skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, basically he is gaslighting. Sorry, wrong word choice, I'll change it.
Please be mindful not to spread misinformation. The motto is still featured in their code of conduct as it always was.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
> But is there a place somewhere that explain how could the world works without emitting too much co2, or any gaz which are problematic.

Per capita per year CO2 emissions, in tonnes:

US 16.06
China 7.1
EU-27 6.56
France 4.97
World 4.72
Sweden 4.26
India 1.91

Maybe the answer is somewhere between Sweden and India.
It's 6 hours later and the issue is still there.
> These people need to be approached theologically; secular explanations are not going to hack it.

I’m one of them. I don’t think that is a silver bullet to getting them to shift. Part of their resistance is because they think it’s not possible for them to live in a ecological conscious economy. Too much disturbance.

I have used a theological approach to getting them to adjust. I call it karma. If you Waste more resource, god will punish you. And the warming of the earth now is a result of that waste. We waste far too much like it means nothing. Their is a whole lot of truth in that even for the agnostic. But the agnostic needs a different argument to change. Something along the lines of saving the fragile planet.
So basically you say, let's replace most of the energy sources by solar, wind and hydro. And use battery every time we need to get off the grid.

As for storage for the grid, are we actually confident that we can transfer that quantity of energy between countries ? Because if everything becomes electricity powered. That means a lot of power over long distance.

Do we know if there are enough natural resources to produce that amount of lithium batteries also ?
The problem is it isn’t free.

PV extracts more electrical energy per area of solar collector and it isn’t cost effective to clean them or currently to track the sun. Concentrating solar takes a larger hit when it skips either, which is just one of the reasons it’s not cost effective.
I think it's because people are skeptical of the source of his skepticism. They believe he is being disingenuous and trying to couch his position in something that will excuse his behavior.

They're also pointing out the core inconsistency in his logic. He claims his basis for climate skepticism was that politicians said it and politicians lie. But others pointed out that there were always politicians on both sides of the issue. So if politicians lie and politicians are on both sides of the issue then we have a problem. We can't use politicians as a barometer of truth, either way.

So either his reason for climate skepticism isn't "politicians said it" or his reason for climate skepticism is because "politicians who don't share a political party with me said it". And that's obviously bad. But he can't say that, because it's obviously bad.
I love how when you "buy" a phone from Apple, they still consider it "theirs", as they frequently use the term "our platform" and "our systems".
Fixed :D Thanks again
It takes life a little bit to react to these changes though, e.g plants dying and ocean life being killed off. There's a risk of cascading effects from plant/animal network collapse. I have heard people building off of your idea though and speculating that Northern areas like Russia may be valuable in the next century as new farming land.

And I don't think people should be able to downvote a question without answering, or upvoting a response that addresses some criticism, I agree it sucks.
I'm seeing a lot of HN lauch posts with "book a demo" link instead of a demo video or demo app or pricing page. Why is this becoming a trend?
What, are countries going to put ankle bracelets on every highly trained individual?

Country wide prevention of people fleeing a country for better prospects rarely works.

These types of authoritarian lockdowns just don't work in the long term.

What, do you ban people from going on vacation in other countries? Do you ban traveling entirely?

You can't stop people from leaving, if they can do those things.
Not only that God controls the weather. I recently saw some propaganda from one of the Young Earth Creationist orgs. It was a book about how climate change can't be real. These groups are pushing hard against the idea of human induced climate change because it threatens their entire world-view. They think the earth is only 6000 year old, so when we say we're burning millions of years of accumulated fossil fuels in a very short amount of time (since the dawn of the industrial age) they go ballistic - it's a threat to their young earth creationist view in which there wasn't enough time to build up that much carbon in the ground. This is why they're fighting the idea of human induced climate change quite vigorously.
UFO Weirdness Continued: A “New Sheriff in Town”
Funny. The MIT article basically proves my point about doomsaying.

>the researchers observed that as ocean acidification prompted some species to grow faster, and others slower

> By 2100, the local composition of the oceans may also look very different due to warming water: The model predicts that many phytoplankton species will move toward the poles. That means that in New England, for instance, marine communities may look very different in the next century

So basically, yes, the ecosystems will change and some species will die while others blossom and thrive. That paper says nothing about oxygen levels or phytoplankton as a group of species going extinct. As is typical, and actual scientist says something and talks about its ramifications and people turn it into an apocalyptic tale. I particularly like the beginning quote from the researcher himself

>”I’ve always been a total believer in climate change, and I try not to be an alarmist, because it’s not good for anyone,” says Dutkiewicz.
Once in a while I use the speech feature of Chrome on my MacOS to have it read articles to me while I work. It's clunky though, it only works (AFAIK) on highlighted text which gets annoying on really long articles, and there's no pause so if I want to "pause" I need to stop it and then redo the highlight starting from where I paused (again, annoying with long articles).

I think I'll be using your service from now on! Browser/OS agnostic, no highlighting, and pausing!

Nice to haves:
- ability to pick a different voice
- playback speed controls
- maybe load the original article in an iframe below the player to be able to follow along
Gave it another shot:

def monotonic(arr):
if not arr: return []

new_arr = []
sub_arr = [arr[0]]
parity = 0

for n in arr[1:]:
delta = n - sub_arr[-1]
if parity == 0:
parity += delta
elif parity * delta < 0:
new_arr.append(sorted(sub_arr))
sub_arr = []
parity = 0
sub_arr.append(n)

new_arr.append(sorted(sub_arr))
return new_arr

`delta` keeps track of whether the next element increases or decreases, whereas `parity` keeps track of the parity of the run. No imports, arbitrary iterators, single function.

You can continue to pare it down.
If the earth warms enough we could enter a period of permanent world wide drought. When temperatures are too hot, clouds can no longer form. No clouds means no rain and even hotter temperatures.

Some areas may become more livable, but we're talking the extreme northern reaches of Canada.
It's people that are holding it, on platforms like Nexo, so they can get their 12% interest.

Whenever a crypto company uses the word "liquidity" that's a red flag that it's likely some kind of a scam. It's the same way that pyramid schemes call themselves "multi-level marketing" companies or say that they are "sales driven".

Be careful friend.
The bat lady herself says that these type of bats are not in or near Wuhan:

“I wondered if [the municipal health authority] got it wrong,” she says. “I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in central China.” Her studies had shown that the southern, subtropical provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan have the greatest risk of coronaviruses jumping to humans from animals—particularly bats, a known reservoir. If coronaviruses were the culprit, she remembers thinking, “Could they have come from our lab?”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-wo...
I tried that (accept and move on), but when you have kids...I find it impossible. I can’t accept that fate for them.
How do you reason about that?
Try 1896: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Replace an Asteroid with a weakening Geomagnetic field due to a Geomagnetic Excursion. Geomagnetic excursions are correlated with mass extinction in the Paleotological record. This makes sense since the Geomagnetic field shields Earth from space weather & a weakened Geomagnetic field means less protection from space weather.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018RG00...

Uh oh, we are currently going through a Geomagnetic Excursion. Why are we not doing anything about it? Why is the population at large not alerted?

https://www.sciencealert.com/new-study-shows-that-earth-s-ma...
> (1) Strongly suspect based on what? There's 0 precedent for the scenario you suggested, but plenty of examples of right-wingers using this idea to scaremonger.

You should read history books more often.
After this pandemic is all gone and done why don't we all wear Guy Fawkes masks for the rest of the life if faces don't matter as you imply. Maybe that way we can preserve our privacy and fight CCTV surveillance.

You say that as if it's a joke, but...

Yeah. Let's do it. I am 100% down for that. If I want you to recognize me, I'll wear a name tag, and if I want you to know how I'm feeling I'll tell you.
I'm not talking about broader progressive ideology at all (apart from a belief that climate change is a real existential threat that requires significant immediate action), I'm talking about the priorities of the current crop of progressive Democratic politicians (and/or Democrats more broadly).
Well sure, but those examples aren't the result of opposing bias. For the past 5 years any mainstream source or aggregator of information has been on a feverish rampage against Trump. Even if you don't like him it's plain as day. So of course a lot of the prominent examples are going to be that, because that's all they've been doing for 5 years.
This kind of discourse is simply disregarding facts to promote a not-my-problem ideology.

The countries that contribute most significantly to greenhouse gas emissions almost always have very low demography. Because of that, if we were to change demography to reach strict population equilibrium in every country without changing countries' emissions per capita, we would actually emit more greenhouse gases.
> How do you know what people want? Because someone in charge told you so?

No, I say this as an interpretation of people behaviors and assuming some degree of free agency. Users aren't coerced to use Instagram, so it likely means they use it because they want to.

> Last time I condicted a poll, not a single person said their preferred content is misinformation and clickbait.

I'm sure. There is a big difference between preferences as expressed in polls and actual preferences observed in fact. People say they consume educational content way more than they actually do. Neither kind of preference is the absolute truth, they're both valid. Should companies optimize for opinion polling outcomes instead? Is it really progress if people have a high opinion of a service but few people use it, and another exploitative service steps in to sweep users away?

What about regular old media doing rage-baiting of their own? Isn't Fox News or NYT also behaving the same way to some extent? I'm not sure people would answer a poll saying the reason they watch the news is that they're looking to be upset and outraged, but that's a lot of the apparent audience strategy.

IMO this is just natural capitalistic response to incentives and the systemic "fix" would be to regulate the media sector so that it be forced to stop feeding people's worst impulses. The only problem is that by American standards this would amount to censorship - the notion that "someone knows better" what is good for me. One's clickbait filtering strategy always ends up being someone else's muzzled speech, so it's easy for the cure to have unwanted side effects. It's a tough nut to crack especially in the US given the cultural and legal bent towards maximalist free speech.
Do we require the same of people who are overweight and refuse to lose weight to achieve a healthy BMI? What about people who have risky sex? No health resources as they're dying of AIDS?
Yes - but the humans that lived for those "millenia" were much smaller in number than today. They were much poorer, often "dirt poor", despite constant manual labor that barely left time for literacy – much less HN-like discussions.

They died comparatively young, often of diseases we can now avoid/cure, or in violent battles for meager resources.

And, those were no great stewards for the environment either. They used slash-and-burn famring. They hunted species to extinction. The Sahara desert (& lots of other desertification) might be the result of primitve land misuse. And of course they rarely met a slightly-different tribe of humans on the next hillside, competing for limited resources, that they didn't eventually try to massacre (often succeeding).

Unless you are over 100 years old – I'm not – there's no "we" that could have magically decided, with what they knew 100 years ago, to magically prioritize "solar refrigerators" or whatever other fairytale innovation you think could've replaced today's fossil-fuel usage. (Solar refrigerator usage wouldn't have delivered your computer, your meals, your education, or your entertainment.)

There's only the people who existed then, doing the best they could with what they then knew, and now us, doing the best we can with what we now know. "We" now are only recently rich enough & smart enough to even care about far-away oil spills, & long-term sustainability. And we owe those riches & smarts to the flawed best efforts of prior generations.

As we unwind those arrangements & path-dependencies that, with hindsight, are hurting us or likely to hurt our offspring in the future, we have to be realistic about how to feed, educate, & give meaning to 8 billion fellow humans. I don't want to go back to a tiny population of humans eking by – when lucky! – on hunter-gathering or subsistence farming, until the sun burns out. (And any defections to a more ambitious developmental path would be held down by what new religion or government, exactly?) If that's the 'sustainable' future, we might as well just end it all now – homo sapiens already lived that cycle of mundane misery, for hundreds-of-thousands-of-years. I'd rather see how the 'progress' path, with potential happy & ever-varying lives for billions or trillions more humans, might work out – instead of just retreat back to the 'safe stagnation' path.
Mad science to prove the point.
>Rarely that high; i see less than 1/7th of the "new" page right now marked [dead]"

I don't know how much time you spend on "new" but it is quite often as high as OP mentions or higher. Lots of junk submissions.
The comments were certainly breaking the site guidelines! Would you mind reviewing them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We're trying to avoid flamewar here, and generally the use of the site for political and ideological battle, because it destroys the spirit of curiosity the forum is supposed to exist for.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted -- the top comment and highest rated replies are bikeshedding about AI, you're actually showing that this is a pattern of shitty behaviour by Google.
And every single refactoring that leads ever so slightly towards (3) will be an obvious improvement in performance and reliablity...
There's no way to kick out religious fundamentalists. They get to vote just like everyone else. And they have created their own echo chamber media. Any real solutions will require working with them and not just dismissing them.
> I know of no European country that has such a thing.

Netherlands has a wealth tax system, just for reference. I agree with your 1. point
I hope Epic wins also.

My opinion is that Google, and Apple are Bundling/Tying at multiple levels, and using monopoly power in a way that stifles the market, and impedes innovation.

This is some good stuff on some of these issues https://www.justice.gov/atr/chapter-5-antitrust-issues-tying...
But what's a variable, really? After SSA renaming, optimization, SSA deconstruction, then liveness analysis, coalescing, and finally live-range splitting, variables are history and the register allocator is only dealing with live ranges, typically.
Yeah, google does awful shit every day but it's worth remembering that Maps, Search and YouTube are world-changing resources.

All three have their problems (especially that third one) but they have done an incredible amount of Good in the world and they continue to do so every day.
>Dr Peter Embarek, the epidemiologist who led the WHO’s four-week fact-finding mission in China earlier this year, said it was "one of the likely hypotheses” that the first person to be infected with coronavirus was a lab employee.

https://news.yahoo.com/who-wuhan-lab-worker-covid-patient-ze...

China forbade publishing the virus's genome. It was published by a Chinese scientist contrary to the rules and his lab was shutdown the next day for 'rectification'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Yongzhen
I wish you good luck in helping people. This is a tough space — I spent a while at Ginger.io where we flip flopped between employers and consumer. Getting into that EAP money is great if you land it, but it’s a super crowded space where when you squint all the offerings (to an HR rep) look the same. And many have been at this for years.

Personally I don’t find a chatbot a convincing way to go. It’s very inflexible, but gives the illusion that you could say anything. If you go the woebot model of having fixed prompts, it becomes unclear why it’s in this UX when you could have something more compelling. It also is difficult to do fully automated AND get real benefit for the people who need it. It’s very rare for an app only approach to suffice in mental health. I know you said you wanted sub clinical, but even at that range you’ll have a very long tail of needs when it comes to someone interested in spending real time on their mental health. This isn’t just your average person we’re talking about here.

A major issue I have is both the oversimplification of CBT combined with every app trying to do only that. CBT can be effective for certain people in certain situations… but it’s billed as a panacea. This isn’t a one sized fits all situation where you’re trying to find a universal solution. And as you have mentioned here, even CBT doesn’t work for over half of people.

I encourage you to really survey the space and your competition. Nothing you’ve stated sounds particularly different from many others. Maybe there is something, but if so, you’re not selling it well to me at least. Good luck! I hope you experiment, learn fast, and innovate.
I’m not saying that climate change isn’t a problem or that it isn’t going to effect a lot of people. But millions of refugees fleeing the coastal areas and crazy weather patterns are not the same as the end of all life on earth or the end of humanity.

Those last two are the common rhetoric from non-scientist who doomsay about climate change and it turns people off or in the worst case makes them think it’s all lies.
I think equating the lab leak hypothesis with climate change denial also caused me to tune out. It's just not acting in good faith.

I also feel like if he's serious about it, he would produce something other than a tweet thread, at least a real blog post with links to papers he refers to. Otherwise it's hard for me to take them any more seriously than anyone else who handwaves about papers.

It would be nice to see something like that with good faith opportunities for people to respond and counterrespond but I'm skeptical about it happening.

There's also a sense that I have from reading stuff like that and others that we should treat the peer-reviewed academic paper trail as somehow the state of things, rather than looking at the evidence on its own terms. I don't mean anything conspiratorial about that, just that it's almost like they expect there to be some peer-reviewed paper out there from China that shows how they would have engineered it if they had, as if that's realistic at all.

That's not even getting into what you mention, which is the possibility nothing was engineered and there was a leak.
You're not going to 'win' if you just call people who disagree with you 'evil'. Man... people claim that Christians are bad for judging, but I've found the entire human population to be happy to not just say that an action is wrong but ready to call the sinner literally evil. This is such toxic language, it shouldn't be tolerated.
> Google still serves are huge portion of search traffic which pretty clearly is a good thing.

Hard disagree there, a single company dominating search is not a good thing.
The lab was located there because the wet markets and local bat population have been a historical epicenter of respiratory diseases.
It's funny that BB10 was in many ways similar to MeeGo, it also used Qt/QML and had a similar UI. I went to BB10 after wanting the next closest thing to the Nokia N9 I had before.
A sphere of water extending to the orbit of Jupiter is a LOT of water.
https://downdetector.com/status/linkedin/
"research accident" is a better term than "lab leak".
This makes me of Melancholia[0] although the outcome may or may not be different (#nospoilers)

[0]https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/
I can tell you why, it's because it is a very prominent example of a blatant bald faced lie left as is to propagandize naive people who won't actually look into things themselves and delegate that role to Snopes.

If Trump makes a huge number of false statements it should attract the attention of everyone. People that delegate their own critical thinking to an entity claiming to be unbiased and informed in doing it for them are going to be misled one way or another.
Shocking this gets downvotes
this is just 30km from Ur, I thought Akkad capital was more to the north , in the traditionally Akkadian territory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_Empire#/media/File:Em...

btw this is great series on that time (and what preceded it) "The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2lJUOv0hLA
Have you read anything by Peter Ward? He's a fairly well respected paleontologist who has argued convincingly in both papers and popular books (most notably "Under a Green Sky"), that sudden rises in CO2 have been linked to the majority of major (and many minor) mass extinctions throughout history.

He's not alone in scientists out there who believe that rapid climate change is a serious existential risk to humans and many species on Earth. We are already likely in the 6th largest extinction event. If you relax from "extinction" to "collapse of industrial civilization" the number of people who have studied and argued this academically grows quite a bit.

I agree that no one seriously believes the extinction of "all life on Earth" is possible, quite a bit survived the End Permian. But existential risk to humans an much life on Earth is not out of the question based on geological evidence.

Additionally scientists are humans too, and it is hard for any of us to seriously consider existential threats as realistic. If there's been a bias in past IPCC reports it's been for optimism, frequently ignoring feedback while assuming large scale carbon capture and storage.
I've never heard this argument and I'm around a lot of people who believe it came from China. This feels like a strawman.