skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was probably an unfortunate coincidence. In the case of the death of Rastislav Bilas, the police are not working with the version that it was murder. A hybrid car that started itself may have been behind the tragedy. The businessman was subsequently killed by exhaust fumes.

Rastislav Bilas was a well-known figure in the emissions case. He represented the Interblue group, a shell company that bought tons of emissions from the state at a bargain price. These were then sold at a huge profit. The state thus apparently incurred damage in the tens of millions of euros.

On 29 April, his motionless body was found in a house in a residential area of Bratislava. He was lying in the living room, which was above the garage. He had allegedly poisoned himself with exhaust fumes and his family was also poisoned.

The possible cause of death was said to be a car that had been started in the garage and was leaking poisonous gases into the house. Police are still investigating the case, but are currently working with the version that it was a negligent crime. This was pointed out by the Aktuality portal.

The question is who started the car or left it running. As it was supposed to be a hybrid vehicle, the police are also reportedly working with the version that the car could have started the engine by itself to recharge the battery.

Experts confirm that if you don't properly turn off the hybrid or put it in park mode, the internal combustion engine can turn on by itself if it is in danger of running out of battery.

So in practice, the hybrid car thinks it is in regular traffic, just stopped at a red light, for example, and so tries to produce and replenish electricity. Newer types of hybrids already have a fuse and automatically switch themselves off when the driver gets out.

However, only the conclusions of the investigation will show whether this was indeed the case in the death of the well-known businessman and what circumstances preceded it.

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If you loan someone $100 and then find him going to vegas each weekend gambling $5 and spending the entire week boasting about what a genius he is and showing off his photos with his gambling friends, you will feel very uncomfortable loaning him more, even though his gambling habits are incrementally consuming a small portion of the loan you gave him.
>Same deal with Postgres. `pg` would not compile at all. Knex also didn't work (this was an older project).

You should take a look at Postgres.js [0] which supports Deno and TypeScript. Version 3.x was released recently and discussed in this HN thread [1].

The client is implemented in JavaScript. Queries can be written using JavaScript template literals.

[0] https://github.com/porsager/postgres
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30794332
Sample size is much higher. VC's are rejecting thousands of applications.
But is it plummeting? I'd be the first to cheer, but I only see some of the usual fluctuation that's the closest thing BTC has to stability. Is that's enough to send them into default, the entire thing has been nothing but a last ditch hail mary pass of the kind that, below state level, is usually countered by bankruptcy laws that are written precisely to keep stuff like that from happening.
I remember the clear nights I could watch TV all the way from Louisville.
>> ...the government had purchased nearly $25 million worth of bitcoin...

> Dont think the losing of bitcoin value can be blamed in case of default

Volatility makes it difficult to represent the true economic impact of this situation. From scarce and needlessly secret information, their bitcoin holdings were worth over $100M earlier this year[0], a consequential portion of the repayment. More importantly, while they have historically claimed that they would always “buy the dip”, there is no indication of when they sold, and a few indications that they have turned a loss on the investment so far.

Meanwhile, the payments are due at fixed periods, which may force them to sell unfavourably. A year after the 2018 high, it was at a fourth of its high value. What they now consider “dips” may well be seen as highs then.

Plus, their policies have an effect on the rest. In short, they don’t have a strong case on finding financing apart from their crypto bet[1]:

> The downgrade of El Salvador's rating is driven in good part by the lack of a credible financing plan

which they would need, to cover their worsening position[2]:

> The government faces only USD305 million in external debt amortizations in 2022, but faces close to USD1.2 billion in 2023

> El Salvador will likely face a funding gap of about 1% of GDP

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-12/bitcoin-t...

[1]: https://www.moodys.com/research/--PR_464838

[2]: https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/fitch-downg...
I don't understand how that makes it a replacement. Breaking conventions of REST for one endpoint doesn't necessarily mean you're replacing it, unless you're using REST as a dogma rather than a tool.
There's also The Double Sunrise[0] flight, which was a regular scheduled long-range flight between Australia and Sri Lanka

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_Sunrise
Well, that exists, it's called Thunderbolt 3 (or 4, since PC makers decided to try to get away with a shitty half-version of TB3).

And the cable exists too, but you have to pay through the nose for it, and people expect all cables to be $5 at Monoprice.

Turns out that 40Gbps and supporting any and all monitors at the same time and 100W of power isn't an easy spec.

Everyone mocked Apple for going with Thunderbolt so early, but it turns out they had it exactly right, just like they did with FireWire, another standard that was super-fast for its time and also included robust power delivery.
The Patriot act increased government power, so congress had an incentive to pass it.

This act does not.
Ask HN: What associations or non-profits are you involved with?
ACM, IEEE, IETF, EFF, etc

How do you contribute?

What do you get out of it?
Actually I'd be fine with that marketing if all claims on battery life and autonomy were based on what they call 100% (i.e., the actual 80%).
It’s not a fraud it’s a reaction to the total level of assets the sovereign holds and their ability to get more. Needless to say the countries you mention considerably outpace El Salvador in this department.
Thank you for your efforts but I am sorry to say that I am still not convinced.

The Protonmail link is not a primary source but let me dignify it with a response anyway. The authors of that blog post themselves admit that the resolution they link to "is non-binding and does not provide any specifics for new laws or regulations and, on the surface, seems fairly innocuous." They then go on to say how actually it is really dangerous, and the tone is very threatening, but their reasoning is simply not substantial enough to convince me.

I was sad to see that the EFF's very first link to a 'proposal' from the EU commission simply links back to Mr. Breyer's website. (But I am very happy with the letter co-signed by the EFF, which I think is well-written and a lot less alarmist.)

And once you do get to a primary source, in your third link, you can only make your case by rephrasing "security despite encryption", which I can happily interpret as being entirely in line with the direction suggested by the aforementioned letter, as "encryption they can access".

So I remain unconvinced, mainly because your "in other words" really do a lot of heavy lifting in your comment.
Everyone is welcome to point out the contradictions in this article and talk about the silliness of walking away from the comfort of FAANG workload and compensation while talking about "work life balance",... that's your right, and you're probably correct in one interpretation...

But Google is terrible for our industry. On the whole. And for many people who are trying to get satisfaction out of their work.

For innovation generally, and a terrible employer for people like TFA writer (and myself). The more people who quit to go to startups or smaller companies, the better, because it will ultimately accelerate technology and innovation.
This is precisely why compensation at Google is what it is: to capture a chunk of talent and cordon it off from the potential of creating value elsewhere... to keep the revenue firehose running there but most importantly to make sure none of that revenue firehose ever diverts elsewhere.

All the talk of "innovation" there amounts to: we want your intellectual property, yes, but if we can't get it or it's not worth much, we mostly want you to not create intellectual property elsewhere (or for yourself). And we'll pay absolutely handsomely to make sure that nothing you ever think of or write contributes to the success of anybody else.

That's how a behemoth like Google survives.

I'm surely not the most amazing engineer in the world, but at Google I was a mediocre one. Not technically, mind you, but organizationally: I was terrible at playing the game, writing the design docs and getting the comments, presenting my work to other people, snatching "impactful" projects before others could take them... and showing it all off to perform the promo dance. I sucked at that, and that is primarily what success at Google is about...I failed at it... Except they didn't care, that was all fine, there was plenty of space to just plod along... because they don't need you to succeed. Just not succeed somewhere else.

But before Google I aggressively contributed to the success of some of the companies I was at, including ones competing with Google. Once I was at Google, I was no longer doing that. And, actually, it became clear to me... that was my actual value to Google...
> we search our database for short_token and hash(long_token).

Sounds like some salt should be used here. Search the DB for short_token, then use the discovered salt to check the "password".
I mean the industrial model of the State and the organization of labor it provides that is being deteriorated by globalization will change significantly. Things change when people get the same tools the corporations have been playing around with for decades.

Bad future: State owned CBDCs with types for different 'kinds' of people creating a society even more neofeudal

Good future: Decentralized DAPPs organizing workers with shared interests regardless of their location and social capital
When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps
Cost to create a hub should have been a consideration of the spec designers.

I'm involved (on the very edge) of C++ standards, and we often reject proposals because it would be too hard to implement, or too hard to teach. The proposal itself would be a useful, but the costs are too high.
We did evaluate OPA recently. For now, we're working with an approach that builds on top of PostgreSQL Row Level Security and functions. That may have a sufficient balance of power, performance and complexity for many of our users. For more complex use cases, OPA may indeed be a good fit and is something we can explore more in the future.
How about opposition to the death penalty and support for good health care? That would be a lot more pro-life, and are things Jesus actually addressed: heal the sick, and "let he who is without sin throw the first stone".

I'm Christian, but I see no biblical argument against abortion. I'm not a fan of abortion, mind you; I think any abortion is a tragedy on some level, and unwanted pregnancies are better prevented than aborted, but sometimes medical complications simply make abortion necessary. And I'd rather leave the hard decisions in the hands of the people affected by them than having legislators force those decisions on them.
It is cool that countries are listed at detail, but filter by country would be very useful.
(Not Mapbox [1], but) have you looked at https://www.qwant.com/maps/ ?
Looks and feels a bit like Google Maps. I don’t know about traffic data, though.

[1]: Qwant uses https://openmaptiles.org/
Almost 1/4 of El Salvador GDP is remittances. The point of Bitcoin for them is that there is now a Bitcoin-based money transfer system they can use with no fees. The reduction in fees to the countries citizens should dwarf the country's losses from holding bitcoin. All of which is a minor amount compared to their actual bond repayment amount (which has nothing to do with Bitcoin). A better title might be: the IMF demands El Salvador gets rid of Bitcoin before refinancing its loans.

Edit: Adding this addendum to reply to commenters themes.

These Bitcoin-based transfers are not on the Bitcoin blockchain but instead actually happening on the Lightning network- the transfer fee is close to zero.

In addition to the fees of traditional remittances, there are sometimes additional significant inconveniences- for example some have to travel by bus to the city where the Western Union is located.

The current extended Bitcoin drawdown probably doesn't effect things much. Users generally convert their BTC to dollars in the Chivo wallet app the country uses to avoid the volatility.

Despite all the theoretical advantage for remittances, adoption for remittances is still very low, with 11% ever using the app for this. It may be in part because using the government app means the remittances are known to the government and can be taxed as income, whereas cash goes unreported. https://www.howtogeek.com/801982/bitcoin-is-legal-tender-in-...
Clubster app suffers breach via leaky AmazonS3 bucket and broken API endpoints
You mean Thunderbolt only. Not USB-C. Let's credit Apple for what they actually did, which was to go with the non-shitty port from the beginning even though it was expensive and everyone mocked them for doing so.
> As a sysadmin, I would not want my /bin /sbin exposed to everyone.

Why not? It's not like most of them are suid (right?). Most Unix systems I've used allow any user to peruse /sbin at their leisure and run whatever they want.
This guy seriously wanted to sell El Salvador's remaining gold reserve to buy bitcoin with it only a few months ago. Not sure how his population put up with him.

https://news.bitcoin.com/el-salvadors-president-tells-peter-...
This reminds me of TinderBox[1], a knowledge organization tool on mac. Many of their features overlap, like an arbitrary note is a node in the whole graph, and being able to create views etc. I do wonder if there's someone who's switched from one to the other, as I was contemplating buying tinderbox lately, partially because of its vibrant community.

[1]: https://eastgate.com/Tinderbox/
If the system isn't bootable?
Thanks - we'll definitely add this as we've heard it from a bunch of people on HN :)
Glad to hear that. Pl do read that book on Kundalini till the end. The author has it awakened, and there are clear signs when it fully awakes, including one getting control of involuntary systems of the body. The author has got a lab to verify the same – listen about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIFchJ3epsk&t=2938s

And another study published as a research paper on his voluntary control of brain regions: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8717094./autho...
Well, don't vote for weeks. Vote for one day, on Saturday, count in place, allow anyone to watch from stamping to final count. Vote in person, _require_ photo id. Don't allow mail in voting except in very limited cases(overseas military maybe).

There is complaint that people don't trust the elections, but there are common sense methods to improve said trust that don't involve following links to .edu websites. You know that a lot of people don't trust scientists.

I am not saying there is fraud. (I do say however that the candidates of the two partes and the results would be quite different if above changes were introduced.)
The propaganda is actually the people saying there are consequences for speech and it must therefore be limited. It is a trivial observation that there are consequences but that is of course not a justification to curb it. Again, the problem with "reasonable" exceptions is that someone has to define them. Free speech means the spread of ideas, it doesn't mean you are allowed to lie if you swear an oath to a judge.

But we specifically see language policing and idea suppression in supposedly scientific institutions (hot examples: climate change, gender, wars, racism, immigration, ...).
I think it would be helpful to search by time zone so that I can see teams that work no more than x hours away from my home time zone.
So an average lightning bolt is a gigajoule or so. These aren’t average lightning bolts.

And OP’s comparison point of the energy used by a house in a day seems arbitrary when we are talking about an event that lasts seconds.

If your 30kWh number is reasonable for a house’s daily energy usage, in the 17 second duration of this record breaking lightning bolt a house uses about 21 kJ.

So even if the bolt itself only moves that estimated 1gJ of energy, it’s enough electricity to power about 47000 homes for those 17 seconds.

These are not ‘modest’ amounts of energy by any stretch.
These are supposed to be phrased positively now, tho; "by imprisoning millions in their homes we've already prevented 10 million billion deaths".
Wouldn't this be a "what we know about physics" distillation? I am basing this assumption on the "Raw data" as being that of already performed experimentation etc.
Why would they need to retain credibility?
Ok I had no idea that was possible. Will this work with the cluster module in pm2? How does it work exactly? Does pm2 have its own webserver and just forwards the request to whatever interpreter you specify?
If you do that, it skews all of your figures for "kwh per kg" and "kwh per m3". I'd suggest that those are far more important figures of merit for design of electric aircraft and vehicles.
He was right about the Internet, too, very very early, and gets zero credit for it.
I think Python’s tendency to look like pseudo code is a big reason. It’s less intimidating than archaic incantations like “int foo = 1;” or “for (x; y; z) { … }”. While familiar to us, everybody has seen a colon followed by an indented list of things, and everybody has seen “x = 1” at some point.
Many popular websites see what you type before you hit submit
BTC lost >50% of it's value from it's peak not too long ago.

In what world are transaction fees >50%?
Mittelständler
I’m sorry, but what?

https://jvns.ca/categories/favorite/

No content is a pretty bold claim to make here I think.
> If abortion is the immoral killing of an innocent human being/person, as pro-lifers claim

Yeah, but is it? Both legally and biblically, personhood starts at birth. Nobody I know of holds funerals for their miscarriage, or gives it a name. At least not for early stage miscarriages (which, as with abortions, are far, far more common than miscarriages and abortions late in the pregnancy).
This is a super ironic comment, but I guess has the value that even something that seems clear like forum guidelines are subject to wide (and ideological) interpretation.
Thank you both for this detailed summary and declaration of your bias.

"Near future plans involving a small test factory" means they're about 10 steps further along than most articles about new battery tech. There's still another 10 steps to go before it affects my life though (one measure of "volume production").
"Bitcoin Is Legal Tender in El Salvador, Here’s How It’s Going":

* https://www.howtogeek.com/801982/bitcoin-is-legal-tender-in-...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31294460

Which talks about this paper:

> This paper studies the potential of a cryptocurrency to become a medium of exchange. We use evidence from a natural experiment: In September 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender, and all economic agents were required to accept bitcoin for all payments. The Salvadorean government also launched an app, “Chivo Wallet,” which allowed users to digitally trade both bitcoin and dollars, and gave major incentives to download it. We conduct a representative national face-to-face survey to obtain information on bitcoin’s usage and effects. Leveraging this data, we document how, despite the government’s “big push” and a large fraction of people downloading Chivo Wallet, usage of bitcoin for everyday transactions is low and is concentrated among the banked, educated, young, and male population. We also estimate the fixed cost of adopting the new payment technology, the importance of strategic complementarities for users, and the elasticity of substitution between mobile payments and other payment methods.

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w29968
To make life difficult for 'Woke' companies where cartoon mouses rule, because they oppose his friends law against LHBTIQ+ people...
That's why I generally don't trust any news on these topics unless very thoroughly verified.

@ everyone on these topics: Curb your enthusiasm. It's probably not going to happen. All of these "breakthroughs" have so far had one or more deal breaking down sides.
Gay dating app Grindr to go public in $2.1B SPAC deal
sorry, I still can't get it...

> Yes, the pair (2,9) sums to 11, but the product is unique, and if Peter had been given the product 18 to begin with, he would have immediately known the answer.

pair (2,9) and pair (3,6) can produce a product of 18, so Peter can't immediately know the answer if he had been given the product 18 to begin with, so the problem can't beed solved.

I think this problem would Caught in an unresolved cycle after unique product and unique sum has been ruled out.

I don't know where i am wrong, Sincere thanks...
TIL that Stromae (the name of a Belgian musician) is Maestro in verlan.
> The reduction in fees should dwarf The losses from holding bitcoin.

The propaganda is strong. How much do you think it costs to send money from say USA to El Salvador?
Nice idea. NodeJS and thousands of NPM dependencies are a big no-go with a red flag on top, though. One of the things something like Go probably would have been a better choice for. See "bombardier" for example.
And E, F, G, H for the CD-W, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-RW... :)
> As software capable of zero-click exploit, Pegasus requires no user interaction to operate: ... As a result of a simple click on the URL, the spyware was granted unlimited access to every information stored on the iPhone.

That's a one-click exploit, no?

Pegasus has demonstrated zero-click exploits (e.g. PDF embedded in GIF), but this is not one.

edit: the provided CitizenLab link [0] describes two classes of attacks, "zero-click exploits and malicious SMSes". Looks like the author conflated the two?

[0] https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenar...
I respectfully disagree. There is a "What it's like to work at Google."

Google has a culture. Large companies have a way of operating. I don't think any of OP's comments are at all off-base for Google. A lot of what OP wrote is fundamental to any organization with tens of thousands of people.

And you know something? That's fine. I know people who are very happy there, and I know people who are miserable there. There are times in my life when /I/ would have been very happy in that sort of place, and there are times in my life when /I/ would have been completely miserable there.

A lot of that comes down to personality, and a lot of that is situational.

For example, I want a very different employer if I don't have kids and can throw my life into work than when I'm dealing with a difficult family situation. I've been in both situations.

I would be completely miserable at Google _right now_. It might have been a dream job out-of-college, and it might be a great job again in just a few years.
You are correct that at the time of announcement, if you had believed in Bitcoin and El Salvador (for some reason) it would have been advantageous to simply buy - separately - Salvadoran sovereign debt on the capital markets and Bitcoin on the spot markets.