skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The United States and the Soviet Union are mounting large-scale investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more frigid, why parts of the Arctic sea ice have recently become ominously thicker and whether the extent of that ice cover contributes to the onset of ice ages.”
– New York Times, July 18, 1970

“An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.”
– New York Times, Jan. 5, 1978

Here we have the paper of record making some rather official pronouncements and claiming the weight of scientific authority in said pronouncements. That sounds like more than "irrelevant pop science noise" to me.

Now, hardly a month after that second quote, we also have this one:

“A poll of climate specialists in seven countries has found a consensus that there will be no catastrophic changes in the climate by the end of the century. But the specialists were almost equally divided on whether there would be a warming, a cooling or no change at all.”
– New York Times, Feb. 18, 1978

Which is a fairly significant change in position that should not go unnoticed, but it does nonetheless leave me somewhat skeptical of Wikipedia's claim (I'm still reading the source of that claim).

But even if the reporting on the state of climate science in the 1970s was wrong: why was it wrong? And what has changed to fix it?
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Forwarded the article to a friend who relies on Turmeric already knew about it and claimed it was "big Pharma" trying to discredit alternative medicine through innuendo and flat out lies.

As with most things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Big Biology podcast: Do dolphins and whales have their own culture and language?
Oh, thank God, I'm not crazy.
The reason is labour movements. All European countries are deeply capitalist.
You have been very helpful. Thank you.
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> you know the second part you are quoting isn't actually published by the EU

What's your point? Firstly, it's still EU funded, which by the way, many of these parent organisations like the UN and EU do some of their most important work through child organisations exclusively so I don't see your point. Secondly, if you look at the list of the people involved, there are actors from Facebook and the SPLC:

http://www.inach.net/wp-content/uploads/9.BIOs-conferentie.p...

> It seems you are trying to spread misinformation to me, or do not look into the sources you provide.

I'm confused.

If I was an EU taxpayer, I would want to know that my tax money is going towards funding these types of organisations and conferences where people say the type of things they do.
I use SendGrid and Google Cloud (GAE) to send email. This API is a layer on top these 2 email services. This layer avoids unintentionally flooding your users with email. e.g: If your cron job uses SendGrid to send email, and you run that cron job 2 times by mistake, SendGrid will send 2 emails for each user. Instead, if your cron job uses my API to send email and you run that cron job 2 times, my API will send only 1 email for each user per day. Does that make sense?
I thought Egypt was the beginning of development, and only then because the seasonal flooding of the Nile forced farmers to cooperate.
The more I hear environmentalists talk, the more skeptical I get to be about climate change. The fact that they’ve been predicting doom and gloom since I was a kid in the 80’s makes me kind of doubt their predictive ability, but I figure that if they’re right and we don’t do anything, that would really suck, so I tune in just long enough to listen to what they say. After a few hours of “I’ll hate you forever and never forgive you if you don’t do what I say”, eventually they get around to actually saying what they want me to do: and it’s always the same. Vote liberal. Even if I bought into the climate change alarmism, I’d still doubt their sincerity when they tell me the only thing I can do is elect liberal politicians: the Democrats had a super majority in the U.S. government for years and used it to do exactly nothing about climate change. I see no confirmation in their actions that they really believe what they’re saying.
How is for example a carbon tax and rebate system socialism? Sounds like a market driven solution to me.
The delusional paranoia among the catastrophists never ceases to amaze me. Fwiw, you people do more to hurt the cause than anything else.
Discover Magazine had a very approachable article on this work: http://discovermagazine.com/1998/jun/evolvingaconscio1453
the rhetoric that "inaction is violating children's rights". It's a slippery slope: What about financial debt?
JetBrains had a recent survey that showed half of all iOS developers were using Swift only.

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/swift-objc/

How about HN devs?
I am curious if they are open to some friendly competition, like an Army vs. Civilian PsyOp Hackathon.

e.g. Pick a soft target, get points for manipulating people into doing {x}. Get points for identifying the other sides psychological attempts and neutralizing / countering them. etc.. I would imagine that civilian marketing companies should be some good competition for the Army.
It’s not illegal for gay men to hold hands in Alabama either, but you’d be wise to avoid that activity if you went there. That’s why these are guidelines - because the local community is known to be touchy about these things.
There is that slight impediment of short lifespans. The giant pacific octopus has a lifespan 3-5 years. They grow rapidly but do no live long.
The problems with calling AdGuard untrustworthy because it's a "rando VPN in the Middle East" are threefold:

- The app is a local VPN so your data doesn't leave your device, except for their DNS feature.

- Cyprus is in the EU, so it's not what most people would think of as the "Middle East". The boundaries of the Middle East are man-made, not natural, and Cyprus is often considered closer to Europe these days.

- There may be concerns regarding certain states in the region, but implying "Middle East" is a pejorative is a bit crass.

TBH I'm more worried about AdGuard's Russian connections, though an AdGuard developer offered reassurances above.

If you're going to raise concerns about AdGuard, at least make them accurate.
And yet a raw egg and a cooked egg have the same grams of protein, but different amounts of human-usable protein if eaten. Trans fat is associated with an increased risk for heart disease and the FDA says that it is no longer "generally recognised as safe". Two grams of trans fat vs two grams of other fat is "the same quantity of fat" but not the same effect on human health[1]. If we reduce the amount of sugar in a creme egg, so it has the same mass of fat and protein as a boiled egg, is it then equally healthy as a boiled egg?

The reduction of food to a quantity of sugar, starch, fat, and protein, is part of what I am objecting to; as if you could say that all products containing 20 grams of metal, 12 grams of plastic, and 2 grams of glass are the same product, or that all programs with 147k lines of code are the same program. "fat" isn't one thing. "sugar" isn't one thing. Fat and sugar are not the only classes of things in plants and animals.

The relevant distinction is all the things which are different, which is a lot more things than people casually talk about. Is it the quantity in grams of saturated vs unsaturated fat? Mono or polyunsaturated? Omega 3 quantity? Ratio of omega 3 to omega 6? Quantity of EPA, DHA or ALA fat overall, or ratio between them? Trace quantity of magnesium, or trace quantity of bio-available forms of magnesium in balance with an amount of medium chain triglycerides? And what about all the countless other potential distinctions with macronutrients and smaller trace compounds, each also denaturing in different ways over different time periods? Many words I don't understand, but understand enough to know that they describe differences which are measurable and worth naming.

There are enough potential distinctions which could be made, that saying "you can crush fresh almonds, extract the oil, put it in cookies, leave them in a box for a month, and as long as there is an equal quantity of oil in grams to the original almonds then they are exactly as healthy as eating the original fresh almonds" is very suspiciously simplified.

If we had an exhaustive list, or if we had a known complete understanding of the effects of all compounds in all combinations, it would be a lot more convincing. "It doesn't kill you, your body can survive on it for a bit longer" is not the same as "optimal thing to consume for optimal long term health".

> "rather than in the mechanism by which they are produced."

The things chickens lay must promote the growth of healthy chicks - if chickens laid creme eggs, we'd be in a world where creme eggs were healthy. But the use of 'healthy' as a boolean toggle property which food has or does not have, and which a behaviour is or is not, is something I grumble about as well.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-ch...
Wow... if dreaming evolved twice, I don't know what to think.
Fracking is not a viable path to net-zero emissions, so it doesn't count as a solution.
It's a valid response because you seem to be denying any factors other than money, which is ridiculous.

I've mentioned lease terms as one major counter-example. It is not enough to lease "larger than you need right now," but given 12-month standard lease terms, you must lease "larger than you will need one year from now," which isn't a factor of money alone.
Inspired by some comments about the consciousness of octopuses here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21082845 - I remembered this Big Biology podcast which had some fascinating speculative discussions about how dolphins and whales perceive the world around them.
Even still, the median US worker is unlikely to earn 4-5 weeks of paid time off during a year. The lowest quarter of wage-earners are as likely as not to have no vacation leave entitlement at all (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs2.t06.htm) [56% with paid vacation, 44% without].

The median number of vacation days for most categories of workers is about 15 (https://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/benefits/2017/ownership/private/...).
You've broken the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) by downvote-baiting and by taking the thread further into ideological warfare. We've already had to ask you more than once about this. If you keep breaking the guidelines we're going to have to ban you.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21083712.

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More recipes than idioms.
> I believe it's fundamentally impossible to test for consciousness.

You are talking about "phenomenal consciousness", which is sometimes also referred to as "the hard problem of consciousness". (Though not all philosophers would equate these two terms.) There are quite a few other useful definitions of consciousness, and consequently, all of the different notions of consciousness should not all be lumped together.

I actually have a Philosophy degree from MIT, and I spent almost all my philosophical time worrying about and studying this issue. It still keeps me up at night sometimes to this day.

I agree with you that the hard problem of consciousness is not amenable to scientific study, and consequently, I don't think that we can ever understand it, unfortunately.

I also agree that it is the deepest and most important question about the nature of reality that we could ever have, and it is quite frustrating that we will never know the answer.

Back to other notions of consciousness, though: Many of them are interesting, and I think amenable to scientific inquiry. So we shouldn't let the hard problem of consciousness deter us from studying easier problems of consciousness.
From the description it sounds like a faster black hole would do less damage since the involved masses would accelerate for a shorter time span.

What would be the optimal speed for a collision?
> “The two most coveted symbols online are an Instagram verification and being on Forbes 30 Under 30,” said Taylor Offer, founder of an apparel startup called Feat Socks, who mentions his Forbes win (class of 2018) in his Instagram bio. “It’s a mark of validation.”

A little digging reveals that Feat Socks sells socks and hoodies. (https://featsocks.com/)

>“Hell yeah, it’s better than going to Harvard or Stanford,” said entrepreneur Katelyn O’Shaughnessy, who didn’t attend either school.

For what, the social validation? O'Shaughnessy's business (https://doctours.com) appears to be a get-healthcare-in-another-country-and-have-a-vacation travel agency.

>“I wanted to throw up at the entire thing,” said Andy Sparks, an entrepreneur who was on this year’s list, describing his reaction to the Summit, a Forbes event that celebrates the Under 30 community. “I had an existential crisis coming back from it. I wondered why I wanted to get on the list and be a part of this community in the first place.”

Ah! A critical thinker.

> Corporate sponsors such as The Macallan whiskey and Courtyard by Marriott pay big fees to get their brands in front of the young professionals who flock to the events. In 2016, Ocean Spray created a cranberry bog in a wading pool in Boston during the event, partly to highlight the fruit as an ingredient in cocktails.

Sign. Me. UP.
I'm pretty sure this would qualify as fraud in most jurisdictions.
When they are babies yes not later.
But that’s why they called “guidelines” and not “rules”. It’s just a guideline for the local moderator to make a decision on enforcing, it’s not a rule.
Another article I recently read was on North Country School in upstate NY: https://evolution-institute.org/a-school-camp-and-retreat-ce...

This said, I wish there was more exploration beyond Northern Europe and North America. Speaking just from anecdotes, in areas of the global south (India), there's seemingly a huge drive for families (and thus school) be more oriented around their kids developing skills for marketability. Not trying to assert there's anything wrong with that given wealth inequality, though in thinking of examples of the counter Manish Jain comes to mind: https://schoolingtheworld.org/
I'd say this to my friends (literally "I believe octopi are aliens") and get laughed at.

I believe that for a lot of underwater life. Basically our oceans are a cesspool of ancient alien life that's been collecting in there for millennia
I was being facetious obviously, by trying to imply that even the cheapest coffee is "the best and most delicious" because the milk and sugar make it all taste the same regardless of coffee beans used. But yes, Lidl's coffee is actually weirdly good despite being unrealistically cheap.
ah right, that makes sense
>I'm not a lawyer, but if you're applying for a line of credit with false information, I'm pretty sure that's a crime.

I'm definitely not a lawyer, but unless your intent is to defraud I wouldn't be so sure about that. I also don't see how you'd ever end up getting prosecuted for this unless you really piss someone off, in which case I guess you could get prosecuted for just about anything.

In any case, whether or not this is legal seems utterly irrelevant.

>If you're not applying for a line of credit, I don't think credit bureaus such as Equifax or "Transperian" (which I assume is a portmanteau of TransUnion and Experian) will base anything on that data, since it's so obviously easy to manipulate.

You would be wrong. That'd be an awful way to maintain up-to-date address data on people.

Besides, the first company named was "Lexis-Nexis".
Great story.
Instead of looking as recruiting as a cost center, make it a marketing investment. Spend hours with someone, give them a good experience, make them an ambassador for your brand and an external sourcer for their friends and their future self. Use them as practice for your staff to get better as communicators, mentors, code reviewers.
I feel a war of the hiveminds coming on.

"Never ever ever ever talk to police, they're pure evil and there cannot ever be some conceivable benefit to doing so."

'Why, oh why, didn't Uber report everything to the police?'

People who sympathize with both mentalities, what are your thoughts on distinguishing the cases here?
I feel so fortunate that I have never been desperate enough to even entertain the idea of working for 8+ hours, for free, as part of an interview process.

Yikes.
He asked to see some evolved circuits. The linked slides do (well, FPGA schematics), the magazine article does not.
Resemble? Or resent?
> climate change impact different races differently

Not it doesn’t. The climate doesn’t care if your black or white. And assuming some countries are one uniform kind of people is so wrong on so many levels.
We have wild weather patterns all the time.

Would love to see someone put there name on a list that says "these weather events were caused by climate change" and "these were not, we expected them".
As I understand it they have very short lifespans (3-5 years) and octopus mothers only lay eggs once. They die of starvation after guarding & tending the eggs right up to hatching.

I think they just don’t have the opportunity to produce culture. Maybe they could be taught but it seems like generational learning would be extremely unlikely.

Edit: their situation has always struck me as very poetic and sad. If they are conscious their existence seems so lonely. But maybe that’s just my mammalian bias!
Don't worry every few years there is a crisis. The worst thing you can do is internalize it.

In the 60s big fears around climate getting colder and fears around a new ice age.
As a former service member I can tell you the US Military is pretty much defined by involuntary celibacy. This is especially true in the lower ranks. If you know of an incel, please encourage them to sign up for the military. The structure, discipline, and sense of purpose the military gives you is the greatest inoculation of the anger that comes from involuntary celibacy in young men.
Mistakes happen, but I obviously have no idea. You have to chose your battles. If you want to fight the credit bureaus then go for it, more power to you. Most of us, myself included, don't have the time, energy, or desire. I'd rather just take care of it and spend my time on more important matters.
It depends. The answer is "yes" when dealing with people with whom I have regular face-to-face conversations.

When it comes to randos on the internet who hide behind anime or Warhammer 40K avatars and post mostly memes, the answer is "hell, no".
Please. No one is literally requiring you to stop remembering things. It’s about scrubbing sensitive information from certain public databases. There are all sorts of other limits on what type of information you are allowed to publish in what circumstances, and none of it applies to your actual memories.
Depends what you mean. On Friday in general? Sure, as long as you've got the time to fix any issues that crop up, it's not the end of the world.

But companies I've worked for in the past have generally avoided releasing anything after a certain time on a Friday. Usually, anything we want to release that day needs to be out before 4pm or so, to give people time to catch any issues that may crop up.
Why? You aren't deceiving anyone for a benefit, nor are you causing any injury.
I wonder whether this is because they don't need to have a highly specified lens found in conventional telescopes?
I suppose that depends on if you're defining ISIS as a caliphate / nation-state, or as an organization / ideology.
I wonder if this has been used since then?
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Kansas has outdoors. Might not have forests, but there is still benefit from being outside. I think they are called Forest Schools because they started in Europe / Scandinavia, which are forested places. Doesn't seem like there is any reason the concept couldn't be adapted to other climates.
rip off seems a little strong. this is an excerpt from a book on a different but related topic, and he is using the octupus as a way to make a larger point. The author probably has read the book in question and others to help them make their point, but that is not the same as ripping them off, its research.
Under specific circumstances, yeah.
That's a novel use of "lying" that doesn't match what most people use the word to mean. This makes the work hard to reason about, but easy to draw incorrect conclusions from. (Is this "lying" too?)
> The worst-case scenario is that there's a collapse and it brings ... nor the return of kings, but pointless gang wars.

You do realize that the history of kings around the world has been one of pointless gang wars, right? The great literature of those times (In Europe alone from the The Aeneid to Henry VI to the European empires) is all about battles between the aristocratic gangs at the top of the hierarchy fighting each other and laying waste to territory in the process. Urban II preached the crusade to export the surplus males in the aristocracy who were causing problems fighting for territory in Europe and get them to go beat up someone else instead.

Anybody who wants to return to such a state has to be a loony.
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I actually agree with your thesis! You're right that candidates are only willing to put in this level of effort if they are really interested and consider your company a "top 5%" big opportunity.

So it's critical that you convince them that you are in that top 5%! You don't want an employee to join you because their top choices turned them down -- you want to be their first choice.

We regularly won candidates away from Google, Facebook, Uber, Twitter, etc. If you want to build a great team, you're going to need to be able to do this too.

Re: code reviews -- yes, we gave everyone a thorough code review.
> Why not use a more humane interview process involving conversation about previous work, ideas about the future, strengths and weaknesses?

Because I'm hiring someone to build technology, not to schmooze about it. I need proof of ability.
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I'd be a machinist. I love watching machinists on youtube turn a hunk of metal into a useful part. It looks like it has the right mix of problem solving, thinking and labor.
I would imagine that Google/Apple/Facebook HR teams rarely refer reports of their employees illegal activity to the police as well.

This probably a net good.
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You can't. You also can't prove this isn't a hallucination, or that gravity will work tomorrow, or that you won't win the lottery.

But statistically speaking, an average person is smarter than half the people around them. An especially smart person is smarter than even more than that.

I'm by no means cruel to people I find unintelligent, but I that doesn't mean I'm not allowed to be tired of them, or that I have to do a little song and dance about how great they are just because I haven't done a thorough investigation into their mind yet.
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