skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>cement, steel

Beats me. I think we'll just have to just stop using so much of it.

There is likely a decent amount of buildings being completely unused that could be turned into housing. Turn most office jobs into remote jobs. Turn most office buildings into apartments.

>shipping, and aviation

These options absolutely exist. For aviation, we could simply stop traveling so much and establish a network of electric cars to move people (coordinating tens of drivers in Uber/Lyft fashion with electric vans to move a family across CONUS is easily doable with our current technology). Nuclear cruise ships could replace trans-continental flights but you'll likely want to keep those flights for a while so the public gets used to the idea of "nuclear" and "cruise ships" in their vacations.

Replacing shipping means nuclear, which means yeeting a bunch of 2nd/3rd world nations' current ships and incomes.

All of this of course requires a much more authoritarian stance than current world politics tolerates (and guaranteeing that the leader doesn't start purging people). Unfortunately, climate change isn't as dramatic as a meteor headed toward Earth. It's very difficult to sell the complete destruction of major industries and companies to anyone, even though dealing with an economic armageddon is obviously easier to deal with than a planetary climate armageddon.
Aron Flam & Henrik Jönsson recently talked about this on Dave Rubin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpRBfoQRdpY
Not true. While the term is hyped, it is done so for good reasons. It’s not just that management doesn’t want the pesky servers, it’s that most developers themselves don’t want or care for it. Devs want to use platforms that let them quickly deploy their code that implements business logic, and servers/kubernetes and other abstractions aren’t things many devs give a fuck about.
Technical Debt Is Soul-Crushing
Homeless people use the library more than just a place to get warm. It's a free place to use the toilet. It's an important entry point to social services, and free internet access.

And of course, plenty of people use them as a place to read books, magazines, and newspapers.
There is still money to be made in declining industries, tobacco is a good example.
> The issue here isn't that the inputs were wrong, it's that the experts could not (or would not, if you don't want to be generous) accept that the structure was under-strength in spite of multiple reports; the believed their calculations rather than their lying eyes.

How does this support the conclusion that they were misled by their expertise? There are many possible explanations here.

> There is no particular evidence that the firefighters panicked. Whether or not they did, though, they did what their training led them to believe was their only choice: keep their equipment and try to reach the top of the ridge. The foreman was the only one to realize either that the training wasn't going to work or that they had another option.

There is no particular evidence that the firefighters were misled by their expertise, either.

If anything wasn't the foreman's realization arguably due to his superior expertise?

> Do you have a great deal of expertise in this area?

In the area of basic logic, such as figuring out whether evidence supports conclusions? I suppose you could say I do, although I wouldn't claim anything special.
All numeric concepts that have any meaning whatsoever have units/“dimensions”. Probability is in units of possible outcomes. If your chances are affected non-linearly, you’d express that (chance of death per inch of penetration).

No percentages are unitless. If they were, you could substitute them without consequence, like applying an interest rate percentage in place of a mortality rate pecentage or an alcohol-to-water percentage.

Angles, exponents, counts all fit in units, just more complex unit expressions.
Reynolds Number, Prandtl number, power factor, efficiency, anything that is a fraction of full range, mechanical strain, etc.

There are many terms in an engineering project that are unitless. Having a system to automatically check the units on the remaining scalars is cute, but doesn't do anything to prevent you from improperly performing operations that relate efficiency and power factor by accident, for example.

Multi-input, multi-output control systems regularly assemble state vectors out of terms that have mixed units. You can easily have amps, volts, meters per second, and radians per second in the same mathematical vector.

I have yet to see a compile-time unit-checking scheme that adequately addressed those issues.
I neither consider the C specification beautiful, nor do I think that large parts are missing. In fact, the specification goes to great lengths to allow implementations on a wide range of computers.

I will claim that most other languages specifications only seem so straightforward because they have a simpler execution model, where some of the things you can do in C are simply not possible, or where the spec is exclusively targeted at more modern machines. (And that's a good thing for most applications).
I am already convinced OOP is Plato, but I’ve never thought about this with ownership! If you have a short version I’d love to hear it.
How AI provided early warnings of the Wuhan virus
The first definitely, the second remains to be proven. You can find most of the relevant scientific articles by searching for 'carbfix' on sciencedirect.

The current results are promising, but there are still challenges to overcome. Notably, the system they run in Iceland absolutely guzzled fresh water, and while this is not a problem in Iceland, it would prevent the scaling up of this project to a true planetary-scale solution. Work is ongoing for figuring out if saltwater would clog up the wells too badly, and how this can be mitigated.

Also, as the carbfix project took in CO2 and H2S as highly concentrated gases, as the direct problem was to get rid of the emissions of a geothermal plant. To scale up to carbon capture from the atmosphere, they'd have to either set up their system to use less concentrated input gases, or figure out a cost-effective method of separating and concentrating CO2 from the atmosphere.

Not saying this is necessarily a silver bullet for all our emissions, just saying that the original concern of the poster I replied to about where the energy to split CO2 it going to come from is not actually as big of a deal as it seems.
You can use the Internet on a free library computer. This is great if you don’t own one and don’t have Internet access at home.
silicate and magnesium oxide based ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorel_cement https://www.solidiatech.com/solutions.html
Cidco Mailstation History: Email, in Appliance Form
New York governor promises net neutrality legislation in 2020
Deep Learning Recipe Generator – could you say if recipe is real or fake?
Apart from environmental impact, another major health issue is BPA like disruption of the endocrine system. Mother jones covered Tritan plastic in 2014: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/tritan-certi...

They accuse Eastman of major fraud of how the research was faked.
thanks all for the clarifications. the only point i was making was that for some, the brain can be confused by seemingly contradictory imagery when the goal was to convey some wordplay.

this might be lost on me because no such wordplay exists in any language i am familiar with.
180GW / 500 = 360 megawatts average, does that help set the scale?
if you have kids, its an awesome place to go
Or just that being close to a highway is often unpleasant, so those who can afford more pleasant parts of town have already done so. Surely they tried to control for wealth but it's easy to do so imperfectly. (Haven't read the paper, though!)
Looking at the paper abstract it seems like an interesting technical exercise to learn from. One of the challenges with ascribing a tiny mass to the graviton is that all the nice properties (symmetries) we’re used to in the context will go out of the window. Maybe there are some intricate tricks which will unlock most of the value of having those exact symmetries.

Further, if the graviton has a mass, then it would be very surprising/difficult to reconcile it with observational evidence. Forces mediated by massive force carriers have an exponentially decaying effect over distance (dominating over the inverse-square effect). That would seriously clash with our understanding of the action of gravity over large/cosmological distances.
I have another that I sometimes use: overriding getenv(3). (I typically just printf() the variable name and return NULL).

Most of the time you can spot environment variable usage in binaries using strings(1) (folks still like to use upper case env vars in non-system applications even though this goes against POSIX).

But by using LD_PRELOAD you can easily see if the program is actually hitting the codepath reads that variable without debuggers or grovelling about in the assembly.
Amen. Management at a company I worked as were convinced that Xamarin was One True Path for mobile development. They were sold the idea that a Windows dev could instantly be productive in Xamarin without needing to understand the underlying platforms significantly.

To be clear, I do think Xamarin remains an interesting idea, but it's absolutely not the first thing I'd reach for when starting a x-platform mobile project.
> You can’t criticise just the margin in isolation like you’ve done.

The article is specifically discussing all you can eat buffets. I don’t think they are selling jumbo jets at Old Country Buffet.
The Language Agnostic, All-Purpose, Incredible, Makefile (2019)
Keep em coming.
Could one also say "Tig er av Sweden?" :P

i.e., Hush, y'all!
As per another post the price is increasing slower than inflation.

I found it impossible to get price data for museums and hard to get verifiable data for music concerts, although those are activities that seem to be explosively more expensive than inflation but are not showing attendance declines.

I'm old enough (gen-x) that when I was a kid, the expensive part of a day at the public museum was going out for ice cream afterwards, the tickets were pretty cheap in 1980 or similar. I considered taking my kids to the public museum over christmas break, but tickets for the whole family would be over $100, so rather than ice cream being more expensive than the museum, it would be cheaper to go to a cheaper chain steakhouse and skip the museum. To some extent I think the "public" museum locally gave up on the public and exist to send ever larger invoices to the local public school districts for field trips so that might be a local issue OR a long term shift in the business model. There's no point in a business and profit sense, in letting the general public in for $5 per head, if the school district doesn't mind getting invoiced $30 per kid for field trips.
I wouldn't really mind a set of slides if it was formatted to prevent scrollable content, or even if scrolling didn't switch slides.

On the positive side, this slide format didn't destroy my browser history like a lot of them do, so that was appreciated. A lot of JS slide libs add a history entry for every slide, so getting back to the original page that linked it is a giant PITA. I've become accustomed with slides to using the browser's back button menu to jump back, often several times, and I was pleasantly surprised not to have to do that this time.
Highly recommend reading sustainable energy without the hot air by the late David MacKay. Even though dated, he really puts numbers behind every broad stroke assumption that causes pause
I hear you. Your feedback is much appreciated and I'll share it with the team.
We're at historically normal levels of warming. We are cooler now as a planet than we were during the early Neolithic (early Holocene from 10K to 5.5K years ago. Eventually we'll plunge into another glacial period, and no amount of CO2 will stop it.
It certainly is. The more meaning we need to attach to a number, the more expensive it is, and SI is a really good start.
>I'm not an expert, but some people are are panicking and buying surgical masks (borderline useless)

N95 masks are effective in filtering out viruses. Also your conclusions put a lot of implicit faith into numbers reported by the Chinese Communist Party, which has a strong incentive to minimize the problem and probably one of the most facilitating authoritarian cultures to do so.
I think it has more to do with socio-economic background than your race/gender/ethnicity etc by default. You used the example of Indian markets. If you look at who the founders are, most of them are middle-upper middle class where they don't have to worry about basic needs on a daily basis. Again, I am sure you can find the rags to riches story anecdotally but running a business myself (non white male founder), I can tell you that socio-economic status helps tremendously. Yes, you can still start a SAAS business regardless due to lower barrier to entry but you are only thinking about servers/software type of cost and not the opportunity cost that most lower middle class to poor people have to give up on.

It almost always comes down to your socio-economic status and I am in the "big risk taker" group. When I started my business, I could totally risk not working for a year or two without it causing significant damage to my family's socio-economic status/needs. Yes, my income went down significantly and it was still a risk but a heavily calculated one. Even if the business failed, I would be able to get back to the corporate life easily since I had put in 10+ years of experience by that time and had financial stability to do this.
This perspective has always confused me. Would you say that structured programming was a garbage marketing term, since even though the programming language didn't have goto the compiled machine code has jumps and branches? I would hope not, because the point is that an interface is provided on top of the underlying structure so that you don't have to think about gotos outside of exceptional cases.

Not having to think about what servers in which datacenter are serving a request is pretty convenient. We can argue about whether the pricing for most serverless computing is bad, but as far as the term and the technology itself I don't see how this is different from any other abstraction.
I can't really say I regret the path I've taken since had I not taken it, I wouldn't be able to form sound evaluations. I'd always sought out cross-platform development tools first on servers, then desktop, and mobile. Flutter/Dart comes closest at the moment but game engines might also work for certain apps. I'm glad I never bought into React-Native the worst of worlds. It's rare for an app to require native widgets and having to deal with two different sets and their idiosyncrasies isn't solving the problem.
Yes, I guess it's like that; I just noticed that when I visited United States (I'm Italian), don't know much about homelessness in United States
That is actually really cool! Except for the "if they follow it" part, which rather threatens to scupper the whole thing. :-)
Eating brains is dangerous - there is a risk of a prion infection.
This site has some more info about the 777 etc. Some articles may be paywalled though.

https://leehamnews.com/2020/01/25/third-time-is-the-charm-77...
Haha, that's the strategy my wife and I use. If we know we want separate plates we'll just not eat earlier and/or bring a box home. Some of the portion sizes are literally more than a day's worth of food.
If they can run their industry without destroying the world in the process, then is there still a reason for antagonism?
>There's always something that is not right in the UI foundation

What is fundamentally broken with their UI that a competent person can't change?
It doesn’t take a person. Forests burn, it’s part of their natural lifecycle. Lightning is one of the biggest starters (once you pull out mankind).
> NHS England is responsible for overseeing the commissioning, the planning and the buying, of NHS services. In practice it also sets quite a lot of NHS strategy and behaves like an NHS headquarters. NHS England commissions some services itself, but passes most of its money onto 200 or so clinical commissioning groups across England, also known as CCGs, which identify local health needs and then plan and buy care for people in their area – people like you and me.

> CCGs buy services from organisations of different shapes and sizes – from NHS trusts that run hospitals and community services, to GPs and others that provide NHS care, including organisations run by charities and the private sector.

Right, so “the government” funds a few public agencies which themselves pass on money to the CCG’s, which also seem to be quasi-autonomous public agencies. The actual care providers are sometimes in the private sector. I’m not sure what distinguishes NHS England or the CCG’s from “the government” other than semantics, but sure.

This is still more administrative overhead than other “universal” systems and does not seem to address the tradeoffs between cost and availability of care. Per Wikipedia:

> A survey of CCGs by the Health Service Journal in April 2015 found that more than a third were planning to save money by restricting access to services, particularly on "procedures of limited effectiveness", podiatry, IVF, and limiting access to procedures based on aspects of a patient's health, for example whether they smoke or are obese, which can affect outcomes.[30] A similar survey by the GP magazine Pulse, in July 2015, found that many CCGs were planning to restrict access to routine care in various ways.[31]
In part it's defense against mistakes. You've got a big org, lots of people contributing and your cultural enforcement of the fact everything has to be rounded after every single step falls down. If you're going to create wrappers to automate that part why not just use fixed-precision? There's not really a good reason to use floating point and a few good reasons not to.
It's not a statement of fact that Sweden "rolled over" since Germany didn't invade Norway via Sweden, they came by sea and air: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Weserübung

Whether or not Sweden could be considered neutral is a different matter, but there's certainly no "rolling over" if you're never part of the operation in the first place.
MVC, the way it’s implemented in UIKit, leads to code that is very difficult to test, mixes business logic and view layout and navigation, and leads to massive view controllers. You have to be very careful to avoid it.
Regardless of article’s accuracy in results, this trend I did not see coming 10 years ago.

Given the popularity of ebooks and internet, I thought libraries will slowly go down. This is fantastic!
This is fascinating to this very-much-a-math-beginner person.

It's like a glimpse into another dimension.
Apple seems to be particularly bad for this, I was going through some of their videos recently and everything assumed prior knowledge. It's the same for much of the documentation.

As much as I criticise Microsoft at least they have stuff like this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/learnwin32/le...
>What languages and tools does Oil aim to "replace"?
>bash, awk, make, Python 2

What will in fact happen: It says here on your resume that you know bash, awk, make, and python 2, but do you know Oil as well?
sure, good luck
That JavaScript (and prior to that, Java) would work for mobile, one platform to rule them all.

Work = looks and feels native, good performance, good widget collection, development that doesn't fight the platform, and all those available not 10 years after the platform was introduced.
Why is people downvoting me? I don't think what I wrote deserves downvotes
You can easily see the difference between 1080p and higher resolutions even on 13 inch laptops.
> that 5% margin doesn't include their salaries.

This is something that often seems lost in this discussion.

The profit margin is usually after the owners themselves have taken a salary. If they are paying for themselves appropriately, and the margin is 0%, this is often described as "making no money".

What's making no money here is the business as an entity, not the owner, despite the frequent rhetorical conflation of the two.

Payout of positive margins, if they exist, are often classified as "profit sharing" in the simplest of businesses, like sole proprietorships. In more complex large businesses, they become dividends or employee bonuses.

Most people can't afford to pay themselves nothing while running a business.
I would bet that 99+% of arrangements of 33 letters
"look random" -- that is, there is no discernible pattern. Despite each arrangement having an equally tiny probability of occurring, if you randomly generate an arrangement, you're all but guaranteed to get something that looks random.

For aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa to appear, it is either an amazing coincidence, or there must be some non-random mechanism that creates it.
They will probably interbreed.
I dont blame James Watt for the exploitation during the Industrial revolution.
> The other buzzword is microservices. I was working a gig that involved running like 10 on a MBP with 16GB of RAM and it froze up the laptop. Java is not a language for micro anything, at least not in regards to memory. Was fun but dreadful to work with more than 3 local services at once. The creators of the framework suggested to mock services, but it was just messy to do that too.

This seems like a strange criticism. It appears that you want a full deployment of the platform on your local machine. But Microservices aren’t optimized to run on your local machine; they’re meant to be deployed to kubernetes/docker swarm/mesosphere.

I’m also no fan of Java but I don’t think it’s the language that is preventing you here? All speculation since I don’t know the details but it sounds suspiciously like the JVM is getting stuck trying to allocate heap during startup (this is just a guess).