skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geoengineering by taking excess CO2 out of the atmosphere, using machines that we can simply switch off, and storing the CO2 in deep basalt formations where it turns into rock, is almost certainly lower risk than leaving the excess CO2 in the air.

That doesn't mean we should rely on this entirely and not attempt to reduce emissions. But we're also past the point where we can rely on emission reductions alone.
I suspect Akbar’s “illiteracy” like the similar case of Charlemange, was probably performative. Both were representing dynasties whose people were recently considered barbarians. While being a sponsor of learning brings great prestige, being too literate can make you look soft and corrupted by decadent civilization (Chinese history has a repeated pattern of coups like this against conquering inner Asians who became too Chinese). Not a serious historical theory mind you, just some irresponsible speculation
FYI, we have some 50-40 year old Logo implementations from MIT backup tapes. Visit the freenode #PDP-10 channel to learn more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty...

Tesla will have to prove that your modification of the car caused the issue/defect. At least in the USA.
That's because they are one of the companies that prints money by charging enterprises to do non-sexy things that startups don't find to be very interesting.
Probably mathematicians just like to use LaTeX (or TeX? idk the difference). You could download the source in the other formats page[0] and convert it to whatever format you want using pandoc[1].

[0]: https://arxiv.org/format/1205.4797

[1]: https://pandoc.org/
To me this looks all like snake oil currently. The problem is, that carbon is not a pollutand (like fckw) but the energy carrier-source. So generally to take it out from the athmosphere you need more energy then you got from putting it into the athmosphere (backed by the laws of thermodynamics). So it would only make senso if you have huge (i mean HUGE) amount of renewable energy which somehow is too far away from the industry to use it directly. We are not at that stage. The real problem is to generate enough renewables. Then you can first start to replace your fossil plants by those and then later down the line maybe this technology starts to make sense. For iceland they could just build more aluminium plants now and this would probably be better for the total CO2 reduction.

An analogy:
Its like we have a hydroelectric power plant, but people need so much power the water coming out of it is flooding towards the city to distroy it and there is an article 'scientists invented the 10 gallon bucket, allowing to move water back up the dam faster.'. I think this is also harmful, since these kind of successes might give people the wrong inpression where we actually stand.
I would argue that Julia can be similarly flexible than Python, but you have to be more explicit that you need this flexibility.

For instance, in python you happily add a string to the list [1,2,3], but not in Julia because the list has been created as a vector of integers. However, if you create the list as Any[1,2,3], then you can append a variable of any type.
The logic is incoherent. Strictness creates requirements too.
This reminds me of a huge diplomatic dispute between Belgium and the United States when a complaint was filed in Belgium against a US Army General for war crimes alleged to have been committed by US troops in Iraq.

Belgium has long had a very broad international scope for its crimes against humanity criminal laws, requiring almost no connection with Belgium for such crimes to be punishable there. This law has for example been used in connection with the genocide in Rwanda, torture ordered by Pinochet in Chile, etc.

Following diplomatic pressure by the US, the law was first amended to allow the Belgian Government to “refer” the case to another country that would be “more appropriate” to pursue the matter. This mechanism was put to work right away: the case at hand was referred to the US and nothing really came out of it thereafter.

But this was not enough for the US: they further pressured (some say “bullied”) Belgium to abolish the international scope of their crimes against humanity laws altogether. The US threatened to use their diplomatic influence to move the NATO headquarters out of Belgium if they would not comply.

Belgium complied and now only accepts jurisdiction if a victim is a Belgian citizen or has lived there for at least three years (and in cases where the suspect is a Belgian citizen/resident or the alleged crime took place in Belgium, obviously).

The EU Observer has a pretty good short summary here: https://euobserver.com/justice/11820
You need to encode the delta between your model and what you observe, and that delta will be expensive to encode if your model over-generalizes.
I didn't see a falsehoods list from the perspective of a sysadmin. Time to start writing a blog post....
They probably use some terrible SQL backend and filter them out to prevent problems. Yes, that's a 2005 problem, but things take a long time to go away.
1. Talking to other developers.

Sometimes using "uncool" technologies and languages is ok, and they often have a good reason.

2. The concept of "innovation tokens" if you solve a business need

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

3. There is no silver bullet.

Learned the hard way after switching to the new "flavour of the month"
They made some serious missteps imho re: strategy. releasing and then not marketing razor server when everyone was shifting to VMs, halting development of the open source dashboard, not really investing in containerized environments, kubernetes, etc.
Going from Consulting to SaaS
I agree with you, the issue is that the technocratic powers from those cities I mentioned (I for myself live in Bucharest) will most definitely use the studies made up using this type of data and will apply them as they are, using “the Germans/Swiss/Dutch are doing it so we should, too” as their main reasoning. By the time someone comes in and says that most probably the situations between Bucharest and Amsterdam (to give a random example) are very different it is too late, the measures have already been taken.
There is massive competition to be a chosen producer or song writer. Being chosen as the one who is marketed is where the competition is. Their positions are earned.
I hereforth shall be known as:

Four Five Nine Alpha Six Five Bravo Foxtrot -Bravo Alpha Alpha Eight -Four Delta Five Eight -Nine Nine Five Five -Two Six Delta Echo Seven Five Charlie Five Four Zero Five Seven
It seems very doable with flutter, as it GPU accelerated by default and can compile to web.
> 2) What he refers to as “spam” is a paywall. He is literally taking away from business opportunities for this outlet that produced a piece of content he wants to draw attention to, but he does not want to otherwise support.

For the destination site, this is all of the downsides of AMP with none of the upsides.
Not sure about "we", but Disney most likely wanted to earn some money from China, where the animated version was not very well received back then.
Blowout for Biden or Narrow Win for Trump?
Turbo Pascal was always technically excellent in many ways, and also relatively affordable. (The Microsoft development tools were prohibitively expensive for most non-businesses.)

IIRC, the IDE started with Turbo Pascal version 4.0.

In earlier versions of Turbo Pascal (at least 3.0 and 2.0), there was no IDE. IRC, TP before 4.0 had some kind of simple text screen for switching between the compiler and a text editor.

I started with a copy of Turbo Pascal 2.0 for generic MS-DOS (generic, in that it didn't use IBM PC BIOS features), which a computer shop owner kindly transferred from 8-inch floppy to the 5.25" oddball format that my not-very-PC-compatible used. The cover of manual was monochrome blue, rather than the more familiar multicolored one. http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/borpasv.htm#tp2

I heard that Philipe Kahn named the company "Borland" because it sounded like an American astronaut name, so I suppose that could be the reason for the outer space theme (other than a lot of computer things having sci-fi space themes around then).
tbh. I don't yet see many use cases for that. or are there popular Rust numeric libraries I'm not aware of?
One shouldn't need a court order to get data logged by one's own car.
There’s a difference between not stopping genocide and giving money and recognition to the people conducting it. The actual point of the criticism is more nuanced than what you quoted:

> social media users noticed that in the credits Disney thanked a number of government entities in Xinjiang, including the public security bureau in the city of Turpan and the "publicity department of CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomy Region Committee".
Career Advice and Salary Negotiations: Move Early and Move Often (2017)
Awesome. Hey, mods... Can you change the link on this post to http://web.archive.org/web/20200908090515/https://hawaiigent...
They were a big deal on other networks using for example MD5, due to collisions malicious clients would just send you garbage parts. You wouldn't notice until finishing the complete download just to see that the file was corrupted.
>It's easier to extra judicially grab at least non citizens from Sweden.

I see this repeated all over the place as if it were an obviously established fact, but there is no reason to think that this is true. Extrajudicial actions and their consequences are inherently unpredictable. It's pure speculation to say that it would have been easier to do it from Sweden than from the UK.

In any case, this particular line of Assange apologism is rather obviously out of date, since we see that the US can (in all likelihood) quite easily extradite him now that he's out of the embassy, and thus has no reason to use extrajudicial means.
Desktop Apps with Python (PySimpleGUI)
This is a good example of the range of equipment I have seen:

https://www.mainecustomwoodlands.com/maine-custom-woodlands-...

Only thing non-tracked that goes off the gravel logging roads would be the Skidder (it literally drags bunches, or 'hitches' of trees to the transport vehicles). And even that might be partially or fully-tracked.

The feller, slasher, excavator, bulldozer, etc. are all tracked from what I've seen.

Mandatory? Doubtful. But they are most practical in the rough terrain.
Try following the references on big Wiki pages and you will see why Wikipedia pages are nightmarish for any kind of research. This is important when you are trying to drill down to the sources of various claims. Many major pages relating to significant events and concepts are riddled with rotted links.

The page can be completely correct and accurate, but if you cannot trace the references then it cannot be verified and you cannot make the claims in a new work as a result. The whole point of references is to make it so that the claims can be independently verified. Even when there isn't a link rot problem you will often find junk references that cannot be verified.

Wikipedia isn't a bad starting point and sometimes you can find good references. But it is not anywhere close to reliable: just trace the references in the next 20 Wiki articles you read and your faith will be shaken.
BigMac index looks like nice idea but it is wildly off eventually. It's price converted to the common currency will vary by tens of percents, while actual purchasing ability by country will vary by hundreds of percents or more. This index unfortunately fails at it's main and sole purpose.

In fact the majority of times BigMac index is mentioned in media is in the reverse calculation - assuming that BigMac price is more or less "fair" per country journalists calculate how actual salaries or prices in the country stray away from this indicator, to show severity of economic problems.
Probably will, but I’m struggling to see why folks would want an API for data that doesn’t change much at all. I could publish all the numbers as a JSON, not sure if anything else is necessary.
Yes, there are two problems.

First McDonalds wants customers to go to McDonalds so they make it taste good even if that means it is no longer healthy. (the entire food industry does this)

Second they try to get away with spending as little money on ingredients as possible which lowers the overall quality of the food.

The big question is how is cheap and low quality but addictive music harmful? It's not like people can overdose on music.
>I thought the whole point of a corporation is that it is greater than one person.

No, it is the limited liability. Don't want to lose your house because of a bad business deal.
He couldn't be formally charged under the Swedish system because he wasn't in Sweden. (And yes, I know that in principle the Swedish authorities could probably have figured out some way to try him in absentia, but they chose not to because it would have been pointless, and they are perfectly free to make that decision.)

Everyone repeating this nonsense should just take the time to read the British High Court judgment, which sets it all out very clearly.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200908115120/https://www.samue...
I have friends working for Telerik which was bought by Progress. They feel pretty happy so far and Telerik are doing well, though they had to drop native script after react occupied the entire compile js2native space.
You're misinterpreting the adage.

I was doing martial arts in school, and my sensei had me demonstrate some forms. Being new, I was very hesitant.

He was annoyed at this and explained that when I kept hesitating, I didn't complete a motion fully. He couldn't see what I was trying to do because I wouldn't commit to it. Thus he couldn't show me what I was doing wrong and teach me the correct way to do it.

"Strong opinions weakly held" is trying to address the problem of not committing to a position. It can manifest as not fully expressing your ideas, or adding unnecessarily qualifiers to them, or not following them to their conclusions.

The consequences can be you don't fully advocate your position, or someone with a different idea isn't able to identify the weaknesses in your argument.

> If you have a strong opinion, you look like a fool if you change your mind when evidence is shown to you.

If you present your views as mush, you can also sound like a fool. If you're citing a standard and say, "the standard says this, but I'm not really sure I read it correctly," you don't sound humble, you sound like you can't read.

If, otoh, you simply cite the standard, then your colleague is clear on where you're coming from. So now he can object that implementations don't follow it; the discussion can advance.

I think the problem you're getting at is someone staking their reputation unnecessarily on their views. You're right: that's a mistake. I've been in an argument over a fairly subjective design decision where one guy got frustrated and said, "look, my 20 years working with databases says we do it this way."

To avoid that, the key is to be specific; "we tried that on project X and it worked / didn't work, and this is very similar." Now it's not your reputation at stake, you're simply giving a factual account of your experience.

And sometimes the matter really is subjective or the data isn't great. If that's the case, you want to be clear about that uncertainty, "we just don't know because our data is crap." Then it becomes clear the team needs to put more resources into getting better information.
Don't use Javascript because it might break, so here's some Javascript to work around that.
The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
Digital Banking, Now Halal
Anki for VSCode
Thanks. How's the Windows client? I mostly daily drive Windows whenever I'm not programming. I do intend on getting a separate Linux machine for NAS+torrent+Plex MS at some point, and it does seem promising
> The idea of "privileged words" that only a subset of people can utter is ridiculous to me.

This comment made me stop to think. Thanks for that.

When I zoom out and try to generalize, I think:

- "can utter": it is not so much about what you can officially say or not say, but rather what is socially acceptable, whatever your social context is. For example, if you're a priest, saying "fuck" in a sermon would probably be frowned upon or worse. Even more so if they continued to do so even after being told by their congregation or colleagues that it is not acceptable.

- "privileged words": I don't have children, but I suspect there are words that parents (and "society") prefer their kids don't say and even reprimand them for it. Whether or not that restriction is a bad thing (limiting free speech?) I cannot say for sure yet, but it seems that privileged words, as you say it, emerge. I haven't thought more about other examples beyond children (maybe there aren't any) or whether the children example is invalid.
What do you mean? Can I tell it not to send Tesla any logs? While still getting updates? Can I delete the logs? Can I see what's in the logs? Can I tell it not to create logs in the first place?
In California pretty much all summer has been a high risk of fire. Something like 24 major fires occurring currently. So if you want to go hiking at all you are taking on some risk.
If we don't have the will (budget) to stop emissions at source, why would be have it to go out and sequester it from the general atmosphere? Isn't that harder technically, more expensive and more energy consuming etc?
very interesting data! Would be even moreso if you were able to get data from a city with a large population like Lagos or Delhi
>That doesn't put the primary fault onto devs though

I agree on that, the primary fault is at the hands of the one who thought that up and pushed it through to completion, but "just doing my job" and "if I don't do it someone else will" doesn't pass the smell test to me.
I don't think users care how software is deployed. (ie: does it live on the web or in their desktop?) But what looks dead to me is desktop-specific development.

With modern UI frameworks and Electron, you can deliver an app that looks "desktop" to the user but is written with standard, simple web technologies. Those apps interact with your peripherals and are indistinguishable from desktop apps.

The advantage to letting go of proprietary "desktop" software is that a single codebase can actually look and work the same on PCs, Macs, and Linux -- something no desktop provider has given us.
Ho, sounds exactly what I'm in the process of laying down at work!

Do you push to on premises deployment or is it pure saas?
The former is obviously harder to tackle, and unfortunately that's the case here.
Haha, that’s the best response I think.
https://github.com/exp0nge/wayback

Here's an extension to archive pages on Skynet, which is similar to IPFS but uses financial compensation to ensure availability and reliability.

I don't know if the author intends to continue developing this idea or if it was a one-off for a hackathon.
Ah that's a gem.
I strongly disagree. It doesn't "just work"; it has a very specific target, for whom I don't doubt it works, but it costs a lot to the rest.

Until a short time ago, you couldn't even directly remove entries from the "Continue watching" row, unless you used the sledgehammer approach of marking a series as never watched (which, conceptually, doesn't make sense - I may want to stop watching a movie, but still retain the information that I've watched it).

Row categories don't have a fixed position; sometimes I have to scroll to find the "Continue Watching".

It's impossible to remove movies/series already seen from the interface. Not only that, but the interface has a row with movies already watched.

There's no management concept, I mean, even very basic functionality (the only concept is starring).

Searching movies requires navigating through undesirable entries (in particular, already watched ones), rather than helping the user finding new content.

This is a intentional design, and a clever one. However, it's shoved-in-the-throat fast-food rather than slow food. It's not random that they've introduced the speedup functionality. I believe that Netflix is meaningful to society as much as McDonald is; it's fast and cheap, but I wouldn't classify this as a benefit to the food culture.

Even if all the above was false, the movies catalogue is relatively small. I can tolerate the above (although I don't, really), but as a cinema lover, I need a very large catalogue.
I experienced this just the other day.

I was browsing an old HN post from 2018, with lots of what seemed like useful links to their blog

Upon visiting it the site had been rebranded and the blog entries had disappeared

Waybackmachine saved me in this cass, but a link to it originally would have saved me a few clicks
There's pyinfra (https://pyinfra.com, full disclosure: I built it). Ansible, Salt have been mentioned already. Also CFEngine and Rudder might be worth a look.
تحميل لعبة البلياردو 8 Ball Pool متعدد اللاعبيين رابط مباشر اندرويد
I don't know, you can tell that some people definitely like to play a verbal version of the "I'm not touching you" game, or get off on telling people "actually, it's not a slur". Obviously I'm not referring to what happened to this professor, though
Where do you come to this conclusion from?

There is one line in the entire article about that:

"Ellen Smart in her 1981 essay makes the case that Akbar may have been dyslexic, though there is little evidence or corroborating facts in support of this."

Do you have any sources?
On Being Shy by Jerome K. Jerome
Damning with faint praise is my favorite!
Accepting random stuff like this is in the spirit of the protocols of the internet.

Postel’s Law:
> Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others (often reworded as "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept").

Also known as the robustness principle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
How can you not be romantic about programming?
> It's clear there's no point in debating this.

Well, if it's not worth discussing, I'll leave you to wallow in your ignorance. It's clear your mind is made up.

> Most major change has come through protest and people rising up, nothing as naive as what you suggest here.

Perhaps, but the converse isn't true, and the converse is what's more relevant to this discussion.
>The argument from his opponents seems to have mostly shifted towards "yeah, but he deserves it".

This is roughly true of me. My opinion shifted to "he deserves it" because there appears to be strong evidence that he committed a crime. Why should my opinion not change based on new information? (Is this something you are not open to? Do you intend to defend Assange whatever information about him comes to light?)

That being said, if you read more carefully, what people were actually saying is that he was unlikely to be extradited to the US for leaking classified information, as it would be hard to prosecute someone in the US merely for doing that. But he is now charged with other crimes that are more clear cut.
I'd argue some of the recent disney efforts like the Lion King don't qualify for this because, unlike remakes of the past, it's basically a shot for shot recreation of the animated version. Something about that feels wrong to me. They're more like remasters.
> Obviously I'm not referring to what happened to this professor, though

Why not? He mispronounced a word, and seems to have deliberately chosen it in order to be provocative. There are a million different pause words he could have used instead.
You Really Don’t Need All That JavaScript [video]