skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a good point. Because most people don't do interesting things until they're out of their 20s, it makes those who do unusual and therefore newsworthy.

But being newsworthy has (monetary) value so this list, which used to be a metric, has become a target, and per Goodhart's Law is therefore no longer a good metric.

I predict another such list will arise, make those chasing 30<30 look foolish, and the cycle will begin anew.
I dunno about this article... in the minor hacking I've done, it is tedious and boring. More like a homework research project than a swat team raid. If someone said "Fire!" to me I'd laugh.
Neat. I've two things to say,

1. How do you feel about AI catching up with reading? I use pocket's text to speech, or iOS's screen reader, which although robotic, seems to be improving rapidly?

2. Do you have any plans for web version ? I've this tendency to read and listen simultaneously. I think it forces me to really focus.
Stating the current effects of climate change (and any future effects) !== [x] socio-economic and political system is the answer.
On hypothesis is that strong/indepdent women prefer someone who they can control and they marry immigrants or men with lower IQ ability (hence less desire for autonomy and personal freedom) which reduces overall IQ of the population

SAT is just proxy for IQ.

Many of my female friends who are at job and are indepdent are marrying wallmart guys (who are good looking but don't have good job)
Sadly this is a predominant trend in Academia. Some would argue it's always been there, but it does seem to be significantly more prevalent and unashamed in it's presentation these days.
Not courses only (or learning purpose), but generally. Say would you prefer consuming content in the form of reading or prefer watching something online?
I would hope journalists do a bit more research than "you were born with $29,999,995 to your name and you have since earned $5 in your time alive. Welcome to the club!"
Also US CO2 emissions are down since 2000, thanks to fracking. When you go to bed fearing climate change, thank a Republican for lowering US CO2 emissions.
1 hour ago, you picked an apt username
Most octopus live fewer than 3 years.
It seems like the solution to both problems is the same. We need far far more nuclear power plants to get off of oil and coal. Can we convert the plutonium or whatnot in nuclear bombs into fuel for the new nuclear reactors?
> Given actual productivity studies tend to show a big, big decrease in productivity among workers who have individual or small group offices replaced with open office plans, the "significant portion of the population" claim seems unlikely, since they're apparently not significant enough to move the needle in productivity studies.

That's not how statistics work. If 60% of people see a 20% decrease in productivity in an open office and 40% see a 20% increase, then: .6 x .8 + .4 x 1.2 = .48 + .48 = .96, so you'd expect to see a 4% decrease in productivity.

In fact, people who work in open offices could even be the majority if the effects have different magnitudes. Let's say 70% of people experience a 10% increase in productivity when working in an open office, while the other 30% experience a 50% decrease. .7 x 1.1 + .3 x .5 = .77 + .15 = .92. So you could see an 8% reduction in productivity in an open office, even if 70% saw an increase in productivity.

You would, of course, see an increase in productivity in both scenarios if you let people work in the office spaces that are appropriate for their needs.
For all its faults, I don't think the evil caricature is an accurate description of the CCP (or most other entities that westerners consider 'evil', with the exception of some WW2 figures). I believe the truth is more nuanced than that. (Edit: please don’t misinterpret this as me saying that the CCP is virtuous. I hereby specifically assert that I am not saying that. We need to stop the black and white thinking)

For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, elegant and wrong. As long as you stick to simple black and white views of the world, you stand no chance to actually solve problems.

Also, what does selflessness have to do with this? If the CCP's goal is a strong, prosperous, unified China then it is rational to avoid decisions that don't lead to that goal. Unless you think the CCP is not interested in that, and is only interested in enslaving people for their own amusement. Then we go back to my opinion about the evil caricature.
A black hole just shredded a star in front of the planet-hunting TESS telescope
If children wish to go to a publicly-funded school and come into close contact with other children, then they should be vaccinated. Period.

If you want an exception for your child, then privately educate them.

The chilling effect you're seeing on your devil's advocate arguments are because anti-vaxxers have caused so much harm with their pseudoscience. There is no room for playing nice or entertaining a middle ground.

The government has stepped in and made public health choices for us already. For instance, we chlorinated and fluoridated the public water supply. If you want to drink bottled water, that's fine. This isn't even a powerful enough analogy though, because vaccination doesn't just impact individuals. Every act of rejection lowers the fitness of the population.
I do not think that they are documented officially. The only "supported" configurations are all on/all off.
Cal Newport mentioned in his last book Digital Minimalsim about the benefits of learning and accomplishing something with your hands in the real world, and how it's argued to further energize whatever else you do it, be it digital.
There's a taste difference on two levels.

First, the higher surface area brews differently - faster, which is convenient, but changes the ratios of what's infused. That's not inherently bad, matcha is green tea specifically prepared to be served that way, but it's usually detrimental to a tea intended for larger leaf brewing.

Second, sitting around powdered in paper sachets means far more air exposure. This is basically the same type of difference as fresh-ground and powdered coffee, which isn't hard to taste.

If you drink tea with milk and sugar, I'm not sure it matters. But for straight tea, it matters at least as much as for straight coffee.
The Case That Short-Term Rentals Make Our Neighborhoods Stronger
If only you could convince the deniers of that. Speaking from a US perspective, they seem to think that the "libs" just want to hobble our economy because they hate "success" and "strength" and don't actually believe there is an existential crisis at hand.
Something will have to give at some point.

I remember someone at HN posting a graph that showed that for something like 40 years the amount of singles reporting 'no sex within the last year' had been relatively equal (both men and women around 18%), but since the rise of Tinder et al men had shot up to 30% whereas women were still at 18%.

On an individual level I won't pass judgment on women for doing whatever they want, but on a societal level such a sea change in behavior and it's attached consequences does not seem healthy or stable.
This can already be done in the "home automation" side of the shortcuts / home app. My own house lights up whenever my wife or I come home after dark and goes dark again when we leave.
So am I restricted to tell you what I know about someone?
In space (and any frictionless medium), you can't "redirect" an existing velocity vector with thrusters. You can only add a velocity vector. This means that if your desired direction is perpendicular to your current direction, your current speed is no good to you at all. If you're heading due "north" at 10mph, and you want to be heading due "east" at 10mph instead, you have to 1) fully negate your "north" velocity, and 2) come up with 10mph of "east" velocity from scratch.

Now, the trajectory of an object in solar orbit is exactly at right angles to the direction it needs to go in to hit the sun. No part of this velocity is helpful for getting to the sun - in fact it actively prevents it! The only vector that takes you directly into the sun is one with no sideways component - if you imagine yourself falling right in, any sideways nudge will cause you to miss it by a hair and go flinging off into a highly elliptical orbit. If you just ignore this and just thrust directly at the sun, hoping to overpower everything by brute force, then like a ballerina pulling her arms in, the more you try to get close to the sun with your thrusters, the faster your orbit will go; the closer you manage to get, the further out you'll be flung when you inevitably miss.

All this ignores that the sun is not a point, but quite a large ball - you can get away with some small horizontal velocity. A highly elliptical orbit will still do what you want if its lowest point is below the surface.
The intelligence of related cephalopod 'cuttlefish' was also highlighted in Baxter's "Time" novel:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Baxter_novel)
Source: It goes against my narrative, so it must be banned / deplatformed.

This is the new way the left "debates", unfortunately.

There are a decent amount of resources online that are skeptical about the man-made impact on the climate or whether or not CO2 is the temperature knob for the climate.
I find this has cut both ways in my life. In piano, it was always my goal to play Chopin Ballade No 1. After ~5 years of playing, I heard it and KNEW I wanted to learn it. It was only around ~15 years in, when I got the gumption and a teacher who didn't put the idea down, I signed up for a concert to play it, and I was FORCED to learn it. At that point, announcing to friends/family enhanced my practice, because I knew it'd occur on X date and I knew the beastly passages would require dozens of hours of repetition each.

On the other hand, the number of pieces I have stated my intention to learn, and never done so, is far greater than the number of pieces I actually know. I think it's just so easy to say "I love this piece, I'm going to learn it." Well, that took 5 seconds to say, but it will take 100 hours to learn the piece.

So, for me, it comes down to how truly/deeply motivated I am to begin with. If it's something I truly want, announcing makes no difference. If it's something I'm lukewarm on, I'm probably likely to announce something impulsively and commit myself to something I didn't think through.
Wow... what did I just stumble into?
100% this. Sending nuclear waste to a black hole? Now that's the epitome of stupid.
On hypothesis is that strong/indepdent women prefer someone who they can control and they marry immigrants or men with lower IQ ability (hence less desire for autonomy and personal freedom) which reduces overall IQ of the population
SAT is just proxy for IQ.

Many of my female friends who are at job and are indepdent are marrying wallmart guys (who are good looking but don't have good job)

What was considered masculinity is now considered toxic.

Women now prefer less confident/dominant men (confidence comes from success which has IQ and Luck components)

Masculinity is strongly positively correlated to IQ.
Well, for one thing, you would need to block out 2% of sunlight to counteract the warming effect that we've seen since the industrial revolution.

But more importantly, you are underestimating the scale. The earth is big, and L1 is far away. A device that blocks 2% of the sunlight at that distance would have to cover 4.5 million square kilometers, a disc that size would be larger than the moon, or about the size of the entire United States including Alaska.

It would also require engines that need to be constantly refueled, because solar wind, which is really strong at the scale we're talking about, would push it away in just a few months.

And the screen would need to be smart, because L1 is only quasi-stable. The actual point where there is zero differential gravity is, well, a point, and any deviation from that point will inevitably increase until the object eventually falls into a regular orbit, so to stay there you need to be constantly monitoring your own orbit and correcting for deviations. Only L4 and L5 are self-correcting (which is why there are no known natural objects at L1-3 of any two-body system)
Sometimes the only way for people to learn a lesson is to suffer .

As capitalism accelerates, inequality grows, poverty spreads, and pain/suffering become more widespread, people's eyes will open to con's as well as the pro's of capitalism.

Instead of walking by the homeless person and saying 'sucks to be them' people actually experience it.

I think alot of people view capitalism as the reason America is so great instead of being the surviving superpower from WW2 and coasting on that for half a century.

Capitalism was pretty oppressive in the early 1900s. We'll see what happens on the future.

So overall accelerrationism is more than just nihilism, it's instructive. Unfortunately, with suffering on a generational timeframe.

It's also, how government has progressed historically via people suffering. Now we're shifting from governmental tyrrany to economic tyrrany. The next few decades will be extremely interesting.
They aren't withholding the content on page load or requiring authentication, because they need search engines to be able to read it freely to get SEO benefits. They are tricking the search engines and to think they are giving content away to everyone for free unconditionally. They gave you the article for free, then added a bunch of CSS to make it difficult to consume. Modifying the content they already gave you for free is not stealing.
I feel that once we have a method to deliver all that nuclear waste to the black hole, we'll then have a process to utilize it instead.
What is this conspiracy theory garbage doing on HN?
"Nuclear waste" is a term that is used to describe the byproduct, but also all the equipments that came in contact with radioactive material (cf [0]).
So while we can indeed reuse some of the waste on other future nuclear facilities, there will still always be some kind of waste.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Low-level_wa...
Even Apple and Adobe don't actively turn their update services back on when you run their applications if you have explicitly disabled them, though, at least not in any version of any of their software that I've come across.

In contrast, it appears that Google installs whatever updates it wants on your system and does turn the related services back on again if you turn them off. It really shouldn't be possible for software to leave that sort of access open without the user's/administrator's explicit consent, but unfortunately the worst offender on this issue is now Microsoft with Windows 10, so I don't hold out much hope that anything will be done about it on Windows platforms any time soon.

Sadly, this just seems to be the price of admission to the modern software world. You have what is effectively a permanent rootkit installed if you want to use the software at all, and even though that is self-evidently incompatible with a robust security and privacy model, when big enough players do it, people just accept it because they don't see that they have any choice.
Here's an open-source chart of carbon dioxide levels globally: https://carbon.datahub.io

Data is pulled from MLO on Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the gold standard for data going back to 1958.
I don't understand how the quoted statement and yours differ. The scientists say thawing permafrost accelerates warming, and you say that's a fact. Can you be more specific for the caffeine-deprived?
> This type of language really bothers me.

Why? It seems like the statement agrees with yours: "The sudden thawing of Arctic permafrost is of great concern to scientists, who say that the methane and carbon dioxide gas that the process releases is accelerating global warming."
https://decrypt.co/9688/incognito-node-earn-bitcoin-while-yo...
Infinite growth in terms of capitalism is not sustainable into the future and as decades go on it will only do more harm than good. I see this weird behavior in our world where growth is equated with progress when infact in a late-capitalism world, growth is actually the opposite of progress.
Debt will automatically fall off son's report after 7 years. They can ignore it without consequences. (assuming kid isn't getting a mortgage at 17 years old, haha)
If you dig down into it politics is about finding solutions to physical problems like limited resources/land/etc, preventing violence, and how to cooperate in order to do more than one human can do alone. That climate change exists and is a physical problem is not political. Solutions to this problem will need to be political in some way or another.
What about the NOAA data adjustments and climate scientists openly discussing getting rid of the 1940s warmth: https://realclimatescience.com/61-fake-data/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T86IIKK9FRg

And lack of warming trend in the raw data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mWanx8ojmOkcazzRhDao...

And the new USCRN data showing no significant warming trend in the USA in 12 years: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/08/the-uscrn-revisited/

And the Canadian data purge: https://twitter.com/EcoSenseNow/status/1174909654297538560
The nice thing about civilization is that it's built on failure. One of the things that blew my mind recently is that at one point in the distant past, before ancient Greece and even Egypt, there was a global society that all shared very similar ideas regarding religion.

That society fell apart collectively resulting in the sort of gang world that you're describing. Out of those ashes emerged individual city-states, which then aggregated using the tool of conquest into empire, which got big then fell apart forming the current status quo of nation-states, which technology, sophisticated forms of organization, and plain geopolitical luck allowed some nations to leapfrog the rest.

There really does seem to be some kind of collective human wisdom regarding societal organization. If there wasn't, then we'd oscillate back and forth between two kinds of social organization, likely war bands and empire. We'd reach a point at which no innovation could move the needle and that would be the end of progress.
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Yes, it is no weirder than talking on a Bluetooth headset in public. Some people will never do it because it can be awkward but others will. In 10 years it will be an accepted norm or it will completely die out. I suspect it will become an accepted norm.
It's been relatively agreed upon that dark matter can't interact with itself very much either, since it forms a spherical cloud around galaxies instead of the more expected disk shape, and dark matter clouds passing by each other don't seem to slow down or be affected in ways other than gravitation. More info: https://www.space.com/40219-dark-matter-feels-only-gravity-m...
I'll take present day living over any single point in the past. Antibiotics weren't even produced until the 1940s, and before that time a scraped knee could literally kill you.

In the cold war people built concrete bunkers in their basement for fear of a nuclear Armageddon.

In Rome, if you couldn't pay your taxes you were forced to sell your children into slavery.

And here we are, where past presidents are buying ocean-front property so clearly the elites aren't truly as concerned about it as they publicly state.
At least some of that science was funded by Exxon after their own scientists predicted global warming. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...
Do you have any link to confirm a domesticated octopus that responds to verbal commands? I always understood they barely have any capacity for sound.
Perhaps I don't have the skills to make such remote discernment as you seem to be able to do. Perhaps I've only had the wrong resources. Or perhaps the projects you're managing have a different sort of complexity and domain knowledge required than the projects I manage. After all, some projects might lend themselves to remote teams than others. Who knows?

There are some scenarios (domain knowledge, budget constraints, lack of office space, etc.) that justify people working remotely, so don't take my original comment as a statement that remote teams never work. Clearly they have, and clearly they do. But even if you're just some sort of management Jedi that I'm not, I think there are inherent flaws in remote teams that aren't solved by just having the right people.
What impact does this have on photosynthesis?
I often do the same thing. Which really says something about HN. I can't think of any other forum where I regularly read the comments, much less read them first.
Can sealions not use google?
Oh, I agree on changes to the means of production themselves (more broadly, technological changes) leading to massive changes in politics and society. But those are in the "sort of happens" category, as opposed to the Great Man theory, where social change is enacted by the decisions (good or bad) of powerful and important individuals.

Read Marx, but read Tolstoy too. Tolstoy argued that we all have 20/20 hindsight, and we like to argue how well our individual ideas or pet theories explain stuff that, well, just happened.

edit: I'm suddenly thinking of Bruce Sterling's novel Zeitgeist, a sort of magical-realism SF set around Y2K. When asked who would win the culture war between Islamic fundamentalism and Western secularism, the central character said "The side with the most televisions".
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I mean, why not solve one with the other?

If we can terraform Mars by nuking the poles, maybe we can use nukes to trigger huge volcanic eruptions that will cause global cooling by putting tons of dust into the atmosphere
Dig up the personal information of their owners, board members, and major shareholders, and publish or sell it - an eye for an eye.
What about people's legitimate need to share the wrongs that people have done to them? Or people's legitimate need to know someone's history?

Imagine you meet someone on a dating site, and they assault you on your date. They serve their time, and now have a 'right to be forgotten'.

Do future potential dates not get to know that their date that night has been convicted of assault against someone else, also on a first date? Am I not allowed to warn those people?