skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you aerobrake around a star?

Not a physicist, but it seems like you should be able to do something similar to aerobraking (not one-to-one since the Sun's "atmosphere" is different from a planet's). Maybe using a solar sail of some sort directed at the right angle?
Ya that's a battle he probably should have picked
It's possible the 'war on drugs' was an excuse used to establish those capabilities. I think it's telling that the DEA has been given the authority to take part in other enforcement actions on a temporary basis in response to the current protests. The agency could easily shift focus to e.g. human trafficking and continue unabated post-legalization.
Finally we have the worlds least-integrated, poorly accessible, completely inconsistent, most difficult to theme, resource intensive GUI stack. Software devs rejoice at the job security of JS framework churn while stealing user data and shoving ads in their face to pay their own salaries.
The Obama administration was supportive of consent decrees which force reforms (with penalties) on otherwise recalcitrant police departments. The current justice department will not such consent decrees, and this is exactly the wall we in Minnesota are going to run into As we attempt to force change on our police department.
For anything organized by date using ISO 8601-inspired date formats (yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss) is supremely helpful.
My vote counts and is counted. That makes it a representative republic. Citizens United and publicly financed elections do not affect whether or not my vote counts or is counted. Of course they affect what messages me and my fellow citizens see, and they are important. But your claims would only make sense in a world where money guaranteed votes rather than merely influenced voters.
i think that the president should be able to speak to the people, and half the people want to hear it. those who don't want to hear it shouldn't block it from the others. it's jiggled into such a drama. a headache over nothing. zuck was right, about transcending the feelings, and going by principles.
Donald Trump declared a national emergency so he could bypass Congress and raid the military budget to build a wall. The idea that Obama had his hand tied is ludicrous. Obama chose not to take action. We can debate why he chose not to take action but it was a choice he alone made.

Obama had absolute direct authority over drug classification. At minimum he could have moved marijuana off of schedule 1. Not to mention his direct authority over the FBI, DEA, DoJ, and other federal agencies. Even if you want to argue that an emergency declaration is unlawful, there were still numerous changes that he could have made within the confines of existing law and precedent. He didn’t and that is on him and him alone.
When you're rich enough, you quickly get surrounded by people who are happy to agree with any damn fool notion you come up with.
I think initial skepticism is reasonable, big ideas and bullshit often sound similar at first and require more investigation. An ambitious project can still sometimes be real though, not everything has to turn out to be Magic Leap. In Urbit's case the docs are really good you can find out a lot if you want to.

1. I don't think elite is the goal, it's more about first principles and being free to rethink things. Obviously high risk and in most outcomes would lead to failure, but they've made progress for years and have now proven they can actually ship. I don't think big complex goals are impossible, just hard.

2. I don't think the politics of the original author matter that much.

3. I don't agree with Thiel's politics. That said, Thiel has a pretty good track record for picking things that end up really successful because others pre-judge and misvalue them. I think he's good at taking the contrarian view and really thinking it through, looking for blind spots or generalized assumptions (that may be correct most of the time, but not all the time) that lead the community to undervalue things. I think his political views are both contrarian and wrong, but his VC success is often because he is contrarian and right.

As far as closed off and gatekeeped - the IDs are cheap (free to $10ish), and I believe their spam explanation for the existence of them. You can spin up a free 'comet' ID to play with things without needing to buy an ID at all. I'd argue the modern internet is what's closed off and feudal with large companies running our applications and requiring us to give them our data in order to interact with each other. Sure you don't technically need to do this (I created r/hnblogs and I want people to run their own websites), but the reality is most users won't do this, so how default applications work on the network matters. Right now they work almost entirely on a large company server/client model.

The 'galaxy' and 'star' urbit nodes are basically governance and infrastructure nodes, they allow a network consensus to determine changes that might have to happen to the network over time. They also incentivize people to operate portions of the network for other users (IDs can move between stars freely). A lot of this when compared to flaws in existing internet infrastructure comes out ahead to me - or at least not worse. (CAs, ISPs, etc.).
I liked this ted talk on organizing. The heuristics they use could be applied to digital folders as well. I guess its tangentially related but i found it a quite interesting listen.

Edit: https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_griffiths_3_ways_to_make_bette...
While tangential, it should be noted that creating jobs in Mexico and Canada will probably always be a net good for the US even if it means some net loss of jobs in the near term. Being closely connected with populous neighbors whom you can enrich such that they can buy your stuff will vastly strengthen the US's position as well as the NA bloc. We want manufacturing in mexico because we're connected by literal rail lines and can ship products back and forth far more readily and in an environmentally friendly way. Further we have mutual interests in terms of policy and defense.

This may sound controversial but it's likely the only way forward for the US to compete with China long term. Trying to ostracize our neighbors and go it alone against a country 4x our size is not a geopolitically sound move.
>...the same IP address.

In my experience in adtech, not only can Google do this pretty accurately, but other third parties as well (e.g. DMPs and the like.) Even if they couldn't make a deterministic association, they have enough data points to make a probabilistic association with high likelihood (ex: "Given all these data points, we're 95% confident that these two people are the same. Therefore we're going to attribute the actions to the same person.")

Now, to qualify my response a bit, this isn't necessarily for security / law enforcement, but mainly for better targeting parameters. Example: frequency capping of ads (buyer specifies that you only see an ad X number of times in a given time period) or more relevant targeting (you don't see completely different ads in different browsers as if you're from two non-overlapping demographic groups.)
blindless Bi-partidism never brought much democracy anywhere
Uhhh yeah since the announcement. That's what we are here to discuss right?
You should try ripgrep
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Good point. In Eastern Europe a decent programmer earns 35-45K after tax. I know it because I work with developers from Eastern Europe. 12-16K is more a fresh grad level, really junior.
Please don't descend into strawman arguments and false dilemmas.

It is not a binary choice between the militaristic, public-hostile police we have now, and no police at all.

As it is, the police in schools frequently do inappropriate things, such as bodyslamming 40kg girls or putting children in handcuffs for acting up in class. A school security guard, charged with protecting the students and staff, with no authority to arrest or punish anyone, would do fine.
The “protect the children” argument has little to do with actual children protection laws. It’s about using pathos of the crowd to manipulate opinion.

Regarding history, I don’t know about the US specifically, but Europeans countries have legal children protections since end of 19th, beginning of 20th centuries (depending on the country).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_t... for a pre-WW2, international effort.
We disagree on several things:

I'm not sure anyone controls the police. They look a lot like self ruling autonomous entities to me. The mayor of New York, supposedly their boss, is in a conflict with NYPD, and is mostly losing, from what I hear.

The current "looting" is in no way confided to Gucci type stores. All retail with anything of value is being plundered.

But even in a world where the gaudy rich control the police, and only their favorite stores were destroyed, I can't imagine that leads to police reform.

If people attack something you hold dear and makes demands on you, few people just give in. The normal reaction is to fight back as hard as you can, ignoring costs, until your enemy is defeated. I offer the US reaction to 9/11 as an example.

In your model, the Gucci customers are extremely powerful, so they can mount very strong counter attacks.
> I assumed we were the biggest smalltalk community in Norway.

> Their answer was that we were probably the only real smalltalk community.

Were was/is this?
Yeah, I was a touchscreen skeptic until I got my model 3: all the controls I care about while driving have physical controls on the steering wheel and, if I absolutely need to fiddle with the touchscreen, I can enable autopilot, which is safe enough compared to distracted driving.
Diamond anvil cells produce the pressure, however, here, the temperature is created by lasers.
If you are careful enough (and reasonable enough), your diamond anvil cell can last forever, as long as you don't break the diamonds you can reuse the same cell for another sample or another run.

The pressure usually requires a pressure driver to push the diamonds towards each other (some kind of very precise gas pump) which runs of of electricity.

The temperature however evolves rapidly: the sample is heated via laser (usually pulsed to observe dynamics but can also be considered continuous, i.e. above millisecond time scale).
I did not agree with the conclusions of the paper, but I fell prey of the same bias that many others had: it was "published in Lancet" and "those journals have strict peer review".

The lesson I learned is that I will always scrutinize papers I read with a more critical eye, regardless of where they were published in.
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I very dutifully curate my text files, but for everything else I always struggled to follow the GTD "Reference" alpha system.

Tiago Forte has a system called PARA:

- Projects

- Areas

- Resources

- Archive

This is just enough structure for me to know where things are. The hardest part to me is there are things that cross the Areas/Resources boundary.
The article states that the sold equipment was from the US, and subject to US export restrictions. They [Huawei] realized this and tried to cover it up by creating pseudo-affiliates to mask their involvement.
How poetic. This lawsuit brought to you by Boies Schiller, the law firm that aggressively intimidated Theranos whistleblowers. I would argue that their actions contributed to the suicide of Ian Gibbons, as well as threatening his widow with legal action after his death.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DevelEire/comments/g77kcc/irish_gov...
Not sure if that's entirely correct. I don't remember seeing that clause the last time we bought some servers off Ebay.
She was arrested for the fraud involved in lying to HSBC. Fraud is also against Canadian law.

Not sure what there is to be worried or outraged about here.
But why should the actions of the media change your perspective on the trustworthiness of the journals?
Just those who will make it their business to believe it’s possible (politcal consultants). Exhibit A: Bloomberg campaign

If they were eligible, Schwarzeneggar (years ago) or Musk (now), would have a better shot —- still small —- because it would be a circus. And we have evidence that a circus can get you elected.
I don't think it's a hard problem, they're already doing it for paid calls. It's probably more work to do it for some calls but not others. From what I understand, zoom has the encryption keys anyway, and they decrypt and encrypt on their server during routing, which can have some benefits. But, that means it's more processor intensive (costly) to use encryption. So, I think they're not encrypting free calls just because it's an added expense (which really adds up at scale).

Working with law enforcement might be true, but it doesn't make sense that it has anything to do with free calls. Again, they have the encryption keys so they could decrypt any calls that they want to work with law enforcement on. This might even be a really poor attempt at upselling to paid accounts.

If you're concerned about security, I don't think zoom is the conference tool of choice -- maybe they've fixed everything I mentioned, but they still have among the worst track records.

Security aside, the feature set and user experience is attractive. Except for one thing, why does it take two clicks to end a call? That's awkward every time. If people are accidentally leaving calls, that's a different problem and two clicks is a lazy solution.
What makes my fellow citizens my enemy in a riot?
Hi all - open beta of a tool we created for ourselves during lockdown. We got sick of trying to replicate the effortless comms we had in the office, and hated managing a half dozen always-on Zoom/Slack/etc calls. So we built Squawk.
Good ole Mitch
I'd like to see a source for your "clearly". In fact, if it's that clear, I'd like to see more than one.
Where do you think many people find others to be intimate with if not at mass events? Pubs, discos, music festivals, block parties, etc. are the sort of places where young people have always had an outlet to get their fuck on or establish serious relationships that lead to a family, and therefore IMHO it was wrong to prohibit them and go into lockdown for the sake of the elderly (who could be kept protected in some other way). And if those other large events for entertainment and socializing’s sake should permitted, then it would make no sense to complain about political protests being held.
In 2017 he has already been 'campaigning' : https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/technology/zuckerberg-har...
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Yes, all that data helped Google perfect its amazing chat and video calling app strategy.
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I've installed the docker image and it worked as well as any other service. Ability for multiple users and pretty reliable.
That's not what incognito mode is. It literally says on the first page when you open incognito window. People want to skip reading technical details when provided but then get angry when a company does the exact thing they warned about.

Also where does this end? Should car dealerships be allowed to analyze your data? Cars you've bought, cars you test drove etc.?
I understand the truth can't always be known in a situation - and I fully agree given ambiguity, he police don't have the right to use inappropriate force - however 'looters are looters' - there's no question about the illegality and inappropriateness of that, and we do know that looting is happening.

This looting causes a lot of personal damage, people are losing their life savings and livelihoods, and nobody seems to care.

I see a lot of rhetoric and populism trying to side-step the issue and it really needs to be clear - there's a very wide gap between 'protesting' and 'looting' and they are not 'shades of the same thing'.

Also, I'm not sure if it's legal or appropriate to even 'protest' out in the open, on highways or streets - I think these things need to move to controlled ares, like in front of city hall or in parks, but that's a slightly different matter.

I'm also not entirely condemning people 'caught up in a riot' as I understand these things happen in social waves, and people would be doing things they might not otherwise. It's not a big moral condemnation, it's an articulation of reality.

I'm actually sympathetic to the protesters overall, but I lose sympathy quickly when I see it out of hand. I also think we need to be sympathetic to the police, and accept that we, as citizens are giving them a nary impossible task - which is to use force to move people out of an area, and then somehow remain within perfect contraints at all times. Some of the police actions are beyond unreasonable and they should go to jail, but I'm not even sure that it's systematic. What can we expect by sending 5000 officers in to physically move aggressive, often violent people out of the way. Punches will fly in some cases. Batons, purposeful harm with weapons, irresponsible use of fire arms - this is too much obviously and has to be punished.

I'm really happy to show support for reforming police actions, but I'm not going to take sides in a 'civic street war'.

What's happening now is just shameful for almost every party.
The Federal Reserve injected trillions of free money into the markets, so naturally they went up.
This is actually no longer true: Google recently added third party tracker blocking when you're in incognito mode. Of course, every other browser does this even outside of incognito mode, but the point stands that Google has actively added features to prevent websites from tracking you in this mode.
> The current justice department will not such consent decrees

Well, plus the current administration outright abandoned investigations and publicly stated that it opposed the idea of investigating local law enforcement for systematic issues. It's not just an issue of neglecting an important tool of enforcement when the department now fairly overtly opposes the idea of enforcement.
You're probably getting downvoted for discussing Project Veritas (which is a silly reason for downvoting IMO) but your point is still accurate: these companies are defnitely running models to create probabilistic identity models in the absence of deterministic associations.

Deterministic = I specifically say I'm person X and am logged-in.
Probabilistic = I am not logged-in on this browser, but am on the same computer, same IP, and am logged-in on a separate browser at the exact same time under name X. Therefore I'm very likely person X.
You don't need charisma when you can insert yourself into people's notifications, Facebook and Instagram feeds, have a near-live overview of the majority of the voting population, know their political bias, cultural heritage, and much, much more.
Was this ever not the case for the majority of software engineers?
Nominal interest rates are artificial. Real interest rates (nominal rates - inflation) are not. If central banks set nominal interest rates too low you get inflation which negates the purchasing power of the borrowed money. That's what the grandparent poster was alluding to.

(The mathematical model - and the proof - for this is taught in most introductory macroeconomics courses. So is monetarism, which is the "declining rates = stimulus" that you mention.)

It's been a persistent question why the super-low nominal interest rates that central banks have set for the last decade haven't resulted in consumer inflation, and there's no consensus among experts for it. My personal theory is that it comes from the entry of China and other large developing nations into the world economy, which a.) has dramatically lowered the price of labor-intensive consumer manufacturing, offsetting much of the inflation caused by the large money supply and b.) changed the mix of savers in the world economy; Chinese people are much more in the habit of saving large fractions of their income than Americans are, which leads to a glut of savings, which lowers the real interest rate.
Yeah, I keep seeing the "well, Trump won!" argument anytime somebody suggests that a certain person wouldn't win an election. But that ignores Trump's unique characteristics that allowed him to gain a significant and loyal following.

I feel like Zuckerberg trying to run would be a Mike Bloomberg situation. Remember when that happened?
It wasn't ever going to be IP theft, corporate espionage or anything like that. The CCP has made it clear they have no will to enforce anything like that. Most likely, most of Huawei's behavior is state sanctioned anyways. They have close but opaque connections to the government, and China has been known to support domestic industries with government actions.

Pretty much the only way they were ever going to be punished is if they did something like this.
How many Signal-using techies have been asphyxiated by cops kneeling on their necks or gunned down simply for daring to walking around in public?

Let's not equivocate abuses. It's unnecessary. And moreover changing the way our most vulnerable citizens are treated will likely go a long way toward changing the way everybody else is treated.
> it should not have been flag killed.

Why not? It's clearly low-effort trollbait.
That would mean either:

1) removing caffeine from coffee. The problem with this approach is that it changes the taste of coffee. Specialty decaf is not as good as regular specialty

2) somehow prevent caffeine from getting to the adenosine receptors in the body. I don't know how they could do that
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Well speed was not the main goal of my site. I just wanted to build something quick. I sometimes use the avatar on my page to upload it somewhere else and a decent resolution is good for that.
You have to be joking, right? You seriously think that the 21 seconds of silence was US censorship? If the US had that kind of power then perhaps that same PM would not have casually praised a Central American dictator upon their death.
What is it with hiring solely to achieve diversity standards instead of hiring for who is actually qualified the most for the job?
Depending on when you graduated from college, that may or may not have fallen into the big company or startup bucket.

The delayed liquidity of the extremely long startup adolescence in recent years ("startups" that are 10+ years old and where almost all of the big value growth is in the rear-view mirror) is, IMHO, a big part of this.
They have plenty of positions though.

The republican parties position seems to be "whatever the opposite of the democratic position is". Nothing can be clearer than that point especially contrasting their conduct during the Obama administration vs the current administration.

I also wouldn't consider staunch opposition to LGBT rights as a spine worth having.
I went on a wiki-binge on this topic a few days ago and so I recognize this as a magsail[0]. It would be an attractive addition to an interstellar craft since it obviates the need to carry propellant for deceleration.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail
What did he get wrong in the excerpt you quoted?
I think that "tacit knowledge" is close to the idea of "unknown knowns."

Another interesting quadrant model is the Johari Window which has to do with what one knows about oneself and what others know about oneself.

https://www.communicationtheory.org/the-johari-window-model/
Thank you so much for the Orbital Index! I've been subscribed for a while now, and I look forward to it every week. Great content!
Oh really. And do you have a source for that? How do you explain the strange happenings where he was being held? :}
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>I would argue that their actions contributed to the suicide of Ian Gibbons [...]

Anyone who has read Bad Blood [1] should have no doubt about this fact. They destroyed this man and lead him to suicide in order to try to save their house of cards.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup/dp/...