skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could it be that the human brain just cannot relate to or care about large-scale and long-term problems without continually making a conscious effort to?

What we are experiencing is a failure of particular institutions - government, industry, NGOs, Intergovernmental organizations etc. What an average brain might or might not care or related-to is a significant distance from this.

One might argue we have a failure of brains together to create responsible organizations and frameworks. But here, we have had quite a few struggles between types of organizations, with some winning and some losing. Perhaps the losers might have done better, perhaps not.
Might just be the slashdot effect, but his site is currently down.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Motivation on this scale is very hard to manage. The free markets are the best way I know of to motivate people into action. But the best thing motivated people do is they come up with new technologies. This is where I'm pinning my hopes. I don't think this is going to be solved by governments regulating (that is needed however). It's going to be when we hit the tipping point of low carbon energy production being cheaper than coal and when batteries get cheap enough to both buffer the electrical grid and take over the role of energy storage in vehicles. Once that happens I think we'll see an asymptotic reduction in emissions. I just hope things are in a reasonable state when that happens.
I agree in general, but the problem with your Musk and Ghandi examples is that they were deified to begin with, we expect more from God's that we would a Car/Rocket company executive or a civil rights activist.

A better example might be sports starts, they are very good at what they do but at some point we decided they had to behave like role models and they often fall short of that expectation. Terry Davis is more like a sports star praising god for his match performance, which isn't out of the ordinary.
Disclaimer: IANAL

To clarify, the plaintiff does have to prove it was the defendant that wronged them, but instead the standard of proof being "beyond a reasonable doubt" it's something like on "the balance of probabilities."
Easy to separate. You dont think about a singer's private life doing drugs to be able to enjoy their music. Why is it different here? And if you only follow folks who have never said anything wrong in their whole life, well you cant do much anymore can you? Because true saints are rare to come by.
> VESL springs to mind

Haven't seen or heard that before; thanks, I'll have something to show some people.

> Among other things, it requires a person to trust the programs involved, trust that the models correspond meaningfully to reality, and trust the intentions of the people creating them.

Yes, those are the basics, they may not be small asks in a politically charged areas, but if you don't have them your alternative is to coerce people by threats. It's entirely reasonable to require these three things, as if people were to suddenly suspend them, they'd be quickly conned. This makes the problem hard, especially that you have a lot of people, including pretty much all news companies, who make money by burning that trust.

Maybe a lot of convincing simulations were shown as a matter of large-scale public discussion, and were rejected based on trust issue. If so, I must have missed it, and it's a shame :(.

RE politically charged areas, I'm reminded of this quote:

> As near as I can tell, the political process converts ideas from logical propositions into group signaling devices. Once a idea becomes a signal, any question of its truth or falsehood is commonly ignored for several human generations.

-- dlss, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12699503
I read the article first then checked the comments here and I still feel that way. I highly doubt I'm alone.
Nuclear winter is a very effective way to reduce global temperature, despite the initial CO2 spike. Also, the damage is quite calculable.
>>One of her motives, she says, is to be able to support her younger sisters, so they won't need to rely on men for money

Aha! The very definition of taking one for the team :-) .

The news is that now it's wide open and more expected. They'll keep it doing well into their 40's, once you cross the barrier you can always use more money. And odds are that they'll find a taker, albeit an older one and receive way less money.
Speculate and you get the backup account for free.
London City airport is working on a virtual control tower located 100km away:

https://www.google.com/search?q=london+city+airport+remote+t...
This is probably the most honest one. Pay, do the thing and leave.
why not live by "actions speak louder than words" instead? Everyone says something they end up regretting. With the net whatever you said before ends up tainting your reputation forever. Time to move on to what people do instead.
Some singer doing drugs wasn't trying to hurt anyone. It's a simple difference.
The Try pattern is good but if you are using a whole bunch of libraries/existing code that doesn't use it already it's just going to be confusing to introduce it.
Maybe it's my terminology that's wrong, but when someone uses the term 'free speech', I assume they are talking specifically about a first amendment issue

In other words, free speech doesn't exist outside the USA?
Do you have contact information?
Most people here won't get it but for Indians, it is very obvious OP is a staunch Modi supporter.
I think constructs of our society, and short-term political leadership in particular, is a bigger problem than the human brain. Politicians can and do make pledges on being committed to "the green shift" while actually choosing easy "greenwashing" solutions that they publicise heavily.

Meanwhile most of the can gets kicked down the road. And the term for a politician, even if it's 8 years, is so short that no single politician gets the blame in 50 years' time.
It's not really even decent, but I agree that it helped me improve my win rate quote a bit, mostly through avoiding movements up unless necessary, and by trying to stick and keep the largest number in one of the lower corners.
That's not an estimate then, it is a commitment.

If you break someone's plans it is often worse than not having planned at all. Unless the plan is extremely flexible... Agile. Then the plan barely matters so why make one at all? Have a detailed unordered playbook instead and potentially a guiding strategy. (sometimes a playbook is timed, that is less flexible than untimed conditional plays and generally shows that you lack information)
In case the words are confusing, plan is on tactical level and related to day to day operations. A playbook is a set of small roughly sketched plays to be used when conditions are met. A play differs from a plan by level of detail and size.
"Release by the end of June" is rarely a good plan, "release before competitor adds a similar feature" might be.
The date is reifying unknown to look known but does not make it so, and if leaked helps your competition plan.

Deployment can be done whenever and unlike development is often much more predictable.
Likewise marketing.

Usually the story is that the stakeholder is targeting some annual demo event and that gives a strict timeline. Any of your estimates is worthless and useless then, only tracking and feature set near the time of such event so that marketing can decide what to show and whether to show anything at all.
And the marketing takes some time too, so the stakeholder probably wants to know how ready something is before launching that machine, but not too much before or they might overhype and burn.
Trying to do it backwards, when the features are time boxed target generally goes poorly as the features get implemented in a checklist but not useful, usable or extensible matter. (Scrum results in this too.)

Second type of "stakeholder" is a time minded investor. Again that is a commitment not an estimate, since it you do not provide a good enough product you will not get paid and probably fold.

Then there's a combination of both when trying to outdo established competition with known upgrade patterns.
Agreed. He wrote an operating system, a compiler and a whole lot more. That kind of achievement deserves respect.
You joke, but I would guess Russia will ultimately be the winner here.
I'm reading this thing nodding my head all the way down. Clean code practicioners would balk at this but I thought this was cool:

> It's not every IDE that lets you embed images and flowcharts directly into your source code, that kinda makes you sit up and take notice. And yes, those flowchart boxes are hotlinked, so you can click on them to go directly to the source code that implements them.

Also the system-wide native autocomplete is cool. My old Palm Pre had that and it was very handy.

So many cool bits of technology will remain in the shadows of history. So sad.
Hey, Stephenson had people living long-term in spaces that size, in Seveneves. That didn't turn out so well, but eight days isn't that long.

Tube beds could be close packed, and people could sleep in shifts. Also, one can survive just fine with just a washcloth and towel, and a source of warm water.
I believe the biggest hurdle is that the bar has been set too low for what constitutes an acceptable standard of driving/casualty rate. There's so much that can be done to improve the situation but few answers are politically palatable (except for Netherlands, Sweden, and a few other countries around there, I believe). Car owners also seem to like driving, despite being stuck in traffic Mon-Sat.

I also think people will soon realise the limitations of trying to implement too much of this kind of tech as an answer to solving political and social problems. I'm not saying that the tech will never be good enough, but right now it's hard to see when that future will arrive in time before other pressing matters take hold.

However, what I do like about the self-driving car "movement" is that it's forcing more people to ask questions about what is acceptable when it comes to trauma rates. But for the time being, I see a lot of risk compensation ahead and fiddling around the edges.

More can be done a lot faster for less money if we instead were to focus all our efforts on reducing the population's overall dependency on private vehicle use and ownership. But in many parts, there's just too much money tied up in motordom with powerful parties are at play - the same parties who decide where to place big infrastructure spends and tax concessions. After all, always making new cars is one way to drive the economy - but at what externalised costs?
> I prefer mercy.

I prefer accuracy, and not just for my own benefit. It's a small thing here, but whitewashing uncomfortable past truthful actions rarely leads to a good future outcome.

One could argue that we should let the small stuff go and only hold to this for large infractions, but that just leads to fighting over what is small and what is large, as well as problems where in hindsight something that looked small really wasn't.

Perhaps the way forward is to call out behavior we don't agree with, but also be more accepting of people (as opposed to their behavior) that have portions of their behavior we don't agree with.
I agree that "vastly more people who have pursued educations and careers in literature and writing than any past point in history." I don't think that necessarily means we're producing better writers than the best writers of the pre-18th century Earth, largely because exemplary writers are formed--like a Terence Tao in math--at an early age. Anecdotally Faulkner never graduated from college; Shakespeare never went to college.

Let's go back to the (overly) strong statement our parent post made:

>I think that writing just like everything else has improved with the 20th and 21st century's obsession with design. As such, not all but the best modern writing is much more expressive, concise and communicative.

Concision is more a modern trend than anything else and not an absolute good so we'll ignore it.

Name me a 21st century writer more expressive and communicative than Shakespeare. Or assuming he's too "long-tail," someone more expressive than Faulkner. And I agree this is completely subjective, so I'd think the best course of action is seeing if there is any academic consensus on the subject.

Just some quick googling, but here's an article [0] about a Stanford study showing that modern students are writing more than ever (mostly through text messages/social media). But one wonders whether text messages are (a) "prose" in the literary sense, (b) materially different enough on a mental level from just talking to someone to offer any additional benefit, (c) transferable in skills to writing a novel. The authors say that the students are good at "assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across," but their test subjects are a bunch of Stanford students who are great at jumping through hoops and conforming to expectations--as shown by the fact that they got into Stanford. Not to mention that they're not comparing the papers to a sample of pre-texting papers...

Anyway, not like that article is definitive or anything.
> The problem with 2048 is that it’s not a very good game. You can solve it algorithmicly.

Every game is susceptible to algorithms by definition, by itself, it doesn't make a game more or less good, or more or less fun.

For me, 2048 hits a perfect spot where I can play it during meetings/conference calls/regular phone calls, to give that 20% of my mind that gets bored something to do, while not impacting my ability to focus on the discussion itself.
I agree. Also, humans are terrible procrastinators. In my experience as a terrible procrastinator, motivation will come only when nothing else could possibly seem more important. By then, the most valuable time and opportunity to solve the problem will be long gone. Humanity will survive after pulling some half-baked solution out of its ass, but it will remember with great pain global civilization's first abject failure. After the second or third abject failure, we might start to wise up and take equilibrium seriously...

(That's one potential outcome. I think it is most likely but I also have high hopes for the tens of thousands of brilliant problem solvers focused on averting catastrophe).
This doesn't seem to be anything new or different. Just because a muder victim's blood is found on your clothes and you are holding a knife doesn't necessarily mean you are the murderer -- but it is evidence.

At the end of the day you will be tried by a judge or a jury. If your only defense is some kind of grand, implausible chain of maybes and what-ifs, they will rule against you. If you have a perfectly reasonable explanation, then they won't.

An IP is just evidence.
Those regulations are there for a reason. Safety is important. You don't want your space elevator climbers to fall down. A ripped cable would also be a pretty expensive accident.
Pipedrive. Surely not applicable to every type of sales process but clean and intuitive UI.
Easiest way to find shared interest between two peoples in GitHub
A Github based project. Gitrahub stands for 'Git Intra Hub'. Main goal of gitrahub is you can easily find the sharred interest between two users. Follow the below steps and run it locally.

https://github.com/vinothkumarrenganathan/gitrahub
Can we separate the cause for what drove him to do that from what caused his other, less acceptable, behavior? There's been a lot of looking purely at the technical merits of stuff in the past few decades, with quite little attention paid to the causes or effects of the technology in question, to my mind. I'm not sure it's left us in a particularly good position.
The utter shambles that is the NBN [1] is symptomatic of the Australian government's and hence the Australian peoples' attitudes to technology and online privacy. Most voters would say "if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide". The Government is now trying to consolidate your healthcare record into a central database (ensure that you specifically opt out of this before November), and apparently have been using this data to target sex workers according to people I know in the industry, despite it being legal.

The Australian government cannot be trusted with your personal data. This is a government that seems to take civil liberties as an inconvenience rather than a right. Scott Morrison (the current PM, for those not keeping up) just today said that Victoria need a "police force that's a force", which is a blatant dogwhistle for "let's target minorities and disadvantaged communities". Meanwhile, the NSW police force seems to think there's absolutely nothing wrong with deploying drug dogs at train stations in Sydney's western suburbs like a bunch of fascists.

People keep voting for these politicians that support these policies. It's disgusting.

[1] For those non-Australians, the National Broadband Network is a mostly failed attempt for the Australian government to roll out high speed internet nationwide.
The only required dependency to build CMake is libuv. Are you talking about something else?
> Although if everyone uses it to mean the same as method, as seems increasingly the case, then that will be what it means and be printed in dictionaries.

As far as I've ever heard or seen this word used, "methodology" is used to mean "a set of methods". Maybe you're a bit confused by the fact that a method can be usually destructured into sub-methods - or conversely, a "methodology" is just a single method in the set of methods one meta-level up.
One thing he did was create a tremendously interesting OS. Another thing he did was to say a bunch of racist stuff. There is no evidence I'm aware of he regretted either. So yes, let's remember _all_ of it.
My (2011) car manual claims that there is a sun sensor that is used to control climate system, so I would assume that yes, it can.
The election had higher voter turnout than any national election in the UK in decades, and most of all polls showed the election was going to be very close. Blaming voter complacency does not seem logical.
There’s Always a Time Lag (With a Price Tag)
No, we don't even know if warp drives are allowed by the laws of physics. We have a pretty good idea how to do hibernation: Saturate the tissue with some cryoprotectant and freeze it very quickly. The problem is that we don't have a cryoprotectant that is sufficiently non-toxic and we can't freeze anything as big as a human quickly enough.
That's all true, but doesn't really come to terms with why we as individuals don't spontaneously leap into unified mass action. We keep our cars, our flights, our meat and our general over consumption. Even the tendency to defer to authority and expect our government to deal with the problem undermines potential solutions. It seems to be truly an innate human failing... at least so far. This kind of problem just doesn't trigger an existential threat response where we throw everything we have at it.
My friend, my comrade in arms, your technological taste and superior sensibilities are second to none.
Right, and such a concession to be agreed on by Canada would require an equally beneficial concession made by the U.S. no?

I guess I only see 3 scenarios for such a trade agreement.

1) Both parties try to predict future economic growth. So maybe US believes IP protection for drugs would have a huge impact on their economy. But Canada thinks they're wrong, and that they'll make more gains from tax free dairy exports to the US that it will trump the loses from drug IPs. This is what I hope is happening. In which case, whoever can predict best wins.

2) This whole thing is driven by corruption. And the deals are not beneficial to Canada at large, but to special interests within it to which the deal is beneficial, even though it won't be for the average tax payer.

3) The US is using military threat or similar kind of forceful threat in order for Canada to just adopt laws that benefit the US only.

Is there something else at play here I can't see?
Magic Leap Ripped Off Those Awesome UI Concepts
The IPA is no Breitbart, as they are (sadly) definitely an Establishment think thank. However, they do lean extremely right wing and have been rented by the hour by the tobacco and fossil fuels lobby and are more or less owned by Gina Reinhart (like you say). They've even been commissioned by the government in the past to investigate bias in NGOs (!).

The idea that they are principled free speech defenders is pretty funny. There's a lot of rhetoric about thin-skinned millennials, but if you want to see a real triggered snowflake, just ask someone from the Murdoch press about whether we are showing a little too much reverence on Anzac day, or share a couple anecdotes about some of the less savory ways that Australia came to be controlled by white Europeans.

I don't think the IPA has any track record of defending freedom of speech unless it's either (a) conservative or (b) a left-on-left fracas where a bit of bastardry is useful (i.e. spats about feminism where rushing to the defense of one feminist is primarily a good way of putting the boot into another).
Indeed. I thought it was going to be a one off video but pleasantly surprised by the comprehensive coverage of all parts of sale thats relevant to a solo founder.

These kind of stuff are the rare gems you get once in a while from HN.
Learning BASIC Like It's 1983
Put another way, monadic error handling really requires `do` notation.
So, just to be sure, this is an article about a one-off non-product/art piece?
Ironically, the types of things that one would put into a museum in that universe are specifically the types of things that replicators can't get right.
Some kind of feedback is required. If you can get personal feedback, from 1:1 interactions with a teacher, all power to you. But many people can't, and have to seek out feedback on case-by-case basis (e.g. by sharing their work on-line), and/or from non-living sources (e.g. your solution working is a form of feedback in itself, quite fertile if you pay attention to it).
What aggravates me about using IP addresses to accuse alleged pirates is the same thing that aggravates me about traffic cameras: It's not my responsibility, duty, or privilege to enforce the law.
I've been using SPF in my SpamAssassin rules for over 10 years now and it has only ever been a good thing.

score SPF_FAIL 0 0.919 0 0.919
There was a guy at DEFCON showing his collection of these antique devices, and some literature from the era advertising their medical use.

I didn’t carbon date them, but, yeah, they existed, and they were used.
Show HN: View random wikipedia articles via Telegram
The recent claims on math misled physicists is a bit over blown ... as everyone would agree, a true physicist uses math only as a tool for trying to get at the physics in nature ... though a physicist may try to stretch an existing math model of the theory, but that is it ... only as a way to explore ... the final say will still come from how well it fits the behavior of nature ...
A single museum could be broken into many smaller buildings, with measures taken specifically to avoid spreading fires and things like earthquake damage from one building to another. Decentralization doesn't have to mean spreading things miles apart.
I don't think we've hit a limitation of our brains. We used to be able to build cathedrals that took dozens of years to complete. Voyager 2 was launched in 1977 and didn't complete its initial mission until 1989. We planted trees that we knew would take a hundred years to reach full maturity.

We don't have a cognitive failure. We have an institutional failure. The corporate system that drives most of human society today is often unable to deliver long-term projects that benefit society. The tragedy of the commons is a viable business model — the way to compete is to exploit as much of the environment as you can before the other guy does.