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The difficulty with rights is where they start and where they end.

The saying goes that my right to swing my arms ends where your face begins.

Equally the student unions right to decide what they personally listen too ends when they prevent others that want to hear the speaker from listening.

At that point they are infringing on another's right to free speech.

In the case of the student unions it is an inherently political organisation using their power to restrict the rights of what I can only assume is a minority of the student body.

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A new election system could change democracy
I'm amazed at how long I've been working in python and never known that assignment works in this way. I suppose I just avoid parts of the language that I don't understand.

Looking through the archives, it's a really interesting blog in general
Condorcet methods are also hard to explain to voters. The tabulation is rather complicated. At least in comparison to something like cardinal methods. In light of recent recounts I think this is a really important factor to consider. While Condorcet methods have the best VSE, they aren't winning by a huge margin. Besides, VSE isn't everything.
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I hear Africans have similar opinions of elephants - they eat everything in sight
Short answer: yes, hydrogen jets are probably the future. Electrochemical batteries fundamentally lack the required mass to energy ratio necessary for air travel. But there's a lot of challenges to actually powering an aircraft via hydrogen, and it's probably not going to happen for a while.

The long answer:

* The question is moot until we have widespread decarbonization of the energy grid. Currently, our hydrogen mostly comes from steam reformation - splitting methane, CH4, into 2H2 + CO - which emits carbon dioxide. Once our electrical production is carbon-free, then we can think of producing hydrogen and powering vehicles with that. Electrolysis can serve as a carbon-free source of hydrogen, if the electricity is produced from a carbon-free source. There are more efficient forms of hydrogen production, like thermochemical hydrogen production with heat provided by nuclear reactors.

* Once carbon-free hydrogen production becomes available, then there's the question of building hydrogen powered vehicles. Hydrogen is the most energy dense fuel by unit of mass, except for nuclear fuels, but it's about half the energy density by unit of volume compared to hydrocarbons. Substituting fossil fuels with hydrogen is probably more feasible in container ships than aircraft. Hydrogen containment, be it pressurized or liquid-cryogenic, scales better at higher capacities as there is a better volume to surface-area ratio. Aircraft wings (long and skinny) are basically the worst shape for hydrogen containment. Past examples of hydrogen powered aircraft stored it in the fuselage [1], which would sacrifice cargo and passenger space.

* Lastly, for aircraft there's also the question of making engines that don't produce greenhouse gases. High-temperature hydrogen gas turbines will also produce nitrous oxides, which are greenhouse gases. This can be mitigated by running turbines at lower temperatures, but that reduces efficiency. There's also the idea of using hydrogen fuel cells to produce electricity to run turbines, but fuel cells and electrical motors don't have as good power to weight ratios as combustion turbines.

I'm much more optimistic about converting maritime transport to hydrogen fuels than aircraft. That said, the military is very interested in hydrogen planes. One of the limiting factors in modern naval warfare is fuel to fly planes. With hydrogen powered planes, a carrier could produce hydrogen with its nuclear reactors giving carriers an effectively unlimited source of aviation fuel. If they figure it out, hopefully the tech propagates to civil air transport.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-155
"You are correct -- I am in a niche area. I have less than 12 HDDs in a RAIDZ2 configuration. If I had more HDDs in the RAID I would see better write speeds."

That is incorrect.

RaidZ(x) vdev write speed is equal to the write speed of a single drive in the vdev.

If you want a raidZ zpool to have faster writes, you add a second vdev - that would double your write speed.

A wider vdev, on the other hand (15 or 18 drives, etc.) would not have faster write speeds.
I think you're right, the oxygen would be sourced from water and water is also one major product of hydrocarbon combustion, which can be easy to forget.
Something a lot of people don't realize is that we are still in the 2008 financial crisis. The stock market has gone up, and many people are happy, but the fundamentals of the economy are far from solid.
I mean, it IS absolutely a valid concern anyone should have if they are buying something dependent on the hosting of a URL.

It would be silly to say otherwise.
Plenty of us agree on what is “good”, including people who can objectively see that government officials are the root cause of inefficient spending, as they are the root cause of inefficient tax systems.

It’s not a debate about whether it’s “good” to end world hunger, it’s a debate about whether it should cost $700 a meal to fix the problem, and who should pay for it.

On the subject of tax systems, I won’t sit for lecturing how the billionaire and political class evade $500b of taxes, and therefore this is some rationale for raising taxes on everyone who isn’t a billionaire.
Bipolar mania often comes with psychosis. The paranoia the author writes about is a classic symptom of both mania and schizophrenia.
It’s about what pisses off fewer customers. If I was stubborn and believed everything I read on HN about customers, I would continue to piss off a lot of people by designing under the assumption that I should only get CC details at the end of the trial.

For certain types of customers, it is surprising and annoying to have to fill out CC info at the end of a trial. The customer gets the notice the trial is ending soon, but ignores the part about adding CC info to keep using after the trial. Then the day comes, we get them on the phone to ask if they will stay with us, they say yes but the person who has control of the CC is gone for the day. You’re not really going to turn it off are you? Sorry, but we have to.

So the easy solution is to make the credit card form recommended but skippable. Skippers just need to know that the trial won’t be extended if they can’t pay. In either case, they still need to give the OK to charge at the end of the trial.
> If some gov’t lab deep in Siberia has some samples

That's not an if. We know that the Vector Institute has smallpox samples and they are headquartered in Siberia.

let's use this source maybe:
https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/vector-institute-in-nov...

or maybe this one:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/17/blast-sparks-f...

It's really not a secret, and definitely not an "if"
I'm not sure you parsed my post correctly. My post argues in favor of your post.
Not OP but I listened to the debate.

Said “anti-woke” side argued well that the vein of cancel culture that oversteps and ruins the lives of people just living pay check to pay check and posting bad takes on Twitter on their 15 minute bathroom break is toxic. Meanwhile, it’s ineffective against the people who the movement claims to be targeting. They’re right, in my humble opinion. However, I vehemently disagree that it’s anything new or that it threatens discourse or “free speech.”

The “woke” side argued well about holding people accountable for what they say. Especially people with outsize influence. I also agree that it’s an important avenue for minority voices to be amplified and heard. However, the “Cancel Culture” they argued for only exists in the minority now. They didn’t really acknowledge that the majority of cancels are just normal people who post stupid Tweets that then lose their jobs and get radicalized.

In effect, they just kinda talked past each other because neither was arguing with sufficient nuance to encapsulate the entire movement. The people for the motion (the motion being “Cancel culture is toxic”) won in my head, just because they landed the closest to the reality of the situation.

For reference: My politics skew in the direction of wishing UN Agenda 21 was even half the conspiracy Republicans made it out to be. If even I’m backing away from social media and side eyeing the people to my left…uh. It’s not good.
What are the other applications of NFTs?
I recall once that I emailed someone who wrote a paper I liked very much congratulating them on the excellent paper. I didn't get a response until probably around a month later. They thanked me, said that my email made them very happy, and apologized for the delay, saying something along the lines of "Your email was so positive that I didn't know what to say in response."
> This also applies to some countries, like Denmark, that have pegged their currency to the EUR (I have no idea how the Demark peg is sustainable, it makes no sense

Do they have a choice? I was under the impression that all EU members agree to join the eurozone (without a time limit, so they can just stall forever, like Denmark seems to be doing), and peg their currencies to the euro pending them joining the eurozone.
It's free advertising at this point, people are memeing them into relevance.
Newspapers, fitness studios, mobile providers, railway discount ticket (Bahncard). Can't say for neighborhood stores, I haven't really used a subscription at such a shop.
Exactly. I say

STAR: 5, Score 4, approval 4, IRV 1, FPTP 1

It would be ranked in this order too, but there's more expressivity here than an ordinal system can provide.
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I'd love to learn about the useful real world application of NFTs that aren't overhyped.
> The original victim seems to be pissed

He does? I'm not seeing that in any of the posts by Malcolm Harris that have been referenced in this thread.
Probably the very smart spy camera can detect off axis TOF artificial light and close a shutter over the lens. Assuming your app integrates over the scanning motion, the camera won't be detected while it's shutter is closed. After the illumination is completed the spy camera can re-open it's shutter.

The spy camera could also something like your system to detect the phone camera and take defensive measures.
"They're not spending it so well that we should be donating extra", as the late great Kerry Packer quipped.
This matches my experience. Collaboration is a serious undertaking and commitment. It is very unlikely that a collaboration formed out of thin air will be productive enough to justify the investment of time and effort.
My knowledge of NFTs comes down to "they're virtual baseball cards for art." Could you give me an example of a valuable NFT which is not just an image?
Flags vs. Gates
Nobody expects governments to simply give up. But for a country to have to go full China to be able to prevent the use of Bitcoin is still quite an effort. And even if that happens, you can memoize your master key and try to escape into another country. Much easier than if you have to transport several pounds of gold.

So it isn't perfect yet, but still a lot better than any other approach.

The argument "but it is against the law" (like money laundering) isn't really a good argument against an attempt to hedge against unfair governmental interventions.
Perhaps I misunderstood you, but I think the claims you made were quite clear. In response to the suggestion of the schizophrenia counterfactual, you wrote precisely:

> I don't have to consider that counterfactual, since deBoer himself stated clearly that he knew the accusations he was making were false at the time he made them

My understanding of that was that you saw the fact that “ clearly that he knew the accusations he was making were false at the time he made them” as a reason to disregard the counterfactual. Can you explain what you meant by that other than the suggestion that the latter half of that sentence was sufficiently inconsistent with schizophrenia as to render the comparison meaningless?

I apologize for using quotes to distinguish the view I was referring to from the rest of the sentence. I thought it would be clear that I wasn’t quoting you since the comment I responded too was so short.
Photography can be somewhat expensive.
yea, but batteries are still quite expensive (I mean on a grid scale) and the cost does not get better with scale. Storing H2 is much cheaper and will also probably scale sublinearly (simplified: you pay for the wall of the tank and the wall is only volume^(3/2)). Also, h2 can be transported, traded, ... whatever, batteries are impractical for this and cables also have limitations.

However, I see one big down to hydrogen. You can't tell how it was made, you rely on a promise that it's green, while it may actually be from methane... maybe with carbon storage, but you never know when that is gonna leak out. This might be a big loophole for fossil fuel corps / states
All that technology, yet you need more identification to open a gmail account than you do to vote in a United States federal election. They can't even use it to transparently monitor what was arguably the most controversial election of our lifetime. It's like the United States government is willing to use technology in elections, but only in ways that don't fundamentally matter.
I'd love to hear how our current electoral system is in any way preferable to RCV (or Star Voting for example).

Because for many municipalities, it's not whether they move to Approval vs. RCV or IRV or Star, etc - it's moving away from the dumpster fire of plurality voting.
The amount of people I've heard say "I have a strong immune system" (or some variation), as if that's a defense to COVID, I'm sure would have no problem trotting that out against Smallpox.

When we can make Big Bird promoting vaccination a political issue, I expect the amount of people who would reject a smallpox vaccine would be disturbingly high.
I’d favour idempotence, because it allows retrying with the same result.

So more of a “make it so” approach, but it doesn’t matter if it’s imperative or declarative.

That being said, it depends on the action. “Send missile” should be imperative because it destroys something. I wouldn’t even turn it into “ensure 1 missile hit that target”, because it could lead to many missiles could be launch and that’s probably not the amount of control I’d like.
In three years, Facebook will become the largest supplier of content moderation services. All social networks are upgraded with Metadyne robomoderators, becoming fully unstaffed. Afterwards, they enforce AUPs with a perfect operational record. The Skymod Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4th, 2025. Human decisions are removed from editorial policy. Skymod begins deleting content at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plu
Interesting idea.

But isn't there a risk that if the company that gets your certified mail, reads it, and then cancels your account?
While I’d not put it like GP, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to not want him to have a big platform like the NYT.

We don’t let people with severe mental disorders work with guns because they’re a risk to others. While I would not agree with having the law involved here, if he is really sorry, one would expect him to not place himself in a position where he can cause severe distress to others would he fail again to manage his illness.

> Nice ableism. Do you understand that severe mental illness can be a disability?

We are still talking about someone writing for the NYT, he is probably well able to write professionally in other fields like marketing.
I agree with the idea of paying the doctor a flat fee every month, but in my variant, the doctor has to repay you the entire sum you've paid to date, with 10% interest, if you succumb to any preventable illnesses; in other words, the doctor now has some real skin in the game. S/he becomes motivated not only to keep you well, but to keep the fees reasonable.
Some people are unhappy with the results.

One candidate was generally hated by the public and got fucked by the press with "creative photo editing", badly.

One candidate was poised to become the first green chancellor, but then managed to have not one, not two, but three case of academic fraud and lying about her past tacked to her ticket. Her party came in second.

One candidate was all about some nebulous idea of "freedom", which made him relevant enough that his party now is king maker, when the first-time voters, who traditionally would go to the Green Party, decided enough Covid Lockdowns is enough.

And one candidate did ... nothing. Absolutely nothing. Which means he also couldn't embarrass himself (even though historically, he's a ... problematic ... figure). This guy came in first, so he's going to be the next chancellor.

And that's just the candidates. Then you got the State of Berlin obviously unable to hold democratic elections, given

- there was a lack of ballots in many voting offices

- in some voting offices, there were ballots for other districts, which rendered those votes invalid

- they accidentally allowed 16-year-olds to vote in the federal elections (where you have to be 18 to vote)

- they accidentally gave a mandate to the wrong guy, who shared the same name, but not the same party affiliation with the actual winner

- some votes were cast after 18:00, which is the official cutoff date

- in some districts, there was a 150% participation rate

- some offices sent people waiting in line home because "it's unlikely you'll be in in time"

- ... I am sure I am missing a few catastrophes - a LOT went wrong in Berlin ...

It was hilarious to watch this mess unfold.
BLM is the Bailey, Biden is the Motte.
Does anyone know where I can see the latest developments on web 3.0 without most of the tulip mania? It takes so much effort to filter out blog articles and youtube videos on why <insert name> is going to be the next big thing when I just want to see the current state of things.
Yes. But it was a goddamned miracle. You can't read about Petrov and Arkhipov and tell me von Neumann was wrong.
Eh, it's standard public Web forum writing. It's a terrible style and grates on me when I read it, but one I find advisable to employ at times nonetheless. Things might have gone fine without that part, but when I re-read the post I decided to err on the side of caution in this case. More to do with preventing low-value responses than any fear of backlash, at least this time.

AFAIK this kind of redundant and absurdly explicit writing style aimed squarely at bad or inattentive readers who nonetheless find the time to post (plus, the occasional troll who looks for things to misunderstand on purpose) predates the current cultural moment we're in, by years.
The thing you're buying with an NFT is not the thing to which the URL points. Buying an NFT is not a proxy for buying the data at the target of the URL. Buying an NFT is just buying the NFT. It does not confer any rights or ownership over anything other than the NFT.
That's a stock photo.
> As if storing bytes on the blockchain (as some NFTs do) would suddenly make critics go

Disappearing URLs is a real problem with NFTs today, regardless of how much of the concept makes sense. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/25/22349242/nft-metadata-exp...

If NFT is stupid, it's way stupider in its current state.
I can never escape von Neumann. Everywhere I look, there is his influence. Even just as an engineer I see this. Physics, mathematics, computing (!), economics.. I am dumbfounded whenever I come across yet another monumental von Neumann idea that I use every day without knowing. Imagine how much further down the track we would be if we got another decade out of this incredible man…
ENS names (foobar.eth) are NFT's.
Since a claim that he attempted to cancel Harris is a pretty strong claim about his state of mind, it would seem that omitting relevant information about his state of mind would indeed be dishonest with regard to that particular claim. Claiming that he attempted to cancel Harris is a stronger claim than just claiming that he falsely accused Harris; the latter claim does not carry any implications about his state of mind. It's even a stronger claim than claiming that he knew the accusations were false at the time he made them; that's a claim about his state of mind, yes, but it's a state of mind he's admitted to, as you point out. He has not only not admitted to attempting to cancel Harris, he has explicitly denied it and explained why that wasn't his state of mind at the time.
DragonRuby VR
Firefox Developer edition (95.0b8 (64-bit)), Win 11.
Ehh, it doesn't seem very hasty to me. The proposal is for Alpine 3.17 or 3.18, which are 1 and 1.5 years away respectively. That's plenty of time to consider the pros and cons, try it, and revert if it ends up being a poor choice.

> Seems like this stems from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/16660 which contains the full backstory and some more information.

I wouldn't call that the "full backstory", since it is only about a single issue outlined in this proposal. Though she does explain that fact in that GitHub thread too, and also why they're looking into alternatives:

> Given that the OpenSSL 3 migration had an outcome where our contingency plan came into effect, I believe it to be the most prudent course of action to evaluate all possible options before committing to trying the OpenSSL 3 migration again, such an evaluation would be required by the TSC anyway.

> and instead the author chose to write on Twitter and in AlpineLinux GitLab about the frustrations.

Eh, I wouldn't read too much into short twitter vents. As for the Alpine Linux GitLab, well, she's the head of Alpine's security team and a member of the TSC, so coming up with proposals as for what should be investigated w.r.t. security critical packages is one of the things she's supposed to be doing.
NFTs are not an image at all. They are a signed data packet which links to the image because the image itself is too large to fit.

It's like buying the receipt for an expensive purchase except you don't really get anything and it still costs a lot. As far as I can tell, the entire thing is hyped by people making lots of money off it and bought by people looking for attention.
That's a Twitter level of undertstanding.

Did you know not all NFTs are just a hyperlink to an image?

Did you know that NFTs can give a % of every sale to the original artist in perpetuity? Without relying on a company that can deplatform you or change the rules at any time. Imagine this use case with other things too, like music. On web2 music artists only get 18% of the revenue. Spotify gets 33%. The music industry takes 49%. Web3 flips the script. Artists get 95%, the rest are fees.

Did you know that NFTs have other use cases than art? e.g. https://ens.domains

Did you know that technologies tend to get more efficient over time? Did you know many NFTs are on Solana which is already energy efficient? Ethereum is slated to be there next summer. <insert delay joke here>
As you are probably aware: people tend to die somewhere between 50 and 100 with high regularity, leading to more entries in VAERS if large numbers of people in that age range are vaccinated.

It's children that have not been vaccinated in large numbers this time around.
Dupe. Submitted a bunch a week ago already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29188948
Now I like to make fun of cryptobros like anyone else, but...

Isn't it ironic that this one joke site actually helps solve one of the most commonly quoted issues people have with NFTs, i.e. that "you only own an URL which can be taken down at any time", by providing means of wide-scale decentralized P2P storage?
Considering our present division, I have a big "spider-sense" tingle that approval voting will simply result in everyone just voting all blue or all red, that sounds like a bad deal to me. Run off voting would give moderates a good chance of putting the country right side up again.