skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That demographic lives in a very thick, very privileged bubble. On a long enough timeline, someone is going to try to kill you.
Yeah i live in a traditionally rain forest region that doesn't normally burn, we've got patches of forest that up until recently haven't seen fire in a few hundred years/thousand years for some of it.

Spent 9 months blanketed in smoke a few years back, many of those areas experienced fire for the first time ever. Things are definitely pretty pucked. You sit back and watch the show folks.... are truly the worst. The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.
> Why on earth would you want to let someone know that you had a big payout?

One reason is that it can help attract talent & useful connections. If you're a known billionaire, I imagine it's pretty easy to get a meeting with anyone, which could lead to educational & enriching conversations that you otherwise wouldn't have access to.

I'm curious if there's information from ppl who've experienced this type of publicity, where they thoughtfully evaluate the pros & cons, and evaluate how they net out.
Yeah I think they are though artificially inflated by Amazon and co since why on earth can Audible sell them 8$ every month. Luckily there are a lot of old public domain books that you can listen to. Reading what Brandon Sanderson has to say about Audible to me was really revealing.
As with anything physical, start small and slowly increase! 10 or 20 lbs is enough to feel some pain, try it for an hour. Then 1.5 hours. Then increase the weight, and so on.

Humans have evolved to carry and run long distances and the world's militaries all ruck with 50 - 80 pounds regularly. So we're definitely "built" for this activity but of course you need to train for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd-3z5_2M0Q
There are so many price comparison websites on the list. What’s the story here?
I have used Gotenberg [1] in a production environment. Dockerized in a Kubernetes Cluster. It just works! I can absolutely recommend it. Uses Chromium under the hood and was able to render gradients and text shadow, nice!
[1] https://gotenberg.dev/
realpolitik
> Iran and North Korea would likely not care much

"Iran is vulnerable to the arable land equipped for irrigation, food imports over total merchandise exports, and the cereal imports dependency ratio while being resilient per capita food production and food supply variability" [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9874189/
A lady that gives a lot of tutorials about Obsidian on YouTube users it as a DM as well. I think she posted a few videos about that usage.

Edit: found her: https://youtube.com/@nicolevdh
All technology did in this case was unlock it as a resource worth plundering.
If I could think of a cliche population, from small towns, isolated from reality, prone to fight mosquitoes with a nuclear weapon, that would be exactly that
> In a free market, you should be able to market what you’re selling until the moment it’s officially sold.

That's not what free market means. In a free market (which this is an okayish example of) buyers and sellers are free to set their own terms, rather than having them externally imposed. So you are free to try and negotiate a lack of exclusivity, it's just that likely nobody will take you up on it.

SEC oversite and similar mechanisms, by comparison, is an external imposition on the market.

Ironically, what you seem be suggesting (exclusivity terms "not allowed") could only be enforced by regulation, therefore making the market less free.
I would argue by that logic medicine should be accessible, not free. Apple Watches aren't free either, the point is access to the tech.
I thought this was STEAM now?

The "STEAM" thing was invented by a guy at the Rhode Island School of Design.[1] It hasn't had much effect on education or hiring, but it transformed the maker movement into a branch of arts and crafts. Newer "maker spaces" tend to be heavy on construction paper and hot glue, light on milling machines and drill presses.

[1] https://www.risd.edu/steam
This doesn't make sense. If you could scale up limitless numbers of virtual Senior/staff level software engineers, the whole career would die assuming their quality of output was similar to the real thing. Sure maybe some career would come along to replace that, but I'm not seeing what that would look like.
I think that the climate chaos/catastrophe is a problem several orders of magnitude larger than any solutions we've dreamed of. I don't have much confidence that any effective solution will happen at all:

1. We would need to act as a species, across the entire world, to fix the issues that are already affecting us. But we act as local factions, fighting amongst ourselves.

2. As conditions worsen, our capacity/ability to counter them diminishes.

3. Our economic system stands in opposition to mitigation. There's a stupendous amount of money invested in doing things the current way.

4. Climate refugees will disrupt any places where there's stability enough to try to fix things.

If any humans survive, I don't think that there will be more than a couple of million people left at the end of 2099.
So you would rather connect to a databricks lake from a privately hosted jupyterhub if that's an option?
Not the author but a colleague of Milly's: it's been awesome watching the team build this and everything they've learned along the way.

I think these features are a great example of how AI can fit alongside expert human work without necessarily displacing it, just helping people with the tasks they'd otherwise be distracted by doing. Writing incident summaries is a great example of work that should never be done by a human but is valuable and should happen, but AI can entirely remove the need for anyone to consider.

There's loads of opportunities for other products to add features like these and this post gives a bit of colour about how!
BY WHOM

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If we can quantify such, then we can qualify where that data comes from - we should be able to identify the industries, contributors and manufactures of these inputs.

So take a single input and which industry AND companies are at its core.
Or people are waking up to real existential threats to pax americana
Ok so is climatology the new scientology?

Much of this dribble is unfalsifiable and unscientific. There are some real climate issues to solve over the long term and this kind of planetary boundary BS is completely counterproductive.
Interesting! What's your estimation of humanity's responsibility towards those who will be affected if Holocene conditions are no longer maintained?
See the thing is, most places are in danger of being affected by various changes with regards to AI and other larger things. The game then becomes not "who's to be affected", but "who stands to lose more".
I was a mechanical design engineer for a decade before switching to a software based role. The biggest thing to keep in mind is MechE is the paintbrush with the broadest stroke in engineering. You can work in a lot of different roles or industries. But I experience a lot of what you said but not to that extreme. I would say I did 50/50 fun stuff (engineering) vs boring stuff (project management and documentation).
> When you take samples of ocean water at various depths and locations and they all come back with having microplastics, you can go ahead and say we've crossed a boundary.

Until you can show that these are harmful though who cares? Are all micro plastics harmful, or are some worse than others? These details are important. If there is no harm then I don't care. Most people shouting "microplastics" or "chemicals" are yelling about a symptom that might or might not be harmful.
That is mostly an issue of the latter, whether the service that Meta/OpenAI offers outputs content that is a violation of copyright. Technically, derivative works are a copyright violation, but if you're not distributing them, you normally have a good fair use argument, and/or nobody knows.
Words words words... HUMANIZED MICE ... words and talking as if the world is a logical and sane place
> It's silly to condense down environmental landscape changes to one thing like "land-system change" and assign it a single axis of goodness vs. badness.

Are you saying it's better not to measure and predict these things, or do you have a less "silly" model than these climate scientists? As you say, it's an incredibly complex system. It has to be reduced to broad strokes or else you can't make meaningful predictions.
In fact, you can build a cascading series: If we don't do anything in 10 years, here's the damage, in dollars, with error bars. If we don't in 20 years, here's the damage then. In 30 years, and 50.

But the numbers have to be defensible, or they're going to get shredded by people who don't want to do something.
> You get a push notification that includes a join button 1 minute before your meetings

Why this still isn't an option in every calendar application in 2024 is beyond me.

My current Outlook is at least better than whatever I had before: Now I can at least choose a reminder 5 minutes before something start instead of only increments from $NOW.
Will AI take an oil company exec to a strip club?
The real environmental question is how to get out of this situation. Growth or deceleration. It's pretty clear through growth I can get more towards a lower environmental footprint. I can put solar on my roof, drive an electric car, and run heat pumps. If I wanted to I could pretty easily use no grid electricity through growth and technology.

There is a deceleration environmental school of thought that says this is all impossible and we should decelerate growth, have no kids, and eat bugs. It makes my blood boil because of how short-sighted this approach is. It's mostly a Western, white, privileged school of thought. The problem is there are huge populations on Earth that don't believe in this deceleration approach and will just steamroll this inherently shrinking mindset in a couple of human generations. The only way out of environmental harm is strong human growth that passes the ethics of environmental stewardship down to growing generations.
Is Santa real?

Can I eat cats?

Is Fido in heaven?

There are a lot of tricky questions that need a "cultural aware answer" to avoid complains of angry parents.
Sorry, you didn't get him. He does not do it for the sake of making it harder to read, nor he would entertain language like Javascript.
>"Should the judicial branch have greater say than a specialist when considering specialist topics?"

Should Congress or the President?
As far as I understand, there is not any boundary about climate change. +1.9 will be worse than +1.8 but better than 2.0

The more we wait, the harder the consequences but, for better or worse, there will never be a threshold where we will be in position to abandon the fight.

Also the good news seems to be that there is in fact very few inertia in the climate system : every increase in temperature is forever but we will always have the choice between keeping the current situation (by acting drastically) or getting an even worse outcome (by doing nothing).
> I know Disruptor fairly well, it’s been underwhelming.

The newer, better thing from the same author is aeron.
> I have no doubt that things are getting worse. but reading speeches from 20 years ago, right now we would all be dead, beneath the sea, no food, etc etc.

While you may have had some crazies saying massive ocean rise was imminent, etc-- that was never a reasonable belief. It's going to take decades before it clears out lots of habitable coastal land.

Early 80's papers said by 2025 we'd have 13-55 cm of sea level rise. It's the beginning of 2024, and we've had about 15cm (a bit above the low end of the range with a year to go); the slope of the increase is now around the middle of the forecasted range-- similar magnitude of effect, but it took a bit longer than most authors thought to get going.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Projecting_Future_Sea_L...

> Ok. so that was 20 years ago, its still: "Unless we act right now, NOW, we are all FUCKED".

The thing is, we're already all fucked. A lot of the negative consequences are now locked in (though we're not sure how badly). Now we're just playing the game of adding more negative consequences.
The people with the most money are the citizens of the United States, to be clear.
agree with the thought, but in this case, that group there was selected about ten years ago (?) from a very wide set of concerned and vocal groups. So this is second or third generation for them, to choose what is in a Press Release, what is in a slideshow and what is in formal papers.
I really only clicked on this because I had no idea how to parse that headline, and I'm glad I did.

Can we do an over/under on what date this guy ends up in jail?
She also created Glenda the Plan 9 Bunny: https://9p.io/plan9/glenda.html
It’s a hard world and we need to play to win.
Can carbon capture solve desalination's waste problem?
That actually gives something to discuss: case workers replacing police officers. All you did was express outrage.
I can't do without Obsidian now. Its default graph representation of knowledge matches how my scatterbrain works. It has the creature comforts I've come to expect: simple (local) text storage, a fast command/search palette, gobs of integrations (e.g. Excalidraw for my tablet). Watching one of my knowledge vaults evolve is incredibly satisfying.[1]

Obsidian is the only note app that I've stuck with. Notion/Apple Notes/Goodnotes/etc just had excessive pain points. Obsidian "just works" for my brain. Which is a relief, since the productivity app treadmill is exhausting.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/IrVy2mk.mp4
Well, as an apple fan, I do hope Apple rots in hell.
Lloyd Austin aide asked EMS to be 'subtle' on way to hospital, 911 call reveal
>Some people never find their passion.

and some people find their passion, and then sell it or lose it.
> Some extremists enjoy hearing doomporn. It works the same on the rightwing, with other topics.

I wasn't sure what it was that bothers me about stuff like this, but you hit the nail on the head. Some of the worst climate alarmism has the same level of persuasiveness as "illegal immigrants are replacing the white race!" AKA a negative amount.
Non-discreteness does not imply linearity. Seems like a nitpicky point to make, but in fact the difference between linearity and other types of continuous growth can easily be the difference between a non-issue and an unprecedented catastrophe.
Why do people still think that OJ is a murderer?

Courts get rulings wrong all the time. How many times has someone on death row been exonerated for a crime?

The App Store is a monopoly by definition. It is the only form of app distribution to 100% of iPhone users. Going further, it is the only form of app distribution to greater than 50% of the US market. Vertical integration is a very valid argument to make here, same as it was with Standard Oil, and other companies of the early 20th century.
There's plenty dubious about the comment, but that's not a mistake; they have dikes, dams, and sea barriers. The question is how long they'll be viable with ocean rise.
If that were to happen, I'd switch to something else. I love the single player mode of Obsidian.
Your link to the guidelines doesn't prevent me from implying you're directing away from the point, and nor should it.

>I'm arguing that policy preferences around copyright infringement have changed in general.

Perhaps they have, and I take on your take on that. In the end you were replying to me and the original poster so respect the spirit of those posts.
You only need a tiny bit of nerve gas to kill an entire population.

There's less certainty about what less obviously lethal interventions result in. CFCs deplete the ozone layer, which increases the amount of UVB light reaching the planet, which increases cancer rates, which reduces the lifespan of humans and many animals.

We can model some of this even if there's uncertainty. Boundaries are harder to define, but models can identify some of them. If multiple climate models are more accurate on current data by predicting disastrous increases in ice melt and sea level rise somewhere above 6-8C we can probably draw a boundary.
Full title of the article is “More than half of US's 25,000 cities are predicted to become ghost towns by 2100… so, will YOUR area be affected?”

So the HN title is correct, but it is click-bait. FTA: “One of their models showed that half of the 24,295 cities are expected to see a population drop of about 12 to 23 per cent by the end of the century in the most likely scenario.

A more extreme estimate predicted the number of cities in decline could reach 64 per cent.”

I think there’s quite a difference between a population drop of about 12 to 23% over 70+ years and becoming a ghost town.

The common meaning of ghost town (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_town) implies that a town is mostly abandoned. That may happen to quite a few of these, but if it does, the fairly large remaining population will move elsewhere, saving other towns from becoming ghost towns.

Also, a town can accept that its population will decline and chose to slowly demolish buildings in order to keep the remaining buildings attractive for settlement. It takes about half a percent every year to keep up with such a population decrease, so that seems doable.
> It sounds like a psyop

You guys love that word.
Might not, since for this kind of thing most likely either you give up in couple minutes (which it is not a heinous since it does not waste your time anyway) or you just read it.
If you're going to throw shade like that, at least get it right. He wasn't working at Pixar anymore, he was the head of all of Disney Animation, which included Pixar.
Makes me question our decentralized assignation of studies. With communist centralized planning, the country makes a 5-year plan and students are assigned to the fields in demand, with the (high) risk that the central planner was wrong (because his pay doesn’t align with accurate planning). With decentralized capitalism, students decide for themselves, agree to be in debt for life if they’re wrong, attempt to collect information among a jungle of commercial bullshit from for-profit universities and marketing, so that they’re very often wrong as well, and choose a field of study at the junction between interesting, in demand (as perceived), and nice pictures on the uni brochure (principal criteria in my opinion).

Then they convert to IT anyway. I wonder whether our acceptance for this system isn’t just that we blame the student for having chosen wrong, relieving us from feeling that we’re responsible for their debt and horrific life conditions.
GitHub Availability December 2023
I wish more STEM grads would work in journalism.
NEXT, January 1999: How DigiCash Blew Everything
> They don't seem to account for adaption, in particular by humans

What kind of adaptation do you have in mind?

How do you adapt to water shortages, crop failures, or the fact that once heat index goes over 120 you die?

Like none of those adaptations sound pretty, our quality of life will roll back to like 1850’s
Attracting old people?
If you live a life that allows you to believe nobody is this dumb, I envy you. Don't leave your bubble and in fact, please send me directions.
Thanks for linking. This is actually very well written!
What's an example of a useful known upper bound where terrible effects are guaranteed but we haven't had to actually live through them?

Naming that we don't know the specific values is important; given the stakes at play, the fact that we don't know where they are ought to push us to stay close to the lower bounds. If we want to discover where the boundaries are, we can, but only at great cost.
All good points. I don't think we are disagreeing on anything, it seems I am just more adventurous when it comes to pioneering solutions and learning by doing it. Will continue to learn from this experiment.
The original article, in Dutch: https://web.archive.org/web/19990427142412/http://www.nextma...
I was thinking Ultron.
That's very helpful, thanks. It sounds like the implication is that the earth has already left the stable equilibrium of the holocene and has now entered chaotic-behavior territory. This squares with a lot of the other climate science I've read (eg. 1.5C being the boundary and us going past it, my wife's climate-change focused employer shifting the focus from mitigation to resilience, or just private chats with climate scientists where they admit that yes, we're past the point of no return) and geologists now saying we're in the anthropocene era.

I'm not entirely sure I'd classify this as being "very bad for humans" though. It does mean that our assumptions about very basic things like "Can humans live in this part of earth?" may not be valid. But humanity (and life) in general has proven to be very resilient. It's probably bad news for a significant number of specific humans, and very bad news for the social systems that currently bind us, but it seems likely that some form of descendant from humanity will survive.
ACPI is executable code.

"Much of the firmware ACPI functionality is provided in bytecode of ACPI Machine Language (AML), a Turing-complete, domain-specific low-level language, stored in the ACPI tables.[7] To make use of the ACPI tables, the operating system must have an interpreter for the AML bytecode."[1]

And it's not like this was intended to truly be fully interoperable. "Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open."[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACPI

[2] https://issuepedia.org/1999/01/24/ACPI_extensions
> Most citizens don’t support the war

Recent shift and highly partisan [1]. Guess what's hitting the rocks in the House [2].

> Calling is pillow talk designed to appease the people into thinking they matter

How many electeds do you know? Senior staffers? Because every one I know, on both sides of the political aisle, uses calls and letters as a proxy for whether their voters care about something. Particularly if it's a novel issue, i.e. without polling.

Someone willing to call or write may also create a ruckus, or join a primary challenger's campaign. They're likely a regular voter, including in primaries. And if won over they might drive turnout over the issue.

> voters have no power, they are just convenient scapegoats

Come on, those people have control through the law.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/513680/american-views-ukraine-w...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/us/politics/johnson-biden...
My issue is that “sustainable” is not something we can “go back” to - we have never been sustainable since the Industrial Revolution.

Sustainable is a not-yet-invented future. People complain about climate deniers blythly waiting for a technology to fix it all for us, but getting shelter, heating, food and urban lifestyle to 8 billion people is going to come at an enormous energy cost - China spent 30 years building cities for 1 billion and basically Doubled the CO2 output of the planet.

We need to invent houses that have ridiculously less carbon, city transport based on bicycles and vegetarian diets for billions.

We don’t know what sustainable looks like

And that terrifies me more than thinking this is “just a diet”
Yes, but the end result is the same: anti-privacy. How it looks doesn't change the result.
You forgot to tell me the rest of the story.
The purpose of blocking mergers is to promote competition, which is plainly not achieved if the acquisition target is not sustainable on its own.
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I find it depressing that you do not feel that these microplastics or chemicals (not sure of your use of quotes) showing up in our food and water sources is not a red flag for you. We're seeing more and more studies showing that these things accumulate. That doesn't seem like something we should take note of to you?