skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Multistage rocket using ion engines. Remember this is over interstellar distances (>4 lightyears), so you have multiple years, if not decades or centuries to accellerate.

This does get back to the "Why didn't we RKKV it millions of years before intellegent life even existed, much less had a opportunity to hide, based on biosignatures in the atmosphere?", though.
A funny thing was all you used to be able to do with an Airport / TimeCapsule & macOS Server.

Suddenly, you had a whole new world of features. Like RADIUS authentication using macOS Server’s (unreliable) Open Directory, directly managing the Airport’s firewall settings & port forwarding for your exposed services (website, wiki, email, XMPP,…)

Such a tight and honestly well done integration. It was fun!

Although ultimately useless since, well… what company would rely on AirPorts for their network & on macOS Server for their online services?

Case in point, macOS server got rid of most of these services in the past few years.
Love the upside though, I've been traveling during covid and staying one month here and there, and this wouldn't have been possible without AirBnB. I've also used AirBnB to stay for a month in SF while I was looking for apartment in the same neighborhood (not my first time doing this). I can't remember the last time I booked a hotel honestly, unless I was forced by work it must have been a decade.
> seeing their surroundings warming faster than the worldwide averages, despite (or maybe due to) infrastructure crumbling due to permafrost thawing

put yourself into their shoes - all that happens to them because somebody is making huge money while they aren't getting anything, and they can't stop it from happening. Given that, it hard to blame them for wanting at least some of those money.
Grouping young professionals and tourists together under short term residents is a little bit ridiculous. This type of thinking seems to dominate housing discussions, that young people (or any incoming immigrants to a city/neighborhood) are a nuisance that must be put up with, and the good, ideal state of the neighborhood would be for nothing to ever change and everyone to stay where they are.

You need more housing supply in Bed Stuy with or without Airbnb. It's reasonable to try to limit Airbnb so it doesn't get too out of hand, but it's definitely not the major driver of demand today. And you won't avoid gentrification by pretending that the demand is somehow not legitimate and can be easily controlled so that you never need to build anything new.
Actually, this is not even about distribution exactly, but about the "Report Abuse" button: what this page lists are categories of things that, if someone with access to the file clicks on "Report Abuse", whoever is acting on those flags may decide is a violation. Note that the page says:

> After we are notified of a potential policy violation, we may review the content and take action…

So (1) it's not about Google proactively scanning all your files (even public ones: though I guess with sufficiently public files, sooner or later someone will click on "Report Abuse", perhaps even by accident), and (2) I imagine it could happen with files you shared with just your friend, if your "friend" decides to "Report Abuse".

(Disclaimer: I work at Google but not on Google Drive or anything related to these policies.)
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It is unstable in that 1) it is a housing option of last resort and 2) no one wants to stay longer than they need to. It is not a place where people "put down their roots," partially by design, partially by circumstances.
The Art of Electronics introduced me to Transistor Man, who helpfully explained some of the more opaque topics with "there's a demon doin it" until the theory made more sense after learning more details https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/476734
If we are honest however, these are theories however "unfounded" they might be...

Science is a continual pursuit of what is accurate and even then when we have a scientific proof, it's often not always permanent.

It was a theory that this came from a lab. It was perhaps another theory that the lab was working on this perhaps in part as a bioweapon. We can get into the politics of why China in general can't really be trusted and so who the heck knows... and that of course leads to skepticism and theories such as these.

These theories may or may not be true the same way "covid-19" came from a wet market may or may not be true. It's okay to say we don't know, here are some theories... That's science.

We should try to get to the bottom of it so that whatever happened is exposed and we can learn from this.

A third party getting in the way and deciding based on who knows what, what theories are okay to talk about and what theories are not okay to talk about is a horrible idea.

Perhaps Google is working on a multi-billion dollar deal with China to put Google in all of the phones made in China? You better believe that if China told Google, "Hey this theory is false (trust us), you better take down anything that talks about it"... Google would be very pressured to comply.
> Filament is used at Google.

What is it being used for?
I don't know about 1. Very few people have to adopt it, people who operate public suffixes like github.io and gitlab.io, and those people already spend a lot of effort on security (which currently means getting a separate domain, getting registered in the PSL, dealing with various HTTP security headers, etc). Deploying a DNS record is not much more effort than HTTP headers, and it's easier to understand than cors-related headers.

There is a problem of number of queries. One extra is not very bad (connecting to a website already requires many queries, for CDN, ads, analytics, ...) but if you have to query all parent domains I can see how that might not scale.
It's funny but I feel the same way about SF in general. People are here for a bit, and so nobody seems to care about the state of the city.

In European cities it's so dense that you really don't care if people are here short-term or long-term, you don't know the people around you anyway.
I don’t want a cloud storage provider with only private storage. If I have a library of book files I want to share it with my spouse and if Google is trying to filter out misinform and not let me distribute it to my spouse, that’s bad.

I think we’ll have augmented intelligence through computing soon and imagine how horrific it will be if Google says “you can think misinfo, we just won’t let you think it?”

That’s bad. Storing, creating, and distributing don’t need limits like this.

Asimov’s three laws were possible and they still had issues. Imagine having a law for robots that they couldn’t speak what Google thought is misinfo.
Biden: Social media platforms 'killing people'
President Biden's message to Facebook: You're 'killing people'
Voyager 1 isn’t a weapon so defending against it is kind of a meaningless argument. The Parker Soar probe is aiming for 0.064% the speed of light and covered in scientific instruments and shielding. So that’s arguably a solid baseline of what we could do in terms of speed. Even at those speeds we are still talking 8,000 years to the closest planet making it a poor weapon.

Still, I doubt we could detect a barrage of incoming 0.0005c weapons designed for minimal levels of stealth in time to do anything about it.
I have an iPad pro and do the same... OneNote is great because I can handwrite, type, drag/drop, and clip web pages/youtube. The search function is also really, really good.
I'm in Germany. The distribution here was all over the place but what I could get earlier was AZ.
Is Anything Cool Anymore?
> I mean I couldn't travel to half the countries in the world because I couldn't imagine being somewhere, where I couldn't pick up.

That's another level :) I travelled a lot and only smoke when the laws make it somewhat ok. It's just at home doing nothing where I have hard time seeing myself without.

Congratulations on your success, sounds as if you realized what you don't like about your life and actually changed it. That's bigger than it may sounds! Kudos

Edit:// btw no pun. Herbst is just German for fall. But it could be that my love for the herb influenced my name decision back then. But I like fall too
I find the Green New Deal to be a great start.

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/07/691997301/rep-alexandria-ocas...
"Would you feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you £20,000 for every dot that stopped - would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money?"
The effect of Airbnb on the price of housing is pretty small, maybe a few percentage increase.

Not saying that isn't worth doing something about but there it certainly wouldn't be at the top of my list. End onerous and restrictive zoning and increase housing supply should be the first move.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/garybarker/2020/02/21/the-airbn...
Good point
https://github.com/unfrl/dug/issues/29
Excellent -- so your large C codebase is free of security bugs, something no software vendor has managed to accomplish. Ritchie and Thompson themselves didn't manage that feat.

Tell us how you do it, please, so the world may learn.
> Not to mention, a default install of Arch is tiny and minimalist.

I wonder if they considered alpine? Though arch is a fine choice and makes me want one all the more!
The original essay about general purpose computing points out that it's the underpinning of the "special-purpose computing", and that the "general" part will always bubble to the surface, unless users' freedom to own their devices is taken away.

So the meaning of "war on general computing" is closer to "war on ownership". Sure, owned and unowned computers can both coexist, but it's not clearly a good thing to allow someone else to control one's devices.
We knocked down a 1930s depression house to put up a half million dollar home. My property tax is 5x my neighbors.

Who's complaining? My neighbors who have fantastic schools and pay trivial taxes?
This a million time, I truly believe AirBnB has changed the world for the better. The real problem in the US is that cities are not built for density, and thus are not prepared for tourism. Tourism is usually good from the point of view of people and commerces: it brings money and life to districts.
“Within the law” undermines your point. It takes the issue and just shifts it to another location on the map. It resolved nothing.

We need to collectively grow up and acknowledge that not all disagreements can coexist and solve them.
>Countdown timer

Weird sales tactic to use on a psychologically vulnerable population. I notice that nothing on your site is actually sold at regular price so I'm not too concerned with this once in a lifetime offer.
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Jeff: Hey Bill, Iv been watching a Tape of us having good time with the girls two years ago. They both turn 18 next month, how the time flies! You are invited to their birthdays. We should definitely hang out more.
Google drive is not supposed to be a mass distribution platform and it actually violates the TOS to treat it like one. You can Argus all you like about privacy and free speech rights, but they do not apply to anyone trying to use Google drive as some sort of free content distribution network. It wasn't designed to let people do that, and Google has every right to ban people for violating the TOS. The fact that they typically haven't reacted to this kind of use on a large scale before now should drive home the point of just how much these idiots have started to abuse the TOS all for the purpose of distributing misleading content.
Can you explain this? Are you referring to tech only? Maybe I’m way too oblivious but of the large companies I pay money to I find it hard to imagine that most are signing deals with pornographers.
Sometimes it doesn't matter. Thats why sometimes lossy compression is fine.
Interesting, kind of like poverty is acceptable if it's quarantined downtown/in skid row and tenderloin types of districts (or in suburbs in Europe), but if it's in my district then HOLY SHIT.
Might be formatting leaking from however they prepared the plain text? Black is sometimes a synonym for "bold" in formatting tools. Like a bad cleanup of an OCR or buggy TeX component or something?
They have a giant oil fund ($1.3T) already, why not use that? Show some balls like Greenland just did.

You are shifting the blame from the entitity who pumps to oil up from the sea bed to the entity which combusts it. Why?
> fact that half the population is dumber than dirt

I think you're going a little far there, and the fact that you're using this to justify censorship is pretty ugly.
>So either they'd - already have gotten here & already have destroyed the earth when we showed intelligence OR - already have gotten here & don't care about destroying intelligence.

Or... civilizations don't experience unbounded growth over millions of years across millions of light years to begin with.
Would you settle for Ronald Reagan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAZVp-n-5TM
Its not like being born native american makes you automatically forever eco-friendly living in sync with nature etc.

Draw of money is strong one, and its also very easy to fool oneself into wanting more to do something for community now and let long term issues be solved later/by next generation.

Or pure greed, politics, power etc. which is something all tribes and nations have in some way.
I hope live streaming services at least let the live videos keep on streaming even if it doesn't get shown to the public and that the streams are saved. It'd be a matter of public safety if the streams cut off.

I also think this type of action by the police should be illegal.
Uhh, this might be a language difference - here the term "public" company usually means a company that's majorly owned by a government.

Companies owned by private individuals (whether they're publicly traded on a stock market or not) are usually referred to as "private".

So that's what I meant - a company not controlled by a government and has no accountability beyond its private owners.
The mods have since responded that they've fixed it, but in the future, if you'd like them to respond sooner, you can email them about stuff like this using the footer contact link and they can usually fix it rapidly.
> Around the farmhouse we’ve torn out a ton of shrubs and flammable trees to create a more defensible fire zone. We’ve replaced them with stone, more fire resistant species like maple, etc.

The NFPA has a handy guide for protecting the structures on one's property:

* https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/Fire-causes-and-risks/...

* https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/get-re...

It's broken down into three zones (0-5', 0-2m; 5-30', 2-10m; 30-100', 10-30m), and what best practices are for each.
> We desperately need to find a globally adoptable alternative to google and the services that it provides

I'm pretty sure Facebook and Twitter aren't far behind in the pursuit of also actively banning content they deem misleading. I don't think it's a Google-specific problem.
Yes, well said.

Please stand by while I puke and shit and regret opening the comments section of an article discussing whether the first amendment is still valid.
You should message @echelon on HN. ;)

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Trading with someone openly admitting to sell dangerous drugs? Not hurting anyone is incidental.

> The Government sent an undercover officer to visit The Geek Group and purchase bitcoin and, while doing so, mention that he sold cocaine.
Maybe it's the lighting?[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress#/media/File:Wikipe-t...
Yes, you're absolutely right. So what do you think is stopping every household from buying a 3d printer/mill/whatever?
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> Companies aren't allowed to advertise rat poison as medicine and neither are you.

You may want a different example :).

> Warfarin first came into large-scale commercial use in 1948 as a rat poison. Warfarin was formally approved for human use by the US FDA to treat blood clots in 1954.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfarin
Don't really see the point of responding to policies you dislike with absurdly over-the-top counter-proposals.
Interesting, you can potentially use MQ for automatic rebasing as well, but if there is a merge conflict, MQ will not be able to resolve it for you. If a rebase can be automatically resolved, then MQ will update the branch for you.
Oh I don’t see humor in it at all. These guys picked the name of something that crawls up your urethra because that is how they saw themselves. These are Monsters, not people.
Ignorant of what? Publicly (as in government) owned base infrastructure companies (like telecoms, to which Google et. al. are pretty similar in these ethics cases) are not rare in the world at all.
I read through several pages before giving up and jumping to the end ... but what I saw gave no objective reason that the war will be won, this is pure hope or maybe a "call to arms". I actually don't see any convincing reason why we'll "win" this war and in fact I feel like we are on the precipice of becoming permanently locked out from it ever being possible. The main reason is the complex web of laws interacting established platforms that make it effectively illegal for any new competitor to ever become established. All over the world governments are starting to regulate complex and specific requirements around security, surveillance, encryption, etc that are fundamentally incompatible with true "general purpose" computing. For example, if your computer can encrypt things without a backdoor then authorities cannot listen. But if it can't then by definition it is not a general purpose computer. Which is it going to be? I think governments will win and we will lose general purpose computing.
Seems like an argument worth having. Somehow it doesn't seem like the court will decide that bitcoin isn't money, but hopefully will at least give clarity to whether bitcoin is money.
Vielen Dank, I really only shared that because I wondered if it would resonate with others here.

Another BIG thing that made me stop, at least for the foreseeable future: I was having spasms in my neck, basically on my carotid artery, every time I used. I felt like I was about to have a stroke half the time, and I also felt a little powerless to stop it.

I am really happy that you are in control of your usage. It's a scary place to be when you can't control your own life.
Disaster mitigation and relief has long been a governmental responsibility.
I believe that theory is no longer valid. It was supposedly fungus that feeds on woody plants that resulted in a drop in lignin rich coal but that doesn't seem to quite work out. Coal is formed when there's a lot of organic matter that gets trapped in an oxygen poor environment and then buried and compressed over time. That process is certainly still happening though not at the same rate it has in the past. This article has some good details https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/why-was-most-of-the-...

There's still quite a lot of coal though.
Strange, op-amps (if you don't dive into pushing them to their limits, and if you steer clear of trying to understand how they are implemented) are actually a lot simpler to grok than - say - an NPN transistor.
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This is just our current social construction. There was a time right-here in the US when those were reversed. And there are societies right now where those are reversed.
Placing the weight of the world’s injustice on your shoulders and getting angry about it is not an admirable way to live.
> To loosely paraphrase Mark Twain (I believe?): Just because a toddler can't use a sharp knife doesn't mean that I have to use a butter knife to cut my steak.

That's a great quote, only we're the toddler. For all its political failings, the WHO is brutally more knowledgeable about the subject that us, and less biased than our local governments. They're asking China to open up so they can discard/prove a lab leak. If China refuses, the lab leak possibility remains on the table no matter its likelihood.

Weaseling the phrasing, one can give the impression that the WHO turned around and now thinks the lab leak is the most likely source, while they still consider the natural origin most likely.
That's the missing piece! Now I know how to spend my next rainy day!
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A majority of people don’t want to take the time to make their own parts anymore than they want to repair their cars or appliances. The article can put convenience in scare quotes all it wants and blame mega corporations, but it’s the reality of consumer preference and specialization in complex societies. People’s time and motivation are limited. Spend time fixing your own stuff or delegate it to someone who does it as a profession?
After about 50 installs of Ubuntu, I finally have the perfect setup, with all of the packages and configurations I want. I have an install script (executed using bash) to do all of the work).

My configuration: Ubuntu with a QEMU/KVM Windows 10 GPU Passthrough. I also have my [Ubuntu] desktop configured to look like a Mac. It looks amazing! :-D See: https://ibb.co/WV97vnj

But before I did all of that: When I would set up a new OS, one of the first steps I do is install a screen recorder with webcam recording. I would record the setup process with the screen recorder and the webcam going and I would also talk through the setup. But, the key is to put (copy/paste) all of your executed scripts that you used during setup into a text file--and then email it to yourself prior to abandoning the setup process). Also, I upload the video to my NAS for later review, to help with making more refined setups, and also to add notes/comments to the bash setup script.

With regards to my setup: the Ubuntu is the primary operating system, but in reality, it works in tandem with the Windows 10. I basically use Ubuntu and Windows 10 in tandem, and it works much better than WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2).

In fact, I can even play games in virtual reality with this setup! (But, in reality: I only truly need Windows 10 for heavy reading as I have a print-related disability known as severe convergence insufficiency. The screenreaders in Linux just do not cut it. Also MacOS screenreaders also do not cut it for STEM work.)

Anyways, here is a good rudimentary "guide" which illustrates the thought process needed to create the QEMU/KVM Windows 10 Passthrough. See: https://pastebin.com/5tuvWTMH

As for making Ubuntu look like MacOS, see this (ignore the dashboard part--as there is a better guide): https://medium.com/@shahriarazizaakash/make-your-linux-ubunt...

Here is the best guide for the MacOS dashboard (go to the "plank" part and follow the instructions from there to create the best and most realistic MacOS dashboard for Ubuntu): https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-macos-theme-on-ubuntu...
> is completely frivolous and unnecessary

How so? Would people not stop polluting voluntarily if it's so frivolous?

Instead, there are protests like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_protests
America, the corporate welfare state.