skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO the part about the kids not being ready is crucial.

If they're just not well off financially I'd see your idea happen (but then, we already see grand parents giving a hand financially in these kind of circumstances)

But if they're not ready mentally, there would be mountains of issues with their relationship with their child. For instance, do they even fully understand it's their child under their responsibility ? Can they continue raising their child when the grand parents can't anymore ? How well will they take it if suddenly they have to give up important things to completely focus on the kid(s) ? On the other hand will they be able to step in if the grand parents aren't fit for that ?
etc.

I think it would work better if parents give it a fair try, but end up being inept and have the grandparents step in. Giving up from the start would be a worse path IMHO.
Putting "Founder" on a resume is better than "CEO" in my opinion. It's entirely accurate, isn't over-the-top but still has the same weight as CEO.
That's because they haven't done much storage yet. Which is to be expected, you want to leave that for the end because it's the most expensive bit. They're planning 15GW of 4-hour batteries by 2030.

https://blog.fluenceenergy.com/energy-storage-roll-out-can-s...
Minneapolis at Forefront of Alternatives to Policing
There was a Soofa sign near my house across the river in Somerville that (now that I think about it) I haven't seen for a while now. The branding wasn't quite as prominent as the Brookline Bank sponsored one in the photo. As I recall it displayed a vaguely useful calendar of local and city events, plus a question you could reply to on Twitter so they could show "engagement".

I'm not surprised nor especially troubled that the sign gathers pseudonymized MAC addresses in hourly buckets. In the last several years there's a mini-trend of startups attempting to provide more or less anonymized smartphone traffic data to cities and towns for urban planning purposes.

In theory this is good! Ideally it helps city hall be more data driven and see things that might not filter up to city hall, in a "pave the cowpaths" way (E.g,. do we need a new circulator shuttle stop? What's happening that one weekend in May that drives so much foot traffic and that we're not aware of at city hall, and should send a police detail to control that intersection? Oh, that brewpub has an annual event we didn't know about that blew up on Instagram.)

In practice I think the problem is the wins tend to be minimal compared to the effort involved.

All that said, I don't love the conspiratorial, low-trust assumptions you're encouraged to make by the bare statement "They’re collecting data from your cell phone."

But without privacy regulations I suppose that's where things will inevitably go -- people will assume a priori that "data collection" is itself threatening. (I certainly foresee a lot of rich retirees agitating to cancel the contract at the next Brookline town meeting.) So I wonder if the main benefit of better privacy regulation in the US would be preventing further deterioration of the basic trust that allows the "collective intelligence" vision of the 00's to come to fruition.
Author’s last screenshot states that her whole account was frozen just after submitting the appeal and she no longer has access to her docs.

I would have far less of an issue with this if certain docs were marked unsharable, or even if her entire account could no longer share, but losing access to previous work written before the policy change feels like a big misstep to me.

Here’s what she said:

> “As of right now, I don't know. I cannot access any of mine to check at the moment Thankfully an alpha reader of mine saw it happening and I downloaded everything to my laptop before I submitted an appeal.
Atter processing the appeal, a pop up said my account was frozen pending review. My assumption is after the review I'll either get everything back or lose it, but I don't know for sure.”
I live in Minnesota and have spent a reasonable amount of time winter camping. You use these cool canvas tents and a small, packable wood stove. This has brought me into contact with some folks that live lifestyles somewhat closer to those old days than the new ones - so far as expectations on infrastructure go. For one, they wear warm clothing almost all the time. It’s significantly more efficient to heat yourself (through clothing, food and movement) than heating an entire room/building.

Also: wood stoves large and small can pump out a lot of heat. You can kick up the small tin metal camping stove and make your canvas tent 75 degrees, dry out any wet clothes. Likewise, a large iron stove can make a room boiling. After all, saunas - in one form or another - are a common feature of northern cultures.
I don't necessarily disagree, but I feel it's important to call out every time I see it in a tech community: this is a reasonable sentiment for the less than 1% of cloud storage users who are sufficiently tech savvy. For the other 99% who have little more than marketing material to direct their understanding, the cloud is Fort Knox for your data.
I like seeing these attempts because it draws out that the motivating factor often is (as you say) not protection of any nature/environment nor the human experience thereof. It's just a gut instinct a lot of people have to change and development.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2022.81476...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2626918/

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.1...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25066615/
Misleading title, none of the authors involved are claiming they're locked out of the accounts. The exact quote from the OP's mastadon is "An author lost access to her explicit writing when she shared it with alpha and beta readers."

Google says you may not use its services to distribute sexually explicit content. This is a very common and reasonable policy. The authors violated that rule, and while none of them are being straightforward about exactly what happened what seems to be the case is the violating content has been removed/locked.
Delayed-choice blew my mind at first, but then learning that light-speed particles experience length contraction kind of debunks the "they traveled backwards in time" interpretation, at least from the photons perspective. They traveled 0 distance.
My only complaint about VS Code is the naming. I'll be googling for actual Visual Studio (2021, 2019, 2015, etc) specific things, and find myself with VS Code specific results all the time. I wish Microsoft would have given it a better more SEO friendly name, they didn't learn from naming SQL Server I suppose.

Go has the same problem, which annoys me, a search engine company didn't think that one through.

Please, major corporations, give better names to your products that are unique enough to dominate search results. Invent new words for all I care.
depends on how long... 1 year is no big deal... 10 years can be nasty...

depends on the thing... if it demonstrates skills that are highly relevant to employers, then great... if random, then your skills can look atrophied...

depends on the impact... if it got traction of any kind that can be a big win even if the money didn't work out...
Jews, Christians, and Muslims have been fighting over this and the surrounding area since before they wrote all their books to convince everyone they are in the right.
From the article: "think: a million devices per square kilometer".

Range of DECT-2020 NR+ is comparable to Bluetooth Low Energy Long Range, which is plenty for a lot of applications but not in the same class as LoRa. But it's much higher bandwidth than LoRa and purportedly has determistic low latency, at least sufficient for audio, and they're marketing it for mission-critical and safety-critical applications.
https://github.com/thebrowsercompany/swift-build
> basically the cost of the electrolysers

Yes, that's the expensive bit.

The reason you don't get much of this already is exactly that the capital cost of electrolysers is very high because of the requirement for platinum electrodes. And big capital investments are not free.
China is still far behind the US on a per-capita basis, but China has a lot of people, so the overall size of the economy is similar (larger in PPP terms, smaller in nominal terms).

I don't think anyone here believes China is ahead in terms of average standard of living. This graphic is just about the overall size of the economy.
The grid was much nearer to collapse seven years ago when there were actually brownouts, and renewables have been entirely responsible for its improvement. Moving toward renewables and keeping the lights on in Australia are the same thing.
Yeah, Nextcloud is not the first thing I would reach for if all you want is "simple" and "bulletproof". I am not a pro-SRE, but I have managed, with the help of backups, the successfully run a Nextcloud instance for a small group of people for the past ~5+ years. It has not been without glitches, but the challenges have been no worse than any other service I host. The more features you have, the more things can go wrong...
The Age of Exploration has ended so long ago that we have all collectively forgotten how it works. Almost every square meter of land on Earth is covered by one group or another of People with Guns. The only ones that aren't are ones so deeply undesirable that nobody cares.

But it actually works in a fairly intuitive manner. People who get to the Moon can do as they like there. Anyone who wants to stop them is invited to go to the Moon and try. This does not mean immediately by shooting them. Talking is a classic option for many good reasons that won't be going anywhere. But if you can't get there at all, you have no stake. If you can't get to the moon, you will have no say.

On Earth it is easy to forget that enforcement of laws requires enforcers to be able to get to the location where it will be enforced, because humanity conquered the task of getting from anywhere people are to anywhere people are at a reasonable speed a while ago. But this is still a base requirement. It hasn't gone anywhere. It has just been a long time since it was in question and people forget about it.

Space exploration will modify this for some period of time because in the Age of Exploration, people could live on the land. While people living in space require an Earth footprint to maintain themselves, that will give people on Earth a mechanism for enforcing power over the moon based on that footprint. But science fiction is full unto overflowing of space colonies going to war with Earth once they are capable of being independent for a reason; it's not so much a "trope" as a plainly obvious consequence of independence. Better treatments observe that Earth will know this and take it into account as it tries to hamstring its colonies from being independent, but A: this will eventually take the form of overtly hostile acts if space colonization continues on that will provide abundant casus belli for the colonies and B: there's a huge economic incentive to make them as independent as possible because it will always be more expensive to supply space colonies from Earth than to supply them from space resources.

Getting back to the original question, what will happen is this: Anyone who can get to the moon and stay there will have a say. Anyone who can't won't. Wringing hands, abtruse philosophical arguments, having hissy fits, screaming really loudly about "rights", complaining, none of it will matter. "Power comes from the barrel of a gun" is actually downstream of "power comes from being there". If you can't be there, you will have no power.

Also, I'm not particularly celebrating or condemning this in this post. This is just how it is.
Well unfortunately that says something about the French intelligence.

I really don't mean this as a condescending arm chair quarterback statement. The intelligence agencies would clearly have access to much, much more information than a civilian. That said, I don't know who, with any level of military understanding, would expect medical facilities and large amounts of blood to be setup and delivered to the front line of fear mongering campaign.
I have referred to "beautiful" only with its strict concrete meaning, as applicable to the sensation caused by something you are looking at, like a beautiful flower, a beautiful waterfall or a beautiful human.

You have also used "beautiful" in its generalized abstract sense, when it becomes applicable to things like a beautiful mathematical theorem or a beautiful computer algorithm.

In the second sense of the word, there is no relationship with the attractiveness of a human. In the first sense of the word, I recognize anything beautiful when I see it, without thinking about a reason. In the second sense, I realize that something is beautiful only after an intellectual analysis of it.

Also in the first sense, the word "beautiful" is frequently reused for other sensations than vision, e.g. for a beautiful song or a beautiful fragrance, though it would have been better to have distinct words for these cases.
I imagine this varies greatly for different region, cultures and industries.

In Silicon Valley? I can't imagine anyone marking down a candidate for having tried and failed to do their own thing.

Regions that don't have a strong startup culture? I don't know.
It gets clicks from people who aren't old enough yet to have any assets.
I do think it could change the sound. Consider a simple octave interval, with zero phase or 90 degrees out:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=Chart+Sin%5C%2...

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=Chart+Sin%5C%2...

The first looks a bit like a sawtooth wave, the second is more like a chain of pulses. Wouldn't that sound different?

The Fourier series of Sawtooth wave, Square wave, etc. contain phase info as well as frequency.
>> Who gets to own the moon?

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first to the moon and they planted the US flag on it in 1969, so that technically made it US territory. But then when they took off in the lander, the blast blew the flag over. I don't know if that affected the legal status or not.
Keep it on there in an encrypted volume! Cloud backup AND privacy in one.
Yes, enums fundamentally suck. There is nothing you can do in a language to make them not suck other than to get rid of them...

...which, indeed, is quite viable as enums are just a hack to work around a limited type system anyway.
> China has a surplus of solar power, electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries that it can ship out to other countries at cheaper prices.

What is the difference between this 'dumping surplus' and normal 'manufacturing exports'?
I don’t think there is a McDonald’s in North Korea but otherwise - yes - a Big Mac is the same all over the world.
You could have taken this advice for the opioid epidemic, and then it still would have affected you via family/friends. We've already been through this once.
Immigration at Dulles is faster than it used to be, at least for Americans. They're expanding the automated system, with a lot of kiosks. (I'm not entirely sure how that's different from GlobalEntry.)

Which just gives you more time to wait for your bags, I'm afraid. They're building a lot of new infrastructure which might help eventually.
I'm not sure if the author is in Europe but DMA lead to Google offering services separately[1].

The services are: Search, YouTube, Ad services, Google Play, Chrome, Google Shopping, Google Maps. I think Workspace (Mail, Docs, Drive, ...) are still a single service. If I remember correctly DMA or another recent law targeting gatekeepers also requires suspension to be followed with a way to appeal, proper justification and to only suspend "one service" (you don't loose your Mail if you get Youtube strikes).

[1] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/14202510?hl=en
I was under the impression that local hidden variable theories had been disproven?

It could be nonlocal of course, but that would imply information moving faster than light again. Unless you count the entirety of MWI as "hidden variables", I guess?
Well, if it's not a significant item, does it need to be changed in the first place, then?

I agree though about passing things that could be preserved, but it usually involves a tradeoff, when things are too costly to maintain, or old building needs to give place for new one. Even museums aren't the place for a collective diogen syndrom.

The slightly heinous thing about this case though is that no tradeoff at all seemed to be involved for this book, no cost of preservation was cited, it's just modifying the past on the lights of very temporal values.
Yeah exactly. I frequently wake up to realize I yanked the sucker out at some point, sometimes even with groggy recollection of it. (Though I do the same to a CPAP mask when I use one)

But it clearly works in the best case scenario. And sometimes it's the only way I can even breathe well enough to fall asleep.
I doubt it would do much harm to your career unless your business ends up facilitating child molestation at scale or something and that’s what you see when you Google the name of the business.

But, the fact that you’ve been thinking about it for 10 years; are asking for permission from a group of strangers; and are already thinking about an exit plan before you’ve even started the business suggests that entrepreneurship may not be for you.

It will obviously be a higher risk proposition than working for someone else. If not having a big brand name on your resume for a few years sounds scary to you, trust me, that will be the least of your worries.
I think if we find DNA on mars, it would be pretty trivial to identify if it is terrestrial. There would be some crazy evolutionary divergence by now.
I do wonder why there isn't far more solar in Australia already everywhere, given that it's a country of dry deserts and strong sun.
I have doubts that a simple adaptive building model-based controller wouldn't be better, and interpretable. I wonder why you'd go with a perceptron... those are so limited.
Why bandaid fix it at the government level, when you can solve it right now by yourself: stop creating single points of failure. Store backups in multiple locations.
Once you visualize it as a shirt lifting up over an overweight man’s belly, it’s unseeable forever. I’m sorry.
> carve a portrait of Elon Musk into the face of the moon

I don't think the moon rabbit would let that happen.
NB that "returning money to the shareholders" is ultimately what companies are for [...]

This could not be further from the truth. Companies - and actually the entire economy - only exists for one purpose, to satisfy the needs of the people, to efficiently produce good and service that people need or desire. Profits are just means to the end, a control signal to steer the economy. Not that they are not important, but they are not why we have companies.
Google Takeout will give you an archive of your email (and everything else).
Everybody I talked to online and offline, all the discussions I saw, dismissed the idea of Russia actually invading as impossible, since "Putin would never do something this stupid, it's just posturing like every other time". Meanwhile, it seemed inevitable to me once Putin started making ultimatums that would never be fulfilled and gave him no way to back down without a significant loss in reputation and standing.

Stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin%27s_December_20... which Putin doubled down on harder and harder until the invasion finally started. Couple that with all the reports of the military and supply build-up, I found it weird that everybody was so skeptical. It felt more likely to me every day that we got new information about what was happening to the point that I didn't see how it couldn't happen.
Watching violent films doesn't make you violent. Watching sexual content does (occasionally) make you want to have sex.

There really isnt anything more to it than that. People who want to censor sexual content are accurately assessing its disposition to arouse audiences; and accurately assessing violent film's disposition to induce catharsis.
That idea is true for the rest of those services too. We could just stop using all the services if they are all run by the same Corp and subjected to the same BS rules. If your Google drive got banned for explicit material, it's only a matter of time your Gmail would trigger it because you sent drafts between you and your publisher instead of using Drive.

If it's a true backup, it should be encrypted in my opinion, especially on the cloud. Then it doesn't matter since they can't see it.
I have never once had Nextcloud updates work properly. It doesn't matter if I update as soon as the new version is ready or if I wait long enough for my current version to go EoL, the updater breaks something critical and my instance is non-functional.

Despite that, nextcloud/owncloud do what I want/need and I'm not sure if Syncthing does. So I keep stubbornly re-trying and just spin up a new instance when the old one dies.
Whoa, Bark got a major update recently. Thanks for the link as a reminder to check in on that project!
> And I know a lot of parents that want their kids to have kids but the kids aren't ready. ... The next generation would happen earlier, the first generation would have their grand kids and the second generation would have time to "wait" for whatever reason.

I mean, putting aside the other good comments this has received, why are the kids not ready? Because if I look around at myself and my peers, I see a lot of people who absolutely want kids but feel they can't have them, for a number of reasons, but not unimportant reasons:

- A lot of people are delaying because they don't feel financially stable enough, because of the increasing costs of lifes essentials, not the least of which is housing, and/or student loan debt which was foisted on them by the selfish decisions of the aforementioned grandparents.

- Tons of people are avoiding kids because they don't want to bring them into a world as unstable as ours, that instability expressed as some combination of: our ever worsening biosphere and the long-term threats of climate change, the aforementioned everything-getting-more-expensive-all-the-time while wages continue stagnating, the political instability with micro-wars playing out all over the place, the economic precarity as our system continues enabling bad actors, the social instability caused by deepening political divides and extremisms literally everywhere over what would otherwise be such benign things, and for flavor, a few things that absolutely deserve extremist responses...

Like, one of the first things that goes away when an animal population is stressed on a macro-scale is reproduction. It seems to me if we want to promote reproduction again, we need to make our world less... awful? Like by and large, my life is great, but I'm child-free and that decision was informed partly by the fact that I have to meter my intake of global news lest I become so depressed I can't function, and aside of that, I started making six figures 2 years ago which is legitimately a thing I never thought would happen, and yet in those subsequent 2 years I have never felt poorer because every last thing costs more now than it ever has, even asking my mother.

I think it's impossible to divorce a discussion like this from the fact that there are absolutely pages upon pages of good, rational, logical reasons one can write to not have children and commensurate with that fact, we see birth rates plummeting all over the place.
Acts of hate are allowed by the censors to be viewed, while acts of love are not. This speaks very highly about the state of American society.
The cost to bring trash (or even nuclear waste) to the moon is completely prohibitive, so the only thing it will be a dumping ground for is trash generated on the moon. And for the foreseeable future it will be entirely appropriate to dump lunar trash where ever it is most convenient.