skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They may have some details wrong, but do you think their overall impression of the event is wildly inaccurate? There was significant violence perpetrated during that event, even if it didn't result in death. Police officers were beaten. When these mistaken people are corrected and told no one died at the hands of rioters, but 150 police officers sustained injuries some so bad they were still out of work six months later, does their opinion significantly change?
Yes, that's true, but even cars are not the same as the model T or other cars available in 1919. Besides cars being relatively "new" to society at the time, they also lacked, well, everything on this list and then some:

* No heater
* No air conditioning/cooling
* No radio/CD/Bluetooth/Carplay/Android Auto
* No speakers, let alone not 6 or 8 speakers that some cars have
* No heated and cooled seats
* No power mirrors
* No power seats
* No power steering
* No power brakes (!!)
* No ABS brakes or traction control
* No self-driving capabilities, blind spot detection, automatic lane change, "smart" cruise control or any cruise control at all
* No rear defrost
* Not even a dome light!
* No power windows
* No power locks
* No all-wheel drive. In fact, it was mostly single-wheel drive!
* No in-screen dash or touchscreen controls
* No massage seats
* No "slow close" doors
* No door sill illumination
* No turn signals (until later, that is)!
* No seatbelts (or if there were, they crude early versions)
* No meaningful safety mechanisms, like collapsible steering columns and automatic airbags, side impact airbags, and proper crumple/structure design
* No in-car entertainment options for movies, etc.
* No in-car navigation systems
* No OBD diagnostics to let you know when you are running low on oil or other critical fluids

We could keep going ... but on the one hand, cars might cost "similar" or even more in today's standards, but they also DO so much more. Even if you said, well let's build the same vehicles they had then today, you couldn't. Government regulations force things like safety mechanisms that will cost more to deliver a final product.
In 2019, I wrote about the need for a web of documents [0], where I wrote about the importance of having static documents and sketched another approach.

Gemini is a web of documents. A rudimentary one, but very content-focused – the signal-to-noise ratio is typically much higher than on WWW. You can visit any capsule in the Geminispace and have full confidence that it’ll only serve you gemtext to read.

[0]: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2019/10/07/web-of-documents/
It's just wrong to change the title of a self post imho.

Without making it publicly known at least... you're changing what the poster intended to say.

Editing sensationalised headlines back to sanity makes perfect sense though.
I am blown away that 1Password makes you upgrade to enforce 2FA for your team. It's a security product that basically provides an incentive for users to operate insecurely. Insanity!
Event: Moral Foundations of Progress Studies, March 4–6 at UT Austin
Screw just an aerostat - lets get some giant floating cities out there!
Because I don't miss anything about old phones. Yes sometimes the airpods can work a little funny, but on a whole, they are so far ahead of the wired headphones I used to use that I can completely forgive the issues they have. Yeah it was cool to put an SD card in my phone, but it never worked that seamless and my phone now has more storage than I'll ever use.
>quietly fixed

Note that, while I didn't personally consume any sources of news making these mistakes about this event and therefore can't reasonably comment on them, this specific wording is used extremely commonly as an uncharitable attack on those who are opposite to one's own political leanings. I.e. corrections are always described as "quiet" despite frequently being published in the same manner as the original material.
$100/hr still is.
If there are two brands exposed to the same market rules and one cost half the price there is a fair possibility that will contain less amount of the expensive active stuff and more of the cheaper ingredients. Technically is still carnitine, but one can have 90% of carnitine and the other just a 60%.
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yes, using itunes is a third option.

But while Android can't do other carddav accounts by itself, you can export the .vcf on-device. So while Apple offers to embed another carddav account, the migration story is not better but worse.
I get that, and I'm not disagreeing. However, two points:

1. I think writing-focused Markdown editors should not feel obligated to render arbitrary HTML in their previews. The format may support it, but the editor doesn't need to—one of the great things about Markdown is that your editor can be anything from vi to VSCode.

2. On the Mac, there is an extremely easy API to display a WebView (WKWebView), which would cut the size of this executable to roughly 1/100th of its current size, drop the memory usage, and reduce energy consumption. You can even keep most of the business logic in JavaScript if you want.
Here's a funny asymmetry I've started noticing online:

* Whenever a person or group do something bad, the response is always, "Look how much humanity sucks."

* Whenever a person or group does something good, the response is always, "Look how good those particular people are."

Now, there is a positive explanation for this: It's good to give credit. When someone does something particularly good, it diminishes their act to say that it's just another example of humanity.

But at the same time, the aggregate effect of this bias is that always appears that humanity sucks with the rare exception of a few blessed individuals. But the opposite is much more likely to be true.
I'm really waiting for @foone's reaction.

foone is a retro hardware hacker who goes on these amazing threads on twitter, and is famous for running Doom on various things, including a pregnancy tester (though admittedly by replacing most of the internals), and his "Carthago delenda est" was on how the JWST was a boondoggle.
They did also deploy aerostats, although not with synthetic aperture radar:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program
Here is the actual study: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm?s_cid=mm...

Importantly it doesn’t account for the effect of boosters and looks at pre-omicron data.

That noted the best protection seems to be had by a combination of vaccination and prior infection, which is perhaps unsurprising.

Also other CDC studies suggest that natural immunity declines quicker than vaccine induced immunity (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7044e1.htm?s_cid=mm...).

Given these results it would seem like generally a good idea to get vaccinated, even if you have had prior infection.
> By your definition "post-scarcity economy" is an oxymoron, and this whole discussion is moot and pointless.

Both parts of that are true, but the second isn't because of the first (which is a terminological issue), but that “post-scarcity”, more than just being mutually exclusive with “economy”, appears to be fundamentally incompatible with human nature; there will always be something scarce, competition for it, and disutility driven by relative deprivation with respect to it.
False. The US has had 2,687 deaths per million population since coronavirus began. Australia has had 128.

In the last 7 days the US has had 46 deaths per million population. Australia has had 17.

See for yourself: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Freedom of press and freedom of speech exist exactly because government could not be trusted, and eventually, lies have to be covered by making it illegal to expose those lies. Censorship seems like a good idea until you realize the end game looks a lot like "Best Korea".
my first 2 shots were fine, but my booster f'ed me up. I was in lots of body pain for 36 hours. 5 weeks later I caught omicron. I imagine by some point this year Ill be considered not fully vaccinated, but right now my desire to get another booster is very small.

right now we know that even the booster provides little ability to stop you from getting omicron. likely by the next mandated booster the variant of the time will also easily surpass the booster.
>If someone uses a fake to get in... well... there's only so much I can do, but I discourage it for their own health and for the health of others around them.

I think you're conflating getting a vaccine card with getting the vaccine.
>Also in your opinion he represent a bad government and none the less you want more government?

Reagan was bad, to me, because he massively cut social programs. So yes, Reagan was bad because he made "less government". If Reagan did "more government", then I would be happy. Do you not see the obvious contradiction in your comment?

If you need me to spell it out for you:

1. I am for more social spending, even if it has a "bad" ROI, because the ROI for social spending is hard to measure.

2. Regan was incredibly effective as painting government programs as woefully inefficient.

3. If Regan did more social spending, I would want more of that, but that is not who Regan was, so I do not like that.
I've also found brainstorming isn't great for more "creative" thinkers. In a group setting it's easy to say "no that won't work" or not get buy-in on the spot, so ideas that aren't mainstream get shot down right away.

People like me also need time and space to think deeply about certain topics, and a brainstorming session has neither time nor space, so you're immediately limited in the ideas that are presented.
Tiddlywiki is neat technology, but the fact that you have to choose a method of saving and are presented with ~13 different options just gives me decision fatigue.

I don't care to evaluate which plugin will actually _save_ my data. That's a pretty fundamental operation in my opinion, and the fact that I have to evaluate and choose from one of 13 options does not instill a lot of faith that my data will not be lost.
> Is there a conflict of interest? Only if the appointee was appointed by the other party. I argue that the apparent conflict of interest is only surface level. In the US we don't have "capitalism", we have "crony capitalism" that is verging on technocracy (rule of The Science and unelected bureaucrats).

There is no such thing as capitalism separate from democracy, with a government that performs many functions.

It's not crony capitalism or technocracy. It's just normal capitalism in a democracy. Same way it has been since the founding of the United States.

> The kinds of people who make those decisions are paid very well

Are they? GS tops out at around $170k https://www.generalschedule.org/ . And S/ES at around $220k https://www.federalpay.org/ses/2022 .

That's a good salary. But it's not necessarily something I'd feel comfortable going to sleep with, knowing they had a finger on the scales of millions of dollars, if there weren't watchdog and mitigation measures in place.
I am definitely an idiot, and maybe I jumped the gun saying Russian, but stating that Russian troll farms exists isn’t exactly controversial, hence why I provided a few links.
It's sad that Substack has to sit there and explicitly explain that "Here is where you go when you want no censorship and to have all different views in a big melting pot where it's up to you to sort them out through rational interrogation, thought and/or debate." Even in my lifetime I seem to recall that place was usually just called "society." Granted I was young and am partly remembering what I was told the world was like, rather than having experienced it directly. Nonetheless, they did bother to tell me that. That interrogation/debate process was understood to be an essential prerequisite for democracy.
Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide
I don't think zip ties and wood are a structural part of the car. It look like it was just there to absorb vibration when they ran out of the foam or plastic part. Not great, but hardly deserving of all the criticism that it is getting.
In my experience it is best to explain the problem today, and ask about ideas tomorrow. Most people tend to think up ideas on their own time rather than on-demand as if they're some kind of ideas slot machine you can just yank on.

I think it helps to have weekly-or-so discussions about The Problems We're Having Lately, not so much as "brainstorming" but giving people a chance to offer their latest ideas and explain problems encountered with previous ideas.
Boeing management, not engineers.

And they're probably fine if they're supervised by NASA employees working for the government.
That's interesting. I did notice that the Wealthfront UX was really well done.

For example, during the onboarding they direct you to set up recurring investments and they show you in real time what that small investment might become by retirement age. That simple mechanic, which nobody else seems to do in that way during onboarding, makes it really obvious that you need to set that recurring deposit to be as high as you can possibly afford.
Sure, I don't disagree with you. I'd ask what's the likelihood that we create new regulation that says that Facebook has to let you own your own content, or even export that content.

I wouldn't say it's very high, where crypto is here now, and the default design is with ownership in mind. Plus with crypto's money side you can find different business models than traditional web companies. (As a matter of fact with a public blockchain data probably becomes a lot cheaper on a mass scale.)

Crypto maximalism IMO is a "doomer" position, the idea of burning down more efficient and established systems for a new one.

I personally don't know if it's a functional idea, but I can see a case.
> I expect more from our leaders.

You should, and you should be free to discuss and write about exactly what your expectations are and how those leaders failed you.
This was weird timing. Haven't seen a post on Gemini on here in a while, and I just started yesterday building an Express-like Gemini server framework in Go, to get more familiar with Go.
Fruit have tons of carb don’t they?
Can you point to me where it was made illegal to require a mask on private property in Texas (other than perhaps for certain disabled persons per ADA)?

My understanding is masks mandates were only banned in places like public schools, where the owner is the public thus the individual public student has the decision to wear a mask or not. I would certainly disagree with this sort of control on private school, although I might add it could be a public health risk to mandate masks in school as it could harm the linguistic health of some young children developing language skills.
Crowded Cities – Crowbar (2018)
The other thing to bear in mind is the size of up coming launch vehicles. SpaceX Starship will be 9m and Blue Origin’s New Glen is expected to be 7m in diameter. Both of those could take a telescope the size of James Webb with much lest or no “unfolding” required.

Annother option with some of these cheaper launch vehicles is to build the telescope into the upper stage, using it as a bus/platform. So for example you could convert a Starship upper stage into a telescope, using its full 9m diameter for a mirror. Fully assembled on the ground before launch.
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It had some issues where in unplugging and plugging the cable would cause voltage spikes because the pins would get dragged across the wrong connectors and not all be disconnected at once. Which is why you hear that pop when using loudspeakers and (un)plugging the cable. This apparently lead to damage of the speaker over time as well.
The problem is we as a society have very few local level leaders. Most of the people who represent us often represent 1000+ individuals. At such a scale, the nature of leadership/politicians change...
I think the Tesla has always gotten an unfair amount of negative criticism in my opinion. Yes they have had quality issues, but usually those go down as the production line stabilizes and they usually come out and fix it for you if there’s an issue.

I myself put my Tesla under a microscope trying to find every unsatisfactory item on the delivery day and I did see some uneven panels. But my wife also got a Subaru the same year and I put it under the same kind of scrutiny and it also had similar differences in paneling. Especially under the hood, either the design of parts wasn’t that great or they just put some non standard items to hold things together. It didn’t seem any better than a Tesla (or any cheaper).
> Censorship-resistant tools are being used by dissidents today to organize against repressive regimes such as in Hong Kong.

Right, so my whole point here is...

...and how's that going?
I encourage everyone eligible to protect themselves by getting vaccinated but this is unlikely to prevent new variants from evolving. The current thinking is that new variants are most likely to evolve in immunocompromised patients who experience prolonged infections. Vaccines are less effective for them.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-ma...
> At this point I’m starting to believe that even Linux has a better Bluetooth stack than windows and OS X.

With Pipewire, this seems to have come true in it's entirety. Connecting multipoint Bluetooth headsets to multiple Linux devices works astonishingly well, and I don't think I've ever had a connection drop or encountered a real "bug" with it. The only annoyance is that if you have one device playing audio and another starts playing, it will cut out for a fraction of a second while the headset negotiates it's connection. Besides that it's almost scarily flawless.
It is also the combo most likely to give you side effects.
Tesla is smashing even the most optimistic of expectations. I guess that huge rally in 2019-2020, which the media called irrational or a bubble, in hindsight was not so irrational. Wall St., hedge funds saw that Tesla was becoming mainstream .I can confirm this as well: I see Teslas everywhere. Price action tends to precede fundamentals.
Only in the sense that banks hold shares in the federal reserve, but since the federal reserve is controlled by the federal government it's not really comparable to holding shares in JP Morgan Chase. It essentially functions as a government agency.
That's not the same thing. A shell box on a phone works for some things but it's not the same as an actual client. This has a keyboard as well.
That sounds like excuses. This thing is an emergency, right? Well, fix it!

Punishing the public with these awful mandates because “it’s too hard” is a huge failure of our government.
Zim is not very known but this tool is really awesome!

I use it for a few years also.

I like it because it is simple, efficient, fast. Straight to the point. Not like all these cloud and electron apps.

And the main top feature of this tool is that data are stored as plain files in a simple folder structure.
Even for desk use, wired headphones feel like being leashed to the desk. It's amazing to be in a meeting and then be able to just mute yourself and walk off to have a drink while still listening in.
Covid has been something like ten times as deadly as the flu. I imagine those hospital beds put way more strain on the system as a whole than a bad flu season (see: ventilator sharing). I think any human with a shred of empathy for their tribe would agree, that this level of misery warranted collective action on the level of our response to measles, mumps, rubella, tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis...

And though I really hope it's the case, I've heard no news yet that Omicron will be the last significant variant.
> Human orbital assembly of the JWST is not possible, because we do not have any crewed vehicles that can make the trip.

I was assuming that GP meant "assembly in Earth orbit" and then the JWST could then rocket off on its own, fully-assembled. (Or, if they didn't mean it that way, I mean it that way.)
Well for starters rather than force mandate/isolate everyone... people could have been given the option to isolate if they wanted to. Instead we had governors closing down beaches and hiking trails while getting caught fine dining in large groups in Napa. We've also determined that obesity and other contributing factors regarding health have a significant impact on the effects of COVID-19. If anything, the hypocrites have made things worse at times by preventing access to activities that would improve health and rewarding people getting vaccinated from an old variant with free beer, donuts and fast food.
You can pay for both human advisors and robo-investing. A human advisor will charge 1% of assets to manage your money for you, and the results may not differ much from what the robot picks at much lower cost. I'm happy with the robot's asset allocation and I pay an expert for taxes, trusts, and so on.
He's not pointing fingers at the other party, he's saying his trust in his own party has eroded.
GM Reportedly Warns Dealerships: Play Fair with Prices – Kelley Blue Book
I'd be happy to help. I do use Zim on a daily basis and would love for GitJournal to support it natively.
From the article:

> Trust in social media and traditional media is at an all-time low.

Yeah, some of it is "people in power". And some isn't. But when you say

> Yes, if that's what you mean.

you sure look like you're trying to ignore what the article actually says, and twist the general idea to fit the axe you want to grind. That kind of stunt is (part of) why trust in society is low.
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I search "Jan 6 Deaths" and very first hit is this NYT article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol...

The article contradicts your claim "reported and quietly fixed days later without ever really owning up to it". Firstly it is the first hit so hardly quiet. Secondly it outlines that initial reporting of Sicknick's death was simply reporting what capital police said, later revised by medical examiner. All front and center in this article.
This is a problem I often see when folks grow annuals. Perennials are way lower labor, and one of the reasons I encourage community gardens to avoid being entirely focused on annuals.
Thai spoken language is the opposite extreme of German, vowels are the salient parts and consonants are often barely present and highly interchangeable. I don't know how the Thai written language works or how complex it is in comparison but I imagine it also wouldn't be a straightforward mapping. Quick lookup says it's tonal and analytic [idk what this is] like Chinese and Vietnamese.
C2PA Releases Specification of First Industry Standard for Content Provenance
This seems like noise about nothing? The intention was clearly to prevent the user from accidentally removing all the search engines, not a malicious attempt to prefer certain engines. If you don't like the current default simply add your own provider, set it to be default, then delete all the rest.
>“Brainstorming” — the problem-solving technique of coming up with as many ideas as possible in a short period of time

I'm Longstorming-the problem-solving technique of coming up with as many ideas as possible in a long period of time

Now I have over 100 startup ideas, it's kind of hard to keep track anymore. But it is interesting how some ideas synergize with each other and can be combined in order to solve bigger problem.