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New comment by hervature in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

hervature — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:43:11 +0000

Are you being dense on purpose? The US has been a country for 250 years and the Mayflower landed 400 years ago. Most of the people were born in the US.

New comment by hervature in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

hervature — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:18:28 +0000

Here is the 1870 census of the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1870_United_States_census

Note, indigenous people were less than 1%. New York City had the largest proportion of immigrants at 45%. Your claims of "only natives were there" and "everyone else immigrated from somewhere" are demonstrably false.

New comment by hervature in "Heat pump sales rise across Europe"

hervature — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:39:33 +0000

Heat pump sales for energy costs.

New comment by hervature in "FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger"

hervature — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:20:40 +0000

Define "For a long time now". The Republican party controlled California for 75% of the 1900s with the Democrats coming in power in the last quarter of the century. This is well after California established itself as an economic powerhouse which was greatly aided by the wild West attitude and things like Santa Clara being the location of 20 superfund sites due to all of the ground pollution caused by the semiconductor industry. California is also home to the greatest environmental disaster known as the Salton Sea. You are either going to have to concede that either the economic base of California was established by Republican and exploitative pro-business practices or that Democrats manufactured some of the worst environmental catastrophes.

New comment by hervature in "PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians"

hervature — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:53:47 +0000

I am a Canadian and I think you are demonstrating an unreal amount of cope thinking that this will have any meaningful impact on migration trends. The NAFTA agreement (and followups) allow the free-flow of professionals between the countries. Any "brain" that wanted to flee could already do so.

New comment by hervature in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

hervature — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:05:46 +0000

When the bad guys are too impatient to wait until you leave the computer but not fast enough to stop you before 30 degrees while keeping the convenience of life.

New comment by hervature in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

hervature — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:55:41 +0000

That is not a dodge. Look at the "one long term increase" and "two long term decrease" and compare the estimated populations. You have 2644 vs 618+900=1518. So, if the rest of the population is "insufficient data" and you only have the above to go off of, the only logical conclusion is that global polar bear population has likely increased.

Now, for the doubling, if you look at the original study I linked, it has a graph of the point estimates through the decades. From the 60s to now is about a doubling. If you throw out the 60s because "it is bad data according to experts" then even the increase is still 50%. These are estimates based on multiple studies in the different time periods whereas the WWF report uses a single report.

I have sufficiently defended my claim and provided actual sources for things other than a news article that says "expert says...". If you want to address any claims or put forth real data, feel free.

New comment by hervature in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

hervature — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:14:43 +0000

Read the words before the second part:

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Go look at the data yourself: [link]

You will find that the population has been stable globally [...]

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I am summarizing their own analysis. If you go look in the data, you will see that the global population is on the rise.

New comment by hervature in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

hervature — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:50:02 +0000

To be clear, I have not changed my claim. I am merely point out that even the polar bear people say that it is not in decline and, for some reason, refuse to say what their own data says, which is global population is on the rise. From their data from the region with most bears:

Subpopulation estimate and uncertainty - 2644 (95% CI = 1899–3592)

Long term change - Very likely increased (1973-2015)

I am not making up these claims. I am reading the very words and data from the people you are quoting.

New comment by hervature in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

hervature — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:31:20 +0000

Thank you. You read my post for its substance and interacted with it in good faith. You are a true HNer and if you are ever in LV, I will gladly buy you a beer.

New comment by hervature in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

hervature — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:29:28 +0000

Did you even read that article? It says the measurements from 1960-1980 are unreliable so the claim is false but the trend still works from 1980. Go look at the data yourself: https://www.iucn-pbsg.org/population-status/

You will find that the population has been stable globally and they themselves say the most populated region (Barents sea) is has very likely increased in the last 50 years.

The polar bear population is a pet peeve of mine because it is a bad example, if you want to keep defending it, go ahead, but you are not helping climate change advocates.

New comment by hervature in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

hervature — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:21:17 +0000

To be honest, I just looked up the report and did not not notice it came from there. My only agenda was that it was the only report that clearly showed the average and CI of the different studies throughout the years. WWF links to the actual report [1] which is found at [2]. They try their very hardest to not show that the population is either stable or increasing. If you look at decreases, for example in Davis Strait, it is a loss of 1% with 0% in the 95% interval.

Anyway, I do admit that linking from that website is not a good look but all I did was link the report and I am not advocating for anything else on their website. My larger point, the climate change community does not need the polar bears to drive their point. It is a bad example and we should use one of the many other verifiable sources (ice sheet loss, sea level rise, droughts, etc.) instead.

[1] - https://www.arcticwwf.org/wildlife/polar-bear/polar-bear-pop... [2] - https://www.iucn-pbsg.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/PBSG-St...

New comment by hervature in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

hervature — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:24:30 +0000

The polar bear population has steadily been increasing since the 1960s [1]. Basically double what it was. The more falsifiable information you use the less you are helping the cause.

[1] - https://thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2024/02/Crockford-State-...

New comment by hervature in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

hervature — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:04:16 +0000

I am not sure what point you are trying to make. When it comes to the Olympics, it was decided a long time ago that having both men and women's events was beneficial for societal progress to have both sexes represented. This was at a time when sex=gender. Now, we recognize the difference between sex and gender but one side thinks the split of events was always based on gender whereas it was almost surely based on sex. This ruling confirms that view point.

New comment by hervature in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

hervature — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:49:16 +0000

I am going to try to keep my response apolitical to try to avoid fanning a culture war. That Wiki is the exact reason we are in this situation because we are bringing up points for 1 in 20000 or 0.005% of the population. Any system designed around 0.005% edge cases is going to be so complex that it is functionally impossible to do in practice. That is why one side says the solution is "obvious" because we have a simple rule that covers 99.9% of cases and the other 0.1% is unfortunately effectively barred from high level competition. Note, high level competition already bars 99.9% of people. Even though the opposing side is correct in pointing out these edge cases, it does nothing to advance an actual solution.

New comment by hervature in "Ferrari vs. Markets"

hervature — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:46:39 +0000

I highly doubt they did this correlation properly. It looks like they just correlated two time series. Both series are correlated with time (both go up over time) and not each other. I eyeballed the series and correlated just the directions, when BTC goes up, it is 50/50 whether or not imports went up. I am pretty sure this correlation would be near 0 if you detrended the time series.

New comment by hervature in "Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance"

hervature — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:16:19 +0000

> The alternative is as in the US, where anyone can produce milk, and the price craters, and farmers need to be constantly bailed out.

Do you have references to bailouts specifically for dairy farms? The big bailouts recently were due to reciprocal tariffs. There is the Milk Loss Program but that is limited to 30 days of production per year. I would also classify this more of an insurance program than bailout.

New comment by hervature in "Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video]"

hervature — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:05:01 +0000

If that's the case, just scrap the demo. They literally kept the script "let us show you what it looks like".

New comment by hervature in "Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video]"

hervature — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:46:52 +0000

Whoever approved making a robot look like it is about to dance before awkwardly panning to a "static" model should not be making those decisions. It literally killed the vibe in the room. People went from the verge of freaking out to the biggest let down ever that it ruined whatever they said afterwards.

New comment by hervature in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

hervature — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:35:14 +0000

I am just trying to help you write better. Your writing says "if I had to give up either AI or chocolate [...] I would probably choose AI". However, your language and intent seems to be that you would give up chocolate.