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The problem I have with FB (and other) moderation policies is platforms who pretend they operate on the basis of rules when they don't. Their rules are a dynamic pretext for a discretion they don't want to own. I would even bet that dyed in the wool Trump supporters wouldn't have a problem with him being banned if it were by people who showed a track record of acting on the basis of a consistent higher order principle other than political expedience and a will to power.

I would argue that neither Zuckerberg nor Dorsey will come out and say GFY to Trump or anyone else because they are too meek and are not personally equipped to be leaders in the things they've created anymore. Appeals to higher principles like safety or whatever are only meaningful from people who actually demonstrate actuation by principle.

They have become mere prime-bureaucrats operating an infrastructure on behalf of their political regulators. "It's complicated," they will say, and worry about the optics of making a judgment call, or their responsibilities to investors and "stakeholders," but really, when their companies ceased to be based on a person doing a thing for someone else at scale, it was not a product anymore, it's just an extractive casino with a governance framework.

The success of HN I think comes down to some simple rules, with a very clear acknowledgement that it is moderator discretion that makes the decisions.
Sure. However if you were to fall for that. Who knows what else you’d fall for? What if you then staked all your immense profits on Nikola, with leverage. Lose most of it. 5x your initial amount with dogecoin only to lose 90% of it again with some other peddling stuff. All while spending your time believing all the BS every one is saying.

I guess this is for my self too. My thinking is I’d be a wildly different person if I not only fell for shills peddling stuff and “successful experts” selling courses. On top of that, keeping the money in risky investments is a whole other thing. Like staking a big stake of money in Bitcoin or Eth for the past 5+ years without cashing out. Or still having tons of money in dogecoin without cashing out.

Of course I too wish I made tons of easy money. The fact that a friend bought into dogecoin a month ago and I didn’t. Means I’m never going to do this sort of stuff. Same friend/acquaintance wants me to buy into dogecoin during the next dip. Which to him is dropping ~15%. He wants me to buy in at 45+ cents. It’s at 55 cents right now after rising like 40% or something in a couple of days. He’s probably going to max out his credit cards to buy more dogecoin before Elon Musk’s SNL appearance.

I am very tempted to buy in to dogecoin as well just for the hype of him. Sell before he actually presents. We’ll see.
But there are plenty of non-"time series DB" that are column oriented, maria, monet, etc.
We've been running electric wind turbines for 70+ years (and non-electric for thousands) at this point, the costs are well-known. Less so for solar panels, but still decades. And the bonus here is that neither can fail catastrophically the way nuclear plants do.

As for size, sure, nuclear plants are more compact. But you can't build nuclear plants on top of people's houses, or in the North Sea. Investors and actuaries have done the math, and renewables are just plain cheaper per Kwh, at least in today's landscape.
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I'm slightly amazed that nobody sees any value in being able to talk about race using a full range of expression.

The wave-hand emoji with a black colour allows you to compactly say "+1 as a black person", for example. That means emojis now support conversations about race. I've seen it used exactly like this in the wild in multiple fora.
I would be shocked if anyone was being racist or thinking themselves superior by making a list of funny sounding names that made them laugh. It’s just a coincidence that the funny names would possibly be a specific race. This seems obvious given the fact that the names were chosen for being funny not because they were names belonging to specific races. Any name that didn’t sound funny yet was a person of another race didn’t likely make it to the list… unless they specifically had a list of “non-white people using white sounding names”, etc.
Yes! I would love some casual data poisoning to ruin some data analysts week.
Everyone is focusing on the assassination angle but I stopped when it said that it could unlock the doors and trunks. Sure we exist in a world where people break into cars a lot, but generally it's at least somewhat destructive. No-one is 'picking' locks (because picking increases the time they are 'on target' and could get caught), they are smashing windows or are forcing locks with leverage. These actions look to an observer like what they are.

In this new scenario, someone could have a remote rootkit loaded on their phone. Trigger it from across a parking lot or approaching the target and then simply walk up to the car and pull anything valuable out of it. They would look like the owner to most observers.
I've never taken a spin class, but what does an instructor do in one? Isn't this just a matter of "go faster, go slower" like with typical preset options on cardio machines? Are these people really getting paid this much to hype up participants, and why doesn't a prerecorded video work just as well?
Source?

It's unclear to me that the military is currently any less effective and efficient than it was in the 90s. In Hollywood films in those days, it was typically portrayed as being incredibly efficient, but that has nothing to do with reality.

My own anecdote says that "The wastefulness of the military budget" has been an issue for many decades -- go look up Eisenhower's warnings of the military/industrial complex, and consider that the problem had been building for quite a while at that point.

Back then, of course, "cultural rot" would've meant "Treating black soldiers as equals"; in the 90s, IIRC, it would've meant "Treating female soldiers as equals". Just wondering, are you in favor of racism and sexism as well, or are you just anti-trans? Please note that anti-trans attitudes are likely to age about as well as racism and sexism have.

IMHO, every social change feels a little weird at the time; you're used to thinking a certain way, and now you're told that it's wrong; people take that sort of things personally. Other self-righteous people sometimes realize they can use the new woke attitude to swan around and club people who're moving more slowly -- bullying, really, and this bullying is the serious problem on the left, not the wokeness itself. We'd all be better off if we were better at granting grace to people making good-faith efforts to change their habits and attitudes.

So social change is hard. But that doesn't make it wrong, or rot, or virtue-signaling; it really does make life better for unfairly marginalized people, and as it spreads, the power of the leftist bullies will dissipate, and we'll be left with a better world overall.

And: if you want to disempower those leftist bullies faster, support racial justice, support women's rights, support trans rights. You don't have to club people over the head with it; just offer quiet support, because it's the right thing to do, and it'll make the bullies all the madder if there's nothing they can use to feel superior to you. :-)
No kidding. Search for abandoned wind farm - it’s pretty frighting. Fiberglass is not easy to recycle.

Same with solar cells. I see them putting up thousands of acres of solar cells in the Nevada desert - will be fun to see what happens 20 years from now. Local cities who leased the land out to those farms are making money now - but are they going to get stuck with an expensive clean up if those companies go bust in 20 years because the market changes, subsidies have ended, etc? It’s nuts.
This is some cockamamie figure that is based on rooftop solar panel installers having accidents and falling down.

A fall from a rooftop while installing a solar panel is preventable; it is not a necessary consequence of solar energy. That worker didn't have to die for the sake of two terawatts; he or she could have used safety equipment and common sense.

If we are counting deaths that way per amount of energy, we must count electrocutions among the energy user base too, not only installation and production side deaths.

If there are health risks and accidents working in a solar panel factory, that ought to be counted.

Installations and deaths across the entire grid should be counted: deaths of all electricians installing any sort of residential and commercial wiring, transformers on poles down the street, and everything else.

Possibly deaths arising form unreliable electricity should also be counted as risks of energy use. If a few people die in a heatwave because their AC cuts out due to a blackout, maybe those are energy-related deaths.

Health problems and accidents in solar panel factories should be counted, as well those in mines for nuclear ore, and industries that produce all grid components: wiring, switch boxes, transformers, you name it.

Deaths in every vehicular accident involving an electrician en route to a repair job should also be counted (whether the electrician was at fault or not).
Have you checked questdb [1]? the data structure is arrays with data that lands in order and SQL queries on top. The fallback was that it was difficult to deal with out of order data, but we have just solved this by re-ordering data on the fly in memory before it hits the disk. Performance wise probably not far from kdb itself (will be sharing some bench results soon vs open source tsdbs)

NB: I'm one of the co-founder of questdb
[1] https://www.questdb.io
The sentiment in most western sources on this is predictable. IIRC the US Skylab did an uncontrolled deorbiting, and was a much larger object than this booster.

Much of the articles on this have much second guessing/indirection, but ideally it would have been better to get a quote from the CNSA on this, but I haven't seen any news sources trying to get a direct comment.

My guess is that they require 3 launches in this configuration where the whole booster reaches the orbit for delivering the core modules of their space station, and they might have computed the odds that the uncontrolled deorbiting will cause major damage to be insignificant considering the 3 launches, expecting that whatever reaches the ground if any may be small dispersed fragments.
Of course a small fragment could be lethal, but then again a falling coconut could be lethal as well, but people
consider it an insignificant risk.
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission released a video of a child being sucked under the machine. The child was not injured in this instance, but the video is horrifying to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onXNnlCYJ4Y
A almost 1% failure rate is not safe.
Not by a long shot.
Would you fly planes that had these failure rates?

Also, it is the potential of catastrophic events that is the issue here.

Look at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant on the central coast in California.
This thing sits on a fault line.
Without a retrofit, it wouldn't have survived a Fukushima event.

If this thing would have blown up, half a million people would have been directly affected and massive cleanup costs.

That is unacceptable risk and it is economically unjustified to add more risk by building additional plants.
Solar coupled with modern batteries, obviously.

No hand waving required. It’s fine for other sources (even nuclear) to fill in the gaps. Also no need for accusations of emotional freak outs. I think the nuclear side has its fair share of deluded people who for some reason pretend that both solar and batteries are not improving year by year. And who pretend that solar advocates demand solar-only solutions. It’s just not the case.
A nightmare scenario for me is the creation of mRNA coding for a misfolded PRNP being weaponised.
Have you watched the video? It’s pretty jarring. The treadmill doesn’t even stop when the kid caused the tread to stop because his body was so wedged underneath it. It just kept trying.
I’m curious about the assumptions that lead to that conclusion. I suspect you’re approaching this from a viewpoint of energy austerity; if we only consume so many gigawatts of power, we can sustainably supply that many gigawatts with renewables without needing any nuclear. Sure—but why would that be our goal? Why assume that we wouldn’t have some valuable use for all the energy we can cleanly produce?
The urgency is different. You don't earthquake-proof your house while the living room is on fire.
Could easily be Telekom, which is T-Mobile in Europe. But yeah, it's one of those.
Note that this is for keeping existing reactors open, not build new ones.
In many peoples' minds, Facebook is social media, in the way that Google is websearch. OK, if you won't/can't use Google there's Bing or DDG, but, seriously, what's the alternative to Facebook?
It's interesting that for me the first association that comes to mind is the USSR factory culture, which did indeed result in such attitudes towards quality.
This is actually further to the point, all the examples you’ve given are explicitly racially diverse characters, meaning that yellow does in fact represent the majority, and implies whiteness.
Hey, I use 4th. It may not be Gforth or Color Forth, but is not that bad :).
That's just horrifying
Under 100GB; I'm sure vanilla Postgres would suit our needs too. However, adding TimescaleDB on top was not much of an investment and in exchange we got an interface for operations we do often, effortless continuous aggregation, near-constant time appends, and a native way to leave data mutable for a period of time before marking it immutable and compressing it.

The performance is a great feature but its also just an intuitive, familiar (pretty much just SQL) tool that makes life easier.
I think idea and promise of Timescale is great, but current(well actually I tried it 1 year ago) state of things makes it very hard to choose Timescale over Clickhouse.
I've tried to setup simple Twitter parser for trends analysis, so I needed few thousand counters every few seconds. While I did not encounter any perfomance issues, size on disk was a huge deal. I don't remember precise numbers, but Clickhouse used few magnitudes lower disk space. And while Timescale has nice things like materialized views, Clickhouse has them too. And apart from them Clickhouse has excellent data compression algorithms for repeated key value type counters.
So it becomes really hard to understand why Timescale. It aims to help you with tables bigger than traditional pg can handle, but at the same time uses same amount of space.
And it's still devoid of it. Nothing to see here, other than performing pedantic prose.
The libraries in VisualBasic (before .net) do suck. But syntactically, Python and Basic are very close. I hate both very much, because all the nice features that make programming fun are lacking. Both feel very much like using a childs' toy instead of proper tools.
This isn't about new reactors, it's about operating subsidies to keep existing ones running.
Get me to the pod!

https://youtu.be/XkU1LFgKS9Y?t=64
Doesn't this encourage reddit-like power users that have multiple people operating the account? Look at any of the 1M+ karma accounts and you'll see what I mean. As soon as there's money involved I expect this to get even worse.
I don't disagree that he could have handled it better. Hell, he's a horrible debater. I'm sure in part because he's not a career politician and in part because he's arrogant and not used to being questioned. But the idea that he could have said anything that would "shut everyone up" is absurd and we both know it. CNN was caught on tape admitting that they made up stories about Trump and portrayed Biden in a positive light every time they could.

When asked to denounce he said sure I will and then immediately jumped to Antifa. As you mentioned that is horrible for a debate and for the sound bites that all of the MSM will of course use but that's not the same as not answering the question at all or saying "no, I will not denounce them". He put them on the same field as Antifa and we know how he feels about them.

You pick and choose items that fit your narrative but don't fit all of the facts. Indignation seems like a pretty natural response for someone who is not a career politician. Also, he told the Proud Boys to "stand down and stand by". Some people might give him the benefit of the doubt that the second part was a slip of the tongue but either way he clearly said to stand down. For some reason you just pick the part that makes him look the worst. Not sure if that's because that's what you heard and just didn't bother to look into it or you are willfully omitting facts.

Also it's pretty unlikely that the Proud Boys are even white supremacists as they were led by a Latino. But again for some reason these facts get omitted. I'll assume you don't have ill intent and are just misinformed.
and if someone is being defensive it’s extremely likely that they were approached or engaged with an equal lack of empathy, the obvious one being starting out with any assumption based on their skin color, it then risks becoming a Kafka trap, which is when you claim someone denying something is evidence of it actually being true
I agree. I uninstalled this add-on precisely because I couldn’t quite figure out what it was doing or where it was doing it. Unlike an add blocker there’s very little tangible difference when it’s on or off
I'm gonna take the other option and keep being against chopping off the penises of mentally ill people. Call me whatever you want. I only answer to God.

Not all "progress" is good. Societies can change for the worse too.

It's true the seeds of our decline were planted long ago. Some would say as far back as the Enlightenment or even earlier. But things have come to a head rapidly in the last few decades.

I've talked to people in the military and federal agencies about this, and they agree it's gone rapidly downhill lately.

There is a difference between inclusion and affirmative action. Including women and gays in the military is a mistake, I think, for unit cohesion purposes. But affirmative action is much worse, because it creates a nomenklatura of untouchable woke hires and promotions who run everything but are unaccountable to anyone.
A lot of this type of advice boils down to taking something simple but hard and trying to make it easy but complicated.

Weight loss would be another example. Everybody knows that you should eat less and exercise more, but those things are hard to improve at, so instead many people gravitate to gimmicky fad diets that won't work but are much easier to try.
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I honestly thought it was about a split-phase inverter for grid-tie applications too.
Seems like this could be fixed by adding sensors below the treadmill to detect anything that moves or gets sucked under it, along with sensors that stop the treadmill if it comes off the ground. There could probably be some sensors/software to detect that something other than the runner is causing resistance on the belt and do an emergency stop in that case as well.
But if it was a lab leak from a poorly managed lab, it does reflect poorly on the Chinese government that it allowed such a lab to be poorly managed. If some pathogen leaked out of a US CDC facility, and killed hundreds of thousands of people, I'm sure the assignment of blame would not stop with the facility's management.
Bingo, Go is geared towards junior programmers. Somebody who exits the university has to be able to feel productive within two weeks of using it. That's literally the cornerstone of the entire design and all things follow from it (C-like syntax, attempt to minimize the number of language constructs, and the heavy focus on imperative programming which is what they teach in college).
That is a shallow way of looking at the issue.

Giving more freedon to monopolists like Google or Facebook will result in less freedom to people that have to rely on those monopolies.
Is it? USA regulatory agencies are only getting weaker, especially in last 5 years.

And it pays off to fight with them. Look at Elon Musk and his companies.
It's the safest energy, even safer than solar or wind

Source: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/06/update-of-death-per-te...
Loan subsidies passed under GWB were supposed to result in a nuclear renaissance in the form of Westinghouse's AP1000 GEN III+ reactor. The 2 projects started under Obama have been unmitigated financial disasters. One was cancelled after spending $9B on a hole in the ground, the other is about to come online after going 2x+ over money and time budget.

All other AP1000 projects in the US have been cancelled. No one in the US is going to order an AP1000 unless the government takes on construction risk.
TimescaleDB is a great product, but if you plan to go with them long term, there are few points to consider:

* They are still trying to figure out their monetization strategy. Initially, they betted on their on-premise Enterprise version, then abandoned it. Now they are pushing their cloud version.

* Even though most of their code licensed under Apache license, some code is under their proprietary license.

* I'm sure one can get some ideas about their development directions from their issue tracker and source code, but they don't have any public product roadmap.

* Even though the product itself is technically very stable, the version compatibility leaves a lot to be desired. There are removed features and broken APIs from version to version.

* Their commercial support terms for on-premise instances don't seem to be well defined, not publicly at least.
I don't have details in my hands, only pure speculations, but it is likely possible to check on which counts this case has been classified as a criminal offense.
I was willing to take the downvote hits.
This narrative of "we need a baseload" or "the sun doesn't always shine" is just not countered often enough.

WWS would be sufficient for the majority of countries around the world including the US and all it takes is the political will to implement this.
Not technology.
Fortunately women’s height shows a normal distribution, as well as it’s not like many 150 cm women would date a guy well above 2m.
(Sorry, don’t know freedom units)
I’m not so sure about the composting - the breakdown of organic material (well, protein in this case) in soils is largely brought about by proteases and proteases are largely ineffective
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What a weird story, and weirdly reported too. Not sure what to make of it.

Anyone have juicy insider info?
This is why companies have to implement 2fa on every app where possible. It helps mitigate against such attacks. There should never be static credentials which are easily “shared”. These companies like Argyle are clearly committing criminal attacks. There are also 2fa implementations with SAML that prevent such attacks. In addition you can have enterprise password management with 2fa protection like saas pass that creates an attribution trail that can identify “shared” credentials.
I don't see any evidence humans are smart enough to operate nuclear power safely. There are too many examples of humans not fully understanding nuclear, or just being stupid with nuclear. For example, building a nuclear power plant near an earthquake fault line in CA, or where tsunamis occur in Japan. We can't get the basics of safety right here.
For anyone looking for a weight machine recommendation...this one:
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Gym quality delivered to your house. Weighs A LOT so only buy if you're pretty committed to your current domicile. It is solid and smooth. With Cosco, you get a bench included in the price that is less than other retailers for the exact same machine.
Once I tried to follow some Spanish Linear Algebra course in Forth. Doing vector operations with the stack will drive you mad early.