skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IPCC report received plenty of criticism. The report summary left out some of the more alarming findings [1] (which were conveniently not addressed in your reason article) and there was valid criticism about the consensus model that was used[2].

In terms of bad faith/good faith arguments. One can argue in good faith, that the large amounts of uncertainty associated with the climate models means that the worst case outcomes can not be definitively ruled out and therefore humanity should plan for the worst case scenario as a precautionary measure. And based on this argument, made in good faith, and also based on the fact that it has been extremely difficult to get the necessary global political buy-in to actually make any progress on the problem, one could justify being extremely alarmist about the problem.

I will give you credit though, for attempting to make a good faith argument for why climate change alarmism might be overblown. But I think you fail to acknowledge the large uncertainties involved with climate modeling, and you are also ignoring some of the more alarming risks that were well with in the realm of possibility based on the models. And I also think your economic argument is just flat out wrong. WWII mobilization was followed by some of the most prosperous decades in US history.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/08/world-...
[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-climate-repor...
I'm game, if I get to start the stack :)
Well I don't want to suggest this is the whole answer, but game theory in economics and evolution tend to say that signalling has to be expensive in order to be honest.

So peacock's feathers and money-back guarantees are the type of thing that people often quote as signalling fitness.

The point of Glassdoor or any other review site it to make signalling cheap and reliable, so it's trying to square a circle.

Word-of-mouth still has the your-rep-on-the-line quality if the person is somewhat close to you, and the decision is something important. Your buddy will say bad things about you if you recommend a crappy employee to them. A random stranger might not hear from you again, and knows that when you tell them this person is the best thing since sliced bread.

In general, "How expensive is it for them to say this?" is a useful heuristic that you should pay attention to. It can give interesting results in several life situations:

- School counselling. Once you're out the door of your school, the career counsellor is not gonna hear much from you. They say they care, and it sounds like they do (genuinely, I had one who was like the school mom), but at the end of the day they both don't know anything about careers other than "teacher" and they aren't affected by you not being able to find a job with your degree of choice. It does affect them that you get into a top uni, everyone wants credit for the Ivy League kids.

- Every internet review but non-famous people. See the other comments.

- Salespeople can be divided into relationship and transactional. If they guy is on the phone with you every day, his advice needs to not be crap. This can make it pretty defensive and useless. OTOH if he vanished once the sale is done, that's useless another way.

- If someone says something that harms their own interests, that's honest. Of course be sure you understand their interest.

- Life advice. Often if there's a great psychological cost, there's a story worth listening to. Painful things like why someone got divorced, especially if they paint themselves in a negative light, can often be trusted, or are at least worthwhile to listen to. Coming of age stories where something crappy happened because the narrator did something stupid, similar. Lottery winning stories of various sorts are often not, you can tell when the inevitable "I fought the odds" part arrives that it falls flat.
I think that trying to develop your own ethical/moral reasoning on a subject this complex is quite haphazard; you seem to be trying to carve-out/describe a nuanced position, but there are a lot of problems with your reasoning. To be clear, this is a tough subject, and I am not trying to impugn your motives in any way.

My view is that government authority is at its perigee when it comes to free speech, and that any regulation is both problematic and suspect. This stems from Huemer's convincing arguments in "The Problem of Political Authority".
Seems like a very limited selection of A-mounts, sadly
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Because it just creates more problems and work. In our small SaaS we were saying to users why they are banned: spam, abuse, fraudulent cc, etc. and that created just more work for us because these users will then write ‘reviews’, emails, etc how they are not spammers and how we are bad company. Better to lock them out and move on.

Of course, we are small SaaS and not Google but sadly I’m not aware of a better solution.
Yeah, Google kind of created the link-farm ecosystem because it rewarded links— again, without verification etc. but just algorithmically.
I think what you're looking for is micro => https://github.com/micro/micro or the hosted version https://m3o.com. Our goal is basically to abstract the entirety of this away to a common experience from the developers viewpoint.
My point was not that I was overwhelmed or under-resourced: it's just that trolls/assholes/rule breakers force you to regress to "I know it when I see it" because they can break the spirit of the granular rules without breaking the letter. The solution is to make the "spirit" the rules (i.e. be super-broad about what constitutes abuse)
David Foster Wallace on “Politically Correct English” in the essay, “Authority and American Usage” (particularly note the sentence on censorship):

“ There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact--in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself--of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were. Were I, for instance, a political conservative who opposed using taxation as a means of redistributing national wealth, I would be delighted to watch PC progressives spend their time and energy arguing over whether a poor person should be described as "low-income" or "economically disadvantaged" or "pre-prosperous" rather than constructing effective public arguments for redistributive legislation or higher marginal tax rates. [...] In other words, PCE acts as a form of censorship, and censorship always serves the status quo.”
It's paid for by the people of United States, but if made Open Source in the conventional sense it's going to belong to people of all the countries?

People of all the countries are not a problem, but governments that are in political opposition to the US can be. I could imagine them using the source code to target technological and social structures of the country. They could do it now as well, but with much more effort than cloning stuff from GitHub.
It's kind of wild to me how there's such a product vacuum for this stuff.

I've dug around and the only real option is an HDMI capture card paired with a decent camera (I read this Sony software option is lower quality, but at least it's progress).

LG camera setups target businesses and are generally overpriced crap (I have one - the LG meetup) with proprietary connections and mediocre cameras, and crappy mics/software.

The Facebook Portal is a magnitude better and 10% of the price, but it's FB - they do support zoom now though so that's a decent option.

Computer webcams top out at not very good logitech USB devices.

You'd think there would be a high-end market targeting streamers with computer cameras focused just on that in-between the mirrorless/DSLRs for photography.

I'd love to see better products in this space:

- High quality camera for videochat that can be connected to a computer.

- High quality camera/mic that can be attached to a TV.

- Dumb TV, high quality panel, that starts up fast, has a lot of ports, no internet connection, with a remote designed by someone who thought for 5min about what buttons are required this century.

A dumb TV with a high quality camera mic setup might be interesting - plug in a mac mini and be good to go.
Super weird, was suddenly downvoted on both comments twice, but anyways

> So I have sympathy for the position they are in and the difficulty in being consistent with their policies given the vast range of ways manipulative information can be spread.

I think the true test will be how this is held up in the future. Of course we're in the middle of an insane political divide, but eventually we'll be past it, and next time there will be new candidates, and each time beyond that. So the litmus test will be whether the rules are fair and applied equally as time goes on.
> The pandemic has seen the killing of Americans on our roads accelerate to the fastest rate in 15 years. Less traffic caused people to drive like idiots. More speeding, drinking and drugs. Fewer seatbelts.

I found this fact to be extremely surprising. Based on looking at daily traffic patterns, I would have assumed that there are fewer deaths on the road this year than previous years.
Real people on the internet can still be trusted. Just not companies that try to monetise your opinion.
It's still used quite heavily in research also (medical is what I'm familiar with). NCBI puts a lot of critical data on FTP, as do individual researchers.

In the case of NCBI, the actual transfer protocol usually used is Aspera, but you use the FTP server to find what files you are going to download using Aspera (which is CLI only AFAIK). Thus in this workflow, browser support for FTP is actually important.

I would say that the reason it hasn't changed is that it does its job fine. It serves files. It's one of the simplest ways to do so, and I lament that in my sphere the biggest apparent replacement is Dropbox. I agree with one comment above that "legacy" code for FAANG is apparently "features which we can't monetize".
It uses distributed sqlite (dqlite) vs etcd/RDBMS (postgresql and friends). It's also not part of the CNCF like k3s is (yet?).
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Unfortunately that still chills legitimate negative reviews.

That is true, but it is a question of degree.

If my legal name is attached to a review, I, personally, will not post ever.

If I know the only way someone can find my legal name is to subpoena some midwestern chain of brick&mortar notaries, I will post sometimes.

Like you, I don't think there is a perfect solution: as a sender, one wants privacy, but as a receiver, one wants transparency. We need some sort of compromise that one can accept for either role.
Remote human operation is only possible with a reliable cellular data connection. There are still dead zones in many cities, especially in tunnels.
My main usage of Glassdoor is to see what kind of interview questions a company asks. I know for a fact I and others have gotten the same listed questions.
Thank you for sharing! Amazing!
That was a very good read. Thanks for linking that!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. We've been watching this happen for a few years now, and some of us are actively paving the road.
Sure, this is largely true (panniers and trailers not withstanding), but most car trips aren't to the store. I suspect the majority are to/from work/school.

If we enabled more people to bike for our commutes and just use a driverless car (or a taxi/Lyft) for shopping, car ownership would be much less essential, and car rush hour would be a thing of the past.

I just hope they put a bike rack on the Cruise cars. :-)
Yes, it's very misleading. I thought it would be about apps for desktop and mobile.
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This argument here is why the ATC controller used the term "UAV" to provide the option.
Just bought brassgates.com -- who's in?
> And before you argue that people can go to their own websites, how is meaningfully different from Chinese citizens who use VPN's. After all they can still access information.

If you're going to write out a response centered on "anyone [being able to] publish a website", at least respond to OP's point. How is that a solution that's in any way better than telling CCP citizens that censorship is totally fine because they can use a VPN?
Conservative women are probably better off in offices which disallow discussion of politics.
There is a paper [1] published that documents one of the early 1980's designs they used.

[1] https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/30...
This is a software for DSLR's/mirrorless and other 'Full-fledged' cameras, not webcams. Macbooks do not have an hdmi in, and passing video through usb wasn't a standard for those cameras until lately (and still isn't). So macbook or windows didn't matter in this case.
Presumably that the Kroomen were anti-slavery, and more generally black saviors, which are typical themes (along with their antitheses if your beliefs skew a little more anachronistic) of American literature on African culture and history. The author left it conspicuously ambiguous whether the Kroomen previously assisted slavers. AFAICT from a brief Google search, in earlier years Kroomen didn't just trade with slavers but also assisted them in their activities--possibly even going so far as being purchasing agents[1]. Which is unsurprising. Africans' relationship with slavery was different, to say the least, than Americans' comparatively simple, black and white, relationship.

[1] Though I'm a little skeptical. I didn't have the time to dive down deeper into the material. The urge to blame Africans' for slavery arises from the same sort of biased American perspective as the urge to create black saviors.
I've stayed for extensive periods in Montreal and this wasn't an issue for me and what I assume are the more permanent residents of the city. The transit system was excellent and accommodated people carrying groceries quite easily. In cases when I had to lug something heavy, I would just grab a taxi. I've never needed a car in that city yet and the one time I did show up with a rental car for a short visit, trying to deal with parking the darn thing was a flaming headache that almost ruined the trip (Old Port fortunately had good, albeit expensive, parking.)
You're right. Sorry dang!
The standard number of years is often arbitrary. If you are confident you have the skills and the recruiter is willing to put you through to the technical interviews, then don't short-sell yourself. Uphold and highlight your strengths, believe in yourself :)

If you feel imposter syndrome, that is normal. There will always be things to learn, and frankly learning on the job is the best.

Good luck!
I upvoted you out of greyness because I feel like that is generally correct here. :)

Now that I've helped you out of the quicksand, let's do battle:

"[I feel like] it's not like there's some patent issue for using USB or wifi in your printer over whatever interface used in 2000 compared."

I could certainly try harder to finesse it, but I don't see any sensible place to insert a "YMMV" into any part of that sentence.
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Someone should tell Gruber to what extent his beloved Apple censors things in China to pacify the Chinese Communist Party. Funny how pundits routinely latch on to a tiny gnat on a proverbial elephant's ass.
How is this a good analogy for them asking for the names and addresses of individuals to be taken down because they are worried that these might be a call to violence against those indivuals?

Are we talking about a widget which contains a piece of paper with the names and addresses of some local policemen?

The analogy just doesn’t work.
Now that would be an interesting job... working in a call center, talking to the police remotely about an accident that took place in a state you aren't even in.
In California, you're not allowed to bring an attorney to a SCC -- only to Superior Court -- so, obviously, there's no attorney fees when attorneys are not allowed.

Some other states do allow attorneys in SCC, however.
I don't think there is a real "right to freedom from violent crime", at least not in the enforceable sense.

I would say there is a moral duty not to commit violence against others, and there is a moral right to defend one's self, but I don't see how you really guarantee "right to freedom from violent crime", so it really seems more like a dubious promise. This may be a consequence of my general skepticism of positive rights.
There's definelty been less deaths since driving has gone way down. Hes just saying the death rates are higher.
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The "news" being censored is political misinformation being pushed by the NY Post of all places. I'd be alarmed if they were preventing anyone from posting about Donald Trump's sudden NBC townhall, not some obvious con thrown out by Giuliani to a tabloid of ill repute.
Pretty much any modern printer with a network interface supports IPP.
We're working through them as fast as we can, as you can imagine we got quite a few requests today!
For power generation, the stat commonly used is “EROI” or “EROEI” Eg energy returned on energy invested.

This is sometimes expressed in time range (which depends on average generation rate based on where it is installed etc) or just energy vs energy ratio (Eg kWh to produce vs lifetime kWh generated)

As others have said this statistic is not the whole picture, type of pollution generated due to the construction of the solar panel, wind turbine etc should vs other technology should also be take into account so this gets pretty complex pretty quickly.

Some recent studies [0] show a break down of input/output for solar with Switzerland of 9-10:1, this is likely higher if panel was installed in Australia for example and goes into some detail showing a fairly minimal amount of storage in an electricity grid (8%) increases the amount of usable generation for wind and solar which improves that ratio.

Wind I believe has a better EROI but has a lot more complexity when it comes to installation, maintenance so how much this is taken into consideration and will likely vary for onshore vs offshore installations. Numbers I’ve read before were in the 16-20:1 range but can’t find any decent study sources at the moment.

Hope that helps.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...
So basically your knowledge of the United States comes from its least common situations?

Remember that normal everyday life is never reported. Only unusual and non-typical things are reported.

So what you're saying is your knowledge of the United States is exactly opposite of what normal life is actually like there.
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Just to be clear, this means there's fewer accidents but the ones the do happen are more fatal?
“Glow in the dark McCarthy CIA types said Russia was doing something bad one time, therefore every single piece of news that is politically inconvenient for me is Russian propaganda”
I've seen some ways you can hack this functionality together with email alerts for any > $0 transaction.

Does Actual expose any api stuff?
> Neon syntax is not sensitive to whitespace, and does not have statement separators. Neon source code is case sensitive, but there are no requirements on the case of user-defined identifiers.

What's with the uppercase keywords? It was fine in BASIC and okay in SQL but I don't want to hold down my shift key that much while coding.
I know the Pinterest cancelled their lease, I forget how much but they had to pay 90M to do it, but they got out of it
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There's a particularly famous instance of this, called Duff's Device[0], with a great quote attached (regarding fall-through in case blocks):

> "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
> What if they are alone, incapacitated and need medical help?

Although self-driving is a hard problem, automatically determining that the car may have had an accident and alerting humans in your control center is a much easier problem. I imagine the control center humans would be responsible for calling 911 if there was an injured human. They would probably be able to see out all the cameras in the car to help make that determination, or if the cameras are all malfunctioning you probably want to dispatch ambulances anyway.
I’ve done it before.
Thank you for bring this up. This is exactly what WebCatalog is built for. Every app you install through WebCatalog works just like a Mac app so you can switch between them using Alt+Tab.

For each app, if you need to, you can divide the app into workspaces (similar to how Slack workspaces) which you can switch between using Cmd+1, Cmd+2, etc.
What statement is that? Are you referring to something I am supposed to have said?
I still use an iPhone 6 as my main phone, and works great. The trick is that I haven't upgraded iOS in at least a couple of years. I also kept an iPhone 5 as a music player at home, until a few months ago when, despite not upgrading the software, it became unusably slow (even for just playing music).
Waymo drives very predictably. Where does your data come from?
Well... Asking employees to leave reviews isn't scummy. On the oter hand, asking them to leave _only 5* reviews_ is scummy.
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Yeah I have never come across a standardized notation either. Boxes and arrows are you best bet. Use them consistently and provide some blurbs as context.
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This might be for different uses, but I'd rather Apple bring their iPhone front camera to the MacBooks. It's crazy that MacBook cameras still top out at 720p.
Twitter adopted this policy because they know that progressives are more likely to be compromised by leaked information
Here's the blog post that goes along with that tweet stream:

https://ryancaldbeck.medium.com/transitions-fa7ce4af435
Putting aside the larger issue of unaccountable platforms, what is the rationale for seeing this as anything more than some ineffectual campaign stunt? I don't see anything in S230 that delegates judgment to the FCC or any part of the executive branch. Basically Trump is claiming to perform the functions of the legislature and judiciary by decree.

I wonder if this is the natural extension of the two political teams talking past one another instead of working together. There's no way such legislation would pass the House right now, so instead they're just playing pretend on their own.
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Huh? Microsoft Teams is a centralized real-time text/video chat service, not a federated microblogging service like Mastodon. They aren't even remotely similar.