skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s a sweeping journey through the history of the idea of human extinction, by Thomas Moynihan, a historian, philosopher, and researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute.

The abstract, using some of Tom’s language from the intro: While we humans have been prophesying the end of the world since we began talking and telling stories, the modern idea of human extinction, made possible by the burgeoning sciences and philosophical tumult of the Enlightenment era, did not, and could not, exist until only a few centuries ago. In this timeline he revisits some of the most important milestones in this ongoing drama — from the introduction of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system (which later allowed for the measurement of large timespans) to the birth of the field of population science; from the atom bomb to genome editing and the IPCC climate report. 2,500 years in 2,500 words.

disclosure: I work for the MIT Press, who’s distributing Tom’s forthcoming book (“X-Risk”), from which a leaner version of this timeline was culled. The publisher, Urbanomic, is doing some very cool stuff in the space of contemporary philosophy: https://www.urbanomic.com/about/. But for real, and even if i didn't work for MITP: Tom’s book is fantastic and I can’t recommend it highly enough.
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The obvious answer to that is then "any trait consisting only of methods which take a Self parameter". But given (a) how confusing Rust's orphan rules already are to the average programmer, and (b) how easy it is to implement your own Never type if needed, I think it's best to just have Never implement the main built-in traits (Copy, Clone, etc.) and leave it at that.
> If Prop8 had won, would it have been on the right side of history?

Prop 8 did win. I don't know if it is still on the books; it was rendered inoperative due to a later Supreme Court decision based, so far as one can tell, on neither the text nor the intent of the Constitution. In other words, whether one agrees with the decision or not, it was unconstitutional.
Is this sarcasm?

Because this seems like a list of "pick some, but not all"... I'd say that 99.99 percent of humanity has not hit all of these goals ever in the history of humanity. If this is the minimally required list, then depression is way, way underdistributed.
Not even sure how it is even possible to implement every trait. Wouldn't it be the opposite? It implements no traits?
The controversal part is the first paragraph, you are nursing a victim mentality here. What stops you going to Alaska and get your cabin in the woods.
> What would be the possible recourse against the verdict, to protest to all these (voluntary) mistakes?

> Is there any court in UK to which ask to undo and rejudge?

Yes. All extradition judgements may be appealed to the High Court of England and Wales (or, where relevant, the equivalent in Scotland).

However, such appeals may only be made on a point of law, not fact. For example, the judge misapplying the law is a point of law so the appeal can be heard.

However, a rebuttal of fact (e.g. "Mr Assange did not commit the crime he was accused of") would be a point of fact and thus such an appeal could not be heard.

Furthermore, if the High Court refuses to hear the appeal or decides against Mr Assange, it can be sent to the Supreme Court.

The final route of appeal would lie with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) if his legal team can prove an Article 3 breach.

Assuming Mr Assange loses the case, his team would probably apply for an urgent injunction to the High Court to temporarily prevent him from being extradited during the appeal, then apply for an expedited hearing so his case is heard as quickly as possible.
> As long as this policy is applied to anyone who applies for it regardless of any stated voting intention. It is not illegal for political parties to provide rides to the voting booth as long as they offer it to anyone who asks and do not try to influence the voter.

It's very possible to offer something to everyone but ensure that "your team" makes up the bulk of the people taking up the offer.
Elm should have made the list. It is a dsl for creating web uis. Nothing comes close to Haskell’s being a dsl for creating dsls
> No one cares until it’s their problem.

I mean, someone cared because we used to have a stockpile. What's wrong with the government today compared to decades ago?
People make systems. Look to the people at the top to understand the foundation of culture and people-systems. People made principles as foundations for better systems.
> Until the next pandemic. We can spend hundreds of billions on national defense, but N95 mask machines for protection in a pandemic is where we draw the line?

Or we could allocate money to PPE and instead spend it on defense:

"Pentagon used taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to make jet engine parts and body armor"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/22/covid-fun...
If you wanted it to stay at 31% then it was a mistake to post on HN.
Prop 8 banned gay marriage but not gay domestic partnerships. It's a highly technical issue more nuanced than you are saying, despite the unnuanced views of many of its supporters.
Passive DNS companies (like farsight) are probably in a position to answer that.

There might also be an answer in public material from Paul Vixie or Geoff Huston if you are inclined to find out.
> Chernobyl did narrowly miss a much worse outcome: poisoning the water table in a thousand mile radius with corium

Poisoning water does not make extinction event.

It would render some area unsuitable for living, big economic loss, so don’t operate knowingly flawed reactors, and don’t let Soviets operate nuclear reactors, and it will be fine.

> the inherent danger cannot be denied

As well as dangers of flying, taking a shower, operating a hydro power plant and everything else.

Even accounting for these dangers, nuclear is the safest option.
> I have a problem with characterizing [a person] as a bigot for donating to a non-fringe political group.

Your word choice is your business. But why would a bigot become not-a-bigot because there were more of them?

Morality is not a popularity contest.
Firefox OS kind of make sense, yet could they implemented ecosystem?

* There are Firefox browser users shocked by spyware addons, it is a norm on mobile. There are no paid Firefox addons. This does not work in "pay or product" reality. Open source and freeware is a small (and awesome) niche.

* There is a Mozilla stance against DRM. There is a lot of paid books, movies, music on Google Play.

* DOM is slow. Javascript has good parts. Google decided in favor of Android apps, not Chrome apps. Also Google Fuchsia.

* Bluetooth, Contacts, NFC, SMS, Wifi [1] access can be asked from OS.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/B2G_OS/API

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Firefox was not default Windows browser, yet it succeeded. The reason I've never tried Firefox on Android is the loss of Firefox reputation on desktop. Memory bloat, falling behind Developer Tools, constant UI changes, not so snappy UI. Firefox was slow on desktop how could one expect it to perform well on mobile?
> if you know the modulation and the frequency the receiver uses

Number stations on short waves all use AM, so you know the modulation. But you don't need to know it, superhet works the same way with any modulation. You need to know the number station frequency, receiver's intermediate frequency, and guess whether its above or below.

> in such a way that there is absolutely no power radiated out of the reception antenna.

I'm not saying there is absolutely no power radiated out of the reception antenna, only that there is not enough power to reliably detect and localize, given the noise and interference from other sources.

If you want absolutely no power radiated out of the reception antenna, you can still do it. Feed some local oscillator frequency, inverted, into the antenna to cancel the remaining leak. But as far as I know, nobody bothers since some leakage is not a problem.

> Any kind of magnetic or capacitive coupler is bi-directional.

True, but in many designs there's also at least one transistor stage in the preamp, and that is not bi-di. There is some stray capacitance between collector and base, but not much.

> Maybe with today's hardware capabilities it would be possible to pull the whole thing into the digital domain at a very early stage

It is possible, but unnecessary. The last radio I built has quadrature sampling detector with FST3253 and handful of op-amps. Most SDRs also do I/Q sampling with two slow ADCs, much simpler than a single high-speed ADC.
You don't spend $60 to fix a faucet, you spend $100K to redo the bathroom.
I don't use eBay but AntennaPod crashes occasionally on stock Android. I wonder are these definitely /e/ issues?
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Actually, that wouldn't work.

Most IT systems associate your acceptance with a particular document tracked in a database. It's really a tracker of "User pushed button in this time period." You making alterations would never manifest or be accommodated in the system; what you'd have to do is mail their legal department with a statement of interest with revisions which they'd have to adapt, which would have to filter back through Sales for adjustments in pricing.

Make no mistake, IT has enabled the most abusive form of contract entering known to Man. Frankly, I'd say it completely undermines the practice of entering into a contract, but as long as people let it skate due to the understanding they took could one day do the same thing; this is what we have.

The court friendly approach would be legislating a law that invalidates certain clauses, but leaves the low barrier to entry mechanism in place I'm fairly certain. Though I still have qualms on the whole astroglide lubricated nature of that medium of contract acceptance.
No computer, no internet growing up, but then again, I was born in '74. If I were to guess, probably grew up in the bottom 30% or so. Never had a "new" car growing up, always rented (though my parents did finally 'buy' when I was around 25 or so). Didn't put down on a house of my own until about 2 years ago (43yo at the time).

That said, I've had a tendency to spoil myself since I started making good money over a decade ago (top ~10% or so). I'm not rich, I don't have generational wealth, and I have a modest amount of debt. My daughter just turned 18yo, and is graduating HS in the spring. I'm doing what I can to help her make the best decisions for what she wants to do.

In the end, I kind of lucked out. I got into programming around the right time... managed to recover from a very hard year when the .com bubble burst in early 00's. Despite my parents being together my entire life, I haven't managed to do the same. I'm twice divorced, and currently engaged, and hesitant.

I've effectively had to start from roughly nothing three times in my life. I was kicked out as a young adult. After the .com bust, I had only what could fit in the back of my pickup, repo'd 3 months after 9/11. And after my second divorce, I didn't have much to speak of.

All told, I've been relatively fortunate, and determined through my life to keep pushing forward. I've managed to push through my personality disorder (similar to add/adhd). I've fought with pretty severe depression several times. I push through regular anxiety. Though I tend to push full burn until I burn out (getting close now).

I'm not so much complaining as stating that not everyone doing relatively well started off that well, or had the advantages that many will assume. And even then, you can walk out of a situation with pretty much nothing and still climb back out again. Right now, my heart goes out to everyone who is losing everything they have, watching it all fall apart. A lot of the top 10-50% will wind up in the bottom 50% when it's all said and done.

I will say that of the people from other cultures that I've worked with in my life, those from India tend to have more interesting interactions based on the caste they grew up in. The variance is far broader than most Americans, Russians or Chinese I've worked with. Though most of the Chinese I've worked with are also from a wealthy background typically. Russians who have come up pre vs post communism vary a lot though, mostly from their experience. But those are just my observations.

Okay, going to stop rambling now.
Could you upload an archive for the others since the site went down? With the note about usage preferrably.
However, I would be interested in server-side Swift if anyone has good use cases or resources.
Women care about money and education but it's not as if they're all the same. Some care a lot about humour, confidence, hell even artistic abilities. Yes some broke musician can appear very sexy to some women even if he isn't a great provider.
Some even care a lot about looks just like men. Women vary quite a lot by who they consider mating potential.
"Well, the client knows his business best, but sure as hell they do not know how to make software best."

My "clients" are all internal. As I work with more departments, I realize how little they know how they operate. They understand well what their mission is. But the processes and exceptions are largely in the minds of one or two people.

My team modernizes legacy integrations between core systems. The departments had a lot of retirements. The retirees took the knowledge with them and left sparse documentation. As I go, I'm trying to develop business requirements documents for them. But it slows down projects.

So, I'd say you're right that clients know what they do but not always how they're doing it. I have a feeling that it's not just my organization experiencing this issue.
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> Maybe marketing is at the core of all of this malignment.

Just a thought: You got these big "movie budget" games. They need to make that budget back, so they use (a large part of the budget for) marketing, in order to sell way more games. This then consumes a very large part of the market. Problem now is that a large chunk of the money made in the majority of the market is spent on marketing. And this chunk of money is locked in with the industry giants, the indies and smaller devs can never get to it. Marketing ate part of the gaming industry.
In the context of this thread, being in the middle means he neither accepts everything blindly nor argues every single point, but questions refutes topics where he's knowledgeable or curious about while letting the conversation flow freely. It produces the greatest insight into how the guests think and what they really believe.

Rogan has expressed many strong opinions and has changed those opinions over the years. He's definitely not a nihilist and very clearly leans left on most issues with a few conservative points regarding individualistic rights and personal freedom. He also hosts many interesting people from many disciplines that I've learned a lot from.

It seems like you've never actually listened to any episodes and your comment represents the ignorant and shallow views that people accuse the JRE show of having.
> One of the big problems with the "politically incorrect" or "radical free speech" crowd is that your words can hurt people's feeling. And your tone can hurt people's feelings.

Stating objective, empirical observations about the world can also hurt people's feelings.
Do you live in the US? It's absolutely happening. The acts of open warfare, with actual politically motivated killings, are surging.

Saying it's not bad because it only happens to people to assert their Constitutional right to free speech is, besides not true... Orwellian.
Like clipart or yesteryear?
I'm pretty sure he was using "men" in the generic since, similar to "humans". That said, looking at stats like suicide rate reveals that a literal reading may be more correct.
Looks like it went down, after posting it here
I'm working for a big international project and our most important website is running fucking SSL 3.0

I reported it one year ago, and it hasn't been fixed yet. Many people are having problems connecting now, because browsers are removing support.

The server is hosted in Germany, which really amuses me given their reputation for good engineering...
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Just learned HN now lets you click on links in the original post now, I think before you had to highlight the URL. Also the site seems to be getting back a 520, but after a refresh it works. I'm guessing it's getting more traffic than usual today. :)
I see you're much more caustic towards the administration that hasn't been in power for almost 4 years than the actual president who has been in office for almost 4 years.
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Should have added that if a person is sufficiently in denial about negative externalities and risks, black swan events, etc it would be possible to achieve the feeling of accomplished that list, even without having in fact accomplished it... Just as good?
I am not a NY person. Yet I do this. One of my parents is from Buffalo though. I had no idea others did it! I thought I had a weird 'rude' quirk that I had to stomp down. I had to distinctly learn how to wait for the pause and how to interject at the 'just the right moment'. Instead of just getting it over with and blurting it out. I know there are all sorts of accents and customs. But today I learned about this one. Cadence is important too. I took several of those online 'where are you from' verbal tests over the years. Those can be kind of fun, I usually get 3 very different places. One somewhere I have never been and the other 2 are where I grew up and where I currently live. I talked a few dudes in another country to take the test. It thought they were from the New England area.
Can't disagree with that unfortunately
This is definitely an area with a fairly large gap between the reactions that men and women get. One thing that’s useful to keep in mind though is that men who talk like this probably do also receive negative feedback. Negative feedback is not the end of the story, and in my experience one of the most useful skills a person can develop is to acknowledge negative feedback and then consciously decide how and whether to integrate it into behavior change.

Some behaviors can be both correct and make people uncomfortable. Of course this mechanic is also “gendered” in the sense that women would probably be less inclined to dismiss said feedback due to a lifetime of being raised as people pleasers (obviously not all women/cultures/etc), but this may be a place where it makes sense to undo some of that training and say, “if what I say is correct and useful, their discomfort with my speaking up is a problem for them to deal with.”
I've seen small business owners struggle with getting to grips with full featured email tools such as mailchimp, campaign monitor etc and wanted to create an easier alternative.

It's my belief that there's a fair amount of complexity in these tools that can overwhelm those that just want to get started with some basic email marketing or those that want to get a message out quickly.

I love reducing friction and I wanted to explore the idea of using the inbox as the primary UI. No signups, subscriptions, templating tools or tracking etc. Just a tool you're already intimately familiar with.

I realise this approach has a few downsides and I have a few ideas on how to address those but it feels like what's built now is just about enough to run with as an MVP.

I'd be very grateful for any feedback, good or bad.
Danes are the proud people who inhabit the Kingdom of Denmark.
I guess, it depends on your definition of 'very small town'. My closest city center is 100k, and there definitely are names associated with 'those'. They tend to be names associated with lower-income folks who have run-ins with the law.

For example - we recently hired an entry level position, and one of the search committee members tried to veto a candidate because of her last name. This name is one that comes from the wrong side of the tracks, and is quite a poor family. Nothing about this young lady indicated anything but an ability to do the job well, but the committee member just "didn't trust an [last name here]".

That was a fun conversation.

It's absolutely prevalent in smaller towns. Where I grew up the population was 40k, with smaller towns (<1000) around. If you didn't have a good name there, you absolutely were left out. This is actually why I moved away - my family is poor, like dirt floor, outhouse poor. I tried to climb some ladders in the area, and kept getting stopped when I tried to go past bottom level manager.

As soon as I moved, I was fast-tracked up the organization. I have to imagine it's based on my name around my home town.
Wrong according to who? It maybe wrong according to you but not according to the america who believed African Americans were inferior to whites. Its very subjective.

≥Human rights don't depend on how many people support them.

If there is no support, how can the right be exist ?
So is household book count even a valid metric any more, since quite a lot of the world has more information at their fingertips than ever before?
Oh sweet summer child...

Hugged to death already.
BTW this book is also chock a block full of other great advice on how to move very fast without breaking things.* it’s a slim book about classified work so very high level, but that’s what makes some of the examples more applicable than if it has just been about how to design a plane quickly.

* of course most of the work, being warplanes and a ship, was intended to break things :-/.
Took me a minute as well. He means Danes as in “Denmark”.
But the current guy is THE CURRENT GUY. 2009 Barack Obama isn't the president in September 2020.
At this point the greatest hurdle to action on climate change is Republican obstruction backed by the apathy of the conservative base. I regularly see conservatives on /r/conservative use the lack of burn control and a rise in arson cases as talking points to dismiss these wildfires entirely. If an article like this is going to present a strong argument for climate action that can win over conservatives it will need to be scientifically precise and grapple specifically with conservative talking points.

This NYT article did not even come close to meeting that bar, it confidently attributed complex multi factor phenomenon entirely to climate change without creating the groundwork of data & evidence needed to authoritatively establish those claims. When actors, politicians, and NYT journalists make dramatic claims and fail to meet that bar, then the intent backfires and only serves to entrench the common conservative belief that climate change is a product of liberal fear mongering.

For an absolute masterclass on how to properly communicate about the science of climate change, and how to slowly win over moderate conservatives, I know of no better source than Potholer54. We can only hope that one day New York Times journalists will regularly exercise the scientific and journalistic diligence of this retired youtuber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0x46-enxsA - The cause of Australia’s bushfires – what the science says

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D99qI42KGB0 - A conservative solution to global warming (Part 1)