skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot of case law regarding digital media, such as movies, tv, books, etc, stating that the digital version doesn't lose value despite the ease of copying it.

It's an interesting conundrum that "big business" claims that personal data being copied doesn't necessarily have value, but entertaining data does.
Oh I didn't mean to imply it's all they bring! Like I said—those farms have amazing produce and they also bring that stuff in. But in my experience at the satellite farmers' markets here in Toronto I've noticed they will also bring their "rustic" vegetables that are scooped up by unwitting hipsters at a premium. The smug small-town guy in me has a brief laugh about it. (If you ever watch An American Pickle a few of the scenes in that are markedly close to reality)
The contextual backdrop is never negligible, but it's the powers that be that change the course of the world. Secularization has been seen as the step forward. So has quality initial and ongoing Education for all. We trudge forward as individualistic pursuits erode those of the collective.

It reminds me of a study: many groups undertake a turn-based team game in which the prize grows until a certain maximum. Make it to the end of the game: everyone takes an equal part of the prize home. At any point before the end, the entirety of the current prize can be claimed by one individual. Not in one single group was the prize shared. There was always at least one person who waited long enough to claim more than what would have been shared otherwise.
The container was filed with Nitrogen, so no pesky Oxygen corroding everything.
>(Any theory that thousands of other civilizations out there just wouldn't be interested in exploring / expanding / communicating / etc requires every single civilization out there to be that way.)

Space is difficult, interstellar space exponentially more so. It isn't necessary to make any claims about any or all civilizations if the nature of physics alone makes it extremely unlikely for any species, however curious, to ever make it out of their local gravity well, much less sustain the technological infrastructure, knowledge base, energy consumption, unified political will (despite vast cultural and biological evolution) and control over every other variable across millions of years as a species to be able to stumble across our planet even once among the billions upon billions of galaxies' worth of stars in the observable universe.

One might say "it only has to happen once." I submit that it could have happened a thousand times and we could still never know.
I really like Miro.
You are referring to the 'capacitor plague' as Wikipedia calls it?
Like nuclear.

Why the heck would you care about soda fizz and not about the 2.9 billion wind and solar deaths contributing to the 29% loss of the entire country’s birds? (Or the endangered species being killed, or the human deaths?)

https://townhall.com/columnists/katiekieffer/2019/09/23/29-b...
It's worth mentioning here that heatwaves are the leading cause of weather-related death in the US for the past 30 years.

https://www.weather.gov/hazstat

I'm not advocating for the personification of all extreme weather events, but the lethality of heatwaves is often overlooked.
To be fair that is a JSON parse error.
Right around the time shelter in place orders took effect, supermarkets were sold out of various items. Toilet paper was the most infamous one, but depending where you were, you might also have had a hard time finding chicken and canned soup, for example. It goes to show that the supply chain is decidedly not prepared to handle the event of the entire population suddenly decicing to stock up on provisions for extended periods of time.
I presume the scammer added a new account, made it an admin and then used that to take over. So it's not the removal that's the issue but adding a new admin on the account. Of course if you allow this type of activity through oauth I don't think there's a good way to re-authenticate.
That would never happen. More likely they would never reply or just give an automated answer.
A similarly awesome--and much, much less expensive--deck of cards focused on writing by the screenwriter John August (Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie):

https://www.writeremergency.com/

(Years before they made this, I was briefly acquainted with one of the creators not named John August.)
Zoomers have not been living under decades of Cold War propaganda. Maybe older folks should re-evaluate all of their assumptions about geopolitics hammered into their brain through decades of propaganda before venturing into criticism about the Zoomers and their view on things.
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In my experience, I'd say about a third, while the left lane is usually >=160km/h when there's no limit.
Depends on your programming language. xpdf does a pretty good job from what I’ve heard.
Addicition is defined by its consequences. If you're engaging in a regular activity, that's one thing, but if you can't stop yousrself from doing it, even if it's harming you, that is addiction.
He literally buys ads and fell for this scam because it proposed ad credit. Oh, wait, he got what he deserved.
One of the challenges is that FLOSS means so many different things.

You say that the minimum thing is source availability for auditing. Others will say that the freedom to modify the code running on your systems is the most important thing. Others will say that the freedom to copy the code into new contexts is the most important thing. Still others will say that the ability to run the code for free is the most important thing.

This makes it very difficult to navigate this topic.
Yeah, I wasn't criticizing your comment, more observing how difficult things are going to be even in the most prepared districts.
GREENWASHING.
Paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4

PDF: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4.pdf
Pixels per inch do not make sense on a VR headset. The screens are tiny.
#3 doesn’t mean much either way. The main Nature journal may be the most prestigious and impactful in science, but the common joke is that only half of the results in it are real.
But does it matter to the public whether they roads are closed due to Irene or Jacques?

Admittedly, the names are catchier but I'm not certain they're necessary to convey information. It's not as if they have to keep track of a dozen hurricanes at a time.
I would have said stackshare if the operators hadn't gone to great lengths to make it completely unusable
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If you accept a billing agreement with a merchant on your PayPal account, that merchant becomes able to charge your PayPal account without confirmation.

https://www.paypal.com/uk/smarthelp/article/what-is-a-billin...

To cancel the billing agreement, follow these instructions:

https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/how-do-i-cancel-...

Some merchants encourage or force a billing agreement before the customer can make a purchase. The PayPal UI does not make a strong distinction between entering into a billing agreement and making a standard purchase. For users who are not familiar with the PayPal checkout process, the billing agreement UI looks just like a normal step in the process.
Having doubt is the default position in science. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

It’s an interesting finding, but it’s prudent to remain skeptical.
From what I remember, the impact was pretty minimal. Water has a huge capacity for heat so the temperature was elevated only when very close to the data center.
Yes, but the inputs to jq are not JSON, they are "a sequence of whitespace-separated JSON values which are passed through the provided filter one at a time" which is the relevant thing if you are going to try to replace jq.
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That's like saying that my Intel CPU comes with an NVIDA Turing AI acceleration extension. The instructions the CPU can run on an Apple ARM-based CPU is all ARM ISA. That's in the license arrangement, if you fail to pass ARM's compliance tests (which include not adding your own instructions, or modifying the ones included) you can't use ARM's license.

Please, stop spreading nonsense. All of this is public knowledge.
I don't think such approach is fully consistent with scientific methodology.

The abstract clearly presents the question as an alternative, not "the only remaining possibility", as you stated:

"PH3 could originate from unknown photochemistry or geochemistry, or, by analogy with biological production of PH3 on Earth, from the presence of life"

It doesn't strike me as scientific to "ignore an unknown unknown", which would boil down to an assumption that we already know every possible reaction mechanism there is to know.

Discovering unknown chemistry would be groundbreaking of course, but the same goes for confirming extraterrestial life.
Because I can just not use those services and take my car to work? Like large employers can dangle some pretty substantive carrots but I don't think courts would let them get away with any sticks.
The part of speedily deporting asylum seekers seems like it may be attractive to certain countries of the Eu, especially if Turkey keeps pushing.
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I just assumed that they meant that there are many healthcare orgs that require this standard.
Glad to see people still making new ways to absorb via rss - I still feel it's the best method for getting news and things, and the more options we have to show others how they can be used - maybe the better.

Wonder if anyone has made a self-hosted way to create a 'my.yahoo' or netvibes , pageflakes kind of page with rss feeds?

I started to put together some plugins for wordpress/buddpress to allow people to make something like that for their own, but got bogged down and never tried to mash it all together yet.

Anyone have a browser extension that can find rss feeds for pages?

I long for the days of yesteryears where yahoo news searches had an rss button or link to copy right there - and discovering rss on news portals and elsewhere was easier not hidden.
Another question to ask is what the effect of pumping these data centers full of cold air is, and how the excess heat from that may be affecting the atmosphere.

Not to discredit your point or anything, it's a very good one. I think we just also have to answer it in conjunction with what we are currently doing. Maybe we can sink some data centers and have little to no impact while also realizing energy and cost savings?
I don't think it's a given that Social Media's harms are at the level of fast food. Figuring out where it falls on the "harmful to society scale" is a worthwhile discussion. Is it sugar, e coli, or something in between?

We do have regulatory protections around food. We don't think it's pragmatic for everyone to run their own home lab to determine if there's poison in their food. It may also not be pragmatic to expect everyone to check sources or even be able to locate the truth of a source (I sure can't most of the time!).
If we're lucky. Sometimes it's just a loose cable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...
Oh, sure, they exist, but why are there still parking lots almost full of cars?

And also, 10 miles is a really long distance. Most people consider anything more than 1 mile un-walkable for a commute, so what about all the people between 1 to 10 miles?

And what about visitors, contractors, interviewees, partner company employees, and everyone else who can't take the bus? Why aren't the buses a part of the local transit agency, and why does the local transit agency not even bother running frequent route anywhere near Google, Apple, Facebook, et al.? Why aren't there air-conditioned express Wi-Fi VTA buses, or better yet, fast (>80mph) electric trains, plying up and down 101 and 280 serving all the tech companies in one go, stopping at each HQ, considering they are almost all right next to either highway? That would be a low-carbon world.

Also, one of the inherent problems with employee shuttles instead is that they compete with public transit, and also reduce the flexibility for employees to go to other places after work. I've known many employees regularly go to FLAG companies via the shuttle but drive to work on days they have dinner appointments with friends. To a great degree this also propagates the cycle where public transit becomes progressively worse in coverage and maintainence, and progressively more for low-income individuals only.

Compare to many other public-transit-first countries which have trains/buses that are actually fast, clean, nice, comfortable, and not worse than taking a company shuttle + you have the flexibility to go whenever you want, as well as wherever you want after work.
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Can happen to any capacitor when it's over his lifetime at a certain temperature, but at the capacitor plague time they died much before the expected lifetime.
Yeah, it's like US companies buying UK companies and then massively profiting off them. Why should China subsidize startup costs for a company and then sell it so the US can make massive profits off it? It doesn't seem to be in their interests.
I think that's unclear at this time; IIUC, the phosphine could be generated at ground level, since Venus's atmosphere is so thick that it'd have to be lifted up a bit before UV light can start breaking it down.
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Just like now we are worried about catastrophic global warming. Only that, of course, now we are right. ;-)
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From https://natick.research.microsoft.com/
Phase 1 demonstrated the feasibility of the subsea datacenter concept, including our ability to remotely operate a Lights Out datacenter* for long periods of time, operating with a highly efficient PUE (power usage effectiveness is total power divided by server power; lower values are better, 1.0 is perfect) of 1.07, and using no water at all, for a perfect WUE (water usage effectiveness is the liters consumed per megawatt of power per minute; lower values are better, 0 is best) of exactly 0 vs land datacenters which consume up to 4.8 liters of water per kilowatt-hour.
For Phase 2, our goals are to:

Develop one full scale prototype subsea datacenter, which could be used as a modular building block to aggregate subsea datacenters of arbitrary size

Gain an understanding of the economics of undersea datacenter TCO (total cost of ownership is the full lifetime cost of a datacenter including manufacture, deployment, operations, and recovery) should we proceed to commercial deployment.
During WWI, the US took control of the US-local division of the British-owned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi_Company, reorganizing it into what would be known as the Radio Corporation of America — RCA.
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I'm not sure who the best person to ask on this topic is, but do you have any sense for smoke prediction models? Over the weekend, I put together the resources I could find easily, but I'm wondering what, if any good prediction models exist.

Copernicus - https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/global-forecast-plots

NASA GEOS - https://fluid.nccs.nasa.gov/cf/classic_geos_cf/

From those, I concluded that we could see fresh air in san francisco as early as this afternoon. Right now, that doesn't seem possible, so I'm wondering if there are other models that exist?
Hundreds of working people also die from floods, too. I'm not sure why that's relevant here, though. Are you against traffic laws and flood control?

Will not protecting teachers from covid somehow keep them from getting in traffic accidents? I suspect the opposite is true.
Ahhhh I thought the offsets were "standalone positives" , like planting trees. Indeed if an offset can be helping others reduce, it's definitely a lower cost (and less scalability, as you point out)
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FWIW, Given the surrounding context, I interpreted "Come on, dude" as an exhortation for the author to cut themselves some slack. I agree that 100% correct 100% of the time is an exhausting bar to maintain, and one that we should be working very hard to ease this requirement.

I think it's worth pointing out that the difficulty / impossibility of achieving that bar (at least in the general case) is one of, if not the central tenet of Christianity, ostensibly the dominant religion of the West for something like 1500 years. Regardless of one's metaphysical beliefs, it's worth remembering that arguments for the necessity of grace and slack in positive interactions have a long historical precedent, and I find we ignore them at our peril.
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Feels like the relevant question is "Is the evidence, circumstantial though it may be, compelling enough to justify looking more closely?"
I agree in principle, but the statement "there is doubt about the quality of the radio detection" implies that there have been concrete issues pointed out about the basis of these findings, which I haven't heard anywhere else.
We had a problem where we need to index and make searchable a hundred of thousands of government pdf files, some are as old as 15 years ago.

Tried a bunch libraries and settled with Tika. Although we were a PHP/Node shop, nothing could be compared to the ease of using Tika for this exact purpose.
'What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?'

'What will the cultural impact of this movie be?'

My thoughts: What the F is that? Never heard of it.
Klaus Schmidt, who died around 5 years ago, was the director of excavations at Gobleki Tepe. I highly doubt he would have allowed Hancock to perverse the legitimacy of his work. To read more about how Gobleki Tepe has been abused by pseudoarchaeologists, check out the Tepe Telegrams blog, which is produced by archaeologists who actually work at the site: https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/

> Gullible means believing something. Believe nothing. This is what an open mind is.

Umm what? If you can't believe anything is true then you can't retain or formulate any knowledge at all. Seriously, this is a really bad take.
Slightly off-topic, but this is how I feel when people discuss the risks of nuclear power. You can talk all you want about the disasterous consequences of a reactor meltdown, but what about the disastrous consequences of sticking with fossil fuels?

I agree that switching to wind and solar would be better, but it's not obvious whether we can switch without transforming the world economy in ways people seem unwilling to do. Nuclear reactors can generate much more energy, and I really think it’s time to get behind them.
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So of the 18 predictions none are from climatologists, none are in published research but rather in comments to magazines and speeches, and half are from 2 people, Paul Erlich (a biologist) and Kenneth Watt (an ecologist). And some of them are not even wrong, for instance concerns about population growth or rainforest loss at the rate it was occurring at the time. The headline here is “some random scientists were wrong about something 50 years ago”. The fact the comparison is even made between these comments and the published evidence base for climate change, indicates more about the person making the criticism than the target of the criticism. These are the same kind of people who think that political commentators on rolling news are making a meaningful contribution to scientific debate.
Looks like that:

https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/pc-notes-16
>The whole idea of VPNs (or extra hops in general[0]) providing security is very context specific. For the vast majority of people they seemingly chose to trust a VPN provider over their ISP which is hard to justify.

The whole idea of VPNs and why I encourage people to use them is so that when they're sitting on public wifi at a coffee shop, their traffic is going out encrypted. It has almost nothing to do with hiding from authorities or authorities surveilling you. It has everything to do with the kiddiot in the corner hoping to steal a login because your mom re-used the same one 400 times and her favorite cross-stitch site doesn't use SSL.
all those examples you listed have restrictions and regulations in many places in addition to services that provide help to the affected. Doesn't have to be one OR the other, can do both
I’m not surprised. Science is subject to political control like anything else. Why does a study use this or that data? What flaws or assumptions do we explain away as permitted trade-offs rather than rejecting as lacking enough basic fidelity to even proceed. There are Overton Windows in science (when’s the last time a scientific paper suggested that a bloody revolution should be used to address climate change?) and ultimately what gets published is a media channel that only exists to suit purposes of those funding it or permitting it - wealthy think tanks with a particular agenda, political parties or specific administrations or legislators who need reelection or need to foment support for their favored plan or outrage for their opponent’s plan.

A replication crisis is by design - the system doesn’t exist to publish the best available science, it exists to create credential and status hierarchy in which to control scientific authority and shape it as a political tool.

To address this issue you’d have to first address general plutocracy which even 80000 Hours itself is enmeshed in.
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Don't forget powershell's Convert-FromJson :)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
I started using FreeBSD on a VPS a couple months ago, and I've moved my home router to be FreeBSD -- PF is /so much better/ than anything else wrt understandability, and putting miscellaneous services the router runs in jails is pretty nice, and feels simpler to set up "right" than the same with Docker (e.g. no messing around with Docker volumes, only to discover you've accidentally deleted years of family photos).
Carbon taxes on both domestic products and imported ones, and rebating consumers a fixed amount per person would be a good start.
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I tried to create a work Facebook account using my work email address and phone number and they required SMS verification. I tried all manner of services, even Twilio but Facebook seems to be able to differentiate.
> ARM doesn't give NVIDIA a world-class CPU team like apple's, amazon's or fujitsu.

Are you referring to the Graviton2 for Amazon? If so, you might be interested to learn that ARM designed the cores in that chip.

> (NVIDIA themselves started replacing ARM cores with RISC-V cores in their GPUs years ago already...).

The only info on this I'm aware of is https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Tue1345pm-NVIDI..., which says nvidia is replacing some internal proprietary RISC ISA with RISC-V, not replacing ARM with RISC-V.