skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if he had, Al Gore isn't a scientist. X person said Y is a distraction because people can say anything. There are countless people and organizations that twist statistics or misrepresent science to suit their political ends, but it doesn't necessarily make the science flawed. Sometimes it's just misinterpreted, or cherry picked, or outright invented to support a political opinion, but that's not a problem with science as much as it is a problem with politics.

It's a lot more worrisome when you have scientists taking money to falsify data or faking results to push their own political agenda. We expect politicians to lie to us, but when science does it that risks setting back our collective understanding of the world we live in and can keep us from the truth for a very long time.
No one has ever claimed that climate change would not benefit some areas.

The point is that the costs to adapt to this change will be in the trillions and be disproportionally felt by the poorest in our society.

Hence it is a change we should avoid where possible.
as a Chinese dissident, if CCP got the leaked data and tracked to my identity via my Samsung device and account information. I may be put into CCP's jail for my internet speech.

Samsung , your carelessness put many lives in danger!!
It’s weird. Masks have always been known to reduce transmission from a sick person. Keyword being reduce. But the anti mask people, especially on Twitter or Facebook are like “see this study! Masks don’t work” and it’s like yes it wasn’t about preventing you from getting sick, it’s reducing a sick person from spreading. People can be sick and not realise it and spread it so it’s easier to get everyone to wear masks.

Masks and Vaccines are 2 massively misunderstood things during the pandemic.

When I was at school (New Zealand) we learned that vaccines help give the immune system the information to fight a virus. But people in America and Europe have this idea that vaccine is like a shield that prevents you from getting sick entirely and then claims vaccines don’t work…
I understand how exceptions work, apparently much better than you, if your other comment is anything to judge by.

If you're insecure enough that my different opinions about what good code is and how it should be written leads you to claim that I don't understand things without evidence, remove yourself from the conversation right now. It's much better for you.
I think the only reason I know about it was that I believe trending was the old explore page.
> Foucault say science is a power-confirming tool first

Can you summarize why Foucault thought the application of the scientific method to empirical questions is “power-confirming first?” If that’s not what he meant by science then what was he specifically referring to?
And that's why science doesn't usually happen in HN comments. That doesn't change anything about the overwhelming body of evidence that we have collected in the last fifty years or so and the predictions we're able to make from it.
It's not unless you have evidence to the contrary.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-14/renewable...
Android was a choice. Not the obvious one. Seriously how many Android manufacturers are really successful? Samsung? Google? Pretty much everyone else is completely interchangeable in the crowd of low cost devices.

LG, HTC, Sony …etc have all but disappeared and they all chose Android. Sony especially had some solid hits back in the day.

Microsoft utterly failed Nokia but I don’t consider the decision at the time to be a terrible one.
You weren't the target for that memo. It was written to motivate Nokia employees and prepare them for strategic shifts. It showed employees there was an overarching plan in place for the changes that were to come. I'm sure you can find parallels from that to a website run by a VC for current, past, and potential investees.
Interesting, I was thinking the opposite. Elixir Forum has so much volume I stopped following it 1-2 years ago and now hang out in the much quieter Erlang Forum :D

What gave you that impression?
I don't like marketing SMS and I don't like when a business messages me on WhatsApp. I am used to dealing with emails like these though.
As a former NYC resident who primarily walked & took the subway, I have no fondness for the MetroCard machines. Using the machines to refill my balance was a clunky (or at best adequate) experience.

Seems like the author is nostalgic since the machines are being replaced.
This seems obviously true. It only seems unjust because we have this idea that tasks that are more intellectually challenging should pay more. That isn't how supply and demand work. If you need twice as many typists as are graduating, but only need a quarter of the radiologists that complete residency, well then typists will be paid far more than radiologists. We have an excess of people who want to work hardware, specifically because it is challenging, and that draws interest. So the interesting work is part of the compensation. We accept this as true for game development, it shouldn't surprise us for hardware, or embedded software. It doesn't matter that what you are doing is "harder", we need more bodies slinging fullstack generic buisiness logic than we can possibly educate it seems, so that is what will pay best. As for why we need that many people? I don't have any clue. It really seems like low-code should eventually replace the need for most SWE and drive down wages, but that has been a dream for decades and it hasn't happened yet.
Plenty of people were scared into taking action, but sadly the people with the power to make meaningful change were taking bribes from industry to continue ignoring the issue. The rest of us spent our energy taking shorter showers, separating our trash, buying things advertised as "green", and all the other largely pointless rituals they gave us to keep us calm and make us feel better while they continued to make money hand over fist destroying the future for our children.
Electricity is a fungible resource and most of it is generated from fossil fuels. The price of natural gas is way up, so electricity prices generally are up. Not to mention, hydroelectric production is down in some places (Hoover dam for instance), some nuclear plants are running below capacity because rivers are too low and/or too warm (France) and there's a major land war in Europe right now.

It's also possible that some investments in renewables will take time to pay off, like any investment in new infrastructure. I'd expect the same thing if some area built a brand new coal plant. (Ideally these costs are buffered out by some kind of financial instrument so rate-payers don't get hit by it all at once.)

Solar power is actually quite cheap. Storage can be cheap or expensive depending on whether it's done with pumped hydro (where geography allows) or chemical batteries.
I love the github trending page, but I need only to visit it 10 times a year for it to fullfill its role. Yet I go to github every day.

So visits are not the proper metric to depict how useful it is. Just because I consult a doctor once a year doesn't make this appointment less useful than the pizza truck I go to every week.
'Arrayit compared itself to Theranos, the failed blood-testing start-up, at least once in its Facebook page, writing that its technology can use drops of blood “which are 250,000 times smaller than the volume of the Theranos nanotainer,”'

What the hey. Another company trying the same fraud but better? I wonder how many more are out there?
Especially since the author of pornpen states he just hasn’t gotten around to it. I mean it’s virtue signaling before giving the author a break; that is truly lazy picking an angle for your clickbait needs.
But even if it not used by a lot of people, why remove it?

It's literally just webpage with a list of repos that have been starred the most.

It's not like it a complicated feature that needs a bunch of people to maintain lol.
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Ugh, same. Bought a Brother laser scanner/printer that has been a delight. I don't print much, but it does its job stashed away in my closet through wifi. I can even print from my phone. I've used maybe 3 toners in about 10 years and it still works perfectly.

Would also buy a new Brother without even considering other brands. Sad to hear it might be going downhill as well.
Shame,no flaming sword in the Expulsion from Eden images.
That's in no way what he said.

You are being dishonest.
If you have anything for which banks will take the value seriously enough to borrow against - stocks, for instance, fit in this category - then the path of going from non-money -> money creation is pretty direct.

I'm not sure if banks would let you point to 100k in bitcoin or such as assets that would help qualify you for a mortgage, but doesn't seem too out there. Or do the 2-step route and sell the crypto and use it as your downpayment to leverage up into that mortage from an initial investment of $100 or so in 2011. Still inflationary - you've turned your initial tiny investment into purchasing power for a house and all it took was someone else deciding to invest in the crypto you were selling instead of more traditional vehicles, so they also feel like they have the same amount of assets/wealth as they would've otherwise.

EDIT: putting it another way. Money is one thing. Consumer behavior is another. People spend not just based on their "money" but based on their total assets and expected income as well, so things that pump up those on-paper asset values will lead to higher spending and inflationary pressure in the same way that "giving them money" would.
I guess they have so much money and need that much more talent that they'd rather just spend to sift through the talent pool faster. They also probably want to be sifting continuously - it can be a competitive strategy.
The thing is criminals know this which means leave their phone powered off at home when doing anything remotley criminal or associating with others in the game. Where as with warrant tapping they could just avoid being on the cops' radar. Cops are using this to find bad guys not to investigate them. Which makes their job of catching career and methodical criminals harder but it does make it easier to catch most opportunistic and accidental criminals as well as many victimless crime suspects
I do t really understand, what is the process or mechanism for when it is happy with something? At some point it “liked” the way the armor was coming together and refined it is small amounts only.
I do all my development on a remote server, so I really just need a terminal emulator and an internet connection. I could work with a raspberry pi if I needed to. Sure, fundamentally it's just moving the problem of where the expensive computer is, but now there's only needs to be one of them.
Yeah. In that thread at the time [0] I remarked that the "burning platform" theme/metaphor was highly unoriginal, and therefore, not a good sign.

I was afraid disaster would ensue...

Maybe it was impossible to do better, but it seems it would have been difficult to do worse.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2196311
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Foucault would say yes, but I'm not so sure. I follow more Graeber's point of view that scientists are essentially shamans, and that you probably want to be a good or useful shaman.

Whether that means political or apolitical is hard to assess. I would say that the aspiration either way might be good for your own work, but shouldn't be used to judge the scientific work of others.
Prime candidate for nano bots
I want to understand the contents of this article, but 60 pages is a pretty major commitment. This type of thing is very ripe for a blog post summarizing the meat of paper with references to exposition for statements that require some substantiation.
When you have a score (stars) people tend to start gaming it. Doubly so now
Sibling commenter gave you a complicated answer.

The one-word answer is: Greed. Never under-estimate the human capacity for emotion and character deficiency to get in the way of the rationally correct strategy.
More interesting than a social network is imo applying Tor for IoT. IoT devices suck because they all talk to some mothership and to talk to your own device you have to connect to a third party server. With Tor you can just run a hidden service and the Tor network does all the difficult things for you.
> I'd say that's a mistake

I wouldn't.

If the EFF really wants my financial support, they can split their org into two; one that focuses exclusively on defending our digital rights (to whom I would gladly donate) and one that focuses on social justice.

This mentality of packaging the bad with the good is precisely what got the US where it is now.
I've read some of Foucault's work, and this is my honest take:

He was an actual communist who thought of everything in terms of "the struggle." Scientists (etc.) are respectable? They must be oppressing people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
I remember when this feature was first launched, GitHub got lot of heat from devs saying it's turning like a social media site and they didn't like it. But, apparently many devs liked this feature as well (including me). The toughest thing about product decisions is keeping different set of users happy :)
Ironically, it looks like Nokia, on the other hand, rescued Microsoft (out of its ideology-obsessed acting) by providing it with a great new CEO.
Isn’t the whole point that you don’t need a card and can just use a credit card or phone?
Shameless plug: I am working on an educational project to teach writing a key value store from scratch. It is in TDD fashion with CI/CD setup, so you keep making changes to pass tests. Once you pass all the tests, you will have a functional disk based key value store

https://github.com/avinassh/py-caskdb
> There's a reason they never made them

No, the reason is that there are no situations where you'd want one. If you have a VCR connected to your TV, this means it has a video input, so why not just plug your video thing straight into that input?
in france at the first they were very much against masks (since just a few months because the start of covid they got rid of the huge reseve they had) until they could restock them back and then suddenly the narrative shifted from "they wouldn't be of usefe to you and you wouldn't know how to use them anyway" to "they are absoloutly mandatory and very simple to use"
What will it look like from a shopping perspective? Will it be an storefront akin to Amazon?
I had the same issue, but for me, now it’s trying to get close enough to the OMNY terminal without actually touching the terminal lol
Your are way better off than a CS graduate who knows all those things but can't solve simple programming tasks.
> This puts into very simple words my opposition to orgs like Mozilla making outreach for women, minorities and whatever else the flavour of the month is

I don't think this is really a problem as long as they aren't being hypocritical. If a web browser company wants to make "outreach for women" (whatever that means) something they strive for that's perfectly fine unless it undermines their other goals.

Telling people in the middle of a pandemic to gather in large groups for chanting and screaming is a bad look for an origination whose purpose is to promote people's health. If Mozilla went around looking for ways to encourage women to take an interest in open source browser development that could easily support their interests.
Gas injecting to boost well extraction works. Fugitive gas is a big issue. The W.A. experiment has paid fines year on year for failing to meet sequestration targets.

CCS swallowed billions of dollars. It's a giant long con by the primary polluters to avoid the inevitable. The same money spent on PV wind and storage would have paid back much better.

I liked the idea of olivine, methane clathrate scared me as fantasy which ends badly, as the temp change in tundra lands tells us, nothing we assume about long term stable methane appears true. What if all that subsea methane re emerges?
FTC Digs in on Amazon's iRobot Deal
This is very true. the ecosystem has astounding next gen tooling for solving all sorts of things easily that are real bugbears in other languages (oban, horde, genstage, numbat) but the libraries for interfacing with actual third party services or doing mundane things are a bit lacking.

Its the reason I tell startups to use laravel or node instead even though I built my startup in elixir. Yes its a huge advantage for what we do (realtime synced apps for managing restaurants) but its overkill for most saas products that are just glorified crud apps. laravel is a huge winner there with its library of prebuilt apps that handle user authentication, billing, tenancy as drop in components.
No, it doesn't depend on the fraction of the budget you're contributing. Money is fungible even if it is only $0.01.
> Increasing knowledge is the only legitimate goal of science.

Should we build a super collider in Texas or a space telescope at the sun-earth L2 point?

There are many factors when considering what science to fund, but if society is footing the bill then the expected benefit to society should be a big part of the decision.
People rely on crude indications of trustworthiness. When you run an article titled “Modern Mathematics Confronts Its White, Patriarchal Past”—in reference to a field that’s chock full of brown people and Asians—it’s a signal.

(Isn’t it funny how you never see article headlines talking about how post-modern philosophy was invented by white people?)
Of course it's not true. It's not like we have them on video literally saying that.

Who am I going to believe, you or my lying eyes?
Serious question: How do you vet for these? I would be interested in a founding engineer position as well but how do you know that the company itself has potential and not just hot air.
Additionally, it seems I cannot get into an early stage startup cause I have never worked in an early stage startup.
https://archive.ph/1HAwh
I think many of the business apps I use (banking, train tickets, shops...) are literally just webviews, and could benefit from this kind of system to make a much more native-feeling app at a low budget. A lot of these apps aren't particularly useful without an internet connection.

It reminds me of so-called "hybrid" apps: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3743-hybrid-sweet-spot-native...
I also found his AMA from reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_...
It's always a gamble to some degree.
I mean the Nokia-Microsoft phones were great

Everyone who had one said so. It was the best of all the “third option” OS devices. All the WebOSes and such.

But the market just doesn’t want a third option… even back then the Android and iOS were ossified
People really want to make this no-needle blood test thing work, don't they?

The most convincing-sounding argument I've heard against this whole idea is this: Imagine you have a big ball pit with red and yellow balls and you want to estimate how many yellow balls are in the pit. If there are 10,000 red balls and 100 yellow ones, and you sample 10 balls, your sample is just going to be too small to confidently conclude anything about the proportion of balls in the pit. Any biotech/medicine folks care to comment on the accuracy of this metaphor?
> After a decade of discussion about the replication crisis, open science, and all the ways we could reform the way we do research, we’re more aware than ever of how biases can distort things - but also how we can improve the system. So throwing up our hands and saying “science is always political! There’s nothing we can do!” is the very last thing we want to be telling aspiring scientists, who should be using and developing all these new techniques to improve their objectivity. Not only is the argument from inevitability mistaken. Not only is it black-and-white thinking. It’s also cheems. Even if we can’t be perfect, it’s possible to be better - and that’s the kind of progressive message that all new scientists need to hear.

A layman’s perspective: While not necessarily because of politics, the replication crisis had made some, if not many, people very skeptical of psychology research and maybe the whole scientific enterprise as whole. Whenever someone brought up anything about science, they’ll link to some news about the replication crisis or some other flaws of the science, followed by preaching about how much of a sham science can be.

It’s not that skeptics don’t think there’s value in science. They might believe in science as a theory but not in its application. Evaluating the application of science can be very difficult and time-consuming especially for a layman. If the application of science is as flawless as its theory, we can just read the abstract and be done with it. But that’s not the reality, and people are expected to have a bevy of skills to read scientific papers. When they don’t have the skills and try to share their interpretation of the papers, you can expect someone criticising them (normally with a very adversarial tone) because of their incompetence, ignorance, blindness, biasses, etc. Because of the difficulty and intellectual battleground surrounding scientific paper discussions, some people would rather take the default route of not caring about or even denigrate science; the replication crisis is the best they could’ve hoped for to justify and bolster their positions.

The progressiveness espoused by the author shouldn’t be limited to scientists. Anyone interacting with science should try to read scientific papers even if they’re not some hotshot supposedly unbiased scientists. Similar to the scientists, non-scientists should also try to improve their objectivity, and not think that they should be supremely objective before they can read anything.
I'm in the same boat. Been interviewing for 3 months now. More than half of interviews are ego exercises for the interviewer. I've had a few where I could barely get to my point before the interviewer was finishing my sentences, or suggesting a different but equivalent answer more to their liking. One even refactored my code in coderpad while I was typing elsewhere lol!
Yeah, and it's not like Nokia was riding a winning streak in the pre-iPhone market. Nokia hadn't had a ubiquitous hit for several years - before the Razr, before the LG Chocolate, before the Blackberry, etc.

They could have probably produced better hardware than the other Android makers - the N9 and first Lumias were very nice devices to hold and use - but they weren't exactly coming in with a ton of momentum in the market.
I was ironically saying it was my favorite. It's the worst because it implied the "Core" in use at the time was somehow a "lite" version.
I've had a mastodon account for years. Not only you can't get a tenth of the audience or quality publications you get on twitters, but also there is less diversity.

A mastodon instance is often its own island, with one view of the world, and they don't connect to any other instances with a different view of the world because the others are intolerant assholes (but themselves are alright, of course). Ironic, given the protocol is made specifically to link instances together so that the network become more robust, and that people joined because it's a more open design than twitter.

On the other hand, Twitter that is full of trends, SJW, extremists of all sides and censorship, manage to send me toward new paths of thinking regularly.
You can find someone to disagree on anything. There are people who think we never landed on the moon. There were undoubtedly those who thought Copernicus was full of it. They were wrong.

And Foucault is only "prominent" for people who can't do science, or really anything else useful.