skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hadn't considered that the victim might not necessarily be the end consumer. Interesting point
> Making a Bluetooth alternative, I think apple is the only company that can pull it off.

Microsoft did it with Xbox Wireless Protocol which is used to transfer input from controllers and high quality sound without latency.

But, yes. It only works on Xbox or on Windows with an adapter and you can count the manufacturers using it one one hand. Microsoft being the thumb.
> The fact that you can take out a loan

Why would any rational actor provide a loan denominated upon an insanely volatile "currency" like bitcoin or ethereum? The lender could loan 100 ethereum bux only to lose big time because the price of ethereum went up 10x in a week making the amount repaid worthless. Or it could go down, in which case the borrower would wind up defaulting because who would want to pay back 10x more than they were lent?

Lending requires a pretty stable currency...
Because the miner wouldn't be able to see the order book?..
I'm using it to open new file or save a file on photoshop
https://umtksa.github.io/ssh-photoshop
Has the US or NATO even threatened to go to war if Russia starts using tacnukes in Ukraine? I haven't seen any reports to suggest so, and I've been following the news on this war closely.

(The US has threatened more sanctions if Russia uses WMDs. That threat was in response to signs Russia was getting ready to use chemical weapons.)
Big discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31032821
The fact that Ukraine now defends itself means that we are in a very different situation. None of the countries Hitler annexed during the appeasement actually defended themselves, he got them for free through diplomacy. If they did defend themselves instead of joining the German side then Germany wouldn't have been threat, and there would be no need for an alliance against them and Germany wouldn't have been the biggest threat in WW2. That is the situation we see today, Ukraine is defending itself, there is no way Russia can continue invading like that, they can't afford it, so the WW2 scenario has already been averted.
> what, exactly, constrains the supply of copies of a piece of software?

Nothing. Nearly all the software I use is free.
There was a famous exercise in which a Dutch submarine managed to sink over half a carrier group in an exercise (https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/dutch-submarine-sinks-half-of...) and printed a t-shirt to commemorate the occasion. The shirt was very swiftly forbidden by the leadership team, since the Americans were rather unhappy about the whole thing and it was deemed to be not very diplomatic to wear such shirts to the traditional end-of-exercise bbq on the flight deck.
I just keep a "cook book" of common commands I've gathered from SO so I don't need to search each time to refresh my memory.
Thank god, I was really worried there for a second.
You can also use your browser to go to the site and query Algolia. What’s the difference?
Michael Porter's article: https://hbr.org/1979/03/how-competitive-forces-shape-strateg...
Yes, I configure and manage all devices that connect to our home's network unless that device is only provisioned for access to a "guest" wireless network which is only routable to the public internet (no LAN access whatsoever).

Steps to make it "simple"
- use password manager
- store shared and individual pw DBs on a NAS where family has access
- use Syncthing to keep changes aligned between devices
- configure all browsers and devices to be integrated with pw manager and demo proper usage
- everything important stored on a NAS that is in my physical possesion and which uses redundant storage (RAID)
- implement backup of critical NAS data
- test backups monthly! (can be restored? are still occurring properly?)
- install a Linux distro and configure key-based auth (my key trusted) SSH for family members who are willing to use Linux on the desktop. 2022 is the year for it! ;)
- ensure things auto-update
- if problem occurs shell access is a few keystrokes away
- can manage family's digital situation remotely to some degree this way. very helpful! much better than the ole' "Call up grammy and try to drive her clicks and typing remotely..." routine!

Restorative powers retained? - yes, except for the master password to any private password DBs

Which subjects spurred the most discussions and how did you solve it?
- Linux: Some people have no idea what an operating system even is, let alone how a "Linux" differs from an "Apple" (not OSX, it's an Apple!) or a "Windows". This was solved by reminding them what I do professionally and them remembering how much time I spent behind the screen doing the bits n bytes. Basically "I got u fam, don't worry about it." was my solution.
- Social Media: This is an unsolved problem. Some insist on having FB, Insta, whatever installed on their cellphone! It's nuts. I'm not cool with it, but we all make our own choices. I try to educate people on this topic, but it's an uphill battle.

Items shared for all family members
- none
- within household: shared pw database with things like streaming & delivery service logins, etc
You don't pay for Twitter's infrastructure, you pay for it's >210M daily active users. What it cost, in dollars and years, to replicate that? Some $200 per Twitter DAU is not extravagant, 13 years of current average revenue per user, one which could (but doesn't have to) greatly appreciate by pressing on monetization, it's at like Facebook 2014 levels.

When Facebook paid 1 and 14 billion-s for Instagram and WhatsApp, it wasn't for the handful of employees and the codebases, but the userbases with snowballing network effects. They tried replicating TikTok with Lasso and Snapchat with Poke and Slingshot, but none of that went anywhere. It's not easy to build a large userbase, and as far as I can see from social media history, all the large ones were first to get some steam in whatever niche-s they occupy. Leveraging their 3 other networks Facebook's able to bolt-on competitors to steal some inertia from the snowballs (Stories which is a larger business then Snap by now, and Reels which is seemingly going somewhere), but building a standalone social media for competing with an existing incumbent is just bloody hard. They're displaceable, but there's always been something novel when social media market shares went to or grew into a new app.

Twitter's not quite snowballing at this point, but it has entrenched itself in some important roles and niches (namely of a town square and an official outlet) that are hard to displace. It would take time, effort and significant propositions to outgrow Twitter's significance. Alternatively, one can sell a quarter (or a third once Twitter's board or shareholders refuse and he bumps the offer) of it's Tesla shares - or borrow against the whole - and buy the existing network, go from there.

A network effect is one of many forms of licenses to print money which can't just be replaced. Like a brand, any decently sized game dev team can probably clone Call of Duty or EA Sports games, won't get them the licenses to print money that Activision (soon Microsoft) and EA hold. You can make the best perfumes, it doesn't buy you Coco Chanel's money printer.
> I find its UI is user friendly when getting started with jamming via ninjam, especially when inviting less technical friends to jam.

I made another (somewhat functional!) NINJAM client[1] a few years back as a Chrome App with this motivation in mind. Eventually added a standalone Electron release to work around Chrome's deprecation of Chrome Apps, and sadly ended up abandoning it. I'd love to see a future for it as a PWA if the server software could be updated to handle WebSocket connections (rather than only TCP).

[1] https://github.com/BHSPitMonkey/ninjam-js
I'm not sure if this is not just an illusion. Young people are maybe a little more visible in meaningless parts of our society but almost all truly powerful and rich people are old. Don't fall into trap reading Forbes list and thinking that it shows any reminiscence of the actual power structure - most people is there only because they are in the business of self promotion. The real ones are those that are literally paying to stay out of the spotlight.
Ukrainians claim that they took out the ship's anti-missile radar first with an UAV before firing the missile.
It's not always the case that a high reply/like ratio is someone being "owned", but it's obviously more concrete than tea leaves. Twitter's lack of a real downvote/dislike incentivizes people to reply to a bad post without leaving a like, and in my experience it's a pretty good metric. (The main exception is when a tweet is a prompt that intentionally asks for people to reply.)

Also I feel like I should add that "ratio" is a confusing term, because it can refer to the above example `reply-count / likes`, but can also be when a reply gets more likes than the tweet it's replying to: `reply-likes / OP-likes`.
> The warship itself was a creation of the USSR, but has more to do with Ukraine's manufacturing prowess than present-day Russia.

It is indeed the product of USSR, which had integrated supply chain and R&D. Very likely some components of it were manufactured in Russia. Ukraine alone would not be able to build and maintain such ship due to budget and resource constraints, but Russia has rebuilt its capabilities in XXI century — their military industrial complex can maintain, upgrade and build such ships. I doubt though they will commission a replacement any time soon, since they are actively building lots of smaller vessels.
In fact, Apple aren’t doing this alone. It’s a pretty common feature of video players. I’m pretty sure even VLC supports this.
Sure, if you care about HFT you probably want the same guarantee to apply to any market maker, not just ones who operate on blockchains. Unless I missed something here.
Show me a regulated marketplace and I'll show you regulations put in place by big players to weed out the competition.
Heh, or like Jimi (Hendrix) said, "Everything in moderation. Including moderation".
Value-based pricing. They got the most value out of the country, they should pay the most for it.
I wonder if you have dared to try "Queen : the eYe" ?

https://www.pcgamer.com/saturday-crapshoot-queen-the-eye/
Furthermore, for each piece of equipment lost, resources will be allocated to replace it, and then some. And many other countries have decided to increase their military budgets as a result of this conflict.

> How about we just don't.

But how exactly do you propose we do that?
"Harpoon is not yet delivered" we don't know that.
> No. At monopoly, cost has zero effect on price.

Only if that monopoly is actively being substantially abused.

If you're only slightly taking advantage of a monopoly, then your price is mostly tied to normal supply and demand rules.
My understanding is that--according to Western sources--Chinese people report high satisfaction with their government, much higher than US citizens. I feel that this metric should also be considered when evaluating the quality of life in a society.

As for the point on Xinjiang, I think the oppression of people there is real, but oppression of religious minorities isn't just a non-Western phenomenon; look at France, for example.

Consider the source of your information about other societies. The elites of Western society, who have a great interest in preserving Western societies as they are and who hold a lot of control of the media, want to align the populous against the enemies of the Western elites. The flaws of enemy countries will therefore tend to be exaggerated, sometimes highly so. Western societies will tend to be portrayed as the best anyone can hope for.
Yes but Porter never said that customers need to be conquered. His framework says that if you have a choice, select the customer who don't have a lot of bargaining power.
There is this theory that at least US CVNs have enough power and the correct hull shape to hydroplane in an event of an emergency. It would likely do a lot of damage in the process so it's probably never tested, and it's classified so nobody really knows for sure.

But if informed that an attack is imminent there may be at least one ace up their sleeve.
> Gen Z is also more diverse and broadly anti-American (or “anti-imperialist”) [...] and feel less connected to European conflicts than previous generations. [...] Those videos of Ukrainians discriminating against people or color were signal boosted everywhere on Twitter. [...] You also have people bringing up Yemen, Syria, Palestine, etc to emphasize the “white-supremacist” support of Ukraine receiving overwhelming attention.

I've noticed this too, and I need to make a point:

In the long run, this will be a serious security threat to Europe.

In this, Europe took almost completely the wrong lessons regarding America's role in NATO. Yes a stronger NATO is good. Yes, stronger ties to America are necessary to counter Russia.

But now is not the time to abandon strategic autonomy. Just the opposite. Macron is right, just as DeGaulle before him was right. Yes, Europe should ally with the United States, but it also must begin to stand on its own two feet.

Why? Because the next American generations don't give a shit about Europe. In a very deep way, Europeans have not absorbed the social earthquakes that have hit the United States. In younger American minds, Europe doesn't matter. Ukraine doesn't matter.

Europe should maintain its alliances, but it also needs to plan for a future in which it depends only on itself for its defense. It needs to do this seriously and as though its life depends on it.
Two options:
a) He buys Twitter for ~35.5bn (he already owns ~9.2%) IN CASH mind you.

b) He's trying to sell all of his stocks without people saying he's manipulating the market.
the premise that it will be deflationary forever isn't right. It can't be and it will find an equilibrium or even become inflationary again as dynamics around the burn and staking play out.
There was also severe weather, and the Neptunes are sea-skimming. Sounds like the Ukranians waited for the perfect shot, as there aren't many of the things.
Thank you! Comments like these are the reason HN is so great.
Theranos had Walgreens, Nikola had GM...
Those kind of speeds are common at altitude, in the upper atmosphere.

The drag and resulting heat production at sea level would not be as easy to deal with if you were zipping along at Mach 25 right after launch. Even supersonic aircraft don't run full speed (for a whole host of reasons) at sea level.
Why don't you respond to the insurance part of my argument? Like I said, I think that's more immediately useful.
But, what if aliens start attacking Hawaii? Could we reactivate one of them then?
The article is far better summary than anything else I have read about the subject. It's amazing!

Thanks for writing it, and please update it from time to time!
Do you know what happens to explosives on sunk ships generally? Are they usually left at the bottom of the ocean, and could they have the potential to detonate?
24 ¶Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
I’m curious what threat model your first two bullets are intended to mitigate.
Which intelligence agencies do you think have the most control of the Twitter discourse?
It's certainly true that different energy storage technologies have different strengths and weaknesses. An electric car is very different from a grid battery for hour-scale cycles, which is very different from a grid battery for day cycles, week cycles, or seasonal cycles.

The question for any specific technology is: Is there a specific application where it is a better choice than any alternative?
"Keep writing, you worthless maggot!"
Coolest part of this company is the founder is a (i think high school) drop out who read some physics books and thought "this should work." Have spent some time with Jonathan on MajikBus.co and I appreciate the way his mind works.
I wouldn’t call Iyengar the best. Yoga has certainly shown me how different bodies/minds respond, engage with, like different aspects of yoga. And anecdotally, the teachers I liked most have hatha backgrounds
> - We make a special carve-out for people in that situation so that the tax doesn't apply to them.

Tax law does that all the time. Maybe you've heard of tax brackets. It's so that people who earn less pay a smaller tax rate. I don't see the trouble with that. It's applied in the other direction as well, e.g. with a maximum dollar value with medicare.
I cite Facebook as a specific example I'm aware of. There's no reason Amazon or Apple (which the parent poster indicates they use) couldn't request similar docs with the threat of an account revocation.
"If all miners do not make the switch to Proof of Stake, then there is the danger that ethereum’s blockchain might fork. A similar situation occurred in 2017, when bitcoin miners forced a fork in its blockchain by throwing their weight behind bitcoin cash. Ethereum’s founders, however, foresaw such an eventuality and programmed its blockchain to incorporate increases in difficulty levels for its mining algorithm"

https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-ethereums-difficulty-...
yeah the problem is that these are obviously the wrong questions. You behave like a doctor treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. Why not ask "_why_ did Russia invade Ukraine?" The answer is that nobody wants to deal with the inconvenient truth that the US contributed heavily to the inflamed tensions.

You present a false dichotomy. I can have sympathies for Ukraine and distrust the US at the same time. Not viewing Russia as a cartoon villain is far more realistic than what the Western media is pushing.
To me it feels like an asymmetry between progress in sensors/software vs. progress in hardware/personnel since the last major wars ?

That is, are the warships of today much better than the warships of 1950, if better at all? What about the skill and preparation of the crews?

On the other hand when I watched videos of the Javelin missile I see a lot of sensors and software that probably could have only been created recently.

I don't think such a thing could have existed in 1950 or 1970. Probably by 1990 it was possible, but I bet it's a lot better by 2010 too. Electronics got cheaper and smaller and more mobile. Imaging is way better.

So while I don't know any of the specifics, this seems like a general trend. It's going to be harder for the offensive side to take and hold territory, and maybe the aircraft carrier is obsolete in a big conflict.

We saw some asymmetry in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but it doesn't seem like the same type, since AFAIK the opponents didn't have many smart weapons.
Look at career opportunities at bloomboard.com
> What policies does your company have in place to safeguard against these sorts of exploits?

What safe guards are there from a hardware trojan? Solutions like zero trust and segmentation only go so far in a scenario like this.
> Certainly in NATO navies you always keep a layered defense for your high value targets

It looks similar to what they did with their tanks: fight with insufficient infantry support (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/03/15/in-ukraine-...)
That video doesn't even address the question. It says, correctly, that the dates have no particular meaning and are generally unregulated. It doesn't say why they're there.
Boards have been sued and won against for not taking takeover bids. So there is some precedence.
I don't know, I'm quite worried. I don't think this is as cut and try as people make it out to be.

If Russia did launch a limited tactical strike on Ukraine, let's say super low-yield, honestly not much more than the MOABs we fired off in Iraq, is the USA really going to risk Berlin, or US cities getting vaporized to defend a non-NATO country?
Los Angeles Times should stick to reporting on their area’s inflation.

It’s 2.25 for a tall Arizona Ice Tea at 7-11, Malibu.
It's crazy to me that people _still_ don't know that it's been confirmed by a "reliable" news source. The veracity of the NY Post story wasn't controversial, just the effect it would have on getting Biden into the White House. The corporate press ran cover for the Biden family to get the outcome they wanted in the 2020 elections.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-nyt-now-admits-the-bide...
Important to whom? The same power that lets a billionaire develop spaceflight can also be used to instigate an ecological disaster, roll back human rights, or unleash killer robots.
What’s New in Eth2 is a biweekly newsletter that's a good resource for tracking progress toward PoS:

https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/eth2_news

From the current edition:

Go/no-go decision on doing the Merge or postponing the difficulty bomb to be discussed on the 29th of April [2022] ACD call.

If it’s "go" then start merging the existing testnets at 2 week intervals with a view to doing the real thing in July [2022].

ACD call == AllCoreDevs meeting. Here's a summary of the most recent one (includes a link to a recording of the call):

https://github.com/ethereum/pm/blob/master/AllCoreDevs-Meeti...
Fascinating. Terrifying. Alluring. I may need this service some day.
You’ve miss-interpreted the reason for minuses.

The disagreement is with implying that both sides of war are equal.

While there are no saints, only one of them chose to start the waste (see also: Chechnya, Georgia)
Harpoons also carry a warhead about 50% larger than the Neptune, increasing the range of targets they can effectively hit. The Neptune is only designed for targets of 5,000 tons, compared to the Moskva being over 10,000. Whether it was a lucky hit on a/the magazine compartment(s), poor damage control, or combinations there of, good job Ukraine and the Neptune.
There were a lot of reports many hours before the russians acknowledged anything that the Ukrainians did it. From many different sources. Then there was the SOS captured by hundreds of regular users on the websdr source. Also, there was a captured conversion by the russian military discussing how it was done – Bayraktar took out the ship's radar and took attention away from the missiles that were launched from the shore.

Everything fits, there's no reason to believe russian propaganda now. They are just trying to save their non-existent face.
I find this fascinating, too. I'm in western Ohio near an abandoned line that connected Indianapolis, IN to Springfield, OH. The line is still very apparent in satellite photos nearly 50 years after the last bits were retired. Likewise, in the property records, the "scar" the line left on the land is clearly visible.

In a few places landowners purchased the parcels on both sides of the line and "reconnected" them, but mostly the line's legacy is a bunch of oddly-shaped property lines cutting across a grid of 80 or 160 acre fields. In those "reconnected" places it's interesting to see how the crops and soil have a slightly different appearance (or not-so-slight, in some cases).

Many of the little towns along the line have a "Railroad Street", too. The town I grew up in did, but I'm old enough to remember when the abandoned rails were still there.

Similar to the railroads leaving their mark, a few years ago I got a bit obsessed with the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct. I spent a few evenings laying in bed "flying" the line with Google Earth, seeing where the pipes diverge and following their separate paths, and seeing where they meet up again. Seeing how San Jose and Palo Alto are situated on top of the line is interesting. I'm resolved to visit the Pulgas Water Temple and any public spaces I can walk on top of Hetch Hetchy next time I'm in the Bay area.