skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While you worry about the end of the world, the science/tech/engineering community is planning future research into the 30s, 40s, etc. Space flight into the 30s, 40s. Mega construction projects in the 30s, 40s, etc - some of which will last decades. Surely if the world was going to end, these highly intelligent people wouldn't be wasting time and resources on such projects.

I am part of the science/engineering community. I also know oceanographers (personally), a handful of climate scientists (indirectly), several biologists from several fields, physicists, and more. People usually leave this stuff to specialists -- a physicist usually won't delve deep into climate science. Everyone I know that is informed (i.e. that doesn't say "I haven't looked at the climate data and projections") is deeply worried, and the oceanographer and climate scientists I know are the least hopeful (which should be worrying). Engineers generally just assume it's going to be fine for practical purposes -- I know a handful of civil engineers and electrical engineers working on large projects. The electrical engineer is informed on climate change and doesn't know how it will impact the project long term.

Just look at the data. It's the ethical thing to do, at least I believe. If you don't, we're both wasting our times.

Where to start?

I recommend simply reading the wikipedia article in its entirety:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

paying special attention to this section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming#Mitigation

Look at the emission pathway -- it demands massive, immediate action.

Also read this:

https://archive.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg3/ipcc_w...

again pay attention to page 11:

https://archive.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg3/ipcc_w...

again the emission targets. You can see if emissions keep increasing, i.e. pathways RCP6.0 and RCP8.5 are unlikely to keep warming under 3C (see table on page 13) -- likely to go to 4-5C of warming.

Finally, you can see some of the effects here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming

(note that no emission reduction, i.e. RCP>6.0, >3C warming isn't given much attention, given it's quite apocalyptic)

and also here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_and_ecosystems#...

It's anyone's guess what would happen under this scenario, almost certainly mass extinction on ocean and land, the tropics become literally almost uninhabitable, effects on civilization anyone's guess in the range of catastrophe to collapse (imagine all of India and large parts of China trying to migrate).
I tried vimwiki and it's really cool. However I couldn't get to "one step up" because it was so vim-specific and I didn't have access to that on every system I used. As a compromise I decided to lean into editor snippets for personal productivity and automation, since these are available in just about every major editor. The rest of my tools are externalized and called as such from the editor, like pandoc and various little apps and system scripts.
We probably managed to be the 5% a few times but then we came here to settle down as the 95% in our current bracket.
More Women Became VC Partners Than Ever Before in 2019
The part "it's sometimes not one-sided", taken literally and minimally, tells us only that there are some people whose own actions reduce their dignity. Given a sample population of any size, this provides no additional information about the topic under discussion: there are some asinine people everywhere.

What information could the poster have been conveying, then, if not nothing? In context, I think it's clear that the intended update for readers was to raise the possibility that tomrod's indignities were self-inflicted.

It could be that the poster was trying to smear tomrod, or that they were baiting tomrod into responding at length (if so, success!), or that they genuinely didn't consider the implications of their comment, or something else entirely that was too subtle for me to catch. Probably only they will ever know. :)
And you really do believe with all that international scrutiny China would get away with reporting false numbers? Come on.

Also don't know what to make of your last sentence. Cultural differences being negative? What are you talking about?
Psychiatrist struck off for posting 'bizarre' QAnon conspiracy theories
My colleague has been asking me to teach him to code for years now. I decided I would start by teaching him the same way I started - by hand coding HTML. As a result, his website feels like a throwback to the early internet. I’m sharing this in case anyone else has an interest in teaching a friend. The steps I took were:

- I created a simple HTML cheat sheet for him: https://paul.copplest.one/knowledge/programming/html-cheatsh...

- I helped him to sign up to Neocities (it’s free and simple!)

- I spend 1 hour going through the cheat sheet and helping him create a homepage and a blog page, with a link between them

I finished the lesson by setting some homework (to look through bulma and try use it on the site).

I also taught another colleague during the same lesson and they seem to be competing for the best site. This was unintentional but probably good thing.

Hope you enjoy his site!
I bet there are some people in the background who make tons of money through contracts as suppliers . Seems this happens with most big non profits.
Hi person who seems to be me. Try orgmode I started a bit ago and it seems to be an improvement - but things still are getting out of control.
I used notepad++ to record daily work logs and pseudo codes. Low overhead, fast, always work like a charm.
So, today we're learning about 5 infections from a man coming from Singapore (not China) staying there in Contamines-Montjoie from 01/27 to 01/28. So we're now learning about infections from almost 2 weeks ago, almost a week before the last major airlines stopped their regular flight to/from China. And flights from/to Singapore are still going to this day. Makes you wonder how many people slipped through since then ... (sorry for my broken non native English)
The solution is so simple. I like it, I think I may even give it a try. Thanks for sharing.
I would go to the doctors office and get myself checked, if I were in your situation. Let’s hope and pray that you test negative and if not you can take immediate action.
For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

- Matthew 13:12

^-- which should not be interpreted as rich people are "righteous" and poor people are "bad," but rather people tend to worship the rich and abuse the poor.
My local hacker space[1] in Dublin has one, although I haven't had a need to use it, yet.

[1]: https://www.tog.ie/
Absolutely! As I said, I’m officially a member and live in a fairly affluent area. When I was unemployed and going through some tough times, even though I’ve never tithed they extended food aid to me. It was a very humbling experience, and if I didn’t have to believe all the stuff Joseph Smith made up I’d probably be an active Mormon. The ingroup exhortations of beliefs that, charitably, are very unlikely, is something I have a very hard time doing, even though quite honestly my life would be better if I was an active Mormon. I have so much respect for all the work Mormons do, though, and think I’m a better person for having grown up with friends in the church.
Also if he who is first shall be last, then isn't it a pretty conservative choice to be middle class in wealthiness?
You're right, but that doesn't seem to be GP's core point.
The tiresome argument is that "organization I don't like has a lot of money... they should stop having a lot of money!"

There may be a plethora of valid reasons to dislike the organization, but it doesn't follow that they shouldn't have a lot of money unless you think nobody should have a lot of money.

And if that is your argument, you should also consider if that includes the US government. We are talking about organizations in this instance, not people.

What I would prefer to see is at least some honest respect for one's enemies. "They are my enemy, but they at least have the same rights as anyone else."
If you're on the CLI and need to quickly get a file from one machine to another, check out my https://patchbay.pub service. There are now a couple open source implementations that can handle the file sharing case.
Some people might be able to claim coercion because tithing is required to participate in certain ceremonies, but I don't see how that's stealing (forced, against one's will).
What happened to the map? It's been gone for a while now.
I don't believe that. There was a guy who made a Youtube video showing the hundreds and hundreds of daily flights coming and going from China even weeks after the outbreak. He said "there's no quarantine if you have money."

What I am wondering is why no significant outbreak in Indonesia? Philippines? Southeast Asia? India? If it is a pandemic, those countries will be hit hard. I would also expect Rio, Mexico City, to see huge increases in cases before Europe and the US. So far that has not happened.
Declan Hopkins: https://dooskington.com/

His latest Antorum game blogs have been real interesting
Actually, I think a more apropos saying is:

Unless the children were looting their elder's estate before the burial, there's no U-Haul behind a hearse.
A worldwide shutdown of airports for two weeks is out of the question, why exactly? This is a honest question.. Its obviously one of the most potent travel vectors of the virus. When the plague struck, harbours where closed, and gates where manned on both sides. It seems quite logical, to enforce quarantine this way.
Seems like unnecessarily much ass kissing for a simple request.

IMO, "Please x" is a plenty polite way to ask for x in English, and "I am not going to x" is not rude at all

I always fail to understand when people shy away from simplicity in communication.

How long until we replace `wontfix` tags with `I totally would but I already have a thing that day`
ML-Fairness-Gym: A Tool for Exploring Long-Term Impacts of ML Systems
Generally I’m with you but in the case of religion, I think it’s a bad idea to tax one’s belief in God. The key issue here is the state isn’t supreme... just because there is untaxed wealth doesn’t mean it automatically belongs to the government... especially if we believe in separation of church and state.
Personally, I'm assuming this new virus has already gone global, with the scale of the outbreak in most major metropolitan areas a few weeks behind Wuhan. For practical purposes, I'm already lumping this new virus in my mind with the "seasonal flu," variants of which travel around the globe every year, requiring annual shots. It seems that most people who get infected have only mild symptoms.

Consider: Many major cities in China already have infected populations in the hundreds or thousands, and growing: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h... -- these are official, confirmed figures.

See also https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820... for maximum-likelihood estimates of the size of the outbreak as of month-end.
I have used that very version recently from Mobile Safari. Didn’t realize they had mimicked a Java applet, but I remember thinking that it sure looked like one (knowing it couldn’t be because I was on Mobile Safari).
Where do you get those population sizes from? My research shows on the order of 10^18 organisms on earth. And the shortest generation time is on the order of minutes for bacteria. As we go up the complexity scale to higher animals reproduction time drops drastically. If its just a matter of reproduction cycles, bacteria should be more advanced than humans. How does this efficiency jump happen where suddenly we only need a few offspring over the course of decades to outpaced the evolution of much more fecund populations? Additionally, humans should be evolving at a blinding rate with each new generation compared to bacteria. The whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Trolling is somewhat more expensive and risky these days because of the likelihood of IPR and the increased difficulty getting cases venued in EDTX, outside of which you're a lot more likely to get whacked on summary judgment. The only upside if that if you survive re-exam, IPR, and summary judgment, you become a force to be reckoned with. Until then it's not too expensive for a defendant to keep you in a holding pattern.
It’s specific to DPI scaling on 4K monitors :(
A lot of what the Mormon Church teaches is not based on the teachings of Jesus Christ. Mormonism and Christianity are two separate things much like Christianity and Judaism are separate.
Yup. Amazing.
NB to those who would be professors with federal grant funding. Sometimes your documents get FOIA'ed by adversarial parties.
I wonder if it's also fair to say that Intel was living on borrowed performance as it relates to the Spectre style vulnerabilities. IIRC, addressing those vulnerabilities was less impactful for AMD.
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> He said because they are media it may be ok but the average joe and company should not get any ideas of doing the same thing.

That's not the first time I've seen someone claim that a journalist claim is allowed to perform some kind of information processing that's off limits to regular people. These claims are specious and ridiculous. Journalists do not form a distinct class with special privileges, even if they claim to be one.
> try to look over your financials

If this happens it's against church policy. At the end of each year your Bishop asks if you are a full tithe payer or not. They record your answer and that's it.
I met once the group (Austrian, if I recall well). It was a thing back in 2013. Never managed to makerbot it
Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (2014)
As an atheist I love reading these passages.. it is amazing how people in this day and age are trying to find "meanings" from a book full of the stories of one person... who lived 2000+ years ago.. imagine if someone tried to find meaning in Beckhams biography 2000 years from now...
For that price you might as well get a proper laser cutter from glowforge or that Colorado corp whose name escapes me which includes an exhaust plan as well as saftey interlocks.
This has been the repeated topic of conversation among some well-known statisticians on Andrew Gelman’s blog over the years. It’s worth searching his old posts for it
Same, two Google docs (one for year, one for current month).

I just switched to roamresearch.com. I like it a lot.
Stardate 2030: Everyone is now doing Chrome apps, with three major companies sharing the cloud OS resources.

Some old people keep talking about the crazy idea of owning computers and installing OSes.
Every 'developer' thinks their collection of data and user usage is just and moral, and that the users simply don't understand that they will never use them for anything evil.

They're wrong.
Counterpoint, I often enjoy conversing with Europeans because it less often sounds like they are bullshitting and more often they just directly say what they mean, compared to fellow American born folks.
> Can anyone elaborate why it would be considered illegal to scrape data in Switzerland?

Speculation but I think it can be as simple as Art. 4, p. 3 FADP [0]: "Personal data may only be processed for the purpose indicated at the time of collection, that is evident from the circumstances, or that is provided for by law."

When users upload data to Facebook, they don't consent to have that data used by third parties for facial recognition.

[0]: https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19920153/...
L. Ron Hubbard?
ah!

I'll bet dollars that this is the unqualifiable difference between vinyl-analog v. digital; if there are specific mastering constraints, it sounds like e.g. the timbre of certain sounds/instruments would be affected, likely to the benefit of our ears since the sounds most impacted tend to give the harshness that some people complain about with digital presentation.

> The vinyl medium does not “like” a lot of high frequency information — brightness/hotness of certain high frequencies are the most common issue we see on the audio masters we receive. Instruments such as hi-hats, cymbals and tambourines often cause distortion if all high end is allowed to pass through to the cutting lathe. Vocals that contain a lot of “SSSS” sounds (sibilance) will also cause a distorted sound on your master recording if not properly treated.
> The fact that SARS, MERS, and 2019-nCoV all appear to have emerged during November may be significant.

From [1]: The “seasonal” reflects the fact that viruses can’t tolerate high heat and humidity, preferring the cool and dry conditions of winter and spring, Webby said. That’s why flu, as well as the four coronaviruses, are less prevalent in warm, humid months.

1: https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/04/two-scenarios-if-new-cor...
You can get 1TB MicroSD cards now. So entirely possible.
Most people would use a card for the TV, at least in person (online it’s very country dependent; probably card in the UK or Ireland, but could be SEPA, something like SOFORT or various other things in Germany, say). Not necessarily visa/mc; many countries have national networks, which are typically cobrandec with visa/mc.

Car could be SEPA (or equiv in non-Eurozone countries), bank draft, or even cash, though cheque is possibly less likely due to fraud concerns. Some people do it by actually physically going to a bank with the seller, I think (I don’t drive, so have never done his myself).

For in person stuff, where you live plays a role too; only a minority of countries currently have SEPA Instant, though that should change soon. For everyone else, it’s a day or so delay from when you send the payment in the bank app.
Call ahead before you go to a doctor’s office or emergency room. Tell them about your recent travel and your symptoms.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html
Yeah but with a .txt file how am I gonna boast about my productivity on Instagram every 5 minutes, geez.
The same for me, but it's a markdown file (notes.md)
I don't necessarily assume, but I do believe, that consciousness is an artifact of the complex system of our brains, or any thinking-system-with-a-serious-representation-of-itself. I take umbrage with possibly being considered therefore to be "ignoring the hard problem of consciousness."

But more interestingly, I wonder if this has a connection to the recent "internal monologue" meme? Perhaps those of us who don't have much inner speech tend to discount the importance of the consciousness question, and those of us with strong inner speech tend to amplify the importance of consciousness?
Sure, whatever. I’m not saying it’s a bad idea to build long distance transmission lines, I just wanted to write about a different option because I figured the other subthreads on this post adequately covered the transmission line idea.
I think this article is trying to make something out to be more than it actually is. Debt financing is a specific vehicle that can be used tactically for a relatively mature business (Series A area +) with predictable revenue for specific growth I do not see it as this magical solution to the current issues of VC capital because alignment is often really out of wack in the early-stages before established product-market fit with high dilution and higher investor leverage.

In a mature business investors and founders are likely to be more aligned anyway because the founder's model has been working and has some length of history and predictability with regards to forecasting further growth and outcomes.
To put it plainly while you can get screwed in the later stages you're much more likely to get screwed in the early stages of running a company.

With that in mind, one of the main benefits, as stated in the article that the debt investment is not dilutive, is still nice at the later stages but I wouldn't say people should exclusively decide to go with debt based on that reason alone because the largest dilution (and by consequence chance to be screwed) typically happens in the earlier rounds (unless you're getting bailed out) anyway.
Seems similar to Workflowy which I've been using for 6 years and I'm very happy with.
This is very close to what I do, with a few modifications. Biggest difference is that I use Emacs Org-mode (https://orgmode.org/) which automates things like date strings, building a daily agenda, adding due dates, and the monotony of getting your itemized lists properly indented. (and a whole lot more)

Everything lives in my TODO.org file that's mirrored via dropbox between all my devices and on my phone where I use the Beorg app on the iphone (https://beorgapp.com/).

I archive my finished TODO items at the end of the year. Taking the opportunity to delete (mark CANCELED) things that no longer need doing and carrying over any TODO items that still need getting done.
tl;dr former Slack director of product outlines twelve principles for a/b type experiments with features, products, whatever. (ex Good experiments involve analyzing the results as opposed to 'ship/kill?') Each principle has a couple of sentences of elaboration and calls out the opposite style to avoid.
Actions speak louder than words.
It's like playing Russian roulette with thousands to millions of lives in the name of what's in your name: filthy lucre. If it gets much worse, there's a real risk it might not be stoppable and then this phony-omniscience "risk management"/emergency triage will have failed to contain it. I don't think it will be anywhere nearly as bad as 1968, but that's a relative benchmark and would be an equivocation if used to defer action.
I believe actually there was EU regulation that forced this...

When Monzo made EU withdrawals completely free (again), they said

> After a change in EU regulation on cross-border payments we've decided to remove ATM fees and limits for countries in the European Economic Area (EEA). This means in all EU countries (and a few more) your cash withdrawals are now free! You can see the full list of countries here.
Active Learning and Why All Data Is Not Created Equal
Completely disagree as a native English speaker. "Please do foo" is polite. "Please pickup milk after work", "Please forgive me", "Please create a SSL cert for your website".

Tangentially: Same thing happens in code reviews. People become extra soft at objective reasoning!!! The onus is on the offendee, not the offender. Stop being offended so much all the time, you'll live a healthier, happier life. Special treatment, feeling of being entitled for politeness is a slipper slope where everyone is being nice to each other and no one can criticize. Nothing gets done. We don't make progress together like this.

Advice to the sender: Be polite, but assertive. Don't make personal attacks.

Advice to the receiver: Assume good intentions, focus on problem at the hand, accept harsh criticism, don't be offended at little things.

The world would be a better place.
Personally I'm not afraid of the sanitary aspect of this virus. I don't think the mortality is extremely alarming per se. What I'm afraid of is the emotional population reaction and the practical impact on daily services fueled by FUD and sensationalist media coverage. Schools closing unnecessarily forcing many working people to stay home to babysit their kids. Teachers/Drivers/Cashiers going on strike to avoid risks while there is a now globally confirmed shortage of face masks (which might or might not be very useful anyway but it will keep people working if they feel it helps). It's virtually impossible to find a useless face mask where I am in the EU (at a normal non 10x inflated price from opportunistic vendors) and even less possible to find a useful one (N95/FFP2/FFP3 rating). Interesting times for sure.
This is true of virtually every religion under the Christian umbrella.