skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me like they did, they came up with a plan and everything.

Are we sure Elon isn't just claiming that he forever wants more detail, like a sealioning troll, because in actuality he wants the money for himself more, and never actually intended to make the donations he committed to? Occam's razor would suggest that is actually the case.

I mean, if we was serious about it, after he received the plan, did he ask for more detail on any of the items he didn't understand?
> As far as 'voting' and governance goes, I think there's room for development with blockchain login/identity/ownership and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) which support that.

Immediately turning it into a community of crypto bros where the only subject is cryptocurrencies and derivations. A figurative and literal waste.
It is just a CS guy, my PhD level CS friends are equally bombastic and not necessarily always correct.
Greyscale and no social media did reduce my smartphone consumption a lot. And consulting Instagram / Reddit only on a computer is not a death in itself (plus I use Intention [1] to keep my time on those websites in a normal range.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/intention-stop-min...
I live in North Dakota. I think practically everyday is moderate to strong breeze here.
Yup. I know some people at Google who just smack their foreheads every time the HN "of course we'd all pay to eliminate ads" narrative shows up. There have been a bunch of attempts at this over time. They've just never got traction and slowly died.
Please expand. This may be important.
I wonder if there is a negative impact produced by people having kids later in life - the reduced sperm and egg quality must play some role in this.
That assumes that you thrust your bank and government not to steal the saving. Hi form Argentina! Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito and the immediate follow-up.
Did they ever figure out the scaling problem or is it still just "one web dyno and that's it"?
I worked at a few small shops that initially used Heroku.

The story in all of them was the same: Heroku is nice and simple to start with the free/lower plans, but gets too expensive as you grow a bit more.

Once we'd grown past the free/lower plans, we'd move on to somewhere else, that required a bit more work, but was substantially cheaper and way more flexible.

Also an issue was a reproducible environment for several devs. Using docker became super easy, but this didn't translate well into Heroku. We either needed to maintain buildpacks and dockerfiles in sync, or move to a platform where we ran docker. Not sure if this has changed since, but this was also a big reason to move elsewhere.
Yes, I see, there is a study with some conclusions, but that doesn't mean that one has to ignore his life experiences, also because I would like to see what were the parameters of the tests, I have also other examples of people with higher education failing to understand how democracy basically works and wishing people with different ideas wouldn't vote, so yeah probably the study is right, and the parameters were general, I just find people with higher education more specialised but less functional in day to day stuff
Because paying customers expect some modicum of support, and Google HATES providing support.
Study Mother Nature for all her glory and its design.

While trout-fishing (eons ago), I devised fastpath for network packet based on geological trend of meandering brooks and their lovely S-shaped curved when I notice “these bends do eventually connect”.
I came to the comments first to answer "what's the catch?". There were no comments at the time so I went to the website. This line near the top seems particularly fair and believable.

> Own your own PAAS. Infrastructure at a fraction of the cost. Powered by Docker, you can install Dokku on any hardware. Use it on inexpensive cloud providers. Use the extra cash to buy a pony or feed kittens. You'll save tens of dollars a year on your dog photo sharing website.
I saw your past comments. You should check if you don't have ADHD. The treatment fixed me!
Firewall analysis: A portable graph based approach
https://lifearchitect.ai/bmi/

https://youtu.be/u64YrV3Ic4E?list=PLqJbCeNOfEK-o63ACEKEbwE6-...
Yes, in other words

> The North was willing to leave slavery in the hands of the States.

The South was unwilling to accept that the North didn't recognise slavery in its territory.

Southerners wanted slavery to be recognised and enforced throughout the US.

> I thought one of the main points of tension was the refusal of Northern states to recognize slaves that fled to the North as "property" and "return them to their owners".

That was the official line — and rather obviously against the concept of states' rights.

But for my money the main issue for the "gentlefolks" was that they couldn't bear not being waited on hand and foot by their slave retinues while enjoying the trapping of the north: they had to pick between those trappings and having an enslaved retinue, as any slave they brought up north was a jump and skip away from freedom.

And they really couldn't handle the "inconvenience" and "degradation".
Using adblock is indeed very convenient. Enable browser extension and forget about all web annoyances. Calm and peece.

Google Ad Premium disables google ads only (or most of them?), while other ad nets (avg more than 80 cookies on every major news site!) will continue to annoy.
Yes, I love Dokku and like to use it as an alternative for some of my Heroku apps. However, the thing I miss most is Heroku including a nice dashboard showing several metrics for my Golang apps (memory usage, go-routines, etc) over time. Heroku has that out of the box and that makes it very convenient.
> Specific facts which are true themselves but have their significance wildly misrepresented (either through the ignorance of journalists or manipulativeness of military media personnel) to partisan media are very common forms of wartime propaganda

Argentina was the aggressor, and thought (as did most of the world) that the British would not be able to do anything about the invasion.

No one was surprised that Argentina sunk the Sheffield - what surprised the world was how badly Argentina ran the war. Argentina had more and better air power (I recall it was on the order of 50 or so Harriers vs. 122 Argentine aircraft), but failed to use it to achieve anything that resembled air superiority.

> Ships are generally considered thought to be easy to sink with the right ordnance when parked along a coast, and it is not uncommon for a military we consider relatively incompetent to be able to sink some of those owned by a G7 power.

I think it is pretty uncommon to read about a warship being sunk. Modern navies tend to fight at stand-off distances and use layered defenses, where a large ship isn't unescorted, especially when in range of shore based defenses.
I believe you're neglecting the cascade effect. If those people had children (they did) then their emphasis on education and the kind of rearing for children that encourages more intelligence was surely effected.
Since all the clients have to do the work, doesn't that result in a net increase in electricity consumption? Since most electricity comes from fossil fuels doesn't that in net hurt our battle against climate change?
Then I spend too much time on HN
I've been partial to this sentiment for a while but I like a simpler expression: it's just the virgin no-coiner vs. the chad bitcoiner. Dismissive? Absolutely. But these posts and comment threads deserve to be dismissed. If I felt like being slightly more constructive perhaps it'd be worth noting that it's an over-explanation because humans just don't need much reason to become this polarized and frothy about things, see e.g. Sports or the Robbers Cave Experiment (despite the latter having issues).
> Access to education is currently the most conclusive factor explaining disparities
> in intelligence, according to Ritchie.

That sounds weird. Doesn't that mean they're "measuring intelligence" wrongly, as plenty of people without extensive formal education are extremely intelligent?

eg those same people getting further formal education may indeed score higher on these IQ tests, but the education is in no way changing the persons IQ
What is sizable from a fire department that covers 9 million people?
Google loves to provide support, but for its customers only. Customer is a one who pays them millions of dollars for ads.
Honest question - wouldn't this be more fun to do in CUDA? And why not?
DeepMind's new Gato AI makes me fear humans will never achieve AGI
In 43 states in America this is already legal.
Google has zero support even for paying users, so if you got locked out of your account, you're f*cked without recourse.
Thanks. I was born in a completely blue collar family (first to go to university) and my father was the first one to congratulate me on not having to do what he does for exactly the same reason you wrote.
Falkland is British territory. Every sovereign countries are prepared to fight to protect their territories, no matter how insignificant they seem to be. Kirin, Senkaku, Spratly.

Ukraine, on the other hand, doesn’t belong to Russia. If Russia invade Ukraine to prevent NATO at their border, they now have a much longer of that border to protect. They also have to spread their force to fight the insurgency within Ukraine. Finally, Finland now decide to join NATO because of the invasion, exposing Russia to a much bigger threat.

I doubt Russia didn’t see any of those scenarios before they decided to invade Ukraine, so no, it doesn’t make sense to do it because of NATO expansion. Rather, Russia consider Ukraine part of their influence sphere and can’t accept the fact that Ukraine’s people don’t want to be under their manipulation. Russia want to go back to their glory past. Not to mention the resource Ukraine would bring to the empire. NATO is just an excuse.
It was slapstick... it wasn't supposed to hit any mark. It was supposed to make you laugh. Just because some elements are used to mock the current state of things doesn't mean it's supposed to be a reference.
The Companies Cutting Staff, Freezing Hiring or Slashing Costs
>If you can get funding semifast...

That is the problem with the current times, people are selling off sure things like bonds and precious metals just to maintain liquidity and meet margin calls right now.

I agree now is the best time to found a company, yesterday was better and tomorrow is almost as good as today! Very much along the lines of the best time to plant a tree!
Speculation but: there will be a huge amount of institutional inertia around this. It sure suits a large number of Google employees that "paying for a service" will fail.

Newspapers, tv, and music, are counter-examples to the assertion that people won't pay for things - even when they've previously been free.

Google's main product focus now should be Cloud, the ad debate is long-term done.
Yes, after it is adjusted. But the average performance of the test groups have changed over time.
North Korea: Covid outbreak a great disaster, says Kim Jong-un
Seeing as most the studies mentioned Norway which has a perfectly healthy and functional university system that doesn’t leave people in debt, I doubt it.

Going to University doesn’t affect IQ much, IQ is not learned.
Heh, I’d Pay to get better search results like google was a couple of years ago. Maybe a like/dislike button for search results and some machine learning on top of that would do it.
EQ is considered by some to be a bit of a cult https://www.inc.com/quora/its-time-to-stop-talking-about-eq-...
That is roughly how the commenter described these people, and I have no doubt HN is far more likely than the average forum to be frequented by tech types who personally know successful early adopters.
That’s not support, it’s account management :)
Why do you need to reread something a bunch of times? Could it be lousy working memory?
The article insists several times this is not due to genetics, because people with lower IQ don't have more children. This is not true[0]. What the article may want to say is that it's not due exclusively to genetics.

Given fertility is negatively correlated with intelligence, and how hereditary IQ is, it's just a matter of time until IQ declines.

This is not so shocking, how many kids does your typical college professor have before 35, is it 0 or 1?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence
Decades is understating it. The beginning of civilization marks the start of the first downtrend in hominid brain to body ratio. There are a few different theories about why, but I find the systemic one the most plausible. The increase in the complexity of a system comes with a reduction in complexity of the parts.
^Should be top comment.
To be fair 'only' requiring liquid nitrogen is a much easier proposal than liquid helium as nitrogen can be sourced from air and is way less expensive.
Ask HN: What are some examples of clearly misleading information from startups?
I ask this because I came across a site called ratepunk which proudly states on their site "Chrome Store reviews, 1000+ users" but the chrome store clearly shows that they have less than 200 users.

Why do some people do this? It just doesn't make sense.
"Head first design patterns"

I also read:
- Beautiful code
- Code complete
- Design patterns
- Refactoring
- Object oriented analysis and design
and many others, but honestly, the first one was a quick and easy read and gave me 80% of it
Ublock Origin and never see an ad again. I can't believe there are still people who don't do this. You can even do it on your mobile device if you use android and firefox.
Way back when, they did make fake newspapers for Lenin to hide the truth from him. It’s the same thing here. The cabal of Russian leaders don’t want to get killed for their incompetence before Putin dies and they replace him with one of their own.
Unless that loan underpins the value
I'd be slap bang in the cross hairs of this product. I mooch around online reading stuff like HN in my spare time, and yet have never ever heard of it. From an advertising company.

Is this the upside or the downside of ad blockers? So hard to decide...
> HTML stopped advancing as a hypermedia

Nitpick: "media" is plural. The singular is "medium".
People already do this. "Cultural fit" can include an informal or indirect political chat, sometimes in a roundabout way. Some people choose to hide their political leanings. In the south in many areas, you'll be asked very pointed questions about which (Christian) church you go to. Of course, not all of this happens in interviews usually, but you can get passed over for raises, PTO approval, or preferred work assignments for other people who do align more with the owners' or boss's political or religious views.
My point is we didn't have an understanding. Science doesn't move that fast, and whatever was published was highly speculative, but the it sounded scary so it got media coverage.
It is a strange twist but when filling out the many prescreening questions at Google, I was immediately sent an email asking for an interview.

Sadly, they insist that they would only call me at an agreed time and not take any incoming call from me, even at their agreed upon timeframe.

Why is this an important stance of AI bias against people with disability? I need to line up a voice interpreter who would do American Sign Language so I can understand what a group of Google interviewers would be saying. And voice interpreters requires a 3-way call that I can help setup.

I am capable of understanding them perfectly through my lipreading given that I lost all high frequency discriminator due to a childhood high fever. I cannot tell the difference between B, V, P, D, Z, or E, but a lipreading skill can nails them all. I am an excellent speaker of the English language given being technically and governmentally assigned as Deaf.

So, have I been wronged? I still think so … to this day.
Thinking about higher education as an 'investment' is part of this problem. In Europe, we had the Humbold system of higher education, but sadly that was now eradicated in favor of the more utalitarian anglo style education. At least Italy still has the fairly classical approach.
The law of reversed effort: Harder you try, harder you fall – Big Think
G7 asks China to not help Russia, warns it will never recognize Russian conquest
My suspicion is that having direct access to all information has offloaded some of our cognitive capabilities to our devices. Also, making everything political-- and as such being told what to think about every topic doesn't really help us exercise our critical thinking skills. Maybe we need to "use your brain" more- as my dad would have said.
I started in Monero after the Canadian trucker thing. The government response was scary. In no particular order, threats that got me interested in privacy coins:

1) Able to donate money without it being blocked (examples: Wikileaks, eight-wing political activism).

2) No trace of activity that can be used against me (examples: WWII, looks like it might happen again in the near future, situation is tense post-COVID).

3) When the next recession hits, want to have protections against government haircuts (a la Cyprus or the bail in mechanisms that were prepared after 2008).

Cryptos fit quite neatly into a threat model where my government going rogue seems to be possible but unlikely. It makes a lot of sense to me to have $1-10k in Monero as a weird emergency fund/political tool. Dunno how it will work out, this isn't really territory that has been open before. If cryptos weather the next recession and hold >50% of their value then I'd start looking to put more serious money in.
The privacy is a myth, if you want to actually use the cryptocurrency to pay for things in the real world. If you pay fiat to get monero, the exchange has your info. If you cash out monero for fiat to buy something, the exchange has your info. The wallet and transaction in chain are permanent in the ledger. So where is the privacy?
> Lending creates "virtual money" that contributes to inflation, so one of the ways central banks control inflation is by increasing or decreasing interest rates.

One way to understand how this works is by visualizing the circulation of the monetary base, aka physical coins and central bank reserves, or bitcoins/lunas in the crypto case.

Without lending, you have people and companies entering transactions, accumulating money and saving them for a later investment, for example putting a penny in the mattress or a bitcoin in cold storage. The penny might physically change hands once or twice a year. So in agregate you have:

V = PQ/M

with V, velocity of money ( = 1 transaction per year), PQ is the gross product (price level * quantity of goods), and M is the money supply (say, 21 milion bitcoins).

So one way to generate inflation is to increase M (print more money), since the ability of the economy to produce goods changes slowly, so P will need to increase to maintain equilibrium.

But another way to do that is to promote lending: instead of placing the penny in the mattress, is is deposited to a bank who immediately places it in the hands of a lender who buys a house or a TV, giving it to another entity that deposits into a bank etc. So you have a physical penny on steroids that can travel with a much higher velocity in the economic system, say 8 transactions per year as it was typical for the dollar last time I estimated this.

Banks can effectively print unlimited money substitutes (deposits denominated in bitcoins, luna, pennies etc) and as long as depositors trust them to be solvent this entire virtual monetary base will participate in the MV=PQ equation.

This is true in a fiat world as well as in a Bitcoin world, unregulated banks can greatly amplify the velocity of bitcoins without any technical support from the currency itself, in effect putting significantly more bitcoins on the market available for transactions, so overall reducing their market value, or "creating inflation" without printing a single bitcoin.
One would assume Softbank made sure that the debt was collateralized with something other than Better.com shares. I'm sure a good chunk of that 750M is collateralized with better.com shares but I'd be willing to bet they made him put some other stock/investments on the line.
Division of labour has been a tool to make us dependent on the system and our overlords. People like Kropotkin have been saying this for quite some time.
At some point, I wonder if it'd just be cheaper and easier to put our supercomputers beneath the earth's crust. :)

There's a billion $$$ startup idea. Let's get some people together to start serious superconductive computing below the Kola Superdeep Borehole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

Well, apart from the Russian-Ukrainian war going on presently. :(

So plan B, need to put a superdeep borehole somewhere else. Maybe at the KTB borehole in Bavaria?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Continental_Deep_Drilli...
There might have already been nothing there in the first place.
You're suggesting that the commander of the Falkland's task force was a victim of Argentine propaganda: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/apr/03/falklands.world

>At that rate, at most, they could have sunk two more ships if they were lucky

And how many aircraft carriers did the UK deploy to the Falklands? Two :) Just sinking one carrier would have required the withdrawal of the task force. As Admiral Woodward put it, "the Argentinian commanders failed inexplicably to realize that if they had hit either of our aircraft carriers, the British would have been finished."
https://archive.ph/t6Bcm
UK’s nuclear power push will add to energy bills, ministers say
Yea, sorry but not going to trust proponents of MMT on economic issues. Yes crypto is mostly a scam. I do think that btc is different though.
> The backlash against science is fairly reasonable, given how often science is misrepresented and how often preliminary findings are reported as facts, often in some misguided attempt to help make it easier for people to understand.

Oh, that's nothing. You should have seen the post-WWII era, when the backlash against Science was rooted about efficient new ways of killing people and destroying the environment (both with and without the atomic bomb), and against authoritarians touting Progress while demanding the regimentation of society and destruction of traditional values and ways of life.
Forging OAuth tokens using discovered client id and client secret
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#dead
India has stopped exports before in response to domestic need. Onions in recent years[1], and also COVID vaccines in response to its devastating 2021 second wave, after it spent 2020 doing rounds of “vaccine diplomacy” where it assured countries it could help with their COVID vaccine needs. India is usually the world’s largest vaccine exporter, but its 2021 2nd wave led to this policy being put on hold as once again, exports were blocked[2].

Actions like these are not new or surprising because India’s economy is quite price sensitive and the government in response likes to micro-manage in the face of rising prices, but it does mean you’ve to take these sound bites to foreign leaders with a grain of salt. Very often these are actually intended for people at home to push the message of “see how much good we’re doing in the world?”

None of this is intended to be disparaging or specific to India, a lot of this applies to other countries as well.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/bangladesh-india-onion-idUSK...

[2] https://www.thecambridgeglobalaffair.co.uk/collaborators/wha...
What outside investments?
Yet no one in government finds a reason to curtail the privacy invasion aspect or the gross level of location tracking they do.