skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm not a climate change denier but let me just deny all the science that CO2 is meaningfully contributing to climate change"

What exactly do you think the definition of a "climate change denier" is?

The important part isn't recognizing that climate change exists. The important part is recognizing why and what needs to be done about it.

You're misinformed about the science on this one...
This continues to befuddle me.

So let's assume Musk nails it and can do this for $10M. Instead of my 20, imagine 200 100-ton landings of cargo on the moon, say over the period of ten years.

Instead of everybody sitting on Earth, trying to design-session-out the perfect lunar base, why not just keep regularly-delivering supplies, then learn how to build a lunar base while on the moon, figuring it out as you go? After all, just like SpaceX, we're not trying to build a lunar base. We're trying to build a factory for constructing lunar bases, eventually hundreds of them. Solving the modular/generic problem is what we want to do, not build another Space Shuttle.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems like most of the people here, indeed most of the aerospace industry, naturally prefer these big, lumbering, paperwork-heavy, long-lasting bureaucratic programs. But without enough regularly-arriving supplies, why try to solve something up-front, all-at-once, and perhaps years or decades ahead of time when you can just figure out the bare minimum of things you need just as you need them?

But like I said, I'm probably missing something. I've been saying for 20+ years that our real problem is cost-to-LEO. Now that we're just barely beginning to address that, the next problem very well may likely be changing the way we think of large space-based programs. That could very well end up being a bigger problem than cost over the long run.

ADD: Seems to me that the Starship is a solution to delivering humans to space. We need reusable heat shields, booster packs, and payload capsules, along with an Earth-based mass-driver, to truly drive down cargo rates another 100x. At that point we'll begin seriously talking about becoming a space-faring species.
That isn't true. Copyright does not just protect "concrete versions". For example, here is a famous court case[1] in which one of the criteria was whether a "ordinary reasonable person" would find there was substantial similarity between the two works. Some of the similarities can be as vague as "McDonald's character Mayor McCheese and Sid and Marty Krofft's character H.R. Pufnstuf both are fictional mayors that possess disproportionately large round heads."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Televisio....
One good intention might be to expose everyone to more diverse ideas. People from the cities get exposed to a more rural or fly-over life and people from the center of the country get exposed to people and ideas from the bigger cities. There's a huge gap between the cities and the rest of the country, and that gap is just growing wider. It's been the source of a lot of political discomfort, and that's not going to go away if we keep up this economic and political segregation.

Another good intention might be to spur economic activity in areas where the local economy is in decline or completely gone. There's a lot of money and wealth and opportunities created in cities that only trickles back down to the rest of the country very indirectly (through government subsidies paid for by taxes, for example). Imagine if even half of West Virginia University's engineering graduates stayed local and built their fortunes in Morgantown (or Charleston) instead of moving to San Fransisco to work for Google or Facebook. Their tax revenues staying local would be huge for a lot of people who are suffering in abject poverty in WV right now.
Bitcoin will be truly dead when quantum computers emerge that can compute all the hashes in about 10 mins
5950X's CPU cores at 5ghz consume around 20w, not +49W. And it's extremely non-linear power scaling, such that at 4.2ghz it's already down to half the power consumption at 10w/core.

The 5950X's uncore consumes a significant amount of power, but penalizing it for that seems more than a little unreasonable. The M1 is getting power wins from avoiding the need for externalized IO for GPU or DRAM, but those aren't strictly speaking advantages either. I, for one, will gladly pay 20w of power to have expandable RAM & PCI-E slots in a device the size of the Mac Mini much less anything larger. In a laptop of course that doesn't make as much sense, but in a laptop the Ryzen's uncore also isn't 20w (see the also excellent power efficiency of the 4800U and 4900HS)
This is what https://www.oregon.gov/oha/Pages/index.aspx and our county health program here in Deschutes county are saying. They seem pretty reliable and objective.
> Interestingly the questioners, in this case the Senators, are not under oath and they can say whatever they’d like.

That parallels to attorneys in a trial. Although in a trial there are some limits to questions that can be asked. In a Congressional hearing, the witnesses don't have anyone who can specifically raise an objection on their behalf, they just have to wind down the clock.

Honestly, most of these hearings would be better conducted via letters. Then you wouldn't get nearly so many "I would have to get back to you" answers, often without serious followup.
So, on the one hand, just about any common product that can be bought online, can be bought on Amazon. So, good for them.

However, given the horrendous search UX with Amazon, you'd think there would be more competition in this space. I'm always leery of buying big ticket items through them, for fear of counterfeits, or restocked items, and such.

Not that Google is any better. I occasionally do product search with Google, but it ends up showing me all kinds of crap only vaguely related to my search terms, apparently in an effort to be "helpful".

For anything computer related, I'm still using Newegg or Microcenter, just because I can filter results much more easily. Though even there, there is much that could be improved. Just like with price, I'd like to be able to set a specific range for weight, when searching for a laptop, for example.
Oh don't worry, there will be a "significant migration" anyway thanks to the malicious ineptitude of the census.
The Resulting Fallacy Is Ruining Your Decisions

http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-resulting-fallacy-is-rui...

There’s this word that we use in poker: “resulting.” It’s a really important word. You can think about it as creating too tight a relationship between the quality of the outcome and the quality of the decision. You can’t use outcome quality as a perfect signal of decision quality, not with a small sample size anyway. I mean, certainly, if someone has gotten in 15 car accidents in the last year, I can certainly work backward from the outcome quality to their decision quality. But one accident doesn’t tell me much.
The SF Bay Area was taking the pandemic seriously in the summer.
Oh yeah, I check out Instagram stories! Once a year. When I tap by mistake.
Very well done sir!
Happened in Vermont over the past few generations.

For over a century, Vermont was a solid red state, opting for the Republican candidate in every presidential election between 1856 and 1960, and consistently electing Republican governors.
With the back-to-the-land influx of the Sixties and Seventies, this began to change. Vermont’s population surged by 30 percent in those decades, and the majority of the newcomers brought with them into the ballot box the same idealistic, environmentally oriented priorities that had brought them to Vermont in the first place.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/how-the-ba...
> What kind of development are you doing?

Sounds like folks never want to close an app. It could be a productivity booster if you want to spend the money and electricity, but is rarely a requirement.
perhaps they are confusing CO2 for methane emitted by large fields of livestock (at the cost of their consumption of vegetation no longer available to help capture CO2) which is a non-trivial portion of greenhouse gas emission.
I see plenty of people in GG park and on the beach during nice days. Traffic in the burbs is still rather constant as usual.
Could you please not do the denunciatory-escalatory-ideological-fulminatory thing here? We're trying for a different kind of conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In Sweden, they have socialized healthcare, strong unions, and robust social safety net, and an overall healthier population. So America should copy those things too right?
Fake News, Ads, More Fake News...
They are an Australian company. It does have US servers, though.
I'm afraid I lost the source, but this morning I was reading about some fairly in-depth Xcode benchmarks, the dev was saying that there was almost no hit in performance when it hit swap, and speculated that Apple might be getting ready to move past the concept of RAM altogether in a few years. Sounds a little bonkers to me, but the bus to the SSD is no joke
Please show a source that Arizona turning blue is "mainly" due to migration from California.
US Bipartisan Legislation to Increase Access to Telehealth Services
Why are people moving to these places in the first place? Jobs, right? Georgia is becoming a film hub. It makes sense that people move from Hollywood or NY to there. Austin and Huston are becoming tech hubs. It makes sense people are moving from SF to there.

People don't choose where to live because of the electoral college or state congress. Most just don't have that luxury - they need to live where the jobs are. If your concern is around a government that accurately represents its electorate, the way to combat that is to combat gerrymandering and getting rid of the electoral college.

Paying people to move to certain places sounds silly when you consider that a state can simply redistrict itself...
I am seeing a huge number of for sale or for rent signs in neighborhoods I frequent. If you are like me and you like it here, there are probably incredible deals to be had.

Nobody will be able to predict when, but I think it's pretty likely boom times will be back eventually.
> thought of the Big Sur QuickTime icon...

There is big issue with similarity of apps icons/logos which are based on "Q" lettering.

[0] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Promotion/issues/14
How do you save a search in a non-personally identifiable way? Do you have a human verify the data belonging to each and every search ? Not saving IPs and/or browser data doesn't solve the problem since the search terms themselves can be personally identifiable.

How do you verify that DuckDuckGo does -the minimal and ineffective- things they claim to do? They offer no proof.

How do you verify that DuckDuckGo does not secretly cooperate with more powerful coercive actors?

How do you verify that DuckDuckGo, offering a single point of compromise, has not been thoroughly compromised by more powerful actors?
the city is so small that any exodus of existing residents isn’t going to be that noticeable because there are still people moving here everyday.

but yes the residential areas feel pretty much the same as far as crowdedness goes.
Not a chance, the consumer market it massive. Even among PC enthusiasts, AMD is in the minority. It's not even close: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

I'd sooner expect Intel to start making their own ARM chips to compete with Apple.
True, which is one of the reasons why the practice of launching goroutines inside of packages is discouraged.

Granted its sometimes unavoidable and some package maintainers just didn't get the memo, nevertheless when deciding on a package to use it's much easer to find dubious goroutines, than assessing if every potential panic has been handled correctly. Usually easer to fix too if warranted.
This makes some sense. Covid cases are booming in Chicago. SF is seeing some rise too, but it's doing quite well compared to the rest of the country. Chicago is seeing 48k new cases per 1M in the last 60 days, while SF is seeing about ~6k. (though also being a smaller city makes it easier to implement policies)
The Software Industry Is Larger Than Most Assume and Most Don’t Receive Press
Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language [pdf]
Is no one pointing out that this isn’t the part that makes replacing fossil fuels hard? This is focusing on a completely irrelevant metric. It’s a great motivator for why we need to shift but it has no impact on how hard it will be to replace oil. There’s 100 practical reason for why it’s hard, namely that clean energy sources are not under our direct control to scale up and down as we need more/less. We can’t tell the sun to be strongest at 6pm when everyone gets off work so we’ll need more energy. You can force the wind to blow. The best way to solve this is improving battery tech but that’s a HUGE task. What we have currently is a focus on quickly growing increase in clean energy sources as a baseline energy source with a diversified mix of other sources along with natural gas peaking plants that are far cleaner than coal and provide near immediate response times to surges on energy demand which is incredible.
Show HN: Reuse GitHub Actions workflows across repositories
Passive voice is actually essential sometimes - for instance when you're editing someone's work or reviewing their code.

"X can be changed to y" comes across a lot softer than "you should change x to y", and is likely to get better results.
> Your bias is showing here, it's not cool.. There were plenty of unsavory characters in the book.

I don't know what you mean. I agree that there are tons of unsavory characters in the book. Atticus is not one of them. He's portrayed as nearly flawless. This plays into the White Savior[0] trope.

> If you're trying to teach white people and people who haven't experienced racism about racism, then this is a pretty good way to do it IMO.

That sounds appealing, but consider that the book's "central" Black character's defining characteristic is that he's not a violent criminal. That's the depiction of black people in the book. This, like I said, makes racism this abstract thing. And especially now when you generally don't have lynch mobs, it's easy to write off the book's entire story as "well we don't do that today, racism is solved!", which is yet another reason the book draws criticism as a teaching tool.

The book was perhaps good at a time when Black people were often presented as less-than-human, but now that they're usually just presented as less-human, less fully formed, different tools are better.

> If there are other, better books to read, then recommend other books. Don't ban this one because you don't think it goes far enough.

I actually already did that in this thread, and then explained why that doesn't fix the issue. There are likely already teachers using The Hate U Give or The Invisible man in their classrooms, but there are clearly some that aren't. Giving teachers a bunch of choices doesn't protect students from teachers who make bad choices. Ultimately, requiring that teachers use better teaching tools in their curriculums isn't the boogeyman it seems to be made out to be. Like, it's still staying in school libraries.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior
Of course the irony of this suggestion is that the real "people who already live there", i.e. Native Americans, tend to lean liberal. Perhaps people whose family have only been there a few generations should respect them.
I don’t even care about the privacy. (Well, I do, but in this context I have no reasonable way to ensure it)

What I do care about is trust-building and monopolistic practices.

That, to me, is a great reason to use DDG instead of Google or even Bing.
The Soviet Union's space cannon that fired in orbit
I think it's a subconscious habit of how your eyes traverse the code. Your mind has been trained to skip over a lot of those symbols and get the meaning from the surrounding code, and in the near term, it costs extra work to suppress that habit and actually see the symbols.

Over the long term, I don't think symbols are harder to read than keywords. C itself provides some evidence for that: imagine reading C code if experience with another language had conditioned you to look past * and &. That would be terribly confusing, but for an experienced C programmer, those symbols leap out of the code at you because you know that they carry a lot of meaning.
A 4800U on 5nm would be 30% more efficient or 15% faster. 5nm was a significant bump.

And that's before considering the density improvement that came along with it (which is also substantial - TSMC's N5 is up to 1.8x the density of N7). Which is why I mentioned Zen 3 & Zen 4, because you don't make the same chip across a shrink. You use the extra budget to do things
One data point: when I was consulting a year ago, I had to run two fully virtualized desktops just to use the client's awful VPNs and enterprise software. Those VMs, plus a regular developer workload, made my 16GB laptop unusable. Upgrading to 32GB fixed it completely.
> they’ve demonstrated gross incompetence in privacy

Not sure I buy the example that is given here.

1. It's an issue in their browser app, not their search service.

2. It's not completely indefensible: it allows fetching favicons (potentially) much faster, since they're cached, and they promise that the favicon service is 100% anonymous anyway.

3. They responded to user feedback and switched to fetching favicons locally, so this is no longer an issue. https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527#issuecommen...

> The search results suck! The authoritative sources for anything I want to find are almost always buried beneath 2-5 results from content scrapers and blogspam. This is also true of other search engines like Google.

This part is kinda funny because "DuckDuckGo sucks, it's just as bad as Google" is ... not the sort of complaint you normally hear about an alternative search engine, nor does it really connect with any of the normal reasons people consider alternative search engines.

That said, I agree with this point. Both DDG and Google seem to be losing the spam war, from what I can tell. And the diagnosis is a good one too: the problem with modern search engines is that they're not opinionated / biased enough!

> Crucially, I would not have it crawling the entire web from the outset. Instead, it should crawl a whitelist of domains, or “tier 1” domains. These would be the limited mainly to authoritative or high-quality sources for their respective specializations, and would be weighed upwards in search results. Pages that these sites link to would be crawled as well, and given tier 2 status, recursively up to an arbitrary N tiers.

This is, obviously, very different from the modern search engine paradigm where domains are treated neutrally at the outset, and then they "learn" weights from how often they get linked and so on. (I'm not sure whether it's possible to make these opinionated decisions in an open source way, but it seems like obviously the right way to go for higher quality results.) Some kind of logic like "For Python programming queries, docs.python.org and then StackExchange are the tier 1 sources" seems to be the kind of hard-coded information that would vastly improve my experience trying to look things up on DuckDuckGo.
Studies so far seem to disagree with you that going to a restaurant 'isn't a significant risk'.

“...restaurants were by far the riskiest places” for new infections, “about four times riskier than gyms and coffee shops, followed by hotels,”

https://sf.eater.com/21561143/covid-19-restaurants-indoor-di...

"...case-patients were more likely to have reported dining at a restaurant (aOR = 2.4, 95% CI = 1.5–3.8) in the 2 weeks before illness onset than were control-participants."

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6936a5.htm
What about something like google-docs-highlight [0].

It's inspired by the Gary Provost quote "This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It's like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with the energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals - sounds that say listen to this, it is important."

[0]: https://github.com/ojoven/google-docs-highlight
>Over time those voters elect politicians that enact policies that make the new place a lot like the old place they left

So the problem is citizens legally voting for people/policies they want to see in their local jurisdiction? That sounds exactly like how democracy is supposed to work. There's no law saying things have to stay exactly how they were, and there's no law saying seniority makes your vote count more than anyone else's.
The Class Character of the Coronavirus Panic
Please don't attack other users (especially not over personally intimate topics like parenting), and please don't take HN threads into generic flamewar.
Thanks , my M1 macbook pro gets here tommorow so we'll see what happens
This is an amusing ask given the use of the Commerce Clause in the past couple decades to justify everything from civil rights (Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S.) to strictly intrastate
marijuana trade (Gonzales v. Raich). Doesn't seem that large a stretch to bring a case to the SC claiming that requiring wearing masks is related to interstate commerce closely enough that it would be allowed under the Commerce Clause.
I am trusting the climate scientists who produced this data because they are the people who've spent their schooling and careers studying this sort of thing and their work has been vetted by the scientific community.

If you have a better standard of judgement then by all means present contradictory data.
There's a great saying that you have to know the rules before you can break them. Obviously a professional writer has no use for something like this... but I'm suggesting this to my young children for sure.
A much lower fraction of the new cases today are old folk, who have a much greater likelihood of dying from it. We've also learned not to do stupid things like send infected old folk back to group homes.

We've also learned how to treat severe cases better. We have a few therapies now that we didn't then like remdesivir and antibody serum, and know when & when not to use them. But mostly we know what doesn't work well, like hydroxychloroquine and early aggressive use of ventilators.
Qualcomm seems to be stagnating just like Intel at the moment, it will be a few years until high performance ARM chips come to non-Apple devices, unless Microsoft can strong arm them for their Surface line

I'm guessing the high performance ARM chips for non-Apple devices will be coming from Nvidia or Samsung in the future
Re: getenv_s: Annex K is (still) optional. Compliant C11+ implementations may not have getenv_s.
I vote we dig up the mountains and fill in the bay with the dirt. Take care of the shortage of land and fire risk at the same time. Let the masses flow back into affordable housing in the new interburbs between the peninsula and East Bay
They need a Satya to replace their Balmer. Immediately.
The term "astral plane" is older than D&D, and I would assume they took it from the more general usage, not the specific usage in D&D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_plane
yeah I am moving from a Jr. 1 BR to a modern 2 BR and reducing my rent in the process. :)