skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite the other way around: threats must be very specific in order to not be protected speech in the United States. Saying 'let's burn this mother down' during a protest is protected speech, for instance. In general, the threat must be specific and imminent, such as 'let's go to that building right there and do $violence right now!'

They have been mentioned several times in this thread, but you should consult Popehat's writings for in depth breakdowns of what is and is not protected speech.
Some people I'm neutral toward find that priest, who I am also neutral toward, quite turbulent. I wonder if any of them would go so far as taking drastic action against him.
> do you know how hard it is to tease out if someone is a creative thinker or just a bullshitter?

One day, we'll look back at brainteasers for interviews like how most of us currently view phrenology today.
> Their retail customer service and willingness to make things right, is excellent.

Excellent, right. I could tell you a story about how one of my German business accounts got closed after they allowed me to: a) open it, b) place an order with a line of credit payment type - only option possible because I couldn't even link a SEPA bank account to it c) they have shipped the order d) the line of credit was repaid, outstanding balance: €0.

A week later, account closed. They have sent me an automated email asking for "company documents". To my questions regarding which documents do they want, which I explicitly listed out what I can provide, they have sent me a blanket email asking for "company documents". Managed to get in touch with a human, the woman said "documents", any further communication would trigger the blanket email with request for "company documents". What documents, never figured out, it was outrageous. Stopped buying with Amazon (via 3 businesses and 1 private account, 4 accounts in total). Wife dumped Amazon too. Now giving money to German online shops or buy directly from manufacturer / supplier / distributor / merchant online store, even if less convenient than Amazon.

What I found out by that, many items offered on Amazon are about 40% more expensive than buying directly from manufacturer / supplier / merchant store. People are getting ripped off left and right and even pay for Prime delivery. Amazing. The best example was a t the beginning of the covid mess. Wanted to buy 4 bottles of hand sanitizer for the office. They wanted €180 and given me a delivery estimate of 2 weeks. So I listed the shops where the article comes from. Went to the first one, found the article in stock, paid €68.99 and had it delivered two days later. From the same shop that Amazon told me it would take TWO WEEKS to deliver.

Or another story, happened before the first one: as self employed, opened a business account next to the regular one. After they have changed their tax locality to Luxemburg, they lost all my purchase history on the business account. They couldn't figure out where it went. The only way to get invoices for past purchases for my own accounting, was to dig out all the purchase confirmation emails which had direct links to invoices. They've lost my history. If I did not keep the confirmation emails, I could have been deep in trouble because I had these expenses on business books but no invoices, and they couldn't be bothered. Nuts.

Never going back to Amazon for reason other than listing merchant shops to buy directly from.
> but you should be honest about what reducing emissions means to billions of people that are just now coming into the industrial age.

Isn't that part of the point? If the US has maintained per capita emission levels that would be ruinous if the rest of the world joined us at, can you really say "we" are done with anything?

OP listed a bunch of specific things, moderate efficiencies and switching to natural gas are great but not nearly sufficient.
From the bottom of my heart: who cares. Stop glorifying celebrities. I’m not going to disparage their earned wealth like is so popular right now, but they are billionaires and we shouldn’t be looking to them to solve all the world’s problems. So why should I, or anyone for the matter, care what these 2 do with their money. They’re playing with toys, let’s move along.

When their respective companies seriously contend with the likes of SpaceX, then maybe they can have some of my attention. But just like with SpaceX for me, I don’t give a shit about Elon, and no one should give a shit about Bezos and Branson. Congrats to them on their wealth, now let’s move on.

For good measure, maybe this post should just be replaced with the Wikipedia page for astronaut.
Nuclear could have already replaced coal by now. Renewables need a lot of battery storage and transmission to scale up to not relying on coal any longer, since a majority of it is relying on the sun and wind.
I mean, who cares what their definition is? Considering the planets issues right now is there meaningful outcomes from this other than billionaires show off?

Could we make new internationally recognised titles like “world hero” or “better than 10 novel peace prize winners”. Billionaires could compete to eliminate debt in a poorer country or reduce carbon by 10 parts per million and win it? Would that stroke their ego enough to part with cash to tackle meaningful problems their companies are currently heavily contributing to?

We all promise to tell them all the time how great they are for having parted with small percentage of their incomprehensible wealth.
It may sound noble to increase admissions for "marginalized" demographics into the most prestigious universities that California has to offer. But this has the real implication of setting these students up for failure. California's UCs demand the utmost of studious conduct. The SAT is one of the best ways of determining whether a student will succeed in such environments. But with the removal of it, we will see an influx of students who will become overwhelmed by the expectations placed upon them. Math will be too complex. Literature will be difficult to comprehend. Writing and spelling will be subpar. Fellow students will resent them in group projects for dragging down their grades. These initially excited diverse students will find themselves struggling. They will lose motivation. They will likely drop out when feeling such despair. They will find themselves with no degree and settled with tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt. In effect, they will be in a worse situation than if they were properly selected for a school that they will thrive in.
I appreciate your perspective. I’ve always thought climate change should be a higher priority. The amount of resources for the meat industry alone should be enough to make some changes. But oil has insular forces making it a real curse to progress.
Same, we must be about the same age, but interestingly I had the opposite experience there. That newly added section was only partly the essay and the other part was grammar. I got a pretty mediocre score on the essay and thought it would bring down my score but I did perfect on the grammar and got the full 800 points for the section.

In addition to disability issues you point out, I would expect that there was also a very strong racial/class correlation with that section. I'm from a middle class white family and my parents both went to college and speak "proper" english with minimal slang. I didn't study at all the for the grammar section and just chose the option that sounded right to me and I aced it. I'm sure it was more difficult for people from communities that speak different dialects/vernacular.
Immovable Ladder on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,Jerusalem
No, NASA crew automatically counts.
I can see it being a step to preserve a cultural status that someone feels belongs to a population, or that should point to a population and its representative government, more than an individual with lots of money.

Maybe an awkward step, but it does hit an interesting note in that way. Perhaps it's a move to point to a more appropriate way of reaching an ideal and also giving back to those who supported it. They do mention performing acts of benefit that seem to transcend just "going to space".
It's not a matter of arbitrary classification in the cow case. The original definition still works. The heart has no experience. The continuum of consciousness exists solely within the heartless cow. Whether you want to call the heart "alive" is the same as the question about plants and sponges.
Thermal coal prices soar as demand for electricity rebounds
Yes, it's a minor inconvenience when it's expected and you have confidence in a good prognosis. It can be tortuous when you don't know whether it's about to get worse.
For a 22 year old that’s very impressive if true.
We need to put out more documentation around the host side of it, but it is USB4, supporting DisplayPort Alt Mode on all four ports. For Thunderbolt, we can't state anything until we can complete certifications. For the device side, we've published open source reference designs to let folks develop their own cards: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/expansioncards
So like… you got some sorts credentials?
That's not a good analogy. Water transfers heat 24 times as fast as air.
What's next, a passenger airline coincidentally cruising slightly above a certain altitude making everyone onboard astronauts?
A solution that does not provide for greater energy consumption per capita over time is not a solution. It was never going to work out any other way.

If you want to make a difference, clean energy is the path to follow. That, and carbon capture so we don't spend the rest of our lives in a worsening situation.
We've actually released reference designs and documentation for the Expansion Card system under an open license: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/expansioncards
This decision has nothing to do with NASA astronauts. It’s about certifying commercial crew astronauts. And no one on these flights had even applied for the commercial crew designation.
Do you know how much better?
Yes, the following tweet states:

> This document is from Comes v. Microsoft (2007).]
It's just example code.
Options trading patterns may help timing the S&P (NOT a financial advice!)
Sociologists or whatever correlate good outcome with education. 90% of rich people went to college, therefore college good. That’s true, but one dimensional.

I coach little league, and have been following a group of now ten year olds since 2016 or so. They are all awesome, but the cracks that come from family life and environment are starting to show up. I fear for a few of them.
Yes, but I just skip the bs and scrolled to the point.
Honestly, just being a passenger is not the exact same thing as an astronaut. Although the timing of this definition seems a bit suspect.
Where do you have in mind? Just anywhere north enough?
Louis actually just put up a new video today on us! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2YjKYG8P58
Reading the linked article is a prerequisite for discussion of said article.
The term is defined in the article.

Highly recommend it by the way.
This reminds me of a Louis CK bit, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ4.

Folding laundry (and more generally, manipulating deformable objects) is actually a pretty tough task for robots. So there has been some research on it, and you can find videos of robots doing it (very slowly). I guess we'll get there eventually, but right now even if it's possible, it's not at a level of speed, robustness and cost where it makes sense.
Rust is always preferable.
in the new version of erlang, not in general
I don't think that it's this obvious. The number of passwords stolen from the server goes in the hundreds of millions annually on average (well, at least the cases made public). While I don't have any numbers and reusing a password is clearly unwise, I don't think that there are that many Netflix employees getting a kick out of posting on Twitter under their customer's name.
What makes the FAA think they have exclusive domain to define the word astronaut?

...the agency says would-be astronauts must have also "demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety".

What exactly counts as such is determined by FAA officials.

This definition is selective and stupid. I agree a single, suborbital stunt flight doesn't make the cut in my personal vernacular. But if someone e.g. serves as a science officer on a flight or simply spends three months on the ISS doing nothing more than shooting professional photos I would call them an astronaut.

Christa McAuliffe didn't make it past launch but Wikipedia calls her an astronaut and I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who wants to refute that.
It’s a perfectly sane definition — not everybody aboard a boat is a sailor, not everybody aboard a plane is a pilot. Their definition is “astronaut is a title reserved for the crew, not the passenger”
Just edited it. I missed the 1 from the 17.

My source was

http://www.ecocivilization.info/three-tons-carbon-dioxide-pe...

which I think is from about 2017 (and has several citations at the end).
There are no commercial passenger airliners capable of flying above the Karman Line, let alone doing so on accident.
Cornel West's resignation[0] seems to lend credence to your viewpoint.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1015632217/cornel-west-has-an...
Why? Everybody benefits from roads even if you don’t drive. It’s how food is shipped to stores, public transport uses them, etc.
> and complete symbolism without substance on the left.
Transportation and energy production make up a majority of CO2 emissions in the U.S. and probably most industrialized countries. As an individual person, you can get rid of gas-burning cars (perhaps replace with an EV if you need a car) and put solar panels on your roof if that's an option.

At the state and national level, though, a lot more could be done. Ground transportation could be fully electrified. (I think the quickest way to get there is not to wait for battery technology to get better but rather just electrify the major freeways so that cars and trucks can charge while they're moving, and people won't need huge, heavy, expensive batteries to get anywhere.)

We could also expand solar and wind investments. To even out power production and consumption, we could finance the construction of intercontinental high-voltage DC lines, so we can buy solar power from the Sahara in the middle of the night and sell to Europe or wherever in the daytime.

We could invest in battery manufacturing. Most U.S. made electric vehicles are basically luxury supercars that use expensive batteries that require large amounts of nickel and cobalt. What we need to get away from burning gas is mass-production of lithium iron phosphate cells (or whatever technology that replaces it) which have somewhat lower energy density but use cheaper, more readily available raw materials and are much safer and much more durable. This is the kind of technology we need to make cheap cars for ordinary middle-class people with low environmental footprint.

For that matter, it would be great if EV tax credits applied to conversions as well as new vehicles. Hardly anyone converts vehicles now because it's expensive and high-effort, but if there was a simple kit to convert, say, a semi-recent Honda Civic to electric that can be installed easily by a mechanic and doesn't require any custom fabrication, maybe we'd have a lot more people going that route. Especially if it was subsidized to the point where the out-of-pocket expense is low.

More nuclear plants might be a good thing too, but it's not absolutely essential.
That's stretching the meaning of "democratic". From the report:

The bottom line is that AIPAC, which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress. Open debate about U.S. policy towards Israel does not occur there, even though that policy has important consequences for the entire world. Thus, one of the three main branches of the U.S. government is firmly committed to supporting Israel. As former Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) noted as he was leaving office, “You can’t have an Israeli policy other than what AIPAC gives you around here.” Small wonder that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon once told an American audience. “When people ask me how they can help Israel, I tell them—Help AIPAC.”

[..]

The Lobby also has significant leverage over the Executive branch. That power derives in part from the influence Jewish voters have on presidential elections. Despite their small numbers in the population (less than 3 percent), they make large campaign donations to candidates from both parties. The Washington Post once estimated that Democratic presidential candidates “depend on Jewish supporters to supply as much as 60 percent of the money.”
my brother is working on an off shore wind farm, of the cost of Normandy (should 10 km from the shore, near Courseulles, I think) and currently the biggest opposition is the local fishermen too
The article cites the results of a number of studies in which people were direct observed.
Bezos and Branson get too much of the coverage. I don't want to read another word about billionaires. I'd prefer to read about the space stuff.
Drought -> Farmers unable to farm in Syrian countryside -> they move to the cities to try to earn money -> social and political instability -> civil war -> European refugee crisis

Also, 2010 Russian forest fires[1] -> grain prices went up -> food prices went up -> hunger for the poor in Middle East -> Arab Spring (ah, remember when Twitter was saving the world?) -> European refugee crisis

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/world/europe/06russia.htm...
Blogs in general, I’d say. As for recipe sites: https://based.cooking/

That is where it’s at.
Playing with toys that they're destroying our (shared!) environment with, presumably in the hope they can make wads of cash in the future, potentially from people fleeing an increasingly inhospitable earth. Pretty gross.
What? The article you linked does not address SAT at all!
> The EPA report shows transportation as the largest source, at 29%

The reason I'm so struck by the coal-fired electricity production numbers are that this seems VASTLY easier to fix than the transportation numbers. Even if the latter would have more impact, I think we're still a long way from being able to dramatically affect that, whereas ramping up renewable electricity generation and ramping down fossil fuels seems like a (relatively) simple challenge.
"We must act quickly to hand over the sidewalks to private Innovators, a statement which is totally unrelated to my leadership of a company that wants to monetize sidewalks"
Agreed... GCP isn't perfect by any means, but I find it much better than AWS, and miles better than Azure.
Realistically? 2011. As get global instability every time food prices spike from drought and commodities price spikes. That time it kicked off the Arab spring & Syrian civil war. Look at immigration into Europe across the Med. from North Africa.

Global food prices are spiking now and we're also seeing protests around the globe. The quote is "Society sits 2 meals and 24 hours from anarchy." So any place there's drought or crop failure we'll see a lot of choas.
"Playing with toys" is a really dismissive way to describe the combined effort of 1000s of engineers and blue collar workers who innovated on a scale existing space companies haven't in decades to produce a service that will be utilized by millions in the near future for a fraction of the cost it once was.
Because the SAT correlates with IQ and IQ tests are racist. Next leetcode style interviewing will be made illegal for the same reasons. Employers will then find something else to approximate IQ, and so on.
I always wanted a Shazam for the outdoors ... identifies all the sounds your hearing while in a forest, by a lake, etc. Also, shows an overlay in your camera (AR) that guesses where/how far each creature is from you.
Not at all. American cities have extensive central planning that restricts what can be built.

Most areas have zoning that only allow single family houses and requires a minimum lot size that is quite large.
Alan Shepard also landed on the moon so he definitely qualifies
We are the lifelong chain-smoker who, when diagnosed with lung cancer, chooses to keep smoking because of a misguided belief that "at least I'll die happy".
The FAA decides who gets an astronaut pin from the US government.

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

You can call yourself one, if you like. They just won’t recognize it.
I assume people are worried about more than just murder?
Absolutism ("eat no meat") really does turn people off (because they can't envision a lifestyle without meat). I have cut down my meat intake by about 90% and it's great. I still eat a burger every quarter or so.

I think 90% is better than 0%.
X-15 pilots who flew above 50 miles were awarded astronaut wings, by the military at the time and then to the civilian pilots by NASA more recently.
What JPKab said is entirely true. The SAT is known to correlate strongly with general intelligence, which is determined almost exclusively by hereditary factors outside a person’s control [1]. The data clearly suggests lower class persons of east asian descent will disproportionately suffer the consequences of this policy.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/16/books/what-is-intelligenc...

[1]: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/1994/10/16/books/what-is-...
The history books, written using ML, will disagree.
> Yerba Mate scene

How did such a scene work? Did you have get togethers to talk about your Yerba Mate experiences? Are there Yearba Mate VIPs you worship together? Did you have Yerba Mate merchandise?
> That's terrible practice, ironically.

Can you point me to the 'best practice' guide you are referring to? What authority on excel standards said this?

Personally I tried to find articles saying it's not best practice by typing in "dont use named ranges best practice" or "named ranges in excel are bad" into google, but it mostly brings up articles stating that using named ranges is best practice and improves readability!

> How could someone looking at it know what Sales and Tax actually are?

If you really want to use that example, you would click in the formula bar and it will highlight the ranges, and colour code them automatically.

If it's on a different sheet, you just hit ctrl + g and type in the name, and it will take you directly to the cell it's linked to (which usually in my case, is linked to a sheet that contains all my model's assumptions in one place, each one with a named range describing what it is). It's much easier and quicker than going to =Assumptions!G52.

> I work as a banker, and what you do is one of the very first things new employees are taught not to do in excel.

Seems like a silly thing to teach people IMO. In my experience it makes formulas much more readable (both writer and reader), makes it much faster to build models, and cuts down errors substantially.

I personally find that formulas are much easier to review, because the named ranges provide some intent. If someone writes =(A2Assumptions!92)/Assumptions!91 I've got to really unpick it to work out if it's right, but if someone labels it =(A2Miles_Per_Hour)/Average_Miles_Per_Vehicle then I can see that the formula is wrong almost instantly.

Additionally if I want to write another formula using those values, I can just type it straight into the formula bar without having to go and click on the right cell reference in another sheet.
A fission plant can be extremely cheap in certain environments. For example, in the cloud tops of Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Ganymede, Titan, or Triton, a fission reactor is as simple as a big fabric tube suspended from a balloon, with a naked atomic pile hanging near the bottom, and a wind turbine at the top. Radiation is absorbed by the air inside the (sufficiently broad) tube, which rises through the turbine at the top. You could dispense with the balloon if you constrict the exit aperture just right.