skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please argue against the data. What I say does not matter.

Go through the very simple exercise I describe in my original comment.

Pull-up the 800,000 year ice core sample CO2 chart.

Determine the natural "no humans on earth" rate of change for the reduction of atmospheric CO2.

Then explain how anything we do --anything-- can deliver a 1000x improvement on this rate of change.

Even a 100x improvement on this rate of change would mean, at best, 500 years and at worst about 1,000 years.

This isn't very complicated but people seem intent in ignoring it.

I have yet to find someone, anyone, from lay persons to PhD's who, when forced to argue against the data we have don't go "Oh shit. You are right".

The problem is people read the words and never really take the time to engage in a simple high school geometry exercise that, from my perspective, represents a mind-bending revelation for most folks. It was for me. I set out to understand the subject and ran into this irrefutable wall. I am still looking for someone who, having honestly looked at the data, is able to honestly explain why the conclusion is wrong.

Can you?

Have you looked at the data?

Ignore me. I'm just some fool typing words. The data is what matters here. My words don't. Argue against the data. That's how you prove me wrong. I don't think anyone can. And that's a pretty serious statement.

The problem with the down-votes on something like HN is that they are a cheap, low-effort and no consequence to muzzle opinions in the laziest of ways. It eliminates any degree of engagement and does not promote dialogue or learning. Having just watched "The Social Dilemma" this seems par for the course. Radicalization by "cancel culture" rather than dialogue.

At least you are engaging with me.

Now I am asking you to stop focusing on my words and please take some time to go look at the data, just the data, nothing more, nothing less. And then answer the question yourself and refute my conclusion if you can.

BTW, I am DESPERATE for someone to actually tell me how my conclusion is wrong. I don't like this conclusion. I would very much prefer to be wrong and learn how.

Again, can you?
Lots and lots. NLP covers a very wide range of techniques. Even some 'fancy' techniques such as sentiment analysis can be done relatively simply without neural nets (eg VADER). On the low end tokenizing is a NLP technique eg. r"\w+"
One charitable explanation is initially trust, but verify on your own time. This allows for cooperation and growth of real trust, but lets you, well, verify that you're not being had, just asynchronously.
True, but for apps which are meant to be interactive you also need to take into account SPAs that might make very small requests for a good while once the main bundle has been downloaded.

So, for a world-normal device which one is better? A site that downloads 1MB of Javascript and then makes data requests of a few KBs or a site that makes a 300KB request with a page reload every time you interact with it?

My general rule is that if the application is interactive, meant to be used for long periods of time and SEO is not an issue, well-written SPAs result in better UX.

That's not the case of Reddit for example. Most users spend the most time reading comments, and that requires very little interactivity. So old Reddit is miles ahead of the new slow and bloated one.
Yes, the article is exclusively about the trade-offs when building bleeding-edge products, like how impossibly hard it is to sell in to customers who have no idea what the product is or why it exists.

All of the comments for some reason are about not using latest-nosql-db-from-producthunt in prod.
Go is just a lot of missed opportunities, that they could have taken without making the language any more complicated.
Approach new information, assuming good intent. Nonetheless, there's no shame or guilt in verifying your assumption by verifying. No offense should be taken, it's merely prudent behavior. Verifying should not imply lack of trust; however, it's conceivable that repeated verifications may render the need to verify in the future a lower priority, due to past precedent.

At least, that's my take.
Makie.jl High level plotting on the GPU
The wiki page on Thomas Baty is useless. I assume it's because it's woke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Baty

There is no reference if it was a man who became a woman or vice versa to even start, it seems encyclopedias are now cryptic puzzles.

Stories are tied to their authors, this might have been interesting with relation to the author, but it seems we are to self destructive to even give them a true life history.

I also don't trust a word from the Wikipedia on the topic. If they won't have transparency, that makes it political. How can we trust anything is says about the significance of the book.
We should also realize that a child's performance also depends on how his/her parents are treated. A child who sees parents being looked down upon will not be as confident as a child who sees parents being respected. So reservation will be required for generations in India even for "rich" people who are not respected.
That sounds super neat! Haskell always has me jealous of language features, but I’ve committed to focusing on mastering C# and the CLR right now because it’s what I get paid for.
IIRC if you write what something's for on a check in the memo/for line, it legally has to be used for that purpose for nonprofits, but I can't find a source and I doubt something like that would be a high-priority thing to audit for the IRS.
That sounds like a huge jump! Now I'm curious what kind of solutions where PIC is viable isn't an overkill on Arm? (Or are there really tiny Arms?)
How old is this? Under Carbine Studios it says unnamed MMO but I have to imagine that is Wildstar and this is just very old.
Better link: https://www.thenational.ae/business/technology/uae-s-al-habt...

> Mobileye 8 Connect systems will be installed in 1,000 cars on a pilot basis to collect data and map Dubai's roads
TIL, thanks! Though I'm fine with the current design, the proposed one is what bothers me.
The content is still up. His channel isn't currently deleted: https://www.youtube.com/c/GarethEvansYT

If his counter claims are successful there's no reason to believe the channel will be deleted, either.
What about nuclear fusion or thorium reactors?

I see the current solar panels generating tons of waste. Along with plastic this is terrible. Why are we so bad at building biodegradeable things?
The laws about what actions are legal or illegal are pre-existing, the telescreens and mandatory neighbor reporting just shift the burden of enforcement in recognition that the government can't effectively police the distributed masses.

Fixed that for you.
I am more excited about this in some ways than GPT-3. GPT-3 is amazing, but I can actually use a small high performing model.
I’m not impressed. Norway requires the same by 2025. Come on California... move faster.
As a "people pleaser" I for one didn't click with this article.

Yes, I do say yes to most every one request one asks me to. Including favours people might ask me to do.

I do what ever people ask, and it's a blissful joy. I'm happy to service and I'm happy to have so many friends.
Most EVs allow you to schedule charging so your car charges during off-peak hours, usually after midnight. While apparently California has shifted so the ideal time to charge is 10am until 2pm or something like that, during the early morning isn't bad either. Shifting to more solar power and more EVs will likely complicate things.
Swap without temp:

integrate best practices and key performance indicators
differentiate key performance indicators and best practices
differentiate best practices and key performance indicators
overhaul best practices
The same thing happened here. The creator issued a counter claim, and his channel is currently still up and unaffected https://www.youtube.com/c/GarethEvansYT

Youtube does allow DMCA counter claims because they legally have to. Youtube has absolutely no wiggle room with DMCA. No amount of complaining to them can ever change that, either. You have to get the laws changed.
Louis Rossmann discussed this in a video recently: https://youtu.be/vt_3OLs_lXE

Also, I would add that customers and stores are like a symbiotic population ecosystem. You kill one, you kill the other.

And then as people shift to nearly permanent WfH and the buildings go vacant, the restaurants become redundant too.

Also, pandemic or not, commercial landlords charging $200-300+ sq ft compared to $50 are repeatedly murdering whatever foolish business moves in.

It'S nOoOoOt LyYyInG, iT's CoMmMmMmErCiAl ReEeAl EsTaAaTeEeEe.
You still have to get the algorithms right in eg Haskell.

It's just that in Haskell you have to write fewer tests to be sure you did it right, because for many kinds of mistakes you could have made, the compiler can yell at you.

The other advantage of nicer types is that they serve as part of the documentation. Exactly because the types can constraint the behaviour of implementations more than in Go. So the reader can make more valid assumptions from the type alone.

Hoogle uses those types to give you a truly extra-ordinary way to search the Haskell libraries via types. That approach would be almost useless in Go, and you have to fall back to searching via keywords etc only.
Edit; Some people asked and yes I'm "super-rich". :P
I admit I'm not in any field that deals with materials a lot, but OP said "Kohlefaserverstärkter Kunststoff" (which I likely wrongly called "carbon fiber" in English), is "Kohlefaser" really the same? Maybe it is and I'm just ignorant about that.
Does anyone have any opinion on this book as an introduction to category theory compared to something like Category Theory by Steve Awodey (https://books.google.com/books/about/Category_Theory.html?id...) or Seven Sketches in Compositionality (http://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/teaching/sp18/)?

I'm interested in learning about category theory in general just to get a feel for the subject, but I also want to have a better concrete understanding of the category theory that is put to use in Haskell.
Unless you're actually trying to do a huge synthetic operation where info would choke, e.g. creating an archive while removing existing files.

That one is still possible to undo, just slower and more expensive...

Then there are fun ones like Windows update holding 20 GB of insufficient undo, mechanical or hardware failures induced by extra load, and how to decide where an operation ends.
Not quite right. Please read the paper I linked. We can't stop CO2 accumulation by doing things like switching to electric cars everywhere and switching the entire planet to renewable energy sources.

This is a shitty conclusion but I have yet to find anyone who, after having had an honest look at the data can explain how the conclusion is wrong.

BTW, even if we go back to pre-industrial levels it will take tens of thousands of years for levels to come down.

That's the point. If it takes 100,000 years to come down by 100 ppm without humanity on earth how can it possibly take less than that with 8 billion people on the planet?

Even worse, how can the reduction in CO2 happen a thousand times faster?

How can it happen that much faster without expending so much energy and utilizing so many resources that we are far more likely to kill everything on the planet than to "save it"?

EDIT:
With regards to what you say about not adding any more CO2 to the atmosphere. That's also a nonstarter. I understand how it might be easy to think in those terms by creating a simple mental model of reality. However, anyone who understands the industrial economy that makes it possible for nearly eight billion people to live on this planet understands that we cannot eliminate CO2 production to the extent necessary to have an impact.

Put simply, if we erased the United States from the planet on Monday, the output of countries like China and India would continue to grow CO2 at alarming rates.

Erase them from the planet. CO2 would continue to grow.

Erase all of humanity and in 100,000 years CO2 levels will have dropped by approximately 100 ppm.

And that's the problem.
> for a very specific number of hours

Unless you plan on throwing away the planes after one or two flights, those tanks will be filled with hydrogen for tens of thousands of hours over their lifespan. Perhaps they have light weight alloys that can cope with this though, I'm no metallurgist..
There were a few pro-nuclear candidates this time around among the Democrats, but none of the prominent ones.
They're not afraid of DMCA, but big money pulling out if they're insufficiently aggressive about claims...
I don't know, but I've read that the counter here is that YouTube's system isn't actually DCMA - they are pursuing copyright over and above that system, and therefore the "protections" in DCMA don't apply - you broke a Google policy, not a law, and therefore you have no recourse.
See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... and https://simonmar.github.io/bib/papers/haxl-icfp14.pdf for more background, if you are interested. It might even contain some ideas you can use in C#.
> Are you saying the seminal book in economics documenting at the time of the Declaration of Independence that having children in the Western world was to help you get rich (opposite was going on in China) was incorrect?

Leaving aside whether I agreed with that point about children being there to make you rich (I don't), or whether everyone in America agreed with that (I doubt it), and we're just looking at the various colonists (excluding the Natives) making up the 13 colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence, I don't know if that would be considered the seminal book to the point that it influenced how education is viewed. I see (at least according to Wikipedia), it had influenced Alexander Hamilton, but I also think Hamilton in many ways was ahead of his time. It is my understanding though, that those ideas become much more commonplace in the mid- and late 19th century.

> ... when your literal survival is against the odds and you're task every day is to maintain sustenance, I'm not sure your comment about a whopping 99% rate literacy hold water.

So I am to understand that you are saying, because conditions are so harsh, there is very little time to do things like studying or reading?

A curious thing happened in the Midwest in the early 1800s. Land was divided in a way where schools and colleges were deliberately set aside so that children would have access to it. For every N plots of land, there would be a school; for every M plots of land, there would be a college. I don't think any other region of the US was divided like this. The educated farmer, at least in the Midwest, is a thing.

That bit came from an article by someone observing that the Midwest seems prototypically boring, without characteristic. They were trying to explore just what makes the Midwest the "Midwest". The essay was not written as a criticism of the education system.
Does MongoDB regret offending the open-source community? Not one bit
One is the result of excess immigration - where immigrants fleeing their countries come to hope for a better life in the EU or US. Immigrants are eventually granted asylum or are turned away.

Forced labor camps are created through force or threat of force and can detain people for decades with no recourse.
Once a planes hits a certain big size it looks like the math means it's probably going to generally be a passenger plane / move low density stuff only and won't be able to really compete for freight.
> Let plants deal with the CO2, since they're good at it

They aren't good with it at all. Convert CO2 slowly, take space to do that, take other resources like fertilizers, require some shielding from pests and herbs, can produce massive fires... They have advantages, but it's not a silver bullet, especially when you're in a hurry.
Am I the only one who's kind of terrified at the inconsistent formatting throughout the codebase?
>The original claim was a casual "people don't care". Not a mathematical formalism for "absolutely nobody cares at all about this not even enough to wanna vote in on HN".

Eh, I disagree. They stated "literally no one cares", but the fact that it's news and hit the front page literally means someone cares. No math involved. QED.

>So, yeah, a tiny number of people (the HN upvoters) "do care" in the sense of voting this up and wanting to read about this. Then again, they also care about all minds of trivial posts, so there's that.

It wasn't trivial if Microsoft cared enough to fix it in a few days, which is like light speed for Microsoft.

>Heck, I read it and I don't care.

Anecdote, immaterial here.

>How about it's a insignificant series of small, insignificant purchasing decisions?

Possible, all conjecture at this point.

>Companies do apply it to everything. E.g.

You're just agreeing with what I said. It's illogic though because those companies didn't get away with it. Your links prove my point.
Oh wow, incredible comment. I looked this up and apparently allergies are pretty strongly linked to stuttering. It's a connection I'd never assume to be possible.

As someone who sometimes has weeks of cluttered speech, and weeks where I'm perfectly fine, I'm now wondering if diet could be a contributing factor.
We need to drastically cut down on air travel, its growth and the excerbated effects from emissions in the upper atmosphere are really unsustainable pending technological developments that seem far off[1].

[1] excluding some very different modes of air travel, like lifting gas based aircraft.
"To See and Not See" in An Anthropologist on Mars, which is a story about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirl_Jennings
Gotta go back and find that “favourite hn comment ever” thread.
It’s unlikely that the order will be legally tested until 2035, so that’s the beauty of a statement like this...he gets to play to his base on the eco side of things, and won’t ever have to deal with the fallout.
Restructuring to low tax, low regulation won’t fix anything. That’s been our position at the federal level for years and it doesn’t seem to do much but lead to worse outcomes with less accountability. It does further enrich the wealthy and entrench special interests with no incentive to provide good services, though. So there’s that, I guess.
I wonder... If there were such a speedometer what would it use as a reference in real life? Earth? Sun? Sag A?
I want to clarify about my comment and what I meant - when you're working on your own product for many months and years, it is hard to know what others don't know about the product. Similar to proof reading, your eyes just "gloss" over :) I didn't mean to patronize or say you made a mistake.
The different kinds of authentication protocols
They just want to pass programs they can get people addicted to to secure votes. Example: welfare.
I'd easily take the lattes, or really any small, simple pleasure that gives me a little bit of joy each day.

Forgoing a latte a day over 50 years means I essentially have to make 18250 decisions in order to save this money. But, on the other hand, let's say I decide to forgo, say, a $60k car and instead get a still very nice $45k car. If I invest that $15k in your hypothetical S&P index fund, and deposit no new additional money, after 50 years I'll have... $441,855.

So basically with just one, single decision I get the same benefit as someone that had to make 18250 decisions.

The small shit really doesn't matter very much. If you simply focus your frugality on a few simple things (namely housing, auto, and education) you will always be light years ahead of someone who is constantly worrying about their lattes or avocado toasts or whatever small daily bringers-of-joy.
Visualising Complex Systems
Good at smaller scale, and Heroku can go pretty good at scale. But eventually you run into things that they make harder rather than easier if you need to do something which doesn't fit well with their model. Deploying onto Google Kubernetes Engine has a bit of boilerplate setup work, but after that it's not a huge management overhead considering everything it gives you.
Alas, yes. That's a big part of why I suggest that regulation, if we want any at all, should focus on lowing the barriers to entry and shy away from mandating specific behaviour.

The latter can be gamed by the people who can afford the good lawyers, and makes entry for newcomers even harder.

Your comparison to finance is apt. It's one of the worst examples of regulatory capture. And many people have very dangerous ideas, eg that deposit insurance is a good idea.
Have you looked into chirped pulse amplification lasers?
Show HN: Design for a Better Future
This has been studied. It is likely the most promising idea. The problem is scale in terms of both plants and time. And, of course, energy.

Growing trees is precisely how the planet regulated CO2 levels over the 800,000 years of data we have. And we can see precisely how long it takes to come down by 100 ppm. The answer is 50,000 to 100,000 years.

And so the question becomes: How are we going to deliver results 1000x faster than that? On a human time scale rather than a geological scale.

We can't.

Because of the third dimension: Energy.

You can't get something for less energy than what it took to create the problem in the first place. The energy that created this problem is unimaginably large and it was deployed over a scale of millions to billions of years, consuming a staggering amount of material to store it in the form of petroleum.

We can't magically grow enough trees to "fix" it 1000x faster without energy and resources we likely do not have.

And then there's the question of what happens with so much vegetation. Which, again, is answered by the 800,000 year ice core record: Huge continental scale fires that load-up the atmosphere with CO2.

Here in California we have probably put so much CO2 in the atmosphere in the last several months that you would have to shutdown the economy for a year to compensate.

Nature is violently heartless. It does not care about us and our toys. Plant a trillion trees and see what happens when a major forest fire burns across thousands of miles without us having any ability to control it. Not a simple problem.

EDIT:

Here's a good article on the reforestation idea:

https://www.livescience.com/65880-planting-trees-fights-clim...
That’s not bad all things considered
I've always seen this as a colloquial expression of "tit for tat" in the iterated prisoner's dilemma. You trust the other party to uphold their bargain up front, but you verify to adjust future behavior.
While there might be emergency conditions that would make this cumbersome, in general that sorry of two person control makes sense. That's why the military uses it for especially dangerous actions or conditions. (Weapons loading on the sub i served on, for example).
Same! Bad stutter in early elementary school, but fine later after some speech therapy. Mine was most likely a sign of the ADHD to come, as well as a dash of my tourettes.
Ah, so the problem is that the designer used rem or a mix of em/rem units. I personally use Pixels in everything that way the entire thing zooms and all relationships are proportional.
Effective for the voters who approved the reforms
TheBrain is written in C# for Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android.

https://www.thebrain.com

FYI -- You may want to take your head out of your ass.
How could the cobra effect get into play though?

some CEO arranges for some extremely damaging behavior, then tells on himself?
> Cars, especially in CA, can last for decades.

California's cars, like it's people, are concentrated near the coast where salt air shortens vehicle lifespan.