skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile, everything interesting/challenging I might have liked to work on is already being worked on by someone else, who is probably doing a better job than I would have

I noticed that reading "recommended content" (like from google news) always gets me to thinking like this, but remember 90% of startups fail[1].

[1]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilpatel/2015/01/16/90-of-star...
I know. Let's fly to Mars!
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What do you run on it or use it for? Anything to share?
sure, I'm not saying the idea of archiving is illegitimate! just that I don't think this is why most people rip CDs. they do it because they want to make playlists, play songs on their ipod, etc. I don't think it even occurs to most people that a CD degrades over time.
I couldn’t agree with you any more than I do.

For the past 20 years western liberals have entered into the collective delusion that it is possible to reduce global GHG outputs to a level where warming will stop or reverse.

This should be obvious to anyone who has ever made a personal sacrifice for a cause and tried to convince others to as well. I’m vegetarian, and convincing even the most cute animal loving people to reduce consumption (forget stopping entirely) is shockingly hard to do. Convincing the entire world to replace fossil fuels was never going to happen.

The tragedy here is that the only trans-national political movement seriously concerned about this problem insists on directing all investment and attention away from the only viable solutions to the problem they care so deeply about.
Come on. I already posted a link showing that hospitals are not a special case, remember? That's so obvious to not merit discussion.
Even the first one was an SoC which didn't sell well so they got it almost for free.
I like how this link is being suppressed from the front page of HN as well. 309 points in 1 hour, and it's at #52 instead of a single digit ranking as you'd expect. In comparison, the current #1-#3 have 175-80 points in 2-3 hours.
> Not going to directly engage with your argument, but this framing is frankly absurd. Alan Dershowitz is not "neutral" with regards to Trump, he was literally part of his legal defense team!

That article is dated a year and half prior to Trump’s impeachment. Dershowitz disagrees with Trump on policy matters on just about everything. What he doesn’t do is let his political disagreements pervert his legal opinions on constitutional matters. And hence he gets blacklisted for not joining the hate.
Why do you see climate change and space exploration as orthogonal? It would seem to me that moving energy-intensive processes off the planet surface might ease the climate burden.

In the early 70's, physicist Gerard K. O'Neil asked the question "Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?" [0]

You would seem to answer this question with 'Yes.' Why?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_K._O%27Neill
Yes, because humans looking at camera screens will a) cost the company money, and also b) creates an incentive to the company to limit its observation to only the most necessary viewpoints.

Attempting to automate the task of constant observation makes constant observation easier, which isn't necessarily a desirable state.
Low end is 5 mil, upper is 1 bil. Most commonly cited figure and the basis for most extrapolation is 200 million. However that's still a lot. To put it in perspective:

"The current global estimate is that there were around 272 million international migrants in the world in 2019, which equates to 3.5 per cent of the global population"

UN World Migration Report 2020 - https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/wmr_2020.pdf

Back to the 200 million figure:

"This is a daunting figure; representing a ten-fold increase over today’s entire documented refugee and internally displaced populations. To put the number in perspective it would mean that by 2050 one in every 45 people in the world will have been displaced by climate change."

IOM Migration & Climate Change - https://www.ipcc.ch/apps/njlite/srex/njlite_download.php?id=...

To be clear, these figures represent how many people will have relocated by that point in time, not the number of people actively relocating at that point in time. Today, about 3.5% of the global population lives in a country other than the one they were born in. This prediction is that by 2050 that figure will have an extra 3% on top attributable to climate change.
When I worked in production environments, I used to set up little Firefox userscripts that would add a banner or anything visual to the production site. It's entirely client side and easy to customize.
I think Stephen King was quoting someone else when he said "I wrote a novel because I didn't have time to write a short story".

In my experience, getting the same core information into a smaller word count is extra work, not less.
The Polarfire SOC is a very neat, powerful series of chips — I also have an Icicle board and have some plans for it — but the Unleashed is definitely a better purchase unless you have plans on utilizing the FPGA, just from the spec sheets. The Polarfire chip is pretty darn cool on its own though...
They click on your username and downvote any other comments you've made too. It's a real shame. I was hoping HN was more adult than reddit.
Well, until Google decides your e-mail is spam or harmful.
| I don't know

You certainly don't. You have a serious misunderstanding of the sheer scale involved in space travel. Its great to think that an individual will be able to pack up their space car in 200 years and move on out west to mars or something, but there literally wont be anything to do but crash land once you get there, or maybe if you're lucky, walk around for a few hours before suffocating.

Im not saying it's not possible to colonize another planet, but I am saying that disintermediated space travel in the sense of a Heinlein novel is overwhelmingly a pipe dream.
Why do Donald Trump's children have top secret clearances that they're ineligible for and work in the White House with him? Why does Donald Trump owe foreign banks nearly a billion dollars? Why did two banks forgive millions of dollars of loans against Donald Trump and then have bankers directly responsible for forgiving the loans receive positions within his administration? Why hasn't Donald Trump divested himself of his holdings in his companies as required to by the Emoluments clause? Why has the federal government paid Trump properties over a billion dollars for secret service and other agents to stay there?

Until you can answer all of those questions with reasonable explanations that aren't "because he can" then I don't want to hear another word out of you about Hunter Biden -- who has had no role in the Obama/Biden administration and will have no role in the Biden/Harris administration.
> Cadillac Fairview said the images taken by camera were briefly analyzed then deleted — but investigators found that the sensitive biometric information generated from the images was being stored in a centralized database by a third party.

The images are not being persisted, just the metadata about the individual. Who is being harmed by this? If a person with a clipboard collecting this information without telling anyone, is there any outrage?
There is no expectation of privacy in public places in the US. Not sure of Canada has the same norm. Now that said just because you can collect data does not mean should should--there's a wide range for good and evil here.
> The argument is that focusing on space exploration deflects from facing the realities of climate change on our planet.

In order to make this argument, you have to first figure out what percentage of NASA's budget is spent on space exploration versus things like GPS systems, weather satellites, climate monitoring, solar monitoring, physics experiments, etc etc, which have direct or indirect benefits to things happening here on earth.

NASA's budget for entire actual space exploration would be more-or-less a rounding error on our defense budget which routinely has $5b projects which benefits very few people and arguably makes the quality of life worse on our planet.
If you're into it, there are many user-submitted DIY Soylent recipes at completefoods.co [1].

There are recipes for Keto Chow (costs $7.15/day) [2], a super low-cost Soylent (costs $1.51/day) [3], AgroVittles solid bars (costs $14.15/day) [4], and Eldar Bread, also solid (costs $1.79/day) [5].

I'm not really interested in replacing all my meals with a drink (and I doubt many people really do that long term), but I think some of these options are a good way to get things I probably lack.

[1]: https://www.completefoods.co/diy/recipes

[2]: https://www.completefoods.co/diy/recipes/keto-chow-150-maste...

[3]: https://www.completefoods.co/diy/recipes/brets-soylent-corn-...

[4]: https://www.completefoods.co/diy/recipes/agrovittles-electri...

[5]: https://www.completefoods.co/diy/recipes/eldar-flour
Well he/she is not alone. Birth rates are falling because people don't feel secure in their future. I can't think of a single thing that makes me hopeful about the future. Stagnant salaries, stagnant economy, weak global leadership, rising nationalism and sectarianism, climate change, increasing wealth inequality, people don't agree on basic reality (masks, climate change) and no where in our political spectrum do we see glimmers of hope of someone having a vision for what is the right thing to do.

I think we are about to see a huge insolvency event in the next few years that will further destabilize the economy on top of everything. A huge demographic shift is coming with the boomers retiring, and damn, they're getting out at just the right moment as we inherit the problems they started and/or ignored for decades. If you are in your 30s or younger, we are the world's biggest suckers.
Can you share the sources which convinced you of the report's veracity? Those sources which I have seen mostly or totally debunked it so it would be interesting to see what made your sources come to a different conclusion.

[edit] I must say it is both amazing as well as abhorring to see a post asking for sources to a statement which goes counter the current narrative to be downvoted (currently at -4) as if the question is somehow offensive. Wake up, folks, the truth shall set you free. Seeking for it is not a crime, at least not yet. [/edit]
Marketing money? besides paying people to publish their work?
what disaster? no money changed hands. TFA doesn't document what the seller paid for the cards, if anything at all. because of that lack of information, this reads like an advertorial.
Investors already did the work for those wages - you just don’t intuitively understand deferred consumption.

The closest thing to French nobility we have today is probably people with government sinecures.
Not really. I suspect this is because unlike medicine, lawyers as a collective organization don't benefit as much from an artificial scarcity. MD isn't really a common path to anything other than a career as a doctor, but JD has other practical career paths.

It also differentiates the bar vs. board exams. You can't practice medicine without certification, but there are plenty of lawyers doing law without a bar association, it only constrains you from doing certain types of work.
How bad this is depends heavily on what your diet consists of. It can also be exacerbated by withdrawal from stimulants like caffeine, which tend to coincide with meals.

FWIW when I'm eating a very low carb diet with no stimulants, fasting for a day is a complete noop, pleasant even.

But I also feel nauseous consuming caffeine when fasting. I've come to suspect a major reason people eat breakfast is so their morning caffeine dose doesn't make them sick, though they may not acknowledge it.
I don't think it's fair to say it was the correct choice. It was a choice, and one he was allowed to make, but it was one of many options.

You say "the liberal media no longer tolerates anyone who has the audacity to undermine their chosen narrative". Isn't that what I'm talking about? He founded the org. Do you think "the liberal media" got together and decided to censor him? Or do you think people just weren't buying what he was selling? I don't get how you can accuse the liberal media of anything in this situation... it's not like he works for MSNBC or CNN.
I agree they can be the perfect environment for a jack of all trades. But they too often (not always, not uniformly) have recruiting, interviewing, and hiring practices that screen out older people, or anyone who isn't just like the team. That may be discrimination, or (more likely) just the normal human tendency for people to associate with other people more like them than not. By the same token I'm not going to fit in at a skateboard park or a club for video gamers.

Age discrimination in the software business is a real thing. There's a widespread (and I think wrong) notion that older people are stuck with outdated skills and can't learn anything new. Young people can have a lot of hubris. I generally excuse that as the inexperience and over-confidence of youth (I am the parent of three millenials).

A team of 20-somethings may not want me, and they may be right that I won't fit in. I think I might add some experience and maturity the team lacks, but too much friction in the team will work against everyone. Team dynamics are a first-order driver of productivity, so it's up to me, as the outlier, to persuade the team that I will fit in well enough to add value, even if I'm not going to play foosball or decorate my cube with anime (exaggerating for comic effect, but also directly from my personal experience).
> Nobody really knows what fascism is. It's more of an excuse to make up the rules as you go along to obtain a certain objective. Both left and right are susceptible to it.

This really only serves to muddy the waters. There are a few clear and well-recognized definitions of fascism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism#By_scho...

There may be some differences, but they very clearly describe the same set of core traits.
I don’t see the actual harm here. Malls have operated security cameras for decades. These people added a facial recognition system to generate population statistics (age, gender) and track anonymous individuals as they move around the mall. So what? Who was harmed? Who could be harmed?
Why even use the line-out? You can just plug it into a recording audio driver.

Video is harder, mostly because of the bandwidth.
Standard rates (prices) for goods and services tend to be offered when it’s too costly or complicated to set prices based on actual cost, when customers hesitate to buy because of price uncertainty, when it’s desired for some customers to subsidize others, or some combination of these factors.

For example, the U.S. Postal Service charges $8.30 to send a “Small Flat Rate Box,” regardless of weight, by Priority Mail to any domestic address. The actual transportation and handling costs vary with the weight and distance, of course, but this standard rate simplifies things for postal customers, who don’t need a scale or zone charts, or to worry about insufficient postage, and for the USPS, which doesn’t have to collect postage due from recipients.

It also provides a cross-subsidy: there’s no discount for sending a package in the same city, nor a surcharge for delivery by air to Guam or by mule train to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. This reflects a political decision that the people in those places are Americans, too, who deserve access to mail services at affordable prices.
> scared you into not fulfilling the genetic imperative, ending your own genetic line

> It's always a shame when an intelligent person chooses to ignore the sacrifice every one of their ancestors made to bring them to this point

Ok please don’t project your creepy literal-Darwinist ideology on other people. The parent comment literally said “one of many reasons.” I am not having kids because my “genetic imperative” is about the species itself, not my specific genes, and I sincerely don’t care about whether or not the Ojnabieoot Dynasty makes it to 2100. The idea that I’m “ignoring the sacrifices of my ancestors” is idiotic and unnecessarily insulting.

> to know that generations of people eked by just for you to play video games all day would be a truly disappointing conclusion.

Seriously what in the world is your problem? You don’t know anything about this person. This comment is pure toxicity, completely undermines the point I think you are trying to make, and adds nothing to the conversation.
> So what climate scientists have been doing for decades?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sea_ice_decline#Ice-fre...

> Many scientists have attempted to estimate when the Arctic will be "ice-free". Professor Peter Wadhams of the University of Cambridge is among these scientists; Wadhams in 2014 predicted that by 2020 "summer sea ice to disappear," Wadhams and several others have noted that climate model predictions have been overly conservative regarding sea ice decline. A 2013 paper suggested that models commonly underestimate the solar radiation absorption characteristics of wildfire soot. In 2007, Professor Wieslaw Maslowski from the Naval Postgraduate School, California, predicted removal of summer ice by 2013; subsequently, in 2013, Maslowski predicted 2016 ±3 years.

Looks to me like there have been plenty of overly-alarming predictions about a Blue Ocean Event over the last two decades.
I believe downvoters are likely responding to the factual inaccuracies in your post; not to mention the tone.
Does Tara support a public facing board to capture bugs feature requests from our users? We would like to be able to link public facing issues to internal issues.
If hyper evolved kinda-realistic spiders are your thing and their first contact with a highly evolved humanity, I strongly suggest Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky".

It also introduced to me the concept of software archeologists.
>How long can civilisation persist?

Can we use the number of seasons of The Walking Dead as a proxy to estimate that?
Where are the "alarmist doomsday predictions" that never came true? Climate Change deniers claim that these exist all the time, but I have never seen an actual example. Predictions over the last 20-30 years have been almost universally spot-on.
That's one big if.
> We could make an artificial magnetic field for it. Beyond current technology but seems like a viable option a hundred years from now.

How? Because to me, that seems extremely far-fetched. My understanding as to why Earth has a magnetic field and why Mars does not (or has a weak one) is that Earth has a highly dynamic molten core surrounding a solid inner core, whereas Mars only has a molten core with not as much activity. It is my understanding that Earth's geodynamo plus its rotation helps create the magnetic field that protects our atmosphere.

So unless humans are able to alter planets in such...planetary ways, then I don't see how we'll suddenly be able to give Mars a sustainable magnetic field.
> Every single action taken by the fascist left mimic traditional fascism. They have taken the tactics from Mussolini and adapted well for their own purposes.

There's no such as even fascist left, even in the kind of disputable way in which Leninist and non-Leninist Marxists will argue over whether Leninism is a genuinely Marxist, Communist, or leftist movement, or a form of right-wing state capitalism.

Fascism is an ideology, not a set of tactics. Yes, right and left wing groups (both moderate and extreme) often learn tactics from each other. No, that doesn't make the ideologies the same.
When Women Commit War Crimes
Don't we learn that almost every day? No, we are not learning.
The price really isn't that outrageous. Consider the use-case: this is a mini-ITX form-factor with a standard power supply, M.2 slots, a PCIe adapter, etc. This is designed for desktop workstations.

It comes with the CPU, motherboard, and RAM, all in one package.

When you sum up the costs of those in your typical desktop PC workstation build, it's not really that far off.
This is also a problem for output components. My first idea to try out with ALC requires a specific layout of LED displays. Can't be done.
That's a fairly unreasonable assumption. Odds are the only thing a human at corporate will ever see is "Driver John Doe could not complete delivery, customer complained" Unless purely by chance the same person just so happens to see the same issue with the same restaurant a few times, it's very unlikely that they'ed notice a trend, nonetheless correctly deduce its cause. The person in charge of making sure deliveries get completed is almost certainly not the person handling restaurant partnerships.

Even if someone does eventually notice and takes corrective action, this is far from an optimal way to do it. Given that the server is acting like the drivers should just know that they wanted to be unlisted, it wouldn't surprise me if the "we told you before" means all they did was tell drivers they wanted to opt out and never actually did the opt out procedure.
I don't know why this is downvoted. I thought the same thing.

"Shoppers had no reason to expect their image was being collected by an inconspicuous camera, or that it would be used, with facial recognition technology, for analysis," said federal Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien in a statement.

My default is the opposite, I expect I'm being tracked all the time and that my image, cell signal, and whatever else is being used to try and sell me stuff I don't need.
> "It's fake"

This is a cult-like millenarianist reaction.
"If you're not present and contributing to a society, in my view, you should absolutely not have a say in the governance of that society. In fact, I find the idea abhorrent."

Then perhaps folks living internationally shouldn't be taxed. the truth of the matter is that living elsewhere doesn't release you from being taxed or filing tax returns: Folks in high-tax countries won't get additional tax, but folks in cheap places do.

I'll add that there are myriads of reasons folks won't pay taxes: Staying home to take care of children or parents is one of them.
I don't see these two ideas being remotely related. The world is filled with distractions, space exploration is way down the list in terms of money and time spent by individuals. I don't see anyone suggesting we should focus on space exploration instead of fighting climate change.
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Criticism of Soylent does often seem to imply that the alternative is a home-cooked meal of leafy greens.
A friend of mine that works in climate science says that the IPCC reports are typically very conservative due to the process. His expectation is to view the upper end of the current report as likely.
The apparent backstory of the laptop is better explained here, by a lawyer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYzCwiURwwQ