skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real question is:
Will renewable (without storage) can replace 4% of our energy (not just electricity) production each year from 2019 to 2050?

I think 2019 (or was it 2018?)was the first year with more renewable installed than coal plants, if you look at max charge. Good news at least.
I doubt that's why law school classes take attendance. To take the bar you need to graduate from a law school (with rare exception) so the law school has an incentive to pretend they are an essential part of the process and something important is happening in class.

It would be embarrassing to the school and the idea of continued employment of the professors if it was revealed how easy it is to pass the law school classes and the bar without ever attending a lecture.
Don't you know that The Economist is completely unbiased and objective? lmao.

Be careful going against the dominant ideologies here. I've been warned that it's a bannable offense.
My comment tried to be clear that I'm not talking about political agitators, please don't make a straw man to detract from main point.
Beta testing of shaving robots must look like the shaving scene from Airplane...
bacteria in the wet rice farming system is also a big source of methane, with a positive feedback loop for rising temperature.
RobotDiAngelo: GPT-2 learning to be antiracist
GPT-2 fine tuned on the works of Robin DiAngelo.
Fauci saying that masks are not effective protection from coronavirus:

https://streamable.com/oml2rf
He Sold His First Business for $2.6B and Raised $108M from Jeff Bezos and Others
didn't covid smokers actually do better in the early studies lol.
You're probably spot on about in-depth journalism being the only path forward. News used to aggregators of what's happening, but social media and customizable feeds do it better and much faster. So journalism should focus on what the social media grapevine isn't good at: investigation, good writing, and using a list of trusted sources and experts gathered over years.

And if a newsroom can't do that better than somebody on social media, it should hire that person (or at least commission a piece).
FIRST uses android phones but they drive a hardware board that handles low-level stuff like motors.
>Objectivity has been dead for half a decade.

Half a decade? 5 years?
Also works with function names: I regularly read assembly for which I don't have the source, only debug info. If the routine I'm interested in looks like a library or framework, there is some chance it's open source - so I'll throw it into Google and see what it brings up. Even if I don't get the exact same source (e.g. don't know the exact libc version), I get an idea what the routine should do, which tremendously cuts the time I need to understand what's going on.
==That the US still has to handle the slavery thing that it got herself into since its very inception while Denmark doesn’t have that problem? I thought that was common knowledge.==

The Danish West India Company? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_West_India_Company

==Yes, when you have a small, privileged and mostly white population things are easy, only when it gets mixed up things start becoming complicated.==

Not sure where you are going, but you seem to equate “culture” to “laws”. People aren’t pining for the culture of Norway and Denmark, they want the economic policies and Norway and Denmark. We could pass distributionary legislation regardless of how many “white” people we have. It sounds like a cop-out.
Imo that change start with the developer that thinks their job is to "produce good code" instead of "work with others to create a good product".

When we act like a coding-machine, we get treated like one.
There's nothing objective about feeling vindicated by Bari Weiss.
I think this is pretty case specific

I worked at a small company that made software to allow behavioral therapists to collect and analyze data about patients and visualize it more easily. Helped a lot when the patient was a young student and you're working with parents or guardians, and it replaced a lot of time therapists had previously been spending in Excel (or in some situations, hours with pen and paper).

GDPR hit hard. We weren't selling any data at all, but because data was often stored grouped by classroom, or by therapist, or by org/admin, providing an easy way to give a patient a data dump of just their data (rather than the data a clinician was approved to view) was very expensive.

I left for other reasons, but the company is still struggling with the added costs, and last I heard was going to be acquired.
I'm pretty much in the opposite boat, I would never use the facebook replacement and really have no issue with Tiktok. My tiktok does not have access to my camera, mic or location services (i'm a consumer, not a creator) and I clear my clipboard prior to opening it.

The solution I want is for Apple to provide more access toggles and transparency about what apps are doing
This would be funny if it wasn't sad (the ignorance of the Marxists who made this happen and the writer).

Who's going to work (or, why would anyone work) and pay for BI if they can get by on BI and a bit of undeclared work on the side?

Next article in the series: the promising results of city-wide looting (people found to be better off, store owners made whole by the rich insurance companies - eff yeah!)
Semi on-topic: pseudorandomness is an interesting idea that has interesting applications in real life.

Maria Konnikova [1] mentions that poker players, even when they have an on-average winning strategy, randomize their play using the second hand on their watches. For instance, they might execute their play 3 times every 4 plays, depending what their watches tell them.

For me the deeper implication is that in an environment with stochasticity (the real world is a mix between determinism and randomness), executing the same deterministic strategy all the time is likely not going to guard you against the random events that are harmful. Randomization provides a sort of protection by diversifying your strategies.

[1] in an interview with Sean Carroll on the Mindscape podcast
just stop subsidizing beef. people will shift to chicken and pork/ham.
Not only does Google have too many different chat tools, but now my @gmail and G Suite inboxes won’t even look/operate the same, for however long it takes Google to align these products.
Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows

Finite and Infinite Games - James Carse
True, though I’d take amplified polarization any day over what Facebook and YouTube have done for years steering vulnerable people to conspiracy content.
always interested to learn about other misinformation machines, but your comment lacks sources
The Design of Everyday Things

Ways of Seeing

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
You can't fix social problems with technical solutions.

Twitter is by design a melting pot of opinions because of it's global access to anything, which is good and bad in it's own ways. Until this design changes, there is not much you can improve on fundamental levels. And any fundamental change would mean for twitter to stop being twitter. Then you could also just switch to your personal forum, blog, discord or whatever controlled safespace you prefer for your content.

Thouhg, this was with twitter always the case, it's nothing really new. Maybe it's your perception which changed, or your bubble which has moved? Maybe you are at the point of being "to old for this shit" now?
I'd love to submit a PR to have them move from Google Analytics to something else. Does anyone know alternatives (like what we discussed earlier this month - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23560823) that are privacy-oriented but free to open source projects?
"The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" by Carl Sagan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

Also around the age of 8 or 9 I read some Erich von Däniken book and got quite excited by what it contained. However, I eventually realised that it was complete nonsense and I got really affronted that people could write books that contained stuff that wasn't true. A useful lesson!

Edit: Another one is "Why People Believe Weird Things":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_People_Believe_Weird_Thing...
Careful use of facts can even convince people of things that are out-and-out untrue. For example, at least for a while everyone on HN seemed convinced that the US coronavirus testing program must obviously have been sabotaged because we couldn't even catch up with South Korea in tests per capita - people kept on pointing to that one specific fact, even though it wasn't true and hadn't been in a good while.

This was the result of hard, deliberate work by the American media. It started when America genuinely was behind South Korea and the media pointed to this as the reason they'd supposedly contained the coronavirus without locking down (they hadn't, of course). Then when the US started catching up with South Korea, passing them in both total tests and testing rate per capita, all the usual publications ran fact checks insisting it was false to claim that the US was testing more people for coronavirus because they'd tested less people per capita. When even that was passed, the media carefully avoided mentioning it, using other comparisons such as test positivity rate to argue that the US coronavirus testing was still behind South Korea. (In reality this wasn't actually measuring the scale of coronavirus testing at all - South Korea had reached that low positivity rate by using a partial lockdown to drop the number of cases and were coming to the end of that lockdown.) Anyone Googling for information on the false claim would find only the outdated fact checks, which even their authors must've known weren't going to be true for long given the trajectory back then.

Not only that, when Trump pointed out in a press conference that in reality the US had passed South Korea in this, the New York Times even ran a news headline claiming he was lying... and if you read the article, their basis for claiming this was that there were still a few other countries carrying out more coronavirus tests per capita than the US. (Which was technically true but irrelevant, particularly since most of the larger ones also had worse coronavirus outbreaks than the US so it clearly wasn't doing them much good.)
Yes, because MacOS on ARM is a super common architecture in July 2020 :-)
Old newspapers? Like segregation era? Super objective times.
Well it looks like the Uyghurs didn't get their ticket to the future.
The media indeed. It was them who told the GOP to try to put a woman who could not name a single supreme court case one step away from the presidency in 2008. The party of personal responsibility is not personally responsible for being seen as complete insane in sensible countries.
oh man, I love Hans Rosling TED videos... will have to look taht book up.
Are those buttons or tags? Those may be buttons to set "compromised" on an account, etc.
I'd rather the whole idea fucked off out of existence.
Rampant inequality ruins everyone's mental health, but not equally and now it's a weird status symbol.

- homeless <=> crazy, bad

- Some anxiety <=> type A hustler, good

- And now: a little depression + access to healthcare <=> "it's just bug", neutral
I have been search for quite a while for a service that I could subscribe (pay) to get a list of high quality, information dense, writing, about current world events.

I haven't yet found anything that I would be satisfied with. I looked at Substack but most journalist there seem to be basically running blogs.
I'm not saying nobody's ever done that. But you cut most of the little annoying people with a bit of status. Ever sat in a lecture by someone famous, vs one by some random grad student?
I believe that some kind of free investigative press, one which the electorate pays attention to, is a requisite for anything that can be reasonably called a democracy.

I would go further than you and say that publishing fiction based loosely on current events under the guise of “news” has negative utility, and much would be gained by getting rid of it.

That said, I don’t know how to solve this! It — along with every other case where capitalism produces suboptimal outcomes — is an example of Goodhart's law, so the issue will come back fast if we tried any simple and obvious solutions.
Yea I remember in college when I was applying for my first jobs I would read through their mission statements so I knew what words to prioritize saying in the interviews. It's all part of the game.
When I was a kid some doctors did freak me out and i developed an anxiety for hospitals. The smell of disinfectant had a strong effect on me for a long time, I’d get stomach butterflies and nausea from it or whenever stepping into a hospital.

We have to realize that a percentage of doctors out there are psychopatic and can’t empathize with their patients. If one’s unlucky of encountering one of these early on they can develop a doctor phobia.

I need to clarify that psychopatic doesnt mean serial murderer, it’s just people who are incredibly smart but lack the capability to empathize.
>She told me she welcomed the diagnosis of a neurobiological disorder, which confirmed her problem was ‘real’ – brought on by a physiological force external to her volition – and that it showed she’s not ‘just a slacker’.

That is such an arbitrary distinction. As if being "just a slacker" doesn't have a number of deeper reasons behind it as well. Brains are just machines at the end of the day, every behavior is a result of something material...
>FYI that book is very poorly regarded by mainstream historians and anthropologists for being scientifically inaccurate.

That's a bit of a stretch. It isn't without (legitimate) criticism --as any work of this scope is-- but Diamond is mainstream, and the book has won several scientific awards and a lot of praise.

The over-arching premise, that luck and circumstance played a huge role in the development of civilizations, isn't really disputed. And there are lessons in there for today: not everything you've earned is a product of your abilities.
I don't follow your argument. Ruby is a single-use-case language so therefore Swift must also be? I can point to many languages which have achieved adoption in more than one domain as counter-examples.
I did this too. Not break my leg, but decided to stop, when I made the decision, it was internal, I didn't tell anyone, and I didn't clean up anything, it was a few days before I emptied my ash-tray, and for many weeks the pack and ashtray was right there right of my mouse-pad as is tradition.
Every time I had the impulse, I could reach down and chose not to smoke.
I was actually afraid of relapse when I finally threw the pack out, because I felt it was a security net.

My interpretation of why this worked is, that from previously failed attempts (2 or 3 maybe), I had changed too much, and thrown away the packs and lighters.. I'd suddenly sit and think "that car.. it really needs refueling RIGHT. NOW. don't it?" and I'd drive to the gas station and when paying for gas, I'd say, as is tradition "and a pack of north state and a ligther please".. Brain finding a million excuses to go out and having to resist at those weak moments, was hard..

But having the pack always there made it a constant active choice of lower intensity rather than a more intense recurrent impulse.
Isn't this literally what the "vouch" button is intended for, though?
The Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger is a great teardown of gov vs corporations legal action
AT&T claims my security PIN will prevent agents and in store associates from accessing my account. The store rep said there’s no way for him to help me doing anything until we called a special hotline to give my PIN and approval.

Doesn’t mean there isn’t a way around it for some reps with special access. If you don’t have a PIN someone can go and open up multiple new accounts separate from your primary account in your name with different addresses. AT&T won’t even bother to tell you.
It was twitter. But that's largely moot -- there are almost certainly spy-espionage types in a lot of large tech companies. Mostly for siphoning off tech secrets, but I'm sure having someone with root access to some $SYSTEM is useful for political purposes too.
Based off the NYT article on the stunt this morning, I believe you are correct. It was a social engineering hack.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/technology/twitter-hack-b...
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin." - John Von Neumann
This is interesting, I've never heard of this. How much stretching/sagging are we talking about? (I.e. a couple of inches difference, or is it a large amount)
One of the last drops in the bucket for him was his story about a town that voted for Trump:

https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-m...

What made all this worse was the fact that Der Spiegel was looked up to for (supposedly) having a solid team of fact-checkers.

As the medium post shows (and the magazine's own investigation afterwards) was that not even basic and publicly available info was checked, such as the percentage of pro-Trump voters, let alone the rest of the original article's hilariously ridiculous claims.

Another Der Spiegel reporter who was suspicious of Relotius tried raising his concerns with the management after he did some digging of his own, which almost cost him his job and reputation:

https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/02/26/inenglish/15511...

Der Spiegel enjoyed the profits of Relotius' fiction and peddled literal fake news to the world for years, and the magazine's readers lapped it all up because it reinforced their biases.
> to defeat this othering and reduce stigma, clinical practice needs to move away from biogenetic causal language

This is a pretty big assertion that the piece casually drops without backing. The reasoning as to why "chemical imbalance" is a bad descriptor is apparent* from the study [0] the author cites, but there is nothing that backs up this statement, which seems to be the crux of the whole piece.

*Even the study cited about placebo affects on depression doesn't _really_ prove the author's point that "chemical imbalance" is a bad term, it just proves that we do not yet understand the processes by which drugs treat depression. If we do not understand the processes, how can the author make the assertion that the characterization they are against is wrong? At most, they could claim "we don't know yet" but certainly not that "chemical imbalance" is categorically false.

[0]: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.0040...
Interesting, I wanted to build something similar for tailblocks [1] so I forked stitches [2] to build this: https://stitches-for-tailblocks.netlify.app/

Now that you introduced me to grapesjs there's gotta be a new iteration on my part, thanks!

[1]: https://mertjf.github.io/tailblocks/
[2]: https://stitches.hyperyolo.com/
> What black magic allows people to be biologically different physically but doesn't allow them to be biologically different behaviorally or mentally?

I hear this line of argument repeated all the time, delivered as if it's a bona fide mic-drop discussion-closer.

Apparently those making the argument don't even consider that it's not-at-all established that behavioural/psychological/mental aptitude qualities are exclusively or even majority biologically predetermined.

It's well known that human qualities very significantly in their degree of heritability. There's nothing remarkable about the suggestion that qualities of the mind will have a different level of heritability to physical traits like height and facial shape. We've all observed that siblings can be far more different behaviourally and cognitively than they are in appearance. And we should expect this to be the case, if we assume that the very purpose of consciousness is to enable us to adapt to the conditions we experience.

Here's a different hypothesis to consider: for the majority of people, physical brain function is pretty consistent, the way eye, nose, kidney, liver, heart and spleen function is pretty consistent, particularly at birth, before the wear and tear of life has had an impact.

But behaviour becomes more variable as a person develops, due to different conditions and experiences, causing certain kinds of emotion and cognitive function to be enhanced, and others to be diminished. E.g., somebody who grows up living with fear and anxiety due to lacking a sense of security will develop enhanced amygdala activity and chronic sensitivity to threat, and thus a reduced development of other brain parts and forms of cognition.

Extrapolate all the kinds of differences in conditions a developing person will experience, and you end up with great variability in people's cognitive "tuning", and resultant personality and aptitudes, that has little to do with their genetics.
This is why IMO Google has almost no customer service. Their weakest attack vector would be people. Imagine paying your infosec employees hundreds of thousands a year to protect your clients data. Next to them (in terms of data access) is your customer service team at $30,000 per head. Which team is easier to crack?
That only happened once.
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, 1930 (free online text), https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men

> A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first.
Interesting article, but not a fan of the intro paragraph. Why can't we just have technical articles without focusing on politics so much?
It's a really klunky standard. It's based on SOAP/WSDL, so a lot of "modern" folks don't like it. That's not really too much of an issue in my driver. I just licensed SOAPEngine, and that layer is sorted.

I think that one of the reasons that its uptake has been slow, is because manufacturers like to keep everything "in-house," and aren't too happy to allow devices they don't make to access their equipment.

I understand that. I really do. I worked for a manufacturer like that for ages. All kinds of hell can break loose, when you move from proprietary to open. It's not a simple transition.

The people that do like it, though, are the integrators. They are the ones that buy cameras in lots of a thousand, so there is definitely a case to be made in its favor.
Of course we all have a personal responsibility to help shape a world worth living in. But there is a reason that every coup d'état also takes control of the media. It is a foundational building block of a cohesive society. If the media is corrupted, the world becomes much harder to navigate as an individual, and even moreso as a community.
It is an attention economy. That is why news for nerds are dead, not only slashdot. They just use too much ad blockers and ate tio greedy to pay.
The Epistle to the Romans and Proverbs were game-changers for how I understand the world around me, and why people do what they do.
kind of weird given the gravity of the situation that research isn't being shared freely.
Well by that strict definition all of them are indeed proprietary. But in effect some Lattice and Xilinx FPGAs are usable as if they were not proprietary.
I was thinking the same thing. It seems that we have passed 'peak globalization' and we're seeking a sweet spot that balances concerns. This could be a good thing.
Continent-Wide Shifts in Song Dialects of White-Throated Sparrows
We can argue about which is worse, but let's agree they're all bad :)
Yeah, the extreme contrast between the countries that have and don't have oil in the middle east is what creates the conflict.
Yes, but that's not problem of meat, just farming.