skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this reads like a sketchy submarine PR article. It’d be more believable if it was auctioned by Christie’s
I like that too.
Or.... maybe the story is exactly as it appears: a student coalition petitioned to have the rock removed because it reminded them of a racist element of the school's past, and were successful. Maybe there is no Robespierre secretly gathering power and sharpening the guillotine, and no slippery slope towards the cultural Marxist dystopia Hacker News always seems to believe the world is tumbling headlong into.
Seems to not work on Safari/macOS. Just shows a 3D rocket, a gray 3d grid, and a few check boxes. No apparent means to do anything with it.

EDIT: Oh, the slider.
Many nice visualizations of relativity from over a decade ago: https://www.spacetimetravel.org/
And the African children mining the metals!
Stimulus and Permanent Income Hypothesis
In major US cities, it's largely free. Whether you see that as a benefit or a negative probably depends on your side of the argument.
There are pockets of walkabality here and there but it's a drop in the ocean. Those locations are sparse, job and home location specific, and EXPENSIVE.

I live in San Antonio. Low COL right? Ehhh, not where I live haha. The desirable areas near town are not cheap. Alamo Heights is super expense and not walkable at all. A 1 bedroom near the Pearl is over 2k/mo now essentially. Actually, I've seen effeciencies for about that much and there are not really grocery stores around within walking distance.

Texas has a 1.9t GDP and it's almost entirely generated by people living in urban sprawl and rural areas. Austin is no exception as someone has pointed out.

Most of the people who work in the smallish Texas high density centers live in the sprawl. We have no income tax so of court that's made up with prop tax. School quality is highly dependent on quality of the neighborhoods they are located near. It's not fantastic but the idea that the sprawl is "draining" the cities is off base since the vast majority of workers producing the value live in the sprawl.
Greenland will be Brownland
I'm not looking at the number of comments from conspiracy nuts as a measure of success or failure, I'm looking at the confirmed case counts and death counts. Considering how pernicious this virus is, our prevention efforts have not been a complete failure. The death count could easily be an order of magnitude higher today. That's not blind optimism for the future, that's the reality of the present.
Same here, Firefox/Windows

edit: ohhh. You're supposed to move the slider at the bottom right. That wasn't at all obvious.
I think the odd bit here is the encouragement to use messaging systems out of the employer's control for work stuff.
The first path are people that initially tilt towards morally good but eventually tilt towards morally bad as they accumulate more and more wealth and power. The people that the maxim "power corrupt" was made for.

Your path describe the naive people that would rather believe that the world is a meritocracy rather than a free for all with a thin veneer of meritocracy and will defend that facade until they are personally affected.

There is yet another path which is people that figure out the game and embrace it and say that anyone that doesn't play the game gets what's coming to them. I'd say that this guy is probably in this camp.
Can you share those content blockers? I recently acquired my first iOS device and have been suffering through the ads.
Or a place that, you know, sells baby shoes.
I listened to a podcast once about somebody wanting to build a mr burns style sun blocker, except in space and extremely far away from us. The idea was to reduce the amount of sun that hits the earth by a couple of percentage points. It wouldn’t even be visible in the sky they said

The podcast might have been called “moonshots”?
I'd actually be fine with neighborhoods being made car-hostile and pedestrian friendly if I could get TO the neighborhood and park just outside it.

The unmentioned aspect of making everything "walkable" (at least in the US) is it denies access to those who are not local.
Re: Musk and Mars - because that's his founding reason for SpaceX. His original idea was just "I have a lot of money, what's something absurd I can do?" and the answer was he wanted to land a greenhouse on Mars - then got jerked around trying to buy Russian rockets to do it and then realized he could just make his own rocket company.

Elon is slightly crazy as most billionaires are, he's just crazy in a very specific direction: some people buy mega yachts, he wants a SpaceX rocket to be landing humans on Mars.

Now in reality...SpaceX can't privately fund a manned mission anywhere. That's got to be a NASA/international thing - if only because the core competencies are so incredibly broad-ranging (SpaceX do rockets - and rockets are already a "here's 50 fields you can contribute a Ph.D to, we need all of them to make this work"). But if your goal is to go to Mars, then you talk about, and build towards, going to Mars and wait for NASA to say "hey we'd like to get the moonbase going".

Which is pretty much what has happened: I have no doubt that in the next 20 years we're going to see a manned mission to the Moon, and I'm very sure that it's going to be a Starship that takes it there.
Sure, up and down the chain, but with that much surplus? That would be irrational. I don't understand. Do you mean it's like farmers dumping millions of gallons of milk to quash supply and support price x? To what end? They're worried if they flood the market, price drops? (To say nothing of legality, because I know nothing.)
You can’t claim a silver or golden age of anything while you’re living in it. If you do, it’s pure marketing copy.

“Much the way journalism has increasingly surrendered its claims of objective neutrality and allowed reporters room for subjective voice, so the essay has come to rely more and more on an “I.” With that has come an infusion of raw honesty, vulnerability, and awkward admission such as would scarcely have been seen in earlier essays. Younger essayists are often willing to acknowledge confusion, psychological distress, thralldom to contradictory drives and uncontrollable desires. There is often a trade-off: more heat, urgency, diaristic excitement, less perspective.”

This sounds like the cultural dead-end the visual arts entered in the late 20th Century. Passing off personal psychological or social pathology as deep, or entertaining, insights. Titillating as social or class pornography by those privileged enough to simply look at it from the printed page. A bore and a waste for anyone else.

Therapists get paid good money to listen to/read such dribble, with the hope of a better day for someone at the end. No such saving grace here.
(Joke)

> What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?

Burn it in bonfires at festivals like Coachella and Burning Man.
This tweet he sent in early June was spicy: https://twitter.com/itrevormoore/status/1400158963748917249
But don't you find it odd that an Indigenous student group would be involved in an elaborate, multi-stage plot to "remove" people? It seems like the sort of thing they would be against, on principle.
>While it's not classified as a drug, it's definitely addicting.

I'm starting to realize how true this is. I didn't know my beef jerky has sugar in it until they came out with a sugar free version. I assume that's how they get people to eat otherwise garbage food and eat a lot of it. I bet if they starting taking sugar out of everything the US would get a lot healthier real fast. At least make it more obvious if something has sugar than the 15+ variants on nutrition labels.

That'll never happen, the US government is already bought, sold and paid for.
True that, and I've seen packages switch group ids at this point, usually at a major version release.

But still makes it easier to verify that you're installing the package you intended.

And makes it very hard to deliver typo vulns or squat the "good" names.
Perhaps you've learned to be emotionally hypersensitive to things you sense, while the parent commenter only interprets emotions from emotional contexts, like when people or animals express emotion?

Then again, perhaps anytime two people experience a subjective matter differently, they try to grade each other's ability to experience that matter on an objective scale, with their ability to experience it set at the origin. From the parent commenter's perspective, the article and your response are both emotionally hypersensitive, and from your perspective the parent commenter is "emotionally underdeveloped".

What this all comes down to is that applying an objective scale to a subjective matter doesn't yield anything useful; it only highlights the relative differences of the participants. I've always wondered if it's human nature, or cultural imbuement, to inject competitiveness into something that cannot be competed over. It's obvious that you each see this subjective matter differently. How can either of you possibly think that your subjective viewpoint is correct, without also acknowledging that the other's viewpoint must also be correct to them?
On the contrary. At no point did I make a comment on your character or any other aspect of you personally. The only comments I made were specific towards your question and its implications.

You can call it a personal attack if you wish. That doesn't make it true.

> would you mind answering the question?

I won't because as I pointed out already, your question comes from a flawed premise.
Your claim is made dubious by the fact that there exist OSI-approved open source licenses (e.g. BSD) which the FSF says do not qualify as free software licenses.
Another idea is desalination plants.

There's plenty of water in the world, but most of it is salt water from the oceans, so if we can desalinate it that will go a long way towards solving the water crisis -- particularly in areas near the shore.

It would be interesting to hear what a per-capita price of a gallon of desalinated water would cost, especially when the cost is brought down by having lots of desalination plants all around the world.
This is partly administered by my country, New Zealand, although is not part of the Realm of New Zealand (New Zealand plus territories it controls), rather it is a British Overseas Territory.

The people living there are mostly descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their captives. There has been a long sad history of sexual abuse, with one third of the island's male population being convicted and imprisoned in the early 2000s. They were let out of prison to do jobs, such as unloading cargo ships, during the day because the island could not function otherwise.

There really are not many jobs to be had so migrants are not allowed to take local jobs, I guess they have to create a new job for themselves. According to Wikipedia they used to get 700 enquires a year for migration but nobody ever actually applied.

I am surprised nobody has tried using it as a stepping stone to get into New Zealand, because the Islanders can live and work indefinitely in New Zealand if they are of good character and good health.

Edit: I did not want to sound disrespectful so I edited my comment slightly.
This is among the many reasons why I shifted to purchasing as much as I can from zero-waste groceries, bulk ingredients buying using my own containers, and preparing meals from scratch. Packaged products' value proposition used to be predicated primarily upon convenience. If I find myself having to spend time and cognitive load to evaluate and vet a type/brand of packaged product due to obfuscations and distortions, then I immediately stop buying from them altogether, find DIY options and bulk prepare them, or do without.
I think that this can be better qualified. Presidential republics make sense if you have a truly federalist system, formed by existing states that have unified under one government. The US for example does not have a centralized health care system, police force, banking system, legal system, and education system.

Some, though not all, countries that have copied the US presidential system are in actuality centralized with most power being invested in the federal government and by proxy, the president. It is a recipe that dictators like as they can pretend to be democratic leaders but not actually have to share power.

If your country is centralized parliament works best. If it is decentralized then any parliament is going to be toothless like the UN, entirely dominated by single strong internal powers like the EU, or incoherent like in Star Wars :)
> but infrequent/involuntary screaming by a very senior exec does happen

Eh, sorry, no. I mean, maybe if you drop a book on their foot or something, but if it's just screaming at employees as part of their work, then they should probably be looking for a less demanding job.
>“Wild fire numbers are down massively in the US”?!?!?!

Nine of the top ten largest California fires in the last 100 years, are within the past ten years. What sort of wild fire numbers do you mean?
Three of them, in fact! The series is called "Orthogonal": http://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html
This exists for CSGO. I know several people in the CSGO cheating scene that do this. (Note that it is OVERKILL for regular competitive matches, since VAC sucks, there are open source cheats that have been undetected for years. it's only worth it on third party anti cheat platforms like Faceit or ESEA).

However, a direct memory access (DMA) card that reads player positions from the RAM is more popular as it just requires an arduino between the mouse to overwrite some of the mouse movements to aim towards a head (in addition to the DMA card). it requires a few hundred bucks in hardware and skill in firmware to make sure the DMA card cannot be detected. But in exchange you play on a semipro level mostly undetected. Search "Project EPO" and "Lohouse" on youtube for more info; he's a real skilled programmer who even sent a build to a famous youtuber in order to bring awareness to it.

I was deep into the CSGO cheating scene, and yes, it is just as toxic and cringe as it sounds, 99% 14 y/o toxic skids.
Being publicly nasty to someone on a regular basis is bad and I wouldn't want it in my work environment, but I don't think the government usually gets involved at the civil level, let alone the criminal level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_bullying#Typology_of... and below

https://www.eeoc.gov/harassment
I can't tell how to use the defining forms at https://calculist.io/markup. These work:

* \= 2*3
* \(x, y) = x+y

However I'm not sure how to define a new function. Here's what I tried:

* \: foo (x, y) = x+y # no error
* \=foo(2, 3) # error

* \:barr = 2*3 # no error
* \=barr # error
Fantastic - and every site out there has a different set of password requirements that make introducing a strategy like this impossible. Password managers for the win!
If this was a mining situation, then yes, it would be dumb.

Is that what this is actually doing though? Is it PoW for a mining operation, or just causing some electrons to be moved around to prove your not a bot? I didn't read too far into what the PoW actually is since their demo shat the bed.
> It does happen, and and it becomes "normalized" as "that manager is just being himself".

I mean, I'm sure it happens, but it's ultimately a sign that that manager's manager is not doing a good job.
China Will claim restoration of Harmony and will close itself to the world while milking again the tributaries (belt & Road "partners")
You need to add one giant qualifier there: 'in the developed world'.

So far what we've managed to achieve is to stave of the worst at the expense of ruining our economy and now having to deal with a whole pile of new and nastier variations.

You can't really say anything about the outcome of a fire until the fire is under control, right now we may have the illusion of control but I don't believe that we are there just yet.
Yes but you want the good ones.
I was looking into the Calyx hotspot recently. I hadn't heard about this.

Why is T-Mobile shutting down Sprint’s old LTE equipment a problem? They say that the hotspots will "roam to T Mobile when Sprint is not available"
You don't have an email address in your profile (or at least, none that is visible).
Less liberty and freedom. More enslavement.
We need to return to vernacular architecture, passive solar design, smaller homes in walkable neighborhoods. Our overhead for just existing in the US is insanely high and it's hard to opt out. Small towns and unincorporated communities need to decide to make it possible for some part of their population to opt out.

We invest too much in worshipping the big city, among other things.
"It's a common misconception that special relativity cannot handle accelerating objects or accelerating reference frames. Sometimes it's claimed that general relativity is required for these situations, the reason being given that special relativity only applies to inertial frames. This is not true. Special relativity treats accelerating frames differently from inertial frames, but can still deal with accelerating frames. And accelerating objects can be dealt with without even calling upon accelerating frames.

This idea that special relativity cannot handle acceleration or accelerated frames often comes up in the context of the twin paradox, when people claim that it can only be resolved in general relativity because of the acceleration present. Their claim is wrong."

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/acceler...
Indeed. However, there is no point getting mad at Alex.

He used to be a real hacker, until he sold his soul for mammon at Facebook. Once someone like this makes the transition from hacker to wiping one's ass with the hacker manifesto, there's no turning back, and you just need to accept that their words are hollow.

Nothing against Alex. He's brilliant, and you never know if you're offered $XMM to compromise your principles, you won't make the same decision until you're actually in that position.

I'm not smart enough to ever be in his position, and I'd like to believe that if I were, I would hold true to principle, but who knows? We're all flawed.
The thread has a point, and there's definitely nuance here, but I think people throughout history have litigated this many times over, and we came to the same conclusion over and over and over again. To argue the contrary is revisionist or simply ignorant. This conclusion is one that has pushed our species to be more charitable, more law-abiding, more free, less tyrannical, more fair, etc. Not that we've reached some kind of utopia, but let's face it: the world is much better off than it was 100, 200, or 1000 years ago.

The conclusion is that freedom (that is: negative, not positive rights) is the main force of progress (societal, technological, scientific). Of course, we have law enforcement, and judges, and lawyers, and an entire legal machinery: but it functions within well-defined boundaries. In the US, we have warrants. We have habeas corpus. We have chain of custody, and so on.

Apple is fundamentally circumventing these norms. And this is wrong, no matter what is on the other side of the equation. I'm not sure what Stamos' counter-argument is here. I don't always agree with the EFF, but I think in this case, they're right on the money.
Right now desalination is too expensive. I think that we will eventually reach the point where it's necessary regardless of the cost. But I also think we shouldn't bet on them entirely; we should have a much larger water management plan where desalination merely fills gaps rather than provides the bulk of our water. Even if you got desalination cheap enough for local production, transportation would make it even less affordable, so we really need to max out the efficiency of existing watersheds, water tables, and snow melts. And we could further increase efficiency by redirecting water from other parts of the country, the way we (sort of?) do with energy.
population: 47, according to wikipedia
I’m confused about your reasoning. Translating scanned printed material into a searchable text is a social good, but providing safer transportation…that additionally may one day free drivers of the menial work of driving…that is not a social good?
Blame the bastards hacking the website. Captchas are typically used to combat bot activity.
Interestingly, "there are no easy answers" seems to be an ... easy answer to a lot of pretty obvious and compelling objections.

This kind of thing is often said to "balance" between "your plan is despicable and ridiculous" and "yeah but the pressure to do something is huge"
Well, there doesn't seem to be any need to falsify/forge anything. Just simple omission seems to do the trick*.

For example, consider report ID 1313795 in VAERS[1,^]:

> My goal was to get a vaccine from each manufacturer. I accidentally ended up with multiple sets of pfizer. Pfizer #1 on 02/12/2021 at 3pm, in right arm Pfizer #2 on 03/06/2021 at 1 pm. In left arm Had the Johnson and Johnson vaccine 04/12/2021 at 1 pm. On 04/14/2021 at 3:30 pm - 9 pm nose bleed occurred. Had Pfizer #1 on 04/18/2021 at 8:30 pm, Pfizer #2 on 05/02/2021 at 6:30 pm Sex on 04/22/2021. Not on any birth control. Taking 50 MG each day of serialize.

Or consider report ID 1433490:

> "Patient notated she is here to receive 1st dose of any COVID-19 vaccine. After billing insurance, rejected claim said ""Duplicate/Paid Claim"". Looked on and patient's profile showed that she received multiple doses of Pfizer at various locations in. Received on 4/3/21, 4/24/21, 5/17/21, 6/7/21."

* I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. I am not condoning any of this behavior or recommending any course of action. Just observing what is recorded in VAERS.

^ It doesn't seem possible to hotlink to VAERS search results.

[1]: https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html
If yelling/lecturing/screaming at an employee gets the point across and prevents them from being fired, is it justified?

Assuming calmly and firmly hasn't worked.

Most of us are probably fortunate enough to have mature and cooperative coworkers, but that isn't always the case. Honest question.
> I also don't understand why Apple is pushing the CSAM scanning for iCloud into the device

Because it's a pretense for further surveillance.
Or the Canadian festival, Shambhala near Nelson!

But they already give the stuff away at many festivals..
That is a naive and immature point of view. Technology enables crime in terrible ways, and those crimes need to be curtailed.

Don't like it? Buy a different phone.
foo\(x, y) = x + y

\= foo(2, 3)
I do the same, I’ve noticed that the captcha doesn’t mind too much as long as I’m slow/methodical and get it mostly right
If you solved constant uninterruptible power though via solar, then you've solved a lot of other expansion problems.

So your real challenge is what can be done if you just lay cable over the surface - then you use that power source (and importantly: heating source - lunar night is why rover missions struggle to last over 2 weeks) to power your second-wave rovers which would lay in higher amperage stuff (which would basically just need to in contact with regolith while shielded from sunlight to be cooled).
No it wouldn't. Just like American sites, there are very many .co.uk sites that (intentionally) serve a world audience.

Different language & currency support is fairly common, and where not present it's usually because other markets aren't deliberately served. I18n/l10n ought to extend to captcha too.
Anyone know of anyone has actually applied?
Guys, I’m not sure you have heard but some Han fisherman tried to colonize Taiwan after 1945.

That along with the fact KMT retreated there means....

Taiwan is part of China.

And if you disagree they are ready to nuke you.
Is it? How are these norms being circumvented?