skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or we keep advancing tech to reduce energy consumption (check out recent interconnect articles as an example / TPUs etc) and solve more problems with better compute.
> more certain

Do you doubt that climate change will displace 100s of millions and destroy many large and distinct cultures (e.g. island states) at current emission rates?
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> Energy production constitutes by far the largest impact

Globally agriculture and lifestock has an impact as large as the entire electricity production. Eating less meat (no need for full vegan, just less) is probably the easiest and most impactful change we can do.

Electricity is also important, but market forces are acutally doing fairly well in that area. The price of solar+storage in on track to drop below natural gas in a decade.
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Of course!

But the official name is: Ecole National Superieure du Petrole et des Moteurs.
I thought adding some news from 30 years ago to the discussion might be interesting.
I've put everything from "erotic services" to "5kg of cocaine" in the memo fields of cheques, bank transfers, and interac e-transfers and never had an issue of any sort.
That insinuation that I'm uneducated addresses none of my points. So how about replying to the given issues.
You touched on a pretty good point there. It's highly likely that this startup just reinvented the wheel, and people like DiGiorno already operate a superior version of this machine.
Well I mean technically “great apes” includes humans..
Their approved business plan - that's the entire point of having a business plan review, not just picking the highest bidder.

If they say they are going to sell wireless broadband at $xx/mbit to consumers, they need to follow through or lose their spectrum allocation, so there's no incentive to lie.
I find the more they make changes to the website the less useful it is because the mean people that would have usually staid in their typical subreddits squeeze out into the mainstream stuff and make it an overall worse site. Today was the breaking point for me. I'm actively looking for other sources of entertainment/news/etc. Trying to figure out how to use this website because it has been very trustworthy for the past several years.

To me reddit is dead as of today.
She said nothing that is incorrect nor did she do anything that is incorrect.
Funny to see all the crazy people who raise their children with crazy superstitions and crazier worldviews talking about children being brainwashed.
I've definitely had a lot of these thoughts before! In a way as life goes on our social networks get smaller but our lives get bigger.. I think the saying goes something like that.
someone should let the taliban know
You may want to include a contact email
And I'll bet the plants that make those transformers require a stable source of electricity...
At first I scoffed, because making good pizza is essentially the same as making good bread, which is more of an art than a science.

After reading through, it became apparent that this isn't geared at good pizza, it's focused on bad pizza where none of that matters, like cafeterias, gas stations, and football stadiums.
I agree that thinking humanity will be wiped out in 15 years is over the top.

I think though, that anyone that has fully grasped the IPCC reports, has to go through a grieving process that begins with despair.

Climate change is unlikely to kill me (unless through secondary effects like war), or even my daughter. But it's probably going to make my life more challenging towards the end, even more so for my daughter, and if she has any children they will probably be starting to face the real challenges (note: first world countries, for the global south, those timelines will be accelerated).

The despair though, is rooted in knowing that the natural world of my youth is gone forever (on human timescales). My daughter will never experience the same number of insects, fish, and birds I saw as a child[1]. Diversity is lost as millions of species are already going extinct. Coral reefs will be lifeless ghost towns. I can never share that world with her or my future grandchildren. Because the damage we have already done will take thousands of years to repair, that world only exists in my memories now.

On the other side of despair is acceptance and personal action. I do what I can, but I realize I'm only one among billions, and I have to accept that I can't fix a global problem, no matter how bad I think the impact is.

For anyone interested in further reading, I recommend the book _Being the Change_, by Peter Kalmus (https://smile.amazon.com/Being-Change-Spark-Climate-Revoluti...)

[1] She'll never even touch dirt, drink water, or breathe air that doesn't contain thousands of microplastic particles.
>It's also not cool to characterize people who have assault rifles or support the 2nd amendment as rednecks. I'm certainly not one. It's actually kind of offensive to even use that term anyway if you ask me.

Is that why I had to vouch for the comment, because you misread it and became offended?
Er, no - Nobody waits forever. People are not computers stuck in a for loop waiting for input.

If a response isn't received in an expected amount of time, then the sender takes the appropriate action.

People are far better at dealing with faults than any automated mechanism.
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> what Amazon really did get right that Google didn’t was an internal communication system designed to make all the rest possible.

I'm not following what he means. What is the thing he is describing as "an internal communication system" here? That made all the rest possible? What is/was this internal communications system?
Please add DISTRIBUTED when you're actually remote first without exceptions.

Exceptions that make you not really remote, and generally annoying as hell to search through,

US only

Partial remote

Remote considered

Remote for some roles

Remote in timezone

Remote or onsite
It seems to me that it wouldn't be that difficult. There are only a few major backbones that would need to be eliminated, and the rest of the internet would crush the remaining portion with sheer volume of unhandled traffic. We've seen rather minor line cuts that have hobbled large portions of the internet, which causes me to believe the internet in its current form is still pretty fragile.
This affirms my experiences with getting to a venture-funded deal. The stylistic elements of this piece, not its content.

Someone who can speak the product managerese--who takes 7,000 words to say something and look thoughtful while doing it--is so essential to getting to a venture-funded deal.

Being on the other side of the process she describes sucks. Like nobody wants to be part of this imaginary, psuedo-scientific competition. In reality she just acquiesced to whatever the 6th person demanded. The process wore her down.

If the process didn't wear her down, there would be no deal, because the deal only occurs when the product manager character moves along.

In quintessential product manager form, the process disguised a completely emotionally-driven decision by providing a post-hoc rational for it.
The slipper slope goes in the opposite direction too. All behavior causes damages (negative externalities) to someone somewhere, but we don't outlaw all behavior.

There is a pretty well developed theory of econ & law of when it makes sense to have financial penalties and when it makes sense to have criminal penalties. I don't think I could do justice to it in this comment box, but suffice it to say, "only criminal penalties, no financial ones" is wrong.
> Would we even realize their sentience

(Minor nitpick, but I think you meant "sapience" rather than "sentience." Sentience is something that essentially all animals on this planet have, and just means the ability to experience sensations. Sapience appears to be unique to humans (and perhaps a small number of animal species) and refers to the ability to reason.)
Talk about easily misreading a graph... I thought the article in the second link was going to explain the decline of the Simpsons based on frequency of episodes focusing on specific characters, but it was just trying to be clever with that image.
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I was going to mention it, but I see someone else got there first :)

I've been using SuperPutty for several years now - tabbed UI is really useful, as is the folder organisation of lots of connections.
The American right is increasingly becoming the party of liberals, as is the case for most other countries on Earth. The authoritarian policies of the right from the last 50 years (anti-gay-marriage, War on Drugs) have very quickly lost favorability. The two main authoritarian policies that the right still sticks to are regarding immigration and abortion.

They would argue that anti-abortion is not any more authoritarian than being anti-murder, as it simply falls under the same law. The disagreement with a pro-choice advocate would be whether or not the fetus/baby is considered alive (arbitrary), and whether the woman's right to bodily autonomy supersedes the fetus/baby's life (arbitrary). So I wouldn't really call anti-abortion authoritarian so much as an arbitrarily different definition of life and arbitrarily different prioritization of rights. The authoritarianism of being anti-murder is already in place. I'm pro-choice, for what it's worth.

Immigration is also a little different. Strict immigration policies would be outwardly authoritarian, but you aren't imposing any imperative on your citizens.

Authoritarianism of the left-wing, however, is a different story. It's obviously not a bad thing so long as you support the authoritarian policies, but the role of the state is enormous as compared to what is supported by the right. Higher taxes (the abstraction of all state power), hate speech laws, affordable housing, rent-control, welfare, food stamps, affirmative action, diversity quotas, gun control, environmental regulation, trade tariffs (funny to see Trump utilizing policies advocated for by Bernie Sanders), free education, etc.

It is not even remotely debatable whether the role of the state is diminished in the right wing as compared to the left, that is almost definitionally the distinguishing characteristic between the two at this point.
Its sad people don't show the same empathy for legal immigrants they show for undocumented immigrants!
I might have missed it from the article but it doesn't seem like the machine "spins" the dough to get air bubbles into the sides and make a proper crust.

The product on the photo looks like a frozen pizza from a factory tbh..

What is the innovation here? The fact that it is inside a restaurant?
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Sometimes you get lucky and achieve good outcomes with bad process or decisions
This reminds me of a previous post for the dishwashing robot.

It is automating the easy part. All they are doing is putting toppings and sauce on. An experienced human can do it perhaps a little slower.

Essentially this big piece of equipment saves the business owner 2 minutes of an employee making $13 an hour, about 50 cents. At full capacity, 60 an hour, theoretically it might save $30 an hour. (Practically that won’t happen for lots of logistical reasons).

It better be quite inexpensive to justify that minor savings.
8 pepperoni and 6 pounds of sausage.

I think this isn't really aimed at people seeking the joy of pizza, it's aimed at people selling slices in a stadium. There's a lot of those.
Otoh, governments can detain, arrest, or kill you and your family. Regardless of whether you can vote.

Both corporations and governments have a history of bad behavior. But I warrant the government ledger has much worse capacity to do me harm, as well as a few orders of magnitude more deaths caused by their decisions.
Airbus has been manufacturing in China for a while now and Boeing opened a plant more recently.

China doesn't make internationally competitive aircraft because making internationally competitive aircraft is very hard.
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> The quality of the high speed rail system barely needs mention

China is not famous for the quality of it's high speed tail system. China is famous for two things:

1) throwing huge amounts of money/resources to build their high-speed railway network

2) stealing intelectual property from manufacturers of high-speed railway rolling stock, whether through industrial espionage or hijacking production processes after enticing European companies with contracts to build European rolling stock designs in China.

Also, China's high-speed railway is also infamous for their accidents, particularly by the inhumane way that chinese officials decided to cover them up (i.e., burry wreckage next to crash sites without recovering dead bodies)
Society is a part of reality. What society will and will not accept is a limiting factor just like the limiting factor of energy density, hydrodynamic drag, etc. The reality is, society will keep burning fossil fuels until a cost effective substitute is provided.

I could turn around and say the same thing to you. Go take your proposal they were drastically cut international shipping and move containers with sailboats and biomass fuel to national leaders. You'll rapidly discover that reality disagrees with the feasibility of this solution.
No, but it's a pretty common mistake and makes more sense than it being the ones who didn't vote.
It would have to be hermetically sealed from creation to combustion at 37,000 feet. I’m sure it’s theoretically possible but so difficult as to be untenable.
We do! The number of guns used in crime is a statistical whisper compared to the hundreds of millions that are in legal, peaceable private ownership and circulation in the US alone. The empirical view is vastly different than the sensational media representation, which (due to attention and advertising incentives) cherrypicks the extremely rare worst-case events.
Coffee Stains and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature (2018) [pdf]
> This creates a less than stellar experience with the user having to repeat, rephrase or even worse abandon the task.

Not to mention: constant wondering whether the task can even be accomplished. When a voice assistant rejects your query, in many cases you can't be sure whether it's because it couldn't understand you, or because it can't possibly accept what you said as a valid input in the context it's in. In regular interfaces, visible constraints matter as much as affordances.
I think you're assuming that the low point on that graph is the 2012 low outlier. It isn't, it's 2007. The graph would look much worse if stopped in 2012.
Ok, I guess I'll be the first to bring up red meat production.

Our love affair with eating meat (specifically red meat) has 3 pretty bad side effects:

* greenhouse effect (something like 18% of the total greenhouse effect is from farm animal produced methane).

* uses a ton of fresh water (hundreds of times more water used to product beef than vegetables).

* uses up valuable farm land to grow animal feed crops (something like 33% of all arable land on Earth).

So, lets pass some fucking taxes on red meat, eh?
In 15 years the effects of climate change will be much more pronounced than they are today, and today as a millennial, it is already possible to recall how the local climate has changed.
So if anything in 15 more years, these people will be much more convinced than they are now.
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Glaciers always melt from the bottom (or at least appear to do so) since that is where the water goes. Parts of Greenland's glaciers are actually growing [1].

Here's a strange fact: the last 5 years are only the hottest on record when compared to recent historical temperature data. Compared to previous historical temperature data (over the same period) the last 5 years are comparable to but not as extreme as the hot period in the mid-30's. This discrepancy started when meteorological institutions in parts of the world started 'correcting' their historical temperature records. The claimed reason for these corrections - which lower past temperatures while raising recent ones - is that they are necessary to make historical measurements comparable to recent and current ones. This claim has been tested and found wanting in the case of the Dutch meteorological office, KNMI [2 (in Dutch)]. NOAA in the US does the same type of corrections which are being criticised for being excessive but I have not yet found an impartial and detailed report laying out where exactly they went wrong.

Finally: Tuvalu is growing, not sinking [3].

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/one-p...

[2] https://klimaatgek.nl/document/De%20homogenisatie%20van%20De...

[3] https://phys.org/news/2018-02-pacific-nation-bigger.html
What happened to moderation? You can use social media without being obsessed with it.

If you have problems with self control then take steps to deal with it. Delete phone apps, set specific times when you use social media with limits, and if necessary talk to a mental health professional.
You just did submit to "Ask HN" but putting that string at the start of the title.

However, like the front page, your submission won't show up on the "Ask HN" page[0] unless it gets enough upvotes in a short enough time. I don't know what the limits might be. I've given you an upvote in case that will be enough.

Edit: it wasn't

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/ask
THANKS! I see I am already violating some rules, will fix!