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Ask HN: What would you improve here on Earth if you got the Mars mission money?
What would you improve here on Earth if you got the Mars mission resources / money to spend here on Earth?
My answer: save my hometown.
Let’s not suggest IRC logs are much better. Individual clients may be able to log but say you just join a project channel with years of discussion — you’d have literally nothing to start with.

Discord gives you a chance at searching old history with zero additional setup if the permissions allow.

For both IRC and Discord you’d need to run a bot to have truly open logs online.
Will Google enforce this by downrating a website's SEO scores if they it doesn't implement it? Is this the plan?
If you want to see real C++ scripting: the (slightly insane) people of CERN use a 99% ANSI compliant, self-written C++ interpreter (!) for online data analytics.

https://root.cern/manual/first_steps_with_root/
In other news, population is declining among Japanese and this is a huge crisis as well.

What exactly does life look like per capita if population continues to increase or stay the same? How is the solution to this problem not exactly what the Japanese are doing?

Time to kill off our pyramid scheme economic growth models and barbaric bronze age "be fruitful and multiply" religions.
I've seen the analogy be made that it is comparable to avoiding the grounding of a big vessel, say an ocean tanker. The sooner you act the smaller the course and velocity changes will have to be, the later the more extreme and violent they will have to be.

We're already well into the territory where we will in all likelihood not escape a grounding. But we can still choose the spot where we ground and indirectly affect how much work it will be to get the boat afloat again once that happens.
And go where exactly?
I operate a 4fig/month micro SaaS.

We use a chat bot because we simply do not have the support staff to answer your questions.

So you get the bot --it's either that or nothing.

But what we do do, is monitor the bot logs. If a function is missing from the product or website, we add it so that future users can fully self-service.

It's important to note, users are free to cancel their account at any time and/or get a refund.
The sheer banality of the situation is astounding.
> the exponential growth of the human population driven by our financial system's need for constant growth. Yet, we have not even begun to start discussing that

Probably a good place to begin that discussion would be with some sort of demonstration that this is actually a thing that's happening. It seems like a difficult [1] argument to construct, so you should probably get on that.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat...
They were hired as a level 5 over a decade ago. They got promoted a bunch until they were level 8. At some point they left. Now they are trying to come back. The market is so bad that they have lowered their standards and are only applying for level 6 roles. Still a bunch of other level 8s are competing for that lower level job so the chance of them getting it is lower.

The bond market/interest rate comment is saying this is part of why the economy is bad.

Price discovery I am not that confident in the meaning. I think it means companies and candidates are having a hard time figuring out what each other are worth. So you have highly skilled people not getting the offer numbers they want because their skills are not being recognized.
Introduction to GALS and PALASM (2020)
Before that, he was held in an embassy and illegally surveilled while dodging assassination attempts.

When you're in prison indefinitely without trial, I don't think the location, type, form, or administrative classification really matters that much when you can't be with your family.

He's fighting extradition, sure, but it's extradition to a place where Manning was approximately tortured to death (she attempted suicide multiple times), so it's not really relevant.
I very rarely email mods concerning my own interactions with others, largely on the basis of what you've said here.

But I will do it where I see egregious misconduct in others' threads.

As for unpaid moderation ... I've various reasons for misgivings about HN (as I do about virtually all of the Internet these days), but the site's given me value, seems to spill out positive externalities all over the place, and, well, is reasonably well moderated, all told. It's certainly not turned to shit as so much else has, even if it does frequently disappoint in other regards.

But when it's good, it is in fact pretty darned good.
What happened to Vivaldi Social?
The US Courts would struggle to enforce law outside of the US.
“The JavaScript Ecosystem Has a Talent Problem”
Pretty surreal to see this trending on HN!

"The NVIS loop: so easy, a marine could do it"
try ripgrep. You're welcome
If you accept business from UK customers and take their money or data you need to comply with UK law, as well as collect & pay VAT to the UK. This is more obvious in meatspace, for example it’s obvious that Chinese companies are not allowed to send children toys containing lead to EU markets. Your country of incorporation likely has an international free trade agreement with UK that you can read for details.

Basically, you only need to incorporate in UK or establish a foreign branch if you need offices in UK or want to hire someone from UK (even remotely). The only way to opt-out is to block UK users.
How to play music you own on an Amazon Echo (2022)
Right. There USED to be good reasons to have that be the way classic CLI utilities worked— your terminal had 80 character lines, you might be working over a 300 baud modem, you might be using a teletype terminal and you didn't want to waste paper, having machine-focused output and human-focused output was too resource Intensive... All of that is gone now.
it got sold to Epic Games a while back.
It's not really that simple. When standards go lower paying for the old standard often becomes much more expensive. There aren't really ideal economic markets so choices are not on a perfect spectrum to match consumers, rather aspects of production or in this case limited route rights mean a low price option eliminates the choice one wants.
If you think this then you really misunderstand the world around you.

Do you really think they're only motivated by profits? If so they must be very dumb since trying to invent a novel artificial intelligence and releasing it as open source is about the worst way I can think of to try to make a buck.

Do you really think they aren't worried about the "harms" (1 year in and still no harm has occurred; weirdly large amount of people using this word online as an excuse to regulate though...) their product could unleash? Then why is for example OpenAI lobotmizing their flagship product to try to avoid any possible controversial text from being generated.

Isn't it possible that these are good and decent people trying to provide something to the world, doing so in a safe and reasonable way, diligently trying to comply with the law and regulations? Seems to fit their actions a lot better than your caricature of "greedy American capitalists bulldozing the world".
I think that depends largely - if not entirely - on the particular server? I'm on 14 servers and haven't given Discord my phone number - but there's one server I refused to join because my phone number would have been required, which is a hard nope from me.
Japan is a fascinating case. It's GDP is stable despite a shrinking population. Is it only staying stable because of the population change?

If western countries with a similar birth rate problem stopped immigration, would western countries have a similar economic outlook as Japan?
It's even worse when you look at their privacy policy. Who signed off on this?

https://angeion-public.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/Privacy_Policy....
I use cheap airlines and they are bargain in most cases.

Sometimes you get a problem, extra luggage fees, unplanned check-in at the airport etc. so that you are forced to pay much more. But counting all together they are still cheaper and more affordable.

People complain when they have to pay but forget to mention those times they paid much less.

Or maybe those people have higher needs, more luggage, less experienced with online bookings etc. Well, they are not happy that they have to pay more but for those who travel light, book, check in online and go, can still benefit. Why should we force them to pay more by forcing airlines to provide services that they don't really need?
How much 'killing distance' do you think is involved when gun ownership is associated with 8x higher chance of suicide for men, and 35x higher chance of suicide for women?

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-owner...
In case somebody else doesn't have any context on bpfilter, here's a link from when it was added to the mainline kernel: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BPFILTER-Linux-4.18
You can try barbed wire fences! On a dry day they can work very well, obviously you won't have much say in their direction but if you're near a fence it can't hurt to hook up a sensitive receiver to see what you get.
Look up Democrats' views on nuclear energy.
but upon rereading i sound too extreme. i definitely agree we should try to reduce risks through regulation but thats already happening
So we've arrived at the point where companies collecting verified biometrics under flimsy pretense is so valuable as a revenue stream, they're happy to eat the reputation hit and the fines. Who would pay so much for it?

"All participants in the room must drink a verification can before the movie can start. Good job, Alice! Bob and Carly, you're holding up the show! And I see Dave has left the room, will he be coming back?"
The last paragraph is a bit surprising:

> WEI can potentially be used to impose restrictions on unlawful activities on the internet, such as downloading YouTube videos and other content, ad blocking, web scraping, etc.

Since when did archiving, ad blocking, and web scraping become unlawful? This sounds like a wishlist of activities Google wishes were unlawful.
Legislators, courts and bureaucrats (in this order) always fail to grasp such things. That's an idea erodes their jurisdiction and authority, and abhorrent to thee ethos.

No borders (from their POV), puts internet businesses above the law... which it sort of does. The global village happened, but global authority did not. There are no clean resolutions to some of these tensions.
For $5, $20, $40 ? nope...
Do you think high ranking people at FAANG even know what WEI is, or how web APIs work at all? Lol "Our biggest customers have told us this is important to them" is the only internal justification needed to push this through.
I don't hate Discord, but I do hate that it's being used in contexts where a good old fashioned web forum would make more sense.
One thing I’ve done before is variable replacements in the queries (e.g. `WHERE user_id = ${user_id}`). Not sure if other tools do that easily, but it makes having a library of debugging queries more handy.

They also support a lot of drivers, including specialized ones for things like RDS.

I don’t have a ton of experience with other tools, so not sure if those a standout features versus the competition.
> High speed rail is great, but maybe a good starting point would just be… fixing the tracks.

The problem is that there is little 'glory' in simple maintenance. The 'concept' is often called "state of good repair":

* https://www.transit.dot.gov/regulations-and-guidance/asset-m...

It's much more tempting to announce a new project with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The topic often comes up in Toronto, often as it relates to our transit system:

* https://www.tvo.org/article/toronto-is-falling-apart
I have no clue why anyone has used one in atleast the pass decade, but I can remember when it was a thing because the internet didn't exist. Even printed guide books would be at least a year out of date the day they went to press... booking travel to an area you didn't know was...difficult.
This shows an enormous amount of ignorance over how the US works.

Because of gerrymandering, republicans own the House of Representatives, no legislation can pass from the legislative branch if the Congress and the House don’t agree.

The executive branch can not “just” make new legislation. It’s not part of its power or job.

You can’t blame Joe because Marjorie Taylor Greene and every so and so lunatic has decided to screw everyone else and shove their head into the ground.
In general nothing wrong with enums, but imo you need to be a bit more careful when utilising them.
Future of AI Coaching: Unlocking Potential with Intelligent Guidance
That's not how current propagates. Current propagates - broken analogy warning - in the same way that marbles would propagate through a tube. You push a marble in on one end and assuming the tube is full another marble pops out the far end. So the flow rate of the electrons is vastly lower than the flow rate of the signal itself!
This is a bit of a conspiracy-laden, incoherent approach to the problem.

How about we don't try to control the population (but still take good care of the environment?)

Perhaps by now we could already be building space colonies if it weren't for these kind of reactionary, knee-jerk responses to problems.
That would kill billions of people. Your comment is why people don't take climate change seriously.
Did British and Germans and the rest of ESA members salvage it from the ocean or will it stay as trash in the ocean ? So much money so much power ... yet all we can to is burn it a little in the atmosphere and let the rest fall into the ocean. Ocean is full of life... lets not forget that. Anyway the solution could be a repairable satellite or removable by some device like space shuttle... ESA has the money, scientists... so on. Space agencies should join in the effort and solve such things together if money is a problem or lack of technology.
Most IRC networks have a MemoServ, so that's not an issue.
Because it is from Albania ;)
> Curlett added that 98 percent of the agency’s poison devices are placed on private lands and “only when the private, municipal, state, or federal landowner or manager requests assistance and enters a written cooperative agreement.”

"Private" land is little consolation if it's e.g. a vast unfenced grazing area. And that statement is very ambiguous - does "municipal, state, or federal"-owned land count as "private"?

Regardless, booby-trapping your own private home against intruders is illegal [1], and lethal poison traps outdoors go far beyond that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booby_trap#Civilian_use_and_le...
I use Debian's system Python 3.10 install for most of my stuff and it works really well for me. Some things I install via pip but the key libraries (e.g. PyTorch) from source.
They'll write a blog post "you're angry, because you just don't understand how good it is" and do it anyway.
Sure I mostly agree. And the (cough) after V->V was a silly way for me to say "I mean PDX, of course").

However, I will also note that factors are 2 are far larger than the ones that often make or break social or economic plans. So saying "that's only 2x the density of Cascadia" is not necessarily very encouraging.
This shows an enormous amount of ignorance of how federalism works. Nothing is stopping Californians from banning fossil fuels.
> I love enums in other languages

This. Also huge on enums elsewhere, just not in typescript.
I think this could be the reason devs first reach out to enums, since familiarity from other languages.
You are 30 years late. The world at large didn’t wait for you. Fertility has been declining worldwide for decades and been subreplacement in the USA and Europe for quite sometimes. South East Asia and Africa are slowly getting there too. Population is only an issue because of demographic lag. It’s already sorted out. We just have to pass the bump.
It's at best a leaky abstraction but for some domains it is very useful. Antennas are 'magic' from the point of view of Ohms law and so on but once you move to the electromagnetic domain you will find equivalents for most of the elements in the original abstraction: impedance, reactance and so on.
There's no innovation in streaming because there's no competition in streaming. There's no competition in streaming because the business model is about hoarding IP and tying it to the service that will provide the most money. The actual streaming service itself is ancillary.

If you want to see innovation in streaming you need the sort of legislation that prevents that tying. If every show was available on every streaming platform, then they would start to compete on offering the best streaming service and you'd start to see innovation. Right now, there's just no incentive.
I’ve been playing a game with license plates as well, for many years now. It’s quite simple: combine the numbers found in the license plate such that they form a valid equation. Regular binary operators are allowed, exponentiation is available and parentheses can be placed arbitrarily.

For example, 6827 can be 6 + 8 = 2 * 7. 238 is 2^3 = 8. 9033 can be 9 ^ 0 = 3/3 (among others).

It’s simple and quick enough to do on the fly, in traffic, but surprisingly fun even long term.
Then you need to deal with every nutjob pushing the whole “spread your seed and raise obedient children in the name of $prophet”
President Biden can’t create legislation. That has to come from Congress. McCarthy (R) is speaker of the house.

“Can’t the President issue executive orders?”

Yes but the Supreme Court has been striking down and limiting the EPA from executing on executive orders or other mandates that the agency has. For example last year [1]

> By a vote of 6 to 3, the court said that any time an agency does something big and new – in this case addressing climate change – the regulation is presumptively invalid, unless Congress has specifically authorized regulating in this sphere.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1103595898/supreme-court-epa-...

-Edit in response to OP edit-

Biden actually has addressed the UN at least once [2] and discussed climate change. He wouldn’t address NATO on this topic because NATO is a defensive military alliance and most NATO members are well aware of climate change risks.

He doesn’t need to explain to other political leaders that his “hands are tied” because they already know and understand how the U.S. political landscape works.

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-challenges-act-pandemi...
No, you definitely want the IRC log from when a vendor was helping you troubleshoot the frobnosticator with the wonky LED panel, because 10 years from now you'll still be using that same tired old frobnosticator and the LED panel is going to go wonky again.
That's a whole boatload of misdirection and but maybe.

Yes, the sun shines and brings energy from above, yes the core is hot and brings energy from below.

This was known centuries ago and is accounted for.

"The ethical skeptic" is just parroting another form of denialism; it's not us, it's the flucuations from the sun, it's not us, the core is suddenly radiating more heat outwards, maybe it's the volcanos, perhaps it's cosmic rays.

The thermodynamics here is straightforward enough, we have put a measureably significant volume of thermal insulating gas into the atmosphere and have the records to prove it, more energy from the sun is being trapped, the land | sea surface layer has more energy for storms, tipping climate cell behaviour, heating, etc.
By that sort of standard, nowhere has "much HSR". Japan certainly doesn't run the Shinkansen to every little town and village.

There are plenty of 200mph+ lines all across Germany to count as "solid HSR connections", even the last 5-20 miles runs slower.
Despite some criticism of the original work, they seem to have been very conscientious about making replication easy.

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Nadya Mason, a condensed matter physicist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign says, “I appreciate that the authors took appropriate data and were clear about their fabrication techniques.” Still, she cautions, “The data seems a bit sloppy.”
I wonder if you put the cover up will these aerosols escape from the gaps. For sure, using electric hand dryers and toilers enrich your air with all kinds of crap... literally.
It won't allow you to enter a date earlier than mid 2007 for the question that asked approximately "when did you create your account".

At the bottom it says its perjury if you put any wrong info in. Facebook was around for years by then and was already successful by the earliest date they allow
This assumes criminals are not stupid which is not always the case.
> Weber apparently meant c to stand for "constant" in his force law, but there is evidence that physicists such as Lorentz and Einstein were accustomed to a common convention that c could be used as a variable for velocity. This usage can be traced back to the classic Latin texts in which c stood for "celeritas" meaning "speed". The uncommon English word "celerity" is still used when referring to the speed of wave propagation in fluids. The same Latin root is found in more familiar words such as acceleration and even celebrity, a word used when fame comes quickly.

Although the c symbol was adapted from Weber's constant, it was probably thought appropriate for it to represent the velocity of light later on because of this Latin interpretation. So history provides an ambiguous answer to the question "Why is c the symbol for the speed of light?", and it is reasonable to think of c as standing for either "constant" or "celeritas".
s/minutes/seconds/, but... yes? Let's just grep the IRC logs?
Nice dood!

I was way off on some of these xD
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
I'd say keep up polishing what you got from a desktop perspective before considering making mobile friendly.
It doesn’t help that “data colonialism” is nonsensical as a concept but nevertheless sounds sexy and edgy. I mean, everyone (sane) is against colonialism as we now understand that set of practices/beliefs. So now they’re safely and nicely positioned to write a few tens of thousands of additional words theorizing the decolonization of data and how we should have a data praxis that is consciously postcolonial. That there’s real law review publication potential!
I am a technical person living in EU and changed my mind about GDPR and the upcoming laws like AI Act and CRA, now thinking it is embarrassingly stupid trying to achieve any means of personal privacy that way.

Let alone Mozilla (non-EU) and browser extensions (like ublock) did more for personal privacy than any of the aforementioned laws. And in contrast to creating a "level playing field with Big Tech" they made tech business in the EU a morass of legal insecurities for small businesses while big corps are still happily intruding individual's privacy in ways that our current legal system cannot even cover.
It is a false dichotomy. We could have both.
> This is what worries me: climate change leading to entirely new regimes that we don't understand and thus can't model or predict with any accuracy.

People have been talking about that for a while, we're playing god right now but we have no idea what's coming. It's the same thing every time we try something with nature, what seems easy and simple turns out to have massive side effects we couldn't imagine because every little thing is inter dependant
What I mean is you're taking the smaller thing, the partial similarity in motivation, and making that the main thing. The biggest thing is the immense difference in terms of modality.

In the same way we don't equate people being shouted down in a government house debate with people being mown down in political violence, even though there is a superficial similarity in underlying reason.
Islam and the Patterns in Terrorism and Violent Extremism (2017)
So you're saying an IRC daemon for corporate use needs a competent administrator, which is true of most daemons in business situations.