skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parent's point, I believe, was that it is privately owned, rather than being an instrumentality of the public/government/state/people, regardless of how it's called.

There's an argument to be made that even privately owned entities are to some degree still stewards of the public trust and therefore owe some duty to the public, especially if they benefit directly or indirectly from public subsidy, and/or if they are able to exert monopoly power. This is generally expressed through regulation.

There's another (albeit related) argument to be made that if a platform for speech[1] is provided to the public, that it should conform to the same standards of freedom as elsewhere, including government. I believe this is what is mainly being debated here. Attempting to comply with the spirit of such an argument can be challenging for a company whose platform spans multiple "elsewheres", but there is also an argument in favor of greater freedom of speech, no matter the local standard (which I personally happen to support).

[1] or, perhaps, anything, such as a space for gathering
Why do you find that convincing?

He pretty much handwaves away one of the biggest problems: material. Saying "we'll harvest Mercury" is such a "world hunger solution"* that I can't take anything further seriously.

*World hunger solution: A solution presented in such a way to seem simple but instead hides many more problems just under the surface. e.g. The best solution to world hunger is to simply give everyone enough food. True, that would solve the problem, but we don't know how to do that.

And saying that "advanced civilizations" will be able to do it is pretty much going into the Giorgio Tsoukalos camp. "Aliens" is not an answer. It still ignores the how. What are the costs of harvesting an entire planet? What are the energy requirements to send mining equipment there, mine the planet, and ship the materials back here to be processed into something useful?

Why do you assume that that level of technology will be cheap and readily available in the future?
Seems reasonable to compare it with other rockets that have never been launched, then. I think it is a much more impressive concept than anything anybody else is seriously talking about building in the near future, but it really is next on SpaceX's "list". BO's next planned rocket doesn't get a pass on its non-existence just because it's less impressive (maybe a bit more impressive than what SpaceX has already flown to orbit).

Personally a lifetime of learning to be cynical makes me think that BFR is too awesome to be true and that it will never happen. Maybe BO's careful approach and Bezos' deep pockets will let them succeed where SpaceX will ultimately fail.

On the other hand, SpaceX has not yet given us any concrete reason to expect them to fail. Quite the contrary, in fact.
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The ship sank in 1905, in case people who can't bypass the paywall might have been wondering.
A comment here mentions that over 2000 companies joined last year. How do mentors spread their time over this impressive amount of companies? Or does that number include the ones that are simply auditing? And if you're NOT auditing, does that mean that it's an application process where you must be accepted?
I came here to say this. I peruse this article every once in a while; not intentionally, but I end up coming around to it from time to time, often during Wikipedia binges.
guck yes!
I think it boils down to two things (at least it does for me):

- If the picture is shown as if it was a photo, how similar is it to what I'd see if I were magically transported in a spacesuit into object's vicinity?

- If the picture is an obvious false-color render, does it have a reasonable color map, or some "artist's impression"?
Absolutely right on the emotional mark!

I have intentionally entered into plenty of relationships with companies to have cheap(er) product subsidized by advertising. It's a choice and I know what I'm getting.

But I feel like we're getting to the point where no amount of money is enough to opt out of ads in certain types of products:

* Physical copies of movies

* Non-libre operating systems [1]

* Gaming consoles

* Phones

* Most websites

* Most print media (excepting books)

* All television

In many of these cases, I've chosen to not participate at all, rather than enter into such an agreement. But that's kind of sad.

[1] I'm really just generalizing about consumer Windows here. Sweet monkey lord, when I open the "Start" menu on a nearby Windows 10 laptop, it's visually like walking into a Las Vegas casino! I assume the enterprise Windows situation is not like that? Also, I don't know if it's better or worse on Macs?
You're not alone, but... riddle me this: what's the difference between emoji and ideographs (e.g., Chinese Han / Japanese Kanji characters)??

I submit that the only difference is... time.

Perhaps a better questions would be: Do you believe that we should close the set of human language scripts? If so, when?

That's a serious question.

You might say that we should not invent new scripts (there goes Klingon), only accept new Unicode codepoint assignments for existing scripts. OK, but, really, you want no evolution of scripts? I don't think the Chinese -for example- would appreciate that, as Han/Kanji have been added over time, and even recently[0][1]. So perhaps you might say "just don't invent new scripts". Ok, but, why not? Why should we close one enormous aspect of human culture to innovation?! And what if some language authority (e.g., the Spanish Royal Academy) were to decide to incorporate emoji? International politics has had a definite and substantial effect on Unicode's design and evolution -- do you think that the Unicode Consortium can somehow start to resist political pressure where it has not been able to?!

You can see where I'm going with this. Emoji are new ideographs. Love them or hate them, that's what they are. Me? I like phonetic systems, but I understand that ideographs add expression dimensions that most of us outside countries where ideographs prevail... just are not even aware of. There are word games to be played in, e.g., Japanese, which will just not translate well to English -- though to be fair the reverse is also true, just in a completely different way.

I don't think opposition to emoji is politically tenable, not in the long term, and probably not in the short term either.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Are-new-Chinese-characters-still-being...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_j%C5%8Dy%C5%8D_kanji
Reaper DAW now with official but unsupported downloads for Linux
EU commissioner Margrethe Vestager: Google has to 'stop this behavior'
You have the wrong title for this article.
Every time you give to MoveOn.org or similar organizations, that money is doing the exact same thing. Let's turn this around for a moment. That donation you gave to the ACLU, or Black Lives Matter... If it's public, or in a way that can be made public, then as an employer I can use that to disqualify you from a job. As an apartment complex, I can find subtle ways to dissuade you from living there, such as a higher rent, or other fees. I can use my political bias against you, just because you gave to a group I don't like. If I can do that, why can't you do that to me?

By keeping donor information private, no one can weaponize that information, and no one can use it to discriminate. Do we really want people harassing one another in public, or worse, for whom they give to? Who I support, who I give money to, is no ones business but mine, and the organization I give it to, because at the end of the day I don't want you to harass me, and come after me because you disagree.
Just heard about this on Planet Money:
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

I have no relation to the co. I just think overall the Internet desperately needs information intermediaries who can honestly advise us on trust & quality. otherwise fraudsters / marketers can destroy it all.

Trust is the foundation of a healthy civilization.

Unfortunately, being such an intermediary often just does not pay. We could vastly improve the future health of society, if we can devise better business models for such intermediaries.
Show HN: Lunar 2.0 – Adapt monitor brightness using built-in light sensor
You can download the (free) macOS app here: https://lunarapp.site
You can also install it using cask: brew cask install lunar

The source code is hosted on Github: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar

A few weeks ago I launched Lunar, a macOS app that gives you adaptive brightness for external displays.
The first adaptive brightness implementation worked by calculating the sunrise and sunset times for your location, and then adapting the brightness/contrast throughout the day based on those times.

But then, a Reddit user (https://www.reddit.com/user/jimmyco2008) came up with a brilliant idea. Sync the built-in display's brightness with the external displays.
So I implemented just that and /u/jimmyco2008 helped me test the idea. It turned out to be much more useful and precise than the location mode.

There are a few notable advantages now:
- the brightness/contrast responds to the built-in light sensor readings
- you can use the brightness keys (or TouchBar slider) to adjust external monitor's brightness
- the behaviour of the algorithm is now adjustable through global brightness/contrast offsets on the settings page

To get access to all the features above, make sure to put Lunar in Sync mode like in this picture: https://i.imgur.com/3OFZvsK.png

I'm keeping the app free as it was from the start.
If you have some spare change, you can buy me a coffee here: https://buymeacoff.ee/alin23 ^_^
Yeah, absolutely nothing wrong with being who you are. But I think there's nothing wrong with people who change their diet, exercise, environment, etc. to develop a new habit.
It also didn't come to mean that at the behest of those in control of the glyphs. It came to mean that in an organic, even memetic fashion. That's the difference.
High mounting pressure will squeeze out excess thermal paste which greatly narrows the difference between the most and least conductive compounds when both surfaces are fairly smooth and even in while in contact.

https://www.overclockers.com/heatsink-mounting-pressure-vs-p...
The only one of those platforms that even kind of mattered on the desktop at the time was Apple and even they were way more niche than they were today. The web space certainly did matter and it was clear at the time it would come to matter a lot more if Microsoft wasn’t permitted to go on strangling it with IE and ActiveX.
TimeNorm:convert natural language expressions of dates and times 2 normaliz form
> After performing some not-so-rigorous tests on some of my extra buckling column gel, I came to the conclusion that the best way to address this was zip ties. The gel is thick and firm enough that if you push down on it you can't feel a zip tie near the middle of it.

How about plain old-fashioned sewing?

> I decided to go with a 7" layer of latex foam as a base as it is form-fitting and relatively cool

This got me thinking; it shouldn't be too hard to add some thermoregulation to a mattress, with a cooling/heating system, and could provide a nice experience. Anyone has any experience with thermoregulated beds? Does they even exist?

The closest I can think of is that stargate episode (with the Tollan people): https://peertube.xyz/videos/watch/965b521a-ee29-41fd-9e96-ea...
s/Doctors/Health Care Providers then. The more you insist on precision, the less accessible this debate becomes. I hope you have a good reason.

The salaries say that doctors are more powerful than patients -- but we both agree that they are powerless compared to the organizations that employ them. What of it?
One of my favorite Wikipedia pages of all time. A little sad that there are only three Biology events there though: North American earthworms spreading to Canada, coral reefs recovering, and C4 photosynthesis no longer possible. Can anyone think of more possible biology events?
Alex Grey studied cadavers at Harvard for years. His art tries to show the true medium, not one limited by visible light. Sort of like what Superman might see. Our bodies are emanating light in a spectrum of frequencies (Planks law.) All this light is leaving our bodies at C, whiles all the light from the universe is coming at us, our "light cone." We see the surface of bodies..but the actual substance of reality has interfering rippling waves emanating and being absorbed..not unlike a pool. So the next time someone tells you someone is ugly, remember that the visible light surface is just the beginning..

https://m.alexgrey.com/art/paintings/soul/alex_grey_humming_...
Would u accept a me-too company ?

This company just raised $10M A round. Fantastic backers, industry-experienced CEO. A very technical enterprise product. We saw their demo. The website is very detailed. Never signed any NDA.

We have managed to code a similar MVP product. We also have a different technical and feature road map. This is not a $1BN target - maybe eventual acquisition at low 9 figures.

Do u think this is a valid candidate for YC Online ?

Would u strongly steer us away from such an approach ?
I couldn't find the 800 million year figure specifically in the cited source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0912.2482.pdf

The general idea, I believe, is that the carbonate-silicate cycle will shift more toward carbonates over time. The Earth will warm substantially as the sun's luminosity increases over millions of years. Warmer conditions will accelerate the reaction of water and carbon dioxide with silicate minerals like magnesium and calcium silicates, shifting the equilibrium to favor more carbon-as-insoluble-carbonate and less carbon-as-available-CO2. Plant life will eventually go extinct from insufficient atmospheric CO2. I haven't spotted a discussion of oxygen loss in either citation 57 or 58. But "just" losing plant life would be enough to drive the extinction of most other multicellular life on Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonate%E2%80%93silicate_cyc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Main_sequence
I don’t see how you imagine that interaction going south. Perhaps a self-limiting belief that you have where women can’t tolerate something you see as quirky?
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Or if they were sufficiently advanced, they could entomb their bodies deep in a planet and observe the universe through VR and small undetectable probes. Or maybe the drake equation doesn't factor in drugs: that once a civilisation becomes advanced enough to stimulate their own pleasure receptors they quit bothering with growing and advancing?
Even so, at least you have the chance to be aware of that; if I typed this sentence using emoji, its impossible to know what it will appear as in 5 years, without seeing into the future.

this comment could be interpreted as a threat 50 years down the line, by the change of meaning over time, but any sane person understanding that history and context matter, with knowledge of how it would be interpreted today, would realize its not. But if we applied the same acceptance to text as we do with emoji, the whole thing could be changed such that in both this time, and 50 years from now, it would be interpreted as a threat. The same context argument could apply, but I'm also sure defenders of the change would also not see the need to maintain a log of how things have been changed, as I doubt they care about emoji changes today.

The words themselves aren't simply appearing differently; they're changing, right from under my feet. The only defense is that (afaik) the unicode assortium has not changed yet changed the naming for it (ie CRYING FACE EMOJI), but since no one in practice refers to that definition, its not a useful defense.

Thus, emoji in their current form are highly inappropriate as a medium of communication, except in the very limited use case of short-lived, impermanent, and same-implementation communications.

But since this constraint is not the intention of the unicode consortium, and this is not the intention of the groups/font-creators that support emoji, and this is not a limitation that the general user expects, then this is a very poor design.

Emojis have been accepted as intentionally corruptible communications, but no party involved actually realizes the implications of it. We don't change ascii (ignoring the latter 127 characters, which are open to any interpretation) except by accident and by intentional non-meaningful changes (changing fonts does not change the characters themselves, just their aesthetics [except I guess wingbats]), and everyone would throw a fit if they did, because the notion is absurd
> If anything, the fact that you think he's a doctor with magic cures suggests the need for ever more regulation, and thus bureaucracy.

Why? Why should the state assume the burden of protecting someone from themselves?

I might see it differently if knowledgeable, well-researched care were difficult to find... but it's not. If someone decides they want to go to a homeopath to treat their terminal illness, why should we stop them?
Yes but they might not have as high a density of sensors at the periphery/uncore.
But you are missing my point and that of joc815 below you - if I knew the cost, then I could determine whether or not to become a customer. In the absence of a clear cost structure, I can't answer the question of whether I can afford the care or not.
Agreed — I often feel like we’re in the period where the germ theory of disease is known but it’s still a battle to get doctors to wash their hands.
It had a few new concepts, mainly multi-processes, but "far superior when it came out" is a broad exaggeration.

Equally, IE was far superior to Netscape when it came out ;)

This is not to say Chrome is (now) the inferior browser but saying their marketing push has nothing to do with its market share is ignoring reality.
Your first memory probably isn't yours, no matter how real it seems
15“ i9 MacBook Pro excessively throttled due to poor thermal performance
Absolutely still true today. If you think otherwise you are clearly not in the business of developing mobile apps. Ten years ago native mobile apps were barely even a thing.

Take the HQ app for just one recent high profile app out of countless other examples.
Ok so they just need to rename the button and you're happy. Got it.
It looks like the binary wheels include the Qt libraries. So yes, this should mean you can just install Qt through pip, pipenv, or any other Python package manager.
Google has no obligation to provide the OSS version, but they can't really afford to close Android either, it would be a major PR blow and Samsung would basically immediately ship their own fork, perhaps with the Amazon store and a couple extra apps to replace the Google maps, Chrome, etc.

Manufacturers are limited contractually. This is detailed in the EU press release linked to this thread. Alas, one still has to actually read it or alternatively have some knowledge about how Android is licensed.
Ah I see what you mean, fair point - I'd agree that doesn't really work!

TBH my 2-node system was a simplified version of Corosync which I've worked with a bit, in that you allow quorum if you have half+1 of nodes up - so 4/5 up will maintain quorum. The highest-node lives rule is just a tie breaker in the case of a half/half split which the 2 node system always has when one node goes down. Good point though, that rule alone is definitely not a good idea.
I think the biggest factor here is ergonomics, no? If you already type so fast then you can afford to lose some of that in exchange for better ergonomics moving forward. Especially since the speed loss is temporary.
It's not at all bizarre.

Adding symbols from existing scripts requires research. It requires experts in that script to document the new symbols. It is exceedingly difficult to fix character definition errors.

Adding emoji is fairly simple by comparison. All you need is someone to submit a drawing, character name, and character metadata, and then maybe consensus. Because a new emoji a brand new character, no research is needed to avoid definition errors.
This is very insightful, thank you!
I have a feeling that by 2016, most people who use emojiis weren't using them on Windows.
contiued silicate rock weathering which sequesters carbon dioxide
> I thought they are mostly used for upper stages where they are required for combustion in space.

Why are they required for combustion in space?
Silicon Valley in either the narrow geographic sense or the sense of the SF Bay Area tech industry has strong faction in the center-right “identity politics plus neoliberal economics” camp that anchors the right wing of the Democratic Party, as well as the right-libertarian, and technocratic right-authoritarian factions. The broader SF Bay Area has a strong (for the US, at least) faction on the center-left (democratic socialists, in the DSA sense if not anything you'd recognize as such eslewhere) and a few visible, though insignificant, groups on the actual left, as well as enormous or in the previously mentioned center-right group.

In Silicon Valley (in either sense), the two right-wing factions tend to point to examples of the powerful center-right group in Silicon Valley as evidence that Silicon Valley is a hard-left monoculture, ignoring both their own prominence and that the faction they are pointing to isn't even a left-wing faction.
> The red supergiant star Antares will likely have exploded in a supernova. The explosion is expected to be easily visible in daylight.

Wow, I'd love to be able to see that. Makes one sad about all the things they'll never get to experience.
Yes but 3 months later it's a just a dupe.
Revising contracts with binding arbitration clauses has some recent precedent in the Supreme Court of the United States. Epic Systems Corp. (not the game company) sent employees a memo which can be paraphrased as, “you can no longer class action us. If you keep coming to work, you show you agree to this change.”

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-285_q8l1.pdf
You could go to entrepreneur meetups nearby and try to feel out other people with experience in government sales and affairs.

There's a great one in Seattle called Seattle Startup Open Coffee.
I don't understand why there hasn't been a significant challenger to eBay in their space. They are notorious amongst sellers for their high fees and dispute resolution that almost always sides with the buyer.
This looks great, I am going to see how it goes
Then it will be expanded, and UTF-16 will be put to rest, and UTF-8 liberated to encode the full 32-bit namespace.

Hopefully we're a few decades away from that eventuality...

I do hope the UC is reserving enough codepoints for existing human languages, and new Han/Kanji.
Vice reveals the messy reality of running both an accurate, non-biased and "edgy" "news" outlet.
How an Offer to Sell Wistia Inspired Us to Take on $17M in Debt
Thinking about something and putting it into correct English (or the language of your choice) is a different thing though, you don't usually type a stream of consciousness. You have to figure out the grammar, spelling of uncommon words, you can change your mind and rephrase something etc... Even spoken language is easier, it's often less formal and you can carry additional information through intonation and body gesture and when you're talking directly to somebody you have direct feedback to make sure that you've been correctly understood.

My "cruising" typing speed is about 80WPM and I don't think I ever feel like I'm typing too slow, for instance while writing this comment I never felt like my mind was getting ahead of my fingers. Maybe I'm a bit slow in the head, who knows...
It's even better to add more paste and high mounting pressure which is what Apple does.

https://www.overclockers.com/heatsink-mounting-pressure-vs-p...