skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article referenced on the wikipedia page gives a great breakdown of the hand: https://www.pokernews.com/news/2008/02/he-said-she-said-vol-...
> Instead of criticizing another perspective, you should put effort towards convincing people of another view point.

That just doesn't work. Anytime someone dares express a view contrary to the group, they're shouted down and insulted into the ground.

I'm very optimistic about the future of mankind, which is funny to me, considering how cynical I am about interactions with other people.
The key here is that the executive branch of the US government doesn't get to do these things in a vacuum - both Congress and the Supreme Court temper its power, and though elections in the US are far from perfect they are still free.
Weird. If I were to really feel that way I would forget any career, education, and public service aspirations and move to an idealistic mountainside community working off the land. I would build things for my immediate use and enjoy the scenery with beautiful natural landscapes and no road rage traffic.

If people really believe humanity will be wiped out in 15 years and yet still concern themselves with their checking accounts and sense of fashion I would really wonder if there is some kind of mental health illness at play.
The reticence of politicians to address climate change is strongly correlated with their age.

Of course there are outliers but it seems clear that "I'm not going to be alive when the shit hits the fan" does a lot to assuage existential anxieties related to climate change.
Theology can be rigorous in the sense of its models possessing internal validity (logical consistency, parsimony).

However, because it's basically speculation about unobservable entities, theology completely lacks external validity.

Social sciences can have both.
This nonsensical hyperbole only weakens the push to mitigate climate change and go green. Turning the movement into a doomsday cult only strengthens climate change deniers arguments.
If you do one thing, email your city council members and ask them to eliminate parking requirements. Here's a sample email which also explains why:

Parking minimums should be eliminated or significantly reduced in central neighborhoods where we've invested in bike lanes, walkability, and transit.

By insisting that we dedicate space for cars even in areas where residents have expressed interest in walking, biking, and using transit, parking minimums "build in" demand for driving and make it easier for people to drive than to use the transit alternatives they prefer.

Parking minimums also make housing more expensive even as our region faces a critical affordable housing shortage. The housing crunch disproportionately affects the poorest among us, who often don't have cars or struggle to afford gas. Why are we requiring these critically affected people to shoulder the cost burden created by parking minimums?
Says a poll by someone selling a book about how we are too scared of the future.

Don't believe this data at all.
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How about just one 96km diameter asteroid?
You can have a Punk attitude in the software tech scene, many years ago, I was one of the first to write a blitter that could scale a QuickTime movie decompressing in real-time 320x240 to full-screen 640x480. To do that I had to use floating point math instructions to write on the screen. This was giving me double bandwidth.

This means you had to bypass the whole QuickDraw API and overwrite the screen yourself, that was a fun time!
They may be technically correct for their company and applications. Height and weight are medical data but a leak of that from non-medical contexts wouldn't be a HIPAA breach. Your doctor exposing it in a data breach would be in deep shit.
True, the policeman wasn't there by accident. His presence was premediated. By China.

There was an understanding - One Country, Two Systems. China abrogated that understanding by 1) creating a legislature that was no longer responsive to residents, triggering the Umbrella movement and 2) unilaterally attempting to impose an extradition treaty.

If China respected that (documented) understanding then most likely this massive fracas would not have happened. First they took over the legislature, and then they went for the justice system. Hong Kong thought they would retain their justice system through 2047, and that expectation was rudely dismissed.

So here we are, with police gunning down a high school student. There were better ways to deal with this situation, but Beijing became arrogant and tried to rush the calendar. End result is the need for a police state to prop up a stalemate of their own creation. The kids who would suffer most under this oppression are desperately trying to find a way out, as peacefully as possible, but JFK had it right; those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
You actually have lots of control! Cities are representative democracies, and you have an elected official whose job is to represent the interests of you and others in your district.

Your representatives make decisions about zoning codes and land use policies that are the literal rules for how your city is organized. They can do things like pass tree ordinances that regulate when people can cut down old growth trees, make a bicycle master plan to improve mobility in the city, establish incentive programs for entrepeneurs in targeted industries to boost the local economy, and more.
The article exaggerates... there aren't 20K bodies, but "up to" 20K [1], so just a "vanity number" -- and I can't find any reference for what a likely actual number might be.

Maybe "Megie was tasked with executing prisoners" but there is only a record of a single hanging, ever. [2]

And while the "Hangman's Elm" is cool in being the oldest known tree in NYC, the idea that it was used for hangings appears to be a complete later fiction. [3]

So take your sensationalistic history with a grain of salt, folks...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070703234838/http://www.nycgov...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Square_Park#Early_u...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman%27s_Elm
And even if you have a target against the insurgents, the target is likely going to be next to some service member's home.
See: Recurring Christian End Times prophecy.
Which direction?

Reversed stupidity is not intelligence so I don't see people being angry as evidence towards the target of that anger being correct, but witch hunts tend to be done by people who are either wrong or malicious or both, so I read that as evidence against the hunters.
I finished it last night. I wish a number of the arguments had provided more numbers to back up its points. In one section early on it uses a chart of city cost/profit from a given works, using a real world example, and then presents a chart to show its flow- but doesn't give any numbers on the axis. I liked the arguments presented in the book, but this made my brain worry about cherrypicked data.

Also, the entire last chapter could be cut entirely - it was an unneeded addition to the book.

All in all, a decent read, some interesting arguments.
There are lots of point sources of CO2 that don't require as much energy to extract, but your point stands: the conversion takes a lot of energy (thermodynamics is a harsh mistress).

The tech works quite well though, CRI in Iceland makes methanol (a viable liquid fuel) from CO2 and electrolyzed H2 semi-commercially, taking advantage of cheap and abundant geomthermal electricity.
51% seems very extreme. Is Silicon Valley living in a bubble? On a side note, Foster City will be flooded with just a 1M [1] rise in sea level 20 years out [2].

1. https://ss2.climatecentral.org/#13/37.5341/-122.3201?show=sa...

2. https://riskfinder.climatecentral.org/state/california.us?co...
People are reluctant to use Folly for the same reason people are reluctant to use Boost - except that using Folly also implies a dependency on Boost.
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Biosphere 2.0 was a massive failure though. Hardly a reassuring worst case scenario.
Maybe not in 15 years, but climate change can cause enough of the earth to become uninhabitable that civilization crumbles. Wiping out 95% of humanity would almost certainly be enough to cause the downfall of modern society. Your Biosphere future is a highly optimistic one, IMO.
Ideas don't just appear out of the ether, so for any given idea, it's possible to point to influences and declare the idea therefore "not new". So, by "new", perhaps what I really mean is "newly considered acceptable in a small but influential or passionate community".

The conference also doesn't seem to be exclusively devoted to "ideas that get you banned from things." To pick a seemingly non-political example from the list - are there any mainstream medical or nutritional experts talking about the benefits of starvation?
> I think that the preservatives are incredibly dangerous.

Which is a statement that is in no way supported by any data we have on the use of vaccines. Facts don't care about what you think.

Your children are many many times more likely to get seriously injured by the diseases prevented by a vaccine, than possible side effects said vaccine.

I don't know how you can go "my gut feeling is better than your statistics" while putting children in measurable danger, then expecting people to be understanding of your position.
Because hybrids are the next step until EVs reach the junction of affordable and practical for the average household. Toyota knows this, and is playing it safe until there's a mass-market demand, when they'll step in with the most practical and boring EV possible.
> I don't disagree with any of that except that encouraging diets amounts to "Dividing ourselves into good and bad group". It's also not an actual counterargument. I also happen to think economics and technology will be the drivers that push plant-based diets to the majority.

Sure but it could also make meat intensive diets have less of a carbon footprint. Once you start preaching that certain lifestyles are better at stopping climate change than others, I feel you're effectively judging which life styles are good or bad for the world. You're right it's jumping to a conclusion that people are making moral judgments on others... but I don't think it's that big a stretch.

I really don't think it makes sense to address climate change at an individual level. Most people have little to no control over how they live their lives. Even if they did, it'd be an enormous ask to have everyone understand their carbon footprint due to supply chain complexity.
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What about that portends extinction?
While I believe there might be some possibility that we might see some catastrophic events caused by climate change or human conflicts, I highly doubt that they would completely wipe humanity and/or make Earth wholly unhabitable.
I can think of some scenarios that would lead to devastating losses and long-term consequences but I have a hard time picturing a complete extinction happening within 15 years, barring some crazy unlikely scenario like a big meteorite impact.
I am not making the claim that private firearms ownership is required for maintaining human rights. My claim is that it is an additional control against tyranny, which it is. It is more difficult for a tyrannical government to enforce it's will on an armed populace than an unarmed populace.
Also, in my experience address locations on Google Maps are often very inaccurate, so it's not even a good source.
If you can remember your middle school classmates after 40 years, you're doing better than me after < 20 years.

My dad loves Facebook, but he has no clue about security, so he isn't burdened by any of the same thoughts as you. I'm overall a tech-person and software developer, but I either don't care that much about privacy or I'm just clueless. Ignorance is bliss?
I was a pretty avid Facebook user from ~2008-2015. I posted multiple times a day, had about 70 well-vetted friends on there, but unfortunately I have a bad habit of starting arguments with people that I think are espousing uninformed opinions. By 2015, it felt like a not-insignificant part of every day was dedicated to arguing something political, leading to me getting mad. Eventually, I started to feel that this was unhealthy.

I deleted my facebook back in 2015; I was afraid I'd have some kind of withdrawal, but bizarrely after about two days I sort of forgot that I had ever even used Facebook.
My point is that I find it strange to give RMS rights he would not give others if he had the power to stop them from making those decisions.
IIRC, that's because the IPCC's "worst case" winds up being the worst case everyone can agree is possible. So it winds up being more moderate than the actual worst cases.
Kind of like TextEdit is on macOS is today (the one bundled with the OS).

It's slightly annoying that you have to twiddle a bunch of the preferences to make it a workable plaintext editor. Apple should just delete its rich text functionality, now that they bundle a real word processor (Pages) with the OS.
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I think it may just be the case that they heavily culled the shots they had. Some of the "automated" movement does end up looking too cinematic.
> Is Silicon Valley living in a bubble?

Is that a joke?
Thank you for making the Internet a more rational place today.
This poll seems suspect. I wouldn't draw any conclusions from it, until it's corroborated or we know more about the methodology (which I couldn't find in an admittedly cursory search).
> the US has some founding morals and principles they do not forget.

It took the US around 200 years to fully live up to those founding morals and principles.

The PRC is a relatively young country. Only 70 years as of today. Give them a hundred more years and perhaps it’ll change drastically.
Buried power lines are definitely a thing. They're common in cities where you don't want a tangle of wires overhead and in more affluent suburbs for the same reason.

They're pretty nice because you rarely lose power in bad weather, the power tends to only go out on nice days when the backhoes are active.

Long distance HV lines are always overhead though. They would require relatively expensive insulation to be run underground.
I was confused about this too. I think the win here is that the machine is small enough to actually fit in a fast-food restaurant. Plus, they're planning to branch out from pizza.
Just a few days ago I encountered a Patagonia campaign with the banner 'facing extinction' superimposed over a slideshow of somber, adolescent faces. While I'm sure it's well-intentioned, apocalyptic messaging of this sort damages the credibility of actual projections that are genuinely alarming.

Conflating 'catastrophic climate change' (ie. more thousand year floods) and 'apocalyptic climate change' (ie. a big flood will kill us all!) muddies the water and lends ammunition to climate deniers.

Even nuclear war would likely leave a few stragglers to rebuild some semblance of society that worships a manna-giving snack machine.
It's not so much the murder-bots, as it is the murder-bots in combination with the farming-bots, builder-bots, and general servant-bots.

If the rich and powerful consolidate autonomous labor under their control, this removes the self-interest of keeping people around, and would allow them to unleash whatever level of violence is needed, all the way up to genocide.
It is always good for DJI to have some competition. They have been spending too much time going after GoPro cameras instead of advancing their quadcopters.
Twitter is a toxic cesspool and I can't fathom the value people get out of it. I don't CARE about influencers think, I don't WANT to see the most re-tweeted comment.

Whereas FB is more "flat"; I see what people who I actually care about post. Nice vacation, hey, your kid did something unremarkable, cool, you got a new dog.

If your usage pattern is to try to game the system and gather likes and shares, you're probably not someone I'm interested in, hence my distaste for twitter, or, generally, 'following' anyone I'm not personal friends with. Twitter seems to be setup for the latter; I keep trying to like it and use it, but I get uninteresting shit from the "public" figures I try to follow; eg, race drivers I'm interested in, cybersecurity figures, etc.
I don't know how old you are, but I think that what you describe was just the natural course of things before social media, and everyone got through life just fine. Yeah, you lose contact with your old friends, yeah you lose updates from close but not immediate family. But you also start your own family and become way more involved in them. That happened to my grand parents, my parents, and myself. I think the idea that you have to be up to date on everyone's business you've ever met seems to be a new phenomenon, and maybe the solution to all this is to just be comfortable with the idea you can maintain a relationship without being in constant contact. I see some of my friends once or twice a year. None of us are on Facebook or social media. But we have the same relationship dynamic we've had since middle school, despite differences in time and space.
> ..Early-career setback appears to cause a performance improvement among those who persevere.

> ..These findings are consistent with the concept that “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger,” which may have broad implications for identifying, training and nurturing junior scientists.

Good to hear, as someone who (is not a scientist but) has had a fair share of early-career setbacks, from external causes, bad luck, as well as self-inflicted in youthful ignorance. :)

At least from an anecdotal retrospective of my current blessed situation, surviving and overcoming these setbacks have indeed made me more resilient and persistently motivated.
I don't know the answer to your question (though I'm curious too!) but wanted to link this nifty map from NOAA re:pole movements-

https://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/historical_declination/
I wonder what autopilot this uses? One of the open source ones or a custom implementation?
> Right-leaning, free-market, anti-authoritarian

There is nothing “anti-authoritarian” about the modern American right, except as a euphemism for “I don’t want to pay taxes”. Not much “free market” either, except as a euphemism for “corporations should have no accountability or oversight”.
do you mean imagine as in how in "May 1970, the month in which four students were shot dead at Kent State by national police"
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The Skydio R1 was by far the leader in collision avoidance and follow capability. Flitetest did an independent review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG_PMF27tDE
Seems like Boeing is getting pretty desperate to fix their MCAS issues.
My only issue with a carbon tax is how severely it'll impact the poor. If we had a system where using carbon costs $X in tax and saving carbon/using green energy netted you $X from the government, I think that'd be a great way to create incentives to go green while accurately pricing in externalities. Basically a redistributive tax.
Airplanes contribute 2% of greenhouse emissions, how about we don't start there.

We can ground flights immediately. Literally today.

Building new nuclear power stations takes a long time.

If you believe we have 15 years left you do the first one in order to give yourself time to do the second one.
Maybe humanity won't be wiped out in 15 years.

What is the possibility that in 15 years it is too late to turn around climate change? (I don't know the answer.)
Sorry, this is too vague for me...humanity as a civilization "could be wiped out", well of course we could. If a meteor hits us or we accidentally and/or intentionally set off a bunch of nuclear weapons...yes, we "could" be wiped out. But will climate change, a long-run issue, wipe out humanity in 15? I don't think even pessimistic forecasters are predicting that 2034 will be the end of civilization due to climate.
How is this rational in any way?
His whole argument is a straw man, which fyi is a fallacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Yes, because what idiot would want to reduce America's world-beating 40,000 gun deaths per year?

HK's homicide rate is almost 20 times lower than the USA's. To catch up with the US murder rate, adjusted for population, the HK police will need to kill about another 350 protestors for this year.
I assume such factories employ machinery that isn't suitable for use elsewhere. Additionally, it seems unlikely that such machinery would have been designed to produce individual customized pizzas on an as-needed basis, whereas this seems built specifically to address both of those points.

I'm no pizza connoisseur, but the pizzas in that video don't look particularly appetizing.
In short: reactionism poisons opportunities for real change. Unfortunately, the internet is the most efficient breeding ground for reactionism the world has ever seen.
I do a similar thing blocking it with ublock origin