skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, not all denizens of the Arctic (or near-Arctic) feel the same way. I (accidentally, by acquisition) found myself working for the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, a company owned by the Iñupiat people of the northernmost part of Alaska. They're the ones pushing to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and nearby areas. They're the ones who pulled out of the Alaska Federation of Natives when the AFN declared a climate emergency.

I ended up leaving the company, in no small part because I disagreed with their oil exploration policy, but it is interesting to see how some of the Alaska Natives, despite seeing their surroundings warming faster than the worldwide averages, despite (or maybe due to) infrastructure crumbling due to permafrost thawing, they're saying "yep, we need money, so we need to drill for more oil for the world to burn".
Even if you are tech literate, how do you easily find an alternative to Facebook and Twitter?

The entire benefit of these platforms derives from the fact that they've accumulated so many users. People use these platforms because everyone else they know is on it.

I personally haven't used either for several years but I've had to "sacrifice" my online social presence and miss out on updates from my circle as a result. I put "sacrifice" in quotes because I think the net result is positive and though I miss having some updates, I overall feel quality of life is better without a public online presence.
Isaac Arthur mentions this several times. But the counter argument is that with advanced civilisations having gigantic populations, it is hard to imagine that a “small” group counting in quadrillions wouldn’t prefer to live in the real world.
sure, try fluence.network
Yeah google de-indexing all pages criticizing the democrats and the company is also not threat to democracy. They must provide us with a curated set of sound information vetted by the politicians, FAANG and the state department.
There does not seem to be any disclaimer regarding the manipulation, and the OP article questions whether the director would even have mentioned it had it not come up tangentially in the course of this interview.
Oh I got this: A bunch of US IT Firms left the front doors unlocked and got mad when someone walked in and took their stuff.

Now that I've root caused it, I prefer next-day ACH if possible. PM for my bank details, thank you!
Thing is, more I rewatch his shows, all of his comments about depression and anger have taken a really somber tone now given what we know. I wish someone was there with him to help him through through that time.

His death really affected me in a deep way I didn’t expect. I miss him so much.
Oh, so that's why I can't read blue lettering at night. Always wondered.
so when the government starts to promote racism as policy you will obviously be in favour of it.
Well, I don't really believe in the institution of police as it exists, so if I even had kids, I'd pass along the same paranoia my father taught me... but it just strikes me as a meaningful inconsistency in the image of police that their supporters have.
>Are people born entitled to live off society without contributing if they can?

If that is what the current state of society demands. Yes, absolutely. We could change it but there is a reason why things are the way they are and they have absolutely nothing to do with calm and rational thinking.
Oh Thank You. That is an interesting take I haven't thought about.

For those us not from US, it this "as a reaction to what they perceive to be what the people want."
really represent the majority as in your example when America was very religious?

Because it seems to me, ( and I know zip about US ) this action only please half and anger another half?
what about if you share a file with select people? Is that still "private" or does it become public the moment you give someone else access?
Tesla mostly trains workers for replacing assemblies and not individual parts. This reduces the probability that a worker will be able to sort out small issues within assemblies. That is why, Tesla quotes higher repair costs, as they have to end up replacing entire assemblies.
How Dangerous Are Solar Storms?
Or, perhaps, cause and effect are turned upside down here, and AirBnB rentals take place in neighborhoods with less social organization?
I think with ipfs the infrastructure is there.

https://ipfs.io
I have been wild camping a lot recently and I'm more curious about how they get enough drinkable water for everyone.
You can't fund a UBI with income taxes though. It only works if you fund the UBI with taxes on regressive behavior.
Act II is grossly misrepresented. It wasn't just the GOP and a lot of evidence was presented. In fact, there hasn't been a whole lot of new evidence presented since then.
Ground based telescopes have improved significantly in those 30 years.

The mirror in Hubble is 2.4 meters

Large ground based telescopes now have mirrors in multiple segments with motors keeping them at the right curvature.

The largest has 10.4 meter mirror. That is about 11 times larger area than Hubble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_optical_reflec...

One of the original reasons for Hubble was to have a telescope above the atmosphere. The atmosphere distorts the light as it passes through making stars "twinkle."

Now we we use a laser beam to energize sodium atoms in the upper atmosphere. We see how that is distorted by the atmosphere so that with software we can cancel it out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_guide_star

Combined with lucky imaging where instead of taking a single long exposure we take thousands of images in the 100 millisecond range. We can toss out the images where the atmosphere was moving a lot and combine the other good images.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_imaging
A tuple (ordered pair commonly called) is `(x,y)`. The standard set theory definition underpinning this is that `(x,y)` is shorthand for the set of two elements `{ {x}, {x, y} }`. Where the "first coordinate" is the set with one element, and the "second coordinate" is the element in the set with two items that is not in the set with one item.

It's a standard definition that means we can talk about ordered pairs but still ground it in set theory.
There are two more ways to deal with content we don't like. We've largely abandoned these to our great harm:

1) Get to know people in your community who hold differing opinions. We all need to be doing this more - fostering friendship over the things we have in common. This isn't easy, but the Western world used to be far better at it.

2) Engage in healthy debate, which means advocating a specific opinion in a public way -- either speech, column in your local newspaper, etc. -- with carefully researched references/sources, no ad-hominem attacks, assuming good faith and intent on the part of those who disagree, and respect for the differing opinions of others.

Imagine if every local community did (1) and (2) -- people would be a lot happier and would be less likely to hold unsupportable opinions, since even cursory research (i.e. prior to publicly arguing in favor of them) would show those opinions have no basis in reality.
Wait, stars are flickering dots for most people?
Yeah maybe voice only, but my point stands. They are inventing inflection, tone, pacing, etc.
Why or how would a post scarcity multi planetary or even multi stellar civilisation disappear? I agree that there is no need for plunder, but I don’t think highly advanced civilisations are in risk of extinction.
The comment was not about heterogeneous or not. It was about Ph.D. or not. Everything else equal, I'd prefer a heterogeneous bunch of Ph.D.s to have designed and built the thing that's put inside my brain over a similarly heterogeneous bunch of "I've taught this myself in 1 year using youtube". Snobs or not.

Ph.D.s are trained in two things. "Reasoning about an unknown" is one of them. But the particular niche knowledge they acquired while training this is the other. That niche can save my life if the niche matches the thing to be implanted into my brain. No matter how many youtube-educated wannabe-experts take issue with formal education.

(I have many issues with the academic system, but this kind of critisism is ridiculous.)
Also, false(to the later point), having type-2 still does damage to the beta cells and given time many will require insulin. Also, this still gets back to the OP placing blame on the individual based on ignorance. There are many reasons for an individual having a large mass, low insulin production, and insulin resistance.

Low card can be part of it, but it's not a panacea, once an individual has diabetes, the damage has been done.
Bog-standard "if you get lost and separated from your parents" child-advice is to ask for help from exactly such figures as police, with the idea that this would protect them from ostensibly less savory options
For purely note taking, Remarkable 2 can't be beat. The problem is everyone wants that and the kitchen sink in a single device. If you want a multiple purpose device that _can_ take notes, an iPad is likely the best choice.
They bought a lot of bitcoin early, then made a profit off regularly selling it to the public in exchange for US dollars. They didn't register with FinCEN, any state agency, or do any KYC. The thing about the sting operation is that the undercover agent blatantly told them that he was buying bitcoin using money he made from selling cocaine. So it isn't just a charge for operating an unlicensed money exchange service, but also laundering drug money.
Could this be a factor in why we didn’t evolve to see a wider range of wavelengths?

Is the visual spectrum just barely within the range that our brains can correct for the diverging focal lengths without needing additional lenses or modifications to the eye?
I smoked quite a lot in my 20s and used cannabis as a tool for inspiration. However, I found it is not beneficial from a long-run perspective. My panic attacks during the trips become more regular and after several experiments with amounts, including microdosing, I reduced my cannabis intake to 2 times per year. That is the most optimal for me to not go down into addiction and still change a take a look differently at the things sometimes. I live in Sweden and it's a legal hell for those who open for experiments with substances. Even usage is illegal and it surplus more stress to the experience. Nowadays I don't use simulators a lot but insist on decriminalization of personal usage and regulation of dealing.
The only ones who can answer that with any knowledge are in counterintelligence. And while the major powers may have copies now, the minor powers probably don't.
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One of the other big scenes like that is up-river in SE Asia, talking about "how he wished that he could say it would be difficult [to kill a pig with a spear], but that time and distance have hardened the person he once was".
> Why would anyone come from light years away to inhabit a planet.

Many motives from the age of exploration could apply - imperialism, religious beliefs, religious or political differences, cultural exchange, scientific discovery, competition with others, etc. People don't always take the cheapest option; the same could be true of aliens.
They are American companies, they therefore fall under American laws.

Just with Twitter, we know that content is regulated by region. Setting your location to Germany will prohibit seeing certain content from the U.S. Many more such regional cases.

The spam example would be a problem, but it's more of an annoyance to solve than a basic human rights case. You simply cannot have a democracy where segments of the population are barred from interacting with public officials online. Especially when public business (advertising, fundraising, making political arguments) is now a core of online communications.
Yep. Pretty much.

Hopefully some of it will go back down, but most of it probably won't.
I remember the original theory going round that was getting removed being that it was a lab leak of a bioweapon not the current theory that it was more normal 'gain of function' research that got out. Those are two very different accusations.
That's an interesting thought experiment, though I'm not sure how using "sounds of the appropriate length" or "lines of proportional length" would get you more than the rational numbers, which are already countable and thus fully captured by any Turing-complete language. To say that there are inexpressible real numbers is to say that there are numbers that are not rational but which can never be practically used or accessed either, at which point they become kind of like an invisible and unnoticeable unicorn: it is certainly possible to believe in its existence, but such a belief is quite different from the belief in the existence of practically useful real numbers such as pi.

I am not trying to convince anyone that inexpressible real number do or do not exist, but I think it's worth noting that these issues quickly cross over into the realm of philosophy, where it's not possible to justify a particular conviction by appealing to firm mathematical or practical reasons. Nothing wrong with that, of course.

Personally, I'm content with what is expressible in language and I consider mathematical concepts going beyond this boundary of expressivity as inessential to my own personal use, though I can certainly see that these mathematical calculi can be of interest to mathematicians on their own.
> In Europe and Asia, astigmatism affects between 30 and 60% of adults.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astigmatism
>We can have console-style computers and general purpose computers

Up until the time you try to get your non-GP computer to do something the manufacturer didn't want you to, such as retrieving some data locked in your Android phone.
If people wont do business with people who do business with pornographers what right do the pornographers or porn aficionados have to object. If it would render it more clear it wouldn't matter if the subject were avocados. It's not a moral judgement on the worthiness of porn its about consumer choice in aggregate.
This is what most people here dont seem to understand. If you are banned from Facebook/Youtube/Google/Twitter, for the mainstream public (That is, 90% of the people) you are effectively banished from the Internet. This is like a candidate not being covered in the NY Times, WP,LA Times, but it is OK because the "Quarterly Express" in "Chinook county" published a 2-pages interview.
I took well-defined to mean "if it exists, we know what it is." So really I guess what I want to know is why it matters that we can't actually calculate the mapping.
As you've mentioned, the notion that you need an alternative to live a healthy, happy life is untrue.

How do we explain this to the world?
> The other truth is we're all outraged when these companies host some stuff that we don't like

If by "we" you mean US politicians and mass media, then sure. But I'm not sure that's true for the general populace in the US, nor for other countries.

On another note - I don't like that they host things, at all. That is, I don't like that the entity which runs a search engine is also the one which hosts a large part of the videos available for free on the Internet. Or that a company making popular computing hardware like Apple is also the host and gatekeeper for mobile apps, podcasts etc.
I'm not an expert by any means, but I guess I've always felt skeptical that if alien civilizations existed we would have the means to detect them. I mean, we can barely detect planets, if we look carefully. Unless one of these civilizations really wanted to make itself seen by desperately spending a ton of energy, it seems like they would mostly be invisible just because we don't have sensitive enough means to detect them.

I personally find it impossibly unlikely that we are the only intelligent life. It's just, there's nothing in the universe that doesn't repeat. And there is a lot of space for us to repeat. Our solar system likely isn't all that special, so I just don't get that we could be the only thing that appeared in all the conceivable universe.

It also might be the case that we're not alone, but that life is just so hard to get going that maybe the nearest civilization is galaxies apart from us. In that sense I suppose we really are "alone" for any practical purpose.
What?

The free lunch means that it's coming from people who do not directly benefit from the result. It benefits the families with children and hypothetically should go straight to just children. The fact that you think it will result in more taxes for the community in the future does not change the fact that it comes from people without children and is still a "free lunch".

Nevermind that people w/o children would only partially POSSIBLY benefit from this in the future, while parents get the direct aid now and possible future benefits... you're wrong twice.
If I remember the plot correctly, the EU needed the oil. The russians just took advantage of the situation to move in.
I just straight up refuse to pay for no numbered seats, specially if it's not only me and my wife. I want to go to the theatre for the experience, and having to stress if we are going to sit together/in a good spot is not what I have in mind for that
Why can't you do business with cash/money orders and run a website on your own hardware exactly?
Encryption Originalism
I wonder how long it takes until your imho very true observations will be heard.

Splitting up of these internet behemoths is so much overdue!
Wow!

“It was the only feature film written by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), who wrote the story, screenplay and lyrics.”

— https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_5,000_Fingers_of_Dr._T.
A straightforward reading of the 1st Amendment indicates that there can be no such thing as illegal content under US law, including whatever you are right now considering proposing as an exception. An act involving speech may be illegal; if you make a credible threat of imminent, irreversible harm others are free to take you at your word and defend themselves—the justification here is the harm which is reasonably expected to follow, not the content of your speech. If you lie to someone to obtain their property under false pretenses, knowing that the lie precludes any "meeting of the minds" and thus renders the contract invalid such that the property still belongs to them, then you are committing theft. Your punishment derives from the act of taking property which did not belong to you, not the fact that you lied in the process. And of course what you say may be used as evidence against you without the speech itself being illegal.

There are some more problematic areas where the Constitution itself is inconsistent. Copyright should not exist, for one; the core concept is utterly incompatible with freedom of speech. The Supreme Court even recognized this at one point—it's why we have the concept of "fair use" in the first place—but "fair use" is a poor compromise which does not fully negate the infringement of the freedom of speech. When you have one clause saying that Congress has the power (but not the obligation) to do something which would infringe on the freedom of speech, and another clause later passed as an amendment saying "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech", the obvious reconciliation of these clauses is that Congress is barred from exercising that enumerated power because it would violate the later amendment. The Court tried to strike a balance instead… but it still amounts of Congress passing a law which abridges the freedom of speech, despite the limitations imposed by the Court.
>Nobody in this thread said anything about this being currently illegal.

And neither did I. My comment obviously referenced legality in the context of what sort of content "publishers" versus "platforms" are considered able to moderate - strictly legal content versus legal content which offends some otherwise arbitrary guidelines.

This is the second time you've misconstrued my comment, so I'm going to find a better use of my time now. Good day.
I can see the day coming when owning and operating one of those will require the equivalent of a carry permit.

And just like for weapons, none of the iphone and chromebook users will understand what the fuss is all about, who would want to use one of these anyways.
> The next victim of US military incursion will be oil rich country. There's no reason for incursion if it is not going to be profitable for the US.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. See e.g. https://www.worldoil.com/news/2010/1/27/haiti-could-have-lar...
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I have heard (can’t remember the source) that radar, especially military radar, continues to be a significant source of artificial-looking EM radiation leaving the Earth, even as radio and TV broadcasts have declined in power.
To add: Who at Google listens to dissent!? No one is allowed to say anything - there is sort of a chilling effect internally at Google.

It’s debateless policies that are spreading on the world stage. People need to rise up against a small group of individuals located in Menlo Park, CA who are demonstrably and utterly out of the touch with the rest of the world, but deciding how and what information flows. These people have no idea how agriculture works or how people live in Indonesia or what conflicts are going on in Namibia.
If you do they will figure out your real identity and will terminate your real account without warning. I highly suggest you move everything out before that.
To keep my Platonist hat on... Well if you accept that there is an objective truth to the natural numbers, the set theory axioms you choose will have ramifications for the natural numbers. (Elsewhere in these threads a commentator brings up that Not(Con(ZFC)) will tell you a Turing machine terminates when in our universe it doesn't)

Put another way there will always be a purely arithmetical statement of the natural numbers that is independent of your set theory axioms. What is the truth value of that statement? If you think you have a clear and absolute conception of the natural numbers it seems like you should believe that an arithmetical statement has an objective truth value, and if that's true, then that seems like your objective benchmark to decide on how to accept a new axiom (does it prove or refute this true arithmetical statement?). There's your absoluteness.
When were they contributing to the global good?
Perhaps the basic functions of the internet that Google provides like mail and basic document storage should be treated as public utilities as well
OK, and then what happens when a cartel of the big companies decide what and who can publish stuff?
Python Is Actually Portable
Pen and paper and zim-wiki.
> This defense seems doomed as money != a specific government-issued currency.

According to the statute in question (and also the Uniform Commercial Code), it is.

The statute reads, in part,

"Money,” in its common use, is some kind of financial instrument or medium of exchange that is assessed value, made uniform, regulated, and protected by sovereign power."

Also:

... the Uniform Commercial Code defines money as “a medium of exchange *currently authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government...”

I think they have a good argument. While Bitcoin is certainly "money-like", it does not appear to fit the U.S. government's current definition of "money".
I'm not sure how much difference it makes in practice. It's the jury that decide. A jury in the US might equally be suspicious of an alibi that the defendant didn't mention until late in the process.

Also, it's not really true that merely remaining silent is taken to be an indication of guilt. The point is that an adverse inference may be drawn from silence in basically the same way that an adverse inference may be drawn from a statement made to police. The prosecution can't just say "the defendant said nothing when questioned and is therefore guilty".