skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conspiracy theorists believe in things like the Mandela Effect and the existence of alternative realities. With this, you can give them all the proofs you want and they can simply claim that history has been altered.
The issue isn't with the top 1%. It's the top 0.01%, which make a big chunk of that 20% and pay almost nothing in tax.
That is indeed the perspective I was looking at if from. But you are right.
The utility of a dollar is not constant.
That's why spinlaunch is flinging a whole rocket high into the air rather than just the payload.
>EDIT: It is quite possible that Ukrainians knew some kind of weakness to the ship that they exploited during the attack.

not really. If they could they would hit the cruiser's anti-ship missiles - that would sent the ship immediately down instead of the whole fire/towing story. You just can't always hit that precisely from like 30 miles distance coming at transonic speed, and who knows what defense measures were activated by the ship.

If anything, the weakness exploited here is the Russian poor state of combat readiness. The ship was mostly hanging around there for more than a month. All that time they were supposed to man the radars and keep CIWS/etc. combat ready - no way for Russian Navy. Maintaining combat readiness is a big issue even for shorter time frames - for example in 2008 while guarding the assault ships convoy on the way to Georgia "Moskva" was hit by the very brave and brazen unexpected night attack by Georgian small ships. Fortunately for "Moskva" back then the Georgians didn't have any weapons except small caliber artillery (it is really hard to imagine the courage of those Georgians to perform such an attack - just 4 small ships against that overwhelmingly large Russian Navy force. One of those Georgian ships was sunk by Russian anti-ship missile).
The disclaimer doesn't really matter, as 1) we wouldn't really expect that many people to read it and 2) it is going to get used in a ton of contexts without that disclaimer... such as in the headline of this Hacker News post. I can't make a company "Apple Computer Backstage" and just put a little note on my website that says "Apple Computer Backstage has no involvement with Apple Computer". This project simply should not have "YouTube" in its name... or, if it absolutely must, it at least needs to be on the other side of some kind of preposition. This insistence upon using other peoples' trademarks in the names of third-party clients based on adversarial interoperability--something that the company often has every reason to "throw the book at" as it is inherently hostile--is what ends up killing the vast majority of these projects over time. This isn't "in for a penny, in for a pound": you need to carefully choose your battles, and flagrantly violating someone's trademarks is going to be your weakest link as it is such low hanging legal fruit and doesn't actually buy you anything.
Or they contracted it out to an agency which then assigned someone to do whatever they could in 2 weeks.

React Native says web developers are automatically highly qualified app developers.
We don't know today how much help they had. e.g. perhaps a live KH-12 feed is handy for guiding a simple missile to a moving ship.
Whatever amount (or rate) required to restore the USA's 1970s era gini coefficient of ~36.
"Ukrainian soldiers on Snake Island, this is Russian Warship Moskva, surrender yourselves or die"

"Russian warship Moskva, go fuck yourself"

Then Moskva opened fire. Everyone on the island was (edit) captured.

Guess where Moskva is now?

At the bottom of the ocean. The Ukrainians are so badass.
I believe the comment is referring to the part of the report which explains the 3.4% figure is based on taxes paid relative to net worth growth. Specifically, it says :

“As we showed last year, the richest avoid income when they can. Then they pay very little in tax when it’s measured against their growing wealth. The top 25 wealthiest Americans got $401 billion richer from 2014 to 2018, but paid just $13.6 billion in federal income taxes, a “true tax rate,” as we called it, of 3.4%.”
Not our fight? Have you heard of Chamberlain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement
I often wonder if you could make something like a Reddit clone or image board use the Usenet network model.

I imagine that it’s hard now that full service ISPs are so rare. Paying extra for access is probably not something many people would want to do, even though it would probably make for more healthy and diverse discourse than anything that always needs to be advertiser friendly.

But the greatest obstacle is probably that many users and service providers would consider the inability to ban someone across the whole network to be a bug rather than a feature.
Winter much? You had a valuable post, too bad you had to maghat it.

Here's my plug for a nice rails-trail, even in a "Red" state: https://bikecowboytrail.com/
Slavic speaker here, “Военная” looks like the adjective derived from the “war” noun. So not “war”, but kind of like, “war-ful operation”, or “combat operation”.
Zkverse – Introduction to zero knowledge proof
It is especially frustrating to use when Google while coding. I've noticed an increase in SEO sites on Google that seem to just scrape Q&As from the internet and regurgitate them[0]. I've recently started trying other search engines like DuckDuckGo and You.com and thankfully haven't had any issues with these sorts of sites popping up as results. It makes debugging 10x faster not having to sift through so many fake answer sites.

[0] https://quick-adviser.com/how-do-i-use-google-calendar-in-dj...
Streamlit and Gradio are both great tools to build web apps, but with different focuses:
* Gradio is designed to build demos for machine learning models very easily, and as such is more opinionated but faster to use.
* Streamlit takes longer to learn and use, but is more flexible and lets you build entire dashboards

There are other differences as well. For example, Gradio uses the default Python interpreter, whereas Streamlit uses its own. This means you can run Gradio apps in jupyter notebooks, etc. whereas I don't think you can do that with Streamlit
> and why Ukraine is getting Harpoon missiles from UK if they have their own.

Because missiles are not a renewable resource, and the more they have the more they can fire?
Kula (YC W22) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (London)
It's not. They made way over 180x as much money as the average person.
Musk already proposed a small fee per user to verify them. This would add a cost to bots, which would dramatically reduce the numbers. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-musk-twitter-dogecoin.ht...
uh, tass.ru is not the most unbiased of sources here. Why are we linking to it and not say, someone a bit more neutral (for example, wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Moskva#Sinking)
Quote from the Moscow-based think tank, the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies:

“The flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva cruiser, was indeed attacked by the Neptune anti-ship missiles from the coastline between Odessa and Mykolaiv,” it said, adding that a drone distracted the ship before the missiles hit. [emphasis mine]

Ref: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/14/ukraine-russ...
Our latest release should have more clear language on airports and 'All London Area Airports' as opposed to 'City of London Airports'. The point about multiple airlines should also be addressed.

Your point about at a glance determination of the departure/arrival airport is really good. I expect to have a UX enhancement for that next week. Currency and manually selecting multiple airports are still a fair ways off.
Late to respond, but 1600 x 1200 was the default resolution on my Trinitron. I believe the max preset resolution was 2048 x 1536 @ 75hz. So it was able to display 1920 x 1080 letterboxed just fine. I wish I never gave it away, but I sure don't miss moving it!
Why is Twitter important enough to require democratic stewardship? Lots of people don't use Twitter; it's the least used platform among all the other social media companies. When you're thinking about stewarding capital democratically, think about where the lines are, and why. The critique I'm reading behind the lines here is that Twitter, despite being a private institution, has a large amount of impact on society and so should be subject to democratic oversight. I'm not sure that's the reality; Twitter is a failing business with a stagnant, albeit highly engaged, userbase. It's unclear to me why we should subject Twitter to democratic control for the good of its small userbase. If anything that critique would be more applicable to something like Facebook in the US or WhatsApp in other countries (HK, India, etc) which actually have come to take a sort of infrastructural role in communications. Twitter does not have this role. Should the government have stepped in during the Tumblr acquisition?

That's the tricky thing with making the case to steward corporations democratically. Just for example, my parents don't know anything about Twitter except its name. I think they would find the government regulating Twitter to be an overreach of democracy simply because it's not something they know or even care about.
More along the lines of the radar for most of it's systems point forward, leaving the rear much less protected by anti-missile tech.
Something that rarely gets addressed in these discussions is why Ethereum even has fee market to begin with instead of a cheap FIFO model which ideally would be more fair.

To answer that I would invite anyone to try using a blockchain under heavy load without any way for users to prioritize transactions. What you will find is the network becomes vulnerable to transaction spamming; possibly to point of breaking consensus making it so nobody can transact at all.

MEV is a consequence of a design decision to address this. And that's not to say Ethereum has everything figured out and a better FIFO model can't solve this, but afaik this is the current state of things.
Something is really off under phone number validator. I can't type my 9 digit mobile phone number for +48 (Poland).
Not that I have any reason to doubt it, but is there a chain of custody for the dental records too? Also do we have a chain of custody proving the keepers of the chain of custody were themselves trustworthy? etc etc etc

A fool can ask more questions than even the wise can answer, which is why conspiracy theories are so persistent.
You are not communicating in good faith, changing my words and their meanings, in an effort to promote your dogmatic view. Ironically it is this, not the platform, that is the root of the problems that seem to bother you. Good day!
There's no perfect solution, but you can make it painful. One solution I've seen, which only works in a server-side rendered site, is for the server to generate a random name for each form field being rendered. The mapping of random id to real field name is kept in the user's session information server-side, so the translation is then done server-side as well whenever the user performs an action.

At that point anyone writing a library like this would need to actually pull in the rendered page on which the user is supposed to be navigated, scrape the field names off of that (which won't be easy), and only _then_ could they perform the form action.

But if you're a big enough site, someone will likely still take the time to do it.
I've been using R since beta and Julia is the first thing that I've seen since then in numerical computing that reminds me of that time.

Julia still has a lot of empty library space compared to R or Python, and isn't perfect, but my guess is it will catch up. R did when it was being compared to SAS, fortran, C/C++, lisp, and so forth.

I'll be honest and say that I wish something else more general-purpose (to the point of say, having a bootstrapped compiler) would be in its spot but I can't really complain right now. Maybe something else will catch up.

I think for me personally is that R and python is a bit in denial about its performance limitations when it comes to hard problems. You pretty much have to drop down into C/C++ to address them, and for certain things, julia really does do many times better time-wise, without the weeds of C/C++. I think there's some people (myself probably included) that are tired of being forced to choose between the C/C++ and R/python worlds. I think there is a bit of overhyping and/or cult-like nature of julia but I also think some of it is trying to convince people that you don't have to choose between expressiveness and performance.
With the direction housing is going relative to all other expenses, having a spare bedroom and a mortgage free home to inherit is becoming the equivalent of trust fund money.

In Boston, The value per bedroom to be ~300-600k dollars depending on location. This value is appreciating at ~8-20% per year in the current environment. If this trend were to continue for 30 years, a parent owning a 2-bedroom stands to impart 5 million+ to the child inheriting that property.

Obviously (hopefully), this trend can't continue - but having a free place to sleep is becoming a massive financial leg up. In many cases, this has become equivalent to the classic example of a "trust fund kid" from prior years. With most home owners earning money from their primary residence on paper for the last decade, simply providing the down payment for a child's home will yield a million dollar+ asset difference over 10 years compared to renting.
China's aspirations go far beyond Russia. They will not be content with vast reaches of methane burping tundra as their international policy showpiece. They want true superpower status and to set the tone for the world order. They will wait decades more if they have to.
I think their basic idea is sound, it'll probably eventually function. My concerns are if it'll be worth it, since there's a trade-off being made between fuel mass and heat shield mass, and at least based on Scott Manley's summary video this week, the rocket with the heat shield is close to the same mass as the Electron rocket. In which case I'm not sure the complexity of SpinLaunch is worth it.

Edit: the video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Phy3n_S3ng

and a more honest and detailed look at the company, again from Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAczd3mt3X0
China has a technocratic communisim which embraces capitalism since the 1970s. That includes the learnings and notes from a 5,000 year old administrative bueracracy corps formed by qishihuang of the first ming dynasty. China is doing great (today), however poor planning as recently as the 1970s lead to widespread food shortages and people selling their kids to butchers for cannabalism (so it still has capitalism is my point). I like china personally, it's not a utopia, but it is closer to utopia than anything I have experienced in the usa.
greatest NIMBYs in the world. richard mlynarik's latest grade separation crayons leave palo alto and atherton untouched, which I find hillarious
I'm not sure I follow; it's an advantage that it doesn't work well on Windows?
Stop complaining. I am the same age as you, plus or minus a year. I am homeless, destitute, and broke. No assets at all, no retirement at all. Not even a car, or even a bicycle. I don't have a bank account. I was top of my class in (engineering major at a t{1,2} uni). Failed startup, sabotaged startup, victim of crimes and false criminal accusations. Now, no wife, no future. I fight suicidal urges constantly and keep a method handy in case things get bad enough. My means to survive are limited to none, and my future is bleak.

I write this comment to you from a public library with no clean clothes, food stamps that will run out well before they refill, a disability that cannot be properly treated, and a totally ruined career trajectory.

Stop fucking complaining. Cherish what you have. Focus on your physical health. Go walk 10 miles a day -- EVERY DAY -- for a year. Yes, that is over 3,500 miles. Get good shoes and stretch often; eat clean. Flush those damn meds in the process. Then report back.
> They will never raise the price higher than people are willing to pay or else they won't sell the product at all

That isn't true, at least for some definition of "people". They will raise the prices until selling is profitable even if most people aren't willing to pay that, since there will be some who want the product more who pay the premium. If it was profitable to sell for the lower price they probably would make more money thanks to higher volume though, which is why they had the price originally.

Supply vs demand isn't always right, but it is closer to right than wrong in most cases. You can look at profit margins to see how well supply/demand works in a specific field, in software supply/demand doesn't exist no. But in most fields profit margins doesn't look like that, they are sub 10% meaning that for every 10 dollars you pay less than 1 dollar goes as profits and the rest goes to pay for the service you bought, that wouldn't be true if prices usually followed what people are willing to pay instead of being a mix of supply/demand.
Perhaps. The reason I hav the suspicion is because it seems like Russia benefits the most in this situation from have a narrative against Ukrainian refugees and conflating Ukraine’s issues with Syria’s issues.

Logically, there are so many differences between the two populations it wouldn’t make sense to actually make a racism claim (eg, Syrians were high percentage young male vs Ukrainian families; Syria over multiple years vs Ukrainians in weeks; 8M Syrians vs 1M Ukrainians; Syrians travel across multiple countries far away vs Ukrainians in neighboring countries; we’re only weeks in for Ukraine vs years for Syria; etc etc).

The two situations are very different so comparing the two and then saying that the reason is racism seems pretty silly. So I think “what’s more likely, silliness or Russian bots?”
they have only one battery which seems to have just become really operational.
> Then Moskva opened fire and killed everyone on the island.

I understand they didn't die and were just taken prisoner. See: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088593653/snake-island-sailo...
Its a cruiser. Which means the ship was loaded with anti-missile missiles, anti-missile RADAR, and anti-missile CIWS.

The fact remains that the Ukrainians killed an anti-missile cruiser, with... a missile. That's impressive. Something horribly wrong has happened to the Russian anti-missile defense systems.

That suggests that the Ukrainians know about a weakness to the Russian missile defense systems... a blindspot where the RADAR wouldn't pickup enemy missiles perhaps? In any case, maybe its not so surprising, Ukrainians built the ship after all.
I dunno if Sadhguru is the best guide when it comes to depression: https://www.altnews.in/depression-the-myths-falseness-of-sad...
What is your monthly twilio bill?
Initial Train Loss: 5.9414
Initial Test Loss: 5.9414
Took: 175.90 seconds
Train Loss: 0.0108
Test Loss: 0.0108
Took: 183.89 seconds
Train Loss: 0.0016
Test Loss: 0.0016
Took: 188.95 seconds
Train Loss: 0.0010
Test Loss: 0.0010

SimpleChains is about 0.5 seconds on this computer, about 5 seconds to compile. So you're right, it is slow, too slow, like 300x faster than Jax, and I suspect something is wrong with the Jax script. It should probably be closer to like 2.5x or so because of memory handling and vectorization stuff, but not any slower than PyTorch.
Keep in mind that money is not stuff. We can take all the rich peoples money and give it to poor and middle class - but this will not create one single potato. Instead we just have people spending more money on exactly the same amount of stuff.

You might suggest that all that money will cause people to produce more stuff - but whatever we produce comes instead of producing something else. We don’t have a large pool of non-workers that would suddenly become productive.

Giving poor and middle class people a bunch more money will simply drive inflation, empty shelves and lower quality overall. Which is exactly what we got with COVID related assistance.
As a fellow hammerspoon user who is not smitten with Lua’s syntax, I would really appreciate seeing your config :-)
The Economist [0] (paywalled) says the factories making the Nautilus missiles have been heavily bombarded and that the Ukrainian military doesn’t seem to have many of these missiles. I guess they were just very carefully choosing their target and the time to strike?

[0] https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/04/14/ukraine-claims-t...
Average age was less due to high infant mortality rate. A lot of people did end up living in their 60's and 70's
Kind of true, but only one of the sides is instigator, and tries to repeat kaliningrad‘s cleansing.
I love that you are crowdsourcing data from several friends and family members. We need this for most of the SaaS world!
Kubernetes cost reporting: see costs by namespace, label or service
So basically, unpaid volunteers.
> Whereas if you start with the popular platform and progressively remove moderation, you end up with different effects, because you still have the core, non-bad-actor population.

Pretty sure that will just let bad actors back in and drive the good faith users away. You could be underestimating the number of normal users a single bad actor can drive away.

Even when you remove the more centralized moderation, there still have to be some mechanism there to remove the bad actors.
No board is going to accept a low-ball offer, and that assumes Musk is even seriously offering and not pulling another stupid stunt.
Twitter can control what who can post and who cannot (remember Donald J Trump being banned?).

Twitter can control what is being read by deciding what is promoted by their algorithms and what gets buried down.

These are just few examples. We can't pretend that Twitter is a fully decentralised service and that there's no one pulling the strings.
incredible! gives sysadmin type folks a way to uplevel managing infra without overhead of learning n-number new languages (terraform, even bash or python etc)
I wish G.R.R.M paid a visit there
Seeing as it sank many hours after it first caught fire, I’d imagine it was its own ammunition that caused the big fire (alongside fuel, lubricants etc).

What set its own ammunition on fire is the follow-up question. Seems like the Ukrainian missile, though after what we’ve seen, nothing would surprise me.
>The warship itself was a creation of the USSR, but has more to do with Ukraine's manufacturing prowess than present-day Russia.

>The mighty warship was created by Ukraine

The independent Ukraine with all its "manufacturing prowess" was unable to finish its sister ship Ukraina for 30 years. It got almost sold to Russia in 2010.

>brought down by Ukrainian missiles

With a tinsy bit of help from the NATO radars and surveillance drones.
As a former naval officer can you help us understand the capabilities here, as there are some odd details emergying:

1) Do ships truly have good defences against Harpoons etc. these days? If 1 or 2 were sent a ship is there a decent chance they'd be neutralized?

2) There's indications Ukraine was flying a drone to distract them possible have their radars not on the right thing, firing missiles from behind. Does this remotely make sense i.e. radar coverage? Or possibly even just overwhelming/confusing the ships operators a bit?
Yes, that's their point – use regular rockets for the squishy humans, and spin launch the non-squishy bits at high-g.
turns out the garrison was captured and later exchanged in a prisoner swap, so they made it out alive :)

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088593653/snake-island-sailo...
Absolute idiocy going on with Elon, man is sorta like Kanye but also the richest in the world and has no verifiable mental illness yet
I am absolutely on the side of the Ukraine and the West, but that is too simple. We are also post-truth. I think we are much closer to the real truth than Russia state media, but the president calling Ukraine a genocide is inventing a new definition for the term.