skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been studies and the rods from the gods concept doesn’t work. Atmospheric braking would slow them to their terminal velocity before impact. You might as well throw them out of a plane. There are also all kinds of problems with time to target, terminal guidance and cross range capability.
Nutrient or sugar content?

To my knowledge corn is more sugar per other nutrients
Yep! Moving air pollution sources somewhere else is always good (though coal is so much worse than gasoline that any increase in coal burning might be a net negative). This is one reason to be super excited about coal plant shutdowns: often coal plants (even “clean coal”) represent the largest point sources of PM2.5 in a whole region.

It’s worth remembering that this does have the effect of concentrating pollution. If a coal plant opens near you, that might be worse on your health than even a broad change to EVs. Happily, nobody is really building much coal anymore, and natgas/renewables are much better for air quality than either coal plants or gasoline engines.
Always funny to see these seemingly thought provoking articles from VCs and startup people as if people haven't already been talking about these same ideas for years.

Congrats, a12345z, you finally realized it.
> I probably shouldn't assume this board will be guided by the U.S. view of free speech.

The US view of free speech is that private firms (other than regulated common carriers, etc.) have it and don't have to use their platform to relay your speech unless they’ve made a contract with you to do so.

I would assume that The Oversight Board will be guided by this, plus whatever more specific guidelines FB has specified.
I don't think anyone is suggesting you buy an EV if you don't need a car at all. It's about replacing an ICE car. If you have one of those, you must be parking it somewhere already.
Perhaps, but is that a problem? Isn't it a good thing when interests are aligned? Tesla looked at the situation and they are fine with it, otherwise they wouldn't be there.

Allowing majority foreign ownershipnis a process that has been ongoing for years. Every year, more parts of the Chinese economy open up.
Do you really need 4,000 chargers though? I don't think so.

Between charging at home and charging at work, it shouldn't be necessary to occupy the charger every single time you pull in. Maybe once or twice a week, depending on your commute. A long range Model 3 has as much range as your average gasoline vehicle... how often do most people fill that up?

Seems to me if 4000 employees go electric and you can slow charge anywhere from 5-30 miles' worth of power per hour at a worst case scenario and up to 44 at the best, then it stands to reason not everyone has to plug in every single day. In fact, I'd argue most folks would only need to charge up once a week, and for those with very short commutes, once every 2-3 weeks.

I think 250-500 chargers for 4000 vehicles would likely be sufficient to keep everyone charged up and moving around.
> Categories can’t formally conform to protocols

I wasn't aware of that limitation, so I tried it out just now only to be certain. Works fine for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@interface UIViewBuilderSmalltalkViewController(storage) <MPWStorage>

@end

@implementation UIViewBuilderSmalltalkViewController(storage)

@end

Compiler correctly complained about the missing methods and Xcode kindly offered to add stubs for me:

/Users/marcel/programming/Projects/ViewBuilder/UIViewBuilderMockup/UIViewBuilderSmalltalkViewController.m:121:17: Category 'copying' does not conform to protocol 'MPWStorage'
/Users/marcel/programming/Projects/ViewBuilder/UIViewBuilderMockup/UIViewBuilderSmalltalkViewController.m:121:17: Add stubs for missing protocol requirements
The point of the saying is to help you realize that the enemy of your enemy has at least one shared incentive, which can be very useful. It doesn’t mean you literally become their friend.
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No, they are not. They are not treating the problem as the emergency that it is.

Wasteful consumerism is legal everywhere.
The best way to turn off old API's is to not need to.

If your API is simple enough that it can be reimplemented as a shim to the new API, and that shim layer needs no state or special permissions, then it becomes effectively maintanance free. Your shim cannot have security issues (since it has no special permissions). It likely won't have scaling issues (no state makes scaling easy). You can leave it sitting there forever if necessary, and the total cost will be well below the risks of turning off an external API.
Centralization and trust are orthogonal. You can have p2p networks without worrying about giant distributed consensus protocols like Bitcoin.
They could store the transactions in local memory until the connection is restored.
Most likely.

However, given the strength of Facebook's monopoly, they have the power of a state over people's lives (e.g. via a livelihood that depends on a Facebook account).

The lack of due process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_process) is very worrying.

The Magna Carta says "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land."

This feels like a breach of that, even though it is a monopoly corporation, instead of a state.
I'm afraid that those bounty programs may create an expectation that all contributions need to be paid.

Why would that be a bad thing? Contributors should be getting paid.
In my experience, and what the article also mentions, despite the title: it is fundamentally different if you push yourself, or if you're pushed by circumstances.

Pushing yourself, to file the taxes, finish your personal project, go for a run, lookup something in wikipedia.. that is almost always good.

Being pushed by clients, the organization, dead lines. Often bad.

My theory, burnout and stress, happen in environments where you receive responsibilities without the power to fulfill them.
After all those, you forgot significant ownership in TikTok and Spotify? Two of the hugest apps; Currently #1 and #16 on iOS App Store.

edit: Tencent actually ended up selling their ByteDance/TikTok stake.
This is a great solution and the historic number of constituents /per CD has been way lower - this is the highest ever and highest across modern democracies.

I believe it would allow more representation for under represented communities.

Here are some great stats: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/31/u-s-populat....
Well, I would be just glad that at least it's not AGC/sq in
Engineering difficulty is often put forward as a limiting factor. But actually I think history suggests that with enough resources we can accomplish things. And in fact it is possible for a project to have astonishingly brilliant engineering and still be disappointing in terms of wider impact (see the space shuttle).

The limiting factor is much more mundane. Getting humans to collaborate selflessly on complex projects is difficult. Effective communication in large groups is a massive unsolved problem. That is what holds us back, not engineering complexity. Perhaps the true genius of SpaceX is using Mars to bring people together. Something the bean counters at Boeing never thought of!
Is doing laundry hard? I put it in the washing machine, turn that on to wash twice a week, put washed clothes on the line then take in when dry. I like to cook, have done since teens and before I can remember was tasked with food prep and washing dishes after a meal. Clean the house once per week engaging passion in various areas in this. And not viewing these as chores but simple things. For sixth-form and university, get to bed by 11, get to school by 8; not a super fan but appreciative of classes so sat in the school /uni library with books.
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Many utilities in the US have this. The utilities charge a fixed monthly fee based on estimated usage. Each year the amount is adjusted based on the previous year. It's not that popular overall but serves lower income households well.
I read the threading order wrong. Corrected.
Special Report: How U.S. CDC missed chances to spot COVID's silent spread
More shutdowns: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/23/pers-j23.html
It takes what is easy to quantify without any consideration of whether it's at all a useful proxy for the thing it is supposed to measure.

So, naturally, managers love it.
Ad prices for "resolve" targeting developers are pretty cheap, so getting to the top of the results page will be simple. This is how SEO works now.
(June 2020)

I like client certificates, for all the reasons stated in the article. I have recently used them to authenticate API/RPC access for some IoT-ish devices.

They work great.

Setting up nginx to proxy things through to the backend Go API server was a bit uncomfortable, however.

Getting the exact right incantation of `ssl_verify_client`, `map $ssl_client_verify ...` and `$ssl_client_escaped_cert` to achieve the desired effect is nowhere near as straightforward as it should be. Then on the backend, you have to be very mindful of what nginx has and hasn't done with respect to verification of the proxied client certificate.

If you are not well-versed in mutual TLS, then I can easily see how this could go horribly wrong.

Drew argues that OAuth is often implemented poorly. I agree, but I don't think that client certificates are less prone to implementation problems.
Just curious, what's the kWh price for this?

Here in The Netherlands, we get charged about 0.33 euro per kWh (= 0.40 US$), and that's for overnight charging of cars, where you typically draw no more than 11 kW.
Well, I have a lighter but somewhat similar story.
I deactivated my FB account a good 4-ish months ago. I went back to change my name (to indicate for folks where to find me) 2 weeks ago and I was greeted with a message that I cannot post or comment for 60 days because one of my posts (they showed which) is against community guidelines. I posted that a long time ago (8+ months) and it was fine until it apparently wasn't. The post was a single image, this one: https://imgur.com/a/BqgX28c
Because the CCP does have a moral obligation to nurture the youth, you can label the motive to whatever you want, but addiction to video games are obviously bad for health and wasting a lot of time such that the school work would be affected.

Not mentioning the gaming ideology is naturally free and liberalism oriented. There were patriotic games commissioned by government, and have been very awkward. Totalitarian nation's government generally tolerate very little about ideologically different median or mass influence tools.
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The work must be judged on its own. If the work itself espouses hate then that is a different matter. It is also a different matter when talking about the author themselves, then yes, we must consider all aspects of their life before putting them on a pedestal, or pulling them down from one.

But when discussing the novel itself, the author should be immaterial, as far as possible. Otherwise these kind of spurious connections can lead to absurd stuff like targetting her descendents, or anyone with the same name for that matter.
TikTok is owned by ByteDance, not Tencent.
That quote is what made a16z. It's the cornerstone of their image, it seems they are riding that quote into the ground.

If you are interested in having some more laughs, this is the full story: https://www.newcomer.co/p/the-unauthorized-story-of-andreess...
Unfortunately there is a huge double standard with this - for Trump, we're mindreading his words were meant to be violent, whereas for his opponents, "context matters", despite unrest and violent action from all sides.

I don't advocate for violent speech, but it's important at times like this to be even-handed in our policies, because as I've said before, when a group or specific groups start feeling their voices are being silenced, then violence follows soon after.
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Is this a problem? Let me introduce you to the LANDWIND, the chinese copy of Range rover vehicles. Tesla is taking a huge risk, lots and lots and lots of unknowns, for the sake of tapping into China more effectively. https://www.theweek.co.uk/business/61500/landwind-x7-14000-r...
Well ... Jack Ma was epitome of play stupid games, win stupid prizes. He knows from inside out how the CCP system works and how to push criticism about the system (subtly, privately).

It is not as if he doesn't have Xi or any other high level party official on quickdial.
Entirely fair.
Well, considering that Alan Kay coined the term...
If I was American and there was clear proof that Russia had interfered in elections, I don’t care how ineffective it was. I’d want it investigated and stopped.

I’d also rain fire and fury on anyone who interfered with or obstructed those investigations. But that’s me. I suppose caring about free and fair elections in the US is now a partisan issue over there.

For a British conservative that grew up under Reagan/Thatcher it’s all desperately sad and disappointing.
And they weren't too specific about 'which policy' - just pointed me here: https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/
I wonder how soon these fine channels will get clogged, and whether it's practical to unclog them and reuse the filter.
I used to drive a Leaf and it was more enjoyable to drive than the Mercedes E Class that I drove when my Tesla was being repaired. EV torque is fun, and you miss it when you go back to an ICE.
"starlink is going to... "

That is enough to tell you that Loon didn't close shop because of starlink.

It is stated in the article that mobile phones became ubiquitous that telecom companies can justify the cost of setting up base stations because they can now connect thousands of people per location.

That has nothing to do with starlink.
Christmas is considered part of American culture. Whether it should be is not relevant. Given how liberals widely seem to hate "America"[0], I was remarking that avoiding mentioning Christmas (by a well-known woke company) comes off as being motivated by hatred of American culture. If one's motive is really to be inclusive rather than to display hatred, there are ways to be inclusive that don't look like hate.

If it's a religious holiday to you, then that's great. That's a good reason for not wanting it to be considered part of American culture, but it doesn't change the fact that it is.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
I suppose that without much in the way of forests, bow hunting deer also isn't much of a thing in the highlands.
The Soviets didn't actually round their scientists up and force them to work. That's basically just US propaganda version of Soviet system.

Not to say that never happened, but its incredibly reductionist and inaccurate.
I had an idea for micropayments once upon a time that worked with existing industry: buy your own ads.

As in, you sign up for my service, ACME Micropayments, and give me whatever you want as a monthly subscription. Based on that and your web activity, ACME Micropayments determines a per ad amount and starts bidding on advertisement space (but only to show to you). In the sense of GDPR this is one of the few things that might make sense to opt into tracking for.

Anyways, if you win the ad space you don't see an ad and if you don't win the ad space the site you are visiting still gets paid. If you pay enough monthly to outbid everyone, you are paying for an ad free experience. If you low ball it you still see a bunch of ads (until the end of your year/subscription period where with a surplus of money the bidding can go up).
American Astronaut or Stingray Sam is more apt.
The runtime can't guarantee no use after free if it also allows manual, unchecked free.
And in return for that risk, isn't Tesla making a boatload of money?
> I remember using NT on a domain with active directory profiles in the 90s, and while my memory is quite foggy, I believe some settings were carried between computers on my profile.

Not just some, most of it (some sensible settings such as hardware configuration are of course excluded, but if you somehow always want to have a 640x480 resolution then you're on your own). Even correctly-coded applications that can differentiate bewteen the Local (%LocalAppData%) and Roaming (%AppData%) application data do take advantage of it.
> Does good writing really outweigh that ?

Does it matter? If one limits their reading to authors who are "good people"—whatever that is supposed to mean—they're not going to be left with much to read.

She's a great crime novelist, regardless of how she was as a person.

> Would we praise Mengele's writings ?

(1) She's no Mengele.
(2) If Joseph Mengele is a good writer, then yes we should praise his writings. Why would we not? John Lennon was a heck of a song writer; beating his wife doesn't change that.
I don't know why you were downvoted but I don't think it is a problem. Musk also took a call that is profitable in the short/medium run.

It might even be profitable in the longer run as long as the brand image holds like it has been for Apple.
Nah the law has provisions that penalise delisting news.

That's not an option for them.

They actually have to exit the market to wriggle out of a forced arbitration deal or stare down the government.
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Glad I stumbled upon your post. The problem is you have all the best ideas and there is only one of you in the world to go around. I will point people to your posts from now on when they have menial solutions to modern problems and hopefully they are self aware enough to get a swift jolt of what the best way to move forward in life looks like.
What do you think happens when you swipe your card at a gas pump. That authorization is going out over the Internet or a phone line.
Bad timing here, was about to renew a few personal domains and do some DNS record maintenance.

Good luck to the ops team! Never fun on a Friday night...
Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD? (2015)
Java also owns it to Objective-C, while it copied C++ syntax, protocols, reflection and dynamic loading come from Objective-C.

https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html

And what many J2EE/JEE haters aren't aware of, it started as an Objective-C framework during the OpenSTEP days, and the OS was called Spring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Objects_Everywhere
I'm in the UK, so have only owned manual cars before I switched to EVs. I hate the lack of responsiveness on automatic transmission ICEs, but EVs are great, even cheaper ones. The power is instant. A Tesla has more torque than pretty much any ICE car.
I'm curious why you'd think the x1 is better than a lot of other laptops that are much more affordable. My Dell G5 SE with a Ryzen 7, 32 GB Ram and 1.5TB SSD is a beast. I haven't begun to scrape the surface of what it can do. And with AMD doing so much better than Intel, I'm just surprised how people who want an engineering device still use Intel.

Im not an AMD fan boy, all my last devices were Intel. I'm just curious.
"sign in" is a verbal phrase. You can't merge "in" with "to" without losing its meaning.
Are depression and alcoholism constants of great writers? Are depressed alcoholics good writers?
Gandi has been my registrar for years -- they're solid, high-integrity folks. Hope they manage to resolve this without too much damage.
> In contrast... there are 135 - 270 MILLION people on the verge of starvation now; due to the policies around covid (or >2% of the worlds population).

This looks like a misquote of: "Likewise, David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), warned of alarming global hunger and food insecurity, with the number of people “marching towards starvation” spiking from 135 million to 270 million as the pandemic unfolded." (from https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/ga12294.doc.htm)

[Not that it isn't bad, but it's a doubling of an existing problem from X to 2X, not a new problem of size X-2X]
You're also making assumptions, though.

Here in The Netherlands, most big cities really appreciate electric cars. Thus, in streets where the demand is big, they add additional charging stations.

It's not like charging needs a garage and access to power. Sometimes, the local government is competent enough. So it really depends.
Some arbitrary percentage payout for a ridiculously small percentage of viewership is close to nothing. But hey at least they’re treated “equally”
In 2021, the cheapest and most reliable way to send a man to space is to use a Soyuz, for a cost of 19-22 million dollars per person. This is of course a communist design launched by a public space agency built by a majority public ownership factory.

I think it might be time to accept that in these cases its pretty often not the inherent efficiency of the free market - which can often be less efficient than alternatives - but the ineptitude of the US government and it's agencies as far as doing things efficiently.

There are US politicians and functionaries that admitted publicly that they made the government less efficient for ideological reasons to make the free market look better.
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What is the difference between "Carbon" and "Carbon-Carbon"? It seems incongruous.
Do we still have a case against the goto statement?
> providing for those people

Which doesn't require that every single unit has parking.

> you ensure the parking problem becomes someone else's problem

It just becomes an attribute on the listing. This house has 3 bedrooms and parking. This house has 2 bedrooms and no parking.
I keep mine on. I've noticed that coworkers who don't keep their cameras on seem less human. Without a face to the name, it's harder to conceptualize them as a person.

So I keep mine on. I think video presentation is going to become the new "dress for the job you want" over the next decade or so, so it's worth it to put a little bit of effort in. Now that remote is becoming normalized, do you want to be the person on Zoom with a video that's grainy from trying to compensate for the lack of light, or the person with lights that make them look like they just came from the spa all the time?

It shouldn't make a difference, but it does.
> No one was interested in his idea of trying to monitor component use during runtime to pay developers.

Apart from enterprises selling K8s components who call it 'metering'.
Agree with your points. I believe this may be a solution to #1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/19/electric...

I wonder what’s the dynamic with the chargers in Norway, as I assume if the demand is there the charging stations will pop up.