkan tries to model modern hardware--reminiscent of C. I spent a few weekends writing a toy renderer with it and learned quite a bit about the modern graphics pipeline.

Writing vulkan for a quick hobby project is probably a bit much, but it seemed like a great choice where extra control is needed. Hopefully more libraries will mature take care of the dirty work (thousands of lines of initialization).
What economic advantages?
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Your explanation doesn't explain anything about why the grachtenpanden look the way they do.
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This. I believe that's the main reason those tests exist. They are used by management as a legal/PR protection.
Right now, there is zero requirement, or desire, to send humans into deep space.

Whats more likely to happen, is ~500 years of unmanned space exploration before we even think about sending people out there.
They did make a great foundation. Symbolics Genera was super nice apparently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk
Why would you expect the output to be false? On any typical system around (with 8-byte longs), LONG_MIN has the value of -2^63 which (converted to a IEEE double-precision float) passes the function's checks just fine -- even if the values around it don't.
Ahh you ought to see my style. I've been told it's unique and quite ugly. Linters tend to very much dislike it. Nonetheless my style has a purpose to me and I'm sure so does the author's.
It wasn't. We thought we could do it by 2030, but it was the end of 2019 when the world's scientists figured out that all targets weren't going to be enough, but no one ever listens to them. The alternative was switching to renewables with a vengeance, but we had to prop up coal, oil and fracking. So instead we have to pour more money in air conditioning and border defense. Remember it is them against us and they had the bad luck of being born near the boiling equator. And it isn't like we have room. We don't have any more aid to give them. So the border walls are even more critical. Dow is at 700k though, so we have that going for us. Your government rations will be delayed another 3 weeks. That is all.
Socialism every time the financial system needs to be bailed out with massive liquidity injections. But ultra aggressive capitalism for lower and middle class people.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/christiaan-triebert

> Prior to joining The Times in 2019, Mr. Triebert worked as a senior investigator and lead trainer at the investigative group Bellingcat.
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They might be heuristics, but how can they ever be useful? They can neither be used in the analysis of a person nor are they predictive...
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I think the international community generally recognizes that this is the fault of conflict escalation and scapegoating. I doubt anyone outside Iran directly blames the person who fired the AA strike at this point.

Moreover, if you are the one manning it, remember that _not_ firing the missile could mean not just your countrymen but your colleagues may be getting killed (by the bombs). War is ugly and there's no good choices. People die by definition.