skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I would guess that the taxes need to phase in within a decade."

Isn't 15 years the best case scenario? Implementing the tax 10 years from now likely wouldn't produce the results quickly enough. And without technologies fully able to replace existing ones it would just mean more expense stuff with the same emissions (I'm thinking of concrete specifically).
With enough radioactive fuel, it will last for the rest of your life!
Indeed. Righteous anger should be respected, but I find that any anger now gets labeled as toxic. It is okay to be angry at things that deserve your anger.
Why introverts excelled at working from home
Looks tough for them because they can't follow the Nintendo model and make it back with the games. (Compared to an ordinary PC which runs Steam games but is not subsidized by Valve.)
The book responds to most of the "not there yet" concerns. The idea is that if there are 1,000 species aware of even primitive life on a particular planet, chances are at least one of them will be close enough for it to be worth the effort to destroy it. This is because technological development is exponential and you can't predict if/when a planet will produce dangerous technology equal or greater than your own. If you wait, you only increase the risk of being destroyed.
Meme stocks are losing that meme stock energy
That domain appears to be suspended
Oh, god. No, please.

Or if this is an option, turn it off by default, please.

And only do it for small chat rooms. I can’t imagine what this might be like with 49+ participants.
Short lived on those timescales, yes. But not necessarily short lived in terms of our perspective.

If we imagine that in the last 5 billion years, there have been a good solid 10,000 post-industrial civilizations, and each of those civilizations has lasted 10,000 years (in the post-industrial stage where they're detectable), then that implies that of the last 5,000,000,000 years, 100,000,000 of them have been host to a post-industrial civilization: a given year has on average 0.02 currently present civilizations in it.

Now, this hypothesis does probably imply that significantly interstellar civilizations are impossible, since it seems like if you've colonized say 20 stars, what disaster could possibly end your civilization?

(I think the most likely scenario is that we're the only civilization ever to have developed in the Milky Way. Everything else seems like it assumes a lot of additional stuff.)
Very interesting idea. If you had to pay, who did you pay? My thought is the money would go to charity, but since that is (usually) a good thing then I don't know if paying money for failing is a good enough incentive.
Do you happen to have some links about high 5 and low 2? Interested in what these mean.
Private corporations spend the last decade+ consolidating communications, then the USG works with those corporations to censor anything they deem "problematic?" Really, that falls into a textbook fascist definition.

Consider that virtually every other mass-communication medium CAN'T do what the social firms are getting away with currently, rather than cheer on your "right side of history" allies.
Okay, I'll bite. Free speech is a legal doctrine and an aspect of culture that America has traditionally valued. Few examples below.

* The Biden administration is working with technology companies to flag users and posts for removal.

* Journalists and whistleblowers are being censored, monitored and even jailed.

* More Americans than ever say they cannot speak their mind or they risk losing their livelihoods.

* The public isn't allowed to have reasonable discussions on scientific research or theory if it is counter to the prevailing narrative or they risk being censored and removed from platforms. See ivermectin and lab leak.

* Our biggest newspapers cannot report on majority held beliefs and perspectives without retribution from activists.

* Our institutions are referring to books they don't like as "violence."

* Our nation's intelligence agencies have embedded agents into our corporate news media that works as efficient propogandists. Disinformation sourced from these agencies is disseminated through these channels, reported as facts, and then used as a cudgel to silence and censor critics.
Also people can’t simply disagree anymore. The other side is just wrong or labeled some kind of denier or conspiracy theorist.
I agree. There’s no doubt that what’s happening in Xinjiang is beyond terrible, but the West and its allies in Asia are preparing for war. I wouldn’t be surprised if India joined.

The big questions are is this just a new Cold War since everyone has nukes, or will it transform into a hot one? Will Russia participate and if so which side will it take? Who will make the first strike? I have a feeling that it won’t be hard to trick Beijing into striking first. All the US needs to do is give the Taiwanese government the freedom to say whatever they want.
One reason JWT has taken so long and is so expensive is that launch costs used to be "astronomical".

In the SpaceX era of reusable rockets, those costs become 1-2 orders of magnitude smaller, and I expect a flurry of simpler space telescopes in the nearish future.

That's the theory. Does anyone know if such things are being worked on?
“The greatest minds of my generation…” As long as our society is structured to reward crypto gamblers and other parasites over all others, this phenomenon will continue.
I was going to say somewhere in the mountains in Switzerland, but not the literally most busy city we have :)
Top Replicated Findings from Behavioral Genetics (2016) [pdf]
> Or you know, maybe you are not as smart as you think you are. I know witch one is more likely.

*which
How Amazon turned a generation against labor
And that's on top of the fact that the original problems were the epitome of "That's a hardware problem, not a software problem."
My reading of CGS is that it also means to boost ergonomics. Without "entity" concept of ECS triad, it should be 33% easier to understand how everything works, and what pitfalls exist.
>You can pick another commercial software vendor.

With what's left of your budget, which is now very, very negative. Better to redefine abject failure as success to minimize the chances of it ending your career if you're involved in firm purchasing in any way. It's not like boards of directors have a clue. The big consulting firms will assist pulling the wool and priming the press so they can move onto the next mark. It's impossible to by cynical enough.
Anecdotally but don’t write off the younger generation. I was teaching 6th grade social studies a few years ago.

Flat earth, ancient aliens, and other conspiracy theories are in their mindshare.

YouTube was their medium.

I think you nailed it for the cable tv audience though.
It’s such a bummer that a tool like this has a subscription model pricing. I don’t know what it’s like in other companies, but where I work getting a recurring subscription approved is a hassle compared to a one-time thing. I’ve been looking for something like this for work but a recurring cost is almost an instant dealbreaker.
> Accelerating a rock to relativistic speeds is pretty easy

Huh? How? I haven't seen any proposal that doesn't start with the assumption that we can inject a rock with a preposterous amount of energy let alone hit (in astronomical scales) a ridiculously small target, not to mention navigate all the gravity wells in between.
I'd live 3 months just to be a cyborg, that's pretty cool. Maybe overdrive the thing and see if I can be harder, better, faster, stronger.

Sadly, all of that would likely be painful, so it's just a daydream.
Not sure if that's a joke or reference i don't get but Currywurst is not Swiss (and honestly i haven't seen it here very often either) and Lindt is basically only the "cheap export stuff" you would be surprised how much better chocolate can get ;)
I absolutely doubt this. I think it is extremely likely that Trump is nominated with Desantis. If not, it is expected that Desantis would be front runner. Straw polls do show Nikki Haley as main choice I believe though. Haven’t been following it thay closely.

I think the 3 people you listed would be highly unlikely choices.
Given that most complex life is probably carbon based, and given the one planet with complex life we can observe, my guess is that most complex life runs into one of two paths:

1. You don't have enough easily accessible hydrocarbons in ground to build a civilization advanced enough to even get you into space.

2. You do have enough hydrocarbons which leads to inevitable overshoot, and accompanying collapse before you ever get close to figuring out interstellar travel. Exponential growth patterns lead you to either exhaust the carrying capacity of your planet, or you end up warming your planet too much and die off (or a little bit of both).

We're a pretty good case study between 1 and 2. Right now we're in a race to see if we can exhaust our hydrocarbons or overheat our planet first, there seems to be no realistic alternative (plenty of nice fantasy ones though).

If we had reached peak oil in the early 80s (or sooner) we would have likely avoided catastrophic climate change, but would have started a major population shift downwards towards 1 billion, where we would have likely stabilized but with no major technical progress (technological progress is largely a function of energy).

We didn't though, so now it seems like we are going to continue to increase the rate we combust hydrocarbons until we create an unlivable planet (at least for us). A few billionaires are making some cool toys, but we don't seem to be able to survive until we're anywhere near interstellar travel.
The other day I found myself working on what I'm supposed to be working on, as a distraction from my distraction...
You mean like that time four Republican Congressmen were shot during a baseball practice in 2017? [1]

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/congressman-steve-scali...
I'm so horribly disappointed in Biden. He ran a campaign pretending to be moderate, but cannot stop spending money.

Doesn't seem to matter which party you choose, both are pro war and pro big government corruption/cronyism.

At best I'll vote against the incumbent, at worst I'll vote third party.

The plight of being a 10%er is that you don't have voting power or money.
A newspaper in Spokane is also not going to be covered by GDPR unless that actively target people in the EU. If a few people in the EU happen to wander over to your website, that's not enough to make you subject to GDPR.
Another day, another Harvard-Soviet fragilista dooms-day prediction.

YAWN!
No. Sorry that you can’t see that a laptop and this have very different form factor and ergonomics.
5 hours idle or 5 hours of active use?
It exists, like on the geoportal [0] of the Walloon Region (south of Belgium), but this time it's really unprecedented.
I'm working for the Belgian railways and it's apocalyptic.

[0] https://geoportail.wallonie.be/catalogue/9c55d236-8d98-4964-...
That makes sense, but machines and culture(s) still undergo evolution, unless replication and changes (mutations) are prevented. (Again, the ones that are good at spreading are more prevalent.) What do you think?
How's the latency to American / European servers?

– Someone who has to work on servers in America & Europe from India, with 300+ ms latency via GCP's Premium Network
If there is oxygen breathing carbon based intelligent life that wants our planet they could've easily spotted and taken it anytime within the past 2 billion years.

It seems safe to say that there isn't life that wants our planet.
This is a pretty partisan article. It thinks only Trump and the Republicans are a threat to democracy.
I’ve used this tool to identify and fix security issues and have also taught software testers how to use it just to spread the love and knowledge. Kudos!
No, it does makes sense that the growth companies, and companies in a market that is rapidly changing, are expecting to grow faster than the economy. The rest of the economy is stable or in decline, which is how we end up with GDP of a few percentage points per year.

It is indeed destabilizing to have overall GDP growth beyond a few percent but less so for select individual sectors to experience it.

Greed is found just as much or more in stable industries. Belief that the pie is of a fixed size drives some craven behavior.
We have a super diverse userbase, so this is a fun question! Some pointers:

Development:

- Debug your own apps/devices (which do not come with Chrome Devtools).

- Simple Python scripts to replace/inject website content. (https://docs.mitmproxy.org/stable/addons-overview/)

- Capture a web page/API and then replay the responses offline. (https://docs.mitmproxy.org/stable/overview-features/#server-...).

- Replay requests for testing. (https://docs.mitmproxy.org/stable/overview-features/#client-...)

Privacy:

- Figure out what your Covid app is sending out (https://seancoates.com/blogs/how-i-helped-fix-canadas-covid-...)

- Look at how evil IoT devices for pets are (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/realestate/spying-on-the-...)

- Generally find more evil stuff (https://mitmproxy.org/publications/)

Security:

- Reverse-engineering custom binary protocols is never fun, but with mitmproxy you can at least write custom contentviews to dissect stuff. (https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/main/examples/ad...)

- Fiddle with generic TLS-protected TCP streams. (https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/main/examples/ad...)

- Dump TLS master secrets for WireShark. (https://docs.mitmproxy.org/stable/howto-wireshark-tls/)
>>Good luck telling an eye witness that what they saw isn't an objective fact,

The thing is, we have studies upon studies upon studies that show repeatedly and undoubtedly that witness testimony is shit. If you show 10 people an event and ask them to describe what they saw an hour later, they will describe it in 10 different ways, frequently changing facts, adding things that never happened, or omitting important details. In trials, you get witness testimony from years before, and it's treated as if every single word said is absolute objective truth - like, we have the science to prove that no, actually, most likely it isn't, and it should be treated as "maybe true" at best.
> Let’s assume there is a first person in the line, so it’s not infinite in both directions; you have infinitely many people in front of you, but only finitely many behind

Is this even possible? One of the premises in the article. Won't it be infinity backwards for the nth person?
Having been a subject of documentary/news type stuff a couple times, yeah, the way it gets put together is just like that.

Watching the "noddy shots" being filmed was pretty hilarious though.
The problem is people are generally good and honest and want to be helpful. Many municipalities are not, they're trying to improve their score to justify their salary. Since people are generally good and honest, they naturally assume the government must be as well.

Many police do horrible things with impunity. You can easily go down a YouTube rabbit hole for months with countless examples spanning many jurisdictions. I believe this is the greatest threat to our country, and that isn't hyperbole. If your are interested in such an endeavor for personal education, here's a start:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMCSd9ZNL0nshOhXwtfIJBA
Good news indeed! I tried to contribute 1–2 years ago and quickly realized that such a feature would require a substantial rewrite after a quick code inspection.
Ah... the "Dark Forest Theory". People really put way too much unnecessary time on it.

If the theory was true, then the first thing those "tree-body man" would reasonably do is to just destroy the solar system straight away with that super illegal (to the law of physics) raindrop probe. A civilization with the intention of discover and kill will definitely make their probes efficient kill devices, right? Why pay the expense of identify and kill the "Key actors" one by one when you can delete a entire system for cheap? Just turn the probe into a blackhole to kill the sun, it should be easy if the probe was really that dense.

A more direct attack is rooted in the theory itself: for the theory to be true, a state/condition called 猜疑连 (Chain Of Suspicion) must be created. The content of Chain Of Suspicion is simple:

- A civilization cannot determine if another civilization is evil
- A civilization cannot determine if other civilizations will view itself as evil
- A civilization cannot determine if another civilization will launch an attack against it
- A civilization cannot determine if itself is evil
- A civilization cannot determine if another civilization view themself as evil
- A civilization cannot determine if another civilization will treat itself in such way that been determined unevil
- ... ... (The article that I quoted from has this at the last line: https://wiki.mbalib.com/wiki/%E9%BB%91%E6%9A%97%E6%A3%AE%E6%9E%97%E6%B3%95%E5%88%99#.E5.8F.B6.E6.96.87.E6.B4.81.E6.8F.90.E5.87.BA.E7.9A.84.E2.80.9C.E5.9F.BA.E6.9C.AC.E5.85.AC.E7.90.86.E2.80.9D.E5.92.8C.E4.B8.A4.E5.A4.A7.E9.87.8D.E8.A6.81.E6.A6.82.E5.BF.B5)

Have you see the hole here? For a civilization that advanced, what are the chances that they're not equipped with also advanced social and science knowledge and skills? Heck, their advanced probe could probably even do all the observation and tests fully automatically and report the result back. The Chain Of Suspicion will never form to begin with because they CAN determine the facts if they really wants to. And then so the Dark Forest will never form too (at least not for the advanced side).

Now, let's talk about some serious thing. Because I've noticed some people uses the Dark Forest Theory to explain the relation between nations (yes, Earth nations). So it is really important to realize that the entire theory is nothing more than a plot device that Liu Cixin employed for his novel, among many other plots. Most of them are there to make the story more convenient, instead of more logical (as I have said, based on the theory, the logical thing to do is to wipe everything out at contact, how convenient that the probe "JuST cAnT" huh?).

So, if the theory inspired you do to something good, then nice, go ahead, have a good life, help people, communticate with others, try to understand others, have fun. However, if you believe the "Dark Forest Theory" is THE true governing rule of the universe, then you probably overthink it too much, stop it, it's not healthy. And guess what, the planet we're living on hosts multiple civilizations, you stick with us now no matter what.
I would advise people who are worried about this to read more global news. Similarly, read about political polarization in the US during the Nixon era.
> Well, you do that with the same kind of engines that propels them at relativistic speed.

Which don't exist except as fantasy, and even most of the fantasy ones wouldn't work for targeting adjustments.
People on here seem to be missing the point — one of the (only 2) major political parties in the US has effectively declared that a core party doctrine is “any election that we lose is, ipso facto, fraudulent”.

That sort of belief is what gets you to situations like what we see in Myanmar, with “declaration of fraud” being the only excuse for installing any leadership.
What was stated was "nobody pays list price," and as you said: you can end up in that category. Yes, many people do not, but some people do.
I don't know, watching these far-out-right types continually being grifted has a sort of karmic justice to it. Too bad the next big scam on them is this anti-vax bullshit and it's actually going to have a body count...
Yes, it really matters. It might not matter from the perspective of just making cool looking images, because you can do that in any wavelength. But for science, the wavelengths matter a lot, and you can learn different things at different wavelengths.
This exact thing is being discussed https://github.com/golang/go/issues/25849 here. Maybe take a look
Am I the only one that has a problem with "authorities" using your credit card receipts to decide to force you into quarantine?
I think that such an algorithm, if the order of algorirthms tried is random, is almost surely (so with probability 1) never going to terminate.

Moreover, you'd probably want to limit the tries to algorithms that terminate. But that brings you into the halting problem.
$79 for a 180 page PDF… is steep like I'm back in college.

Kernighan's "The Go Programming Language" is only $40

The authors advice seems to realize this and has a kind of let them eat cake attitude right below the pricing.

> Why not put it on your training objectives and expense it

That's not a thing everyone can do
What you’re suggesting isn’t feasible because it would mean that the CCP “loses face”. Not happening.
The former president pressured the vice president not to certify election results, members of the house voted not to certify election results, the former president reached out to state legislatures to get them to override the public vote, the former president prematurely declared electoral victory, and the former president still has not conceded electoral defeat
> we don’t just want a monotonically increasing sequence

Be careful about treating sequences as monotonic. For transactions in progress at the same time, the order of sequence values might not be consistent with the order of transaction commits and the logical order of serializable transactions.

One example where that could cause problems is if you filter a change stream using the last seen id. For such an approach an out-of-order id would lead to missed events.
The other Israeli hacking company was NSO Group which was allegedly used in the killing of Khashoggi:

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/nso-grou...
I would tell them “no, I am not in another recruitment process at this time.” There doesn’t seem to be a good reason to claim that you’re still interviewing somewhere else.
I always thought that Replublic and Democracy are orthogonal concepts. A nation could be a Monarchy and a Democracy while another one could be a Republic and Fascist state.

Please note that I am not an expert on this subject. However I have frequently observed Americans commenting on this forum and on Reddit that America is a republic but not a democracy. This confuses me so much.

edit: typos
I am curious as to how exactly the spyware got on the victims computers. In the Microsoft blog, they mention a chain of exploits. But it could be interesting to understand how they are able to target an individual system with such precision.
Supermarket greeters are really for theft-prevention. It's not for the customer's benefit.
That doesn't solve the paradox though, unless we are quaranteened in a Zoo.
That's ... the opposite of what I was taught in History at school, but I'm no expert at this.