skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what do you think scientists got wrong?

1. That CO2 is not transparent to infrared light?

2. That CO2 is transparent to visible light?

3. That things heated by visible light radiate much of that heat back as infrared light?

4. That CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rapidly rising?

5. That raising CO2 levels will cause warming (see #1, #2, #3)?

6. That there are different isotopes of carbon, with different half lives?

7. That living things regularly exchange carbon with atmospheric carbon?

8. That because of that exchange the isotope ratios in carbon from living things matches the atmosphere carbon isotope ratios?

9. That when living things die they stop breathing?

10. That because of #6-10 we can tell from isotope ratios how long ago something died?

11. That as the CO2 levels have risen dramatically over the last couple hundred years, the isotope ratios of atmospheric carbon have changed?

12. That from these ratios we can tell that most of the increase in CO2 comes from sources that have not been exchanging carbon with the atmosphere for a very long time?

13. That fossil fuels come from long dead things, and have isotope ratios that match whatever provided most of that increased atmospheric CO2?

14. That the amount of CO2 that we are putting in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels matches up closely with the amount of extra carbon we know must have come from sources that have not exchanged carbon with the atmosphere for a long time?

15. That we have satellites that can measure incoming and outgoing radiation and see that we are out of equilibrium, by an amount that fits with the amount that we would expect from that extra CO2?
Did you read it? Author laments about not taking action, then as a solution proposes a club to think (or as you said, ”iterate over the problem domain and brainstorm solution"). I mean, how will the same thing they do already help with being more action oriented?

> Does it make sense to jump to the solution space when you barely have an idea of what the problem is?

Yes! Well actually, it depends - but if you see that your answer is "no" too often (as apparently OP does), then change the default answer to "yes". You will be surprised at what can be achieved. Do try to survive though. :)
I think 60 hours is quite extreme and unsustainable. A good work-life balance is around 40 hours (and not every week) and it’s in this window that I try to create time and opportunities for side projects.
> On the other hand, ugly architecture could have direct negative consequences. Arnold J. Wilkins, Professor of Psychology at the University of Essex, has found that looking at certain urban landscapes may actually give you a headache and cause migraines.

If you look at the link: https://theconversation.com/looking-at-buildings-can-actuall...?

> There are two ways of measuring efficiency; the first is to build simple computer models of the way that nerve cells compute what we see.

> For our own research, Olivier and I designed a computer program that measures how well images adhere to the rule of nature. After running the program, we found that departure from the rule of nature predicts how uncomfortable people find it to look at any given image – whether it’s an image of a building or a work of art.

And then later:

> That is, our brains use more oxygen when we look at scenes which depart from the rule. Since headaches tend to be associated with excess oxygen usage, this may explain why some designs give us headaches.

This evidence also seems pretty weak
There's basically a cluster of tech-adjacent grifters who move from fad to fad trying to get rich quick all following the same playbook from more popular tech-adjacent grifters. They all moved from 'web3' to AI following the current trend.
oh my god, this just opened my eyes. i've been a lifelong learner, but it all stems from being a little kid who used books to escape a shitty childhood. i am always "learning" but also always exhausted and i legit didn't put this all together until now. i'm gonna try this.
> I think they BOTH have reasonable ways of finding truth.

I disagree. One party has obviously decided to substitute "authority" for thought; which is not conducive to civilized co-existence with anyone who even interprets the Authority differently, much less with anyone who actually disagrees.

Finding an external force that you think is always right and cannot disagree with isn't a "reasonable way of finding Truth"; its religion where Truth is just Revealed to you.
No matter what they say every group's goal is grabbing the power
Am not a lawyer or even a tax expert, just was noting that for non-experts in these domains this scenario look similar (China is doing to IP what tax havens did for taxes).
It's not the ball of rock and iron that is being killed, it's the ecosystems on its surface.

Ecosystems have "vital organs" as well. If you kill off enough key species they collapse. If you sufficiently change the environmental conditions to which all life is adapted, well then the majority of that life ceases to be able to live.
I think it's a matter of scope. Cruise ships are unusually polluting. This is why folks argue to ban private jets and not commercial aviation. Or in this case, cruise and not container ships.
The low speed wouldn't work for me - I'd get run over. The range is so-so, and would only be good if it's light enough to be picked up and carried into the office for charging.

What I'd like is an electric version of the 1984-86 Elite 125/150, with it's 55mph top speed and cool pop-up headlight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz53sAFPo-I
This article is seemingly more about NOx, not CO2. It should be relatively easy to address the NOx problem as technology exists. I think if the activists narrowly focused on this, they might actually be able to get somewhere.
This is super cool, but it models a non-capitalist economy, akin to the Rawlsian "property owning democracy".

There is no accounting for capital goods. Interest in terms of numeraire is modeled in an internally coherent way, but this is not reflective of how distributional struggles between owners of means of production and workers play out (or, to be precise, among agents whose property ownership levels are not unimodal, which is the inevitable result of capitalist social relations).

The distinctive characteristic of a capitalist economy is that the direct producers are separated from their means of production, such that they must sell their ability to work to those who own said means. Throughout the modern period, there has been a strong desire to have a market economy without this separation into classes.

Without capital and wage labor, the author's assumption that terms of exchange are determined by producer/consumer preferences (their "quality of life" function). But in reality world capitalist economies, the capital relation instead constrains behavior to ensure the endless expansion of capital (the so-called "valorization imperative").

It is important to note that a society with produced means of production, which are commonly referred to as "capital goods" or "producer goods", need not be a capitalist society in principle.

On a completely different note, at first glance it seems that this model could be expressed as a convex program, possibly even a linear program?
It makes it appear that way, but exerting an inevitable causal filter on the physical manifestation of the future is highly speculative.
Indeed, but it's also useful for terms to have useful meanings, i.e. meanings which are as simple and objective as possible and not meanings that anyone can willingly bend whenever it's convenient.

So that, you know, people can understand each other and interact with each other successfully.

Sure, there might be cases that could be considered ambiguous, but it's still useful to have a definition that is as clear as possible.

If by 'intersex' or even LGBT* you include anything that is slightly outside the 'norm', whatever 'norm' you decide it must be at any given point, just because it's more convenient for you, then the terms lose their meanings.

If you'd apply the same reasoning to everything, then everything would become artificially fabricated 'What is a woman?' "dilemmas", which makes forward progress impossible.
I love this stuff. It's amazing how many different sorts of construction materials you can get for cheap at a modern hardware store. I just wish I knew more about what's available, I'm sure there's a lot of customized home hacks that would be easy to rig up.
Same, I track the prices of a few dozens of products across the six supermarkets I go to, in France and Belgium (every day, automatically) and this has never happened.
I think this sequence is sufficient to infer that their approach to safety is not commensurate with their engineering skill. https://youtu.be/Z6JvAZHJCAo?si=y-nWawnkC_mIAvVM&t=123
The sum total of aviation and cruise ships is not worth discussing. Getting the world off coal use is much more important.
Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads monetization
As I understand, the plume of dirt then envelopes the planet with a blanket of dust, causing dramatic temperature reduction by blocking sunlight. Animals immediately dependent on food from the sun die very quickly, as the blanket of dust takes a very long time to dissipate.

There is also the possibility of increased volcanic activity due to disruption of the crust, depending on where it occurs and how large the impacting object is. That can exacerbate and prolong the blanketing of the earth, and introduce severe air quality issues as well.

I’m sure there are other challenges to life as well. It sounds like misery for decades.
A kind of French obsession ;-)
This site was made back when companies unironically used meaningless marketing speak and no one seemed to notice they were completely full of shit. People defaulted to believing that these companies were just transcendent. “What they do is just beyond my feeble understanding.”

A lot of companies still do this, but more people can see through it now.
They can maybe make an impact... Maybe... but the problem I find is that anyone out front who's not actually "doing" anything beyond "catalyzing" is often viewed by the converts as a messiah and the skeptics as a charlatan. See: Greta Thunberg, Al Gore, etc. If they have a track record of execution in a different field they get a little more credibility, but still lots of derision. Ex: Bill Gates.
It is also possible that everything humans understand is simply a vignette into a much larger reality, and all of those things would fall apart because they aren't true, they're merely the laws we've discovered with the limited information we have available to us.
Since it's a Saturday and vaguely on topic, David Foster Wallace’s 1996 classic “Shipping Out” is a recommended read.

https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazi...
They already tried that: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56592109

The cruise ship operators docked nearby and chartered busses. Or they used smaller boats to circumvent the law:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/25/cruise-passeng...
You are right, It think it’s mostly caused by the change of our environment: screens, less time outside, food getting industrialized, etc.

On the side of pharma it’s mostly: work on what is lucrative, don’t kill the golden goose (fix the problem)

They have a huge incentives to keep the problems going and create a subscription model to alleviate the symptoms, not surprising, that exactly what they do.
If they're doing so poorly, why are they giving such steep discounts in Germany and not charging Austrian prices to bump up their margins? Are they stupid to leave so much money on the table?
These days you can teach old tech a bunch of new tricks
You are clearly here to argue, but who are you arguing against? Not the article I guess.

> For a while people thought this impact may have caused the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction event. But now that the crater has been carefully dated, they don’t think that anymore. The extinction happened 12 million years later!
How much improvement would there even be for the next generation? Marginal - and the unborn don't get a voice.
> But I'm pretty sure they'll be just fine, as long as the reptilians continue suppressing the truth

If you can't resist ridiculing people who are trying to maintain a respectful friendly conversation with you online, you are reinforcing their conviction that stigma and ridicule are preventing the subject from being studied earnestly.

Are you in the habit of sneering at people in other subjects as well?
This is whataboutism that fails to engage with the argument. Lots of things are potentially bad, we should consider the tradeoffs when prompted. In this case, we're discussing cruise ships, not <insert other thing>.
yes, but is it actually harder than Stopping Cruises, which is what the activists apparently want? Obviously not.
Why Did That Come to Mind?
> Area 51

Maybe you should read up on the radar tests of the A12 prorotype, SR71 and skunkworks in general.

'Murica has an education problem if they think that this [1] was a space ship more than 65 years later.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Lockheed...
I was 'arguing' with it just yesterday about this with some coding work!

I am newer to some things I am currently working on so it's been like a free tutor/mentor. Really nice at times.

But lately, it will go into an explanation with code examples and part way through the code examples it adds things like '# The rest is very similar. Not including for brevity'

Not exact wording of what it says but it is essentially saying that. It is incredibly annoying because I have started telling it not to do that, to include the full code of the example, and it STILL DOES THIS.

No, I'm not getting it to code for me. The examples aren't even things I would use in my code but for teaching me certain concepts along with them walking through them with me which, in the past, worked really well and never had this repetitive issue.

GPT-4 is definitely operating differently.
I'd agree. Though I find the 2% figure surprising (I'd previously thought it was around 0.2%) it doesn't change the facts that human biology is complex and we shouldn't be trying to shoehorn people into specific roles. There's many cultures that have a far more nuanced view of genders than western societies, so the more recent expansion of thinking beyond "male or female" is us simply catching up.
Certainly in the U.K. house builders sit on masses of land but don’t develop it for fear of lowering sold prices. If building a house costs £100k Better to sell 5 at 400k each year for 10 years than sell 50 at 250k

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/31/britain-land-...
You’re right that it always changes, but we don’t have record of it changing this quickly without it being caused by some traumatic geological event or something. We’re trending warmer way, way faster than evidence shows we normally do.
That's kind of a weird API, not indicating a list of partners, not indicating duration, methods, whether climax was achieved (or by whom) or whether the time indicates start or end of event.. it's all around a weird structure, on top of it being a weird topic for an OS to provide API for.
> Their notifications easily get lost in a sea of other notifications and are easily missed.

Time-sensitive notifications (iOS 15+) fixed this for me. They’re always delivered immediately and stay on the Lock Screen for an hour.

I can’t recall if Apple retroactively changed the default for Calendar and Reminders, or whether that’s something I had to change.
Well I hope the community decides not to press the issue for a good while, lulling companies into a false sense of security that they can release large high-quality models with "licenses" attached, before the seminal court case that rules that language models are not in fact copyrightable and no one can stop us doing anything we like with such data.
Space lizards and the new world order, obviously
I obe it when something doesn’t fit a narrative so it’s decried as “fake news”
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Seriously, where did this conspiracy come from?! I see it everywhere across vastly different swaths of the internet that "the libruls are gonna take your meat." It's always meat.

Like some think tank who wanted to demonize environmentalism just made up this idea that the democrats are gonna force salads on people and it apparently resonated.
Threat from Climate Change to Some of India’s Sacred Sites Is Reshaping Beliefs
OK so basically making up shit that the author likes and occasionally linking to irrelevant (and bogus) study in the hope nobody will bother reading it.

Flagged.
(I couldn't help but notice you didn't comment on the difference in formatting in the examples.)

Do you have examples of PRQL working with jsonpath? Generating JSON? Unnesting arrays? Returning ids from an INSERT or UPDATE without making a separate read query?

Not trying to be argumentative. Honest question.
I also immediately thought of jslinux but it's actually not the same thing: it's not Linux compiled to wasm running directly in the browser, it is a hardware emulator in JS and Linux (and a few other OSs actually) running on the emulator.
Bear rescued from theme park 'didn't understand trees,' relocated to sanctuary
Cars get better every year and depreciate, yet millions are still made and purchased. We'd probably be better off if housing was similar.
Oh, please.

Everyone know the satellites are arranged into a constellation to form a massive C.T. scanner.

So leaving the house is irrelevant.
Please be specific. I'm on mobile, but at least you can start here [0].

[0] https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-re...
I believe this is a relatively recent construct, because "the news" isn't really about that anymore. Even the last hold-outs, the national or public outlets have stopped presenting balanced "state of the world" and shifted to either negative, headline, click-driving OR agenda-based propaganda. My wife is still very in-touch with current events and finds it hilarious when I tell her about this "new topic" when in reality I'm coming in to the third or fourth wave of the story fresh. My life is better without "The News" IMO.
You shouldn't need to spend a lot of time on leetcode as a senior engineer. I do one leetcode problem every week from lists of recommend problems. You will realistically have 40 min of time to work on the problem, and you will go slower during the interview, so if I don't get an optimal solution in 30 min I give up and look at a solution. I'll spend at most another 30 min filling the gaps in my knowledge that will let me solve a similar problem next time I see one. I then add the problem to a queue of past problems I've failed. I've been doing this for years, but if you're just starting out you might need to cram more.

For side projects, I don't do them and have never had issues with that. I spend time reading stuff on my phone during downtime, which has been enough to keep me up to date on stuff.
We don’t really need to do that, there are often more environmentally friendly ways to do similar things
Quite.

I'd posted my own semi-informed assessment / speculation about the Derna dam failures in a thread yesterday, including the Beirut ammonia nitrate explosion as one of several similar incidents.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37523055>

The NY Times piece largely corresponds to what I'd written, filling in numerous details, e.g.:

In 1986, a major storm convulsed the region, damaging the dams and shearing soil from the ground. The structures were damaged, Dr. Ashoor said, but again they held. Despite the stresses, repairs were minimal. In 1998, the Libyan government commissioned a study that revealed cracks and fissures in the dams, said Attorney General Sadiq al-Soor. Nearly 10 years later, a Turkish company was finally contracted to repair the dams, the prosecutor added. But the government dragged its feet in paying, and the project got underway only in 2010... Just four months later, in 2011, Libyans marched against Colonel el-Qaddafi’s 42-year grip on power... In the tumult, work on the dam ceased...

So, significant damage was incurred thirty-seven years ago, a study was commissioned over a decade later, work didn't commence for another thirteen years, and stopped shortly after, 12 years ago. Meantime, climate has been degrading, affecting both precipitation patterns and geology which amplifies impacts of storms.

Technical debt accumulates.

And both autocratic and failing states respond poorly to long-term, slowly-evolving risk.

As far as who's to blame, I'd suggest that another take is to look around to see what other locations might have similarly-accumulating risks.

There's been strong contrast made to disaster response in Libya vs. Morocco, despite some governmental dysfunction in the latter's case. Social cohesion and individual response in Morocco has been called out as specifically effective.

Failing states, complex infrastructure, and latent risks devolving from those, seem to me likely elsewhere in North Africa, have already been evidenced in Pakistan (truly massive flooding in 2022), are a factor in Ukraine (another dam failure, this tied to military aggression by Russia). There's a very high-risk dam in Mosul, Iraq, which has made headlines for years. Sri Lanka's economic collapse earlier this year would suggest that infrastructure maintenance may be lapsing. Afghanistan has numerous dams and hydrological projects which are now under the control of the Taliban, who've not proven to be especially capable administrators. Syria is another region with ongoing conflict. I suspect there's considerable rotting infrastructure in Russia. China is a country that's seen absolutely incredible growth and development in the past two decades, though with highly questionable quality and inspections practices.

As I'd noted in my earlier comment, even in wealthy, advanced, and reasonably institutionally-sound countries such as the US there've been numerous dam failures and near-failures over the past decade.
In English: https://www-ulrischa-de.translate.goog/automatisierte-bewaes...
I take lying under oath in front of elected representatives seriously, and so does the law. I don't see it as retributive.
It's almost the same here in Bulgaria. Been doing my best to avoid their products but they managed to buy a ton local companies over the years.
Kroger do this all the time. I don't know about other stores but kroger is actively using this tactic aggressively and other dark marketing schemes.
The only part I could have left out is the plain statement “Poland has still been hit by inflation, though.” That doesn’t even suggest calling for price controls. Yours was a kneejerk reaction.
…the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

- Thomas Jefferson

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3237870-the-man-who-never-l...
Cruise ships are car-free walkable cities. Activists should love them.
Well, any server will at some point crash / need a (partial) restore / need an urgent update / have a power outage / etc, including the one your run yourself - which you also need to manage yourself, which can sometimes be an issue when you're busy.

- It's great they offer it of course, as for many people it _is_ a good fit.