skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd disagree that there is a contradiction between consumers caring about energy, and the author's view that a carbon price is a key tool for carbon reduction. They are two very different things. One is end consumers and their monthly bills and the other is business level market economics.

There was a lot of buzz about smart meters for electricity, with some very optimistic thinking that once people saw their daily usage they would reduce that usage. That didn't work, and we agree at least here that most people don't think about the cost of plugging in a phone to charge or doing some cooking, these are essentials for their life and they'll do them anyway.

On an industry level, with trading of carbon credits and guarantees of origin we're seeing significant financial and brand benefits for companies in carbon reduction and policies do have significant effects.

We're seeing another market force affecting company's climate policies, which might end up being more than government policies and carbon trading, which the author hasn't mentioned. Hedge funds, banks and investors are favouring companies with ecological policies, or ceasing to find those with high negative ecological impacts.

These are all very real impacts, being made now, are the speed of implementation looks to be increasing. All based on a massive scientific consensus that anecdotes and minor objections do not outweigh. "figuring out where all the energy is hiding" can happen in parallel, and indeed is, but so far there's are no real world solutions that will deliver the energy we need or reduce our ecological impact in the short & medium terms.
Japan started with a swarm of Chinese visitors during Chinese new year. Hardly an auspicious beginning.
In some ways the app is easy. Capturing what happens is not, especially if there's no immediate incentive to do so. And writing an app in 2020 doesn't tell you want happened in 1660. Then you have to cope with app longevity; most apps deployed in 2020 will be dead by 2030 while the Houses of Parliament will still be there (unless they burn down due to ongoing fire code issues)
SG interiors are ACed to ice age levels though.
> Buying EVs and solar panels make us feel good, but only represents marginal progress while oil subsidies artificially prop up the internal combustion engine and campaign finance laws give incumbent fossil fuel companies undue influence to hamstring the deployment of clean technologies.

Yaaaaass!
If it only delivers .5% of the worlds energy consumption it's still an enormous (and welcome) feat.
I would definitely mention integer division as a massive change in py3 too. In my field, the @ multiplication operator is also useful.
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This strategy is only viable if nobody is blocking you from the tier 2 and especially tier 3 cards either by reserving what you're obviously going for, or shorting the supply of a colour you clearly need - But it works great otherwise.

Splendor has clever subtle player interaction here which I think is a real strong part of its design.
Holy damn this is awesome, thank you so much for this!

for me that's an awesome throwback - over 10 years ago when i started out vjing i actually used Milkdrop a lot in club shows, using WinAmps linein:// plugin for the audio signal and mapping Milkdrops keyboard shortcuts with Bome's MIDI Translator to interact with it on an MPD.

Can't wait to play with that tool!
Plants can do it cheaply, why don't we just let them?
Yeah, having been much more productive in a previous remote position, I had thought that I was always more productive working from home. During a recent remote stint in my current position (which is normally onsite), I realized how much company culture and having a dedicated home office (which I don't have set up now) were a part of my productivity.
Are you going to install ACs in developing countries and pay their electricity bills?
With an added "and that is at the current buildout rate, which basically keeps every qualified person busy". 10x-ing the rate at which we build reactors would require training more personnel and (depending on the type of reactor you want to build) 10x-ing things like the huge machines we need to forge pressure vessels.
- 13.8% are severe, developing severe diseases including pneumonia and shortness of breath.

- 4.7% as critical and can include: respiratory failure, septic shock, and multi-organ failure.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-sympto...
Interesting, it looks like I am out of the loop, haven’t heard about most of these except cruise and aurora. Where do you think Zoox falls on this spectrum?
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Hence having "system/website/app". The system is there to conserve everything and hopefully it will transcend technologies and be easy to migrate the data to whatever comes next.
Both of these questions are irrelevant.
Just FYI, this evening NHK news announced that most museums, theaters, and art galleries are being asked to close. Most events such as Sumo wrestling tournament are also considering closure. PM has asked all large events to be cancelled.

In my city, not on your itinerary, all elementary and junior high schools are being requested to close. All community volunteer oriented events and classes are being cancelled for whole month of March. All government employees are being asked to wear mask. All events in government buildings being asked to close.

Things are moving rapidly since government came back from long weekend.
Yeah, sure. Build as much nuclear as you can reasonably integrate into a grid that primarily runs on renewables. But don't trust in Thorium to somehow fix our problem.
Brave is a wonderful browser on android, the best in my opinion. Ad blocking, plus one click javascript global blocking, and easy enabling for selected sites, make it a joy to use.

Also, since it uses chromium, performance on android is way better than firefox. Android firefox is too slow.
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>I always thought the only way forward with IoT was if it a big tech player offered an SDK / IoT platform that allowed developers to focus on the widgety part of their widget without having to think about the complexities of running an internet connected device.

You would be amazed how many of the big players are doing exactly that. But I shouldn't talk about it any more, I work for one.
Orrrrrrrrrder! (While I go "inspect" the jewels.)

(Too bad, no more Bercow in the HoC; he'll have to say it in lecture halls from now on. :')
How many "well educated adults" can convert 1 in 1000 to 0.1%?

It's not just members of the public who don't understand stats, it's some doctors too.

https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/health_stat...

This quote is from p61 but the whole thing is interesting)

> Note again the great difficulty large parts of the public, like the female veterans, have with translating small frequencies into percentages. Only 25% of the population could correctly convert 1 in 1,000 to 0.1%. Even among the highest education groups, at most 30% could solve this translation task. Lipkus, Samsa, andRimer (2001) even found that only 21% of well-educated adults could answer this question correctly.

You have prostate cancer. It's definitely cancer, this isn't a misdiagnosis.

Do you want the treatment, or do you want to do nothing?

This is a real choice faced by many men, in part because of the over-use of PSA testing.

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/prostate/basic_info/benefits-harm...
"deserve" is an entirely different concept. It implies no help should be given - labelling someone as having a mental illness (or addiction, the same) is the opposite of this.

That said, if someone has no such mental issues, yet a low social score, what else should be done - Who deserves to be exposed to that?

> A lot of people have shitty lives and deserve our help

our help? who's that? The employer who ends up with a violent or maladjusted employee bears the burden themselves - not us.
If Greenpeace only knew the damage they did back in the 80's and 90's... Granted that nuclear power back then was primitive and dangerous.

You are absolutely right. Most of the innovative projects are putting up shop in less developed countries exactly for this reason. Once proven there the regulatory hindrances in the west will disappear because for industrial purposes nothing else will be able to compete.

MSRs can produce thermals in excess of 2000C which is enough for most smelting operations. This will increase efficiency almost twofold. This will mean all smelting operations will move to areas where the technology can be employed. Because of the economic incentives there will be countries with emerging economies (and already are, see Indonesia) that will take advantage.

This will take a decade or two to percolate but the writing is on the wall. Failing to react to it will only make dinos out of the countries unwilling to change.
Being infectious before showing symptoms is quite new. At least I haven’t heard of it before.
By convention the + operator is usually reserved for commutative operations though.
This reminds me of Polish National Library web site. They did the same thing some years ago. They went into great effort to scan and publish digitally huge amount of books, publications, postcards, images, etc. Some books are centuries old. A lot of Polish content but not only. Have to admit, looking at old prints is a magical experience to me.

https://polona.pl/ (change language on the bottom)

Edit: I can see now, both, Smithsonian and National Library of Poland are part of the IIIF Consortium.
I’m not sure Janice is happy about that.
Except, of course, in the example given, the two parents won't share any genetic material (coming from different families originally) and neither will the son and his wife.
The wear patterns of jeans aren’t good forensic evidence
The flu has been around for so long that I would assume we have very reliable estimates of how common it is.
> The circumstances that may end them up with a poor credit score have little to do with how responsible or diligent that person is

How, exactly?
Sure, if you want to call eradication by brutish poaching 'preserving' then go ahead. I call it what it is.

Also, this whataboutism doesn't help anyone.
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You said:

> That schizophrenic meth addict deserves help as much as anyone else does.

Does that not imply op suggested otherwise?
It also shows how much an individual can achieve without big corporate and nowadays "agile" bullshit overhead.
This is a thoughtful comment. Don’t see why it’s getting downvoted.
assumption that ‘add’ is a function of two arguments is wrong if not deliberately misleading
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It is a convention, not a rule, in mathematics to use (+) to represent operations that are commutative (i.e. abelian) groups.

But this convention is not at all respected in programming (e.g. + for string concatenation in many languages) so I have to admit that it's pretty irrelevant.
The “isomorphic” comes in because the same library / API is available in both the browser and in node. So “anything you can prove in [node] is also proved in [the browser]” (in the context of this library).
~100 Mb to wrap less than two Mb of code in a browser runtime... to ship an application that already runs in a browser.

To make a "native" version of an app orders of magnitude larger than the original, because no one bothers to make actual native apps anymore.

This is not the best possible timeline.
For most situations, I actually prefer non-sugared oat milk over almond. Both are more "neutral" compared to soy milk.
I don't remember the figures. There are plenty of videos on Youtube with presentations from the Thorcon team. I think it's 250MW electric, 500MW thermal that the design delivers.
How many of us have phones and laptops with batteries built into them?

Sadly there are no reasonable alternatives. We're funnelled into this mindset/system.
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It sounds like they made the behaviour imitate that of a bad scientific calculator.

I've not used a physical for some years, but even then the Casio ones had a backspace, and had apparently done so for a good few generations.
The nice thing about Capybara and other "in stack" tools is you have tight integration with the database, so setting up test data and resetting it is easy. And for the tests that don't require JavaScript, the tests can still be made to run quite fast.
You don't learn by putting information into your head, you learn by retrieving information from your head.
Thorcon is using 20% enriched U-235. Their design can accomodate the Thorium fuel cycle in the future but for now it's mostly repurposed nuclear wastes.
A single cruise ship is about as well defined as targets can get. It’s pretty damn hard to blame anyone else for completely screwing that up.
OK, but for operators that are both left- and right-associative, this notation (variable number of arguments) is already used, e.g. in LISP, right?
Here is a link that helps me think about it: https://www.alanwatts.org/3-3-10-gateless-gate/ (I teach Math and a common complaint, against all math teachers, is "They obviously know the material but they cannot teach it." When I first heard AW talk about this it was a relevation for me because it so closely linked with my experience. You say to people "A vector space is a place for linear combinations to happen" and they don't get it, of course they don't get it, I wouldn't have gotten it, but that's what a vector space is. So you have to do lots of examples, and work around the edges, and somehow sit with it for a while. Anyway, I find that for me this link conveys the point of that quote about monads.)
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Now the size of an ecosystem might be a valid reason to consider something vaporware, rather than an arbitrary choice of programming language.

Although if anything iOS proves you can build a billion dollar software ecosystem on a niche language: Objective-C.

Also, are you always this rude or is it just internet comments that you disagree with? Not only does this site have guideline, the people you are writing to are people, like you, not just pixels on a screen.
I would have expected to see Russia reporting more than two cases given the travel between the two countries.
Why? In math, that's actually how operators are defined.
Yes, radical Hinduism is more dangerous.

Radical Islam is on the wane...hit its peak with Osama, ISIS etc. Even an idiot like Muhammed Bin Salman helps to defeat radical Islam (if not he will be gone.)

What remains is Iran led Shia groups. They are not as vicious as Sunni groups financed by Saudis.

Radical Hinduism is what you see in India right now. And the biggest enablers are the suit-boot wearing Hindu upper castes in USA, the original inventors of bigotry and racism.
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That's an interesting observation since when I were in Tokyo at peace time, many people did wear masks. It's also important to remember that basic sanitary and hygiene are also important which I'd like to believe that the Japanese are better than probably the rest of the world.

The difference is that maybe South Korea is in "panic mode" and Japan is yet to get there. They are less than half of Japan population and had 10 times more new cases in the last 24 hours.
Here's a quick test...you can do it yourself...

The same criteria you use to identify a "white nationalist", use that to find among your upper caste Hindu software counterparts and poke them on minority rights, Islamophobia and so on. They are the inventors of bigotry and racism through their caste system.

Learn for yourself. And as they say, the truth will set you free.
Chernobyl comes to mind as another example of this.
It's suppose to be an educational tool - bioinformatics is more than writing programs to add up numbers it's about understanding the science behind it.

So I didn't like the question because it treated the problem as a simple 'write a program to add up a list of numbers, based on a lookup table',rather than address the real science issues around protein mass.
( Here the real challenges actually come from post-translational modifications - which makes mass matching a very hard problem indeed - with lots of challenges for anyone in computer science )
> When it comes to authority and how people comply with the rules, France and Germany are more different than China and the US.

How so?
That seems like an important distinction to make for observation, I mean if you want to write a paper about what's going on, lumping these things together may be very misleading.

It's indeed a bit delicate for governments to make different rules based on size, but many do, there are lots of rules you don't have to follow until you have 50 employees, etc, in many countries. They don't exactly bulldoze you at 51, but they do incentivize staying under this.

But the size of the gap just sounds just crazy here, "labour laws ... retail workers must earn at least R3,701 per month" compared to "earning as little as R400 ... per month" -- call it a factor 40 between the legal minimum wage, and the going wage which provides these (useful, even essential) services. That's a big gap to bridge!
Couldn't agree more; to me, communication between microservices should be async most of the times, as otherwise availability of services is impacted by those of others.

This raises the question how services can update their own state (database) and send messages to other services e.g. via Kafka, without relying on distributed transactions. I found the outbox pattern comes in handy for that: services write messages into an "outbox" table within their own database, thus not relying on availability of any other resources besides that database. From the outbox table, events are propagated to receivers asynchronously. There's different ways for implementing this, most efficiently via change data capture (CDC) on the outbox table.

We support this pattern in Debezium (see https://debezium.io/blog/2019/02/19/reliable-microservices-d...) with a routing component and now also an extension for the Quarkus framework (Java stack for implementing cloud-native microservices with JVM and GraalVM).

Feedback on all this would be very welcomed. Outbox to me hits the sweet spot between not relying on availability of any other services, giving instant read-your-own-write semantics for services (as opposed to writing to a queue/commit log first and reading back from there) and putting eventual consistency to communication with other services, where it's typically easy to accept.

Disclaimer: working on Debezium
> Was this written by _the_ Matt Stone?

Yes.
And while we're quite literally waiting for the vaccine to be created. The fewer people get infected the next month or two, the better.
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render history as a gif is quite cool.
Because you’re limiting expressiveness of the function by applying unnecessary restrictions
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> But the truth is, containment does not actually stop the virus. It simply slows it

Isn't slowing it the best we can hope for? I mean, I'd rather the pandemic slowly take its course so that there's maximum chance a ventilator will be available if I need one when I get it in six months time. If everyone gets it on the same day.....
I have written several HTTP-based services in Go. When you only expose an API, net/http is 99% of what you need. There are some useful addons like https://github.com/gorilla, and you'll probably pull in a library for auth.

For services with a web GUI, net/http is not comparable to the likes of Rails or Django. There is a templating library, but it's pretty barebones and you'll have to put quite a lot of boilerplate (or additional libraries) on top to make it work for anything beyond hello-world scale. Also you need libraries for all those secondary concerns that are usually handled on the framework level, like CSRF protection.
We have legislation on vellum going back centuries; it's transcended technology and successfully been copied (I wouldn't say actually 'migrated') to other papers and the gov.uk website.

Which is why GP talks about incentive. What technology is your "system/website/app" going to use? Who's incentivised to update it? Who migrates to something else when you abandon it? How much does all this cost compared to non-digital records, which have almost certainly been kept, but some lost due to a lack of incentive to keep them up to date and safe?
I talked about Hindu bigotry and you counter with "look at Muslims...". This is called "Whataboutery", is there a link on Reddit for that as well?

You and your brethren - the Hindu savarna crowd - invented bigotry and racism through your varna caste system, centuries before a white man came to know about a continent called Africa. And now like the British before you, you have transformed yourself into harmless software programmers wearing a suit and boot. But you are nothing but a cauldron of hate and bigotry.

Living in land where your own rights are protected by US constitution, and then you want exact opposite to minorities in India.
But if the cupholders break, you take the car in and the manufacturer fixes them, no? If they don't fix them you can return the car.
“in Japan if you test positive the hospital gets quarantined losing tons of money” is at least inaccurate, Japan has national healthcare that short-term “sales”/cash strapping don’t matter for hospitals. Economy wise there’s nothing for their corporate to lose OR gain.
I think that's cryptic too for most people, intuitive just for people who are conversant in bitwise operations.
So, it means cross platform.
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The US government implemented no such thing.

It happened under Trump's tenure due to the economics of coal power and wind, despite his campaign promises to prop up coal and the phase out of wind power subsidies.

The reduction isn't even close to the scale of the cuts required to make meaningful progress on climate.

As someone earlier in the thread said, look how much progress has been made under a hostile policy regime. Imagine if there was actually a carbon tax and oil subsidies were transferred to clean tech.
This is clearly not a recommended process. GCP probably does not want a user to check the box and not understand the consequences given how severe they could be.
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> lots of opportunity to work on many different things.

What could you use help with? If a software engineer could invest 2 weeks in producing something useful for your company (including adding a feature to an existing open source project), what would be a list of potential quick projects?
> are within the grasp of anyone above the poverty line

...often supplied with predatory loans.

PS4 Pro, 1TB, Fortnite edition: £799 ($1033 USD) over 108 weeks. https://www.perfecthome.co.uk/detail/index/sArticle/3170
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Hey all, I posted a Show HN over the weekend and it didn't get any votes/comments. This might be because it didn't really interest anyone, maybe because it never got off "new", or possibly a bit from column a and a bit from column b.

At what point is it ok to have another run with the same (or tweaked) Show HN without being rude/spammy?
> I find that absolutely consistently the cleverer a web rich text editing widget tries to be, the worse the experience is

I don't know about this. Google Docs isn't great (I haven't used Paper), but CodeMirror (https://codemirror.net/) is excellent. Performance is flawless. All the platform shortcuts + extra niceties like multiple cursors.