skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been so long, I can't remember when I first heard it; I've always taken it as common knowledge. The weird part, for me, was when the denialist campaign started some time after. Which I associate with the Reagan Administration, rightly or wrongly. (We in the tree hugger community were aghast by EPA Chief James Watt. And so forth.)

From what I now gather, multiple persons & orgs were raising the issue independently. Certainly, the leaders were kept in the loop. Top three hits from a quick search:

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/exxon-and-the-...

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Oil-Companies-Knew-About...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oil+companies+climate+change+1950s
It's funny that you mention the Simpsons, which itself used to be so counterculture that you were a bad parent if you let your kid watch it.

Now it's so mainstream that they can't find a plot that offends people anymore, not so much because they toned it down, but because society caught up to the Simpsons.
Ever heard of industrial farming?
Stay tuned for the next batch of revelations from Project Veritas.
> I don't believe it is incumbent upon me to alter the manner in which I speak and write for the convenience of another.

It absolutely is incumbent upon you to show people respect in a workplace or school setting. That means not calling Black people the N-word, or mocking Asian accents, or deliberately using the wrong pronouns for trans people.

> grammatical horror

English is already full of them, one more won't do any harm.

> that "they" as a singular simply feels clumsy and unnatural when spoken.

Not once you get used to it.
> they come with IPMI... which is exactly what iLO, DRAC, etc., is

iLO / iDRAC implement IPMI, but they are not the same thing. iLO and iDRAC provide web interfaces, remote iso mounting, granular boot control, remote vga, etc. There's a lot of useful features not available in a "standard" IPMI implementation.
It seems like there's not a lot of resistance from the left to removing hydropower anymore, as the impacts to wildlife and need for regular significant maintenance became clear over the last few decades. There's no rush to tear down young modern damns but the old ones are steadily being retired. Snake River is just a matter of time.
Roblox grows 3x in 3 years – now 100M MAU and bigger than Minecraft
One can imagine an autonomous delivery along the lines of Amazon Scout https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/amazon-scout-delivery-rob... . No tips, no payroll.
The point is that Google frequently adds another level of incorrectness, that may not be identifiable without checking the source. This is pretty common on Wikipedia, and when people link to things in discussion forums, as well.

And anything Google does, is done at vast scale, which makes me, at least, think it might be substantially affecting society.
Are you a Python developer?[1] How do you deal with your project depending on an older version of a package with pip?

Basically, it's just like that (but instead of specifying your version in requires.txt/setup.py, you just install a package with a particular version). You've got an older library version that gets automatic security updates but does not break backwards compatibility (or it's a bug in the distro).

Ubuntu/Debian packages manage dependencies as well, so for anything you install from the "archive" (distribution's repository), you get compatible dependencies as well, so you can further reduce number of packages you need to pull in with pip. It's a bit of a bother if you've got two sources of dependencies, but if you can get free security updates and no backwards compatibility breakage for 5 years (Ubuntu LTS guarantee for packages in main), it's a small price to pay (though it certainly depends on the use case as well).

And luckily, Python + PyPI are _not_ JavaScript + NPM: with Python, you get a large standard library, and as you do not always need the latest and greatest of everything, you will not have hundreds, if not thousands of dependencies that you get with JS+NPM.

[1] Your first tongue-in-cheek question is, imho, totally inappropriate. If I misunderstood and it was not meant in a sarcastic way, I apologize for attempting to return the favour. :) Even then, your second question is totally valid and should have been sufficient if you honestly care.
> But for the record, I was suggesting installing the charge port at the curb, if at all possible.

Typical sidewalk in older parts of the city (use Street View):

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/50+Westminster+Ave,+Toront...

Even if one lived on the "parking-side" of such a street (which my parents do not), there's no way installing a charge point without messing up the sidewalk. And there's no way people would agree to messing up the clear sidewalks we have on the residential streets. The busier commercial streets are another matter; around the corner in the same neighbourhood:

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/385+Roncesvalles+Ave,+Toro...

> There's no reason they couldn't spring for a PHEV though and opportunistically charge where they can while out shopping or whatever. Every little bit helps.

Yes, but the originating article was about the elimination of hybrids by GM and VW: this is a non-starter for some folks.
Alternatively, the present is the weighted average of past causal influences. This event had no causal influence over the humans figuring out how to make baskets. From Earth perspective, the event just happened.
If.

I have a hard time seeing interest rates continuing to drop, however. (On the other hand, I never thought I'd see them this low. But they can't keep going lower forever... can they?)
Judges are biased, they hand out harsher sentences before lunch than after lunch, they also enforce a legal system with the threat of violence delivered by the law enforcement onto people and yet their own criminality is they don't get people to sign a contract agreeing to the laws of the land, and they don't educate people in the laws of the land. So you are setup to fail, no better than Hitler in my books.

People smoke weed for a variety of reasons, but one of them is to reduce stress which is caused by the GIRK pathways releasing potassium from the cells into the blood stream, hyperpolarisation. Try it by swapping sodium chloride with potassium chloride and you wont be half as stressed with modern life, your intelligence will increase and your physical performance will increase. The take away is this, sodium causes cells to take on water, potassium causes cells to take on glucose, amino acids and other nutrients. Sodium starves the body at the cellular level.
That's obviously not the issue with this particular flavor of Islamophobia; it's the confusion of nonviolent muslims with the extremists that leads to prejudice.
Is there a way to donate? I've heard that because of the daily protests people are losing a lot of money, and protestors can't afford food/masks/protections.
I'd guess it's written for the normal person rather than someone who understands that cross-platform means.
The comment wasn’t declaring them to be “not-green” because of the mere existence of environmental consequences. It was doing so because of the large magnitude of those consequences.

There’s probably a good argument to be made that they’re worth it, but the original statement was fine too.
Don't forget Orbital! This is one of my favorite movies as well, for similar reasons. I grew up in the 90s with BBSs, and I think the film captured the subculture pretty well.

I also remember reading the detonate.net parody of Hackers at the time, and thinking it was one of the most hilarious things ever.
The word "Just" is bending my mind! I guess it means we Just saw it, but it probably happened a while ago.
I love the idea of doing some kind of VS Code plugin, but not sure where it will fall on the priority list. Any thoughts as to what a VS code integration might look like?
Go ahead and call those who disagree with you 'criminals', but don't expect the issue to then not be politicized; and don't be surprised if they're not willing to listen to your ideas. You've already decided that whatever they are doing is wrong and shown them you're not willing to work with them to achieve any acceptable compromise. You've also alienated potential allies who are probably looking at you wondering if they are next. And you've given your opponents plausible deniability while possibly damaging your own credibility.

> We treat things like murder as a binary proposition (barring self defense), even if the person being murdered represents a drain on society's resources.

Since when? Historically it was A-OK to kill people under all kinds of circumstances that today we would consider murder. Some societies had ritualized sacrifice. Plenty of people now (myself included) think the death penalty is not okay. Even today, murder is often used as a tool of statecraft for every government on Earth. It's tolerated in many, many instances; sometimes even praised.

Murder itself, in the US, is treated differently depending on intent. And murder is just a subset of killings, which include killing on the battlefield, manslaughter, self defense, accident, etc. There's nothing binary here.

> Do you personally believe that humans are the ultimate arbiters of the universe?

Does it matter what I personally believe to a person that wants to cut down a forest for profit? Does my belief somehow help achieve my goal? Does my belief do anything to convince anyone else?
For anyone "wish" Chinese gov send tanks or armies, you will be disappointed, this gov really learned a lot from 1989. Those videos about military movements in Shenzhen are released by official medias from China, which is obvious bluffer: if they want to do sth, they will definitely do it secretly, and just another reminder, China do have a lot legal armies in HK.
You should try reading the full article (the myths article links to an article that expounds on each myth) before accusing us of being oversimplified.

As for the myths themselves - we've received over 50,000 emails from our users over the past 8 years. I'm pretty confident we can state those as myths that remain persistent in the nutrition space.
> So some consultants swooped in, there was 8 weeks of training, and now everything is going to go back to how it was.

I used to work for Lockheed Martin. I believe it.

I found it so hilarious I was relieved when I finally got caught up in the layoffs.
It's a grey market system. Don't really have to heed to regulations and investors. And they're all privately owned and decentralized.
Neither of those observations are from black holes.
Just wait when the people accumulating these savings get a bit older, and decide that now it the time to use them.
Well the other way it passes the test is that it certainly wasn't abolished by the Constitution when it was written, so why would it be abolished by the Constitution today? Only if it got particularly unusual, at which point the Eighth Amendment would kick in to protect against one rogue judge meting out a punishment that had been largely abandoned by society.
Did you really need to add that final line?
Google's Descent into Identity Politics
True, but they can always impose greater restrictions such as how much you can spend with cash. Cash transaction limits have been decreasing for some time.

https://wolfstreet.com/2017/01/28/europe-limits-on-cash-tran...
The market must simply be anticipating interest rates going even deeper negative, especially in the EU, where there's a huge amount of sovereign debt, collateralized across different countries.

The "natural" demand is there in the form of reserve requirements by European banks. This is limited by the amount of cash that banks can store at cost, but that practice can restricted or eliminated:

https://www.imf.org/~/media/Files/Publications/WP/2018/wp181...
When they start cutting little piddly stuff like this, I reckon it's time to look for greener pastures. (Although the recent hiring freeze is perhaps an even better signal.)
The Amiga in 1985 had amazing custom graphics and sound chips, a preemptive multitasking OS, double the RAM of the Mac 128k at 1/2 the price (Mac 128 MSRP is $6000 in 2018 dollars)

It’s really sad how much public hagiography is made over the Mac when almost no middle class family I knew of could afford it, certainly not with a LaserWriter.

The Commodore 64 was way more affordable and got a legion of kids interested in computing and coding, who later went on to adopt Amigas.

Even today if you look at the home brew, hacker, and demo scenes, Commodore dominates. Hardly anyone is doing stuff on old Apple 2s or Macs.

Commodore gets the short shrift in the Twitterati retelling of the personal computer evolution, and today’s millennials completely fixated on Jobs and Apple and ignore most of what was really happening in the 80s with home users.
I wish I had something written up to share. But it's honestly a mix of things I love to play with. Several full blockchain nodes (especially uploading to light clients), bittorrent client (seeding tons), plex, home assistant, boinc, tor bridge, grafana, web and email servers, zoneminder CCTV, mandelbulber (clustered rendering of 3d fractals), four different Minecraft servers (some modded), ADS-B plane tracking, weather station and radiation monitoring, and a bunch more.

It's really just one big toy for me. I'm using Proxmox for high availability of over 30 VM's (still want to play with containers soon).

EDIT: OPNSense firewall says I uploaded over 15TB in the last month. Fortunately Google fiber doesn't care!
Strictly speaking, it happened _now_ in our own timeline, whether it happened 26K years in the past for the blackhole is a mystery as everyone gets their own timeline and we have no idea (read: can only reasonably conjecture) what the future timeline for that black hole is until it gets to us.
> If you find a bug in their product you are expected to follow their policy.

Is their policy more than 90 days? Yes? Fuck 'em; post everything everywhere.
No more so than you usually are. Which means it can happen to you at any time.
Vampire V4 SA (coming 2019/Q3)

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There is a new Amiga being developed. It is an accelerator
board with a brand new 68080 processor. The thing is, it being FPGA, it actually doesn't need to be hosted in an actual Amiga any more. Therefore they are planning to make a standalone, essentially new Amiga. The Apollo 68080 Accelerator - New Amiga: http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=products

Also. This is what Amigas can do in 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh2nqjQzLWo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d75fqJOInIk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD9xk3SDSYc
>It’s also fun to remember that this event happened 26,000 years ago.

Tweet from the author saying this, in case anyone else was looking for a citation:
https://twitter.com/quantumpenguin/status/116070888526032896...
> or people refusing to get health insurance

This isn't a good example.

Lots of people simply can't afford healthcare. They need coverage anyway. Yes, there is the occasional jerk who can completely afford it and won't buy it. But they're not the common case, in my experience.

I am with you about building in fire areas. There should be regulations requiring you to carry sufficient insurance that also defrays the cost of dealing with you when the fire shows up--not just rebuilding you after the fact.
But we do that all the time. Parks close due to avalanche risk. We close roads if we think heavy rain will wash them out. Airspace around active volcanoes is closed. We don't let people build certain buildings in earthquake zones. Entire towns have even been closed due to pollution risks. Governments do these things both to protect people from becoming victims, and to protect rescuers from having to risk their own lives pulling people out.
That would be nice, wouldn't it?

Maybe they wouldn't be allowed to buy two, because in "a perfect world", a place to live is a necessity, not a profit vector. Keeping housing supply limited to boost house prices, to appeal to house-owning voters and wealthy landlords, to extract six figures of money from normal people over decades, is nothing like "perfect".
> Maybe we're just looking at an event that happened on Earth 2 * the distance in light years ago.

A very interesting idea!

Although I don't think that the black hole cared much of those few photons from earth.

Expanding it, how long until my hand waving could cause a strong enough "butterfly effect" for an observable cosmic phenomenon to occur beyond our solar system?

A million years? 100 million?

Edit: Thank you for your comment. Just keep it! Sometimes people here are just a bit quick to judge. It's amazing to think humans could have affected such a monster at all, no matter how little. Even for a handful of photons worth.
"There's nothing unnatural about being forced to pay to preserve your wealth" said the rat-faced man in the expensive suit. He and his two burly associates had wandered into my shop, taken in the quality of my merchandise, but declined to purchase anything. Instead, perplexingly, he tried to sell me an "insurance policy", equal to 20% of my gross per month. After all, he said, to have the value of monthly sales in my boutique, I need to have an actual structure to sell from, and clearly, the continuity of my having possessions wasn't going to come for free!
Because of Hawking Radiation, black holes are actually not entirely dark, and they have a temperature. Just because it's in the name doesn't mean it's part of the definition. Think of it as "black" as in "black-body radiation".
Oh my God! This is so useful! I hate that I can't right-click on a search result to copy a URL. We definitely used to be able to do this, didn't we?
I mean, Amiga is still around...kinda? You can buy a copy of AmigaOS and run it on PowerPC hardware. There's also AROS, which isn't "true" Amiga, but is mostly source-compatible and definitely "feels" very Amiga-ey.

Honestly, though, now would probably be about the time for Amiga to make a bit of a comeback; with the advent of really awesome web applications, the actual operating system is becoming increasingly irrelevant to most users. If we could get the two big browsers out there (Firefox and Chrome) to make decent ports to AmigaOS/AROS, then I could conceivably some of my non-tech friends using it without even fully realizing it.

Sadly, though, I think that's too little too late; non-technical people seem happy enough with their Chromebooks, and technical people will be hampered by the lack of software available for Amiga on current computers.
It was lovely, it had a VERY solid feel to it and the sound quality was as good as, if not better than, many full-size players. Thanks for the link to the review, it's been a fair few years since I've even seen that thing.
I wonder whether you are reading my comments with an open mind, or just trying to find something you can disagree with. I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm trying to give you a framework to understand your own opinion.

When you say sanity=success, you are expressing something that is purely an opinion, and can never be anything more than an opinion, based on what you think success is, and your belief that in order to succeed according to your personal definition people have to be sane, or that sanity is just the same thing as being able to achieve your goals.

- What if I feel very guilty and I think I deserve to suffer? I'm sure you're already getting ready to type "if suffering is your goal that just means you are succeeding at suffering!" Fine.

- What if you feel like you can't go on, so you kill yourself? Are you sane because you are succeeding at killing yourself? Maybe so.

- What if my goal is to go temporarily insane to see what that is like? Then you are claiming that I'm only sane if I'm insane... It gets worse though, because what if I fail to go insane, even though it's what I put all my effort into every day? No matter what I just can't make myself insane. Well actually, then I'm not succeeding, so it turns out that by failing to go insane I've succeeded at going insane... which makes me sane.
There is not nearly enough room on the front page for everyone that wants to be there, google has to make subjective decisions about what shows up there, it's impossible to do it any other way.
"All the adults seemed to know what was happening, even if we didn't yet know all the causes."

I want to amend my answer.

We all knew global warming was happening. What we didn't know yet was why it wasn't happening faster. Given the rate the carbon was being added to the atmosphere, the temperature should have been rising faster than observed. And the skeptics (of the time) used the missing carbon to fuel their FUD.

The ocean had not yet been identified as the carbon sink. Once that penny dropped, everything since has been details.
Because to be a US Conservative is now more about greed that a "conservative value". It is more about self-interest than selflessness. To be environmentally conscious means someone cannot exploit that environment to profit. The consequences matter for someone else. The lakes are poisioned because it was cheaper to discharge into them than to keep your poisionous runoff.

The US Conservatives are currently attacking the clean water act, the clean air act, and the endangered species act only because they interfere with profit and greed.

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by greed.
> [Vector quantization] Decoding is very simple.

Do you have an encoder/decoder to point us to?
This sounds awesome! Does it work with server side rendering or is that coming with the next.js integratiom you have planned?
Do you feel some burning sensation?
If you don't have people who are pissed off at you and making your life difficult and/or trying to kill you barely scraping by in BFE sucks a hell of a lot less than barely scraping by in the city.
Thanks for that.

It does say "It’s believed that with Penguin 4.0 Google has transitioned back to devaluing (or ignoring) spammy links, rather than penalising for them"

My working model is Google is working hard to make search relevant, as that's their bread and butter. If you do a Google search and you get spammy sites, you stop using Google, and they lose money.

Black hats will always be one step ahead, and will find very technical ways to beat Google in the short to medium term, and sometimes forever.

However negative seo is going to be such a common attack vector, especially against unsophisticated webmasters (which ironically might be the people with the most useful information, the people who Google DO want to show). So Google is going to consider this a major bug if such sites are getting attacked like this.

Ignoring but not penalising spammy links is the best thing for Google to do.
I disagree. There is an implicit contract between website publishers and search engines that it’s ok to do this. The website can set nosnippet in robots if they want to not have the snippet in search results.
Project Cybersyn: Cybernetic Synergy
I also have a NanoHD and its acceptable but USG (non-pro) runs so hot that I fear leaving it in a non airconditoned cupboard that my internet exit resides
Explained: The Snax Trustless Authentication Protocol
Privacy? With a FOSS (or even just third-party) app, the service operator has less fine-grained tracking and behavioral data for you as a user.

The UI can also be designed with the user's best interest in mind, as an alternative to the egagement-driven dark UX patterns that have started becoming the status quo on the web in just a few years.

I use a CLI for Reddit[0] specifically for this reason - I would definitely be potential user for something like Yack. Opening links from the app in an external browser is trivial. Now that you mention it, it'd be a good idea to make it work in the other direction as well. Surely it wouldn't be too tricky to make a browser extension for this?

[0]: https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv
You can get lawyers involved and sue for breach of contract.
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