skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It won't work, we will simply just have a collection of disparate, narrowly focused and financially limited sources, from which anyone can draw to reinforce whatever view of the world they already have. You need an instution with the resources to look deep and wide and enough of a reputation that people will listen when it reports something they do not like.
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Well, if we could only use our capabilities to reduce CO2 Emissionen... And in case a personal low tech solution is needed - planting a tree is a good start.
Agree completely. If you ask my customers why they keep sending work to me they will say "He answers his phone calls and emails." Woody Allen said "Eighty percent of success is showing up" and in the freelancing business "showing up" means taking calls and responding to emails from your clients. It means addressing their actual problems, and helping them solve any problem they tell you about. Sometimes that means I will refer my clients to someone in my network (and that referral skips any interviewing/proposal process, because that's how it works).
The cognitive dissonance in this thread is melting my brain.
Not to mention, you need an infra team to manage all this complexity - much larger team than maintaining a few vertically scaled servers.

A salary of 3 infra engineers per year $300k, cost to company probably $450k.

For $450k a year, you can get about 500 servers, each one with 128 GB RAM and 32 vCPUs.

Has anyone done this type of a ROI?
Olivier Blanchard on the new lockdowns in Europe
Greenwald has never operated in a way that concerns itself with the consequences of actions. The philosophy is "we report, freely, what we believe to be true and fair, and whats comes of it does not matter".

I am personally torn on this kind of philosophy. Would that everyone was like this, but since they are not, surely there are times when too much is on the line to behave this way?

He explicitly talks about this attitude in this interview:
https://www.vox.com/2016/9/15/12853236/glenn-greenwald-trump...

But it is a bit weird that here we are again, on the cusp of another trump presidency, and Greenwald swoops in to Trump's aid, again. Not sure how I feel about it.
>In other words, even by the turn of the century, the software was still moving to 32-bit

However, there were 64-bit Sparc, Mips and Alpha systems
This is false. The people making the claims are refusing to turn over the hard drive or original emails to the journalists who are trying to verify the story.[1]

I can also claim that I have a hard drive with incriminating information on it. Nobody should run a news story on it unless they too can see the evidence for themselves. This is journalism 101.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/rudy-giuliani-giv...
Tucker Carlson just announced on Twitter that he has lost critical documents relating to the alleged wrongdoings of Hunter Biden.

This was moments before Glenn Greenwald's resignation.
Surely CO2 sequestration using olivine would be vastly more practical than some mad scientist space engineering project.
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Will this lower the cost of manufacturing custom chips? Like fully manufactured PCB with components from JLCPCB is just a few bucks. Will the ASIC manufacturing process ever fall to that level?
If someone using adnauseam accidentally clicks an ad (for real), can the ad network count the real click while ignoring the fake ones, or does it poison that users full dataset?

What percentage of adnauseam use do you think is filtered? Is it a full 100%?
I didn't think the story was about Hunter Biden smoking crack and having sex with girls. That doesn't seem like it qualifies as a story to me that needs to be on national news because who cares? I also do think there is like an 80% chance they hacked his iCloud account though.

I think that there is no source for this information, which is required for hard journalism. Like who is standing by this information and saying it is genuine? I think it bears all the hallmarks of Russian intelligence, and they even did this exact same thing in France.

The entire "story" here is unclear. How is Joe Biden involved? Can you even prove these business deals are real? You can't even verify the contents of these emails are real. Journalists aren't even being allowed to verify the hard drive.

The tax returns did have a real source that the journalists themselves verified. That isn't possible here because the story of the laptop is wildly unbelievable.

https://www.newsweek.com/wsj-newsroom-found-no-joe-biden-rol...

The media isn't ignoring this, but it is incredibly sketchy.
> The only ones I can really think of are drugs with long-term unexpected side effects or a response to an equally massive cause like the Carrington Event coronal mass ejection which blew out the electrical grid in 1859.

I'd count the mass ejection as a natural disaster rather than the failure of a system, but the harm is just the same of course.

Related to your medicine example: bad dietary advice could be similar to this. We're straying some ways from technological systems here, of course.
What do you mean this story hasn't been vetted? One of the major players in the story has gone on record, giving an approximately 45 minute long interview verifying the claims.

The FBI and DNI have also both confirmed the validity of the laptop. How much more "verified" than that would you need?
Sure, that's one of a hundred ways to deploy it.
But they don't say if they're using that approach or any other
After the past few years, I do not share that assessment of Greenwald in the least. Following him on Twitter for a while caused the scales to fall from my eyes. I think he's done some good things in the past, but currently he seems off his rocker, honesty. People can change as they age, and I think he clearly has.
Most of those adopting it on the "Democrat" side of the aisle, I wouldn't call on the Left.
I'm just going by Greenwald's past work where he has repeatedly stated things that are easily verified to be false.
Kudos to the infra team at the Python Software Foundation. Great people doing necessary work.
I actually think this is a fair question, because I feel like there are 2 issues that get conflated:

1. First, you are correct, the Earth was much hotter in the past, and I haven't seen anything convincing that global warming will lead to a fundamental "runaway greenhouse" effect a la Venus that makes life as we know it on Earth unsustainable.

2. That said, a huge climate change in a relatively short amount of time could easily lead the the deaths of billions of people, with a B. One third of the human population lives within 60 miles of the coast. Rising temperatures will lead to huge portions of the planet that are currently densely populated that will no longer support humans. The resulting migrations, "resource wars", and overall increase in extreme weather events (more hurricanes, more droughts, more floods) will lead to death and misery to a huge portion of humanity.
My God, I had completely forgotten about this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENnAa7rqtBM
> it basically allows the peddlers of these unverifiable stories to dictate the news.

The allegation itself is news, but it's important to label it as such when reporting it. The next step is to investigate it.

If Trump says there are extraterrestrials living in Area 51 that's news regardless if you can verify it.
Although I can't point to a specific application that's currently using TimescaleDB for an event sourcing service (I assume you're talking about the design pattern), it would be a great use case. Change in state over time is perfect time-series scenario.

As for SQLAlchemy, TimescaleDB is fully PostgreSQL compliant, so it will work out of the box. There will be a few nuances that need to be considered, particularly when writing queries that use some of our additional time-series functions like time_bucket.

But day-to-day ORM CRUD patterns should work as you expect!
Uhhh back then, people didn't travel around the world for fun and buisness in masses and within a few hours...
It’s amazing how things that happen in the animal kingdom are sometimes analogous to what happens to humans. Some female spiders devour male spiders after mating with them, similarly, I have often seen male humans sucked dry and left as soulless husks after being taken for a ride by manipulative females.

The asymmetry of the human dating world often leaves good men vulnerable to females simply looking for an efficient provider of resources, and when there’s nothing satisfying left to be extracted, they are cast aside for a new male richer in resources. The female is constantly looking to reach her global maxima, while males get trapped into local maximas where they often spend the rest of their life and die.
First off, food is different than technology. There are safety issues that are regulated differently. Can you think of any instances in the prepared food space that support your argument?

Second, I think the impersonation is the biggest issue. At a minimum, that sounds like trademark infringement; at maximum, that sounds fradulent.

IANAL and am just a dog on the internet, so grains of salt the size of Jupiter. But I don't think the comparison to non-prepared food industries are at all relevant.
> his character is beyond the pale

I don't think this means what you think it means. You just insulted his character, not praised it.
There can't be an economic incentive, only political ones.

Much like pilgrims who founded Massachusetts, founders of space habitats will be groups of people who don't enjoy living on Earth badly enough (due to persecution, or because of desire of some grand reforms) to fund a move elsewhere.

I bet the first Martian colony will quickly be recognized as a place not controllable by any Earth government, and that will be a huge selling point for tickets to Mars.
You could:

* use the blockchain to distribute a magnet link for the latest revision, and

* use the torrent protocol to download the latest revision
I like the idea of a vacancy tax that is proportional to the value of the property so that any year-over-year gains in equity are eaten up by such tax. I think turning a vacant property into a liability instead of an asset would do a lot to keep housing accessible.
Yes, when two people disagree, one side commonly thinks the other side's argument is nonsense. But, as you admit you don't know the truth of the story, it is impossible to tell whose side is right. Maybe the editors do just think it is garbage journalism. Or maybe the editors are just protecting "their guy".
And, to the degree that they're actually doing investigative journalism, it's really hard to see how the finances work out. I guess there's patronage of various sorts but that tends not to work very well and certainly isn't very scalable.
Ok, I think I understand. Each node is just Postgres with TimescaleDB, and acts as a separate Postgres server with it's own replication (if any) - at least at present.

So your "fact" regular tables are created on the server you configure as the access node and then you can join with distributed hypertables in your queries.

If one wanted the same fact tables on multiple access nodes you could either use postgres partitioning or duplicate them somehow yourself.

I like the flexibility here in cluster configuration. It's good to have options when scaling a system.
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Every first world economy on Earth is already below replacement rate right now, we're not going to see some out of control population disaster scenario.

The more likely situation is that we need to A. get over our racism and xenophobia to use the population bombs going off in less developed countries to replace our populations that don't want to replace themselves and B. eventually start seeing human replacement as a societal cost that will need to be afforded in some way once the entire world is sufficiently developed to go below the natural replacement rate. At which point we get to set population targets and hold our numbers stable.

A is something that we should have been doing for 30 years now. B is going to be of concern next century after the population plateaus.
The Epilog to his book Causality is a reasonably short read and does a good job of introducing the concepts imo. It's basically the same content he used in his Turing award speech and similar presentations over the last decade or so: http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/causality2-epilogue.pdf
On the one hand, this is shocking because Glenn co-founded the Intercept as a response to the rampant partisan censorship happening at other media outlets.

On the other hand, I had been reading The Intercept regularly since at least 2016 and there was a very noticeable lack of "independent" journalism as the years went by. At some point this year I stopped visiting their website because the worthwhile articles were few and far between, buried in a mountain of partisan rubbish.

If founding your own company isn't enough to avoid censorship, then what is? Is there any hope left for truly independent journalism in this country?
If only the software industry, or the world at large, cared about titles we give ourselves. "Software architect" means nothing to most people. Either you can solve problems and add value, or you can't. It doesn't matter what you call yourself. I have used the title "Programmer" for most of my career. No one cares.
I've never heard of this idea, but it's certainly interesting. Are there any reputable papers taking a look at feasibility?
This right here is a masterclass on how you can still technically be saying "facts", but by cherry picking and bending words make it seem very different from what it actually was. This kind of deception honestly makes everything this person says worthless to me.
Vs someone with the history of journalistic integrity and clout as Greenwald, there's no doubt in my mind whom I'd trust more on their opinion (btw: it's not the New York editorial elite).
We did YC remotely this year. The flexibility from being remote was a real plus. Less time spent on SF related admin, that can be utilised to connect with more founders. Obviously you lose out by less meaningful connections that are made face to face.

One cool aspect was to talk to companies building out the remote tools of tomorrow and see what the future could en up looking like.

The value from YC still applies in a remote environment. YC demo day remotely is actually probably even better for founders and just as effective.
Someone with half a brain cell actually responds ^
A two-degree average increase in temperatures would significantly reduce crop yields in the world's breadbaskets.

If we didn't need to eat, we wouldn't be worried very much about global warming. I do need to eat, though, and I'd rather avoid having to eat global warming deniers when things get rough.

The earth was warmer in the past, but it also didn't support planet-scale agriculture of hyper-specialized, high-yield grains that are expected to feed 8+ billion people.
Yep. Just like the entire team of conference organizers decided that there was a code of conduct violation. No doubt about it. He's guilty. I don't need to evaluate any evidence to know that. It's obvious.
> More actionably: interact with other people the way you'd want to be approached if the roles were reversed.

I believe the introvert's response here is "I wouldn't want to be approached if they're just looking for work"
Second Zaid Jilani.
I agree with you that complexity is a thing and not quite a simple hurdle but once the gears start turning I believe we have enough smart people among humanity as a whole to figure something out.

I also think you take the idea of poverty way too seriously. People adapt to their environment remarkably quickly and the idea of poverty and wealth with it.
Either that, or there are specific sourcing rules for journalists based on the credibility of the sources.

Giuliani has burned his credibility, and the entire laptop story is on its face unbelievable.

These other stories like Yellow Cake came from legit sources that were credible at the time.

You are comparing apples and oranges.

https://www.newsweek.com/wsj-newsroom-found-no-joe-biden-rol...
Certainly the subarctic was populated well-before 10kya[0], but I was under the impression that the true arctic saw long-term inhabitants before the Paleo-Inuit[1], with the Paleo-Arctic tradition around 10-7kya[2]. But looking now, its not clear to me if they were far enough north to count.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/project/Late-Pleistocene-Archae...

[1] Who arrived in the Arctic circle around 4-5kya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Eskimo)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Arctic_Tradition
>In 40 generations of space colonization, that's 40 times 30,000 times however long it takes to rebuild the capability on each colony.

Assuming each generation survives. Stop making that assumption, and see how many ways there are for you to reach a similarly empty universe.

>It's not optimism; its simple observation of what we have already on Earth in existing life forms.

I wish you'd observe that none of Earth's lifeforms have colonies on other planets. Goldfish didn't colonize other worlds, is that then a strong argument that Goldfish don't exist?

What you're saying makes no sense: just because animals can colonize a single planet over many generations does not mean they will be able to colonize an entire galaxy in even less time.
>everyone from the sales person to the accountant to the factory floor supervisor is on the take. They skim and over time accumulate some serious money.

How exactly does this part work?
It's amusing to see people on the left arguing against open debate. Don't they realize this is what leads to fascism? You can oppose at the front door, but it can easily sneak in the backdoor.
I'm not familiar with this conspiracy theory, can you explain how they're connected?
Wow, DevEdge. Now that takes me back. I hadn't thought about DevEdge in ages.
It’s free money for the schools.
You also can't say for sure whether it's true or not if it's not censored. At best you can judge plausibility, but plausibility isn't truth.

Most evidence can be faked. The chain of custody for evidence is important, and that's not a property of the evidence, but of its history.

There's no substitute for trust in the person or organization reporting the news.
and you call the number listed on hotels.com? In this case you are calling hotels.com and not the hotel itself.
No, because affiliates are participating in an affiliate program with the consent of the business.
Laughing because yesterday I got Photoshop proofs for some minor web site changes that failed (as usual) to take the responsive nature of web sites into account. I'm baffled why 25 years into the web designers still think the web is a kind of print medium. Not all of them -- the designers who "get" the web are the ones I refer my customers to.
It's not nonsense, because you're missing that if you criticize someone who you are allowed to criticize, there is no risk to yourself. It's going against the herd and criticizing someone like Joe Biden that will get you thrown out of the club.

So, if it's a high-profile investigative piece on a senior trump admin official, everyone will applaud you. But as soon as you start investigating the Biden family or, on the other hand, write something positive about Trump & Co, then you'll quickly find yourself out of the club.
I think it only looks complex because of halo effect/lack of clarity... you want to call it a civil right because it feels like a good thing. I am not saying it's not a good thing, but I am saying it's not a civil right. Like, it's good if everyone had affordable health care, but it's not a civil right.

There are also tons of issues that are not civil rights that have lots of backlash/noise around them (like healthcare).

In fact, in this case enforcement of any kind (outside of the private contract-based context like the office) would be quite obviously anti-civil-rights, which is a bummer with civil rights - sometimes, they inconvenience other people. Remember that being right and being wrong feels the same way. There are tons of people who would be very offended at you for all kinds of bogus reasons, like that you don't go to church, or are friendly with gay people, or whatever.

So yeah, if ACLU is about civil rights, it should focus on those. If it's going to pontificate that it's good to use certain pronouns, of for everyone to go to church, or whatever, then I'll take my money somewhere else :)
While CRTs are the gold standard for establishing causality, that doesn't mean all is lost in observational data alone. Causal inference is a rich field, with a lot of work in recent decades. There's so much more to causal inference than the old dismissive chesnut about correlation.
One could simply ask the people in the email if they are real. "Impossible to verify" is just lazy excuse-making.

This is basic journalism.
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So what exactly was this "Biden story" that he wanted to publish?
The journalists are not on that boat with the POTUS, so they are more than happy to rock it.
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> No one needs 2,000 more lines of Javascript.

What about Gmail? Facebook?
Ring and SimpliSafe are two other options that offer similar services and hardware.
> Journalists have essentially become socialites. They don't want to publish articles that will rock the boat, because the people they are friends with are the ones that own that boat, invite them to parties, and are a part of their friend groups.

To the extent this is arguably true of etablishment journalist, the mirror image seems to be true of anti-establishment journalists. Instead of being unreasonably resistant to publishing stories that rock the boat, they are unreasonable eager to do so, taking sources that validate this pre-established bias uncritically, opening themselves up for manipulation and as agents of propaganda, because the people they are friends with, and that invite them to parties are more interested in capsizing the boat than the truth.
please, stop with the insults. This is unseemly.
I live in MA (Boston suburb) and have for a decade. I don't have all the answers but a few things to note on this topic..

1. The lockdown was probably not actually harsh enough.

I got a waiver from it, as did almost everyone I worked with, to continue coming into work. The paper said we were "critical to national infrastructure" but we work in long-term research which could easily be pushed back by weeks without anyone knowing or caring.

I don't know how typical this was or how many people were excluded.

2. You could always travel to and from other states pretty freely via car.

The only serious attempt I ever saw against this was at the New York Connecticut border they were checking for certain license plates (Florida maybe? they didn't care about my MA plates) one time. Even then, you could apparently get off the highway and avoid this because a friend of mine did.

3. Mask rules were/are looser in NH where everyone goes on weekends if traffic is any indication.

4. In recent months I saw a lot of people mushed together dining outside in the Italian district. We can debate how much this matters since it's outdoors but I don't think they were doing that in Australia. Separation looks more serious based on articles I've seen:

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-unveil...

I don't have a lot of hard stats to put in here, but it wasn't Australia in MA and degree of enforcement certainly makes a difference if you're going to have rules.
I think Glen Greenwald was one of the more respected journalists but isn't any longer. I think he either has crossed over or will soon cross over into Seymour Hersh territory (sadly). Mr. Hersh was an amazing investigative journalist that made a huge difference in how we can keep gov't accountable but has ended up (largely) a discredited hack, which is a shame.