skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious what you think the art becoming public domain would do. Do you think you'd be swamped with competitors if they didn't need to spend what you did on art assets? Or other things would use that art and then users would find your game and not try it as they've seen the art?
If you selected 100 companies in 1929 to invest in, how many of those companies would even still exist today?

If only 5 percent or so of those companies still exist (optimistic percent), it would mean you lost most of your money in 95 percent of your original investment if you just bought and held.
People didn’t like Greta’s style either. There’s no pleasing you, humans.
> Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'

What almost alarms me more than the thought of a climate apocalypse is that I don't think this (a UN report) is going to have any effect on the opinions of 40% of the public who see climate change as some kind of job destroying conspiracy.

Nothing short of Florida disappearing under the sea is going to make any difference, perhaps we (as a species) don't deserve to continue.
"Clean coal" - are we really going to carry on flogging this dead horse ?
Project Drawdown has a nice overview with things we could do and what their respective impact would be: https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions
Maybe proper productive conversation would be easier if you didn't label the entire population with differing opinion as "deniers ... refusing to share the same reality".

In other words, why would anyone get to "make politics" despite of anyone.
What is "maths"?

At least four things come to mind:

(1) Basic ability with arithmetic and algebra (simplifying equations etc.),

(2) Gifted with numbers; ability to do calculations quickly in the head, strong intuition etc.,

(3) Fluency in the language of mathematics; ability to communicate with other mathematicians and evaluate literature for new results,

(4) Creative ability required to produce proofs of new results.

A mathematician is primarily concerned with (4). This almost certainly requires good grasp of (1) and (3) as well and possibly (2) as well.

A computer scientist in the academic sense is actually a mathematician, so it's the same.

A programmer is where it becomes more fuzzy. I can say with certainty that (4) is not necessary, but I think (1) is necessary. I mean, I don't think anyone seriously believes a programmer doesn't have a basic "high school" ability with numbers do they? As for (2) and (3), no I think it's clearly not necessary, but it's definitely useful, and in some ways inevitable, depending on which area you go into.

There is also some extension of (1) that is particularly useful for programmers. Obvious examples are Boolean algebra, discrete maths (like modular arithmetic) and base systems (binary numbers). It's all useful. Not necessarily every day, but it's inevitable that they will become useful eventually (or you will have to learn them).
"The vast majority of Bitcoin’s energy consumption happens during the mining process. Once coins have been issued, the energy required to validate transactions is minimal."

Honestly, that doesn't seem particularly well-informed. I wonder how this person thinks transactions are committed to the blockchain, and how this is separate from the mining process?

Unless they literally mean "the energy required to consult the ledger of previous transactions", which doesn't seem a useful metric.
The big fights might be more over how to tackle it, not with the deniers. There is the carbon reduction faction that is mostly focused on that and there will be a quickly rising mitigation and (geo-)engineering faction, because the changes baked in now will take centuries/millennia to reverse. Both often also come with very different political views attached. From my perspective, a strong focus on reduction only feels like a tough sell based on that.
> metrics-based comparison from telemetry (we raised metric X by changing the design)

Sounds like a conclusion drawn from a correlation to me.
... the GP didn't argue for getting rid of "private jets", but for getting rid of commercial air travel.
You are right, this is scraping. But I argue it is manual scraping - the data gets transferred even in the case of a regular user, just not saved.

As far as I interpret it, only automated scraping is against the ToS:

https://www.facebook.com/apps/site_scraping_tos_terms.php

> You may not access or collect data from our Products using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data you do not have permission to access.

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/update
I agree, Amazon isn't a public good. There is no way that Jeff Bezos owning Amazon shares makes me worse off.

Land is a public good. We have to compete for it but that doesn't mean private individuals should get a cut of the public wealth around the plot of land merely by owning it. It only makes sense to tax it or to turn it over to public ownership (the transition would obviously take decades).
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I just dislike the whole “there’s an app for that” mindset. Adding an app is not a linear increase in complexity, it’s quadratic: you now need to somehow make it play well with everything you already do. I don’t want more apps, I want better apps that support more workflows in more transparent ways.

Admittedly, I don’t use a personal general-purpose computer for as many things as I used to (managing an mp3 collection is no longer a thing; movies are on a smart tv; messengers are on a phone; …), but these days I try to avoid new stuff, even where it’s a bit clunky to do things in the GUI programs I already use. Which are basically xterm, Emacs, Firefox, and Darktable like once a month.

Phones are a lost cause.
It's not really an outlier, there are plenty of sports where there are long standing world records, some of them have been broken recently but stood for a long time. It's just the nature of having so many sports, not every sport will attract as much talent resulting in having a much bigger impact when that world class talent appears (Zelezny). Usually these sports are technical in nature and thus harder to dominate through sheer improvement in nutrition and muscle power.

Take for example Usain Bolt, he competed in the sprint but if he focused his career on some other less popular athletic sport he probably could have been WR holder there as well.

If you combine this with the fact that it's possible there was more doping in the past (especially 80s), you can get these incredible world records that stand for decades.
I would say there's a big problem when some of those lunatics are at the steering wheel of big nation states.

So yeah, maybe not everyone, but the reward matrix in this game makes very difficult to ignore all of them.
And that makes me wonder whether attribution of the Bruniquel Cave to Neanderthals is justified. I haven't seen any mention of Neanderthal remains found there; the only evidence seems to be the age of a burnt bear bone, carbon-dated to 47,600 years ago. This was back in the 90s [1], when Sapiens were not thought to have reached Europe until later. We know better now [2].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/the-asto...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/humans-may-have-reac...
> Global debates over social justice, for example, are now dominated by a set of ideas and terms taken from the United States, a nation marked by an incredibly specific historical and cultural trajectory. Simply transferring that framework to other countries, such as those in which class is less starkly racialised (for example, states reliant on exploiting white migrant labour from eastern Europe), or in which it is racialised in much more complex ways (for example, states such as South Africa) is conceptually and socially risky.

Yes. And those noble (in USA context) ideas when they get into the wider world serve mostly the popultist conservatives because they rely on so many things that are local to USA that opponents only need to point and laugh at how remote those ideas are from non-US reality to get people on their side.
As an aside...

There is something to be said for simplicity in teaching programming, since there is a segment of programming examples that use "difficult" math as examples of writing programs.

Or worse, make the code harder to read...

Let's take this elixir example:

add = fn a, b -> a + b end

A new person reading that code is going to be a bit confused:

add = fn(a, b) -> a + b end

... is more readable.

Code examples are filled with examples of learning something rather trivial, but instead of using a simpler example, we are led to solve the Fibonacci sequence.

I'm not that bad with math. But I'm not that great either. Still, I consider myself a pretty good programmer.

But man, using those math examples -- is a BIG turnoff and it slowed my learning a lot.

(Self taught computer programmer)
I came here to say the same thing. Maths ought to be up there with reading + writing as basic/required skills.
I wonder if the commenter asked his company about the specific case.

The contractual blanket bans usually say “cannot [do anything] without prior written permission” or something. It’s a big difference between “hey do you mind if I write some software that our competitors can use too, and maybe include some of our own secret sauce”, and “software we use has a bug, can I fix it for myself at source”.
> World crisis! Quick! Give your money to or help elect these people! Save the world! Do it for the children.

Stupid. Nothing about this is quick. Climate scientists have told us for > 20 years. But sure let's post stupid bullshit on the internet and continue to do nothing.
We know of many false prophets with huge charisma gathering crowds to commit senseless acts.

Here we're talking about unglamourous people gathering data, making projections, being wrong, gathering more data, updating their projections, being less wrong, gathering more data, making more updated projections, being less and less wrong, observing the reality becoming closer to their worst-case scenario, and being mocked by masses doing basically nothing.

Clearly, it's the same story.
Also people need to be presented with the consequences.

I still know a lot of people who genuinely believe it means slightly warmer summers. They think I'm a crazy person when I mention the never-ending storms and lack of drinking water.

Also just dropping this link here as I remember watching it at the time and thinking isn't it great we're not there yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CXRaTnKDXA
Isn't this already quite an involved electronic design project?
We had a discussion on one possible way to better honor them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28103731
My pet theory is that Spotify doesn't want you to choose your own music but steer you towards specific songs instead. Either to increase your level or length of engagement with the service, or because some songs earn them more cash than others.
This quote sums it up perfectly :

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep ,his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” C.S. Lewis

There are so many problems with this feature :

- it can easily be used to identify also other types of dangerous material such as warnings against government activity or posters of organized protests

- some malicious actor can send you this kind of content in order to get you in trouble

- false positives

- moral busy bodying (your employer not agreeing with you going drinking sunday night)

Honestly, it feels like we're about to enter a new age of surveillance. Client-side surveillance.
Money is a public good as well. Money taken out of circulation is bad for the economy and drives a big chunk of economic problems in society. It's easy to tax so the valuation argument doesn't even make sense. There are companies with $100 billion or more in their bank accounts. That's a million paychecks that didn't happen.

Isn't it weird how it is possible to prevent other people from working by simply withholding money? Meanwhile we expect the people who couldn't work as a result of this withholding of money to keep working, we consider them lazy and not worthy of sympathy.
I have an extensive (ie graduate level) background in a natural science but nothing directly climate related. I too find the primary literature on the subject difficult to understand but that's only to be expected.

What frustrates me is the apparent lack of reasonably technical secondary resources that are both relatively objective (ie not sensational, don't omit important details) and up to date. When I've previously taken the time to dig in I found it difficult to figure out what the various prevailing hypotheses were other than "things will change somehow" and also quite difficult to gauge the confidence of various longer term projections that I came across. Basically it wasn't readily clear to me what was and wasn't known. It would be nice to see a broad but still technical picture laying out a range of concrete scenarios and their estimated probabilities.

Meanwhile, everywhere I look I'm bombarded with overly sensational media pieces aggressively telling the layman which superficial beliefs to adopt without much in the way of why. It seems angry and religious to me and I strongly suspect that introduces psychological bias against whatever is said.
Completely agree. The "average" language always used is largely responsible for the apathy, I think. It's effectively meaningless.
Do you actually think they didn't have CSAM scanning implemented server-side before this?
They should be allowed to travel, of course - but the carbon tax on flights should mean that a flight to Mallorca is a £1000 per person each way.
So now we can get rid of fast fashion, mandate reusability for products, reintroduce basic woodworking, metalcrafting and sewing/repair work in school and with that get rid of a huge chunk of the needless shipping?

Or are we still going to go after individuals eating traditional food while thought leaders fly across the globe in private jets (no kidding) telling us we need to change our diet?

PS: I'm already a enthusiastic carbon cutter even if it historically has been because it correlated very well with cost cutting and self sufficiency.
I wonder if we will ever find the extinct Silphium in a shipwreck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium
Fantastic idea! This would be great if we could make it part of the "Who's hiring" posts on HN. It's not hard to research a company to find out, but it would be convenient as an initial filter.
Clearly feasible, as demonstrated by anthropogenic climate change. Going back to a different life style is an option, but will be strongly opposed by a lot of people (and not without justification).

Planet was much hotter, much colder etc. So as a species we need to learn to cope and tackle this anyway, why not start now?
Even if you disagree (and I do as well), downvotes are the wrong way to signal disagreement. Either invest in posting a response or move past it- there's no need to hide the comment from others. We're better than that, or at least we should be.
Aren't all the pledges very specifically in a form that reduces to "my country will start behaving responsibly after I retire"?
This article seems to rely heavily on single points of data. For example weather in the UK or wildfires in the sub-Arctic. This is no better than saying "If it is getting warmer why did it snow in Texas" and not a good way to construct an argument against climate change sceptics.

For example here in Eastern Europe I have been very happy with the weather. There were some heat waves like usual but also quite a lot of rain. Normally grass and plants are scorched to death but this year everything is green and growning.
You're kind of talking past each other :-)

He's saying that tanks became less effective during WW2, at first offense was overpowering defense thanks to tanks, airplanes and improved logistics. During WW2 defense started getting closer to offense, at least on land (air power improved greatly and it was the thing which facilitated all major offensives).

For example during the Battle of Kursk German tanks couldn't break through the Soviet defense because they didn't have air superiority. The Soviets (and almost everyone else) had learned by that point how to organize an effective anti-tank defense.
'Child Safety' is extremely disingenuous. Their 'plan' provides no benefit to the safety of children and only strips users of their remaining shred of privacy. Authorities care more about stopping images than actual children currently being abused (lack of investigation into Sophie Long allegations). Of course this is because 'child safety' is merely a smokescreen for authoritarianism and tyranny. Just like China.
This is why we are screwed.

I think deep down majority knows the climate is changing, but they are not prepared to make any personal sacrifices.
Contemporary historians of WW1 such as Michael Neiberg object to calling actors of that war stupid. See this interview where he mentions "the stupid box": http://rorotoko.com/interview/20110822_michael_neiberg_on_da...

A lot of the seemingly obvious explanations for that war is just wrong, and tainted by the official narrative that came later. One example among many: French revanchisme about Alsace-Lorraine did not factor in starting the war, or at least not significantly and very indirectly. It was a hot topic in the 1890s, but that had been almost entirely absent from the political debate for 20 years by the start of the war. The reason you might think otherwise is simply that it was used during the war as a motivation to conjure up patriotic morale.
It seems fairly obvious that climate change is going to be solved before the bigger existential risks we face, which are for the most part unknowable or largely ignored. There are a lot of people working on climate change now, it's well established in the public's mind, and there are many incentives in place to accelerate solutions.
That's all but inevitable at this stage.

The same is true for New York - any city at or only slightly above sea level is a foregone conclusion. Fluid dynamics don't care about your politics.

If it helps, going by elevation maps Disney World should survive with a lot of weather hardening!
I love the idea of planting trees on every available patch of land too, but won't that just fuel more wildfires at this point?
Right next to where it suggests 1 MWh/t “For the sake of argument”, it says:

"""Even using Lunar water, the mass of the cells, condensers, electrolysers, power electronics, storage tanks, and heat exchangers is comparable a Lithium-ion battery, while the round trip efficiency is much lower. And that’s not even including the mass overhead for mining lunar water!"""
Fortunately mine are teenagers now so that bit of my life is over mostly. I only get photos of them lurking, hiding and giving me the middle finger and that’s about it :)
For some reason politicians agreed to the Paris target which requires immediate action.
Fighting in the Middle East is not great power conflict.

Fighting in the Middle East is evidence of a broken political process, not an inevitable outcome of Offensive Realism.
Indeed. Why is it not enough to monitor the actual calls going through the system?
> cost cutting

Do you mind elaborating more on this? Is it just a matter of consuming less == fewer costs?
I learned a couple years ago that in most climate models clouds aren't included or aren't accurately modeled because they are too complex. https://www.carbonbrief.org/cooling-effect-of-clouds-underes...

Clouds impact weather and climate a lot. like really a lot
No but they just refuse to service your updates without this enabled.
Just tax carbon instead of trying to pick winners and losers
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"We'd like this report to help increase climate literacy worldwide."

First time I hear the expression, but it might be key to unlock any action.
People make politics despite of other people all the time.
So you're saying the government should pass a law to make it a right?
I met a 20 something (I'm 46) over linkedin, he was asking me about angular and I started telling him react and angular are garbage. He agreed, we've been pretty good friends for like 2 years now.

It seems really difficult to make friends online.
This is unfortunately the right personal approach. Do as green as you can if you feel comfortable with it. But the ship has sailed.

The IPCC reports are a good contemporary equivalent of memento mori.
The problem is that for many people climate change adaptation boils down to that dichotomy. It'd be nice if there would be people teaching us there are other ways. Of course, we won't escape the fact we use a lot of energy and that, for the time being, most of it produces CO2.
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Mitigation spending will happen anyway, the focus rightfully should be on minimizing the need for mitigation. By all accounts mitigation costs more than carbon reduction, it is just spent later on. I suppose it all comes down to how much of the problem our generation wants to kick down the road.

As for geoengineering. If you mean adding particles to cool the atmosphere, then this is a mitigation strategy (it doesn’t reduce carbon, just compensates for it). I think we need to research this to have a plan B, but it is kind of a desperation move, and quite risky, so I wouldn’t consider it smart to have it as plan A.
to be any scientist math is critical. We should be very dubious of "science" in which there is no formal proof nor statistics to support ideas.
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I wasn't in this conversation but I'm sure he also said that the planet is millions of years old and the climate always has its ups and downs.
There was a story here yesterday whose title was so clickbaity I was tempted to flag:

"The Simplest Social Media Algorithm Hack to Transform Your Entire Life" [1]

The advice was "click on many influencers you like everyday and let the personalized suggestions do the rest", with the customary writing style of SEO/webmarketing enthusiasts, as one would expect from the title. This NYT article is the corollary: "don't click on what you don't like".

I am wondering if there is any difference between two stories in the value they bring. And whether they do bring any value.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28098220
This is an unfortunate meme of modern journalism - not including direct link to sources, not showing the video, not showing the photos, being as obtuse as possible, and for what? No idea.
The responses in this topic alone are enough to see the chances of success are very low.
The OP seems to be coming from a Buddhist perspective. If that's correct, then I think he's got the wrong end of the stick; the mental impairment he is contrasting with "wisdom" is usually referred to in Buddhist literature as "ignorance", which means a propensity to ignore things, to deliberately refuse to know.