skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in the PNW for that heat wave, it is not scary to me in an acute sense. I didn't have AC, it was 100 degrees in my house at 10pm for a couple days and it was unpleasant.

It seems like there are now several imminent threats to continued human thriving on earth, global warming among them. But humanity cannot collectively solve its problems (anymore?), and I have not heard anyone smart propose a practical way to think about solving the problem of humanity being unable to collectively solve its own problems.

The more panic that gets spread, whether moral or existential, the more people seem to just throw their hands up. I find this understandable, although depressing, because even small contingencies of voters within a place can't agree on the basic terms of reality anymore. It isn't obvious to me how Russia, China, EU, India and US will come together soon to alter course. But a lot of municipalities will pass legislation that amounts to virtue signaling.

What's scary when everything you've read from the media your whole life promises mass death and suffering to come? Everything and nothing. By some forecasts dating back 50 years, it was supposed to be over by now. The Malthusians thought the planet would run out of food a hundred years ago.

I think this current era has a higher likelihood of being a true threat to humanity, but how much study should I undertake to be sure? How much work should I do to look behind the headlines, that at least 30% of everyone knows are full of lies and sensationalism. What is the impact of my individual contribution or vehement agreement that things are dire?

How can we replace the insistence that everyone be afraid with the insistence that we do something constructive about it?
"Purchases that require Google Play's billing system: Digital items, Subscription services, App functionality or content, Cloud software and services"

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

"Developers charging for apps and downloads from Google Play must use Google Play's billing system as the method of payment. Play-distributed apps must use Google Play's billing system as the method of payment if they require or accept payment for access to features or services, including any app functionality, digital content or goods."

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

Can you explain which of those categories this payment ("The app doesn't provide any special features to people who donate; it's just a way to help support the project.") falls under?
"Life" will adapt. Ecosystems won't. It really sounds like you're expressing your feelings about a likely mass extinction event as "shit happens, what're you gonna do?"
Personally I'm more concerned about the absolutely tepid response by folks who allegedly believe in climate change. I don't know how we are going to put a dent in climate change without something like carbon pricing (something that incentivizes us to reduce our carbon emissions). Instead the best case is that we're going to write progressives a check for $3.5T and they'll use a little bit of it to create a "civilian climate corps" and rebates for EVs and EV charging stations. Not the response I would expect to an existential threat.

Yeah, it's fun to blame Republicans for not believing in climate change (and they deserve a lot of blame), but I have a much harder time with people who profess a belief in climate change but behave like climate policy is a nice-to-have.

Downvoters: How are the Democratic reconciliation bill's climate provisions up to the challenge of tackling climate change? Why is climate change a middling priority on the agenda? Or is it all just okay because the Republicans are worse (i.e., we shouldn't let Democratic failure to address climate change distract from the more important work of blaming-Republicans-as-sport)?
No, your family does not want to subscribe to your personal newsletter. :)

Just text a pic of you at Disney World to your mom -- I bet she'll love it.
Except electricity costs are not rising - renewables are having the opposite effect actually. For example, in Europe, in the last ten years, wholesale electricity prices have on average nearly halved despite the four-fold increase in the contribution from renewables. Renewables are cheaper and better for the environment - just check out the LCOE numbers and capacity factors.
Actions matter. Narratives are often used as palliatives. Demand real change.
Good for you. We all put different values on different things.
Ask HN: What are software bugs called in other languages?
I realized today that "bug" is a pretty idiomatic term. Are there parallels in other languages? How do you refer to a software bug in your native language?
It is extremely hard for people who are working on facts based stuff to get their heads wrapped around people who are religious, let alone those who are religious and who are working on facts based stuff at the same time (there are plenty of those). Suffice to say that it is very well possible to have different 'modes' of operations, where one moment you are fact based and the next you are belief based. So when you are busy with your fact based work you may see 'the hand of god' in the beauty before you, only to see yourself as part of gods plan in your discoveries and your work.

To a person in that position there is no apparent contradiction, to an atheist there may be but they are not in that position themselves so lack a frame of reference that would allow them to appreciate this and to see that it actually isn't a problem.

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So in the end it boils down to something like this:

"God has a plan, that plan is for you to have free will. You may question your ability to choose, you may believe that you have or do not have free will and yet even if you act against Gods plan that too is part of the plan".

This may sound like nonsense but to a religious person it assuredly isn't. Source of this very much abbreviated conversation, my grandmother, long since deceased with whom I had some interesting conversations on the subject (me: atheist, she: devout catholic).
It’s a really hard thing to reconcile. I struggled with it for a long time. My perspective as a Christian is that God is all knowing and all powerful. He does have a plan (and that plan is often not what I want). I can allow God to act through me via the Holy Spirit. I still have free will, but I choose to use that free will to be God’s instrument.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that all of my actions are “blessed” by God, or that I don’t sin, but it means that I can be a conduit for his plan if he needs me.

It’s not a perfect explanation. Religion is built on faith. If something can be proven then you don’t need faith. That’s kinda a squirmy imperfect answer, but that’s all I got :)
This reminds me of one I saw shortly after 9/11. The rumor was that bin Laden hated the US because an American woman had made fun of his penis. I believe this even less than the Marilyn Monroe toe story, but the Snopes "debunking" was that bin Laden had never been to America so it couldn't possibly be true - ignoring the fact that Americans leave the country sometimes. I was pretty unimpressed by the slapdash effort.
What matters is the climate equilibrium that we and the ecosystems we depend on evolved under. Most of Earth's history would be totally uninhabitable for humans ourselves, nevermind those ecosystems. Using the argument of the total time that Earth has existed or previous climate fluctuations totally misses the point.

It doesn't matter what happened millennia ago, what matters is how rapidly things are changing now.
From what I understand, the sun has also been getting hotter, hasn't it? I agree that man contributes to climate change, but quantifying this is where I think the conversation gets interesting. I haven't really gone very far down this hole though as it seems too muddled. And then if you do conclude man is primarily at fault, what do you do? The US is only responsible for so much output, for example, and sources like nuclear aren't viewed positively.
> the Universe was continuous or discrete

It's both and neither at the same time.
At least Xerox is still alive and a industry leader in printer business.
Assume /iCloud == /iCloud/Photo Library then.
The laws are about being able to provide alternative payment methods and stores.

They aren't going to force Google and Apple to have all apps?
First, “observably” means I was making an empirical claim. The basis may be tautological which is to say logically sound, but the key point is that I and others have observed zealotry.

Second, persons who are climate zealots are the ones who act like zealots about climate, rather than pornography or any other number of hobbyhorses that zealots obsess over. I think it’s fair to assume most everyone reading this is educated and experienced enough to know what a zealot is. It’s not up to me who is or isn’t a climate zealot, the class is duck typed. So much for that.

Third, I’m not painting people who disagree with me as anything, because there aren’t any people who disagree with me. How exactly does one disagree with someone who has no belief to disagree with?

Edit: Thank you zealots for proving my point.
> how do they audit that someone isn't inserting hashes to look for dissidents?

They don't. They expect you to just trust them.
Unless some exec loses their job over this, this entire sequence of events was already playbooked by Apple. They knew to wrap the feature with CSAM to hopefully quell the protests, and also to add two features at the same time, so they could backpedal in case pushback was strong, and then they could blame “misunderstanding”. Even though they are being purposefully obtuse about the “misunderstanding” because there is none.

It’s a perfectly planned PR response but no one except the biggest sheep is buying it.
Apple said that they are intersecting multiples databases in different jurisdiction to avoid rogue hashes and that this will be available to audit.

They also said that because it's on device, security researchers will be able to check any change to the program. (probably via the Apple Security Research Device Program ?)

[1] https://developer.apple.com/programs/security-research-devic...
In Massachusetts, homes with mini splits always have another heat source for when it gets cold enough that the efficiency drops. It’s more like 20F even though technically the devices can work down to 0F. If you want to go green you can try electric baseboards and just hope you rarely use them.
> To be fair, a lot of you nuts

Please don't resort to personal insults on HN. It's a violation of the guidelines[1] and makes for poor and uninteresting discussion.

Instead...

> It's extremely hard to figure out who we're talking to.

...don't resort to personal attacks, and assess the argument that the individual is making, without setting up a straw-man argument. If you're unclear what their assumptions are, then ask.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You forgot: "It's too late anyway."
I don't think anyone is saying this has anything to do with the payment being optional or the app being Open Source. Google's interpretation of its rules (assuming that this isn't just a mistake) is that an app can't link in-app to any source or page if there's a way to get from that page to a payment processor.

Imagine if you went into Walmart, bought an Android phone, and then when you turned the phone on Google wasn't allowed to show you any links in the Android OS to their support pages because technically you can navigate from the support pages to the online Google store and then buy another phone from them directly without giving Walmart a cut.

I don't think Google would call that a reasonable restriction, I think Google would call that anticompetitive.
Only one of these two statements is true.
I suspect that global warming is growing at an exponential rate. It would surprise me if it weren't so. Every effect of global warming contributes to fueling it. If it is indeed exponential growth, expect the effects to double over the doubling time, probably in the order of years.
> This is nonsense.

Deleting this sentence from your comment really improves not only your argument, but the tone of discussion. It just makes things needlessly adversarial to lead with fighting words, and for sure it triggers defensive mental antibodies before you've even started.
You're absolutely right. Our current climate change is mandmade, and we need to do something about it. But saying climate change in general is only manmade is wrong, which is what I thought the commenter was saying.
What about exercise though? I think a lot of people discount exercise because no one exercises enough to take off the correlating weight, but any kid who doesn't ever hit aerobic exercise must have correlated cardiac risks and any kid who never walks distances probably has risks of odd insulin and inflammation issues. When I was a kid, kids of all weights seemed to eat only processed garbage, and most parents were oblivious or thought it wasn't worth the strife, but exercise was unavoidable. Today, I notice walking strongly reduces my appetite.
I feel a bit silly now that I always thought Motorola was an Asian company.
I have some Android apps, so I think e/os will be right up my alley when I finally do switch. Maybe I'll start to upload my apps on some of the 3rd party stores.
Contact your Congresspeople and ask them to support and vote for the Open App Markets Act as soon as possible: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/11/apple-g... (The primary goal of this bill is to prohibit Google and Apple from punishing app developers from soliciting payments outside of their platforms.)

Also, consider hooking up with the Coalition for App Fairness, who may be able to help draw more visibility to your issue: https://appfairness.org/

The only solution to constant abuse by app market actors is legal action.
What about when your iCloud account is full (the default storage size is useless if you enable any kind of backup) so the photos never get uploaded?
governments aren't monoliths, there are many players that are looking for different things.

House reps probably aren't setting their legislative agenda about monopolistic power based off of what the intelligence community would like the most.
It makes complete sense and I'll add the same thing to BQN if it gets complex numbers (this is why ⍳ is on the keyboard, but other options could be better).
That's because quite a few of them have already simply given up. This oil tanker that we've built is not made to turn on a dime and that's what it would take to solve this. So it's a mitigation action at best at this point, reduce the force of the impact and look after your own. It's pretty sad in a way.
How about the Quincy office, near where Wavering worked and near where he and Lear were each born before making the product that would be the name of the company? Even the last little local sales office closed years ago.
I think you're underestimating the role motivated belief (aka 'wishful thinking') plays on the part of the audience.

If your livelihood depends on a certain industry, or you simply don't feel like making sacrifices, it's extremely easy and comforting to believe the side of the 'debate' that says the problem doesn't exist, even if their evidence is patently flimsy.

This is neither outright stupidity or outright malice, but a pernicious mentality that includes a bit of both. That is why the 'ignorance or malice' question is not a productive framing - the two are not mutually exclusive.
Old missile sites are silent reminders of a tense time (2009)
That's one way to look at it. On the other hand, if you know how your power is getting generated, you can try to minimize it until such time as it's not causing negative externalities.
Personally, I don't consider Google date searching to be very reliable, IMHO. They're making a promise with it they can't really keep.

It might work better if they searched on first-indexed date, rather than server modification timestamp headers or dates embedded within the page.
To the person that reviewed this app in Google Play – you are disgusting! You seriously scrolled down on their homepage and you took screenshot of their donate button? That is absurd... How can you end your day of work and think "I did a good job today"...
Ask HW: Simple code editor?
I am looking into zen code editor, with no code auto complete, no extension, too many colors, that can beautify code.

Vim it's to hard (maybe), VS Code too many distractions, Atom same as VSC
Nearly 200M in U.S. under heat advisories, warnings as two heat domes form
It's a great landmark from the freeway.
Carbon removal is not possible in sufficient magnitude to make a difference, sorry.
> I was told I had no idea how viruses work (this is true enough - I don't have a degree in biology) but still felt extremely gaslit.

You don't need a degree to understand how a virus works.
I believe that the globe is heating up. And I’m not being snarky. However, I fail to see how climate change means food insecurity.
My (albeit atheist looking in, but with a Christian upbringing) understanding of that is it's sort of like how classical physics comes out of the randomness of quantum physics. You have free will, that absolutely can affect the world, but god's plan is emergent in a way that takes into account the randomness of free will, combined with occasionally putting this thumb on the scale with saints, miracles, etc. In that scheme, sinning is in a lot of ways forcing god to put his thumb on the scale.

You'd think that forcing god to take some action would not be a concept, but it goes at least as far back as the ten commandments. The "take the lord's name in vain" thing was this idea that words had magical power in a snow crash kind of way and that you could literally go so far as to command god with the right incantation. Obviously that's a big no no which is why "saying curse words" was considered higher priority than "don't rape". You see pieces of that still in Orthodox Jewish numerology of Hebrew like was a plot point in Pi.
I agree with you on the taxes issue (and can’t imagine how the opposing argument would go).

I disagree with you on the funding the app developer angle. If you seek funding in a way supported, even indirectly, by the app’s availability in the Play Store, Google wants its cut. If you don’t want that support, you’re free to go it alone without the store.
See also: https://winand.at/conferences/past

Includes an updates version of the first slideset: https://modern-sql.com/slides/ModernSQL-2019-05-30.pdf
Note that I said "for them". In other words, from their PoV. This is an assumption on my part. Of course you can disagree.

Apple has been criticized for lax enforcement of anti-CSAM policies. Facebook and Google reported more CSAM images than Apple does, because Apple didn't previously scan iCloud images.
This is completely speculative.
Shouldn't climate change have both negative and positive effects?

For example, people don't want to live in the Rust Belt because the winters are too cold. Could the region's economic viability increase if winters get milder?

In some places, climate change makes things worse for growing crops, makes people need to move out, or increases the probability of disasters. Everyone is talking about this.

In other places, climate change should be making things better for growing crops, making people want to move in, or decreasing the probability of disasters. Why is no one talking about this?

What's up with the asymmetry?

Edit: Wow this got downvoted fast. I was hoping to get meaningful answers to a genuine question from knowledgeable people with minimum political agenda, but apparently the HN crowd isn't good at dealing with even slightly contrarian takes on this issue.
What is a myth? If there were far fewer people less carbon would be used/extracted. Less trees and natural space would be destroyed. Less plastic would be around. Etc.

There are not enough resources for everyone to live like we Americans. As the world gets richer we’ll collectively destroy more of the environment. This is not disputable.
Ecosystems are just a large collection of “Life”.
sometimes I wish I could
True, I guess I meant installing a puppet government and then letting them do the deeds over a sufficient number of generations.
There isn't one. It's far cheaper to depopulate the earth.
I remember when the previous President said he had evidence of a lab leak, but did not share it or have any corroboration from anyone else in the administration. It was obvious at the time that it was a political tool to drive a nationalist sentiment.

The issue is not that people wanted to investigate a lab leak, the issue was that people presented their lab leak theory as a fact. Believing in a theory without any evidence to support it falls pretty squarely in the conspiracy theory bucket.

Honestly, I haven't seen anything change in substance in the meantime. It still is a suspicious coincidence, but we don't have any clear indication of what actually happened. What has changed in the reporting is that people are expressing concerns about the lab (clearly theories, not fact), which is completely natural. We should investigate it so we can better prevent, detect, and respond to future outbreaks. But let's not make premature judgements from a coincidence.
You just don’t have a deeply held belief in God, so when you see a paradox like that, you respond with dismissal.

Now, I don’t know what you hold dear, but I guarantee you, somewhere you hold a fundamental belief that is inconsistent with something else you believe at a fundamental level. That’s what makes belief systems tick - you run into something you can’t reason your way out of and must commit to taking something on faith.

Paradoxes are not flaws in belief systems, they are essential.
> “the earth has always had climate change” jibberish.

This is the worst kind of bullshit, because it starts with something that's technically true. Nobody is ever going to say the Earth's climate hasn't changed. Obviously, we've had ice ages and warmer periods. And, we've had CO2 concentrations much, much higher than today.

What we haven't had until is human civilization, and the capability to affect the climate ourselves. But, that's never going to impress someone who starts out their argument with "but the Earth has always had climate change."
It's a nice variation on the theme of destruction being a lot simpler than creation. Any idiot with a rock can break a window but it takes a couple of thousand of years of technological development to make that window.
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