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I should have linked the event I was talking about, you are thinking about a different event:

https://nypost.com/2020/06/09/tamara-harrians-husband-blames...

What she did was indefensible, but her husband and his business is also having to reconcile this.

I believe Al Franken took a juvenile photo of a reporter friend. I don’t think he was a senator at the time, I could be wrong.

I think we will enter ‘full blinders on’ mode if we accept that the axe being wielded is not a catch all. We have to accept that the axe came out of desperation, but we need to find the solution where the axe is no longer necessary.

If there’s anything to debate, it’s only how long the guillotine should be necessary. Certainly we can’t have the guillotine forever. The guillotine was used to make it pretty freaking clear things have changed, and don’t even try to think things will go backward. I understand and accept it as a necessary strategy.

You still have to create the post-guillotine society.

In poetic terms, Robespierre was given the guillotine he created. Things go too far, often.
Missing 99% of your potential readers is a big problem, though.

Maybe there's another way?

For example, Gemini could only link through a centralized link management server, and that link server will verify links to be "clean" , and if a link isn't clean it will become dead ?

Of course, that depends whether said link gets most of his traffic from within Gemini or outside.

Hmm...
This is a beautiful book, especially if he or she is into magic: Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks by Persi Diaconis, Ron Graham
Google sign-in as the only sign-in option makes me say no thanks!
The Making of an Underclass: AOL (1997)
One can claim that C is best improved by replacing it with a new languages. See Rust, D, and others. Lisp, too. -> Clojure, Julia, Racket, ...

The 'step 1' 'take Common Lisp' is already hopeless, because there are few people interested in that for various reasons.

I don't think it's 'trivial' to fix a fading large niche language like Common Lisp, which was designed at a different time, with had much more design power back then. It's actually far from trivial.
> Very few browse their feeds with sound on,

You have the aggressive advertisers to thank for that. It only takes a few loud ads blaring through the speakers before folks mute web content by default.
India plans to launch first coronavirus vaccine – “Covaxin” by August 15
Is it "an accident" that 1 + 3 + 5 + ... + (2n-1) = n^2 ?

I suppose the only way to get quadratic numbers "non-accidentally" would be to have the electrons stand in n×n square formation.
Eh, not so much generation as different way people think. I'm not old, have multiple laptops, desktops and smart phones. More often than not, when I need to seriously think about a paper I print it out and annotate the margins, underline, highlight, etc. I have a notebook (and fountain pens!) that I use to write out plans or projects or sketch designs. I have pads of flip paper for short-term (weekly) TODOs, and bullet-journal longer term life planning.

It's just a different way of organizing one's life. I spend enough time in front of the computer, sitting at the kitchen table to jot down notes or sketch out a project idea works better for me than trying to try the latest XYZ digital notebook app.
> So, when would hydrogen make sense?

All production issues aside, aviation makes sense to me. Planes are only filling at known stops, the weight is superior to our best batteries, and the transition from fossil fuel to hydrogen jets should be easy.

As for as long haul trucks, I can kinda see it, maybe, still a lot of storage, production, efficiency issues. Weight isn’t nearly the same concern as it is for aviation.

For cars, yea, I don’t see it.
Nothing is keeping it as a demarcated space other than the same conventions that you would have to follow anyway if you followed a "minimal subset" approach. You could easily write a Gemini client that handles application/javascript. In fact if this protocol got any level of popularity, I would expect that to happen extremely quickly.
"Democracy" is tyranny of the majority. "Rich" is not evenly distributed. "Western" is a weird racist/chauvinist term.
Back to old tricks, or, baby steps in Rust
The way things have played out in countries that instituted near universal mask wearing is sufficient evidence to start doing it. Evidence doesn't have to be peer reviewed and published in a scientific journal to be useful.
Are you sure about that? I had the same reaction but then I starting thinking about all the horrible life-altering things a person could do to earn something like that. The penal system isn't perfect but it's what we have.
> If you program C++ then STL comes from SGI

Been a while and I had nearly forgotten! It used to be that when you googled an STL container, SGI documentation came up first. This was occasionally annoying as there were a few things that were slightly different from what was standardized. If memory serves, they had a better hash table before the standard did...
The joy of sculpting beautiful little towns in Townscaper
Do one thing and do it well. Seems useful and I appreciate the simplicity.
I think the momentum is still limited by the speed of light.
I think a lot of us use it as a professional portfolio. The interface is a little wierd (e.g. the github account networkx already has a networkx repo with extremely obvious reason), but overall I've wanted something similar. But omfg please don't be like fb and add a dating feature
Don’t Start a Company, Start a Side-Project
Is there any evidence of smear transmission?
well he has a bit different agenda compared to most living folks
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I live in one of those places (Amsterdam). It's because this isn't a practical problem for anyone living there, so why should we care to spend our tax money and police attention on it instead of crime we ourselves are affected by?

Pick-pocketing in any of the places mentioned upthread isn't some general city-wide or societal problem. It's narrowly isolated to a few tourist-trap neighborhoods, and even there only then to people who're obvious marks. Such as slow-moving tourists swarming around in groups all wearing backpacks and oblivious to their surroundings.

If you look at actual statistics on crime petty theft isn't some rampant issue in these societies.
I live in the Bay Area and do that, but it definitely seems like a lot of people don’t here.

Usually I try to stay parallel to other physical barriers like mailboxes, trees, garbage cans, etc. so there is zero possibility I’m in the way of a normal walking path.
That's a really good point. I'm not sure that it applies to my own situation, though.

This isn't a place for me to challenge stuff. I come here to learn and to contribute.

Actually, let me amend that. I do like to present a "challenge," in that I want to model respectful, considerate behavior. It has been my experience that this is not always received well. I guess that people feel as if I am being "snooty."

I guarantee that it's far preferable to the way I used to interact with others on teh Internets tubes.

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."

I have a lot of experience. I have often cleared minefields by dancing through them.

One of the things that I enjoy, is being corrected, because I often learn that way. It may sting a bit, but I am constantly pushing boundaries, and learning new stuff. I write a bit about that, in the referenced Medium post[0].

I have been working with...difficult...people for almost 40 years. I have learned that it's not particularly productive to ram stuff down people's throats; especially if they are someone with a history of violence.

Being "wishy-washy" is also almost as unhelpful, so you will see that I do make strong points, in areas in which I have the authority to do so.

There are those that look at any appearance of moderation or self-restraint as "weakness," as you can see, from this very thread (in fact, one person actually came out and said that), and I often encounter people that mistake kindness for weakness.

They don't like me, when I end up calling them on it.

But I am also keenly aware that it isn't a good idea to hurt someone, if I want them to take me seriously. I have often made inadvertent utterances that have offered hurt, where none was meant. I sincerely regret that. In some cases, I sacrificed valuable relationships, because I made snap judgements, or ran off my mouth.

I am a very kind person, but I am not a weak one. I know that it may not seem like it's possible, but it's quite common to be both kind and strong. I have spent my entire adult life around people like that.

I value the people here. Note that I emphasized "people." I think that the modern social media landscape has encouraged us all to think of the folks on the other end of our communications as "not-people."

[0] https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/thats-not-what-ships-are-...
Hydrogen's high density of available energy per unit mass is the key to identifying where it is most potentially useful.

Simply, it is by far the best of all possible aircraft fuels.

Its one major disadvantage for this, as for most uses, is its low mass density: it needs more room than diesel to store enough to be useful. The tanks need to be bigger, and either strong enough to contain high pressure, or well-enough insulated to keep it liquid.

Current aircraft store fuel in wing tanks not roomy enough for hydrogen. The most practical hydrogen-fueled aircraft would probably have a shape more like a lifting body than a submarine with skinny wings sticking out. So for best efficiency, we might need new airframes, but just using hydrogen yields major improvement. To oversimplify, the plane doesn't need to lift so much weight of fuel to cruising altitude, or carry it halfway across the world.

Tankage has improved radically in recent years with the development of aerogels, which make practical carrying liquid hydrogen that need not held be at high pressure, so can be in tanks that conform to an aerodynamically-practical shape. (Other sophisticated storage methods increase weight, so are more practical on the ground.)

Hydrogen is tricky to store for long or in large amounts, so the best way to use it is to produce it on demand where it is needed. A major airport would be a good place to produce it, as it could be piped directly into aircraft and used immediately. All the airport would need is water and power. Power can be collected by wind and solar over a wide area, delivered by transmission lines. The amount of water needed is negligible.

Producing hydrogen would also yield plenty of oxygen, which might just be vented; but by carrying liquid oxygen, aircraft could fly higher, faster, and more efficiently, or at least get to cruising altitude more quickly. As electric power continues to get cheaper, uses for it such as liquifying oxygen along with hydrogen get more attractive.

The first use will be in long-haul craft operating from a few major airports. It is possible that current large aircraft -- 747s, 777s, A380s -- could be converted, by using some of what is now cargo space for tankage, and replacing fuel pipes and pumps and, quite possibly, engines. It would be a big job, made attractive mainly by the extreme cost of qualifying new airframe designs.

The lost cargo space would be made up easily by the much larger weight capacity, as tens of tons less weight of fuel is needed. Cargo aircraft today often fly half-empty so as not to exceed their takeoff weight limit.
What you're saying is true only when the "hammer" in question has a precise goal in mind, e.g. give voting right to women or abolish slavery.

You can't compare a confused movement like BLM to any of the previous progressive movements that have worked in the past.

This really isn't about social progress. It's simply the textbook scenario of a society being subverted and an attempt to take power from another group. Every single goal of the BLM group fits the description.
> "real world" is a euphemism

True. I think it is easy to fall into that trap, which after consideration is what I've sort of done.
Google you may be wrong now, a new perspective on the testing pyramid
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Feedstock is the problem here: there's simply not enough net primary productivity on the planet, and humans already appropriate ~20%.

There are some marginal gains possible, but on the order of single-digit percentages of present fossil fuel consumption. Maybe low double-digits.

The US had a largely biofuel based transport system in 1900. Horses consumed 20% of all US grain production, the population was under 100m, and transport generally was a small fraction of today's values (or at least last year's) per capita: closer to 300 mi/yr, much of that walking, than 15,000.
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At least where I live, in NYC, all city officials and representatives have the perk of free parking anywhere -- to the extent that they don't even get fined for parking say in a bus stop or next to a fire hydrant or even on the sidewalk or bike lane. With these people in charge of choosing and enforcing the rules of the road, we will never see safety or consideration for non-drivers. I see cops pull over cyclists for harmless stuff all the time, but see drivers pull outrageously reckless stunts on busy roads with no consequence.

I think if people who are in charge of our safety don't know what it's like to navigate as a vulnerable pedestrian/cyclist/etc. on the road, and just see us as obstacles that are slowing them down, I don't think we will see change. (And this includes the average driver, who I believe should have to log some hundred miles or so of cycling before being given a licence to drive near cyclists.) The mayor of Paris cycles to work and has pedestrianised huge parts of the city and built massive numbers of cycle lanes. This is probably not why she was elected but it is probably something we should more seriously consider when appointing people who will have power over our public spaces.
Cryptography can be used to verify random person as authentic random person, yeah
Remind me but there is also no way to make new helium. It’s not a renewable, is it?

I thought it was only available as a byproduct of natural gas collection.
Are laws of men corruptible? Do you appeal to international law as the highest? Or do you submit to a higher perception?

I ask because your entire judgment is not based on anything consistent with civilization’s record with property claims and is really a 20th century phenomenon.
I’m not the person you responded to but, yes, I’m sure of it. In what sick alternate reality is an indefinite period of constant torture to be considered a reasonable sentence for anything?
As opposed to having a few bastion-hosts, and requiring people to log in there in order to then ssh on to their final destinations -- in that case, revoking their keys is as simple as wiping their accounts on the bastion hosts.
(straying slightly off-topic) I recently had the same experience with an Apple eMac. Grab a window, shake it around as fast as you can, or just move the mouse cursor around in circles quickly.

"Whoa, why does this seem so much more responsive than my modern machines?" Two things, I think: 1) the mouse cursor is being updated with every vertical refresh (80Hz), and 2) the latency of the CRT must be lower than an LCD.

Not bad for a 700MHz, 18 year old machine!
For those wanting to try this, I'll note that it didn't play any audio in Safari so I had to switch to Chrome to experience it.
Again, the "poster" incidents complained about under BLM and #metoo were already illegal, at least per the written law, which is why e.g. Bill Cosby went to prison. It was never legal for him to sexually assault his victims. It was just "de facto" legal because of the difficulty in prosecuting.
Note the Cloudflare hosted AMP pages still mandate AMP requirements, like including a Google controlled JS uri in your content. Signing is moot if you allow Google to run arbitrary JS on your content. They haven't abused it yet, but it's allowed by spec. Subresource integrity isn't mandated, explained, or recommended.
I know, who wants to learn how to garden, or cook, or bake, right? Totally pointless. /s
My wife is a resident physician. I'm a software engineer. I will out earn my wife for most of our careers - even with her at a $250k salary. My wife will eventually out earn me, but I doubt her career wages ($/hour) will ever come above mine. It's really easy to rip on doctors when you only look at a single data point without understanding the larger picture.

That $250k salary looks outrageous because you're ignoring all of the opportunity cost that went to get there.

* 4 years of med school. $40k tuition/year. $160k in principal total.

* 4 years of med school. No salary. $100k/year opportunity cost. $400k total.

* 4 years of residency. $60k salary. Yay, she's making an income. Boo, it's literally all going towards student loans. $80k/year opportunity cost. $320k total.

* Congrats, you're now an attending. You're living the "good life". Oh, don't forget that $160k of tuition, it's full cost is roughly $300k.

* $400k + $320k + $300k = ~$1M in the hole. That doesn't include a bunch of misc. expenses - exams, re-locations, interviews (residency programs don't pay for your travel).

During that entire time, my wife is consistently outworking me by 50% to 100%. Step exams, board exams, residency interview season (holy shit that's a stressful time), volunteering, research, etc, etc, etc. Even when she's an attending, she still has a bunch of things she needs to do to maintain her licensing.

This is also $1M in the hole in a critical part of building a life/savings. A good portion/all of that $1M could be going towards long term investments like retirement, college funds, etc. We're basically 10 years behind on retirement. That's easily $500k of interest lost.

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Physician pay is only 8.6% of health care costs [0]. You could cut physician salaries in half and the effects on your health care would be trivial.

[0] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/compensation-issues/ph...
Were they far removed from academic consensus when they came out, or became so by the moving of academic perspectives?
Opera 12 can do all that. I'm sad that you ever only experienced shitty browsers which take away this sort of control from the user.
It's easy for me to imagine that a person trapped for years in an isolation-torture cell would have some complicated and slightly un-PC thoughts regarding religion and male-female relationships.

That request is 0.01x as offensive as much common HN chatter, and 0.0000001x as offensive as what is being done to the imprisoned person requesting it, so I really see no value in your calling negative attention to it, and I invite you to broaden your worldview.
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I don't know if there's some extended API that those offer that provides a device ID or something like that (which then isn't WebAuthn anymore) - I'd hope not.
Russ isn’t 100% unbiased (is anyone), but what I like about his podcast (been a while since I last listened) is he is willing to bring people on with very different views and let’s them have the floor for a bit.

He also does a nice job of “O.K., this is where we have differing opinions”. Unlike a lot of media that covers politics issues, it’s much more civilized to me.
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The claim was "Wearing masks do not affect oxygen intake", not "they can't impact breathing in any fashion".

You'd have to rule out confounding variables like panic attacks, nervousness, etc. - especially in first-time medical workers - and obtain actual evidence of impact on oxygen saturation for those anecdotes to be useful.
Interesting, I didn't know that. I have very little historical knowledge pre-1990 about mainframes, and by the time I started working in the field the term "server" replaced "mainframe" exclusively. In fact, during my graduate years, the mainframe & TTY terminals were replaced with IBM AIX workstations, and a big honkin file server, so I never really got to dive into it before it was gone.
Stupid question: while I dislike the UX of Putty's settings screen, at least it lets me load/save a bunch of hosts with default settings. How do you do that with command like ssh? Do people just remember IP addresses or something, or is there a trick I'm not aware of?
Today, a common "good" chain of custody of facts is a broken game of telephone that's hard to unwind anyways. How often on social media do you see something like someone on reddit/fb/wherever posting an article reporting on a mainstream publications's article reporting on a scientific study of some phenomenon. And then most people will still only read the headline, which is probably going to turn "Effects of blahblazine on rat tissue in petri dishes" into "Scientists say coffee makes you live longer."

If that's the best the ecosystem can do to report on good science, what hope is there? Reality is almost always nuanced, but nuance doesn't go viral, and everything has to go viral to bubble up to visibility.
I didn't read their idea, but you wouldn't ever need to go faster than the speed of light for this to work -- just approaching it infinitely close would be enough.

Sure it might take a hundred million years for your journey from an observer watching you on earth, but thanks to time dilation, it could still be less than a lifetime for the person on the ship
It's unclear who or what you are replying to with this.
Sure, though signaling high intelligence could actually be the main use of intelligence, if it's a Fisherian runaway. And it's plausible that such use led to civilization: figuring out a beautiful theory feels purposeful in the same way as building a beautiful nest.
It's unclear who or what you are replying to with this. There is nothing here that relates to my comment.
Motorized mobility scooters are the ones to watch out for.
Again, if the regular legal system would get in gear and e.g. prosecute the police who killed Breonna Taylor, or routinely take sexual assault allegations seriously, we wouldn't be needing any of this.

The dysfunctionality of regular politics creates its own escalation. People are used to being given a sticky door, or a button that doesn't work. They're used to shoulder-charging the door of power being completely ineffective. So when it actually gives way it's a surprise to everyone.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Salazar_y_Fr%C3%ADas
For all commenters who do not see the value, these types of images are often used in marketing. If you share a screenshot without a device, it doesn't really look that good or marketable. The context and frame around the screenshot simply looks more professional and stands out better.

Toi could always throw the screenshot into figma and use a plugin to generate the images but this seems much simpler. As one commenter said, do one thing well and this seems to do it.
Which really speaks to the complexity of the field. It'll be another century before the ELI5 version comes along.
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You usually don’t figure this out until after you’ve already run into this issue.

In Windows if you open a new filetype for the first time, it asks you what application you’d like to set as the default type, and on top of that it tells you where to go to change that later. That’s what beginner friendly UX looks like, not just throwing the newborn into the pool like Linux does with Vim editing.
I googled and found a Brazilian bank trying it out:

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/major-brazil...
For me, it creates excitement at the thought that I can inconspicuously shoulder check some inconsiderate jerk.
Your car doesn't carry its own onboard oxygen tanks for combustion? Time to go off grid pal! ;)