skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is it. People who are “very online” are a small percentage of the population — one that is almost the polar opposite of people in meatspace. They tend to be a lot more isolated from society and radicalized by the echo chamber they exist in.

Those with strong offline relationships tend not to have time to participate in these communities enough to influence them.

I find the media is particularly egregious in giving these voices an outsized level of influence because journalists are lazy and source stories on Twitter and try to manufacture drama and page views. But this media is consumed by “less online” people which contributes to the view that those opinions are more prevalent than they really are.
The real question is how long will they keep Wickr running?
I get "We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server."
Yes, performance of a battery declined over time, just as "battery health" declines on your phone today, for the same reasons. Mostly due to surface oxidation of the electrodes iirc.

Lithium-ion was never a good idea due to the fire hazard (in a crash they would just straight up explode, not even just cause a raging uncontrollable fire like LiPo, just boom) and Lithium-polymer could not support the necessary discharge rates (which I believe was also true of li-ion at the time too...). Early LiPo packs were only rated to like 0.5C or 1C peak discharge - this means, for a 2 amp-hour pack, 1C would be a discharge rate of 2 amps. Even then the packs did not really do well at their rated discharge rates - NiMH packs were far more tolerant of abuse in terms of discharge rates, in some cases you could push well beyond the rated spec and they would take it for a year or two's worth of sessions.

I was an "early adopter" on electric R/C airplanes back in the day (this would have been like 2000-2004) and the early stuff I used was mostly repurposed stuff from electric cars. The changeover to 4/5 or 2/3rds sub-C cells was a big deal at the time, the first "good" packs I owned were something called "HeCells" around 1800mAH or 2000 mAH, I also used KAN 1100mah cells. What I finally settled on at the time were these Sanyo "1950FAUP" cells which were extraordinary performers - we could push those cells to 70-80 amps peak discharge and they would take it. So in terms of the way LiPos are rated today[0], that is 40C discharge. This would only be doable for short periods, but it is necessary for launch and climbout (when the motor is running flat-out and the wing is basically stalled). Without the ability to sustain those currents it becomes very difficult to launch. Even still we did not "taxi" them like a normal airplane (or a normal model airplane), just wasn't enough power to get off the ground without a paved strip.

We typically expected about 10-15 minutes of flight time if you were flying normally, maybe 8-10 if you were really hotdogging it. So that means we averaged about 6C over the course of a flight (higher during climbout, less during cruising).

Another unsung miracle is how much motor technology has improved over the same period. My early motors were, again, repurposed brushed motors from Graupner's electric car lineup. We later moved onto some brushed Kyosho "magnetic mayhem" car motors that could push even higher levels of current. There was a Czech company called "Mega" who was an early mover on small neodymium brushless motors and that was a big deal at the time, they were far more powerful and far more efficient. Nowadays you don't even think about it, they're just a commodity, but at the time even a small brushless motor would run you about $130 or so!

[0] (tangent but it's kinda weird that NiCd and NiMH cells have traditionally been specced in amps but LiPo cells are specced in terms of "C discharge", obviously it's trivial to move between the two if you know the capacity of the pack but there's a definite difference in "style" of how the discharge rates are represented here...)
Your overall point is right, a wealth tax would be massively complex. In all honesty it's probably only worth implementing on billionaires (and using some of the funds raised for beefing up the IRS legal team and auditors).

One thing I want to point out, the reason why 'wealth taxes have always failed' is because it's against the interests of the wealthy, and the wealthy are powerful. Look how scared republicans are of grover norquist and the billionaires that back him. It's hard not to argue the same thing is happening in the EU as well.
> it's Vegas in your pocket, without any of the regulations and rules Vegas casinos have to abide by

> I'm in favor of some regulation on this sort of stuff

You really nailed the problem but I am not so sure about your solution. The gambling industry's regulations do not do very much to reduce the volume of lives ruined by the gambling industry.

We've been gambling since the paleolithic period, and like other vices, its regulation serves largely to hide it from public view, rather than actually fix any social problems. Regulating social media in any meaningful way will do the same; compliance with these regulations will force the issue further into the corporate depths and away from public view.

We already know the social media firms collude with governments around the world in secretive tribunals to deal with issues of "national security." We don't want to encourage further developments on this front.
They’re claiming not to have analyzed comms in the US:

> "This data comprises the encrypted messages of all of the users of Anoms with a few exceptions (e.g., the messages of approximately 15 Anom users in the U.S. sent to any other Anom device are not reviewed by the FBI)," the document reads.

From From https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkwj/operation-trojan-shie...
The Professional level is per user pricing and yes they are real user's. The Visionary plan is basically a discounted plan ($30/6 = $5/user vs $8/user) that has shared storage. At 4 people, the visionary plan sounds like the way to go.

Prices I see are a little bit different from what you are seeing but the pricing structure should be the same.
> I'm fairly disgruntled by how Avi Loeb is now spending so much of his efforts promoting his book on the matter

You realize this paper was written more than 4 years ago, no?

> The vast majority of astrophysicists reject the light sail theory as an explanation for the anomalous acceleration that 'Oumuamua experienced, now that we have better physical models.

Avi's point the whole time has been, precisely, that the vast majority of astrophysicists rejected his proposal even when it was the best explanation available.
Safari. Like OP, I used MiniHack for a while. Got a new device and started using Safari and it's been fine.
Zoos I've been to tend to have more exotic animals - giraffes, elephants, zebras, lions, monkeys, etc. I think a zoo would prefer to direct its budget/resources towards these kinds of animal attractions.

In the U.S., a pettings zoos or a county fair might have pigs, cows, and others like goats, horses, etc. Working animals or ones that kids/families raise for contests/shows, say the 4H society or FFA.
terraform state mv [old name] [new name]

I'd much rather explicitly state when real resources are renamed than have terraform diffing my code and guessing whether I wanted to rename it or I am actually trying to recreate something. I can only imagine the headaches that would happen with a tool trying to track changes to infra as well as changes to code without explicitly tying infra state to version control somehow.

https://www.terraform.io/docs/cli/commands/state/mv.html
I did write a big whiny rant, but deleted it. I don't think it adds to the conversation.

Let's just say that I can't work in today's industry, and maintain my personal sense of Integrity.

It's not them; it's me. My choice.
Systems failing is not evidence of systems not existing.
Just some fun humor we added for other nerds who read robots.txt files.
Apple is working with Cloudflare and their Warp service at least in some countries[0].

The 'Manage your Network' section starts at 11:34 and the important thing here is that Apple is using QUIC to communicate to their proxies, and that includes almost all DNS queries. They do say that enterprises/schools can block the ingress hostnames to disable private relay (13:56).

0: https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1402027672767664128?s=2...
Scrivener is the bomb. If it had vim bindings I'd be in heaven. And it's nice to support a small company making a product entirely focused on just being GOOD.
The relatively new Node graph visualization can't be used with any datasource, even if you select the data to fit the model of the two nodes and edges data frames, because it needs a special meta property to work.

EDIT: it seems it is no longer the case, I will test it :

https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/35163/files#diff-148...

Also it would be nice if an embedded panel could select its own time range.
Paywalled. :-/
Your response is a bit harsh.
That's truck "enthusiasts" for you, a good proportion of them are elitists. They love to pretend that owning a truck means that one must go off-roading and tow something giant to some outdoorsy spot every weekend. Nevermind that the people who need "work trucks" buy vans a large proportion of the time because securing tools is really important for people who work out of their vehicles.

Suburbanites buying trucks need space for runs to LowKEA Depot and the occasional furniture purchase. Offroading capability is limited to driving in a field/yard. This thing will tow a small trailer/boat without any issues. It's the perfect truck for most buyers, but the F150 is safe because "truck enthusiasts" will never accept this.

In 15 years when fleets of these are cheaply available on the used market, we will probably see a surge of popularity from younger people for them.
Over the years I've evaluated multiple other solutions like Grafana but none of them came even near the feature set and simplicity of Grafana.

Awesome work, huge thanks to all contributors.
So, unless I miss what you're saying, is that you propose that the government own a share in every business that is created by way of "taxation". Is that not what you're proposing in this statement?

Do they also get to leverage these shares to have a vote as to the business decisions, like any other share holder does? (assuming they have enough shares in this hypothetical share tax)
Layoutit v2 – An interactive CSS Grid Generator, with support for implicit areas
What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?
> to raise public health by eliminating the personal health and social problems that drug addition creates.

If that had ever been the aim of any drug policy, drugs - including hard drugs - would be legally accessible at licensed stores, mental health care and social services would be accessible for everyone, and fact-based drug education in school be the norm, not the exception.

The reality is that drug policy has direct roots in racism - marijuana and crack prosecution intended to specifically target hippies and people of color.
If the existing laws are not enforced, maybe it's time to remove, or at least rethink the exemptions then?
Ha, that would have been a really smart idea! Sadly we didn't think of that at the time. But we had other honey pot URLs.
This seems to be the case. Watching the Spanish dubbed version of Community on Hulu, the dubs have the study group taking an English class, while the subs have them in a Spanish class as in the original.

Side note: in the dubbed version, it's hilarious when they switch to speaking bad English where they would have switched to bad Spanish in the original.
Please expand on this I am interested to hear.
And the tracking of all transactions over $10,000 used to be a reasonable limit.
Which is a shame because from the followup emails it becomes clear that the loss was actually Zed Shaw's fault (he explicitly typed "fossil revert" which is what deleted his code) and not the bug (there was a bug he encountered but it didn't end up in data loss).
I'll have you know our beards were neatly trimmed when we added those.
Firefox WebRTC support isn't missing anything big, but it's missing a lot of little things from the 1.0 spec that Chrome (and, increasingly, Safari) have. But, much worse from a support perspective, recent Firefox releases have been fairly likely to have WebRTC-related breaking changes and regressions.

We all try to support Firefox. But given the relative usage numbers of Firefox, Chrome/Chromium/Electron/Edgium, and Safari, it's sometimes hard to devote resources to testing and workarounds.
“ The natural alignment between skating and solving new problems is one of the reasons the payoffs from startups are so high ”

In my experience, startups aren’t always run by skaters nor do they recruit skaters, but can be, by most measures, successful.

Anecdotally, these characteristics appears to be a subset of successful startups.
I don't entirely disagree, but current political and economic structures aren't designed well enough for a wealth tax.
in the short run

in the long run, I suppose the feeling goes, we are all dead

my children won't be though
Writing plugins for Caddy is so easy that it's generally not necessary to have scripting built-in. You can just build yourself a new binary with a Go plugin just by using the "xcaddy" build tool. https://caddyserver.com/docs/extending-caddy

But yeah, it's still something at the back of our minds, and we were considering Starlark for this, but that hasn't really materialized because it's usually easier to just go with the plugin route.
We already know, and we knew even before you did. Two of them were sent to test your disclosure practices, and you failed. You're an absolutely terrible person. How dare you!? Good day to you, sir/madame. I said "Good day!"

/s
Seattle cybersecurity startup ExtraHop to be acquired by private equity firms
Work requires compromising ourselves. We do this for survival. There is no way to make most tech ethical. It’s an economic reality that is quite evident in the historical data. When was the last time we had an ethical tech company? We have apple, facebook and google, all evil in slightly different ways, all taking more from humanity than they give back.
Emotional Recognition AI Live Demo
They have failed to prove efficacy in a trial. Why believe it has a 3% chance of working? Do you think arbitrary chemicals have a 3% chance of curing some disease, even when it has yet to be shown? There’s absolutely no reason to believe this.
In my recent experience, Bing, Tineye, and Yandex are all better at finding image sources than Google Images. But who knows how long that will last.
So why didn't the 'automatic failover' kick in during the outage? Where was it then? I don't see anything about 're-routing traffic' anywhere in the status page [0]

[0] https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj
In the last decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has gone a long way. As never before, machines can communicate with people. Some are even intelligent enough to respond and adjust to the discussion flow in real-time.

Those of us who work in sectors such as the AI used to serve our customers witness this progress in technology close up. In recent years I have seen the growth of voice-based and text-based Conversational AI apps, from simple chatbots to more powerful, contextual, and smart virtual assistants. The next stage has been automated customer service.

I also recognize, though, that AI is still far from autonomous.
If it is actually priceless, then you should not be able to hog it for yourself. /s
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/business/frys-electronics-clo...

Edit: Yes, the electronics store chain and not just the grocery store that was at Kooser and Camden many, many years.
I absolutely think a statically typed language is the right way to go (from experience using a Python->CloudFormation generator even with Mypy), but Dhall is going to be really unfamiliar for most people and it's hard to sell people on new languages that are syntactically unfamiliar.

As an aside, I think functional concepts could have made their way into mainstream programming much earlier if the FP people would have been willing to lower themselves to syntax that is readable to us plebs--I think this is no small part of Rust's success. People say syntax doesn't matter, but I disagree.
Things Tourists Can Enjoy in the Heart of Pakistan
Tall houses, snow-capped peaks, hot air, green forests, wide deserts You’d assume this stuff couldn’t coexist in the same space when they’re so opposed. In Pakistan, though, this is the standard. This one is for you if you’ve known of Pakistan and developed an interest in it but aren’t sure whether to go or not.
The Case for Xcode Cloud
>preserve their wealth

Like it or not, they created it.

Should we extract more taxes from them, yes, arguably. But we don't have to resort to blackmail or other underworld tactics since it really accomplishes nothing other than momentary outrage by the mob.

Get congress to enact laws that close loopholes.
If the FDA views its role as evaluating for harms only and not efficacy, then this isn't itself necessarily a contradiction.

That doesn't change the fact that this approval is deeply disheartening and tells us the FDA is cool with any random product claims so long as they don't actively hurt people.

But, hey, for all those folks who glory in the good ol' days when men were men and radium was a cure-all, the good news is at this rate we'll be back to snake oil and patent medicine in no time!
I disagree, at least not with so simple an implementation. I don't want to live in a world where we're unable to escape working by constant taxes. There should be at least a minimum threshold where wealth is completely untaxed so that people can live freely and not have to work until they die. Enough for a house, some property and land, and a retirement fund. I'd consider it more justifiable to tax someone like Bill Gates with billions of dollars and millions of acres of land, but it's just unnecessary for taxes to be absolutely inescapable.
"The top earners pay the majority of tax already!" is a smoke and mirrors argument to try and distract you, especially when they've been collecting all the income gains. Consider that if there are income gains which go exclusively to the wealthy but the tax code stays the same, by definition they will end up paying an increasing percentage of total tax revenue, even though this situation does not mean their taxes need to be decreased - precisely the opposite.
I assume it is like immigration. In one sense, it is a long legal process with a variety of steps to ensure this person is serious. But in a more practical sense, it just involves crossing a border and having the phase "illegal immigrant" removed from the vocabulary.
> Firefox chrome has gotten so small its a hard to find a 'safe' place to grab.

That might suggest that having no titlebars on systems that can display more than one window at a time isn't the best idea, either ;-)
Racism? A bit of a stretch there. Hippies were mostly upper middle class white kids rebelling against their post-war indulgent upbringing. And alcohol prohibition before that was aimed at everyone.
> Sure, but malleability that has a close to zero chance of being a problem.

https://efail.de

https://tonyarcieri.com/all-the-crypto-code-youve-ever-writt...

This isn't even a controversy among cryptographers or cryptography engineers.
Looking at where Mozilla spends its money and their layoff of engineering staff, if they don’t prioritize Firefox and engineering, why should we?

Also from Apple’s perspective, there may be x% of people using Firefox, but I bet every one of them has the ability to use Chrome if they wanted to, and the people that are sticking solely to Firefox aren’t the ones likely to use FaceTime anyway.
> I don't care if everything fails sometimes

You can say you don't care for reality, but it's not going to help you have better systems.

> There are sites that should NOT go down

Then they surely either engineered their system to not 100% rely on Fastly or negotiated appropriate terms with Fastly (Or decided Fastly going down was an acceptable business risk, which it is for nearly everybody). Everything else would be negligent, and surely nobody would be negligent when operating a site that "should NOT go down"?
If you don't feel like it will perpetuate it, what thread are you talking about?
SQLite is actually maintained in many files, but they are concatenated into one file for distribution. Here is the reasoning: https://sqlite.org/amalgamation.html
Tried ProtonMail a few years ago but couldn't find a reason to switch from Fastmail (which has been excellent IMO). The number one Fastmail feature for me their excellent support for Aliases, so I can run 5 different domains and multiple email addresses for each domain from a single interface. It didn't seem like Protonmail could do this as elegantly.

Anything I'm missing by not being on Protonmail?
Aha, it's interesting that your example 100% fit my case, Asian and NTG.

BTW, What you guys are doing is very impressive. It could be very useful for whom not able to go to the doctor's office.
Create Complex Report from Various Sources with python
I'm not sure what you are trying to say, especially with the "coerciable locals", other than trying to say China and Russia have "zero rule of law".
The privacy of the people whose data was leaked.
I've always wanted a service like this, for movies, TV, and music.

I might be missing it, but is there a way to share a link to a specific clip, preferably not including the text used to search for it?
What the open source world calls "freedom of choice", the rest of the world calls "waste of time". I'd argue it does more people more good to have a de facto standard based on a close duopoly (Google + Apple, webkit/blink) to code websites and devices against, rather than the clusterfuck that is the WHATWG, W3C, etc. process. The existence of Gecko is nice for Mozilla but a time sink for developers and users, who at the end of the day just want to look up restaurant menus or buy tickets or check their email instead of fiddling with browser idiosyncrasies.

If Mozilla moved to some Webkit/Blink/Chromium derivative like everyone else, the world could standardize on that renderer and they are still free to "innovate" on the browser UI/chrome surrounding that engine and differentiate themselves that way.

As it is, Gecko adds nothing to the web ecosystem anymore and wastes everyone's time.
This a worse idea than the Jump to Conclusions mat.

I have to choose a price for all of my assets and then anyone could just be like 'yeah, I'll buy at that price' and take it from me? What if I bought the assets for the hope of it maybe being worth something in 5-10 years? Do I prematurely announce 'yeah, it's worth the price in 5-10 years that I hope it will be', and pay an enormous tax on something that's not a guarantee it will ever go to that price, just to keep other people from buying it from me if I announced what the market value is now? (And also I'm not allowed to keep any assets at market value unless I announce it's worth more to me?)

Ugh. Never get in a position where you could feasibly propose this in government, please.
Or, perhaps, stop accepting payment that may be valueless when you try to access it. And stop trying to get paid in a way that hides your income from the tax system.
People have been saying this for 10 years, since before Microsoft actually tried it and failed. I simply don't see it.
Thats a different game. I'm sure he does evaluate the peasant aggregate animosity toward him versus his competition to other elites.
We tried that already. It wasn’t pretty.
>You misunderstood something, end-to-end encrypted mail just works from a proton to a proton address.

No, I am aware of this, but PM's advertising lies by omission.

>When did Apple open-sourced their email server?

I'll counter this by asking when ProtonMail open sourced theirs.