skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this sounds like "the beginner's guide to surviving the coming zombie apocalypse". Maybe you can prepare for a few days or weeks of isolation, but climate change does not just go away and get better. How long are your bullets really going to last?
Note that this isn't necessarily true. There are often two large differences between "Institutes" (or Centers, etc. - nomenclature differs from university to university):

- Soft funding. Meaning very little to no support from the university. If you can't keep the money coming in, the Institute goes away (As do its employees).

- Institute faculty may or may not have other appointments - but Institutes often can't do things like grant tenure.
The vast majority of companies live on their own hardware for business-critical workloads. It's not even close.
I would just like to say that there isn't a company on the planet making consumer electronics that leans in harder than Apple does, as a quadriplegic I can get an able-bodied monkey to take my new iShiny out-of-the-box and from then on I can do everything you can do on that device.

They really are world leaders at this stuff, I can use my right index finger and my mouth and with just that I can use Apple products to run my own company and talk to people on HN (you know, the important stuff!).
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It doesn't pose an existential threat. https://twitter.com/DarinFeinstein/status/139700520914717081...
It’s worse, we use Teams
So it turns out that the ideal temperature for global civilization is about 13 degrees celsius, and we had that for a long time, but now it might rise by one or two degrees and that would be a terrible temperature for global civilization? Pretty unlucky when you think about it.
Oh, I see. So similar mutations don't occur with straight mRNA. I think that makes sense. But also I thought the exact spike protein structure could vary with mRNA vaccines too based on the patient's genetic make up because the mRNA only encodes a portion of the spike and the rest of the spike is generated by the host cell.

I don't know, that not my area either. My main two points are that if covid itself can increase risk of stroke and now some covid vaccines can too, then I wonder if other covid vaccines might have contributed to this anecdotal one. The second point plays into the first. I would be less likely to question it if we had better reporting in the VAERS system.

He actually seems fine now, so he recovered quickly.
No. It’s already getting uncomfortably warm in Canadian cities in the summer. And we already settled most of the fertile soil.

The bulk of our sparsely inhabited areas are Canadian shield, taiga, tundra. The soils are not well suited to agriculture.

The rapid change will also make our ecosystems unstable, and the melting ice is hurting northern infrastructure. We were already cold adapted.

We also don’t get more sunlight, which is governed by the rotation of the earth and not the temperature. One of the hardest parts of winter here is short days, rather than the cold.
So, eliminate voter registration. It's possible, but you have to check citizenship at some point in the process, like at the poll. Which is a political firebrand! Although it would kind of make sense to me to use a federal id, like a social security card, to cast a vote.

And doing it in advance solves a few important logistical problems - not least of which is giving states a chance to do sanity checks on results.
An example. I didn't find anything concrete in the comments.

So there's nothing further to discuss.
> And... bad for him! He should be let doing his destabilising as much as he wants, as long as he is wasting his armies, and it is 2:1 for NATO.

You say that. A couple of years ago I would have agreed. Now I see several major NATO partners unwilling to intervene in such a situation. I am sorry for my Moldovan friends, but in most likelihood nobody will budge for Moldova. Particularly as we've seen how American support can be fickle these days, and such an operation would last longer than a term of an US president. So yeah, not much confidence here.

> As I said before, the truth of few centuries of military history is unequivocal: it is a very good thing to trip your opponent into a big war for a small gain, while your main force can stay back, and preserve its power.

That's fine and dandy when you have a convenient 2000 km-wide moat and all this is quite abstract. If there is a thing we really don't want in Europe it's a war, regardless of the size and who ends up winning it. Also, another truth you can learn from History is that there is no easy war.
yeah, the n-th order effects like the siberian ice melting away into methane emissions equivalent to 100 years of 2020 CO2 output will just completely obliterate any efforts at mitigating new emissions.
People tend to complain about game engines because they're just so accessible, yet allow you to do extremely complex things.

For example if I wanted to make a 3D platformer in unity, I could probably commission an artist to create the character, download a starter kit of some sort, and be done with it in about a week.

However this means I'm tying in so much code, and if anything doesn't work exactly the way I expect it I can complain. I might complain about the starter kit I purchased, I might complain about Unity crashing when the real reason for the crashes are my own crappy code.

Particularly when I was younger, I would often try to do way too much at once and this leads to frustration. But, theoretically you could create the next gears of war with three other people in about a year. Odds are you're going to run into tons of problems though just because it's so hard to do that
Very cool stuff! I saw talk regarding a similar idea several years back at Strangeloop - check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4z-uSMhvVM
Considering who/what countries actively invest in all forms of communication there is no meaningful line between the 3 anymore.

Even domestic propaganda becomes suspect when you find out a government officials child has major business dealings with X or Y country. This happens in both parties.
An example, not a nice way to go - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-32050998
People are exchanging their dollars for dog money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbI31x3FpS0
There can still be worse outcomes from higher levels of warming. It's not just on or off.
Twin studies are mostly used to show that traits are heritable at an individual level.

Edit: It strikes me that the strawman argument you've constructed is a perfect example of left-wing science denial. The endemic use of the technique in fields like psychology, criminology, biology, is something you prefer to ignore.
This. To use the NIH example, a new research institute is probably staring at some grim Environment scores for a bit.
Currently the northern hemisphere is pointed away from the sun during summer months.

EDIT: ignore, parent comment has been clarified.

Typo, or am I misunderstanding something? Reality is the opposite of that:

https://www.weather.gov/cle/seasons
I really enjoyed https://prog21.dadgum.com/
Invisible Roommates
Worse things have been done before though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

ISPs were required to save logs of their users' traffic in the EU. Eventually this got squashed by the courts, but that took years.
Even simple charts for numerical variables would be helpful though. For example, evaluating growth over time is important in pediatrics. In my country, mothers receive a booklet with all the charts and pediatricians are supposed to fill it with data during consults. When I open one of these, I usually find only two or three data points. Surely EMR software could do the same thing automatically.

https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/index.htm
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Climate Emergencies

1966 - Oil gone in 10 years

1967 - Dire famine forecast by 1975

1968 - Overpopulation will spread worldwide

1969 - Everyone will disappear in a Cloud of Blue Steam in 1989

1970 - World will use up its natural resources by 2000

1970 - Urban citizens will require gas mask by 1985

1970 - Nitrogen buildup will make all lands unusable

1970 - Decaying pollution will kill all the fish

1970s - Killer Bees!!!

1970 - Ice Age by 2000

1970 - Americans will be subjected to water rationing by 1975 and food rationing by 1980

1971 - New Ice Age coming by 2020 or 2030

1972 - New Ice Age by 2070

1972 - Oil depleted in 20 years

1974 - Space satellites show New Ice Age coming fast

1974 - Another Ice Age?

1974 - Ozone depletion a great peril to life

1976 - Scientific consensus planet cooling; famines imminent

1977 - Department of Energy says oil will peak in 90s.

1978 - No end in sight to 30-year global cooling

1980 - Acid rain kills life in lakes

1980 - Peak oil in 2000

1988 - Regional drought (that never happened) in 90s.

1988 - Temperatures in DC will hit record high (no records broken)

1988 - Maldive Islands will be underwater by 2018 (nope)

1989 - Rising sea level will obliterate nations if nothing done by 2000.

1989 - New York City Westside Highway underwater by 2018.

1990 - Cellphones caused cancer

1996 - Peak oil in 2020

2000 - Children won’t know what snow is

2001 - WiFi causes cancer

2002 - Famines if we don’t give up eating fishes, meat, and diary

2002 - Peak oil in 2010

2004 - Britain will be Siberia by 2024

2005 - Manhattan underwater by 2015

2006 - Super Hurricanes!!!

2008 - Arctic will be ice-free by 2018

2008 - Climate genius Al Gore predict ice-free Arctic by 2013

2009 - Climate genius Prince Charles says we have 96 months to save the world

2009 UK Prime Ministers says 50 days to “save planet from catastrophe”

2009 Al Gore moves ice-free Arctic prediction from 2013 to 2014

2010 - 4G cell tower causes cancers.

2013 Arctic ice-free by 2015

2014 Only 500 days before climate chaos

2019 - Hey Greta, we really need you to convince them this time.

2020 - Australian bush fires are caused by climate change.

2020 - 5G cellular towers causes cancers.

2020 - Polar bears could be lost by 2100

2021 - Volcano caldera ready to wipe out civilization

I wonder if this is all about squeezing more taxpayers money to fund those unemployed climate change scientism.
I don't think luck has much to do with it
In e.g. northern Europe post-glacial rebound (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound) compensates somewhat, depending on locale.

Edit: At my location in southern Sweden it seems like this expected land rise compensates for ~70% of the expected sea level rise, but the data seems a bit sketchy. I think more research is needed.
http://www.commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?page=... is good deep dive into various topics. Enjoy the gzip explaination

Matt might's 'blog' https://matt.might.net/articles/ is good read about various functional ideas and others

https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview funny post about how complicated balancing a binary tree could be

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/archive.html some intersting posts about various aspects of programming language tools
I've always had a hard time finding new interesting dev blogs but with diff.blog I can stop having that problem! Thanks for it, will be using it from now on!
As a developer, the bungled way the adenovirus vector is delivered (into the cell nucleus instead of the cell fluid) is scarier than the clot probability is. Just cancelled my jab appointment.
Complete nonsense.

1) Climatists have a history of failed and deliberately misleading predictions

2) Presemt day humans cannot change or prevent changes in climate

3) It's cheaper to adjust than fight changes. Build your own wall or move inland.
That would be for a judge to decide. Certainly one of the things that makes reproducing photos/artwork tricky is that you're reproducing the complete work. Fair use is rarely completely straightforward.
Of course it rubbed people the wrong way. It's absolutely disgusting! It should have been called the "Penes of the Animal Kingdom".
My understanding is that in many places in FL places that were dry are now soaking wet. Saw an article about a development where there are puddles everywhere (lawns, sidewalks, etc) because the water table is rising.

If I owned property in FL, I wouldn't be looking at the long term right now.
That an over generalization. The more temperate parts of southern Siberia would have a thawing that could potentially open up more agricultural space and increase Siberia's food production capacity.
Consider everything in the universe being 40 deg C, including all matter, the CMB, etc. Consider now an organism that eats some food and releases the energy inside that food. It converts this energy into heat and i now 42 deg C. Suddenly there is a differential again. Sure, it can get rid of the heat easier if the differential were larger, but it can get rid of it at all, due to the existence of a differential.
No this is how they justify their existence now. Originally created to stop Hitler 2.0, they've basically given up on that mission and now focus on health and climate crises, whether real or greatly exaggerated.
How so? NATO is impotent these days, I don't see how it would solve any of this. It is also irrelevant to anything I've written in that post.
It does if we're talking about how we've managed to stay below predicted levels.
what is a discrete research lab, a seperate entity?
...if it happens. So far there's no scientific consensus that such a thing is likely to happen.
Yes, let's clarify a few things. For starters, I'm a physician, and have formerly worked in health insurance at the management level. I assume your comment was aimed at someone at a different level of familiarity with the topic. I'd be happy to re-evaluate my understanding of your comment if you'd care to clarify with the newfound knowledge that I'll understand a more nuanced argument, if you care to provide one.

Responding to what you have written, however:

1. I provided a direct explanatory mechanism for how physician reimbursement caps lead to low-quality auxiliary services - by pointing out that investing in an activity or service that provides no marginal revenue is a strictly money-losing proposition. You assert, without mechanism or evidence, that this is strictly due to "for profit insurance." You need to clarify how the insurer, and their profit motive, creates this result - as the mechanism I put forward simply requires that the physician is has a fixed fee schedule and is at capacity volume. I won't go so far as to assert you should take my word on it, but you could do worse than listening to a doctor say "this is exactly what's going on in my and my friends' practices."

2. The majority of healthcare dollars in the United States flow through Medicare and Medicaid. Given that these services reimburse quite a bit lower in dollars/service than for-profit insurers, they actually make up a larger volume of total services rendered. I can't argue with a statement as vague as "usually a for-profit entity," but I can state more precisely that it "will be a non-profit entity for more than 50% of services and more than 50% of reimbursed dollars."

3. Minimizing loss ratio has nothing to do with what I said at all. If you can put forward a mechanism that translates my front desk expenses into reduced MLR for the payor, I'm listening with open ears. Look at this thought experiment: let's say my insurer's MLR stays flat, and I can accept a 100$/yr subscription fee from all of my patients to improve front-desk service, with the caveat that I'm taking a profit off the top. Would the insurer care? No? Is there anything the insurer's payment processes would do to affect this? No? Then the issue is my profit motive, not the insurer.

4. The convoluted payment processes are there to aid the insurer in sorting through their giant piles of paperwork (you didn't think that administering a health insurance network was low in bureaucracy, did you?) and, more cynically, to create pitholes for us to step into so patient care is denied reimbursement. You're going to have actually, again, provide a mechanism by which that translates into "Doctor doesn't improve services offered." Because I can tell you that if the bureaucratic hurdle that is insurance billing doesn't step me from billing in the current environment, then it's not going to stop me from billing for higher amounts if I could get them.
That's kind of like if I were morbidly obese, and my diet consisted of 6 big macs, 6 large Cokes and 6 large fries daily, plus a cheesecake at the end of the day for dessert, and I patted myself on the back because I went on a "diet" by cutting out the cheesecake.

Growth in CO2 emissions has recently plateaued, but the world still pumps out about 40% more CO2, every year, than we did in 2000. Stopping the growth doesn't really matter that much, we need to drastically reduce overall emissions.
Pretty frequently in these scare-generation articles there's no attempt to differentiate between someone using Google Cloud to do something, and Google itself doing something. Is this just a hospital chain making a deal for Google Cloud services to support their normal IT operations, or is Google actually using this data for something? If so, what is Google using the data for?
The blog illustrations don't display properly in 'dark mode' site theme.
PoW and PoS are both Proof of Waste. It's evil, especially so in this environment.

Humans need to co-operate to survive global heating, we cannot avoid trust, we need to make it easier to trust each other. If you buy into cryptocurrency you are implicitly abandoning hope of humanity surviving this crisis, in fact you're hastening our downfall.
It's absolutely unprecedented for human civilisation.

If you want to compare it with catastrophic climate changes in pre-human times, go ahead. But that's far more likely to damage your argument than help it because they were far more catastrophic, up to and including mass extinction events.
Any organization that does not optimize value capture will be short-lived. Neither for-profit, nonprofit nor governmental business models are necessarily aligned towards improving patient outcomes over revenue. However revenue is a critical feedback loop to enforce change in the face of poor outcomes.

The Medicare agency cut off funding for heart transplants at [a nonprofit hospital] last year after the Chronicle-ProPublica investigation documented an outsized number of patient deaths and unusual surgical complications following the procedure in recent years.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article...
The social media companies need to be treated as common carriers.
New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery
I doubt this is a "move fast and break things" kind of situation.

You don't think about driving slower during the 20ms between the impact and the airbag hitting your face do you ?
Beads follows the State-Action-Model pattern, as described at sam.js.org. It is derived from the TLA+ work of Lamport. You have a mutable state, with pure code that renders the state on the screen, and then event tracking code mutates the state. What makes Beads unusual is that when you change the model, the screen layout section affected is automatically scheduled for refresh. This is possible because the state is being tracked
I'm pretty sure there are places in rural Nevada that work exactly like that.
Yeah, sure it's gonna be great to have millions (billions?) of people migrating to the few places that will be "blessed" by global warming.
The future of the IoT (batteries not required)
This is great, I've been getting into using airtable / coda for some house management stuff, but I've not liked that it's in the cloud (because I want to be more sure that I can look back 5 years and still see it).

I love the audit table, that's a nice touch.
OMG, your post was very interesting.
More like our current civilization was built for the current temperature, and higher temperatures would require changes to our civilisation to adapt to the new temperature.
Yes, some places are doomed. It's not a black and white outcome like all the denier downvoters cling to.
Thanks, your post was very interesting.
you're not coming across as terribly polite
At least with gold, you can make something with it. Bitcoin? If it goes down, you lose everything.
Yes, I worked in academia up until recently, and keep up with the literature.

My comment was on the historical status of academia in the US as a whole (think last 120 years), not just the current state globally.

You’re lamenting the quality of academic publishing in particular. The US now publishes less than 17% of science and engineering papers, but its papers are often the most highly cited. So yes, there has been a huge increase in the number of papers, and number of low-quality papers, but this isn’t necessarily being driven by the US, as the original comment would have implied.

You claim researchers don’t really trust articles anymore, and I agree that it takes a lot more work to filter out the noise now, and I’m less optimistic that authors are presenting an honest, objective appraisal of their results. But significant research is still happening, and academic publishing is still the primary way that information is disseminated. People seem to rely more on name recognition (author, school, journal) now. It probably varies field but field. I’m in a field where results are often proof-based and that tends to be harder to fake.
It looks bleak. There are fewer and fewer options remaining. Carbon sequestration at the source of emissions could reduce some CO2 from big fossil fuel power stations, but won't fix vehicles. We need a miracle technology that can actually extract CO2 from the air. Planting 1 trillion trees might help, but we won't do it.
I'm curious how many of those have were peer-reviewed predictions from credible sources.
The CCP propaganda machine is failing.
This is like saying the BBC should not cover any national government in the world, since they receive financial benefits from their own government.
I like Kalzumeus' and your blog a lot. And Julia. Tania started out OK, but everything she's produced in the past 2 years is insipid. She seems pretty unlikable.
What's the top soil look like in the US NE? It's been a while since I've been to, say, Maine. But I can tell you that the other new farmland folks propose is British Columbia, and it's obvious that they've never been to mid-to-northern BC and looked down toward their feet. You'd be better off trying to grow corn in sand that the stuff that passes for top soil in BC.

This also ignores the fact that when one starts heading north, that Sun in the sky tends to get pretty weak-ass, even in the summer. As a Seattle resident, I about go blind getting off the plane in Miami until I can get those sunglasses on. And I can tell you how much corn enjoys the lack of good sun in comparison to my home state of Indiana: it doesn't.
Related fun fact: If you buy a house near sea level now, the resale value [edit: for buyers in the know] will not be based on the current sea level, it will be based on the projected sea level 25 years from now when the potential next buyers will still be paying their mortgage.

And in their minds, if they are smart, they will realize that their resale value will be based on the sea level 25 years from their unknown future resale date.
How about this. This article is written by self proclaimed "amateur scientist" Willis Eschenbach and is a certified hack and kook. Everything he writes should be taken with giant grain of salt.
The problem with these events is that we should err on the side of caution, since the other side may well be catastrophic.
Lots of great blogs here. One I haven't seen mentioned yet is Robin Hanson's - https://www.overcomingbias.com
Solving direct text extraction from PDFs
Miami and other parts of FL have huge problems with both flooding and sea level rise
Probably not a small node, remember flash gets more fragile the smaller the process.

SSD makers are layering on larger nodes, and focusing on multibit (they are basically at PLC/5bit flash for consumer or non-heavy wear, which is frankly a bit nuts)