skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I do not realize that because it is not true. I am expressing my opinion, not trying to fit within some cultural mold that requires of me performative actions where the only purpose is to demonstrate my allegiance to "right" people and my non-association with "this kind of people". When I use the term "woke", I mean people who call themselves this term, or are functionally and ideologically equivalent to those people. I didn't invent this term, I don't like it particularly, but it came to identify a specific group of people with specific views and action patterns, so I use it. And I am completely sure when I use it, you know who and what I mean. So using it is an efficient communication practice.

> If open source could only be done by sexual abusers

This is an extremely wrong "if" which nobody actually claimed before you. By implying that your opponents said something like that, you are lying. Do not do that.

> it would indeed be sad.

It would be, but it's not because your initial assumption is false. What is currently sad instead is that you have to resort to falsities to advance your point. Or maybe not - maybe it's just a sign you have nothing better in your quiver.
Getting enough calories to survive from a backyard garden is very tricky. I dabble in it and probably get like <500 calories per year. To survive you’d need staples like wheat but that takes almost a year and even potatoes take 3 months ish. Peas are fast when it’s sunny I guess. If the season or weather kills commercial farms then your garden will likely do much worse than the pros
Except just because someone published something on the internet doesn't mean you have the legal right to reproduce and redistribute it yourself.
The government's system sounds just like the "Ultranet" (as it was comically named) in Victoria, Australia a few years back which similarly aimed to be the one system to rule them all in government schools. Eventually went to the scrapheap (along with a few bureaucrats who were charged for corruption). During the tender process a few of us were toying with putting in a tender using Moodle, but glad we didn't waste our time as it was stitched up from the start.
NK essentially operates this way, at least nominally.
"When I realized the vast potential of the new science that I had created (memetics, the science of manipulating large groups of people)"

wow. Grandiose. the new "science" "I" had "created"

ok..
What Does It Mean to Buy a GIF? – Jack Rusher
I think their point is that the American form of unionization is bunk. If you look to Europe workers are free to choose between many associations of voluntary unions which advocate for their specific interests. They are not forced to have a single representative for negotiations with their employer and are free to abstain from of participation as well.Much like the American voting system and American Congress, unions are winner take all majority rule. If you are in the minority of a union it may not advocate for your interest and you have no option to turn to.
I'm a firm believer that the most effective government is the closest government. This article takes the exact opposite stance.

Imagine that to get a pothole repaired you had two choices: 1. petition town hall 5 miles from the pothole; 2. petition the state house 400 miles from the pothole. Which seems more practical?

Ask people in eastern Oregon how confident they are in western Oregon's understanding of their needs. Ask people in southern Utah if they think politicians in northern Utah understand their issues. Ask anybody in Arizona outside of Phoenix whether Phoenix exists on the same planet as they do.

In Sanbonmatsu, Nara prefecture it makes sense to require all trees to be cleared away from all buildings. In Yokohama, Kanagawa a rooftop park would be awesome.

But there are parts of Sanbonmatsu where firebreaks aren't necessary. Why on earth should local officials have to ask somebody 500 km away for permission on that zoning? Are locals too stupid? Are people in Tokyo just that much brighter?

In the U.S. this is very often used for political coersion. Collect taxes from all the far-flung peasants, then give them back money to hire school teachers only if certain conditions are met. Attach strings to all the federal money that came from local pockets to begin with. Need a new fire station? Don't look locally; get your senator to put in a little earmark for you to fund that from Washington, D.C. Just as long as your state agrees not to ban oil fracking.

I want my graft and corruption to be local. Local corruption is always less expensive. It's not practical to demand national-scale bribes.
No, this is good. If the people want something they can vote a government in to do it. Otherwise you get abominations like when the Taiwanese Supreme Court legalized gay marriage after a referendum rejected it. If you’re going to go that far you might as well just drop the democratic pretense from liberal democracy and just go with liberalism.
In the end I think courts will say the promised anti-union rollercoaster and yogurt complexes must be built. Fraudulent promises as part of commerce and labor negotiation are excluded from protection under pretty much every interpretation of the 1st amendment out there.

https://elonmusk.today/#frozen-yogurt-rollercoasters
I think it means that quantum effects become a problem when you get to around that size.
I guess I don't understand the bad behavior here. Tesla is allowed to not give anything they want to unionized workers.

If you want to force companies to capitulate to unions, cut out the middleman and just force companies to give things directly to workers.
I don't think it's fair to call a modern mixed economy "Marxist". Marx didn't really advocate anything in particular in terms of economic organization. He had no clear idea of how his world would operate, and that's why Leninism was able to fill the void in the way that it did.

Marx's ideas were fundamentally negative in nature. He was opposed to things, and had sharp and perceptive critiques of capitalism, but he didn't really present an alternative. To the extent that he did articulate a vision, it doesn't really seem like, e.g. Sweden would really fit the bill, though.
The problem is that collective action is difficult before you have the union, and companies/executives have a lot of power to dissuade people from forming unions. In the past that's involved physical threats and actual violence. Nowadays I expect it's more posturing and economic threats, but they can still have the desired effect.

The point of these sorts of laws is to give unions a fighting chance to take hold in places where employees want them, but are afraid of retaliation if they tried to form one.
The crazy thing is that the Classic Tetris scene has really blown up a lot (partially as a result of that video) to the point that that video is outdated.
Now I'm wondering (and worried) about the possibility of intentionally triggering volcanic eruptions to cool down a heating planet.
Free SSL for custom domains happened a few years ago: https://github.blog/2018-05-01-github-pages-custom-domains-h...
Not Classic Tetris, but Tetris 99[1] and the Tetris: The Grand Master series[2] are also worth checking out if you are into competitive Tetris.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6t5IKVGsM

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaMjbnvZMck
If the plot of "Saving Private Ryan" is to be viewed as realistic, then Little Spicy Pen Ball's conclusion is non sequitur. (I know it's fiction, but still.)
"Is considered" by whom? Or just your opinion?

As others have commented I think that the language that you've used here - "very limited quality", "little better than solving quirky problems" - to describe the work Erdős did is very unfair.

He may not have been Euler but then Euler was pretty much unique.
I’m not wealthy, so perhaps $20 that there are engineers here making poverty income? Keep in mind there are more than engineers here, was my point, as well as that it was weird to exploit a person who specifically identified as not wealthy to jeer at anyone claiming to have difficulty paying for no service.
This was such a beautiful article. I was just talking to friends about programming for predicting chess and poker games and then this came up which was felt very perfect. It just makes me appreciate the human mind that much more.
That's why programming has declined from Software Engineering to 'coding'. I'm sure there are similar scoring tables in Civil Engineering, and Engineers there dont whine because they don't know or y principle.
The goalpost never moved. If you want to use hydrogen storage in a carbon neutral grid you need 100% hydrogen fuel. We're not there there yet. And we won't be there for the better part of a decade, or longer.

I guess I'll keep "fucking that chicken" along with GE and Siemens and the companies that actually build gas turbines.

> So your own source disagrees with you.

Did you miss the "in 2030" part?
> That the Space Shuttle was the only US space program with in-flight fatalities is significant.

It seems less significant and more of an artificial and meaningless distinction to avoid avoid space programs with launchpad fatalities in space vehicles and make the Shuttle falsely unique.

The Shuttle also accounts for the vast majority of US manned space flights (only a few less total missions than Russia Soyuz.)
Democracies missed plenty of chances to bring sanity back at much much lower costs. Be it not intervening at Rhein remilitarisation or Czechoslovakia giveaway
No absolutely the government should enforce legal agreements via the legal system.

But that's not what this is suggesting, right? This is suggesting the government should treat unions preferentially, not equitably.
Fellow Australian, agree 100%. I’ve watched housing policy transform the fabric of Australian life over my lifetime, in ways that are unequivocally bad.
Made me laugh but you have a good point, really. Something less anecdotal: it's easier to ignore hunger.
My understanding is that a number of Android vendors operate by just taking a version of the Linux kernel and making any changes they need. By the time the phone is released and anyone cares, it's an old version of the Linux kernel, and the changes weren't written in a way that it's easy to incorporate them in the first place. The idea of incorporating a large chunk of changes all at once at the end is nobody's idea of a good time.

I get that they have no responsibility vis a vis the GPL to upstream their changes, and I have no doubt that this is a cheaper way for them to run their business.
It doesn't really matter if it's on the same airline, it just has to be in the same reservation. Usually, that is the same thing; however on international and hyper-local (the kind that end with a Cessna) flights you'd often have several airlines with codeshares, and you could buy two separate tickets on the same airline if you wanted.
I don't know if this is realistic in any way, but I've seen lots of Murder, She Wrote episodes where the criminal only gets caught because they become involved in the investigation some way and accidentally reveal knowledge that only the attacker could possibly know. This strategy necessitates hiding secret information so it can be revealed later by the attacker.
This and https://www.sightline.org/2021/02/25/the-contradiction-at-th... are very nicely written!

I've been reading a lot about public transportation lately, and these fit in very nicely.
I agree.

The level of economic struggle in the US is unnecessary.

At what point do we people stand in solidarity to remedy this state of affairs?

We did that for gay people, black people, women, etc...

Should we not do that same thing on this quality of life matter?
>"Importing hydrocarbons

Another way to create a Martian atmosphere would be to import methane (CH4) or other hydrocarbons,[42][43] which are common in Titan's atmosphere and on its surface; the methane could be vented into the atmosphere where it would act to compound the greenhouse effect.[44] However, like ammonia (NH3), methane (CH4) is a relatively light gas. It is in fact even less dense than ammonia and so would similarly be lost into space if it was introduced, and at a faster rate than ammonia. Even if a method could be found to prevent it escaping into space, methane can exist in the Martian atmosphere for only a limited period before it is destroyed. Estimates of its lifetime range from 0.6–4 years.[45][46]"

PDS: It seems to me that the two biggest problems on Mars, given that the atmosphere is apparently 95% CO2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars "The atmosphere of Mars is the layer of gases surrounding Mars. It is primarily composed of carbon dioxide (95%), molecular nitrogen (2.8%) and argon (2%).[3]"),

is that while Oxygen in theory should be plentiful via extraction from CO2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Oxygen_ISRU_Experiment),

Water (H20) -- and the Hydrogen to make water, are not...

So now the question becomes:

How to get Hydogen on Mars, if Water (H20) and Hydrogen itself -- are not available?

If Perseverance Rover finds water on Mars, then it's a solved problem...

But, what if no water is found on Mars?

What then?

?

Well, then we have the problem of how to either transport Water, and/or Hydrogen (and make the water from it) -- on Mars.

Since there are apparently no rocks, no minerals that contain Hydrogen on Mars, there are several questions that come to mind...

1) How (exactly) was the first Hydrogen formed in the Universe?

2) Can we duplicate that process -- to create Hydrogen out of something else, or out of space itself, on Mars?

3) If we can't duplicate that process, then

what is the most efficient way to bring Hydrogen to Mars?

Would it make sense to bring hydrocarbons, like Oil, and Oil-derivative products to Mars, and extract the Hydrogen from those?

Or would water itself be the most efficient form of Hydrogen transport?

Which leads to question #4:

4) If solid Hydrogen (which should in theory, be the most dense form of Hydrogen storage/transport) is not available by then, then what's the most efficient chemical compound that we can use, to transport the Hydrogen there?

?
That's true, but you also have to keep in mind that German unions are not quite like their American counterparts.
Imagine electric cars were held to that standard. There would be no carbon neutral products of any kind.

Yes, keep fucking that chicken.
This would be like the US Constitution, right?

The actual structures of power have changed quite dramatically roughly every 70 years in the US, from getting rid of the idea of states as sovereign with the Civil War to gutting the interstate commerce clause of all meaning under FDR or there President arrogating all war making powers to himself against the quite explicit provisions in the constitution. Most recent huge change would be either the administrative state after WW2 or getting rid of freedom of association.
Meth is different from amphetamine (unless you were just being hyperbolic - in which case, I'm sorry for being pedantic lol).
Maybe not, but Mercury predates LLVM by almost a decade, so I can see why they targeted GCC rather than LLVM.
> Heck, you could probably get free work from the kids themselves. There's plenty of people in education who would want to do odd jobs on it.

> Now maybe pay up for a few senior devs and a PM.

> platform for the people by the people

I think you're overestimating the abilities of "kids" and non-professional devs and underestimating the complexity of running that kind of show (thus underestimating the ratio of professionals/community necessary to pull that off). Notice how most successful open-source projects are in fact supported by tech companies and worked on by professional devs on those companies' payrolls, and how, despite that, most open-source projects still end up kind of chaotic.
Why? Electric cars don't use a mixture of gas and batteries. Those cars do exist and we call them "hybrids". But those are not carbon neutral and we don't pretend they are.
> Be glad you aren't slaving from 6am to 6pm. Unions fought for the privileges you enjoy now, whether or not you are yourself in a Union.

Be glad you aren't sitting in total darkness: I am praying every morning that the sun goes up. Sunlight is a privilege you enjoy now, whether you are joining my prayers or not.

(Correlation ain't causation.)
In my city, about 20% or more of building cost are impact fees to the city, because Prop 13 gives massive tax breaks to old wealth and the city is forced to depend on newcomers and new entrants to fund all city activities. A fairer tax scheme would mean that cheaper housing would get built.

I 100% agree that incentives are all screwed up. But I think we should fix those incentives, rather than double down on a bad system by embracing austerity.

Another problem is that construction productivity has been going down in our economy over the past few decades, while manufacturing productivity increases. A lot of that is the bad political process that cities use to block new housing with discretionary approvals, and the other half is the huge cycles of building and not building that gut the workforce, make it difficult to find steady employments, and cause huge swings in supply and demand.

Personally, and I know this may not be a popular idea here, support a well-funded publicly owned housing developer to build social housing, that builds countercyclically to use the labor pool when there is lower demand, and build less when market forces suddenly pick up. Smoothing out this process will increase economic efficiency greatly, in addition to moving towards an abundance model rather than our austerity model, which is oddly embraced by both the right and the anti-development left.
What a great book that was. It deserves to be a classic. Nice to see Fussell has maintained all his writing skills and personality.
Another long article about this game: https://www.filfre.net/2012/11/the-hobbit/
Or individually?
Wow, the nostalgia.

I never completed the Hobbit on the family BBC. My Dad did.

He'd stay up until the early hours of the morning, the floor of the study littered with A3 hand drawn annotated maps of Middle Earth that connected together, so that he could efficiently replay when he died.

I don't remember too much of the game, other than:

"Ask Gandalf carry me"

And those bug eyes appearing in a forest and feeling a sting and dieing.
I don't see how it isn't a firable offense given that it violates the confidentiality agreement that lists termination as a possible consequence of violation.

So it seems to me that what Oritz did must qualify as protected activity...
You just hand-waived sexual harassment away as not “the right kind of weird” and speaking out against a serial perpetrator of it as “Puritanism”
> Even GPU?

The Librem 5 uses a Vivante GPU that is supported by the open source Etnaviv driver.
Good that folks on FreeBSD have proper controls that stopped the problem before it was released, and shame on Ars Technica for bringing completely irrelevant 10+ year old eviction dispute into an article about technical issues as if it were relevant. This bullshit needs to stop. I mean I get that the guy may have some issues, and burnout is a very real thing, and if the code is low quality then it needs to be addressed, but it shouldn't be "oh and also his code is bad because of 10-year old story that has nothing to do with the code in question". We really can do without this stuff, and if they just dropped that whole section, the article would be much improved.
Well, Tesla's CEO is just one of the workers of Tesla, too.
Honda's self-driving car: A smooth ride when all goes right
Bardeen and Brattain have discovered experimentally the point-contact transistor, without really understanding how it functions.

Shockley has really invented the bipolar junction transistor and the junction field-effect transistor, which are far more important electronic devices and which are still used today, unlike the point-contact transistor.

Shockley has published theories of how his transistors function, which enabled the design of such devices.

No matter what defects had Shockley as a human being, his legacy is much more important than that of Bardeen and Brattain.

Even the fact that he was an awful manager had very positive results for everybody else, because he initially gathered together the best of the best in his company, who, after fleeing from him, founded then the most important semiconductor manufacturing companies in SV.

Also, the first inventor of transistors was Lilienfeld, who invented a kind of metal-semiconductor FET in 1925 and a kind of depletion-mode metal-insulator-semiconductor FET in 1928.

The Lilienfeld patents had very little influence at that time because the technology to make such transistors did not exist yet, but nevertheless his patents were a source of inspiration for the Bell team, who actually attempted to make FET transistors similar to those proposed by Lilienfeld, when they discovered by accident the point-contact transistor.

The point-contact transistor was not a really useful device, but its great historical importance is that it triggered a lot of research in semiconductor devices and that the efforts made by Shockley to understand how the point-transistor can function lead him to the invention of the BJT and then of the JFET.

The initial theories of transistors published by Shockley were extremely approximate, but they were usable in practice and their study enabled the appearance of an entire generation of electronics engineers specialized in semiconductor devices.

The contributions of Bardeen and Brattain are not negligible, but they remain quite small compared to the huge contribution of Shockley.

Someone could be a mass murderer, but nonetheless he/she could also publish some theory worth of a Nobel prize. Such qualities are unrelated and any theory or discovery must be judged only on its own merits, not on whether the inventor is a nice human or not.
In line with their company name they should call them telescreens.

On a more serious note, that kind of work environment attracts people who don't give a sh** about the company's goals. Highly motivated people just don't need supervision on that level.
Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro's page over Covid-19 misinformation
That's a great point. I actually looked at GitHub pages and my main issue with it is there's no way to password lock the site. I don't need serious security here, but I also don't exactly want the entire world to see my HTML playground.

I'm not sure why they're doing it this way, it should be a nominal task to restrict viewers to those with read access to your repo, but I think it underscores the use cases they have in mind here. They want you to use it as a blog and not as a serious web hosting solution.
There's also land.
Low tech societies still have capital. I was looking at givedirectly recipient stories, https://live.givedirectly.org/newsfeed/search?search=Kenya+C.... Almost everyone uses their money to invest in their home, livestock, or children's education. The push and pull between capital and labor absolutely exists here.
Not really. That guy didn't even understand comparative advantage.
What makes you so sure about that? Do you have any examples of how unionized workers produce less sustainable business then non-unionized workers? I don’t think Detroit is a good example as auto-workers in Europe still produce plenty growth for their business, while mostly belonging to a union.