skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a ludicrous proposal, requiring these trees to be planted in other nations. And nothing to say of the logistics of keeping 1 trillion trees alive long enough to maturity. Or even to just produce the saplings and ship them. If you do the math on just raising a trillion saplings, it’s mind boggling.
Just because it comes from a side you don't like don't throw it away.

This was based on an article published in Science (Trust the science):

https://www.science.org/content/article/adding-1-billion-hec...

Here is Al Jazeera reporting on it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/7/4/best-way-to-fight-cl...
Feel free to try it with complex tables (like the ones found in financial documents).
Exactly - I don't understand the argument of "this happened before to people worse off than you, and you are entitled if you complain about it now happening to more people (including you)".

Unless we somehow reform the whole society into a socioeconomic utopia in the next decade or so, what started happening now with AI has all the potential to speed up the wealth gap growth and push everyone else towards the gutter.
"too low"
I see these like Blake Lemoine. Obvious propaganda meant to push the corporate message harder. That message being: "Labor is being devalued. Expect to earn less." The very specific reach and targeting of these articles is a good hint here, I think.

If these "chat bots" were actually capable of what is claimed, none of this would be necessary, and no NDAs would need to be "broken" for the world to know about it.

It's like imagining a Ford factory worker in 1907 breaking an NDA to tell us all "cars are coming."
How do you prove who actually signed the document? Docusign does this by only sending the signing link to the signer’s email. I don’t see how you could prove that no one else had access to that link if you’re self hosting.
Hand arm vibration syndrome
House Republicans, now with more #TeamTrees.

"TeamTrees vs REALITY!!"

https://youtu.be/gqht2bIQXIY

Climate change can best be solved by scalable biological means like phytoplankton and seaweed grown, processed, and sequestered by autonomous robotic platforms. (Sacrificial areas of deep water seem unavoidable.) Fractional distillation of air, planting trees, spraying substances in the air, and solar shades aren't going to work.
It is a global proposal.

https://www.science.org/content/article/adding-1-billion-hec...

> Oh, look. It’s ben studied, and the answer is “it won’t work”:

No, it hasn't. That is just one guy's analysis.
https://gpt4all.io/index.html is another great and simple way to get started.
Do you mean U-shaped on a wealth vs. age graph, or something else? I would imagine wealth distribution to look more like an exponential distribution.
I've often been struck by the fact that often login via password requires 2FA but password reset doesn't (unless of course it works via email that itself requires 2FA to log into). At least some authentication systems now never bother with persistent passwords at all and simply rely on you providing a code sent in each login to your email (or occasionally still via SMS - though that's rapidly falling out of favour, at least partly because in many countries SIM-swapping a significant problem, though the bigger problem I've observed is potential delays of several minutes for codes to arrive). But I certainly wouldn't want that for systems I have to log in into multiple times a day - a combination of browser-auto-filled password, plus use of basic browser fingerprinting techniques to avoid having to require 2FA every time seems to work okay though it seems ridiculous to me that just wanting to reply to a group chat message would require the same level of verification as downloading source/documentation etc.

A compromise between allowing users full control over their passwords and none at all would be generating a list of permitted alternatives and having them pick one. What I'd then like to see is that early on you are required to supply it quite frequently, giving you a chance to commit it to memory, but then allow having the browser store it or session cookies with longer lifetimes be used. But I've yet to come across a login system where ensuring the user learns their password and doesn't forget it was a priority at all.
I didn't do the math on the area (actually I did and it looked plausible, but I'm super jetlagged rn and really don't trust my work :-D ), but there is an awful lot of space in the western US.

And trees can be mechanically planted at rates of up to 5000 per hour "at a well-prepared site".[1]

Sadly, the US is becoming increasingly intolerable to trees and forests are dying off.

[1] https://www.fs.usda.gov/t-d/seedlings/planting/mechplan.htm
Makes me glad that the .ca tld allows keeping the registrants info private
also SBC (share based comp) looks favorably on cash flow statement, because SBC does not decrease EBITDA, thus artificially inflating EBITDA numbers and price target of the company.

How this works: new SaaS startup shows up and shows $10M EBITDA to investors. This does not reflect $5M in SBC.

According to industry averages, bankers apply average (lets say 10x) EBITDA multiple and derive valuation of $100M and invest funds based on that calculation.

Had company paid cash salary instead of RSUs, firms' EBITDA would have been $5M and valuation of $50M - a half of original pitched value

Obviously this is just a naiive textbook example, and actual valuations are more complex and involve several ways of deriving value and multiples, but in general RSU is viewed favorably mainly because it improves Cash Flow from Operations and EBITDA numbers - in addition to creating incentives to employees
Full circle, now we have cloud storage made of buckets which are just flat lists of keys (which sometimes pretend to have directories by putting slashes in the keys ...)
The problem with customer support broadly isn’t having the agent understand you, it’s often about escalation until you get to an agent with the authority to handle your particular exceptional circumstance. There is no godly way any company will ever allow a chatbot, however capable, to go off script.
Like I said before, less employees and more with less. [0]

The ones who are journalists, writers or artists are currently getting destroyed by AI. Engineers are next on the menu and will be affected. Henceforth, as LLMs get better at code, there would be less engineers and jobs created for both juniors and seniors. It does not matter.

AI doesn't complain, get sick, care, protest or give a damn. It is coming and it's not going to stop at all.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33878482
Lost my brother to a carcinoma, a disease that most likely will be successfully treated, cured and even prevented in my lifetime. I feel for your brother but also for you.
It's not about flying into them. It's about removing livable and forageable space. It indirectly leads to the death and reduction of living things.

The focus on the visceral thought of a bird flying into something is what I meant about being impactful on the human psyche.
I worked at a pharma company who disabled internet access for most people. Many downloaded things on their phone's 4G and transferred them to their computer with a USB cable, it was pretty pointless.

That said, I'm sure Google's IT are far more competent than that horror-show.
To become a mid and senior one has to start as a junior.

The upcoming generation better learn how to start as junior architect.
Yea it’s pretty disheartening that these r common experiences. Admittedly, I don’t kno a ton about UBI but I’d imagine the idea of giving people more security so they can pursue their interests in careers and not have to suffer thru a daily grind solely for a paycheck is a tenet of it
Or the best of both worlds: American employment while living in Canada.

But yeah, I’ve worked for ridiculously cheap companies before here. Some who are well-known to conspire with local competitors not to poach each other’s employees to keep salaries down.
A Swedish family, called Scheutz, finished the Difference Engine within a few years after Babbage gave up, and sold them very profitably for many decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Georg_Scheutz

It wasn't too hard for the time... Babbage just kept getting distracted.
The one I knew the price of was about $450 a month (maybe in 98?) but that was because there was some local completion and ISPs as such already existed vs ISPs using the local telco monopoly.
They don't need the desktop for stack overflow. They're launching a browser. They can launch the browser in any computer without breaking their workflow.
I have a challenge that I often hand out to people: Go for a mere 7 days without using or eating anything which is marked 'Made in China', and also without using anything that while it is not marked 'Made in China' contains Chinese components or ingredients. Off you go.
TIL, area on Earth = area of the continental United States
> I also think that there needs to be a “non-professor” track in grad school.

There is, it's called getting a master's degree. Typically, the first two years of a US CS PhD are a mix of research and classes, and the remaining few years are pure research. Students that are good at classes but bad at research should be able to walk away with a master's degree after two years, whose requirements they have should be at least close to meeting. I'm sure this varies a bit between schools, though I hope not too much because it's an essential escape valve.

Students that know up front that they just want to continue to be students should go for a master's degree, and one without a research requirement if possible.

("Bad at research" meaning "bad at research in combination with their advisor", which can be due to the student, or the advisor, or the way they interact.)
Nice, I didn't know Redmine has a Gantt view of some kind. https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineGantt

I usually prefer to use a mix of Gantt and Kanban-ish board simultaneously, and it's important that those all are in sync with the task/issue system and Git activity.
Show HN: UNIQR – Image-to-QR API
I think it's important to remember how linked these are. In many places the response to desegregation was to dismantle as much public infrastructure as possible and replace it with private infrastructure that was legally integrated but functionalaly segregated.
Show HN: Interesting Maps
I combined my CSV-To-Map site with ChatGPT to generate an index of potentially interesting maps. Kinda cool to explore various data in the context of geography.
Yea, they probably realized there was no analytics advantage when anyone who would use that shortener would also likely have google analytics on thier site...
So this comes up all the time on these threads.

The key bit of information I’m missing is where did those milk men, carriage chauffeurs, lamp lighters, whatever go and how did they get there after they were rendered useless .

Did they retrain for new careers? If so how did they afford the education/retraining necessary. How did they pay their rent/mortgage/etc. in the time in between it took them to do that? What are the new jobs that are going to be created after sweeping automation in service and knowledge industries?

I can think of a few jobs that probably won’t see automation anytime soon, but a lot of them are crap, or would result in a major quality of life degradation. I remember years before ChatGPT reading a lot of speculation on automation and what potential careers could survive in the face of some AI or robotics revolution and the jobs people considered safe from automation were things like caregiver. Just a quick google search shows the pay range for that job near starting at minimum wage.

Genuine question, I really don’t know. Personally I’d love to leave the software industry, but I don’t have any realistic alternative. Rent keeps getting more expensive, never less and the jobs that pay enough to keep up require expensive credentials that don’t only require a lot of money, but a lot of time as well.

I probably should read up on the history of this sort of stuff, but I take a look at places like the rust belt and it seems like the next career for a lot of the people in blue collar work that was moved or automated was “opioid addict”. Personally if I lose everything and am forced out on the street because I’m obsolete, I don’t give a flying shit what kind of new jobs there are, because they’ll be inaccessible to me.
Squats and deadlifts are unequaled in terms of core strength development, and they are also some of the most natural human motions that any toddler naturally picks up as they learn to walk upright. I agree doing them with heavy weights can be risky for a typical sedentary adult, but they need not be feared. Performed correctly, the load goes into your muscles, not joints, but you have to learn how to engage your core muscles and maintain tension through the whole kinetic chain. The best way to do this is to get a knowledgeable coach and build up slowly starting with no weight until you have the basic movement and coordination well established.
>keeping their ssh and pgp keys somewhere else than a local machine

This is Google. Who is using ssh keys for anything?
In the fact that AI is the only realistic path we have of providing every human being on the planet with the best health care and education.
Fermi's calculation was that it would take a civilization between and 1 and 100 million years to colonize a galaxy at sub-light speeds. There has been ample time for multiple civilizations to have done this. So where is everyone?

If there's been on average a thousand civs spread across the Milky Way for the past 5 billion years, then we need something else to explain why none of them have colonized the galaxy.
I went through the same exercise as you, I carefully read the thread for any information that could be under NDA or even evidence that the thread author even worked for Shopify and found nothing credible. The author does claim to be an employee but all of the supposed inside information is either publicly available or so vague and unsupported I can't take it seriously. This is not a credible piece.
It's in the name. P
I don't have a crystal ball, but I would not bet against you. :)
There are some truths in this, but they're unfortunately smothered in what will understandably be seen as sexist condescension.

Perhaps it would be good to extract out the core sentiment and rephrase it in a more politically acceptable way:

- Men in tech launch startups to stop being losers (yes, I know, this too is a gross generalization).

- Women in tech aren't losers.
Devil's in the details. Suppose Pfizer wants to test a new acne drug based on radium nanoparticles fused to asbestos. It might work, and hey, if you can give a homeless guy $100 and a bottle of vodka to "voluntarily take it into his body" and let you watch to see what happens- that's so cheap! Why not give it a shot!
Amazing is the word that comes to mind looking at all these many drawings. Many seem to show the decisive moment in a fight between a warrior and his or her foes. In an age without film or video these would have been as close to the action you could get without being there in person.
I read the original proposal before posting. It's an interesting idea on its own but it's far from practical and not even the study's authors are claiming it will be a solution to climate change. It's just one more possible mitigation.

That the Republican Party is promoting it as a solution in the way they are is what's so unserious.
I have brought this up a few times, we need a ux on top of open city data so we can run simulations, and compare that with ai outcomes as also compared to actually municipal policy outcomes
I use an external Apple trackpad and it's been a relief for my right arm, I only use a mouse for gaming anymore as game-specific muscle memory doesn't seem to translate well. It does feel very ergonomic to me, almost on par with a vertical mouse, but those are always too big for my hands.

I get why people wouldn't want to do that with Windows laptop trackpads though, not to speak of Linux, which seems to really struggle with trackpads.
Actually, there is! I according to the article all we have to do is move the entire US population to megacities on Hawaii, and leave the rest of the country as forest.

Although that might be to get to a trillion trees total, not add a trillion. It's unclear.
I thought "remember this device" more typically worked via a combination of browser fingerprinting (which can be pretty sophisticated, e.g. even relying on rendering behaviours) and local storage, which may or may not involve cookies.
Why is this called an air gap? It’s not. They are just firewalling off workstations most (not all) of the public internet.
Arthur C. Clarke on the future of AI [video]
No, that's would defeat the purpose. The trillion trees would be GMO and therefore patented by a mega-crop like monstanto, gov would only be able to buy trees from them (at considerable markup), Monsanto becomes any even bigger campaign financer. Welcome to the tree-planting-industrial-complex.
If we're going back hundreds of years then there's no ccTLD that is worthy, not the US not any commonwealth nation, nowhere....
It's not about efficiency it's about devaluing workers so you have more leverage over them.
It’s just hard for the reality of human behavior to square with “a socialized economy” given that every attempt to create one, past and present, has resulted in barbarism and some of the worst examples of genocidal horror that ever existed.
Probably most, but here (south eu) a lot of forest is being and was cut down for planting shitty fruit trees and other crops (not for animals; for humans & cosmetics) that are no substitute for what was removed.
The math on the saplings is easy. Grow 10,000 before the next election, then grow the rest right after that. :)
Could the former be fixed by requiring experimental drugs to be free of charge, or would that break how drug roll-out works? Somebody suggested an escrow account in this thread, which also seemed interesting.
I recently gave a code review to a colleague where the regex they had was obviously unfit for its purpose and I politely informed them of such. They responded "Then why would ChatGPT have told me to use it?"

I trust exactly 0 output from any LLM. The problem with any of this sort of generative AI is that there's nothing that stops it from hallucinating facts and spewing those with a confident tone. Until we can figure out the trust and validation step, none of it is truly helpful.

I'm not a luddite, I just find these tools to be woefully lacking. Anything they can do takes me more time to validate than just doing it myself.
Some folks who do this feel like if the store is making them work, they might as well get paid for it. I guess there is the argument that using self check out saves the store money so you should enjoy some savings too. I'm curious whether retailers have already built that into the price everyone pays.
> I DO NOT want the cessation of experience.

What you want isn't always what you get. There are a lot of people that have all kinds of urges that they know aren't going to happen. That's perfectly normal, but for so called 'rational' people that fraction that has these irrational desires is a bit strange to me. Rationally: everything dies, sooner or later, and so will you. So the way to get the most out of it is to make sure that you make every minute count.
Agrivoltaics in general make a lot of sense, especially in mid to lower latitude regions. During peak summer in direct sun the temperatures now are often hotter than is ideal for optimal photosynthesis, and this problem will get worse as the planet continues to warm. Solar panels can soak up those photons on peak summer days -- when there's high AC demand, among other things. (There's also another advantage -- the panels will keep working even in the winter on lands that are fallow in the winter.)
I really, really wanna try laying off CEOs and replacing management with AI- let’s see how that goes.
That doesn't make sense to me. You can't copy-paste into and out of your editor across machines.

You see an error message on your desktop, you want to search for it. What do you do?
Mosses sequester around 6.43 billion metric tons more carbon in the soil than is stored in the bare patches of soil without any plants typically found nearby them in global semi-arid areas.

https://www.futurity.org/moss-carbon-soil-climate-change-292....
Planting a significantly large number of humans in the ground might also be an answer...
in practise: have you ever used any automated customer support for anything?

I've used it to cancel orders, cancel subscriptions, change a broadband package, arrange a return/refund for faulty goods.

Do you prefer to talk to a human for things like this?
hey, not so old but feeling old to not have done much yet, thanks for reminding me that I can still be kicking 35 years from now.

I'd say if you have the fire go for it fren
I don't think it will eliminate the vast majority of jobs, more likely that it will significantly reduce the demand for certain jobs in an uneven way. I guess some of this depends on the time horizon you're looking at too.
> Until the password manager gets hacked. Well, tough shit. If your primary device gets hacked, the hacker just has to wait until the next time you log in with the bullshit gazillion factor authentication.

Can you elaborate? This scenario assumes that a) the primary device is the only 2FA option b) there is no one-time codes and c) the attacker persistently waits until a 2FA request comes through then somehow hijacks it with their own connection request?
It's always fun to see frequentists/bayesians infights in HN comments. It's almost a guilty pleasure for me.
Too many syllables...
> Using radiators too much could be fined.

Source?
It's called sarcasm. But here, let me say the same thing directly: you are an insufferable prick. Imagine gatekeeping talking to a fucking chatbot.
You are welcome! But you see the times, somebody got irritated - and since it went to their fingers, I am still in doubt if it was out of having read some irony in the second part,

or out of feeling as outrageous the idea that politics is not supposed to be a decadent game of winning battles against "internal enemies".
TSA is jobs program. Never getting rolled back.
This quality of life metric is purely economic, but it is easy to read it as general life quality- personally, I'd swap now for 1820s homesteading out west in a heartbeat even though that would register as 'extreme poverty' on the economic scale.
The in-browser editor at Google is actually very good and has built in debugging support. Some people still don't use it though, and this change seems to ignore that.
> If the promise of AI means I can do 1/2 the amount of work and maintain my high quality life, then I'm all for it.

The only way that'll happen is worker co-ops. The benefits of increased productivity always accrue to the owners, not the employees.
I’d be more worried about mid-level devs that will be replaced by a junior++ armed with an LLM.
Documenting some code you wrote is hard because you have to forget you everything about it (all the thought processes that led you to the point of writing that piece of code, with that design, etc) and put yourself in the shoes of an arbitrary end user. To make things more complicated there are many different users coming from different backgrounds and having different sets of thins that are obvious or non-obvious to them
Connections — A New York Times Game
I’ve been playing this every day. It’s like a solo implementation of the board game Codenames.
I heard somewhere that when a task becomes too big for people to truly estimate the actual time-taken, they unconsciously substitute their confidence that it can be done.
EVs Are Sending Toxic Tire Particles into the Water, Soil, and Air