skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author does not understand tactics. Babylon fell when the river Euphrates was diverted and the Medes and Persians marched under the gate and killed the sleeping garrison. Wars are won with tactics more than weapons. It is not the number of weapons that are used that makes the biggest difference but how they are used.

There are a lot of scientists here. Imagine what a hundred million volts and hundreds of thousands of bare energized light ion coulombs will do to household wiring. Think electrical fires for thousands of miles. Anything with Romex is going to glow red hot and light the walls on fire. This has never been openly discussed before. I thought you might like to know before civilization is burned to the ground.
But they're destructive enough to be awful for all of us even after you remove exaggeration, so let's not soft pedal the idea of ever justifying them in any war...

Other than that, this is a great writeup in how it dissects the technical details of a nuclear war and puts them into perspective.
> It might feel "overengineered" to people outside the Japanese society...

I think the tone behind that word is more about being impressed by the thoughtfulness, and not at all derisive dismissal. If anything, I might detect a note of self-consciousness in the video's title-writer, perhaps a little embarrassment about being so impressed.
Some of the predictions were made to support "Non pharmaceutical interventions" which served purposes completely other than "public health."

Lockdowns and masks are purely theater and ineffective against an airborne virus that transmits between rodents and humans easily. Saying so 2 years ago was not "misinformation" or "attempted murder, nor is it today.
> because the cost of living in their original city would be too high

No! That's not what OP said. He talked about the problem of _a change_ in the height of the tax on the same land over time and this making it become too expensive.

That's not the same thing, because while the land tax would not cause such a problem (as you correctly said) but rather improve the situation due to more efficient use, the problem of _change_ stays.
> Windows 11 is a pure attack on my freedom, my privacy, and my productivity

Insofar as this is true, how is it not true in such a way that these facts merely constitute continuations of problems that already existed with Windows 10?

> No need to upgrade.

Given that Windows 10 will eventually not get security updates, there certainly is a "reason" to upgrade. You have the right idea with switching to Linux, I guess. That is a solution insofar as Microsoft is effectively offering you an all or nothing deal: either accept Windows as it stands, or use something else. Anything else is basically just a delaying action, and it's important to recognize that using Windows 10 is already a compromise in the areas you're talking about.
Depends on the language. In C# they most definately not only syntactic sugar.
It would be quite absurd to dismiss a candidate based on the editor and yet I find it more important that a particular cloud provider, which quite often is a requirement.
> The keywords async and await should give us the same intuition that the then does in the third. But I’ll wager for many engineers it doesn’t.

It does.
Agree that try/catch is verbose and not terribly ergonomic, but my solution has been to treat errors as values rather than exceptions, by default. It's much less painful to achieve this if you use a library with an implementation of a Result type, which I admit is a bit of a nuisance workaround, but worth it. I've recently been using: https://github.com/swan-io/boxed.

By far the greatest benefit is being able to sanely implement a type-safe API. To me, it is utter madness throwing custom extensions of the Error class arbitrarily deep in the call-stack, and then having a catch handler somewhere up the top hoping that each error case is matched and correctly translated to the intended http response (at least this seems to be a common alternative).
Not sure what is going on with those URL params, but I see results just fine at https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Atass.com and in any case an easier way to do things is to not use a site search but just put the domain or name in the query like 'ukraine tass' and something from that site will usually come up on top.
It is not as if he Yishan was hitting the character limit on the individual tweets either, he was using the breaks for dramatic effect, like Shatner putting pauses in his speech.
> I'm also curious how much they profited on this scheme, and how much capital they had to amass to get it started. It seems like a big investment and a lot of hard work by a lot of people! It's too bad they were using it to defraud people.

Every time a report like this comes out I wonder if the stock market is of any actual value to society. One answer people have given me is that companies can use it to raise money for future ventures, but is that actually true? Most of the times I hear of IPOs they seem like cash outs rather than raising capital.
The term widely used is "hosted language"
This is a worthy idea, although hardly groundbreaking.

Over a hundred years ago[1] economist Henry George was advocating for a “single tax” on economic rents, from land to intellectual property. The idea being that those who own monopolistic rent extractors (only the owners of the land can use it to make money, etc) tend to be wealthier, and taxes on economic activity like income and sales tend to fall disproportionately on the poor.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George
Ask HN: Article arguing Platform Layers are more important than Network Effects
Hi HN,

A few months ago I read a great article explaning why controlling the underlying platform is arguably more important than network effects.

They had an example like this, explaning that Facebook does not have their own base layer:
iPhone (Apple) -> App store (Apple) -> Facebook (Meta)

I can't find it now in my bookmarks. :(

Any ideas?
I'm not sure that's true <edit, snipped out a preface I had about my not-racist self, as after writing the whole comment I don't think I need to fear looking like a racist justifying their jokes, though perhaps I will look like someone who can't write a funny joke>

A joke about racism could be in the form of a story where "Person A says racist thing (that we don't get to hear), then Person B hits them". Sure, that's nowhere near funny enough to be called a joke, but it is simultaneously about racism while surely not being remotely racist?

I appreciate that a lot of the time people will define a joke as "about racism" while ignoring the fact that it ALSO contained racism - after all, if the actual racism in the joke isn't funny then why are you making the joke be about racism at all? - but I've definitely heard off-hand jokes that were about racism without having any racism in them (either in content or intent).

Not to mention that if you make a joke about racism that gets directed against your own race, it's hard to see many people viewing that joke as racist in itself.
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I don’t understand, you say $400k is nothing, but then say he would have made money from the speaking circuit regardless, as if he didn’t do just that, and as if taking vast sums from powerful corporate interests whose interests he’d manifestly served during his time in office isn’t the definition of corruption. I’ve read claims that he makes about 50 speeches per year, which seems plausible, given that Bill and Hillary Clinton made 729 speeches between 2001 and 2016 for a total of $153 million ($210k average).

See: https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/hillary-clinton-bill...

I want to go back to the $400k speech to the healthcare industry. First, the notion that this isn’t corruption because he made so much more money in a less unseemly manner is pretty curious. Does it not then follow that the very rich, so long as their original fortunes are not ill gotten, are incapable of corruption in principle ? Second, $400k is precisely the annual salary of the President(!). For maybe an hour of work. It’s not just egregious, it’s super on the nose. Third, imagine he’d put every bit of political capital at his disposal into the fight to create a single payer system, and against the odds (and the money of those executives to whom he gave the speech) succeeded. Do you think the healthcare industry (or the part that’d still exist) would still pay $400k for an hour of his time?
It changed over time. Almost everyone vaccinated who was 40 and under and boosters have been done with Pfizer/Moderna. The adenovirus vaccines were used mainly early on for higher age groups and at-risk groups getting initial doses.

In any case, the virus in the Oxford vaccines couldn't replicate and was a chimp virus that people hadn't been exposed to previously, so they would obviously notice if that specific virus started circulating.
Facebook’s race-blind hate speech practices came at expense of Black users
Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai is the face of NBA's uneasy China relationship
Russia Justifies the Murder of Ukrainians
I don't think that's how it works. Maybe in the beginning that's true, but once things have settled, an increase in land tax also means an increase of rents. Even though for high buildings this increase is split, it still has an effect. And, if the building is really tall and the tax split across many parties, it also means that the tax will be very high, since you wouldn't build such a tall building on land that isn't very valuable.

In the end the OP has a point. And even if this point alone is certainly not major and would ve a reason to drop the concept of a land tax, it's also relevant enough to warrant a serious discussion about it imho.
Governments waste money on things which “we” do not agree.

Noticeably absent from your list is education, which I am not implying is intentional nor do I wish to say you are against funding it.

If the function of government is to help run a safe orderly society, not funding that seems to be a mistake. Now we’re adding to the list, and there is of course defense, and oh, the FAA as airplanes crashing is a bad idea. And don’t forget the SEC, FDIC, have to protect the financial sector.

And here we are.
Sounds legit. Also gives me a look at the real day-to-day that I can expect. No contrived code, just real production code at the company, please. That way I can avoid the great waste of life that is: thousand line functions without tests.
You might enjoy this

https://dynomight.net/alcohol/
>> with cryptocurrency you still have middlemen. To whom are you paying fees to clear your transactions on your dog-slow, unscalable, extremely inefficient network?

True, but that's as close as you'll get to P2P for a currency. Still, there's thousands of btc nodes and anyone could theoretically run one... unlike "just one bank" or "just one Mastercard".

It is slow, and inefficient precisely because there's no central authority (lool up Bizantine Generals problem). It has scaled extremely well for what it actually is.

Some people don't seem to understand this and compare it with, say VISA transactions.

>> It's not like it's an actual currency that you can buy things with.

It is. I can pay someone to build a website using bitcoin. Or, I can buy a car using bitcoin. You just need to agree on a number.

>> How exactly is someone supposed to convert their Syrian Pounds into cryptocurrency

You can always buy bitcoin from an individual in exchange for Syrian pounds. It's like bartering.

You can sell it back to an individual even if exchanges don't work.

>> It's mainly speculative investment surrounded by enormous hype.

That's just a byproduct. For example, I don't "save in bitcoin", I just use it for its intended purposes when I have to make a purchase.

By the way, my govt said exacty the same about the black market of US dollars, because people here use them to protect themselves from a quickly devaluing currency (>60% yearly inflation) and to avoid the corrupt govt control over their money (enormous taxes in exchange for nothing).
> He will still make half a billion

These paper profits are hard for him to realise, since he has to sell 9.2% of Twitter's stock without the price falling. Given the current price depends on his claimed intent to takeover, the market will react swiftly to any evidence that he is in fact reducing his stake.
Yeah, strangely I never saw someone speaking about the evil Azov battalion ever mention the Wagner group.
This reminds me somehow of Haiku/senryu poems:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
I was really hoping this article would discuss the benefits of using raw generators over async/await.

By using async/await, we are inherently limited by the flow control because we are forced into await resolving promises.

This is why libraries like redux-saga[0] or cofx[1] use generators.

https://redux-saga.js.org
https://github.com/neurosnap/cofx

Generators provide much better flexibility over flow control and allow us to treat side effects as data.
I just looked it up and the difference is about 2 years? Apparently the difference is spending is 15x or more. I also think many Americans are kept in a bad state of health for a long time in this healthcare system, and that older Chinese might have a slightly lower life expectancy while also being in better health.
I think it's kind of neat the way that it fails. It would be very easy for someone to accidentally poof and it's been factory reset if they didn't know how to handle this. I'm talking four mis-keystrokes easy. And a puzzle to solve in case it has fallen into the wrong hands? Sign me up, I guess!

I miss updates from GalliumOS, I guess it's time to move on, but I don't know if I could ever get all of the nice comfort features they built into their distro to be fully replicated on any other modern Linux distro of any kind that isn't specially focused on being a Linux distro for Chromebooks, like Gallium was!
One thing I really like async/await for is you can use them in for-loops. It makes it significantly easier to do async work in what was previously very synchronous.
I avoid Javascript outright because async/await/promise is confusing to me. I blame it on being a PHP Programmer and likes things to run serially.
I don't find the first example convincing at all - to me await clearly indicates you are going to be blocking until the result arrives.
That is not the war Germany started but the war Germany plays a significant role. You are so great guys in creating things but here in UA there are some claims that Germany created a warlord Putin... Btw Germany is significantly more northern then we and I think at least they need more gas for heating than we. Would be nice if Germany finds a powerful source of electricity for burning less gas at least for that.
Why doesn’t the telephone company need to deplatform people to “avoid shitstorms”?
heh, that's literally the most relatable commentary in this whole topic
Look at an existing business. find problems that are too different for them to take on, but valuable. solve if for them. sell it to them.
I use the mnemonic "cancel-quit" for exactly that reason.
"stock market surged"

Stock market is not the economy, you average citizen could be starving whule stock market could be all-time-high.

Bitcoin also surged
You can't talk about async await without talking about try, catch, and finally.
I don't think async+await+try+catch+finally is simpler than promises in any way.

I don't find anything simple or clean about imperative error handling.
Exactly. All it's saying is that you can do whatever you want with your land, as long as you can afford to.

It forces landowners to account for the opportunity costs they impose on society by not utilizing the land optimally, even if (and especially if) those costs change over time.
How many companies have you worked for in your career? How many different places have you lived? Different experiences?

I've found that ideas for new apps or products come from my previous jobs and from things that I see as 'missing' or weak in these jobs. From my way of life and things I see as 'missing' there. And from my partners work and things I see as she talks to me about it.

I work as a contractor and I've worked for 10 or so companies in the past 8 years. At almost every company I've found things that don't work well and sometimes ideas for products to build.

We've bounced around a lot between Spain, the Canary Islands, and Ireland during Covid and I have some ideas based on that for companies that should exist but don't.

Ideas flow from diversity of experience and from where those experiences intersect. If you've worked for the same company for 10 years, lived in the same place, and done the same things every week and month, you lack that diversity.

I'm currently building a tool for developers working with healthcare APIs. ( https://vanyalabs.com/ ) The idea came to me a few weeks into a new contract working for a healthcare company last year. It's a big app, but it's not too big for one developer to make a start on.

edit: As for search engines, I was thinking about building a search engine for finance / private equity companies a few years ago. Very specific and very niche, but something that I felt my partner and her company would benefit from and pay for. (the idea is still an idea) Around the same time I met a guy who was working for a 2 person startup building a search engine for medical workers.
Bristle (YC W21) is hiring engineers to prevent gum disease and bad breath
Yes, the whole thread reads something like “we need to suppress our ideological enemies because they are dangerous” while being highly vague about who and what he means exactly.

Notice he begins the thread by specifically naming his ideological enemies who deserved ruthless suppression (Christians against degenerate media) but implies it was ok because it was 25 years ago.

Also he never really defines how “shitstorms” hurt platforms exactly.
One could reproduce a similar effect by surrounding your query with double-quotes on Google.

> Return search results by randomly selecting an exact string match from the index.

It could potentially surface results that you could not have found otherwise. A random dump of links, each one's relevance you must determine on your own. Or another way to put it: you do the ranking. Not a very fun idea to most.
There is also evidence to suggest that diets with lots of vegetables are good for auto-immune disease by lowering inflammation.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-weight/...

Have you tried the Mediterranean diet?

The most ethical diet that includes meat, in my opinion, is eating mostly plants and then hunting your own meat. Most people also don’t need nearly as much meat as they think they do. 1-2 servings per week could be sufficient - which could be easily covered by fishing or hunting a few times per year and then freezing.
Use of the term allergy often indicates that the individual is sharing from an AA-based viewpoint, as allergy and other antiquated terms are central to the descriptive dogma of the groups.
The one tossing the nuclear threat is Putin whenever his tea is too cold.
All information for any job or position is available online or in books. Why do people think coding is special in this regards?
Calculating Pi on the 4004
> The belief in this case being that your opinion of their identity, based on the studies you have read, is more relevant to their truth (or anyone's) than their feelings about their identity. As far as some of us are concerned, it isn't.

Facts are more important than feelings.

> It just happens that there are enough people who feel that way that being ostracized by them stings. Your options are to not do it or accept that a large portion of society will think you're a dick.

In this case it’s 10 % of the population (progressives or woke whatever you want to call them) who make a lot of noise and have the power to push their ideas on the rest of society. You get banned on twitter for questioning or mocking current gender ideas. Media also don’t give airplay to people who disagree. There’s no debate possible. So we get a misrepresentation of what society really thinks.
And that’s why, if you believe him, Elon wants to buy twitter.
Now this is just playing semantic games. Nobody has ever claimed Musk is building Tesla's cars or SpaceX's rockets by hand. Obviously those are built by the factories and the people employed their for that purpose.

There is no way browserman's point was legitimately something not contradicted by the quotes I linked.

> “He’s not afraid to get his hands dirty,” Mueller said. “He’s out there with his nice Italian shoes and clothes and has epoxy all over him. They were there all night and tested it again and it broke anyway.”
Sounds similar to behaviors of groups of bikers on highways. Controlling traffic to show dominance under the guise of safety.
>I'm too young to confirm but I assume we had something like this before social media took off. But with everyone connected and very scrutinizing/critical it's starting to go away.

As you correctly pointed out "open societies" need rituals/safe places in which a free flow of exchanges can emerge without stifling "artificial constraints" (= courtesies) which at some point just effectivley dissipates any drive for exchange/communication attaining maximum entropy within its boundaries devoid of any discernible "meaning" (other than our "box" has the highest moral value (i.e. tightly closed) compared to other "boxes").

Some examples of "safe open spaces": jesters (modern: comedians), interpreting dreams (modern: psychotherapy), ecstacy/dionysian rituals (modern: going out drinking) ...

I don't see Twitter in its actual form up to this challenge. And it's actually fine to admit that they have long reached a limit to reasonably scale up something resembling the first amendment.
Fair enough: the 1st refers to the role of the government.

But then in a world of the WWW (with its current tech monopolies) and increasing PPPs: What exactly can be/is the role of governments and that of corporations in the 21st century? Most certainly not a recursion to an 18th/19th century understanding of social contracts (with "high-tech" movable types at their disposal).
Ha! One could think that the psychological screening is meaningless... until you are involved in hiring people. Of course, 95% candidates will pass, otherwise humanity would be doomed
> It's not much work and can be done in 2-3 hours.

I bet it’s much more work than that. It’s maybe 2–3h for you, who has reviewed dozens of submissions, have designed the problem, and know what the actual solution is.

For the rest of us, it takes trial and error, implementing, polishing (because of course you want to show your absolute best code when being judged solely on your code) and it’s probably actually taking 2–4x as much time as you think it does. No applicant will ever tell you that because they don’t want to look bad.

Try and have people on your team do the challenge, you’ll see how much time it actually takes.

I personally pass on these. If it’s more complex than “implement array.flatten”, it’s going to take way too long and I decline to go further. If it starts with “implement a web app that…” or “an api that…” I don’t read any further and bail.