skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It goes deeper than that. If you can tweak your new model to correspond to an older one for which you have results available, you must run tests in which you apply these tweaks and verify that you get the same results. If you get different results, one of the models simply isn't doing what you think it's doing and you need to understand that. And in the vast majority of cases, it's likely a mistake in a model, not any kind of new science.

One pretty general debugging/analysis strategy for a complex model is to deactivate it piece by piece until you get it to a point where it should reproduce a result that you can verify by other, independent means. E.g. tweak the parameters of the model so that reproduces a result that is known analytically. For instance, whenever it is possible in a model, a good sanity check is to set parameters that must lead to e.g. a perfect conservation of certain quantities.
I was thinking of the same data, I guess it's not quite as clear as I thought, but the majority are overestimating the warming: https://www.carbonbrief.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Scree...
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Why do you want to a horde of “non-professional[s] with a pair of eyes and a smartphone” to contribute if literally hundreds of professionals with high-end equipment, meteorological observation satellites, and oodles of computational firepower are already on the task?

The main problem has never been a lack of science, the problem has always been (and alas, continues to be) a lack of political wherewithal to actually rapidly implement the drastic steps necessary to avoid the worst outcomes.

Maybe we’re finally getting what we collectively deserve?
That's very scary! Very unlikely to be a coincidence.
> Making public transit a reasonable option for most personal transportation in the US would be a public works project on the scale of the New Deal.

I don't agree. Most large-ish cities already have quite good public transportation networks, but outside of a couple special places like NYC, Chicago, and maybe SF, they're not the default option. If the demand is there, adding more bus routes and increasing frequency is trivial. Adding more rail and subway lines is definitely a major task, but we spend more on garbage like the TSA and the F-35 than we do on increasing public transit options; it's hardly a task on the order of the New Deal.

My overall point is individual action is a major factor in transit emissions, which is a major source of carbon, and thus individual action does have an impact on our climate change future. The fact that individual action alone isn't enough to fix the problem isn't an excuse for individuals to avoid making choices to lower their emissions.

> Perhaps more importantly, cutting US emissions by 10% is very nearly inconsequential unless it is part of a coordinated effort that is driving global emissions down by significantly more than 10%.

I don't agree at all that decreasing US emissions by 10% is inconsequential[1], but yes, of course, it is not enough. I already agreed with you that individual action is not enough. But it is significant. I'm trying to back up that assertion with numbers.

[1] Ten percent of US emissions is about 1.37% of global emissions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
I wonder if the overbuilding of airports during this era directly led to affordable air travel in our current time?
Sadly, no, this does not avoid or stop tin whiskers at all. The general technique you are referring to us called “conformal coating”. It can help a bit but it does not stop growth. Also, at that scale the whiskers are super strong and easily puncture right through the coating.

This is a deceptively complex topic (as I learned over the years). For example, a whisker that does not penetrate the coating will either buckle and curl-up under the film or grow laterally under it. With fine pitch components having pin-to-pin gaps in the range of 0.25 mm, a short between pins can happen in just a few weeks.

Conformal coating is useful for other reasons, but, ultimately, it isn’t a solution for tin whiskers.

Back in the day I even looked into using specially formulated epoxy encasement. What starts happening there is that the coefficient of thermal expansion differential between The epoxy, board and components can cause all kinds of failures...and it still does not stop tin whisker growth or buckling.
This viewpoint? Listen, I've had the misfortune to work in a non-enhanced (Jensen & Wirth-ish) Pascal, and what this article says is true. And it's true that the problems describe get in your way, sometimes annoyingly, and sometimes really badly.

The damage to Pascal was from Pascal, not this paper or the viewpoint it represents.

(I'm not going to defend JS, though...)
> Deploying military to Mars is as likely as deploying military to the Antarctic.

Nobody is suggesting we colonise the Antarctic, because there's nothing much (of current economic value) there. There are a handful of people there to study it and they need a constant supply of resources to sustain them. If that was the point of going to Mars, then you'd really have to question what can be achieved there that warrants such massive cost, especially if any part of that cost is government funded.

Now, if we contrast that with the Arctic, the first sign of a melting ice cap and there's military posturing over who is going to exploit the natural resources being exposed there.
In context, this explains a big of the reason why they need changes, which are now in place: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonobacon/2020/01/31/jim-whiteh...
How are exports from china impacted by this?

For example most products on Amazon are coming from China. How is it not impacted?
Pointing at GDP over and over again is at a best a fuzzy indicator of overall well-being, especially in the developed world where inequality has unmoored it from improvement in material standards for many people. Amazon stock prices skyrocketing tells you little about the health or well-being of their workforce.
Could you expand what do you mean by "ChromiumOS vibe" (ELI5)? Do you look for a i3 inside GNOME Shell?

PaperWM[0] is an example of a tiled scrolling (window) manager based on GNOME SDK (Mutter) that runs in GNOME session.

[0]: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
Yes.

Anecdote: I was doing my periodic visit with my grandmother, where I tend to any overdue computer/software maintenance, resolve any questions she has, install new things if needed (i.e. someone got her a printer which she likes to use for printing photos, but it was still in the box.)

As we were going through some things, she didn't know her password for everything; she had a notebook, but it wasn't organized enough. Eventually we figured out or reset each password as needed. (She only has a few total!)

Part of me wanted to utilize a password manager; after all we could use some proper long, randomly generated ones! But I was there on the fence of... what happens when she's stuck and I'm not sitting next to her to help?

To be sure, I have about a billion online accounts. I use unique email addresses and passwords (and a password manager) so I don't really hesitate to create accounts that aren't asking me for any real information about me. And along with that, I come upon the edge cases where if you're using Firefox for Android and Bitwarden, the web site some how goes out of its way to ensure that I will end up having to type in a super complex password (or close my browser tab and walk away). My grandmother almost certainly won't hit those same edges cases. She's got email and one social media account and that's just about it. And she'll need to write down that one mega password for the password manager, and learn some new things.

So I'm not sure if it's right for her. Definitely a consideration, though, and to your point, sometimes I get angry and wish there were consequences for the companies that work so hard to break things like password managers on their web sites and in their software!
I'm gonna take the risk of being extremely unpopular and I'll say that Musk is completely overrated.

I think he's nowhere near the level of people that we usually think of as geniuses. In certain ways he's good at marketing and hyping things up, but a lot of his ideas, especially the Mars one, are nonsensical.

Just try to think about this: how bad do the conditions on Earth have to get before it makes sense to try to move to a planet that is essentially uninhabitable? Where even in the best scenarios we would live really harsh lives after a long and dangerous voyage.
It seems people do take a variation of this bet quite often; they keep moving to and investing in coastal cities and regions.
It's interesting to talk about what "IBM" has been doing, because after all the A&M IBM has done this last decade, they've actually got plenty of "activity" to their name. Just, activity that was previously known under the names of Softlayer, Cognos, Redhat...

Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... and sort the table there by value, descending. "IBM" is a shorthand for more (un-dissolved!) subsidiaries at this point than GE or Samsung.

IBM itself is just a consulting "solution provider" company that provides "solutions" in terms of the products and services of its subsidiaries. They're never going to look like they're on the cutting edge of some space, unless that's what one of their (equally-stodgy) enterprise clients wants to pay them to do. (And even then, why build when you can buy? IMHO IBM would only ever build a new technology at this point if there was no existing company out there in the market, with that tech IP, that they could just acquire.)

Certainly, there's the Watson AI lab, though I don't think anyone's expecting much of it at this point; nor, importantly, was anyone inside IBM ever expecting much of it. Watson (the lab specifically, not the brand strategy of calling all their cloud OLAP SaaS products "Watson") is more a nod to their clients to say "of course we're looking into AI", and a pool of people competent enough that they could clone the existing ML approach of one of their competitors if one of their clients demanded it.

IBM could be a really innovative company if they rearranged their talent pool, certainly. But innovation—getting ahead of the market and so needing to educate the market on the problem their products solve—hasn't been IBM's business model since the 1950s. IBM makes money by listening to clients' "unique" needs, and then meeting them with "custom" solutions at low CapEx cost, by using an ever-larger flywheel of existing solutions pre-tuned to almost fit every possible business use-case.
I know negotiation is like a sport in some cultures, but I find it needlessly antagonizing. I'd rather pay extra to just not deal with it, and find other means of getting said product/service in the future.

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My rule of thumb is: if it is the type of error that I want a stacktrace for: use an exception. For example: programming errors, unhandled cases etc.

If it is an error that I want to handle explicitly, for example by showing a nice user message: use a result type. It is okay to use combinators in this case, but use them wisely.
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Well, that delays things from the infection point. But doesn't change anything from the point where people notice they are sick.

Anyway, this is a disease that spreads very widely very quickly. We are arguing about the known numbers when the most likely scenario is that it is already everywhere but not reported, so the known numbers are only noise.
> You're literally talking about Musk like he's a god or something.

There's absolutely the risk, probably already too late for some, of getting into hero worship of Musk. We should definitely steer away from that type of erroneous thinking.

If you are playing Kasparov at chess and he appears to have made a beginner blunder so stupid you think him crazy then you are not seeing the full picture. Kasparov makes mistakes and loses matches but never one so serious he could be called "crazy" in the sense that any fool can see the error.

Elon Musk is a regular guy, not some kind of superman: he makes mistakes, has limited understanding, and is often wrong - but never would he commit a blunder so severe as to earn the description: "crazy". Something else is going on if it appears crazy, look closer.
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They are not reticent to make it public, they are publishing papers and are asking for peer review. There is a public newspaper article about it with quotes of the involved scientists. They couldn't be any more transparent about this.

They are not throwing away their findings and they are not burying it. They are working to valdiate/invaldiate them, because they are scientists.
I would go further and say your 'tangent' is the actual issue we should discuss here.
We've solved plenty of problems at scale; think ozone layer depletion being reduced.

The problem with climate change is that it is really expensive to fix with highly uncertain costs to do so.
> if previous people like you have played hardball with them in the past you might be starting out from a far worse perspective

Yep, this is an excellent point. The interaction doesn't quite take place in isolation: it's in a societal environment, and your actions can return to you through that network in some form.
Well, having driven on France on holidays, the problem seems to be with the driving culture. The roundabouts are very busy, and likely as a result drivers dart out in the shortest possible gaps in traffic. If you decide to play it safe, then the backed up traffic behind you starts honking at you, increasing the pressure and pushing you to make a bad decision. I found it very stressful indeed! (Perhaps all of France is not like this).
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He's still useful. If, for some reason, you find yourself agreeing with him, you immediately know you're wrong.
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But does it work with the native keyboard when it sees a password field?

Edit: Nevermind. I see it now. I need to explore this. It just that it can’t be 1Password for the reasons mentioned above. Any good alternative that someone can recommend?
I can confirm that.

However, it's probably because there are much more Audi/BWM/Mercedes on German Autobahns than Porsche or Ferrari.
I know a good amount a professionals using it to dig olders builds of software. The Eye is actually better than Microsoft (at least for people without a msdn account) at archiving VS installers, Windows isos, etc.
It sounds to be a PrestoSQL-like solution based on the Postgresql FDW.
Exception != Error

Old Ada programmer here. Example of reading bytes from a file... just keep reading bytes and don’t include logic for checking for EOF. Let the exception handler catch it where the file will be closed. Clean separation of code.

In Ada, every bock can have exception handlers at the bottom. No need for “try” syntax. Very clean.
That's a pretty simplistic explanation. If you look at the details, the magnetosphere is protecting the atmosphere. Take each kind of radiation in turn.

X-Rays: The magnetosphere has no effect

UV: The magnetosphere has no effect

Cosmic rays: While both the Earth's magnetic field and the sun's magnetic deflect some cosmic rays, the Earth's atmosphere is mostly opaque to cosmic rays.

Solar wind/coronal mass ejections: The Earth's magnetic field does block these, but if it wasn't present, the atmosphere would block them (but of course be slowly stripped away in the process)

The fact that the magnetosphere does deflect some particles but isn't what makes life on Earth possible (other than protecting the atmosphere) is made most clear by the ISS being well within the magnetosphere but still receiving hundreds of times the amount on Earth.
We might be steering into an ice age and Co2 induced global warming is the only way for humanity to survive.
Oh, PHP definitely sucked before 5.
Why wouldn't it? The people who care about a resume gap is HR, and the people you work with are not those people. The daily people you work with don't care what your past is, it's only HR that has a negative opinion of job gaps on hire-ability.
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And who builds those models, people probably have a hidden agenda, because everyone has one.
It's not a lie (providing care for yourself), and your potential employer has no right to additional information as it relates to your medical condition and why you needed the time away from employment. Don't disclose what you don't have to. It provides you no benefit, and can only be used against you. Why would you sandbag your employer opportunities (and the ability to support yourself) because of faux moral hazard?

More importantly, why would one feel an employer is entitled to detailed information about this gap? It is none of their business.
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> In any case, it's really cool, even if the collective audience for it is maybe two dozen people.

Out of curiosity, are you part of that audience? And if so, what was your experience playing with it? Is it a good place to get started with APLs or should I look elsewhere?
Well, what other experimental data is there? If these incidents are the only data points, then that's the natural extrapolation, even though it is only weakly supported.
Current estimates (based on official, massively undercounted figures) suggest that 2019-nCoV is both more infectious (higher R_0) and has a higher fatality rate. So not really, no. If your estimate is ~100k infected, don't assume that your number of deaths is the same either.

Consider also that fatality rate depends on demographic and access to healthcare. That second factor is highly dependent on how stressed the health service is. So if you're lucky enough to live somewhere with both high quality healthcare and low infection rate, then your chances of dying will be lower. Not everyone is so lucky. This is why measuring fatality rates outside of China can be misleading as an indicator of what the true fatality rate might be.
My problem with exceptions isn't so much exceptions themselves but the way they're used.

The way I see it, exceptions should only be used for things that are irreconcilable, which most of the time is interpreter errors(e.g. undefined is not a function). In other words, I don't think it's that common that custom exceptions are needed outside of assertions to prevent the developer from doing something stupid. If you aren't using types, raising an exception can be helpful to provide feedback and useful information when data isn't formatted correctly.

Exceptions suck when they're used for problems that aren't actual problems. For example, if a query is made to an API for a record and that record isn't found, the SDK wrapping that API would raise a "Record not found" exception. What the hell? A record not being found is a normal thing! I've seen this kind of thing all over the place, and I recently had to write some application code to work around one of these useless exceptions. They literally tell you nothing and there's no way to solve them without catching/rescuing them. A null value, a plain "error" object, or an error argument in a callback would have been sufficient. If I need an exception to be raised for this kind of thing, I'll do it myself.
You can buy satnavs with that feature: https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/sat-nav/truck-sat-nav/ and of course, many truck rental companies will also rent you such a sat nav.
Python's soft static type rules and extremely flexible variable instantiation unfortunately turns every line of code into a potential runtime error, because the code can't know at compile time if a variable was introduced to the global context that could bind to any given name. Typos are therefore deadly at runtime in Python in a way that they fundamentally aren't in other languages; if you try to write

foo = 0

if foh == 1: # oh no, I misspelled the variable

... many languages (including F#) will fail to compile the program because 'foh is uninitialized.' Python can't know if 'foh' is intended to be a global variable and so will execute the program and only determine while evaluating that line that 'foh' doesn't exist. This is especially insidious in error handling, where the error codepath isn't necessarily exercised; essentially, Python's flexibility implies that if your unit tests don't have 100% line coverage, you can't even know if your program is basically devoid of simple variable typos naming never-existing variables (a check most languages give you for free).

In a language with that feature, a rich ecosystem of exceptions is almost necessary, because every line of code could hide a runtime exception!
Climate models as far back as the 1970s have predicted the temperature changes in the time from then to now -- those are not predictions that are coming from hindsight, but rather predictions where their effects were observed over the last 50 years.

If you are unfamiliar with climate sensitivity, this is a good place to start: https://skepticalscience.com/climate-sensitivity.htm
when i heard that i just assumed 1Pass wants to become a full blown identity provider
They key there is the down part.
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So? Does that make anything kragen said untrue? This is just whataboutism, only on technical rather than political topic.

[Edit: On reflection, you're addressing a different topic. The question the rest of us are talking about is "was Pascal that bad?". And the answer is, "yes".

You want to talk about something else - Pascal vs. C. But in C, you could at least do "#ifdef Compiler_A" to achieve "portability". Yeah, it's not very good portability, but you could get to one source file that would compile with different compilers. For Pascal, so far as I know, you couldn't do even that much.]
Seems like a recipe for bad data and undiscoverable flaws.