skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> If we want 8 billion people living in comfort, we need more energy

"We want" is language that hides reality. Who wants this? How many people?

As the Trump election (and many other elections around the world) show there is no "we want". Different people want different things. Sweeping that fact under the carpet again and again leads to Paris type meaninglessness. Paris fails because there was never any "we".

All the narratives of fear and blame, guilt and shame that have been tried did not make a dent.

Those who want to do something will do it and those that don't want to wont.

Reconcile to that reality and things will actually move forward.
How to Stay Motivated When Starting Out with Coding
I hope I’m wrong but it seems the world may have to leave the United States in the 1950s where it currently plans to reside.

Seriously, it’s time counties who want to improve the situation need move on from worrying about what the United sates is doing because it doesn’t look like much will be happening for a long time.
My understanding is that if you have find my iPhone enabled and you mark it as stolen then nothing can be done to recover the device without access to your iCloud to unlock it.
Not even. It's a corporation you can walk away from it.

The risk narrative is the current preferred reason to justify gross inequality caused by power imbalances.

It ignores that every participant is taking a risk. It's just some manufactured narrative designed so that we'd think "well alright" and not question the unjustifiable disproportionate gross inequity of all the reward going to those with the smallest risk because of how structural power works.

The lowest wage worker living paycheck to paycheck has wayyyy more risk exposure than someone like me who has skated by trivially without a paycheck for over a year. The idea that my investment portfolio entitles me to the profits because of some immense risk I'm taking is clearly totally manufactured bullshit that's used to shape public opinion.

I could lose every penny without affecting my quality of life at all. Literally zero effect. The risk is purely abstract. It's not material in the slightest
> And yet plenty of right wing echo chambers exist there too and have for a very long time. They continue to host communities on reddit which are all, one sided.

You’re confused about what I’m saying. I didn’t refute that some group can gather in a special sub for right-wing topics while carefully banning thousands of wider users.

What I’m talking about is hosting a non-political community. The entire user-base of Reddit, on average, is leftist and those views leak into your community in the form of votes against/for particular topics.

> What exactly are you doing here on HN? Injecting politics, how are you any different than the folks you're complaining about?

Again, you’re confusing explicitly discussing politics with the effect of an echo chamber enforced by votes. Do you need me to explain the difference further?
All the maintainer has to do is collect patches and release an updated version of the canonical source. This isn't something that happens only in theory, the kernel for the OS I'm typing on right now is developed this way.

Github is more interesting because of eg issue tracking, but there are other ways to do that.
If we bring jobs back to the U.S., we will no longer be outsourcing our pollution production. The same jobs will produce less pollution in the U.S. than in China. Of course prices will go up for the goods being produced. So there is something we can do about China and India being major polluters.
If every woman gives birth to less than ~2.1 children, we're shrinking. Is having <= 2 children painful and ugly?
> This is what happened with the United States hundreds of years ago.

United States started with a bloody revolution in order to secede from Britain.

To get some territory for your country, you'd either need a revolution in an existing country or perhaps create an artificial island somewhere in international waters (or a base in space). I don't see any other options.
Can't be worse than what the libraries use over here CloudLibrary and RBDigital
Native virtual-scroller element for the web
Good.

The Paris accord is not worth the paper it’s written on.

It’s non-biding, it has no enforcement, and the goals where self imposed and for some countries ridiculous.

Even if it’s not for the right reasons, the US leaving might force world leaders to actually do something.
What did they do? I still see comment sections.
You realize Obama didn’t start any wars and spent 8 years trying to close Pandora’s box?
I highly doubt a commercial company can argue for authority and sovereignty of a whole planet.

Let's be real, if there was easier ways to get to mars and if it had resources useful to earth, then we'd already be mining there or such.
The link only mentions requirements to run inference at "decent speeds", without going into details about what they consider to be decent speeds.

In principle you can of course run any model on any hardware that has enough RAM. Whether the inference performance is acceptable depends your particular application.

I'd argue that for most non-interactive use cases, inference speed doesn't really matter and the cost benefit from running on CPUs vs GPUs might be worth it.
what is the APC referred in the article?
There are some silly, stupid mistakes I've done when going through YCombinator - building my first startup.
Companies actually lobby the EU, I guess the same is true for the US, to allow "forward scanning". Meaning they would like to proactively try to purge the net of illegal content. Mozilla is part of this alliance.

I am going to leave Github, since the tech giants + Mozilla should not be trusted.

https://edima-eu.org/
When China bids to manufacture something for the world market, a variety of things go into the price they can bid: labor, shipping, materials, and pollution, chiefly (there is also research, facilities maintenance, etc). The main factors which give them an advantage are labor and pollution. Their labor advantage is internal but their pollution advantage -- the portion dumped into water or air -- they get by extracting value from a shared account. In countries with stricter pollution laws companies can't rob their neighbors to win a bid.

That being said, tariffs and other mechanisms meant to force the pollution cost back onto producers really end up being paid largely by consumers anyway. You can't tax citizens of another country. So the tariff taxes citizens of your own country. The cost gets back to the producer country indirectly in that they sell less stuff, but every time the tax is paid it is paid inside the country imposing the tariff by citizens of that country. So it works more or less according to your suggested mechanism.
In my youth, I was inspired by different systems than very closed workstations.
Cloud Run has 1 hour timeout in Beta https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/configuring/request-timeou...
So you say. Though I don't see any evidence humanity as a whole has moved past groupthink. But yeah, I might be wrong about SAFIRE, as I haven't done any fusion experiments myself, just read a bit of research.
Despite reiterating what the Outer Space Treaty says, this is just as useful as laying claim to it. "Whoever is sitting on it can claim it" is the more probable result, should it come to that.
Why do people want to believe so strongly that China is working so hard to destroy everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve.

Maybe they actually do want to reduce pollution ?

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I don’t know if “Wired” would know the full story either. China a pretty difficult place to get information in and out of ?
> But now there is no official fork of youtube-dl

youtube-dl has made new releases after the takedown, so development appears to be continuing.
Their minimum wage is 20% higher to adjust for that. Exactly how much higher it should be is arguable, but it can be worked out. Including waiting time in the equation will force Uber and Lyft to exit California, it is better to try to make gig work viable. This isn't a question about cost, but about business viability.

Also waiting time is very abusable. Uber could just force quit your app if there aren't any rides, and then you have to try to login and it will boot you instantly every time. Then once there is a ride it accepts you. Exactly how to meassure waiting time is therefore not viable, either uber wont be able to boot you making their business model unviable or you will never get any wait time anyway.
Tesla sells in Mass, despite the first "right to repair" bill. There is quite a bit of money in Boston area, I am pretty sure they will comply like they did for the first bill.
Go was designed for teams and by a very opinionated designer, Rob Pike, regarding both the language features and the programming experience (tooling, etc), akin to acme/plan9.

I do enjoy this experience. Very text oriented. It’s subjective. And it has served me well.
Links aren't usually unaccompanied. They are usually placed in a context of a sentence or an entire paragraph. Even if the screen reader reads a raw URL as literally the word "link", it's still reasonable. You can even do something like HN does with the URLs next to article titles, list just the domain - or domain.com/username for sites like medium or github, just like HN started doing recently.
Bigger write off amount for a mortgage (possibly a million plus) vs credit cards (most likely a few thousand)
Looking better than ever, according to predictit; the senate, however, is a different matter.
A lot of the laws were the same, especially those from common law. The big change was the representation paradigm. But this type of paradigm change was not that uncommon when going from a monarchy to a representative type system as many other countries did. Although the details of the representative systems did vary and some monarchies were allowed to stand in addition to the representative, but with little actual power.

The differences we see today are largely cultural shifts that happened since then.
It is also based on the idea that any human deserves the same emissions. Of course, at first level, it is legitimate. However, a country which doesn’t want to pollute should rather choose to keep their population low, through various incentives including cost of life. It would set them back on the economic power, but that may be a choice: Better lifestyle for fewer people.

In the current system, however, a country who keeps their population low will have small allowances; It clearly incentives overpopulating its land. This inverse-incentive effect may provoke countries into doing nothing against evergrowing population, keeping cost of life too affordable, and thus, ensuring that the next generation will be overpopulated, and thus, extenuating the land.
I'm tempted to agree with you but I would be surprised if a law like that didn't make the situation worse.
I missed it too and had to re-read carefully. APC is "armoured personnel carrier."
This is not new. See this video from 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ4TJ4-kkDw

This light is sold by https://www.coelux.com/. They might also hold the patents on this technology.
Why would the United States leaving force leaders to do something ?

Seems like very obscure logic.
This is quite a good tool to explore what would happen at different sea level rises - http://flood.firetree.net/ - it maxes out at 60m, but even there it's a very different world.
Seriously?

How to do data structures:

1. just put everything ad-hoc into a dict or a list (the "PHP" way :D)
2. use a namedtuple
3. define a class
4. define a dataclass (preferred) but works only if your Python version is recent enough

In Scala? Just use case classes and this is the only recommended way (#1 is very impractical so noone does that, #2 doesn't exist, #3 possible, but impractical when you have #4 in all versions).

How to map a collection in Python?
- Start from an empty one and add mapped items in a loop
- Use map + lambda
- Use list comprehension
- Update all items in place with a loop

Is it really any better than in Scala?
"These new Dell privacy buttons are basically hardware kill switches for the microphone and web camera video stream. The Dell privacy driver sent out on Tuesday for the Linux kernel is about manipulating the relevant LEDs and tracking the status of the hardware-based controls where as the actual toggling of the audio/video support is handled by the hardware."

Why not just wire the LEDs up to the same power line that goes to the camera?
> So Tesla is being built in China?

Non-sequitur. I never said about things US internally makes. Also Tesla makes like 1% of all US cars?

But a lot of US imports are from China. And if a large part of those imports became "green", I doubt Chinese authorities would build non-green infra just to spite Americans and/or the World.
As I was reading your story and got the the part where they said they didn't have a bounty -- for some reason I anticipated that the next line would be them telling you that you could keep the $5,000.

I was extremely disappointed. :(

Thank you for sharing.
You can also just edit the .ini file of minesweeper.
Intel enters the laptop discrete GPU market with Xe Max
Inflation can be desirable and there is not much robust evidence that we have even low level inflation yet. Without strong inflation it will be extremely difficult to deal with the consequences of superheated global commodity markets. Those boomer McMansions are not worth a million plus each, period, so we have to turn the dial down one way or another. Debasing the currency is a terrible way of going about that, but appears to be what we as a society have decided upon.
React Native vs Flutter: Ultimate Comparison 2020
And how is it not worth it? You said it yourself. It was non-biding, no enforcement, goals where self imposed and the US government still didn't want to take part.

What kind of message is that sending?
That's an RFC1918 IP. I'm not going to be able to reach it from here.

So long as you aren't also running a firewall, your ISP or anyone on your immediate upstream network could reach it just fine though. If you get me access to that network then I'd be happy to demonstrate.

Yes, I know what NAT is.
You cannot hinder developing countries from the comfort of living in a develop country. The fact that China agreed to a year is amazing.
If the US would have kept part of that deal then maybe we would've seen improvements.

But now that the US basically proven to be untrustworthy, even towards allies, these kind of deals are just undoable anymore.

This will end in tears
Can it enter back????????
As someone with an architecture degree working in software, I'll say that the education of an architect is such a great part of the experience. You get a lot of freedom to experiment and think creatively about problems, whether it's in design studio or a structures class. I recommend the education to anyone who will listen.

I appreciate autodidacts and there are many things I've taught myself (software engineering being one of those things). But, I am glad this article does not disavow education. Too often, articles like these try to highlight anomalies where people are successful despite no formal higher education and I think that sends the wrong message.
Didn't China also said they expect their CO2 emmision to peak in 2022, 8 years before their goal of 2030 from the Paris accord.

Then go for carbon neutral in 2060.

Src: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-carbon-idUSKCN1VQ1K...
How do you use that day to day? I also use Org, but it has slowed down quite a bit for me. Perhaps one of my files is too big, and I also use the agenda, which takes at least a few seconds to regenerate.
I'm sure they would send a Debt Collector after me if I had any balances on my credit cards.

Back when this originally happened they gave me 60 days for the credit cards, and 30 days for the checking/savings account.
Isn’t this something that’s up to the companies that put their production there to decide?
Turns out we just needed stronger magnetic fields: https://cfs.energy/

Materials science delivered an order of magnitude more powerful magnetic field in the form of better superconducting ribbons. Add in molten salt blanket for neutron recovery and heat working fluid, design for maintenance: and voìla!

You have a garage sized fusion reactor which outputs net energy.
You would still owe on the credit card.
This depends if we've already overshot maximum sustainable population. You can run many different machines at over 100% capacity. The issue is they break down much more quickly. Water would be a good example of a resource that has stores we can use at a speed much faster than 100% of replacement rate.
You under appreciate Obama's administration push towards renewables.
No, there isn’t anything special about them from a browser’s perspective. They have been reserved so they can be re-used across private networks without conflicting with routes on the Internet. An address in the rfc1918 space isn’t magic and a shitload of corporate/campus/etc networks depend on treating them just like any other IP address when you load stuff up in a browser.

If a page loads a resource from a private address, it can easily be a local cache on the network. It can also be a dashboard like the example I gave you.

Example:

local.dashboard.example.org resolves to 192.168.255.244

dashboard.example.org resolves to some public address and web server that hosts a page that loads resources from local.dashboard.example.org
Travis CI complains of 'significant abuse' of its free deal, creates new pricing
It was a big virtue signaling show where nobody involved made any changes. Which some will always see as a huge success because it avoids any need to do anything as long as declarations of support are cheered and awareness is raised and verbal support is given.
This was a proper roast. I really needed a good laugh this morning.
It looks like that because unlike most states, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania didn't start counting their mail-in votes until after in person votes. Mail in votes will almost certainly heavily skew blue and there's substantial numbers of them this year.

Not saying Biden will definitely win, just we can't tell yet.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/04/whats-behind-trumps-leads-in...
Looks like the project moved to GitLab:

https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl/-/commits/master

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24960039
>the US leaving might force world leaders to actually do something

Hah! No, the Paris accord, the "no enforcement, and the goals where self imposed and for some countries ridiculous" Paris accord is the world "doing something".

Even that will not be reached.
Have you considered developing using an IDE like Lazarus but with extensions allowing the component library to use Imgui instead of the default Lararus components?

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
I think H-bombs are the opposite of what you want: they're all radiation and little to no explosion.

The idea is you detonate them in a city and then have your own citizens move in and take over the undamaged property.
Event industry and the transition to fully online events
Hi everybody, long time lurker in this space.

Certain industries are having to transform their businesses and be forced into being creative and innovative. This is especially seen in the space of physical events. Concerts, conferences, restaurants, and entertainment.

Have any participating or witnessed any interesting virtual events, that blew your mind by execution, technology or vibe?
It's important to make this as painful and dramatic as possible for Microsoft so they don't side with the RIAA they are a member of.
I’m really not sure this is the case. For example, we know that we have far more than enough capacity to produce food for the entire world, we just simply don’t do it.

Of course, Americans are very wasteful, and we can’t scale that amount of wastefulness to the entire planet.
LiNote | Senior dev Django / React | 100% Remote | Full-Time

We are a bootstrapped company building oversimplified tablets for old people who can't use a smartphone or a standard device.

Our stack: Python / Django / Android / React Native / Postgresql / Rabbitmq / Angular

We are looking for a senior dev.

Interested, please reach out to anthony [at] linote.fr

linote.fr
Wow. You did the best you could to let them know about the problem, returned the $5k, etc. And they chose to be arseholes and just close your accounts and pretend you don't exist.

This will have some amount of Streisand effect. I doubt they've really fixed the race conditions. And, the story itself is interesting enough to take off.
I agree with the premise but the fundamental question is whether we can get from the current status quo to a hypothetical sustainable equilibrium without the squeeze of climate change causing a ton of pain along the way and in a manner that is at least kinda sorta ethically tolerable (i.e. genocide and/or picking who gets to reproduce are not options on the table).

The developing world population growth is peaking soon or looks to be. But standards of living growth there is exploding so their impact will peak at some unknown point in the future. The already developed world is staying roughly static in terms of population and environmental impact per person is declining slowly there. To use a metaphor, it's like we've got a half full bucket, are very slowly siphoning out water and are also half way through rapidly pouring in an unknown amount of water. Will it overflow? Nobody knows. It would be prudent to try to remove more water and pour in less though.

Edit: Anyone care to tell me why I'm so wrong? Is genocide back on the table or are people just annoyed that this is a hard problem with no shovel ready silver bullet?
This advantage can be overstated and give a false sense of security, though. It’s true that for entirely generic functions, you can sometimes infer useful properties just from the type signature, but once you start getting any more specific types in there, all bets may be off. You said

[of course this is assuming that `any` isn't implemented as `any _ _ = True`]

but actually there are many more possibilities. For example, this function might return True if the provided data structure has exactly 5 elements, never using the provided (a -> Bool) function or mapping over anything.
How come back doesnt work in browser on BBC?
Thats like some scam / ad site stuff.
Actual title is "Travis CI complains of 'significant abuse' of its free deal, creates new pricing that has developers riled", but I dropped the ending when submitting the article, as it's click-baity (it is El-reg, so par for the course, but still!).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3687192/

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/infographic-how-to-read-a-s...

https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPape...

https://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/courses/HowToReadSciAr...

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-read-scientific-papers...

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...
For a random comparison: The entire German government (federal+state+local) employs 3.7 million people, about 8.8% of total employment. Another 0.77 million (1.8% of total employment) are indirectly employed in public services. The German federal government alone are just 0.47 million, or 1.1% of total employment.
Yes I can see how doing it manually would be pretty painful! What did you try it with?

If you have a look at the Amazon listing you can see the table of contents and read a bit of the first story with the 'look inside' feature.

http://genderswappedstories.com/gender-swapped-fairy-tales-a...

The first story is Handsome And The Beast, which is one of my favourites. Let me know what you notice after reading!