skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you actually ordered Starlink service yet? I'm on the list having put in a deposit and they expect to start offering service here in September. I had to give them an address so they know where to send the satellite to. That gives them precise location.

Though sure, you could make the purchase using a pre-paid card under a fake identity so they can't associate the address with a person. At least not through their own records. House deeds are public record, so if you own the house, they can figure out who you are by making a public records request, which is generally one way refi spammers find you.

Plus, depending on where you are, the government itself might sell your name and address to third parties. I know Texas does this, which is why I put getting a Texas ID for such a long time and continued using California ID until Texas last year decided you can't vote with an out-of-state ID. So now the DMV is selling my identity and I'm getting a lot more spam.
Centimeters are pretty common. Rulers are marked with cm and mm. We use mostly m and cm inside houses. A door width? 90 cm. A door height 2 meters and 10.

And don't forget cubic centimeters (or cc) for engines. Anything from 2000 cc down to 50 cc is very common east of the Atlantic Ocean.
I live in a thriving small town.
The causal event for that was the discovery that the USSR was a hollow giant and the red scare not based in reality. After that communism lost alot of its fear-factor and a take-over was becoming ever more unlikely.
Matt Levine has a good write-up on the situation as usual: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-06/blockc...
Even digital worlds need power to run and mass for hardware to run on. Eventually there will not be enough of that in Solar System and you will have to expand.

Also more source material from real world events could be useful for bootstrapping.
Ok. That makes sense. If I own a coin, the coin is the only thing I own. There’s no underlying security (asset) that gives it value.

So then it would be more accurate for me to have said that in Canada all crypto gains and losses are considered income or capital gains/losses for tax purposes. IE: You have to track your gains/losses like you do for stocks.

I only considered my side of the view where there’s not much difference. I’m guessing you’re talking about the side that creates coins where the technicalities of whether or not they’re securities makes a huge difference for regulatory requirements.

Thanks for explaining.
> Personally I'd rather put my trust in democracy.

That's simply naive. You don't think powerful elites do and will try everything to gain and maintain power over the peasants? Personally I'd rather put my trust in having some way to fight back when the inevitable happens instead of being powerless.

> India in Kashmir

Not sure why you think Kashmir is tyrannical? Your other examples are also flawed. The fights happening in lets say Syria are tribal infighting - similar to gang fighting on a larger scale. Similar to Chicago gangs on a larger scale.

Despite all the flaws of Assad, most Syrians like him. It's the same thing as what happened in Libya or Iraq. Regime change wars is what destroyed those countries thanks to which there's slavery back in Libya.

This has happened several times in history. People get disarmed, then their rights get taken away. The most recent example is Venezuela.

2012: "Venezuela bans private gun ownership"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-18288430

2017: Venezuela: Video Shows Armored Vehicle Rolling Over Protesters

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/venezuela-video-shows-ar...

2019: "MSNBC Admits: Because Venezuelans Were Disarmed, They Have No Power Against the Government"

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/05/01/msnbc-...

I have friends in Hong Kong who literally prayed that USA doesn't give away their guns.
And if they both say no...?
Oh my, they cal KYC "friction", that is indeed creative writing.
You know for all the shit Microsoft gets here, Azure is pretty amazing to work with. I'm gonna say it.
It's the "How Do You Do Fellow Kids?" meme come to life.
> Rather oddly, Microsoft has historically gotten this nearly perfect.

It's not odd at all. Microsoft had the chance to gain experience in this field since its inception (thanks to developing an ubiquitous OS with good backwards compatibility), whereas delivering products and services to governments is relatively new ground for Google and Amazon.
Wikileaks also leaked the locations of all the AWS buildings a couple years ago.
This is a bizarre distinction to make when the third party doctrine has resulted in mass surveillance in the US.

> The European Parliament isn't (in this action, at least) compelling anyone to surveil anything.

Why shoot down something that you're adding to the article? Who said the European Parliament was compelling anyone to do anything?
True.

I've been burnt a few times by bad CEOs/co-founders. Where I did my part (to build out the product) but they screwed up theirs.

Next time a non-technical founder pitches me to come on board and do all the actual work then I'll be requiring the a majority stake.

Looking forward to CEO-as-a-service or as part of an investment deal. At the end of the day, CTO-as-a-service does exist and technical work does get outsourced to dev shops using investor money, why not outsource/delegate the remaining non-technical founder work?
It might have started at AWS, but it seems they really want it to have a broad set of contributors under the Linux Foundation umbrella.

"We [at AWS] invested over a year to recruit partners with the right mix of resources, expertise, and above all, motivation to foster a self-sustaining community. We partnered with Linux Foundation as our trusted expert open-source organizational home because it stands as one of the best on the planet at managing large open-source projects. The Linux Foundation can provide the level of expert management demanded by such a large open-source effort. We are thrilled for the backing of a range of partners who feel just as strongly as we do about empowering choice for games and simulations developers. These partners include: Accelbyte, Adobe, Apocalypse Studios, Audiokinetic, Backtrace.io, Carbonated, Futurewei, GAMEPOCH, Genvid Technologies, Hadean, Huawei, HERE Technologies, Intel, International Game Developers Association, Kythera AI, Niantic, Open Robotics, PopcornFX, Red Hat, Rochester Institute of Technology, SideFX, Tafi, TLM Partners, and Wargaming." [1]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/gametech/open-3d-engine/
You clean your top half, then flip around and clean your bottom half.
If you can't see how having inexperienced programmers writing code that is guaranteed memory-safe beats having world-class expert programmers writing dangerous code because even world-class expert programmers cannot wield C safely then why are you working in the field?
Seems like they will break into smaller contracts and Oracle has a good chance of winning those if not this big one.
They'll be forced to do what they should have done from the get go – invest into building their own infrastructure.
“multi-vendor contract“ Microsoft will definitely be involved in the next contract when it comes to products such as this “all for nothing” doesn’t exist. What ever they were working on internally will work its way into the new program.
Looking to hire a 100% remote Senior Oracle PLSQL Developer
Exactly, educated doesn’t mean schooled/credentialed. The word for this is “discrimination”— the more educated people we produce the less discriminating our institutions must be. If academia doesn’t discriminate the few from the many, it’s non-functional. Colleges are not to educate the public, they’re supposed to advance human knowledge. These are incongruent goals.
Wow, thank you for the law class. However your knowledge seems rather selective. Have you ever come across this law?

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCODE-2011-title47/USCO...
Agreed. Most people, when confronted with the choice of jail vs. doing what they are told, will do what they are told.
Regardless, could you fathom that someone might think that to be true? If so, there you go.
Quitting smoking is already a big step for your health. Smoking requires all kind of complicated chemical reactions that result in things like free radicals and airborne particulates that certainly will damage your health.

Vaping is mainly a physical process that changes fluids to gases. It is very generally assumed that it is a lot safer than smoking. Apart from one exception my e-liquids are officially approved for human consumption. The one exception of course is nicotine, but that is pretty easily metabolized. So while you definitely should not consume to much of it, it either kills you very fast or it won't kill you at all.
I mean the people paying $150,000 for a lot in Marfa (looking at listing on Zillow) are probably not locals from those $39k income households. Perversely, the way property taxes in Texas work, this likely means that anyone under 65 is watching the property taxes climb faster than their income, increasing pressure to sell and move to a cheaper property.

It's a real town, but the service folks are largely priced out at this point (although I'd expect this real estate bubble might not last as there might not be that many people willing to buy at Austin prices in Marfa).
This is a nice overview of historic urbanism, but it nearly completely misses the real question:

How will you legally be allowed to build this car-free town?

Even in Texas you can't just build whatever you want wherever you want. Every city and most counties have minimum lot sizes, road, sewer, power, and fire code requirements that would completely defeat any effort to build a medieval european village in the US.

In terms of location, you need to be 5-7 miles away from any existing city to be outside of it's ETJ. Any closer and you're probably going to be subject to the zoning laws of that city.

In theory you could pull this off if you could get a critical mass in an unincorporated area and then incorporate a town so that the new town sets the development laws to allow this pattern of development, but you normally need anywhere from 200 to 2000 people to get that started, and until that time the county rules dictate.

One potential hack is to build the town as a condominium complex, so the entire thing is considered one apartment/condo building, even though the design is nothing like a normal apartment/condo. Another is to treat it as a trailer park, but you probably have to do a phase of development where the buildings are small pier-and-beam structures that can pass as "not permanently attached" to the land.

In short: At this point the design principles of historic and modern urbanism are generally well understood and not that interesting. The primary obstacle to these practices being brought back is that they're utterly illegal in North America, and the plausible routes around that illegality make the economics - which would already be challenging - substantially more difficult.
>STEM degrees are not the main source of "elite overproduction" by any stretch.

How many of today's billionaires have a tech background?
An OS asking you to confirm that you want to delete a file is also friction. Like KYC, it is a positive, but friction nonetheless.

In context, they also mention traditional markets being closed at certain days and times. This is also friction, but negative.
Will it recommend me feeds based on an OPML I import? Also RSS doesn't clutter up anything. You probably got the worst of it with Feedly.
High Risk != High Reward. There are far too many college educated people in the US that assume this. I walked in getting my degree knowing full well I was paying simply for the paper and the potential for getting a job in my field. I didn't walk in like I did the first time getting my associates degree believing I'd be making $50k upon graduation.
I've never seen a video that actually lays it out.

The course to be a level 1 instructor (the lowest level) is three days intensive.

Level 2 is four days.

Level 3 is a five day course, plus separate two day exams (on and off snow).

Level 4 (highest level).. well, I'm not there yet, it takes most people three years to do all the training and pass all the tests.

For virtually everyone you have to snowboard/ski full time (100+ day seasons) working on your technique and teaching at least every day for about ten years to pass level four.

The teaching isn't something you can learn from a couple of hour video.
It's the "it's OK when we do it" rationale
"Welcome to the Forum" post is a dead link, goes to a 404.

https://www.startupschool.org/posts/35214
Brave New World was meant to be a dystopia, not a model to follow!
> the fact that a star comes close enough to the Solar System to have some tangible effect every 23M years or so

Do you have a good source that expands on this? That sounds so interesting.
Been having problems over HTTPS for the last hour or more. Would just get Error 500 status.

Will be interesting to see what went wrong.
>If they had to bear the cost in any way, they would be incentivized to reduce the amount of pain they're inflicting on customers

Maybe? That might nudge execs into providing better customer service experience, but if I were an exec I sure as hell am not going to let my well-being depend on good customer experience alone. Eventually you're going to get a crazed lunatic that good customer service can't defuse, and for that reason I'm going to still require physical barriers and/or armed bodyguards.
No shit. I've never claimed to be harassed. However, the engineer involved in this thread was. You and others have come onto this site and continued the harassment via telecommunications devices. But please tell me more about how to deescalate conflict, specifically how continuing to gaslight the engineer on another site is a form of de-escalation.
Agreed. Kubernetes is eating the cloud and those big cloud providers should be scared. The future of these cloud platform providers is as a utility for virtualised hardware, storage and networking, firewall - and that’s about it. The software layer belongs in the kube.
>> Users can trade the tokens anonymously 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from anywhere, unhindered by capital controls, “know your client” rules imposed on broker-dealers, and other frictions of the traditional financial system.

> These are certainly new innovations and features, be they good or bad.

That's saying a car with its seat belts removed has an "innovative new feature." The usual word for that situation is "regression."
> Freedom and individualism (however shallow) is emphasized.

It's really not though.

By Western standards, America is a very conformist country. You can see this in how schoolchildren are required to pledge allegiance to the flag, to the slow acceptance of gay rights, to controversy over saying over "Happy Holidays."

I deeply wish America was a country that supported individualism in the sense of supporting and even celebrating the right to live your life as you see fit.

All too often, however, it seems that this love of "individualism" only surfaces when someone needs help or asks for cooperation.

That's not individualism. This simply selfishness.
In short, whether or not the US has universal healthcare, he would feel the same feelings towards the same entities and it would have cost him about the same amount of labour to get assistance for the birth of his son.
Users have a trivial defense: set permissions to prevent others from seeing the files. System files tend to live in world readable directories.
Sure, that will do a CoW copy, but it's not actually the same effect at all, is it? In other words, writing to the copy will not propagate the writes to the original. (or am I wrong on that)

Besides, won't this walk and copy the entire directory subtree? (i.e., CoW only applied to the files themselves, not just directory entries.)

I'm saying I'd like to just have a hard link to the directory itself; if the directory is effectively a list of inode pointers, I just want to add another pointer to that list of pointers. Then, if I create or modify a new file in some deep nested directory in either copy, it will be instantly available in both or more locations without any metadata changes on disk to more than one copy of the metadata itself. This would be interesting for certain use cases.
I’m not sure how you’re getting to “not innovative”.
>If you know what transactions are to be included in the next block, and you're in charge of ordering them on a multi-minute timeframe, and you know pricing on exchanges in real-time why would you not take advantage? Why would you not front run? There's no law stopping you is there?

Check out time-lock encryption, auctioning transaction order rights, or Automata's conveyor service etc.

There's some powerful ideas floating around to bring MEV to negligible levels.

This is the beauty of crypto:

users will flow to the most efficient blockchain. If MEV is their primary concern, they'll flow to that which nullifies it :)
> Because cold water holds more oxygen, as temps rise, fish become stressed. Above 70˚ F, rainbow trout stop growing and stressed individuals start dying.

Yikes.

Reminder that we're all focused on the 0.041% CO2 in the air. But the ~21% oxygen in the air, and what is available to the ocean, is an important climate question too.
> The Caccia sketch was damaged during the robbery and discarded, the suspect told the police.

The real crime.

Works being stolen usually adds to their value.
True but people with private communications don't usually need to hide their metadata. Who cares if they know you are communicating with your friends and family if they don't know you are complaining about the thin skinned government.

Anonymity is an issue, but it is far from the most important issue.
I’ve never seen someone say “their argument wasn’t made in front of congress, so it doesn’t hold the same weight”

Attack their argument, not the location where they said the argument.
There is also the problem, that "hacking" the system is rewarded higher then adding to the system.

If you get a job at wallstreet, gambling the system, you will be higher rewarded in money and status, then if you joined a lab that researched fusion or asteroid mining.

Worser still, society will communicate to you, that you are a "sucker" for working so hard for so little.
How is it not friction?
But you know eventually someone will do a big over the air firmware update and brick a couple of hundred cars. This is almost certain to happen eventually.
> Their entire business model is based on evading KYC/AML requirements.

Except you can't put money in without them, and if a government like the US is unhappy they go out of their way to prevent their citizens from trading there.

This is definitely not what their 'entire business model is based on'.
Even small changes can move an ecosystem e.g. change altitude at which a plant thrives; change depth at which ocean life survives. Coffee plants are currently moving - the traditional mountain fields are no longer optimal so planting has to be done elsewhere. Reefs of course are dying/dead and regrowing in deeper water.

Who cares? Folks who depend on food from these ecosystems. They have to eat every day/year. They cannot wait for reefs to regrow in 100 years, etc.

We can probably react. But will we? We let Cambodian people die in the '70s rather that lift a finger. Our track record is very poor. Hard to care about people dying halfway around the world.

But politics is very affected. The Cambodian famine created the Khmer Rouge for instance.

Imagine refugees from starving countries, looking to settle elsewhere. First thousands, then hundreds of thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions. The outcry from 1000's of Syrian refugees rocked nations. Now multiply that by 100 thousand.
But that is not true. Skimming a few billions of Bezos' fortune would be enough to give all Amazon employee's a hefty raise for years to come.
There's no benefit to the user to having no seatbelts. There's a huge benefit to having open markets at all times.

The usual phrase for your argument is "false analogy."
Not just cultural but also possibly biological/corporeal diversity as the different cultrues start to adapt to their specific local environments.

The Orions Arm collaborarive hard SF universe has very many first contacts due to this as as often two civilisations of human origin that meet each other look to each other totally alien (one can survive in liquid methane, the other near stars in hard vacuum). They did meet a few actual (and very unique) aliens but it took a lot of verification it's not just another hyper adapted modification happy ofshoot of humanity. :)
My routine is similar, except that my step 3 is a further “sipping” inhale, repeating your step 2 and my step 3 until I can’t take in any more air or hold my breath any longer. I’ve found that the initial “max capacity inhale” really isn’t that, but it takes some seconds holding that much air in at rest, with the trachea closed, in order to further inhale.

I think my version works because the diaphragm can’t spasm when it’s stretched (or contracted, not sure which) so far out from its neutral position. If I think of it next time, I’ll have to try your method out!
Source paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-021-00736-7
Hmm, I was under the impression that there already are tools that automatically convert system API calls (IO, audio, networking) to web-compatible APIs.
Sure. What I mean is that quaint files (e.g. [1] and [2]) look like simplified HTML ; you're defining functions, div hierarchy, formatting and such. I cannot comfortably read the .q, I have to read the rendered HTML. On the other hand, this [3] looks like a text file with ASCII formatting ; the fact that it compiles to HTML is almost incidental.

[1]: https://github.com/breuleux/blog/blob/master/content/about.q
[2]: https://github.com/breuleux/quaint-doc/blob/master/content/i...
[3]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/breuleux/earl-grey/master/...
It seems that for both desalination and sanitation (as discussed in the article) of water is now an energy issue.

What are some other basic problems (food, water, temperature management, etc.) we're facing that are primarily energy-bottlenecked?
You said it yourself: "Cool"
A small follow-up on that destroyed sketch by Caccia

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1163872/the-mystery-of-...
The US had a problem with their offerings so they pulled out. The UK has a problem so they've started setting up a version without those.

I see nothing bad in general about attempting to offer more products and they do try to comply with governments which do not allow those offerings.
But not so fully as to offer decentralized ACH or SWIFT onramps. USD support comes in the form of bonds, largely offered by unaudited firms, without risk compensation. (and it offers this service at a far greater cost and latency than centralized alternatives)

And yes, I know, there's the promise of 'a solution to these problems' on the horizon. But this promise will always exist in blockchain, because the investors are arrogant, and incapable of understanding the technology. (and willfully ignorant of such understanding)
Waiting for the inevitable explanation of why this is fatally flawed and won’t work at scale?