skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're coming at if from an angle of fixed pie wealth, then yes. It might make inequality and class worse. But if the total wealth on planet earth is not fixed and you can create wealth through technological innovation, network effects and solidarity then no, giving the technologically driven nerds alot of money to do cool shit with hardly makes "he problem of inequality and class worse".

Edit: Also, your WSj article is bullshit. I believed you, but that analysis is a bold faced lie and cherry picks alot of facts to arrive at the analysis. OFC all the exchanges are going to appear to have alot of btc and since they are "Actively" trading it, that's the only accounts showing up on the analysis. Most of the BTC owners are maxi's - they don't move or use their BTC. Look at a real wallet distrobution and exclude sitoshi's old wallets cause everyone is pretty sure those are lost to the world. BTC distro is ALOT more decentralized than the USD.
Because it can’t hurt? There’s no added work unless people actually send you money.
Wow, don't you find 15C a bit cold?
e.g. Why are there still secret documents on the JFK assassination?
Great start, but one important factor is missing from this analysis: The surface area (for heat exchange) of a closed-loop borehole is tiny compared to the surface area in a natural hydrothermal system. The walls of the borehole will cool off relatively quickly due to the low thermal conductivity of rock, and you'll soon be unable to make power. Conventional geothermal gets around this by pulling from very large reservoirs that include natural convection and huge fracture surface area.

This means that a closed loop system needs many many many miles of boreholes in order to last long enough to pay off.
Where are all these white supremacist terrorists and what evidence is there that the FBI gives them a pass?
that is important yes. Navalny is a populist. In light of a totally absent opposition all counter arguments that go against a dictator are by definition biased.
You're forgetting the tax implications here. Steam is still on the hook for sales(and other) taxes. The problem was never just picking an exchange currency. It was the legal hurdles that made this complicated. Those hurdles are still there. They apply to everyone but especially in Valve's case as they are not under the radar.
> For example, someone in africa could pay .001 BTC($40 currently) for a game and all steam would see on their end is a debit transaction for $40(cash not bitcoin) in their account.

Transaction fees and exchange fees will diminish that received value and force the customer to pay a fee to pay for something.

The net cost of Bitcoin transaction fees and exchange fees is higher than just using a random, common credit card processing company. It’s also slower for users.

Let’s be real: Gamers don’t really want to pay extra transaction fees for the privilege of sending Bitcoin and waiting as much as an hour or more for the transaction (my latest Bitcoin payment took longer than an hour) before they can play their game. Not when they can type in a credit number and get it done right away for 0 fees (or negative fees with reward cards)
I’m visiting Macedonia. I changed the email address on my Capital One account (migrating off Gmail) and they froze all 4 of my cards. To unfreeze them, I had to provide my drivers license, social security card, and proof of residence in the USA & then wait two weeks. There was no process for accelerating the timetable.

#expatlife
I'd love to see the same effort that is going into avoiding managing a service go into contributing better tooling to that service or to the OS package/configuration so it's not 30 minutes of work. I'd love it if it worked more like this: apt install myservice and maybe one or two tweaks/decisions to configure for use. A lot of the issues here are that dynamic language based services (python/ruby/js) don't play nice with OS provided interpreters. This is a problem that really needs to be solved, if we'd like to continue to have nice things.
Idris does that. If you add "%default total" to a file (or the equivalent compiler flag), it will make sure every function terminates unless it's annotated with "partial". In the best case, only your main function and a couple others need to be partial.
Zephyr has nothing to do with the Linux Kernel -- especially from a technical standpoint. It is a project that is under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, that's all.
Russian media reports them being captured and transferred to Sevastopol
https://m-lenta-ru.translate.goog/news/2022/02/26/zmeinuy_ua...
I think that was the point of HIPAA.

It’s good to note that, if you make the penalty too high, then it has the side effect of drastically increasing medical costs.
Russians fear that NATO will join Ukraine.
I am actually trying to find a source for your claim for the 3500 lost troops over the past 2 days. Do you have any? thanks
NATO has always had an open door policy since its inception 1949. https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_49212.htm
This is never going to change.

Memberstates might be amenable to vow to block certain admissions, or maybe not.
There is zero chance of an unanimous vote to admit a country that has open territorial conflicts with russia.

Its not within the power or responsibility of NATO to decide about ukraines neutrality. The charter of Paris, Budapest memorandum, https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_25468.htm .. (russia signed all those) all guarantee ukraine a free choice of military alliance.
I know Gitlab takes security seriously and I think part of why we hear so much about it is because they're so transparent.
I believe natgas shipment has been running at 100% for weeks now to build reserves in Europe.
You've just made one.
Half a year is not nearly enough time to prepare. It's not just heating and electricity. It's also chemical industry etc. You will have to be willing to do more than just turn down the heating a bit. How about job security? 20% inflation?

There will be much anger. However, with Covid-19 there was no one really to blame, so people turned against local politicians imposing measures or people turned towards conspiracy theories for explanations and comfort. Here the culprit is clear and has one name.
I think the article is confusing three things. In Bayesian terminology, suppose we've found a posterior distribution for effect size. Then there are three things we might consider: (a) how tightly concentrated the posterior distribution is, (b) how much probability mass there is in a given part of the space, Prob(effect size >= thresh), (c) how we're choosing to incorporate other data.

To illustrate: suppose we've found a posterior distribution for effect size, and we've found that 95% of the posterior probability mass is >= 0. It might be a broad flat distribution (huge MAP effect size, massive uncertainty about effect size), or it might be a tight distribution (small MAP effect size, small uncertainty about effect size). There's nothing intrinsically wrong or suspicious about either of these two cases.

The headline of the linked article has the words "higher than is plausible". In other words, the premise of the article is that there is some other evidence which tells us what effect size is plausible. We could incorporate that evidence by adjusting our prior, which will obviously push the posterior distribution closer to what prior belief says it should be. Alternatively we could incorporate that evidence as a subsequent Bayesian conditioning step, i.e. treat the other evidence as further observations. The magic of Bayes's rule means that both of these approaches give the same answer. (The frequentist approach is pretty much like the latter -- it says "here's the result of my experiment, and I'll leave the reader to incorporate it with their own prior beliefs, in a meta-analysis." There's nothing intrinsically wrong with this.)

The article says "I find it frustrating when researchers don't think about their effect sizes." That's the wrong conclusion. The proper conclusion is (1) always report confidence intervals for your effect sizes, (2) don't pay any attention to a statement about effect sizes unless it comes with confidence / credible intervals -- and so the article's "painful email exchange" is missing the point, (3) when you report your results, make sure there's enough information for the reader to incorporate it with their own priors -- and the whole point of confidence intervals is to let us do this.
A critical element to censorship is what's placed in the vacuum after you do the censoring of free information.

Censorship is essentially never just the act of censoring, it's typically a larger program in action and almost always includes state propaganda filling the vacuum they create after they censor. They're taking down, or trying to take down, some of the fill-in propaganda that the Russians will otherwise be receiving domestically or that the state machinery will otherwise be pushing outward (eg via RT) for foreign audience consumption.

If you want to combat censorship, you'd also ideally want to target the propaganda delivery methods they're using to replace free information.

Stripping the situation back to vacuum would be better than just leaving the Russian state propaganda to fill in the vacuum. That'd be a win.
I like that approach where you just randomly get the top person. Like anyone could just email Steve Jobs at Apple and sometimes he would personally answer when he felt like it.
I feel like your comment is unjustified and incoherent. It is obvious to many of us what "fraudulent" mean here, it could be an array of:

- previously flagged wallets moving through mixers

- purchases and refunds to facilitate money laundering

- converting to and from steam wallet to crypto etc.

It is NOT at all ambiguous which is what you are insinuating as the basis for not reading past the headline and discouraging others from doing so.

Bitcoin is a public ledger where all transactions are PERMANENTLY recorded. The law enforcement agencies have much better deobfuscation tools than 10 years ago and the tools will just continue to improve as they have INFINITE resources.

> But if a criminal has access to someone else’s Bitcoin, it’s already “cashed out”.

You are describing one type of crime that has existed far long before crypto as basis to discredit Gabe's claims and its an unconvincing argument/poorly baked logic that they tell in maximalist echo chambers.

Rather I ask, what is it that you fear so much whenever criticisms are raised? Did you transfer your savings to purchase jpegs and other insane APY that seasoned hedge fund managers can't produce?
* Valheim:
Exploration game, quite chilled, very nice environment, good to play with friends, but also good to relax alone

* Raft:
Also relaxing, sounds, environment, you have to keep yourself alive, also good with friends. Similar as above but different theme

* Magic the gathering on Steam:
Card game, with light story, and ready decks

* The Talos Principle:
Puzzle game like Portal, and an interesting story

* Soldat:
Quite old 2d shooter, but very funny, fast play for a quick break at work
3c doesn't sound like much, but reducing from 20c to 17c would be the different between comfortable and miserable.
I don't see anything relevant in the PG13 release notes, but in the release notes for 14 there are these items:

- "Allow partitions to be detached in a non-blocking manner. The syntax is ALTER TABLE ... DETACH PARTITION ... CONCURRENTLY, and FINALIZE." I didn't cover partitioning in the guide, but this is a real improvement to DDL with partitions.

- "Allow index commands using CONCURRENTLY to avoid waiting for the completion of other operations using CONCURRENTLY." This doesn't add new lower-lock level DDL, but it does improve the speed of existing such DDL.

- "Allow vacuum to be more aggressive in removing dead rows during minimal-locking index operations. Specifically, CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY and REINDEX CONCURRENTLY no longer limit the dead row removal of other relations." Similarly this doesn't add new lower-lock level DDL, but it does improve the safety of existing such DDL by eliminating a case where concurrent index creation could result in performance degradation of the system as a whole.
Wow, high quality blog post.
> Maybe boomers didn't sit around college campus blocking up traffic, chanting slogans, and smoking pot? Maybe there were never peace marches? The soundtrack of Boomer's youth? Largely works of fiction! 80s anti-war films? Anti-American propaganda!

Cut it out with the bullshit: You know very well I never said or meant any of that.

But how many people does it take to sit around and smoke, chant, and block traffic? It's not as if it was necessarily new people at every sit-in, is it -- they could very well have been the same pot-smoking, slogan-chanting, and traffic-blocking protesters at most of those protests, right? Sure, they became the cultural phenomenon remembered from the time. To a large degree because, as you point out, of those 80s Hollywood blockbusters... And how many tens or hundreds of thousands of Hollywood blockbuster producers and directors did it take to make thoseand leave this huge imprint on the collective consciousness of posterity?

OTOH, AIUI a majority of draftees... didn't dodge the draft. The USA sent what, half a million young men? (or more?) over there. I'm not saying they all went willingly -- far from it, AFAIK -- but at least, those who went cannot, by definition, have been "draft-dodgers". So by my reckoning, compared to active protesters quite possibly, and compared to actual draft dodgers almost certainly, there were more non-draft-dodgers.

And also by definition, pretty much exactly all of those young men who were sent to Vietnam to fight -- the non-draft-dodgers -- were baby boomers.

So "boomers are hypocrites because they all advocate the draft now but dodged it back then" just doesn't make mathematical or logical sense. For one thing, even if many of them advocate the draft now that's not all of them; maybe the ones advocating it now are the same ones who obeyed it then, and maybe they've been quite consistently and non-hypocritically in favour of it all their lives. And for another, of course the bit about "they all dodged it then" is BS: If they had, there wouldn't have been any of them there.

Your rantings and ravings about Boomer Bloodlust aside, all I was pointing out was the bullshitness of this collective-hypocrisy accusation.
Winter on Fire – Ukraine's fight for freedom (2015)
The brutality of the previous regime on Ukrainians is eye opening. This film covers the 2013-2014 protests leading up to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity. Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80031666
I think the OP is asking in the context of losing access to or intentionally not buying Russian gas.

So the question should be framed in the context of the timeframe being days not months. If you want to significantly reduce energy consumption instantly, turning the thermostat down is incredibly effective while you work on longer timescale things like insulation and alternate heating sources.
Putin accusing Ukraine leadership of being nazis was... utterly bizarre (reminded me a bit of Trump). I mean of all that people to say such a thing?!
We use Zulip at work. I have used Slack in a previous job. Zulip's interface looks a little clunkier than Slack, but I like Zulip.
1/150th? puts into perspective how incredible it is to get anything to fly there (like the Ingenuity helicopter recently)
Conventional boreholes are cased with steel and cement. Vitrified walls would theoretically save that material cost (if it actually worked)
Even if it was a Ukrainian missile launch gone wrong, Russia still bears responsibility since it was only launched because Russia invaded.
Clojurians-Zulip is much better interface to catch up and read through existing information than Clojurians-Slack ever was (Clojurians is basically bunch of Clojure(Script) people helping/getting help from each other), for whats it worth. Best would be if they both could be fully public, but for now the archives seems to do the job well at least.
The game and item are real. Hell, they may be legit games. The transactions are real. Everything is real.

But the source of the money used to buy the games is illegitimate.

Let's say, I stole $100,000. Now, I can't use this money until I find a way to explain how I have it.

If I wanted to wash it with Steam, I could go to the store, buy Steam cards or gift cards with the cash. Set up several Steam accounts, then use those cards to buy my game.

Now I'll lose some money to taxes, Steam's cut, and paying people to buy cards and games, but now I have $50,000 dollars I can use and no one is going to question where I got it.

You may be wondering why I can use the money to buy gift cards but not just deposit it in my bank, but no one is asking why someone has $100. That money is not traceable to anyone.
There's also the problem of logistics. We have one (technically two) full pipelines for gas to Russia; even if we want to switch and buy all our gas elsewhere, it will be really hard to actually get it here.
This is so funny, I would not have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out.

That's a pretty good sell to me.

For the record, I happen to work for a Berkshire Hathaway company and Geico gives me good rates.
That is preposterous. I believe all homeless should be provided some sort of shelter, but I absolutely don’t feel they have any entitlement to that shelter being in one of the most expensive zip codes in the country.

My friends who couldn’t afford Santa Monica moved east. Riverside, San Bernardino, etc. They bear horrible commutes but did what they needed to do to afford housing for their families.

Why do we just assume that homeless have some god given right to be housed precisely where they happen to be sleeping. Regular people migrate all the time to accommodate their own economics. Let’s build homeless some cheap housing. And let’s do it somewhere in the middle of no where where land is cheap and building costs are low.

I fail to see how this is controversial if it isn’t controversial for my friends who voluntarily do the same.
It enables phishing where you're actually logged in after submitting your credentials. You don't need a MITM from a network perspective.
How to waste time and overcomplicate things
Your car pinging cell towers makes your car trackable. I have been meaning to fully remove the cell radio in mine.
Easy:

- Raise tsunami or hire incredibly incompetent operators to create nuclear reactor incident

- Wait for reactor containment vessel to crack open

- Collect hydrogen produced from hydrolysis and send it down the gas pipes
Is code search still a hot mess for Gitlab?
Words by the CEO of Zerocracy, a Russian company
> Say you're a Ukrainian fleeing refuge and you want store your life's savings somewhere safe.

Doesn’t make sense. Why would anyone wire your bank account money to a crypto exchange, convert it to crypto, transfer the crypto to a different bank in another country, then withdraw it when they could just wire the money directly to the other country’s bank?

If you can’t wire money out of your bank account to somewhere else, you probably can’t exchange it for crypto either.
>has been trying to project this as world war 3

I mean, Putin has made a number of nuclear and 'significant' threats in the past week. It shouldn't be surprising that this would concern a great number of people.
I assumed they meant spending stolen bitcoin on steam. It's common to call purchases made with a stolen credit card "fraudulent," even if there's nothing untoward about the purchase itself other than the payment instrument.
I doubt steam is doing blockchain analysis, tracing back where the coins came from, and seeing whether the exchange that sold them the coins were defrauded or not.
The official ISO shortname changed on Sept 28, 2016: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:CZ.

Wikipedia has a good discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Czech_Republic
Gitlab and Github do way way way more than just run git.
Germany to deliver 1000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger missiles to Ukraine
Ukraine is open to a negotiation with Putin at Hague. Putin refuses, but Ukraine will convince him.
> if the Bitcoin is stolen that's not the merchant's problem

It is if half the transactions at the merchant eventually get refunded.

> The whole point of Bitcoin is to eliminate the possibility of chargeback

I'm sorry I'm having trouble keeping up with the "the point" of Bitcoin is this week. So it's chargeback avoidance now?
I'd love to see something like Knight Visions. Even if it were just an IR overlay, in a way that looked natural, and was smaller/lighter/better FOV than traditional NVGs. The mm-wave part would be great too!
What exactly is the valuable problem you are thinking in your head and how is it better solved by cryptocurrency and blockchain that can't already be done with existing methods, technologies and contractual agreements backed by various international treaties and dialectic tests for loopholes through thousands and thousands of years trading between countries, provinces, cities and entities?
This is a simplistic take. Of course trust is a pre-requisite to a healthy team, and people should feel comfortable speaking out, there's no debate about that. However, transparency is not a silver bullet. I've seen plenty of teams that trust each other but don't get very much done. And if what you are doing is large and involves more than a two-pizza team or challenging tradeoffs then effective communication becomes much harder. If everyone just speaks their unfiltered thoughts without thinking about how those words will be perceived there is a high likelihood of confusion and churn. There is also the matter of expertise, and the fact that many important truths may not be grokked by all stakeholders, so just blurting them out may lead to furrowed brows and unproductive lines of questioning—or worse—a bad decision fueled by misunderstanding.
One of the previous owner certainly does, namely Dell Cameron, who wanted to turn Anonymous into some sort of news organization[0], hence the name. He's a journalist who wrote for the Daily Dot, mostly about anything relating to Anonymous and WikiLeaks, but oddly enough also affiliated with people like Sabu (the founder of Lulzsec and FBI informant who set up all the hackers from the times of the Stratfor leaks, like Jeremy Hammond, who ended in prison).

I don't know who the current owner is but it's certainly not to be trusted by any hacktivist.

Edit: Another owner of the YourAnonNews account was Dan Stuckey, a Vice journalist, who was the one affiliating with Sabu[1]. Him and Dell operated the account for a long time, maybe they still do.

[0] https://www.gawker.com/anonymous-tries-to-found-a-legit-news...
[1] https://thecryptosphere.com/2015/03/15/fuck-anonymous-im-at-...
You speed can change dramatically. A timer makes less sense than showing distance.
This seems like such an easy win to me. Oh this person has driven the beginning of this route 500 times, just tell them to get on the interstate heading downtown.

Plus just turn the "turn in 200ft" to "turn in two blocks". None of this needs fancy sensors.
that's cute and all, but I don't think the invading forces get their orders from the defense ministry website

how does this change anything? feels more symbolic than anything
But the accusation is not that Russia did this intentionally. It is most likely an accident, an accident caused by Russia's invasion. Russia is responsible for the death of these civilians even if the missile came from Ukrainian equipment.