skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>I'm always amused on HN when people in a thread realize that the reference to demonic possession or witchcraft by another commenter was completely in earnest.

I have been in a serious relationship with a wonderful, intelligent, university-educated, well-read, eloquent person who absolutely believed that Magic:The Gathering led to sorcery, which was in turn also an absolutely real thing (to her).

Similarly, the father of another relationship of mine was one of the most well-educated people I met, well-regarded principal of premier private school in Toronto, host of book clubs to which mayor participated in, but definitely prevaricated between "climate change doesn't exist", "it's not man-made", and "it's god's will/plan". His book club included a published physics researcher and university professor who similarly was the head of local skeptics society until his absolute inability & blind spot to apply skepticism/rationality to his strong religious views, including those impacting cosmology let alone earth weather, became too much of a conflict/contradiction.

My best friend is a Microbiology / Pharmacology PhD from prestigious Canadian university, who then went through medical school later in life; roughly half of her student colleagues in either program were similarly highly religious - with religiously-guided views on cosmology, climate, and of course what they can and cannot do as doctors :-/

The bubble is real, and for all its diversity Hacker News is a bubble of its own.
How about we just stop 100% trusting Google?
Isn't it weird to name it "ORIGINAL android demo" since that implies that the author new that in the future there would be other android demo.

It'd be like asking a solider in 1915 what war they were fighting and they respond "WW1" (as if they new in advance that there would be a second world-war 30 years later).
I wish we could get the country of origin for comments like these.
> If there were far fewer people less carbon would be used/extracted.

1 American releases the same amount of co2 as ten people in Benin, let alone the amount of trash and general consumption

This is not about the "amount of people" , it is about percapita numbers and consumption

If everyone consumed like Americans do, we'd need like 4, 5 earth's just to maintain that

Again, it is a matter of co2/per capita
> The Trump haters believe that an election should be a popularity contest

Ironically I'd argue that Trump himself was probably the biggest believer that an election is a popularity contest, given his obsession around inauguration turnout, the mission to find millions of votes after he was elected in 2016 (even though it didn't matter), etc
Our public broadcasting here in the U.S. is another casualty of the culture war, as it is accused of having a liberal bias.

Bias exists in media to be sure, but one "side" in this country is completely off the rails; assaults truth, trafficks in conspiracy theories, and has generally adopted the fomenting of distrust, fear, hate and anger as its MO in its efforts to accumulate power.

Any effort to counter their disinfo or merely state the truth results in accusations of bias and aggressive attacks.

At the end of the day, any remedy relies on some degree of good faith on the part of the actors and, thus, some adherence to a social contract.

Otherwise, everything (including things meant for the public good, like objective broadcasting) gets ground through the culture war machine. And that's where we are in the U.S.
I'd be curious to see what a billionaire could do in this niche. Bezos, Branson, and Musk are doing amazing things in the space race. I'm curious what their teams could come up with for this.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/refugee-invaders-meme/

In this article, Snopes attempts to disprove the claim that the wave of refugees arriving in Europe in 2016 were mostly young and male by:

1. Cherry picking stats showing that Syrian refugees worldwide had an even gender ratio. This gender ratio does not hold when you examine Syrian (and non-Syrian) refugees arriving specifically in Europe:
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/08/02/4-asylum-seeke...

2. Picking one specific photo to "debunk".

This seems to be the general strawman technique used by Snopes on political topics, as most critics of the 2016 refugee wave were specifically talking about refugees arriving Europe, whereas Snopes broadened the scope to the entire world in order to "debunk" that claim.
If you aren't getting opportunities because you can't pass React tests, then it sounds like you should practice React. There is plenty of work to go around, don't waste your time worrying about how long others have been doing React.
At rest sure, but you gotta carry all that extra weight around when you do anything else.
Whoa, gasoline produces 20 pounds of CO2 per gallon burned. So 100 gallons per ton of CO2. At $2/gallon, that's $200/t to produce. And then we have to spend potentially more than that to clean up the pollution. Planetarily, we iz a stupid.

But for the record, I absolutely don't believe it's that cheap to take CO2 out of the air at scale. So this whole thing is a pipedream.
A human did this. See the screenshots on the post - there's a screenshot of the home page, followed by a screenshot of the donation page, followed by a screenshot of PayPal. Quoting TFA:

> That's right; someone at Google reviewed this app, visited the LT website, scrolled to the very bottom of the page, and clicked through twice to find a way to contribute funds to the project. Our app isn't allowed to link to the homepage of the project's own website unless we completely remove our users' ability to discover a way to give us money."

So that's the answer to your question. AI is irrelevant here because existing processes that are performed by humans are unaccountable or unjust, too.

(This is my problem with "AI foom" doomsaying, by the way: we've clearly gotten to a point without AI where groups of humans, acting in individually rational ways, have built a monstrous system that nobody can either understand in its entirety or effectively oppose. We got there centuries ago, for that matter, at least as far back as when the phrase "invisible hand" was invented. The problem here is not that we have moved accountability from a human to an AI, it's that we've moved accountability from a human to a corporation, and it is quite obviously unjust to hold the individual anonymous Google reviewer responsible for accurately following the instructions of their minimum-wage job, but we also have no way to find the PM or exec who wrote these policies and they probably don't even know what the impact of those policies is.)
Comma: Building a Super Human Driving Agent
Out of curiosity, how can one have three CS degrees? Do you mean you went through the (1) undergrad, (2) masters, (3) PhD cycle?

> Our field has a real problem with hubris and reinterpreting everything through a CS lens

Man, I agree if only because I, too, am guilty of at least having a phase like this. But I think I also observe it in the dev and academic CS community in general. I just don't know if this is a generic intellectual hubris or a type of superiority complex specific to "hackers". Of course my opinion is very biased and maybe even cynical but I'm tending towards the latter. I wonder how that came to be; I can only speak for myself, unfortunately.
How about the western liason to the whole affair have his say in his own words - pre-covid out-break?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdYDL_RK--w
Has any large organization stated on the record for their algorithms what the normal mode of operation looks like and what a failure looks like?

For a handgun both factors are widely understood in the majority of the adult population.
Dozens of New Cancer Drugs Do Little to Improve Survival, Frustrating Patients
I was trying to make a grave accent, opposite direction to an acute, on Win10 - everything I tried seemed to make acute accents ... how do I, please?
Matter smart home standard backed by Amazon, Apple and Google delayed to 2022
Dining out isn't about the food because you can make anything yourself with a little effort, and splitting the bill based how many calories you ingest misses the point of going out.

If you said to someone "we should get a coffee sometime" and they said, "thanks, but I don't drink coffee," they would have missed the point or were being bizzarely rude. I'm saying many dietary choices have the same effect. If I said, "we should get a burrito," and you said, "No thanks, I'm gluten intolerant," you're not going to get a second invitation, not because you have a medical issue, but because the person inviting you was expecting a, "yes lunch in principle, and we'll deal with details after."

Maybe you legit used your condition as an excuse to avoid socializing, which fine and your own business, but when you decline invitations, they dry up and nobody owes you another one. Being "lame," means too weak or injured to do something, and a lot of restrictions when you lead with them just make people think you are lame.
> Money supply issues, hyperinflation, financial shocks, credit shocks and have been more likely to affect major real economy problems than supply of actual stuff like oil

Yeah, but all those things describe situations where money and resources got out of whack.
matter / antimatter annihilation is the perfectly normal state of affairs, we only exist as a fluke because it did not happen perfectly.
Single-electron spin resonance in a nanoelectronic device using a global field
Opponent is a strong word; competitor perhaps instead?

It just could be siting problems with an observing system, or two, instead, in my personal experience.
> This is nonsense. Whether someone virtue signals or not, actions are what's important, not words.

That's not fair. When you're the chief of a fire station, saying "Yep that's a blazing fire right there, let's do something" is not virtual signaling, it's called not being a fucking idiot.
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I think this is basically a play by big oil to try to keep their business alive. We actually are pretty much at the point where the only thing standing between us and MASSIVE emissions reductions are special interest groups. Solar/wind are now the cheapest energy in the US, and the move is starting already
> If anything, fracking helped the environment

Maybe fracking helped reduce emissions for now, but it remains to be seen whether it helped the environment. It could take decades to learn about all the negative impacts it has.
Cool. I'll watch that one!

(Case in point that everything I have ever thought of has been thought of already by someone else. :) )
> Second, the std::terminate call doesn't get called from the dtor, it gets called from the stdc runtime in the call frame of the throw (with OS code in between). The stack isn't actually unwound at this point, it's more like the stdc runtime is walking up the call stack looking for a landing pad at each frame.

what I mean is that, if you run that in a debugger, you're going to see something akin to this when the crash occurs (and have your ide stop exactly where the offending exception was thrown ; I don't even have to set `catch throw` for this to work): https://ibb.co/hK3skvz - at least on windows, mac, linux. What platform are you running that does not support gdb at all ? pretty much anything that isn't a PIC16F or Z80 supports it..
> I find the degree to which the Chinese government has stomped all over foreign-led investigations into the origin of SARS-Cov-2 to be highly, highly suspicious.

I don't find it suspicious at all, precisely because I don't trust the Chinese government. In my estimation of the CPC, the following probabilities are all roughly equal (and close to 1):

* P(suppress investigation | natural origin)

* P(suppress investigation | lab leak of benign research)

* P(suppress investigation | lab leak of gain of function)

From a Bayesian point of view, then, P(lab leak | suppress investigation) is going to be almost equal to P(lab leak).
Amazon's palm print recognition raises concern among U.S. senators
It's real, it's because of humans, it's not a civilization threat, and it probably isn't in the top 5 most important problems facing us this century.
Not only that but there's a whole industry around just redistributing these shares, fake jobs for fake valued assets ... it's all just a circus to keep us busy...
If you find any 68040s in there, gimme.
It is part of the device, and this specific part is being scanned. Can I physically remove this “checking” part and end up with a working iDevice D that resembles D = {{Device \ {/iCloud/Photo Library}}?

Frame it the way you want. It is the device.
source on this? The most important thing right now is definitely reducing emissions, but carbon capture certainly has a significant role to play
> Who still believes global warming does not exist?

Nobody is denying that the weather has been warming. It's all the political hysterics and nonsense that a lot of people have issues with. And of course the "world-is-ending" chicken little craziness.

> I am currently listening to audiobook of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (1998). It has a paragraph on global warming and trying to convince POTUS it is real. And POTUS not wanting to act on it because it would be too large economic drag on US.

And if you watched Day After Tomorrow, are you going to use that as an example of the globe cooling?

With every shift in weather, the media and the mindless always scream the world is ending. Our parents' generation had to worry about global cooling.

"As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,9449...

Here's a documentary featuring leonard nemoy about "climate change".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tAYXQPWdC0

If you were alive 50 years ago, you'd ranting about global cooling. Did the world end 50 years ago? Of course not. But of course global warming/climate change isn't about the climate is it? It's about politics and business. I'll make a bet, in 50 years, we are all going to be laughing about global warming like we laugh about global cooling today. Banks are making 100 year old loans, all major powers are angling for influence over the arctic, etc. Doesn't seem like the political, business, military, etc elites are preparing for the world to end anytime soon.
Also we have built a very large amount of infrastructure that assumes the climate is the way it is now.

You think it's expensive and annoying to have software dependencies pushed to you when you aren't ready, try being forced to take SeaLevel 2.0 and HurricaneFrequency 10 before you are ready.
Personally, I would not want to be the major cloud photo provider who is most friendly to hosting CSAM. For me that would be reason enough. As a company, there is also PR risk, and risk that laws will be passed requiring enforcement. This could be a way to get ahead of those laws. But it's really wild to me that people on HN would be so comfortable hosting CSAM on their servers.
I'm not saying it's not a problem, just that you have a factual error in your comment.
I searched for "ssh f-droid" and the top 4 results were f-droid SSH apps, then a link to a reddit post, and then a link to JuiceSSH on the Play store.
Since I wrote most of this doc in early 2020, it takes a look at the demo from a modern point of view.

In fact, when I was using the demo it felt like the color flip phone I used to have around the mid 2000s, and in retrospect it's hard to tell why Android became what it did today. There wasn't much unique "smartphone" functionality in that demo from today's perspective, although I didn't see the original materials about how it was positioned.
Honestly, given our track record I don't understand how we've actually managed to ban fluorocarbons globally.
What are the specific, quantitative criteria which determine whether it's too dangerous for children to go to school?
Ask HN: LinkedIn Down?
Linkedin down?
I am located in the bay area and it is for me.
I hope they invent time travel in the far future and travel back in time to abduct oil & gas executives to force them to pay penance for their role in ruining the planet. Because they've gotten off scott free for decades.
That sounds like an argument made by economists. Economists are notoriously bad at estimating the true, human costs of climate change.

See https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-has-climate-economics-... for instance (skip the political commentary at the top and go straight to the next section).
This is what I take from it. As mentioned upthread, so many people see lists like this and think it's a way to prove other people wrong; when I look down the list I think, yep, gotta be careful to avoid that one. Yep, that one is a minefield for me specifically.

It takes a lot of work to think critically, and the hardest work is thinking critically about the things that align with your biases. It's amazing how many people can see it in other people but not themselves.
no thanks! I live in South Dakota and haven't worn a mask since the school system I work in lifted the mask mandate at the start of July, and before that I only wore it in the lobby of my building. everything's going great here! the bottom floors of my building are a YMCA daycare and I get to smile at and greet many unmasked small children every day, it gives me a tiny bit of joy coming and going from work. I appreciate the unsolicited instruction though, and the kids will in fact be fine.
There is a very prevalent group of people on HN who don't deny that global warming is happening, but strongly deny that it is a serious problem.

This group deeply believes that technology will solve their problems, no matter how large. All that is required is believing in this strongly enough. There is a nearly rabid belief that everything will be fine because "technology" will find a way.

What these people fail to recognize is that technology is a function of energy. This comes across pretty clearly in Vaclav Smil's Energy and Civilization. Technology has felt magical in the last 250 years because we have had a tremendous amount of energy.

There is a very common myth, one I used to believe myself, that magically in the age of reason man woke up and started creating amazing things. I think everyone in tech has been at least someone seduced by this vision. The cover of SICP has a wizard on it!

What more accurately happened is that we started extracting fossil fuels, and that let to us being able to to magical things, including finding more fossil fuels faster. Even the earliest hunter gathers were able to harness fire and benefit from it. The first agrarian societies learned how to use the sun to build truly solar powered economies. We live in the age of fossil fuels, and as much as we wish it to be true, we are not able to build renewables on a scale and timeline to even begin to replace the magic of fossil fuels. In fact we continue to globally use more of every fossil fuel every year. Renewables are only able to supplement our insatiable hunger for energy.

So technology can't magically save us from our energy problems because energy is the magic that makes technology happen. But for many here such statements border on heresy.
Yeah, the price list on a vending machine is an implied contract defining a monetary transaction for food. So if someone wants to call a vending machine a contract, I'm fine with that.
What Happens with a Decoupled App Store?
> 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?

"Billions of Acres of Cropland Lie Within a New Frontier. So Do 100 Years of Carbon Emissions: Crops grown on this land could feed a growing population. But if these soils are plowed, they could unleash as much carbon as the U.S. emits in more than a century." https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12022020/agricultural-fro...
> Like any other vaccine

or drugs in general. Just look at adverse effects of Ibuprofen. Common drug, but unlike vaccines, it is not used for whole population at once. So adverse effects even if more common are not that visible.
The Win + . sequence opens the Emoji selector window, which as the name implies can only be used to select emojis. It's also more disruptive since it opens a separate window where you must navigate to or search for the desired emoji, select it, close the window, and then paste the selection into the original app. WinCompose (like XCompose) works as you are typing, without opening a new window; you just type a certain sequence starting with a special Compose key (like "Right-Alt ( 3 )") and it inserts arbitrary pre-defined characters (in this case ③). The key sequences and their replacements can be redefined by the user.
It does make a difference in a place like the UK
or New York.
I think you missed GP's point. Rolling coal itself is not the problem, but it is indicative of a larger systemic and cultural problem. When people are willing to deliberately pollute their local environment to "stick it to the man" or whatever, then there are a lot of other policies and changes that they will never consider or support. And a lot of other, more impactful, actions that they are likely to participate in as well.

Even if we can get the average person to consider emission reducing behaviors and policies, the rolling coal people represent the visible segment of a larger group who would stand to oppose those.
The screenshot says that the violation is on the other part of the policy:

"Google Play's billing system must not be used in cases where:... payments include peer-to-peer payments, online auctions, and tax exempt donations;"

That is, according to the screenshot in the GitHub PR, the app was removed for using the Google Play billing system when they shouldn't be using it. It was not removed for failing to use the Google Play Billing system when they should have been.

I have no idea how they might have been using Google Play billing. There is no billing code on GitHub that I see. Maybe they turned on billing on the Play Store accidentally, or maybe the screenshot has the wrong policy violation.
> lies, damn lies and statistics

The first hard data that existed from global warming came from Exxon and a small team of scientists on the 70's or so, when they attached temperature sensors to a couple oil tankers and measured the temperature of the ocean as it traveled

If you call for "less data" because things scare you, then I am sorry to say that you are a coward and unscientific
Worked fine here.

https://i.imgur.com/2vWBEG4.png
If I'm doing my (very bad) math right, I think that works out to around a max of 60 cents per liter of gas, if you want to offset it with direct carbon capture using this method. That's not completely insane.

However, How many plants (and at what cost for building these plants), would there need to be, in order to make a meaningful difference? For example, would a $100 billion dollar investment over the next five years make a meaningful impact?
Mammoth’s epic travels preserved in tusk
Large companies and startups are both looking for React programmers. Large companies can afford to pay competitive salaries, and the wheels for hiring can move slowly. Many startups can't compete on salary, thus they have to settle for devs who don't win the React competitions. So maybe think of looking at smaller companies.