skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coastal erosion is not the same thing as sea level rise.

Sea level rise can’t account for that drastic of a change.
In some ways Mozilla reminds me of the "Public Interest Registry (PIR)" that controls .org. While it may symbolise some high integrity, non-commercial ideals to many people, unbeknownst to them, the people who are actually running the organisation have very different ideas of their own. Money on their minds and minds on their money.
In southern Ontario, Canada, the vast majority of houses are stick-built with complete brick facades on all sides of the house. This is even the case on "cheap" subdivision houses that are 4 feet apart.
You must just use so many QR codes. Clearly you're very familiar with their typical usage and most common use cases. /s
You destroyed the planet by being stupid and lazy.
The average US developer salary is about $110k so you're probably better off making €65k so they're not really much better off. If you have a family it's almost certainly a worse deal in the USA.

There are also places in Germany offering 2-3x that €65k in total comp for comparable roles as you see for the high salaries in the USA. Amazon Berlin, Google Munich etc.
I can only speak for myself but it’s all adding up to America becoming a failed state, it feels like something big is coming soon. The younger generation is inheriting an unrecognizable country and at some point there will be massive unrest.
I'm not sure this is the reason for this specific observation, but one mechanism I've read of was that arctic air is very dry relative to equatorial, and any heating up increases its humidity, and in turn water vapor is a much more intense greenhouse gas than many other things, so it can cause more localized warming, which feeds a cycle. Why it isn't a complete runaway process i don't know, and I may be misremembering the details.
Rents have definitely gone down much more than "just a barely noticeable" amount. Yes, this is anecdotal, but I check studios and 1-bedrooms almost religiously on Craigslist and places in neighborhoods I check are at least 10% cheaper from what I've found compared to last year and there are far more concessions (e.g. free month of rent) than I've ever seen.

I also negotiated my own rent down in my studio after my lease was up. Only 5% but kept my month-to-month.
Haha. Because that's how it's always been done. Even at developmental centers when somebody with completely known mental issues has any behavioral issues that can't be addressed with words the police are used. It's been stupid since the beginning of time and this is probably the first time it's ever been tried to do something different, at least around here. I told them it was absolutely stupid to call the police on clients many years ago and they just couldn't have cared less. It is, at it's heart, an issue of taking responsibility for reality and just acknowledging that the system is wrong and we must spend the money to change the way we treat people. It's never been popular with voters.
It’s surprising how much the future being behind as a metaphor makes sense. You can’t see behind you!

I wonder if there is any other indication of a focus on vision, or seeing in their culture.
The best part of C++ is how even the caveats get caveats. The fun never ends for rules lawyers.
In what world is a virus that is asymptomatic for 99.9% of the population a clear and present danger to our lives?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI-qAxKJoSU

In the video above you will witness a metal wire in a disorderly shape spontaneously form into an organized spring shape when entropy is increased (the wire is heated). There are no special effects or video rewinding trickery here, the phenomenon is very real.

It is as if you were looking at water spontaneously form into ice cubes but entropy is NOT reversing! It is moving forward.

The video is a really good example of entropy. It's good in the sense that if you understand why entropy is increasing when the metal is heated than you truly understand what entropy is... as the video gets rid of the notion of order and disorder all together.

That's right. There are many cases of increasing entropy where the system spontaneously progresses from a greater disorder to more organization.

Many people say that the when some system becomes more organized that means entropy is leaving the local system and increasing overall in the global system. This is not what's happening here. The wire is being heated. Atoms are becoming more organized and less disorderly by virtue of MORE entropy entering the system. If you understand this concept then you truly understand entropy. If not you still don't get it.
The costs of installing and maintaining infrastructure scale down to nothing with population density. Also you can upgrade a switch but not if it's on a satellite. I am very convinced that the two approaches will complement each other in the foreseeable future.
I feel like too many people report 'facts' without experience. I'm reporting experience without 'facts'. Maybe you're right, I just wanted to give a real life account from a low lying area.
But coastal erosion accelerates as sea level rises.
Which is exactly what Matt Cutts and Samantha Fox were saying 20 odd years ago.

Provide genuine value to people making web searches. Google will keep updating their algorithms to make searches result in better results for people.

“Tricks” can sometimes make you rank quickly, but building genuinely valuable content is the best long term strategy. (And I acknowledge that not everybody is looking for long term value from sites they build, which means they shouldn’t follow that advice. If you are trying to rank a site for a one off event, for example, where you really don’t care about search traffic in 12/18/60 months time, your site will end up looking a lot closer to SEO-spam de jour.)
Newcastle is one of the main shipping ports in Australia.

Perhaps the biggest? An island 3k from habitation sounds like a good place to put it.
Nevada. No state taxes. Friendly gun laws. Less BS.

Also - companies that are doing salary "adjustments" because employee wants to move to another location needs to be publicly shamed.
It's obvious but that sounds like heaven for some and hell for others...
Do managers or HR personnel have the ability to dig deeper?
I love this. Definitely the gap needs to close.

Starting with an obvious - people gravitate towards people like themselves - so that means we need more women represented in VC first at the Principal and IC level.

Even if you were able to mask who the founding team is from the initial deck and pitch (similar to how hiring has started), a face to face has to happen at some point. This will keep the same problem perpetuating until that particular group is represented as a decision maker.

The phrase "no taxation without representation" seems apt.
Hacker Newsletter. The best* of Hacker News, delivered once a week. Each newsletter contains a few useful articles that have helped me in work and life.

* not sure how they figure out “best” but the articles are general good.
Not a VC but if I was I would never click a DocSend link. And VCs hold a lot of power — sure they are all chasing deal flow but if they just responded “I don’t click pitch links, send me a PDF” they would get their PDF 99 times out of 100.
You won't change the education issues in the US at the very top of the pyramid. The problems with US education begin at day 1 of kindergarten and the complete balkanization of curriculums both from state to state and often between different school districts in the same state.
I suppose at a minimum I would like to be able to communicate with my family, and if I see / have pictures of something that's very newsworthy, be able to get that to the world outside to be seen.
The feature is called display postscript (DPS), it is basically gone today and was not widespread on Linux, but Adobe maintained a version which they commonly packaged with their products and was a key part of the genesis of the PDF format. These days it is mostly replaced by ghostscript.
Trivia - Orica's history includes Nobel's (the Alfred Nobel) company.

And ICI - Imperial Chemical Industries
WeChat Is a Trap for China’s Diaspora
https://www.slate.com/human-interest/2013/12/mandarin-chines...
I have some conservative relatives and they appear to believe that every government agency should be defunded because only private corporations can create anything of value and that any problems are being caused by some cabal of communists/liberals who are secretly trying to undermine the police, the troops, and the flag, because they don’t have faith in god that America is the greatest country in the world. They have absolute contempt for poor people, immigrants, anyone who isn’t old and white, and see them as a mob of lowlifes and criminals who must be disciplined and controlled for their own good.
We take interns at our shop. Even had a program (pre-covid) where we had high school students doing an internship type program - and I will be hiring them when they finish university (if I can steal them away).

Any work you do as a student will pay off in spades. Very common to start off doing some testing - and it is easy to think it is the Charley work. Look for a place where the developers write tests, not necessarily have dedicated QA staff. Take time to learn whatever language they are developing in. Most folks don't spend the extra time honing skills right away and if you can get one of the senior folks to mentor, it will accelerate your career.
> I'm starting to see that UBI is becoming the "answer"

There's been a social experiment going on here at the moment (Australia) - everyone has had UBI for a while in the form of unemployment for everyone who needs it, and paid at a rate that you can live on.

They're finding it hard to get people to pick fruit and so on - it used to be done by back packers who aren't coming because travel isn't happening. Strangely, no one thinks to pay people more to pick fruit and stop it from being a shitty job, instead they lowered the amount they're paying for unemployment. UBI effectively creates a new minimum wage, there are still a lot of jobs no one wants to do, so techtopia will have to wait a while imho.
>Do you consider getting no major OEM adoption in 5 years “fairly strong?”

'No major OEM adoption' is partly the USP for manufacturers like Pine Phone[1], if they are able to build sustainable business then they would be fine(From the looks of it, it seem they know what they are doing).

[1]https://store.pine64.org/
>Limited public release in 6 to 10 weeks

The degree to which he is willing to let the public test this software is disturbing. Sure, on the highway it may be safer than the average human. But going from any sort of alpha to a public release in 6-10 weeks on something this dangerous is nothing short of insane.
> asymptomatic for 99.9% of the population

Source? I didn’t think it was nearly that high.
Maybe they have mild symptoms?
What does "point of no return" mean in this title?
They will move to normal cities and bring their Sinister facing world view that created this utopia, along to turn the new place into the last.
The house models themselves might use the same geometry and textures, but if you pre-bake any lighting then that’s a unique texture across every single surface in the world that can’t be deduplicated.
It's always been a dumb idea to make yet another rendering engine. For the same reason that Firefox is sliding slowly but surely into obscurity: the web works best in Chrome, like it or not.

I'm sure the team working on it are talented but I can't imagine any commercial company picking this up for any reason.
"However, our source told us Moz will likely pocket $400m to $450m a year between now and 2023 from the arrangement, citing internal discussions held earlier this year."

It is possible they made it up but that's entirely in line with the past deals they made. If this was a factor in the lay-offs then it should have been mentioned. No evidence from you, article claims a source told them this, for now I'll go with the article until other evidence pops up, after all it looks like they were spot on with regards to the timing of the deal.

Unless you are willing to tell us how much the deal is assuming you are privy to that info, then we'll use that figure instead.
Mostly because they don’t know who else to call.

Not long ago I saw a very ragged man stumbling around and he just curled up and went to sleep in the middle of a busy road. What to do? I can stand and block traffic. But, he’s not listening to anyone and I’m not going to grab and drag someone who is that far gone.

Thankfully, before I called the police another (very likely homeless) person was braver than me. He did grab the passed-out dude, got him to his feet and over to the sidewalk to lay back down.

I’m not happy with any aspect of that event -especially not myself. But, I only had two options: get myself into a potential wrestling match with someone who was very much out of their mind, or ask a cop to do it instead.
Thanks for this. DocSend needs to walk that fine line between pissing VCs off and collecting useful data/insights.

Super interesting position they take.
“widespread retreat between 2000 and 2005 resulted in a step-increase in discharge and a switch to a new dynamic state of sustained mass loss that would persist even under a decline in surface melt.“
There is already a pile of canary bodies on the mine floor. Just toss this one on top of it.

Oil and gas is a multi-trillion dollar industry. It’s not just an industry that a few companies rely on, or a few cities, or a few states: the economies of more than a few wealthy countries rely fully or partly on oil and gas revenue.

Consequently, there has been a massively-funded multi-decade disinformation campaign w.r.t. climate change, calling itself “climate skepticism.”

But: the brilliant part of this disinformation campaign was to politicize it.

If it were just: “we have questions about the science”, well, once those questions are resolved, then climate skeptics have nothing left to stand on.

But once you politicize it: now it’s more than the science. It’s about your tribe and your team.
Colonize a cool planet and warm up it instead. :-/
Concrete makes you walk faster, no?
The only way your thinking is off is that you're still giving him the benefit of the doubt. If he had any shred of competence, it would have been easy for him to come out ahead. Covid alone should have created a landslide reelection - defer to the experts, reassure the nation, and enjoy the wartime president boost. But he has no idea how to accomplish anything, only how to be a zero-sum business bully.

Objectively the scumbag is getting blamed, but he doesn't care. He's been running businesses into the ground his entire life. When the news media applies any sort of judgment to his behavior, he cries "fake news" and whines that they are biased. Being impeached and acquitted seems to have emboldened him - there is no other way to remove him short of the next election or a 2nd amendment recall.

Yet there is a death cult that still supports him, because they think he is a savior fighting against the corrupt power structure (while he's really yet another leech). Any bad news they hear about him is a confirmation of the supposed conspiracy against him (see today's buried post about the QAnon cultists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24158598). The real question is how many of his casual republican base supporters have become quietly disillusioned with the 170k dead and the police riots, which is hard to get a sense of online. The 2016 consensus was that he would not win, and yet he did. Back then I was trying to explain to my democratic friends why he had a decent shot. This time I think he will be sent packing, but it's impossible to know. We're all just holding our breath, waiting, and hoping that the country can recover from all of the damage he has caused.
Even the very highest estimates of asymptomatic infection don't put it anywhere near that high, unless you're talking about only the first few days or some such.
It seems I deal with race conditions all the time in Swift (Fixed one bug just today), but can understand little of this. Every time I turn around, it turns out things are harder and more complex than I thought.
There's a Reuters article about this topic which states:

> Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests.
Well that doesn't really help. If the reason is coastal erosion and not sea level rise, then you're not saying something that's relevant to the point.
Gendered pronouns don't exist in spoken Chinese. Some such as 她, 它, and 牠 do exist in written Chinese, but they are neologisms, arising only relatively recently (nineteenth century). They're all pronounced the same (tā in pinyin). Prior to then, the word 他 (also tā) would be used to represent he/him/she/her/it.

I have heard that in modern times, some actually use the pinyin tā in a sentence consisting otherwise only of Chinese characters to represent the truly gender-neutral pronoun. However, I've never seen that myself; I've seen only 他.

Incidentally, this is why you'll sometimes hear a native Chinese speaker mistakenly use "he" or "him" instead of "she" or "her." It's a distinction they don't make in their native spoken language, so it doesn't come naturally to them.
This is not a good thing. Eventually countries will heavily regulate satellites and then SpaceX will be the monopoly that keeps small players out. Instead of postponing the problem of getting rid of an evil monopoly, citizens should realize that last mile internet delivery is practically identical to water, sewage and power systems that can be owned by the city and leased out to providers.
There have been calls to put sulfur dioxide into the air above the artic to reduce sunlight about 2% and limit the amount of energy that reaches it. Sounds like we'll need to do something like that if we don't want to turn places like Florida and southern Vietnam into ocean
Snap's Snapkit Hackathon
carbon taxes
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. I think the larger point that "discovery" can have implications for legal rights still stands, but I'll add an edit about the incorrect example.
A judge has asked Trump's legal team to submit evidence of mail in voter fraud.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-13/trump-app...

It will be interesting to see what they submit.
Here is a quote from a related report that explains the "point of no return":

"The ice sheet is now in this new dynamic state, where even if we went back to a climate that was more like what we had 20 or 30 years ago, we would still be pretty quickly losing mass," Ian Howat, co-author of the study and a professor at Ohio State University, said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/14/weather/greenland-ice-she...
Again, you can’t see them when it’s night without magnification. And with visors you can’t see them at dawn or dusk.
exactly my point. economy is taken out when you apply a law or a regulation

on what OP idea suggested we currently have market/economy as the one that dictates it, hence none implemented this
Tip: Announcing a twist ending ruins it.
Nasrallah is also on record of threatening to blow up a similar ammonium stash in Haifa; now that stash was moved upon this threat. Maybe he did Israel a big favor (implicitly) by means of these threats. https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.jpost.com/middle-east/nasrall...
When the sun and moon are aligned in syzygy the high tide is substantially higher than the rest of the year.

Have you confirmed this didn't just happen to be a very high tide?
Same here in us-east-2.
This is both fun and useful, great job
Are people actually expecting revenue in 2020 to be the same as previous years? That seems naive.

Also: Why exactly do you believe this reporter who reported the previous day that the deal had fallen through?
How Apple is bullying small developers
So it’s over, the planet will likely be rendered uninhabitable probably within the next century. Is there any point in even having a new child now?
Put your data into description and comments.
I am a huge proponent of carbon sequestration. Colleagues of mine at Los Alamos National Laboratory are doing interesting R&D on this front.
I've been doing this for the last few months and, y'know, it is really appealing...
It's common sense but spending time listening and learning before spouting opinions will probably help smooth relationships with the locals.
I just skimmed part of the report[1]. I don't see anything indicating "Ultra-low SAT scores are a plus!" There's nothing indicating that it's advantageous for an individual to get a lower score.

It does seem to show that black and hispanic students seem to have a lower admission standard for SAT scores. But I can come up with a couple hypotheses for why we might see this data even if the admission ignores race:

1) The admission might largely ignore SATs already. If that's the case, and if black and hispanic applicants have lower SATs, then it it would be expected that black and hispanic accepted students would also have lower SATs because nothing is really filtering out low SAT scores, they're just passed through unfiltered.

2) The admission might have a lower SAT standard for students from low income families. Black and hispanic students might be on average lower income, and thus on average be aided by the income-based standard policy, even though students' race is actually not taken into account.

[1] https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/underreview...
> If you try that on, say, an 80-core ARM CPU [1], CPU #53 might not see a 1 for a long time, if ever.[2] You're no longer guaranteed that cache changes propagate unasked.

What do you mean by this? ARM requires cache coherency for data caches, which requires that every store is eventually made visible to all cores. Fences are necessary to impose additional requirements on the order which writes to different addresses are made visible, but AFAIK not necessary to ensure that a single write is eventually visible.
Can you explain your argument with a bit more depth? The bit about "stealing" comes across as a total nonsequitor to me. I don't understand what making Amazon et al. pay a little more for packages has to do with thievery or election fraud.
The part that makes it difficult is that so much of modern life depends on that industry.

It’s not as if the countries that depend on the revenue are the only interested parties. Lots of people enjoy global shipping, travel, local shipping, plastics, etc.

It’s only in the last few years that Tesla and other autos have provided an actual feasible alternative, and that’s only one tiny slice of the market.