skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do people say crazy things about climate change? Yes. Does that mean the science is wrong? No.

People say crazy things about quantum mechanics too, but we keep building and programming microprocessors according to the science as we understand it. And they work!

Anthropogenic climate change affords itself to a wide variety of crazy statements because it arises from, and affects such a wide variety of human activities. Basically, there is no segment of the human population that will remain unaffected in some way--either directly, by sea level rise or shifts in fresh water, or indirectly, by all the people who are being directly affected.

Because it is physically real, it can't be ignored forever. I fear that the longer we go as a society without addressing it, the higher the general level of social anxiety will rise. That could go a bad way: more and more people seize upon conspiracy theories or tune out. I hope instead we find the collective will to face our fears and take action to address them. I hope that like starting a difficult and scary project, once we see signs of progress, it will become easier to conceive of further progress.
Isn't that "instruction" incredibly circular logic of sabotage for the sake of "proof" justifting what they already believe because of the outcome they caused?

I recall an episode from a fictional crime show where the obligatory twist behind a horrically toxic water pollution blaming a new industrial operation. It had killed three people and sickened more was a radical environmentalist who wanted to frame a factory they believed would pollute more long term. Ironically one of the give aways to investigators was something the industry no longer used.
The philosophy behind Ad Astra’s voyage into the unknown
The Wildly Appealing, Doomed Future of Work
While disinformation is one issue, I don't think it is the only one. I don't even know whether it is the biggest one.

I worry about bubbles and echo chambers. Nowadays people don't watch much tv anymore. The media that they do consume, suggest content that align with their exiisting views. Unlike tv where you get a range of different views. Whats more, people actually like this! This is why those media are so successful.

I worry about the fact that nobody is interested in actually listening to opposing views. People just shout at each other and reaffirm their existing beliefs.

All this are separate issues from fake news.
Apps like Tinder seem like they'd be looks-focused, but it's true that a picture is worth a thousand words. What you're doing in the picture says a lot about you. So does being well-groomed and choosing a picture that's well-focused and well-composed. A nice smile goes a long way.

Women aren't as looks-focused as a lot of frustrated men present them. Average is just fine, as long as your picture suggests somebody that they can engage with. "Below average" can also go a long way if you've chosen a picture that makes you look like what she wants, which might be "fun" or "family" or "kind". The men who think it's all about their looks are most likely the ones who only judge women by theirs. And while some women do that, the vast majority don't.
> Hester also makes compelling and unexpected links between these second-wave feminist strategies and those of contemporary transfeminism, uncovering unlikely affinities between schools of thought often positioned in antagonism. In both of these historical instances, individuals acquire power over their bodies through building networks and repurposing everyday technologies. For Hester, the Del-Em is a direct antecedent to online trans* communities providing medical support or even grey-market hormones. At the threshold of this continuum is another of Hester’s evocative examples – a transgenic plant developed by Open Source Gendercodes which allows laypeople to grow sex hormones within tobacco leaves.

For some reason I was expecting something more interesting than the same feminism and transgender politics...
If Apple is tracking IDs how is that not anti-privacy?

In fact arguably they should implement signed reciepts so they don't have to track which apps you own. As it is they know all the apps you own, and probably even when and how often you run them.

Instead they could send you a cryptographically signed receipt and then not actually keep track of which apps you own. When you want an update they verify the receipt. That would be more privacy oriented than what they have now.
Yes sorry about that.
Sometimes Trash Is Treasured in America’s National Parks
I didn't reach that point overnight, unlike the stranded passengers.
My favourite is a combination. Text for most things and images, or short videos to demonstrate topics that are hard to describe.
Would they though? cities allow close contact often which allows disease to spread thus wiping them out. Eventually you create sanitation, medication and such. It is a long time from intelligence to designing sanitation and medical systems. If you skip all that by avoiding close contact...
“exacerbate” does not mean “is a root cause”.
Jumping into a high paying bullshit job, being on advisory boards, networking yourself into circles where your Rolodex becomes valuable that intro's from you can get you 70% into raising VC...

I've seen quite a few of these people in my area and they disgust me every time, coming from a "work is only valuable if it's hard" work-ethic family.
The fact that there are people on this thread saying that they work better in open offices does not imply that such people make up a significant portion of the population.
This is not correct. The article states that Tik-Tok went above and beyond Turkish or Chinese laws with their guidelines. This puts the burden on TikTok to justify it's tactics. It seems more likely that they want a platform that does not offend the sensibilities of its target users. This is fine but they can't hide behind local laws and it is fairgame for them to be labelled as a bad actor for helping trample people's rights. Clearly not well-intentioned and deserving of backlash.
Don’t worry. Alex knows everyone thinks he’s a dick.
In what way is this a valid response to what I said?

We moved into a building bigger than our current size yes... so?

You don't fill up overnight.

Do you hire people on a coin flip? Or make up open positions when it tickles someone's fancy?

We were hiring at an incredible rate, but never got to the point of being actively detrimental to our space because once that was barely in sight, we started to move.

But having money afforded that option.

Hence, it's always money, not space.
> The gist of the so called environmentalists is (factually, these really are their proposals when you look at their numbers): ok USA and EU, you have to urgently stop your emissions, even if that means total economic breakdown. China and specially India, it's ok you can continue your emissions, and increase then by even more than the all 1st world will cut theirs (even if they cut it to 0), that's just fine since your are entitled to it because you didn't do it in the past.

No, those are not factual. It's a strawman.
Thomas Cook was not a classic American-style travel agency, separate from the airlines; their specialty was all-in-one package trips, largely on chartered aircraft and with leased hotel rooms, etc.

So, for the American context, think of what happened when ATA Airlines went bankrupt: 10k people were stranded, most of whom had to pay for new tickets to get home on an airline that hadn't declared bankruptcy with planes in the air.
> It used to be about functionality and quality, but they've become a status symbol

They've become a fashion company. They have an over-emphasis on aesthetics over performance and durability, matched with incredibly inflated prices. For the price of any Apple computer, I can get a PC with equivalent or better specs for at least 30% less cash.
Is Cloudflare a Buy After Its 20% Post-IPO Pop? – The Motley Fool
And have you seen the per capita emissions of each of these countries? India's emissions per capita aren't even a drop in the bucket. (Numbers in metric tonnes CO2)

1 China 6.4
2 United States 15.0
3 India 1.6

2.5 times China and almost 10 times India. Countries that are already rich enough to invest heavily in pushing renewable energy and nuclear energy need to aid countries trying to get people out of poverty. You can't do that by providing direct energy cause that is not how energy works. So you do it by allowing emissions to these countries while reducing your own to fall given that you already use so much more per capita.

You want to see hypocrisy? How about the US's hypocrisy in stopping solar subsidies to build local solar industries? This discussions is not about who is entitled to more emissions. It is about a pragmatic approach to reducing emissions. While you dish out "facts", also care to read about policy and arguments.
A workspace shared between two people, or even three or four, is a little different from an open office. I've worked in rooms I shared with small groups and can definitely see the benefits. After a certain point, like maybe ten or twelve, I think it becomes too distracting.
I believe that communicating a plan already in motion is not the same as expressing an idea one might have. If I understood correctly this article points out to the latter. While having already a plan in motion, you will want to share it with the people and colleagues that you want in order to continue an idea. But if you have an idea that you want to set in motion, and just share it around with everyone there's a high chance that it wont kick off.
If you're using a Hohmann transfer, sure. But IIRC a Bi-elliptic transfer will get you on a collision with the Sun for less delta-v than escaping the solar system. That's where you speed up to get high and slow then burn to cut your velocity when there. For ratios of oribital radii over 15 it's more always more efficient than the standard Hohmann transfer and since the ratio is very large in this case it works much better. But in this case you're just trying to get within the radius of the Sun and don't even need the third burn to slow down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-elliptic_transfer
I think his main issue is being a little narcissistic and boastful, plus likes to be provocative and even insult.

But I'd take all those from someone with actual substance and talent as Taleb, than the barrage of fake-ass (as you call it) PR content and pleasantries, on this fake-ass world we now all live in.

In fact, I actively dislike the non-flaws (or just "admitted flaws" they're now "overcoming") "wholesome" all-too-decent people and writers, who never want to dirt their hands and have it good with everybody, and mostly produce trite of the TedX variety...
> These are going to occur anyway

How on earth do you know that?

> These are ordinary problems that we adapt to.

You make it sound like we've been through this before.. When?

> The US , for example, can _eliminate_ CO2 production and those things are still going to happen.

So, we cranked up the emissions, and these things just RANDOMLY started happening at the same time? Even though our environmental models and knowledge of physics agree with our observations??

Like.. it's just MAGIC or something? What is causing it if it's not CO2?
well spitballing.. does it have to be in space? and what if we split the mirror into many smaller ones?

what if we launched a bunch of mirrored balloons?
False. All of the sources in the blog are cited; you obviously didn't look carefully enough before arriving at your conclusion.
Ubuntu gets Firefox updates within a day or two of release. It's been like that for years.
Sounds to me like you're ignoring the reality of the situation.

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

If you want an example, February 2019 had a couple incidents of cops showing up to a non-emergency and killing someone.
don't mean to be 'dumb' here, but how is 'left accelerationism' not some flavor of socialism and 'right accelerationism' not some flavor of facism, other than using different words and sounding more 'current'
What material do you recommend that is on the subject of writing compelling fiction?
Stanford's Class on Regulating AI
Equivalent results but with lower engineering effort is still a gain, of course.
If "intelligence, if possessed, will be put to use to further survival and reproduction" were axiomatic, human populations would never decline for any reason other than accidental death, disease, etc. That's not true, however. As standards of living increase, birth rates voluntarily decline until populations shrink. People aren't getting dumber and somehow failing to reproduce as often, but instead are using that intelligence to choose not to reproduce.

Perhaps octopodes are making the same choice?
Stoic Freedom as a Productivity Hack
If you buy an Android you can no longer commuicate with all your friends using iMessages. SO no, not quite "plenty of opportunities for everyone to get exactly what they want."
https://proxie.app/ Works pretty well IMO.
Sounds super appealing but also a little "things white people like". What to do in inner cities or Kansas?
Ah, missed that detail. Nice work :-)
Trolling is not harassment. It 's a protected right, just like most expression.
I think it's a user-experience thing. If a user-level application (eg, browser) discovers an available update, it has to launch a privileged process to update itself - which means an authorisation prompt. And just popping up and asking people for their password without an obvious reason why is bad form, so you usually end up offering to update. It makes the whole process more invasive, less seamless, and more chance people will click no/cancel.

A background agent can do this invisibly; no prompts, no interaction. It's much more seamless, but it does require a bit of arrogance on the developers part - it seems quite silly that every application would have such an agent, so they're self-selected by self-importance.
Famous last words. I don't think humanity ever faced a similar crisis. The effects of climate change won't become too dramatic before it's already too late to change anything about it. It's a tragedy of the commons problem where you only face catastrophe decades after you had any control over the matter.

Once the permafrost starts melting in earnest, or the Greenland ice shield is gone, there is literally nothing we can do to stop the climate spiralling out of control. Right now it looks like these tipping points will be reached much sooner than we anticipated.
I don't think it's generous compared to the rest of the EU?
There is a web version. On the lower right of the page wher it is written "Want to use Listle on the web? Sign in here."
The sync management functions were moved to Finder, they are not going away.
GlobalFoundries, Arm Demonstrate High-Density 3D Stacked Interconnect for HPC
- Psychologist / Counselor / Professor: Huge impact opportunity. Society is so career and status focused nobody pays attention to emotional needs.

There is opportunity help others understand and express the feelings of why they suffer, instead of acting out in indirect/critical, dysfunctional ways, which compounds the problems. That is just benefits that can be attained at ground floor.

Please check out Attachment Theory and Schema Therapy: http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/attachment/online/inge_orig..., https://www.guilford.com/excerpts/young.pdf

- History professor: Because history rocks.

Aside: Montemayor, an independent history documentary maker, has a documentary on The Battle of Midway at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo. If you would like to support his work he has a Paypal on his channel page!

- Flipping houses: Upgrade carpentry from tech level 0 to tech level 3 and get property + credit line
Bad news for Qualcomm?

This makes me wonder, what if the algorithm finds a patented circuit, would it be allowed?

Another thing I wonder is if instead of starting with a fixed topology, you start with a complete graph, would the algorithm automatically find the correct topology (where e.g. resistors that are dropped simply become very large). Or would it get stuck in a local minimum?
Success and life satisfaction (shouldn't be) zero sum.
Maybe because they are solitary creatures. Without society, where would humans be?
I thought nordic kids especially napped outdoors: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21537988
Not a bad start, but a loooong way to go before its useful for shopping. It doesn't include Amazon, Newegg, Rakuten, Overstock, Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and all the other common online shopping destinations.

I searched for a gadget and all the results were way more expensive than the Amazon price.
So newspapers, which are not primary sources, and have a long history of parroting climate alarmism predictions that have never come true: https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1175075616699355139
There is no "cashing out", prestige seeking is just the result of a primitive drive. It's like asking how I'm going to "cash out" all the french fries I'm eating. I don't have any plan to, it just feels good to eat them.
Clearly you haven't read the article. They are all either E-5 or E-6 and being promoted because 'the current rank authorizations were "inadequate to account for Soldiers' extensive training and education in influence theory, human dynamics, psychology, sociology, language, culture, and politics," per the release.'
> The alternative to a take-home test is on-site interviews with white board problems.

That's not the only alternative though. Why not use a more humane interview process involving conversation about previous work, ideas about the future, strengths and weaknesses?

> The total time spent is higher than most interview processes I think, which can be a struggle for some folks. But I do think it's the right tradeoff.

I don't agree but I'm glad you thought about it. I personally think making your interview process more inclusive allows you to get better candidates, as opposed to structuring the process in such a way to exclude those that have different priorities and life choices.

> Regarding why time taken is an important data point -- we found a strong correlation between people who were able to get good solutions working quickly and people who were able to effectively defend their solutions during the "GoldMine review" in their on-site interview.

Correlation doesn't equal causation though. I also want to point out that if you are expecting someone to "defend" themselves, that means you are on the offensive. Interviews don't need to be adversarial.

Edit: I do want to put in one good thing I got from your article to offset my rather negative responses. You mention that even if you reject a candidate you gave them the full code review and feedback about why you rejected them. The culture of secrecy surrounding rejections is something that needs to die, and I'm glad that although I think your process as a whole is unfair, you took the step to change that toxic part of our industry's interview culture.
How Apple Kills Indie Developers
yeah I have this feeling as well. At the same time if someone asking “what’s up?” and you say nothing, I feel like lying.
That, I think is the most important reason.

It takes almost 20 years for a modern human to become a productive member of society. In 3 years, we are barely able to communicate properly. Octopuses simply don't have time to learn and instead must rely on innate skills.
I was amazed the first time I heard about the Interplanetary Transport Network.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Net...
I don't think dang is saying that the commenter was making false claims or anything. Just that it's very unlikely an upset comment will cause an overhaul in the google auto-update system. But it is very likely an upset comment will scare developers away from commenting on future situations like these. It just affects the health of HN negatively while not affecting Google. There's probably a reason norberg chose to register and comment on HN and not somewhere else like Reddit.
How (if at all) are the authors and publications involved in the process?
It's not even clear to me that consciousness is "real" at the level of base reality, but I do have a proposed test: link yourself up to an octopus using the same BMI setups that are used to allow two rats to share experiences and memories. If you start experiencing/remembering the life of an octopus, the brain on the other side of those wires is almost certainly conscious. The inverse is not true, of course; we could simply fail to grasp the differences between the brains of cephalopods and mammals, resulting in a bad connection to a perfectly fine brain.

(I'm more than 99% sure that octopuses experience the world, but I think this test can be generalised to simpler life forms in principle.)
WeWork Looks to Sell Private Jet, 3 Side Businesses
You are just validating my point with that "per capita" narrative.

The point is simple: you want to pretend your are saving the planet by allowing China and India to increase their emissions, more than USA and EU will ever be able to cut them (even if they cut it to zero).

Explain how that can possible save the planet please.
Looks like they've already hidden/dropped this from the App Store... That was fast!
Lift Weight, Not Too Much, Most of the Days
Great! I often with I could listen to articles instead of reading them.

What is your tech stack?

First Bug report:

1: There is no scroll bar

2: The Hacker News link hangs at "Loading audio articles" forever:
https://www.listle.io/app/publication/Hacker%20News

3: Search seems to search the source code of the article page. Searching for "PHP" brings up a bunch of articles that do not mention PHP at all.
Fine-Grained, Language-Based Access Control for Database-Backed Applications
Octopuses have been around for 300 million years, I think they've got survival and reproduction covered at this point. I would be careful of conflating shared culture with intelligence, especially in this context given octopuses are mainly solitary.
Wind doesn't cool the Earth globally. It's just movement of air masses because of uneven heating by the sun. There are localized effects of wind farms, but they don't add any energy to the climate system.
If that bugging you is the best you can take out of all the climate change discussion, you need to change your mindset on how to read important topics. There will always be sensationalism around something as big as climate change. Of course there are going to be people shouting anything to grab your attention. Focus on the problem, not these fringe philosophical issues.
This sounds like a very reasonable solution. I kinda hope this is the way they end up solving it, if this really is the reason they're not truly automatic.
> People say crazy things about quantum mechanics too, but we keep building and programming microprocessors according to the science as we understand it.

But in the case of QM, either the crazy stuff is wrong- repeated experiments falsify it, no gadget can be built on the principle; or it is "not even wrong", i.e., irrelevant. But many of the climate change findings are either predictions with a timespan of several years or decades, or historical explanations (this and this happened because of climate change). The first type can only be put to test years from now, the second type never.
(I mean this in all seriousness)

You should play Kerbal Space Program. It will very quickly give you an excellent intuition for basic orbital mechanics.
for the down votes please educate me, I'm not on either side, I just want to know more.
Buying or opening a new telescope is known to all astronomers to cause cloudy nights for weeks.
There's Tompson's famous work with evolving circuit design on physical FPGAs[0] where the algorithms exploited analog properties of the discrete circuit elements, something no human would have done.

[0] https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/000/308/779/an_evolved_cir...
I'm not sure if that counts as well but Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee Rama series includes "octospider" species but that would be more for "alien" part in the article title.