skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's entirely doubtful that humanity could be self-sustaining on Mars even in principle, it is certainly not possible with known technologies.

Citation needed.

What's the blocker here?

Energy production on Mars? Why not Solar or Simple Stirling Engines.

Food/Closed ecological systems? Hard, for sure yeah, but even not particularly well funded small ecosystems like Biosphere2 worked for several years.

The biggest issue seems psychological.
You only need a sample of 385 people in order to be representative of the entire US population at a 95% confidence level and 5% margin of error…
I'm still using tiddlywiki (tiddlywiki.com), the key features being portability, search, and linking between notes. It's free open source too and has a large community of users who contribute plugins (like LaTex interpreter that I use). I've been using it for 10 years and have found these features to be essential, almost a super power, for the kind of work I do (research). (BTW I believe the name to be a derivative of TLDR, which is the only reasonable thing I can come up with to explain what is otherwise a kind of lame name). Also, worst case you can read the file with a browser, or view it in a terminal since it's essentially markdown. Back it up in Dropbox and you can be sure that you'll never lose it or lose access to it.

The downside is that browser security updates almost killed it, since in its simplest implementation it's a single file that lives on your computer, accessed and saved via the browser. Browsers no longer allow modification of local files in a simple way. I found the best method for saving the file, of the several listed on the website, to be to run the Ruby server (a minimal server using Ruby Webrick, point your web browser at http://localhost:8000 to view and save the file).

Obsidian and DEVONthink look interesting for many of the same reasons, but I don't want to commit to something that dies in a few years (and I'm hesitant to pay). DEVONThink has been around for a long time now however, probably because it's a paid product.
> These are the stated complaints of the protestors. Again, the embargo is bad policy and makes peoples' lives worse. Moreover, the embargo give a convenient excuse to the Cuban government for its malfeasance, but it isn't the reason things are so shitty. Their government just doesn't deliver basic goods and services.

They know they can trade with 180+ countries right? And that the embargo can be lifted in as little as a week; all the regime has to do is return property that was stolen during the coup and transition to a democratic government.

The fact that they prefer mass starvation and people dying because they can't get medicine should tell us all we need to know about the current regime.
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Yes it's somewhat similar to GitLab merge train. Of course we work with Github. And similar to other comments, there are a few more features including batch mode and flaky test management that make MQ a more interesting offering. We do not support Gitlab today.
The history of printing things for wide scale distribution well predates the first amendment and it is silly to pretend otherwise.
Regardless of who it benefits, giving statehood to DC gives more people the right to vote and be represented by their government. Maybe if you find yourself opposing giving people votes because they won't vote the way you want, that's a sign of a problem.
But isn't the flip side of all this censorship a reduced ability for people to tell bullshit from reality?

Why is information intelligence not taught in schools?

Much like an immune system, we need to be exposed to nonsense so that we're constantly vigilant. There will always be a group of nutters who believe in flat earth, that vaccines cause autism, etc... Trying to cut that off at the source just throws these people into underground cults. A more scalable, sustainable solution is to

1) teach people to do their research - properly, as in, don't go on Facebook and join "Flat Earth Society Boston" to find The Truth

2) teach people it's okay to change their minds - part of this spreading cultism is that political opinions are now core identities

3) teach people to tolerate opposing viewpoints, even the silly ones - point and laugh, but don't try to cancel and destroy their lives

Another thing - every time a tweet or document is censored, the replies are generally cut off as well. How can people learn to distinct true and false if they don't get to see examples of people being wrong and corrected.
Natural logarithm (base e, not base 2, so one in 177.4 for 256 bit numbers), but that doesn't change your general point.
It's particularly interesting to me how their meals shifted when changing war circumstances forced them into more conservative cooking setups. But I really enjoyed this article for the look into sustenance cooking while trying to remain low profile.

I am quite curious if the flour they acquired was hand-ground in querns out of rice and corn or if it was one of the "luxuries" they had to trade for.
>I wonder if that would be necessary. San Francisco is kind of a special case as a small peninsula. That puts limits on the ways it can grow. You could probably build more housing units but you'll rapidly run into limits on streets, utilities, schools, etc.

I'm going to push back on this. Manhattan is less than half the size of San Francisco and has nearly four times the population density. The Bronx is roughly the same size and has double the population density. It isn't that San Francisco can't expand, it is that it doesn't want to.
I don't think it's night blindness. I have the same problem, with and without glasses (I have astigmatism).
Let me give a concrete example. Bed Stuy is a neighborhood in New York City. It is currently facing gentrification, where long term residents (like local shop owners and families) are competing with short term residents (young professionals and tourists). These two forces already competed for rentals, the long term residents controlled the properties.

The short term residents are willing to pay a premium in the form of AirBNB to remain in the neighborhood.[a] This can take the form of a young professional staying in an AirBNB for a month while looking for a rental, or a tourist staying in the neighborhood for a few weeks. This has 3 important effects: 1) AirBNB makes money, 2) an apartment that could have been a rental becomes unavailable to long term residents, and 3) the lister of the AirBNB, who is typically a wealthy long term resident of Bed Stuy, makes a profit.

The result of these 3 factors is a continuous squeeze on poor, long term residents of Bed Stuy. It comes in the form of an increase in price on their most demanding economic cost: housing. (1) and (3) incentive the continuation of this process. (2) contributes to the downfall of the neighborhood in the form of housing instability.

For those who doubt that housing instability contributes to violence, look at the most unstable housing in New York City: the public housing. The wait lists are years long, the applicants are supremely vetted, and felons are generally not allowed. Any yet crime proliferates around the public housing in New York, including in Bed Stuy.

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[a] The flip side of this AirBNB housing premium is experienced by poor, long term residents in the form of rent increases.
Of course, the regime will blame the embargo and not itself for the shortage.
As a user, I don't need to compete with Google. I just need an alternative. If I needed collaborative document editing (as a replacement for Docs, a feature I don't use), I'd probably try something like https://www.samepage.io/ . My only use of Docs at the moment is for maintaining some stock price calculations and tracking with the =GOOGLEFINANCE(...) function. There's probably some personal finance apps out there that do the same.
Except being racist is bad and being gay isn't.
It would be interesting to see if recreating songs is possible, if so i would like to hear the voice of Jim morrison and Curt Cobain.
A government bug bounty program would be a huge step forward to our defense.

Could even encourage would be hackers to go white hat
Why not say they can’t lie at all? What social purpose does the ability of a government agent to lie serve?

I think a lot of this perpetuates an us/them mentality that pervades government.
I am absolutely happy if a company is ready to host everything legal.
Also for targeting activists in India to arrest them on trumped charges and planted evidence on the Bhima Koregaon case. All of them are being held without trial -- a norm of sorts for the current Indian government

The held include activists, reputed professors from IIT.

https://citizenlab.ca/?s=koregaon

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/20/india-bhima-... (paywalled)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/06/bhima-korega... (paywalled)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/new-forensics-report-... (downloadable report)
The analogy to voting to flawed in that actual voting is much too powerful, because it involves politics and the use of force. When you "vote" with your dollars your choices are to either support something or ignore it and spend your money somewhere else. The amount of support you can provide is limited by the economic surplus you've created, and no matter how much money you amass you can't just shut down something you dislike as long as other people continue to support it. Voting in the political sense lacks these safeguards: a majority (or vocal minority) can subsidize their pet projects with the opposition's resources, or prohibit harmless activities merely because they find them distasteful.
I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic, this is how far internet discussion has deteriorated.
Wait until you learn about using deep fakes to trigger Blackmail Inflation

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xlmhhh9HYqc
> Make an irreversible decision where you are not the one to call off the deal.

How can you possibly enforce irreversibility? Tomorrow’s me is perfectly capable of reversing any decision whatsoever I make today.
Your snark is misplaced. All of the issues you raise apply to any source of energy, including "renewables". The difference is, "renewables" (a) are not controllable, and (b) don't have nearly enough capacity to support a global civilization. And if you're worried about social unrest, by far the best way to ensure it is to refuse to make use of an obvious source of plentiful energy to help maintain and improve people's standard of living, and instead insist on keeping billions of people in poverty in order to satisfy your ideological preconceptions.
People underestimate the costs of these kinds of programs, but they also underestimate the benefits. In the end it kind of works out.

(I came across this idea in a Tom DeMarco book called "Why Does Software Cost So Much?": basically people complain about the high costs of developing new software, but then for some reason they keep paying to develop more software.
Even though the initial cost estimates may turn out to be fiction, it's still worth it because the benefits are so big.)
The things I've seen, I would be less than surprised this preposterous plot plays out.
Most humans act pretty decently when they encounter other humans in real life.

However, this changes rapidly when they are using technology. Many people who are pretty decent otherwise can say horrible things on the phone or email. I have seen this a lot of times. So it is pretty important to think about ways for people to disagree without descending into some stupid flame-war.
If interrogators can't lie then interrogated individuals can distill information about police investigations from their comments. I don't believe in misleading people about the law itself, but I cannot deny that there is power in the insinuation that you have more evidence than you actually have.
I wanna point out that LCA cannot be responsible for e.g. blue displays being basically impossible to read. Why? Because they are still impossible to read when they're the only thing that's around, and blue LEDs are very monochromatic. So the eye would have to focus on the blue light, which would make LCA go away.

I suspect that a plausible cause could be that there just aren't a lot of blue receptors in the retina, as the eye is pretty insensitive to blue overall.
There is no free market in big tech.
You got it, he is emphasizing the fact that google is not a part of the government. I agree that this distinction is kind of annoying for some reason.
Wow, that's a great story, maybe we should quote that :)
If you are open to sharing more of that experience, I would love to hear that. You can also directly email me at ankit[at]mergequeue[dot]com if you don't want to post publicly.
On the contrary, I for one am amazed how often no intervention is necessary on automatic merges, given how finnicky compilers are in general! If the teams are not ridiculously large and people mostly work on their own stuff and coordinate work on the "common" part, isn't it mostly good?

There are certainly usability issues with git but I wouldn't literally use Google docs with colored squiggly lines for the changes from Anne and Bob...
Logs are only useful if they are monitored.

This individual seems to look at events that happen that don’t align with their prejudices and assumes that the signal is an aberration.

Nihilists get burned. You have to hold people accountable for the consequences of their action rather than their intention.
Agree 100%. Also just watched this episode last night, it was Sicily (Season 2)
Sorry, but I don't buy this.

> You don't procrastinate on paying your mortgage right. You do it every month. You don't procrastinate on paying your cellphone bill/internet bill/paying rent etc.

Yes, because it is effortless and auto-pay does it for me. What you're really saying is that I don't procrastinate earning money to pay for those things, which is not the same thing as just paying for them.

> You don't not show up for work right. Or for meetings right.

Showing up for work and procrastinating on some tasks at work is not the same thing. You're doing your point a disservice by painting it in black and white.

> Why? Because you have contracts with another party and there are consequences if you miss them.

I've had tenants whose stay was conditional on fulfilling certain obligations specified in the rent agreement, aside from paying rent. Even though there were consequences for not doing so, none of them did it and 1 ended up being evicted.

> For me I resolved this issue by going into a contract with a third party with consequences if I miss my obligations.

This only works because you're already a high-consciety individual. Sure, consequences help in general, but only if you know exactly what the problem is AND if you actually have the flexibility and energy to complete the things you have been procrastinating on.
https://www.westernjournal.com/az-audit-revelation-wrong-pap...

Slowly, The_Donald (now banned from reddit by the way) is proven right. I was shadowbanned here on HN a while ago, but even this place is slowly waking up to the truth. Your outrage is your mind crying out in cognitive dissonance as you deny the thought, "What if I'm wrong?"
It sounds like it's basically chainmail for tanks.
I'm confused. I don't see the problem. What's the difference between the image of virtue and just virtue?

If the majority of people believe that images of virtuousness are what they want, then that's just what they want. People aren't computing the outcome, their ethics are based on appearances and always have been. The internet doesn't change that fact. Whether it was in the middle ages or the post-industrial period or today, virtue has always been performative. So I don't really see what you think your argument demonstrates.
I'm no expert on any of this but that doesn't seem right; is it? IIUC, most procedural programming is nearly as wedded to the "one entity, one master data structure, one address in memory" frame of mind as OO is. (And the same is true of most functional programming, come to that.)
So, any company that works on, for example, civic or democratic processes, may lose all their documents on google drive. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
The next step would be your gmail box.
Indeed, and that was also the period where Reddit happily hosted a whole bunch of extremely tasteless and borderline illegal communities centered around things like pictures of overweight people and sexualized children.

A quick googling suggests that the first wave of closures was in 2015 [1] after a crushing wave of negative publicity and advertiser pullouts. The other really high-profile one was r/The_Donald, which wasn't closed until 2020 and even has its own Wikipedia article. [2]

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/06...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/The_Donald

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EDIT: Actually, looks like r/jailbait was closed much earlier, in 2011, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...

But certainly prior to June 2015, there was much, much broader tolerance for racist, sexist, transphobic content on the site.
They replaced it with iCloud.

I completely agree that a local NAS is different from and superior to an iCloud backup, but it's been replaced in their ecosystem.
People must be able to exchange information in a secure and private way, free of government or corporate censorship. The fact that there is no common, simple, and ubiquitous way to exchange private messages blows my mind. I wish someone would do something about it.

Oh wait, I did! Here's my attempt to implement email based on Self-Sovereign Identity: https://github.com/regnull/ubikom and https://ubikom.cc

Still work in progress, but it's fully functional. There are no accounts or domains - private key ownership is all we need.
It's not a bizarre distinction. The discussion is about free speech, and a common talking point has to do with comparing the actions of companies to the protections laid out for free speech in the American first amendment.

However, the first amendment is a restriction on government, not a restriction on private individuals or corporations.
The argument would be the magnitude of their impact on how a member of society can search for, view or transmit information is too large for Google to be deemed a private company.

If a private company impacts a nation's states democracy to such an extent that it rivals it in power, they ought to be classified as something else.
> Finally, an insanely blue blue has been invented, bluer than any other blue paint in the past. The artist highlighted above attempts to showcase the new technology in its purest form.

I was thinking something along these lines. Based on the first Wiki article, Klein was involved in developing this pigment. If so, the work stands on the merits of that achievement alone. He was, for that moment, literally the only person in the world that could have created that painting.
I wonder if the funds are funneled through the Trudeau's foundation (The one that was diverting funds to family members).
Sounds great. I'll try it later.
HN is so funny. 'I have no astigmatism.' -- 'Sure you do!'
The post is not the only relevant data point here.
Modern liberal is generally fairly pro-censorship; pro-authoritarian. The word's definition has just flipped in recent years, so it means different things to different people.
Agreed. That's not even getting into just pure spam, which from people like Alex Stamos I've heard is 100-1000x the issue that culture war content moderation is. Once you've accepted that a platform can remove the kind of spam that killed MySpace- or doxing or a DDoS attack, as you say- you're already on the (common sense IMO) road to content moderation. Which again, from 25+ years of the modern Internet, we know is just mandatory to have a useable site
No, it's higher. Because you aren't just a random person you are purposefully intending to look and act like someone accused.

I get the whole purpose of "yes, people are stopped every day because they resemble someone wanted", but this is "I am going to go out of my way to purposefully resemble and act like someone who the police will take a negative interest in".
Playing devils advocate here, how is holocaust denial dangerous?
Yes that was poorly thought out. I realized it after i commented.

There is definitely some merit in being puritanical about not having any allocations in operators.
What's strange to me is how people, particularly those in California, think that banning non-competes were somehow a California idea or that CA is the only state that does that. Yes banning non-competes is one of the things CA got right. People who complain are concerned about the things it got wrong. The idea that if you want non-competes then you must also accept insane regulatory burdens isn't really tenable when you look at the other states that ban non-competes and don't suffer from the same problems as California. There are low-regulation red states like Montana, Oklahoma, and North Dakota that have the same non-compete bans that CA has and many other states such as Utah and Texas place severe limits on them, whereas there are high-regulation states such as Massachusetts that allow non-competes.

Please don't try to turn the non-compete issue into a california good-or-bad issue because it's just not a california thing.
What would be your threshold in this case?

Would you take any job even if it pays less and has worse conditions then the one your were laid off from?

Would you take any job no matter what? Even it it has terrible work conditions and doesn't even pay as much as your employment insurance?

Would you take any job that pays more then your current unemployment even if it doesn't interest you in the slightest or seems to have bad conditions?

Would you take any job that seems a good fit for you long term, that interests you, seem to offer conditions you find reasonable, and pays better than your current unemployment?

Would you take the opportunity to train yourself in something new so that you can find work in new domains that might pay better and have less chance of being laid off again in the future?

Which of these would you consider "cheating" the unemployment insurance and which would you say is "in the spirit" of what it's suppose to afford you as a person recently laid off?

Also, on the topic of how long, the benefits in most state end after around 26 weeks, so there is a hard cut off that was chosen for some reason. I guess you could argue to make it shorter or longer, but I think that needs answering my previous question about what is "in spirit" and what isn't so we can set the right length of time given that.
Try to buy prescriptions from a pharmacy without insurance and you'll see how much list prices matter in the US. If you don't have the money for the retail price, you're shit out of luck and won't be able to buy them.
> I believe GlobalFoundries is still AMD's main foundry,

Only the IOD are still on GF 14 / 12 nm, along with some APU. Everything else are TSMC.
Have you considered NextCloud? Even available as a service if you don't want to host the code yourself.
Let’s look at some facts:

- Alexander Acosta has been quoted as saying that he was told Epstein “is intelligence” and to “leave it alone”

- Ghislaine Maxwells father, who died under mysterious circumstances, was very likely to have been involved with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency

- Collecting blackmail material on powerful people is intelligence agency 101, Epsteins trafficking ring had scores of that.

- Epstein got large amounts of funding from Lesley Wexner, with no logical reason ever given as to why. Wexner by coincidence, is one of the founding members of the MEGA group, a group of businessmen who donate money to causes related to Israel’s national interests.

Occam’s razor says the simplest and most likely explanation is that Epstein worked for Mossad, and was running a sex trafficking ring in order to collect blackmail material on powerful people for the Mossad to wield.
Perhaps because the cost/benefit analysis of universities continues to go in the wrong direction?