skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be good way to avoid taxes, as you can write it as a loss and then go enjoy your BTC stash to some other country tax-free.

The problem is though that the BTC will still be traced to you...
Bunkers aren’t that great for long term survival. You’re effectively betting that you can survive in a small isolated prison for N years to emerge without resources or the ability to feed yourself. You are also betting that the underground structure isn’t going to need maintenance in those N years, and that you won’t simply be viewed as a resource cache by whoever is still on the surface.

Now if we start talking about remote bunkers far away from cities - you start also asking the question of why you would need a bunker! If you build an off grid house in Whistler BC you are highly unlikely to be targeted by a nuke, or be in the fallout zone of any nukes. Rural east coast and southeastern US are also great options. You can even set up a plan for a permanent farming installation in the event of a disaster.
Patent infringement, quite simply!

Custom's responsibility is to destroy counterfeit goods.
Really? Because the obvious way to "realistically enforce" this is by passing legislation banning such practices and demanding transparency in credit score calculations. And then massively fining credit companies which use those factors in calculation.

Not sure how the heck would a single developer refuse to implement a system that earns boatload of money.
The hippie problem. South Park described it accurately.

Man 2: Right now we're proving we don't need corporations. We don't need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other.

Man 1: Yeah, we'll have one guy who like, who like, makes bread. A-and one guy who like, l-looks out for other people's safety.

Stan: You mean like a baker and a cop?

Man 2: No no, can't you imagine a place where people live together and like, provide services for each other in exchange for their services?

Kyle: Yeah, it's called a town.
I recently watched this YouTube about visiting a bunker community in South Dakota that was pretty interesting: https://youtu.be/QW6DIchOpnc

Looks like it’s only 1/10 of the price to buy one of those instead!
Sorry, I just don't understand. I don't really use terminals except to do a system update. Is there a specific issue?
> Really?

M1 macs are not T2 macs, nor does that have anything to do with the issue at hand. What the parent means is that it's not like Android where you "unlock your bootloader" and it's global and locks you out of certain features. The Apple Silicon secure boot mode is per OS install, so installing Linux does not taint your macOS security (i.e. you can still use iOS apps and watch Netflix in 4K on macOS).
This is a scripted, edited, and produced video. It was probably created with a total production timeline of many months. It's both educational and promotional, and was probably used both internally and externally by AT&T.

As others have noted, quality video content was still comparatively scarce, there wasn't much competing content (and certainly little on-demand as today). Long slow introductions were an opportunity for either assembled or broadcast audiences to settle in for the programme, as opposed today where a single video creation is competing from the first second to establish its interest and credibility.

The people interviewed are also at the top of their professions and game. They're not fighting to establish credibility, or promoting themselves within a field (though they might well be engaged in politicking internally within AT&T for budget, status, and resources).

By contrast, much (though not all) of what's created today is:

- Unscripted

- Unedited, has very minimal editing, or is poorly edited.

- Competes against a tremendous set of alternative content.

- Has short production cycles.

- Is mostly produced by individuals trying desperately to prove their own relevance.

- Is often created by (or about) people who are far from proficient, knowledgable, or, in an increasing number of cases, even remotely sane.

There are exceptions on both sides, and we suffer from several biases: survival bias of old works (crap production tends not to be retained or surfaced), familiarity bias with new works (we don't appreciate what's current or easily available). There were certainly numerous charlatans and frauds on video and audio before 2010. And there are people today who put out high-quality content that's well-prepared, scripted, and produced (Tom Scott, Derek Muller, and Destin Sandlin of YouTube all come to mind). The sober stuff produced today competes poorly against all the hyperactive instant-gratification of today. Though on reflection, AT&T's production probably didn't rate highly at the time against game shows and soap operas either.
I would recommend reading "Bad Blood". She fired that guy and cut him out of her life and continued to be the CEO and lie. But that doesn't really matter, all that matters is that she gets 12 people on the jury that agree that "Maybe" she had to commit fraud. And she will be off to her next scam
They need to pivot every so often to keep engagement up. If the facts haven't changed, the spin has to change.
That's not innovation.
Very fascinating and some truly stunning footage. What I can’t help thinking about viewing this marvel of technology is what humanity might have achieved if the prodigious efforts and staggering sums that went into the Cold War arms race went into making the world a better place…really, as amazing as this is, it was ultimately a tremendous waste.
Yeah I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds this a bit shocking, and their initial response doesn't really impress me that much. I don't expect a desktop app to be displaying random unverified messages to me in the same way my email or phone might, and especially so if it's not made that clear where the message is from. It's certainly true that this guy shouldn't have made this mistake anyway, but there are plenty of steps Electrum could do to make it clear whether a message should be trusted or not, and to their credit it does at least sound like they did make changes in this area in later versions. Of course, to clarify I have not actually tried this thing, I'm just basing that on their description of changes they made such as no longer displaying RTF and/or arbitrary messages.
> they would jettison "fact checking" and censorship

Telling someone their beliefs aren't valid is rude if they're preaching something like flat earth or "law of attraction" or Lysenkoism, but it's not the end of the world.

However, telling someone their beliefs aren't valid when those beliefs are merely unpopular or inconvenient reduces the credibility of the "fact checker" and increases the hostility and insularism of the person with these beliefs.

In early 2020, the fact checkers told us that anything less than an N95 mask doesn't work. The fact checkers of today tell us that any face mask prevents the transmission of the virus, and they've even come up with words like "anti-masker" to dehumanize people who question them or who merely adhere to their early 2020 statements.

In mid-2020, the fact checkers told us that the lab leak theory was preposterous, and promoting it was a Facebook/Twitter excommunicable offense. Today, this idea is mainstream.

In early 2021, the fact checkers told us that the vaccine stops the spread of the virus. In mid-2021, the fact checkers told us that the vaccine reduces symptom severity. Today, mainstream fact checkers are recognizing that vaccine immunity wanes and is ineffective against new variants.

Fact checkers seem to be wrong more often than they're right. So why does the fact checker get to decide what I can post on Facebook and Twitter?
Well, IBM certainly is no stranger to anti-competitive behavior. If SCO had focused on breach of contract from the beginning, their case actually would have had some merit, IMHO.

But then they went bananas and made fools of themselves with the whole Linux-copyright-violation bit, destroying their case more thoroughly than IBM's lawyers could have done.
Asking $1,500,000.00
January 14, 2021: Reduced to $550,000

Terms: Cash or $500,000 down and owner carry remainder

They'll carry the remaining $50k after your $500k down payment. Sounds like they're okay with $500k flat to me.

Edit: I'm not seeing an address for the site. I need to know what school district it is in, and how close to downtown and other activity centers. Maybe that helps explain the $50k wiggle room?
If it makes you feel better, I’m guessing that every penny went to their attorneys (and then some!)
In early 2017 I bought breakfast every day on my way to work in Oxford with cryptocurrencies. A bacon and avocado sandwich, and a large latte. It was pretty cool to buy these items with currencies I had mined myself, or bought by trading minded coins for other currencies. I checked the other day and each of those breakfasts would be around £200 today had I saved them but I don't regret the nerdy enjoyment of paying in that way :)

Edit: I found it amusing when the cafe closed a year later presumably because both owners retired after selling at the peak in early 2018.
Why aren't we discussing Gain-of-function risks more? It seems to be a few orders of magnitude more risky than nuclear disasters such as one in Fukushima and Chernobyl. If Sars-cov-2 was accidentally released from the Wuhan Lab, it has brought the entire world to its knees, trillions of dollars of damage, millions of lives lost and immeasurable impact to the society probably for many years to come. The only reason I am comparing with Nuclear disasters is not to diminish their risks, but to say that it gets disproportional media attention compared to something that until last year I've never heard of, i.e. "Gain of function" research on viruses.

I am almost angry and furious - why is this not discussed with 100x more media stories and scrutiny about what safeguards are in place, how level 5 biolabs are secured and what are the ways it can fail!?

Even if we have proven that it was not released from the Wuhan lab, the risks are still present and absolutely alarming.
Surely, though, the cost of operation has little to do with the cost of rides? Google has poured billions into the project. A few dollars per ride isn't helping their accountants sleep any better.
Why do they want to avoid thinking about it? It seems like the parent is saying they wish they could think about it more, but it's ambiguous to the point of meaninglessness.
Kind of wild that Werner Heisenberg was the principal scientist of Hitler's nuclear weapon development program during the war and then pretty much immediately after the war transitioned into a a civilian role, becoming the director of the Max Planck institute.

Also, from his wikipedia article:

From 24 January to 4 February 1944, Heisenberg travelled to occupied Copenhagen, after the German army confiscated Bohr's Institute of Theoretical Physics. He made a short return trip in April. In December, Heisenberg lectured in neutral Switzerland. The United States Office of Strategic Services sent agent Moe Berg to attend the lecture carrying a pistol, with orders to shoot Heisenberg if his lecture indicated that Germany was close to completing an atomic bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg
what if you want to do more than one thing? Thus is a common requirement.
That's honestly why I clicked on the article, it's actually an ABM (anti-ballistic missle)

For those that need a little teaser to be incentivized to click on the YouTube link, here's the title of the video 'Super Pointy Sprint Missile - 0 to Mach 10 in 15 Seconds - 100Gs & 6000°F'

If you have any interest in aerospace at all and have never heard of the Sprint, take a gander, it's a spectacular edge case in engineering.
Nuclear scientists as assassination targets (2012)
Only if you want Apple product placement.
Having a "credit score" is not common in the EU in the first place, and even rarer is using credit just in order to prove that you're a good customer.
Engineering is about economically designing things that fail in a predictable manor.

Too many people think it's about "strongest" or "best" or "creative" or "durable" designs. Nope. Sometimes that's true, but it's always about controlling your failure modes.
Fossil fuels have energy densities far in excess of anything except nuclear energy. There is no way for the world to continue consuming as much energy as it is today, with current technologies, but without burning more fossil fuels. There is no fast enough solution to sequester carbon. Remember that, to avoid the bad effects of global warming (1 degree warming), we should have stopped net production of CO2 into the atmosphere entirely a few years ago. From now on, we can only hope to avoid the catastrophic effects of 2+ degrees warming, and the Paris accords, even if they were followed, would not even achieve that.

Not to mention, global transportation is currently impossible without fossil fuels, in the current volumes - there is no way to have cargo ships and cargo planes and cargo trucks that deliver anywhere near as much as today without burning fossil fuels, and even futuristic batteries are not going to change that.

So, the only possible solution is to reduce our economies in the developed world. We are anyways consuming far, far in excess of needs, to the benefit of no one except the Apples and Amazons and Huaweis of the world. I'm not talking about food necessarily, but much more about goods - changing phones every year, changing cars every 3-5, new computers, new plastic crap, new clothes, new appliances etc.

All of this contraction will happen. We can taper off slowly over the next 50 years (?), or keep going at full throttle and have a massive crash. Unless we believe in some magical technology that will somehow create clean energy out of nothing without putting carbon in the air for mining and production, there is no changing this simple reality.

Perhaps if we had started seriously investing in renewables 50 years ago when the problem was first discovered, we could have actually built enough to avoid this. Alas, companies who knew chose to bury it, and scientists who knew chose to keep quiet.
Elizabeth Holmes Might Claim Abusive Relationship in Criminal Fraud Defense
By your premise any plane that flies even 10% slower doesn't match up, even if it's superior in every other way.

You don't have to match exact speeds to match outcomes when it comes to bombing. What matters is what the platform is meant to achieve and how effective is it at its mission. A slower supersonic plane may be the superior overall platform, depending on the other aspects of the plane.

Russia made a hyper expensive show pony, when they could have built a cheaper, more effective platform at a lower speed. That's usually the kind of mistake the Americans make. The relatively high max speed of the TU-160 turned out to be entirely meaningless, they would have been better off building a different plane.

The TU-160 has a $200m+ price tag. That's $1.2b scaled to the US economic terms. It's something beyond hyper expensive for the Russians in relation to their economic capabilities and military spending.

The B-1A was cancelled. The TU-160 should have been cancelled.
An oral history of Oxford/AstraZeneca
The US as a whole,
grows 10 million tons a year, putting it at the 11th spot for production of rice. Almost all of that rice is consumed domestically as well. If rice couldn't be grown in the US we'd have similar problems as if wheat couldn't be grown.
You can overdo the security too though. I'd have a house right now if I had kept my wallet passphrase on a computer instead of in a notebook that I lost.
Not terribly surprising as I believe WebRTC has been a known issue for leaking your IP for a long time with VPNs. With that said I confirmed it does indeed leak my IP on iPad. The surprising part is that Apple sidestepped the issue.

Side note: tried to test it on my Mac but for some reason it wanted me to "upgrade" to iCloud+, despite being an Apple One customer. Guess that's because the macOS betas are fairly out of cycle compared to the iOS ones and (presumably) their infra.
> unsavory email list.

Of course that too. It’s not exclusive with search poisoning.

> $2million

It seems that way in that it’s either stupid advertisers that think rich people Google that. Or people thinking there’s a mindset of get rich quick, crypto scams who Google that.
Hardware costs are dropping pretty fast. Lidar is already an order of magnitude cheaper and compute benefits from Moore's Law.
The world resembles Beirut in 2019 more than one would think.
I don’t see a problem with that. We just need to factor in the costs appropriately eg via insurance premiums. Save lives and create the infrastructure for building back (eg via a quake recovery fund, contingency plans for rebuilding if a quake does wreck a building etc).

Construction is one of the last remaining sectors that is still able to employ low skilled workers and pay them good wages.
What is interesting or unusual about this GitHub issues link? Someone had coin stolen and they’re complaining about it. What makes this worth being on the front page?
China isn't going to waste 1 of their 400 shots and abandon the no-first-use doctrine over something so minuscule.

Look it up. The US/Soviet missile pissing contest completely dwarfs every other nation, even after various disarmament treaties. Russia still has the most.
For those who want to try out a quote unquote weird language, here is a cheat sheet I found helpful for Lisp: https://github.com/ashok-khanna/lisp-notes
No, I get it. But I guess does an outsourced service count towards your company? I'd say not.

You don't count the people that made your pc.
Not sure why you are so aggressive.
If you have worked for any reasonably big company you know that the official language does not necessarily matches the truth (and sometimes has 0 relation). I did not say any conspiracy, but even on the link you have attached Brendan says that you should look up the meaning of 'constructive dismissal' if I recall, that means the view you want to force on others is half truth at best.

Edit of the previous comment:
"which does not *necesarily* relate to the real reason of the separation"
.. ok this word was left out
TSMC offers both DUV (N7, N7P) and EUV (N7+) for 7nm [1].

[1]: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process#TSMC
Ah yes, we are famously anti-violence in this country, how did I ever forget. Pretty fucking rich opinion to hold on a thread about the labor movement in the united states.
Actually, yes.

People have been offered a solution against covid, people who take the jab is safe from covid, people who didn’t take it made that decision and should take responsibility for that, which means that he/she decided to be in danger (most likely). The cases of people who can’t take the vaccines for medical reasons are so rare that the argument “what about those who can’t?” is superfluous. Even in that case, people who can’t get it for medical reasons should be the first ones to pay attention to their health, follow cdc social distancing procedures and that would keep him/her safe.

At this stage COVID in endemic, every year a new vaccine is going to be developed just as for the flu, don’t expect people not affected by this to take 3 doses a year, it would be foolish.
Buyer beware: lots of ICBM fuel is toxic. Due to poor containment practices, many former missile sites are now borderline superfund sites due to fuel that's leaked into the ground.
I think PG considered competitors hiring Python programers as "dangerous" or something like that.
Show HN: Simple tool for creating command-line bar charts
of course they coated the cubes in cyanide
Dover (YC S19) is hiring
It's an (old) ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile), not ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) silo. ABMs shoot down incoming ICBMs.
"Hydrogen can be made safe, and is renewable. For something like this to work we need to move past the Hindenburg."

Seems to me you're right. In some ways it's a damn shame that reporters and movie cameras were at Lakehurst that fateful day, unfortunately their presence set back airship development at least a half century.

The WWI matter that nosianu has raised about how hard it was to bring down hydrogen-filled airships due to the difficulty of igniting the hydrogen is well known and it ought to be a starting point for its reintroduction. New containment materials combined with what we've learned from the Hindenburg should also do the trick. On a regulatory point, if you kept hydrogen to cargo-only airships and where possible even routed them around heavily populated areas (at least until well proven) we could see hydrogen make a comeback.

Also, Hydrogen has that other advantage, it has about 8% more lift than helium. It occurred to me hydrogen's risk could be further mitigated if it were used in combination with helium where they shared the lifting - the hydrogen able of being vented, etc. and the helium bagged separately as permanent/primary buoyancy. Reckon that with a fresh look we've many new options to explore.
It might be safe to assume that Waymo management has given more than a passing thought to their test location.
A bunch of robo taxi startups are going after this market which, while being quite real, is minuscule compared to Waymo’s ambition.
The craziest thing about the US system is that you have to use credit (and pay it back punctually) as opposed to debit just in order to convince future creditors that you're a good customer. Migrants to the US can run into a Kafkaesque situation where they need a credit score to get a credit card, but they need a credit card to accumulate a credit score first...
Hospital admission is not a good metric to go by, because they may be discharged/not occupy it for long. If you check death by age you see no one young died, suggesting the disease is more easy on them ajd they won't need to be 2 weeks in ICU.
> Every single programmer interested in any language in the ML family or Haskell has considerably above average[1] intellectual horsepower.

Just to point that there's nothing strange or unexpected about this. You will get people that are more intellectual than average it you filter by any niche intellectual activity with no immediate non-intellectual reward.

I mean, if you search for programmers that understand plant physiology, you will get the same effect. It basically means that smart people tend to be curious.
Apple settlement in developers’ court case won’t lessen the political heat
I think that's absolutely doable. Not easy but doable.

And for anyone thinking along those lines, I'd argue that the goal isn't to get to $1M/yr but rather to a place of financial freedom. I think more people would hit that mark, if in addition to plowing money into growing their businesses, they also diversified and invested their cashflows effectively.

Below is a story of an Optometrist who became a billionaire over time. His fortune came from two things:
1) He started a successful business that did about $10 million/yr in profit.
2) Over his lifetime, he continuously redirected his business profits into stocks.

https://twitter.com/mrjivraj/status/1425230319796596744?s=20

update: for some reason the link above goes to the beginning of the thread instead of the tweet about said Optometrist. You can scroll to Tweet #27 in the thread.

enjoy the thread...and don't forget to compound :)