skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Debt in domestic currency in countries without the gold standard is not an issue. The only case in which the government is unable to pay its debts is if it chooses to no longer credit money from its treasury, which it would never do on purpose given the whole point of it is to set a baseline investment that cannot fail in the traditional sense.

For a historical example, when Germany died from hyperinflation, it was foreign USD debt that caused it. If the debt were denominated in Papiermark, the US would have effectively no power over what Germany chose to do when paying back its debts.

For more context, see Modern Monetary Theory.
To the extent that I want Ukraine to win, I'm also ok with western media joining their propaganda effort.
As always with this type of news, impossible to find a link back to any sort of government source… does this include atta/maida? Like will Indian diaspora / restaurants be able to get their naan wheat?
Goodbye, Gmail
Do you think Russia is attaining any of its goals? Ukraine was corrupt, debilitated and inept. Yet it holds against Russia. Minor resistance crippled what we thought was a war machine.

Russia isn’t a great power. It’s a nuisance that now, thankfully, falls almost solely to Beijing go manage. Yet we keep pretending it’s a real threat, the real crime herein.
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An armed horde of soldiers is a formidable force, even if the individual soldiers appear to be rather vodka’d

See also: the Capitol insurrection that was taken extremely seriously, even though many of the people were just straight-up morons
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> PLAI seems to be a upper level course

I am a big believer in "Google what you don't know"; it was mostly self-contained from what I recall.

> What kind of programming/CS background did you have before that

I am self-taught, I had like couple of months of JS web-dev under me.

> Did PLAI need knowing the language it uses beforehand

No. That book and the author tries to teach in language agnostic / programming generalist type of way. His other book is good too, aimed for absolute beginners: https://dcic-world.org/2022-01-25/index.html
To be fair, this is conflating knowledge with moral continence.

Someone might be doing what they think is right, while acting on false beliefs leading them to do something they later regard as having been wrong.

This is different from acting in willful ignorance of what one already knows is wrong (which is also common, and arguably should be faulted much more than it is).
I don’t see that it is a question of perspective. The scale of Russian losses is well documented, and we know that Russia has failed to remove Zelensky from power or occupy a significant area of Ukraine. Thus by any reasonable measure the whole Russian operation has been a disaster so far. Could that change in future? Sure.

I’m afraid this subthread is an example of HNers being too clever by half. Sometimes the simple narrative that you find in major media outlets is the truth. It’s honestly quite interesting to see the mental gymnastics that people have to engage in to somehow convince themselves that this war is going well for Russia - and not because they support Russia, but merely because they hate the idea of agreeing with the New York Times.
Instead we get Web Components, where HTML is an afterthought. Only years later are we getting things like Declarative Shadow DOM. You’re always expected to write custom JS for every single component on your page, instead of doing something like “add this functionality whenever you see the `foo` attribute on any HTML element”
hi there, I assume you are talking about library I’m using? I’m using Dio for it.
> The 2019 and 2020 fires were mostly because of a 'misunderstanding' between US consumers and Chinese manufacturers.

Do you have any source articles about that? I can't quite tell your intended level of sarcasm around "misunderstanding".

Because that design, where a device that's left plugged in too long then just ignites, is ridiculously stupid from any side of the equation, especially since over the past 20 years people have been trained with things like cell phones to just plug it in and leave it. I wonder how this "self igniting" design got through any regulatory constraints at all.
Bailout? God no. It would be even more insane to bail anyone out for the value of their crypto at any inflated value, but that’s what the losers would press for. As a great extra scam, let’s buy $100 of some token, let others price them up to $10,000, then get bailed out on the $10,000. If that happens, that’s the next scam to try to get in on, because you and I together could bid $100 of coins up to $100,000 and get bailed out at that price.
The British considered destroyers an acceptable risk (and likely losses). You know when you park ships in a sea theater going hot that you're going to lose some. This is just how war works, and nobody can universally prevent losses of materiel by reading British naval reports.

To say that the British came very close to losing marks you as a victim of that wartime propaganda. Sinking that single ship, the Sheffield, caused Argentina to lose 30% of their jets. At that rate, at most, they could have sunk two more ships if they were lucky. When you look at the basic realities of materiel exchange it becomes comical to ever suggest that the British were ever at a disadvantage, but here we are decades later and the idea that the British were ever so close to losing a water war against Argentina is still in people's heads. Quod erat demonstrandum!

If the British were prepared to lose some ships over something as economically and tactically insignificant as the Falkland Islands, what will Russia be willing to lose to not have a NATO supply line run straight up to a massive land border marching distance from Belgorod?
> troops cross into Ukraine, their cell phones emit a roaming signal
that connects to Ukraine’s cellular network... naive and ignorant
about using mobile devices, they often call home

This is not unique to the Russo-Ukraine situation. I've been with
British personnel who carry their own laptops with them while on
active duty and move across borders with them. We have an unbelievable
naivety about technology in all societies - basically an inability to
control it, because people see carrying an all-in-one personal tracker
as their god-given inalienable right.

CO: Put this uniform on!

PVT: Yes sir!

CO: March 500 miles in the rain and snow!

PVT: Yes sir!

CO: Eat this disgusting MRE.

PVT: Yes sir!

CO: Fire on these enemies!

PVT: Yes sir!

CO: Please surrender your cellphones for the safety of your entire
company.

PVT: FK OFF! I need* to post on Facebook.

While running an exam I asked students to switch off their phones and
put them in a box at the front of the hall. Half were resistant. I had
to expel two for refusing and another who sneaked-in a second phone
that rang during the examination. Many of the remaining students were
distracted, looking nervously at the box every minute.

These are good, honest, hard working and normally attentive young
people, not delinquents, but those things have a hold over them that
is worrying. These things are drugs and the sooner we start saying
so and treating them as such the sooner we can find the appropriate
psychological stance and interventions.
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Military needs to bring it's own crll towers, so troops don't need to use local phone operator.
> Lending is printing and destroying money. Central banks cannot control lending by changing interest rates as we have seen since the GFC. They couldn't get inflation up for ten years, and now they can't keep it down.

I beg to differ, asset prices experienced massive inflation during that period. Obviously, nobody was borrowing money to buy loads of hamburgers or other things that greatly influence the CPI. That demand is mostly inelastic and asset prices have little influence on it. That said, government spending accounts for almost half of spending in total. If this is increasingly financed by (the equivalent of) debt monetization, you will see debt chasing the hamburgers as well, causing runaway inflation like in Turkey. The central banks are very much in control of that not happening.
https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/uovcdh/only_a_rumo...: multiple authenticated sources confirm this to be a fake. Beyond that, some details about the presentation of the page don’t match what you’d expect (covered in the comments), and the terminology in the comment looks quite wrong to me too (it’s a mixture of technically incorrect, suggesting technical unfamiliarity, and overly specific, suggesting technical familiarity).
Crypto is not worth 1.5 trillion of dollars, please remove the 1 trillion of USDT which are backed by air. At the very best crypto is worth 500B, in reality it's closer to 0.
For anyone wondering, yes I do know how to spell "troops".

I submitted the story with its original title:

> Russian troops are proving that cell phones in war zones are a very bad idea

The HN code auto-corrected this in a most amazing way:

> Roops are proving that cell phones in war zones are a very bad idea

I was on mobile and tried to make the obvious correction to that, but missed a letter! And now the edit deadline has expired. Ah well.

This proves that with a combination of human and machine intelligence, anything can go wrong!

@dang If you see this, I wonder if you could fix my typo, and also in your copious free time figure out how the original title got corrected to "Roops"? :-)
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I don't know, i want the web to be steered back to basics. The whole SPA thing should not exist, HTML is documents. Instead, native platforms should provide each of the widgets and UIs that the SPAs download in each and every page load. There's already a lot of <input> tags for things like date and such. We should have more native support for all kinds of interactions in touchscreens too. After all they are not that many - after so many years only few kinds of touchscreen interactions have survived

Then CSS needs to be trimmed down to basics too. Why is grid layout implemented in CSS instead of a <grid> tag, it doesnt make sense and is very hard to read.

Then there's the browser, which has remained fairly consistent and provides lots of functionality for navigation that is generally OK and well understood by people. SPAs destroy that by building another virtual machine layer on top of it (my pet peeve is ?force_cold_boot=1)

And then, why is WebRTC so complicated ? do we need to support all those codecs and nat traversal rules forever? Video communication should be as simple as adding a <videocall> tag

HTML should be readable by common people, they should be able to easily experiment with it, that's how the fun begins again
Irrelevant. India did not ban wheat exports to deepen the global food crisis. Assuming a supervillain motive is just ridiculous.
Why pick 2007, except for the fact that it clearly looks like an outlier?

It looks to me that the general trend for the top 1% of earners has been a slight increase in both income earned and tax paid
George soros attacked the pound in a similar manner, so you points dont exclude traditional finance. Of course, pound wasnt susceptible to a death spiral
With Cloudflare's Mailchannels integration that came out yesterday, it's now possible to send emails for (practically) zero cost from workers. I rolled out this example of how to set up a SvelteKit based worker that you can use to develop HTML based transactional emails locally as regular web routes, then use them on production by simply POSTing the subject, from, and to fields to the routes. The hook SSRs the route, validates the request, generates a text/plain version and sends the email.

Layouts work, so you can make reusable layouts, and use all the Svelte good stuff.

There's template variables using {{{triple_braces}}}, which get replaced from the POST request. This is to work around SSR not exposing query parameters for modules (from what I could see).
Although this my be specific to my org, meetings are an excuse for PMs and non tech to just "talk things out". No requirement comes in written form and no meetings are recorded in written form. This gives them a safe passage to modify the requirements as and when they see fit.

Apart from this, for meetings which are not recorded, they can/do always say that they didn't say something when they actually did and when caught red handed they get defensive and live in denial.

IMO, written communication helps people articulate it better and hold them accountable as well.
It would be interesting to measure IQ in childhood and 20 or 30 years later to see how many people have a significantly lower IQ as adults because of poor health choices.
You almost got it. The point is that is no bigoted language, only bigoted people and bigoted intentions. Mere use of words and languages can not, by itself, be bigoted. You can reasonably infer intention and a person’s character by their word choices, but you can’t call a normal person using a word a bigot merely for using a word which also bigots use.
Well, if you read the Twitter stuff for these ‘investors’, I don’t think it is very different. They got told by random gurus or ads it is a good idea (for investing) or the only way (‘because traditional finance sucks and you are doomed using it’) and they really believed it. This lack of morality or wilful ignorance, I would be willing to bet, is a very small % of the crypto community. I am also willing to bet that same small % make the most. But I cannot prove anything of course.
Usually the military doesn't target infrastructure they'll need themselves.

I've seen various Ukranian sources mention Starlink as a useful comms tool.
> As the world quickly switches to electric cars, how are we going to get them from factories to showrooms, especially when they have to cross oceans?

Pick the phone up and call Tesla logistics department. They’ll fill you right in.
I find it interesting that every one of these articles says they're the second largest wheat producer. Which is a bit misleading. They're "only" the 10th biggest wheat exporter.
I'd take Japan's data with a grain of salt, they've been discovering people refusing to report death of their parents to keep collecting pension...

Maybe there're pockets, like in Okinawa again seaside lifestyle, people stay active till death etc.
The good places of the web still exist. Nobody is stopping anyone to participate and enjoy them.
Well, there's the simple matter that they have been on the ground in the Ukraine for a few months now; seemingly without actually achieving any goals worth reporting. They attacked Kiev, tried to surround it and take it, and then Jill Biden went sightseeing there last week. I think it's safe to say that whatever the Russians wanted there failed. Completely and utterly. If you cut through the propaganda, it was Jill Biden touring Kiev and not Putin having a WW II parade there on the 9th of May (which is when they remember the end of WW II). They had one in Moscow instead. Apparently the "special operation" is still going great for them. All according to plan. Or so the propaganda says. But Jill Biden went to Kiev and Putin didn't. Simple realities.

It wouldn't be the first war that Russia got involved in that went badly for them. They only won WW II because of massive amounts of supplies from the US. Very much like the Ukraine is currently being supplied. And of course Afghanistan comes to mind. Russia was there in the 1980s.The US was supplying all sorts of goodies to the Taliban. I saw Rambo III (speaking of propaganda that did not age well).

Of course there's a bit of more recent history in that particular country where the US also got some egg on their face. As a matter of fact, that ended last year after two decades of boots on the ground. The US finally walked away after two decades of throwing their weight around without achieving a victory.

Anyway, you could ask the same questions you are asking about Russia in that context. And of course people have. But it still happened. Yes there is propaganda; but there are also facts on the ground, and lots of bad decision making, bad intel, bureaucratic inertia etc.

I know people from the Ukraine. I run into refugees here in Berlin on a daily basis. I'm sure it's all a bit abstract and distant for you. But it sure feels awfully close and real to me. Nothing that drives the point home of a war than seeing actual people just trying to find a safe place to stay for their families. All I have to do to see that is take a ten minute walk to the main train station here in Berlin.
... really? What does a watch need that much bandwidth for? Can they not just use WiFi? Or is the whole point to keep competitors out?
So they say, but the main gripe of switching to EVs has always been their too small range. Your average Li-ion 21700 cell has a capacity of 4-5Ah, whereas one with an LFP chemistry only gets 2-3Ah. That's almost a 50 % reduction in spatial density, not to mention their abysmal C rating.

Perhaps they would fit for PHEV usage, but for pure EVs they would be rather shite imo.
It's like you need some phone isolation practice time before the exam also. One class a month with phones in the box.
> For Bitcoin, the most popular one, on the order of 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 of hashes get calculated to mine a single block, multiple trillion per second. Within ten minutes, only a single one of those 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 hashes is actually used, depending entirely on luck. The rest are thrown away entirely. They do not form part of the final hash or anything else, the energy spent on them is lost.

That's still more energy efficient than the regulat fiat system.
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>(And if it wasn’t sunk by a Ukrainian missile, extreme Russian incompetence is the other explanation on the table.)

that is very likely the case, because the Ukrainians have lied before and afterwards about similar ships

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_patrol_boat_Vasily_Byk...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_frigate_Admiral_Makaro...

check out the talk pages. each ship was confirmed to have been sunk by some authorities and had a highly detailed account of the event published by some media
Sure, but I don't see how the Russians need the Ukranian fiber optic network or cell network. By all reports it's being used against them quite effectively.

Military orders go over VHF radio, not cell networks.

I have a hard time believing that Russia is incapable of invading countries without cell towers (although it would be cool if that were true!)

> I've seen various Ukranian sources mention Starlink as a useful comms tool.

That's actually yet another reason for them to take out the fiber optics. Starlink only reaches a hundred miles or so; beyond that it needs fiber.
Except that discord isn’t anything like that, having centralized control of all these groups on one platform with global rules enforced upon all of them (see the recent iOS NSFW ban)
Are there any real alternatives to Heroku for small to medium sized projects? I am talking about projects with only one or two engineers. Those engineers likely focus on providing value for the customer by improving the actual product itself. Instead of taking care of deploying their project on AWS, which is quite complex, if you do not use it regularly.

I am myself maintaining a custom built webshop/ERP system for a local company that repairs smartphones. I barely find enough time to maintain the actual code. If I would have to dig through the weeds on AWS the project would definitely be dead right now. Instead I just "git push heroku main" and I am done. I can also provision a database or Redis through the UI, without having to worry that I made a mistake that could cost me thousands of Dollars.
You're just being racist, western Europe is very safe
> I might as well flip your argument on its head: if it was as easy to store energy as you propose, then electricity prices would never become negative.

Then you're not understanding what I'm saying. I'm saying that cost/complexity for dealing with energy overproduction goes:

Ignore it -> Adjust existing systems -> Store it -> Use it for mining.

The fact that storage is still a small niche shows that there's not enough waste to make even simple storage clearly profitable, so we're still mostly on the "adjust" step.

If it was a big untapped market, we'd never get to the mining part, because pumping water uphill is far technologically simpler than setting up a data center full of video cards.

> Think e.g. Crypto Valley in Switzerland, or Bitcoin enthusiasts visiting (or moving to?) El Salvador. And we all know how the Prisoner's Dilemma plays out in the long run: to the detriment of its actors.

El Salvador is an absolutely nonsensical usage of BTC. Bitcoin has long dropped any pretenses of being a currency, and is a horrible fit for normal people. BTW, the experiment in El Salvador is not going well.

> And to you last points: ask modern day Venezuelans or North Koreans whether it's a waste to have sound money that can't be inflated by the whim of self-serving autocrats.

As far as I can gather, the experiment in Venezuela is failure thus far, and North Korea is completely a no-go, since the general population has no internet access and NK barely has electricity.
OT related to standups, we now use https://www.dailybot.com/ and it has cut down on our meeting time across teams to quite an extent. The bot gives us daily checkins which records what we worked on the previous day, what we plan to work on today, what blockers we have. This has enabled us to identify blockers across teams and fix them as well as being productive and checking in whenever we feel like it. By EOD, everyone would have filled up the form/bot.

I'm not affiliated to the product.
Still, it can be useful since certain places reliably get strong winds. Think of all the sports that rely on windy conditions, then consider that those sports are conducted far away from the grid. That's your target market.
Statistics and correlations never apply to individuals. The illustration my stats professor used was: ”We all agree that generally women are shorter than men, but Petey is 5’2” and Claire is 6’
I love the idea of classless CSS. There's no standard set of classes that seems to be the "one true way", and classless is a really nice way to instantly bring some structure and sanity without having to make a lot of decisions yourself, and spend more time than you should on something simple.
One similar thing I'd like to see is a global voice chat room with directional audio
Startup offering cocoon-like pods to allow 14 residents to share a single house
>Every time I look into one of those “projects” it either depends on money coming in or other parts of the crypto system growing

Can you please explain what you are talking about. There are a lot of different projects that are related to cryptocurrency. I think we are talking past each other.

>Stop fucking lying to people

What lie did I tell? I have been trying my best to explain how things work because I have been looking into how it functions over the past fwe days.

>and especially don’t compare it to something like Linux

I was just picking open source projects which have a community built around them.
Why is economic stability more important than higher economic prosperity?
+1 - I came here to ask about the noise emitted by this "water boittle" turbine.

A local neighbour has 4 small turbines (the kind typically used on boats) mounted atop 14m masts, and they make a hell of a racket when the wind is strong enough to make them generate reasonable (read: rated) amounts of power (which is pretty seldom around here.)

Frankly I doubt whether this machine is nett energy win over its lifespan. To me it looks more like a virtue-signalling device than something seriously meant to generate energy.