skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect calling what’s happening “global warming” is part of what’s causing the denial.

People living in mild latitudes hear about the warming but experience unusually cold summers and winters due to phenomena like polar vortex disruption[0]; the claim may be hard to take at face value.

Warming in longer term if left unchecked, sure, but “climate destabilization” could be a more fitting term for the time being.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sea_ice_decline#Polar_v...
Author of the article referenced, not AMA but go ahead -- there is about ~3+ years of research going into this one, excluding the crash recovery bits that is a prerequisite (https://arcan-fe.com/2017/12/24/crash-resilient-wayland-comp...). Now it's part of my bread and butter -- literally, external funds secured.
I don't think the emails show clear signs of any improper behavior with respect to China. It's not necessarily unethical for his family to have had businesses or business relationships in other countries, and it's not necessarily evidence of any relationship with the CCP. The CCP technically controls all business, so it could be said that any business dealing with any part of China is dealing with the CCP, but I think that'd be unfair if there's not an actual, concrete governmental relationship.

And so far, there doesn't seem to be any hard evidence that Joe was profiting from or involved with any of the deals himself (though there are some accusations of this).

The leaks are worthy of fair assessment and research, but people definitely shouldn't jump to conclusions of corruption.
I'm not sure if it'll make things clearer for you, but there's some background of fexprs in Kent Pitman's "Special Forms in Lisp" paper here:

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Special-Forms.html
Americans Coping with the Coronavirus Are Clogging Toilets
Colonists to the new world of the Americas didn't count on going back.
Unlikely, manufacturing an ASIC is orders of magnitude more complex than manufacturing and assembling PCBs. At most this will reduce the price of whatever RISC-V chip is used on the board, and maybe increase the demand for more RISC-V chips in the future.
> stop dragging books into libraries that are known to be burned down in a couple of years for sure.

Spot on. We should be encouraging users to redecentralize and use distributed open systems. Not walled gardens.
> The asteroid belt easily holds our planet's mass

That seems...quite high:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt

"The total mass of the asteroid belt is approximately 4% that of the Moon."
Making it more expensive translates to a lack of supply - the government has far more limited resources than huge real estate development firms. The pipes thing is just an example. Of course, this is one of a great many factors that make it nigh-impossible to get affordable government housing built. Not the least of which is the actual expense of land vs. cash-strapped local governments (who are broke because our tax system sucks and we spend what little money we do have on subsidies for businesses.)

It's a systemic issue - the incentives that we have lead to a governmental inability to function at all levels. Pick any random piece and you can find a reason that it's hard to do meaningful work.
More a sarcastic expression of my disdain for the North American Shopping Mall and those who call her home.
>the reality is that the GOP wouldn’t make these things a priority...

The author seems to be mixing up a tweet with the actual party platform. You can't say that they're making it a priority until we start to see NASA budget increases of the magnitude we saw during the Apollo era. Until they put their money where their mouth is, the tweet is just marketing fluff

>This myth not only allows the government to ignore the ongoing climate crisis on Earth, which scientists say could reach an irreversible tipping point in less than 10 years

Bullshit. No one thinks that humanity is going to have self-sustaining colonies on the moon or Mars within 10 years. Our government may be ignoring climate issues here on Earth, but it's not because they expect to leave the planet

>At a time when American unemployment the worst since the depression era

This article was published today. Why is the author citing unemployment statistics that were published 7 months ago? It seems like intentional cherrypicking

>It might or might not be a coincidence that the news of SOFIA discovering water on the moon came just days after the GOP announced their otherworldly priorities for a second term.

Is there any evidence that it's not a coincidence, or is the author just trying to spread FUD? How much influence does Donald Trump have over Nature's publication schedule?

>Is it space exploration or is it a decent standard of living at home? Is it the moon, Mars, or Earth?

This is a false dichotomy if there ever was one. For a decade, the US military spent more money on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan than we did on NASA. Imagine what NASA could have accomplished if our military only occupied temperate regions

Edit: another thing that bugs me is this implication that NASA spending is orthogonal to quality of life here on Earth, as if they were just launching billions of dollars into the ether. What would communities like Huntsville AL look like if NASA's budget was 0'd out? How much of the climate science they quote earlier in the article would have happened without NASA funding?
That's like sailing on the ocean to the point where you can't see land and calling it the best argument for not exploring any further...
Objective journalism is dead. Glen Greenwald is not by any measure a Republican or a conservative, but he is a good objective journalist. It's a shame that a newspaper he co-founded will not print one of his stories because of their non-objective partisanship, but unfortunately this is all too common today.
Not only do they justify censorship, there is a suspicious amount of comments trying to minimize or delegitimize greenwald in a sneaky boilerplate response: "I used to think he was a good journalist", "I used to respect his journalism 5 years ago", etc. And of course trying to tie greenwald to russia. The exact same thing you see on assange related post.

The sad thing is a lot of these commenters are journalists or work in the news industry. Sad thing to see.

Not to mention the downvote brigading.
Is this something that we will have in the CE version (the open licensed one) or it will only go to the enterprise one?
I just ordered from Arrow to Sweden. 600 SEK incl. VAT and shipping from US (DHL and FedEx are $0 for some reason)?!

This thing is going to crush it for my MMO, with the raspberry 4 I can render 100 characters at 60 FPS, I'm really curious what this thing will perform like!
> We can prioritize both, and frankly, life on Earth will be better the more we priotitize space exploration, not worse.

This is a pretty baseless claim. Space exploration, within the next 50 years, will yield utterly nothing for humans on earth. We want to colonize Mars or the Moon? Great, but what for?

You know how much all these things cost? Trillions per large economy. With that money you can do quite a lot to increase our life here on earth. What we need right now is not space exploration, we need tech to combat climate change and to combat the general destruction of ecosystems on this planet.

Like it or not. The earth is not an eternal resting place for humans, but we are not going to leave it anytime soon either. So for the next 100 years we need to keep this thing going at the very least. 100 years, at the current levels of destruction (which is as it looks like only going to increase) is going to be tough. Space is not where to look, we don't have the tech to colonize space and we are not gonna get it fast enough to just abandon earth right now.
This is much more reasoned than the invective that both poles are throwing out. Incidentally, you come to the conclusion I myself agree with, which is that right now (and when one is learned about the science involved), it is hard to see investment in space travel as much more than a distraction from our real problems.

In other words, let's not jump out of the raft and into the ocean with a life preserver until we can see a ship approaching.
That's literally been the last 4 years of journalism surrounding this administration. Not only that, but the sources almost never are actually named.
Germany to reform stock option rules in an effort to rival Silicon Valley
> Senate Homeland Security committee and DNI director [...]

Both of these are partisan, unreliable sources. The DNI used to be a nonpartisan that you could at least trust somewhat. Not anymore.
This hits close to home. Working front desk at a hotel currently. Just the latest in a string of crummy jobs, stuck climbing up and falling down the bottom rungs of society.

Had a couple programming jobs after college. One was a startup that folded after a couple years when the president, CEO, and CFO all got indicted for tax fraud. The other was at a game studio a friend from college started that seemed to be successful... Then he started using company accounts as his personal piggy bank and stopped paying his employees.

That part you wrote about developing a lack of trust in humanity really resonates with me.

By now, I've lost touch with anyone else I knew in the industry. A couple medical issues wiped out my savings, so I don't have money to relocate. And the only jobs I've been able to find in my area barely cover monthly expenses.

These days, I try to forget I'm only ever a few paychecks away from homelessness and utter destitution. Instead, I just focus on keeping up my health and tinkering with the latest technologies. All I can do is hope someday a position near me opens up for a Rust dev or K8s admin or whatever the next thing happens to be and be ready when it does.

Anyway, hang in there. You're not the only one stuck in a rut. Keep holding on to whatever it is that still brings you joy. Never let them take that from you.
@iba99, what tool did you use to create (or how did you create) the promo video on the homepage?

I like the style :)
I think this is what tech people don't get about non-techies using technology. Tech people talk about edge cases, about past stories where Facebook shut down a group or posts, theoretical guarantees about "real" privacy, and decentralized control being more idealistic.

Real people don't need stuff to work perfectly, because they'll come up with a workaround by moving platforms or changing how they do things. Nothing works perfectly for them anyways. The platforms they use just need to work 95% of the time, and be good enough. Real people are aware that what they write can be read by others, and don't care about the difference between whether it's encrypted in transit, or on the server, or to their recipient.

For real use, it's all about the content, not the platform.
Most of what I have seen is terrible. For instance, here is one paying 9-12 dollars per hour! That doesn't even meet minimum wage in my state.

https://www.upwork.com/job/Node-React-Angular-expert-full-ti...

Of course, you also need 5 years of experience with node, and be familiar with angular! What a joke of a posting.

Here is another asking for an expert, it specifically says do not apply if you are junior or mid level, and its offering 15-35 dollars per hour.

https://www.upwork.com/job/Lucee-Coldfusion-Developer-Linux-...

Personally, I'd really like to step away from Coldfusion into straight SQL or something like that, but the CF really puts people off for whatever reason. I've almost thought about not putting it on a resume at all.
Trump for years has attacked the media - what do you expect?

And now I'm supposed to suddenly accept this "scandal" conveniently placed right before the election in a literal tabloid with a huge conservative bent?

I mean how can anyone who doesn't support Trump already buy in? And then it's "oh my god censorship!!!". Give me a break.
Back in 2013 I created http://slotted.co. It's a general purpose signup sheet app. Common use cases:

- college professor office hours

- open enrollment consultations

- comedy open mics

- auditions & interviews

- startup accelerator mentor meetings

- any kind of one-on-one meetings

- potluck parties

- volunteer signups

- pizza orders

I started monetizing in 2015 and now earn 5-figures averaging < 5 hours or effort per month. Now and then I do a batch of work to add a new feature.
The “Future Self” Savings Method
A year or so ago I was about to donate to the Interept and went to their website to do so. There, together with Bolsonaro investigations I was quite surprised that a lot of Greenwald's stance was quite pro Russia, anti democrats. Not sure in what parallel universe he lives where he thinks that one week before the election Trump needs his help with anti Biden op-eds. What is he thinking?
Good discussion of the issue, but Troy needs to run his blog through a grammar/diction checker.

Something key he alluded to but didn't get into is that browsers should remember (a hash of) your history and warn you when you visit a site (like googleblog.com) that you never visited before and isn't known to be owned by the owner of a site you have visited before.
I like this quote by a Greek philosopher Epicurus “Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not."

Besides, we all already have died in one way or another. I'm 24 year old, is my 15 year old self still alive, is my 5 year old self still alive? Nope. Even if I make it to my 40s, I will become a different person by then - the person that is me will die in some form.

Now imagine if you lived 500 - 1000 years. There are few this could go:

1.You will be fairly active your entire life, thus experience many of these "personality deaths" - so what difference does it make if you finally die for real

2.You will grow old mentally and stagnate. Chances are you will want to die anyway because you can't take it anymore.

3.You will achieve some degree of "enlightment" - and the forementioned quote will probably make even more sense than we can intellectually imagine
That is pretty awesome. I'd love to see a postgres-aware cache plugin that keeps the latest versions of data in memory, SAP HANA-style.
Why was it not the correct choice? I may be misinformed but I thought all the hullabaloo about Russiagate ended up amounting to absolutely nothing and yet it was presented to the public like a scandal that would take down the Trump regime.

I had family members over for the holidays bet actual money that Trump would be successfully impeached because of Russiagate, so when people are so out of line with reality based on something they read in the mainstream news, isn't that a fault of the news? Wouldn't it have been right to not go there with the rest of the news outlets?
Seems like the move for hackernews people is to pre-emptively move to high land (Tibet?) and not take out loans.
Honest question: is it just me or is it getting harder to determine what is factual and what is not? It seems like the US has begun to splinter such that there are two different sets of "facts" on many issues, but of course that is not how facts work. Nevertheless, when doing research and investigation is it often hard for me to pin down the truth behind any of the "facts" that are thrown at me, whether that's by the partisans, by the media, or just by random people on HN etc.

Does anyone else feel this way?
> There's only very few projects (that I know of) that are really addressing resilient, organized, curated content dissemination, and they're essentially divorced from the pirate scene. Too bad I guess.

Why would someone trying to build something like PeerTube Or IPFS want to explicitly support piracy? All that does is bring negative pressure down on them and we see in this very discussion, the MAFIAA is more than happy to abuse laws they wrote to bring pressure. Just because someone is interested in or supportive of peer to peer communication doesn't automatically mean they support piracy.

I'm not trying to say piracy is bad, it is just illegal. As shitty as those laws might be they're still on the books and people face penalties for breaking them.
> We could "spin" the anti-space side as a religion too I suppose. It involves a bit more ascetism and self-flagellation though.

And a heavy dose of fatalism.
lol ... The editor though that the truth is less important than the election. It's the same as what happened in Social Media. Sadly, it means they can never be trusted ever again.
Jared Kushner - one of those supposedly unqualified family members, and one that the media has enjoyed throwing rocks at for years now - brokered multiple peace deals in the middle east, something that decades of establishment political and foreign policy figures have been unable to accomplish with little critique from the media.
Answer here on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/egwo6z/was_th...
That's a good point. I just wish he provided more detail to let people decide for themselves.
Does Elder do SSR or only SSG? It's sort of crazy how automatic partial hydration is in Marko. You just write your code and it works. No extra consideration etc.
Don't provide outlier data. What is your goal?
Overall quality of life is highly correlated with energy consumption. There's some nuance to it: higher population density countries often use less energy to deliver the same quality of life are more dispersed populations. But in general the better life is in a country, the more energy it consumes. Here's per-capita energy consumption plotted out on a map [1] and the correlation is crystal clear.

This part of why I think plans to decarbonize through the reduction of energy consumption are doomed to fail. People aren't going to reject a good standard of living, and countries that don't yet have a good standard of living aren't going to stop striving to achieve it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Map_-_Energy_Use_20...
> Why did a lone hyperbole invalidate my whole argument?

It didn't invalidate your argument. You made a good point about the phrase "Mexican Chernobyl" leading some people to think they were talking about a reactor accident. I agree that that phrasing is somewhat problematic. What I am objecting to is the use of the word 'clickbait' and again, quite obviously, that the title wasn't 'pure clickbait'. The title was still informative and gave a fairly good indication of what the article was about. There is an issue with the title, yes, but that can be pointed out without indulging in hyperbole, which is what undermines (not invalidates) your point. But your comment was still much, much better than the original one I objected to; I wouldn't have said anything in reply to your comment except for it being in that thread under the one I first replied to.
I wonder if it's similar to Python 3.x's opcache for Load global and load attr? It would make a lot of sense to generalize those.
Buy a Nuclear Submarine
>we are all here today

We weren't here then
You're clearly brainwashed.
I could see local municipalities suing the leading wipe manufacturers in a community for labeling their products "flushable" and having a pretty good shot at winning.

I'm curious what sort of products and systems a world that tied products and user behavior to the manufacturer. Ie, if a Coke can is found in a national park, coke gets a fine. Rights issues and economic practicalities aside, I'm curious what sorts of things companies would create if this were the case.
I don't know what's more amusing, the fact that they didn't change the script at all for the current conditions, or that there are probably still people falling for it.
> All that I have seen have been accusing Biden or his family of things that Trump and his family do much more often than the Biden's are alleged to have done them.

Attack your enemy (especially falsely!) for the things you are guilty of so the people who are outside of the bubble that uncritically listens to propaganda (yours or your opponents) have been primed to dismiss that line of attack as just the kind of thing that propagandists invent about their enemies isn't a novel technique.
Hey sorry about that! Fixing now.
In a democracy majority should decide what to do. But it’s not the majority who decides what _is true_.

Marc Twain used to say: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

(Interestingly you’re demanding the same: taking time to step back ;)
Tucker Carlson isnt the source, Tony Babulinski is the source. Im not a regular Fox viewer but I think you should watch the interview, Tony comes off as very credible. An interesting feature of this story is that Tony Babulinski's claims are corroborated by Hunter Biden's own words. That seems pretty definitive to me.

I cant read passed the first paragraph of that article because of the paywall, Im curious how they can possibly say that there is no link when we have so much first hand evidence of a link. Can you please let me know? Imho the only room for judgement is whether or not you find the link unethical or significant but to deny it exists seems disingenuous to me.
yeah, this bs article doesnt deserve to be on hn. and lastly, who the f cares what Seth Rogan thinks? besides being an actor, isnt he Canadian?
Pretty much. American ""intersectionalist"" (The first intersectionalists realized that in our society class is the major by far axis of discriminatio) is a repackaging of explicitly class-focused ideas and politics in order to serve the interests of Capital (in this case formulated as the VC/IPO class).
sorry, meant there were no attempt of conflict resolution by the Code of Conduct committee.
Building the load bearing structure is a quite small part of the cost of building a home these days. Probably less than 10%. I'm afraid robots laying bricks won't be a game changer in housing.
Move polluting heavy industry and manufacturing off planet, There are uncounted resources in the asteroid belt and 24/7 solar energy.
This has been true since the advent...I remember reading about the wars between Hamilton and Jefferson in the papers way back during the young years of the US.

None of this is new. It's way overamplified now, and everyone cries censorship and fascism when it suits them.
Framer!
It did promise to attribute the contributions, since they are licensed under CC BY-SA.
> Not good for editing

I knew Emacs wasn't the editor for me when I found out that there isn't, by default, a way to quickly duplicate a line. Of course, the emacs community says that adding this feature is a simple matter of defining a macro in your emacs config file. Very different mindset.
Calling it a utopia is straw manning the arguments for expanding beyond Earth and continuing to explore the universe. Why should we stop doing something fundamental to life in the promise that this time we’ll fix all our problems if governments just funnel all their money that way? Why would anyone think NASA’s budget would actually be used any better elsewhere by politicians?
I agree that both actions have consequences. I wasn't trying to defend taking action in general, I was trying to claim that I think a consequential rule of: "Do not block new information due to perceived impact on election" might be a good one.

> Plenty of people lost trust in the media following their focus on the Hillary Clinton email scandal, which amounted to nothing but likely swayed the election.

Hm, let's do a comparison. Do you think trust in the media would have been better or worse if media outlets had received leaked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign during the summer (some indicating, for instance, that some members of Hillary Clinton's campaign had conspired to acquire questions ahead of the Democratic debates), embargoed them until after the election, and then released them?

"bad-faith actors are afoot (which seems the case here)" -> I don't see why the 'faith' of the actors really has any relevance as to whether the information is in the public interest to know.
The release also says it was stored in a 3rd party DB and that they apparently didn't know that