skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Maybe it's your upbringing. The hell aspect is a huge part of the enjoyment for me, including Dark Souls. You could try Sekiro, which is by the makers of Dark Souls/Bloodborne, but takes plays in feudal Japan. It is supposed to be amazing.
Anecdata. I can't remember that this happened to me more than like twice, and I've been driving here for 18ish years...
Major countries are led by popular demands. Minor countries as well.

Vast overuse of energy resources is a pattern intertwined with modern life, from housing to transportation to food to recreation. The people demand having a vehicle with more than 100hp at their whim. Now picture a herd of 100 horses for every person on Earth. It is political suicide to propose cutting down to ecological sustainable levels of 1 horse per person. That's before we take in account the population explosion of 5-10-20x compared to pre-industrial levels. Not sure where you even begin implementing policies to reduce the population levels to ecological sustainable levels.

As a species, we are simply incapable to comprehend that the way out of poverty is intelligent frugality. Instead, we attempt to brute force our way. The effort needed to fall back into an ecological sustainable band far surpasses WW2, and no one wants to hear about the actual costs. Nothing will change until mother Nature will do the change for us. The hard way.
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This is why we have democracies, legislation and international treaties.

Trying to solve it on individual goodwill of course helps but is not enough by itself.
Me neither, it was a long time ago.
In my city (Lviv, Ukraine), number of viral pneumonia cases is jumped by 4x since Jan 26, but we have no test kits to confirm kind of virus they caused by. They can be caused by regular influenza, as usual, or they can be caused by corona. Nobody knows yet. :-/
Not sure why you got down voted (feels like some people treat this as reddit), but I think hitting a spacecraft with a missile would probably be easier than reach people in a very deep bunker.
Don't see how, more supply = lower prices.
Read "Secrets of Power Negotating". It's filled with manipulative tactics designed to mislead the other party into thinking "they won". This book was un-ironically recommended at HN startup school like 10 years ago. I forgot the speakers' name though. This made me question the ethics of venture capitalists.
You seem very certain of you conclusions. What makes you so sure of them, as the area we are discussing seems very poorly understood by science at present?
GIGO - The numbers from China are a complete fiction - amazes me how gullible and slow the mainstream media has been to catch onto what has been really going on in China.
Peak Prosperity Videos are quite good at making sense of the sporadic info that does escape the China censors
https://youtu.be/P_3hNPTofEU
Huge crematoriums with 30 ovens each are running 24/7 to deal with the deaths - most estimates from citizen journalists are 10-15X official figures.
Most cases are not tested, they are sent home due to lack of capacity at hospitals also lack of test kits. Subsequent deaths are classified as respiratory complications not 2019-nCov.
Mostly prefab.

I’m more impressed with the 22,000 miles of high-speed rail they built in the last 15 years.

This will pay dividends for ... well, forever.
Because they're made by alarmists who are trying to increase political pressure.
It is also true for nullable columns.
We are both going to get killed with downvotes!

> Hyperloop

He's spreading FUD and trying to undermine any kind of mass transport which could negatively impact Tesla's car.

> self-driving

Not sure what the stupid part is here (maybe I've fallen for it!). His cars have some driving assists which he oversells as auto-pilot (it isn't). Straight up marketing.

> world as a simulation theory

Consolidates his image as a great genius ahead of the curve with a certain segment of the population.
Well, I've been trained in Radiation Protection and I think I understand quite well why the crazy parts are just crazy or too crazily expensive to fund.

On the other hand, Elon presenting some rendering across Jupiter's radiation belts doesn't strike me as an example of understanding anything, to be honest.
Unbelievable that people believe that the Nordic model of capitalism is "socialism". Capitalism with social welfare is not socialism.
There is a big observational campaign happening right now that is trying to get to the heart of this called EUREC4A (main website: http://eurec4a.eu and information sheet: http://eurec4a.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/eurec4a/2019/Press/E...). The key uncertainty between different climate models is whether shallow clouds in the tropics (which in general cool the Earth through radiation) will disappear or not and make our planet even warmer - some models predict this (!)

We are 100s of individuals from more than 30 national and international partner institutions with planes, drones, ships, ground stations and autonomous buoys trying to understand how and why these clouds form, how that links to their environment, dust from Africa, the ocean current, the jetstream aloft, etc. The positions of the different platforms can be seen live on the main website and the data we are producing is appearing on there too.

If you have any questions about what we're doing I'd be very happy to help or point you towards the right people :)
except that age = 0 is valid if your database has toddlers. Hell, even -1 makes sense if you're running a query to get the age of someone at a specific time. this is why you should try to use NULLs whenever possible
Of course it would create opportunity for Linux users, because Linux became the monopoly. All the BeOS people are now out of luck. Your analogy doesn't make sense.
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Idiot that is unable to read spotted.
"Reverse bought by DoubleClick" is the best description of Google's degeneration that I've ever seen.
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How about carbon offsetting your own life and that of your children?
Never, since PHP is fundamentally flawed, and trying to redesign it would make the split between Python 2 and 3 pale in comparison. PHP's main selling point is backwards compatibility and the existing ecosystem; a fundamental redesign would remove that. PHP's name is also mud when it comes to programming language design, and its community is notorious for poor practices, so no one's really clamoring for a more modern PHP.

The bitter truth for PHP stans is that it is what it is, you can get things done, and you can have valid reasons for using it (like legacy reasons, job market, etc.), but it's rightfully trending down and will continue to.
Does depend on the design life ad of course the elephant in the room that is Grenfell.

For non UK people Grenfell was a high rise block of flats where the use of flammable cladding (let alone made with wood) lead to a huge death toll
> If in 40 years, my kids ask me what I did to prevent climate change, I feel like I'll have an answer I'll be proud of.

Doesn't it kind of feel like this is the equivalent of a kid in the 70's asking why their parents didn't stop World War 2? We absolutely need to be as vocal as possible, but as individuals, outside of trying to get people with power to affect the change we need, I don't know what we can expect to accomplish. You just can't do enough diet modifications, carbon footprint reduction, or recycling to have it matter on a global scale.
Every company I've worked at will not allow me to leave my laptop at the office. They all claim it's something about the office not being safe from theft in some way or another. My bet is it's just a lot easier to get people to be constantly connected if they have their work laptop with them at all times.
I wasn't aware, thanks for the tip. Is there any equivalent for sets of values? For example:

SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE my_column NOT IN (5, 6)
i accidentally clicked on the image and it said download is not allowed. So I went to web tools and downloaded the image anyway. I don't even want that image but I hate that feature.
That's not what climate is about. Also, it depends on location, in many places it was colder in 2019 than in 2018. If you're talking about some calculated "global" temperature, it doesn't exist in a valid form.
IUDs and vasectomies encourage the kind of life that uses created things instead of receives them. Which, counterintuitively, will increase the rate of consumption, not reduce it. Family planning is good when it plans to receive, not when it plans to demand.
These are valid points, and it is important to figure out what changes in the model is causing such a dramatic change and scrutinize it more.

> The ability for science to change and adapt is what makes it so strong

To me this article is them _resisting_ change, looking for a reason NOT to accept it, because it goes against what they previously said. Maybe this is all to early, and in a year or so we will be seeing 4 or 4.5 degree predictions, but this article describes them trying to change their inputs to match previous answers, not getting new answers.
Worth noting this is not James Woods, the known actor and hater. This is James Wood, the author and literary critic.
It's comforting to see this post, I noticed that as well.
the next big thing for C++:

- reduce compile time by at least 100000000000000000000x

- shrink stl by at least 100000000000000000000000000x
If everyone gets $2000 per month instead of 0$ per month just for existing, $2000 becomes the new zero. They won't suddenly be able to afford things. Instead, their rent may magically raise by $2000. In the end, scarcity will still exist for lots of things and if you give everyone more money, prices will just adjust.

Also, if you are starving or homeless in a first world country the fault lies with you. There's so many social security in place, you just have to make use of it.
There is a problem and you can't do anything about it. We are way past the point where individual action is going to cut it. You have to vote. No other action is going to have a meaningful impact and you shouldn't pretend otherwise because it makes you feel better about yourself.
It's debatable whether the amount you could get by taxation would be enough. Why would you expect people to be generous enough voluntarily to solve the problem?
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Yes, especially can drivers. They honk at everyone "crossing the road legally at an intersection", they will honk at you.

Everyone seems to think honking will suddenly get traffic moving even though the next three intersections are backed up
We humans have developed one fairly good approach to problem solving by focusing on localized concerns and self-interest. For many problems, this seems to work fairly well with a few negative yet manageable side-effects.

In my opinion, these approaches completely fail at solving large issues that require large orchestrated efforts that require things at state, nation, and even world scale and longer timescales than an individual or their kids.

We haven't really developed a 'hammer' for those sort of problems and that hammer keeps competing with our 'saw' we use on the other problems whose proponents want to only use their 'saw' for every problem they see, ignoring its shortcomings.
> Compared to TETRA, pretty much everything is an upgrade.

You are comparing two different things here AFAICT.

5G is a cell phone standard, and the dedicated frequency range you are referring to is used by something like the (LTE-based) FirstNet.

TETRA is a non-phone based protocol, and it is more comparable to the Public 25 radio system.
> what will the colonists do, move the base in months?

Yes. If you knew that your city would be destroyed in 6 months, you'd build a new one elsewhere.

People on earth don't have that privilege due to not having 6 months notice.
Why the heck are we debating about 1 degree or 2 degrees or whatever. The imperative should be to reduce emisssions as much as possible as soon as possible.
At the risk of reducing the reflectiveness of said land from the rays of the sun and causing an increase in global temperatures.
How is wanting to contain the spread of an exponentially expanding virus racist?

As far as punitive actions against a country, the world is taking a relatively light approach to China especially when one factors in their treatment of the Uyghurs. They have placed an entire ethnic minority into concentration camps for reprogramming. That's racism.
H2 is mainly what I was thinking.
I agree although it takes me time to get back in the zone so I like to block out all interruptions to flow (meetings, whiteboard sessions, etc.). Worst thing is having a meeting every other hour since that just ruins a day for me. I can handle occasional slack messages since they require little concentration to punt. It's part of why I WFH a few days a week and schedule all my meetings early in the week.
This is a common straw man; PHP 5 and 7 made large strides, but that's because there was so much to fix, and there still is and will continue to be, like lack of first class functions, actual modules, etc. PHP is also unsuitable for persistent processes like serving WebSocket.
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Animals have immune systems too. It’s not a phenomenon unique to humans, as Anthropomorphism would suggest.

> they don’t like it

Who? HNers? I don’t care. I think it more that people don’t like seeing themselves as the virus or cancer, when we could easily change our behavior and we wouldn’t be.
Sounds awesome! But,

> community driven platform dedicated to the archiving and long-term preservation of any and all data

> We pay $650/month to cover all of our services ([...]) and are entirely community funded.

This sounds optimistic. What reason is there to think the community will continue the financial support in the long-term?
I don't know if it's a "classic", but I recently picked up a copy of Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catalogue of Modern Software Engineering Paradigms [0] after reading through another HN thread on good software dev books. I haven't cracked it open yet though.

[0] https://books.google.com/books/about/Wicked_Problems_Righteo...
The article does sort of address this for one of the models: "The model run by NCAR, one of American’s main climate-science institutions, started producing unusual data last year while trying to reproduce the recent past. “We got some really strange results,” Gettelman said. The scientists went on to try 300 configurations of rain, pollution, and heat flows—something they can do as gods of their own digital earth—before matching the model to history. But by solving that puzzle, Gettelman’s team sent future projections upward at an unheard-of rate."

Basically, the backtesting failed to match reality for the recent past, they tweaked parameters to get it to fit, and that produced surprisingly high predictions for the future. I don't think that would leave them anything to backtest on, since they'd used effectively all their historical data to fit the model to.
One which can be repaired without expensive trips to the dealership to use proprietary tools.
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Probably because of the precautions taken. It's like the old tale of "Why do we need IT support dept. if your system never breaks down?". Precautions probably helped containing the virus, not the other way around that we don't need to take precautions.
Mars is totally inhospitable to humans in multiple ways. And that's precisely why we should go there! We would have forced leaps in technology, habitation, and most importantly for Earth, terraforming.
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> 5g has a range of 1000 feet in perfect conditions.

This depends on the frequencies used.

Marques ("MKBHD") Brownlee has a good video on this:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmnTAOU44SI
I had dinner with Richard Branson and accidentally wrecked his house
Thanks for sharing! Sounds very similar to Bezos' mentality.
If you have data in the old datum, you just need to transform it to the new one. They provide the tools to do it:

https://www.icsm.gov.au/australian-datums-and-how-move-betwe...

Data providers like Google may have already made the switch, or instead of using the static datums they might use a time-dependent datum where the coordinates change with time.
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Having started my career in spaceflight software engineering, I can 100% confirm this comment is correct.

Having now left the field, working on most other software systems and teams tends to basically be "code-til-it-kinda-works" (despite the paeans to "Agile"). It's been amazing how just applying a little bit of the rigor I developed from earlier on in my career from working on embedded flight systems pays incredible dividends later on.

That said, one should have no illusions that NASA is this wonderful hub of innovation and a model for organizations to emulate. Not at all. Definitely not. But there is something to learn from a track record of consistent success flying computers deep in space.
I don't know how you could have reached that malicious interpretation of why that part was switched off. To go and impugn all of climate science in the basis of a misinterpretation of motivations would indicate that you have internalized the denialists claims and look to seek to justify them.

To point out just how wrong your misinterpretation is, the very next sentence has the "why":

> A new research paper co-authored by Zelinka from the Lawrence Livermore National Lab likewise pointed to the role of virtual clouds in determining the results.

The key phrase being "role of virtual clouds." The motivation wasn't to slavishly reproduce results from the literature, and to even suspect that it completely outside the bounds of reasoned discourse. It comes across as if you are trying your hardest to find something to nitpick, some small phrase that you can misinterpret in order to raise doubts in those who aren't paying close attention.

This is exactly how denialists and propagandists behave.
Am not American, am not old. That entire speech at Rice University gives me goosebumps everytime, it's historic and set in motion events that changed the world forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ateh7hnEnik
Nice, I see what you did there. Or do I?
I'd propose that has more to do with the headlines than any of the actual science. Model tweaking is exactly how a lot of this works - models are supposed to reflect reality, so part of how we explore them is to find out what models fit past (and predict current/future) reality. This is both intuitive, and based on theoretically sound inference (see Approximate Bayesian Computing for an exploration of the connection between simulation and formal inference).
You going to vote out Xi Jinping?
Yeah I think this only works for edge computing (eg <5ms from you). Very interesting space for the future though!
> there is no future event that would make earth as uninhabitable as Mars is today.

Wouldn't that imply if we can make Mars habitable, then we'll be capable of dealing with whatever problems arise here on Earth? Think of it as a nice test run without the immediate fate of humanity's only biosphere at stake.
It would be interesting to find out what motivates people when they are the in the office? There was a fad for presence and virtual office type systems in the past and I have heard that some media companies have a permanent group video conference. For me it's just being around people who are busy at their desks that motivates me.
I think that open offices are great - for my competition. :-)

One advantages of being the "little independent consultant" is that I can control my environment. I think you can reduce a geniuses output by a fair percentage just by adding distractions (like all sitting at the same table as your colleagues).
Its just easier to think about a concrete number.
Yes water vapor specifically has been a big asterisk for a long time.
Sure dang, I'll stop.

I personally found is fascinating that a person from the USSR (famous for propaganda) had the insight and self awareness to say they're very aware that every country is a propaganda machine, though while I was in the US for 5 months last year I met many people who had no idea they're in one too.

I would say the same is true in Australia, and Canada (the other countries I've lived in)

At no point was I trying to say America is crap (like many people assumed) and I tried to say that on two separate occasions, but all the other comments just jumped back to "American isn't as bad as china" (which is unrelated to my insight above).

But yes, I'll stop.
You mean statically, not strongly typed. Strong typing roughly means avoiding implicit type coercion.
It might be just as quick.

But using modern Javascript frameworks makes you completely dependent on Javascript, unless you want to put in some effort to get server side rendering working). And as every good web developer back in 2009 could tell you this is a bad idea as it makes sure the app can never approach the gold standard: to work in every browser (and work better in modern browsers). In fact it is so bad now that we are repeating the IE6 problems even though all major prowser have all the APIs we could only dream of back in 2009.

Here's a secret: I'd say it is still a bad idea to use Javascript application frameworks on most web sites, and possibly many web apps but it is really nice for consultants, training providers and developers who need job security ;-)

As a full stack developer and a consultant who care about the web and about my clients there are times when I can recommend frontend applications but mostly I just hold my nose, accept what sales have agreed with the customer and try to make the problems as small as possible ;-)
No, the Earth after nuclear winter or just about any disaster is still more hospitable than Mars. I still would like to live to see Mars colonized.
Fractional investment in real estate is an REIT, and is widely available.
Any task that is a rote, skill-less application of a list of procedures. Success in that case is a binary "did you do the thing", not "how well you did the thing".
What is Epic's offer?
Can't fall behind on the mineshaft gap.
For typical cataclysms, Earth is still a hell of lot more survivable than anywhere on Mars.

But for a really big one, the only solution is to be somewhere else when it happens.

A Mars colony is a first step.
FWIW, sudo uses Mercurial, not git.

https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo is just a mirror.
I am like you. And you and me both will be on the wrong side of history anyway, simply because we have children. It's the singles that are doing more for climate change than all those people with kids combined.
yes, disconnected from reality, unlike the people that think that we are ever going to go to Mars.
The average end user, or even a technical user paying half-assed attention, is not going to pick up on, or care, about those nuances.

We're nerds on a tech nerd forum, so we care. But HN isn't a good reflection of society, or even STEM.