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Article links to a 2013 article about a similar event.

Mining company blows stuff up, pays a small fee, and profits handsomely.

What would happen if someone blew up the mining company office due to a "paperwork oversight"?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23527303

Dec 2020 update: RT ordered to rebuild the cave:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55250137.amp

Mar 2021 update: Execs fired, given golden parachutes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56261514.amp

May 2021 update:
Shareholders vote 60%-40% to symbolic protest of golden parachutes

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/06/business/rio-tinto-shareh...

I'm impressed by the followup reporting. Usually it's hard to find updates on things.
Yes I'm currently using floating IPs as ingress addresses, and I'll switch to IPv6 ones.
That's definitely the vision, we just need to get the word out.We're not the best marketers, but learning slowly as we go.
Well, only insofar that you trust that your own corporate laptops don't contain sensitive data on the disk.

I am really happy to know my laptop isn't vulnerable to this (luks-based system), but I am very concerned with the potential (in)security of my collegues' laptops due to common use of corporate laptop hardware for software development and technical customer support.
> Australian Minister for Indigenous Affairs Ken Wyatt, who is Aboriginal, said it was "incomprehensible" that the blast had gone ahead, but added that it appeared to be a "genuine mistake". State laws had failed in this instance, he said.

Pragmatic
Tiny, wordy, brief text after the button press is not what I'd describe as clear. If you need to add "comments" to a (now three-state) button, it's a sign that the interface needs work.

It's extra complexity in the form of rules added to what was previously a simple to understand toggle button. That it goes against historical norms, reduces privacy, and wastes a bit of power is the icing.
I'm no fan of the Chinese government but from what I'm gleaning online, they seem to be leading the charge with adoption of green technologies and are taking climate change relatively seriously.
This time in Los Angeles's history from the 20s to the 70s or so is just absurd when you read about all the goings on at the time. Culturally the city was, and still is in many ways, remarkably supernatural. Psychics everywhere, theosophists colonizing the beachwood canyon hoping to form their own utopia, the rise of the self realization fellowship, many cults including Charles Manson's, the early rise of scientology in Pasadena which roped in everyone from movie stars to astrophysicists at JPL. It was all happening at the same time, and most of these groups were taking a lot of psychedelic drugs, often with very wealthy and influential benefactors such as actors or business leaders. And to this day these cults, supernatural groups, psychics, etc, are all still there operating. It is startling how common I come across people in this city who actively see a psychic, or deeply believe in astrology, or are lining up for some meeting at a scientology center, even today.
These are good points. I suppose we will see how many other employers force their employees to be vaccinated, even if they are not in close proximity.
For home you probably care about SLAAC, PD, the standard subnet size of /64, and possibly the Link Local differences (more out of curiosity of what those addresses show up on your machines for than needing to know to do anything with it). Also DNS is going to have AAAA records instead of A records and reverse lookups use a different zone, the changes in DNS are pretty 1:1 translational for admins though. If you want to go full on v6 you'll want to read about NAT64 so you can still reach the v4 internet from your v6 only home network. Also take a look at http://shouldiblockicmp.com/ even if you don't go down the path of v6.

For applications programming you'll want to have a feel for the above, IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses, and review link local again to in particular note how to encode the interface in a socket call (useful for configurationless cluster communication).

Most every other detail of IPv6 changes should only matter to those that write networking stacks or make routers.

For all of the above info I'd recommend just reading the Wikipedia article on IPv6. Most of these are straightforward wrote memorization of best practices or background reasoning things so it's not "read a book" worthy if you're not trying to do this for a living IMO (coming from someone who does networking for a living).
I can't speak for scientists but I can speak as a software dev. I'm also going to expand art to include literature, performing arts, etc.

On one hand my work is about sobriety and precision. But I have also had a rich inner life and attraction to fantasy worlds, fiction, etc.

Today I see that software inevitably lives in more than one world. For instance the most common kind of application program takes data out of a database and displays it in some way. You have to satisfy the compiler AND satisfy the customer.

For software to succeed completely it has to connect emotionally with the user, that's most obviously true in the example of a video game (which has all the attributes and characterstics of literature and art as does a movie) but it is true for a pocket calculator, CAD program, etc.

Literature is the royal road to understanding the tough problems of human living.

Entirely out of necessity and encountering the bounds of what I can accept and not accept I have recently been putting the principle of "life imitates art" into effect.

It might sound like the product of an overactive imagination but I think of the TV show "Sliders" where people visit alternate realities -- practically people experience very different things when they are in the same space and I find art and literature is a magic key that lets me go "sideways" to ordinary experience (and what passes for communications,) circumvent barriers, and take people into places they didn't know were there.

Maybe you don't get that much out of art but I think you should try.
You still need DHCP for more than one reason:
1. Prefix delegation
2. DDNS (DHCP server can register a client IP in DNS)

I've used SLAAC in my home LAN when used IPv6 ISP. Now I use IPv4-only ISP (in my area no ISP supports IPv6) and don't miss SLAAC at all.

Over the years I've used DHCP in many smallish LANs (<=100 hosts) and never had any problems with it.
Neat! Looks like I'm behind the times already.
HN isn't a technical-only site. Never has been.
Relax. We're going to not only hit every tipping point, but we're going to rocket past all of them.

I think the best we can hope for is that this rocket will eventually fall back to earth. When things get too bad humanity will find a way. Of course likely not before a lot of suffering occurs.

The other best thing you can hope for is that the worst of this suffering won't happen in your lifetime.

Let's face it though, resolving the issue BEFORE the tipping point is impossible.

I'm getting voted down, but seriously come back here in 10 years. My prediction is the most likely possible occurrence. Some of the worst case scenarios of global warming WILL play out. It did for COVID, it will for global warming. Even in the thick of the pandemic we still have anti-vaxers and anti-maskers. The same will happen with global warming, even in the thick of it we'll have tons of people who are against mitigating it.
> The problem is that the NYT, Guardian, Mail etc. have a lot of experience at doing aggregation well.

Depending on what you mean by "well". I haven't "read" the newspaper in any traditional sense - i.e. reading it as a whole product, not picking a single article - in decades. I haven't subscribed to a traditional newspaper (I exclude special interest magazines) for even longer. I know for a fact that the work of real journalists (investigative, etc.) is being routinely suppressed or restricted by their major newspaper employees because of reasons having nothing to do with reporting. I am getting much more high-quality content from independent journalists (including Substack ones, but not only) and writers than I could ever have found in any newspaper. I struggle to find anything that traditional newspapers like NYT do "well" for me. They have a variety of topics? Who cares. If I'm interested in what a certain author has to say or in a certain topic - which rarely happens with NYT nowdays, but nevertheless - I don't care who pays the salary to the writer. I know that there's no chance a single subscription - or even several of them - would cover even part of my interests, I'd be needing my hundreds-strong RSS feed anyway. So what's the point? What exactly is being done well there?
Unpopular ideas may be ahead of their time, but they may equally be just stupid or deliberately proposed in bad faith.

There are potential benefits to considering any given idea (you learn something useful or get smarter), and there are also costs (time to evaluate, possible bad outcomes).

Unless you are taking the negative possibilities into account, an all-beneficial 'marketplace' of ideas' does not and will not work.

Consider a farmer's market or flea market. If you go there with a bad product and it fails to sell, or previous customers tell you it turned out to be bad, then you either improve your product or start losing money. But if you could go a small market with a big sound system and a team of marketing people to loudly insist that your products are the best you would quickly wreck the whole market.
A fantastic and thorough write up of taking a company laptop and breaking into a corp network. They even used a few methods and tools I hadn't heard of before. A fun read for the security folks. (Or anyone security adjacent)
> carbon dioxide concentration in the Earth's atmosphere was higher than at any time since measurements began.

How much co2 is there in the atmosphere now that we don’t want to be there? Wondering how big a pile of dry ice that would make
What if I told you that those caves would be the same age regardless of who inhabited them over the years
Contraction :

A portmanteau word is similar to a contraction, but contractions are formed from words that would otherwise appear together in sequence, such as do and not to make don't, whereas a portmanteau is formed by combining two or more existing words that all relate to a single concept.

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

"Motel" and "fog" are portmanteaus, because you wouldn't put "motor hotel" or "smoke fog" in sentences that accept the accretions, whereas you could swap "prion" for "protein infection".
Stalin would be so proud of you.
Valid point. Although I'll be picky and say that breeding plays into that .... but admit I don't want to bread a whole new dog for this imaginary and possibly unproductive job ;)
I don't necessarily disagree with the point you are trying to make but this comment that you think is hyperbolic belies your biases.

Speed limits and building codes pretty much are "personal preference" in wide swaths of the US. Prior to some federal shenanigans many states had highways with no particular speed limit. Many rural areas do not enforce any building code for noncommercial non-dwelling structures and many exempt dwellings if they are being constructed by the property owner for themselves. And beyond this there are even more areas where laws are on the books but you're free to disregard them and enforcement will ignore you unless you do something so unreasonable they can't justify ignoring you.
Yes but 999 million of those people are not being clinically monitored and side-effects/reactions to the vaccine are being reported anecdotally and are not really verifiable.
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Agreed that the Nissan Leaf was not a bad introduction to EVs. It sucks that they took so long to get to 200-250 mile EPA range, though, which really ought to be the minimum (along with 100kW DC charging) for a pure electric vehicle. But at least they were doing something.
Rule #1 when you find yourself in a hole: stop digging. Sure, there are other things you could/should do as well, but "to stop digging" should be your #1 priority.

Or, put another way, we're waaaay past "we can stop every bad thing from happening" point, but we're still in the "we can stop even more bad things from happening" range, and we won't be out of that range anytime soon - at least I hope so, I don't want to imagine what it would be like "Everything that can go wrong has already gone wrong so there's no point worrying any more."
Society doesn't need a downvote or an upvote. I'd be happier with the removal of both buttons.
This is so true I can't believe I am finally reading 12 years on.

We have tried various things, work blocks, no meeting days, etc. without ever really understand what the true root of the issue is.

I am curious how others have solved this dilemma in a very business driven world where things are to be managed.
There is no consensus whatsoever that boosters will be necessary (except from the vaccine makers of course).

Also, I am very curious, who specifically has decided this "isn't supposed to end"?
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> they did that, and the placebo group and vaccine group had the same death rate (their next move then was to end the placebo group).

Who is "they" and why did you not source this claim?

Regardless, given the current state where 99% of people hospitalized with COVID are unvaccinated, I find it nearly impossible to imagine the idea that "death rates are the same between vaccinated & unvaccinated" wouldn't just immediately fall apart under your proposed experiment.
It's a sad state of affairs when Veracrypt is one of the top contenders for tools to use. We need a fresh batch of properly maintained privacy tools.
Thought this article was relevent given the recent discussion of Techdirt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27984215

We talk a bit about how this process works, and why tracking ads don't work well for publishers who are valuable.
So post more quality content.
I do feel the focus on lobbyists and corruption distracts from the more serious problem: part of the solution will have to involve reducing certain luxuries for many upper-middle-class people: less real meat, less AC in the summer, less driving, much more expensive clothing and furniture, etc. ExxonMobil isn’t the problem here, it’s ordinary citizens who don’t want to make the sacrifice. And the problem isn’t “corrupt politicians” so much as “politicians who want to win elections,” aka all politicians. And “we simply have to elect liars who are guaranteed to lose their election after betraying their voters” isn’t an option.

The process will certainly involve some pain and serious injustices, even if it’s necessary for the long term.
Reducing meat consumption in particular is one that won’t be solved by electric generation technology, and lies directly on powerful cultural fault points in the US/Canada (“it’s the hippies and college professors who took your pork chops and bankrupted our hard working farmers!”). And eventually we will simply have to ban beef and pork.
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The rate at which law enforcement attempts to chip away at Constitutional Rights to pursue agendas is frightening. Perhaps it's always been this way, and I've only recently started to notice it.
"Disease experts say kids don't seem to be developing more severe COVID-19 cases as a result of the Delta variant "

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-covid-risk-to-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MondapIjAAM

all the videos the Climate Town guy puts out are great, but this one is highly pertinent.
Yeah, I personally just don’t get it. Your whole life you are told once you get the chicken pox, you won’t get it again. Once you get this year’s flu variant, you won’t get it again.

What is different about Coronavirus?
> It's fascinating how many here if someone goes against a Musk company immediately assume that it's due to corruption or protection for the incumbents.

Legacy aerospace players tried to sue SpaceX multiple times over (lucrative) exclusive government contracts.

There's no local monopoly for cars, it's a relatively open market with multiple players. Telecom and Space, well that's a different story.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/20/21377025/spacex-air-force...

https://spacenews.com/spacex-air-force-reach-agreement/

https://www.ulalaunch.com/about/news/2014/04/28/united-launc...
If I shit myself, I would know about it and can do something about it. If I have a virus, but no symptoms, how can I prevent spreading?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdYDL_RK--w&t=6s

He knows what he is talking about though. And he knows its the end of his field and career if he yields.
Because we don't have solutions. The closer and closer we get to the edge the more and more the realization is that nobody in any government has any sort of contingency plans for the worst happening.

Look at what has happened with recent natural disasters. Puerto Rico is STILL in shambles. And while unrelated to climate change, Flint Michigan's water is STILL undrinkable.

The terrifying part of climate change isn't that things will be harder, it's that our governments are completely unprepared to address it. One of the major political parties is fighting against any modicum of effort that WOULD help to address it.
Short of some sort of global sanctioning I'm not so sure there is one. Hopefully the data that comes out will be useful and honest.
Downvoting to disagree is effectively a heckler's veto to make minority positions literally disappear. It rewards organized brigading from motivated parties you don't want to see particular criticisms be surfaced.

I don't understand why that type of discourse should be encouraged.
But do you have any counter argument to the points they made?
Sometimes it is fine, depending on the particular application. I often use a single token to identify myself to office buildings, my car, my house, etc. Even my bank is okay with it, although that is more debatable.
It did have some consequences. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/911866159/a-mining-company-bl...
Yes, vaccinated people can get delta. But the risk is far lower. So much lower that it changes company's minds (as is clearly happening here).

I'm sorry if I misinterpreted your comment about not wanting companies to normalize access to medical records. I made a two step inference as to what the implications of that were.
Why is this still a thing? I think all tech people hate it, and all non-tech people use "Password1".
What an odd title. Drowning does look like drowning. How could it be any other way, given that it's involuntary?
Send this article to your security team. Hopefully they will appreciate the backup.
They must be dreaming if they think the CCP will help a fair investigation. If Ecohealth wants to investigate Covid on Norwegian Salmon they might get support, but since Chinese state media now denies that Covid even began in China, they won’t investigate the lab leak, that much is certain. There are good scientists in China who would want to investigate this, but the government will not allow it, and from what we know they are actively working to erase the evidence needed for the scientific process.
And the ethanol in US gasoline is there entirely to provide a market for Archer Daniels Midland to dump the alcohol it makes (under huge govt subsidy) to help absorb the huge (also very heavily subsidized!) overproduction of corn.

The addition of sugar to practically all processed food in the US is another response to that massive overproduction. Excess sugar is responsible for the ongoing, massive public health disaster that absolutely dwarfs COVID19. (But we are OK with it.)

And, feeding all livestock corn, despite its harm to their digestion and nutritive value of the result, just because it is the only way to be competitive.

Earl Butz, Reagan's Sect. of Ag, has a lot to answer for in hell. But there is more than enough blame to go around.

Anyone pushing for universal Medicare but not to eliminate corn subsidy is (at best) failing to address the root cause of the problem.
This guy developed Triton for his PhD thesis, and OpenAI hired him to continue working on it. Doesn't really seem fair to give all the innovation credit to OpenAI.

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/otdpkx/n_i...
Alcohol is very unhealthy for children as well. So toxic, in fact, it's illegal to sell alcohol to children or for them to consume it.

Alcohol and soda are both drinks that cause health problems. There is nothing wrong with the observation that alcohol is considerably worse than soda.
I assume you're referring to the grants issued by the US to China to work on GoF research?
Well if people want their ideas to be heard they need to write them down instead burying them in long videos amidst topics i dont care about. (Not blaming bruce, we're not the target audience here, but im still not watching a long form video).

I still think its a weird business model. I can't imagine any propriatary software would work with that. Its very discouraging for small projects that do simple things, or for companies that want to try out software a little at first before committing to using it at a large scale.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly punted the issue down to state courts. What do you think is different this time?
I'm willing to bet that the amount of lead that's put out by aircraft in a year pales in comparison to what was put out by cars, and as a result going after lead emissions from cars was deemed to be the best course of action by the EPA. Also, it's worth noting that leaded gasoline didn't go away overnight. It was still sold for awhile even after the EPA said that you couldn't make cars that ran on leaded gas.
Yep we're pure evil. Imagine your favorite boogeyman but twice as scary.
That's a good point, but those fingerprints aren't used to open say, a biometric safe. They are used to compare with fingerprints found at the scene of a crime.

Here's some interesting copy on similar cases.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/indiana-supreme-...
Android doesn't have a stealthy way to do it without powering down, but you can either activate lockdown mode, reboot, or power down and the next access will require PIN, not biometrics.
A revolutionary paradigm shift, I propose we create a foundation to advocate more research and adoption.
The problem is that hydrogen has radically improved in the last decade, but batteries have not overcome it’s fundamental weaknesses. For instance, we are now see hydrogen drop to below $2/kg even with entirely green hydrogen. Fuel cells have also gotten cheaper and more reliable.

The efficiency argument might end up being the same argument made against ray-tracing in the 3D rendering world. In that instance, the upside of have correct lighting with a simple algorithm eliminated whatever upside you could get out of a faster but more complex rasterization system. Hydrogen could easily be the way to have a single simple technology that works in all transportation cases.
I asked honestly, and seriously. I want to be taught, explained to. Not given lip.

I take (strong) exception to be characterized as "blase". My kids aren't eligible for vaccination either. I can assure you Im not "blase" about their health.

You might want to look at the actual statistics of the harm of COVID for under 12. If that frightens you, that's fine, but then I would encourage you to look at other daily behaviors and their risks.

As to your father, you're right, he may have not acquired a strong response. However, the vaccines are, rightly, praised for being very effective. Including among people who are immunocompromised. As a society we take "accept" hypothetical small risks and will continue to do so until we ban cars inside cities (which I'm in favor of, btw).
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