skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The primary explosion risk is from fuel vapours (from the stored oil) however the ensuing heat and shockwave forces should the fuel vapour detonate has several potential knock on effects.

The initial primary explosion could cause significant enough destruction to the ship that it acts like the “scatter charge” in a thermobaric weapon, spreading the undetonated oil sufficiently into the air that a larger percentage of the onboard oil is detonated as part of a “single event”…

However the more likely and no less disastrous outcome is the primary explosion of the fuel vapour damages the ship without sinking it (the explosion will be centred on the upper portion of the storage tanks) most likely blowing the top off of one (or more) of the storage tanks and potentially damaging the structural integrity of the ship without sinking it. An extremely likely outcome from this will be ignition of whatever remains of the oil in a burst storage tank, (which even if not “burst open” will likely have been structurally damaged so that fresh air can get in) leading to a fire onboard and due to the established lack of maintenance, that fire has a high likelihood of spreading through much of the ship (possibly aided by any oil movement induced by the primary explosion) which will heat up any undamaged storage vessels and turn them into (depending on the state of the pressure relief valve maintenance) potential pressure cookers full of fuel or sources of further burning fuel vapour…

So I don’t think they were trying to necessarily mislead as much as simplify the scenario for the audience. Most people don’t find it interesting to dissect cascading failures and map out the energetic potential effects. Most people would be fine saying “it blew up” even if it was technically two or three individual explosions interspersed between hours of being on fire before one final still in tact hot tank of oil went off like a pressure cooker turning into a fuel air explosion that shredded the ship into shrapnel.
Most of the new development I've worked on has been terrible, I attribute it to agile and the two week sprints churning out non stop MVP code that's technical debt from day one.
The cargo tanks would normally have a vapour space made of exhaust gas (inert gas) from the boiler which is less than 5% oxygen. However, this ship's inert gas system broke down years ago so it probably has a flammable atmosphere in its cargo tanks.

Potentially the crude has weathered off so much over the years that it's no longer degassing, and less scientifically I think if the tank vapours haven't found an ignition source yet, they probably won't.

However corrosion never sleeps. The cargo tanks don't leak straight into the sea; you have ballast tanks too. If I had to guess, the next threat might be a leak into the pump room resulting in fire.

But ships have a periodic inspection regime under that they call "class rules" - this ship hasn't been in class for 5 years.

That is an insane period of time to be carrying hydrocarbon while being out of class.

There are hundreds of threats to this tanker and it is difficult to predict how it could fail, including complete loss of the vessel.
A quick search suggests that the world uses close to 100M barrels a day, of which the largest user, the US, uses about 20M.

So this ship stores an amount that fuels about 1% of the world for a day.

How many such ships are there, and how many are in as bad a state as this one?
We did this experiment already with used cars, it was called cash for clunkers, and it raised the price of used cars.

If Biden forgives student loans is that going to lower the price of tuition?
Most advanced simulation of manned Mars mission is happening in Israel
The money printed is not going to you. The sort of person that benefitted from the over-abundance of cheap money isn't exactly the sort that's waiting on a $1000 windfall to buy steak and upgrade their TV.

Look at the stock market and real estate and tell me there's no link between the money printing and inflation.
I guess you're talking about the US? Or do you have another country in mind? Lot of places outside of the US have a working, multi-party, dynamic political systems and are doing meaningful changes.
Blackrock capital and their ilk. Thanks.
And this happened afterwards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring
This is dangerous, from experience. Maybe bring a bottle and share a glass, but don't leave the bottle behind - and the benefit to the grieving is going to be the presence, not the alcohol.
Cars fall under cost based adjustments. This is the most recent (AFAIK) document the BLS has published: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/new-vehicles.pdf

It's not entirely an unfair point in the sense clearly a modern car with modern safety and electronics costs more to produce (hence the cost basis). But as far as I know the BLS is basically given free reign to invent the cost basis.
The countries that joined since 2000 are not exactly large economies compared to all the giants (in comparison) already with the Euro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_the_eurozone#Hi...
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I hope by blocking everybody they think are in support of other points they will pupate and stay forever in their tight circle, so the problem will solve itself. In the mean time, spend less time on Twitter is also a good idea.
Black rock and other hedge funds.. they bought up and are still buying it all. Their brand of “screw you buddy” capitalism is here.
I agree. A consequence of rising food prices may result in people opting for lower quality alternatives although, in the example above, this is just someone who always buys the cheapest regardless. There are people like this.
No, it is not.

The people of Taiwan don't want any part of CCP China, and in spite of a lot of noise about "One China Policy" the only people arguing right now for reunification are Xi and the cadres.
... than your typical James Bond flick...

Ironic given the male lead.

Great film though.
Hmm. I haven't made a claim that they should not or must not do this. Your argument amounts to the claim that they must do these things because they have no other choice. I have ... not a lot to say on this point, honestly. What you say might be true.

However, it doesn't bear at all on the question of whether the actions are user hostile. Any change known to the developers to negatively impact the utility of end users is user hostile. Maybe a program like Firefox can't exist in 2021 without being ... essentially adware ... and if so I think that's sad, but it's not a reason to redefine our terms to make it not user hostile to begin with!
https://archive.vn/CC0Ez
Sorry, I thought you meant the machines would be doing "real" work on behalf of some person renting it, rather than making Mersenne primes. If you have a fixed problem like that then of course it won't run out.

The problem then is more economics, who has an incentive to discover more Mersenne primes?
Same in Bulgarian.
Very poorly. The only way it's usable is by relying on third parties, at which point you might as well use standard services. Or even actual cryptocurrencies for that matter.
Does anyone know about the quality of encryption in cryptomator?

The software is often mentioned in HN. It’s helpful if someone could take a look at the code and chime in.
>No local access

Local access itself isn't killed, there are still some ways to do it. This Chrome post lists a number of options. I think the WebTransport and Reverse embedding options would both work for Portal.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/private-network-access-upd...

Full disclosure I work at Google, but not on Chrome or any of the other products you mentioned.
They do allow full deletion everywhere. But you must explicitly select it. If you choose to “deactivate” that is not actually closing the account. It is a dark pattern.
All Your Base (2009)
Be present, and listen. The worst thing about losing my partner was the loneliness; neither of our families are nearby, many of our friends had moved. My neighbors became a surrogate family by inviting me over almost daily to have dinner, hang out, play games, talk, cry, whatever. I just needed to not be alone, and they made sure that I always had a place to go where I didn't have to be alone.
Fun one to track down. Had to hop through a couple papers and books, but this is what everything winds up referencing:

> It was an organization designed not only to disseminate information and to clarify issues but also to arouse support for particular symbols and ideas. "The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people's minds," said Davis, "is to let it go in through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized."

Koppes, C. and Black, G., 1977. What to Show the World: The Office of War Information and Hollywood, 1942-1945. The Journal of American History, 64(1), p.2, <https://www.jstor.org/stable/1888275>

That paper then points to this ultimate source:

> Elmer Davis to Byron Price, Jan. 27, 1943, Box 3, Records of the Office of War Information, RG 208 (Federal Records Center, Suitland, Md.)

Dead end. I emailed the Archives but the entire facility is closed because of the pandemic. I also tried tracking down the paper's authors but both are retired.

The document likely lives somewhere in this trove: https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=%22Records%20of%20the%...

Anyway, I'm satisfied it's a real quote (both authors are reputable) though I definitely want the surrounding context now :)
Really depends on weight
It's not clear to me that these changes make an app like this impossible. There would be a lot of implementation churn, and maybe some user visible differences, but I think the main issue here is they don't want to spend the time to rewrite the app, and maybe there's some fear of future changes breaking it again. Which is totally fair, churn sucks. But on the other hand there are real, serious security issues motivating these changes that should not be minimized.
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I am not arguing that the analog/hardware version of a product is superior. I am arguing that, provided:

- you were satisfied with the software version of a solution;

- what drove you away from it was the ads,

You could have solved the ad issue by looking at OSS alternatives, to which you had plenty to choose from.

Saying that the HW version is better, when a (good version) SW was enough, smells of post-fact rationalization.
Most likely they just `assert` error conditions and let that blow up as error reporting, rather than write a full conditional and raise a custom exception.

I’ve been guilty of that in my own code when I just want to tell myself about an error.
QE has been going on 10 years in the West and almost 30 years in Japan without serious inflation. It is not clear that we are witnessing general inflation rather than inflation within particular sectors affected by the global energy and supply-chain crisis.
how can there be many more single men than single women ? seems to me that indicates either that.. more women have female partners, some men have multiple female partners or there are more men than women ?
It’s also a bargaining chip. They can scuttle the ship and close suez for months, costing billions and killing hundreds of thousands.
They don't. The Russian agent places no value on the money.

Historically, the USSR was really cheap about paying spies in the US. Maybe the GRU is paying better.
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It is possible to attempt use a variable more than once.

The Swift example was caused by shadowing. There was a global print() function and a instance print() method (taking one parameter, sender: AnyObject). If you called print() in a class not descending from NSView it printed the string in the console as expected. But if you called it in a class descending from NSView you got a print dialog as the instance method shadowed the global function. They fixed the issue long ago of course.
> Python has exactly 6 primitive data types (well, actually just 5, but we’ll get to that). 4 of these are numerical in nature, and the other 2 are text-based. Let’s talk about the text-based first, because that’s going to be much simpler.

What is your definition of a primitive data types? All of these have object as a superclass, so I wouldn't call them primitive data types in python.

Maybe there is just 1 primitive type: type? Or none at all?
It might seem counter, but if you can make therapy available or more accessible to them without forcing them into going - if you can foot the cost, give them a ride, even just get referrals - that's massive. Hospice services also sometimes include check-ins from a social worker that eventually lead to a more tailored referral to a therapist, if one would seem to help.
I’ve had problems in ap-southeast-2 not being able to provision resources when us-east-1 is having problems. Stuff that’s running works fine. Turning on new stuff, not so much. From memory auto scaling has failed me at least once in that situation too… or maybe that was spot fleets not rebalancing?
It's the whole economy. Labor costs are up. This drives labor costs in food production/transport/retail up (or else workers will switch jobs). Hence food prices. And demand remaining high is what keeps labor costs up.

So, food prices can go up and down even if food-specific demand is inelastic (that is, even if people eat the same amount and quality of food regardless of price).

FWIW I've found my food demand not to be 100% inelastic -- I have changed where I get fast food as a result of some price increases, and I've found that in times when I'm not making a steady income, I find it easier to maintain or lose weight.
Here's a few articles about them exploiting Asian migrant workers. They're both from this year, I can't imagine that the conditions have gotten better over 80 years. Not to mention that with the current state of market globalization, one could argue that simply by participating in international commerce your benefiting from some group being exploited somewhere in the global supply chain.

And as an aside, modern capitalism as it stands right now almost necessitates some group be exploited in order to produce cheap labor/goods for consumption for another wealthier group, and the exploited group is most often a poorer country and the goods/labor are then imported. You're not gonna get very far paying your workforce a living wage to produce things that people making that same living wage need to buy, not with the percentage of profit modern owners/shareholders take right off the top.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/in-south-korea-asian-migrant...

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1001194446/as-workforce-ages-...
The money they earned in the past are already spent and forgotten. The failure is now. So for the people who got the bonuses in the past it may be worth it (that's probably why they did it), but for the company as an ongoing concern it certainly isn't. It's like eating a lot of unhealthy foods and later getting sick - maybe some people consider it worth it, but most people kinda regret it when they get sick.
As I understand in this case a scenario is a reason why us-east-1 goes down, not the consequences.
Everybody knows, we're living in interesting times.

http://web.archive.org/web/20210210113517/https://foreignpol...
Kaboom...
Imagine letting your browser have access to your mic.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, as far as your first claim people need to open a history book.
In a nutshell, yes. Mars lacks a planetary magnetic field and has probably lacked it for billions of years, and has insufficient gravity to hold its atmosphere against direct impact by the solar wind.
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It's true, I remember Life cereal commercials, Saturday morning, and later He-Man. Adverts have only gotten more sophisticated.

Luckily, I had a parent that mostly said "no," and that was the end of it.
In my experience, efficiency usually results in an increased level of resilience. You can easily sacrifice both, jeopardizing profits. Every time I saw that happen, it turned out some department-specific KPI (it doesn't matter which department, finance, production, sales, logistics,..) looked really good while that happened. All other sucked, but nobody cared. IMHO, this over emphasis on one silo, at the expense of all the others, puts so much stress on those other functions that they only can crack if something external puts even more stress on them. I guess that is what Covid and all the resulting disruptions is doing. Some orgs crack earlier than others, every one does have its cracking point so. The question is if an organization can adapt before it reaches its breaking point.

Southwest it seems reached it before others.
"Black lives matter" is a political slogan created by a political organization that has openly admitted their desire to push a woke and Marxist ideology (with co-founder Patrisse Cullors explicitly describing herself and fellow co-founder Alicia Garza as trained Marxists). Their stated agendas have included "disrupting the nuclear family structure", defunding the police, and critiquing "the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law", among other things. Far more than what you dishonestly imply in your comment, which is a classic motte-and-bailey.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286463

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/black-lives-matter...
There is no room for moral interpretations in economics. The economy is not a living being.

Interest rates are low because investors and savers accept them to be low. If they were truly too low then companies would borrow and invest until full employment happens and wages go up at which point inflation would go up and so would the interest rate.
No such thing happens. Germany has a debt brake and low debt to GDP because they are scared of the interest boogeyman and the only thing that happened is that the yield is zero or negative for every duration up to 30 year government bonds. A lot of people want to save money nowadays which puts downward pressure on interest rates.

If you were to raise interest rates then savers would save even more and the economy wouldn't die from withdrawal effects, it would die from a plain lack of money in the real part of the economy because saving money would be more profitable than doing real work.
Could you explain which command line options, since AFAIK npm options haven’t changed in years, especially the basic ones, eg npm install.
Why are you lying?

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2020/10/08/5-of-coinbase-e...
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$ python2 -c 'False = None = True'
File "<string>", line 1
SyntaxError: cannot assign to None

$ python3 -c 'False = None = True'
File "<string>", line 1
SyntaxError: cannot assign to False
Which third parties do you mean?
Ask HN: Are airlines running a ponzi scheme
i booked a flight few days ago for the second time in 1 month , with the same result the transaction failed with money being deducted from me . Are airlines hiding behind "network issues" and running a loan racket. Basically they are getting a interest free loan which they dont need to pay back within any legal limit and stall indefinitely.
”Could AWS survive a political move that forced a us-east-1 shutdown? I would be watching which PACs I donated money to…”

This feels a little out of touch. Oh, the privilege! Pity the poor plebes who only get to choose by casting votes, instead of by picking which fundraiser luncheons to attend!
> Use whatever vendor happens to be most convenient to install

Yes -- do what everyone else does.

> Generally go with JDK 11

Seconded.

User rococode is dead on correct here.
"War Thunder is a vehicular combat multiplayer video game developed and published by Gaijin Entertainment.

Despite the fact that Gaijin Entertainment lists itself as a Cyprus-based studio,

it was originally founded in Moscow, Russia, where it still has offices today."
To be clear, corn is not toxic when untreated, unless it's infected with some fungus. Regular yellow cornmeal isn't nixtamalized and is safe to eat. It just leaves you with vitamin deficiency if you don't have another appropriate source of vitamin B3.
A one page proof that Pi is irrational (1946) [pdf]
How close is nuclear fusion?
This is covered by the “you’ll have bigger problems” argument.
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I‘m sure you‘re just describing what is, but...

The human element doesn’t matter at all? Their workers are fed up.

This tunnel visioning on financial metrics is so superficial and narrow that it makes me angry. A company is a community of interacting, real people, not a video game.
Precisely. People act like this DMCA anti-subversion nonsense is a necessary consequence of copyright as we know it, and that's fundamentally not true. Anti-subversion laws are a recent invention, were a horrible overreaction to some business models no longer being viable, and created the legal situation where merely using a device or a piece of software puts you, the end user, in a trap, where your autonomy is secondary to whatever business model the company that made it envisioned, enforced by the threat of ruin at the hands of the state. Now, I don't view IP in general as legitimate, but to say this nonsense the DMCA foisted on our legal system is a straightforward application of copyright as we knew it before is just ignorance, plain and simple
The issue is they're currently so much behind the competition that they risk becoming irrelevant by n+1
How operating one type of plane makes recovering from disruption harder? I'd expect it to make it easier - you can replace any crew with any other crew, and any plane with any other plane. Same with secondary airports - I am not sure how it makes recovery harder. Distributed systems are usually more robust against disruption that centralized ones - if you can't fly in an out of the hub, then all your flights in that hub's vicinity are grounded, but if you just lost one secondary airport, there might be another close by. So I'm not sure I am convinced those particular qualities are detrimental to robustness, at least without a convincing argument.
> .NET 5 finally delivered Linux support but only eleven months ago

The previous versions in this stream (.NET Core 2.1, .NET Core 3.0 and 3.1) also run fine on Linux. For web server / API server workloads, it's been stable for a lot longer than 11 months, and people do indeed "bet the farm" or "run the business" on it, quite happily.

Technically, this starts with .NET core 2.1 on 2018-05-30. The prior version, 2.0, released on 2017-08-14, wasn't _quite_ there yet although some people were happy with it for production use.
It would have been nice from Australia to realise that from the start and not start a procurement program for a diesel-electric sub, and pick the diesel-electric version of a nuclear sub to boot.
I would want to see regulations where banks are explicitly forbidden from blocking legal transactions.

If it's legal then banks should have no choice but to handle it.
It worked for me, I had to disable Silent Mode
> i wonder if the average professional coder, still has. chance to beat the big teams ?

I shared the sentiment but I have began to think otherwise. First of all, we need solutions to big problems. I wouldn't want to tackle Brain tumor problems using DL but someone with the brainpower and resources such as NVIDIA, why not?

But besides that, the whole scientific field is pretty young. An average coder or DL researcher isn't useless because Google has all the machines. There are fields where DL isn't used much. Even in the DL field there are problems to solve. Algorithms to optimize.