skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the temperature that's the problem, it's the rate of change. (And the existence of nuclear weapons.)
Don’t forget to avoid saying ‘blacksmith’ too. Another somewhat ‘racist’ one. /s

Still waiting for Mastercard to change their incredibly ‘racist’ company name. /s
Do you have a source for these claims? Without informed consent, they would be significant breaches of both national data protection legislation and the GDPR.
Not having kids has little influence on the emissions in the next ten to twenty years, which is what counts with regards to reaching tipping points.
My local public schools have no issue with me taking my daughter on vacation during the school year. She is about to start 10th grade and has missed a week or more of school for vacation and/or horse shows every year. As she has gotten older we just take her school issued Chromebook with us and she will work on assignments while we are traveling or when we are back at the hotel in the evening. Some teachers will allow her to take tests she will have missed while away and others have her take them when she returns after.
I wanna bet Shopify’s legal department, and their budget for lawsuits, may disagree with your opinion. I have to imagine running a huge online store backend or payment processing system has huge fraud departments. If their platform allows fraudulent activity to run rampant (i.e. no checks on intellectual property, etc.) then many companies will go after them for diluting their brand and other types of legal matters. They can get money out of Shopify but they’re not going to get anything out of someone selling fraudulent product.

I agree with others in this thread - they should provide a layer of actual humans to help shop owners. And have a process for dealing with AI/ML gone rogue - like the address verification system in this example - where a set of humans can override and make sure a shop owner can continue to operate. Heck send someone to PR to help validate addresses every month.
It may not be there today, but I think it's obvious that AI is going to basically make all creatives obsolete. At some point I expect it'll be able to:

* Create movies, music and books on-demand

* Design interiors, buildings, electric circuits, web sites, build pipelines, software architectures, etc.

Software devs may be one of the last industries to be obsoleted, but it'll happen. About the only thing left will be the executive function of decision making, but even that's likely to devolve into:

"AI, where's a gap in the market?"

"Jonny, there are gaps in blah, blah, blah. Products that do x, y, z are in demand"

"OK AI, design and print me a prototype"

"Printing in progress..."
It is not that frequent and it is difficult/expensive to verify those stories. Plus, anonymous/unofficial source is not much. To large extend, it amounts to gossip and a lot of it is basically unuseable.
My interpretation is that is not better for communication than putting the same random number in two envelopes, sending them somewhere and then opening both at the same time.
Worth mentioning that the experimental payments during this research were one-time-only.

(a few descriptions[1][2][3] of Universal Basic Income seem to define it as including recurring/periodic payments)

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income

[2] - https://basicincome.stanford.edu/uploads/Umbrella%20Review%2...

[3] - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/basic-income.asp
How is it a lie, are you a time traveler? He didn't make any claims, he shared his frustration.

If you think there's a 0% chance of humans going extinct perhaps you are the delusional one.
This is UCT, not UBI. We already have a lottery, and we already know the outcome — the population at large still has home/food security issues. No additional study was necessary. It almost feels like they used the term “UCT because it is similar to “UBI”. I feel like this is disingenuous.
Just like we stopped pretending we can limit it to 0.5°? Or to 1°? When does this process stop? Should we just give up completely and party like it's 1999 until fossil fuels run out?
This will likely be an unpopular opinion here, but the earth has been experiencing “climate change” since its inception and all the folks panicking over it is an overreaction. Humans will adapt to the earth’s conditions. Yes we’ve impacted the climate. I’m not saying we shouldn’t continue migrating to EVs, etc. But by and large, the earth’s climate is such a complex and massive beast that it’s naïve to think that we can really make a meaningful affect what’s coming. If places become uninhabitable, then humans will migrate elsewhere as we always have. The earth will be here long after humans go extinct (probably) and it will be fine with or without us. The sky is not falling :)
Great write-up. Indeed, the journey with Lisp is an interesting one and what you have witnessed seems to parallel many others experiences.

What I found on my journey with Lisp:

- I learnt Emacs well and learnt the beauty of its codebase and the thoughtfulness put into the program. Its' levels of documentation and customisation and being a lisp machine in its own rights was an enlightening experience for me when designing my own software (i.e. document well, document in a standardised way, document thoughtfully (think of what the users would want to know) and providing customisability to end users (which to be honest, dynamic langauges like Lisp excel at because they are much better suited for runtime manipulation and optimisation

- The power of macros to change one's language. Now admittedly, this took some time to get a handle on. You kinda need to be proficient in Lisp before you start doing some super funky stuff and mould your language and program together into one (Ala PG's On Lisp). But having the ability to change the language at _compile_ time is simply, utterly, most imaginably amazing!

- Writing clearer code: Because Lisp has very little punctuation syntax (not to be confused with the syntax of certain special forms), you cannot hide behind boilerplate code as much and you end up having to face your own thoughts more directly in the code you write. It is tough going at the start (who would have thought a _simple_ language would actually be hard to program in well - basically the more complexity in a language, the more restriction to your expressiveness, the more simple a language, the more power to you to fully express yourself by combining orthogonal blocks...speaking generally here as sometimes complexity does help in other ways (e.g. see CLOS))

- Learning from the greats in Computer Science - there is so many good ideas and thoughts embedded into the lisps, that you inevitably learn a lot of good things by immersing yourself in the language and its history (of course over time)

And finally, 'Life Beyond Lisp'. I no longer program in Common Lisp as my main language because I do need some libraries that I cannot do without. But as you alluded in your post on writing better JS after Lisp, I too have significantly improved my programming and code clarity in these other languages, after learning Lisp. Of course, one day I hope to program exclusively in CLOS, but until that day, Swift remains my near friend (at least it has generic functions).

I can wholeheartedly recommend Common Lisp to anyone who has some spare time and curiosity to improve their skills in our profession of computer science. Also (and this is something Lispers don't seem to do that well), try other languages! Learn from them all in my humble opinion. Computer Science is a wonderful thing :)

p.s. Congrats to Kandria on their progress. Truly a wonderful team and their main author is a wonderful open-source lisper.
Scratch your own itch first, then build in the business logic.
Pen the statue for us, what would one look like that would stop this type of release of names?
The amount of things you need to learn in biology is truly hard, though from what I've heard, there's nothing harder than quantum physics, since it's so fundamentally different from how we're used to seeing things.
I'm curious also. Could it be that antibiotic meats affect the gut / microbiome? Perhaps creating an environment favorable to certain gut bacteria that lead to increased appetite or fat?
It isn't just the logos that change the same companies have diversity officers as if this will change the tast of the orange juice. As is customary I have to add I am a black male least I am accused of being insensitive.
No, it's the expectation on the teacher to provide material for 30 children to catch up, for a week each.

It's a nightmare for the teacher, who then has less time left for the children who didn't go on holiday to progress.
> What about models of computing, or defining what we even mean when we say "computing"?

IMO starting with that is the worst possible way to introduce CS to students who are (statistically) far more interested in programming and software engineering than in CS. Hell, most students in this class are probably there only because it’s a prereq for the class they actually want to take.
Approximately 2% of frog eggs become tadpoles, 0.8% of tadpoles become froglets, and 0.1% of froglets become mature frogs capable of reproduction. However, these figures vary based on frog species, predation, and habitat. Some favorable environments may see higher average survival rates of 1 – 2%.

https://toadsnfrogs.com/how-many-tadpoles-survive/

I don't think his plan is going to work.
Maybe, maybe not. But it is clear which one has priority for US voters.
If the person was Chinese yes that would be an important consideration wrt the motive
can you elaborate on why it is that good? why is it so engaging?
It's not just death of HTTP. It's the death of the "trust by default" model of Internet communication.

When the Internet didn't matter much, everything was in the open. Now that real money and real control critically depend on the Internet, everything is going to be encrypted, digitally signed, firewalled, etc.

I don't thunk there is a way back.

For old machines one can run a TLS-terminating proxy inside the secured internal network.
When you're chronically poor, $500 or $2,000 is nice, but won't solve anything long term, therefore no ling term change happens.
Byline Times is, uh, very much the "stop voting evil lizard people into power" kind of news outlet rather than thr "global warming is not even happening" kind.
Where on Earth has the highest UV? [pdf]
Seems to be caused by the period before the catalytic converter gets up to normal exhaust temperature.

“Vehicles fitted with catalytic converters emit most of their total pollution during the first five minutes of engine operation; for example, before the catalytic converter has warmed up sufficiently to be fully effective.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_converter
It's a weird porridge of topics.

Just do this instead: https://dcic-world.org/
When I first read about the 1.5C target in the papers I laughed out loud.

For me, the 1.5C target is the same as budget targets for a new big construction project. Politicians say it'll take N million to get it to pass, but they all know it'll end up costing at least 2-3x as much.

Nobody, and especially not politicians, want to do what's required to keep it below 1.5C.
Object Lock may be useful to protect backups from deletion, but ransomware is now relying on the threat of data exposure more, where Object Lock makes no difference:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/25/ransomware_gangs_exto...

"Increasingly, however, cybercrime rings still tracked as ransomware operators are turning toward primarily data theft and extortion – and skipping the encryption step altogether. Rather than scramble files and demand payment for the decryption keys, and all the faff in between in facilitating that, simply exfiltrating the data and demanding a fee to not leak it all is just as effective. This shift has been ongoing for many months, and is now virtually unavoidable."

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/03/fbi_cisa_warn_karakur...
I agree with your view. The fact that the killer went through the stress of making homemade guns, which likely involved lots of hiccups, shows he had a very deep grudge for his target, and I see being (allegedly, can't confirm yet) raised in a religious cult that bankrupted your mum as an ideal catalyst for such a grudge.

And if recent years have taught me a lesson, it's that real life is often stranger than friction. What you think can only be achieved by state-level, mafia-like collaboration ends up being the work of random individuals (e.g., that Bitfinex hack where two funny characters were caught with $4.5bn of stolen bitcoin).
This is what surprises me. If we are indeed in for a prolonged period of man-made global warming, as politicians tell us (dramatic pause, earnest face, raised eyebrows) then where are the irrigation schemes, the river delta flood defences, the sea walls, the city relocations?
It's only a falsehood if you live in Scandinavia or East Asia. What about the hotter parts of South East Asia which are on the cusp of survivability as is?
For a second I thought this was going to be an article about people who only allow squash-commits to their repo
Honestly, the easy part is building a search engine, like just document retrieval stuff and domain ranking, SEO-mitigation etc. Anyone can build a Google '98 and get it to work well, not that hard, doesn't require all too much hardware. I have done that and got one running out of my living room.

The tricky part, if you want people to use your search engine for more than the novelty factor, and what most Google competitors struggle with is drawing the rest of the damn owl. For example, commercial searches, local businesses, that sort of thing. As much as Google flounders with some queries, the overall package is still really good.
MIT Bridge Project Spans Disciplines for Better Cancer Diagnostics
Aerosols are risky, they can be adverse and hard to reverse once deployed.

Less risky and reversible: Space Bubbles !

[1] https://senseable.mit.edu/space-bubbles/
Shopify surely has the highest amount of retailers for ecommerce. There might be more websites selling with magento, but when it comes to actual retailers being active right now, it’s the best and most popular option. Retailers don’t have the tech knowledge to roll out their own tech so it won’t be an open source DIY platform so most will start with shopify.

Their App Store is the biggest, which as we know from apple, it is quite important for your ecosystem. You want an advanced inventory tool? A 3pL? A new packing slip app? A new discount app? Any of the best apps out there that are actively developed are integrating with… shopify.
How dare you, some of my best friends identify as traffic lights.
I'd like her to spend time in person with other kids during her schooling hours, and honestly the public schools have a agenda of their own so I have to teach her to think critically about what is taught either way.
> You're not going to stop people from misentering addresses, and many countries have terrible validation or streets that don't exist yet take forever to show.

I live in a place where the official address changed: as in we got a letter (in 2016 I think) from the town hall saying "your address is now ... and you have to ask everybody to mail you at that new address". Well... Most utility bills' systems have been programmed in a way that make it impossible to keep the same "installation ID" (as in the ID on our electrical install) while changing the address. Somehow "the street got a new name" is a case that had never been planned.

The implications are wild (for example the bank refusing to open an account because the official, legal, address doesn't match the address on the utility bill and then the contry's IRS thinking there are shenanigans going on).

That's in a civilized, western EU, country.

It's Brazil (the movie).
Yep. It’s very sad for the owner. And I empathize. But a lot of things they blame shopify for is actually the exact same across the ecommerce spectrum.
The basic functionality of Reddit includes upvotes and downvotes that provide a ranking which arguably can be seen to measure quality.
Second, quality lies in the eye of the beholder. ;-)
Oh, sure, to a degree. Wasn't the Defense Production Act the law that was enacted just after Pearl Harbor and led to a significant increase in production starting about a year later?

Didn't happen in this case though. The possibility wasn't even realistically discussed, which makes me suspect that even though nuclear fans view this as a tractable problem or even a nonproblem, the nuclear operators think it's infeasible.
I would never criticize the media for indicating who did the killing, the weapon and how it was obtained, or the "mind set" (to the degree that is possible) of the killer. All of these things inform the populace. (And besides, does anyone think you could successfully suppress those?)

But of course I am not the "widespread criticism" you refer to.

It would be useful to point to the actual hypocrisy of a specific source/person — where this source/person was critical of the U.S. media amplifying a murderer's message but critical of Japan's refusal to do so.
It really seems like an insultingly small amount of money. It's almost like they're trying to disprove something like UBI by association while not actually doing something that's useful.

If they'd given those randomized amounts monthly for a year or 5 years, I would bet the results would be in line with similar studies which show marked benefits.
It’s pretty well known that the Japanese Empire did some of the worst atrocities of the Second World War. Their number of victims is roughly in line with that of the Nazi. I will hasard that the USA doesn’t like to talk about Unit 731 because they gave immunity to the researchers in exchange for the results of their research on chemical weapons in an operation mirroring Paper Clip for rockets.
> the article does not quote one of their supposed straw man politicians arguing '1.5 is still alive'.

I'd point to the UKs Boris Johnson and his endless finger gang signing of one finger (on one hand) and five digits (on the other) at the last COP event.

He is however a dead man walking today .. although still the UK's PM for now.
This is a super interesting paper, but I wouldn't put much trust in the author's suggestion that their machine learning model knows how to make better investment decisions than VC's do.

Of course their model soundly beat the returns of real investors. Its training dataset contained hard data about the future of the tech industry. Real investors don't have hard data on the future, they have to guess.

The dataset includes descriptions of each of the firms. The model gets to learn from the training dataset whether sectors like VR, 3D printing, business collaboration, clean tech, or etc. were good or bad areas to invest in in 2014, and then gets to apply that knowledge to the test dataset which covers the same epoch. (EDIT ADDED: to quote another commenter here, "[The paper] says the most important features are text descriptions of the company and CEO, which are featurized as unigram and ngram TF-IDF counts.")

Real investors making real investment decisions don't know in advance whether sectors like VR or 3D printing or clean tech or low-code/no-code or etc. are going to be hot or duds, they have to guess. Equally importantly, this model doesn't know which of the sectors being touted as hot investment opportunities today will, in hindsight, prove to have been hot today. It only knows which ones were hot in 2014.
Try to enjoy that wonderful experience in rural France, without a car.

I had such joy during two years, close to the French Alps.

Tourist visits isn't the same as living deeply into the country.
Here's a random recent example from last month, Facebook still enabling ongoing genocide via hate speech in targeted ads https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/e...

Not their first platform-enabled genocide (that was years ago), and still not doing anything effectively to mitigate it

>This isn’t the first time that we have found that Facebook is unable to detect clear examples of hate speech: earlier this year we found that they were unable to detect Burmese language hate speech directed against the Rohingya minority.

These genocides are not Facebook incidentally intersecting with the real world and reflecting its reality... These genocides, in how they have succeeded, would not have been possible without Facebook's implicit cooperation. Facebook's profits off the ads responsible for these atrocities, or conversely the lower ad revenue of these so-called second tier countries that are not Facebook's primary focus (I can find this reference again if requested), are a curious incentive to not eagerly take meaningful action
>That would in turn mean that more space is needed to build a house with thicker walls than normal.

Yep, and until (this is slowly changing nowadays) building permits will depend on the external surface of the house or internal surface+half of the external walls (it depends on local building codes), having "better" homes even in the countryside may be problematic.

A "raw earth" house typically has 1 m thick walls, to be compared to the 30-40 cm of houses built in the '60's up to - say - 2010 and the 50 maybe 60 cm of houses built more recently including the (stupid) external foam insulation, this difference in wall thickness is very relevant.

So you have a building lot of 900 sqm (30x30), and according to local Laws you can build on it 20%, your allowed 180 sqm, that is roughly 14x13=182 sqm, has 2x(14+13)=54 m of external walls.

182-54x0.3=165.8 net inner (floor) surface <- old

182-54x0.5=155 net inner (floor) surface <- new/insulated with foam

182-54x1=128 net inner (floor) surface <- raw earth

In a nutshell, you lose one or two rooms.
Funny how similar our comments are, I swear I believe I have not conciously read your comment before writing mine.
Ladybugs are like houseflies, they exist all over the world.
How can a prediction be a lie? Worst case scenario places like India become inhabitable. India being a nuclear armed country isn't going to stay in place and die.
Enforcing arbitration is usually pretty easy - most of the time the company will honor the decision. It's when they don't that is the problem, or where the situation is not a contractual dispute that can be arbitrated.
I recently made a tool to create Brave Goggles using subreddits as a signal source. I already use a netsec goggle for daily searching.

https://github.com/forcesunseen/narwhalizer
Attended one of the shows in France, a few months ago. They politicized it right from the beginning, by having some bozos with English language fluency critize the Chinese government (not that they don't deserve it, but the way it was done sounded like far right American rhetoric). The show itself was vomit inducing, so I left after the first half an hour. As I was waiting outside for someone to exit, at the formal intermezzo mark, I couldn't help noticing lots of other people leaving the avenue. Doesn't surprise me to learn about the relationship with falun gong cult.
if you write it in python or other interpreted language you would either need to bundle python or rely on users installing it or having it already (comes with macos and most linux distributions, windows not so much), so arguably a compiled language would be better for distribution to end users as its easier to bundle dependencies
that books reads like an infomercial to a bad programming language
Most employees say IT issues decrease workplace productivity, morale
Interesting. Are these compounds responsible for the slightly bitter taste of pumpkin seeds? Presumably they aren't usually present at high enough levels to be dangerous.
Yes, there are a couple of such lists. I can only recall the one from St. John's College [1].

[1] - https://www.sjc.edu/application/files/7216/3596/8743/Santa_F...