skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
F-35's are the epitome of the military-industrial complex: unnecessary, overpromised, and underdelivered (faulty, fragile, expensive, late). They should just be called F-111 2.0. It might not be a comedy of errors, but it could be a comedy of a travesty of comedic errors. It's not like there's a competitive marketplace for 5.5th gen fighters or alternatives to strategic, US-flag-waving purchases (NATO / political arm-twisting probably happened).

I think a lot of countries want to stay on the US' good side because it's Godzilla, so they'll go along most of the time. In international diplomatic circles, whenever the words "democracy" or "the peace process" get mentioned in press reports, mentally-substitute those with the words "whatever America wants" and it will be accurate 99 times out of 100. Maybe with the ascent of China, the US and China will have to compete and negotiate more for favors than simply demanding unwavering fealty.

PS: The first porn mags I ever saw were Danish. I can't say I saw much because that was the era when beavers had full pelts.
19/20 expenses were $112M. Per the 09/10 annual report below, 10 years earlier expenses were $10.27M. What exactly am I pulling out of my ass?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/AR_web_a...
There seem to be a lot of cases where no amount of quote marks will convince them to not match similar words, giving me 5,000,000 results of garbage and none of useful content. Ironically, I suspect some of the things I search were deliberately written with unusual language SO they'd be able to easily searched later.

Also, I've found more and more frequently I get the "there aren't any great results" response from them lately, complete with condescending "maybe search for 'cake recipes' instead" explanation box. Honestly, I'd think if you can find things that they know have few/no results, they should be trying to gain direct feedback-- why are you searching for this, and what could help improve results?

It feels like the dominant market players want to create an illusion of endless depth, and any time where you can actually reach the bottom of the barrel is an embarrassment. So you've got Google chastising you for stumping them, and Amazon giving you 98 unrelated garbage results when there are really only two widgets you actually care about in stock.
Outrage where there is no reason for it. Wikipedia is using the University Endowment model to fund its work. They are creating a permanent source of funds that will finance its work for the long run(forever?) and are using special fund raising for special projects. There is nothing wrong with that. It's a form of non-profit funding that will ensure it continues to function. Management should be congratulated for following a non-profit model that will keep it going for many years and not have to deal with the never ending danger of not getting enough money for the following year's budget. A hand to mouth existence is not the best way to run an organization. Yes, there's danger of money getting wasted but all non-profits get a high level of scrutiny from people looking for waste and eventually the waste goes away.

There's no such thing as a large organization where there is no waste. Even very lean for profit organizations have to deal with the problem. The best you can do is to keep an eye out for cases where there is waste and fix it as soon as possible.

Bottom line, if you don't like it then don't give. Period!
People always talk about the simple monetary aspect and I don't see much benefit in just bitcoin without a well working lightning network either.

I'm still semi young and not a senior developer yet, so can someone explain to me how the following blockchain projects "have no clothes" as in "would be much easier without blockchain"

- Helium
Is building wifi coverage, incentivized by rewards based on coverage provided (that the users don't have to pay)

- Several projects providing decentralized cloud storage.

- SingularityNET is an AI marketplace that allows easy access to different ML apps with the goal of making those work with each other.

I also find the ethereum infrastructure really cool (except the huge fee problem right now which is getting fixed with proof of staking/2.0 soon).

You have a whole "new" internet that you can access via ether nodes and you can just consume other smart contracts on the network with no hassle. No need to create an account for a service or purchase some monthly traffic etc. You just interact with other apps because payment is decentralized and everything is public.

I've made a small demo project for myself in .NET to see how it works and it really isn't too difficult.

It seems to me that people who say that all "cryptocurrency" is a scam barely investigated more than bitcoin.
> No, the point is, you probably don’t. Most anecdotal “reinfections” are from people who think they were infected, but never had it confirmed.

Not sure what you mean by "confirmed", but this particular case had positive PCR results for both the first infection and the subsequent re-infection after 4 months.
Supply and demand.

Money supply is up and demand to put it in safe places (like Swiss bank accounts) is very high. German bonds went negative for this reason as well.
I just leave the cursor wherever it happens to be. With link-dense pages, as Wikipedia tends to have, that very often causes a fairly large box to pop up.

Also, when scanning a page looking for info and links, I seem to both read and keep the mouse pointer somewhere close to the center of the window, increasing the risk of annoying pop-ups. (Moving the mouse too far away often causes the wrong thing to scroll whey you use the wheel, perhaps not on Wikipedia but on many other sites.)
This Usenet thread (1991) explains more about the procedure:

https://yarchive.net/phone/cutover.html
Patently false. Bitcoin put a dollar value on under-utlized energy. That can be coal, hydro, whatever. If you believe that Bitcoin is just a more wasteful version of Paypal or ACH, then it matters a lot that this subsidized energy is being converted into waste heat by a bunch of special-purpose ASICs that have no use outside of *coins, and take a lot of metals and energy to create and ship, on limited-capacity fabs.

I ctrl-F "subsid" in your link and don't see any source for your claim. Bitcoin puts a dollar value on (subsidizes) -ALL- energy. If there's a dirty coal plant you can run in your backyard without the government shutting you down, Bitcoin wants to know about it.

Your claim is (1) bitcoin takes energy (2) renewable is cheaper than nonrenewable (3) bitcoin is causing tons of new renewable capacity.

If that were true, why isn't every power plant in the US renewable? How on earth did Bitcoin manage to get this capacity that nobody else has? Money talks, right? Why aren't the mayors of San Francisco, New York, Chicago etc. trumpeting their new 100% renewable grids?

Then you might say that Bitcoin is tech-enabled and decentralized, you can run a mining rig near any energy+internet source. But that's equally true of a cloud compute farm. The fact that bitcoin is pointless hashes and not cloud compute is a historical quirk. Any Bitcoin node/farm could be replaced with an identical-power-usage server farm and do more good for society.

I'd like a source on your Bitcoin only uses renewable claim. I think if I run a miner on my home PC, which I believe has some natural gas in the energy mix, that argument fails.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/private-equity-f...

> But right now the only places that Bitcoin is causing environmental damage are places where some government has unwisely subsidized fossil-fuel consumption, and Bitcoin itself is what puts an end to those subsidies.

I wrote this whole comment without getting to the end of your inane post. We agree that implicit subsidies are bad (burning fossil fuels creates externalities, failing to tax them is a subsidy). But your wordsmithing here is bad faith. Your argument is basically "governments thought people wouldn't be complete jerks, and Bitcoin sure proved them wrong!" Yeah it's human nature and perhaps inevitable, but 50+ years for some of these hydro dams without a problem until Bitcoin came in and ruined everything.

Bitcoin is an ongoing real time climate catastrophe. Get back to me when China and the US ban all forms of carbon-emitting energy production. Until then, those "subsidies" continue, and it matters quite a lot what use for the subsidized energy we find. I suggest cloud computing as a baseline. "environmental destruction right now" is exactly the current state of things.
In the UK your donations can be for a specified purpose, and must be earmarked for it. Is there no equivalent in the rest of the world?

And perhaps more to the point, Wikipedia has legal personality in the UK, so one assumes the above applies.

But really it would be pointless: I'm not going to tell Wikipedia what their strategy should be when I donate. So even if you do, they can put my donation to whatever purpose it is that yours precluded.
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I'll do my best to explain. So in chemistry, there is a thing called 'chirality' essentially this has to do with how a molecule is shaped. It's assessed by how a beam of polarized light that is passed through a molecule rotates.

There are a few different types:

Achiral, no change
Levorotary (L), Rotates anticlockwise
Dextrorotary(D), Rotates clockwise

The reason that it matters and what I was talking about above is that the sites in your body that a drug interacts with aren't universal. So if you have a (L) version of a drug that might have different effects and interactions than a (D) version.

A 1:1 mix of both (L) and (D) is called a racemic mix.

When you are talking about Brand name drugs, you're typically discussing a particular mix (e.g. Adderall XR is a 3:1 (D):(L) mix) or a particular conformation. That is not necessarily true with generics which may have a different ratio of (D):(L).

To give an example of how different the effects can be: Penicillamine (L) is used in the treatment of primary chronic arthritis.
Penicillamine (D) not only has no therapeutic effect, it is highly toxic.

Here's a link to some Wikipedia pages on it if you're interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality#Chemistry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racemic_mixture

Do note that this is a bit of an oversimplification, but it's 3AM here so I hope you can forgive me.
Thanks! No, we have not but we will take a look at Google Cloud Run, I agree is quite painful to wait for this.

Great suggestion. Yeah, we don't use "Roblox for AI" in our website, but was hoping the HN community would get the analogy.
Most sovereign States can’t spy on their own population. The NSA gets around this by spying on Germany from Denmark and on Denmark from Germany.

It’s all about plausible deniability. No matter how implausible it is.

The current spin from other countries being outraged begs the question: how are you collaborating with the NSA?
This depends on the orbit of the debris and the probability of getting hit (you are unlikely to ever get to 0, and technically, it makes little difference if you got a man-made bolt hitting you at 1km/s, or a naturally-occuring space rock of similar mass).

Most spacefaring countries have adopted a rule of getting low-earth-orbit objects out of space within 25 years of their mission's end-of-life.

Some (though relatively few) objects are in high orbits. These will take millenia - the good news is that they are also relatively slow, which makes them easier to avoid.

And then we have people shooting their sportscar into space on an orbit that will last virtually indefinitely.
I'm guessing phone calls and sms isn't encrypted and frequently used.

Regardless, just monitoring IPs talking to each other will have you some idea what sites / services they are using.

Also 10 years ago HTTPS wasn't everywhere yet.
I'm no expert, but there's probably some electronics in that arm whose operating temperature range is a lot higher than the temperature of space.
Things don't necessarily progress indefinitely, they can also regress.

Take away the free public schools and illiteracy rates will surge and we'll be not that far off from the poverty rates before free public schooling began. Sometimes maintaining something is an achievement in itself.
Perhaps some contracts need revisiting when circumstances change.
You can travel to Saudi, sell rockets to the Butcher of Arabia himself, take pictures with enslaved workers in the gulf and watch a public execution for adultery and they'll let you travel to 'merika no questions asked.

But you can't visit Iraq or Iran
What are your arguments though? I see no clear argument in this thread besides “bitcoin is bad” which makes it look like most people here haven’t investigated past bitcoin.
Why do config changes keep coming up in major incidents?
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Ha, no worries! I'd thought the same until I went off and got a degree in Chemistry.
I found the gif in this Reddit post very interesting in that regard: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/lczisw/oc_...

You can see the effect of atmospheric drag and resulting decay for LEO objects. And how catastrophic collisions are.

Edit: And original source https://mads-hatters.github.io/
I get the sentiment, but how is this any worse than a nail bomb with a timer?
> To be fair, this is almost certainly an issue with whoever was selling the item on Amazon, rather than Amazon.

This (soccer magazine case) does not seem like a 3rd-party seller issue. Third-party sellers only have a limited amount of time to ship (30 days in 2018) after which the order is automatically cancelled.

Also, the Amazon "we weren’t able to cancel the items" message only occurs with Amazon-fulfilled items.

The long "4-16 weeks" estimate also suggests it was not 3rd-party seller selling via FBA, either, but straight-up sold by Amazon.
While it is exceedingly rare (2-5% I would guess, at least in the motorsports I watch), the times when it goes beyond a simple canned response it can be incredibly interesting and compelling. Though I think the dynamic of Motorsports is different than most other sports as you're not going to get the same situations where a driver is being interviewed as they return to the garage from crashing out of the race.

I think ultimately though it's pretty simple math. If you don't have them, you'll never get something good out of them so the small number of them that break the mold justify the whole operation. When you do get something meaningful out of them it usually serves to create drama or fuel whatever narrative is going on in the season.
Andreyev was writing 75 years after Poe, so it’s not exactly the same genre (although remember that Poe, while most famous for gothic horror, also wrote in pretty much any genre, including basically inventing the fictional detective). What they do share though is a finely honed sense of the macabre, and the ineffable nature of reality. If we’re picking influential American authors, then it’s fair to place Andreyev mid-way between Poe and Lovecraft, especially with stories like The Wall[1] or The Red Laugh.[2]

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leonid-andreyev/short-fict...

[2] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leonid-andreyev/short-fict...
It's not rant. It's justified indignation. We should definitely not have bought those F-35 pieces of shit.

I've been saying for years that our politicians are traitors, and yes our military intelligence has aided and abetted a foreign power in spying against Danish interests. Traitors.
Crypto has been scams for years, all the way back to Mt. Gox.

Social benefit comes from payment systems that provide safety and stability, not risk and volatility.
I'm tired of HN submissions that link to tweets. If the tweet is very interesting that's one thing, but in this case the submission should have linked straight to the Politico article.
It isn't stored as RDF. RDF is provided as an export format. The language contents also aren't stored in wikidata, its just matching which title in language X matches which title in language Y.

Wikidata isn't just used for interlanguage linking. Its also used to keep infoboxes synced across different languages, and a way to easily query that data (Depends a bit on the language, english wikipedia isn't fully on board with the system, but its been a big boon to smaller languages).

As a result, people can update these "facts" independently of language, keeping them altogether more up to date, and it allows the data to be queried independently (via https://query.wikidata.org - try some of the example queries (button top left) if you haven't, the level of power SPARQL gives for querying this type of data set really is very cool).

Part of Wikimedia's mission is to spread knowledge. Allowing querying of factual data with a query language like sparql helps advance that goal by letting people use extract the knowledge for new purposes.
Same deal here in Norway. Lots of irregularities in how the F35 got selected over Swedish SAAB Gripen.

And yeah we are also incapable of saying no, to anything it seems. It has been Norwegian policy to not have US bases since end of WWII. But current conservative sell-out government has done it without any national debate. They just give the US an area of Norway where US laws applies.

Criticizing the Norwegian alliance and what is being done to placate the US seems politically impossible. It is like a holy cow.
It's been in the Danish broadsheets, the stuff he mentions. I think it's reasonable what his complaints are, it just sounds like a rant because it's so wasteful.
It's a combination of not restricting parts and not encumbering replacement parts with chips that can only be 'unlocked' by an approved servicer. Things like tractors are now sold that you literally can't repair yourself unless you hack the DRM, which is absurd.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_co...
Profit seeking organizations have residual claimants who are directly incented to cut the waste, and they still get cancer. This ought to suggest to us how hard the problem really is.

ISTM that the only viable solution is federation, where multiple, independent, small, tightly-knit organizations cooperate on the shared goal of hosting content, media, etc. on real-world entities and topics. But, ironically enough, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects are the closest thing we have to something that might actually enable this development! (The former in its de-facto role as a semantically-enhanced "web directory" of entity identifiers; the latter via the "right to fork" that's inherent in all free-content licenses.)
Contrary to what you might think, I agree with most (if not all) of what you're saying. They might decline to give me a reason to trust them, even after I've given them several opportunities. In that case, I have a strong signal to decline, and they have to do other things very well to compensate.

I'm not saying one should be picky, I'm just saying that if the worker and the employer have very different ideas of the value the worker brings, and one side is not open to discussing their perspective of things, my experience is that doesn't turn into a fruitful partnership with long-term prospects.

At best, it's a temporary gig and then the worker leaves with a bunch of knowledge. It's not a desirable position for anyone. (But that does happen, very often in larger companies, as you say.)
What the heck is this dangerous misinformation? It's a great choice of recreational drug in the rave scene since the dawn of times.
I can see a modest excuse for restricting the sidebar view to Bing, in that you need to have a reasonably suitable display format for the results.

Microsoft can be aware of and support the case from both sides, but I could imagine Google detecting "User-agent = Edge and the window width=300px", and sending some experience-ruining CSS or JavaScript to try to nudge users back to Chrome.

I know there was a while where various Google properties were unreasonably clunky on Firefox, and I can't imagine it was by accident; doubtless a trillion-dollar company can wire up a few CI instances to make sure things load well on non-Chrome browsers.
I really dislike how USA bullies people trying to buy Russian S400 anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems.

S400s are effective against their best aircrafts. And they don't want other countries to have it.

So they threaten sanction and people have to play along.
It’s just off topic and a beaten horse.

Here is another thread on FP on the same topic and a much better discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27338555
About your statement on posting via VPN, I think you are overreacting a bit here. I don't deny that institutional persecution doesn't happen in India. But what you have posted is already there in the public domain and has been widely reported.
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It is one thing that intelligence services is monitoring specific actions that are important to national security. However, along the way, Lockheed Martin and friends and the jobs provided by them became national security. These two things are important to keep separate to understand the debate that is going on here.

So this is Danish intelligence services helping Boeing securing contracts against Airbus and Saab. This is rightfully causing some much needed debate, even if it was a surprise to approximately no one.
I mean, yes? Company hears about weird new law in Colorado. Decides that they don’t need to bother with Colorado, so they don’t.
The companies that survive layoffs do much better, because by definition the data for the companies that don't survive is censored.

People free to decide based on a coin toss are much happier because they have the freedom to do so.
You don't need centralization to do chargebacks and conflict mediation. What is lacking is a decentralized version of a justice system.
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I think the gimmick is they'll only sell it in a package of a total of 5 licenses of some sort total, so this is probably the cheapest other thing you can buy to get to that count.
I've never heard of a single physical item being sold for any other cryptocurrency, only Bitcoin.

How would a merchant of physical goods even know about something like Celo, whatever that is?
It would help to merge police and cartels even more. They are not two distinct entities, there is significant overlap between the two. If you force young man into military, you might just force them into situation where he has to cooperate with cartel or get corrupt.

It uses young men as a tool to coerce their mothers to do something political without even being sure what that thing is. You want sacrifice young men but don't stare for what.
Case in point: AvE dissecting a Made in Japan Makita drill, made for the Japanese market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2EpdRN2h6A

This thing is built like a fucking tank, it will never ever ever fail.

Compare that to the same model sold outside of Japan, and it's most likely made in Indonesia and the quality is nowhere near.
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I personally suspect there are no HUMINT efforts to spy on me :)
True, but for most transactions the credit card fee (~%2) compares favorably with the Bitcoin transaction fee (~$8).
No, not for many of us at least.

Has't worked reliably for me and a number of others for close to a decade I think (the first blog post I know of that mention it is from 2011 or 2013 I think.)

Oh, and I think it is the same thing as others mention in this discussion: infantilization and "we know better than you".

But being Google it might also be just general lack of care.
> The north Iraq (Kurdistan region) is a wonderful place for tourist!

I've been there, as a backpacking tourist. "A wonderful place for tourist" is overselling it, I think.