skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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>The whole point of a loan is that you're willing to pay extra over time in order to have access to more funds at the present

No, that's not the point of these loans at all. They are the equivalent of remortgaging your home to get cash. If need money for renovation and you have a lot of equity in your house you can borrow against it. They are doing the same thing with crypto. They don't want to sell their crypto because they want to speculate on it and they need money so they use it as collateral.

I personably think it's a very stupid idea to invest in something like crypto on credit. Lending your crypto to these morons looks like a pretty good idea if you can trust that the smart contracts doesn't have bugs. You get a stable and guaranteed >5% without all the risks of the stock market.
I don't think any fork was deleted. 3.5k forks as of now vs 3.4k forks in January: https://web.archive.org/web/20220129022012/https://github.co...

Many people won't notice some of their stars having disappeared, but many would be surprised to see their forks deleted without their consent, especially those that are not merely a mirror. People can have diverged forks after adding substantial changes without feeding them back to the original for a variety of reasons.
People are paid in goods/services, fundamentally. As production per hour of labor increases, so does wages, since there are fewer hours chasing more goods.
>>I overstated the degree to which the Kirov class' designation is misleading

I could not figure it out easily - looks like Moskva was NOT a Kirov class, but a class down?
So, to get this straight, the working definition here for "socially conservative" is anyone who steals things or exploits others, regardless of whether they support gay rights or vote democrat.

Yeah, in that light, these social conservatives do seem pretty bad.
>their techniques

can you link to the exact regimen? tia
Amiga clone THEA500 Mini is now available in the UK, up for pre-order in the US
I've lived in Japan two years and echoing what the other commenter said, there's definitely crime in Japan, moreso in Tokyo, but it's usually more low key and I don't think as widespread (or violent).

- A delinquent student I had who dropped out in junior high caught up with me and told me how he went to jail and was a low level gangster.

- I also knew an Australian older guy who got jumped by some teenagers when he was drunk.

- Also a drunk guy tried to hit on a girl I knew while we were walking to the train station and literally tried to physically drag her somewhere and hit my other friend who wanted to talk to him peacefully.

- A creepy old guy showed two junior high girls a binder full of pictures of underage girls in a supermarket food court and was trying to proposition them or something. My friend used to be their English teacher and confronted him in Japanese. When I turned to look at the supermarket, everyone was dead silent mouth agape. The old security guard lady who worked there was crying.

- I believe I also spoke to a cop or an older person who said during the earthquake their was concern of people stealing or commiting crimes and they'd do it quietly.

- There's also the women's only train in place because of chikan or train perverts who try to grope women during rush hour. I don't know of many other countries that have it.

I definitely think Japan is one of the safest countries in the world. I left my phone on a bike and found it still there hours later, but there's definitely crime. I also don't know if it's great to conflate yelling, littering, etc. with crime, but there's definitely a correlation.
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The international economy is a de facto "free" market, or at least freër on the whole than its constituent countries. This can lead to a "race to the bottom", with the most damaging activities concentrated in the most permissive jurisdictions. That's where we — qua humanity — run into trouble.
I doubt heating air to a higher temperature with a heat pump is less efficient than natural gas heating.

The heat pump will have a coefficient of performance over five for small temperature differentials. For huge differentials, the thermal loss of the building is linear in the differential, and dropping the thermostat a few degrees only drops a few percent of thermal loss. In those scenarios, the COP of the heat pump is still something like 1.5 or 2.
His recent(ish) video showing an Xray time-lapse is one of if not the most visually interesting thing I have seen https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j-FHbHoiwNk
> Except Putin has publicly stated his goals since before the invasion and during, and they've not publicly changed.

Sometimes what a person says and a person does don’t agree. In situations like that—you don’t need to believe what they say! You can just accept they lied and move on.
That's dumb. My company IPO'ed at $20/share. Hit $50 in the first year. Second year went down to $18. Then dropped low. A few years later the company was bought out for $7 a share when we were trading at $3.

Twitter is a dying company. They would be dumb not to take that money.
Can they exist without television? Do we regulate television, especially ones that are not on public air waves (e.g., Fox News, OAN)?
savage, and interestingly enough all these financial analysts still have good paying jobs
One should also not forget that Germany's nuclear industry is identical with its fossil-energy industry: RWE, Vattenfall, E.ON/PreussenElectra, EnBW. (STEAG is the only major fossil-energy company that was not involved in nuclear energy.)

The situation Germany finds itself in today is the direct result of these companies lobbying the various Merkel governments between 2005 and 2021. Instead of relying heavily on renewables, too much emphasis was placed on coal and gas when nuclear power was phased out. These companies were able to continue operating their old coal-fired power plants for a very long time, despite strong opposition, especially from the Green party.

Of all the parties represented in parliament, it was the Greens that was most critical about this policy in the last two decades. It was the Greens who, from the very beginning of his presidency, repeatedly and most strongly spoke out against Putin, his criminal warfare and suppression of human rights. It was the Greens who criticised North Stream 2 the most. It is the Greens, whose supporters today are most strongly in favour of a ban on imports of Russian gas and oil[1], and most strongly advocate the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine.[2]

Guess whose judgement I trust the most, both with regard to the war in Ukraine and for a future energy policy.

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/bilder/crchart-7833~_v-...

[2] https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/bilder/crchart-7837~_v-...
I disagree because there is no UI to indicate you're in a special repo. And I blame GH for not considering this "large project maintainer" use-case.

When I administered many VAX / UNIX machines waaay back, the terminals were all configured to be 'special' for the super user. It would have been HORRIFICALLY BAD if any command were executed unknowingly.

GH does -not- distinguish for project sizes, so there is NO SUPPORT for its users in this way. Every feature is to be considered with the same "shotgun severity".
Great summary. One last recent detail relevant to HN is that despite being a public broadcaster, they've recently started forcing everyone to make an account to watch things, in order to track viewers more closely & get better data. The BBC also does this, I think, not sure when they started. It's a good question -- should you have a right to view content from the public broadcaster without making an account?
guess I will stop ignoring those breathing sessions my watch recommends
First, the article is about a Linux laptop, not a Windows laptop, and the reference to Apple Silicon is a bit of non-sequitur anyways. so I feel like your comment lacks relevance to the OP.

Secondly, the reasons one would want to choose a Linux/Windows laptop over an Apple Silicon are so obvious I'm sure you know them already. Many people use software that runs best (or only runs) on Windows or Linux or any x86 computer. Also, Apple's default software is undesirable to some people for a plethora of reasons that have been repeated ad nauseam on HN. And the raw performance of Intel/AMD processors better than that of equally priced Apple alternatives, with comparable performance at iso-power (see e.g. [1] or numbers from [2][3]).

Apple Silicon's success has been very impressive, and Apple laptops are well built, but they hardly makes its competitors obsolete as Apple's greatest proponents seem to want people to believe. The fact of the matter is that an Apple silicon laptop is useless to someone who does not want to commit to the Apple ecosystem.

[1] https://youtu.be/X0bsjUMz3EM

[2] https://www.notebookcheck.net/These-Apple-M1-Cinebench-R23-s...

[3] https://youtu.be/edpdmbmYOj0?t=429
A better term for what people are trying to articulate is plutocracy.
If they think that, they've been bamboozled by someone trying to sell them something: There is no useful smart contract that can't be expressed as statement in a total language. (as transactions that take an infinite or undecidable time to validate aren't useful)

Turing completeness is a complete red-hearing in this application space.
In the Tampa area farmers markets, you can buy all of the produce that farmers took to Lakeland to sell to Publix but was rejected.
You're right about politics. The SpaceX Mars mission is ultimately tied up in NASA funding/approvals. Twitter is the hangout spot for the journalist profession. So even a slight manipulation of the algorithm could result in incalculable benefits to the Mars mission.

On the other hand, it's possible Musk is just getting revenge for Twitter censoring his friends at the Babylon Bee...
Thanks for sharing! It’s always nice listening to Douglas Crockford! What an interesting story about XML too :)
In some buildings, installing a heat pump is "only" a matter of swapping out one large appliance with another (since you're able to reuse the ducts, etc.) but that's still widely expensive and logistically complicated to do on scale of a country.
https://www.wimhofmethod.com/breathing-exercises (YouTube video is best)

Nestor stuff is short. Breathe through nose, tape your mouth, right nostril inhale/left exhale.
I would never stop laughing if this happened.
Hi stranger, good vibes to you too. Looks like you need them!
A good OS existing for M1 in 2 years does not make Intel/AMD laptops paperweights now.
Joopyter Personal Terminal: DIY retro-inspired port. computer w. thermal printer
ah yes, let me find the instructions!

EDIT: this is what fixed it for me:

> Pressing the bottom center of the touchpad firmly a few times has resolved the issue in some cases.[1]

Said in a slightly different way:

> There were also a small number of early units produced that may have contact issues on the physical switch on the Touchpad. Try pressing the bottom middle of the Touchpad firmly a few times to see if that resolves the issue. If it does not, please contact Framework Support.[2]

[1]: https://community.frame.work/t/known-issues-on-early-framewo...

[2]: https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/touchpad-not-working-...
I read it.

I think there should be a follow-on discussion here about programming paradigm that empowers a "do what I mean not what I say" mentality.

Atlassian's recent fiasco https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/april-2022-outage-upda... is another motivating example for such a paradigm.

The author of the blog touches on this paradigm as a UI element. Software engineers should have pushed that as a "gotcha" up through Product Management to expose controls for such a risky scenario.
One note, apostrophe characters don't get trapped (and are instead interpreted by Firefox, at least in my case, as a "quick find"
What are some best startup management tools for founders?
According to my experience, there are five primary areas on which a founder should focus in the early or growth stages:

- Sales

- People Management

- Financials

- Meetings (with investors, customers, etc)

- Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

I'm curious as to what else a founder's emphasis is, and what are the best tools for managing all of the above?
I agree with the author on most of their points, but I wonder if this is an argument for self-hosting your repository(ies) once your project reaches a critical-mass?
That's exactly how it works, though. You believe X, and you're more likely to be convinced of Y and Z if Y and Z correlate with a worldview that already accepts X as normal.

If you believe JFK was assassinated by the CIA, for instance, you're more likely to accept that 9/11 was an inside job, because a government capable of one is capable of the other. If you're already anti-vaxx, you're more likely to believe in COVID conspiracy theories, because you already believe vaccines are poison and the medical establishment is lying to everyone.

People are emotional beings, not rational. Even most people who think they're as coldly logical and passionless as a compiler are driven primarily by a need to preserve their ego and reinforce their existing biases. Why do you think so many conspiracy theories spread across social media as well as they do? It's precisely because of that effect.
In this case however the free market has solved the problem, Lycoming and the other mainstream aviation engine manufacturers have tested their engines with unleaded (G100UL) and are ready to go.

It's the regulatory body, the FAA that makes it illegal to use G100UL for most aircraft.
Chris Anderson of TED asked Elon a lot of the questions and concerns being discussed here. Check it out if you want to understand his perspective and goals with twitter.

“Having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization”

To that end, he committed to transparency. For example, changes to tweets or users would be made visible and apparent so there's no more behind the scenes manipulation. The algorithm itself would be open sourced. Anyone could view it on Github and suggest changes or point out issues.

https://youtu.be/cdZZpaB2kDM?t=666
Some routes were taken from rancher via eminent domain or similar. Basically forced easement onto private property. Some of those easements no long exist with the rail routes being abandoned.
I guess my experience with USB charging ports is that they always break, and then they're a huge pain to fix, and my experience with barrel charging ports is that they almost never break, and then fixing them is pretty easy. So I think of a computer that can only be charged via USB as a piece of cheap trash. Maybe USB-C is different on this axis; I don't know yet. I really miss barrel charging ports on cellphones. I don't know, maybe I just abuse my hardware.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNNBcgMFTdk
I got a pulse oximeter a couple years ago too, and it was eye opening (before COVID, and I didn't get COVID).

The realtime feedback is useful and actionable. Breathing more slowly, exhaling more than inhaling (counterintuitive), pausing, and breathing through the nose definitely make a difference for me.

But everyone is a little different so you have to experiment. Breathing is very multidimensional and hard to explain. The Nestor book is a good intro, and I've mentioned it on HN a few times before.

I'm a big believer now. It is almost laughably simple, and I have to cite the fact the fact that no company profits if you breathe better, sleep better, etc. It's a trite saying but true ...
> So what if they died of the evacuation, the nuclear accident caused the evacuation.

I wasn't aware that the nuclear accident caused massive flooding (the person you're responding to is saying that everyone died from the tsunami, not the radiation). Your point still stands about large economic costs to exclusion zones, but I don't feel you responded in good faith. As per the article (and as someone who actually did study nuclear physics), the risk of creating an exclusion zone in Germany is extremely small. Last I checked German doesn't have many earthquakes nor large bodies of water that could lead to danger from tsunamis. Germany seems fairly stable from an environmental standpoint, so the only real causes for a nuclear disaster would be from a freak accident. Considering we've learned a lot about safety in the last decade (and way more since Chernobyl), this risk is pretty small.
> If that baseline isn’t high enough, then they need more nuclear - not less.

Nuclear is really bad at reacting to swings in demand since it's ramp up and down speed is limited. Adding more slowly changing sources to a network makes it even worse at reacting to those swings, Risking net stability which curiously has increased with introduction of more renewables to the network.
Not a direct response:

How is this argument any more significant than, "Marshmallows are bad because they rot your teeth, ban them."
Yes, but it's also very much not the kind of statement PG is talking about. It's not generally something someone would be concerned about the truth value of.
It reminds me of the possibly apocryphal story of a daycare that got tired of parents picking their kids up late. They decided to start charging a fee every time a parent was late to pick up. Once they did, parents were actually more likely to pick their kids up late. Presumably because they figured they were paying for the privilege.
Twitter’s board owes it to shareholders to accept Elon Musk’s offer
Not that Twitter paid GS for the latter opinion, and obviously wants a higher estimated valuation to strengthen their bargaining position? Getting paid by an entity to appraise an asset they own comes with obvious moral hazard.
> If that's childish

It is.

> then fuck being an adult

Have no worry. I will tell you what to do, slave.

Now do as you're told and say that you like it.
Can you name him?
Bidenworld projects calm about Covid but bite their nails in private
Not projected to ship until late June... disappointing.
It would be pretty cool to have a physical board with a language model in it and a electromagnet under each letter which was energized proportionally to the language models probability for the next character. Essentially your Ouija game would have an extra computer player with their hand on the puck.

(I guess it would need ASR to hear the question and selected character too).

Couldn't be done with GPT3 however... since OpenAI isn't open. (And what kind of creepy cabin has internet access especially on a stormy night?)
It's true in terms of Bernard Collaery / Witness K, but this is not the same at all. The entity being "hacked" is the ABC, which is an independent broadcaster that the government of the day is constantly trying to claim is biased against it. There is no reason to think that the CDPP or the Attorney General would try to defend the ABC from something like this. If anything they would point and laugh, and use it to justify another huge budget cut.

In terms of responding to criticism in the digital realm, you can get a pretty illustrative view of the situation by looking at how the Digital Transformation Office handled feedback to its pile of steaming shit of a coronavirus proximity alert app. Numerous researchers found serious flaws constantly from its first release. It took like 6 months for them to even recognise that any outside researchers had even been helpful, IIRC. Release notes were like "fixed bugs" and then the researchers decompile the .JAR again and say "nope, you absolutely did not fix this huge problem" and then find another one. Meanwhile the government sank millions more dollars into BCG consulting to review it, while these people were working for free and getting no credit. I think their campaign to cast doubt on the app's safety, efficacy and security was successful, and it did not get taken up, and then the report that was due to be published about the project was never released, and it was all swept under the rug. Overall I think it was about $10 million spent for in the vicinity of 5 covid cases identified, I don't remember exactly but I think all of them were also identified by phone interviews.

They did not, however, prosecute the researchers. So, ignorant and unkind, but mostly not like that journalist in the US who enraged a governor to the point of being criminally investigated for opening a webpage.
That makes no sense.

> try going to a bank and taking out a loan because you're broke and unemployed), but because I had digital assets to pawn

"Broke" means you have no assets, thus you have nothing to pawn, therefore the loan would be unsecured. You COULD NOT have obtained such a loan via defi, and while you could have obtained one in the traditional finance system (which is strictly an advantage over defi...), it would be have been, yes, very expensive.

But you weren't broke! You had assets! The traditional finance system loves to lend money secured by liquid assets, does so all the time, and at lower interest rates!

> I don't understand how it's difficult to see the utility in having digital goods of value

...digital goods of value. Otherwise known as a number on a ledger somewhere, otherwise known as a bank account? Nothing in your story in any way depended on crypto/defi; every part of it is a normal, traditional part of the financial system. All crypto added here was higher costs and a worse UI.
It's better. I hate Office 365 usability with a passion, and I hate the bugs, but it's much better than periodically having a fire as Google burns your business to the ground.

Microsoft deals with businesses, and it works.
And how can we avoid incompetence in the future?
> Modern political campaigns are fought and won on social media.

For the current definition of "modern".

In the 1800s then-modern political campaigns were fought and won in newspapers and pamphlets.

Pre-WW2 then-modern political campaigns were fought and won on the radio.

Post-WW2 then-modern political campaigns were fought and won on television.

None of those were treated as public utilities AFAICT, so I'm not why the medium of communication now suddenly makes a difference (Marshal McLuhan notwithstanding).