skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Many people in their 20s and 30s grumble that hard work no longer rewards them with a better quality of life."

I think the Economist is confusing China with the USA. This is how people in the USA feel, not people in China. China just eliminated extreme poverty and its people have continually been getting richer. Meanwhile people in the USA have been steadily getting poorer since the 1970s.

The Economist has been predicting China's failure for decades now and it hasn't happened yet. Maybe it never will. And maybe the publication that was originally founded in the 19th century to promote slavery in America and opium into China is just full of shit.
The hilarious part is how the Chinese Communist Party's official propagandists and elite Chinese academics are using their bully pulpits to explicitly shame anyone who contemplates giving up on the rat race.

Imagine you go to nytimes.com one morning and the US government and Harvard professors have written op-eds scolding you, demanding that you work hard to "ensure a happy life" or you will be "unjust", "shameful", and "disappoint your parents and the taxpayers." You might get the vibe that they protest too much, and your well-being is actually the least of their concerns.

To be fair, the Chinese would probably find NYT op-eds from the Great Awokening era equally hilarious and self-undermining.
Looks very interesting.

Can we plug numpy into this? Or is it not necessary with the assumptions that most steps will be cached and don't have to be recalculated.
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I'm not trying to avoid that recognition at all! But somebody put those systemic objectives and incentive structures into place. The fact that societies like the ones described in the podcast have such different incentive structures is proof that it's possible for humans to collectively design a different system, rather than assuming it's all just fallen from the heavens, i.e. the inevitable outcome of immutable "human nature".
The solution always eventually boils down to paying more in taxes. That's why it gets opposed.
Dude, we (me and other commenter) are already in agreement. Other commenter summed it up pretty succinctly. So I just didn't want to start a flamewar on semantics, except for pointing out that I can't come up with a solution in a short form here.

I have a medium article in draft over 3 months on this exact topic. That's why my wording of the issue came out sounding more complicated. But other commenter saying "science alone" and me saying "using science solely" are basically pointing to same understanding.

There are many examples in history for the said situation leading to social catastrophes; see Malthus (or Thanos' ideology if you like pop-cult), or Darwinian take on managing societies. Some lead to racism, some eugenics etc etc.

Like the original commenter said; science is myopic and highly focused on the present body of knowledge available. But once we applied those results onto people and cause suffering, and 10 years later find some of those were wrong, we can not undo the human suffering.

There needs to be a balance; when science is treading closely to the human dignity, well-being, life in general.
> What I don't understand is why people who argue against climate change stand to gain.

I suspect it is something like psychological security (“I’ve only known a history of rapid progress and I’m not emotionally prepared to confront the possibility that life will be worse for my children and grandchildren, nor that I was complicit”).

At least that’s the average joe climate denier. For the very wealthy it’s simple greed. They’d rather ruin the world irreparably than pay taxes (this characterization doesn’t seem to do justice to the fact that their wealth is derived from cheating society by externalizing costs by way of pollution).
> The decline in influence of Britain, France, etc, followed their population decline

There may possibly have been some confounding factors during the twentieth century though, like the hugely destructive war, the shift from empires being a benefit to a cost and their consequent dismantling, and numerous mass casualty and economic disruption events. Russia lost something in the region of sixteen million people to the war.

Also I think you need to be clear on absolute vs relative decline - the population of the UK hasn't declined in absolute numbers, nor has its economy, and whether you mean "size of economy" or "GDP per person".
Show HN: Open-source mail merge for Google Sheets
SourceHut or Codeberg
Probably because the pdf was produced from scans.
you'll probably enjoy the patience diff: https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/09/19/the-patience-diff-algori...
On the other hand, proponents of climate apocalypse frequently make a distinction between weather and climate.
Can confirm. I recently set it up and ran into an issue with my ISP’s DHCP implementation. There was a pull request for PfSense from like 4 years ago that helped with the issue but remained open. The OPNSense developer I talked to merged a modified fix within a very short time and is even helping others test their broken PfSense systems.
The US has a long tradition of immigration and it will certainly make the collapse less painful as compared to places like China and Russia but I'm skeptical that immigration can make up for a FR as low as 1.3.

I think

1. It's going to take a lot more immigration.

2. Significantly higher immigration is going to politically destabilizing for a variety of reasons.

Are we preparing for this? I really wish we had a functional government.

EDIT:

3. Pretty much everywhere except India, Afghanistan, and a few places in sub-sahara Africa have fertility rates below replacement. Immigration from anywhere but those places helps the destination country but makes the originating one worse. What effects is that going to have?
His argument was that the dust bowls themselves were a dramatic climate impact, caused by human activity, in a short time.
Denial is strong in humans. You'd have to actually change your behaviour if you didn't deny it. You'd have to become responsible.
17,875 pounds of tools to make – this
> Just like carbon removal, removing alcohol from blood is much more difficult (and/or expensive) than to stop drinking

How do you figure? I can't foresee a world in which a human being's life is carbon neutral. So if we have an exponentially growing global population, how does carbon reduction not eventually lead to population control?
We wrote an image of David Bowie to Ethereum
Because it means massive changes to everybody's lifestyle, and people will become poorer. It's not surprising that there is resistance to that.
"Infinitely better" is the problem. My d7100 and z5 take amazing pics. They are also the only option for anything requiring zoom. But, for snapshot style pics the iPhone 12 Pro is great, particularly in challenging light situations.

In studio light situations, fstoppers did a video years ago that had the iPhone (6 maybe?) produce pictures that rivaled the dslr at the time.

It's simply more complicated than infinitely better.
The difference is that a white person in a black neighbourhood will be put in danger by the criminal activity of private citizens. A black person in a white neighbourhood will be put in danger by an agent of the state who is purportedly responsible for dealing with criminality. The white person will have the backing of the state when seeking justice while the black person will be fighting the state.

In terms of the typical outcomes, in the first case those people are rightly considered criminals and will be held accountable if caught. In the second there is usually no accountability even though we know who carried out the action.
IMO, because admitting that climate change is reality would in consequence require massive, expensive, and hugely uncomfortable changes in one's lifestyle. Plus, not uncommonly, becoming de facto socially ostracised in at least some (though possibly all) of one's social circles. Also, there's not even some concrete "ozone layer hole" you could point your finger at, but rather some vague: "Some, though not all [FUD works, sorry to say :(], scientists say it will be warmer! Like whopping 2 degrees! No, no, you heard me right, that's a lot, and you don't want to be warmer, though it's kinda hard to explain, involves some complex theory or something..."
In this context, the measuring aspect would be taken care by profiling/instrumenting.
From what I've seen, as soon as their expensive-ish vape breaks or they run out of juice and there's a pack of cigs at the gas station for which they don't have to wait
Possibly relevant context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hVjvKQ5CXY
A thing I noticed: The Linux AppImage version bundles a non-stripped binary of CEF, which unnecessarily inflates the download size.
How to install and use Raspberry Pi Zero W without any attached devices
There is perhaps a bigger picture "tragedy of the commons" scenario where external regulation is needed - absent intervention around repair, companies are likely to keep churning out short lifespan electronics, creating an eWaste problem down the line. That's an externalised cost that the producers of the eWaste are unlikely to bear.

If the supply of rare earth metals and other components needed to produce products is constrained or politically at risk, it makes sense for strategic intervention to try to ensure better longevity of products, to improve resilience. That's a government level risk in some ways, as countries are now highly dependent on technology.

Disruption to chip supply chains is already having an impact. If the financial incentives are to drive selling more chips to replace existing devices whose lifespan could be extended by repair, it's possible we reach a "local optima" free market solution that limits device lifespans, where a global optimum point exists with long lifespan devices that are easily repaired, and gives better "big scale" outcomes, but which might not yield the same cosy 24 month re-purchase cycles for mobile handsets etc.

On the other hand, consumers don't have the option right now to buy a repairable device, so they can't easily vote with their wallets and signal their demand for this. In an era of chip shortages, as a government I would want to ensure I was gearing up policy-wise for a period of reduced availability of supplies, prioritising the key demand that is nationally significant, rather than letting the free market determine they can make more profit from selling another range of new mobile phones at inflated high margins, since the last generation of handsets had an artificially suppressed lifespan.
Inny and Outy?
One example is solar hot water heaters are vastly cheaper than any other low grade heat source. Integrate them with traditional hot water heaters and you get all the benefits with nearly zero downsides. Yet, the technology is almost completely ignored by incentive programs instead of say adding them or other solar heat collection to building codes.
I've been cranking up my AC and adding ice to my water to combat the heat but I recently read an article about sea-life [0] boiling to death in their natural habitats (oceans, seas) which made me realize that animals in the wild increasingly don't have this option.

It made me really sad to think about the fact that we'll probably see mass-extinction events (for animals, etc.) in the near future or at least within my lifetime because while we all 'care' there's no political will or consensus to combat climate change; it's also not a one nation issue.

I've also been religiously recycling in my personal life but every now and then I read articles about even recycling from a lot of places ending up in landfills which really frustrates me as it takes away any agency I really have on this action.

[0] https://www.complex.com/life/bc-heat-wave-cooked-more-than-a...
Tobacco products killed about 10 of my mom's extended family members.. the macho cowboy types who didn't go to doctors.

I say make Juul and cigarettes cheaper and pack more poisons in them.

Sooner to get rid of self-absorbed, littering, cognitive dissonant, inconsiderate drug addicts, the better for the healthcare system, shorter unpleasant dying for their families, and other people's health.

Smoking is suicide on the installment plan.
Can carbon capture ever be cheaper than not emitting the carbon in the first place? That's the critical question.

Also, if the companies and countries profiting from carbon extraction from the ground aren't the ones paying for it to be extracted from the atmosphere, you've got a massive transfer of wealth happening there. Should the US be paying for the Saudi royal family to get richer?
> It pisses me off every time! If I were Tony Soprano, I'd be tempted to hit that corner of the screen with a pointed heavy object just to make it stop haunting me: "You really want to watch the next episode right now. You do NOT want to sit quietly and enjoy the end credits and the cool music the showrunner chose."

Sorry that's me. I click Next Episode as soon as possible when binge watching, or exit if it's a movie. Occasionally I watch the credits when I want to know more about the actors/actresses, or music, or script. But only rarely.

I guess you're the minority. Amazon cater to the majority, as they should, although perhaps it should be longer than five secs.
I've wanted to go that way for some time, the real problem is that it's basically impossible to hand that off to another net/sysadmin. Imagine walking onto a new job, and they hand you a yubikey and say "here's your keys, the old guy whiteboxed everything with Debian and BSD. Have fun!"

Unfortunately, the only time CLI wins out in networking is when there's a cert to dangle in front of people. As much as I want to do things the "right" way, part of that equation is handing projects off to other people to maintain...
One perhaps-interesting use case might be to use the fastest possible solver in the case of compiling generated/foreign code, so basically code that's expected to always compile (but which still needs to be checked for safety).

One could even imagine using it as a first-pass for code and to just fall back to a slower-but-with-better-error-messages type checker if errors are found.

(Of course you'd end up with two orthogonal implementations of the type checker, but that might not even be a bad thing since you'd be easily able to check for inconsistencies between them, aka. type checker bugs.)
I quit to smoke after 13 years of smoking. And I was a heavy smoker. I am a non-smoker for 10y now and will never smoke again.
No need for vaping or such.
I think if you substitute you do not catch your addiction at the root. Vaping is really the wrong way.
You need to get rid of the addiction.
My main point why it was easy for me to quit finally, I hated to be controlled by an chemical.
A chemical that has control over my brain? No way anymore!
I've destroyed this beast.
I am a free man!
>It seems the only sector that can't be decarbonized radically are transport and agriculture

Agriculture can significantly be decarbonized if we stop eating meat (or radically reduce consumption)[0]. It would also significantly help with biodiversity loss, which is becoming a bigger and more pressing issue than climate change.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...
[1] https://ipbes.net/sites/default/files/2021-06/20210609_works...
The problem is that corporations use mind control (marketing/psychology tricks) to get people to buy their stuff.

The free market is generally great but our biology has an exploit actively being exploited.

Sure there are lots of us that use logic and reason to make purchasing decisions... But there are many people who do not. Dancing cartoons of young skinny people on flashy backgrounds to music DOES get people to spend money.
I thought we where not supposed to conflate weather and climate change?

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_we...

https://www.science20.com/news_articles/stop_conflating_weat...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/hot-planet/dont-be-fool...
The argument against doing anything simple is already out there and will be more prominent when denial is unavoidable -- climate change is a natural cycle, or god's will.

The chaos associated with this stuff is an opportunity for many.
very interesting demo to highlight a problem with NFT's images not being on-chain
I'm aware, that's what the report says.
But isn't a houseboat just a house that's built on a floaty boaty thing instead of solid ground? Sounds like composition ;-)
Sort of a side track, but there’s a great layman’s intro to this in this Veratasium video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo
Steve Wozniak is such a pure soul.
So what's the harm of vaping? As far as I know, there is some evidence of harm, but it compares very favorably to smoking. It's a different class.

To talk about "years of life lost" is quite off from what I know about it. And I never vaped, just smoked.
A little more R&D into the ingredients of vape products could have eliminated or reduced so many of the health concerns.

I really wonder why industry didn't do that. No industry wants their own products to be banned or legislated about by regulators - and paying a few more scientists to find replacements for ingredients that cause lung cancer would seem like a no-brainer.
>bone conduction headphones

Recently bought and use and enjoy immensely the Aftershokz Aeropex. Great battery, clear voice and mic. Very impressed. I can also have headphones on for work at the same time, at a pinch.
A particle accelerator smashes streams of particles head on, but can it simulate properly the internal structure of a star before supernova where unbelievable forces are occurring in 3 dimensions in relative stability?

I'd think to simulate you basically need to prevent the electrons from going anywhere, and the only place to go is inside the nucleus, where the strict rules of quantum mechanics and particle physics dictate they get merged with protons to form neutrons.

Do we have anything besides tokamaks for smushing things together? Tokamaks seem to peak out at low-energy fusion reactions, but all I read about tokamaks is engineering focused on net-positive fusion.
Ive seen it go two ways, you start with the vape pod or all in one systems, get bored and you

1. Buy a big boy vape, roll your own coils, maintain and clean it, the whole shabang.
Or
2. Smoke cigarettes

I have seen many people choose option 2. The big vape systems are sometimes large, heavy, and clunky, require sometimes very publicly dis and re assembling a little contraption, carrying juice on you, lots of things that put fellow people off. Ive seen people be ridiculed for carrying around so much vape stuff. It kinda falls into the neckbeardy categories at least for my place/time, just because the first people to do it made it their whole lives and refused to talk about anything else, it got a reputation. It's both easier and less socially risky to just buy some cigarettes.

Though I will say smoking cigarettes is not without social risk. Typically women will heavily dislike the habit except for the ones that do it themselves. I've seen whole houses get addicted to cigarettes just because one person went out to smoke when they drank every weekend. I have never seen the same phenomena with vaping. Though I very nearly missed the target generation for things like juul.
Is it a real macOS app, as in AppKit?

If so, I’m in. I want this kind of tool, but don’t want any more Electron junk on my desktop.
>Improving police reaction time may save lives.

Yes, but the reaction time is "after" the alarm, the point I was trying to make is that this surveillance/weapon recognition approach may trigger the alarm earlier (of a couple minutes, maybe 5) but if the reaction time is in the tens of minutes range, it would make no particular difference in the actual outcome as all the shooting will happen anyway before the police can arrive.

About the trust on the system, it's tricky business, as always, the amount of false positives need to be reduced to 0 or next to 0 to gain trust, and it is very unlikely, besides the errors of the system, like innocent maintenance people - say - plumbers or electricians carrying pipes or tubes, or some power drills, etc. (let alone carpenters with nail guns) I would bet that the new rage among the school kids would be finding perfectly legal items (let's say for the sake of reasoning antennas, cactuses, umbrellas) that would triggger the alarm, just for the fun of it.

Good point about alternative "distracting" means (lighting colours, strobe lights etc.) but again, when (hypothetically) such a system will be installed I doubt that it can avoid daily, weekly or monthly false alarms and after a given number of them happens, usually the system is disabled or - if possible - set to very low (ineffective in practice) sensitiveness.
The first guy quoted wants to be like Diogenes. Diogenes didn't just live in his barrel quitely wanting to be left alone.

He was a subversive figure, criticising and challenging everything: Plato, Alexander, Athenian nobles, sensibilities and social assumptions of his day. He was a famous troublemaker, and that's why we know of him today. I'm sure some Greek dude did really just want to be left alone.. we just don't know his name.

Obviously, I'm not justifying China's paranoid response to any kind of cultural subversions or provocation. Proverbial barrel dwellers are a necessary critique, IMO. The salience of their message can be an important important signal or backpressure.

You could make analogies to the US in the 60s, Japan in the 00s and I'm sure lots of others.
How does it compare with the existing linters?
Every camera shines in daylight conditions… some of them literally.

All phone cameras have tiny apertures and tiny pixels (relatively speaking to their DSLR and medium format counterparts). One can’t use them for any kind of serious photography.
Fun fact, if you claim to be a smoking cessation product you get the FDA at your door going "oh, so this is a medical product" and you're now obligated to prove that your product works as a medical cessation product, and requires a doctor's note to pick up. You can't market yourself as a smoking cessation product without getting the hounds of hell being unleashed on you by the regulators.
thanks! we were stuck with exactly that problem and decided "it's David Bowie" let's try something different :-)
It isn't being conflated.

The way this sort of research works is by modeling weather under different conditions and determining that certain weather patterns are statistically more likely under conditions consistent with global warming. This isn't just "it is hot for a week so that must be global warming". It is "the air patterns that are required for this sort of thing to happen are highly associated with higher average global temperatures". The causality is going in the other direction.
Is This The Friendship Bracelet of the Future? .or the tech product of 2021?