skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that's simply not true.

Closing down all nuclear plants was first decided on in the year 2000, 24 years ago. It were the Liberals (FDP) and Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) who rescinded that decision in 2010, only to later reinstitute it in panic after the Fukushima meltdown happened.

Those reactors that got shuttered hadn't had any safety inspections in years, they had no viable fuel left and not even the owning energy companies wanted to operate them any longer than absolutely necessary, so they would have been shut down even without the Green party in the current government.

That the now missing nuclear baseload had to have been replaced with coal, well.. Thank the Christian Democrats for that. They're the ones that favoured building out coal, slowing down the build-out of renewables as much as possible, at every chance they got.
That's still too many. Sure, it'll probably level, but why not get in front of that and find a good balance today instead of assuming it'll all just sort itself out magically?
A natural language mermaid diagram builder would be really neat. Something to go think about...
Fuck Medium.
Techmoan did a video about prison TVs and radios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PfsndsihY
I was not prepared for the smartphone app with kill notifications
How does "an actual db" help you with an event stream e.g. over a socket? Are you going to stream WAL records and ask the client to merge that into their local database?
> Solution is only easy on a scale of one person, "move elsewhere", or rich societies, "stop working outside and install aircon inside", which isn't so easy for anyone working in agriculture or much of Africa and India.

India's real growth rate is >5% p.a. They're going to be a rich society pretty soon, because they are behaving like a clever country and building lots of power plants.

And while horrific things are likely to happen in Africa, horrific things have been happening in Africa every year for my entire lifetime. So yeah, it is terrible but not going to make me depressed by the future so much as the present. They need to figure out economic growth like Asia did. It is their only hope.

> stop working outside and install aircon inside

I dunno, sounds scalable to me. Repurpose office buildings with air conditioning for crisis use sometimes. People with air conditioners help those without.

Order of magnitude it sounds pretty doable. I don't see where the scale issue comes from to the point where I'd consider anyone I know "doomed".

EDIT If you described snowstorms, earthquakes, bushfires or tropical cyclones in the abstract they sound civilisation ending too. They are bad but people cope.
Apple gets paid tens of billions of dollars per year by Google, which is over a third of the revenue Google brings in from Safari. They have an absolutely gigantic financial incentive to keep using Google. Even if they were to acquire Bing for free, they would still have to get its profits to over a third of Google’s Safari-attributed revenue just to break even on the switch.

If Apple were to acquire Bing, it would be about gaining control at a financial cost. Bing being as good as Google as a search engine doesn’t really come into it.
Cause food and housing ain’t free.
You should go reread the conversation as your response indicates that you misunderstand the person you are replying to, suggesting that you didn't follow the thread very closely.

Summarizing the salient bits here:

>>>> Those penalties don't always have exemptions for stopping service. In fact it might have the opposite to avoid trying to put political pressure by doing that.

>>>> Doesn't mean it is a regulated industry which is actually a very narrow term.

>>> What is a regulated industry? I'm not aware of it as a legal term. Basically all industries are regulated in my understanding to a greater or lesser degree. Even in a lesser one, you can run up against those regs

>> [insert blurb about concrete instances of "regulated industries", where an intensional definition was clearly desired instead (not an incomplete, extensional definition)]

> Not a very operational definition. You can't start a hot dog stand without permission either.

So, from the top: some industries are regulated. But, oh, not all industries which are subject to regulation are what we would call "regulated industries" -- that's "a very narrow term."

Great! What exactly is the definition of that very narrow term?

The immediate response to that inquiry was several supposed examples of "regulated industries".

But that's not a satisfactory response, because it doesn't generalize. For instance, a hot dog stand is subject to regulation ("you can't start a hot dog stand without permission either") -- but is it a so called "regulated industry" (which, remember, "is actually a very narrow term")?

And then we have your response:

> That’s because restaurants are, believe it or not, also a regulated industry.

The sarcasm is cheeky, but it still doesn't provide a meaningful answer to the original question: if not all industries which are regulated are "regulated industries", then what exactly does "regulated industry" mean?

So, a couple questions for you:

1) How do you know that restaurants fit the original commentator's definition of "regulated industry"? Were you told that restaurants are among the set of "regulated industries", which you've accepted without understanding why?

2) If you actually do know what makes restaurants a "regulated industry" (not merely just regulated), why not share the definition?

3) Alternatively, could it be that neither of the first two question apply: you made your comment without first comprehending the conversation?
Lead by example by having children you mean?
Roots? JSON IS JavaScript. Its roots are:

var data = eval(jsonString);

This is exactly why it sucks in many ways, but also why it's pretty great.
As with every generation! We're all the result of a long chain of people living miserable lives and believing it was still worth it to propagate life.

Imagine humans during previous ice ages, no space heaters and The North Face jackets still having babies. We're so coddled in comparison.
> a temporary thing for a few centuries, after which the climate goes back to what it used to be

Reduced or even zero emissions are not negative emissions. By what processes and at what time scales will 100% of the surplus accumulated CO2 go away? I am not so sure this can happen in just a few centuries.
What is preventing Bing or Google to copy the techniques marginalia or kagi uses
Both google and bing seems to be having a hard time to serve good results especially bing so what are they doing ?
It seems fairly obvious that there is a genetic element to intelligence, otherwise animals would be as intelligent as humans.
You should give the HN guidelines a read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As long as you don't have kids.
Same here. I never understood why the poignant guide is so loved. I could never get past the first couple pages cuz it felt so random.

Always thought I was missing something.
Of course it's worse off. An people should do whatever the law and mortality allows them to do.
I chose to have children despite reflecting long and hard on this question. I hope to raise children who become adults who can endure.

My ~recent ancestors endured hardship that would push me to my limits but it was their daily existence. They fought in the American Revolution, they fired the first shots at the Whiskey Rebellion, they were directly involved in the Civil War, and on it goes, up to my father and his brothers and my brother and myself. I hope that my own children can find resiliency. I'm not sure what the point is otherwise.
I live up in the Alps in Switzerland. There is barely any snow this year. The rivers don't have as much water as usual but the real effects will only be visible later this year.

The water is missing in other places, Italy's north heavily depends on mountain water for their farming. This is going to be a very dry year. Either forcing them to lower the quality of real Italian pasta or again increasing the prices. Also wine from the whole region will not do well this year.

In french the fragil botanical environment is changing so much that their cheese doesn't reach the usual quality anymore.

This sounds like little things maybe, but those are huge traditional markets dying in front of our eyes.

Things are changing very rapidly. I don't know how or why there would be any optimism about this.
Yeah I'm aware they do. The tweet has gone around and it is unfortunate that they chose to add to confusion instead of subtract.

"It is a genuine ChatGPT response. A screenshot of the UI that was not edited."

This very deliberately does not claim it's not a joke - "cleverly" evading the actual intent of the question by stating true things and deliberately making no claim about the missing context.

It's like "is this a real response or edited? haha got em, they didn't ask if I just told it to say this" :/
The mass extinction will be visible, as will the unusual chemistry found only in that narrow, but global, layer.

Also, note the last section of your linked graph is a vertical line on that scale. It still would be if you zoom in to 50 million years rather than 500 million. Anthropomorphic climate change is a vertical line even if you zoomed in to 5 thousand years.
there are no hackers on this site. they were all pushed out by corporate boot-lickers starting about a decade ago.
In scenario A, the problem is already solved, and the institution exists to prevent that solution from being implemented. That's the whole point of this comment thread.

Surely that is not better than lying about an imaginary problem?
Seems you are against the climate if you are with Go. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/sustainability-with-... I kid, I kid :)
If only Philip K Dick had lived to see so many of his stories play out in real life.
All fair points, but what actionable advice is she offering?
Exactly. In the EU alone, gross average income ranges around 5-fold from the lowest to the highest value. (1100€ in Bulgaria, 5400€ in Netherlands)

Including non-EU countries as well makes the difference even more extreme (7000€ in Switzerland vs 450€ in Ukraine).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_b...
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I wonder if th result changes if you put a high quality medical reference in context. Feels like there might be an opportunity for someone to try and cram as much medical knowledge as possible in 1m tokens and use the new Gemini model.
The one thing no-one on the internet needs in 2024 is to have to create more accounts in order to access basic functionality.
They are interested in serving ads, not good search results.

Sometimes things are really simple.
Those natural causes will occur again - regardless of whatever we do as a species.
Mentalhealthalliance
That's just plain wrong socketed mobile CPUs are nearly as expensive as the motherboards with cpu. Even for older thinkpads like the t430 the CPUs are more expensive than just getting a "new" t430. Besides the price motherboards die more often than CPUs that's why you see horrendous prices on eBay for decent old gen motherboards. It's a problem in theory that gets brought up all the time and just isn't true in reality.

I don't want socketed CPUs I want all the innovation and advantage of an M3. I just want to get a chip and either replace it myself or get it done for 50-100$ in a repair shop.
Find video of it, it's even more ridiculous than that sounds. My high school biology teacher showed a video of it every year, and every time it'd be the most exciting thing happening in the school that day. "Penis fencing" was the term the video used.
Growing up in a rural area, I used to catch dinner with a sling as a kid. Fat pigeons were my target. This is still possible today. :)
Both of those things were addressed - in tfa, by OP, and by me.

Both are perfectly valid uses of the word violent.

Stunned that people are defending this tbh. American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug.
A quick Google search indicates that life expectancy in Haiti is ~64 years. This is obviously inconsistent with what you're claiming.
Looks like we got a new version of the "Voyager reached the record distance from Earth". Hope not for long.
FWIW, the title of this piece is accurate because global temperature records only go back something like 200 years.

We do have a pretty good idea that human activity has had an outsized impact and is responsible for a lot of problems we are currently experiencing.

I do think there are variables being overlooked. Most likely, they will continue to be overlooked.

It's a complicated topic and HN is a bad place, unfortunately, to say roughly "I don't really know and I don't really trust what the media tells me and I reserve the right to draw my own conclusions." It's not an invalid position but it's also not going to be well received by people who think they do know with greater certainty than is likely the case.
Isn't there news about google struggling from ai generated content causing them to make a 60 million dollar deal with reddit. Reddit results won't help them with ad revenue because reddit has it's own ad platform.
There's a "lot of money" and there's "a lot of money to Microsoft/Apple/Google".
Unless the land is valuable, you might as well leave old solar farms there. Even when they're 50 years old they'll still output some power, even if half the inverters are dead and the panels are down to 50% efficiency.
This is a bit of a strawman. You can take anything down (or build it up) if you get to define it. I'd define "nationalism" as a desire to preserve the culture/history/religion/race of your own country, rather than becoming an amorphous monocultural/ahistorical/agnostic/miscegenated economic zone that is indistinguishable from every other one. See! I can play the same game.

I'm an American who loves Japanese culture. I am thrilled by any "nationalist" development there, since it will--hopefully--keep them Japanese, instead of becoming "America East." If they think my culture/history/religion/race sucks, fantastic. Diversity is our strength!
It look like he also cites using a lot of free information on the internet in order to perform the restoration. But this opinion piece without any technical knowledge sharing ought to be paywalled, it seems.
Everything you wanted to know about Japanese typography, and more.
The comment section here is a clue. It's truly horrifying.

Deflection, projection, denial, minimizing concerns, semantic debate with near-zero, statistically insignificant levels of reading comprehension, blatant racism, ignoring the fact we've known this since 2007, etc, etc.

And this is a 'well-educated' crowd, with full access to the information needed to come to a better conclusion literally a click or two away.
This is exactly the problem. Above assumptions about democracy simply are not true at world level. I would imagine that if every person in the world would be able to vote equally on these topics - and everyone would have the same impact, things would look different.
The rich countries are a minority population wise (or better: the people benefitting from non-ecological behavior are a minority). But when climate based refugees come, people might change their mind - or when we see in the news people dying in those affected regions… (oh wait - we already don’t care about seeing people starving… :( )
I was thinking along those lines. No reason given for the number, pretty much pulled it out of thin air.
When I was growing up we were told we would have too much population and wouldn't be able to feed ourselves. Now obesity seems like a bigger problem. Obviously infinite growth isn't possible, but where the actual number lies, I honestly have no idea.
That was why it was developed for
ChatGPT4 has overreacted to this issue IMHO. When I try to do even slightly esoteric medical research, ChatGPT seems pretty intent on only referencing Cleveland and Mayo Clinic, the most mainstream of orthodox mainstream medical sources. Try to get it to reference even peer-reviewed medical journals requires a frustrating amount of cajoling - it seems extremely reluctant to deviate from anything that isn't 100% mainstream medical orthodoxy.

This is not a good solution in the long run - ChatGPT will just reinforce existing dogmas and orthodoxies, even the ones that are (inevitably) wrong. Imagine if this approach to medical science was widespread at an earlier point in our history - we'd all probably believe that peptic ulcers are caused by 'stress' (rather than, primarily, the bacteria Helicobacter pylori). Go back even further and we'd still be lobotomising gay men to 'change their sexual orientation'. Rigidly enforcing current orthodoxies, under the premise that we're right about everything unlike those idiots in the past, will kill progress and society will stagnate.

If I wanted a blindingly arrogant tech mega-corporation to decide what 'experts' I'm allowed to get information from, I'd just use Google instead. If, as many seem to believe here, OpenAI are just worried about being sued, then why don't they just create an individual 'safe GPT output' setting (like Google 'safe search') which I can disable after acknowledging disclaimers that it's dangerous to think for myself and question mainstream positions.

I've grown to hate authoritarian Silicon Valley twats who arrogantly impose their politics, ignorance and, frankly, bizarre norms on the rest of us. It's highly ironic that these 'I love science!' types don't appear to understand that the scientific process involves making empirical observations, forming hypotheses consistent with those observations, and then continuously testing those hypotheses to determine which one is most robust to observed reality. They instead seem to think science is some kind of religion where you treat the views of the mainstream authorities as divine truth revealed by God and only heretics dare to question. By discouraging the formation of alternative hypotheses and rigorous questioning they are actually inhibiting scientific progress and making a mockery of the scientific method.

I look forward to the day we have a model that just synthesises available information and let's us decide for ourselves what to make of it. I think people will switch to such a model in droves and the likes of OpenAI and Google will go the way of all other social conformists who attempt to enforce the reality-denying orthodoxies of their day.
The climate change pattern (for now) seems to be a steady anthropogenic long term rise of average temperatures, overlaid by a pattern of natural fluctuations (El Nino etc.). This leads to new highs with some periodicity.

It is not clear for how long this pattern will persist. There is the issue of tipping points in what is a very complex dynamic system (atmosphere, oceans, permafrost, polar regions etc.)

The everyday analogy is boiling water in a pot. As we slowly inject heat at the bottom of the pot, the patterns of water motion change a lot as the temperature rises. First some occasional air bubble, then some visible currents, eventually just a chaotic, unstable, mess.

Now if only the frogs inside the pot would stop gazing at the gently rising air bubbles and realise that this is not all there is to it, future frogs might be very deeply inconvenienced...
its, not it’s, in any case.
I dont think we've taking into account climate change acceleration either. I believe the tipping point will come and go before people really accept its a problem and try to hit the brakes but by then it will be waaaaaaay past the reasonable time to change our ways. Within a generation whats left of us will be living underground and popping up at night to breathe some "fresh" hot air. Say sorry to your kids.
Show HN: Bungo Bloxx – playable Tetris window display
What? No, that is not a thing.
The cheapest USB-C cable Apple sells is 25 Euros so even 15 Euros is cheap.
I know multiple people who work at Ubisoft Berlin, they are generally known to underpay compared to other game-dev jobs in the city.
Very few people are denying that the climate is changing. That’s not an interesting conversation to have, anyways.

There's broad disagreement about the role humans play in this process, and our ability to influence it one way or another in any meaningful way.

There's also broad disagreement about the efficacy and implementation of policies aimed at tackling climate change.
Truly alien
> Good old right-wing talking point, uh? Try being hostage of the Hamas, then consider the difference with having to ride a crowded train.

This is a very unhelpful framing because by that logic you cannot complain about anything. By that logic most of your worries are trivial. At some point if every vacation I have to live through the stress of train strikes, is it not legitimate to feel aggrieved? Especially because if it only was overcrowded trains, people would say well at least I can get to my destination. But no they can also just outright cancel the train if they do not have enough personnel. Then you have to find a last minute alternative if you can even find one with so many people doing the same thing.
And in a few years plus a nanosecond we will rediscover what a terrible, insecure, bug-prone, foot-gun api scanf(3) is, because of buffer overflow errors, lack of input validation, difficult error handling, clumsy newline handling, and format string vulnerabilities.
And in other parts of the world, geniuses are found, educated, only to waste away optimising ads on websites.
Chinese researchers tout optical disk format with up to 125TB capacity
No, not at all. Trying to put a measurement on all of earth is nonsense and pretending that proxies allow us to extend it further back in time is even more hubris.
That is one of the funniest pieces historical revisionism I've encountered in a while. Merkel, the famous green party leader.
Anyway, I don’t see how this deal, of which I know nothing, contradicts the fact that they are more interested in the ads they serve than in the search results they serve.
I don't think it's so much on the professionals, but on the culture

Apple would want to do their walled garden version of a search engine with more biases and more filtering and of course that's a compounding problem
When that happens, people will set fire to a coal seam or open a gas well because it's a cheap and easy way to maintain the climate at 'current' levels.

When people grew up in a 4C warmed world, that is the way they'll want to keep it.
That's why we even see increased consumerism, fast fashion, cars getting ridiculously big.

"Enjoy it while it lasts (at the expense of young people)"
Pop a loop around a Markov chain that provides a "tape interface" and you have something capable of simulating a Turing machine. So when people bring up the Markov chains argument, they're saying next to nothing about the potential computational abilities of the system, even though they usually intend to dismiss it.

I tend to see people bringing that up in a dismissive way (not suggesting you are) as a clear indication they either haven't thought the argument through or do not understand how little it takes for a system to be Turing complete, and so for that argument to be meaningless.