skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of headline inevitably results in unproductive debate because when you say "socialist," it's not referring to anyone in particular. Everyone who hears the word is going to think of different people and different policy positions, depending on what they've read and their experiences.

Better to stick to criticizing specific arguments by specific people and avoid the abstract opponents. Noah Smith does get specific, but he has a variety of targets, so it's somewhat scattershot.
They would have been there the whole time, they didn't just pop into existence because it got observed. I don't think you need to worry anymore then usual
This isn't really a story about missing access to human tech support at Google so much as it is a story about Account Recovery, The Hardest Problem In Authentication. Anything Google did to make it take just a day or two to recover a totally locked account would be abused ceaselessly to take over people's accounts.

There are no good answers here. A lot of things that work as one-offs or rarities will stop working if everyone does them. If there's a FCC form you can file that short-circuits Google's current process, and it becomes popular, that form is going to stop working. Restoring your access to a locked account is simply less important than ensuring strangers can't "restore" access to your account.

Obviously, one good change Google could make here would be to refuse to accept Google Voice numbers as an authentication factor.
Why doesn't the city install gas pumps along the streets as well?

Parking meters are not comparable infrastructure. They often run on a small solar cell with almost no maintenance burden. Charging stations require a substantive amount of power and regular maintenance. Installing street chargers essentially requires entirely net new infrastructure.
ah I see, win some and lose some. Hopefully you can dollar cost average you way to profitability moving forward
Yeah, that's why I mentioned public infrastructure as one of the options for on-street charging.

The other reason I raise this, is that it could be more beneficial to fine the landlords or strata rather than gas stations. After all, if the goal is to increase charging infrastructure, there is more potential capacity here than at 66 gas stations and the paradigm for charging at longer duration parking spaces (home, work, restaurants) is more effective than charging at a short stop location (gas sations).
That was '16. That was also a complete mess and was my introduction to how politics is really played. Democrat party is not your friend, they are bought and paid for by the people making money hand over fist on everything that people are upset about today.
You have to know the rules to break them. This is a good rule to know and then know how to break.
If a product doesn't have complex dependency connections and visualizations of those dependencies, I don't see moving away from JIRA.
Fun! What kind of microphone are they using on these installations?

In most of the US, I presume you could get a 6-12W solar panel to run a Raspberry Pi Zero basically uninterrupted in your yard.
NFTs are extensions to the ideas of CCs with subtle fallaciousness and much hype.

Most forms of CC should only be used as a transactional currency to exchange value, never to store it, because of the inherent lack of stable or intrinsic value in CCs.

NFTs are basically the programming equivalent of pointers or references to things, not actual things. They're meaningless when no one else values them and there's no marketplace for them.

You can make money by selling shovels in a goldrush, but you have to know when to exit before peak hype.
Yeah but this case doesn’t involve any malicious code vulnerabilities.

Code is not law, but this “attack” isn’t abusing the code so much as the basic premise of what the code is designed to do. This is the intended agreement
It seems like there are ways to make this legally viable. Perhaps raise the business license fees for gas stations by $10k a year and then offer a rebate for stations that install EV charging. I feel like that would pass legal muster, if they could make it work politically.
We know the basic framework is neutralization of Ukraine, some kind of accommodation for the Donbas region, with a high level of autonomy, maybe within some federal structure in Ukraine.

I need to stop reading here, not just because what Chomsky's saying here -- when you sit down and think about it -- is actually a pretty sensible (if highly Realpolitik-driven) analysis of the situation.

But because this has nothing to do with "socialism" per se. Which strongly correlates with the rest of the piece being just another rant, with not much of point to make.
Interesting. Perhaps it was more than one bit-flip then ...

Anyway, it still sucks that I couldn't find the exact reason for the error in the logs.
Reposts are fine after a year or so but this perennial had a big thread a few months ago:

Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29597454 - Dec 2021 (209 comments)

Also:

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22322041 - Feb 2020 (89 comments)

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109771 - Aug 2017 (32 comments)

The CIA’s 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253276 - Aug 2016 (64 comments)

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493881 - Nov 2015 (68 comments)

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831363 - Nov 2012 (67 comments)

WW2 "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" declassified [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=905750 - Oct 2009 (6 comments)

OSS (pre-CIA) Simple Sabotage Field Manual - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=833443 - Sept 2009 (29 comments)
This is transparent BS even to those who take cryptocurrency seriously like me. Judging the entire space by the worst of it is stupid IMO. It’s like saying nobody should take any startups seriously because of Theranos or Juicero.
Unless they died out before we invented radio and all that exists now are their ancient structures!
Most people don’t need a supply upgrade, because they can shift most of the charging to night time, and the majority of people don’t use as much power at night as during the day. Unless they have a very small service. But most people have it sized to support a stove, electric dryer and A/C, if they got service relatively recently. And most electric companies will do the service upgrade for cheap if necessary, because they’ll make it back from more electric use.

They do need an electrician to run the new wires to the garage though.
And if you're wondering "but why??", if I'm not mistaken, one of the initial use cases for flash loans was in exploiting arbitrage opportunities, which tend to be transient with fairly low returns, which means you need access to large amounts of funds fairly quickly in order to take advantage of them.
Seeing them before they could see us would be ideal.
>There's probably things they could've done to reduce the likelihood of an event like this--e.g. requiring supermajority or unanimous voting for certain types of changes, for example--but they didn't, so here we are. The system worked as intended.

A supermajority was required. The attacker purchased enough LP tokens to secure one. At the moment of the attack they held about 70% of voting power.

Unanimous voting wouldn't have been particularly useful because it would never be used. You can't ever convince every last investor to log in and pay gas to vote on a governance measure.

There was a protection in place, which was that the measure must be up for 24 hours before it can be passed. But the critical flaw was that the contents of a measure can be swapped out by a supermajority token holder, even after the 24 hour cooldown period. The attacker threw up 2 measures, one pointing to a nonexistent contract address, and another dummy measure as a diversion that would have transferred $250,000 to Ukraine and $10,000 to a wallet they owned. The diversion worked, and everyone spent the 24 hour period discussing why someone thought they could hoodwink the LP token holders into swindling $10,000 from them, and more or less ignored the second measure. Then, during the attack, the attacker deterministically created the treasury liquidation contract at the formerly blank address and used the flash loaned supermajority to pass it.
Depending on the current electrical system and the number of outlets you’re adding it could consist of a significant upgrade to the electrical infrastructure in the building.
Yeah, except the biggest selling point of cryptocurrencies is that it's decentralized and above the law of any one government. The code is supposed to be law.

So the true spirit of cryptocurrencies is that if there's a flaw in the smart contract, it's okay to exploit it.
I have a PMB (I've tried https://virtualpostmail.com/ and https://earthclassmail.com/) and never receive any junk mail. They either scan your mail to PDF, or bundle it and forward it to another address like your home. For some reason which I don't understand, marketers don't send junk mail to PMBs.
The Gunditjmara Australian story "Dreamtime" recounts the eruption of the now-dormant volcano Budj Bim about 37,000 years ago.[1][2] So it is possible for accounts of historical events to be transmitted orally over a very long period of time.

1. https://www.awe.gov.au/parks-heritage/heritage/places/nation...

2. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-26/study-dates-victorian...
Nature could act as a filter. If you reach industrial production and you destroy nature, your entire planet may die. So only civilizations that have some level of respect for life itself may pass the barrier where they can build megastructures and reach other planets.
Agreed! There's the theory that people don't willingly aggregate into large countries, they need to be manipulated or coerced (pledge every day in school, anthem at sports events, etc), and that large countries inevitably become bullies, unable to restrain themselves from dominating the weak.

The book Breakdown of Nations by Leopold Khor talks about this. He talks about the idea of dividing into smaller political units to fix our problems. He makes a lot of sense. There's a video summarizing the book [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaszpQaNwAU
A good chance that the glaciers might have also grounded whole societies as well
This was literally me as a late teenager. Anyone remember IVAN (Iter Vehemens Ad Necem)? Battle for Wesnoth? (I'm guessing the latter may still be around...)
> Would you consider someone who is actively going through heroin withdrawals to be fit to fly an airplane and control missiles?

Let’s be reasonable here. This is an unfit physical state for basically anything, so definitely no.
even in Europe, there are few doctors that take burnout (which is only really formalized in the ICD-11) as serious as it should be taken

i've had aquantances that walked out with 3 days of sick leave (in Germany) - not even connecting to a weekend
Uh, this is completely absurd. Please refrain from commenting in public if you think this is remotely true. Also, "I've seen" is a pretty classic way to disown the words you're saying and to evade accountability. Do YOU think it's comparable to the Night of Long Knives? If not, don't say it.

If you have real, cogent criticisms of the Democratic primary, post them.

Here's what I saw: the primary played out fair and square, just as it's designed to do, and Bernie lost. Fair and square.
>This is precisely how the system was designed to work. They just didn't foresee someone building up a large enough stake to amass the voting power needed to undermine the system. And that is simply a failure of imagination and goes to show how naive these folks were.

My favorite take on crypto commodity is that “They’re recreating and failing to solve problems that have been solved in traditional banking for hundreds of years”.

Maybe there is some upside where this is just all growing pains, or maybe it’s all garbage all the way through, I don’t know.

But it’s clear to me that technically smart does not mean economically wise.
Wrong: it's the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (founded 1962 by John McCarthy -- who co-authored the document that first defined AI as a field, invented LISP, time sharing, and garbage collection, heavily influenced the design of ALGOL, and so on: one of the pioneers of computer science):

https://ai.stanford.edu/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scient...
Focus on the specific line delivered on that priming instance, not the Avengers broader story.

Replied above, the difference is subtle and barely noticeable if you don't pay attention - being a fan is a bias.
average daily distance is 40 miles. Average consumption is 0.346kWh per mile. That is 13 KWh per day.

I was talking about overnight only, because you definitely don't want everyone to charge their EVs during peak hours, so that is around 10 hours, you need about 1.3 KW constantly during that time. BTW, why did you mention duration of 24Hours, but then said it's only needed overnight?

If you have 2 EVs per family, that is 2.6 KW. It takes us to 26 large incandescent lightbulbs (I can't barely find 100W anymore) or 260 LED bulbs. This all assumes that the EV plays nice with the grid and only charges at the minimum draw, rather than as fast as it safely can. If a Tesla charges at 48AMPs, that (5KW) is going to be MUCH larger than a lightbulb).

It's not as simple as: one light bulb is the same as one EV...I agree it's not an insurmountable problem, I don't even think it's the biggest problem with EVs(batteries are), but you can't just handwave it away.
Did I talk about forced labor in this comment above? I said: in later times, such clashes with bureacracy made people lose their entire career.
I'm not sure I've ever heard of a "shape manipulator" before, and I'm at such a loss as to what it could be that Google isn't super useful without additional context to lean on. The only thing I saw that might fit would be NumPy arrary shape manipulation.

Anyone care to expand on what a shape manipulator is and where that came from?
Self-driving cars can be tricked into seeing red traffic lights as green
Going from "unknown if alien civs with megastructures" to "proof of alien civs with megastructures" is new information that would change the trajectory of humanity.
You're thinking of 2016 perhaps. Nothing of the sort happened in 2020.
$1 is not expensive for a chocolate truffle, but I otherwise agree.
This is so completely out of touch with reality it makes me worried for your health.
Oh yes, any number of things could be less conducive to human life or a large population.

I’m just thinking war tactics and war machines keep it in check too.
What happened with Bernie Sanders in the primaries? I thought he saw it through to the end and just plain lost to Biden. Not that that fact alone didn't concern me.

But I think it's a far more damning image to the party that Tulsi Gabbard qualified for the debates under the rules at the time, and then was excluded because they changed the rules. You can't play the race or gender card every time your person isn't winning, and then go out of your way to very specifically exclude the only candidate left who isn't white and isn't male. You can't really make a principled argument against the way the electoral college currently works by ignoring non-mainland delegates. You can't claim every vote should count. You can't claim the two party system is the reason you can't incorporate new, non-adversarial ideas.
> This sounds off; the KJV was written in an intentionally archaic style, which guarantees that, at the time of writing, popular understanding of some of the usage would have already diverged from the meaning as written.

This is frequently stated but when it gets down to brass tacks seems to be somewhat exaggerated as the source of all archaisms from the POV of later readers. From what I can tell, while some things (like second person pronoun use) where archaic at the time of writing (and egregiously bad choice of archaism because they created distinctions not made into the source material by using a distinction no longer currently in use in English, either), many others were things that were in transition at the time of writing and which didn't reflect later (and also, in some cases, earlier) common usage (thereof to avoid possessive pronouns as gendered ones relating to inanimate objects were on the way out, but “its” was still not firmly caught on).
I know my burnout rate and it's almost every 3-4 months, this is because I usually push myself to do so, and because I really like to work. I usually need to take a week off, but when I can't, I do try to do a couple of things during a week or two tops:

1. Heads up to my boss: good communication releases the pressure of keeping the same pace and support from the company assuming it's a good one.

2. Start delegation to my "right hand": This is important because you need someone to take care of your team.

3. Get into maintenance mode: This is for me the most important bit, when you are burned out, you can't be productive. Trying will burn you out more, and it's going to be harder to recover. I usually try to have as little meetings as possible and just focus on the things I can do; small tasks if I need to code, documentation, among other stuff.

4. Enjoy the things: I usually game, but I also find myself watching Netflix in bed. Enjoy it, there's no shame on doing so. Guilt is dangerous, and reminding yourself you're not being productive is not good. So just enjoy yourself.

Hope this advice help!
>There is no downside here

The gas station needs to pay a design firm + engineers to submit plans to the city for permitting to construct the new EV charging location, they have to pay the electrical utility to increase its service, they need to pay more for electricity every month, they need to buy commercial car chargers and pay an electrical contractor thousands to install them. The gas station therefore likely has to raise prices on either its gas or its other products and services, hurting locals who can't afford EV cars to the benefit of the better off who likely already have car chargers installed in the garages of their expensive homes. Bear in mind also that they're not guaranteed to make money off the car charging, this is the city deciding their business plans for them. The cost of building a charging station takes away what could've been a car wash, more retail space, a mechanic's garage, etc. The city should be offering tax incentives, not punitive fines IMO.
The grandparent comment mentioned a parking garage at a condo, presumably, spaces for dozens of cars.
This is making me wonder how light pollution would change if all cars become self-driving
This is one reason why I decided to switch to ProtonMail a couple of years ago as the account backing most of my internet services.

Given that I pay them money, I figure they’re at least somewhat invested in keeping me happy as a customer. Google clearly don’t give a shit.
Did you take testosterone for a short period or do you need to take it consistently?
Does something exist if you can't/don't observe it?
this seems a large bit michavaelian in foundation. ] the etymology, not your comment [

reading nico's work [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince] reveals some of Sun Tzu's principia. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War]
I often tell people that, too. Because they usually claim to be multitasking to be more efficient.

But is this actually multitasking? When I did data entry, I could "read" forms and type them in while I listened to books on tape because I wasn't actually thinking about the data in the forms. How much cognitive load do the games take? Or the movies?

Further, if this is a pleasant experience, who gives a damn whether or not it's multitasking or real multitasking or optimal behavior? It's supposed to be enjoyable, so if we're going to measure anything, measure that.
The fact that the telescope's cryocooler is acoustically symmetrical such that any vibrations made by each cylinder, and the actual flow of gas, is near-perfectly cancelled out is nothing short of amazing. [0]

Real Engineering made a video that covered this and more, which is well worth a watch. [1]

[0] https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/innovations/cryocooler.h...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aICaAEXDJQQ (The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope)
Well, a much more desirable solution would be not having a corrupt government for most of the last decades.

At least four of the last presidents of Cataluña (all either from the Pujol's party or their legacy) had been involved in a rich catalog of scams and frauds, including one fugitive in search and capture and two inhabilitated by repeatedly disobeying the laws that they should represent or spending public money in very questionable ways.

There is material here for several godfather trilogies plus a police academy series. Is simply grotesque.
I pretty sure you’re the only one making that comparison.
Funny to see the DeFi space speedrun through 100s of years worth of financial rules, regulations and crime!
>The arrogance of this kind of armchair quarterbacking is breathtaking — an American public intellectual dictating territorial and diplomatic concessions to Ukraine. Chomsky uses the word “we” to describe the parties that he imagines will make these concessions to Russia, but the first person pronoun is totally unwarranted — it is 100% Ukraine’s decision how much of their territory and their people to surrender to an invader who is engaging in mass murder, mass rape, and mass removal to concentration camps in the areas it has conquered. It is 0% Noam Chomsky’s decision.

What a strange paragraph. Chomsky is using "we" in the context of America because he is American. If "we" cut off support to Ukraine, the environment there will be much different. The idea that the rest of the world has no say in and/or effect on what's happening there is a weird claim.
> Any ethical qualms I had disappeared when my browser was hijacked by a malicious ad that made it into a major ad network when I was browsing nytimes.

Websites can inject malware irrespective of ads. Not to mention that ad blockers, themselves, are a good vector for exploitation. (Another consideration, obviously, would be to avoid websites that show you ads that you don't like (or fear) rather than circumvent their only path to revenue.)

I generally count on Google (and Chrome) to prevent that. At the risk of jinxing myself: I've never had malware installed on my computer view a website.
I don't own a car and live in a very cycling friendly place, but even I have to admit that a car is very convenient :
- you can transport several person at once. If you have kids this is very valuable.
- can go longer distances. I wouldn't go more than 15km on my bike as a mean of transportation, as opposed to as an activity in itself
- you don't get wet when it rains
- you can actually transport stuff. I do my regular shopping on my bike but for gardening I need to rent a car. Same for several things (large packs of stuff, pet food etc.)
- you are just more free to go wherever, especially on a weekend. With public transport you are very limited and can't access a lot of wild places. I actually force myself to rent a car once a month so that I go around to different places and not restrict myself to my immediate surroundings and what I can access with public transport.

That said, I do not plan to own a car as long as I live in a major city, it is just financially unsound and not really needed for me on a daily basis as I don't have kids.