skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
World leaders will fail to honor their climate pledges unless they make "immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions" to greenhouse gas emissions. https://www.dw.com/en/ipcc-report-climate-change/a-58801312
The idea of "freeform" sports competition is interesting. It shouldn't be a replacement but rather a addition to current sports.

By freeform here I mean that you remove most of the rules. For example for biking you could allow whatever vehicle the competitors choose so long as it is powered entirely by the cyclist.

Not sure what a reasonable "freeform" ruleset would be for javelin, at some point javelins stop being javelins and start being model airplanes, but I can see some entertainment value in "throwing model airplanes as far as possible"competitions too..
I really hope there is enough momentum to stop this. It's definitely the last straw for me in terms of apple products. I haven't bought a new iphone for 4 years, I'm slowly trying to switch to a lightphone (non smartphone). My mac needs a change but I will probably switch to linux.

It's absolutely ridiculous what apple has become. The exact opposite of what they used to represent, when I loved them. God rest Steve Jobs soul, his 1984 ad is exactly what apple is now. Screwed devs on app store, strongarmed into compliance, cooperation with china, worse and worse UX on phones, and now this...

Really disappointing.
I’ve noticed most the climate scientists and related people are using the term “climate emergency” now. It’s a lot clearer.
the powerful write the rules. always has been the case.

do you know of any societies that managed to sustain a dynamic where that's not the case?

I literally cannot think of any at all. Just some very brief temporary aberrations.
Because Will Cathcart is the lead of WhatsApp, not Facebook. As is mentioned clearly in the title. It's not like they are hiding the association as his quote is immediately followed up by:

> WhatsApp’s owner, Facebook, has reasons to pounce on Apple for privacy concerns.
Stalking and harrasment isn't, at least over here. Victims are constantly left out in the cold. Same goes for fraud, most cases are not prosecuted. Especially if these cases cross state, and in the EU, nation borders. Because it becomes inconvenient, so police isn't really bothering. And if they do, the fraud is done. The stalking went on for years. And nothing really improved.

Hell, do I miss the old internet. The one without social media.
Remember Skype? At some point it was the default messenger of most people I know. Then it progressively got worse after being bought by Microsoft, and culminated in a "redesign" which among thousands of bugs also added Snapchat-like stories and other useless shit, and was so terrible that I plain refused to ever use it again, and most of my friends did as well.
I guess you're referring to media jumping too quickly to "bad science" for every single event of floods, drought, fires etc, therefore using fear and producing saturation in fellow citizens.

that said, I honestly have a bad time trying to figure out if there's such a thing as "too alarmist" re. claims like "one third of projected population by 2070 will live in a nearly unlivable earth" https://www.pnas.org/content/117/21/11350
Means with Top 5 country defense budget, we could solve all humanity’s problems? Who are we kidding really ? Why target rich people?
:) The writer probably sacrificed facts to the satisfaction of instancing an "A-to-Z" («Atzecs to Zulus»).
The problem is you can't tax freedom.

Having a big pile of leverageable assets, even if you have little income, gives you a lot of insulation from many of the costs and risks we all come across in life. For example, freedom from paying rent, freedom from having to obtain and service debt, and freedom from having to worry about job security.

Meanwhile your doctors and lawyers give 40% of their income to the state and still have student debt, mortgages, may be forced to live in a high CoL area, and may have to live with high stress.

And every day people don't really understand wealth. There's a dumb competition advertised on TV here in the UK where you can win a £3M ($4.2M) house on the coast, and a sports car. While it's glamorous, upending your life to move to live in this home is deeply impractical for most people. The cost of maintaining and protecting it would likely cost the entirety of a median UK salary. That's not freedom.
Oh man. I discover an album I really love, and next time it takes such effort to find my way back to it. But that silly, boring podcast I listened to for a few minutes last year? It's the first thing I see when I open the app.
Guerilla warfare is a consequence of modern ethical standards, not technology. One side can "force a decision" by executing non-combatants. Such policies were par for the course in the first half of the 20th century.
I'm of two minds on this. We all hate getting calls and mail from people and being hounded time and time again - in fact, I have a certain history of blocking people just for that. So all the anger is understandable. I share that annoyance.

However, I find it curious that the article never once turns its eyes on the monopolization of online commerce and the monopolization of communication in Amazon's walled garden as a problem. Rather, it goes with this "tech company must handle this" approach that, in the end, deputized a powerful monopolist as an enforcer for rules, supporting its tactic of monopolizing communication within amazon's systems so amazon can read it all (and undoubtedly analyze it all), which then strengthens that monopolist's stature, since we're now also dependent on it for enforcement (the facebook, twitter, youtube problem all over again) AND it can use it to drive those very sellers out of the market with cheaper knockoffs, which we know amazon does regularly.

In the end, these actors aren't gaming amazon because they're bad apples and crooks; they're gaming it because amazon has become the only game in town, their entire economic existence is dependent on these reviews, AND their walled garden overlord is only keeping them to gut them and take their stuff. Breaking out of it is anoying; but from their perspective, it's also eminently reasonable.

Also, classic journalism: they used clearly outrageous examples to whip us up into supporting this problem construction to make these small sellers the bad guys (highlighting the crooks) - leaving the monopolist hulk that creates the structure in which they all now have to play unexamined.
why everyone comparing algolia to ES. algolia is an inmemory search engine for docs and webpages
They seem fine, some are chirping outside my window right now.
You can't personally experience large trends that happen over decades and centuries and all over the globe. And each individual data point can be dismissed as "this is just weather" or "extreme events like this have happened in the past".
Europeans were very fond of killing each other in the first half of 20th century for the profit of the richest industrialists. Divide, agitate, conquer, reap the profits.
> “We see a decline in phone innovation”

This definitely feels true (though an attempt at quantifying this statement would an intersting read) but it is not specifically supportive of the case for AR as a successor platform. In fact understanding the causes of this "lack of innovation" would serve AR enthousiasts well.

Imho, the mobile platform suffers a prolonged stagnation not because it has exhausted its intrinsic potential but due to prevailing business models: i) the user as data product and not a client - with the associated collapse of trust and limited options for value creation ii) the oligolistic market structure that motivates defensive choices (preserve existing "cash cows" rather than expand the market with the associated risk of new entrants)

The range of high value applications one could envisage running on these billions of interconnected, portable "supercomputers" is stunning. The fact they are not happening is one of the biggest market failures ever. As we push beyond sustainability boundaries and desperately need information technology to help reshape our behaviors towards more balanced, just and sustainable societies it may turn out that it is also one of the gravest political and social failures.

Who knows what incredible AR platforms could emerge in a moderately remote future. But in the near future the toxic digital swamp of mobile "cr-apps" does not leave much room for new growth
Researchers find a 'fearsome dragon' that soared over outback Queensland
Not just that, he could trivially offload 15 billion without price moving at all.

Tons of private equity M&As have happened at much larger valuation.
kwaZulu is no longer an independent kingdom though, and hasn't been since 1879. Yes, the Zulus defeated the British at Isandlwana, but still lost the war.

kwaZulu remains part of the Republic of South Africa, despite recent troubles from Zuma/Zulu loyalists.
It's much worse in ecosystems that are changing the core frameworks at a rapid pace (hi, React!). If you don't do the same thing Facebook does internally, and continually refactor your entire codebase onto the latest paradigms, you quickly end up unable to adopt new features and 3rd party libraries when you actually need to do so.

If you look instead at a mature ecosystem, like, say, C++ or Java, you might reasonably maintain a codebase for a decade without needing to adopt new language features.
Well, our global society is going to collapse very soon. What possible reason to not be alarmist could one have?

Seriously; our global civilization is in real danger of collapse in the next fifty years. I do see no reason not to panic or be alarmist?

I find it strange however that people are still able to actually ignore and deny the slew of icebergs we will be hitting in the next years; how can one be so delusional? Is it willful?

I think to a point it is. The idea that all of our oh-so-normal lives with hot showers that every human since the beginning of time enjoyed is coming to an end. And emotionally we just cannot deal with it; it's too big for us to grasp. And so we shut down that part of the brain and just suppress thinking about it.
> First, unlike character flaws, stupidity is primarily a property of groups or traditions, not individuals: after all, we get most of our concepts, our mental tools, from the society we are raised in.

That is not the way "stupid" is used. "Stupid" is a property assigned to an individual.

It is not nowadays generally accepted that General Haig's strategy in WWI was stupid, or even wrong. If he was doing what all generals are said to do (fighting the last war), then arguably he was in agreement with the best minds in the business.
where is that in the document?

no hits on the numbers you provided.
If the treatment of Assange has taught us anything, it's that crossing borders to catch your prey just requires a little extra leverage
Getting rid of bitcoin would be a start.
We spoke about this recently on /r/lisp: https://allegrograph.com/press_room/barefoot-networks-uses-f... - https://www.reddit.com/r/Common_Lisp/comments/osnsgz/intels_...?
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Where real world practicalities, constraints, and risk management meets “the movement” that is OSS. When I’ve been in a similar position, I’ve suggested:
Bug hunting and filing reports (but not code fixes).
Corporate donation to the project specifically or one of the foundations funding OSS.
Contributing documentation, howtos, tutorials.
Lastly, if all that fails or in some particular circumstances, I make a modest personal donation.
For anyone wondering, "mamachari" is Japanese shorthand for a "mama chariot!"

They're a joy to ride.
It should make it definitely easier to read, if names of the extracted functions are good, signatures are simple and you can understand well what they do without looking at their implementations.

The main point of abstraction is not reusability, but the ability to understand code without a need to read all of it. Therefore it doesn't really matter if these extracted pieces aren't used anywhere else. But after splitting, now someone has to read and understand only 5 lines instead of 40, which reduces the cognitive load.
I was about to comment the same thing. It really shows up the absurdity of those Leetcode-style, whiteboard interviews, doesn’t it?
Is there an website where I can see what a long distance trip plan for a electric vehicle would be, how long it would take including the charging times?
The IPCC is part of the UN, which again and again has shown that it's main agenda is the destruction of the west.
It seems like you are more focused on (unspecified) policies in the west creating mass emigration than what forces the ongoing climate change can bring.

I think the climate driven migrations will far exceed all migration in the other direction.
Darn, the parentheses originally contained a mailbox emoji but I forgot HN does not support them.
It's probably useful for this as well:

https://www.inceptivemind.com/energy-dome-co2-battery-promis...
A simple calculation can show that, with just defense budget of top 10 country, the world could install enough solar cell to power the world day and night, forever. But will we do it ? I don’t think things can go stupider that this. Future generations will see us in the same level of stupidity with which we see flat earth believer from centuries ago.
> doesn't that increase the pressure on the abusers to produce new content and in consequence hurt even more children?

Not really. Two points:

1) Many / all CP boards these days ask applicants to provide CSAM (as police in almost all jurisdictions except for IIRC US and Australia are banned from bringing CSAM into circulation). And to keep police where allowed from simply re-uploading stuff, they (as well as the "client base") demand new, yet-unseen stuff, and so no matter what the police is doing there will always be pressure for new content.

2) The CSAM detection on popular sites only hits people dumb enough to upload CSAM to Instagram, Facebook and the likes. Granted, the consumer masses are dumb and incompetent at basic data security, but ... uhh, for lack of a better word, experienced CSAM consumers know after decades of busts that they need to keep their stashes secure - aka encrypted disks.

> If so, an AI solution that also flags previously unknown abuse material and a lot of human review are probably our only chance. What is your take on this?

There are other chances to prevent CSA that don't risk damaging privacy, and all of them aim at the early stages - preventing abuse from happening:

1) teach children already in early school years about their body and about consent. This one is crucial - children who haven't learned that it is not normal that Uncle Billy touches their willy won't report it! - but unfortunately, conservatives and religious fundamentalists tend to blast any such efforts as "early sexualization", "gay propaganda" and whatnot.

2) provide resources for (potential) committers of abuse. In Germany, we have the "Kein Täter werden" network that provides help, but many other countries don't have anything even remotely similar.

3) Screening of staff and volunteers in trust / authority positions dealing with children (priests and other clergy, school and pre-school/kindergarten teachers, sports club trainers) against CSA convictions. Unfortunately, this is ... not followed thoroughly very often and in some cases (cough Catholic Church) the institutions actively attempt to cover up CSA cases, protect perps and simply shuffle staff around the country or in some cases across the world.
THANKS! Yes this is the one!

(The incorrect Barry Schwartz one I posted is excellent too though!)
An interesting study might be to first let people 1. code up solutions to a specific requirements list, then 2. randomly assign the participants within each language group to modify someone else's first-round solution to meet a second-round requirements list.
Anything short of 100% reliability and 0% error will be a pain in the ass to thousands of people worldwide every single day
Re: "No single human needs or deserves this much wealth."
Thanks for your opinion. That's all it is. There's no validity to that position. Wealth is not based on need or "deserving". In Jeff's case it's based on smart business, hard work and accomplishment. What have you accomplished?
At what point does logging thousand of web response not become scraping?
I would call collecting a dataset scraping.
It's a legit question, I'm not trying to be snarky here.
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Partially remote is the worst of both worlds. Either go all in on an office setting or a remote one.

Reasons are that office people want to be around people, which would be missing half the time, leading to them leaving to a more office friendly company eventually.

At the other end, the remote workers will be treated to a business as usual environment where things happen more face to face and synchronously, leaving them out of touch with the work environment, which will inevitably lead to them leaving for a more remote friendly company.

Pick one and stick with it.
Comments from a different post shows this is
"Presumably to implement E2E encryption, while at the same time helping the NCMEC to push for legislation to make it illegal to offer E2E encryption without this backdoor."

If this is the case, then It is coming to every device (not just apple) or E2E will be made illegal(or a backdoor).
As COVID has shown, you can't convince the deniers, you have to make politics despite there being people who refuse to share the same reality with you.
Man, given how fucked up the situation is/will be, this snoozy-feeling press conference doesn't give the vibe of urgency. I'm just watching a lady with a French accent talking with a monotonous voice.

Sorry to sound shallow, but IMO they do need a bit more Hollywood to get people's attention. But then again, the deniers would say "over-dramatic".
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> I find it strange however that people are still able to actually ignore and deny the slew of icebergs we will be hitting in the next years

Wasn't that due to happen back in 2000?
Bezos has already stoped administering Amazonland. The king has found ambitious lackeys to do that work.

Why don’t we overthrow the king, then reward those that remain to keep the whole thing going.
When Zero Cost Abstractions Aren't Zero Cost
The lack of any attempt to quantify this trend in the article is rather frustrating. The closest I can find with a quick bit of Googling is a modest downward trend of insurance claims from extreme weather events as a percentage of global GDP [0], [1]. This seems rather counterintuitive, but I guess we've been getting richer slightly faster than the weather has gotten worse? That and the data ends in 2019.

[0] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2019/10/31/surprisi...

[1] - (paywalled paper) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/10.1080/17477891.2018...
The same MTV effect is credited with boosting the US success of UK New Wave and synthpop acts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_British_Invasion .

Conversely, as other have pointed out, the advent of MTV wasn't such great news if you happened to be a black performer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV#Breaking_the_'color_barrie...
Sure, I know that :)

Today, many people are experiencing very unlikely events, unknown to them and to previous generations. While you cannot experience a trend, you do modulate your perception about what an improbable likelihood feels like. That, I feel, is very powerful to nuance certain varieties of skepticism.

I think people don't vote (or buy, or move) based on documented trends, standard deviations or moving averages, but on subjective perception of what future will be like. That is, inter-subjective bets, updated from day to day.

I guess very few people in certain countries would have bet that they would lose their homes to a summer flood or fire.
I would argue that async collaboration is better as there’s a “paper” trail of how decisions were reached, instead of some words that were said in a meeting somewhere, which is a huge boon for newcomers.
As a mostly self-taught programmer without a CS degree, I think your math skills put you in a league above me. I decided to take a shot at learning linear algebra a year ago, and was pleasantly surprised to see that “vectors” are basically “arrays” as I know them from Ruby.
If some things "are irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia" then really just going carbon neutral etc. sounds like a pretty weak approach as it would create costs now and large benefits only far in the future. Maybe this really needs geoengineering (and more spending on mitigation)?
It’s too late either way. The fact that it even got this far through implementation says the vendor is not on my side. Not only that once capability is revealed it can be required by governments and manipulated under warrant. Particularly in some regimes, mine included, the vendor can be compelled to do something and not say anything. My comment doesn’t even cover how monumentally flawed the entire thing is either.

So I’ve been on the verge of doing this for years so this was the final push and motivation.

Yesterday I sold my iPad and Apple Watch. They are being shipped today. I’m just waiting on refunds on my AppleCare for my MacBook and iPhone now and I will sell them.

Yesterday I had a Nokia 215 arrive as a replacement phone. Also a monster pile of PC bits arrived which have been assembled into a Ubuntu running desktop. I am spending today migrating my data over carefully. When the MacBook sells I will buy a Nikon DSLR.

At the end of this I lose perhaps 20% convenience for an immeasurable privacy gain, lose a big chunk of the distractions from my life and end up with some cash left over which I will use to go on holiday.

The only thing I will miss is Apple Music but it’ll give me a chance to curate my music collection without distraction again.
> Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the right conceptual tools for the job. The result is an inability to make sense of what is happening and a resulting tendency to force phenomena into crude, distorting pigeonholes.

Most western governments: "Don't worry, COVID is just like the Flu"
I don’t think the deniers have anywhere enough political or economical power to be relevant anymore. The big battles are only about how fast we have to act and how much we have to do. Of course it would’ve been vastly preferable to have woken up already thirty or forty years ago…
I mean yeah, what else is there to do? The problem is far too big for any one person to make a difference.

I could collapse in fear daily but it wouldn’t do any good. The only thing to do is enjoy the time you have.
Clearly they were talking about non-fictitious rape.