skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple answer: yes. The single biggest positive change you can make towards climate change is not to have children. This outweighs any other change you can make (going vegan, not flying, etc) by 5-10 times [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-...]

Complex answer: well, it's complicated. If everyone stopped having kids... well, that's not going to work either.
This is an excellent case for a chargeback. It's up to the merchant to prove they were in the right, and in the meantime you get your money back.
Looks just like Bose frames. I haven't used Echo Frames but I own and have used the Bose frames and constantly pair them up with Google Assistant on my phone.

Here's a few opinions on my experience:

- The glasses look bulky but don't feel it

- The sound system is pretty decent, I can listen to music and take phone calls and the audio will be crystal clear

- I don't like the fact that if I raise the volume everyone can hear what I am listening to, this is particularly bad for phone calls but even when listening to Google Assistant giving me the weather forecast rundown can become a problem for others around (not me obviously - but people who think I just have really loud invisible headphones in my ears)

- Battery life can be better, it's not terrible but it's still a bluetooth device that needs to be in touch with your phone to work so it's not too bad ultimately! Depends how much music you will listen to..

- Lack of camera sucks hard: I could think of 200 use-cases for having a camera, instead I have to raise my phone and use Google magic glass to scan QR codes or to translate text. Shame :(

- Did I mention they just look bulky?

Overall they're nice and rather useful in some very specific situations, I love biking with them (they're protecting my eyes from UV properly according to Bose) and I love going for walks around the park wearing them - but only when I am alone and not too many people around so I don't look like I've got bees in my ears. Yes the buzzing can be annoying for people who walk beside you. (Or maybe that's a good thing, if you don't wanna hear your friend complain about how the price of their favorite beer went up another half a dollar here in Austin. /sarcasm)
start here
https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/quitting-porn/
His comment is relevant to the linked article. The author felt it was important enough to bring up, so why isn't it a relevant topic of discussion?

To expand on that: Atlas shrugged is about purported geniuses being oppressed and denied the freedom to create and make money from their own inventions. But the author didn't create anything, they just slapped a logo on someone else's products.

IOW, Cognitive dissonance between the supposed inspirations of the author and their actual behavior. Just like a certain CEO that just resigned.
If we "just" internalized all the externalities then rich people would still eat meat, still drive, still fly, etc. while many people would have to give up those things. It might make inequality much more visible. There's also a moral angle that even "bad" people could "automatically" become green without having to change their minds about anything.
The phone was lucky to get that experience :)
We're veering sharply into off-topic territory here, but: I don't need to be a helicopter pilot to know that if I see one stuck in a tree, someone screwed up.

Yes, there are many things about being a parent that you can't truly know or understand until you experience it for yourself, but that doesn't mean that only a parent can see when another parent has screwed up.
Not really. A black hole isn't any more dangerous than any other object with the same mass. A black hole with the mass of Earth, for instance, would behave exactly as Earth does, except when an object collides with it, it continues on down into the center where it would hit Earth's crust if it were a planet.
We already have social media platforms for 20+ years. Everybody says they don't want to be tracked when asked, but also a lot/majority don't care if they can stay in touch with their families or get those social media dopamine shots(likes and stuff)
Arent there privacy concerns?
Wait for two weeks to get an appointment about your coughing and sneezing.

Here in the UK you can get an appointment to see your GP the following day most of the time, and we have walk-in clinics for same day check ups if you don't care which doctor you see. Availability varies a lot around the country but its mostly good.
What's frustrating is that very many sites know of this method and simply trim the "+uniqueid" from a gmail.com address before inserting it into their database.
Overall agreed on these, but to nitpick, the world has gotten less democratic over the past decade.

57% in 2005; just under 56% in 2015; probably a bit lower now. (not sure where you get 70% from).

from https://ourworldindata.org/democracy
I was gifted an Alexa and disconnected it after the first day. Whatever minor convenience it offers aren't worth the massive privacy risks.

That's what bothers me so much about all these gadgets and apps. They don't even offer anything revolutionary. Just a handful of gimmicks and evolutionary improvements to things you could already do.

Yet people are happy giving up their privacy for it.

It's not that hard to add tasks to your to-do list manually. Or to switch on your table lamp by hand.
Honestly, I've never liked typing on any generation of Apple keyboard and much prefer the Thinkpad keyboard. In fact, that's the main thing I look for in a laptop these days, since most keyboards seem to be getting worse and worse (even the Lenovo keyboards are getting worse).

I also hate that Lenovo are trying to join the "everything should be thin" crowd, especially seeing what it has done to Apple's keyboards. If you want thin, the MacBook Air or the Lenovo X1 models are there for you. If you want a more complete experience for working on for longer periods of time, the Thinkpad TXXX and MacBook (Pro) used to be what you go for, but those are condensing to look like the ultra thin models that it's becoming increasingly hard to justify the separation.

Please Apple/Lenovo, leave the thicker models thick and focus efforts on the thinner models if you want to make something thinner. I just want a good keyboard on my laptop...
Google hiring researchers to stop data abuse
Conveniently ignoring the existential threat humanity faces from climate change.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...

All the democracy and economic growth in the world won't matter a damn if you're starving and on fire.
The new generation probably would rather use an 'Abacus app' , than use an actual Abacus.
I'm not a Mormon myself, but worked with a lot of organizations supported by the LDS church. It is probably the most clean and uncorrupted religious organization of its size, and they do forward a lot of money to useful organizations (Boy Scouts of America in my case).
That's an amazing article. (Like, good enough that I'm not just upvoting you, but also telling everyone else to read it. It's worth it.) I had no idea the numbers were that bad. And I can see why it got taken down after the acquisition.
It's only briefly mentioned, but NVIDIA's recurrent denoising autoencoder is pretty amazing.

https://research.nvidia.com/publication/interactive-reconstr...

Two Minute Papers did a nice explanation of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjjTPV2pXY0
If you have access to the Economist's plot of long-term interest rates since 1750, you'll find that the interest rates that many of us came to accept as "normal" (5+%) are historically quite high. Humanity has spent quite a bit of time at or below 4%.

https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/images/2019/09...
Usenet/bbs/mailing lists are social media. Just one kind. Social media has been around for a while, it just got really big 10 years or so ago with the microblogging platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

HN is social media. Maybe niche, but still part of the wad.

We have personas and profiles and comment on stories. Pretty social.
And that's what the MBA is for. The MBP should remain thicker to have more ports and a better keyboard for people that want such things.
also takes indefinite amount of time to receive product/services. This is going to work great
Maybe there's some misunderstanding here. I'm not saying cost is a good, or even viable, way of quantifying energy consumption.

Since energy suppliers meter their output to apply a price, I'm wondering how hidden costs could exist (unless the software is somehow circumventing or undermining the meters?).

I would think it'd be pretty straight-forward experiment to use software from the late 80s / early 90s for a couple weeks, measure machine energy consumption, then compare with the consumption from a machine running the latest version of everything for two weeks. Next month repeat but also use a processor from the 90s for the first two weeks. Rinse, repeat, extrapolate, apply statistics, &c. Maybe try adjusting for or comparing differences in appliances common then and now.

If software energy costs are somehow hidden, I can only think they're hidden because we're deliberately not choosing to look at them.
“I don’t drink beer. I only drink lagers and ales.”
Regarding 4, I don't think that is necessarily a shadow ban. AFAIK Tinder will sometimes surreptitiously give you a boost, the huge one being when you create a new account, and subsequently when you change areas, and probably a few other triggers
+1 for easy access download without forcing an email submission.

update: K, I had gotten side tracked and forgot that it already downloaded and left me on the email submission page. User error. Downloads fine without email.
How about adopting? Or fostering?
People have a right to an “affectional preference.” The strange thing is that the same people who wouldn’t question the right of a man to not be attracted to women (for example) are most likely to be disturbed or that someone may have a weight preference.
Today that problem is solved by the use of a password manager.
6am: brisk 30-minute walk
6:30: pushups
After breakfast for family and they’re out the door:
8am: journal and review goal systems and my ‘identity’ notes
8:30: set top 3 ‘must dos’ for day and prioritize other tasks
8:45am: work (I work at home)
10am: eat yogurt (I practice intermittent fasting and eat 10am-6pm)

I prioritize and do tasks using a mix of the Eisenhower matrix and GTD. All writing, tasks, etc. is done in Emacs, three columns full screen.

My ‘identity ‘ notes are a concise summary of the person I am trying to be to get the results I want, loosely based on an article I read by James Clear. Getting clear about values and how to live them plays a central role.
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That's a bummer. FWIW there are a fair number of non-gmail domains that are gmail-backed (e.g. a lot of universities' email systems) so it should still work with those consistently I hope.
#2 sounds like a twisted symbiotic parasitic relationship, where the host is harmed indirectly through the harm of their users. Almost like some sort of systemic effect.

Fraud is such an interesting problem. Are the incentives ever truly aligned such that businesses should rigorously stamp out bad actors? Or, in a toxic twist, should they do the bare minimum to satisfy some regulatory body/their brand perception?

Treacherous times indeed.
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I don't know where you got this idea - full featured forums are very complicated compared to what most sites do.
I used to do this, but it is troublesome some times because some websites use libraries that strip or replace the plus sign and the final email ends up being an address that you don’t have access to.

Most of the time this is not a problem because you can create the account again with the correct email, but I have lost a few good usernames in some popular websites because I pulled this trick on them, Gravatar is one of these websites and the simplest one to explain.

I wanted a specific username that was available; I signed up with an email that looks like username+gravatar@gmail.com and the operation went through, then when I tried to log in, the website kept saying that the email was incorrect. I tried to reset the account using the username instead, which would force them to send a reset link to the email associated to this account, but the emails never arrive. I gave up that and other good usernames in many websites because of the inappropriate handling of email addresses by some popular web libraries.

Also, the same way you learnt this “trick” other programmers discovered it too and implemented a stripping algorithm to remove the unique ID during the registration process, so it is not very useful nowadays unless the website is very obscure and their developers either are rookies or do not have time to prevent this.
Wake up between 5:30 and 7:30, it's harder to wake up on the earlier end when the sun starts coming up later.

I might read a bit while my other half gets ready to walk to get coffee, currently reading "The Worldy Philosophers" on a first generation surface pro.

This whole time my phone is muted, laptop closed.

Now it's hopefully between 7:30 and 8:30 and I have coffee, also I've been experimenting with nicotine gum as a mental stimulant, but I'm not insane - I don't chew the gum and drink my coffee at the same time, it would ruin the coffee.

Depending on what sort of day it is I will either not work and do whatever I want, currently learning about economics, or I will work - most days I work.

If I am working I work a minimum of 5 hours and try to be done by 3PM, but as of this week I'm going to try to keep my hours around 8 on the days I'm working for at least a couple of months.

Usually I try to begin my work day with Slack notifications snoozed for the first two hours, because 90% of my responsibility is communication at the moment, so distractions are the norm for me if I don't keep them in check.

Someone else mentioned LISP, when I am writing code it's Clojure :)
Interesting hypothesis. Primordial black holes -- if they exist -- have a tendency to be very small, and very small black holes evaporate extremely quickly. The smallest ones couldn't have survived to the present day. An Earth-mass black hole is big enough to have survived until now, but I was under the impression PBHs that big were posited to be very rare.
I mostly meant data size on the wire, yeah, but these are all potential issues. In any case, the performance difference between the two approaches is going to heavily depend on your schema and your data, and I suspect the AR works well enough in practice.

And in this example, the data is definitely compressible, but the Postgres wire protocol does not implement compression (it leaves that to tls right now, though CRIME makes that a problem). Adding native compression to the protocol has been on the TODO list for a while:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#Wire_Protocol_Changes_...
It’s making sure people are honest. I’m making no judgements. Some people use photos that aren’t even of them. Is that ok?
> the error margin for the estimate [of number of trees on Earth] ranged between one trillion and ten trillion

A moment's googling gives primary forest being 1/3 of Earth land area and 40M km^2 ("world forest square km"), and primary forest tree density being 50k to 100k trees per km^2 ("trees per square km"). So there are at least 1T trees, as forests alone have more. And exceeding 10T would require non-forests to average at least half the tree density of forest, which seems unlikely. Suggesting bounds of 1T and 10T trees.

Just a reminder that rough quantitative reasoning and Fermi problem solving are powerful. Especially when approached as an exercise in order-of-magnitude bounding, rather than point estimate.

"How many trees are there in the world, is it more like 1, 10, 100, 1k, etc? Can anyone suggest a low bound?" "There's a tree outside the window. So one tree." "How confident are we? Should we consider that a hard or soft bound?" ... "Ok, a hard lower bound of 1 tree." "Can anyone suggest an upper bound?" "Ok, sigh, Jim?" "There can't be more trees on Earth than atoms in the visible Universe, because all Earth trees are part of the Universe, and each is made of lots of atoms! So a hard upper bound of 10^80 trees!" "Ok, is everyone ok with a hard upper bound of 10^80?" ... "Can anyone suggest some narrower bound?" ...

The phrase "I've no idea how many/much/etc" seems said far more often then it's true. You may not know it to some needed accuracy. But even young kids can be taught to estimate bounds. Which often turn out quite narrow enough to move on with.
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Sure, but the problem is that there's no transparency. You don't know if your boost showed you to 50 more people, 5 more, or 0.

Maybe you get a match during your boost. A random reward! And only Tinder knows whether your boost caused it or not.

There's very unilateral information in every transaction with dating apps, and that's the problem.
Thanks for this. App deleted because China is not a reliable place to do business.
Nope. Replace the Earth's Moon with a black hole of the same mass. Nothing bad would happen except our nights would be darker. Our tides wouldn't even change.
You're missing the fact that deceptive profiles negatively impact the experiences of everyone they interact with.

Robbery? People just want to enrich themselves. Rape? People just want to pleasure themselves. The nerve of society to criminalize these behaviors, we should all get the fuck off our collective high horses.
How is far memory different from a disk?
Or the Linux guy at a conference using keynote under MacOS.

Now a real hardcore Linux evangelist would roll their own presentation software hacked together an hour before the talk using open source bits and bobs.
Is people misrepresenting themselves something you encounter frequently? Seems like a short sighted move.
While I absolutely agree that there is a ton of bad behavior in the world from people ignorantly pontificating on things outside their wheelhouse, it is incredibly arrogant and ignorant to suggest that non-parents know nothing about parenting. It just doesn't even make logical sense.

If you are constantly late for everything and always blame it on your kid, you are doing something wrong. You should know by now that things always take longer than expected with a kid, and plan accordingly. No, you will not always get it right, and that's fine. Occasional lapses are expected and accepted. But if it becomes a regular pattern, you are simply shifting blame for your poor time-management skills onto a child that does not deserve that finger pointed at them.

If you are going to discount my opinion out of hand, I suppose I can't keep you from doing that. But, my opinion happens to agree with that of a parent upthread, so... take that as you will, I suppose.
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So I've had an interesting experience recently. Like you, I've used Tinder and other dating apps fairly unsuccessfully in the past (close to zero matches, those who match don't respond, yadda yadda). I live in the US (West Coast), but I'm originally from Russia, and I finally got to go back home (a major Russian city) this summer for a few weeks' vacation. On a suggestion of a longtime friend I've met with there, I've created a Tinder profile. Just put up some mediocre photos of myself and listed my hobbies, mentioned I am visiting for a few weeks.

The difference from the US was quite startling. I got literally hundreds of likes and dozens of matches. (my like counter showed 99+ after a week). The matches weren't bots either. They were actual women, and a decent number of them responded to my messages. I've actually ended up meeting four different women in person during a time span of two weeks. We've had some good in person conversations and I still keep in touch with at least one of them. They didn't seem like they just wanted me so that I can bring them to the US, either, as that never came up in conversations and they seemed fairly happy where they currently are. I was honestly quite sad to leave and come home to the USA because it felt like I'm returning to a social wasteland.

Later, I've on a whim set my Tinder location to Philippines one night (might be going there for work this winter), and got a decent number of matches instantly, and the ones I've talked to responded willingly. I've also gotten a ton of matches when I was on vacation in Dominican Republic last winter.

Of course, if I use my actual location (Seattle) I still get basically zero matches. I've had similar low success in Western Europe.

So, your dating app status as a dude is really location dependent.
Humans have shown the ability to adapt to climate change before (Little Ice Age or even the real last Ice Age). There’s no reason to believe we won’t be able to tackle global warming.

Will there be some hardship? Yes. Will it be worse than the “nasty, brutish, and short” life most people had throughout history before the 20th century? I doubt it very much.
Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP take up around 80% of total market cap and I’ll class those as legitimate enough to fall in the non-scam category. I’ll also ballpark half of the remaining 20% as not being scams (I know that’s a little debatable too, is a poor business premise a scam for example?), and I’d say that’s not too bad on the whole.

If we’re talking about number of projects then I can’t disagree, there’d be no argument.
How can you tell for sure whether something is a black hole or a regular rock of the same mass, when you're too far away to resolve the size of the object in a telescope?

Do you have to send a probe close and throw something in it?
I've tried Ahmad's Ceylon tea in the past and enjoyed it, but not this particular product.
So... average household (in America, anyway, don't know about UK) uses a little more than 10,000 kwh of electricity per year... one kilowatt-hour of electricity creates 1.1 - 1.2 pounds of carbon dioxide... so each household emits maybe 6 tons of CO2 per year from electricity usage.

So if this is 1 million homes, that's 6 megatons of CO2 saved per year. The world emits 37 gigatons per year. So this saves 6/37,000, or ... I just got depressed.

Every (very little) bit helps, right?
Dating apps are creepy enough as they are.
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Also for me. Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Google Photos just load forever. Android 8.1.
I'm the opposite, I value typing economics above all else, and I'd much rather have more battery life than save a little on weight. For me, 14" is the perfect screen size because it gives me a decent sized keyboard, enough screen to see what I'm doing, it's small enough to fit in my backpack, and large enough to fit a large enough battery to last all day. But for some reason the most recent Thinkpads don't offer a second battery and are trying to go thinner, which is precisely what I don't want.

I have my desktop for serious typing and my laptop for a mobile workstation. Sometimes I need to work while visiting family or when going to conferences, and I need a decent keyboard, battery, and performance to do so.

If I want thin, I'll get something like a MBA, a tablet, or my little Lenovo Yoga (11"). But that's not enough for me to get work done on the go, it's mostly just barely good enough to take notes and watch videos. I need something capable of compiling decently large codebases and 3D rendering, and no MBA is good enough for that.
That's true, but there is a lot of water in the body aside from the blood.

While most people will feel physical effects after losing 5% of their body weight in water, many can lose up to 8-10% without significant adverse physical or mental impact. Loss over 10% is considered serious dehydration.

World champion marathon runner Haile Gebrselassie famously won the Dubai marathon in 2005 with a 10% body weight loss during the race:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22450589
i've been waiting for the bubble to burst for some time