skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Very odd to me that expecting someone else to pay vastly more for your consumption is considered OK,

As an ex-vegetarian (who does drink), i think it's ok and many have ways around this. If someone invited me to a steak-house, and all i got was a salad, i'd probably ask that host to cover the check and i'd buy everyone drinks elsewhere or a meal another day. It hides the "my $15 salad to your $45 steak" issue with a veil of generosity.

Also regarding drinks, I do drink - but if someone at the table didn't drink and the rest of the table did, i'd do the same thing as the steak-eater and cover their meal and make up later, again, act generously. Also, i would never order more drinks than anyone else, or n+1 from the lowest number of drinks consumed as a social policy.
How do you know you aren't an AI?
> It is also hard for religious people to wrap their heads around facts and certainty.

I know some very good hard science scientists who have absolutely no problem with this and I suspect that goes for the bulk of them. Religious people come from all walks of life and have all kinds of professions, some of them dealing with facts, others less so.

I also know plenty of atheists that have a problem with accepting facts and dealing with probability (which is another way of saying certainty).

So I don't think that by itself says much. It's when the two are in conflict that things get interesting: what if your facts say 'a' and your belief says 'b'. In some cases this leads to people renouncing their belief, in others it causes psychological issues, and in the majority it is just absorbed without any apparent conflict or discomfort.
I doubt something like that can happen actually.

Global warming is less obvious risk than an asteroid and still today most of the big economies start transitioning to greener energy. Not at a fast pace, but still a lot of work is being done.

It doesn't mean enough effort is being done to not destroy humankind but there are things happening
A previous thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23132488

I still like to think if it existed it could be our ticket out of the solar system.

(or a braking system for reentering if we ever made it that far)
Anecdotal... let's do it.

Where I live, we've had the mildest July in many years. It only hit 90+ for a day or two. That's unusual. We've had more rain and cooler temps than I can remember in a decade.
So, this system locks out the poor, black people, the elderly, and the easily confused... The people most vulnerable to Corona, and the people least vaccinated.

Americans ought to be aware that the list of other countries that would even conceive of using credit history to verify ID for vaccination is >short<. Like, digits on one hand short.
The Catholic religion has a comprehensive theology of free will. We might not agree with them, but they've thought it through and see no paradox.

https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/free-will
Please make your substantive points thoughtfully. We're trying to avoid the flamewar style on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, and even the legacy business (which makes radios for emergency responders among many other things) has been a great investment. If you bought MSI 10 years ago, you've made just under a 20% annualized return if you reinvested dividends. And ON Semi has been almost as good over the past decade. It's only in consumer cellphones where they did really badly.
This is my position. I mostly believe that humans are causing climate change, I just don't buy into the hysterics, but i broadly support green tech, less consumption, etc, and invest appropriately in companies seeking this future. I'm just not going to sit here and live in fear. I feel the same way about almost every claim of apocalypse, whether it's global warming or covid.
This is a fairly western centric view of “the poor.” The poor in the global south are absolutely going to be disproportionately impacted by climate change. If anything it’s the rich who are least impacted by global warming. The rich can afford to buy AC, move to areas that aren’t at risk of fires and floods and famines won’t cause us to go hungry.
It's eerily similar to pictures from Chernobyl or Fukushima, although without the radiation.

Here are some pictures from Fukushima:

https://www.podniesinski.pl/portal/fukushima-8-years-on/
How AI Is Changing the AV and IT Industries
Yes, the vast majority of American Evangelicals (the largest sect of Christianity in the US) hold to an apocalyptic view. Their attitude is basically "God's going to burn everything down anyway, so why should we care about the earth?" - of course, other branches of Christianity would very much disagree with this assessment of the Book of Revelation, in fact, the Evangelical view is a fairly recent one emerging with Darby in the 1830s or so, and while he didn't find much of an audience for it in his native England or Ireland, he found a very receptive audience for his ideas when he came to America to preach them.

If you have a time machine and want to have a big impact on history, stop Darby from arriving in America in the 1860s.
Good marketing likely helped.

A hole in the ozone layer? We had better patch it at once!

Global warming? I never liked winter much anyway.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/apple...
I have some friends who have talked about feeling like they can't trust the people around them when everyone is wearing masks.

This has not been my experience – I suspect I've always relied on body language at least as much as facial cues, and that other people wearing masks doesn't deprive me of as much information as it does for many others.
The point is to prevent people from using iCloud to distribute CSAM.
If you're going down that route, you might also want to consider that there have been two other incidents of SARS escaping from labs in China:

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-...
There is about 10t of atmosphere per square meter. It is the same mass as 10m of water. A lake with 10m of water is very shallow one and can heat up many degrees C even in a single sunny day.

And air is no water, it has much less heat capacity.

The global warming is not stalled at all by waiting to heat up the atmosphere.

The state of atmosphere is a result of balance of huge flows of energy. The atmosphere itself, as immense as it is, holds very little energy and if given chance would heat up to kill us all in couple of days.

The balance is influenced by a lot of factors like how much of energy is being absorbed by ground or reflected back to space.

By consistently adding a small amount of CO2 to atmosphere we keep a tiny part of energy from reflecting back to space. And by allowing the ice to melt the amount of energy reflected back gets even smaller (as ice reflects more than dirt). These very small differences in albedo are enough to cause all that mayhem.

The reason the global warming stalled for a long time is actually our oceans dissolving CO2. Now, the oceans' ability to dissolve more CO2 is reducing and removing CO2 no longer keeps up with us adding more of it.
Just an anecdote:

I did a course of CBT therapy as part of a university research study comparing the outcomes of CBT with mindfulness meditation for symptoms of social anxiety. It was 6- or 8-weeks long, and each week I went in to have a session with a therapist and do the workbooks etc.

It was a profoundly memorable experience and I did, in fact, face a number of my fears and essentially solve them through in-person 'confrontations' designed to mimic the social anxiety triggers I had. It was fun, too; for example one of the confrontations involved me messily eating a huge fast-food hamburger inside a phone booth with one of the psych lab's grad students. Those poor grad students.

Anyway, looking back on this experience 15 years later what really stands out are two things: those in-person experiential confrontations, and finally the tears I saw in my therapist's eyes during our final session as she congratulated me on my progress.

I really think apps like this can help tremendously for self-motivated "normals" -- and I wonder how voice/video/VR will expand their effectiveness in years to come.
> And it is highly regarded today as an extreme anti-pattern.

Really? Isn't that one of the primary use cases for something like Apache Kafka? (And Kafka seems to be very popular even today.)
If you were really precise, you could tune your assist based on distance. You could get a pretty sick change in angular momentum relative to the sun since you wouldn't have to worry about hitting atmosphere or terrain. If you're far away you feel nothing, if you're too close you join the singularity, and everything in between is gravy.

Imagine getting a 1970's style planetary alignment, going with a Voyager style slingshot and your final assist is a couple thousand miles away from a black hole.
That's a distinction with no functional difference. Two images that were modified from a source image will sometimes kind of look like one another, and so will two images that coincidentally look like one another. The first two will have similar or the same hashes, as will the latter two. That's how you get false positives.

And it's incorrect. The way perceptual hashing works is that an image is shrunk down to a 8x8 or 26x26 etc image and then transformations are applied to them to exaggerate features.

If two images look kind of the same when shrunken down, they will have the same or similar hashes. If two images kind of look the same when shrunken down, then their parent images will also kind of look the same.

Please read the OPs of the two links I posted. They're both from people who work in this field. The latter link is from someone[2] who invented many perceptual hashing methods himself that are used widely across the industry. Both articles touch on this subject, and the first[1] one includes two photo examples. I have built products using these methods, and what is said by these two experts matches my experiences.

[1] https://rentafounder.com/the-problem-with-perceptual-hashes/

[2] https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...
Engineers make critical advance in quantum computer design
Perhaps. That does not change the fact that when you bloviate, demean and deflect, as did Trump, you will be disliked and distrusted. Reputation matters when making a claim that--in that moment--could not be supported with real evidence. Was it a plausible theory for the origin of the virus? Sure. But, when that message becomes entangled with a larger xenophobic rhetoric, then it just seems like, well, xenophobia. Again, the context matters.
The problem is that being an arbiter of truth and a presenter of truth were once not very different things. That is, simply presenting facts was the key to both. More specifically, once those facts were presented there was no need for arbitration.

So, if there were two sides in a story and, say, an investgative journalist unearthed and presented some fact that resolved the matter, then you might loosely say that journalist was an arbiter of truth on behalf of the public by simply presenting the fact. This was true even as little as a decade ago. And it might have even been considered pedantic to distinguish between journalist as presenter or arbiter.

But this is no longer the case. We are now in an age where people actively refute facts and deny reality itself. They sell the idea that the audience can choose what's true. So when the same journalist presents a fact, he is then accused of bias and becomes a part of the story. Thus, even simple truths have now become debatable to the point that merely presenting them can be cast as arbitration, as if these facts are subjective, thus there is still some matter to be decided.
Thanks for the suggestion. This looks like an excellent resource for beginners.
This WinCompose app seemed to be what I've been looking for, but it didn't work for me.

Just so sluggish, sometimes missing keystrokes or waiting for it to catch up. Keyboard is one of those things that have to be INSTANT, even milliseconds is too long. This app is way to slow.

It seems to be written in .NET? Which would be a very poor choice for such an app.

EDIT: I presumed the sluggishness was because of .NET, perhaps my thinking is a bit dated.
Hydrogen or electric? CDU chancellor candidate Laschet meets Elon Musk
I was at Nokia back on those years and also didn't get his point.
We were on course to completely eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 if it wasn't for COVID. But then I would argue even today most of the extreme poverty are partly a results of politics in their region.
Just like the claim that a human visited the site and found a donation subsite.
What's more likely? That someone at google checked the links in a small relatively unknown app or that an automatic process scanned the links in the app, something what is the main business of Google next to advertising?
The distinction he's making (which I realize you will likely not find satisfactory) is that they aren't proactively scanning all of the photos on your device or in your photo library. The scan happens as part of the pipeline that uploads images to iCloud.
What a great story, thank you for the time to write such a thorough answer.

Progressing from an introvert to a coach/trainer sounds like a tremendous accomplishment.

> It sounds like you have navigated through a set of priorities that positioned you as more of a social introvert.

I may have been overly jaded / hyperbolic in my original post, but this pretty much sums up my point.

Working remotely comes with some amazing perks, but in the long term, it naturally nudges you, day by day, towards becoming an introvert with a boring, sedentary life. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that, but for some it may just not seem like the best possible version of themselves.

The question is, what are the different ways and tricks to navigate your life and grow your personality in a more fulfilling direction.
I prefer Scoop over Chocolatey https://scoop.sh/

Also Windows Terminal is really great https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk...

I also prefer ShareX for screenshots https://getsharex.com/
That's the point of the research linked to in this post?
is that synonymous with dark matter as described in galaxy structure models?
Okay, I will give you a genuine answer: it will have almost unequivocally negative effects.

First, I'll address your asymmetry comment, with a couple of example points.

> crops

This is a common misunderstanding I see. Crops aren't solely viable because of climate -- a large portion of crop-viability is due to soil quality, which is built up over many many years. As areas that have traditionally been extremely cold become potentially more viable, crops are much less effective because the soil has not historically had a lot of fertilizer-producing flora/fauna.

> decreasing the probability of disasters

As far as I understand climate change, this is not expected anywhere. A disaster can be considered an event that goes dramatically against the norm. For example, flooding [extreme rain], drought [extreme lack of rain], fires [extreme heat], crop freezes/cold snaps [extreme cold]. Climate change essentially results in increasingly extreme deviations from the norm, so "disasters" go up. There's nowhere in the world I'm aware of that is going to get more consistent from climate change.

> make people want to move in

Even if climate were a zero sum game, and some places got better while others got worse, forcing everyone to move would be pretty awful. Further -- it's not a zero sum game, as mentioned in my last point.

The final point I'll make around climate change is that it's very likely to lead to geopolitical instability. As some areas become unlivable, famines, wars and refugees become more and more frequent.
The idea that everyone who sees the same thing will come to the same conclusion is the height of personal hubris.
>Proof?

I'm not a psychologist ask one.

>blind children exist, and they are not psychologically damaged by not being able to read faces.

They never saw one that's why, they were born blind but those who became blind later on suffer greatly.
Disclaimer, I'm all for stopping climate change and think it's the biggest issue facing our generation.

But nothing indicates non runaway climate change is an existential level event for humanity. Nothing.

By comparing it to asteroids, and then 10, 20, 30 years in the future, when what happens is nowhere near to the complete eradication of all humans on earth that you are predicting with this comparison, why are you surprised that people don't take activists and scientists seriously.

Stop with the hyperbole. Stick with the facts and only the facts and you may notice that we will have more support then ever in the fight against climate change.
Like many pigouvian taxes, most carbon tax proposals make an attempt to offset its regressiveness by distributing some sort of dividend or rebate.

The idea isn't to punish the poor for driving to work. Rather, it's an attempt to charge the major carbon-emitters for their pollution of the commons (the atmosphere), then compensate the public with that money.
"People who disagree with us are stupid, ignorant, or at least misled"
Commonly used idioms in the tech industry
Super interesting. I grew up in a nearby suburb and when I was younger Motorola was THE company in the area. It felt like nearly all of my friend's parents were employees. It's amazing how quickly they fell off.
I don't know but if any YC startups get away with that on HN, please let me know at hn@ycombinator.com because I'm telling them all not to do it.
Il just assume you are in the US market. Sounds like you need some guidance on the interview process, you might be applying to the wrong type of jobs, you might want to be more selective/directed with your approach/goals. Maybe you are unable to adequatly prepare for interviews due to your current day job. You should have a plan, how long you can practice interviewing before running out of money, and then go from there. Maybe you can try get a less physically taxing day job so you can study/practice more after work until you get a great dev job.

Ive interviewed for some basic software engineer roles in the US NY region with Node in the last 2 years that basically just wanted basic JS experience to work there without any production Node experience. No 8 hour tests, just general discussions, and build a CRUD app that handles X type of object.

Programs like Outco(costs money) exist to help software engineers improve their interviewing skills/try get more money in their next job, even if they are experts with great experience they take these classes because interviewing can be hard for some devs.

If i were you i would spend a day or two researching the current state of interviewing for JS/react roles. Its a big market, lots of devs talking about succeeding in it online.

Start talking to currently employed software engineers for specific advice on your current issues. Fish for referrels, this is the biggest way companies hire nowadays in US in my opinion.
Always ask yourself: Is this good for the company? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA5rB63Mzc8
Right. But the solutions can't impact the environment, or the developing world, or the disadvantaged. It's pretty obvious that the US, UK, and Commonwealth countries are going to be expected to disrupt their lives and economies while the rest of the world dithers and screams that not enough is being done.
> Nobody will be actually happy.

I’ve heard people say that about true compromise…

It seems like there are extremes, carriers were abusing their positions before Apple came up with iPhone and app store and wrangled power away from carriers. Now they have lived long enough to become the villain… it might be time to reset matrix again and work towards a better outcome.
I gave couple examples here. It's a long comment so I don't want to repost:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28173312
(2014)

Today, writing actual code is the programming of last resort. Software like Airtable and other no-code tools would handle these examples without the need for some poor inexperienced programmer to write code from scratch using a bespoke IDE.

I'd add that in 2014 there was another super-relevant Ko & Myers paper literally about what makes programming hard for users: https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Ko2004LearningBar...

That paper is worth a read for everyone who wants to be helping novice programmers with new tools!
In some ways programming should be easier than carpentry like that. In either case, you don't know what you don't know, and you have to learn what's possible, what's practical, and what tools to use for what. But in carpentry you also have to practice physical skills. "I know this router will let me do what I want but I'm not able to hold it steady enough," say. You have to translate "what I want to build" into "here are the discrete components, joints, cuts, etc" but also there's a physical skill and ability needed to perform the actions.

In programming, though, turning what you want to happen into statements the language can compile is purely a problem of that translation phase. There is a lot we can do in the language and environment to make that easier - consider all the overhead of a map operation in Java (with `.stream()` and `.collect()` and restrictions like "lambdas can't throw checked exceptions") vs a list comprehension in Python. A newcomer is going to be able to pick up the latter much more quickly.

I don't think that looks like "0 experience -> complex app in one day" but I think it could be a lot easier than it is today. It's already a lot easier than it was 20 years ago.
I laughed out loud when I read that in the end the result was layout and spelling :)

crisis averted!
> by refugees

Was it confirmed these men were legitimate refugees?

> I only later realized that German media and those subreddits' mods had all worked to suppress news of the attacks until they could no longer be ignored.

Why would they do that?
Um no thanks.
Well, speaking as someone who used to live in Marin county, which was the county with some of the highest non-vaccination rates in the country when I was there in 2018, I think they're different. Marin was super anti-vax, but every other thing was about reducing our carbon footprint, and anti-consumption was a common sentiment. Of course it was also one of the bluest counties in the country.
It's not relevant to the article, which is about real estate. Also, the article mentions the split into two companies. Google bought Motorola Mobility, but the headquarters went to Motorola Solutions.
Problem is that a lot of activists and politicians don't want to solve it -- they instead spend time replacing nuclear with coal, tacking on unrelated social issues and so on. All of those are about power, and correlate with taking the problem seriously and solving anything only by accident if at all. In other words -- climate change is not the game they are playing to win.
Look the reality is it doesn’t matter what any of us think about the situation on the ground in Cuba. We do not live in Cuba and therefore cannot understand their lived experiences (neither does a Cuban living in Miami who likely has an ideologically warped perception just as much as any of us). The only thing we as Americans can control is to end an economically devastating embargo. At least then American foreign policy can be completely extracted from any of these questions. It objectively has economic consequences on Cuba, and for this person to just hand wave that away makes me question their integrity.
Very nice! I tried it out on one of my articles[0] and it worked very well. The only issue I had was that the code samples were spoken. Perhaps ignore <pre> sections?

[0] https://sambhav.saggis.com/en/blog/hashing-data-with-chess