skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terraforming planets in a meaningful way anytime soon is a pipe dream, but someone in 200 years very much could get in their space car and go to a different space habitat. O'Neill cylinders have already been mentioned here.

There's no scientific reason we are aware of that would make living in artificial habitats worse than living on a planet, and a lot of reasons that it would be better. It's just that those of us talking now live on a planet, and find the idea of continuing to live on a planet comforting.

Someone born on an O'Neill cylinder or similar will likely have no such compunctions.
Interview: Amiga Artist Jim Sachs (2020)
Where is this?

I find this hard to relate to in SV. I can't imagine a director ever getting paid 50% (or 1/3 - whatever the math is) less than a staff software engineer at the same company. Sounds more like you were going from a "director" level position at startup to staff at FAANG...
"evidence" presented by Tucker Carlosn on Fox. you've already lost me there.
This is one of the reasons why I think it was a mistake for the web browsers to de-emphasize EV certificates.

Precisely because they are expensive and difficult to get automatically, they can be a an extra protection against phishing.

I fear that because of these kind of URL issues, and with the deemphasis of EV certificates which would have provided a somewhat decentralized solution, we will end up in a world where the author of the browser becomes the ultimate authority on what is a trustworthy URL. That means for most of the users, Google will be the arbiter of what is and is not a trust worthy URL.
No it's not, at all, it's a response to the accusations of a double standard based on political party.
The current Wiki is already hosted on AWS.
Frederic Tudor built a $200M business from ice and sawdust
You are wasting your time. People have arrived at the conclusion and are just trying to reverse engineer a "rational" reason for the conclusion. I mean it shouldn't be that hard to convince ppl what in Biden's long career and the millions resulting from it aren't tied up in some corrupt or at the very least shady activity.
I'm saying that there has been an influx of migrants from countries that are dominated by Islam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Syria (the faith the most recent beheading attacks were attributed to).

What each country is doing differently to manage and accommodate refugees I can't say, but it stands to reason that a large influx of people from a wildly different culture will create problems like the attacks we've been seeing.

For at least two of the attacks (2015 with Charlie Hebdo and the teacher a few weeks back), they involved a slight against the Islam faith. This most recent one appears to be related to religious differences given the context.

Edit:

Apparently today's attack was performed by a Tunisian refugee where Islam is the state religion:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/29/nice-church-at...

Other references:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/02/majority-of-pari...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8189351/Three-Sudan...
When humans finally make settlements on Mars and venture into space, decentralized web will be resurrected, as anything else would be utterly unusable with the interplanetary latencies.
https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/rosatom-invest-7bn-arctic-s... ... "By 2023 the company forecasts revenues of $700 million, reaching $5.6 billion in 2026."
Reddit Admins are Removing Links to Bitchute – Can't be overridden by moderators
Sounds good. I may be able to chip in some thoughts.
"having trouble getting a job? cast a smaller net"

sage advice folks you heard it here first
The world and the US are hardly focusing on space travel. It’s a fraction of government budgets and resources. Militaries have a far larger focus, as do various economic activities.
It's dangerous, for some, it seems, for naked apes to leave the trees. Yes! Fire was the first step in the wrong direction... Why don't these self professed 'saviors of planet Earth' strip themselves of all technological advancement and return to the true and original and sinless first habitat of homo 'sapiens sapiens' - but leave those of us who dream of the stars alone.
Basically, you can toggle visibility on your pop up menus or modals with standard CSS/HTML. The visibility class/attribute can be controlled declaratively or imperatively without much JS. You can even use CSS transitions to add nice smooth animation to your menu/overlay.

#UseThePlatform
In retrospect: you could do the same on a mailing list with lower latency and higher energy efficiency.
No kidding. If I weren't too burnt out at the end of the day, I'd really like to explore the true limits of modern computers. Especially since I stopped playing video games, and I no longer do any real number crunching, I feel like every computer I use (for work or home) is greatly underperforming relative to its potential.
Note I said every. It is very unlikely that you could manage it. But if their success rate for a particular store. dropped to zero I suspect they would notice sooner or later.

I also never said that it is a good way to accomplish this. I'm just pointing out that refusing the driver can be a way to get them to leave.
It's hard to find but if you click pricing, it pops up a modal with a FAQ:

> How will you stay in business?

"We are working on functionality for teams that provides visibility and predictability in product development. Features may include automation around sprints and multi-team workflows. This will be part of our premium plan, and is where the AI comes into play."
Here's our current pricing: https://cohere.so/pricing
The FBI also concurred with the DNI’s claim that the IC has no intelligence to suggest the laptop is Russian disinformation, by saying “we have nothing to add.” Additionally, a senate committee has determined and announced that they believe the evidence Bobulinski presented is authentic.
Sure, it's like storing data in an undocumented proprietary format.

I think I've contributed one ‘significant’ fact on Reddit and one on HN.
Is self-hosted on the roadmap?
I'm pretty confident they're going to handle PRs via the github interface. I don't think they'd get many contributions if you had to email patches in.
"The media is ignoring Joe Biden stories and nitpicking Trump stories."

"What about George W. Bush?"

Yes, it's whataboutism. Answer the question about Joe Biden vs Trump.
An old trope, perhaps associated with Eric Hoffer, is that unrest stems not from absolute poverty, but disappointment relative to hopes. It can be people who are relatively better off, but let down, who threaten the more established elites.
Why should I trust that my own private blog would outlast commercial platforms?
I lack the experience or acumen to give educated input on the topic at hand. But I am an advocate for any practices that are simple and resistant to Big Colorful Corporations and their like.

The problem that I see with society in general is that many of us have a strange attachment to these services (GMail, Facebook, Github, Youtube, Evernote, whatever) to the extent of outright dependency and diminished wherewithal to try something different, even if it may be to our advantage in the long run.

I sympathize with people, such as Mr. DeVault to an extent, who are determined to invite people to alternatives that are not entirely foreign. In the case of his well documented campaign to re-emphasize mailing lists with git, it appears to be a return to its original format. It is also worth mentioning his efforts in educating people how to use this traditional method.

If a person has no intention of ever publishing something that threatens the status quos and bylaws of Big Colorful Corporations and and their pals within governments and elsewhere, then what difference does it make?

Be it on a git server, a website, or a major publication, whatever it may be, as society begins to slither towards regression and oppression on various fronts, the most skilled people, will be those of the most sound moral character and belief who have the acumen to navigate a world that is actively plotting against them.

These sort of efforts are not necessarily irrelevant to a greater cause, when put in the proper perspective.
It is not the web's fault, and let's not throw out the baby out with the bathwater. There are Web forums out there which are archivable, backupable, and distributable. And many pages can be saved locally. There is also Internet Archive, archive.today, and much other infrastructure to address distribution, backup, and all-around resilience.

All the big platforms suffer from not giving you much choice to export your own writing once you've sent it. I think it is as much for reasons of attempted lock-in as it is due to incompetence and scaling pains.

Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and other platforms will all present a challenge when you try to "find that thing I wrote two weeks ago".

The only solution I can see is to build services which allow content export in usable format and to continuously audit these backups yourself.

I think it is a solution which only seems difficult at first, but is possible already with tooling available today, and can be made accessible to a non-programmer with some effort.

For my own project, I consciously chose .txt as the base format for both text and metadata, and have tried to make even the metadata as readable as possible.

I regularly do a clone test of my blog and message board, meaning I download the data export, unpack it on another (disconnected) instance, and ensure all content has made it across. (Thanks to using PKI for accounts, full continuity and sync can be achieved across multiple instances.)

I think the key to maintaining a trustworthy community is keeping the size small, to where all the activity can be monitored and reviewed by a human. Once you're facing a firehose, you're at the mercy of all the forces out there.
At least Reddit is usually up so you can read its content. (The site hosting this post is currently down.)
Well, the universe is likely infinite, so no, there's really no such thing as overpopulation on a universal scale.

But talking about humans populating the universe is also meaningless, since the speed of light and expansion of the universe means we can't reach anything but a tiny fraction of it, and by the time we have the technology to travel quickly enough to even begin contemplating intergalactic journeys only a fraction of a fraction will be within reach.
> As Mueller himself concluded, a reasonable debate can be conducted on whether Trump tried to obstruct his investigation with corrupt intent. But even on the case of obstruction, the central point looms large over all of it: there was no underlying crime established for Trump to cover-up.

> All criminal investigations require a determination of a person’s intent, what they are thinking and what their goal is. When the question is whether a President sought to kill an Executive Branch investigation – as Trump clearly wanted to do here – the determinative issue is whether he did so because he genuinely believed the investigation to be an unfair persecution and scam, or whether he did it to corruptly conceal evidence of criminality.

> That Mueller could not and did not establish any underlying crimes strongly suggests that Trump acted with the former rather than the latter motive, making it virtually impossible to find that he criminally obstructed the investigation.

If you were innocent of a crime would you really just sit back and watch the government waste $35 million investigating you?
You have to think the quite heavy burden of proof lies on the side that claims the world is ending in 2030.
i guess it's getting a lot of load, it took a very long time for me to load up, like run a terraform init, plan and apply long ...
> the media's unintentionally turned it into one if the biggest controversies of the year

Maybe in the Republican bubble. Outside of it, no one really cares and sees it as a weird and poorly executed complot
Things to check before buying a book on Python machine learning
> Excellent point about the tax cuts that increased disposable income for most Americans...

Please point me in the direction of that disposable income, because it’s not even significant enough to purchase an extra candy bar.
> I keep dreaming of someday seeing a resurrected Usenet, but I know it will never be anything but a dream.

Maybe not. You're definitely not the only one who wants something like that.
Comey's letter wasn't a lie. The timing was bad but it accurately represented what the FBI was doing at the time.
The issue with solving this problem is the incentives are mostly "how can we get Google/Apple/Microsoft/Facebook users to not get phished" since they are the strongest voices in the room when this kind of thing happens, but then half the time we get solutions like "what if we pre-registered a list of 'popular' companies and flagged everything else" which of course hurts everyone that doesn't make the list. And the other half of the time you get "what if we kept a 'bad list' of websites people should't go to" and you have the constant issue of scammers staying one step ahead of these things and/or benign websites being flagged. There still doesn't seem to be a good way to have people associate their identity with a domain on the web.
I don't, but I suspect that they aren't asking for advice on how to find work.
That's what I do. I come up with the solution, I deserve the credit. Fair, right?
Well it isn’t really calculus as there’s no differentiation (I guess you could consider the last step where you take a limit to be calculus), but it’s a bit like differential equations. You can write down the recurrence relation:

a_(n+2) = a_(n+1) + a_n

Observe that there is a linear solution space (I.e. if you add solutions point wise or multiply each value by the same scalar, you get solutions), and the values a_0 and a_1 are sufficient to determine the sequence. Now guess that a_n = k^n is a solution:

k^2 = k + 1
(k - 1/2)^2 = 5/4
k = (1 +/- sqrt(5))/2
k = φ or -1/φ, where φ is the golden ratio

Due to linearity, there are a family of solutions a_n = Rφ^n + S(-1/φ)^n for any values of R and S. Because this family provides a solution for any choices of a_0 and a_1, it contains all the solutions.

Because |1/φ|<1, we find that asymptotically a_n ~ Rφ^n as n grows. Therefore the ratio of terms tends to φ in the limit.
You'd actually need to figure out the price at which you could undercut the entire exiting nickel / iron market if you wanted to sell such a thing.

It would just crater the prices since it's greater than the total global demand.

But I would like to see articles actually discuss what happens when you introduce something such as this.

Better might be moving it into orbit in a way it can be mined and used in space.

The cost of a lb of iron on earth is about $.04, the cost to put a lb of iron into space is about $10,000.
>Investors that don't work for wages don't strike me as a likely group to develop growing levels of resentment.

That's correct, but is not what is implied by "The source of unrest is resentment among people that don't think they're getting their fair share". Those investors are analogous to the knights & nobles of the 1200s, who most likely will gladly support the existing system because they benefit greatly from it.

What is implied is that people _who train to be investors but cannot find work investing_ will be more likely to develop growing levels of resentment. They are in the same boat as the extra 25000 lawyers per year.
I use GitHub every day, I've definitely seen it preserve some comments. Sure, it drops a lot. But I still prefer this to dropping them all, or showing the comments on the wrong lines.
I think the article misses the point of forums.

The point is to communicate with other people here and now, to help each other on short notice, to spread knowledge which the readers can apply immediately.

It's like mistaking talking for books. Talking is fleeting, but also indispensable for doing anything of consequence (including writing a book).
For firefox, you can disable IDN in the urlbar with:

user_pref("network.IDN_show_punycode", true);

in your user.js. Then all URLs will appear in their punycode form, eg apple.com with the cyrillic glyphs will show as:

https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/

Is this good enough? Probably not in general.

- It relies on you to notice the URL bar after you've clicked a link. Worse, it relies on you to notice the URL bar after you've clicked a link and after the website has begun loading long enough so that firefox changes the URL to the target.

- If you're someone who does actually visit websites with punycoded domains regularly, then this conversely makes it harder for you to know you're on the right domain.

- Even if you notice the URL is wrong, you've already started loading the page. Best case your IP is now known to that server. Worst case it had a malicious payload for your browser / OS / hardware and your content blocker wasn't configured / able to block it.

It's good enough for me, at any rate.
> This requires a rigorous analysis, not dismissal.

a distraction so to speak. This is exactly why they're doing it.
This reminds me of early Google+ and the wealth of information there on several of Google's long bets such as Glass, Waymo (then Google Self Driving), constantly seeing insightful posts from the engineers working on these moonshots.

And just like it was all gone. There isn't a metric to quantify the novelty of a service, but I genuinely felt like we burnt one the last resources on product/engineering/building/hacking when Google decided to pull the plug on that.

This article highlights that fact too.
>are they doing LTE data collection too?

Don't cell carriers already sell your "anonymized" location data to marketers?
XMPP (Jabber) :) The client is Gajim. While not a perfect client, having all my history in it forces me to stay loyal.
Sounds like its comparing lang+hardware but wrote a sentence comparing only the langs, hence the confusion.
This is internet; the place where people go to exercise their right to feel offended. Welcome!

I read the quoted part as the whole class of people with this auditory issue being binned as truth-is-out-there nutjobs, and decided to offer a bit of perspective. It was probably an overreaction on my part.
On the other hand, this website, "karl-voit.at," isn't loading right now.
>So getting a degree is a gamble, because you either come out ahead or you get hobbled by it for the rest of your life.

It's a gamble that the government offers to you even when it knows you can't meaningfully pay the loan back.
> Mind you I'm not saying WaPo and NYT are trash now

WaPo and NYT aren't trash but they have fallen mightly. Which sucks because NYT easily has one of the best web design teams on the internet IMO and I used to look forward to reading it daily for over a decade.

I'm still angry that they chose to go all Buzzfeed and hammer it everywhere politicially on their website.

WSJ has been a fine replacement, but it's not as extensive or big as NYT. I just hope things return to a bit more normal after the US election.
That's assuming people live close together and don't make a quarterly or yearly trek into town for supplies. A much larger portion of the world's population lived in rural areas back then. The virus only has a 14 day or so window to infect people. If people only come into contact once a month on average, that will seriously inhibit the virus.
There is no real media anymore. Report facts, report views/opinions, that fine.. passing off biased hitjobs as "news" isnt media.
Concrete examples of political correctness gone bad.

Censoring the OP for calling someone else wrong. (When the person called wrong is actually a friend and didn't object.)

Cisco firing employees for saying, "All lives matter."

Maya Forstater being fired for expressing the opinion that while she used people's preferred pronouns, she thought of trans people as their original gender if they still had their real genitalia.

Emmanuel Cafferty (a Mexican American) being fired for an alleged white supremacist hand gesture that he had never even HEARD of as a white supremacist hand gesture. (Also did I mention that he's not even white?)

Ongoing persecution of academics who dare research trans issues from any perspective that trans activists do not approve of. See https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/16/academics-ar... for more on that.

Is that enough examples for you?
"externally funds secured." As a research project, or a potential commercial product?
A blog post on forums, to avoid web forums and no mention to EZBoards..
You haven't given me any reason to believe these allegations, and I have seen the interview and I am not persuaded that Tony is a credible source.

Now what.
master is so last month. they call it main now on GitHub =)
Very much so! But the idea is fascinating. What if the price of platinum was on par with aluminum? What kind of products could exist that simply can out today?

This[0] article puts it into perspective just how much metals exist out there.

Seems like most of the precious metals we have access to are from previous asteroid collisions. There is a theory that the last age ~12k years ago was from an asteroid impact, and that it can be traced due to changes in platinum levels.

Whoever figures out how to mine metals from space rocks is going to have an interest problem to face. They can't just dump it all onto the market -- they'll have to pull a move similar to the diamond industry. Stockpile it and constrain supply (because of their monopoly) to keep the prices high enough to make a profit from the (risky) endeavor.

One can dream :)

0: https://strangesounds.org/2019/06/asteroid-16-psyche-gold-me...
Perhaps they’re using AI to predict capacity “based on past sprint performance”

/s
Reddit is down fairly often, to be honest. It does the thing where it pretends like it's up by showing you its front page, but if you click on anything it'll error out on you.
To be clear, this is a statement by the Intercept’s Editor in Chief about Greenwald quitting, not a restatement of the story that landed on the front page earlier today.
I do think it _is_ hard as in: it is very hard to find out the truth.
“Misinformation is factually-incorrect information that is spread to push an agenda.
That's no so hard.”

Given enough power you can make look any “fact” as the truth. This has been accomplished a couple of times in the past. I.e. the war against Iraq started with the “fact” that there are mass destruction weapons. All mainstream media supported this “fact” when the war began. Turns out later there was no mass destruction weapon. Publicly admitted by the US government. So a “fact” for one person isn’t a “fact” for the other because both have a different perception of truth. But again, given enough power, you can manufacture consent and thus manufacture a “wrong truth”.
It's certainly getting harder and I have this sinking feeling that's by design.
There’s no such thing as “Jack of all trades”. At most there is “Jack of several trades”.

My background is game dev. The typical “Jack of all trades” webdev has minimal overlap with game dev skills. Unless it’s working on the backend of a mobile game, in which case the overlap is enormous. The skill sets of a “Jack of all trades” AAA console dev and “Jack of all trades” webdev are extremely different.

Point is you do have speciality skills. Identify them, embrace them, and don’t sell yourself short.