skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Past successes?

- Tesla loses money on every car. They make money from regulatory credit trading.

- SpaceX's Starlink satellites are involved in about 1,600 close encounters between two spacecraft every week, ~50 % of all such

- Hyperloop is impossible

- The Boring Company tunnels are deathtraps
Why wouldn't you tell the landlord you are a Brahmin?

Since they need to ask I guess that this is not something obvious.
2 people died in Chernobyl at explosion time, 28 in the coming months, 30 in the coming years.

None died in Fukushima.

As far as people's lives are concerned, the death toll of the war in Ukraine is already two orders of magnitude higher.

Economic costs are incomparable too.
It's not that binary though. Imagine you belief Twitter is worth 45.01USD but it's trading 45USD, would you throw your life savings at it (disregarding fees), no, of course not, way too risky!

The way I see it, people (and other entities!) don't think Twitter is worth X, they think there is a distribution of worth.

This means there is risk in their bet, so if I thought Twitter was worth (on average) 100USD, that wouldn't mean I would sink my life savings into it but would put in some, based on the risk and also what else I need capital for.

Also, how much one thinks Twitter is worth probably also depends on your time horizon: like the old adagium that the market can stay stupid for longer than you can stay solvent, e.g. when shorting a scam.
They’re doctors and have been through several years of academic rigor which should prepare them for reassessing their assumptions when those turn out to be wrong. I’m hardly qualified to assess this patient’s brain, but I’m family with several people who are quite qualified for this kind of reassessment of facts and I… frankly stop talking to them about things when it’s clear they’re overconfident in their assumptions. Yeah they’re human. But having a doctor tell you the reality you experience is absurd and impossible is quite a lot worse than having a lay person do the same.
We have a responsibility to future generations. Which is a really long time, considering the half-life involved.

"Secure and easily monitored" doesn't account for: Natural disasters, human error or human depravity (sabotage, shooting, terrorism etc). And what if the government breaks down for some reason? If for any reason the "securely and safely monitoring" gets neglected...
Anonymous leaked 700 GB of Russian government data
But I am learning AWS. So I'd like to go with it.
I recall that GitHub used to be localised in several languages, but no more. And I can’t seem to find any references to it anymore, either. “GitHub interface translation” gives search results about code, not about GitHub’s interface
Maybe just kick Russia off the security council?
> also usually are made of concrete or stone, not wood sticks and sheet rock

Touché
Tummo is closer to 'Kundalini' [1] than it is to Pranayama. Pranayama can be practiced safely with a little intro, but the others I believe require serious guidance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini
my api, and accessible from anywhere.
What do you call someone who thinks they’re smart enough to understand the human body but have trouble understanding a joke? Doctor.
> If an online retailer already has your payment info and shipping details, it is trivial to offer a one-click experience, is it not?

I'll add that some countries now have rules that prohibit retailers from storing the payments information of customers.

I don't know the details, but India now has such rules in place.

For retailers to store customer information (for recurring payments and whatnot) — from what I understand — they cannot directly store the card details but instead have to generate a token or something and use that.

In India, big companies (like Amazon, Netflix etc) seems to have complied, but many smaller ones haven't.
Mmh? Maybe it's because I've never touched frontend professionally in my life, but I think that if you're doing it in the UI you're doing it VERY wrong.

This logic should be purely in the DB model or very close to it. In any case the internal API should never ever list private repos of an organization a user isn't a member of, period. Stars or no stars. Follows or no follows. Why should it? There's no corner case here, if stars pose a problem, the problem isn't the stars, it's a defective model behind. Hiding things that aren't meant to be seen in the UI means putting business logic in the UI. Just don't.
Greed & ego... or serendipitous discovery?
These questionable countries are not active war zones, though. This is based on parliament resolutions that are decades old and some eu stuff. I think you are oversimplifying things.
I lived in the middle of Chicago for 4 years and never saw any crimes while I was there; littering and (harmless) drunks perhaps the worst of it.

Of course, I naturally avoided any area/time where I expected crime to occur… but I didn’t have to exert any real efforts to do so (at least partly because I had nothing drawing me to shitty areas; Devon St and chinatown were the worst areas with any draw… and they’re not too bad even at night).

Lots of ambulances passing by though. And lots of stories.

But easy enough to replicate. Cities are big places. There’s a lot of ways to experience them.
> made in Germany

Not trying to defend the parent comment going off about bouncy castle, but I have a hard time believing that statement is true.
This is the share of photovoltaic pannel production per region.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/668749/regional-distribu...
> they've been operating fine for several years

Well, it’s quite telling that the majority of big crypto hacks are uninsured. And they like to play tricks just like normal insurance companies (1). And the CEO got hacked like any random person would’ve (2).

(1) https://thedefiant.io/badgerdao-hack-insurance-payout/

(2) https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/12/14/ceo-of-defi-insu...
Same story happened to us last December :/ https://www.qovery.com/blog/we-lost-3800-stars-on-github-in-...
> See I can pick parts of a random definition off google the same way you do.

I shared the whole definition I found from the first result returned to me[1], and I didn't use Google. If you have a better definition then I would suggest that a better response would've been to share it instead of falsely accusing others of mistakes only you have made.

[1] https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-cultural-appropriation-...
I might be the wrong person to comment on this, but I would never even remotely have the idea to use any google product as part of my business other than their web search.

I don't really see the advantage this would give me over any desktop solution at all, while giving me a ton of disadvantages. Any update could destroy my companies work, and there would be nothing I could do. I can't guarantee data privacy for both myself (trade secrets?) and my customers (data protection laws?). I can't really build automated infrastructure on top of google because they could change any part of the product ever so slightly without notice and have it break things with a big crash (or maybe even worse: silently).

Infrastructure that you are in control of is better than infrastructure that you are not in control of, if the core of your business depends on it.
Thanks for this. My pensioner mother came back from the doctors yesterday with a chest infection, on top of this she has mild bronchitis. I've just sent her this exercises as I'm hoping it might improve her lung health. Although i did send her this one which is a bit easier: https://youtu.be/0BNejY1e9ik
But thanks for posting it, I never knew about this method. Just tried it myself and it rocks.
To me the likelihood of even the remaining nuclear reactors having serious accidents is higher than Russia trying something successfully against Germany. You can say to Putin: "You and what army?" It looks like virtually any NATO member state would be able to defend itself alone against the conventional army of Russia, much less with allied help.

Nuclear weapons is another topic, but those won't be affected by short term sanctions in the slightest...
The Nostalgia Pendulum: A rolling 30-year cycle of pop culture trends
To clarify for people, this isn't NASA endorsing the idea in as much as NASA just hands out small amounts of money to different ideas in many different science or engineering related spaces.

The fact of the matter is that this concept, if it works, will only launch as much payload into orbit as an Electron rocket (a very small launch vehicle), and would require payloads specially designed for the g-forces which would make them heavier. This launch concept has exchanged fuel mass for heat shield mass to allow it to survive after it leaves the spin system.

Now, one actual use case for this type of technology is if they were to build it on the moon, especially for launching things like mined resources off the surface. The launch forces would be lower as the speed requirements are lower and it would allow launching material with little to no fuel consumption as long as there is electrical power (of which there is near infinite amounts of because of the semi-constant sunlight).
i just find it awful and distracting. i have to consider what google is suggesting and whether i agree with the tonality and relevance rather than freely expressing what i want to say.
Yeah, I wish USB was designed to be a little more sturdy in general. I find it disconnects a little too easily (compared with most chargers/AC adapters), breaks far more often, and even the cables I encounter are thinner and more easy to damage.

If we're settling on "charge/power everything with USB!" I hope the next version (USB F?) holds up better to more "abuse" than charging a phone on s desk or end table inflicts.
Link broken. Remove the semicolon.

> 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

The opposite for me. I’ve broken a proprietary charge port and had to wait over a week for the replacement. Never broke a USB-C port, but if I did it’d be no big deal since I have plenty of C connectors in my cabinet. I can solder a replacement in 10 minutes.

> 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

Wait are you saying you’ve owned a laptop that charges over USB, but not USB-C? If so that laptop really was cheap trash. Why compare trash with flagship products?
Maybe OP meant it in the way that Putin wanted to just rush over Ukraine, replace the government and be done with it. That would have been a very short war at best. But that is not the war he got, so yes, he "accidentally" created the current one.
The biggest issue that is upstream is the centralization that is caused via GPU and asic.

It's fairly obvious in hindsight but the idea that everyone running a general purpose computer wouldn't recognize enough value to try and take over the network. Running your own node would be more realistic and the "user" and the "miner" would be on a much more equal footing (and likely one in the same).

Arbitrage and all of the boiler room tricks of the stock market were applied instantly. Add this the centralized power of mining farms increasing incentives and the race for lightning chains creating these black box dark pools and we are just getting up to speed with similar problems we face today in public markets.

The biggest difference is that we can dig into the details in a very convenient way which is the constant balancing act of getting people to care enough to look.

Front-running on a consensus based system where transactions are public... almost like they took a look at every system to date and picked the low hanging fruit for exploitation.
> unchecked sistemic[sic] corruption that spans for decades across the entire government apparatus

Centuries, really. The inveterate kleptocracy that is Russia goes back further than the Soviets. The only real crime that exists for the Russian elite is stealing more than allowed. That was true for the Boyars, the Nomenklatura and it remains true for the oligarchy.
A few years ago I've written my own (still experimental) in Rust:

https://github.com/volution/vonuvoli-scheme

The main usecase for this was exactly scripting and systems-programming in Scheme.
I think Paul Graham overestimates Musk’s social media influence. He’s powerful on Twitter in large part due to Twitter. Same with Trump, btw. If it were so easy for Musk to recreate the network, why spend 43B on some infrastructure? Musk knows he’s muzzled outside of Twitter.
The only concern is that you don't have any redundancy. What happens when you push an update? What if the service provider shuts down the VM to patch it?

If you are fine with your site being down for short periods of them then this approach is perfectly fine. Otherwise you'd need to set up multiple instances and some sort of load balancing between then.

Others have suggested hosted solutions for static sites (Netlify, Vercel, Github Pages, Cloudflare) and I think those would be a lot easier if you want a no fuss production solution.
Yeah. My experience with hosting a svelte site on render was just amazing. Highly recommend it
When thieves run the country, why do you think the army won't be rotten all way through and steal all they could as well filling their own pockets instead of maintaining quality? Putin caught his own tail in this.
It has more to do with profits. Companies tend to take profitable opportunities. Nuclear power isn't that profitable if governments insists on those pesky regulations.
He wants to make it a museum, at least. That's a boon to the local culture and economy if well executed.
I wasn't aware that either Hof or Nestor were academics so I'm not sure how it's relevant.

As to the accusation that they've stolen an idea, someone should outline their accusation explicitly and then, far more importantly, explain why I should care. As I've pointed out, Patanjali wouldn't (or you can point out why he would, that would be interesting).
No, that’s my entire point. When we’re talking about covering basic needs you can’t add “compared to” at the end. They’re either covered or they aren’t.
Almost every public company has a forced buy-out clause in their stock's trading and ownership rules. That is, if someone ends up owning $VAST_MAJORITY of a company's stock, they can then forcibly purchase the small fractions off at an acceptable going-private premium.

I think the threshold for forced buy-out tends to be >90%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brzozowski_derivative
One of the most annoying things is to open a thread and be forced to click all over the place to see comments rolled up under each other. You can't even search comments inside a single post until you have somehow unwound everything. Thats why I use Sync for Reddit and will logout proper if they dump 3rd party clients.
We're not talking about escape velocity though. (And if we're going to nitpick, even on an escape trajectory, the launch point is still on the hyperbola.)
Having to send your kids to Umass.
It's Pieter Levels's 'Go Fucking Do It' [1] but with imprisonment instead of extortion.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3nb_Qj3mRA&t=312s
See? Now it’s funny!
I moved from the Bay area to NYC and met my now wife after less than a month. I wish I stayed in the Bay area back then (circa 2010) .. I likely would have hit gold at least once by now. Yet ... the toil continues.
It would be nice to see more uptake of CSS’ prefers-reduced-motion. It’s perfect for this exact issue.

Personally I don’t have a problem with scroll linked transitions but the user should have the choice.
Russian state TV are losing their minds over the loss of the Moskva:

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/151476606277187585...
I've synced terabytes with Dropbox no issue and know others doing the same. All others cloud sync products I've tested are much more flaky. Google drive was the worst and had many issues supporting others who decided they must use it.

Not sure what your dropbox issue is but I'd check you have the latest client, check you have granted file folder permissions to the app if using macos. First sync takes a while but performance is good after the first sync.
Sati as an issue was orthogonal to caste.
It was more of a way to prevent rape by the Muslim invaders of the time.
I don't know about y'all, but for me, death over dishonour.
It doesn't have to be fair to you just the majority of the stockholders. True, you can reject the offer as a stockholder but the company's stock will be taken off the exchange once the 50+% stockholder decides the company will no longer be public. So if you want to ever sell you'll have to look for a buyer yourself. Imagine having all your money locked up. Not knowing when, if ever, you'll be able to get your money out. Also, if you try to go to court then you'll have to finance the suit and you'll have to have a valid reason to go to court. And to top it all as a minority stockholder you'll have very little influence over how to run the company. It's easier to sell at the price that's offered.
> it’s the value judgment of the ~75% of adults in the US who don’t use Twitter.

So 5% of all adults? Yes, I just made up that number, just like you did.
An ON UPDATE trigger for the is_deleted column would do.

Some databases also support INSTEAD OF triggers.
The article is about IMST, which is strictly about muscle strengthening. This is maybe a side effect of the Wim Hoff Method, but the WHM also has other purposes because the main mechanism is hyper ventilation and breath holding. Here is good medical explanation of what happens when practicing the WMH (by a medical professional): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6EPuUdIC1E (summary at 33:46).
> Another wrong turn has been the adherence to Porter's Five Forces as a model for product strategy ... much of which has now proven useless to many enterprises.

I'm just going to say [citation needed] here. As a former software developer, turned founder/CEO now studying an MBA to understand how to do my job better, there is a serious lack of sources here.

Porter's is a good tool for understanding the landscape any business exists in, and understanding it helps software executives understand their biggest risks. For example, people say every piece of business software is competing with internal Excel spreadsheet, so how are you protecting against these substitutes?

There are a lot of things in this article that illustrate its weakness, including the ad hominem attack on Porter himself ("If his model is so good, why did his business fail? Checkmate Porter!"), and seems like a self-promotion article for the authors. In fact all links to "better" models are bit.ly links that point back to the authors blog, while other links are standard long URLs.
Thunderf00t is not a credible source, even if he's right sometimes, it's in the "a broken clock is right twice a day" sense. So these aren't good videos.
Both are pretty bad. Navy which flagships blow up becasue of poor maintenance is a laughing stock, especially when it's not even capable of building a new one.
in the case of raidforums, was the admin going to respond to legal notices? probably not because what they were doing was not legal anyways so why bother.

>Easy way to get a domain seized is to have it not be responding to legal notices.

for such a website, seizure is ultimately going to happen regardless of response so why put themselves at more risk?
Switzerland has some advantages... being smack in the middle of the alps means nice trade routes, small population, hard to invade. They can afford "neutrality", they can afford taking advantage of their neighbors (by not joining EU but having some similar deals) because they are so small their neighbors can ignore that. Poland tried to stay neutral in WWII, by the way.

What Switzerland does is not scaleable. Small countries tend to deviate from the average. Some win, some lose.
I did something similar on my homepage a while back, albeit not nearly as clean!

Take a look! https://www.davidwparker.com/
You're missing the point.

Even if Linux were not subject to a license, a person claiming to have invented an operating system who in reality simply forked Linux without giving appropriate credit would be considered a plagiarist.

And to expect a sagacious progenitor of a millennia-old practice like Pranayama to have considered modern-day legal protections is absurd.
Then it's not free speech. It's speech with sane boundaries. Calling it free is a lie.

You are conflating the ideals of free speech and trying to merge it with realistic expectations.

The reality is free speech does not work.
With enough other data points it's enough to verify what you got.
Google's willing to spend millions to get this data for exactly that reason.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17801880/google-mastercar...
If you have a simple machine that wears out then someone will be along to fix it, if it's of any use to do so and you have the budget. The body uses the same idea.
Missile attack. On paper the Russian missile defense systems should be able to easily defeat 2 missiles like the neptune. Their CIWS etc are pretty good. On paper.

Accidental fire on board is a freak accident that’s not replicatable. Missile attack means that someone has either competely lied about their capabilities or has corrupted and sold the self defense systems. Or both.

The latter means Russian ships in general are now a way easier targets and hence smaller threats. Hence Russia has every incentive to hide this.
> It's really hard to see how Ukraine will successfully fend off a country 10x its size. (If someone has an answer as to why that might be realistic, I'm open to hear it).

Firstly, the size of a country doesn't immediately matter, it's more about the size of the army. E.g. China 50 years ago was bigger than the US, but couldn't "win" in a war with the US.

Having said that, wars are a political tool. For the most part, wars aren't about fighting until you "kill everyone" or anything like that. They are fought to achieve certain goals, and end when one side decides its goals aren't worth the price of the fight.

This is true in all situations - even in a war of conquest. Ukraine will put up a huge fight, because the goal is to stop themselves from being conquered. But there could come a point where they decide to surrender, because the death toll will be too high (or because the leadership is captured and threatened, or because the army is too fatigued to continue fighting and surrenders without the leadership, etc).

Likewise, it's possible that Russia decides to stop the fighting. This could be because they decide it's weakening the army too much (too many soldiers dying and munitions being used up). Or it could be because internal public opinion is too heavily against the war. It could even be for reasons that are only internally visible, like that Putin starts feeling that his position is threatened because of the war.

All Ukraine has to do is to keep up their resistance long enough for the war to not be worth continuing from Russia's side. Or for the rest of the world to decide to help more than they are, which is why Zelensky's main goal is to keep the front-and-center in the West's consciousness. How long that is (if it's even possible) nobody knows.
At some point this concern becomes invalid in my book: Take democratic elections — hiding the rules of how elections work, because you are afraid someone might game them would be absurd. Because the point of democratic elections is to get results that most people can accept and for this transparency and simplicity is crucial. If it would turn out someone is gaming the system it would be time to change the rules and/or how they are enforced.

Now you can't really equate Reddit with an democratic election, but places like those are the closest we have come to an public square in the online world and hiding the mechanisms which decide who gets how much visibility is not without effect (on the trust within the system).