skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> other side saying there is a problem and the only solution is X (which is a tragedy of the commons type solution).

You may want to broaden your sources, I can't imagine how you got the impression of "only solution is X."

There are all sorts of mitigation plans, all sorts of energy transition plans. Nobody know what will work in the end, what new unforeseen technologies will be developed, and how the costs will change as industry scales technologies, so there's a huge variety.

If your X == "stop emitting greenhouse gasses," well, there's tons of ways to do that. Many of which will massively increase economic productivity.

There are occasional large reports that spell out various routes to stop emitting GHG. There are resources like Project Drawdown that investigate these potential of a hundred different climate interventions. There are focused news media like GreenTech Media that focus on technology interventions. There are an abundance of governmental reports on ways to meet our climate goals, on all sorts of particulars, for example I was reading a great one last night about electricity of buildings in California or using renewable natural gas [1].

There's soooo many books, forums, advocacy groups, policy wonks, podcasts, news outlets, etc. focused on exploring what you say you want to hear. So many that it's hard to even suggest a starting point. Imagine if somebody said "I'd be interested in hearing more about computers and the internet," how would you start pointing them to the general resources for something so broad?

[1] https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/2019publications/CEC-500-2019-055/...
As a physics major myself, I'm a huge fan or Eric's work and his new podcast. I think his critic of mainstream string theory and the general malaise of theoretical physics dept globally is spot on. String theory is a dead theory in denial of its failings and lack of experimental evidence for 30 years now. The podcast he did with his "arch nemesis" who had a similar but competing theory was excellent. It shows he is not living in bubble.
> Sure they can. Who is designing and building and installing all that automation?

The work of designing, building, and installing remains constrained to the limits of human productivity. The only way to make those jobs more productive is to use tools, and, like always, those who control the tools are those who reap the additional spoils.
Building a new business model for news – and learning from the music industry
This makes sense when comparing the instruction set to the logic circuit of the 74181! So many seemingly complex instructions for such a simple circuit :). Thank you for pointing this out!
It depends on what you're trying to do. If you want to get stuff done now then just get an Nvidia card and write CUDA. The tools and knowledge community are vastly ahead of other approaches.

If you're doing image-like stuff, Halide is good, there's lots of stuff shipping on it.

One other project I'd add is emu, which is built on wgpu. I think that's closest to the future I have in mind, but still in early stages.

https://github.com/calebwin/emu
This. It is discovered in the same sense that humans "discover" facts about humans via science- we're not born with perfect self-knowledge.

It is "created" because there is no guarantee that our efforts correspond to reality. In that sense we are just playing in the sandbox of what we can conceive.

The fact that mathematics corresponds so "unreasonably" to objective reality is because what we call objective reality is mediated by our brain's own idiosyncrasies and limitations of thinking.

It's no more surprising that external objective reality is mathematically predictable and describable than it is that our eyes can see shapes and some, but not all, light. That's the purpose of eyes and they tell us enough of what we need to know that we can survive.

Our brains are exactly the same thing- they tell us a story in a way which helps us to survive. Actual reality may be beyond our capacity to conceive of or worse, may seem like nonsense to us because it's aggressively illogical or specifically contradictory and reality therefore makes no "sense" to us.
> He still plays the victim every once in a while.

Try continuously. Every problem is someone else's fault, and every success is solely because of him.
While that's a false comparison (there aren't lots of people trying to support their families by becoming my friend), bubbles are very real. Communities tend to be racially segregated and that leads to prejudice and discrimination.

Please be a little more receptive to stuff like this. Racism and sexism are social ills that affect the majority of people. It's worth your time to having a passing understanding of the major concepts.
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It sounds to me like you are giving special precedence to "numbers" in your considerations, as well as drawing your intuition for "square" from working with the integers or the reals. A square is just the result of a binary (product) operation where both of the operands are equal. The operation can be defined on an algebraic object with much richer structure than the integers or reals, and the operation itself can be much more complex than, say, integer multiplication. So the geometric product of geometric algebra is just one animal in the zoo of examples. You might call the specifics of the geometric product operation an "invention," but not because the square of a non-number can be a number.
the whole CDC mask recommendation fiasco only adds fuel to the fire here. how do you explain to these people "yes, the CDC just mislead you, but you should really trust the vaccine recommendation"?
> Whatever the reason, woot! Less is more.

Agreed, I'm sick of the russian nesting dolls game with amazon boxes
> “float” and “normal” (what?) aren’t layout modes.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Layout_mode

> the rest didn’t exist in css until relatively recently.

Out of the 7 layout modes, only the last two came into existence recently. The point is, when CSS was being designed as a declarative, domain
specific programming language, it was designed to handle EVERYTHING to do with how things appear on a browser. Even when you specify styles
using JS or directly in HTML, those are simple handed over to the browsers CSS engine. The HTML engine deals with markup, while the JS engine
deals with behavior. If you want to talk directly and powerfully to the CSS engine, use CSS. That what it was designed to handle: everything
to do with what you SEE in a browsers screen.

> position: relative exists, yes, but it doesn’t do what you say it does. - it sets the top, left, bottom and right properties to be relative its own natural position.

If I want to position elements absolutely within a container element, one way is to have the container "position: relative" and the child elements
"position: absolute". The same effect can be achieved via flex or grid layouts.

> it’s use for layout was an abuse and not what it was designed for.

I am honestly flabbergasted by this assertion. The layout of something is part of its style. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_design_elements_and_pri...
CSS was designed to handle all that. Layout is all about shape, space and form.

> CSS wasn’t designed for layout and it just isn’t very good at it, especially if you compare it to say, cocoa autolayout, or the flexbox model in UI frameworks that were designed to do this stuff at the start instead of having it awkwardly bolted on.

Whenever anyone dumps on CSS, HTML and JS, I simply remind them that they run the web, and the web is the most successful, open, flexible and
used platform in existence. CSS is doing exactly what it was designed to do, and will outlive and outperform all those UI frameworks as it breaks
out of the browser into desktop and mobile app space.
None of this is actually true. Rain patterns are driven by ocean currents. And oceans are driven my Multi-decadal oscillations. Shifts in rain patterns due to these oscillations have always occurred.
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> Not sure how you can care about protecting the environment while explicitly ignoring investigation into what’s harming the environment?

Can you point to where I advocated for this? I was just pointing out that the groups that have chosen to attempt to monopolise environmental issues for themselves might deserve scrutiny. Remove these groups with ulterior motives - who in any case have proven themselves not particularly effective - and we might get closer to a more grown up debate. Isn't it funny how they choose to hammer rich, liberal democracies that are doing the most for climate change, whilst conveniently avoiding protest in countries where they might get beaten up/thrown in jail?

> Unless you believe human activity is not driving climate change, then of course environmentalism is linked to anti-globalization sentiment.

Well there's another contradiction for you then: anti-globalization/pro migration.
Ask HN: How To Do Research?
I came across this fascinated research report on Covid this morning https://project-evidence.github.io/.

This poses the question on what are some of the resources that shows or teaches one how to do a deliberate and thorough research?

I have found one How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab? http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41487/AI_WP_316.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y

Are there any other good resources like this one?
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No, that's not right. Latin has a separate copula --- sum, est, and so on. What gives Latin its terseness is that it supports dropping words implied by context (like the copula in many contexts) and that it's highly inflected, allowing single words to communicate grammatical information that we need word spam to spell out in English.
Unless you want to grow plants that fare better in colder climates. Just cover them over in the middle of summer and make sure they have some sort of cool air flow through the trenches.
I believe it was meant in proportion to the size of email vs IRC.

> Sorry to say but

Please just drop that prefix.
Agreed.

The example included was to show HA for any CMS/dynamic application. You could easily sub in Wordpress for just about anything. It accounts as an example and not a complete recommended solution, though it could be one depending on your needs. But because it comes from QuinnyPig it gets more Internet points.
> I find it very curious that it isn't constantly mentioned when explaining Boyer-Moore

Papers need "superseded by ..." type forward references, like IETF RFC's. Or rather "corrected by", in this case.

Maybe important algorithms need to be summarized in RFC-like documents.
Using syzkaller to detect programming bugs in the Linux kernel
Closing china internally while allowing outgoing international flights, and somehow convincing WHO to pressure outside world away from closing borders was intentional.
The difference is that there are sometimes no real alternatives to doing memory management by hand - which means there are prople that are really really really good at this.

With sql that's different, every sane sql client library supports some form of prepared statements out of the box and they are really simple to use. There is no reason whatsoever to do this by hand, except for people that don't know better.
Machine learning deserves its own flavor of Continuous Delivery
Great stuff! I'm a ML researcher / engineer in NLP, and I'm curious what sort of speech recognition tools you guys are using? I'm thinking of building really solid SDK's in this space:)
How many Americans have Covid-19?
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There was a similar article shared here a few months ago on Fruit Walls:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-fa...
Well sure, the learning curve is the fun part!
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That's a great idea for slightly more targeted networking! I'll add it to the feature request list!

Thank you :)
How email validation can help your business?
Yes, I am aware of the loyalty older voters have to her and why. I wish they would pay attention to what the impact of her actual decisions are in the present, but I do get it.
"Inside those buckets, Clearview stored copies of its finished Windows, Mac and Android apps, as well as its iOS app, which Apple recently blocked for violating its rules. The storage buckets also contained early, pre-release developer app versions that are typically only for testing, Hussein said."

Smartphone apps for interfacing with a SaaS are now "Clearview AI source code"?
Spoiler alert: the answer is Blockchain according to the post.

Site is running slow, here's an archive: https://archive.is/w1HMt
while it could be covid19, if you didn't have any fever or anything, it's probably more likely to be a mild panic attack. I'm saying this because I had something similar but then was tested negative.

of course, I'm not a doctor, and it could also be covid19.
>I don't want to go back to those prices, but those are the sorts of parameters that impact the domain name market.

The amount of money businesses are willing to spend on branding is large enough that there is no price point that would allow me to both afford renewals on my email server's domain, but doesn't also enable squatting.
Ask HN: Is the Gitlab stylesheet also busted for you?
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Nice that makes more sense!
Super awesome!
I imagine that most of the time, you don't even need to dig giant trenches, though.
Sepp Holzer grows citrus in the freezing alps above ground. Their average temp is 5C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GMXqgQIU9c
Thanks, the answer with some examples was exactly what I was hoping to get answered! Thank you for taking the time to respond.
User Research - What's the best way to deal with loads of qualitative data? There are different approaches but all of them have problems.
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Corruption in centralized entities isn't a question of if - it's a question of when.
Can someone comment on this angle, where zoom traffic was routed through China, not exactly a paragon of openness?
The company is called "Clearview AI". Not "Clearview" source code for AI.

Directly before what you quote:

> The repository contained Clearview’s source code, which could be used to compile and run the apps from scratch. The repository also stored some of the company’s secret keys and credentials, which granted access to Clearview’s cloud storage buckets. Inside those buckets, ...
This planet will always have people who are always not happy with something. And don't get me wrong it positive. Even stupid alarming vaccine campaigns caused better results evaluation. And since this is a liberal society where you can't force people to stay at home even if it will cause death, oh well... this is the only way, someone should die without vaccine first.
Welcome to the Human Zoo: A Poem for Pandemics
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I can't get this to do anything. It suggests choosing an example, but the list of examples is empty.
It's not totally impossible for coal to still form, but the conditions are far, far less favorable: microbes get everywhere and the woody plants have a lot less lignin now than they used to, which also makes them easier to decompose. So, yeah, we're pretty got what we got.

Interestingly, this has happened once before. There's a "coal gap" from about 250-230 million years ago during which little-to-no coal was formed in most places. I'm not sure if anyone is sure why; this is right at the time of the P-Tr extinction, so a lot was happening. One theory is that the ligninaceous plants went extinct or other conditions were much less conductive to coal formation.

(FYI: Not a paleontologist or anything like--just a scientist who liked dinos as a kid and remembered some keywords!)
It's interesting, I started out seriously programming in C++, then took to Smalltalk, Lisp, Io, as exploratory languages, doing more work in ObjC, and eventually Erlang and now Elixir, and I do like the Elixir compromise of some typechecking, though indeed it is a little cumbersome.

Especially doing embedded work, and without doing proper mockups and test driven dev, the turnaround time with uploading code, rebooting the device, and waiting for a runtime error is quite long, and more compile-time error checking could help.

However, I also feel like types are more important to JITs and compilers optimizing high-performance numerical code, and dropping to C to do that with Elixir's FFI is thankfully simple enough.

I'm quite ok with Duck-Typing, as it does help me to iterate fast, even if it doesn't help the computer go fast :)
It’s still commercial.

I was buying the mag because I was happy that the profits went to the researchers in jungles all over the world etc.

I loved the nature and antiquity and exploring stories that used to dominate.

Steadily through the 2000s I found more and more stories that I skipped because they felt political and us-centric.

And then the sale? That was enough.
It depends a lot if it is a voluntary art class, or you are forced to take it. (Or it is the only job you could get, and you are not to interested in it.)
Great technical talk, but an hour long video of one of the more visually appealing techs and not a single demo :(

Demo's like this (https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/) help show people why many small processors can beat a few large ones.
An online post forewarned Taiwan about Covid-19
It depends on what type of research you want to do?
For example, this is very good resource for medical research:
https://rise.articulate.com/share/soW5Pvyk3T4Ib-P4A7gS6AFqyO...
In Earth’s Greatest Extinction, Land Animals Died Off Long Before Marine Life
Yes, why not
People don't vote on causes. Majority of people wanting something does not mean it can pass at all.
That makes sense for GPU-compute-in-the-cloud applications where you can pick the hardware and don't care if other hardware doesn't work, but some people want to write programs that use GPGPU that can run on anyone's machine.
This has been my experience, zoom has been flawless while our team has had to go remote.
Well if one would consider numbers and their product "discovered", then my point was that introducing the objects which have the property that they are not numbers but square to numbers seems to me like an invention.

At least if there is to be any meaningful distinction between a discovery and an invention.
Regarding the prompt part, if you switch between different shells, you may prefer to take a look at https://starship.rs/ so you only have to configure your prompt once.
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Some classes of 2D rendering are faster on the CPU, but not all, though.

But even if it is slower, there may be advantages of moving the rendering to the GPU, like leaving the CPU to do other stuff, less power usage overall, more RAM available, etc.
The actual CDC recommendations are here:

https://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/editoria...
Working from home for the past month+, I started using an active learning stool. It's basically a height adjustable stool that wobbles around. It lows me to sit on it, or lean against it. This keeps me from slouching in a chair all day and has done wonders for my posture.

I'll probably request one from work once we return to the office.
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Yea, agreed. I've had tons of problems with Windows, and over the years I ended up using Zoom because it was rock solid compared to the competition[1]. The comparison seems unfair, perhaps too kind to windows[2].

[1]: This was several years ago, competition these days may be more on par with Zoom.
[2]: I imagine windows is becoming more stable these days. Again, my comment may be unfair to modern windows.
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I thought that story had been debunked, the experiment never took place.
You can replicate the issue by doing this:

1) Setup 100-500 sql servers.
2) Artificially increase the amount of time needed to finish connect sequence (> 10 seconds). I have no idea how to do this but it's a likely scenario in my use case of servers on cellular connections.
2) Setup X number of threads to make a connection with TinyTds.
3) Those threads should return immediately but with my testing they did not. Only one connection could be in progress at any given time.
This seems like a hardware issue. If you haven’t tried App Tamer [1], check it out (I’m not affiliated with it in any way).

[1]: https://stclairsoft.com/AppTamer/index.html
Life ain't fair, and it's certainly not a meritocracy.

When you rise to power you can take better care to promote the right people. But according to what "right"? This is not a one dimensional problem.

Then we have the issue of 70% of the population thinking they are of above average competence.

...

That said, if it's a significant issue at your current work place I suggest you start looking for a new, better, place. And highlight the issue. People will get angry, and you might loose your job.
Fair, but how many customers do you serve? The example provided was enterprise level. TBH I would have not chosen Wordpress as the application of choice but the architecture is what would be recommended for an enterprise solution.

Too many people are getting hung up on it being WP. AMZN doesn't care what the application is and has no vested interest (that I'm aware of) in WP.

EDIT: clarity
Why does media numb your mind?
Is "adopting a native font stack" different in some way from simply not using web fonts and doing it the old-fashioned way instead?

Edit: Other than using the magic font names "-apple-system" and "BlinkMacSystemFont" it looks like it's just specifying the Windows, Android and Mac fonts in order. This is not going to use the native system font on other platforms or if the user happens to have Segoe UI installed on Android.
In this case it's leaked or hacked from an email server.
Seems like a silly article. Even if they had feature parity today, very few people would use the replacement because their friends aren't using it, their family aren't using it, the shops they want to buy from aren't using it, the people they meet aren't using it...
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Someone suggested to flood the rhino horn market with horn laced with incredibly toxic substances at nanogram concentrations, eliminate the demand by killing it off.

Others suggested using lab made viruses that are incredibly lethal yet almost no ability to reinfect others (Lowest R0)
Stand more, sit less. Stretch frequently, and do the basic calisthenics: pushups, unweighted squats, crunches, maybe even burpees.

Don't do a bunch of reps, just 5-10 or whatever is comfortable, every couple hours.
> The length of pi is continually increasing, and there doesn't appear to be an end.

Huh? How is this an unsolved problem? It's known that pi is an irrational number, so it doesn't have an "end". We can always compute more digits. Or did you mean something different?
The actual CDC plan is here:

https://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/editoria...

It's not just "full lockdown vs no lockdown".
Perhaps in software sales, why customers didn't choose to buy. It's a lot easier to poll customers on why they chose to buy once they did as you have their contact info.