skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t see how anyone who has read broadly on this topic could say with a straight face that SpaceX has been just dodging this.

SpaceX has done more to mitigate visibility of their satellites than any satellite maker/operator in history, with the possible exception of classified payloads. They installed sunshades that reduce the visibility of the satellites when fully deployed (in operational orbit) to below the visibility limit in almost all conditions. You have to have exceptionally good timing, eyesight, and dark skies to catch recent Starlink satellites once operational now. But a satellite like ISS is so bright and obvious, you can even sometimes see it in the daytime. (ISS is as bright as all new operational Starlink satellites combined.)

Read this article to see the significant changes they’ve made: https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-update-04-28-2020/in...
So, Y Combinator can choose to be liable for anything defamatory that manages to get onto the front page (there is, after all, an algorithm), or anything defamatory that they fail to delete out of the comment section. It doesn't seem sustainable.
Wasn't the black hole a truth you can't prove for a pretty long time?
Scientists 'believed' that they are true and tried to prove their existence. See: https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/who-really-discovered-bla...
The date in stipid US standard (mm/dd/yyyy) will confuse the hell of the rest of the world. Please use not US-centric ISO date format: yyyy-mm-dd.
Infrastructure spending would put an end to QE and the increasing wealth inequality.
Yep, that's why I said "4.5k worth of Bitcoin", I meant 4500BTC.
There aren't many telescopes with a >8m diameter mirror, and it looks like the largest single mirror is 8.2m

Starship's payload is 8m.
I was thinking it might generate enough heat to keep it warm. But the comments in this thread appear to think it has a heater inside of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JSq6xB591M
So in theory authorities just have to "report" and then request the messages.
None of them are selling themselves as not being OOP.

What they are doing is implementing an ad-hoc version of OOP that forgoes using C++'s native OO feature-set. Native C++ OO clashes with modern C++, often creating a dialect that does not play well with resource management and common C++ idioms.

The type erasure libraries provide many of the traditional benefits of OO but allow you to retain value semantics (which native C++ OO does not).

My argument was never about OO as a general concept, it was strictly that C++'s native OO feature set is very poor and modern C++ allows developers to move away from that feature set.
Write the product of two epsilon tensors as a sum of products of metric tensors
> Give me some examples of things that are being blocked that ought not to be?

Last URL I encountered was this, check the comments: https://avoiceformen.com/featured/my-son-doesnt-want-to-be-a...

> It is an absolute violation of their rights to force them to use their private property to promote beliefs they find abhorrent.

If FB is that intolerant to other people's opinions, they should do something else instead of being a social network 35% of global population uses at least every month.

My cell phone allows me to discuss anything using the property of the operator. My internet provider doesn't care what I do with their property as long as I don't break laws and pay bills. I don't see what makes social media so special that they're allowed to arbitrarily censor opinions on the internets in centralized manner. Especially in private messages. Especially after doing everything they possibly can to make sure there's no competition on the market.
You keep your Bitcoin as collateral with a lender. They give you a loan which you can use for whatever you please. You pay off the loan with cash flow from other activities. You never need to sell your Bitcoin for liquid money then and your Bitcoin continues to appreciate. The only sketchy part is "not your keys, not your Bitcoin". The lender can make off like a bandit with your Bitcoin, so you need to be careful.

There's alot more to it and details on all the different platforms, I would take your questions away from HN though. People here are very anti crypto.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/china-...
Science vs. Religion: 50 Famous Academics on God
"The dialogue between science and religion is among humanity’s oldest and most controversial, drawing each era’s greatest thinkers into some of history’s most heated debates. We’ve previously looked at a BBC documentary on the complex relationship between the two and 7 essential books on the psychology of faith. Today, we turn to a fantastic mashup of 50 famous academics — including Brain Pickings favorites Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Oliver Sacks, Steven Pinker and Daniel Dennett — talking about spirituality and science, created by Jonathan Pararajasingham.

I can’t believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large, because they seem to be too simple, to connected, too local, too provincial. The Earth! He came to the Earth! One of the aspects of God came to the Earth, mind you. And look at what’s out there! How can… It isn’t in proportion.” ~ Richard Feynman"
I wonder if they‘ll unlock everyone when they release the fix. I kind of doubt they will.
This seems like kind of a stretch to be honest. The original story, about a mermaid longing to be human was written in 1837. And that trope in general, not fitting in with the current society, goes back a lot further.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid

I highly doubt current identity politics were on the mind of the original writer when conceiving the story originally.

As for the Ursula stuff, if 'feminist' was the archetype they were going for, they certainly managed to portray feminists in a fairly negative and terrible way. Ursula was not a sympathetic character by any stretch of the imagination.

Nothing wrong if people want to interpret the story that way, that's the thing about good fiction, it makes you think and can tell a different message based on perception, but I doubt it was intentionally subversive and written with those ideas in mind.
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I just bought a first version C64 Reloaded:

http://move.rupy.se/file/reloaded_sink.jpg

Also in that picture RR-Net for instant loading of .prg and multiplayer. The Nunchuk64; an adapter for the new (S)NES Classic/Mini controllers:

It's some kind of revenge to play Super Mario Bros on the C64 with an original new NES controller from Nintendo!

I got the new transparent case too, waiting for the MechBoard64 keyboard and new Keycaps!

The VIC-2 chip also has it's upsides, even if the palette and 2-pixel-wide 4-color mode is weird; the community today is the most active and it's growing:

http://csdb.dk

Edit:

Atari: "by November 1983 one toy store chain sold the 800XL for $149.97"

C64: "In June 1983 the company lowered the price to $300, and some stores sold the computer for $199."

So it wasn't price, I guess software then!?
> I believe it is a bit pretentious. The word philosophy lends extra weight to what is otherwise random speculations. Many philosophers in fact claim that science is a just sub field of philosophy and that philosophy is “above” it.

It can be above, below, side-by-side, wherever. Or nowhere. Or maybe impossible to say. Whatever the relation is, where is the possibility of pretension here? Philosophers make claims, scientists make claims too. But that is the characteristic of the practitioners, not the field of study.
For anyone interested in more depth, the full report linked in the article is worth looking at. In general, it's not been a good year for the industry. Uneconomical plants in operation, stalled and cancelled projects, criminal fraud and theft of public money, and the unsolved problem of how to decommission anything plague the business. If the real costs were addressed, it seems many more plants would have shut down by now. The report does a great job of linking to original sources and it would be hard to find fault with the facts in it. TLDR, nuclear is in decline worldwide and maybe completely over in the US as far as new construction. The proposed new modular reactor designs have safety issues that keep them from being a quick fix.
Not in the UK and other countries.
Mmm. I have an RPi 4 but misclicked when ordering and ended up with a 1GB model. The Kodi performance on it is unacceptably bad; which is surprising considering that codebase used to run on an Xbox 1 with one core and 64MB.... so it became a Volumio machine instead, once I got an external USB DAC that didn't suck as much as the onboard sound does. (Talk about electrical noise, ugh).

The reason I wanted to see if I could get that Sony hardware running on some other screen (besides the re-use angle) is because Android TV gets you access to the first party Netflix and other streaming services with the proper UI. Netflix-via-Kodi is not really a very good user experience presently. You mention open source Android TV - is that something I could run on other kinds of devices? Can you get the Netflix etc. apps on it?
> dead bug technique

For anyone unfamiliar with the term, dead bug construction is where you put the integrated circuits upside down (like a dead bug) and solder wires and other components directly to their leads. Here are some photos and discussion:

https://www.google.com/search?q=dead+bug+construction
He didn't dance around it; it was the first thing he said. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26455182
This article is like the english teacher who finds deep meaning in an author describing a bed of roses... what a bunch of BS.
Ok - but this is a call for gun prohibition, which a lot of people keep saying nobody is calling for.
Most conventional strategists believe a nuclear war wouldn't need to last a decade, as both parties would destroy themselves. Given the heavy civilian casualties and the decimation on the economies and infrastructure, the cost of a nuclear war and mutually assured destruction (MAD) outweigh the potential benefits.
Can the word appear in a phrase and lock the account?
Having a customer is so much more intuitive to me compared to having a boss.
Sounded interesting, so I installed it only to be prompted by a "Sign in with Spotify" button and nothing else.

The website should mention that it requires Spotify. And it is unfortunate that it does.
Nano – The new way to contribute to Nano Community Developers and Projects
A posh front end interface to the world's largest decentralised Ponzi scheme enabled by the idiotic authorities of the USA.
Pay tech workers in Bitcoin instead of government-backed currency. Are some people OK with that.
How to create a Facebook group and get instant 1k members (2021 method)
For anyone else who was wondering what the legal definition of blackmail might look like, 18 U.S.C. § 873:

"Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both."
Almost all crypto lending (at least the defi/smart-contract variety) is collateralized lending. There's still a sort of "counterparty" risk, in that the management has to operate price feeds/risk algos to make sure the collateral stays safely about the loan value.
It’s not manufacture. It’s assembly. And I think astronauts are faster and cheaper than robots for in space assembly. Or they will be once Starship is operational. NASA did a ton of work in EVA orbital assembly with Shuttle (and still chooses to do exterior work on ISS via EVA and not purely robotically) but it was always like 10 or 100 times too expensive. Starship ought to change that. In addition to its 8m diameter payload bay.
There was no lockdown in any state in the USA. There were instead these totally unenforced “stay at home” orders which people ignored with no consequences. Emergency public health directives during a catastrophe do not need a feedback loop: they need to be enforced, regularly and visibly. That never happened on the USA, and the results have been tragic and predictable.
I don't have any family or other contacts there personally, but everything I've read about it completely contradicts what you are saying. The WHO and UN and foreign media organizations have had nothing but praise for their COVID-19 response, except for accusations of human rights violations in other areas. So I don't think your "by all accounts" comment is justifiable in any way.

Here is an excerpt from a WHO report [0]:

> Early activation of a strong response system, including surveillance and risk assessment, laboratory, clinical management and IPC, and risk communication, which enabled Viet Nam’s successful control of COVID-19.

Here is the UN summary [1]:

> Viet Nam’s response to the health system aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most effective in the world and this is now increasingly recognized at the global policy level. The country has now controlled the virus and pandemic multiple times including the recent outbreaks which started in Da Nang on July 25, 2020 after the country had achieved 99 clear days of freedom from local transmission of the COVID-19 virus

Here is Reuters reporting about this [2]:

> “It is organised, it can make country-wide policy decisions that get enacted quickly and efficiently and without too much controversy,” said Guy Thwaites, director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City. Thwaites’s laboratory has been helping to process tests.

> Thwaites said the number of positive tests processed by his organisation’s lab was in line with government data. He said the hospital where he works on the wards – Ho Chi Minh City’s 550-bed Hospital for Tropical Diseases, serving a population of 45 million people in southern Vietnam – had not admitted any additional cases not reflected in the government’s numbers.

Here is the BBC [3]:

> Speckled among the praise showered on Vietnam for its handling of Covid-19 were some questions about the accuracy of the authoritarian state's data, which medical and diplomatic communities had widely agreed was reliable.

> "The new deaths reported shows that there is transparency in reporting Covid-19 in Vietnam and that previous 'no deaths' should have not been questioned in the first place," Dr Huong Le Thu, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, tells the BBC.

[0] file:///C:/Users/ionut/AppData/Local/Temp/Viet-Nam-MOH-WHO-COVID-19-Sitrep_(7Mar2021)_final.pdf

[1] https://vietnam.un.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/UN%20Asse...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vietna...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53690711
Today I learned about .well-known/ :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_%2F.well-known%2F_serv...

I remember such files used to go into the root of the website's hierarchy; I guess it's nice that now they're mostly bunched in a subfolder.
One of the most striking contrast between salaried professionals and founders I know is that of Andy Jassy (CEO at AWS) and Jeff Lawson (once a Product Manager at AWS and now CEO and co-founder at Twilio):

AWS is probably worth $500B today. Twilio is around 10x less at $60B.

Lawson's estimated net-worth is ~$2.5B whilst Jassy's 5x less at ~$450M; and both have been leading their respective businesses since the beginning.
David Deutsch points out that the Spaceship Earth view is a bit inconsistent. Its supporters often claim that we need to preserve Earth as much as possible, and keep it in a "natural" state. At the same time if you live in a spaceship, you should take charge of it, solve its problems rather than just try to preserve status quo.
The most disappointing part of this is the lack of some basic numbers. Like "how many people have antibodies to the coronavirus". The US CDC has ongoing coronavirus seroprevalence studies, but the main one runs two months behind.[1] As of mid-January, 18% of the US population showed coronavirus antibodies. This is measured from random blood samples taken from medical tests used for other purposes, so it's anonymous and the samples are from people less healthy than average. There's also a survey based on blood samples from blood donors, who are more healthy than average. Those should provide a high and low bound.

Anyway, watch those numbers. They show measured "herd immunity". They're not a projection from some other data.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/seropre...
> Many philosophers in fact claim that science is a just sub field of philosophy and that philosophy is “above” it.

You've really totally misunderstood what they were describing. Metaphysics is "above" physics because it is about what the word "physics" even means. For example, Newton's first big intellectual accomplishment was to have a strongly opinionated metaphysics which supported his experimental and theoretical approach.

In the contemporary world, proper metaphysics (as described above) is mostly done by physicists themselves, occasionally in cooperation with philosophers. See [1] for a fairly recent example. Similarly, proper metamathematics is most often done by mathematicians, with occasional contributions from philosophers, e.g. [2].

Any time a physicist is writing about the fundamental methodology of the discipline, or about a topic that is not, for now, empirically testable, he is doing metaphysics, often with a hefty dose of mathematics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singular_Universe_and_the_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_and_Refutations#Impact_...
I don't know why you're being downvoted... maybe it's the "no charge" aspect of your post, but SpaceX offering to send up research telescopes for at-cost-of-launch, or maybe a little over, would be a great philanthropic endeavor.
Ubuntu came with a controversial search lens that resulted in local searches returning web results from amazon that were supposed to be anonymized in 2012 and discontinued this stupid idea in 2014.

> does plenty of telemetry,

The telemetry that is sent on install does ask your permission to share and shares very innocuous data to boot

>The data includes information about your PC’s hardware, including the manufacturer, BIOS version, and the model of your CPU. It also includes information about your software, such as the version of Ubuntu you installed, your chosen desktop environment, whether you’re using the Xorg or Wayland display server, and the options you chose while installing Ubuntu. Other information, such as your time zone, information about your partitions, and your display’s resolution is also sent.

The other major source of leaks is the crash reporting tool which . Note that with open source software you don't have to trust the vendor you can actually see the source to the the tools that are communicating and convince yourself that they are serving legitimate needs that don't violate your privacy.

> forces updates

You can absolutely control updates of normal packages. Snap is indeed defective in that regard but nothing is forcing you to use it.

> Unless you are very technically proficient it is very hard to disable all of it

Packages are removable in band with the same tools used to manage all packages on the system. This isn't an example of extreme competence its basic understanding of the tools needed to use the system.

> motd

Not a data leak

> snap

a shitty tool but not one that harms your privacy or inherently does anything to you by existing just don't install snaps.

> ubuntu-report

This is the tool that reports basic info about your system after asking you once on initial install removing it... does nothing. If you don't want crash reporting its a checkbox in settings.

> ubuntu-advantage

This is something you have to sign up for having the package on your system isn't leaking your data

> Apport

This is disabled by default in stable releases. To disable sudo systemctl disable apport.service like every other service this is once again basic usage. It also doesn't leak your info without you allowing it even if enabled.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport
For me, the weirdest part is that you apparently place a $70,000,000 bid at Christie's the same way you'd place a $70 bid for a used phone on eBay.

https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1370227566125096961
Dang. Six years since Superfish fiasco. I must have been in stasis for some of that.
Just once? Not even three times and then it comes, like the Candyman or the Babadook?
>proportionate response, narrow targeting, and trying not to kill civilians are good things.

How is it better to only respond with proportionate responses? If you were known as generally a good country, but could go mad at the drop of a hat, other countries would take even more steps to avoid harming you, wouldn't they?

At the same time, if you were known of flattening neighborhods or even entire cities, your enemies wouldn't be able to hide among civilians.

In either case you trade of more deaths now, for fewer dead in the future.
Especially with Canada, shutting the border would have been untenable in all probability, perhaps to the degree of creating real food issues. Certainly the two countries are very intertwined economically.

Air travel could have been shutdown for a bit, at least other than to let Americans get back home. But no way it would ever have been sealed for months.
The blog article has a great picture showing comparative outcomes in the over-60 population with the advent of vaccines. Now that is an example of a visible effect.

What the article leaves unexplored is what policies actually are effective. It's clearly not blanket lockdowns the way they were applied in most Western countries. But does limiting access to retirement homes change mortality and if so what's the best way to do it? If the overall answer is changing behavior at the micro scale for the entire population, what's the best way to do that?
Israel keeps getting better.
Sounds like a strange text clustering false positive.
Which side of Korea is still firing missiles at it's neighbors and running a dystopian fascist state?
yes. being verified does seem to help not automatically lock your account

https://twitter.com/okmsprime/status/1371189816289857538?s=2...
Apparently not everyone who tweets it gets their account locked.
Also, referrals are worth a lot of money in construction. I’ll pay extra if I’m not gambling in a random contractor.
You are loosely interpreting the word "suppression".

Moderation is more akin to taking back an already provided microphone than it is to "suppression". The baseline for a person's ability to speak does not include someone else's forum.

A common example of censorship is with music on the radio: Musicians record a song which contains the word "fuck", which radio hosts would like to play in its entirety, but the hosts are regulated by a third party (government) to remove the word "fuck" from the track while broadcasting the song in the public radio spectrum. In this case, a third party (government) is constraining the radio host's ability to play a song on their own station. Because the radio host would normally be able to put whatever content they want on their station without assistance from a third party, this is censorship.

On the other hand, if a radio host decides to have a guest on their program, and chooses to end the broadcast before that guest is finished speaking, it is not censorship. The host is not suppressing the guest's inherent ability to speak, but instead are simply removing the microphone and audience they provided in the first place.

The irony is that the latter case is extremely common practice for many right-wing radio hosts who are equating moderation with censorship; yet these hosts do not claim they are practicing censorship themselves (they are not), even when rudely talking over guests or focusing on their own talking points.