skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>why would I, the captain of a Mexican ship, pay taxes to Coffee Caye?

Like any country, You wouldn't unless they have a gunboats to stop you. Hell, most countries around the world can't keep Chinese fleets from exploiting their EEZ.

I'm saying that coffee Caye could make its money by signing citizenship papers and renting some yacht slips and moorings. You don't need a navy or recognition to do that.

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If someone doesn't pay taxes, you don't renew citizenship. Someone doesn't pay dock fees, you cut their power.

You don't need UN recognition to turn off someone's power, and the UN isn't going to send peacekeepers to prevent eviction.
I agree! I’d love to explore this but it’s a little awkward on my iPhone SE with my giant thumb in the way.
People who live near orangutans say they know how to talk but they don't do it around humans because they don't want to be made to work.
I don't apply any of my parents dumb rules to my kids... but I probably have my own dumb rules they my kids will choose not to use with their kids.
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Bless you!

That was my first thought. Then I learned this is a real word o-O

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/floccinaucinihilipilificati...
Some are literally slaves.

Many are nearly so. Giving people a thin veneer of token but not real freedom and token but not fair salary or decent working conditions doesn't absolve you of abuse.

Raise people in an environment where people learn that how they are being treated is right and make everyone fear dissent and you just won't hear about many peoples feelings from the other side of the world.

Obfuscation is the name of the game in the 21st century, make absolute things grey areas, and add layers of abstraction to the extent that you can't really tell what's being done or whose fault it is so that the same kinds of exploitation can keep going on and it's not so easy to be opposed to it because finding the target is just hard.
> I don't know if it shows a failure. Were there even appropriate air defenses in range?

Found one source [0] saying that there are Patriot and C-RAM systems in place at Erbil airport, from September 2021. I guess we'll have to wait for some official statement in the next few days.

[0] https://globalcomment.com/how-effective-air-defences-in-iraq...
If you’re able to topple governments, sure.

Interesting question to consider how they might make gold more traceable. They must dope it with traceable elements, yes?
The latest iteration of which is the Russian Federation headed by Putin. How do you think they got in the UN security Council?
I would think the opposite.
Solo devs are in the most flexible state and they don't care if they need to go through a bit of inconvenience for a slight boon to code quality but say you got several average devs who can only be taught on how to do these things, it gets annoying to set it all up and make sure nothing breaks or you'll be wasting time babysitting their environment.
Thanks for the bug report. Are you using Firefox? I knew this happens in FF and couldn't find a fix for it.

As for structuralism, the general idea is that it is a way to axiomatize empirical theories using formal logic and set theory. More specifically it postualtes that scientific theories have a typical logical structure, that you should be able to find in theories of many different fields (from physics to biology to sociology). And people have "reconstructed" (i.e. axiomatized) theories from all those fields. So, in a sense, it is like a theory about theories and how they are structured. Hope this helps ;)
But afaik there was no "incident", dude just drove fast on a road with no speed limit and some politicians decided to score few points?
You control future transactions with majority computing power i.e. double spend coins
This law is no longer needed.
It's too dense. It will literally sink into the soft London bedrock. New York is lucky to have granite bedrock so they can stack the gold higher.
I think you could just lower the exchange rate for how much gold the central bank will give for dollars then print more money. This devalues the currency, but that's precisely what you want in the case you gave.
> Well, why would his opinion on a matter of military and international law even be relevant? More than any other person, I mean.

It doesn't matter in the general sense. It's just a clue about how principled he is -- something that is at the core of the debate about his extradition and prosecution.

If he is genuinely anti-fascist, as he has positioned himself, then he would be highly opposed to everything about Putin.

Unfortunately I suspect he isn't free to speak out against his protectors.
Gold isn't confusing, it just doesn't work so great for the economy as money. Money is more complicated than just being a token that you can own.
As one anecdote, since there’s no flame (vs gas stove) and the surface is happy to heat whatever is on it (vs induction which needs a magnetic metal) — my cousin burned down their family home by setting her book bag on the stove after school one day. It’s unclear how it got turned on but the end result was pretty terrible for them and likely wouldn’t have happened with a different stove.
Circling around that whole Web3 ‘ownership’ story
And it is pointless to talk about when there is no need to build there.
I mean you got the naive economics part right. These kinds of contracts are selected based on relationships, not product quality or even business acumen. In your mind the government conducts regular technical product evaluations of every small business that attempts to make masks at scale? That isn’t reality.
I suppose some sort of organization that audits gold reserves would have to be invented or whatever to do that difficult job.

You know, for the time being, just until the astroid mining suddenly kicks in.
> What is the imagined benefit and behavior of pushing type analysis over the wire with the code to be run on the end-user's machine?

Is that even a question?

If more people adopt TS because it's native in browsers, producing less bugs means more user satisfaction.
incredible! Bruno Simon also has a similar website but in 3D

https://bruno-simon.com
That is for individual states, municipalities, and individual businesses to decide. If any of the above require it you can basically suck it up or go elsewhere.
If anyone is interested, there’s been a good amount of previous discussion of Hsieh: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> And it would need enough pumping power to move it two meters in half an hour for one settlement period

Why do you need to move all of the water in half an hour? (Suppose that you just want to do time-arbitrage for residential use.)
Pretty easily mitigated with a vent hood which all these tests don't have running.
NuWave Pro or PolyScience Control Freak. The second is 5-10x as expensive as the first. Both discrete appliances.
I feel like this could be easily dis/proven with just a handful of nature cams.
"No extradition treaty" doesn't necessarily guarantee "no extradition". The US has an enormous amount of power (both carrots and sticks) that could be used to convince a country to extradite Snowden.

I suspect the only places Snowden can avoid US prosecution are Russia, China, and North Korea. Any country with a friendly and/or economic relationship with the US has the potential to extradite him (or just look the other way as the CIA assassinates him).
That'd be having the driver earn nominally $0 per hour, which seems a bit low to me.
Students are users of a class, as much as a dentist is a user of a dental software application. Neither were involved in the making of the class or software. Both were delivered the experience as designed by the course staff (instructor and/or TAs), or software team. Both only see the final product after months or years of development, done by specialists trained for many years even before that.

The error you're making is stating that "students are involved in the entire process" which is laughable. Many classes have gone through years of iteration, and even new courses take many months to develop before students set foot in the classroom, not to mention the years of experience and education needed to get the instructor to the point that they can even make a class in several months.
So they are lying, again? ( Edit: Apparently not, refers to the context here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30658022 )

What are normal people suppose to do without expertise on any subject.

Not against induction cooking but It is very common for these type of reporting that for induction cooking to succeed they must get rid of every single gas stove. And make gas stove cooking as evil. Start a movement, conjure a trend, make hype.
Horrible video in my opinion. Essentially the author demands that works of art put on display a particular moral message he agrees with. i.e. that characters need to thrive through hard work, determination, kind of "American Dream - the movie" or something.

But art is not in the business of selling didactic moral lessons, enforcing Protestant work ethics or what else have you. Art should primarily stand on artistic merits. Most of the movies in the video fail on that front as well but not because they don't engage in teaching folk morality.

Paraphrasing the end of the video: "movies teach sketchy life lessons, like prioritizing one's own happiness over other people's freedom[...]"

From an artistic standpoint there is nothing at all wrong with this, in fact putting a character like this into a framing of a hero makes for a significantly more interesting premise than much else I've seen in the cinema.
As someone who cooks with gas, I have a hard time believing that any dormant emissions from the stove when not in use are more significant than emissions from searing food itself… especially since natural gas has odors added to it to ensure we smell it.
> “For children who live in a home with a gas stove, the increased risk of asthma is on par with living in a home with a smoker,” she said.

We’re never going to get anywhere in the case against global warming with BS statements like this…
From my experience I don't think anyone went all in. They did the opportunistic thing, and now do the next opportunistic thing or nothing. Way to go!
While traveling through the middle US I've found some absolutely strange (to an outsider) roadside stands in the middle of nowhere selling obviously purchased in bulk from China anti-Biden merch and BLM merch (masks, shirts, caps..) at the same place
switched to dropshipping Q-Anon branded coffee mugs 8 months ago
Whaddyamean marketing and advertising aren't the highest and most worthy pursuit of our time? How absurd!
Double spend your coins only. And even then, you wouldn't because doing this kind of attack would destroy the value of the network and all your investment in mining ASICs would be destroyed.

Here's how it goes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjyJhKpLUBU
In the year 2048, the drivethru at Dunkin Donuts is backed up for miles as people wait to get their free dozen donuts for getting their 100th booster. Johnny is seen jogging by without a mask as the people yell at them from their cars that he is endangering their lives.
Or it could have the same tongue in cheek sentiment. It's a lot harder to beat the crap out of a 21 year old than a 14 year old.
I can't find a reference for a modern surgeon abstaining from wearing a mask while operating, could you please provide a source?
Mosaic was not the first browser (that was nexus, renamed thus when it's original name WorldWireWeb created some confusion)

Mosaic the company indeed. Tried to monetize in the server by giving away the browser.

However CERN also provided a free mit licensed Server, CERN httpd

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN_httpd#:~:text=CERN%20ht....

And it was not simply "served via TCP socket", it was served via a protocol that was similar to but simpler as another protocol, http vs ftp.
There's a lot of history lost from the Usenet era as well. I don't often come across comprehensive irc archives.
Marshall for their nukes, one can dream.
US closed their embassy on Feb 14 [0] and China didn't start pulling out their citizens until the 28th [1]. I don't think anyone would of suspected a partnership leak if the USA already announced their evacuation.

> China evacuated the first batch of its citizens from Ukraine on February 28, including over 400 Chinese students from Odessa and 200 from Kiev, four days after militaries from Russia and Ukraine engaged in battle.

[0] - https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/politics/us-embassy-kyiv-clos...
[1] - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202203/1254447.shtml
You would be asked to leave our Quaker meeting, attend it via Zoom instead.
I'd only let them see parts, and only the parts that are not particularly novel. They will still get an idea of the code style, whether it is maintainable, how well thought out your error handling is, etc, but will not gain anything particularly useful to steal.

I had a company do this to me once - a minicomputer company in the 80's. A friend and I had written network printer management software for Prime minicomputers because Prime's "spooler" had lots of flaws. Some Prime engineers called up, wanted to talk about acquiring the software. Of course we were ecstatic. They flew in a couple of engineer types for a couple of days, we talked about various aspects of the product, then they wanted to take the code with them to review it with others. I wouldn't give them a digital copy, only a paper copy. They weren't crazy about that, but took it with the agreement they'd return it in 30 days. I never heard back from them, they didn't return it in 30 days, I had to badger them to get it back, they eventually did return it, and about 6 months later, came out with a new spooler product that incorporated many of the ideas in our product. I can't say they copied code, but they did mislead us IMO. In hindsight, I would have just given them paper copies of parts of the code - nothing complete, not even a complete function unless it was rather trivial and something that anyone could code in a day.

Good luck!
It’s a defensive pact for smaller countries to protect themselves from Russian aggression and imperialism.
Induction wok burners with concave cooking surface are pretty common for home/commercial use.
Yes, it's a good thing, for the founders and shareholders. This isn't a story of failure, its a story of doing the next best opportunistic thing. People are conditioned to believe in a distant dream of creating corporate forever-homes, so articles write to cater to that sentiment, as opposed to simply hopping on a market need in an expedition style, or precision strike style venture.

For the country, thats a different thing. If the state wants a certain kind of transaction to occur then they need to incentivize it.
I have a pretty strong doubt that the emissions from gas + cooking are significantly worse than the fine particulate put off from cooking methods like pan frying or burning anything even slightly.

There is also probably a statistics abuse here with the "emissions while not in use" is more likely large rare leakage incidents rather than median kinds of events. Keeping in mind that the amount of methane lost to the atmosphere from petroleum production is absolutely enormous, undercounted, and would certainly dwarf any gas leaks from your kitchen.

But this is the kind of "bad for you" thing which appeals to many people that want to do good and are easily sold ideas by others who don't know what they're really talking about but are good at getting attention.
"Expansion" makes it sound like something that happened to Eastern Europe against their will--not that those countries actively wanted to join.

Those countries actively bid to join NATO because they feared Russia expanding into Eastern Europe. Turns out their fears were justified.
that's why lobste.rs was created.
The source of that webpage _is_ in a Git repo: https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist

HTH.
I guess stoves have electric pilots these days, but many installed gas stoves/cooktops have a constantly burning pilot light.
There is no slippery slope whatsoever. The government isn't blocking content nor requiring it to be blocked. Individual companies are choosing to block some of the most obvious propaganda. The obvious pressure relief value for unpopular truths is trivially obtained by sharing such "truths" on their own sites and peer to peer which is as it stands incredibly trivial if not as effective as using existing social media networks to blast information directly at the stupidest and most vulnerable to manipulation but its certainly there.

> The willingness of people to defer to random online youtube personalities over more established sources is a failure of those established sources.

Bubkis. I know people who prefer conspiracy theory websites to public health info. It's not a failure of any variety of those public health authorities that stupid people prefer exciting and often comforting bullshit to dismal truth. The people who prefer such are largely the same demographics which have always talked about stupid crazy crap like chemtrails and a young earth. There is nothing new about this contingent save its weaponization.
The scary thing is that there's no TV or radio channel to tune to or a newspaper to buy that would offer an alternative, truthful take. Even foreign press suspended activities in Russia after the March 4th law that made independent reporting punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

Determined people may seek out independent online sources if they can digest that everything they've been told is a lie, but that's an insignificant fraction of the whole population and their activism is mercilessly crushed by security services. The critical majority remains unaware of what the whole world has seen on front pages for the past several weeks and instead lives in a parallel reality where the widely reported bombing of Mariupol's hospital didn't happen, or if it did, they were all Nazis and crisis actors. It's Alex Jones and InfoWars adopted as state religion. Insane.
All the vents in places I've rented have seemed hilariously ineffective even on the highest and super loud setting. Maybe good ones make a difference but how many people actually have good ones? And how many people actually use them every time the stove is on?
>The income is of course lower, however.

Yes, but perhaps not as much as one might expect. Relevant Reddit post:

TIL that the Roman Empire in the year 150 was so wealthy that all of Western Europe may not have equaled its GDP until 1500
(<https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3prsxr/til_th...>)
Why would more people adopt TS because it's native in browsers, which won't enforce specifying type annotations anyway?
Xi is old. Will the next dictator share Xi's enthusiasm for high-cost power when the rest of the world is on low-cost power?

Any organization as big as the Chinese gov't makes lots of plans, and changes them as conditions change. It is one thing to be prepared to build a lot of nukes, entirely another to start building them, and entirely a third to finish them. The last will depend on conditions in the world, and of political alliances at the time.
When I first read up on economics, I had similar doubts about the gold standards.

It doesn't help that most modern day advocators of a gold standard have but a dim understanding of history and economics.

So, first: if the population in one country goes up, they can import more gold from elsewhere. It's a commodity after all.

Similar for one country digging up a lot of gold.

(The global economy wasn't quite as integrated back when Spain had their windfall from the new world. But even then, the long term impact on the price level in Spain compared to the rest of the world was rather modest compared to levels of inflation we see today.

Spain just imported more goods and services from the rest of Europe for a while than they exported; naturally losing gold in the process.)

So the real concern is about global population vs global gold stocks.

Similarly for economic growth: productivity increases under a gold standard lead to decrease in nominal prices. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26386115 for how this works (and worked in history).

The more important problem isn't so much population changes or economic growth; it's changes in demand for money balances!

Depending on the state of the economy, people want to hold on to different amounts of money vs other assets. That's true not only in nominal terms, but also in inflation adjusted real terms.

Those swings can be wild.

A central bank can print money (or take money out of circulation) to adapt to those swings in the desire for money balances. Look at the various measures of amount of money, like M1 or M2, change over time. Eg M2 for the US at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=MSEz

It is entirely fair and accurate to say that this would a disaster for an economy trying to run on gold coins.

Luckily, we have and had the technology to make the gold standard work: fractional reserve banking and privately issued bank notes. See https://www.alt-m.org/2015/07/29/there-was-no-place-like-can... for how that worked fabulously in Canada, and why it worked so much worse in the US.
Completely agree.

People are forced to learn because basic education is compulsory and higher education is necessary for success. Not everyone wants this but they're forced to go through it.

Since everyone has to be taught, schools turn into mass education centers designed to teach hundreds if not thousands of people at once. It's impossible to mentor individuals at this scale, so teaching becomes these one-to-many broadcasts called lectures and evaluation becomes mass testing.

There are inherent limitations to these practices. Not every student is engaged by lectures and there is no room for individualization, people who don't adapt often get diagnosed with "attention deficit" and medicated with amphetamines to improve fitness. Tests are so trivial they have to impose ridiculous constraints on them to artificially increase the difficulty, punishing perfectly reasonable behaviors in the real world such as research and team work.

And it goes on and on, it just keeps getting worse until even the average student can smell the phoniness of this system from a mile away.
> Pretty easily mitigated with a vent hood which all these tests don't have running.

Almost nobody in New York City (where the NYT is based and focuses its coverage) has a vent hood that vents outside the apartment.

Older buildings don't have a hood at all, and new buildings have hoods which circulate air within the apartment, which doesn't really address concerns about accumulation of environmental pollutants.
I asked my CPA last year what could I do and his suggestion was what you mentioned start a business that racks up losses. The catch is I believe that you have to show that you are making money within 5-yrs. But I'm not an accountant, so get that fact checked by someone who is.
Wow. Showing up for me now too. I sent feedback to DDG. I also wonder if they saw this thread. Seems unlikely that it just happened to show back up a day after it got attention here.
Do you interact with society on a regular basis? Businesses have the right to refuse service, and you will absolutely be escorted out (minimum) and will most likely have your tantrum broadcast to the internet if you pretend you are some sort of martyr.
I feel like it’s also a matter of availability and knowledge. I had no idea masks were being manufactured in the US and don’t know if they are targeted towards consumers or hospitals either. Also people buy everything through Amazon, so unless they are available there and specifically highlighted, it’s very tough for the average consumer to buy them.
I love history like this. I want to read a history book that does normalized comparisons across time and place. For example, given how many calories you need, how much did a calorie cost in a given historical setting? This would help you understand how much surplus was available to most people.