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>A countersuit agaist RIAA may help make this cartel, or others, think twice about repeating such attempts, as well as establish precedent agaist future such attemps.

A countersuit... for what? If this is pursued in civil court, they'll be up against an army of lawyers and any judgement would be minimal (I doubt youtube-dl maintainers can claim millions in damages). You'll set a precedent, although its usefulness in future cases is questionable due to the reasons listed. The only hope is for this to be pursued in criminal court, resulting in heavy fines and/or the lawyers being disbarred. However, I doubt this will happen given how cozy the RIAA is with the establishment.
> I think the discussion is focusing on levels of the US government and what has been experienced by the public under that government since its founding

Get back to me when twitter can order an airstrike against an minor and enjoy qualified immunity.
By what delusion do you think we can tailor a disease that well? That's some serious hubris right there.
Yeah -- individual orchard bees are significantly more efficient, but an individual honeybee hive crams in tens of thousands of bees; you make it up on scale.

Honeybees also work well with mono-cropping because you can easily pick up and move the entire hive from massive field to massive field just in time for pollination. If you are relying on a wild bee population they'll do better when they have lots of plants in bloom across a wide spectrum of time so they have a chance to build up their population before the major blooms eg the orchard you want pollinated. Otherwise you run the risk of only have a small bee population that can't fully take advantage of (and pollinate) the suddenly massive resource glut of several square miles of orchards suddenly in bloom at once.
The whole point of “freedom of speech” is that there should be no value judgment that determines whether or not something is acceptable to say.
No, if if the content is true and in the public interest, there is really no question about the legality of publishing it in the US: it is 100% constitutionally protected.

Twitter’s initial justification for removing the “hacked” material is completely at odds with their past decisions to leave up hacked/illegally obtained materials like the Snowden docs, Trump tax returns, Panama papers, etc. Of course they have since changed their stance.
I'm certainly not going to cry about this. I'm all for a diaspora out of Silicon Valley/Bay Area for money and expertise. It's time.
IIRC some ion thrusters experience grid erosion over very long runs - stuff can wear out even without moving parts.
TWR is only important when you have to climb up the gravity well. Once you're up in orbit, high ISP is king to get you anywhere. Other comments already highlighted that NTRs are a middle ground between superefficient, ultra-high ISP electric drives, and very high TWR chemical rockets. So that's where this sits: high enough TWR to be practical, but way better ISP than chemical (though still far from electrical).
Property taxes work well in Texas. Everybody who owns property pays property taxes including the elderly. I don’t ever hear of the elderly disproportionately losing their houses here. There is no state income tax though.

Property taxes are one of the greatest equalizers. Poor people don’t own property and thus do not pay that tax. Wealthy people pay far more in taxes to live in a giant mansion than they do for the mansion itself. That $15-60k per month in property taxes really adds up over time.
You need more solar panels. Panels are a numbers game.
It's still fundamentally government that made that choice to force you into one service.
Hi there. I hope this is kosher, but I just added my contact info to my profile ;)
I own Photoshop CS3 on Windows and would love to keep using it too!
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Adding more of them doesn’t meaningfully change the very low thrust to weight ratio, which is what makes it hard to get to closer places quickly.
By rotating the craft to point opposite the direction of travel and actuating the engine again.
One person’s chaos is another’s vitality. Every human on earth, by living the natural world, has chosen chaos/vitality at some level. We also “moderate” that entropy in lots of convenient and comforting ways.

Cybernature is a new experience. As a species, we are working out what level of moderation we would like.

Explorers tends to be rough-and-ready sorts, and so veer towards the vitality side of things. They know how to make the chaos work for them. For good and/or evil. Since there isn’t the downside of “instadeath” of the physical world, more risk-taking, and thus more chaos, may be justified.

Settlers tend to like fences, highways, channel markings, flight corridors...structure. There are usually eventually more settlers in any area, so their view prevails in the long run.

(You can be an explorer in one area and a settler in another...it’s not some permanent psychological feature. You can demand political content freedom from de facto pseudocarrier monopolies while being happy with a locked-down OS for self-driving cars.)

In computing, the barrier to entry for exploration is so low and it is so new (in the long view) that the percentage of settlers is pretty low, hence the cultural bias toward freedom (including content) rather than control in these forums.

[Personally, I trust the American people to curate their own content. I expect the educational system to educate the citizenry to be skilled enough in critical thinking to be able to curate the content presented.

But I expect the marketplace of ideas to police itself against systematic biases and inaccuracies, either with effective editing of its own content and/or in actively and effectively supporting a “loyal opposition” to its views.

Twitter seems to be doing neither, because it’s much closer to being a de facto common carrier monopoly than a media channel. Common carrier monopolies had been accepted and successful for a hundred years in the US, but only with heavy Federal regulation. The hip, cool alternative: break them up.

Great truths from Gen X, the generation to which you can’t easily mass-market.]
> They're not suppressing the article because it's wrong, but because it's pretty obviously intentionally planted misinformation disguised as news.

This would be a more credible assertion if the media hasn’t spent 3 years reporting totally random shit as “bombshells.”

Taibbi, himself a left-leaning journalist (formerly at Rolling Stone) has catalogued these at length on his substack. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-bombshell-memory-hole-d20

In the cold light of the morning after, even WaPo has criticized the coverage over stories sources from the Steele Dossier: https://www.mercurynews.com/hanson-the-dangers-of-elite-grou...

> The Washington Post recently published a surprising indictment of MSNBC host, Stanford graduate and Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow.

> Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote that Maddow deliberately misled her audience by claiming the now-discredited Steele dossier was largely verifiable — even at a time when there was plenty of evidence that it was mostly bogus.

> At the very time Maddow was reassuring viewers that Christopher Steele was believable, populist talk radio and the much-criticized Fox News Channel were insisting that most of Steele’s allegations simply could not be true. Maddow was wrong. Her less degreed critics proved to be right.

People should be a lot madder about how they were lied to and manipulated about Russiagate. If the media takes this sort of “ends justify the means” approach to Trump, they will eventually do it with something you care about.
More specifically, that graphic is reserved for use inside high-level radioactive sources, in locations that should normally never be seen. As such, most people who encounter it "in the wild" will never have seen it before, even on other surfaces of the equipment they're working with.
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I recently read a blog post by someone who worked as a carpenter for a summer. He said he disliked the saying “measure twice, cut once” because actual carpenters avoid measuring as much as possible! For example, to make a staircase, you could try using simple trig to calculate the lengths of the board, angle of stair cut outs, step widths, etc. But that would all be wasted effort because you can’t actually measure and cut wood to sufficient precision. Instead, you need to just get rough measurements and then use various “cheats” so the measurements don’t matter, like using a jig to cut the parallel boards at exactly the same length (whatever it turns out to be).

Analogy to monads is this: yes, there are mathematical formalisms that can describe complex systems. Everything can be described by math! That’s literally its one job. But will the formalisms actually help you when the job you’re doing has insufficient achievable precision (eg finding market fit for a website)?
I wonder how this will work out in practice. Funny thing old pre-Internet protocols migh even work out of the box in this case. Interplanetary email & newsgroups! :-)
Perhaps, but Microsoft "loves" open-source now, remember?
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That is a sad state but does not really surprise me. The social stigma is still very big and visible in most areas of society.

Avoidance, ignorance and fear play a big role too, I guess. There needs to be more education regarding the topic.
Yeah, well, let's hope some time next week the case gets escalated within Microsoft to the RIAA contact person who can make the phone call "My man, the fuck?", with much more eloquent words of course.
Have you tried profiling the extension host?
I'm German. Can confirm. It sucks.
To me, this seems like similar thinking that we should just go for herd immunity - possibly even more ill contrived.
Does git do delta encoding during clones? I know it doesn’t use deltas for most things.
Even if they were in the Netherlands ... the Netherlands is a member of NATO, so very likely the vast majority of those sanctions would stand.
uhm. is there any device that converts that low power (say 60W) into something higher? or would it be more dangerous?
You mean any individual athletes? Not that I can think of off the type of my head, but by "classes" earlier I was referring mostly to strength-based athletes or any sort of sport where there are weight classes/a need to be lean. So wrestling, weightlifting/powerlifting/etc., probably most fighting disciplines, bodybuilding.
It should be illegal to pay these ransoms. It only encourages more data raids.

When it does happen, the victims should be compensated for the losses they suffer, but they should also be told that, in the end, it's just data, and how they react to other people becoming privy to it is something they can exert control over. They need to be told that they can choose to be resilient, and that this is a survivable event.
By fabricating a story to be released exactly on October 15 where there's not enough time to verify if it is true or not.

We are here on Hacker News, are you certain that a legally blind person in Delaware. would be the guy to fly to all the way from California to repair water damaged laptop? If you don't know how such repair looks like, I recommend you to search Luis Rosmann on YouTube (actually cool to watch anyway).

I initially thought that the repair maybe involved reinstalling windows or removing viruses (which you could get assistance from text to speech tooling), but it was a water damage.

Edit: https://youtu.be/DoiByFIPgK8?t=468
Some tools (like linters) might need to look at the actual changes that occurred for various reasons, such as to avoid doing redundant work on unmodified files. To do that, you need all the merge bases... which can present a kind of a chicken-and-egg problem because, to figure this out with git, you need the commits to be there locally to begin with. I'm sure you can find a way around it if you put enough effort into scripting against the remote git server, but you might need to deal with git internals in the process, and it's kind of a pain compared to just cloning the whole repo.
The damages are going to be very small (basically just costs in responding to the notice), but section 512 f of the dmca does provide a route to sue

Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section—

(1) that material or activity is infringing, or

(2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification,

shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner’s authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.
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It would give every victim plausible deniability, as long as at least one of the fakes isn't too embarrassing.
The ASARCO copper smelter put so much arsenic, lead, and cadmium in the air around there that this radiation accident hardly even matters in a public health context.
And why should it. According to the WSJ news side, Joe Biden had nothing to do with anything in that story.

If there was an actual story here, the DOJ and FBI are more than capable of launching an investigation. The NYTimes, WaPo, LaTimes, WSJ, would all have no issues reporting on this either through investigation or a leak from those former orgs.

And maybe in the past, this would have mattered, but don't be surprised when after 4 years of norm breaking and corruption, people don't care about this except those with a specific ideology.
Bought a desktop computer last week for the first time since 2005. Installed Ubuntu. Still SSH’ing into it mostly from MacBook, but it’s such a boon to productivity to have an always-on machine right here. And yeah the modularity of a desktop form factor is really amazing compared to Apple product line
I would love real estate markets to crash in SF and NYC. My body is fucking ready.
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Useful in theory, not in practice.

Choosing a model for analytic tractability is a strange quirk of theoretical economists.

There's plenty of excellent software to do the maths for you, so why not choose a model that matches reality more closely?
I suspect this is moving around the issue at hand here because it's likely the murder hornets will target orchard bees as well. They just aren't conveniently located in giant boxes by the hundreds.
> are we this forgiving of Equifax when they oopsie our data?

The kind of culture you're in favor for, blaming engineer for mistakes and punishing them, is exactly what makes the kinda of Equifax mistake possible. Suddenly, people stop to improve things and just do the minimum possible so they can keep their job, since anything else can cause a mistake that will cost your next performance cycle (or even worse, your job).
Well yes — in the same way that you could have had a half-baked implementation of X on a remote desktop; but
it’s unlikely because most GUI-based interfaces will bundle with some level of support. For example, I don’t expect
Canonical’s Wayland compositor to not support screenshots; so while I don’t think your worry is unfounded, I do think
it’s disproportionate.
The Hong Kong protestors destroyed multiple subway stations.

Should all of them be denied access to public transport?
Looks like a fun project.

How far do you expect it to go tonite if it doesn't get stuck?
What sort of control hardware are you using? Is it autonomous or are you using some sort of GSM, Arduino, Motor Driver combo?
I would join the live stream but I'm in PST time zone so thats 3AM here :(

Good luck though!!
It felt kind of like a machine translation.
Yes and no.

I accelerated my relocation based on COVID.

I have been planning my move from the second largest city in my country to a small hobby farm. After spending COVID locked in a tiny apartment, I pulled the plug and started the move.

I should be relocated in the next 3-6 months (assuming another wave doesn't hit).

In my case, I work remotely and only have to worry about a stable internet connection.
Whenever people say this I ask about After Effects. I have yet to find a FOSS or cheaper substitute. Many people have suggestions for Premiere Pro replacements, but not After Effects.
I think it's that the cycling movement is just more efficient for sustained efforts, possibly because it uses less muscles. For sustained efforts, I don't think being able to use more muscles is an advantage, since you're going to be limited by your cardiovascular system. If you created a bike that you could also generate power with your arms, i woudln't expect to be able to put out more power because muscles are the limiter.
The muscle fiber distribution might be in favor of only using your legs as well (eg. fast vs slow twitch)

I'm not much of a rower, but after your pull, pulling your body forward for the next row is all wasted effort as far as producing mechanical work. Cycling doesn't really have any wasted phase like this.

Here's a bunch of rowers comparing their cycling/rowing watts:
https://www.c2forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=186612

What I'm not sure is if you were to measure total energy expenditure at the human (as opposed to the spinning wheel), then cycling/rowing might be closer.
As in the US trust's them to fund terrorists in way that advantages us? Then yes, we agree on the state of the world. I just think it's bad.
Can someone explain the intended meaning behind calling six different repositories "monorepos"?

It sounds to me like you don't have a monorepo at all and instead have six repositories for six project areas.
Interestingly, that could backfire. I've run into several people who point out that if they lacked context on it, it could be mistaken an angel smithing something else someone is running from, possibly leading some uninformed faithful person to see it as some sort of weapon for self defense.

I was rather amazed by the creative thinking required, but it did ram home the difficulty of getting an unequivocal, in ambiguous message across.
I did concede in my original comment that a fascist government could make them illegal. I think it's far more likely than them just not being economical to make any more and disappearing from the market.

If we continue to give power to right wing extremists, all bets are off.
Go is carefully designed to be adequate for the large majority of problems that don't need much, meant for use by the large majority of programmers who don't know or need much, whose attention is elsewhere. It is hard to get too deep into the weeds by accident. It builds fast, so programmers who code by successive approximation, making more or less random changes until something works can get there quickly. It runs pretty fast, so programs usually don't need much optimization attention.

It competes in the same niche as Java, but lacks Java's complications that, more often than not, are purely obstacles.

Before Go, before Java, there was Visual Basic. Visual Basic coders didn't go anywhere. Go acknowledges and welcomes them.
Avoid Ocaml's syntax soup. I'd also avoid making it easy to bolt on a bunch of syntactic extensions ala camlp4

Keep your standard library standard.

Module Typeclasses

One, immutable string type. Make it UTF-32 by default (you can always store in a smaller format behind the scenes and extend). Make it multiline. Allow variable interpolation (typeclasses should help).

SML structural typing and anonymous records are better than nominal typing.

Skip on syntax bloat like named parameters.

Overload your math operators instead of having special float operators like Ocaml (once again, typeclasses make this much easier).

Rethink imports. F# requires you to add tons of files in the correct order to an XML. Ocaml imports all the things from the folder and blows up if you use the same module name twice. SML needs to standardize `use`. I'd recommend something like JS static import statements.

If you build good documentation, good compiler errors and good tooling, more people coming to the project and help make a better compiler (a reversal of this is the big issue with SML right now in my opinion).
When I read about them moving to states like Texas in numbers, all I can think is that they will inevitably try to take these same policies with them when they find out wherever they moved too isn't quite liberal enough
Ethereum is only used for PKI, and it will eventually be replaced by a different system. Urbit is really not a blockchain-y project.
If I go back to desktop I would need a swivel monitor. Moving from a desk chair to a couch has made my life radically better
If circumvention falls outside of the safe harbor provisions (which seems to be the plain text of the law), that just means that the ISP liability, if any, begins immediately on hosting it, and their liability for hosting it isn't negated by taking it down in accordance with the safe harbor process. OTOH, while the mental state required for a 1201 violation is not explicit, the most reasonable reading is that it requires knowledge of the circumventing purpose, which would mean liability would not attach to an hands-off distributor of material supplied by a third party until they had notice, which, is essentially equivalent to the safe harbor for infringement. So, from a liability perspective, it's at least plausible that there isn't a big difference here between circumvention and safe harbor provision.

And, on top of the circumvention, this article tries to argue against infringement that the RIAA allegations, beyond circumvention, only involve “incidental copying", but any copying not either licensed or protected as fair use (which even the article here does not claim applies) is infringement. So, the article makes the infringement case while attempting to deny it. The infringement may only be contributory rather than direct on the part of youtube-dl’s creators, as well as anyone knowingly distributing it, but contributory infringement is still infringement, and so governed by the infringement safe harbor directly.
Radiation exposure measurement is complicated. [0] has a decent description.

This story[1] about another cobalt-60 incident in Mexico (!) says: "With cobalt-60, a single-curie source will give you a dose of a little more than 1 rem in an hour if kept at arm's length". [0] says that "Eventual death for 50% if exposure is above 450 rem; others recover in about six months" and that 600 rem will kill almost 100% of people.

So yes, if you drive for 8-12 hours with a bunch of cobalt-60 in your truck it is going to be pretty harmful.

[0] http://www.3rd1000.com/chem101/chem105e.htm

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a9840/mexica...
> the code is developed 100% in mainland China.

Did the Keybase team move to China?
I prefer Web apps.

- I can access from any device.

- I don’t need to spend time downloading, installing, or updating.

- I don’t need to trust a new binary. The browser is already a sandbox, with a better security model than most apps.

- I can block ads (Twitter or YouTube being a good example).

I would use a non-web app only if there’s no alternative, which is the case for end-to-end encryption (messaging), games, etc.
Interestingly this was a problem before COVID where you were only working if you 'showed up at the office'.

Now, companies are forced to track output more than face-to-face time.

I think it's better over all. Trust me in getting the job done and I'll do just that - no need for all the other noise.
Oberth effect is for long term missions where you have time to swing by other planets or moons just to get some free velocity. This is fantastic, but costs huge amount of mission time.

The nuclear engine is about getting so much delta v that you can cut the crap and power directly to your destination.