skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Habitat design wise, sure. But a lot of problems would be similar, especially if you were aiming to make it self sustainable. Growing food, living in close proximity to other people, only occasional resupplies....and benefits would be similar too. Technologies to maintain life in an environment absolutely deadly to humans, whatever tech we come up with to combat loneliness and proper nutrition.....

My point is - I feel like fixating on Mars is doing more harm than good in terms of our progress as a species. But you're right - it's not my money being spent.
Be the squeaky wheel. It is to your benefit.

Drop the questions in a public channel.

People who are confident about their skills are less worried about appearing to look dumb for not knowing something.

Because you know you’re competent at your skills, so if you can’t figure out something, obviously it’s poorly documented. Therefore just ask loudly.
An other example is pngquant, which performs "lossy" compression of PNGs (by quantizing them).
What defaults python chooses is an oddity within python.
David Deutsch shatters the myth of spaceship earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R6e4xNoarg
It's a joke. Lossy compression can only work with specific formats where information loss is acceptable, theoretically anything but in practice usually audio and video.

If gzip tried to do lossy compression, not knowing what the data is, it would have to randomly corrupt data.
Could someone explain to me how/if this resolves the speed issues that all satellite internet has had since its inception.
Apparently the company has very recently tweeted that a "bug" causing this has now been fixed.
Cargill is an agritrader. They are a big company but definitely not as valuable as Stripe (look at some of the other ABCDs).

Trading businesses never get high valuations. But they throw off real cash. Different strokes for different folks.
Yep. One of the biggest speed improvements I got out of a process that creates large tar balls was moving it to use pbzip2 to allow the compression to use multiple cores.
On https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/beeple-first-5000-days/be... you will see the token ID (40913) and the smart contract (0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756).

Enter 40913 in tokenURI at https://etherscan.io/token/0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a...

You will see an IPFS URI which contains the metafile.json: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmPAg1mjxcEQPPtqsLoEcauVeda...

This in turn contains a URL to the image: https://ipfsgateway.makersplace.com/ipfs/QmZ15eQX8FPjfrtdX3Q...
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Merriam Webster Time Traveler: When was a word first used?
You can complain about wealth inequality and asset appreciation all you want but so far I haven't seen even the tiniest hint of inflation.
> Why not have user curated and shareable blocklists?

Because often the goal is to control what _others_ can see.
>A link to a web page where you say thank you to security researchers who have helped you. Remember to include "https://".

This sounds like mafia
>"Karen" is applicable to any busybody who should mind their own business and leave people alone.

If there was a meme name for an angry woman would you have an issue if it was a predominantly black woman name? There is a sterotype of the angry black woman, so even if you would be fine it would immediately be called racist.
it's not. China is looking at a demographic collapse in the next few years that upends their running economic model and makes any future projections based on past history suspect. One of the ways out of demographic collapse is immigration, but somehow I don't see China's equivalent of US's Mexico/LatAM coming out of the global geopolitical woodwork. Immigration is simply not in China's DNA. Outside of immigration, no amount of "scientific management" or "good policy" will make 18-30 year-olds appear magically over the course of 5-10 years. Unless my understanding of biology is wrong and dolphins could sprout legs and walk on land, usually it takes 18-30 years.

I'm willing to change my mind. What sort of an ace in its hole does china have to change this situation?
Sounds risky; Stripe's standard rate for Amex is 2.9%.
Yes you do, that's how children get indoctrinated.
Your link is full of hateful lies. It tells people that their transgender kid is really just a confused youngster who was somehow convinced by hucksters that he ought to whack his penis off for no reason which encourages parents to fix their kid by deprogramming them before its too late. This is exactly the attitude that leads to the massive suicide rate among transgendered teens. The world view it represents is basically a hallucination.

They are allowed to censor stuff on their networks because you are ultimately using their property and do so under terms set by owners of that property. This is completely trivial to understand. No law protects your ability to use that property as you please and until you get sufficient support from the general populace and the legislature none shall.

The dumb pipe that everyone is allowed to use as they please is the internet. This is more than sufficient. You don't need to have freedom to use facebook as you please in order to have reasonable freedom of expression. You can have your own website and express your opinion therein.
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On youtube you can have Thailand in the comment. If it do contain Thailand the comment will be auto-deleted.
Thailand I can understand. Many people are homophobic and some made the mistake to take what looked like a woman home for some bed time and got upset when they realized they have made out with another man that whole time.

But Memphis, I don't have a clue why twitter dislikes that place. Can someone fill me in, please?
Possible for sure! Get the following software:

- Blender

- Plugin ImportLDraw - https://github.com/TobyLobster/ImportLDraw

- Either use Blender latest versions (has built-in VR) or try something like Blender XR

I did use ImportLDraw for something a while ago here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk3yrj4FC7E/
> If you want to add rules about the number of satellites in orbit, better get in quick before StarLink becomes too valuable to ban.

Question is, why would one want it? It's going to look like an equivalent of someone in XIX century capping the maximum amounts of widgets a factory can produce per year to a level that can be matched by artisan production, because all those conveyor belts and precision parts are making production too fast.

Assuming one likes the idea of humanity spreading out past Earth's surface, and perhaps taking the dirtiest aspects of civilization upwell - we're going to need a proper space-based economy. Mining, manufacturing and all. Starlink's impact on LEO is going to look like child's play in comparison. So if one wants to see space being developed, then one has to accept and embrace that Earth's orbit is going to get way more cluttered than it is.
We don't expect to get zero fees from any payment processor, we're just at the crossroads of developer convenience and making sure each dollar is maximized, so we're leaning towards discriminating on cost in this case.
Man this makes me want to move to Italy.

Someone start a country with free healthcare and consumer protections, you can tax me what you want.

I just want to live in a society where everyone is taken care of, not where businesses make the laws.
There was a small boom this past decade that seems to be over atm. Nothing groundbreaking, but some decent entertainment (and also some I would never, ever recommend, either due to quality or objectionable content). Off the top of my head: several Gundam entries - including AGE, IBO, Reconguista, Unicorn, Thunderbolt, the OO movie, and the Build Fighters and Build Divers series - Rideback, Star Driver, Valvrave, Suisei no Gargantia, Majestic Prince, Cross Ange, Buddy Complex, Aldnoah.Zero, Darling in the Franxx, Heroman, SSSS Gridman, the Evangelion Rebuild series, several mecha musume series, Macross Delta, Muv-Luv Alternative, several Code Geass sequels... I'm sure there are more. One might even consider Attack On Titan a sort of mecha series (it certainly has more in common with Gundam than, say, Godzilla). I think it's only been in the past year that we haven't seen multiple concurrent releases.

(I want to reiterate that these are not in any way recommendations or endorsements. I watched and enjoyed many of these shows, but also dropped or never began several because of the questionable nature of one or more of their aspects.)

Edit: Bubuki Buranki. Everyone always forgets Bubuki Buranki.
How do blind worms see the color blue?
LeoCAD uses LDraw Parts Library[0] as a set of "digitallego" bricks.

Also, highly recommend all AFOLs look on the "AWESOME LDraw"[1] — a list of useful digitallego resources (not only LDRaw-related, but also in other formats for various software other than LeoCAD).

> website has some pictures

Here is my latest screenshot[2,3] with my MOC "Micropolis Mallet Locomotive 0-8-8-0".[4,5]

[0] https://www.ldraw.org/

[1] https://git.io/digitallego

[2] https://i.imgur.com/tBZ2FCK.png

[3] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1371197528197193728

[4] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1217201295196663808

[5] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1234260641558548482
Sounds like a fundamentally proprietary license with a benevolent twist.

As much as I like the open source encouragement, this is no way to inspire industry-wide adoption.
Is Stripe unprofitable? What kind of scale are they going to reach that will push them over the edge into the black that they haven't been able to reach at the vast scale they already have?

If they are profitable, why go the expensive equity route rather than using retained earnings? Or bonds? American Airlines recently sold $10 billion of them at 5.5%. Surely Stripe could do just as well or better.
This does happen on a small scale with third party apps, but it seems like doing it on a large scale would just shift the review problem to the curators of the blocklists. If I ran a "known doxxers" blocklist, I'd have to rely on the same kinds of scripts that got Twitter in trouble here.
There is no way to moderate the entire world. The sooner everyone alive accepts this, the better off we will be.

The values of a Black lesbian female software developer who grew up in San Francisco and went to Stanford will never be compatible with the values of a Hispanic straight male Marine officer who grew up in San Antonio and went to Texas Christian University and has been deployed to 17 different countries.

However, they can and do exist on the same platforms. They can exist because both of them are going to HAVE to learn how to engage with one another, even though their existences are completely incompatible and utterly different.

There's no technology on Earth powerful enough to solve for the human condition. We have to evolve our ways of thinking and interacting.
Hmm, is it possible to add exactly so much corn starch to ketchup that the thinning and thickening effects cancel out?

If it is then most likely only for a particular force applied because it seems unlikely that the effects are exactly opposite?

Edit: it should have occured to me that combining ketchup with thickeners might be a well-researched topic in food science already.
> macOS tar had the same results when using the appropriate sorting flag.

No, macOS has the same results when using gnutar which provides sorting option.

bsdtar (which macOS provides out of the box) has no such option. It just stores files in whichever order you provide them (on the command-line, via the CLI) or it finds them (for recursive tar, so whichever order the directory returns them in).
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I'm kinda surprised there isn't already a viral baiting tweet for this already.
You may think that’s the way it’s supposed to work for contractors, but in every single job I’ve ever had as a contractor, I always tried very hard to work as if I was a salaried employee — like I had skin in the game. It’s just part of who I am, and I can’t really change that.

Either way, I am trying to take home a certain amount of money, sure. And make enough to cover my insurance needs, yes.

And as a contractor, I was always sensitive to those clients who wanted to make sure I never billed more than 40 hours a week, regardless of how many hours of work I actually did.

Maybe that’s not how contractors are supposed to do things, but that’s a core part of my personality, and not something I can change — or would want to.

Of course, I’ve never been an Amazon warehouse worker, or a driver for Uber or Lyft, so for them I might act differently. But as an IT consultant many times over the past 30+ years, this has been the way I have worked.
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Wondering if anyone else has looked into how to minimize tax on realizing aussie tech shares? AFAIK we pay income tax (~45%) when exercising shares, which really sucks. Other than paying the incoming tax bill, and holding for a few years (insanely risky), is there any other ways of reducing tax (assuming you don't want to drip sell). Trusts, capital losses, any approaches?
> macOS tar had the same results when using the appropriate sorting flag

They had to install and use GNU tar to gain the `--sort` option. macOS (BSD) tar doesn't have it. (You could emulate the behavior by using `find` and passing the member names in on the command-line.)
That’s beyond ridiculous, and your assumptions about “marginal health benefit” are wrong on their face. You’re american, I assume?
Fortran arrays are indexed as you choose.

Vectors would be arrays. Array operations will lose if the compiler doesn't scalarization/deforestation properly (if deforestation is an appropriate word when dealing with arrays rather than lists/trees). Subroutines libraries and GPUs are irrelevant.
it's a few hundred miles up instead of 22,300. this means that it's not geostationary and you gotta switch your dish between satellites often as they go overhead, but latency is far lower.
Either the ban is over or utf-8 lookalikes are fine.
TL;DR:

Namecheap is switching from "WhoisGuard" to "Withheld for Privacy". Why?

> Importantly, Withheld for Privacy does not require your personal data, meaning your information is stored and stays with Namecheap.

The implication is that WhoisGuard required your info (provided by Namecheap) and Withheld for Privacy does not.
It's not an equivalent action. If you print money and use it to buy bonds, then if you ever want to reduce inflation you can just sell the bonds again. Whereas if you print money and give it away then to get it back you have to tax people, which is (a) unpopular and (b) involves 'the government bailing out the central bank'.
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It really was, but we've largely abandoned that model.

The new model is going to require understanding that there are people who are totally opposed to almost everything you hold dear... and finding a way to interact with them.
This likely has nothing to do with hostility and everything to do with regulation, specifically COPPA:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com...

>7. I have a “mixed audience” app and would like to age screen my users. Are there specific requirements for the age screen?

>An example of a neutral age screen would be a system that allows a user freely to enter the month and year of birth. Avoid encouraging children to falsify age information by, for example, stating that certain features will not be available to users under age 13.
If we’re trying to be honest here, that’s not an appropriate comparison. Properly disposed-of nuclear waste doesn’t necessarily cause these problems either. When you look at the physical footprint disparities (land-clearing) needed for commensurate solar power generation, rendering such land unusable and ecologically disrupted/destroyed, solar doesn’t come out smelling like roses these days either. If you’re lucky it can be reclaimed more easily but in the daily operation for its lifetime and beyond in the best case, the land occupation needed to power a small town exclusively with solar is pretty massive. Now do a country. Now do a continent.
Here is good tutorial on ImportLDraw usage.[0,1]

[0] https://www.rm-media.net/photo-realistic-rendering-with-leoc...

[1] https://github.com/beranep/lego_black_knights_castle_6086
>There’s no opportunity to ask simple questions without always worrying that I’m interrupting. Whereas in an office it’s easy to see who’s on the phone or focusing on something and simply ask someone else (or wait).

Just ask the question on a channel or send a message to the person. They'll reply when they get back or can.

And to the other side, if you get a message, you don't have to drop it all to respond immediately. We are all adults and professionals. I'm not going to be doing nothing waiting for the answer while you reply.

> There’s also no opportunity for the kind of work-related conversations that might happen over lunch where I’d learn more about the team, the org, the project, and the history of it all.

This is true. We've worked out some times in the past where we get to expense things and everyone just chills and talks. People can come in and out, turn cameras on or not. It's nice to just talk.

> I started a new job during the pandemic,

I will say, it depends on the team and company. I've been remote for years and it varies a lot. If the company/team wasn't remote before, they might not have the tools or knowledge to make it work. That's what I'm gathering from a lot of friends comparing our situations.
You should add China to your list of repressive government moderation - would be more complete that way.
Another point, we all get things are limited, but when the hierarchy/management simply orders shit to be done from afar, without respect, understanding, proper knowledge about the situation, suddenly everybody is underperforming. Take the same group with a good leader then they will do twice more twice fast twice happy.
Nonsense.

Sure, if you want to spite the bullshit artists in the field by calling what they're doing "performance art", that's fine. But if you're a real philosopher, then you are ultimately interested in the truth by definition, while recognizing that it isn't always easy to get to, that it might take a lot of effort to even put together a sensible response or claim in the first place, and even more time refining the position in an engagement with other philosophers. So in that sense, the philosophical disciplines are sciences, and in fact, the highest and most general sciences. No other science can answer metaphysical questions, for example. Sure, other sciences can inform the discussion, but they cannot replace the philosophical science that draws from them.

The article is behind a paywall, so I could not read beyond the first couple pages or so, but from the comments I sense that there is some strange conviction that philosophy is ultimately an obsolete kind of wankery that the empirical sciences have long since superseded. Of course, this is rather a sign of profound ignorance and philistinism rather than a statement about how things actually are.
Wind turbines don't kill enough birds to be more than a drop in the dead-bird bucket. It's a talking point used by people who were looking for reasons to be against wind turbines, but housecats kill four orders of magnitudes- not 4x, 10,000x- more birds each year.

The percent of human-caused bird deaths due to wind turbines is smaller than the percent of Americans dying in airplane crashes each year, compared to all US deaths each year.
I would like to coin a new phrase, the "Game Master Dilemma". For any self selecting group the number of people willing to do thankless hard work decreases with respect to the difficulty of the task considerate with the reward.

In tabletop games there's often far fewer players willing to take the Game Master role because it's more difficult. The people that take the role have to really enjoy the task and the "reward" (good feelings because people had fun).

This means there's far more players than Game Masters. I think this applies to everyone making (in my opinion) pithy statements about "centralized platforms". There's vastly more centralized-social-media-platform users than people with the technical capability, time, and money to run some smaller social media instance. The ratio of players to Game Masters is huge. It can be a lot of work/expense to run a board for even a small group of users.

This means that larger more centralized platforms will end up being the norm because they centralize the infrastructure and lower the friction for users to do the interesting stuff like discuss topics or share cat pictures. Because the central platforms are being Game Masters players can flock to the platforms and network effects will draw more users.

If you want some magical world of super decentralized community moderated social media (you basically want mailing lists) you need to solve the Game Master Dilemma. Infrastructure is not free in time or money. The more demands on the infrastructure the more it costs. The only decentralized community moderated platforms that will exist are ones where the Game Master to player ratio is low. The higher it gets the worse of a job it is being the Game Master until it's not worthwhile at all.
It sounds like you're asking more about getting into practical paid side-jobs than getting basic skills and interest level. Things have kind of gone the other direction with parents willing to pay to someone else to teach their kids some of these skills (coding gyms, etc.), although I don't have any experience with that.
Maybe getting involved with something they are passionate about, like mods for video games or certain open source projects might be a good way to go (w/ Patreon). Or, they could do some volunteer work for local businesses and work their way up to billing. I know a lot of them are keen on reducing the overhead of online ordering/delivery systems.

For teaching basic logic to kids/teens, I found this game really enjoyable, especially since it's tangible and offline: https://www.turingtumble.com/
Deleting your Twitter account is an even better one.
At what point does it stop being reasonable to donate free content that attracts eyeballs to web hosts addicted to censorship?

I left Twitter after a dozen years and many thousands of followers. You can, too.

Tweeting anything gets you closer to the day Twitter locks your account and destroys all you've built.

You won't even be able to view your follower or following lists at that point (and they're not in your data export), or any of the DMs you've sent or received over all those years.
I think there's always some skepticism that should be expressed around wild articles like this.

At a core level, remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic is unlikely to mirror remote work outside of the pandemic. It's one thing if you choose to work remotely and if your company willingly embraces remote work. It's an entirely different beast if your company is forced to transition to remote work while stay-at-home orders keep everyone locked indoors with minimal activities to do outside of work.

The pandemic is challenging for many people, including people like me, who are full time remote workers. It's a poor time to evaluate the productivity differences of remote versus non-remote workers.

This article states:

> Operational improvements — like scientific experiments — shouldn't operate on guesses and hope. In our current mass experiment of remote work, we should form hypotheses, act deliberately, and measure results.

One of the most critical things you must consider when designing an experiment is confounding variables. COVID-19 didn't just shift people to remote work. It created a lot of stress, anxiety, and changed society dramatically in more ways than simply moving people's office locations. It cannot be ignored in judging the efficacy of remote work as a subject.