skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, framing this as "Australia Joins..." is a bit misleading. It is by an Ukranian immigrant who is coming from USSR times. His idea seems to involve the Ukrainian MotorSich engine factory. He may get a lot of support from the current Ukrainian government - in my view it is a pretty progressive one which tries to pay attention to Ukraine industrial development, and the MotorSich is among the key objects of this attention.

For the space port venture they are planning to launch Ukraninan made Zenith rocket (which was used for Sea Launch back then). Looking into their top people - there are also Canadian based Ukraine immigrants, etc. One can see the pattern here. It is a pretty typical style of venture in immigrant communities with its natural advantages and disadvantages.

Wrt. SST to Australia - the best trajectory is ballistic, and Starship 1 hour flight LA to Sydney, 100 pax business or 500 cattle class is the future I think.
Using His Thoughts, Paralyzed Man Texts at a Record-Breaking 16 Words a Minute
>"Those who are uberly engaged

Literally did not have to read any further than this.
Well, to be fair Libre Office online exists[0]. However, I believe EtherCalc[1] is faster.

[0] https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/

[1] https://ethercalc.net/
Except when they are "too big to fail" and get massive government corporate welfare....
At a high level I agree, but monetary policy isn't the only way to affect wealth inequality either. And the question I'm wrestling with is not, "Was/is two decades of relatively easy money a bad policy?" but "Why hasn't the last year or two of very easy money caused huge problems?".

And for bonus points, the follow-up question is: could we have done this anytime? Did the Covid economic downturn necessitate these drastic measures, or could we have adopted 2020 monetary policies in, say, 2018 or 2014 with the same results (skyrocketing stock market, skyrocketing inequality, but relatively stable inflation) and we never did it before because we never had a good excuse?
Google Plans to Double AI Ethics Research Staff
My time and attention are finite, and every stupid email I didn't ask for depletes a finite resource.

Leaving aside the reason spelled out in the article at hand--an ad assuming children while recovering from surgery to ensure no children ever--I think we should all be less okay with uninvited spam emails.
Seriously. I'm forever forgetting that Erlang functions called from Elixir often accept charlists as args.
The next chapter for HQ2: sustainable buildings surrounded by nature
In 2009, I joined Mozilla and started working on the Bespin[1] project, which Ben Galbraith & Dion Almaer had brought to Moz. Bespin was built with a canvas-based renderer. Bespin was way faster than other browser-based code editors at the time.

Then the Ajax.org/Cloud9 folks came along with their Ace editor[2], which was DOM-based and still very fast. We ended up merging the projects. edit to add: and switching to DOM rendering

Rik Arends[3] was one of the Ajax.org folks and he's been working on a WebGL-based code environment called Makepad[4], which is entirely built in Rust and has its own UI toolkit. He's complained a lot about how difficult it is to make a performant JS-based editing environment.

My point in all of this is just that there are absolutely tradeoffs in performance, accessibility, ease-of-development, internationalization, and likely other aspects. If raw performance is what you're going for, it's hard to beat just drawing on a canvas or using WebGL. Google Docs needs to worry about all of that other stuff, too, so I'll be interested to see how this shapes up.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Skywriter

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_(editor)

[3]: https://twitter.com/rikarends

[4]: https://makepad.dev
How is that possible/legal? Is that some kind of structure that wealthy people have access to but regular people don’t?

It sounds like you’re describing a way to externalize your losses to the bank or to the public, which is indeed the best way to make money fast, but is parasitic on society as a whole.
Whether it's reckless gambling depends entirely on the bet being made.

There exist bets that carry little to no risk, and whose returns exceed the cost of leverage.

In Hwang's case, he seemed to be uninterested in risk management, in which case your generalization probably holds true.
> People should be allowed to take risks

Agreed.

> There is nothing inherently wrong with being extremely leveraged, as long as you are prepared for the outcome. This is why the common joe does not have access to such investments, but accredited investors do.

The downside of an overleveraged investment will affect the "common joe" - given that, what justification is there to allow hedge funds to do it? They receive all the upside, but not all of the downside.
Chrome already supports some of it https://ishoudinireadyyet.com/
There are MCUs that cost less than 1c
But the tile yield bonus for building next to a volcano are so good!
I think it depends on where you live and what you want to have in your new location, or what you are running away from.

I live in Germany and I am running away from the weather, so I have to look at locations at least a 5 hour flight away if I want good weather all year round.
So he harmlessly killed those people. How?

And if you're going to say he didn't physically drive the trains into each other, how far does that rabbit hole go? Can anyone be held responsible for any action performed with a tool at that point? "Your honor, I just caused a collision of his head with this hammer, it was the hammer that killed him, not me." Oh, he swung the hammer, so that counts as "physical harm". What about guns? "I just caused a collision of his head with the bullet, the bullet killed him, not me." Yes, he would have pulled the trigger, but he didn't physically shove the bullet into the guy (by your definition). Or if pulling the trigger makes him liable, then the guy pressing the keys to run the programs blah blah blah that cause the trains to collide means he caused it.

In your case, he engineered the deaths of the people on those trains, he's liable for them. This ain't hard.
your choices are still there. go to whatever website you want. but i think users will want to go to the best websites that have the highest production value and may not be built the same way as we did 20 years ago

most people don’t come to the web for choice, they come for the apps
I thought writing css in camel case and dealing with media queries in css-in-js was bad enough, but the boilerplate the CSS Paint API introduces just to access variables is absolutely atrocious:

<style>
textarea {
--checkerboard-spacing: 10;
--checkerboard-size: 32;
background-image: paint(checkerboard);
}
</style>

<script>
CSS.paintWorklet.addModule('checkerboard.js');
</script>

// checkerboard.js
class CheckerboardPainter {
paint(ctx, geom, properties) {
const size = parseInt(properties.get('--checkerboard-size').toString());
}
}

registerPaint('checkerboard', CheckerboardPainter);

More escape acts here: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/01/paintapi#p...
Rate limiting would help with the "hijacking the network to send your own data" piece in the original article.

It wouldn't do much for other uses, like tracking people without their knowledge. A "faked AirTag", could, for example, rotate it's serial number to avoid triggering Apple's "AirTag Found Moving With You" feature. Or the opposite of that. You could stick a fake device on someone's car and trigger the "AirTag Found Moving With You" warning over and over by periodically changing the serial number after the user suppressed the warning for a particular AirTag.
How are the login/security extensions doing? Last I checked some had been abandoned, which caused me some concern and thinking I maybe should have used django or pyramid.
I really like the term "Scoped Trust Signatures" and will steal it. An informative way to describe that mostly unknown and underappreciated OpenPGP feature.
Android doesn’t have the same feature set. Comparing the two like this is an obvious fallacy. For example, Apple does their ML e.g. for photos on device for privacy reasons, whereas Google does it in the cloud.

I’m not saying ML is the cause although it could be. I’m saying they are different products with different values, so expecting them to behave the same doesn’t make sense.

And yes, some background processing after an update is more than acceptable. It’s desirable if it means sending less data to Google.
Again, diminishing returns.

With things like airport security, weather delays, ground stops, etc., is going down to 3h worth several times the cost?

The Concorde found the answer is largely "not really".
news from a month ago posted in many articles on here

more related discussion here:

Credit Suisse Loses 4.7B https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26710344
The justification is that going from $50B to $5B isn't as bad as going from $50K to $5K.

If people don't have money to eat or pay rent then it's a larger societal problem. Beyond that, you are on your own.
App can factory reset your phone if it is taken by law enforcement
> Any big, overleveraged bet is going to go bad eventually

Gambler’s Ruin proves any open-ended bet (effectively, a series of bets over time) will, “big” and “overleveraged” don’t actually matter here, except in terms of what the consequences are when failure occurs.

Of course, “eventually” is a slippery thing, no one is actually doing it with an infinite time horizon, and over any finite horizon failure is not guaranteed (though increasingly likely the longer the horizon.)
How would you test something like that using Selenium or
something like that?
The four million new users spamming WSB with comments like this have fundamentality ruined the sub this year.

Congrats on killing it....
If you're working in a place that only pays for basic economy, then you are certainly not a candidate for a supersonic flight at a typical ticket price of $16,000 transatlantic, no matter how important the meeting you need to get to is, just to avoid spending $100 on in-flight wifi.
Thanks for the concrete example, that's super interesting. Do you find this level of granularity helps, both short-term and long-term? I tend to find in a busy day that I've completely neglected to update my DONE list, and my suspicion is that if I stopped every 20 mins to update it I'd break my flow.

Long-term, I can see once in a blue moon going back to the exact thought process during an issue would be invaluable if something similar crops up, but 99 times out of 100 is this not over-documenting? I'm not trying to criticise here, I want to understand what value you get from it.
Next week might as well be SBOM Week
I love the wooden AT-AT.
Can you point to an example of a hedge fund being bailed out by a bank?
Volvo and Daimler cannot afford for someone else to get there and hold all the patents. If it doesn't work out at all they will lobby and get the laws changed. If it works out though they won't have a strong a position to lobby from (someone else proved it works, why can't you?) and risk losing that side of the business.

That is enough reason for them to put money into R&D. It might or might not result in anything for many different reasons.
Are accessibility features like aria available for canvas based apps?
His investors I do feel sorry for but honestly as long as he has $10M left (which I'm guessing he does), he'll be fine.
> For one thing, gas/electric hybrids exist and have been successful despite requiring two engines.

Hybrids are pretty simple. Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive is basically a replacement transmission and is much more basic in design than a conventional automatic. HSD reduces the number of planetary gear trains to just one, replaces the large number of clutch packs with two electric motors, and eliminates the torque converter all together.

One could build a working HSD unit using 1920s technology. It just would need to be manually operated (probably using a lever similar to an aircraft throttle).
Android App Promises to Wipe Your Phone If Cops Try to Hack It
That's mathematically vacuous. Any number except 0 is a greater percentage of any enumerable proper subset than of the entire set.
>richer men and women, of course, but their money is mostly tied up in businesses, real estate, complex investments, sports teams, and artwork. Hwang’s $20 billion net worth was almost as liquid as a government stimulus check. And then, in two short days, it was gone.

This is false. Stocks and real estate (in metro areas especially) is as liquid as cash. Tesla, google, msft,amazon , brk.a, are very liquid and trade hundreds of billions of dollars a day. The richest people in the world have almost all of their net worth in highly liquid stocks.
Under supervision of the Fed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
My understanding is that Hydrogen is not like most other fuels and very much does like to go boom under a much wider range of oxygen concentrations, rather than burn. I think it may have to do with how little mass the hydrogen atom has. For instance, gasoline volatility over diesel is because it is refined for shorter hydrocarbon polymers, which have less mass. Hopefully someone can clarify this?
Can someone ELI5 why inflation causes the markets to go down rather than up? Wouldn’t cash lose more ground during inflationary periods than equities? The equity in the underlying companies should be more resistant to inflation since the companies can and will raise prices to account for the inflation. And future earnings will also increase due to inflation lowering their P/E ratios. All this seems to point to increasing stock market exposure.

If there’s a market sell off due to inflation, where are those dollars going?
> Well, I don't respond to your point that Google Docs is intended to display documents

That was the entire point
There is a lot of superstition in the world, not just among old people (and not just Koreans). The issue is most don't critically question the things they believe in. Especially when there are many others around them who say the same thing. Rationalists will always be contrarians.

The fan thing sounds silly, but it does make a lot of sense to look into more realistic ideas from the past or the present, even and maybe especially when the mainstream doesn't subscribe to them.
>I had a couple people comment that my work would be discounted by some because it was too easy to understand

Haha, either they discount it because they understood it, or they respect it but don't know it. In either case, it's like they never saw the presentation.
It is both possible and legal for anyone in an agency relationship, be it an executive at a company or a hedge fund manager.

Executive - take a massive unjustified risk (in terms of company direction), if it works out, get a huge bonus, if it doesn't work, get fired (by the board)

Hedge fund manager - take a massive unjustified risk (in terms of a trade), if it works out, get a huge bonus, if it doesn't work, get fired (by your clients)

These are both long call options with the premium equal to the opportunity cost of missed salary and the reputational impact.

Individuals can't do it because they're not an agent for another group or another individual.
The implicit hand under the market in fact better than a bailout, there's no embarrassment. Hedge funds get to borrow money, which they use to get long the market that is implicitly supported, which accrues more capital to the funds, which they can use to borrow more money.

Your average saver cannot just do this, being limited to 2x as per other comments.
Your iPhone example is problematic because Apple has so many competing requirements, but ok... Battery capacity from the iPhone 3gs to the 12 increased by over 2X. Sure, some of it is packaging (the 12 is 15% heavier) but the biggest factor is better chemistry.

Would you have been OK with GP saying 2X instead of 3X?
For anyone curious, ARKK holdings are public (as are all ETFs). Here's a PDF.

https://ark-funds.com/wp-content/fundsiteliterature/holdings...
It wasn’t really bailed out. Equity investors lost all their money. Banks bought the assets at depressed valuations and made enormous profits. Kind of the opposite of a bailout in many ways.
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256 points more to go guys. Rather pathetic you hide behind the downvote. So keep them coming. Over the last decade HN use to be a place learn and discuss now it has turned into this sad.
I understand where you’re coming from, and I’m a proponent of story-telling, but give me the main points first, then let me read the story of if I feel like it.

To be more cynical, this is because it’s behind a paywall. They want to entice you with a little morsel of information, get you hooked into a story, then cut you off at the paywall.

If they gave away all the info in the first few lines, less people would want to keep reading
Volvo sold off their car subsidiary to Ford in 1999 and that was later bought by Geely. Volvo Trucks is still owned by the Swedish Volvo Group.
But you can use it to write JS in CSS and then eval it (although you probably shouldn't) https://css-houdini.rocks/js-in-css (only works in Chrome)
Zero Cool now has Zero Cash.
Several companies have demonstrated generating copious amounts of hydrogen from algae - much more efficient than converting sunlight to electricity than performing electrolysis. I've seen even more alternate ways of generating hydrogen over the last 20 years - lots of thought around production; without demand it isn't worth pursuing/refining the processes to do so.

Production can be distributed - no need to ship fuel or electricity over vast distances either.

Charging batteries isn't without loss either.

Most importantly, vehicle refueling speed is on par with liquid chemical energy (i.e. gas or diesel) which is the single biggest problem with batteries. And we haven't had EVs long enough to where people are needing to replace battery packs in volume. That's going to be fun when that day inevitably starts to roll around.

I used to be a big hydrogen skeptic - but the more I have looked at it, the more I think we could deploy infrastructure for hydrogen faster than battery tech can improve. There aren't many combinations left to try, or to try to make practical for high volume production and that would be safe enough for universal adoption that will produce any significant gains. Maybe with liquid electrolytes - but those introduce new complexity/safety issues. I'm a huge fan of "liquid batteries" for stationary storage capacity - think Tesla powerwall but on an industrial neighborhood/town scale.
I remember my mom working as a secretary/admin assistant and Texaco and switching from typewriters to the first mainframe based word processors – PROFS perhaps? But she'd been a typist and stenographer for 20 years by then so switching from an IBM Selectric (and before that, all sorts of manual typewriters) to an IBM mainframe keyboard in some ways improved her ergonomics. Anyone who has ever spent more than a minute or two clacking out text on a manual typewriter will know.
Setting real-time cost alerts in Kubernetes
It’s a philosophy class masquerading as a sitcom. I liked the show a lot. And props to them for ending the show when it needed to. They could have dragged it out but didn’t.
The swaps are the lending instrument.

He used CFDs which are a type of OTC derivative. Instead of buying the stock, you put up some margin and (usually) promise to swap cash daily based on the movement in an underlying stock (or basket of stocks) i.e. instead of buying F, you promise to pay/receive the loss/gain in F stock every day.

The leverage comes, of course, when investment banks say you can pay/receive the cash flows on a position worth X shares but only need to put margin that is significantly less than the actual purchase price for X shares i.e. for a $100 notional exposure, you only need to put up $5 in margin.

Something to bear in mind if this sounds confusing. The risk doesn't go anywhere. If an investment bank agrees to pay the gain in the share price of AMZN, they hedge their risk by buying shares. There are a few unique things about the case, it seems implausible that Archegos weren't aware they were cornering the market for certain stocks through investment banks hedging their exposure, but the macro point is that the risk hasn't disappeared.

Amazingly, this happened in 2007 too (everyone thought that the MBS market was deep and liquid...no, it was pretty much all owned by some particularly dense bankers in Germany/Japan/etc.). People forget that risk doesn't go anywhere and there is a point where risk-taking is just too high relative to the actual productivity of the underlying assets.

Also, I don't the detail is out there. But the $20bn, I believe, refers to the gross leveraged position. It is very likely that he was leveraging every bit of equity he had on the way up (it doesn't matter anyway, all of his equity is going to be wiped out).
Wendover Productions just put out an awesome video on the downfall of the Concord and why things might be different this time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0fRlCHYyg
Isn't "the only thing we're missing is a good edit UI" lke saying "the only the the browser is missing is what Google Docs is building itself here"?
Yeah, seems like all the correct things are happening.

1. Person did something stupid and knows it

2. SpaceX has to take action, because its dangerous and boundaries have to be upheld

3. Police is doing their job

Most curious about the outcome/penalty though, since intent matters - like the trespasser wasn't trying to steal stuff (besides cool pics) as far as it looks like. So wouldnt be surprised if SpaceX drops the charges after the initial scare.
Don’t forget about real estate prices. They’ve skyrocketed as well and are a very common way to park money.
What stands out in this is that basically: if you want to make synthetic fuel for higher energy-density than batteries, synthetic propane or methane look better.
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Ah, but this is in the eye of the beholder. For example, Firefox has an option to allow one to deselect the option "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above". I usually browse the web in aliased legible Verdana as a result. It also allows you to choose the colours of the background, links, etc.

Chromium browsers do not allow you this choice. There, the philosophy seems to be that the web is a designer-driven layout medium and that the viewer should not have accessibility choices.

Btw, some of the "sites worse", if you're referring to Google, that's them just breaking things intentionally. You can sometimes work around it by specifying a different useragent and then things are fast again until they change things again.

As a browser, Firefox is standards compliant. I agree there are many applications that use a web interface as the GUI and a bunch were coded for IE6 or IE6 with ActiveX and don't display well (or at all) in Chrome. It really depends, but the problem isn't that Firefox follows standards, but that the developers did not follow standards.
My bad, you’re right, it’s 65% saving rate for around 10 years.
If you’re running 4k videos does the difference between 1.28Mb or 128Mb really matter?
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