skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climate tipping points are definitely a thing that my colleagues discuss. For instance:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0

It might not be 1.5 degrees, or even 2--3 degrees, but the longer the current trajectory holds, the closer we will get to it. That's the tricky thing with climate change, if you sleep on it, it's not that you lose the opportunity -- you just suddenly face the next, even bigger challenge. I don't agree with 2) that we are on our way to solving the problem. If you just look at global emissions trajectories and GHG concentration in the atmosphere, there is no sign of slowing down. Everything we do, we just do on top of business as usual.

Most scientists don't want to be perceived as lunatic alarmists in the public, and most have a sentiment that you should try to convey some hope, and maybe folks also do that to keep their own sanity. The counterargument is that people who panic a bit are more likely to take action, but I don't see a lot of folks taking that stance. But a debate exists on dangerous tipping points that we could realistically run into, and it is lead by knowledgeable and famous people like Johan Rockström. Every opinion in the media though is already thought over for the effect scientists want to achieve, nobody just goes in guns blasting.
What queries did you try?
I always savor the moment when people discover they are being led by morons.
Google inevitably has to change their guidelines. Black-hat SEO attends every conference you did, and work it to their advantage. Google keeps trying to get ahead of them, but they always slip behind.

Your problem isn't with Google. Your problem is with your black-hat compatriots. That sucks, because you probably can't fight them on your own. Google has to, and you are the inevitable casualty of that fight.
I loved those themes!
> We live in the absolute stupidest of dystopias.

this is so true. When i think of "dystopia" i think of some post apocalyptic hellscape but I think a dystopia of constant irritation from the most stupidest digital policy imaginable is just as valid.

What's next, your car/assistant/phone overhearing you talk about voting for someone contrary to the approved party du jour and refusing to start the engine/play music/sms??
There are plenty in the industry get the opportunity to work on what they like working on.
Calling it dumb is a signal that you don't care if the argument falls on deaf ears.
its easy to work 12 hours a day when the thing you do is what gives you pleasure.
> it's usually between people who aspire to be more effective/get more done, and people who think that par is fine.

_at work_

Most (all probably) people aspire to be more in whatever their passion is.
>Reddit mods desperately want to be mods and will do everything in their power to hold on to it. I know its a stereotype, but for many it is literally the only semblance of power/control they have over their life.

Remember, "Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People". <https://np.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_...>. This also applies to powermods, assuming they're not being paid on the side to push some ideology.
You just unlocked a nice memory for me! I remember many years ago going to a website like that (probably the one mentioned in the blogpost) and feeling a lot of satisfaction every time I was able to “hack” the exercise. Thank you!
Small problem of how to make cuts at a subatomic level ;)

(edit for pedantism and type of atom) at an optimistic 100 billion carbon atoms in length for a metre stick, the maximum distinct cuts you can make are 100 billion, or 100 gigabytes of info. We do much better these days with thumb drives.
Which is entirely his point
That comment was not specifically about Datadog. Datadog is a pretty good service so they will survive, as long as they don't go ballistic with their prices.

In general, someone will have to take a haircut in order to keep stock prices up. Either it will be execs, or customers, or employees.

The first shot is always fired at employees with layoffs. Next shot is fired at customers with raised prices. Last shot is a tussle among the execs (yes, even execs have hierarchies among themselves)
When stabilizing and shooting with a cinematic shutter speed (1/48s) you have the problem with motion blur from the camera shake. This blur looks very odd when stabilized. Does Gyroflow have any functionality or tips toward this?
That is a very insightful comment, thank you for making it. I think I understand your original point a little better than I did.

> To think ourselves as civilized because we repress those urges into complete subjugation is foolhardy.

Given your belief about the existence of inherent brutality in humanity (which I agree with) is a "civilized person" actually an achievable goal? I have gone this far believing that the definition of a "civilized" person is some with normal, inherent uncivilized urges that effectively controls ("subjugates") those urges enough to create civilization. (Peace and prosperity via collaboration and material surplus.)

Also, if exile to prison is not actually solving any long-term problems, what do you think is a possibile course of action that does address long-term problems?
I understand such a feeling is purely made up and not worth acknowledging, so I don't legitimize that thought.
We could go back to web forums, like phpBB, etc.
I think it's telling that none of the authors are geophysicists, and they definitely aren't statisticians either. The causality they're claiming just does not have any physical plausibility.

> Dr. Homola states, “In the scientific world, it is accepted that a discovery can be said to have been made when the statistical confidence level of the corroborating data reaches five sigma, or standard deviations.”

> Homola continues, “For the observed correlation, we obtained more than six sigma, which means a chance of less than one in a billion that the correlation is due to chance. We therefore have a very good statistical basis for claiming that we have discovered a truly existing phenomenon. The only question is, is it really the one we were expecting?”

This is not what p-values mean! P-values are not at all the chance of a result being erroneous. It's an unfortunately widespread misconception among people who should know better.

https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/p-valuestatement.pdf
European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries
Anti-monarchist -- I wasn't aware this was an issue, in the US at least. /s

I kinda liked watching the Coronation, actually.
i think this is a valid point regarding monetizing vehicles.
data can be used to profile usage, and personalise ads, according to location, usage, and seated occupants.

an insurance contract could work with highly granular , per-risk billing based on usage data, maybe even pushing a change in performance if your driving is too risky for too long.
So from planet's perspective best would be to downgrade living standards of everyone alive today to pre-industrial levels. As that will lead to lowest CO2 emissions?
Yes, sure, for both the benefits are weighted more towards lower-income earners (in other words, they get back much more, on average, than they paid in). I don’t know how that supports the thesis that those with lower income are overtaxed compared to those with higher incomes.
The state gets plenty of money in taxes. So does the city - nearly 6 billion dollars.
"A fan" hehe. I wonder if some genius at pornhub marketing thought the word had enough innuendo to be worth paying the squatter for redirect rights. It's not exactly "Macrohard"[ware] or its inverse (who we can thank for Github and VS Code)
It is difficult to imagine someone not being sympathetic to a 17 year old whose life ended up totally broken, even if he did it out of sheer malice. Stephen Fry famously stole a credit card at nearly same age and was jailed for it, would you hold that against him today?
> Thread parent posited an axiom. I'm just interested how far people are willing to carry it before they admit it isn't viable.

Viable. Thinking that most things in life (that you have to do) sucks is perfectly viable. Plenty of people could be of that opinion.

> "Work sucks" is great as a relatively common shared experience. It is not, however, a great presumption to carry around as if it's a natural law.

The great danger of proposing that something universally sucks is that the chronically happy will get upset. Maybe even unhappy.
Ever since most of these social sites launched their advertising portals, moderation has basically become a practice in how to creatively subvert non-paying posters anyway.

These sites need to ensure they deliver on numbers represented to paid advertisers, and now it's pretty much the only way to make it to top rankings, so how much one is willing to pay determines what's on the front page more than anything else now.

The corporate mods are the ones that prevent harmful and deceptive things from staying at the top of the front page I bet, and they're not likely to be regular mod roles any time soon due to the power wielded.

These massive social media sites all get corrupted after a while and then can never manage to come back. This may well be that point for Reddit.
It’s more difficult than you would think.

Naive answer is a percentage of monthly advertising or subscription revenue, split amongst the moderators based on the proportion of the moderation work they have undertaken.

However, this creates a perverse incentive for moderators to perform unnecessary additional moderation work to bring in more compensation.
> This is pure experiment

Pedantically speaking, it is not an experiment, it is an observation. Experiment is a kind of study where you control independent variable. In this case no cosmic radiation nor seismic activity were not manipulated by scientists. It is the reason why they speak about correlation but not causation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment#Observational_studi...
> Wouldn't there be a more direct way

Of course. That's one reason among many of thinking this is all bullshit.
A quick look to see if there are relevant publications brings up the Journal of Online Trust and Safety, but there are probably others. I would prefer to look at academic handlings of industry pay to anecdotes and I presume others here would as well.
Who else are they suppose to choose that can make a performant 5G chip?

And users don’t “regularly” have to buy new devices. The 2013 iPhone 5s is the first iPhone that supports LTE and it just got a security update this year.

And how much larger and less battery efficient would a phone with a card be? What about the surrounding hardware? Could you just throw a 5G chip in a 2009 iPhone 3G?
Cat-and-mouse world of art fraud revealed in London show
Or there's a common trigger event, like, say, a large gravitational wave or a passing cloud of weakly interacting matter(dark matter?) which triggers both increased cosmic ray emissions along with earthquakes.

Not that I believe any of this, but it seems we're just pulling stuff out of our asses so I figured I'd give it a shot.
Show HN: Discuit – A Reddit alternative with a clean UI and a sensible vision
Hi HN, this is a platform (Discuit, pronounced "diskette") I've been working on for about two years. I initially built it for a niche demographic (my native country). But now with Reddit going dark and people looking for a new place to migrate to, I'm doing a quick launch today.

A few quick things:

1. I don't believe federated platforms will ever become mainstream. They have a whole host of problems, not the least of which is that they're too complicated for most people to use. This platform is not, therefore, federated.

2. I don't know what the best way of monetizing a thing like this is. I see only two options: the Wikipedia model of running on donations, or being advertising supported (along with a paid ad-free tier). The Wikipedia model works quite well for small-scale and bandwidth light projects, but I don't think a large social media platform can ever be funded that way.

3. Whichever option of monetization I take (if this takes off, that is) what I can say with certainty is that this will not go down the path of previous platforms. I don't believe the SV grow-fast model has worked very well for the end users. I have no interest in chasing growth for its own sake, or in chasing valuations, or in capturing as much attention from the users as possible. On this platform, therefore, there never will be any dark UI patterns. Avoiding enshittification is a primary goal of mine.

4. My vision for this platform, and for social media in general, is about giving users agency; the freedom to choose their social experience to their liking. What this would mean in practice are things like: ability to customize the UI; ability to filter content as one wants; ability to tweak recommendation algorithms; ability to turn on and off things like infinite scroll and suggested posts; and so on. I hate how all the current platforms want to tightly control my experience for me.

I go into all this in a bit more detail in my introductory blog post: https://discuit.substack.com/p/introducing-discuit

I know many HN users hate the New Reddit layout, which is what I've based this site on, but don't be bothered by it too much, I will be adding a much more compact layout sometime later.
> the scandinavian justice system

> Why does this seemingly work for them?

Scandinavian countries are for the most part ethnically homogeneous with a monarchy and a state religion, all things that improve social cohesion. (The one Scandinavian country that became markedly less ethnically homogeneous recently is struggling with an unprecedented rise in violent crime.) America is just about the polar opposite of that, and recently so much more so -- now it's considered racist to ask an immigrant to assimilate themselves to the mainstream culture, for example.

And there are legal systems that go the other way to achieve the same result of low rates of crime and reoffense; countries like Saudi Arabia or the UAE treat criminals extremely harshly and have some of the lowest crime rates in the world. Singapore puts drug traffickers to death and have opiate abuse rates of 30 per 100k vs. 600 in the US.

America, for better or for worse, is a vast land with a diverse population and constitutionally guaranteed personal liberties; that is to say, it's set up in such a way that deterrence is a big part of the justice system. In less diverse countries with more social cohesion, a big chunk of that deterrence comes from social pressure of people around you, who look like you and with whom you share a common cultural heritage. In America, where the people around you have little say in your behavior (and increasingly less so), it's a part of the justice system's job to be menacing.

> let's throw away our theses and just accept what the data tells us

What the data tells about Scandinavia is not likely to work in America for the reasons above. And let me ask you a question: a third of all shoplifting arrests in NYC, a city of 8.5 million people, were from just 327 people, who were collectively arrested over 6000 times[0]. How will you rehabilitate those 327 people, given that you don't have unlimited resources and you have a duty to keep them from harming other innocent, law-abiding people? Saudi Arabia would probably cut their hands off and be done with it. Norway might commit them to a lengthy term at a psychiatric facility on the taxpayer's dime. Neither is an option in the US.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/nyregion/shoplifting-arre...
John Carmack is just right on this. Its non-sensical to claim more work gets done in 32 hours compared to 40. You dont have to be pro overtime to recognize this obvious truth.

Sure, there are diminishing returns. And being tired can make a negative impact. But the “actually a 4 day, 8 hour work week is more productive“ claims is completely self serving bullshit.

Just imagine working 4x 8 hour days. Now ask yourself if you can output anything except negative work on that Friday.
> There are certainly those, but not sure it is accurate to generalize to mods as a whole.

There are powermods who "moderate" hundreds of subreddits. This is not an exaggeration. Hundreds.

When questioned, they invariably say that they "just watch the incoming queue" or something, and the other mods "do all the work". While likely true in the literal sense (again, hundreds), such answers of course completely evade of the question.
> Ask people to predict whether the Jones' have a dog and they'll start asking questions about the specifics of the Jones', like do they have children, do they live in the suburbs, have they always wanted a dog, etc. Then they try to construct a narrative based on "logical" conclusions.

This is the core idea of Bayesian statistics.

You fall back to the background rate only if you have no ability to access more pertinent facts.
I suspect that one problem might be that not that many people want to do the job.

Your suggestion relies on having sufficient people willing to moderate a forum.
This is a fundamentally false binary. There are absolutely loads of people who are both of those things, usually due to their enthusiasm for their day job being matched by their enthusiasm for other things.
But how does it work? Who moderates the communities?
It's almost like weakening the federal government has been a plank in a party platform for at least the last 47 years of my life...
I interpret it as saying: exponentially different, where the range in my uncertainty is comparable tonthe effect of the choice of base.

For instance if the range is '3-13' in base 2 it's similar to '1-4' in base 10, but either way I'm making up numbers so who cares what the base is.
Money is just a convenient way to keep track of debt. Stop making it into some kind of proxy for all human need and utility.
The discussion in the original post is responding to "Why working fewer hours would make us more productive". We're talking about how to be more productive in general.
Agreed. As weird as that was, I prefer it to the original.
John Carmack is someone who has, for the most part, had control of what he was working on. During his work hours, he is working on what he wants to work on.

Yes, in that scenario, the right number of hours to maximize productivity and balance with the other things in life is going to be calculated differently.

But for most people, we are working for an employer. We have nearly no control over what our work will entail. We do not give a single flying rat's behind about that work. We do that work solely because capitalism requires us to do some work, and so we do for survival. In this scenario, the correct number of hours to spend working is as few hours we we can get away with while still drawing a salary.
Yeah you'll end up reading the source code regardless if it's simple or not though haha. I've had to read through tons of the Identity and Auth code to get a handle on how to integrate with it and there are TONS of interfaces, implementations, and etc you have to cross-reference and hunt down to start building a mental model. You don't even get a diagram in the docs explaining how all the different filters and crap tie together(on top of auth having ITS OWN MIDDLEWARE PIPELINE) lol.

Combine that with maybe the info you are looking for actually is in the docs, but it's sprinkled across loads of examples so it's hard to find or build a comprehensive understanding of.
Sorry, I like reliable electricity, I don't live near a hydro plant, and I'd prefer not to burn coal. Nuclear does what I want, and if the desire for a perfect solution for waste handling gets in the way of a good method for keeping the lights on while we work towards improving the isolation and transmutation of waste-that desire needs to be set aside.
I wasn't aware that modwerators were compensated. I thought it was a service they provided to their communities.
I bet they both just sit in strychnine trees. Eat some of the fruits. The fruits, flowers and even bark are poisonous. Their fruits can cause paralysis.
Great! Wishing you good luck.

What I find quite nice about Marginalia is for discoveries outside the most popular destinations for such topics. For example, looking for a weekend movie but do not want to see all the SEO websites talking about movies. Marginalia surprises you with some unknown websites in the first page :)
I use it when I want to be surprised by the results :D
What do you mean by, "we are hours away from coronal mass ejection catastrophe right now as solar cycle 20 builds in intensity"?

Because i can't read that as anything other than, we are in solar cycle 20, and it's currently building such that i predict with hours of right now, there will be a coronal mass ejection that will knock out the global power grid. But I've googled and we appear to currently be in solar cycle 25 with solar cycle 20 occurring in the 60s and 70s. Do you mean that a coronal mass ejection event takes hours to get to earth? Then why the "right now"? Does the delay of such events change on a sufficiently short time scale to warrant "right now"?

Nobody else seems confused so maybe I'm an idiot
Largest-Ever Turing Test, 1.5M Humans Guess Little Better Than Chance
It's dead for new development, and dying as a legacy language. Not many people are using Ruby for new development, they've all moved on to Node/React. And most people who have RoR apps are looking to rewrite them in Node/React.
computational geometry was pretty hard. algorithm theory isn’t easy for everyone. lots of people can struggle with linear algebra. cryptography classes can be hard.
Whether it appears to be in English, whether there appears to be enough text, things like that.

If you post the domain name (or email me) I can take a closer look tomorrow.
> If every responsibility you have in life is automatically absolutely horrible by nature of being a responsibility, why live?

Life isn’t worth living, if that’s what you are asking. But there could be reasons to, you know, not intentionally die. Maybe you’re a Catholic for example. Or maybe you just have small children.
Per another thread, it appears Reddit is rapidly undeleting such posts.