skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "It'd be a mistake to think that we can keep flying the way that we do because we can fly on air. That's never going to happen. It's always going to be a niche".

Why did BBC include such a strong statement in the article, given that it's just someone's gratuitous personal opinion?

I know that it's good journalistic practice to include sceptical opinions, but couldn't they find someone who is sceptical while at the same time being able to back their opinion with some sort of evidence or arguments?

Edit: it's also possible that this person's contribution was a longer text, and that it was cut short due to the article length limits. Maybe the original text included better arguments? It would be unfortunate if that was the case.
I doubt US Department of Agriculture or Department of Education operate abroad or have human rights issues to FOIA, you can try.

> If USA government employees are more accountable than China government employees, China wins!

"Transparency and accountability in foreign policy/information gathering only applies to the country with a FOIA system conveniently available and uses english!"
So if VPN over Tor (or Tor over VPN) increases anonymity then why is it the popular advice on the Net is not to do it?
> the justification is that these classes are/have been historically discriminated against and constitutional admissions which take race into consideration are a temporary measure to right these historical wrongs by leveling the playing field.

This is actually incorrect. The only rationale SCOTUS has ever accepted for affirmative action is to create diverse student bodies. They have never accepted past discrimination as a rationale. For what it's worth, I'm a (former) lawyer. But you don't have to take my word for it! See https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/539/306/#tab-opi...
I think it's a stretcher to say those could raise risks.

I doubt anyone wearing one of those believes they are filtering out anything more than dust, but wherever there's traffic dust will be thicker on a dry day and that dust gets contaminated from pollutants too, but that wasn't even mentioned.

The real stretch comes in the assumption that "They have the potential to lull people into a false sense of security, encouraging them to spend more time outside in dirty air."

That's bullshit. If one is wearing a mask they're more likely to be very aware of the problem with sucking in polluted and dusty air and also more likely to avoid it as much as possible. The obvious proof of that would be they're wearing a mask.

And it's pretty easy to see when they're getting worn out. Despite what they say about not being able to filter gases they still filter out a lot of junk and turn from bright white to nasty light yellow/brown pretty quickly so it'd be easy to spot people wearing over used ones but we don't see much of that. And that is something that would stand out to me but I don't recall ever seeing a photo where that was obvious.

Finally, I was one of the very few people among all those I worked with at manufacturing products in an industrial environment that was diligent about wearing respirators and dust masks. The greater risks come from not wearing them when and where you should.
Working all night is not 'a badge of pride'
>while they have a strong pro-privacy stance for now (though we only have their word)

So you have nothing. Nothing concrete at all. You have a black box on your hands, running whatever code Apple desires, effectively an infinite-privilege backdoor, with acessos to loads of data, with no possibility of scrutiny or verifiable privacy. Oh but you have their word. Come on...
Confidence and arrogance of two sides of the same coin, they're not mutually exclusive and people can be varying degrees of both. The biggest difference is always in the eye of the beholder.
Unbound can be configured as a local caching forwarder that round-robins to your list of resolvers.

https://gist.github.com/MatthewVance/5051bf45cfed6e4a2a2ed9b...
Netflow data, DNS capture, enrichment of cell tower access data (location), reporting on non-usage (idle time, tracking), Bill and household information, credit account usage, etc. SPs are huge sellers in this market.

We still need to encrypt the accessed resource and DNS queries everywhere.

Even once that’s done, things like opencaching will be used by SPs to gather tons of data where they participate.
What's their endgame in doing this?
Maybe the way you read scifi could be described as 'passively consuming'. Me, I engaged actively in whatever I was reading as a kid especially the genre stuff. We really could use some romanticism of some things from the past. While not always correct, I certainly prefer and enjoy those memories to this barren seeming 'reality' typical of these revisitations of the past for 'enlightened' deconstruction.
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Yeah, the (vague) takeaway I get is that AdSense is a small part of their income, with majority coming from direct brand deals.

Since it all comes out of the same marketing budgets eventually, does this mean integrated influencer advertising is meaningfully undercutting digital ads run by the platforms?
Is the energy infrastructure to charge electric trucks available to ramp?
it's also somewhat popular in Italy (depends on region) as a take away snack:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_al_taglio
I threw it together. The source is the OECD hours worked data (public information), with IMF 2018 GDP figures (which are pretty similar to other major sources like the World Bank).

This isn't a perfect system, as it doesn't account for the variance in % of the population that is working. However, since the workers ultimately represent all or nearly all of the GDP output regardless, it's quite effective overall as a reference. Basically you just need to get to the broad view: how many hours are the people of a nation working and what kind of output does the nation have. You still get a lot of things in a given nation that impact GDP that isn't going to represent perfectly when just looking at labor.

A potentially even better approach would be to take how many workers a nation has, with the hours worked and the national GDP. So you look at GDP per worker, rather than GDP per capita, and then look at the average hours worked. The big question though is the accuracy of national worker count figures, and how that compares to the accuracy on GDP figures. Flip a coin perhaps.

However, this data does tell you some clear things. It tells you that Mexico is suffering pretty hard under those hours worked vs output (and as a share of output, it tells you what their compensation limits are). The Polish are working far too many hours, although it is producing a decent output figure. The people of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands are generating incredible economic output with those very low hours figures.

It also tells you that while eg the French often get flack for supposedly being lazy when it comes to working hours, they have one of the best hourly output figures of any nation and match that up very well with low working hours (they have one of the better combinations of hours & output, well exceeding the UK).

However it obviously doesn't tell you what effect lowering or increasing hours worked would have exactly on a given nation. For example, can Germany push its export machine a lot further by increasing the hours worked to US levels (are there buyers for those additional exports), or is that already heavily optimized and so they're doing the logical thing and reducing hours while trying to maintain max exports & output generally. Nearly all of the OECD have been persistently reducing hours worked the past decade plus, while largely maintaining or increasing output. A nice combination when you can manage it.

Switzerland, Norway, Ireland and Iceland are freak outliers for the most part. Switzerland is a banking empire, with rather dramatic banking related output concentration as a share of their GDP; no doubt they're killing it though. Ireland's GDP moderately misrepresents what their individual income levels are, as their GDP figure is quite inflated by corporations that have moved there for tax purposes; Ireland's workers have done very well overall, just not quite as well as their incredibly high GDP figure implies. Norway's numbers as everyone understands are skewed by their exceptional oil output per capita. And Iceland only has 338,000 people (it's kind of like including Luxembourg), interesting to note non the less.
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I guess this means no more DNS based ad blocking for devices like the Chromecast which ignore the DNS info provided by DHCP and are instead hard coded to use Google’s server?
Should the goal be to achieve parity with global demographics instead?

It seems without some sort of control the worlds most prestigious universities would only admit the wealthiest from the most populous regions - meaning white, Chinese and Indian students, no?
The person opposite my desk is working on precisely that! (And I'm making more algorithms for him to feed to his model :p)
Not sure why, but the edit button doesn’t seem to work, and I think that is preventing the keyboard from coming up (using virtual, not physical keyboard).
I'm with you on the love of square pizzas. You get about 12% more crust on a square pizza versus circular (for the same area.) But unlike circular pizzas, a square pizza gives you at least 3 different crust configurations for different "kinds" of slices in the box. So both those who want more and less crust ratio can be satisfied.
What is the potential to do this kind of process intermittently, to take advantage of excess energy produced by solar and wind plants during certain periods.
Simplistically, isn't this basically using the carbon from CO2 as a "carrier" for PV hydrogen? There's certainly a substantial efficiency hit. But there are also substantial challenges to displacing aviation fuel with hydrogen.

But then, it's also arguable that PV hydrogen is itself a "carrier" for PV electricity. So then the alternative is batteries. As much as I love electricity, I doubt that battery technology will ever achieve the energy densities of hydrocarbon fuels.
What about 8.8.8.8?

I'm guessing we're just trusting Google here (and Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 who now also does 10gb free VPNs) + the good will of engineers with access to this information within Google.
Not all of it, but there was a device that was basically a "portable wikipedia" about 10 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader

eventually we will have the device you describe...

(aka the cornucopia machine from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky)
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My ISP’s DNS servers take longer both in round trip and total resolution time compared to both 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8... and I have both Comcast and AT&T in an urban area. While this might have been true in the past, that is definitely no longer the case in a lot of areas.
It was never ARM. It used to be ARC, but these days it is x86.
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> There is a way to configure your network to make Firefox not do this, so that's good. But it's not the default.

That’s what I’m referring to.
I think the challenge is more of a quest to find a way to compute it in less than O(n). The proof for that would just be a working algorithm.

IIRC cellular automaton are Turing-complete? We have proven we can implement simulations of 3d rotational symmetry using regular computers, so that one is straightforward, isn't it?
Agreed :) TEIO ..Whatever works for each of us and hetro-geniety in market is good.
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> Very beautiful and artistically rendered! Those would make great fireworks and weapons in Minecraft!

Someone coded similar things in minetest, the open source clone of minecraft:

https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17608
Well it's gone full circle now, as Starbucks (and a lot of other chains) use machines to make the espresso part of the drink at the touch of a button.

The barrister is still responsible for steaming milk, but I only assume that is because the sounds and smells of that are what make the coffee shop atmosphere.
When I use emacs, I hardly have any shortcuts memorized. I just use smex, which has fuzzy matching for commands. When I wanted to open a file, I wasn't sure what command would do that, so I pressed M-x and typed "file." One of the suggestions was, "find-file," so I chose that one, and it gave me a prompt for which file to open, I entered the path in an interface that also had similar fuzzy matching, and I was ready to go. Afterwards, a brief hint told me the key command if I don't want to bother typing, "finf," but I don't really use it.

The command pallette in VSCode is pretty nice too, but I don't recall having quite as nice an experience using it. I still do my professional work in VSCode, though. Emacs is for fun.
Similarly, startups are in the business of iteratively failing and learning about their problem. By reframing the problem, he effectively "startupify'd" the problem.
I've been wanting to do some 3D game experimentation for personal projects, mostly with ThreeJS but I might just give playcanvas a shot, it looks like it gives you the right amount of tooling. I wanted to use godot, but I like just being able to edit things on a browser and debug with dev tools and such.
A Malcolm Gladwell noted in his recent podcast, the entire Ivy league undergrad cohort (17k) would fit into the incoming class at the University of Toronto (ranked ~20 worldwide in most rankings). If Harvard admission is so rigged, and the best and brightest are not making it in, maybe these numbers will do more to lessen it's social and academic cache than anything the courts could do.
Perhaps because downloading Tor (or even searching for it / visiting its website) demonstrates an active interest in thwarting surveillance.

Almost by definition, that means you're worth taking a closer look at.

Once you're under the microscope, you'd better hope your opsec is flawless or that your activities are completely boring, or else the $TLA knows exactly what you've been up to, TOR or not.

Disclosure: my activities are completely boring, and I don't use Tor, VPNs, or anything like them.
> No harder than and arguably easier than the complicated procedure for changing system DNS

It sounds harder than my simple “redirect all outgoing DNS requests to my PiHole” rule that I have set up in my router.

No messing with any DNS settings required.
Perhaps the know-it-all is miserable because they’re acutely aware that they’re outnumbered by happy idiots?
Have you checked April 2 for any posts revealing the joke? :)
There is enough electrical generation capacity in the US to move about 80% of light vehicles over to electric without any additional generation brought online. Heavy trucks consuming power would send market signals to bring more generation capacity online (likely renewables and natural gas).

The demand spikes are what is going to be tricky, but will likely be solved with onsite batteries to smooth demand from the utility (VW buys batteries from Tesla to do this at US charging stations they’re required to install as part of their Dieselgate settlement).

It’s possible Tesla’s Semi manufacturing kicks off shortly with Gigafactory 3 coming online in China this month, reducing reliance on Gigafactory 1 for cell and pack production for China-bound Model 3s.
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I don't mind people downvoting but you're not gonna tell me that people with the 18th century had timeless wisdom that allowed them to extrapolate to today's economy in the 21st century and appreciate all the problems of resource allocation, externalities, and financial markets. If your principles are implicitly predicated on infinite land and labor availability then its possible your understanding of economics is kinda primitive.
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They were pretty rare.

Even in NYC, a coffee shop was mostly a Greek diner. While it may reveal my Irish working class roots, I never saw espresso made or consumed outside of an ethnic Italian restaurant in Arthur Ave until I was like 17.

Last week, I had a mediocre latte from a Starbucks at an I95 truck stop adjacent to a cotton field in North Carolina.
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I think google is evil. But I know AT&T is.
>79GB for all of the English articles minus the media.

I think thats an error on the github, wikipedia_en_all_novid is all text + pictures, just no videos. Text alone is ~15GB zipped. My 2014 Media dump was ~76GB, so that 80GB for full text+media checks out.
FAMANG?
Domino's (yes maybe not everyone's idea of perfect pizza) has a good video explaining how their dough is made. They have a production line that mixes, kneads and balls the dough, then it just needs to be placed into trays by a human. It is shipped fresh to restaurants, so proofs in transit.

https://youtu.be/jPQ87J_5qyw
Paywalled; cannot read. Alternate source?
There is a huge difference between empathy and experience. Ignoring that difference is an important failure of empathy. It's the confusion that lets you say that you believe in empathy while also literally infantilizing people who disagree with you.

Furthermore, realizing this gap exists is not synonymous with claiming that "you can only talk about things you have personal experience". Where in my above post do I say that?

Imagination is powerful, not magical.
can someone please explain the trademark law that forces banksy to do this?

i know that not defending/protecting a trademark can cause you to loose it.

i also understand that trademarks are limited to categories, which is why we can have "LINUX" washing powder. but that washing powder is not pretending to sell Linux Software.

whereas this banksy merchandise is in my understanding rather clearly pretending to be banksy artwork.

how is that not obviously infringing on his trademark?

why would banksy be forced to sell his own merchandise to protect his trademark?

i thought the point of a trademark was that it must not be confusing.

LINUX washing powder is not confusing. banksy merchandise is. or am i missing something?
If you're looking for an actual partner this filter might be a good thing. Some tall guys deliberately omit their height from dating profiles for this reason.
A company I was a contractor for would send payment invoices with a password. The password was the last four digits of the ID number specific to the contractor. Our CRM we all used had every contractors ID number in their profile publicly available. When I asked what the point was I was told upper management required a password and this was the easiest.
Unless "could" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, there is no conceivable way this is true. Young peoples' actions do not support the idea that they believe this.

You'd see a lot more people doing insane things to cross items off of their bucket lists if this was true. Instead you see these young people going about their lives as if nothing is any different.
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At the same time some organizations have terrible scheduling that they leave you little other options. I'm glad I do t have to deal with them.
Many of us do consider EU nations repressive states, especially as regards protections for unpopular speech (and armed self-defense, but that's less relevant here).