skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So for a one time $600 donation ($1/tree [1]) I can be a carbon neutral person for life? Seems like a bargain. Am I missing something?

[1] https://www.nationalforests.org/get-involved/tree-planting-p...
Not sure where you make that distinction. I've seen plenty of articles suggesting Trump is "connected" to Epstein. I mean Trump was accused in court of raping a 13 year old on Epstein's property. I'd say that is more than he merely "met" Epstein…
One of them can buy a motorcycle and lane split.
Having looked at this stuff every so often for a while, my conclusion is, you don't know, I don't know, possibly even the people involved don't even know. I think people underestimate the difficulty of working this stuff out in an environment where people are deliberately and systematically trying to fool everyone else about the provenance of actions and such, because we are not used to that environment at all.

It doesn't help that for the same reason, I wouldn't particularly trust any press figure either. We have pretty good reason to believe the CIA has been involved with the press, and it's crazy to think other agencies would never have had the idea to get involved with the press. Is someone connecting person X to organization Y even telling the truth as they see it, let alone the question of whether they even have access to the truth. The odds of a given press figure A: having access to the truth B: deciding to tell you the truth and C: staying unmolested by these organizations even as they tell the truth about them over time strike me as effectively zero.
His deeds in the Gates Foundation count as "nice" by any reasonable definition.
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If you turn off cookies and JavaScript in your browser, you can read this and many other paywalled sites. I'm using the uMatrix[1] extension, which can automatically do this on a per-site basis.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
> They can be the same people

Oh, sorry, I meant that they are different people. Though I've heard of and met one or two people who might be crazy enough to be both.
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Is there no merit that won't be claimed by Rust advocates?

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Something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN_AWLraqNw

Software: https://github.com/dmd/clack
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Here's another similar story from Belgium (underage victims, blackmail etc): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/05/dutroux.featur...

Edit: warning, the story above had me crying on public transit. It is worth knowing about but terribly terribly sad.
There is a positive feedback cycle leading to polarization, and it works both ways. The more people assume the worst, the more likely they are to criticize with only a cursory understanding what's going on, and the more that justified criticism gets lost in the noise, leading to further communication breakdown as more people stop listening. In the worst case, certain things become "common knowledge" that nobody bothers checking anymore.

Breaking that cycle requires putting effort into understanding both sides and going beyond quick comments.
Related older pieces from a brilliant Finnish hacker. Her posts are always interesting:

https://www.windytan.com/2014/06/headerless-train-announceme...

https://www.windytan.com/2013/11/decoding-radio-controlled-b...
I've been working remotely from Austin (well, Northern suburbs for a bit under a year now, and after San Jose absolutely love it.

If you have to commute it might be tough (number of people here is growing faster than number of roads), but for remote work it's perfectly fine. And when I want to get to downtown, it takes me about the same time it would've taken me in San Jose (and I lived in SJ itself), but unlike SJ there's actually something to do in Austin.

It certainly does get hot here in the summer, but I like that there are seasons here.

Cost of living is significantly better than the Bay Area (and I would argue the quality of life isn't any worse either). And salaries, unless you're aiming for top position at a FANG aren't that much worse.

Also, people are much nicer around here.
Monopsony is “one buyer”. The group doing the price regulation in Canada isn’t buying anything.
> https://libertyblitzkrieg.com

As far as I can see, this site is not trustworthy and does not produce any news or employ any journalists.
I haven't used balena but I have worked with other IoT SAAS companies in the past. All these services seem rather expensive for what you get. Other than creating an easy way to push OS updates to field devices what would I get from your service?
That is our problem to fix and we are a rich enough country to do that ourselves without offloading that problem onto poor people abroad.
The ESP32 boards I have were £6, including postage. Can't find a Pi Zero for less than double that when including postage costs.

They're designed for different things though - if you wanted a battery powered version that updated on a button press else slept, ESP, if you want live updates all the time, Pi is fine!
Epstein himself, for once, and that would be enough. Also, one of their magazines/websites was reporting on some crazy parties, travel-trips and weddings carried out by SV owners, things that nowadays will definitely raise a few eyebrows in terms of economic inequality and conspicuous consumption, but those article were very badly received by the employees of those people the articles were writing about (so including people on this website) so that not a lot of tears were shed when Gawker went down.

I’m not equaling Marie Antoinette-way of living to the despicable things Epstein did, I’m just saying that in today’s political climate it would have been very interesting to still have access to articles detailing how the Google or FB owners were throwing out their money.
Not so much "people like Epstein" but actually Epstein himself. To my understanding, Gawker (well, Nick Bryant really) was actually one of the few who actually reported on him in detail back in the day. E.g., here's this[0] from 2015. Some of the links are broken now so I can't link to other of Bryant's stories about it.

[0] https://gawker.com/here-is-pedophile-billionaire-jeffrey-eps...
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Other than spur-of-the-moment items, the only things I need to buy from the grocery are fresh meats and produce. Possibly bakery items.

Everything that's boxed, bottled, or bagged, I can get from Amazon. Instead of making a list I just scan the barcode and order and throw the empty one away (or put the almst empty one in the back in the fridge)
There likely weren't any high value paintings seeing as how they would be publicly displayed in a hospital, however, we are a very large hospital, so there were quite a number of pieces. Lots were just in storage as we didn't have anywhere to put them.
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Similar to what I was thinking.
I've lived there and can say from experience China just makes stuff up. The local governments are responsible for reporting to higher ups and they don't want to miss targets, so they straight up lie. In reality it's a house of cards. You can lie about a 2% change once, and twice, and three times, but soon your lies compound and it's clear you didn't reduce emissions by the rate you reported. Only time will prove me correct about this. They do this with air quality regularly. Chinese official numbers of PM2.5 are regularly 30-50% lower than what the US embassy reports.
This is not a "whataboutism". This is a "The government doesn't need to tell me how long I'm allowed to have an erection-ism"; i.e. micromanaging bullshit is not in the purview of the federal government.
On the topic of ACID, Dgraph is the only graph DB (AFAIK) which has gone through Jepsen testing for its distributed transactional ability. Note that Dgraph passes all of them in the latest releases. And provides MVCC, snapshot isolation with linearizable reads.

http://jepsen.io/analyses/dgraph-1-0-2
Oh man that is great thank you.
Over time the majority of the best militaries will be shooting F35s out of the sky with 40-year-old fighters. That's assuming the F35s can even take off, given how they need an ALIS download before they can fly, and that's dependent on a working Internet, and assuming they don't break up in flight due to excessive G-forces, and assuming the pilot doesn't have to eject, because lightweight pilots have a 23% chance of dying during ejection because of the heavy helmet. And assuming the F35 didn't run out of fuel before the battle, because it doesn't have enough range for real missions.

So yeah, I'm saying all those militaries buying F35s are either stupid or desperate.

Turkey won't be buying F35s because they bought missiles from the Russians. This is going to be a very good thing for Turkey's national security in the long run; they just don't know it yet.

If the following reports are to be believed, the F35 is overdesigned, overpriced, doesn't work, and cannot be made to work. It's a piece of absolute crap. Are all these reports wrong?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17876723

https://breakingdefense.com/2019/03/air-force-moving-f-35s-a...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1015212921071329281.html

https://warisboring.com/the-f-35-is-a-terrible-fighter-bombe...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/america-is-stuck-with-a-dollar...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/28/f35_software_fail/

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/06/12/the-pentagon-is-b...

https://defensesystems.com/articles/2015/01/28/f-35-joint-st...

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/feature/5/168...

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/fd-how-the-u-s-and-its-alli...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/navys-f-35-doesn...
Even if none of them were involved in Epstein's worst crimes, their willingness to even give the time of day to a convicted sex trafficker reveals a disgusting toleration for predatory behavior. The overall picture it paints is, "hey, as long as he could buy his way out of any real trouble it's safe for me to associate with him."
I don't know how it will work out, but my personal experience in SD with mixed use so far is good.

Where I live in San Diego (UTC) there was significant improvement due to mixed use (they are building high rises within walking distance of Westfield UTC mall, some of the new residential buildings also have office space inside them (looking at plans for Lux, yes, the name is cringy)).

Where I work in San Diego (Carmel Valley) there is a large new development project (One Paseo) that is located next to a mall (Del Mar Highland Center) which is being significantly renovated, and One Paseo itself includes dense residential, office buildings, and restaurants/shops (in fact, the restaurants/shops are already opened while housing will take a few more years to be ready).

Both of these developments involve building multistory parking garages to accommodate parking needs.
The hospital where I work has art around the halls through which the patients move. It changes every few weeks and features mostly local artist.

I quite enjoy it.
True.

So was it likely that it was this Jupiter incursion that sent the "Mars-size planet" to the Earth, creating the Moon?

Also, I read somewhere, a few years ago, that the core of said "Mars-size planet" survived the collision, and ended up as Mercury. As I recall, part of the argument was that by composition, Mercury looks like a core, not a planet (not even a near-solar planet). And there perhaps was some isotopic evidence. Maybe also some compositional mass-balance argument like "'proto Earth' + 'Mars-size planet' <> Earth + Moon". There being missing iron etc.
> Prices are low in Canada because they have the negotiating power of the entire country behind their single payer system driving prices down.

This is not correct for a variety of reasons, first and foremost that the Canadian healthcare system (systems, really, each province administers its own) do not cover drugs in most cases. There are public programs for low income earners, otherwise it's out of pocket or covered by private insurance.

The real answer is simply that there are legal caps on pricing for most patented medicines, as a condition of being patented.
This makes the current state of law somewhat unusual - according to Citizens United, money is speech, yet boycotts aren't.
I don't have the nerves to bear a native Windows install in my environment, so I turned their LTSC into a "Windows Gaming Container" with VFIO.

Alright, it's a headless VM, but it's pared down with 'unfuck' and other telemetry- and uselessness- neutering projects into something safer. Lookingglass peers into one of my GPU's framebuffers, so it lives inside a window on my Linux host.

It's also been at least a year since I've needed it, though, since Steam and wine cover everything else I'd want to play or run, so it might be time to cut it loose for good.
I got that much from the article. Was interested into factors that got into it. Also "machine learning" is generally a cop-out term, what's your training set, etc, or is even a broad answer proprietary??
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A walkable city is not built by burying one's head in the sand, rather by building it.
> This seems to involve feeding the exhaust of a power plant into a process which cools the exhaust to the point where CO2 dry ice (and other pollutants) desublimates out of the exhaust and is then extracted for various industrial/commercial applications.

Based on what you said, the dry ice would sublimate and just re-release the carbon into the atmosphere. Or did you have a different place for this carbon to go? If so, how are you planning to keep the dry ice cool, and how are you planning on producing it in the first place?
I've heard certain types of radar can detect everything nowadays. Nothing is truly stealth and it's just a gimmick. This was from that guy who completely criticized the F-35, Pierre Sprey.

I'm not an expert. I really want to hear the opinions of experts on this topic.
> Prices are low in Canada because they have the negotiating power of the entire country behind their single payer system driving prices down.

A clarification: Canada does not have a single payer system. Rather it has multiple single payer systems.

Canada is a federation, in that while it has one national government, it also has ten provincial governments (and three territories).

Health care is the responsibility of the provinces, and so there is not "national" health care system (like in France or UK's NHS).
I grew up near that whole foods, and you have to remember that when the store opened there was not a single grocery store near by that was nearly as large and as good as that one. Hell, the mall that it's in might look less high end than the rest of Union Square, but it's far nicer than the department store Bradley's that was there before.

Also worth noting that since that whole foods opened, the grocery situation throughout a lot of manhattan improved in that they opened quite a few more locations that also were rather large compared to the older grocery stores around.

This all said, I think the real market in a place like manhattan is for grocery delivery. Fresh Direct when they opened was tremendously popular right away, and given amazon's hold in the online purchasing space, within manhattan (and other cities/neighborhoods where few people drive), online grocery purchasing experience matters more for the brand than in store experience.
If we’re worried about funding innovation, we could do a lot by only funding the innovator.

When every manufacturer has their own statin or their own ARB inhibitor, etc., the revenue is split between a true innovator and a bunch of copycats.

Fixing that could allow much more reward for true innovators, at lower prices but profits protected by volume.
There is another problem with using your own phone for work: many companies now require you to install their MDM profile to access email or other services. This gives them a lot of power to do whatever they like with the device, remotely. If a security breach occurs and they deem it prudent, they can wipe the phone remotely, for example. And I don't even know what they can access from the phone's content, probably everything.

It's quite simply an issue of ownership: if they don't pay for the phone, they don't get that. If you want root on a device, pay for it and issue it to the user.

So, in that sense a device issued by the employer is better. I'm not installing anyone's MDM profile on my phone, that I pay for, that contains my personal photos, messages, etc.
> but there are plenty of examples of people remaining connected after other celebrities committed similarly heinous crimes, R Kelly for example

Which is exactly the problem. This entire culture of "well if you're rich and powerful enough you get to play by a different set of rules, whatreyougonnado" needs to be torn out by its roots. If they associated with Epstein with knowledge of his prior convictions then none of these people is entitled to any sympathy or benefit of the doubt whatsoever -- rather, they should be expected to explain themselves and drummed out of polite society if their answers are found lacking.
I thought this was capitalism? Isn't the idea of a company under a capitalist system to generate the maximum amount of profit possible for each product they sell?

Drugs aren't priced relative to what they cost to make or develop any more than airlines price flights based on how much it costs to fly someone between any given city. They're priced at the highest level the market will bear. Is it any surprise that the largest, most powerful economy in the world will bear higher prices? The drugs by definition have higher value because treating someone in a strong economy delivers more marginal value than in other markets. That's math.

Now we can talk about different systems but this is the one being held up today.
We don't own a TV and our Netflix time is limited to kids shows these days. We do the thing he mentioned though of just going to the local bookstore and reading them. It's like a library, but has a good selection and no wait lists.

Literally almost every evening after supper, we go to the bookstore until they close. Buy something from the cafe, and then just sit and read. Chit chat with the other regulars now and again. It's a nice low-key way to get out of the house.
Is that US price with or without any insurance? Most countries negotiate a lower price with the drug companies the same way insurance companies do. I don’t see how Canadians negotiating a lower group price is worse then Americans paying someone to do that.
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I agree completely. I live in a century home. The spruce lumber in my walls is safe and dry and has been there decades longer than it would have been if those trees had been left to die and rot on their own.
US consumers pay more, but US marketing expenses are much higher too, eating up more revenue than R&D does.
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Wish I saw your reply sooner. That's a great technique. You're probably a serial entrepreneur, or someone very close to that.

> And sometimes it exposes that the person is only good at dreaming big, but is unable to actually execute.

In my case, I figured out the problem when we tried to write a business plan. We've kept in touch for years since, and seeing where he's gone, that assessment is pretty accurate. He always has big dreams, but he succeeds when he focuses on mundane tasks.

It's silly, because he had a hit with an app, but spent too much money developing it and lost money. If his dream wasn't as big, he'd be profitable.
> Those kinds of measurements would violate the uncertainty principle.

No, they don't. The uncertainty principle places limits on measurements of non-commuting observables on the same system. We are not talking about that here. See below.

> You can't know the complete state going in to the system

Sure you can: just prepare the system in a known state. For example, pass your photon through a vertically oriented polarizing filter: if it comes through, it must be vertically polarized, so you have complete knowledge of its polarization state. (You might have to try multiple photons to get one that passes through: that's why photon sources in these experiments are often inefficient.)

> or the complete state going out

Sure you can: you measure it. For example, you pass the vertically polarized photon that just came through your vertical polarization filter through a beam splitter, and you have detectors at each output of the beam splitter. Exactly one detector will fire for each photon.

> If the emitter were to only emit useable photons when it's "in the right state", what stops the "right state" for emitting photons to become correlated with the polarizers?

> There are a bunch of "unusable" photons bouncing around interacting with everything and transporting global state.

It looks like you don't have a good understanding of how the "emitter" works. What you are calling the "emitter" is really a filter, like the vertical polarizer described above: it throws away the photons coming from a source (like a laser) that don't meet a particular requirement (like vertical polarization). The thrown away photons are either absorbed (as in the case of the polarizer) or they just pass through the apparatus altogether and fly away (as in the case of parametric down conversion, for example: only a small percentage of the laser photons will be down converted, the rest just fly away and are gone).

In no case are the photons not used kept "bouncing around". They're gone. And the photons in the "right" state are just the ones that make it through the filter and are therefore in a known state when they come out, because that's how the filter works: the filter is uncorrelated with what's inside the experiment because, again, that's how the filter works (and it is tested to make sure it works that way).

> What happens to the photons that reflect off of the polarizers and travel back into the emitter?

There aren't any. See above.

> If a photon bounces off of a mirror it had to have 1. transfered momentum to whatever it hit, and 2. induced a sufficiently strong opposing electromagnetic field to cause the photon to be reflected or re-emitted.

1. Yes, but in these experiments the mirror is fixed to the Earth, so the momentum is transferred to the Earth, which means it's effectively gone. The entire Earth is not going to have a "memory" that can become correlated with the rest of the experiment.

2. No. You are thinking of it classically, but we are not talking about a classical process.
> This simple answer is satisfying to many who otherwise prefer single-payer plans, but doesn't really hold up to scrutiny

I mean, it fails the even more basic scrutiny that Canada simply does not have a single payer for pharmaceuticals, or even a handful of single payer provinces. It's much like the US in structure (out of pocket or private insurance), simply with price controls.
Until housing prices near the city centers come down I don't see that happening. Plus people want peace and quiet which city centers don't offer (at least in the United States).
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I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted on this, it’s a common problem in authoritarian governments of all stripes. Nobody gets promoted from Apparatchik to Senior Apparatchik by pushing back on the quotas set for them.