skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The men who stopped her, most of whom were armed, were dressed in “hunting style clothes, camouflage”, she said, and did not identify themselves or mention any legal authority under which they were acting.

...

> Robinson said she was questioned by a “heavily armed” man carrying a AR-style long gun and a visible sidearm. She said the man asked at one point: “You’re not from around here, are you?” which Robinson, who is African American, understood as having racist overtones.

Jesus.

It's evidently a law of nature that vigilante groups are oblivious to the ramifications of their choice of clothing, equipment, and communication style, which is a handy blind spot for anyone who knows how modern civilization is supposed to work, and is capable of wielding a phone camera and driving themselves to a town hall meeting to ask wtf is going on.

And to cause this kind of pain in another human being in the middle of a natural disaster--what a disgrace.

> [Sheriff] Reese would go on to issue another statement on Friday’s events later that night, saying: “The sheriff’s office will not tolerate illegal activity of any kind, including illegal roadblocks.”

Translation: Game over for the local doomscroller militia...turns out their late actions are incompatible with modern civilization. The fact that local law enforcement also managed to get their reputation tangled up in this is just embarrassing.
ArTIfiCE is a jailbreak for TI CE calculators
> You can't take a free society and make it more prosperous by the institution of slavery, but if you have a thinly-populated continent and eager export markets to play with you can certainly generate great profits, howbeit unevenly distributed and with the slave class excluded completely from per-capita considerations because they are themselves considered property.

This is true! But it probably doesn’t support the assertion that “out of slavery — and the anti-black racism it required — grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: it’s economic might, its industrial power...”

The 1619 project makes a ton of very good points. But it also makes a bunch of over-the-top assertions. But it can’t back those up. Ignoring those is a motte-and-bailey defense of the work.

> This whole post seems like a rather forced and tendentious diversion from the topic.

It’s on my mind because I have kids and the 1619 project will be this generation’s People’s History.
If you're their largest customer, and there are no alternative suppliers, leverage works both ways -- but it's beside the point. TSMC does multi-year low-scale runs of new processes to figure out tooling and reduce errors, before committing to huge orders.
And if we trusted Tesla to make that determination, that would be an interesting question. But counterpoint: Do you want Tesla to remotely kill your car because someone decided to tell them that it was stolen? I can think of some "fun" ways for that to blow up...
GTA was always a game you go over a friends house play around for 30 min and it became mundane and repetitive after that. They usually had all the cheats available. But even without it was repetitive feeling of missions though. Punch a prostitute and see how high you can get wanted etc. entertainment value like Hollywood blockbuster all explosions no substance I guess the markets there of course and people enjoy that, for me felt like wasting my life after 30 min. Maybe when the iterations get more realistic as real life rather than Hollywood and you actually have to be a smart criminal to not get caught it would be cool to play or still or more clever unique scenarios. To each his own of course
https://domainr.com is a great way to search for domains super fast
There should continue to be exceptions to free speech. Who would advocate for removing _all_ of the exceptions listed here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_ex... ?
These things always seem like they would be so hopelessly fragile and finicky that nobody would commit to them to do real work.

By the time we can build these we should be up to our eyeballs in fusion energy. Seems like you could just build giant 50km railguns to blast raw materials and a kick stage into orbit and leave rockets for the squishy payloads.
I don't think it's a realistic concern that FB would block content from mass-market media for political reasons. They might block it for copyright, but there's no benefit in deplatforming material that's already been seen by tens of millions of cable viewers.

My problem with Facebook is that it acts as radicalization pipeline by channeling lies that are too crazy for mass market media into the minds of people who are susceptible to believe them.

For a recent example in America, Facebook was used to spread propaganda to Republican rural residents in Oregon by telling them that Democrats were coming to light wildfires in their towns. Oregon rural people responded by setting up their own vigilante checkpoints.

It goes without saying that the claim that Democrats were coming to set rural Oregon on fire was a lie, but that lie spread like wildfire through Facebook, and it was a lie that could have very easily resulted in fatal violence.

To make matters worse, many of the too-crazy-for-mass-media ideas spread on Facebook are the product of astroturf propaganda and are not organic. The problem is not people sharing videos of Tucker Carlson, or even individuals spewing racist diatribes; the problem is well-funded right wing propaganda groups using Facebook to distribute material that encourages people to hate--or even kill--their fellow citizens.

While I agree that judges should make the ultimate decision on what is acceptable speech, the judicial system just isn't fast enough to respond to the speed of Facebook-propagated propaganda. Society needs a better solution; we can't wait for a perfect one.

Facebook is pouring gasoline on the fires of social division. This is not just unethical but is extremely dangerous to social stability and it ought to be stopped.
And NuScale appears to be failing on that, with the UAMPS buuld being delayed one year per year for the last four years, and still only 30% subscribed. In the meantime, costs have escalated 70%.
This warning is implied for all information, all the time.
I always felt that the fear of browser monoculture was misguided. Does anyone suffer under the current Unix monoculture? BSD market shares are a sliver of Linux's.

It seems to me that the assertion that a browser monoculture would be a bad thing stems from the presumption that WebKit is controlled by the iron fist of Apple, and Chromium by the iron fist of Google. It seems like an unintentional damning of open-source. After all, what good is Chromium being open-sourced if Google effectively controls the codebase, and no forks are realistically possible, because the codebase is too complex for the community or even a small company like Mozilla to take on? (Microsoft has managed it, of course, but that's another megacorp).
Dyslexia is in part difficulty in decoding (reading) words.

Dysgraphia is difficulty in encoding (spelling) words.

They aren't mutually exclusive.
Qantas offers a seven-hour flight to nowhere
Well, not exactly a copy. Firefox Send encrypts/decrypts files client-side if I remember correctly. Your service receives the files in plaintext thus theoretically allowing you (or anybody who is able to gain access to the servers) to snoop on the contents.
Is that what this is about?

Then I guess we can expect the top womans MMA fighters to all be trans.

Well done!
I though they weren't banned for their amount of plastic usage, which was surely negligible compared to the packaging of the products people put in them, but for their tendency to blow away and end up in the environment. Thicker bags might not be so easily blown away so maybe it's OK if we all use them? I don't know really because nobody actually analyses this stuff - the decisions are made in response to public outrage.
The cheapest technology for desalination is reverse osmosis, which uses mechanical power, not heat, to drive things.
California, federal had tried to do controlled burns and was rebuked at local air boards.
s/honorably/horribly/?
Also, don't use a GitHub page as a test for a client. Set up a reasonable bootstrap page and suddenly the domain by the same name was bought up.
You should have a way for people to know when it comes to their city, maybe via an email waitlist.
Meeting Everyone on a New Team
Airline workers have lower rates of Covid-19 than the general population
BitBucket has a sane API. But it might be a case for a 3rd party os solution...
> Researchers say the Great Red Spot now measures about 15 800 kilometres across, big enough to swallow the Earth. The super-storm is still shrinking, as noted in telescopic observations dating back to 1930, but its rate of shrinkage appears to have slowed. The reason for its dwindling size is a complete mystery.

Isn't a storm's slowing down is normal due to loss of energy? Probably am missing some physics 101...

Also, I didn't know there were auroras on Jupiter: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1613a/
Gaim is just Pidgin's original name.
Not long ago I worked in a lab that was still using Microsoft Windows 95 for one workstation that was a host for a microscope that had a very expensive license tied to that specific set of hardware.

The system has worked great for decades. Data is automatically gathered via a hardware datalogger accessory that has a ethernet interface. Is there any google product with anything close to that useful lifespan?
Japan has a stockpile of separated reactor grade plutonium sufficient to make thousands of bombs. This is a deniable kind of proliferation. If push came to shove they could weaponize that material without having to make new plutonium.

(And, yes, reactor grade Pu CAN be used in weapons, with proper design.)
> while pretending to be speeding up websites and protecting from 'threads'.

They do though. That's why people pay them lots of money to do those two things. Not sure what part you think is "pretending"?
It would have been hilarious if you'd fixed this bug... :-)
it's not emergent, it's inherent. facebook is political because it was designed from the start to control information. that's coercive, designed literally to change people's behavior, whether covertly or overtly, which is the essence of power and the political. facebook employees cannot absolve themselves of responsibility by saying it's the machine that did it, or that other people were involved and complicit.

being political is not an incidental facet of facebook, it's a core intention.
While we're at it, here's a more modern take on the RSA t-shirt. The QR code on the back encodes the Perl snippet above it.

https://www.customink.com/ndx/?cid=jxu0-00bx-9p0k
Arrests in Mississippi after video of 3-year-old smoking pot goes viral
> Facebook was used to spread propaganda to Republican rural residents in Oregon by telling them that Democrats were coming to light wildfires in their towns.

Well isn’t Oregon on fire right now while being under the watch of a Democrat governor? It seems you are worried about digital wildfire when actual wildfires are there and do kill.
I’m okay with costs being 3-10x for something with zero emissions. And the more we build the cheaper it gets. We have to invest in the future technology. Solar is a good 20th century technology but it is poisonous and degrades over time. Wind is useless.
https://mashable.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-elephant-story/
I sort of agree. You right that is pragmatic but we do still need to manage it to minimize its effects. Economic leaders can focus on managing the economy and science and medical communities can focus on the outbreak and hopefully the politicians stay in their corner and not overrule everything trying to get reelected.
> As for the employees, they could contact Rogan and either ask to come on the show to discuss what they find so offensive.

If you think that somebody is spreading misinformation and is not arguing in good faith, why on earth would you discuss things on a platform where that person controls the editing? That sounds like a recipe for giving somebody the air of legitimacy while having no chance of convincing anybody.
The virus most likely came from close contact between animals and humans in which humans wanted to consume the animal. Virtually all of the new infectious diseases come from animal to human transmissions, and virtually all of those come from either direct consumption of animals or from animal agriculture. The total number of animals kept for agricultural purposes, plus the conditions they are kept in, means we can expect more and more diseases to come from this industry.

Shifting our food sources away from industrial animal agriculture would significantly decrease the number of new infectious diseases we have to encounter. This looks like lab grown meat, like plant based meat substitutes such as Impossible, Beyond, and Oatly, like grass fed beef, like backyard chickens, and it looks like less beef burritos and more bean burritos.
A Cryptologic Mystery
I wouldn’t worry about lock in since you can export to excel, convert to csv, and boom, you have plain text.
This is really cool. I’ll be trying it out on my projects tomorrow!

Edit: already found some bugs!
The file system is long in the tooth as an API and nobody notices.

Consider this:

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/fs/#:~:text=T....

a file system interface for a microkernel that's really micro. If you wanted to connect to a 9P fileserver with a Python program or any normal programming language you could be quickly opening and reading files.

FUSE, on the other hand, supports the full performance of a Linux filesystem but don't even think about connecting to one from a normal application:

http://libfuse.github.io/doxygen/fast17-vangoor.pdf

FUSE has a close coupling to Linux because, for performance's sake, filesystems are closely coupled to their operating systems. Microsoft tried to emulate the behavior of the Linux filesystem in WSL and succeeded in every respect except for performance -- Linux devs have a higher expectation for the speed of file system metadata operations that Windows couldn't possibly attain because of the fudnamental design... They have to run a whole Linux kernel just to access the one thing, the filesystem, that Micrsoft can't emulate fast enough!
I really like your logic! It's so consistently wrong! TRL!
Oof I feel your pain
I agree to what you're saying to some extent on what you're saying but the part about me mentioning my age, I'm doing it purely because I've got college applications as well and it wouldn't hurt to get some good coverage and have it in my application as well.
> American fabs source heavily from a pool of people with a background in the US military.

I wonder what historical factors contributed to that tendency? What are the forces against starting a new business in this space -- it must be an enormous undertaking to build the production facility?
As a reply to your "edit":

You don't know how to bloody read. Claiming renewables emit CO2 in their construction and maintenance is not saying that they don't decrease emissions in comparison to gas-oil-coal, only that they do produce emissions. Unless you want to state that for a fact renewables are leading to no emissions for their construction or maintenance, you can't possibly be denying that. And by the way nuclear involves CO2 emissions too in its construction, surprise surprise! But you build it once and run it for a very long time, and the emissions in relationship to the energy output for nuclear completely dwarf anything related to renewables. So stop trying to argue an empty point.

Now, there's no such thing as "dispatchable" without a carbon cost that is non-negligible: the things you build, if you move them you're using trucks that use energy. If you take the windmills down from off the coast where the wind is stronger, you're using boats that use energy. If you need to use tools and to build any kind of structure for things to be installed anywhere new, including extensions to power grids, you're using materials for which the construction requires yet again energy and materials. Oh and now because we don't know on what scenario we are, weather patterns have changed significantly enough over the course of a few decades so you need to start moving your infrastructure to the "right" place, which includes building the damn road there and potentially moving people away too. You can "dispatch" all you want by emitting a ton of unnecessary CO2, or you can go and develop the source that is most reliable, actually controllable, and that only needs those emissions to be made ONCE to become a source of energy.

Stop daydreaming about things that are only marginally doing something, and put your energy into addressing problems at the order of magnitude where you have the real impact. For energy production it's nuclear by a huge margin, and yes that's what the damn physics says. Then move on to the other actual problems that lead to CO2 emissions, and work on those too. Stop trying to fix a problem that already has a solution - especially if your fixes involve a whole lot more repetitive CO2 emissions along the way.
The changes described in TFA seem like good ideas, but one would have expected to read of them in May rather than September.
And that does not count the deaths _due to_ access to what passed for "healthcare" in the Soviet Union. And that's just Stalin. You gotta count Lenin as well, an austere scholar of Marx so fiery but mostly peaceful, he invented the Red Terror (according to which most of the people on this site would be executed without trial, along with their families, as belonging to the "wrong" class) and set up concentration camps and GULAG to get rid of the counterrevolutionary element (AKA basically everyone he didn't like).
I'll try this and write up on what the results were.
In Silicon valley there was a chain called Specialty's Cafe and Bakery. They shut down permanently after the pandemic but it was very common place for offices to order meals for lunch meetings. The sandwiches were bland but the cookies were always nice.
What does Catholic universities got to do with China?
In this context CCP means the Chinese Communist Party.
I like Rogan's podcast but he definitely won't talk to anyone - When was the last time there was someone on that didn't agree with him on the major issue or issues they were brought on the podcast to discuss? They may quibble over certain things but at the end of the day he wants to have a fun conversation and arguing with trans rights people for 2 or 3 hours isn't going to happen. Also they've already censored his history and as far as I can tell he agreed to it
If you don't mind answering, what decontamination method are you using? That CDC link merely refers mask users to the mask manufacturers.

How have you found reuse to effect fit and performance?

From the CDC page you linked:

"Decontamination of an N95 FFR inactivates viruses and bacteria on the device, but does not restore the N95 FFR to “new” performance. Decontamination studies have evaluated the effect of the decontamination process on the fit and filtration performance of N95 FFRs; however, these studies did not consider the likelihood that N95 FFRs worn by healthcare personnel are likely donned and doffed multiple times before undergoing decontamination. N95 FFR performance will decrease as the number of hours and number of donnings and doffings increase. Repeated decontamination and handling of FFRs can damage the fit and filtration performance of N95 FFRs. Fit performance during limited reuse, including decontaminated FFRs, should be monitored by the respiratory protection program manager or appropriate safety personnel. Information about how to assess N95 FFR fit during limited reuse can be found below...."
Pretty sure they were joking!
It would help to better understand your criteria vs. an arbitrary label like yellow flag.

I was not aware of the elephant killing incident, have not experienced their poor tooling (because I have not used them) and was not aware that GoDaddy squats expired domains.

Does this lack of knowledge yellow flag me as a competent person?

Domain registration often happens in a hurry. After a brainstorm that revealed an aha! In that moment, the only thing that matters is grabbing that domain while it's still available. Someone hurriedly registers the thing, with knowledge that it can always be moved later.

If you want to judge a company based on the early inception of the domain, often before deeply technical/experienced folks get involved, that's obviously your prerogative. But I think you'd be unnecessarily filtering out great opportunities in the process.

Oh, and didn't Google Domains use GoDaddy and others behind the scenes for awhile?
Why do thieves steal? Why do fraudsters commit fraud? Doesn't matter.

Once you know, you'd be smart to no longer trust them, no matter how enticing.

I deleted my account years ago, nullrouted their email, and haven't looked back since.
I am not entirely sure that we would learn those lessons from dealing with covid-19. Much of the policy around it has been with the assumption that a vaccine could be produced in a somewhat reasonable time line, and we just need to hold out a bit longer.

The genome was sequenced increadibly quickly, and much of the vaccine work is based on all of the research that went into dealing with SARS 20 or so years ago.

A pandemic caused by something completely novel- whether a contageous and infectious prion disease (does that even make sense?) Or T-virus or venus flu- means that there will be far greater uncertainty than what we have been dealing with. A vaccine wouldn't even make sense in the case of a pandemic prion disease.

I think that Sweden had the right of things, but as others have pointed out before (and likely will again) it is still too early to tell. Not only that, but complicating matters is that every country captures statistics differently- especially the US and UK versus Europe. Numbers get bandied about quite a bit, and I suspect it will be many years before cool heads can evaluate all of the confounding factors into what actually helped and what we should do in the future.
Reminded me of my Adium days.

Back when I liked my messenger app on the Mac.

Apple has tried hard to degrade the experience of their built in messenger.
By choosing to have a system by which algorithms would recommend social content, they’ve committed to a course that is going to eventually collide with politics. The only way to avoid it is to get out of the recommendation game, which would be tantamount to corporate suicide at this point.
Well that could have been said (and was said) about Numpy/Scipy when it started, "oh R has so many more packages, what numpy can do I can do in MATLAB ...", yet here we are.
I only code web apps in assembly.
They are backstopped by fossil fuels because that's currently cheapest. But fossil fuels are not NECESSARY to backstop renewables. A combination of short and long term storage technologies could do it, and likely could do it more cheaply (on the time scale of any reactor that we could start building today) than with a system including nuclear. A key is to use hydrogen for long term storage/backup.

https://model.energy/
Sony's PS5 preorder is a mess
7th exponent club?
I know we're getting into the weeds here but for the benefit of people learning random things that work slightly differently (tm)

A possible workaround for this specific scenario would be to use 'sshutle' which runs a python script on the remote end to terminate the traffic.

Except in your specific scenario you'd have to somehow trick it to execute using a login shell like one of the other comments shows.

Having said all of that, I would just do what you did :)
OCaml Labs breakthrough – good things come to those who wait
Pre-commit: managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks