skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Want to write a contract for where it'll be at close of market the first trading day after he announces he'll pull out? We can have break-even at Twitter being 19% down from now. You can appropriately hedge beta risk elsewhere and I'll put in $100 to induce participation. I'd prefer max $10k exposure for my side.

I can meet you in SF if you want signatures.
Assuming this isn't an outright scam; I notice they make no claims about input power.

They claim 5KW of electrical power out, but make no mention of how much power went in, or how much waste heat it generated.
I don't think Ethereum will ever switch. The miners control the chain now, POS will disrupt that. The miners can't make an orderly exit of resources or to a new coin so they will persist on the dominant PoW-Eth while PoS-Eth loses all chain resources.
Market manipulation is what I meant instead of insider trading. My point was: illegal.
C'mon - do people really vote with sales tax in mind? I'd take the EU system any day of the week. If prices for <insert regular thing I buy> go up substantially and i find out that VAT went up then I have a reasonable claim that the government is responsible for affordability.
> Lastly, the ABC is a corporate entity that is fully owned by the commonwealth (and beloved by most Australians) - tue article describes it as ‘state media’, which has sinister propaganda connotations of broadcasters in some other countries.

I’d compare ABC to PBS in America. They both are state media. I think more liberal usage of accurate terms in this way is needed. Folks ought to know who funded and produced the reporting that they consume, especially when it’s those same folks doing the funding. It seems like you’re saying that calling it “state media” is something like spreading FUD, but to object to it being said in neutral terms entirely? I don’t see who benefits from leaving that info out either.

I think the larger issues is these terms being used as dog whistles for propaganda in the first place. Those who have the power to label others as propaganda are not themselves subject to such labeling. Curious.
Well, in the United States. The author is from Australia.
AWS SNS (https://aws.amazon.com/sns/sms-pricing/)
(2015) old classic Playboy article, blocked for me.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151215044112/www.gilbertpodcas...
Like many others I was very skeptical of SpinLaunch's claims. Even with their successful demo launch you wondered if you'd be able to build a viable payload (especially one with a rocket motor, not just solid state electronics).

Though if NASA have chosen to enter into a contract them that gives a big credibility boost. It'll be very interesting to see how it goes.
You got me...
I think there's at least some value that can potentially be created. The fact that you can take out a loan or buy insurance and your counterparty is a smart contract is pretty interesting. It could seriously bring down insurance margins if you no longer have drones of people administering policies. Obviously remains to be seen how practical it is.
Unless they faked the information themselves and, instead of conning the Russian government they conned the CIA.
I recently met someone who works here, and I'm extremely skeptical of it. My impression was that it wasn't an outright scam (they have at least a few real employees), but that they were wildly out of their depth.

The founders are ex-blue origin mechanical engineers, and I think they've fallen into the classic engineers trap of thinking that problems out of their areas of domain expertise are "simple". The real kicker for me was that they had only just hired their first physicist after working on the project for several months.

Obviously I'm potentially falling into the same trap -- I don't work on fusion, and it's easy to be a skeptic. But that was my impression.
"Run commands from Markdown files" reminds me code blocks (Org-Babel) in Emacs.
If you actually had a fusion device that could be carried around in a suitcase, you wouldn't need to make claims about it, you could just show it.

It's like the monthly new cure for cancer. It's not even a "scam", just yawn. Show me some produced energy or even output anywhere close to input. If you had that you'd change the world and wouldn't need to sell it.
Have you considered that she wants to spend most of her time with the children rather than working? Maybe she does not know how to say it to you or herself but she could be looking for an excuse to move into the full time role of a mother. I would find a gentle way to introduce the option to her and even offer encouragement to see if she bites at it.
You should look at it from Putin's point of view. Escalating with the west is even less of an option. Militarily, I don't think he has any doubt about US, French and UK nuclear deterrence. Even if you take nukes off the table, if you look how poorly his troops are doing in Ukraine, imagine that against NATO, even without the US.

He might "escalate to de-escalate", i.e. make a lot of noise about escalation to intimidate Biden (so far it worked), but it can only be bluff. Whichever metric you use, the ratio of power between Russia and Europe is much greater than Ukraine to Russia.
It's an uphill battle. The best I can seem to do is to put adblockers and privacy plugins on phones and browsers, and upgrade computers with Linux.

These days, if someone's needs can be met by ChromeOS, then they can be met with desktop Linux and a browser, too. Compared to Windows, the support issues almost cease upon upgrading to Linux, as it is virtually impossible for someone who doesn't know what they're doing to break a Linux install. The slim amount of issues I've encountered can be fixed with a restart.
Japan did not adopt a form of modern capitalism until the 1800s. The Byzantine empire was never capitalist. Ethiopia did not adopt modern capitalism until it was invaded by the west. Ancient Egypt was never a capitalist society.

> by metrics vaguely comparable to capitalistic success

If you measure by quality of life I'd say it's a dramatic loser.

If you unlearn decades of propaganda and realize the technological revolution was not created by simply stealing the value of labor from the worker and siphoning that up to the ruling class, and then combine that with the understanding that global trade controlled by massive banks created the capacity to destroy alternative economic systems, you might start to reveal the truth.
WHAT? How am I supposed to make a social media calculator flashlight app without pulling in 200 random libraries and their 5000 dependencies?
> The board should state that Twitter in the hands of Elon Musk, could jeopardize its current unique and somewhat also precarious, place in social media.

But see, this point is irrelevant in this scenario. If they sell, every current shareholder gets bought out in full, they no longer have a stake in the company. He could shut it down the next day and it wouldn't affect the former shareholders, the company's future at that point is only Elon (and Twitter employees' and users') concern.

It's fiduciary duty to the shareholders, not the company itself, not the employees.
Weight is a problem for EVs, but it's not as bad for car-sized vehicles.

- Chevy Malibu (IC powered): 3,456 pounds.

- Chevy Bolt: 3,589 pounds.

- Tesla Model 3: 3,550 pounds.

But for trucks:

- Ford F-150, IC-powered: 5,684 pounds

- Ford F-150 Lightning: 6,590 pounds

- Hummer H1 (IC, discontinued): 8,114 pounds.

- Hummer EV: 9,000 pounds.

So, for a car, it's maybe 150 pounds extra for an electric, but for a truck, about 900 extra pounds.
This dichotomy is as old as the dictatorship. A king/emperor/tzar/<dictator variation #923>'s assets are the people he commands. All his value comes from taxation of the people or extraction of natural resources by the people. The people can decide to overthrow the king, but it is hard to orchestrate.
Please define "extremely rare". They're found in many products including dental floss, clothing, furniture, carpets, pizza boxes, fishing line, and only-God-knows-what-else.

It's certainly small as a mass fraction of household waste, let's say 0.01%. According to the article, European waste-to-energy plants burn 96 million tons of trash annually. So that's 9600 tons annually of fluorocarbon pollution, which will build up cumulatively in the environment because it effectively never breaks down.
That's very helpful. Thanks for explaining! It looks like the Lycoming O-540 engines on Cape Air's new Tecnam Travellers aren't on the list either.

I'm glad you think that G100UL should work in the Cessna engines and it's "just" a bureaucratic issue. Do you have any sense of what the current blocker to approval is? I found Paul Bertorelli's AVweb article a bit hard to follow.
Jordan Peterson doesn’t say anything of the sort. “Work on something truly meaningful and hard.” Is a direct quote.
Breaking out the tax is usually a way to make your customers feel the pain of paying that tax.

The goal isn't to dupe them by falsely advertising lower prices, it's to get them to support lower taxes on your business.

Likewise, it's anti-big-government politicians that want to keep sales tax separate in America.
How do you find using GSuite (etc) for family accounts? I've been considering it for a bit but I'd love to hear about your experience.
> by getting rich by doing nothing while lauding how smart you are over other people

This is exactly how I envision the dream of old world wealth you see on Downton Abbey or similar.

Get born into a minor lordship somewhere in England and spend your days educating yourself (maybe leisurely publishing a book or two) and raking in tax revenue from the commoners.
> I would argue that attempting to kill such platforms would be more detrimental, as it will push people to decentralized platforms that are even worse echo chambers

I see how this argument would be true. Thank you, that's actually quite insightful.
They are saying the occurrence of front running in a regulated market is a lesser evil compared to the absolute shitshow of scams and con games that play out in an unregulated market.
If you’re YouTube or any site, and want to stop these sort of wrappers - what’s the easiest way to do so without breaking your own site?

I find this task to be an interesting engineering problem.

A related question is if there’s an unspoofable way to detect a client.
We have a separate chat group for that. It doesn’t work perfectly but it does work well enough.
I have my own theory about the mid-life crisis.

Average life expectancy in the 18th century was around 30 years and certainly not much different in the thousands of years before. It just exploded to our modern values in the last 150 or so years. Germany introduced old age insurance in the year 1889, applying at age 70, where the average life expectancy was only 40.

I am convinced: when the members of our species used to pass away between 30 and 40 over a duration of some hundreds of thousands years (more or less after the reproduction and upbringing phase) that is somehow built into our minds and cultural awareness and souls and bodies (and probably genes). We are aware of our life expectancy and are scheduling our lives accordingly - on a subconscious level - according to our biological legacy, not today's statistical figures.

But now we turn 40, and we don't die. We go on for another 40 to 60 years, but there is no plan for that time in our souls.

In my believe, the mid-life crisis is actually an end-life crisis. It was for me, 15 years ago. I had no urge to buy a muscle car or look after younger women or whatever is considered typical for the mid-life crisis (but it might be one quite logical model to just start over with life if it doesn't end as unconsciously expected)!

In my case, I developed a very strong feeling, that I have lived my life, found my love, fathered two lovely children, seen some nice parts of the earth, liked my work, made my errors, had my woes and that if faith would hit me here and now and I would die of illness or accident, that would actually be ok. This feeling was not depressive at all and absolutely not suicidal! Just accepting, that what one would expect from life has been granted and from here on, everything else is an addon or a reward. My wife and my kids do not like me talking like this as well. It makes them afraid, that I might be tired of life.

But I am not. I still have a million ideas and plans for the future. But I realized with 45 that I will only fulfill a small fraction of them, no matter how old I will get. I made peace with it. I am not so driven any more, and less afraid of death and both are good things.

Everything you describe makes complete sense for me! Try to project it into my model of the end-life crisis: our species knows what to do until we are 40. After that, we have to invent ourselves anew. That is why you feel lost. You are! Accept the challenge, try something different, do not fall for mid-life crisis cliches and do not hurt your beloved ones on the way!
Absolutely, Bitcoin smart contracts are different than Ethereum smart contracts. What's your point? Doesn't mean one has smart contracts and the other one doesn't.
The red flag is that it is quite implausible that anything like this will be successful any century soon.
Julia can be as good as it wants, but until I can download JuliaStudio(r studio) or Juliconda(anaconda) and get to Just Work™, forget it.

I tried to use Julia, and all I got was visual studio code complaints about this and that and how the julia plugin cant detect something...ugh

The website doesn't even explain how to get started. I figured out that VScode + plugin was the way to go based of reddit.
I’m not from the US. I’m from Eastern Europe. Our grandparents survived the Red Army liberation from Nazi Germany. The Russians were much worse. This is an existential war for not only Ukraine, but whole eastern NATO flank. Putin more or less denies agency of all our countries.
Because that adds a massive amount of latency, something that is a no. 1 complaint for Bluetooth headphones.
I'm no expert myself, but my layman's understanding of some of the pushback behavioral economics has for the field of economics is relevant for your point.

Specifically, from what I've seen, behavioral economics precisely wishes to reject predicting behavior via these simple economic models in favor of more nuanced understandings of complex behaviors, derivable only through empirical observation of what consumers really do, not what they should do or a simplistic law predicts they should do.

(It's an interesting comparison to CS too.)
I get war (kind of… never fought one). But I don’t get why this war is my war. It’s a conflict between Russia and Ukraine. We have no sworn defense pact with Ukraine, except that if nuclear aggression arises from some other power, we defend them from such.

Why do I care what the Russians and Ukrainians do? Now if the American world hegemony or whatever wishes to continue to exert control over Ukraine, fine. But, I have no stakeholdership in that, and it increasingly seems that I and people like me are quite disliked by said hegemony. If they want us to support their empire, maybe they ought to cut us in on a bit more of its spoils, and give us a bit more say in its aims.
> and I think it's downright dangerous to society to force all private entities to respect it.

I would whole heartdly agree with that, but only because you added "all".

I think just as there is a balance in placing limitations of corporate freedom of association just like placing limits on free speech.

I do think that free speech is valuable enough that we should carefully consider placing restrictions on how and why large, oligopolistic corporations can exercise their right to freedom of association.

I think a lot of this can be solved with a "user's bill of rights" that protects users from arbitrary and capricious enforcement of nebulous terms by service providers.

I think most of the rest of this would be ideally solved by narrowing or eliminating the types of moderation a corporation can engage in while maintaining liability protection under section 230. Possibly with language giving special exemptions to community run moderation.
This website is incredibly sparse on information. Location: Seattle, no address. Zero info about the team, any affiliations, scientific advisory board. No references to papers, nor patents.

Even Theranos is more convincing than this.
There is. You build a network of analog cables. Use a sound board to 'switch' the channels. This leads to headphones on 3.5mm jacks, and one or more zones of stereos connected by RCA. This 'network' is as solid in 2022 as it was in 1975.
For two companies? Seems like too hand wavy of an explanation.
> I'll be honest I have no idea where you're looking.

Silicon Valley area.

At the very top of the market, yes, one can get fully custom furnitue to any spec you like, for a very high price. I know a few people who have done remodels with such custom furniture and the cost has been over 100K on the low end to closer to a million on the high end. Even with a senior silicon valley salary, that's as good as impossible.

That's why I mention that in my grandparents generation, even low-income families could afford solid quality furniture. Today it is a privilege limited to those who hit major IPOs.
If you want that to be the primary concern, start a B-Corp[1], not a C-Corp. There's plenty of successful public benefit corporations!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_Corporation_(certification)
> while PoS-Eth loses all chain resources

What do you mean by this? Miners are not needed on the PoS chain, and the PoS chain cannot be attacked with PoW resources.

The end users (people transacting in ETH and launching smart contracts) will decide which chain is valuable and which isn't.
But that is the opposite of hostile. He made an offer to the board and he did it publicly.

If it were a hostile takeover he would buy enough shares to elect his own board.
I consider myself a technical person, but opening the files on Drive is always stressful for me (fortunately I don't need to do it often). The navigation sucks (I don't see the files that I know are there), the search is the only thing that works - if I know what to search for. I wonder how many files I simply don't know I have.
When it comes to a situation like this, you can't just say you 'feel' that is the true value. They'd have to have something to back that up.
Most private schools pay teachers less than public schools in the same locale and have overall worse benefits as well.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a significant number of small or large deployments out there that use a nodejs build such as webpack, that has pulled in some kind of JSON configuration file with prod keys exposed hidden in those huge bundles.
It's really pretty rough compared to everything else I've used. I really don't feel like luarocks solves very many of my problems. A lot of gaps in there, or libraries that only target 5.1, or only luajit. Or are completely unmaintained, or have poorly documented dependencies on C libraries. etc etc.

I use lua a lot and like it fine but the build/dependency/tooling situation is a fucking mess. It exposes you to a lot of the inconvenience of C in the end.
There are varying degrees of front running and a well regulated market will generally have much less of it.

It's kind of like saying "show me a market without corruption". Obviously all markets have some amount of shady behavior, but it hardly means every market is equally corrupt.
> But the company says it'll be appropriate for smaller launch vehicles weighing up to about 440 lb (200 kg)

In this particular configuration, the rotational kinetic energy for a 200kg load would be massive and the current materials would not be able to withstand it and another issue would be the release timing through the opening, as seen on the video the margin of error would be so narrow that is likely not possible with the current technology. I hope I am proven wrong in my armchair assessment though.
It's largely a matter of where the community gathers, that ends up giving this impression.

You mention r/rust downthread - r/Julia is quite inactive in comparison. However, the places where Julia discussion actually happens - Discourse, Zulip, etc. - do contain a lot of criticisms, wishlists from other languages, roadmaps for improvements, etc. But these are not places you would randomly come across if you're not involved with Julia, like a subreddit would be.

And the scientific/academic focus of the language that you mention is actually another reason this happens. When the language's users are (primarily) developers, they (we) nitpick and think about alternate designs and blog about them for no reason at all. The average Julia user instead would just ask in the discourse/other forums, maybe complain, and then move on with their research/engineering problem. So the blog articles that end up getting posted here are most often by the core language/package developers announcing new features, breakthroughs, and other positive news.
This is exactly it. Being a part of a community brings joy, and having a positive effect on that community brings happiness.
> So, for instance, Amazon has a made-up name and our PO BOX and our "junk" number from Twilio.

If you're worried about the government prying, using a fake name on a PO box is a great way to rouse suspicion and investigations into whether or not you're doing something nefarious with the post.
It does absolutely matter if you care about countries, because "country" does not have to be how you slice your world when asked "where do you live".

You may have your family spread across the continent, on your island, or concentrated around a single town.
Twitter couldn't exist in its current form without billions from billionaires carrying it through years of not being able to fund itself. It would have had to grow slowly, probably in some decentralized form like Mastodon did with people and organizations funding their own instances and linking up through a common protocol. The world would have been better for it.

In a different universe, (for example) branches of governments run their own instances for politicians and candidates to speak on without having to worry about clashing with moderation policies that serve other use cases on other instances.
Sugar water is really really really cheap. It wouldn't surprise me if the total cost to produce a can of Arizona was under 5 cents, with a vast majority of that being the aluminum can. Management is just smart enough to accept making a little less margin in exchange for maintaining the brand.
https://lambdalabs.com/lambda-stack-deep-learning-software is an even better way to install the full stack if you want to do it all yourself. It's free.
I don’t know if you understand what ‘streaming’ means? Streaming doesn’t support large buffering… because that’s not streaming.

But more broadly, not everything can be in scope. At the time of design having 10 MB and a decompressor in earbuds wasn’t realistic.

But blaming your headphones is ignorant - the headphones implement a protocol. They don’t have control over the protocol.
There's a good Curious Droid about proximity fuses. I had no idea how important they were to the allies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0SgC78YFPc
So, because we cannot eliminate every issue with regulation, we shouldn't have any regulation?

Surely the answer is in "just the right amount" of regulation. Getting to this sweet spot is a process, but one human societies have been approaching for some time. We would be foolish to throw out all that effort because it couldn't be perfect.
I think the brilliant part was where he got 1M+ responses to his polls about the problems with Twitter. The timing for that prior to rejecting the board seat was pre-meditated brilliancy.