skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We had a president that claimed to have Coronavirus under control, that it was no worse than the flu

Could you remind us who was that person who went to SF’s Chinatown to hug random people and was urging others to “come and visit and enjoy Chinatown” during the first critical months of unknown risk?
I feel that much of the lack of a feeling of urgency comes from people not grasping the inertia and scale of things.

I remember when covid started out and there was all those expectations on emissions going down. I got the feeling that some people thought that if we stopped "doing things" emissions would go down to almost zero and if emissions would go down to zero then the problem would be gone almost instantaneously.
See also, exhibit B, https://twitter.com/colinaverill/status/1414273471853514756

"Okay apparently in Texas we have moved past climate denial within the oil and gas industry to outright CHEERING ON THE RCP 8.5 APOCALYPSE"
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This reads like a how-to on logical fallacies such as Appeal/Arguments of Authority, False Authority, Popularity, Normality, Common Belief, and Accomplishment.

Being skeptical is good science, as science is a process/method, not a dogmatic religion.
So the answer is to get raged at Rolling coal and that’ll change their minds?
I'm not sure why you are being down-voted for voicing your position. Thanks for sharing it.

I think that if we (as a society) can't find a way to communicate basic truths to all of us, we are probably doomed; There has to be a way for everyone to be able to say "1 + 1 = 2" and not have endless debate about it. Trusting the leaders that we elect is probably part of that equation... but that also means those leaders need to understand these basic truths (as truths) as well.
And is asking for OPEC to produce more oil[0].

EDIT: updated the linked article. I originally linked to an opinion piece rather than a news piece.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-urges-opec-to-boost...

old link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-wants-opec-to-drill-o...
Seeing some comments about how they didn’t actually trace the steps. Okay, yeah, they didn’t. But what they did do is so damn cool — science at its best. I’m kind of in awe that we roughly know what happened in a mammoth’s life from 17,000 years ago — including [spoiler alert] the fact that it eventually starved to death at 28.
I wouldn't call myself a denier. But a hot July doesn't sound that scary. Next thing that will happen is February will be the coldest month ever recorded, and then people will really lose their shit.
> and population growth

That will be a very hard sell, as most of the people that count and actually take the decisions that matter still don't believe in Malthus.

> The west did it (via progress on education, etc).

Unfortunately that is still not enough as long as those same Western consumers will keep, well, consuming as much as they do. Problem is that changing today's consumption patterns will most probably have huge (negative) economic consequences for most of the world's population.
Absolutely absurd take from Google here. What could they be thinking? It's like they want app store legislation.
Yes it's narrow. I was trying to summarize the 'resource rationality' approach, and there are certainly other legitimate accounts of cognitive bias. My interpretation of that work is that it's a project to convert the list of cognitive biases from a classification of errors to a general generative principle.
> “destabilising the atmosphere”.

Sorry, but that is even more opaque.

"It looks fine to me!"

Try to explain what happens with an unstable atmosphere and why we need it... and you are better off going with global warning.

The problem is that we don't know what is going to happen. We aren't great at figuring the weather in two weeks. Then look an credit cards where we know and understand the consequences and penalties... and people STILL act irresponsibly.
Australia has been living normally for most of the last year and a half, unlike virtually the rest of the developed world. If you deal decisively with outbreaks before they become serious, you can eliminate them and get back to your normal life more quickly.
So you let company underpay you and then you move to a cheaper country in order to survive?
Bum-engineer visa sounds more appropriate. Why engineers don't value their skills?
The majority of fertilizer used in the world is the result of the Haber–Bosch process[0] and that requires fossil fuels. Without the ammonia from this process, crop yields globally would drop like a stone.[1 see graph, world population vs. ammonia production]

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

[1]http://sites.psu.edu/shelbyfosterportfolio/wp-content/upload...
Remember that global warming is not real.
If it is real, then we don't know what is causing it.
If we do know what is causing, it is not humans.
If we do know it is humans causing it, then there is nothing we can do about it.
If there is something we can do about it, it's not worth it, think of the jobs.
Federal student aid (Pell grants and subsidized student loans) encourage this trend, because student "need" depends on college prices. The Federal government should declare that student need will be calculated on a maximum fee for tuition and housing of say $50K per year. Colleges could charge more than that, but students would not be eligible for larger federal grants and loans because college costs exceeding $50K.
my ego received another blow by me not being able to copy paste something in notion.
If global news were a TV show, covid was the prologue arc before the arc of the arrival of the Actual Big Bad
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein.

Unfortunately, this is nothing new.
Well, not yet it isn’t.
Because people took Tom Wolfe way too seriously?
Definitely, but I think part of the underlying criticism here is that standard desktop GUI behavior on text selection and copy-paste is bad, and we're kind of questioning whether it's good to encourage the web to continue moving in that direction.
Emacs keyboard navigation shortcuts for Microsoft Word using AutoHotKey (2010)
The NOAA currently hosts over over 37 petabytes of 'comprehensive atmospheric, coastal, oceanic, and geophysical data' and was established in October 1970.

It sometimes seems the more data we have the more gloom and doom we get. I'm not one to use emotional quasi religious terms like 'denier' but that does give pause for thought.

The NOAA started out Surveying the US coastline in 1807 as the 'U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey' to provide nautical charts to the maritime community for safe passage into American ports.
It's morphed like all giant government bureaucracies into well over 11k people now apparently surveying the entire planet and collecting vast troves of data.

https://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec10/lifecycle-bureaucracy12...
They decided not to collect the evidence. Much more pressure could have been put on China to make the lab and its records available for review.
There are some co-housing/intentional communities in the US but it's quite rare. The one I visited a couple of years ago had several what we would call townhouses surrounding a common area and a community center building in the center with a meeting area and a large community kitchen. The people I met who lived there were of all different ages from people with young children to retired folks in their 70s. There was a community garden area and even a small wooded area with a creek. Some of the residents were even doing beekeeping with a community hive. It seemed really nice, but, as I said, it's a rare living arrangement here.
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At one time, Snopes was part of the fact-checking team at Facebook. This comment goes to show that having an arbiter of truth is a bad idea considering it's hard to accurately know everything. Imagine Doctors trying to debunk the official fact-checker statements and being labeled as misinformation simply due to the fact that they disagree with the fact-checker!
Worth noting that it's always been called climate change, and global warming was a term preferred by deniers to sew confusion and deniability.

> Yet the most interesting findings come from looking at data from the Heartland Institute. In fact, the thinktank used the two terms with roughly the same frequency until 2013, when we finally see a decoupling as the use of global warming dropped while the use of climate change remained constant.

> This shows that “global warming” was widely used by climate change deniers over this 30-year period. Perhaps this is because the phrase is relatively specific, which allowed them to contrast it with simple arguments like saying that the planet cannot be warming as it’s cold outside.

https://theconversation.com/there-is-no-evidence-that-global...
Author here: This is an old post, but someone just commented that it had saved them hours of work, so maybe others can use it as well.
I don't think it's worthwhile to spend much time on the reasons people cite to ignore or deny climate change.

Hardly anybody is making a genuine effort to look at what's going on and concluding it's not a problem at all. People are against it, often, because of tribalism. They don't like the people who complain the loudest about climate change and the political party they're aligned with says not to worry about it (for a variety of reasons). The climate crisis is also genuinely scary and it is much more comforting to believe that it can't be as bad as they say it is.

The number of voters who say climate change is important is growing every year (currently about half say it's a "critical threat") but that increase has come almost entirely from Democrats and Independent in the US.
The general worry is that the fact that it happens on the device means in the future it could conceivably scan your device, even if there are some software checks in place to only scan things being synced to iCloud.
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How to Keep Track of Work
I am interacting with both multiple clients and multiple employees. What is your best take on managing all to dos, notes, wishes and such things through out the day? What kind of system do you have?
This is outrageous. Google definitely lived long enough to become a villain. It is incredible how much goodwill they've lost in the past decade.

When was the last time they did anything good?
I've found that a better model is to ignore politicians. They don't care about you, true, but that means that what they're saying is orthogonal to your wellbeing not opposite. Assuming the opposite still lets them define the playfield and works to their advantage.
Then the next hottest month will be Dec or Jan because summer in Southern Hemisphere is hotter than the one in Northern one of the same year.
Because its audience seems to be a bit worried that we will cook ourselves taking a look to some statistics, which therefore means (luckily in my opinion) the audience trust statistics
Perhaps they are asserting that America only has one health problem?
summit.news is a low quality source because it adds a cynical far right conspiracy spin to everything. Here, it immediately jumps back to gain of function research , while the primary source talks about something entirely different.
I think MACHO and WIMP are alternative theories. MACHO came first IIRC
Their individual contributions don't matter, but they definitely matter. They represent a substantial portion of the population who simply do not care about the environment and believe in its active destruction in their own neighborhoods and cities. This is important to recognize.

They're the tip of the iceberg, as it were, the visible portion of a largely invisible but sizeable community who establish (through direct action, voting, and how they spend their money) a pattern of willful environmental destruction. And this is even without considering climate change. These are the people who think it's fine to toss garbage on the street, which has a much clearer and short-delay impact. If they don't care about that, good luck getting them to think on anything with long-delay impacts.
No go link for the lazy? :)
Neat! Could you add speed controls, a download audio option, download audio as mp3/webm/etc, and options for different voices?

Why is there no donation option for this project?

Why not add a email signup for updates/news?

What are your options for micro monetization?
You know what else is good science? Staying in your lane, and placing more faith in subject-matter experts' ability to do their jobs than in your ability to gainsay their work.
You should check the WSJ editorials from a couple of days ago when IPCC report was released.
Cleaning the reflectors may not be a trivial engineering task but neither does it seem insurmountable. Ultrasonic or electrostatic techniques come to mind. Maybe titanium dioxide plays a role as in self-cleaning window glass. If some sort of mechanical action is needed, it has a whole night to complete cleaning before the reflectors need to be ready again.

Heat mass plants provide storage as part of their electric generation process. That's the whole purpose of transferring the heat into the heat mass rather than directly to the turbine loop.
Huh, the article where they say "Trump did not explicitly tell people to 'storm' or 'breach' or 'break into' the Capitol" and instead “peacefully and patriotically” march does't fit the mold of "pure, unadulterated bias."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-tell-supporters-stor...

I'm so confused!
So this is the old, false argument.

Population control WOULD be effective at solving the problem. That is if it was humane.

Your arguments seems true because at first sight it looks (and it is true) that it is the first world that emits most of the greenhouse gasses.

But everybody forgets that the third world countries do also experience progress and will also want industry and cars and air conditioning and KFC and AliExpress packages shipped to their doors.

That they don't do it now is just because they don't have means to do so, but they work very hard to get there.
As if racists in power wouldn’t do their utmost to curtail free speech.
Is the cost of losing not-quite exclusivity on Android worth the benefit of gaining a foothold in Apple land?

Probably.

Do I think Google made that decision consciously and this is part of their scheme?

No, I think they screwed up the way that they do all the time, won't apologize for it, and if they decide to reverse themselves this time, they could still un-reverse their judgement after any future update, or just because Google is incompetent that way.
Who said anything about letting a company underpay you?

Most do a digital nomad setup in order to have fewer living expenses and therefore more quickly save up and retire early. Nothing about working for less money while doing it.
> green ideology

Not sure why you’re downvoted so hard. What do you consider the green ideology? I have honestly never heard of such a thing - at least not in something one could describe as a negative thing
Banning plastic straws and plastic bags wasn't to combat climate change, the bans were created because those single-use plastics were overwhelming municipal garbage disposal systems. And then foreign states stop buying it to recycle.
This is one of the best ideas I have seen this year. This is beautiful.
I don't think this algorithm is meant to capture that anyway. It's relying on content staying digital. It can deal with cropping according to its developers but I doubt it will capture a photo of a photo if it really has a false positive chance of one in a trillion.

Also, this is not a viable distribution method anyway. Every photo introduces more noise. Like dubbing tapes back in the day but worse.
The US is mostly a lonely, socially atomized place. When I was growing up in Los Angeles, we still had a lot of smokey coffee houses that would stay open until 2am or later and encourage conversation. Those were all killed by Starbucks, and the smoking ban, and the culture of bringing laptops and cell phones and work into the cafe. We still have bars of course, the last place to socialize in America, but it's a different type of socialization since everyone is drunk.

I believe there has been major damage to the ability of Americans to hold an interesting conversation as a result of this change. It is almost seen now as a rare skill.
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For a commercial company the aim of R&D is to ship competitive products. You can spend a lot of R&D and do plenty of cool stuff but if you don't ship products you'll go under all the same.

For instance Xerox was doing plenty of cool and innovative stuff with GUIs and the mouse but then it was someone like Jobs (and Bill Gates) that turned that into a hot product. Where's Xerox now? Where's Apple?

In engineering we too often forget that sales and marketing are crucial.
Why won’t anything else matter?
One of the big thing was that it was a perceived as a career upgrade to go from BlackBerry to Apple or Google. But the opposite was unheard of.
WhatsApp is the main method of communication in some countries.

Where I live my most recent experiences interacting with businesses after a short phone call is switching to WhatsApp. "Do you have WhatsApp in this number?".

I'm not surprised that mangos can be ordered via WhatsApp. Like a friend of mine works in a purchasing department in company, and the last two cars the company bought were negotiated via WhatsApp.
Here's my version, which has one loop for increasing sequences, and another loop for decreasing sequences. I think that makes it easier to understand what's going on. It properly handles runs of equal elements, and it handles neither-greater-nor-lesser values like NaN in a relatively principled fashion: putting them in a run by themselves. Perhaps this code is over-commented.

from more_itertools import peekable
def mono_runs(seq):
it = peekable(iter(seq))
while it: # While any elements left...
# Consume the first element.
run = [next(it)]

# Consume any elements equal to the first element; until we see a
# different element, we don't know if the run should be increasing or
# decreasing.
while it and it.peek() == run[-1]:
run.append(next(it))

# Consume the rest of the run.
if it and it.peek() > run[-1]:
# Next is a higher element; this is an increasing sequence.
while it and it.peek() >= run[-1]:
run.append(next(it))
elif it and it.peek() < run[-1]:
# Next is a lower element; this is a decreasing sequence.
while it and it.peek() <= run[-1]:
run.append(next(it))
run.reverse()
# Else, either we're out of elements, or the next element is neither
# higher nor lower (e.g. NaN). Either way, the run ends here.
yield run
Just curious, what trade? I was a tradesman (upholsterer) before I was a programmer, and it had its ups and its downs. Moving the body around all day and actually improving the physical world were big highlights though!
As ihattendorf pointed out already, the point is not the production or consumption of wood - that’s circular and thus will net 0 even if you burned the wood. The point is that the growing trees will always bind some amount of carbon.
Of course, this kind of action only scales in case we have excess land which is suitable for planting, and I suspect that this is the biggest flaw of the scheme.
"Wtf do I do to actually put an ostensibly useful skill to actual use?"

I wish I could tell you. I have a job as a developer and it sucks (at least it pays somewhat ok). I don't get to use any real skills. All the work is bullshit that nobody else wants to do.

Maybe try switching to different tech or different types of companies? I plan to switch from my current team to something else. Not sure what I'll end up doing. It looks like there's not a lot of opportunity out there for me, so it will probably take a long time.
of course, NATO is the one threatening to invade Taiwan if they legally change their name...
such absurdity
I really hope Epic wins the lawsuit against Apple and that the laws being announced in the US Senate/House get passed. I also hope the EU start pushing against this kind of stuff more.

Apple and Google have too much control.
Their micros remain one of the more successful parts of the business. Naturally they spun that off to avoid those annoying profits.
This is sad, but I do think I see the issue here. You are loading the website in your own app so it is considered part of the app experience. If you load the website externally using the mobile browser it shouldn't be an issue.
And the reply in the other direction mentions Hunter Biden. I don't understand why! (We're still pretending we don't know that people are insinuating Snopes has a liberal bias right?)

If Trump makes a huge number of false statements during his tenure as the president he's going to get the attention of fact-checking sites...
> Some people will die?

Yes

> What about long Covid?

Yes some will get long, just like with any other disease.

>What about 1 in 3 people in the Western World having high blood pressure, a co-morbidity often listed as one of concern for Covid infection?

Most of them will be fine

>Delta seems to be affecting kids far more than previously (likely due to how much more contagious it seems to be).

Contagious yes, but most of them will be OK

>Children's Hospitals in highly-unvaccinated areas are maxed out or getting there. ((In Florida for example)).

No evidence that mask will fix this

>What is "normal life" to you and why is wearing a mask during a pandemic such an assault on that? Like dig down deep -- why do you think a mask mandate ends your life being normal?

Normal life to me is no mask requirement in school, grocery store, etc

>Get vaxxed for it, IF YOU CAN. Wear a mask to help stop the spread, IF YOU CAN.

I'm vaxxed.

>But what your post really reads like is "I am very me-centered."

Not just me. There is plenty of people who want to go back to normal life.

Don't get me wrong, If you want to wear mask go ahead wear it I wouldn't ask you to take it off but when you forcing other people to wear then it become a problem.

>We can get "back to normal" with minimal effort by wearing masks, getting vaxxed, encouraging others to do the same, killing bad info with good info, and listening to collective experts.

We can go back to normal right now without mask.
I think that's just a case of someone being relatively ignorant of how things work in embedded contexts. gdbserver has been a thing since well before 2005, and remote debugging was not at all new, even then.

If nobody at Motorola, Symbian, or Nokia could do (specifically) that, it just means that they didn't have GDB ported to their OS. But they absolutely certainly had other remote debugging tools; it's preposterous to suggest they didn't.
And yet if you ask people for a list of these blatant lies, most of the time they'll be items critical of Trump or of right-wing talking points.

I'm sure there are some people who don't like Snopes for whatever other reasons but it's obvious that much of the modern resentment against the site is driven by a political agenda.
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Squanto. Without his intervention, the Plymouth colonists all die, the Anglo-Iroquois synthesis culture never develops, Adam Smith never describes capitalism, and the geopolitical balance of power in the world never shifts west of the Atlantic.
Only the priests of high are sacred enough to handle the artifices, to administer their truths to the gentiles.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-05/lapd-off...
As a math professor, I agree with this.

I'd also say, if you choose to get a PhD, then commit fully to it. In particular don't spend a lot of time on side gigs unless you must.

There are more PhD recipients than there are research jobs available, so any entry-level job that requires a PhD is likely to require a strong PhD, with a full-throated recommendation from your advisor.