skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Israel Study: Pfizer Vax Less Effective Against Delta, Prevents Serious Illness
Then they conspired to investigate tech dirt, or one of its users, it’s still a conspiracy. The US Marshals (secretly) acted in harmony toward a common end.

The article describes what is factually a conspiracy. That’s what the word conspiracy means, it’s just become a word people use to try and undermine people or their arguments without providing any substantive criticism for them. As the commenter does above.
> There is no possible experiment you could in principle do to verify that the universe stays the same when you're not looking.

And then people invented video cameras to trick the universe to stay the same when they go to sleep
>Okay, we won't have a safe place

There never was a safe place.

Nothing much may be happening around Yellowstone, but people speculate it might some day pretty much trash the whole continent if not the world.

People in the midwest don't worry about earthquakes much but New Madrid showed it is possible and could be really bad.

In the northeast, we're a long way from where most tornadoes are, but it can happen here, I've seen evidence.

Nobody's particularly worried about something like Fukushima in the US, but there are quite a few nuclear reactors all over the place. We tend to assume the Atlantic isn't going to have a tsunami, I guess. Is that certain?

In Europe, they assume there's not going to be a devastating volcano eruption, but you know, there's the historical records of Pompeii and so on.

Nobody saw Tunguska and Chelyabinsk coming, something like that could happen at any moment over a major city.
try this (PDF d/l):
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/Pe...

"...the DOD is the world’s largest institutional user of
petroleum and correspondingly, the single largest institutional producer of greenhouse
gases (GHG) in the world. From FY1975 to FY2018, total DOD greenhouse gas emissions were more than 3,685 Million Metric Tons of CO2 equivalent."

"World's largest institutional user of petroleum" is both more precise and pretty damning.
On what merits?
"Facebook would strive to build a maximalist, interconnected set of experiences straight out of sci-fi — a world known as the metaverse."

lol, rofl. Delete account ... oh I can't. rofl etc
Android apps are binary blobs of dalvik bytecode, yet simply blocking a bunch of domains at the DNS level is surprisingly effective to get rid of most ads.
Well the ones hyping the algorithm are the users here heavily addicted to the TikTok videos manufactured by the influencers on it. They are clever at crafting these videos as they take multiple attempts created at 'hype houses' and get their viewers addicted to wasting their time on it to the point where they think it is 'worth it'.

Replace 'TikTok' with 'Google' and the 'algorithm' is nothing more than 'personalisation' with mass data collection; Gamed by the influencers to compete for your attention and the same dark patterns used to track your actions and attention. No different to any other social network which the exception of the number of users on there. Nothing has changed.

They are all working for the algorithm and that governs whatever is seen or unseen on the platform. When TikTok decides to change that, well the users will complain once again as they did on other platforms.
There's plenty of substance. It's just hypocritical for the Sierra Club to pretend that the motive is environmental.

There isn't any cause for shock. Given the incentives at play this is expected. How much financial suffering would you accept to put a dent in global warming? For most people it's not much.

The good news is, it's easy to predict that the Sierra Club is going to eventually lose on this issue. Property values are so high that many people are totally shut out of the property market and a political storm is gathering. Hopefully, by the time the dam breaks and real urbanization finally arrives on the West Coast, it's not too late to matter.
Yes, space engineering is impressive.

Bezos and Branson, less so. They just have money.
Too much coffee can cause brain to shrink, raise risk of dementia by 53 percent
I think what you say is true to an extent. The barrier to entry is significantly lowered thanks to the internet, so thankfully it's not just caucasian males at universities who have access (like during the first computing explosion in the 70s and 80s).

Sadly though I think that there will always be a significant majority of the population who don't care how their world works, and hope only to consume media and distractions to avoid the unpleasantness of our world.
Perhaps they are treating the

1000s of engineers and blue collar workers

as toys?
From a game theoretic perspective - fossil fuels will be depleted. Even if the US reduced its consumption to zero, other countries, as independent players that want to maximize their benefit will be glad to take over and enjoy the effects of reduced demand and price.

This means that there are two ways to deal with it:

1. Force all countries to reduce use. To make this really worldwide, this can only worked by force, economical or military (i.e. a world cop). Unfortunately, even if we had that, it is not a stable solution since the short term benefits of using these fuels create constant political pressure.

2. Mitigate the emissions, for example by carbon sequestration. I'm a strong believer in technological progress and our ability to reduce the cost exponentially, the tricky part is to make profitable at any cost.

3. Direct the limited fossil fuel supplies towards economical uses that do not have the same negative impact. For example, by encouraging consumption of more plastics. Plastics essentially trap the carbon in the oil into a very stable form, essentially sequestering the carbon in the oil without first going into the atmosphere.
I really enjoy Maher's writing on video games, beyond his obvious talent as a writer I think he tries to evaluate the games he writes about in a time-period sensitive way. I also share his dislike for some of the more absurd puzzles from this era.

I mostly agree with you, but I would add that deeply illogical puzzles where a much much bigger issue in 1995 than today - when I played The Dig first time around I had no internet access and no means of obtaining help beyond me and a group of school friends trying everything we could think of. As such, I didn't finish The Dig until years later in ScummVM with a walkthrough.

The Dig, Full Throttle and especially Grim Fandango are adventure games I still love, but I can't honestly say I love them as "games". I love the atmosphere, setting and story telling in these LucasArts titles, but find the gameplay in Monkey Island, Day of The Tentacle etc to be much better personally. I'd love to read a Maher piece on Grim Fandango actually!
Hopefully we can get enough people into decentralized, ad-free social media ecosystems before this is a problem.

But, really, the problem is the vulture capitalists who can't conceive of building anything, only exploiting everything.
found an online PDF of the guide, if anyone's interested: https://www.mocagh.org/lucasfilm/dig-cluebook.pdf
because you are not limited by your fleet.
That may be part of your definition but it has nothing to do with the definition or reasoning from the FAA, as described by the parent comment.
> People are fat because they eat more calories than they burn.

That's like saying a building is full because more people entered than exited. True but uninformative.
Just because I took a ferry doesn't mean I am a sailor.
Nuclear is such a horrible replacement. Let's let future generations deal with the waste from the power that sustained our lifestyle. I hate it. I'd rather live with less.
It’s really not. I wouldn’t have known he was sexist until you said something.
> Features:

> New update = new bugs

> Poor graphic and sounds

I have to say the first two "features" aren't doing you any favors.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1404560/Yerba_Mate_Tycoon...
People are calling this petty, but it seems like a correct and necessary distinction as private spaceflight becomes more popular and attainable.
That's a fascinating book, and led to a fascinating wikipedia rabbit hole, thank you!
While I really like Plantnet, I much prefer https://floraincognita.com/ (which is an actual research project).
I'm not too sure about your guess that most Americans can afford even a one time payment of a couple thousand dollars. That seems to way underestimate how impoverished many families are. To your note about GPA being easy to game, that's definitely true. The real issue is that families with means will likely always be able to game the system in some way. Testing and college admission coaches can be hired, opportunities can be acquired through family/connections, etc. I think colleges are struggling to reduce game-able metrics (like dropping the SAT), but it really feels like an almost intractable problem.
It was space race and US was not about to let USSR to be only the country that put human in space for 9 more month.
This is the article that the study authors linked to in their other writing: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2010...
“Pilots” is the key word. There are not X-15 “passengers” so there’s not a comparison to be had imho.
That’s a truly meaty take on the Ship of Theseus[1] problem. In my mind, like so many philosophical problems, the fundamental distinguishing point is materialism vs dualism. For the materialist different matter means different ship. For the dualist the matter is just expressing an ideal. I’ve heard that in Asia there are temples that were totally destroyed and then rebuilt and everyone considers them as old as since their first building date.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Asians in California (rightly) don't want to be discriminated against so that white liberals can pat themselves on the back
I realize that Bezos and Brandon are only astronauts because they are wealthy.

At the same time, any NASA astronaut is only an astronaut because a well-funded system choose them. Its not like any of these people figured out how to take a plane and get it to space with cool flying technique.

If anything, Bezos and Branson did more personally than anyone else to get to space since they spearheaded these projects from the start.
The guy comes off as a somewhat of a jerk in those examples, I don't think I will be subscribing to his RSS feed.

In the first one, he seems to keep getting in conflicts with people about his photography of their property or community, over and over. I'm reminded of the phrase "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole".

In the second one, he starts off with, "I visited friends" and then proceeds to go on a rant against those purported friends, criticizing the fact that they bought a bunch of stuff from Julia Child's estate and display it as artwork on the wall rather than I don't know....baking stuff with it or something? Not a friend I would want. I'm starting to see a pattern here.

The third one is just "Levittown sucks revisited", not a very good introduction to Levittown. The pictures emphasize "all of these houses look the same", which well duh. They were one of the first examples of mass produced housing in the US so of course they were built off the same blueprint. More interesting takes on Levittown look at what happened to the houses and neighborhoods as the place got older.

But yeah, I guess I've got to agree with the "this is America take a look" part. I'm a fan, he's not.
Can you elaborate on “innovated on a scale existing space companies haven’t in decades...”? I’m not aware of anything they did that couldn’t have been done elsewhere provided the resources were dedicated and am curious of the significance. My position is more aligned with the parent post.
SAT results correlate highly with IQ, and IQ correlates highly with success in life. Still, people engage in all kinds of postmodern mental gymnastics to explain why an intuitively obvious fact is somehow false.
"The problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have no taste and I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way" - Steve Jobs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR8SAFRBmcU
I suspect given their emphasis on hashtags that was the primary transversal method.

When I watched the video my fist thought was "ok but how are their bots determining what kind of video they're watching?"

While maybe the best you can do in an automated way, I don't think it's representative of how a real human uses social media. ("I'm feeling depressed, guess I'll check out the depressed hashtag.")
Congratulations on commercializing the game. Are you a one person operation? I know how hard can it be to develop, publish, deal with game stores... This is a great deal that you were able to launch and sell. Kudos
I don't get what you're asking. US emissions per capita have been going down considerably since ~2000 without too much prodding or political will. As have Europes. If you look at the chart, there are only three countries with growing per capita emissions and that's China Russia and India, but most dramatically China.

I don't see your point refereeing the past emissions of the US as some kind of moral victory against the west, but regardless of what the west does, the math does not work without those countries taking action. We can cut emissions to 0 and that'll likely buy a decade or so with the current growth rate of China. So you're focusing your energy in the wrong place

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/us-leads-greenhouse-gas-emis...
And by "generating demand", they mean "finding bagholders".

Even the FAQ admits these things have literally no other use besides "stacking": it's location-based pump&dump-as-a-service
Exactly.

We have moved the problem around, but we are not actually getting around to living differently.
>They same people who would hand wash a peanut butter jar, to recycle it, are the exact same people who are literally creating suburban cities designed for burning carbon.

Scoofy, I cannot overstate how much pure, cynical joy I feel after reading your rants here. Thank you for cutting through the bullshit; you're doing God's work.
I whole-heartedly agree.

I found out about the Citizen's Climate Lobby two weeks ago. I jumped into a few zoom calls with members of the organization and they immediately came up with various ways I could help with. For a person who has been extremely worried about climate change for years, it felt good to feel that I could do something about it and meet people sharing the same goal.

Pricing carbon in a revenu neutral way is probably the most impactful thing we can push for. There is more and more political will to implement or double down on it depending on the country. Grass-root lobbying might be the nudge those policies needs to become a reality.

Try spreading the word, educate your friends and family about it. Like many legislations, implementing it the right way will be difficult but the more people are informed about it, the more chances we have.
Does this deserve to be #1 on HN?
Guiding critical projects without micromanaging
Why does the Federal Aviation Administration get to define who's an astronaut anyway?

Anybody can define anything. And while I have no opinion on whether Bezos and Branson specifically should be considered astronauts, the FAA definition as described is ridiculously arbitrary.
Well said! I would imagine if I have to manufacture my own wings — like Southwest does for children — that’s the dead giveaway this ain’t the real thing.
Microsoft allows you to do corporate work and development on personal devices? That is incredibly surprising to me.
StackOverflow has started showing ads
I recently saw that StackOverflow has started showing ads now. I wonder if this is the result of their acquisition earlier this year.

The ads are of the form "Imagine yourself at <Company Name>". Ublock Origin does not catch those ads.

What do you think about it?
It was a third of the score and was a minimum of 200 points. I got the minimum because I attempted. They changed the scoring at some point to make the written section not count as much.
If we require sideloading via untrusted sources, then that's just flipping the situation on its head to where, now, people who do want a phone with a single authority screening the entire software stack (from the bootrom to third party app code) don't have a phone to pick from that will suit their needs. With such a law, it becomes impossible to enter into the market at all with a product for these customers.
This is really making me rethink my penchant for "the backstory." I'm so guilty of that so so often.
5-15% is in line with for example anecdotally observed view count vs votes on videos on YouTube.

So based on that I am not surprised that video games on Steam can be expected to have a similar number of reviews relative to number of owners.

Typically I expect a video on YouTube to have about 10% votes and about 1% comments.

Do all reviews on Steam need to include text or can simple thumbs up/down be given without any text? Haven't used Steam in a while so I don't remember.
This seems like a step by the FAA towards a new kind of airman certification as space travel becomes more accessible.

It's probably fair to call anyone who was ever airborne in a Wright brother's craft an airplane pilot, but I'm not one if I fly Delta today.
Why would you need to gain FPS? In fact when you're blinking effective FPS goes to 0.
This is part of why I like the MacBook Air M1 computer so much. Great keyboard with an esc key.
1000s of engineers are also involved in Lego and other actual toys :)

Racecars are my personal toys - only needed a few thousand from BMW for public production and a few hundred for the aftermarket support.
It's a joke. Not sure if that's immediately obvious to you (it's Hacker News).
It's like modern-day Pyramids: large scale engineering projects made for personal vanity.

Which isn't to say they didn't advance engineering as a whole or weren't otherwise beneficial.
Good stuff, if you need someone to glorify look to ancient philosophers like the Buddha. Bezos starts and ends at his business choices/fortune. Musk has that plus some innovative/meaningful business ideas, but neither are worthy of following per-se. Study their business choices, not their lives. =)
Or, they believe the point of no return has been passed, nothing to be done. I gave seen people evaluate the pain they perceive is a part of quitting exceed their perception of value.

Literally, not worth it.
> Cities are suitable when politically leaning towards collectivization.

So are suburbs, but they just represent a more exclusive collectivism. Last I checked, they still have public roads, water, sewer, and schools. In prosperous suburbs, it's just collectivism with a minimum net worth or income requirement.

> “Let’s fit together” as, not only an injunction, but shoving in your face that people here, in fact, are different, don’t fit, and their kid is racketing your kid, you end up despising the people who keep telling you to “livetogether” (vivrensemble).

Sounds like you had a bad urban experience with people "different" than you. That sucks, but it doesn't speak for everyone's urban experience.
Disclaimer: the following is NOT a financial advice!

In case IF the mentioned pattern persists, it would be possible to make daily gains on S&P: sell in the morning, buy back in the afternoon.

In addition (the article didn't mention) the sentiment around particular stock or index can be derived from its options prices. Therefore, even for those who have no intention of trading options, options-related data can be of great use.
Vote with your wallet works in that, if someone made an undesirable product when right next to it at the Best Buy is a superior product, the inferior product sells zero units and thus the company loses millions or billions of dollars in sales. If both of those products suck, then why would consumers buy them and Best Buy stock them? Or is it that both of those products are invaluable and some people are just mad that the products have certain features (security restrictions) which they don't want.
I had a big comment drafted but I'm realizing that I'm basically copy-pasting the whole policy and comments (as said elsewhere itt, "Everything is now as opt-in as it can be expected to be"), so it would be quicker and more accurate to ask you to just read the new privacy notice directly to see that everything you asked for and more is already present. It's quite readable:

https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/
While a good point to base it on at first glance there is going to have to be a deep debate about at which point you really are/aren't a pilot and who gets to decide what that point is. Per BO this was the crew, though a lot don't want to see it that way.

Rocket launches, planes, and boats all have automation driven piloting now - and increasingly so. If being named the crew isn't enough then exactly what is the cutoff for being a "true" crewman of a vessel? And if you apply that cutoff to any other modern automated rocket launch system is anyone ever going to be an astronaut again then?
Like most problems in the world today, your money can do more good that your individual actions.

The Effective Altruism movement has found some charities that either have proven advocacy records or offer legitimate carbon offsets, and which have a need for more funding.

The Clean Air Task Force seems widely approved of by a variety of EA researcher organizations, with one estimating that they prevent a ton of emissions for less than a dollar.

The offset programs are probably less effective in EV, but more certain. $10 per ton, I believe? Still highly affordable.

https://www.givinggreen.earth
What's the difference between them treating "1000s of engineers and blue collar workers as toys", and everyone else enjoying movies/games/trinkets made by humans?
maybe Space Cowboy & Knighted Ryder ?
I got all multiple choice questions right, I got all writer questions wrong. It wasn’t because of my English comprehension that I did poorly.
What did you mean by your second sentence?

>"Not using it in its current form is the strongest influence it has to incentivize change."

What change (and by whom) is/should UC incentivize?
They have had various forms of ads for years.
the term "astronaut" is not tied to universal characteristics such as having been to earth's orbit. instead, the term was introduced by NASA and is explicitly reserved for crew members of NASA space programs who have been to orbit or beyond. therefore there are also no soviet astronauts
Yeah, add it to the long list of things we're just not doing :-( nuclear could have made a significant dent in CO2 from base load generation, but we didn't fund work into safer nuclear generation so we're stuck with fairly limited options for base load now
Schedules, Goals, and Dreams (2013)
How to Build a Unique ID Generator Using AWS DynamoDB
Farther down the thread, start here:
https://twitter.com/cuttlefish_btc/status/877654793958903808