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SMS Censorship in India
Harm is done to the ecosystem when we concentrate cows in one place and feed them chemically fortified slurry. When cows are allowed to graze pastures, they instead have a positive effect on the local ecosystem.

As such, I am extremely skeptical that the right way forward is to reduce and concentrate the essence of a cow into bioreactors and feed them chemically fortified slurry.
Panicked Russians flee West before fall of new Iron-Curtain descends on Russia
Russia is a leading producer and exporter of wheat, corn, and fertilizer [1][2]. The question you may want to ask is whether the rest of the world be able to feed itself if Russia loses access to its markets [3]?

[1] https://www.rbth.com/business/332948-russia-leading-wheat-ex...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-04/russia-ca...

[3] https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2022/0309/1285347-world-foo...
How does that protect you from someone who can seize your device? If they can seize your device they can also seize any physical assets that you possess. So your wealth exists only nominally, you can't really spend it.
Integrating Paddle (and other payment providers) is in our plans for the spring. Our existing customers have skewed toward Stripe, so we started there. If you're using Paddle today and want to get started with Kable, let me know and we can chat about prioritizing Paddle sooner
It’s not just the nicotine that acts as a appetite suppressant; it’s mostly the menthol. You can get the same effect just consuming cough drops. They’re cheaper and won’t cause cancer.
To be frank, I hate to be the typical HN luddite, but this proposal [1] feels like it will add too much parsing complexity to runtime JS.

The counter-argument to that is: everyone minifies code anyway, but this feels like a very poor argument. "Adding cruft is OK because most people have complicated build chains to get rid of it" is very different from "we've opted into a build chain (tsc) and now have access to adding cruft"; there's a default situation here, which is the many people who write JS (FE or BE) and aren't minifying it.

Additionally, their pipe dream of allowing TS to become standard JS "if they stick within a certain reasonably large subset of the language" (an actual quote from the TC) is... wild. Wild. No thoughts, just vibes. Typescript is an extremely mature, fast-moving, complex project. Their list of TS features not supported under this TC is only three items long (with enums and namespaces among the list, lol), but I guarantee there are TONS of very complex type-level assertions typescript is capable of which JS is years, maybe decades, from reaching considering the glacial speed ECMA moves at.

Typescript will always be a superset, which they admit. The problem is: I hold extreme doubt that JS/ECMA is even capable of communicating what that differential is to average users. Will JS support control flow analysis for dependent parameters, aliased conditions, and discriminants? Const assertions? Middle rest elements in tuples?

Typescript adds all these assertions, and more, every couple months, because it turns out that type systems are something of a pandora's box. Few language-level type systems remain at the simplicity of, say, Go; most become TS, or Rust, or Java. That's not a bad thing, but not everything should be that.

If this gets traction and built, JS will in-effect, though not in-requirement, turn from an interpreted language to a compiled language, whose compiler isn't even maintained by the core development teams. That's a major, major shift; and I'm not sure the proposers have even considered the ramifications of it.

[1] https://github.com/giltayar/proposal-types-as-comments/
> The arrogance of these people is astounding.

The arrogance to think that DDG should change their business to revolve around you personally is astounding.
I would have some difficulty paying my mortgage, my mechanic, and my grocery bill with crypto.
> Stripe is not a cryto service provider defined by banking regulations.

But it's now a payment provider that allows businesses in the UK to engage in what surely must be considered high-risk crypto business by the bank (NFT marketplaces).

This is the sort of thing that gets businesses denied banking service.
This is not a convincing argument, but even if it were, carbon recapture is currently even more of a "rounding error" in the grand scheme of carbon emissions. Current carbon emissions are somewhere around 50 billion metric tons a year. I've seen varying estimates of crypto emissions, so I'm going to cite one [1] on the low end here, since it's more favorable to your argument, but the highest I've seen is less than double this number, so they're all in the same ballpark.

ETH currently emits 7.4 million metric tons of CO2 a year. Bitcoin is much higher. I've seen estimates as low as 16 million and as high as 55. There are other chains as well. To keep the math simple, let's round it to 50 million, so crypto is contributing 0.1% of total carbon emissions. Like you said, a rounding error.

I think we're just going to have to disagree on mitigations. I don't think they're working very well.

Crucially, at the beginning of 2019, according to the source I linked, ETH was only at 2 million tons a year. It's more than tripled since then. In 2021, Carbon recapture removed an estimated 9 thousand tons of CO2. [2] The CO2 from the growth of ETH eclipses anything that carbon recapture is currently capable of. The technology will get better. The most optimistic estimate I've seen is that carbon recapture will hit 30 million tons a year in 2070. But this year, Stripe Crypto only has to increase crypto transactions, across all blockchains it supports, by 9,000 tons to completely offset all of the money it's putting into recapture efforts. Even if you remove all the other chains, Stripe only has to increase ETH transactions by 1.3% to achieve this own-goal.

Long term, Stripe alone could end up causing more CO2 emissions on the blockchains to grow faster than all of carbon recapture.

1: https://kylemcdonald.github.io/ethereum-emissions/
2: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/worlds-largest-...
All else being equal (and now they are with DDG admitting bias), google is better
I knew OpenWorm was struggling, but didn't know there were other unsuccessful projects. If no one can simulate C. elegans, despite all that's known about it, there's a fundamental lack of understanding so great that there's no surprise AI is stuck.

There was an attempt, funded at US$3bn, a decade ago, the Human Brain Project, to try to do something similar for the human brain.[1] That seems to have just turned into a funding vehicle for research in related areas.[2]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3861343/

[2] https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/follow-hbp/news/2022/02/...
I am curious Dang, do you do this manually or do you have an automated script for digging relevant submissions in the past?
MMT is not a practice, it is a theory. I am confused by your objection.
The Collapse of Putin’s Disinformation Machinery
There is plenty of nickel in Canada (Sudbury Basin). Raise the price a little and there will be plenty of non-Russian nickel available around the world.
This adds risk with no reward.

People won't use it in production because it is too big. In development, map files work fine and people will still use them because this isn't feature complete with TS.

At most, it locks JS into an unchangeable type syntax that may or may not work out.

Instead, we need a `use type` mode that fixes more of JS. I want type coercion gone and the super-dynamic parts of the language restricted (this both makes types more simple and makes the language more optimizable). I'd also like to see Option and Either types baked in and have `null` removed or severely restricted.
You'll still want to compile (or more specifically, type-check and minimise), but you'll probably be able to run your TS code without compiling, if you stick to that subset - but that'll likely be pretty easy. I'm imagining lint rules like the ones we're using to restrict ourselves to const and let instead of var, and things we'll quickly internalise like avoiding enums, and things we're no longer using anyway, like namespaces. Yes, it's a subset, but includes enough that you don't need the infra to run it.
For me, Google's cache of the page[1] does not contain that and says a timestamp of 10 Mar 2022 01:35:20 GMT.

[1]: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cKDBTS...
Some advice if you find it hard to skip meals - you can drink things like coffee, tea or water. Skip the sugar of course, but it helps your stomach feel less empty to have liquids.

Many people are accustomed to having their stomach full all the time and associate the feeling of an empty stomach with something being wrong. I had a friend who couldn't go three hours without eating and said she would feel faint. It's kind of like how some people feel dirty for not showering every morning even if they aren't actually that dirty. But you can learn to stop associating these things. I have been intermittent fasting for years and don't even notice an empty stomach now.
I have the exact same experience as you. I’m also focusing a lot on building routines at the moment. They’re helping, but it’s hard work!

Would you care to elaborate on what sort of routines you’re working on implementing?
DDGs search has gotten worse as it has gotten more active. I don't know this to be true, but it seems like their old search results felt too Wild West for prime time to them, so before they began the radio/tv/billboard ad blitz they changed things on the backend for the worse.
There's a difference between a low level filtering algorithm and manually curated results based on politics.
I think you're approaching it from an operant conditioning model where the treat must come after as a consequence of good behavior. But what they describe sounds like reciprocal inhibition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desensitization_(psychology)#R...

The idea is that you can't feel opposing emotions simultaneously. So if you can make the dog feel relaxed (by giving a treat beforehand), it interferes with their ability to feel anxiety.

They aren't earning the treat for choosing not the be anxious. The positive emotional feeling from the treat prevents the anxiety from occurring.
> If you look at cars from their inception until about the 80s, most cars, even lower end models were aesthetically very pleasing. That's not true of most cars today.

I disagree, and most people living when those cars were new would, I suspect, disagree. I would guess this is either a nostalgia-driven (positive for older designs) or overexposure-driven (negative for newer common designs) aesthetic preference.
Microsoft is finally bringing tabs to File Explorer on Windows 11
Yes? It would be a way to show support while justifying their non-NATO status. Also, since they don't actually share a border with Russia, they are not at immediate risk of invasion, unlike Finland.

In any case, there are plenty of non-NATO countries that might be willing to facilitate the exchange, depending on how far the range of a MiG is, and where it can refuel.
I think I cleared up what was left unmentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30620496

I like your initial explanation sp332, I thought it was good so I elaborated on it.
Thanks for the link. I didn't find that quote in the article, but maybe it was in there. If it's not in there then it's crazy that you linked that article saying "Peter Thiel" - another commenter said the same thing. If it's in there then it's weird that my quoted Google Search didn't yield at least that article.
Improved management for GitHub Enterprise owners
Hmm, care to expand? The word schema, in Postgres terms, seems to mean exactly what I expect it to.
I haven't read any sources corroborating that, actually the contrary, regardless that would still "just" be a war crime, not a genocide.

afaik Kharkiv is the most badly bombed city right now and it's nowhere close to Grozny (yet?)

I know everyone is emotional and outraged, it's not an outrage competition though, using big (and invalid) words doesn't help
You could have leased time on a ten million dollar supercomputer in 1990. It was serious capital. Try leasing time on your iPhone.
Their results are scraped from users using Google so I wouldn’t call it independent and I wonder how long it will last.
> Why would anyone try to "hide their deep knowledge of Postgres"?

> or were they maybe under threat of becoming an "on call" asset?

This is likely, especially if the person they're talking to tends to leech on other people's skills & time.
Right, but Al Jazeera is more like the BBC than it is like RT. I don't see anyone making a quality-based argument to downrank it, and I would disagree with them if they did.
16% of the US has owned/traded crypto. So yeah, everyone.
I don't know what you're basing that last sentence on. Disinformation is infamous for leveraging black-hat SEO techniques. CF for example https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/disinformation-o...
Heh, I was just thinking about the Xanth and Cluster series and how I don't hear about them much these days. I devoured Piers Anthony's books in my teens.
Reporters don't generally write the headlines.
It's not the addition of types to JS, it's telling interpreters to ignore parts of JS source files that can then be used to insert type annotations into much like comments, e.g. for nominal types.
If you search "Ukraine news RT" on DDG you get Ukraine news from RT. It's still there if you look for it. It just isn't near the top of a "Ukraine news" query (I assume you'd find it there eventually if you scroll enough)
The origins of SARS-CoV-2: still to be determined
"they did not tamper with the search results"

DDG has always been bold about downranking and deleting spam.
context:

> Yay! SMS censorship has arrived in India. Sooner or later this will contain a long list of banned words. As the technical capability is already built and deployed, it is trivial to add "route to Police" from "block". -- https://twitter.com/iam_anandv/status/1501938799844425728

... apologies for editorializing the headline, I think it better captures to gist of the problem than "Exclusive: The curious case of words like “discord” and “tiktok” being blocked on Airtel SMS"
Thanks for the interesting link. It might be slightly outdated about Brave Search though. In the tweet I linked to above they say:

> For <10% of queries where we don't have good results, we rely on Bing presently, so that fallback could be censored.
C++ Executors: The Good, the Bad, and Some Examples
These days you should require an accused cheater to wear a continuous GPS tracker like Strava.
How Cloudflare verifies the code WhatsApp Web serves to users
The trick is not to end up inhaling or eating the solder in its solid state. This is actually quite difficult to avoid, as cleaning the tip of your iron will create lots of tiny solder balls that fly everywhere and can persist in your environment.

Personally I would say that in hobbyist electronics tin whiskers are the least of your concerns when it comes to the reliability of the devices you’re making. I wouldn’t risk using leaded solder even if the risk is low.
Aljazeera?
Russia has more advanced biological research programs than Ukraine. Anything Ukraine could have produced, we may assume Russia already has. This seems to imply that the main concern about Russian capture would be that Russia would talk about what they captured, not that they would possess it.
Retaliation isn't limited to ground invasion.

Plus, no one actually wants to send the planes, the whole dance was over who was going to take the diplomatic hit over saying no to Ukraine.
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Is this what you're looking for?

* https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01.htm

For anyone in Canada, StatCan has a "Personal Inflation Calculator":

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020015...
820GB Database Dump of Roskomnadzor (Russian Government Censorship Organization)
> This is opinion. Russia doesn't claim this, nor do their actions suggest this is their goal. Invasion is hardly ever about territory expansion. Afghanisatan, Iraq, Libya. Take your pick.

They want to overthrow Zelenskyy and the other govt officials and install his own puppet government. He invaded and took over Crimea. There's no other way to read this situation than conquest.

> She was in Europe advocating Ukraine join NATO after Russia stated it is unacceptable. How is this not provocation? Kamala Harris is a liability and has a long line of incompetent decision making in her career, whether it's throwing innocent black men in jail as a prosecutor or being highly involved in the Afghanistan catastrophe. This is simply her latest failure in leadership.

It's obvious you have a political bias here and are casting undo blame on the administration. Blaming VP Harris for Russia invading Ukraine is straight out of Fox News talking points, which have become an extension of RT and other parroted Russian propaganda.

This invasion has been in the works for over a year. Putin has been moving forces to the border for months. It was going to happen regardless of any of the west's posturing. The only thing we could've done is been more proactive about sanctions in attempt to dissuade, but that would've been seen as escalation as well. It's clear that Putin is willing to draw the iron curtain again, and he put himself in a position where he has no good out.
That actually means gas prices haven't gone up, or not by much. In the 20 years from 2001 to today, inflation roughly doubled everything. If gas went from $1.9x then to $4 today, that's actually not far out of line.

The Russia supply shock this month is unusual, but the mid-$3 pricing plateau over the preceding year was quite normal by historical standards.
> The only effective way to control congestion is to put a price on it

The actual effective way is to provide alternative transportation options.
Summit Supercomputer Used to Model Classroom Covid Spread
I've been really frustrated by this change, especially on 237. I used to drive in the faster lane on weekdays around noon to get around slower traffic by myself because that was legal. Now I'd need to pay for the privilege.

If I were confident that at least the money would go to road surface maintenance, I'd be partially okay with it. But I'm not, so this is even more ridiculous.

101 has some incredibly bad road surface stretches. 237 is 2 or 3 lanes for most stretches, and periodically there will be clusters of cars going 5-10mph under the limit and now I can't pass them unless I want to pay a Fastrak fee.

Mind-boggling, except that they know people here can "afford" it so they think it gives them free-reign to charge.
Philosophical in the broad sense includes practically everything: religion, mathematics, the sciences (as since it is an interpretation of the senses, coupled with philosophical assumptions such as "the scientific method likely leads to truth").

But what I meant here is philosophy in the narrow sense. Religion includes revaluation, a discussion of theology. (again, not to say that philosophy and theology don't interact: they do. see philosophical theology).
Ask Elon's manipulation tactics of that specific dog coin and it's derivatives like SHIB.

All scams.
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great product. goodluck!
It's not a pyramid scheme in any sense.

Pump-and-dump schemes fall under the "get-rich-quick" language, but I don't see what this has to do with the details of this specific announcement.
> Something very different is happening in San Francisco. The city is carrying out a bizarre medical experiment whereby addicts are given everything they need to maintain their addiction—cash, hot meals, shelter—in exchange for . . . almost nothing. Voters have found themselves in the strange position of paying for fentanyl, meth and crack use on public property.

God forbid we give unhoused people food and shelter. No more Bari Weiss substack posts on here please, it's always some "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" type garbage
Used to be a big Bitcoin advocate, we accepted it on our website but removed it due to it just not being worth it for the odd sale with the extra accounting required.

Bitcoins original goal was to be an online currency, this has not transpired nor do I think it ever will which is why I (unfortunately!) got out. Talking to random people on the street the main feeling I'm getting now is as some sort of gold analogue, which I also think is doomed to fail. I just don't see Bitcoin growing out of it's main use which is criminality and unregulated gambling.
I think people think schema means "a list of tables and indexes" but it's an actual object in postgres ("DROP SCHEMA public"). These do not diverge too far; that's what the object represents of course.
When Silicon Valley CEOs were caught in an illegal cartel like attempt to suppress wages did you have sympathy for your fellow programmers?

Why are wage caps in sports even allowed, but are apparently illegal in every other profession.
Off-topic, flippant, rude trivialization of the fight for equity. Shame.
Look into network engineering and ISP/telecom operations, if you have an interest in that. Lots of different sub-specialties within those fields.
> Their actual concerns will be the German, Italian, and Japanese precision machine tools, optics, and PLC/robotics/automation components that their own industry relies on. These are the real worries, not a goddamned soccer club.

And for stuff like that, there's always front companies and smuggling (if they can't find what they need on the market in China). IIRC, that's what they used to do during Soviet times.
Not now that Russia is nationalizing all the businesses that pulled up stakes.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.catch_unwind.html
Crimea was invaded days after the 2014 Sochi games. The rest of Ukraine days after the 2022 Beijing games. It's becoming a Russian tradition.
Judging by the replies to this thread, I don't think anyone here knows what an algorithm is. How do you think any search engine on the planet "objectively" decides how to show you the top 10 results for a search term out of billions of possibilities? There are a thousand knobs constantly being turned behind the scenes depending on the preferences of the operator. "Non-biased search results" are impossible by definition.
> PostgreSQL uses the term cluster to refer to a “cluster” of databases, as opposed to the usual notion of a group of servers or VMs working in a co-ordinated fashion.

https://www.opsdash.com/blog/postgresql-cluster.html

Note that the "databases" above are logical databases, not database hosts.
Good thing "compiling" is in quotes. I don't think it actually meets the definition. It's more like "encoding."
Sometimes it is better to be the student than the teacher.