skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Manhattan has been under threat of flooding for centuries yet we have figured out ways to prevent it. Same for Holland, Venice, etc. Hell as I pointed out above the Obama's just built a luxury mansion right on the beach in Marthas Vineyard. I guess they are utterly ignorant of the climate change threats, eh?

Much of the climate change hysteria is only viable if you assume that human ingenuity and innovation will utterly cease for some reason.

Not a very smart bet. Instead it's far more likely much of the climate change hysteria is merely a way to exert control that governments wouldn't otherwise have. For example, this article didn't even mention China or India once. If you are going to screech about carbon and not even mention the two biggest producers of atmospheric carbon then it's not a serious discussion - at all.
A war criminal was hired to the board of Dropbox. You couldn't ascertain that in seconds?
If a neighbor doesn’t get with the program (such as China or Russia, for instance), how would you suggest coercing them to the same end? And a central authority doesn’t have to be hostile to neighbors to provoke war. It may be viewed as hostile by its own subjects.
They announced this 3 days before he bought the shares. Seems like a coincidence to me.
I wouldn't be surprised if a golden age of the restaurant has passed in the US and what we have right now is a massive over supply of restaurants.

If the average restaurant profit margin was 3-6% before the pandemic in a low inflation environment then I can't imagine the average margin is not less than zero at this point. Hard to raise wages if you aren't profitable on a business that doesn't scale.
Others sources have either similar totalitarian governments or human rights violations like russia or damage the environment like transporting the LNG with ships to germany.

Germany could have diversified it's suppliers if the Iran deals weren't killed by Trump, but even then not a good solution.
This is a frequently-seen argument, and "extreme steps" will definitely require a change in lifestyle for many. It's worth noting though, that many of the countries doing the 'best' against climate change (e.g. the Nordics) also have famously high standards of living.
Nice article and all but what are the recommended pragmatic steps for individuals, besides casting votes for political candidates who care?
I just ordered AT&T Internet a week ago. Because the building I'm living now has a deal with them and I get a cheap package. They demanded my SSN for a credit check, and they spent almost every call trying to upsell me. It felt very trashy and unprofessional. They also hijack DNS and point all unresolved domains to their own search page. Very scummy. I wouldn't use them again if I had a choice.
Did you know the UN also warned in 2005 that man-made global warming would so decimate coastal areas as well as the Caribbean and Pacific islands that there would be upwards of 50 million “climate refugees by 2010.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/oct/12/naturald...
Yes. GHA V1 seemed to run on GCP but the one we know nowadays runs on Azure and was built post-MS and extracted from Azure DevOps's Pipelines.
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By "creatives" you seem to mean "people who drum up the equivalent of elevator music for ads and blogs". This will not remotely replace any working "creative" people that I know.
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> "hike" (just long walk since I live in flat Houston)

I've been calling it "urban hiking" and everyone thinks I'm joking. But why drive all the way to the wilderness to do a hike, when I can just walk out the door?
Without any security, SS7 is dead … on arrival.
You are absolutely right - the underlying premise is that "fungi is intelligent, and it passes some of that intelligence to the apes, when consumed". This makes no sense. Just came to mind since McKenna also rants about fungi networks being the largest intelligent being on the planet, etc.
There has never been a single hour in the last 30 years where the wind has not been blowing somewhere in Europe.
Scam Altman should not have associated with these kind of scams. Lost any credibility he built till date.
"Trust the men in white coats"
"Which men?"
"TOP men! Trust us!"
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Not to mention the environmental damage because of the transport by ship.
Climate change seems to be forgotten.
But it was accepted?

It wouldn't be the first time a patent for something absurd was granted.
Genuine question: how are the two stories even related? It’s certainly not apparent from the BuzzFeed article (or at least a quick skim of it).
Have they really? It seems so impossibly unworkable given we don’t make most things here.
Agreed. AT&T fiber has been rock solid for close to 4 years that I've been using. They've even let me keep the discount price after the promotional period (I just asked).

My only complaint is their subpar gateway. WiFi signals keep dropping when there's any kind of interference and the automatic channel finding is awful. But a one-time investment in a router and you're good.
You sound like someone saying "Ever since I've jumped off that 40-stories building, so-called experts have been telling me I would die. Well I've fallen 30 stories so far and I'm perfectly fine, these experts are morons".

As for the whole science-as-the-new-religion thing, well, that's just a cheap shot. You're just seeing a lot of people disagreeing with you and going "oh, these people are obviously all brainwashed by the new dominant cult and that's why they're so stupid".
Does mouse give input at 60Hz in UE5 by default?

On the windows desktop my mouse cursor movers definitely at 120Hz rate on this TV.
I’m mostly familiar with STEM PhD’s, and do not have one. However, my understanding is coursework is over once the PhD starts and you’ve earned a masters. You’re in the lab doing research on your thesis, and often teaching classes.
lol - pot shots are easy. What are you going to replace capitalism with?

Don't just snipe. Snipe and then provide a solution to that which you just sniped.
“There are plenty of young people who are appalled by the behaviour of the older generation, rightly, and are dedicated to trying to stop this madness before it consumes us all. Well, that’s the hope for the future.”

I'm sure some social critics thought the same of young people like Chomsky, who were thrown in jail for protesting the Vietnam War. I don't know if I'm being pessimistic or realist, but in the context of climate crisis & impirialism, we've seen history repeat itself enough time across enough generations that I'm not hopeful anymore that the kids will figure it out.
What is it about a virtual space that makes it part of the "metaverse"? It seems like the author is just ignoring weird, creative spaces and declaring that the remainder are boring.
I always like to ask: Has the pixel-scrolling story gotten better on Emacs? I like how I can scroll smoothly on Visual Studio Code.
Because it fails to look at the big picture, and in pursuit of claiming scientists blindly cherry pick data, ends up... well, cherry picking data.

Being calm, deadpan, deep voiced or British seems to be equated to "smart" or "correct". Even the comments on that video are falling for it.

XKCD once again has a diagram for exactly this problem. Even focusing on just the last 100 years ignores the bigger picture.

https://xkcd.com/1732/
The trick is to hit ctrl with the part of your hand where your pinky attaches to it. Now all you do is rotate your wrist slightly, and you hit ctrl. Doesn't work very well on flat/low-profile keyboards, doable with thinkpads, not at all possible on macbooks.
The irony! Aren’t the industrial countries the biggest contributors to climate change?
He was in Vegas hanging out with Tom when he was streaming cheapETH creation. You can hear another person in this stream, pretty sure that's him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LaIezgiUmw&t=1029s&ab_chann...

Also posted a picture of them together in a Ferrari around this time lol (taken down)
There’s a corollary to Betteridge's law of headlines that states “A headline is Clickbait if it contains the word California”.
We're still at a stage right now though, where solar panels and wind turbines are the cheapest form of energy by a wide, wide margin and every MWh of electricity they generate is almost guaranteed to be MWh natural gas that doesn't get burned.

When natural gas regularly goes below 5-8% of grid production then we should probably shift focus to intermittency and storage but for now trying to solve the intermittency problem at the expense of generating less energy overall simply means more natural gas will get burned overall.
You do realise that it's Westerners causing climate change, not starving villagers in Sub-saharan africa?

Some of the first refugees will be from California. The reservoids that are not at record-low took 20 years to fill, they are never coming back.
That was the case 10 years ago, but since then they have discovered that all the temperature records since 1950 were wrong, and they have been correcting them. Turns out the computer simulations were correct all along and it was the data that was wrong.

This guy has been digging up old NASA publications showing what they claimed, in 2000, that the temperature was between 1950-2000 and what they claim today that the temperature was between 1950-2000.

https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/spectacularly-poor-clima...
The price from O'Reilly is 50/month or 500/year.

I think there is a lot of content there, but I'm also finding it hard to stomach their pricing. $100/year was a no brainer (or whatever the membership fee for ACM was). I would probably do $200 or maybe even $300/ year.

But $500!! Maybe I'll try talking my employer into paying for it.
> Humans won't go extinct

I see this statement frequently made on discussion forums like this, and I'd like to tell you this is a tremendously arrogant belief to hold.
The absurd dream of a sentient universe scale alien consciousness or a really bad series of jokes.
Very nice!

Right now I use https://simplenote.com/ for a similar purpose, so export to SimpleNote would be nice (with search).
I think part of it is that the nature of the work done by a solo founder is very different from that of many HN readers.

It's a matter of scale. "Why use a database? CSV files do everything I need." That's true for many projects but not as much when you have a few TB of data.

Some jobs require you to scale in several dimensions: types of projects/data, number of observations of data like email, number of reference files, and people you interact with. I'm not a solo founder but I've been there too. Once you're managing data that's too large for your brain, you need a system that scales, like GTD. Tools are useful but not at all as important as the system. I've tried a lot of tools, but GTD has been the constant that has (to some extent) kept me from giving in to the stress. You can't understand the scaling issues until you've worked in that type of position, where the stress of managing stuff and dealing with stuff constantly coming at you can overwhelm you.
So... Would the patent claim be a copyright infringement of AMDs presentation?
Afaict, China is very much on the program. The United states OTOH, not so much.
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The correct response here from the artists point of view should be a widespread coming together against their art being used as training data for ML models. With a quickly spread new license on most major art submission sites that explicitly forbids AI algorithms from using their work, artists would effectively starve OpenAI and others from using their own works to put them out of a job.
If the article GP refers to was posted 16 hours ago instead of 15, would that really make a difference?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2007.216...

It is actually higher: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/d9fdb266-1231-4...

and then we have climate emissions on top of simple resource depletion. We're screwed if people don't even know these basic facts.
You're shutting down perfectly good old plants, ahead of schedule for no engineering derived reason. InderRealitätbleiben.
It doesn't work that way.

It's one thing to cite it as prior art, but if they are listing it as an example embodiment of their invention then the patent is invalid.

The idea of filing a patent application as a "joke" is nonsense.
Now imagine how bad their internal sites are. I worked for a subsidiary and we used their internal site for network circuit ticketing...it was an absolutely maddening experience.
142 bytes per person, right?

A terabyte of ram has been a technical solution to a number of problems in genomics for quite some time and the players were quite willing to pny up the $250K it took to buy that a decade ago. Amusingly, the problem can be converted to... mapreduce and it doesn't need the RAM.
I love this. I will now call it "urban hiking," as well. It was still more fitting when I lived in NYC to call it hiking since there is at least hills and grass and trees.
pixel-scroll-precision-mode is in the mainline (Emacs 29), but didn't make it into Emacs 28.

If you're on a Mac, the railwaycat port has the equivalent already.
California has enough clean energy to desal for human consumption [1] [2]. Ag is another story, but no one needs to flee California due to water needs [3] (human consumption is ~10-20% of total use). Also, the regulation story of water for Ag in California is improving, albeit slowly [4].

[1] https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/US-CAL-CISO?wind=false&s... (Scroll to "Origin of electricity in the last 24 hours" in left nav; during daylight hours, 75%-90% of total generation are low carbon sources; and I expect that to hit 100% in the next 2-3 years based on CAISO's generator interconnect queue)

[2] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/images/figure_6_01_c... (refer to California solar [yellow] and batteries [gray] coming online this year)

[3] https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/

[4] https://www.npr.org/2021/10/07/1037369959/new-protections-fo...
Learn to (not) code?
The trick with BDFL is, of course, lucking into a suitably B BD, and hanging onto them for as much L as possible.

And benevolence is not an attribute that can be passed to one's successor.

Torvalds and Jobs have done well, but are examples of survivorship bias. What about all the software projects helmed by autocratic douchebag dictators which never went anywhere because they were unable to attract enough contributors to feed the dictator's ego to the point where the community became self-sustaining?

Debian's been going longer than a lot of other software projects, and kept going after the initial founder(s) left the project. The process is messy, sure, but it sure seems sustainable so far.
> the human race will breed itself into some mad corner

Bit of a tangent, but I think sexual reproduction helps to avoid this. Picture a set of points (people) in Euclidean space. Pick any two, "a" and "b", at random. Add a new point "c" at the midpoint. Unless the overall shape of this swarm is highly nonconvex, then this point "c" is going to be more in the "interior". If we formalized things a little more, we could prove that this operation is a contraction. The Fixed Point Theorem would apply, &etc.

So, once your set has reached some convex shape, then there's a balance between these two forces: The contracting force of sexual reproduction, and the expanding force of random mutation.

There's also selection of course. I tacitly assume there isn't much more of that happening right now? I could be wrong though; there may be some (strong?) selection against education...

Interestingly, it's these educated who I assume would "benefit" from a eugenics regime. But, one bad meme, and the whole thing goes bad...
I like UNPHAT idea, as long as it is executed in an agile way. That is, at a given moment, perform multiple stages that can be done safely without feeling blocked by other stages, then iterate, where in each iteration, one tries to do all possible stages better. For example, after reading papers, don't consider previous stages "DONE", and revisit understanding the problem based on the new understanding, and so on.
> If you’re using projectile or something else, start switching over; this is the new default target for all other integrations

It is pretty sweet something like this is getting built in, but I have not found a replacement for 'with-project-root from the (now seemingly missing) project-root package.

edit: Oh, they also add a new 'with-existing-directory' macro that should be easy to compile to do the same thing. sweet.
I call it flexing specifically because most folks don't need that bandwidth.

Thunderbolt docks are way, way overpriced if there's no licensing fees anymore.
I interpret the problem a little differently. I don't think the reason people want to copy Google is out of a misguided delusion that their app is going to have the same scale. At least not most of the time. The reason is that software is so bad. Plain and simple. Google is one company whose products seem to be reliable. Most software is a soul-sucking exercise in futility to use them. They error out and do unexpected things randomly. In contrast, Google does a great job in providing a quality experience. People naturally want to know how they do that so well. And to do so at such high scale just adds another layer of impressiveness.
Let's not listen to actual Russians because we don't like them and their word choice

"We have a Russian at home"

"Meanwhile Russian at home"

"Masha Gessen"
I'm just meaning sort of statistically - if we somehow knew only another 100B people will be born, then either we continue along our current growth and burn through 100B in a thousand years or so, or the species lasts for millenia but the total number of those people is only 100B, so the population never got huge again.

This is really just kind of an abuse of statistical thinking - you're not wrong at all that populations recover, but in our case if that happened we're back to saying that we were born in the first 5% of humanity, which I'm saying is likely not the case.
Sparkfun doesn't sell Chromebooks, and has no special affiliation with Google. They run a store and sell things to customers that want them. They're also really cool folks - I've met a few of them over the years.

No store can be expected to carry everything that anybody might want for anything, and Sparkfun has no obligation to support ChomeOS.
Yes. Translating business requirements, customer context, engineering constraints, etc. into usable, practical, functional code, and then maintaining that code and extending it is so far beyond the horizon, that many other skillsets will replaced before programming is. After all, at that point, the AI itself, if it's so smart, should be able to improve itself indefinitely. In which case we're fucked. Programming will be the last thing to be automated before the singularity.

Unlike artwork, precision and correctness is absolutely critical in coding.
C.f. Addison's disease, caused by a lack of cortisol, the stress hormone, and treating some conditions like back and knee pain with cortisone, the synthetic version of cortisol
Do you mean business logic? Because large parts of that are also farmed out to opensource packages. If someone has implemented it on GitHub, my manager will find it, pull it in, and hack it until it does what is needed.

What can't be done this way is dictated by my manager. I have to implement it as specified in JIRA. There's very little room for creativity.
I think "Google threatened to bring Fiber but never did and everyone else lowered their prices" is best case for everyone. People get reasonably priced high speed Internet, and nobody has to suffer being a Google product.
AMD could invalidate it as prior art pretty easily.
Contrary to popular belief and assumptions in many papers, adoption of a technology doesn’t follow an exponential curve but often follows an s curve and we can reasonably assume that Germany is in the spot where growth accelerates at the strongest. Massive efforts might be needed to not see the growth rate of the transition to slow down.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00863-0.epdf?shar...
What I mean is that the notion that Emacs/Vim require endless fiddling is unfounded. It caters to both the people that want something easy to use, and those that want endless customization. For those that want something easy to use, Emacs distributions are built and maintained by very experienced Emacs users who curate and put together an Emacs with everything you need. All you have to do is use it, which doesn't even require much learning thanks to `which-key` integration.

Productivity is a bad word. Productivity can mean low value busy work, or it can mean high value thinking. High value thinking leads to longer term success, because it is not easily bought or replaced. It requires an individual who has invested in a breadth and depth of knowledge by not choosing the path of least resistance. We should choose tools that optimize for this type of long term success. Choosing free and open source software is a choice for long term sustainability of our industry. Choosing a tool like Vim/Emacs is a long term choice towards individual success.

This is the philosophy I follow, and I have been very successful with it both financially and in terms of making an impact on the industry. It isn't novel either, I simply emulate the many, many expert programmers who universally choose to still use Emacs/Vim despite the existence of "smarter" IDEs.
The tweets only show illustrations, not the text of the patent. So that's pretty plausible.
I have three little children but I can't say I feel more or less boring since having the first one.

What I can say, however, is that I'm absolutely thrilled when I watch my kids watch Home Alone while they go crazy with scream and laughter at Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern getting physically abused by an eight year old with booby traps that would be lethal in real life.
Another consideration, then: it was published to HN almost instantly after it was released to the world, 52 minutes after the HN post about Worldcoin was submitted and started showing traction.

I don't see the publication of a marketing page (again, not a finished product) for a product founded by someone who's other main venture is being investigated by journalists for misleading claims as being a coincidence, but if the timing matters and 14-15 hours doesn't seem like it works for the assertion in your mind, then perhaps the Dall-E 2 page going live less than an hour after the Worldcoin HN submission fits the bill.

I've got no horse in this race. I'm just drawing attention to familiar PR strategies used for brand risk mitigation, that's all.
It’s certainly possible, just very very expensive due to capacity factors and storage. Like ‘multiples of GDP’ expensive depending on the napkin math used.
The thing about geoengineering (at least solar radiation management) is that it's within the budget of some of the world's richest individuals in theory at least. It definitely seems like the least worst half-assed fix from my (rather limited) knowledge of the subject.
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This is a good point but the end is wrong. Your new hires won't go to Google, you just won't get any hires. Because I guarantee you're not paying Google wages.
Both. Of course the letters are full of bogus, positive statements that he can defend if ever caught. But he badmouths people left and right because he thinks that anti-recommendations are just as important as positive ones.
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