skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Why? Partly because it's a technical problem

Once the deniers soften this is always their answer. The reality is nobody is prepared to sacrifice to the extent demanded, skeptics and alarmists alike.
Personally, I have lost hope. The ocean temperatures will continue rising, the ecosystem of micro-organisms that provide the majority of the planet's oxygen will collapse, the seasons will become completely undependable for agriculture, the massive reservoirs of methane under permafrost will explode into the atmosphere, forests around the world will burn, and the reservoirs of potable water will dry up.

My cynical belief is that amongst conservative leadership, there is already consensus that climate change will take place. The anti-immigrant agenda is advanced preparation to repel the imminent hordes of climate refugees out of Fortress America.
I think those dirt-cheap yearly subscription deals are a US thing. I'm not sure similar deals are common in the rest of the world.
The Grand Hierarchy of Intelligence
They also have a former HQ on the outskirts of, IIRC, Swindon in the UK, which was/seemed abandoned for years. I was used in one of the Brosnan James Bond movies when it was first built.
Not really, the Chinese government knows the western powers want to use this to create an anti-China hysteria and so want to deny them the ability to do so. The NATO alliance is trying to create a confrontation over Taiwan and a lab leak hysteria is a great way to get the population onboard with a war.
To be frank the science is way less apocalyptic in nature than certain politicians and people tend to be rhetorically speaking. Climate change isn’t going to wipe out humanity or all life on Earth and I’ve never seen a legit paper even come close to suggesting this. Yet I hear it from Joe blow all the time.
Moderator change makes sense, I thought OP had changed it. Thanks for the explanation.
So we should take everything at face value and only investigate later, if at all?
Isn't that what everyone is saying. To say otherwise would mean you have a perfect understanding of something static.

It is the first they know about. It may be defined differently.

You cannot claim absolute truth on most things you can't can't claim absolute understanding of the language people use to express things.

If you expect absolute truth in a variable world you're in for disappoinment.
The benefit of not relying at all on android code? Well, that would be not having to constantly adjust to what happens in the android code base. If google introduce proprietary code that the os depend on, one would have to create substitutions for that.

But with PinePhone and running e.g. postmarketos, then it's more pure linux and not have to relate to android and google's whims.

But I must say I AM happy with /e/os as a free degoogled android os. But it will still never be as good (or better) than "the real thing". At least that is my main concern
> It seems to me this is simply a statement that an electron is a fermion not a boson, right?

Not really, that's a property of any quantum particle, bosons also. They don't occupy a single point in space like you would imagine classical particles do. They also cannot occupy a single point in space relative to another particle.

> It's a fermion, but why should it be?

Well there's the spin-statistics theorem in quantum field theory which starts from some likely assumptions and then shows that particles with non-integral spin must be fermions while particles with integral spin must be bosons. Other than that I take it simply as an experimental fact. I don't think there's a nice reason for it one could give (today, that is).
Yes, I think you are right that there is significant overlap between 'extreme right' 'anti vaxx' 'climate denial' and quite possibly 'white power' and the modern version of Christianity as well, it would be nice to see some hard proof or a refutation of this.
I think part of the problem is that we started talking about global warming (“nice! More sunshine!!”) to climate change (“cool! We get too much snow here anyway!!”).

Maybe instead of talking about climate change, which is a symptom and not the problem, we should talk about “destabilising the atmosphere”.

I feel like people will find it harder to use nonsense arguments if they’re confronted with the problem rather than the explanation.
Yeah, that's a lot of mental gymnastics to avoid the obvious reality.
Freshness/quantity graph for Linux distros packages
Only funny thing about this is that masks can actually be useful for hiding emotions like for example laughing at your college professors or at your boss.
I don't think "whether you'll be caught or not" is the only reason to follow the law.
The relevant xkcd[1] beautifully rubs that in.

1: https://xkcd.com/1732/
Google and Apple both use ML to understand the content of photos already. Go into your app and you can search for things like "dog", "beer", "birdhouse", and "revolver". Given that it can do all that (and already knows a difference between type of guns), it doesn't seem like a stretch to think it could, if Apple or Google wanted, understand "cocaine", "Winnie the Pooh memes", or whatever repressive-government style worries are had. And it's existed for years, without slippery sloping into anything other than this Messages feature for children.
The coolest July for the rest of our lives.
They were able to make the gains they could because the of the low national unity and moral of the ANA. The government that the US built was made up of tribal leaders who were corrupt and self interested with little real unity.

Just compare the incentives. If the Taliban win, Taliban fighters get to plunder cities, forcibly take wives, and get power. If the ANA forces win, they keep a nation which they don't identify strongly with free. Now add in that the ANA is completely demoralized from loss of all US support and which do you think is more willing to fight and risk their lives? It's little surprise how things are turning out.
XKCD's "Earth Temperature Timeline" is an excellent visualization of this: https://xkcd.com/1732/
Yes that is true. One really should not start throwing integers in code that one hopes to reuse someplace else.
I agree with you. I think the real issue is that web developers don't have any ability to control the compositor besides hinting it to move portions of documents into explicit backing layers. You do this today with CSS transform operations, because those operations are done in shaders today.

That being said, I don't know if web developers should have that type of access, either.

The slowness you experience is based primarily on not redrawing something once, but several times, as modern web browsers need to break down very large web pages into tiles, then repeat draw instructions per tile where intersections exist. If I recall correctly, WebKit actually has an option to let you see the tile boundaries and when layers invalidate. This is my best understanding of the architecture KHTML derivatives use today. Compositing is very slow. And layout algorithms are very, very slow.

So you can either do some fun stuff that I think imgui does, like sending VBOs over which is very performant, because you can draw lots of elements but you can't at all do things that people care about like compositing (think blurs behind panels, or layer opacity, etc.), or you can composite layers, but this becomes very expensive and slow to do.

If you simply said, hey redraw this portion of a web page into a single framebuffer, you'd cut down on draw time a little bit, I'm sure, but because you can't allocate framebuffers reliably at arbitrary sizes, or beyond the viewport size, you run into GUI software that has weird limitations like all of a sudden you notice that for some reason you can't resize windows beyond the bounds of your screen, etc.

I think Valve actually did this somehow, but I'm not sure how they did it with their old VGUI code.

Anyway, all of that being said, today's modern GUI architectures allow for two choices: fast and lot of elements with no compositing, or slow and really good looking GUIs.

It turns out most people want the latter, but complain about it, because reasonably(!) it's not fast, and hardware keeps getting faster, but GUIs are one of the prime examples of us eating up all of that performance.
Gives you another perspective on the hieroglyphs on walls in ancient Egypt though if you imagine them being put there by enthusiastic religious branding consultants, and inducing just as much eye rolling from the citizens of the day…
I had that happen once, and decided to cancel it as it was a waste of paper (and hard to recycle glossy paper at that). This was surprisingly difficult. It took two phone calls to figure out the third phone number, that would reach a person who could cancel it. I had to threaten to raise the issue with my state representative before they agreed to actually cancel it.
The problem is it is difficult to solve the issue with the coal powered plants when huge segments of the population are fine with "rolling coal" and think it's good to dump on EVs and green policy in general.
Old school gaming is just so great. Jelly Boy just got released on the Switch for Super Nintendo Online. I seriously can't believe that up until like 3 days ago, I had no idea this game existed. My get woken up every morning now by my 4 year old to play it. We go around the house saying JELLY BOYYYY, and fist punching through our t-shirts to make it look like the game. Just so fun to have those little flashes of when games where just quirky and fun.
>The media doesn't have a crystal ball any more than you or I do.

Sure, but the media is not writing encyclopedia entries. They make hyperbolic claims about how they break stories before anyone else, and how accurate they are.

But since they are human, sometimes mistakes are made, and I think it's pretty dishonest to quietly change an article after it's been published. Publishing a story should mean that you back its content 100%, and it's the best, most accurate story you could have written with all available information. If new information comes out later that changes things, write a new article that references the mistakes of the original. There were still decisions made to include the content that was later shown to be incorrect, and I would _much_ rather see a follow up explaining what they got wrong than "correcting" the article after publication.
> ecosystem of micro-organisms that provide the majority of the planet's oxygen will collapse,

Citation needed. This is the doomsaying that people see, then see legit science doesn’t suggest this, and assume it’s all as real as the book of revelations. We need to spread real information not act like the world will legitimately end because the temperature goes up to what it was 3 million years ago.
If you want to see a very realistic, depressing, and ever-so-slightly hopefully depiction of the possible near-future, read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Correct. But the reason they believe it is because they’re stupid.

The fossil fuel lobby is malicious. Their audience is gullible.

That’s all I’m saying. I’m not even saying being a gullible fool on this issue is acceptable. It’s clearly not.

I feel the same about this lot as about the anti-vaxxers, which is “read a book before you get anyone else killed”.
Thanks for that, I still dont get why this is such a big privacy concern for everyone.
We've done that though. The climate stayed in a narrow 1 degree Celsius range since the end of the last ice age. It's likely that very stability that allowed agriculture and civilization to flourish. That epoch is called the Holocene. We've left that now and entered a new era. The Anthropocine, where the major driver in the climate is now us.
Population control sure doesn’t seem to have had any positive effect on the west’s greenhouse emissions so why would it be a silver bullet?
> What can be done to stop Facebook closing down these research
projects?

Maybe I'm being naive, but what I would do is conduct my research
without having a facebook account myself and without directly
accessing or sending any messages through its servers. That way I
wouldn't be bound by facebook's terms of service (if they're legally
binding at all) and wouldn't incur any legal liability for
unauthorized access to someone else's computer. I hope the researchers
took those precautions, but nothing would surprise me.
Note that even within the United States, slavery disappeared first in the industrialized North, and last in the rural South.
>Fake news” emerged literally minutes after Trump won the election, in a seemingly coordinated way on most cable news.

No, it didn't. the term became popular during his campaign to describe fake Facebook and other social media posts presenting themselves as legitimate news, but spreading false information. The term itself predates Trump's campaign entirely, though.

>They were saying it in their most serious journalist voice, to imply that Trump voters were duped into voting for him.

You expect to be taken seriously with juvenile caricatures like this?

>Then shortly after it was appropriated by Trump himself, and everyone wanted to disavow the phrase, which was deeply hilarious.

Trump used it all the time to describe any media coverage he didn't like, and later Trump claimed he invented the term (he didn't.) He probably wants royalties.
And wouldn't it be reasonable to assume, if entire scientific community was involved in some kind conspiracy, that somebody somewhere would find some kind of smoking gun?

And who would exactly benefit from peddling that kind of conspiracy?
Here's the main file of the tictactoe implementation.

https://gist.github.com/paulshen/b04db68c754f73e693cd29a481c...

`update` is similar to React's render function except here it's being called on every interaction (eg mousemove tick) and redrawing the entire screen from scratch! The code runs so fast that this is fine from a perf standpoint. Note that egui has a reactive or continuous mode. You can rerender everything from scratch 60fps (continuous mode) and it'd be fine in most cases.
It is possible lab modified or directed the evolution of the virus.
>Even then we are early modern humans (Homo Sapiens) mixed with some Neanderthal.

That's both reductive and misleading.

There is only one living sentient primate species on this planet. Homo Sapiens.

What's more, it's entirely possible that all humans are descended from a subset of 3-10k individuals who lived ~75,000 years ago[1].

Even more, there is often more genetic diversity within human groupings than between them[0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
That will extend the streak to 439 consecutive months with global surface temperature above the 20th century average.
I am very left, and despise Biden's refusal to address climate change where it counts, like fraking. But honestly, the new boss is not the same as the old boss, even with climate change. The new boss does in fact acknowledge it exists, rather than insisting that all climate change is a hoax and it is invented by China to hurt the US. Biden is not making the progress I'd like to see, but he is in no way as bad as the last guy.
Unfortunately the difficulty increasing that percentage isn't linear. It'll probably look like the vaccine rollout where there's a pretty hard dropoff in increases past a little over 50%.
Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/oeomvu/anti...
This comment makes me queasy.
Or that if we all just bought electric cars that the problem would be solved. Nobody seems to appreciate the scale at which this is operating.

The mass of the atmosphere is 5 x 10E15 tons. To heat that up by 1.5 degrees is off my scale of intuitive comprehension by a couple of orders of magnitude.
Ok global warming is happening we know it for a long time.

But is there a place somewhere that explain how could the world works without emitting too much co2, or any gaz which are problematic. How do we replace cars ? trucks ? how many people on earth is possible ? Can we have plane ? Boat ? How do we produce clothes, how do we have electricity at night ...

I'm not asking to have a plan for everything, because this is not possible. But a complete description of important areas of life
Yeah I got this error when requesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
Yeah, I heard about that but was skeptical that people could take that position non-sarcastically until recently when driving on the PA Turnpike, I saw this...

https://twitter.com/co2coalition/status/1397912884756107269

The cynical dishonesty of an organization creating a billboard like that boggles my mind.
Sure I was merely suggesting a rebuttal that would be pretty common.
Some more background on this. First, an interview in Science from a few months back[1]. I very much trust the reporting in that interview (Kai Kakape is an award-winning science journalist), but it also has the air of words being chosen very carefully.

Second, this thread[2] is very interesting. The Chinese government is freaking out pretty hard against the idea of doing more of a real investigation. I'm not sure how all the pieces fit together, but I find it curious for sure.

[1]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/politics-was-always-...

[2]: https://twitter.com/natashaloder/status/1425915665752461316
>Are you aware of the huge death toll Covid took despite all the mask mandates?

The death toll are highly exaggerated: it include people who happen to be tested positive for covid at the time of death.

>In the US, Covid took more lifes than WW2 did. Again, with mask mandates.

well the US has a lot more people than back in ww2.

There is no evidence mask will affect the death number. Vaccine will but not mask.
Some people will die?

What about long Covid?

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?

Delta seems to be affecting kids far more than previously (likely due to how much more contagious it seems to be). Children's Hospitals in highly-unvaccinated areas are maxed out or getting there. ((In Florida for example)).

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?

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

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

To me, that seems like a sad sort of "normal" to try and maintain.

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.
Can you explain what the demanded sacrifice is?
Most social media services actually require an email address to set up in the first place. Also consider that it's not the 1980s. If Grandma is 65 then she was born in 1956. When she was 14 the first email was sent. Computers took off when grandma was 24 and became pervasively including being part of most people's working lives during the time frame when grandma was 34-44.

This grandma and people older than her represent only 15% of the population and at this point 99% of them have emails. In 10 years. In the next 10-15 years half of grandmas confederates will have passed on further shrinking the population of non email users towards virtual insignificance.
One option is not to contradict but lean into the argument the other is making and let them judge if even the premise that they're positioning themselves opposed to your "wrong" argument puts them in a good position.

Let's accept "it's not man made" and "it' s a natural cycle and here we are still". The Black Plague was natural and surely we wouldn't want it today. We routinely take precautions against so many natural things so why not this?
Lol he acknowledges it exists. What is the point of that if you continue to make it worse!? By that logic, Biden actually believes we deserve climate change and wants to destroy the world!
> A few bad actors ruining it even for totally different usecases.

Same thing happened to Do Not Track... that was used for fingerprinting
This works perfectly:

https://jamesclear.com/five-step-creative-process
We are far beyond being able to fix this by just reducing our emissions.

We need to focus on innovations focused on extracting CO2 directly from our atmospheres at scale.

An interesting read on the topic: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-05/bill-gate...
Maybe if the cost of it was reasonable more people would bother.
With the cost of electricity rising, people naturally buy/replace appliances with more efficient versions.
The fact that anything green related costs an arm and a leg makes some people think it's all a money making scheme. The more renewable energy gets installed the more articles like this pop up. We get it, people are worried about the climate, pushing it this hard just feels like feels like fearmongering or propaganda.
Semantics aren't going to change anything.

You have to provide very specific and likely negative outcomes to specific regions.
Not just modern Christianity. It had a “softer” phase for the last hundred or so years but it’s been a authoritarian and power hungry organization for over a thousand years.
That's true: diesel engines generally have higher mpg and lower CO2 emissions than gasoline. Problem is they emit higher levels of nitrogen oxide (ask Volkswagen) which beside being a greenhouse gas also poisons the environment.
Presumably newer cars with Adblue systems which greatly reduce the amount of emitted NOX could be better for the environment than gasoline powered cars.
Very useful for me to download the filfre articles as mp3 so I will be able to listen to them off line! Thank you!
https://www.ecori.org/climate-change/2019/10/4/global-warmin....

There are more than just power plants to worry about... Concrete is 8% of our CO^2 emissions, agriculture is 9%. There are these things that no one thinks about that need to be addressed as well that sneak under the radar. There are teams working on them that don't get the glitz and glamour (or funding) that will make an impact, if adopted.

EDIT:

I'm not downplaying transportation pollution... just a quick edit to make it clear.
The link has been changed. Check dang's comment. I assume they were referring to the original with "well known unreliable source".
so stop train your deep models
Reminds me of Bell Labs.

https://www.abandonedamerica.us/bell-labs
Yea it would be cool to see the reference if you can find it, because the position one takes depends a lot on the crunchy details.
> employers are able to maintain a monopsony

This doesn't make sense. Anyone who purchases labour is an employer. "Employers" are not a single entity and therefore cannot maintain a monopsony.

It seems more likely that wages lower or stagnate when the supply of labour exceeds the demand. Minimum wages actually hurt this process by banning the demand for labour below a given, fixed wage.

> massively increased inequality and wage stagnation

Increased as compared to when? Before minimum wages there were all sorts of service and labour positions in the economy that simply don't exist now. It used to be that unskilled labour was available for much lower cost. Think gas stations being able to afford multiple attendants, middle class families being able to afford domestic service. These positions simply aren't tenable at "minimum wage".

Was this a more unequal world? You can certainly make the case for that. Was it objectively worse than the world today, where it is tenable not to participate meaningfully in the economy and still be supported by society? I'm not so sure.
It's weird that WSJ basically published a "how to be unethical at work" article. Sure, it's not illegal, but it's still wrong to lie to your coworkers.
I'm not sure getting more views on videos posted by coal-rollers is a particularly effective way to discourage the behavior.