skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like there is ~10^−8 earth masses of oil and coal [1]. I can't seem to find the mass of magneisum on earth but its 2.5% of the earth's crust, which is apparently <1% of the earth's volume, lets estimate 0.1% of the total mass to be conservative, not sure how reasonable this is but seems ok for this back of the envelope calculation [2]. This gives about ~10^-5 earth masses of magnesium, still orders of magnitude more than the oil and coal and this process won't consume it, its just for hydrogen storage/transport.

More numbers on the mass of the crust in [3].

[1] https://osf.io/dkmwy/download
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_crust
[3] ttps://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AGUFM.V33A1161P/abstract
I usually don't read articles like this, but it was so well written that I was sort of sucked into it.

What was most interesting to me was not the various controversies about body aesthetics or even health consequences. What stood out to me was the author's description in the early parts of the article of how much she seemed to crave the approval of strangers, especially men. It was thought provoking and I'm still processing it. I find this way of thinking completely foreign. I know intellectually that many people need external affirmation... but from total strangers whom you barely interact with? I can't help but feel a bit sad that so many go through their lives this way.
Looks like the linked PDF was a draft (see Brad's comment) Here is the link to paper with figures http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/papers/chi86vltax.pdf
> about 99% everywhere have the same instincts to survive and get along

I just finished listening to The Doomsday Machine audiobook (https://www.amazon.com/The-Doomsday-Machine-audiobook/dp/B07...) and it's had a profound effect on how I see our military leadership's nuclear strategy. While the book delves primarily into the 1950s-80s, as far as the author is concerned (he worked as a consultant on nuclear strategy,) the policies have not materially changed since then. Some examples of some things that were eye-opening to me:

- The military deliberately hid their nuclear war strategy from the secretary of defense (and thus the president, etc.) for years.

- US Presidents often invoke the threat of nuclear attack to force nations to bend to its will - to this day, democrats and republicans alike.

- The gov't has done a good job of selling that only the president can order a nuclear strike, but in practice there's a lot more people involved that can launch a nuclear attack without requiring clearance (in years past, this was due to potential communication issues, but even to this day these remain in order to counter potential 'decapitation' attacks. This delegation system means we're one person's mistake (or mental illness) from starting a world-ending cascade of nuclear strikes as other nations respond in kind.

I'm under no delusion that the world can do away with nuclear weapons, but maybe we should stop threatening to use it first like it's no big deal. It seems that our military leadership historically isn't exactly in that 99% group of folks who want to live and get along.
He was instrumental in the development of one of the earliest relay services in the mid-80's in St. Louis. The way it worked back then was more of a community collaboration among many hearing volunteers and the deaf community. The volunteers would work as relay operator, making phone calls for us deaf and relaying the conversation with us through TTYs. Some of the volunteers were my friends' parents which made for awkward moments at times!

But it was very helpful in bridging the gap between the hearing and deaf communities in St Louis and the rest is history.

Lots of respect and admiration for Paul Taylor as a very instrumental trailblazer for the Deaf.
It was less about technical factors relating to stealth than human factors.

The USAF reused the route packages and the shooters knew the approximate location and timing of the flight. A Serbian asset tipped off the shooters that the normal SEAD assets would not be present. Without SEAD the shooters were able to keep transmitting long enough to see the plane. There were 3 F-117 in the flight, only one had its doors open long enough for the shooters to acquire.

Different routes, randomized timing, SEAD presence, better stealth hygiene and it would have been just another night.

The Serbian commander comes across as skilled, creative, and diligent. The USAF comes across as lazy and sloppy that night.
Unfortunately, you really can’t tell in advance what fields you need. All these precious specialized tools are frustrating.

Plain (-ish) text is flexible and searchable.
People have been calling this since they acquired PA Semi, 11 or 12 years.
On a related topic, I recently watched an excellent documentary on disordered eating among rock climbers, especially professional climbers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thtDQJGrO5s
Carla: Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research
What would ‘decent’ mean?
AdGuard has this ability. It will even install a certificate to your OS so it can parse and block TLS connections (but only if you explicitly instruct it to).
I wouldn't expect Dawkins to come out and say "99.99% of religious people have never committed a violent crime"
How far down the stack does that requirement go, though? Anybody who knows what a userscript is will know why they need a userscript manager and anybody who doesn't won't need one.
The homepages for Firefox and Chrome don't explain what a browser does, nor what the WWW is, or a webpage, etc, etc
"we need more than deplatforming" and auto-enabling fact checkers which thus far are plainly partisan hacks is a nope. They're just fine creating a political monoculture, and I can't get the taste of vomit out of my mouth. The browser used to stand for privacy and choice first and foremost. We'll see how they end up but I don't want to support shit like that.
NFL Offers All 30 Stadiums for Use as Coronavirus Vaccine Sites
If there's anyone out there that has read the trilogy in both the original Mandarin as well as the English translations, I'd love to get their take on the effect of translation.

If I remember correctly, I found The Three Body Problem super pleasant to read and engaging. By contrast, I liked the idea of Dark Forest but found it almost painful to read. The chapters were strangely broken up (some extremely long, etc.) and so on. Back to Death's End and the "writing" improved again.

So was it the swap of the translators? Is Ken Liu's translation for Books 1 and 3 just more amenable to my western sensibility, or is Book 2 really just quite different, even in the original?
And why don't you make a FB account?
Business Lessons That You Can Learn from the Streets of India - Raghu Raman
Object References and Copying
What a silly, poorly thought out article. Top comment from 2013 already explains why

> The content of a true fact is irrelevant to the motivation behind someone focusing on that true fact to the exclusion of others. You seem to confuse a true fact being ‘racist’ with the potential racial bias behind a motivation to share it.
My dream (and something I may build given the time) is a large set of curated, regularly updated scripts using headless browser automation (e.g. playwright) to provide popular website services (e.g. FB, Twitter, etc) as a local API I could build a portal UI against. No separate server doing this, just desktop client side headless browser automation.
Democratic goverment is the best way the people have at organising their society.

Devolving power to organisations that by their nature represent fewer than the whole population and aren't under any form of democratic control are nowhere near what we should want.

Unless you're a rich billionaire who can afford lobbyists of course.
Restaurant owner in r/Austin: To all the Tesla employees. Please check your ego
False. It prevents 50% of cases, 83% of medical intervention and 100% of hospitalizations. Halting it is delusional perfectionism.
> I don't know where you got 5% risk free in the past 2 centuries.

So everyone can at least argue about the same data....(I'm not the PP)

Check out this infographic [0], or a great paper that analyzes it here (page 8 has a good scatter plot and trend line [1].

[0] - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-history-of-interest-rat...

[1] - https://economics.rutgers.edu/downloads-hidden-menu/news-and...
Its not just Censorship, it is a coordinated effort!

According to the NY Times by a "A Secret", "Well Funded Cabal"

https://youtu.be/Lx6OfAdl-UU
Forgiveness: The Essential Virtue
Sure, let's keep the whole discussion (i.e. "this") in mind then, rather than any one specific claim that may or may not be in there. There is room for nuance here, and that's exactly what we'll need, rather than a binary of "facts can/can't be racist."

I've read the thread (thanks for insinuating I didn't!) and many commenters concede that while facts may not be racist, the context and motivations behind presenting them can be racist. And there never really is a pure "fact" isolated from a context, is there?

So to attempt to apply the claim that a fact can't be racist (or ask "why bring race into this?") to a real-world situation is to take the fact in isolation, which is a mistake. Keep that in mind.
House parties are cheap and don’t necessarily require any fake IDs, just somebody’s older sibling or friend to make the liquor store trip. Things shifted towards bars and nightclubs with my friends when people got older, started making money, and started living among yuppies and even families rather than more party-tolerant student housing.
Expensive textbooks are the norm. Even worse, it's common now to package the book with a key for some online quiz service. You have to buy the brand new $100-200 book to get a valid key, so you can't try to get by with an old edition or share books.
If you think teams of lawyers are fleecing illiterate farmers, start a company and go buy produce from the farmers for 10% more. Nothing stops you from doing so. If you think the the private buyers won't honor MSPs, setup an NGO or file public interest litigation.

Do you realize how many inefficiencies are caused by pre-Independence and 1960s rules around how much food you can buy and store? Again, if you think they are cornering the market, buy or build a grain silo and compete.

India has the absolute lowest costs of mobile service in the world today. Jio remains the cheapest option in India and in my experience has by far the best service. Jio no longer offers free service but it's still cheaper than anyone else and is almost an order of magnitude cheaper than the prices offered by legacy mobile companies when they came on the scene. How exactly is Jio fleecing consumers?

Why shouldn't a better, cheaper service drive out the old players who can't compete at the same level? That's how market economies should work.
Software product used by client to optimise decisions for large scale construction project, to minimise construction cost (think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facility_location ). Regression introduced into some of the algorithms used to make subtle but important optimisation decisions. Regression wasn't caught by QA process, review process or regression test suite[1]. From memory the defect ran in production > 1 year before anyone noticed and was used by client to make a bunch of sub-optimal construction decisions. Cost to client: estimated in seven figure range.

Software can create a lot of value when hooked up to directly optimise a real world decision process for a large project, but it can also destroy a fair bit of that value too.

[1] regression tests were expressed as file-diff tests, i.e. diff output against expected "golden" output file. This means that the tests were very non-specific and failed any time anyone changed anything that caused output to be altered slightly. Maintaining regression test suite was a lot of busywork for engineers, the test suite did not encode properties or invariants that were meant to be maintained by software, so engineers had to to make a judgement call if the new output was "expected" or not after their change to decision engine or one of the pre- or post- processing passes and then, if they decided the new output was "good", copy the "actual" output across to become the new "expected" golden output.
The actual drug trenbolone is scheduled, but a number of trenbolone preparations are (or at least were) exempted from the CSA because of their agricultural importance[1]. As I said, it instantly becomes a CSA violation the second a nonveterinary use occurs, but simple possession of unaltered Finaplix-H, for example, is or at least was just fine.

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1997-10-03/html/97-25...
http://annavonreitz.com/documents/fyi.pdf
Damn, really? How much are they going for?
It doesn't have to be most actually, just the ability to let out what even few are thinking.

Look at what's happening in India. An elected government on a clear majority, passed new laws and some section of people which are not happy with it, have held the government to ransom through protests. There seems to be international civil society support for the protests as it seems like the powerless going against an all powerful government.

Without going into the merits of the protests in this particular example, just the fact that even a small section is able to express themselves is a good thing. One can always argue that this can become counter productive, but I guess that's better than people suffering silently.

Having said this, I don't doubt that the majority of people in PRC, at least Han Chinese are massively better off in the last 40 years.
$12,000 might be a down payment for a parking spot in a major city.
I don't want to recapitulate the whole very long argument here, but I believe this meme about "assault weapons" being incoherent and cosmetic is essentially propaganda. The original FAWB proposals targeted all semi-automatic rifles with detachable clips. Like you, I took the time to learn more about firearms technology and I came to the opposite conclusion you did. See this thread for my reasoning (somewhere in there, there's a back-and-forth about the Mini-14, which is a favorite Facebook meme subject).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21021388
Yeah it’s interesting. I read the article and enjoyed it. I’ve really got no problem with someone doing it. I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t be able to so I don’t feel I’ve switched sides.

But someone said that your risk from covid was higher than your risk from a home made vaccine, and to me that’s almost certainly untrue for nearly everyone at best. That’s where the thread started. I was disagreeing with someone’s obviously poor risk assessment.
My assumption would be, e.g., because you might have to micro-pay your way through the city.

Christian churches ask for money, Scientology requires it.
Anyone know how obsolescence won't create space debris in this emerging competition.
> They already do that with their editors.

They are volunteers. They do as much works as they want or don't want to do. Once you are the size of the Wikipedia there are tasks that need to be done, and you can't really relay on volunteers to do it in their free time.

> I would avoid donating to any such organisation myself.

Its your money.

I am just saying that its normal and expected in free and opensource communities to do that sort of things. Organize conferences, meetups, public awareness, handle the legal stuff and hire the core stuff that makes sure thing are running 24/7.
nwallin has provided an example.

I think I've lost the results now, but when benchmarked it's basically neck and neck between size and speed but similar speed for less code is almost always a good thing in this case.
I found the final version: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/papers/VLtax2-jvlc-1990.pdf
But Wikipedia doesn't, and couldn't run from Greece. It runs from San Francisco, because that's where they can be the most efficient at getting the most billionaires to help. In San Fran employees would probably worrying about money at $120k, and would be homeless way before they got to $10k. Also, WMP aren't hiring people at average wage - you're comparing the average job in Greece to running one of the most important organisations in the world from San Francisco. That's not a reasonable comparison. Of course WMP has to have brilliant, motivated, connected, experienced people at the top. They pay them far below average wage for people in that market.

Honestly you should compare what WMP pays with other similar sized global organisations.
I’m presenting at Houston Perl Mongers this week
I agree with the gist of it. Facts aren't racist, but their application certainly can be. They can be presented without context, or in such a way to push a negative narrative. Unfortunately it's much easier to make a bad argument this way than it is to deconstruct it.
How many billionaires can I name that fit the label "ruthless"? How many are there that don't?

Maybe not Gates, but Steve Ballmer. Larry fricken' Ellison. Terry and TC Gou. Koch Brothers. Musk & Bezos. The list goes on and on.
No one that can afford that is working for a paycheck.
If you follow the Woke cult on Twitter you'll quickly find these dangerous idiots in positions of power are also claiming "math is racist" [1] and "merit is racist" [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/aliveness_ape/status/1358159194524852226

[2] https://twitter.com/stbearman/status/1356649178026233857
I don't understand how anyone can see one of the tech monopolies as just another business from which one could simply move to another platform [0]. These places are de facto public commons at this point and are a significant factor in reaching a broad audience. Removal from the platforms does amount to censorship if the reason is a mere political disagreement.

[0] c.f. the fate of Parler which was assassinated overnight by a collaboration of the tech monopolies, but was celebrated by the public because of the bad reputation it accumulated.
The journal version (1990) is a slightly updated version from the CHI Conference version (1986).
There’s simple and free way to experiment with the author’s idea without buying and configuring a watch. Delete all social media from your phone. Delete all bookmarks and hide web browsers in sub folders. Turn off majority of notifications, or don’t show preview. Only interact with your phone via audio. Then you can decide if the audio only paradigm could work for you. At the very least, it will help you be more intentional about your internet use.
Without getting into the politics of it, the purpose of the air strikes according to NATO to "to halt and reverse the humanitarian catastrophe that was then unfolding."[1] - specifically a "ethnic cleansing campaign"[2]. I think it's possible the pilot or others to feel they're there for reasonable reasons, even if they don't hold any particular ill will towards the guy on the other side.

[1]https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_48818.htm

[2]https://www.nato.int/kosovo/history.htm
Farmers' market apples taste a lot better than discount grocery store apples of the same variety. I don't know why, and it's not everything--potatoes are potatoes.
Why would this be any business of the state? Why is it any business of yours how someone else defines the commitment of their long term relationship?

It's not my responsibility to advertise my belief system to you.
Gigantic global monopolies with billions of users are where I draw the line, ngl. There's a reason we also don't allow the government this freedom, too.
Well, its a black box, programmers have trouble telling stories about it, how do you expect a author to tell a tale about a black box? Finding the threshold value that switches the verminator to terminator sounds like a nice detective novel stub though..
I'm surprised more people don't like Golden delicious apples. They tend to get a bit mealy faster than the newer varieties, but when they're in season they're nice and crisp, mild, and not too sweet. They always put Red Delicious to shame.
Facts aren't racist, your intent and your construction of the "fact" can be.

Example: Black men make up the largest group of prisoners in the US.

If you are discussing criminal justice reform it's probably not racist to bring it up, if you are discussing the superiority of the white race it is.

Context is key and for the life of me I can't understand why everyone seems to be pretending it isn't these days.
If that's even possible, it would be extremely expensive to do so. To make things more complicated politically, the problem is very localized and the town has already been abandoned. But hopefully, at some point we'll have the technology to do this, because otherwise it's hard not to imagine the fire will continue to burn forever.
"Censored" for running spam bots to drive traffic their way.

> They realized that the decision to unpublish the Facebook page followed what appears to be an attack by apparent bots (automated accounts). “Someone probably made it look like we were paying someone to share our posts with the bots,” the source explained.

Of course, it wasn't the Wikileaks store trying to drive traffic their way, but some spooky unknown entity trying to make it look like the Wikileaks store was doing it themselves so that the Wikileaks store would get shut down.
Oops, definitely
Sounds to me that the problem is not the speed of the explosion that happens when engine knocking, but the timing of it.
The problem is that the motivation is unfalsifiable. You cannot assume ones motives when talking about the facts.

In addition motivation is a nonsequitor that is mainly used as distraction from the real discussion.

If you're first response to these facts is to question the motives of the person presenting them then you are the problem.
I think a more accurate title would be something along the lines of “Hiring the most talented is a difficult prospect.”
Those are great numbers. If you don't mind me asking, what did you weigh when doing those?

I agree with you, that people can get far stronger than they realize. I'm not genetically gifted, started quite skinny, and still got a 325 bp, 405 squat and 525 DL at 195 back when I was younger. All I ever took was creatine and whey. I'm fairly tall, which seemed to help the lever action with my DL, but always caused my squat to lag.
"There's very little gain from https-protecting a page like the linked one."

- malicious content injection

- malicious content injection

- malicious content injection

- and... malicious content injection.

Four valid reasons.
I had the same experience with the English versions; the first and third books were more pleasant to read. (I don't read Mandarin.) I attribute it to the translator, but would also be interested to know if there was a difference in the source material as well.
The post is about a scientist, Richard Dawkins, tweeting that the world's Muslims earned less Nobel prizes than Trinity College Cambridge. While the fact itself may be true, what is the point of broadcasting it to your Twitter followers? It isn't relevant to any academic discourse, and the way Dawkins cherrypicked and amplified it puts Muslims in a bad light ("they don't contribute to society"). That in itself is discriminatory.
It's about selectivity. If you're in a group conversation and you always interject when a certain person starts to speak, that seems like censorship. If a teacher requires one student to always raise his hand, but anyone else can shout out questions, that seems like censorship.
What good options do we have for Safari?
Total strangers are the most honest signal of whether you are generally attractive.
You too have changed in those 49 years.
Well, when I was in college back then, I heard that Tolkien and his friends were really into D&D. One long weekend, after consuming too much, umm, "pipeweed", they had such a memorable adventure that "we should write this down" kept coming up. Tolkien, as he was a professor and so good with writing grant requests, was given the assignment... And, as they say, the rest is history.