skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if this is as good as it gets? What if everyone who can be convinced, has been convinced? Will human beings go to their deaths in large numbers continuing to deny something because they can't handle it? I worry that this could be the peak level of responsibility that we as a species can manage.
Yes agreed, it's not helpful to search for a constant consumption requirement. A healthy and sedentary person, with a reasonable diet, on a cold, gray, damp day, does not need to consume much water.
Many deserts were created by man. Just long before our time, so we're used to them.

Not that I think restoring the planet to some technically natural state is particularly desirable. We need a livable and healthy planet a lot more!
Exactly this -- it's gotten to the point for me that anytime I see a post that isn't original, I click the little drop-down arrow (in the upper right-hand corner of the post) and click 'Hide all Posts from [Spammer Name]'.

There's a few friends that I've considered un-following completely because of how many times I've had to do this on their posts. One of them is my brother-in-law -- I called him out on it the last time I saw him, he admitted it's gotten out of hand.

It's baffling how many dumb meme pages there are. But even more baffling, is how many people actually have the motivation to maintain those meme pages. The people that are willingly following them, well, I've lost hope for them.
Reminds me of a US based PC vendor(I think it was Dell or IBM) whose web site store has a check box like : I do not use this product for nuclear weapon development.
edit: There you go, Causality's comments says otherwise about the urine.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

> Tu quoque (Latin for "you also"), or the appeal to hypocrisy, is a fallacy that intends to discredit the opponent's argument by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently in accordance with its conclusion(s).
This is a pretty thorough article. Why would you focus so much on gamma correction? How would you expand it?
Almost a decade ago I made a similar amount in an IPO event being an early employee.

Company of said IPO dropped fairly hard in less than a year (you may be able to guess which one). I'm still not poor by any means but seeing $5~6M turn into $1~1.5M doesn't feel great. Especially since, $5M is retirement money, and $1M is not, so I was literally looking at myself going from being able to retire to not being able to retire.

My advice would be that if this asset of yours could be volatile at all by any means (e.g. is a stock of your employer or even your own company), liquidate and diversify as much as possible as soon as possible.

Then do everything else that everyone else on this thread said about investing, insurance, etc.

(using throwaway because my main account is somewhat recognizable)
I fell ya, and used to think the same way too.

I've even spent that same $5K and got that equipment.

However, there's something missing from weekend bedroom producers, the hunger to be the best and dedication of their entirely life to it.

How? Open mic gigs, playing festivals, being friends with other producers, having lots of charisma, cranking out the tunes and adapting until one hits that sweet spot over and over again.
In the context of "reducing friction" to improve conversion from click-through advertising it's not unexpected that making it easier to retweet results in more people retweeting stuff without thinking it through.
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I feel like this was news 20 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_graph
It will feel more like home to the current inhabitants of Paris
Been saying for years that the Share button is what ruined Facebook. I went there to see what was up with people I know, not to get news or Memes.

The problem now is that FB makes a lot of money via sharing paid content so they won't get rid of it.
Move to Ireland for 2 years to become a resident, there you only pay 10% tax over the capital gain if you meet the "entrepeneur relief" criteria. Not sure if this works as a US citizen, but works for many.
If you're getting a lot of water from your diet (e.g. fruits), you're probably less thirsty than someone who eats a lot of dry sugary/salty foods.
> That's true, but they already started out skeevy.

That's not true. A lot of times, the projects will start before funding.

> But some new tech startup certainly doesn't have to be skeevy to make money or to be in a position to contribute to research.

That is true, but you're also missing the reality of startups. Just survival alone is hard. Stubbornly sticking to idealism doesn't help that cause, which is why people take money from both China and Saudi Arabia.
Would be great if you showed the final output (eg. semantic analysis) result.
If one can continue to crank out those simple genius ideas, yes. And if one has the rest of the skills necessary to run a business.
Good idea but

> Needless to say, isolated initiatives will waste effort and resources.

If the centralized procurement approach is what put everyone in the current mess, what indication is there that a centralized approach to open source won't produce the same issues?

I personally wonder why commit to open source in a centralized manner vs commit to interoperable standards (but not the specific tools used to speak to the standard).
Of course, feel free to reach out to support@clerky.com with any questions you have!
This article adds good background. Also what the announcement seems to be about is a design for a chip yet to be put into production. How this will compare to arm and intel cpus in terms of cost and performance is unclear (to me).
s/AFAIK/I'm guessing/

Or do you have any objective basis for suspecting that this is a buffer overflow?
Casting for Blade Runner was uniformly excellent and many of the actors gave their standout performances in it. Hauer brought an amazing gravitas to the role.
Was there really that big of a different between “via @user” and “RT” and the retweet button?
I don't really understand the defeatist attitude here. By here I don't mean you, but HN in general this crops up a lot.

Humans as a species have done some pretty impressive things once they put their mind to it. It seems now, not many people care. But once the issue is shoved in everyone's face, and big money cities start sinking, I fully expect a global effort. I can't say with 100% certainty we'll be able to fix it, but I won't say we're done for, either.
So, had you been in his position about to join Twitter or working for Twitter and about to build the RT button, you believe you would have foreseen its effects and refused to participate on it based on your conscience?

Did anyone actually predict in Twitter’s early days that adding an RT button would lead to it being an “anger-based platform”? What makes you think you would have?
It's a pattern with Elon. He found out Twitter critic's identity and called up their boss to try to get the guy fired. There's pretty credible allegations that he retaliates against whistleblowers as well.

Elon Musk is not a nice guy that has temporary blowups. He's vindictive.
Schools are not to teach children to operate specific commercial products. The school teaches the basics so the people are able to continue to learn on their own and judge products and technologies. Schools should teach on one side simple hardware architectures, encoding of data, computer representation of perceivable things, and some programming. On the other side, it should put the digital revolution into a historic context and show the dangers that arise from it and how to act as an individual and as a state in it. This way the children can grow into informed citizens.
There might be a way to fix the problem that also doesn't cost Twitter money.
There's a mix of linux, windows and mac OS machines, depending on the use-case and/or user-preference. This won't change.
Politics IS about property and how it gets distributed. For example, the largest creation of private property in history was during the first years of the USSR when the revolutionary government created an immense amount of private farms. When Stalin came to power, he then took them away during collectivization.

If that isn't an extreme example of how politics and property are interdependent than I don't know what is. So I think your characterization of politics is wrong.
isn't the line between white labeling and competing with cloned products blurry? How much of the manufacturing/creation process must they own for it to no-longer merely be a white label product? Lots of companies contract out manufacturing and it's not automatically white labeling in those cases.
I built an app earlier last year to help with spaced repetition on web content: https://retaino.com

It's been interesting to see a lot of interested over the past year around the concept, though it may just be the Badder-Meinhof effect at play (which I'm now able to recall the name of thanks to Retaino!)
Did they know it was a weapon? Would it be a weapon if twitter wasn't popular?
Concerns like these and others people have with FB are surely what repel people away. Although its also something that FB can't fix, even when they are ware of it, due to stakeholders/market that constantly want's a company to make more and more profit. Its the markets infatuations with growth that convert companies into evil, a sad truth for non-community owned companies.
not even close. it would be very surprising to me if cern is getting rid of their labview dependence, as it will undoubtedly increase their development time and robustness (if they are doing things right).
Temperatures high enough to kill people and make agriculture impractical? Rising sea levels that will swallow cities and displace millions? The utter dependence of industrial civilization on the very things that are causing the above?

I mean, take your pick.
I just tried playing! You have a bug, there is no way to unmark a cell, so, when I did one incorrectly, I couldn't click on it :(
wow. even the drivers? say, for the radio?
>For example I discovered recently that you cannot swap two pointer variables in rust without using unsafe. Surely there is some deep reason for that, that is really important until they can figure out how to fix it in some future Rust version, which they undoubtedly will.

Wouldn't this work?
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.swap.html

>But then i see that there is actually some progress in Rust to relax some of these restrictions (e.g. non lexical lifetimes in the borrow checker). If my theory above is true that would actually lower Rust's popularity over time. True? Probably not. But it's an interesting thought.

I'm not sure. Sometimes these restrictions are there, because it's too difficult to decide what should happen. I don't think it's malevolence on the language creators side. And I do think usability is always better.

I find that I'm running into way fewer such situations now than last year though, so I think a lot is happening here.
What is ounce ?
comparing wealth across such a long time period is difficult in many ways.

If it can be done for dance⁷, it can surely be done for wealth.

⁷ Ibid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTchxR4suto
The usual suspects: Droughts and floods causing famine causing conflict causing mass migration causing more conflict.

I suggest reading about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
>Only when people are not just executed by cops because they dared look too black or homeless or whatever

These atrocities are an exceedingly tiny minority out of millions of yearly police interactions.

>And even then, the due process is full of batshit-crazy aspects, from prosecutorial blackmail deals, to "three-strikes" BS

The system is not perfect, but the point is that in contrast to authoritarian China, it is generally not abused to suppress political dissent and U.S. citizens have rights to due process and representation in the legal system that do not exist in China.
While really really cool I don't think this is polished and directable enough for OPs needs.
This has the same flavor as the folks who say, "If you don't like some law XYZ, just move to a different country!"

If you don't want Equifax to have your private information, just don't participate in the modern financial system!
Sure, but that an issue of evidence. Google, Uber, Tesla, etc. have source code, records, emails, reports, etc. that can potentially prove their cars just break because they aren't good enough drivers. And they have deep enough pockets that lawyers will go after them.

1000% sure Google will end up writing a check if someone dies because they rear-ended a google car that suddenly hit the breaks.
Drink when you are thirsty.

Really, unless you have a rare and diagnosed medical condition that says otherwise, drink when you are thirsty.

> Subtracting the 20% of water consumed through food

Where does this article get that number?

Edit:

Ok, it gets the number from the above link.

I still really don’t trust this article as a source of info about how much water to drink. And anyway it ends with “mostly drink when you are thirsty.”
but they aren't one of the evil ones, apparently
Exactly. C++ code has so much variability that 90% of static analyzer warnings are worthless. So people ignore them and create terrible unsafe code.
The same thing could be said of every tech product back to the sharpened rock.
If this were actually a serious issue, we would be discussing NAWPA again for real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power...

The original blueprint used nukes to dig the trenches, but conventional explosives work just fine.
The saddest part is that a lot of individuals won't even consider this when seeing such content.
What is now also known, and not very clear from the article, is that sipping water throughout the day is not very good.

As the article is pointing out, a lot is happening when you drink water. And sipping all day means the body never gets rest from the 'water intake mode'.

So it is best to drink water until you have enough when you feel thirsty.

Edit: this was studied by Thomas D'havé, Leo Pruimboom, Tim Noakes, and others
Why & how?
Better have clear urine than dehydration though. You have to try really hard before drinking too much water becomes a problem.
No mention of climate change in the article.
Would be nice to push up also the other parts of the physical design - LibreCAD[1] and FreeCAD[2], Yosys[3] and Symbiflow[4], Chisel/FIRRTL[5], and many others.

[1] https://librecad.org/

[2] https://www.freecadweb.org/

[3] http://www.clifford.at/yosys/

[4] https://symbiflow.github.io/

[5] https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/
This xkcd graphic really shows how massive this effect is: https://xkcd.com/1732/

A lot of people just don't understand why a couple of degrees is a big deal, not understanding that the rate of change we are talking about is vastly different from what our biosphere has experienced in the past.
Yeah, smart people were warning us 20 years ago.

We didn't listen then, we don't listen today.
No fucking where !
It dropped the barrier to republishing to nearly zero, to where impulse becomes the driver.
That's conflating the actions of trolls with people that were critical of activists. Those are not at all the same thing. The former is NOT ok, the latter is ok and should result in healthy debate.

But because Twitter doesn't like nuance, those get collapsed into a single, simple and most outrage-inducing format. A black & white hero/villain narrative. Which also avoids having to deal with any critiques, regardless of validity.
> You can generally do the same thing in the US for emails to/from public university addresses with a FOIA request

No, you can't, because FOIA applies to federal agencies only. Some official communications of a public university might be subject to similar state sunshine laws, but not all email to and from public university email addresses (even some official communication would be protected by FERPA or other privacy laws, and therefore not disclosable under a state open records law.)
Taking something that required thought and typing and turning it into a one-click, no-thought-required operation? Absolutely.

Jeff Bezos certainly thinks so -- why else would he have bothered patenting one-click buying?
Semiconductor CEO's on Computings Role in Slowing the Advance of Climate Change
You joke but this is sort of what Marx actually argued. Revolutionary state dictated communism was mostly Lenin. Marx thought capitalism would evolve into communism.
Chinese Philosophy of Change
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If only there was a large corpus of searchable knowledge only a click away where the conversions could be determined.
Free will as a concept is much simpler than God as a concept, and thus the flaws in the original wager don't apply (as far as I can tell, if you can find one that does apply let me know).
The problem is that we need to put our mind to in RIGHT NOW if we want to prevent catastrophic events. It's too late if we start in ten years. Nothing gives the indication that we'll act quickly enough.
This is great, and pretty damning evidence of traditional, unsafe languages.

Do we have any data on how much of iOS is implemented in unsafe code vs in macOS? In particular, I want to know if the difference in memory safety ratio correlates with a language choice ratio. I don’t think sufficient information to make that determination is public, but I would love to be wrong about that.

(I guess one of the problems with that measurement would be is that it’s hard to tell if an ObjectiveC file has parts of straight C in it, which you’d expect more of in system code.)
I'm upset by this. Why is it paying taxes so repelling after you acquire wealth?
In the interest of discussing the actual proposal and not the headline of this article, here is a link to the draft:

https://www.scribd.com/document/417056845/Keep-Big-Tech-out-...
I would just like to understand the mental process that evolves a conscience from "This is probably fine" to "That’s what I think we actually did [just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon]". In my moral calculus giving a 4-year-old a loaded weapon is pretty damn distinct from implementing a social media button for teens and older which among its negative aspects facilitates cyber bullying or other negative social behavior. With people equating the two it's probably not even that facetious to write a cliche that goes like "first they came for my retweet button, then they came for my 2nd amendment". (Edit: I did think of one mental process that's not just the easy "say whatever in front of the media" reason, but I don't think the guy is making a more interesting consequentialist dust-specks vs. torture type of claim.)
Related "Ask HN: Where else do you get your news?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17707242
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Nice work. Use `Show HN`
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Arguably, it's better that way. Confusing meteorology with climatology is the favourite fallacy of climatosceptics.

EDIT: Replaced "argument" by "fallacy"
weather != climate
I was talking to my 15yo niece, and I already suspected that Facebook is losing young people. So I asked on which platforms she spends her time. "No Facebook, mainly WhatsApp groups, and also private Instagram".

Facebook is dead, long live Facebook.

I must say that their aquisition strategy is impressive.
Yah. Let's just dismiss the fact that 2000 years isn't even a blink in earth's (neigh, human) history. Let's get scared.

NEWS FLASH- the universe is constantly changing and always has been
Note that "nothing is labeled" in the node of an AST that is written in C or Pascal; fields of a record or structure are accessed by position. The fields have compile-time names only. I don't see anything in the Wikipedia article about things having to be labeled.

If we obtain a pointer into the middle of an AST node without any context, we also don't know anything about it; we have to work with a correctly aimed pointer to the base of the object.

There is no reason anything in the compiler or interpreter would obtain a pointer to just the (a a), and treat it as a form, other than as some sort of severe bug. The (let ...) thing is an object, and has to be respected as such.

Basically your argument boils down to "lists are not proper polymorphic tree node data structures, even with discriminating type symbol in the car; and an AST must be made out of structured data with named fields."
We're seeing record shattering temperatures in different parts of the world a lot this yet - yet the article doesn't even mention climate change. As long as we keep shoveling meat into our faces 5x per day and the population keeps expanding at break-neck rate, we have massive heatwaves and endless storms to look forward to. And then that road will come to an end, and it won't be pretty.
Are these statements accurate?

The increase in the rate of climate change is primarily driven by the increased emission of greenhouse gasses.

The primary driver of increased greenhouse gasses (GHG) is the burning of fossil fuels emitting CO2.

In order to stay below 2°C, we need to remain below 2900 gigatons of CO2 in the atmosphere (source: one of the ipcc reports, I forget which).

Our atmosphere currently has somewhere around 1900 gigatons of CO2, as of 2011. (corrected from earlier error.)

We are currently releasing 35-40 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere per year (the US releases about 5), and the rate is currently increasing from year to year.

In order to remain below 2900 gigatons of CO2, we need to reach a GHG emission rate of 0 (zero) overall within the next 7-12 years, through some combination of reduction/elimination of burning fossil fuels, and sequestering of current CO2 from the atmosphere.

Therefore, each person should strive to not only reduce their carbon footprint, but eliminate it and aim for a negative carbon footprint.
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I'm pretty dedicated to coffee (i'd probably drive 15 minutes each way out of the way on a road trip for decent coffee), and will yelp / google aggressively if i'm the passenger.

Parent is right, there are still huge stretches with neither starbucks nor indie shops of any quality, and not just in the empty bits out west.
How could you have known in 2009 how the dynamics of twitter would evolve over the next decade? There's no way. I've used twitter since 2008 and if you told me then that 7 years later that the US presidents would be using it as their primary communication platform with the public I wouldn't believe you.
I'm not arguing that it isn't successful, but Facebook still managed to modify it the point that it lost 100% of its usefulness to me.

It was at its best when you could follow accounts, all of the posts of the people you follow would be displayed chronologically, and clicking on a hashtag would also display all posts under that tag chronologically.

Facebook removed the chronological order of the timeline, made it so you will not see all posts from the people you follow, started injecting posts and ads from accounts I do not follow, and did the same with hashtags where you will only see posts facebook decides you should see via their algorithm. Also, engagement with my page decreased 100-500% across the board and my consistent growth stopped entirely as I was not an "influencer" so people that followed me and checked my hashtags would rarely even see my posts

Facebook changed Instagram from an extremely functional social app that allowed you to easily interact with and become parts of niche communities, to a useless ad platform that limits your interactivity and connectivity to anything that you actually want to see to push you to whoever pays Facebook or whatever the algorithm decides what should be popular which ends up being the same garbage content that has plagued Facebook for years