skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except the car wasn't destroyed, it's actually flying out there - and maybe, one day in the future, someone will retrieve it.

(I could understand people complaining about symbolism of sending a sports car, of all things, to be a first private industry artifact in interplanetary space. But this doesn't seem to be a majority complaint.)

Also: even the boring test mass payload would also cost "years of many folks' income". Not even counting the integration. Big things just costs big money - that's life for you. If someone is so sensitive about this, they probably shouldn't watch anything related to rockets at all.
Waste is a fake answer. The UK makes tradeoffs that the US polity is unwilling to engage with. This is a very expensive form of juvenile behavior.
At some point during the 20th century financial success became the primary mechanism of measuring achievement. This isn't necessarily the natural state of things - see counterexamples like Jonas Salk or Grigori Perelman. So my question to you would be: why do we only count innovation that results in someone getting fabulously rich as valuable? Why are we worried about losing the next Tesla or SpaceX to taxation instead of worrying about losing the next Hawking to a fatally flawed healthcare and education system?
It wasn't just you. Shatner was talking to Bezos and Bezos just couldn't have cared less and wasn't paying attention, he was more interested in finding champagne. Eventually when his girlfriend decided she needed some camera time, he finally pretended to care what Shatner had to say.
Oh nice, I didn't see options to replace the ports shown in the image with USB C. I'm supposing that's in the configuration wizard when you elect to buy?
"I don't see how science can ultimately function if you aren't allowed to push back and legitimately question things."

Can you demonstrate an understanding of the things you are questioning? Do you have reasonable arguments to support your questions? And most importantly, are you doing your questioning in good faith?
Can I politely suggest that you share with us the holes you see in the arguments and how you see them? Whether or not Rand is any good at what he does or says will be clear by your expert disassembly of his arguments.
What means "acceptance"? Scientific method if followed correctly should over a long period of time help you make better decisions. The answers you obtain could never be absolute, as a human you are always prone to failure of interpreting something wrongly. And the answer you find may not necessarily be correct, but just the best/most accurate at the time and completely wrong at the same time.
> has been demonstrated through various data to be a spectacular failure in terms of safety and efficacy.

Wat.

There are 6 major vaccines which are approved for use in most countries. Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, J&J, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Sputnik. Most are extremely safe (obviously risks are non-zero, but those risks are orders of magnitudes better than the effects of the disease). Some are extremely effective (at reducing severe disease and/or reducing the spread of disease), at least for the first several months. Some are even very effective against a variant that didn’t present until after development and testing were done. Only 2 are mRNA based, which I presume is what you mean by “experimental”. These vaccines have been administered in billions of doses and side effects have been monitored for over a year. Your statements completely overstate the facts as observed.
And I suspect I could find the extra 1% of GDP in things like Tricare, employee health benefits for federal, state, and municipal workers, CHIP, etc.
Biggest issue with older nuclear plants is the material degradation as a consequence of radiation, after a some decades of constant irradiation steel can become as brittle as glass, which is not only not reversible, but it also means that the actual rebar and concrete surrounding the core becomes damaged and the only way to replace that is to rebuild the whole core

I am rather against setting up new reactors, given that they are so centralized on the matter of costs, management, overruns and of course safety, the more safe you try to make them, the slower to build and more expensive they will end up being which is far from an ideal situation, but I am of course fully in favor of refactoring old ones, but it is important to understand that even when there might be political will to redactor them, that might just be technically unfeasible
https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/accident-management/emergen...

"To date, there is no evidence that the reactor accident has caused adverse health effects due to radiation in Germany."
What about "we don't think we will publish that"?
At least in Europe, the middle-class pays much higher taxes than in the US, which funds much of that safety net. Contrary to popular belief, high-income earners in States like California already pay tax rates similar to Western Europe. Imposing European-style tax rates on the US middle-class is unpopular with both major political parties.
> So in essence, all this article is doing is complaining about pop science and how we often reduce complex behaviours to singular explanations. But isn’t that just a part of being human?

You may be confusing theory with practical considerations.

Human beings desire to know the truth, at least by nature. What you're describing is an inaccurate, even false belief that happens to make it easier to cope with something by making something an easy scapegoat. It allows you to blame something perceived as external and impersonal which allows you to put some distance between you and the urge.

There's nothing special about calling this thing "dopamine". Classically, the passions are bodily urges that could be out of whack in some way (either excessive or insufficient or inappropriate), often through habituation or lack thereof, but possibly also made more likely through temperament. Failing to satisfy an excessive or inappropriate urge won't kill you (satisfaction might), and knowing that already grants you power over it because its urgency is now seen as a kind of bluff.

> Perhaps it is human nature to try to solve complex issues by reducing the problem to something that can be explained to a lay person, even if such explanations are incorrect.

Reductionism destroys the truth by eliminating everything it cannot explain and by representing what remains in terms of some desired language. It is a rationalization through preconception rather than explanation.
> no carbon dioxide is emitted during the launch or into the atmosphere

It takes a lot of energy to capture that hydrogen and oxygen beforehand. The same energy that the rocket releases, plus losses due to process inefficiencies.

Maybe they take pains to use only renewables. If not, they likely emitted plenty of CO2 in advance of the launch.
Appealing to complexity doesn’t make basics like conservation of matter go away.

The Climate is extremely complex, and will not be entirely understood in our lifetimes; but I’m not interested in litigating my way to a perfect climate model. I’ll leave that to climatologists or whatever.

I’ll state my policy position (the end result of whatever one’s understanding of the problem is anyway) and leave it at that:

My position is that mankind ought to follow what I was taught in scouts: “leave no trace”.

Return GHGs to preindustrial levels, control all other pollutants in a similarly strict sense. Work towards solving the problems we have with deforestation and destruction of habitats, etc. All while maintaining freedom of reproduction for everyone, and continuing to improve quality of life for humans everywhere. Not exactly an easy feat.

That world (the preindustrial world) changed according to its own whims and patterns, but it was beautiful and humans thrived in it.

Knowing that a much warmer planet would look different and likely be less hospitable makes me want to avoid that outcome; however I’ve made my peace with the high likelihood that I wont see “garden earth”. We’re working with a system we don’t understand against a timetable we can’t see while people make money every time they slow us down.
s/space travel/cars/
> Back in early 2020 the "evidence" to which people were pointing was the fact that there was a lab researching coronavirus in Wuhan

This absolutely qualifies as evidence. If there were no such lab, that would pretty much conclusively rule out the lab leak hypothesis, right? If observation X is evidence against a hypothesis, then observation not-X must be evidence in favor. We could debate about how strong this evidence is, but it's definitely evidence.
It's like a religion to some people. Has been this way for decades, certain folks never left the hippie ideology behind
Melatonin is cheap and widely available generic medication. It can’t be used to treat Covid-19, that’s for expensive, patented medication that’s in short supply only.
It's important for space travel to have spokespersons like William Shatner. He's expressive and genuine. He's an actor of course, but how much is that and how much is personal is beside the point. He can do more to promote the 'hearts and minds' of the world than any number of oligarchs.
This has nothing to do with Markdown. Was that word included for SEO or something? Perhaps a better title would be "ASCII Art Calendars".
>Let them go bankrupt and then we will have fresh ground for entrepreneurs to flourish.

I agree to this in some contexts, but I also think it's sometimes used with too broad of a brush. It seems to ignore the time lag that means sometimes things can get really bad before they get better. Sure, allowing banks and automotive manufacturers to go under could create "fresh ground for entrepreneurs to flourish." But it could also create decades of depression/recession effects before that flourishing happens. We're currently seeinng the supply chain effects that people didn't really anticipate well. As someone from the rust belt, there are an awful lot of tangentially related manufacturers who will also go away with the automotive sector, which has ripple effects in a ton of other industries. Protracted economic depressions tend to create "fresh ground" for despots to "flourish" as well.
OK, I see your point better now. You're saying that reasoning about a type algebraically is more of a perspective, not a fundamental statement about the type itself. I think I could get behind that. :)

For what it's worth, not all functional languages emphasize the ADT notion per se. E.g., the Ocaml manual generally talks about records, tuples, and variant types; "algebraic" really only comes up with GADTs are discussed.
Regulators are slow but eventually they will strangle you with compliance actions and costs if you behave badly
I never really had an opinion about Jeff Bezos, but after seeing this video and how he's interrupting Shatner to spray some champagne - man, I can't say I like Jeff a single bit.
Social Security payments to rise nearly 6% in 2022; largest hike since 1982
Outdated information is quite relevant for nuclear power plants. Fukushima was older than Chernobyl.

Every time someone tells me how safe modern power plants are I think "great, now get rid of all the old ones".
Good luck with the Greens now as the #3 party. The authors of the letter are right, Germany will miss its 65% emissions target and politicians will try to fix this with carbon credits and other policy BS which of course doesn't quite work in practice, since clean electricity doesn't come out of thin air.
> even the boring test mass payload would also cost

Of course. I'm not talking about considered opinion, just knee-jerk human reactions to headlines.

You can tell people they're wrong if you want. Let me know how that goes for you.
These resources are awesome! Thank you!
Huh given the context (especially given that this was post DAO hard fork) I read that as vitalik saying that "Code is law" is a principal, not necessarily saying that "code is law" is a principal held by himself/Ethereum.
Nice quote:

> During the six decades since that first sighting in Gombe, Tanzania, many further examples of tool manufacture and use among chimpanzees have been discovered. It has become clear that each chimpanzee community has its own repertoire of tools and associated behaviors.
The Cold War takes a lot of the blame: everything from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, to the subsequent ugly arms race, to bomb testing and its environmental effects. Plus events like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. Generation X kids were born into an era which felt the threat of global nuclear war, and those people are decision makers today.
I don't use Windows on a laptop
Dealing with human reports is hard. People will report good players for cheating. People will report bad players for cheating. People will brigade reports. There's also a sense of scale; last I heard cod warzone had 100 million players. If even a _mild_ portion of those players actively use report systems, it's not feasible to manually evaluate them (and is also prone to bias and social factors)
While OP may continue to bumble around with his right wing talking points, let me continue this discussion with you since you get it.

What do you think is the end state of this whole saga? It seems like either we reform or we eventually collapse. Maybe its possible a whole generation will continue to zombie walk through this trash system that we have?
I became interested in computer graphics at a very young age, spent the first 9 years working as a developer. Then switched and started working as a cgi artist in media/advertising. 10 years later i have gone full circle and am way more happy with what i am doing. We have come such a long way- from mode 13 to GPUs, from scanline to raytracing, from offline to realtime. It still excites me. If it wasnt for graphics i would not even be interested in computers.
Ok that sucks, and just lik credit scores, should be banned. Driving? Maybe. Theft? Maybe. But healthcare is present in the lives of everyone, and eventually someone has to take a pill. Discrimination by prescription.
Huh, I didn't realize that a summer sun in the northern hemisphere rises from ENE. https://www.suncalc.org/#/43.7434,-110.7355,12/2021.07.17/12...

Incorporating some of the overall sky colors might be neat, so that twilight looks different than midnight.
Have a look at Sigstore and their tool cosign. It's aiming to be the Let's Encrypt of code signing.

I'm not sure if arbitrary binaries are supported fully yet, but it's being worked on.

https://github.com/sigstore/cosign
There's also a reason why Google, Amazon and Microsoft are the only companies that can compete in cloud computing, it's called economies of scale.
>If the US confiscated all of the wealth of the billionaires in the US

Who is arguing for the government to do so? Certainly not anyone with real power in the US.
That was an awful lot of words. Too bad none of them had anything to do with what you think this article gets wrong.
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Yea, go ahead and start your decent into hating successful people. I have 0 doubt if you got rid of billionaires, problems would remain and then you would go after millionaires...

The biggest irony is that you'll chase the most productive and brilliant people away. Think of how many great scientists and intellectuals came from the Eastern bloc... or Germany during the rise of Hitler. They literally expelled some of their most brilliant and successful people, making the US (or whatever country they fled to) stronger.
It seems to me that the biggest problem today isn't misunderstanding science, but misapplying science. Folks seem to come up with formulations like "science says that X causes Y, and thus we must do Z". Regardless of what you might fill into those letters, the statement is a fallacy.

Anyone who believes that policy can directly flow from science is mistaken.

It's the job of science to make predictions: if these circumstances occur, we can expect the outcome to look like that. But this says nothing - can say nothing - in judgment of how good or bad that outcome is.

To create policy, we must weigh the costs and benefits of the various expected outcomes. That's not a scientific exercise, it flows only from our values as individuals and as a society.

So if you're interesting in bringing about a particular policy, or forestalling a different one, the way to do this is by making your case for relative values of the outcomes that science predicts - not to hoodwink people into believing something other than what the science predicts.

Examples of such misapplication:

* Science shows that the climate is changing, caused by human action, such that in 50 years, some coastal cities will have ground level below high tide. Therefore we must do everything possible to limit CO2 emissions.

* Science says that after (whatever) weeks gestation, a human baby could be viable outside the womb. Therefore we must forbid abortions after that term.

In both these examples, a value judgment is being smuggled in that imposes unacknowledged values into the situation. Those values have nothing to do with science, and so the conclusion is a-scientific.

(That's not to say that either of the conclusions is wrong given some values, including possibly the prevailing cultural values. But assuming that is so is certainly anti-scientific.)
Oh my god, when Jeff ignored William to get some champagne and start spraying it was so rude and obnoxious, not to mention the clingers on just wanting Jeff's attention and some camera time. I feel sorry for Shatner that he didn't have someone more genuine to share that moment with.
Ideally what that developer was wanting should be a function of the platform. That's likely not in an operations teams scope because they're mostly just fire fighters. Also ideally in a situation like SOX where devs can't have access to production their preproduction environments share the same interface that production has and if their values differ that much is documented.
They do? I googled it and it's full of "I accidentally left my mods on and connected to GTAO and got banned", not " I was banned for playing modded single player games"
> great, now get rid of all the old ones

And burn some more coal in the meantime.
yes, can't believe they squealed and celebrated, they should have solemnly nodded to eachother in respectful silence. Shouldn't have expressed joy, no.
Verifying who signed a binary is important as verifying the bits haven't changed. You can then choose to trust different signatories and doesn't mean you trust without verification.
With respect, I don't think that's true. Consider:

If MichaelDickens did not exist, it would rule out his having robbed the bank. However, MichaelDickens exists, and therefore it is evidence, however weak, that he robbed the bank.
I mean sure, that's a bad idea if you're making directional bets (probably), but you could do the same with delta neutral yield/farming strategies and it wouldn't be a bad idea imo. When the APR on stablecoins is >30%, it definitely makes sense to borrow as much as you can.
Honest question that I'm sure sounds snarky: Why was Bezos in a flight suit if he wasn't flying?
I’m going to stick my neck out here. Not sure where the squealing you talk about come from. Bezos just handled the champagne quickly and got back to Shatner who was clearly having a lot to process.

I swear people here just don’t like Bezos and see the worst in him.
And lockdowns. First lockdowns in my life. We weren't even allowed to play in the garden.
"And then suddenly you shoot up through it all of the sudden… as if you whip off the sheet off you when you are asleep.. And you’re looking into blackness. Into BLACK UGLINESS… And you look down and there’s the blue down there… and the black up there and it’s… it’s just… there is Mother Earth… and comfort… and there is ….is there death? I don’t know! Is that death?" - Shatner
Google Cloud Platform Spot VMs
Imagine if we had terminals that could handle graphical data. We wouldn't have to do weird kludges like this, we could just plot the waveforms in the output of our tools.

But it's 2021, and not only is this not possible, there is not even a path forward to a world where this would be possible. It's just not an option. Nobody is working on this, nobody is trying to make this happen. We're just sitting here with our text terminals, and we can't even for a second imagine that there could be anything else.

It's sad, is what it is.
> But this is a result of the pandemic and shouldn't be taken as a direct indicator of economy health.

I don't follow the logic here. Suppose a pandemic wipes out 50% of the world population. The economy would collapse. You wouldn't say what you said if that happened.

The health of an economy is affected by real world occurrences, it is in fact nothing more than a measure of the aggregate cumulative things happening in the world. A shock is a shock no matter what causes it, crises are crises precisely because something unexpected caused them.
Maybe it's a temporal vs spatial vs cardinal issue. I'm sitting "between or in between" two people ( open boundary or exclusive or non-inclusive ). Seems spatial is always open boundary. Park your car between those two trucks. I walked between two clowns.
Safety concerns are moot when the coal alternative will kill orders of magnitude more people.
Do you have specific knowledge of a Wuhan lab leak? Are your arguments regarding a lab leak reasonable? Will you cease making your argument if it is not supported?
There was a recent discussion about this on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28420835
> We say all the same things about adrenaline

The distinction here I think is that adrenaline is equivocal and really is just synonymous with "rush" because we've attributed the rush to adrenaline. But it could be another example of the same error and thus something we ought not, strictly speaking, say if our aim is to be accurate.

I also don't think the way "dopamine" is used is quite the same as "adrenaline". The former feels like it's being used in a more technical and explanatory way.
Any prematurely closed nuclear power plants that can be restarted?
How the Pandemic Changed Me as a Parent
Those that do have such detailed maps, if they do, probably aren't likely to talk about them.
I heard this a lot. The "whistle blower" did a great job convincing the public it seems.

Interestingly enough, though, in 19 flights that space dildo didn't kill anyone unlike Branson's death bird that was grounded by the FAA due to numerous security issues.

Yes it was a publicity stunt, yes Bezos is a horrible person, but still the track record of the rocket powered phallus symbol doesn't look too bad as of now and at least appears to be somewhat safe and reliable.
When I included the phrase “for their own good”, I intended it to have semantic non-phatic meaning indicating restrictions on liberty intended to protect the restricted individual. Protection against self harm has different moral bases than protection against harm from others.

Your comment addresses the latter. Unfortunately, that means it’s wholly non-sequitur.
Personally I’m more interested in driving up the estate tax. The effect of generational wealth strikes me as particularly corrosive to a republic. The revenue raised is really only a minor side benefit.

If you make billions, fine. Pay income tax, but you can remain a billionaire. But your kids should not get to keep that. They’ll have to make do merely with millions.
i thought the 'the clingers on' was his wife?
Thank you! As long as some people got to see it, that's enough for me. :)
Vista was released in 2007 and supported x86-64. The first x86-64 machines from AMD were released in 2003.
Michael Shellenberger's TED talk from 2017, "Why I changed my mind about nuclear power", is still relevant:
https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shellenberger_why_i_change...

He also has a great Substack where he writes on a variety of topics, including nuclear power. He just wrote an article titled "Nations Go Nuclear As Prices Spike & Renewables Fail" that is timely: https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/nations-go-nucle...