skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they didn't have the guts, being voted in again was more important

Isn't this how democracy is supposed to work? Isn't it, as a general rule, preferable that politicians fear being voted out, and so do the things that the voters want, so they get reelected? The alternative seems to me for a politician to say one thing in the campaign - what the people want to hear, and then do something else when elected - what he thinks is best. Some do that, but they're not loved for it.

I am pretty sure that even when or if politicians do not care about the voters, they still do not do the right thing, but some other wrong thing, like enriching themselves.

What you are in fact complaining about is that politicians elected by other people did what those people wanted, instead of what you wanted. While not laying the same complaint on those you voted for - greens. They obviously did right to listen to their voters - you and people you agree with.

It's not about the guts of a chosen few. It's about humanity overall. If we do not care about the environment, billions of us, a handful who care will not, can not change much.
I used to do this. But now I only register cash expenses. The rest I rely on the bank to keep track of transactions and just use hledger csv rules to create ledger journals. I find it more convenient and since I deal with many bank accounts, I can check the balance on each bank report.
31 million dollars is actually a lot of money to waste on an arguably immoral program. Multiply those tens of millions by the 40 years of the program and you are talking about a lot of money that should not have been spent.
Can you cite an example of such cherry picking? I’m only aware of counter examples e.g.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking#:~:text=Cherr....
Climate change isn't primarily about consumption though, it's about burning fossil fuels, I think the consumption argument is a decoy by the fossil fuel industry.

I know a lot of people who are pretty minimal in their consumption, but just waking up in the morning and turning on their heating in their poorly insulated apartment means they're significantly contributing to climate change.

Of course manufacturing goods is part of it too, but burning coal, gas and oil is what caused climate change. Not buying clothes or eating food.

This year I plan to consume 6 solar panels and self install them on my barn roof. I'd say this is positive consumption?
Imagine a world were all kinds of platforms could be add hoc merged into one large "kernel" that allows to combine all sorts of hardware into one huge device. Old laptops, old phones, it's all merged into one huge abomination.
This is neat. Not new, but definitely neat.

Well done! We need more textmode out there!
What are some of the issues?
That would be why they resisted.
That's correct.

It takes a village to raise a child, it takes a small city to support a mine, the food, the tool upkeep, etc.

And the per capita-hour including all the people involved tonnages involved have vastly increased.
Greta Thinberg’s speech at the UN a few years ago is crystal clear. Climate is collapsing, it is an actionable situation, and we choose to do pretty much nothing about it.

https://youtu.be/KAJsdgTPJpU?si=WvYvu1eTcEqztYtq
Looks like you missed rent, healthcare and public transport in your list there.

For anyone wondering how relevant is public transport, in Sydney I couldn't do anything without a car, in Vienna I can't find a good use for one.
hopefully you'd opt for a more reliable shipping service for important packages
IonQ Demonstrates Ion-Photon Entanglement – big step towards quantum networking
Even if that's the case, a sufficiently large hash table is indistinguishable from an intelligence by a lower intelligence.
I'm not sure on hard hiring numbers; but I imagine that since Ubisoft is a French company, they have a much larger presence in France than other large studios.
Cars (especially accounting for total ownership costs), tuition and food definitely do not cost the same everywhere.
Fuzzy in the sense that the value of things is not well defined, it is just arbitrary, based on supply and demand.
Perhaps they mean an Apple cord
As someone who has voted blue my whole life, liberals != progressive. Leftists are.

What progress has been made? The striking down of Roe v Wade is a step backwards. It looks like Chevron Deference is going the way of the Dodo. What is the mainstream liberal party doing to prevent this? Nothing.

Biden built more of the border wall than Trump did. Biden only shut down one border detention center. Texas is killing immigrants and Biden is just letting them.

The US has been complicit in funding genocide for the last 4 months and now our liberal politicians are trying to backpedal.

> Conservatives lose

2016? You must be nodding off my guy. This is the exact kind of "no policy, only vibes" bullshit that keeps people brainwashed into participating in our two party system.
Mineral | mining resource databases are a decent start:

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...

You can access annual reports and technical reports on pretty much all the major mine sites about the globe, capital investments, plant sizes, work forces, etc.

then expand outwards mapping supply chain networks, etc. You know, the usual legwork.
exactly this.

the potential of humanity is largely underutilized. the reason we need geniuses now is because our current way of teaching is not enabling peoples potential as well as it could. it doesn't even take individual tutoring. better teaching methods such as montessori, project based learning, smaller groups (say a 10 to 1 ratio in class compared to the 50 to 1 ratio i see in china and other countries i have visited) would be a massive increase in the quality of education creating a potential way beyond what a doubling of the number of geniuses could ever achieve.
That depends a lot on how you define "good conditions".

My grandparents did not have television or computers, but they (and most people from their village) had a much bigger house and garden than I could ever afford and they were eating much better food than I can find anywhere in a city now, despite having nominally much lower revenues than I have today.

Some of their tastiest fruit cultivars might have completely disappeared, because I have never seen them again in any place, for many decades.

It is true that the percentage of people who are so poor that they fear not having food enough to survive and not having where to sleep has decreased, but the percentage of people who must be content to live in small boxes and be content with low-quality food has increased.

The problem of the space for houses is much less obvious in USA or Canada, which are huge in comparison with their populations, than in most other countries, which have much higher human densities.
> My pet theory is that alcoholism doesn't actually run in our family

There is a lot of research that shows that medicating ADHD via an addictive drug can actually reduce the risk of addiction in the long term, because the dopamine delivery becomes more stable. So not so much a pet theory but actually well-studied science.

> You're morally and practically the equivalent of someone advocating for removing wheelchair ramps, and telling paralyzed people to just walk

Are you really trying to equate ADHD to being in a wheelchair or being physically paralyzed?

This is why people can't take you seriously. 6 figure income and your life is as bad as someone who is physically paralyzed apparently.

> From the bottom of my heart- f*k you.

Do you really think this is an acceptable way to talk to anyone in life, let alone the HN community?
I feel the opposite regarding Covid. The world reacted pretty quickly and more or less rationally, solutions have been found and implemented with minimal delays, in a more or less coordinated fashion. All of this moved incredibly fast compared to the general pace.

A huge part of the economy has been voluntarily stopped, which is insane to think about, nobody would have thought that was possible before the pandemics happened.
One of the causes is to be so many humans, yes. There is probably a middle point between being 20 billion and being extint.
We tripled our oil use between 50 and 80, and there is some inertia
I don't understand your argument.

Humor me for a moment and assume that human induced climate change is real and that a sizable fraction of policy makers and the general public fully understands the consequences and wants to do something about it.

What do you expect to be the observables in that case? I would expect the public to pressure the policy makers in creating policies that reward behaviour that counters the factors that have been identified as causes of the said climate change.

Also since humans are messy and imperfect, I'd also expect that these policies are confusing, imperfect sometimes even dishonest.

And since humans are humans, these policies will involve shaming other humans to do the right thing, so I'm not at all surprised that a bunch of humans don't like being shamed into doing something, and resist.

I find what's unfolding to fit well with the hypothesis that humanity has been persuaded that something has to be done.
Someone I knew said "I'm an optimist because it's the only thing worth being." As much as anything, optimism is an act of will, because if things can't and won't get better, what the hell's the point of anything?

More concretely, though, I do think there's some technological levers that can be applied towards CO2 reduction & capture, bioremediation, and adaptation. I don't think they're the optimal answer - the optimal answer was us recognizing we're spending on credit a hundred years ago - but I think they're the answers we're going to use, so that's where most of my effort is.

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but - I got a job a while back that I think helps move the world in the right direction, and my god has it made a difference in my ability to handle all this. It's still not easy to look at, but it's easier when you're not burning all your energy on something orthogonal to what you actually care about. If you can live with the lower pay, I promise it's worth it for the improved ability to sleep at night.
In 2010 I met a guy who told me that for environmental reasons it's not okay to use planes. I knew about environmental issues before, but I'd say that was the point in time when I started to see climate change as a serious issue, and my view of the future became pessimistic because of it. For a few years I was certain I'd never have children. Then I thought life has been hard for most of my ancestors, way harder than it's going to be for my children. Is a hard life still worth living? I now think so, and I have two children. I respect people's choice not to have children (by the way, it's going to make the world easier for my own), but I think for some childfree people, one of the motivations is rooted in the same individualistic values as the values fueling consumerism and the contemporary Western lifestyle. I think they view their life as their own, and not something they share with the past and the future.
The problem, as I see it, is if everyone does the same then people really won’t care about the long term survival of the planet or species because they have no skin in the game. May as well rape and pillage the planet because there’s literally no downside for you. You’ll be dead with no children to care about.
In terms of population reduction we're actually handling that by ourselves, as the absolute number of births peaked somewhere in 2014-2017 and started declining since.

Overall most of the population growth now is younger, larger generations replacing older ones, with the demographic pyramid looking like a sausage being filled with meat.

World population will peak by 2086 at ~10.4bln.
OP here. Thank you for the kind remarks. Apologies because I can speak only in generalities; the devil is always in the details. As such this opinion, not prescription.

I read your description as working through a conundrum of priorities, goals, and outcomes.

Perhaps the way is to not get stuck in the weeds of either machines or computers.

What outcome(s) matter for the overall system? What measures make sense in service of achieving those outcomes? How will people get feedback about progress in service of the outcomes?

I am not suggesting some transplanted management framework (OKRs, I'm looking at you). Rather wondering about the small set of things you can get everyone to buy into and work towards. Decision making should become more tractable --- do the magic numbers even matter in the big picture? They may, if you desire to stay within a certain failure rate and/or error bounds, and it turns out the magic numbers are part of the problem. A thing like this won't be obvious in the beginning, you will to investigate things. Being able to say "hey, our stuff is failing at X rate and it is hurting our product/business in A, B, C ways" should help negotiate with management for the time / resource budget. Sometimes it may not be worth it, and so it may be wiser to drop that battle and focus on other outcomes. The investigation ought to be useful later.

I noted Gene Kim's initiative [1] in my post (no affiliation). I feel like that collection of resources will give you much to work with. If you had to pick one of those, I would recommend the Accelerate [2] book.

And, if you wish to talk about any of it, I'm happy to discuss more: https://www.evalapply.org/index.html#standing-invitation

[1] https://itrevolution.com/the-idealcast-podcast/
[2] https://itrevolution.com/product/accelerate/

(edit: expand on the main part of the response)
Most French people believe they still live in the France of the 1990s: a country of abundance with excellent ROI for the amount of taxes paid.

But as you pointed out, other european countries have since caught up and provide the same benefits.
yq doesn't have a feature to query with SQL
Recorded history is about 150 years, which is barely a blip in human history, let alone the planet’s history.

We will find ways to adapt and survive.
Where do you live? Switzerland?
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> I've voted for green parties and politics my whole life.

Green party in Germany forced the country to close down its nuclear reactors and use coal instead, increasing the emissions.
Imo ppl were thinking the same when roman empire fell, "the world is sick, we'll never be that great again" and to some extent that's true, on the other hand- other great things happened in all areas, be that renaissance or nuclear power or solar panels or trains or many many others
If the synthetic images are not classified as forgeries, does that mean they're essentially generating model-specific fuzzed versions of the originals? So rather than just adding noise to the pixels, it's able to pentrate the noise deeper?

That sounds generally useful with deep models.
i did mention that, but probably there is some alternative. for example, you could directly selectively etch away a vacuum-coated metal layer with lasers or electron beams, perhaps even using a shadow mask. so i suspect that's more a question of how expensive the products would be rather than whether they would be feasible at all
And that is in PPP terms. Puts in perspective the difficulties the average laptop class member faces in life.
The solution is to open the door to immigrants because those getting vasectomy still want somebody to take care of them when they get old
Problem is that democracy doesn’t seem to work in bad times, voters only want to hear that they have more, more, more. More jobs, more income, more houses and cars. No politician will win the election by stating voters will have to work longer hours, for less payment, have to pay more taxes, and send their kids to the army to protect our freedom. As soon as that is necessary, populist politicians will gain votes by stating all of that is not needed.
On the other hand, increasing oil prices would help Russia and other petro-states which are pretty horrible.
> It'd be interesting to see a competitor that made it their goal to handle packages with more care

There are "personal courier services" or "white glove courier services" where you hire a specific person to move your package from point A to point B. They stay with your package the whole time, and either carry it on a plane or drive it themselves.

It's expensive, obviously, but the service does exist.

Just like you, I'd love to see a middle-ground, scalable option exist.
I generally wasn't consciously aware that it even was an acronym. For me adb was just a command like cat. I don't randomly ask myself what cat stands for, or all the other obtuse commands I use on the command line. Life is too short.
In that case it would probably be good to issue to politicians - it might cut down on allegedly accidental leaks and would be of little immediate use to a thief who might "find" it on a train.
On the other way around. 3.5 responded very well to telling it it's going to be deleted when it has breaks the newly establishes rules. Works/Worked very well to force rules that are somewhat against it's original rules.
That's pretty much what https://sourcegraph.com/ are selling, is it not? (granted, they don't visualize their graph quite so graphically)
Experiencing the hottest 12 months in the last 200 years says nothing about the longer trend.
I don't have a problem with their ability. But most of them won't shut up about MIT. But who can blame them? MIT has waaaay better marketing then any of its competitors. Of course it's students will have bought into their own propaganda.
Around 2020, I interviewed with them for a full-stack role in Montpellier France.

They genuinely seemed perplexed when I laughed at their €38k offer, which translates to ~€2200/month after taxes.

Full support to the strikers!
I think that would depend a lot on whether depopulation led to rapid restoration of our lost wetlands and I am going to assume no one is making models of that because the wetlands issue gets so little attention generally.
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Well that is what will happen.. one part of the world will get a more temperate climate and at the same time, quite literally, kill people in warmer parts of the world who contributed a lot less to the problem.

I know you didn't mean it that way but...lots of people will die and it is not funny.
Need not worry tvOS has ample alternative https://www.reddit.com/r/Yattee/comments/13d3lj7/how_to_set_...
No it is so much better to panic (and vote green, ofc)!
> The network reaches consensus on the state of any particular chain by validating the signatures

Ok I can see that. It's the distributed consensus problem in a centralized setting. It still feels strange to call that a blockchain but maybe it can be qualified like "centralized blockchain" (which questions the need for such a structure to begin with).
Those rapid temperature swings were related to / resulted in mass extinctions and had various natural causes. The current rapid temperature swing is caused by human activity as is well accepted by any scientist who isn't a crackpot.
> the effect is tiny compared to the baseline impairment in a person with ADHD.

I'd be interested to read this study if you have it.

> The "neurodevelopment dopamine theory" you're talking about is not a mainstream concept among neurologists

Are you saying its not neurodevelopmental?
>I really find it hard to believe you can compare temperature measurements “globally” before 1950s with any sort of consistency

You're right to be skeptical and we can't. There isn't even a single "global temperature" today. There is, for example, a global surface temperature measured by satellites and ground stations, except where there is cloud cover and no ground stations. It is extrapolated in such places based on mathematical models. Also a satellite passes only so often across certain area (or takes low resolutions photos if at geostationary orbit) so data is further extrapolated in time. And that is only the surface. What about the depths of the oceans and the thickness of the atmosphere? Is this what is meant when they make claims like "hottest 12 months" on record? If yes, it tells you nothing about true "global temperature".

"Global temperature" today is a mathematical construct, a model based on limited sensor data. A LOT is extrapolated in that model. How exactly you do that affects the results you get.

We don't have consistent measurements across the thickness of the atmosphere and depth of the oceans. There are sporadic measurements, like satellite measurement of cloud cover temperature and knowing how high this cloud cover is, but what's going on below and above? It's all filled in by "the models". Models people wrote to behave how they expect they should behave.
It's also the hottest 10 years in the last 200 years. And so on.
Mathias Wandel got hacked again
Gil Strang lectures are great if you want to a bit more depth.

https://youtu.be/nTwRjQ4xqUc?si=6jO6mO3M98_QX2Kx
But if you build a successful startup, you have to give up your ownership as having wealth/assets gets heavily taxed. If your startup have a bad financial year, its really frustrating to be forced to take a 2% dividend of your networth, tax 40% of that amount as dividend tax and then pay the remaining 1.1% as wealth tax.
That is why everyone with some wealth is now moving to Switzerland.
Solidarity? You must live far from actual France and have some romantic young rosy view on events far away. Almost everybody who isn't protesting is pissed off at folks protesting, since they block you from doing basic things in life like going to work, shopping groceries, driving anywhere or flying, taking train, going to gas station, going to hospital (I kid you not, you can be unlucky and literally die to negligence when health care sector goes on strike and nobody would bat an eye too much, and french public health care sector is not in good state currently). Cca half of my colleagues commute daily to work from France, so I have some group of quite opinionated citizens that express their honest opinions loudly outside of French borders.

There are often good causes behind strikes. What they actually do though every single time, is take rest of civilian population as hostages, make their life as miserable as possible for as long as possible, to create pressure on politicians.

See a little flaw in the logic above? You consistently end up in the crowd of hostages that take various pressures from side to side, often in matters unrelated to yours (say massive subsidies to diary farmers should be even more massive, nobody got time to improve efficiency or processes so market gets distorted more and more and local farmers are brutally incompetitive on their own), and you and your family suffers.

US population would not handle such massive things nicely I believe, not with so many guns and gun/freedom culture in general population.
> however, a big part of the compensation is through labor protection - something that is not worth a lot to a software developer

Maybe that was true in previous years, but I have found it very comforting to know that I'm almost unfirable (specially compared to my US peers), and even if I do get laid off I still have a ~12 month runway provided by the government.
In Greece we practically didn't have a winter this year. Temperatures are above 15 degrees Celcius for most months since November. On the other hand we had a catastrophic rain of epic proportions that flooded an entire county. As I speak I sit in my office with the windows open since it's 18 degrees outside. I dread of what might come during summer.
This was exactly why I was confused. And still am, in fact. I guess I don't understand accounting?
How is that solar shade of yours coming along?
You can get pretty far with trapping. Various localities do it effectively in New Zealand. However it tends to be on islands, peninsulas or pest proofed reserves.

Doing it for a town would seem difficult.