skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't capitalism, this is an outlet with connections to a the current regime trying to come up with ways to protect that regime, while intermediaries with deep connections to the previous regime try to blunt the effectiveness of that outlet to aid in restoring that previous regime. Nobody cares about the clicks on this article, and no one is taking a moral stance.

Capitalism is trash, but this is traditional kleptocracy. Both sides are conservative; one is literally running to "restore normality."
A typical teenager’s stroll: Carrying a baby and dodging mammoths
Definitely going to rewatch The Lives of Others after browsing all those Stasi bugs. Also I just learned the star of that film, Ulrich Mühe, practically lived the life of the film’s protagonist:

> After German reunification, Mühe allegedly discovered evidence in his Stasi file that he had been under surveillance not only by four of his fellow actors in the East Berlin theatre, but also by his wife

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_M%C3%BChe
California is not like the rest of the US, though. I’ve never lost power except during extreme weather events (hurricanes, intense tree-felling storms, etc).

You’re right about the internet, though. It’s a monopolized system here, and the anticompetitive nature of it means it sucks across the entire country.
In what way? In Harlow, government took a hands off approach on zoning and oversight and let the free market figure out housing for the country's poorest.

It all seems very similar to me. I'm sure at the start they also thought they were turning defunct office space into desirable apartments too.
> people drive honey bee colonies around to crops in order to pollinate them

This whole idea is very batshit insane too.
My blog is solar-powered.

Unfortunately, since late September, solar can't keep up. (Not a surprise given my suboptimal conditions.)

A bicycle as a generator would probably allow me to have a bit of exercise and easily provide enough power to get my blog through the day.

1: https://louwrentius.com/this-blog-is-now-running-on-solar-po...
2: https://louwrentius.com/solar/solar.png
Before Google was so aggressive about paying everyone to set themselves as the default search engine, Bing used to pay to be the only search option on a number of mobile devices and disable the ability to change that default (presumably because everyone would just switch back to Google). So for a while, a lot of Android devices sold by mobile networks in places like Europe forced searches to Bing with no way to change that.

If the Justice Department contines with this attempt to stop Google paying to be the default, I can easily see this ending in a situation where their non-search competitors are worse off financially and consumers have substantially less choice than they do now.
Am I wrong in thinking that youtube-dl is clearly just a VCR in code form. Society decided VCRs were legal so this should be fine.
Yes, that's what being allies is. We do stuff for them they do stuff for us. I don't think that's immoral. Cooperation allows us to accomplish incredible things. Cooperation is built on relationships and trust.
I am always impressed when people make these kinds of absolute statements about the primacy of private property rights.

Now, let's consider:

* Alice should be able to choose without restriction to whom she is going to rent

* Bob should be able to choose without restriction who's allowed to play golf at his club

* Carlos should be able to choose without restriction to whom his bank is going to lend money

etc.

I am not saying I agree with those statements. I am saying when you say "Twitter is a private company. They can choose without restriction who's allowed to use their platform," you are not saying anything substantively different than those statements.

In a universe where the ability to put your speech in front of other people depends on being able to post it online in a place where they might be able to see, there are trade-offs involved that seem to be conveniently shoved aside when it is about news you do not like.

I prefer the cacophonous chaos of everyone being able to tell me about stuff they deem important. One step further, I prefer to live a society that can learn to live with that without falling apart.
You want to 'develop' on a mobile device? Interested to hear how you would envision this being a pleasant experience.

It's also a trade off between installing what software you want and security - the App store means you don't have to worry about (certain kinds) of maliciousness from software you install.

I just think it's a little bit of a spicy take saying mobile devices "don't deliver" when they are most successful form of computing in history by a large margin. I would argue this is for a reason and they provide enormous value.
I know this is kind of a joke but when I'm doing system admin related things it is basically my OS GUI. Instead of using any of my regular shells like cmd/PS/WSL/Cygwin I use vscode remote to a local Linux VM and do everything using the shell and editor within my VM home directory.
You're 100% right. Depression! I should have said depression!

Maybe. They could still infiltrate Special Forces teams (I'm sure they have boat teams trained for this very thing), hit Taipei with DF-17s, mine the outside boundaries of the strait, parachute guys in and take the harbors.

My point is more that the US isn't in a position to do anything right now, than that China is going to take Taiwan.
When you dismiss any reasoning as "userhostile" and "FUD" it will be difficult to understand any change.

For the life of me I can't understand why so many people are always convinced that people who develop replacements for decades old frameworks do it only to spite users.

But the answer is: X sucks. It's 36 year old software with dozens of extensions. No one wants to write software that uses X, and apparently, per this HN submission, no one wants to maintain X.
I'm not talking about political opinions, I'm talking about highly connected political operatives in positions of power within these companies.

Liz Bourgeois would be an example of such a person.

She was Assistant Press Secretary at the DNC and prior to that was a Legislative Correspondant for Nancy Pelosi and Debbi Wasserman Shultz.

Now she works as "Director, Strategic Response Communications" at Facebook.
Yeah...my brother lives in Nashville, and they handily voted down a public transit bill recently that would have extended bus services.
Boom it blows up!
I don't know if this statement is serious. How does a cartoon fox make me think differently about the numbers?
Its not some big mystery. Its a passively cooled chip, designed for burst performance, with OSes concerned with saving power.

That said, they're not so hard to dev on. You can unlocked bootloader Androids fairly easily.
They never provided evidence for this. By their own standards they should censor their own actions.

Also, why didn't they do this with the Pee Pee tape that the media wrote long thinkpieces about for YEARS? Trending on twitter, too, of course. There was never evidence of that either, yet they had no problems with it.

Are they changing their standard now based on the fact that the media lied so much in the past? and if so, why are the main perpetrators not being targeted?
why are you redirecting stderr? does `man ffmpeg` produce error output on your system?

anyway, on my system (macOS, ffmpeg 4.3.1 from Homebrew) the situation is even more dire:

$ man ffmpeg-all | wc -l
38738
> What can't you do with VSCode these days?

Run it on a machine with less than 8GB of RAM.
F. Incomplete. Missing plans for sustainable food and water supply, shelter, energy, sanitation, healthcare, etc. Unless the plan is just to make it as cheap as possible to dump Earth resources into the Martian colony, but that would be more like Mars colonizing Earth rather than the other way around. In that case the Mars plan would get less than an F.
> Google handles 92% of global search traffic

The justice department doesn't care who handles search traffic in Cambodia, Canada, or Taiwan. They are only interested in US based search traffic where iOS has 50%+ market share.
Health agency halts coronavirus ad campaign, leaving Santa Claus in the cold
Wow! I have tried to figure out how to grep buffers many times over the last 30 years. Now I know, thanks! And it's going right into Anki :)
TIL. Awesome. I still remain an arm-chair skeptic, but it's my guess is the reasons it's practical for storage (i.e. you need greater charge to make the tunnel, but the charge is durably stored because it can't tunnel out) don't make it practical for increasing transmission rate vs a direct connection.

Edit: Just to fix a confusion, by 'reliable' I meant, one electron sent, one received. I know one 'bit' isn't typically sent as one electron, but being reductive for comparison's sake. Obviously with enough current you can make the tunnel happen, but you'd need far more electrons and 'time' to do so.
It is my understanding that the Arcan system enables such usage:

https://arcan-fe.com/about/

https://github.com/letoram/arcan

https://github.com/letoram/arcan/wiki/Features
Power cut to more than 100k in Northern California amid extreme fire danger
But an Iranian ISP's customers will probably use that ISP's DNS servers, and that DNS resolver does query Route 53 from Iran.
SML is standardized which is useful if you want to build an implementation for academic purpose. I don't think anyone seriously uses it outside academia however.
Your experience matches mine. And UEFI is more capable if you're interested in a multiboot setup, preserving a recovery partition, and such-like. I've yet to see a UEFI machine where you couldn't shut off secure boot in its firmware/settings menu.

So I was a bit confused when I read the OP.
I live in a neighborhood near/within the vicinity of Northridge, and this area I would describe as surburbs, while technically being within LA. It's nothing like downtown LA or other major cities. Not really sure, but it's not a place where they could ever enforce something like that. It doesn't seem like it would be a very productive use of police time.
She was contacted by them based on an article she wrote, she didn't contact them.
A majority of tech workers in California are from somewhere else, who came to California for the opportunity. They know what it's like back home. And yes, especially the 30-somethings with kids, they're leaving
It is an X11 replacement. Just like CDs were a replacement for vynil records, and MP3 files were a replacement for CDs. But nobody expects to play records in a CD player.
Only for about 45m :/ these kids whooping my butt in races can do 100w more and not break a sweat haha
Hub, keyboard, mouse, monitor. There's no festooning.
After disliking it for 6-7 years, because it doesn't offer the amount of abstraction that others languages offer (Scala, Haskell, Java), Go has grown on me.

I got too caught up in designing elaborate abstractions in those languages. I couldn't avoid it either, since other libraries would also use elaborate abstractions.

With Go, I just write plain dull code, against a suite of good dull libraries. Ultimately I spend less time writing programs (typically internet services) in Go than other languages.
What if there is an accident and the nuclear reactor blows to pieces in the atmosphere? Will we have radio-active rain?
This x1000

I actually built a bicycle generator (an AC motor with a belt around the rear wheel) and would sell organic smoothies at music festivals. The fun part was the buyer had to pedal the bike to generate the electricty to power the blender to make the smoothie.

Even with only a 150w blender, fit adults had to work HARD to get the smoothie.. well.. smooth.

Kids basically couldn't do it, or not well enough.

And that was about 20-30 seconds of pedalling.
Journalists and commentators are the ones acting out of political expediency. The platforms themselves are a mixed bag, occasionaly banning content that represents legitimate disinformation, but often suppressing information that's contextually true, or conflicts with an existing broader social narrative which the moderator required to inspect the content has bought into. The human moderators are often inconsistent.

The concept that any person or organization should be granted absolute authority to serve as the arbiter of whay constitutes dangerous or false speech, and the power to arbitrarily silence those who utter it offends me, and I consider it to be dangerous in and of itself. We'll not be able to agree on this.

WRT the NYP piece, probably foreign sourced is about right. Even before the media picked up its Russia Trumpet, I remember reading a rumor towards the beginning of the Trump-Ukraine phone call debacle that a Chinese billionaire had slipped Juliani a hard drive containing information that might be incriminating to Biden's some. Irrespective of the source, the computer shop narrative reeks.

But in spite of information's questionable provenance, it has been accompanied with compromising images of Hunter himself, and beyond stating that a meeting with Burisma execs wasn't on Biden's 'official' schedule, the biden campaign has yet (to my knowledge), to expressly deny the validity of the documents.

If this is disinformation, the FBI, which has ostensibly been in possession of the documents for several months, has every incentive to comment on it, as does the CIA. Beyond ambiguous citations of 'anonymous officials', I've yet to read that they've communicated anything to this effect. The Director of National Intelligence has gone so far as to claim that this wasn't a Russian disinformation project. But he's a Trump apparatchik with no history in intelligence outside his appointment, so I generally ignore him.

Probably foreign sourced? My gut says yes.

Possibly disinformation? The juries still out. Possibly's a pretty low bar for stealing someone's voice.

The tech companies took it upon themselves to censor this information. They've not claimed they were compelled or reccommended to by any official bodies any more than they were required to censor the name of the Urkaine whistleblower. But they chose to, of their own accord.

If you want to be treated like a platform, you have to live with the fact that your platform's going to be used to further the aims of anyone who wannts to use it. Bar illegal content and behaviors (things disinformation is not), the most you should do is notify your users, sit back, and take it.
Who you gonna call? Bee-Busters!
There's 2 factors, medium and platform.

PC is better for long text. Phones are better for photo / media. Both have pros and cons.

There's also the platform. A lot of phone content ends up siloed into auto-suggesting apps, where click-bait (touch-bait?) tends to just overrun people.

People can now sit for hours just swiping on auto-suggested content. The same can be true for text (see clickbait) but you'd tend to access that through a web browser, where you're just a tab away from something actually useful.
Microsoft recommends 1+ GB of free RAM, which seems reasonable based on the few times I've checked RAM usage out of curiosity.
If it's remotely technical looking for for an Awesome-whatever page on github is always a good start. From there, I usually look for relevant subreddits and see if they have active wikis. Generally you just need to find an 'in' to where the community in question is most active (or was before it died) and links will snowball until you've covered most of what's available. Either way there's often a lot of 'I am now on page 104 of 321' on a github search, itch.io list, etc. so there's still a large amount of manual labor.

There's also a bit that comes just from having varied experiences and thinking about how things are related, for example, the aforementioned ORCA has an entry [1] on Esolangs.org, so knowing that I can also add the term esolang to my keywords for searches and mix-and-match relevant keywords until I've covered most things.

Of course, the best resource is someone that's already passionate about whatever you're looking for. I run a chat on Telegram mostly about Modular Music [2] (VCV Rack, Eurorack, etc) but we talk about tools like ORCA, Pure Data, FoxDot, SonicPi, etc. and that's led to finding a lot of links too.

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Orca
[2] https://t.me/vcvrackchat
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The one comment in this thread making an utterly factual statement is downvoted.
>> In 2020, people aren't downloading and running native applications on desktops, not even (especially?) on Linux.

No, we download and run them in our web browsers because the operating systems (and X11) failed to implement security models that fit the modern world. Wayland is a move in the right direction here.
That doesn't follow.

If I (an individual) start a web host (a company) and the KKK (an organization) wants to pay me money, why shouldn't I have the right to say no?

I'd prefer we had 'freedom from coercion to provide services for bad causes' rather than 'freedom to make anyone provide services to you'.
Which is fine until Zuckerberg buys the other websites you might use too, or Pichai stops listing the ones you do use in the search results on the search engine that 92% of your readers use.
> Drivel. No sensible person believes blocking QAnon nonsense is a "scandal.

The fact that you conflate QAnon with this story indicates an extremely myopic and unrefined understanding of the world. This story was first published by the NY Post, not by someone on 8chan. These are completely unconnected things in terms of which communities are the source of this story.
I guess. It’s pretty obvious who the Post answers to.

Companies ultimately have shareholders and customers they are accountable to. Even fairly awful companies like Facebook have to meet some minimal standard of conduct to keep advertisers on the platform.
Orchard bees are domesticated and used as pollinators. They're solitary bees, which I'm guessing prevents usage for mass pollination of crops.

That being said there are lots of animals that can't be domesticated. Zebras are the classic example, being very similar to domesticated horses but are much more aggressive and unpredictable.
This git repo is quite out of date. The best place to look for updates is the smlnj website: https://www.smlnj.org/
One of the problems with using nuclear reactors in spacecraft is that it's difficult to get rid of excess heat in a vacuum. How do nuclear thermal rockets deal with that? Presumably a lot of the heat is transferred to the propellant, but is that energy transfer efficient enough that there isn't an excessive amount of leftover heat?
I worked with Matt. He's awesome. Can't say enough.
I thought the same thing then I saw an accountant work one of those like Mozart and understood.
Here are just a couple examples:

1. We can quantitatively study environmental factors that influence intelligence. For example, we know that even low concentrations of lead in the blood are linked to lower IQ. Knowing what can hurt our mental abilities allows us to protect ourselves via environmental policy.

2. It's not uncommon that a child who is inattentive at school is high IQ and is understimulated by going at the normal classroom pace. Testing allows identification and targeted enrichment opportunities.
One of my favorite rants on the practicality of Haskell vs ML.

https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/of-course-m...
It's really bothersome that these kind of numbers can be reported without context.

There are 63 GBq of Carbon-14 in the tanks, total. For context, this is 0.3 grams total. Cosmic rays make this much C-14 every 40 minutes, and have for millions (billions?) of years.

Some more context: https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-10-25-greenpeace-mistake...
OCaml would probably the easiest transition if you want native binary support, F# even has an OCaml compatibility mode.
Oh relax. They're not going to implode the buildings and nobody is going too die. Rents will fall, some bond holders will default, but at some cost point that real estate has value to someone. Rents are not going to zero.
OK, X sucks in a way (although your argumentation for that is wrong), but replacing X with Wayland is like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. (Also, I don't think Wayland fits in any hole nicely, with it being hostile to even such basic and universally expected features such as taking a screenshot.)

I don't understand where you are going with your first paragraph, except that you are assuming things about others that you should not. Similarly with the second paragraph.
You still want to have a fairly high thrust/weight ratio to take advantage of the Oberth Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect

This is where the effective Isp of an engine is enhanced if the burn is conducted deep in a gravity well. This effect makes chemical rockets perform better than you might otherwise think, when compared to low thrust high Isp engines.
This is getting blurry as well, and though you are technically correct, one might have to sue or suffer damages for not following their rules:

My children’s schools requires the use of Microsoft Teams From home (and associated TOS) for them to attend class. There is also a parent WhatsApp group for urgent messages to parents. And as of the pandemic, there is also mandatory Zoom classes.

This is a public school. If I sue I could possibly avoid these - I am not even sure of that. But either way, I and my children will suffer if I don’t comply.

Microsoft. Facebook. Zoom. Coerced de facto to follow their rules; they might cancel my accounts if I don’t behave accordingly - Facebook and Google have certainly done so before.
Also: Concrete and methane from livestock.
I think it takes some real humility to post this. No doubt someone will follow up with an “of course...” or “if you don’t understand the tech you use...” comment.

But thank you for this. It takes a bit of courage to point out you’ve been doing something grotesquely inefficient for years and years.
And everyone arrives at mars, two weeks later, a fine soup of person bits inside their space suit.
Not likely.

This engine is meant to be used purely outside of the atmosphere, as a means for a ship to transit space efficiently. It's for traveling between planets.

There's some risk during takeoff, as we put it into orbit, but that risk can be handled- make it that the radioactive bits are protected even during an explosive launch failure.

Nuclear reactor have been safely put into space many times before.
The Cobalt-60 Accident of Ciudad Juarez (2019)
Just to discuss "taboos" a bit more:

Hypothetically, if you were having coffee with a close female friend who had recently been badly beaten by her husband, and you were trying to describe a tank top, would you say "wife beater" or would you choose a different phrase? If different, why?

Also, what makes you think US West Coast cities have a monopoly on residents confronting outsiders with differing views? I'm guessing that people talking about how much they love abortion or BLM at the local coffee shop in Castleberry, Alabama or Ponderay, Idaho or Elko, South Carolina would also have "good odds" they'll "hear about it."
You can minimize noise with oversized radiator area and low fan rpm along with good flow/noise ratio fans like noctuas notoriously good 120mm design. You can compensate in one area for another, i.e. by having such a gigantic radiator that fans are hardly needed. Quiet setups cost extra, for sure.

I heard a story about a DIY PC that did nothing but circulate water through the cpu cooler from a fish tank; the tank was big enough to dissipate heat through evaporation and other means, only occasionally needing a top off.

I actually mounted an automotive transmission cooler to the outside of my PC and made it part of the watercooling loop, because it was inexpensive and large. There are no fans on it, but it still reduces the work the standard pc cooling radiator with the fans on it needs to do.