skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking hackers in a narco-submarine [0], since cartels could perform such operations, and it's not far from their territories.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine

They have already taken several cell-towers, why wouldn't they add some fiber...
> So? That's how you learned everything you ever read in a book.

Proof please.
Too bad doxycycline asphyxiates me
He did not talk about quite a few issues like this. I think that’s because the video is targeted for a less technical audience. But this video did make me think about the innovation the world is deprived of because of this monopoly. What wonders we miss because of this.
That entire article was about attacking the tank everywhere but the tracks.
Here's a much better source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-04-20/an-und... in particular, it makes it clearer that this was a cyberattack, rather than a physical attack.
The problem with the economist is not lack of analysis. The problem a very skewed-Americanized world-view. Assuming you are able to reckon that part, the Econ has sections about EU, Asia and Africa and the special reports are awesome (most times). Definitely read the economist if you care about current affairs.

I would propose Varoufakis books, especially “talking to my daughter about the economy”, “the global Minotaur” and “adults in the room”. The latest “another now” is a bit more advanced and the next one that’s coming out about the new status quo is also interesting.

Another way to learn a lot is to read columns in major, mainstream, journals like NYC - Krugman’s column is really good - the FT, etc.

Keep in mind that you will have many “???” Moments when authors will be alluding or assuming the high inflation and low unemployment rate lead to recession, etc. jump to investopedia an try to connect the dots… this process will make you an expert eventually.
For Android, use Kiwi browser (basically chrome) and install it. It works great
It'll change very fast once US gets into a major war. Say, with China.
Stuck in the past of nautical miles and knots for distance and speed. And feet for height. Not that nautical miles don't make sense for navigation on maps.
If they cared about expanding access to medical care they'd stop lobbying to prevent PAs and NPs from providing care. A half hearted attempt to add a paltry amount of residencies after 30 years of lobbying which led to the state we're in now does not absolve them of blame.
I've been doing keto and am fairly athletic. I also am doing it because I find it hleps my moods and affect, and I have a stable weight when I am on this diet.

I don't think that you have to be calorie-restricted to benefit from a ketogeneic diet.

The climber Dave MacLeod has a 4-hour long video that seems (to my untrained eye) to have a number of good sources. He also has a masters degree in nutrition and is a professional athlete.

He describes how underfeeding was indeed a problem with his early experiments with this approach to diet, but how it's been quite effective after being careful to eat enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9dtfNZahKw&t=46s
If you were a normal business then sure, you might well be officially incorporated in America.

But what if you were intending to build something more like Silk Road - a business, but with no identifiable legal entities involved? And avoiding prosecution not by following the law, but by being unidentifiable?
Ok, then where should they look if you're so smart? You think people who have dedicated their lives to studying this subject haven't considered the concept of looking everywhere possible, and that you're adding something to the discussion by trotting out this 'clever' metaphor?
Having had to debug issues in unfamiliar async-using code without the benefit of that feature (Now who the hell originally called this function?), I'd tend to agree.
My honest opinion. If you are profitable and not burning free VC cash, pay whatever you want by all means including $1m/Year if you want/can. But if you are using Free/VC money and you are deeply underwater, throwing 400k or whatever is not something you should do just to compete. I think it is unfair to legit businesses that have to work with what they got vs the cool startups. Yea I am a bit salty but being honest.
> Habits that even after you remove poverty from your live, you still feel the the anxiety and triggers in your head.

In high school, I went to a friend's house for lunch. Their father served a mountain of food. My friend said, a bit exasperated, 'Dad - why do you always serve so much food?!'

Dad said, caringly but directly: 'Remember that I grew up in a refugee camp in Palestine. It is very important to me that nobody ever runs out of food to eat in my home.'

An eye-opening moment for a teenager.
Lovely. So what comodities would you prefer? Corn's about the same as in 2011, Copper, Soy etc.

US M1 supply has increased 40 fold since 2011. If that's hiding "real" inflation, why are commodities less than 1/10th of the cost they were 10 years ago?
Using percentages rather than basis points can be ambiguous.

E.g. "1% increase from a 1% rate". Does this mean 1.01% (relative increase) or 2% (absolute increase)?
How long before we get public access? I signed up for the beta a few weeks ago but I haven't heard back aside from having to fill in a bunch of surveys.
I mean the US economy in the 20th century seems like a pretty good example, right? It “worked” by having the wealthiest realize most gains but also making the US the most powerful economy in the world and still has a large sized middle class with houses, pensions, 401ks, etc.
The piecemeal approach ensures they avoid massive shocks and over-correction. The cure should not be worse than the disease.
It'll enable point to point flights for many airport pairs which IMHO is the future of air travel. Connecting flight are too slow, too unreliable and too expensive to run.

Low cost airlines will use it to eat the more established players' lunch in longer haul flights (cross country, international).
Ah I understand now.

A fine is a bad idea since companies should be able to take risk freely as long as this risk isn't socialized. I don't get fined for leaving my door unlocked, because it is my prerogative whether I take that risk. If risky behaviour affects others, then fines would be appropriate (e.g. managing customer data)
I'm totally with you there. I can't get down with TDD because the purpose and structure of the project come to me when I'm in the zone coding. If I worked like the author said I'd have a big document and then immediately encounter some glaring problem with it at coding time and have to go back to square one.

I think that other people's brains work differently, and more power to them, but we don't all work this way.
can you describe how compute scaling works? I do a lot of work in PostGIS, which can have big CPU needs depending on the function being invoked, so my workload can look super bursty from a CPU perspective.
Came here to post this, so glad to see you did!

I'll add a complimentary link for others' benefit from Military History Visualized: "Tanks are obsolete, apparently since 1919" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPth_xqBXGY

In short, people forget about Combined Arms warfare. One cannot look at the tank, or other arms of a military without understanding how it supports and is supported by the others. When that is overlooked, misunderstandings and exaggerated conclusions are the result.
Yes the bond coupon payments are fixed, only the newly issued debt will be affected.
“We value diversity of thought”.

“But not pronouns. Those are sacred.”
I'd argue that a hiring freeze is an appropriate way of weathering an economic crisis. We have really only seen mass layoffs in a small handful of companies. The most recent one went on a hiring spree without any real plan to execute, e.g. new revenue.
> Playing games with friends use part of growing in current society.

Young people are broke where I live, they either pirate or just outright not have game consoles (most do not have consoles).,

They're managing just fine, they play stuff on their phones or hang out and talk and eat some ice cream, or have parties/get togethers.
Can it be repurposed here to evade censorship of the lab leak theory?
I feel like the results of risky behavior in the real world are somewhat similar to risky behavior in investing. When there is a bull market and overall growth trajectory, risky behavior is more likely to pay off. When a nation is in its growth phase, risky behavior is also more likely to pay off. If a nation starts to enter a phase of decline, perhaps more conservative behavior is a better gamble? Certainly you have to take risk to make outsized gains, I'm just thinking the likelihood of a payoff changes depending on the overall environment.
It's true that economic policy is structured such that Congress has effective control over the non-monetary levers.

The problem is that Congress is functionally ineffective at responding to popular demand, intentionally. The Senate is structurally allowed to act anti-democratically against the will of the populace: two representatives for fifty arbitrarily defined land areas are allowed to override proportionally elected representatives, and the filibuster allows only a third of them to block any action.

We are at a political impasse. Things will get worse because it does not look good to the minority party for the majority party to enact real economic wins.

If only the majority party were willing to wrestle a tiny speck of that anti-democratic power away from the Senate by overriding extreme rules like the filibuster...
Python is in the C family of languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generational_list_of_programmi...
...and the lower classes hold a lot of debt, which under high inflation would start to vaporize. It would effectively transfer a lot of wealth from those who hold a lot of cash to those who don't.

Can't have that.
I'm in my 30s, I remember 2008 not being a fun time, didn't feel stable watching friends and family lose their jobs and then their houses!
Too many dollars are chasing too few goods because of supply chain issues caused by these governments locking everyone down when they overreacted. You can't reduce inflation this way except by affecting tens of millions of innocent people who now have austerity measures imposed on them from on high courtesy of Janet Yellen and her posse.

They should have avoided the steep lockdowns and given cash directly to households instead of the giant infusion/bailout to failing states and companies that didn't even need the money.
Two points are important to consider.

1) It’s clear that the standard model is an incomplete model, due to some small discrepancies between theory and observation.

2) Large-scale particle physics experiments are very expensive and depend on government funding, and politicians must be persuaded to allocate funds.

The nightmare scenario for particle physicists is that funding bodies get bored of the lack of exciting new results before the known discrepancies in the standard model are resolved, cease funding particle physics experiments, and the discrepancies are never resolved.
You and parent make very good points. These would still be relevant if we had all the data. It'd be nice to have the data and this context for it.
distance not torque, Nautical Miles (NM)
I am really hoping that someone builds an isolates based faas runtime. I think CloudFlare talked about open sourcing their stuff.

I have 3 products where I’d allow client code to run once we can make that happen.
> The fed is aggressively raising rates as the economy goes into recession

The fed raising rates is what is causing fears of a recession in the first place. Cooling off the economy is the entire point, that's how you control inflation.

The fed is trying NOT to cause an actual recession, but still cool the economy enough to reduce inflation.
Governments are fine. It's states that are the problem. Nation-states (whether ethnic or civic) especially, because they have motivations to wage war that are connected to the fiction that forms their core: "this territory is historically ours", and "you're treating our people poorly". Both are in full display in Ukraine today, but just look at any "Greater ..." article in Wikipedia to see numerous other examples.
This seems like good marketing but reading this press release and looking at the courses in their degree program I feel like I'm missing what's different here (other than some reference to supply chain management).

Most of the coursework here seems to be very similar to what was available over a decade ago at the state university I attended for graduate school (my concentration was semiconductor device theory related). While I think this material is very interesting I don't know that the demand is going to be there for this type of field. Companies like Intel have dedicated smaller departments for process development which do the more academic work (for example the D1X facility).

My experience with fabrication organization is the need is much more process engineer and technician focused rather than semiconductor engineers. The high volume hires are in improving reliability, reducing cost etc. I don't think you really need the EE degree for this, more likely industrial engineering, chemical engineering or statistics.

This said, Purdue has always had a very strong program in the more device oriented semiconductor courses (Until his passing Robert Pierret the fellow who wrote some of the best and most used grad textbooks on devices called it home).
Warning: nerd trap. Low wages, horrendous deadlines (tapeout), hard work.

Perhaps this has changed, given that we're in a semiconductor boom cycle now, but I have my doubts. When SMIC started trying to poach TSMC talent, the response was not to make pay competitive (or even half decent), let alone in line with the massive geopolitically-relevant value being created. No, the response was a mask-off legislative crackdown to keep the nerds in line. In the US, there were only two big employers, and they were definitely paying what they could get away with.

Anyone who is considering this career -- any career, but this one especially -- before you jump, please get the perspective of someone in industry who isn't trying to sell you a career.
Will Manidis: "These attacks are a stark reminder that our internet infrastructure is at incredible risk. A constant reminder that our continued freedom rests on an increasingly vulnerable set of infrastructure that is only waiting to be attacked. And our adversaries know it."

Also Will Manidis: tells the story of Operation Ivy Bells, where the US tapped another country's transmission lines

Sauce for the goose, right?
People like to role-play, and having to do mundane stuff can make it easier to role for some people, and makes the game more immersive.

I am not of those players, because I play mostly for the stories, but I understand why they do it.
The counter is that the troll argument compares a substantial community of good-faith actors (transgender people) to a largely imaginary community of bad-faith actors (people pretending to be trans-racial) and from that point on it assumes that those groups are entirely alike in every way, even though one of those groups doesn't exist to any meaningful extent.
Google and Facebook make insane profits. Advertisers are paying huge $ per click or for YouTube views. Maybe Google management is suboptimal, but the company generates cash like no other.
I didn’t say people who were well-intentioned were therefore naive, I said that young people tended to be both. Wisdom can be seen as understanding one’s limitations, as well as appreciating the insights of others (including one’s ancestors), and is more associated with conservativism.

I am not saying young people or leftists are dumb, or that right-wingers are smart.
I think you could argue the same took place during COVID, what with mask mandates, essentially forced vaccinations and businesses being forced closed.
> I will probably make a bunch of people here mad at me, but there is so much to blame on both political parties.

Anyone who can't agree with that statement isn't living in reality.
Dang. Well if it's enough to pop the various housing/cryptocurrency/startup bubbles, good. They were already pretty squishy but only for a threat that had to be carried out.

It can always be walked back, and probably will be in year...
We had someone who was attempting something like tyrannical rule between 2016 - 2020 when the economy was going gangbusters. In his infinite wisdom he passed a ginormous tax cut, and then publicly lambasted the fed chair for modestly raising interest rates.

Not that administration is solely to blame for our predicament. The failure goes back even before the previous administration who had a mandate to make radical changes after the 2008 election cycle, and instead continued business as usual.
You're right, I have let it go too, I used to argue much more online.

I got into Apple stuff at around 2005 so I have had the same experiences.
*Doxycycline (typo, missing "c")
An iPhone user in rural India surfing the open internet on $1 / month LTE mobile networks is absolutely an example of Trickle down economics working.

Every single of the thousands of innovation that goes into an iPhone was subsidized by rich venture capitalists and rich early adopters who were willing to plonk large sums of money to a 'gadget' that only showed promises of work.

It wasn't because the Indian Government Taxed the Rich and made a mandate that everyone should have an device-in-their-pocket-that-carries-all-the-worlds-information-and-productivity-tools
> Amazon is a cesspool of knock-offs, scams, and rip-offs.

I think it's worth pointing out that Amazon is more than it's online retail site - 60% of it's revenue in 2020 came from something other than third party retail. AWS is probably going to take over as their biggest source of revenue soon.
Last year I was given a piece of pump control software to inspect, with the focus being the potential possibility to modify it.

We knew it had a web interface, but just couldn't get it to start.

The researcher who commissioned this mentioned that only one person ever managed to start that app - another researcher who used an ancient laptop with IE11 as the only browser.

We took that laptop, launch IE11 with the proper URL and lo and behold - a Java Applet appeared before our eyes.

All the modern browsers removed support for this technology around 2018.
A friend of mine got a phd and he told me the main benefit was that he had lots more opportunities. He was always called back for job interviews and had lots more positions available. His wife, a nurse, basically supported him while he was getting the degree.
I guess that depends on the person susceptibility to side effect. I had 3 weeks of doxycycline for unidentifiable bug bite and I didn't notice any side effects.
Pretty sure any user agent spoofer would work.
Science has had countless cycles of believing we had discovered, more or less, all that was to be discovered and the remainder would come in sorting out things to another decimal place. Then a revolution, sometimes in short order, sometimes centuries later, comes around and emphasizes our ignorance and arrogance.

So at any given point you have two options: that we've finally reached "the end" - this is it and we can go no further. Or that we're at yet the latest cliff-face searching for that ever-elusive path through. I would always bet, hard, on the latter. At least if I could live forever, because even if I am right there's every possibility, if not probability, that none of us living today will be around to see it shown.

The notion of being able to discern all the fundamental laws of the universe while living on a single isolated grain of sand in a beach of ever more bizarre discoveries stretching out endlessly in all directions just seems improbable to me, at best.
Regardless of how you're generating your power, you're going to need to overprovision your generation capacity slightly to account for downtime. You only need storage if all of your generation capacity is offline at the same time, which is inevitable with solar power (nighttime), possible with gas (pipeline failure?), but less inherently likely with nuclear.

> backup fossil fuel

In practice this means fossil fuels become the baseload power source.
To be fair, even though Trump disregarded most public health measures he was an advocate of vaccine development and really did grease the skids to make it happen.

In Dec 2020 my left wing friends were expressing fear of a vaccine that Trump developed at "Warp Speed". After Biden was inaugurated anti-vax became a right wing thing. Trump could have done some good using every channel to push people to take "his" vaccine but he choose not to because, I think, he understands that QAnon psychology and knows he would lose the esteem of his Jan 6 army if he did something responsible.

It's like the story of the Church of Scientology where it's believed the leader, David Miscavige is terribly afraid of catching COVID and has driven the staff to take extreme precautions against it, including mandatory vaccinations. He's also told staff to lie about this because he believes the Scientology public is anti-vax and would be driven away if they were honest.
> No un-packing.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1135690/Unpacking/
You probably know this already, but I thought I'd pass on a correction to what is a common misconception. If you start making more money and end up in a higher tax bracket, only the amount of income in the new tax bracket is taxed at the higher rate, not the whole income.

For example: Pretend you currently make $75,000/yr and the next tax bracket is at $80,000. And you get a nice raise to make your salary $85,000 this year. Only $5,000 of your new income (the amount "above the next tax bracket") will be charged at the higher rate.
I think some places do have post doc unions and it is sometimes combined with graduate student unions. However, in the places I have been it sadly does not exist.
> the cost to build this 13,000 MW facility would be $12.1 billion, which is still just 50% of the cost of the $25 billion Vogtle nuclear plant.

Yes this is generally my argument. If you take the money you would spend on nuclear and spend it instead on solar, wind, gridscale storage, as well as EV and home battery rebates, you end up with a much more robust distributed energy production grid with very low maintenance costs. I think the idea of including rebates for home batteries and EVs is an important one, because it means that when major parts of the power line system are knocked out for some reason, you still have a lot of distributed storage.

You can also begin energy production with a solar and battery roll out MUCH sooner than new nuclear construction. From a climate change perspective, producing clean energy sooner is a big deal.

And we should not overlook that nuclear energy is a single target for terrorist attack and requires a powerful state to manage security for the plant and its supply chain, while batteries and renewables require no such thing. From a libertarian/anarchist perspective, we can have a weaker state and still have good energy production with renewables.

EDIT: I am also realizing that handing out a bunch of rebates to the voters for new stuff (rooftop solar, home batteries, new EVs) would be WAY more politically popular than "lets pay now for a big monolithic nuclear power plant that takes 20 years to build." If you want a plan that actually works, keeping the voters happy seems like an important component.
Aren't they only using it for security updates though?
I know this may sound petty and the wording is regularly found even in the best editorial offices, but the engineer in me resists every time: the correct wording should be "by 0.75%-points" instead of "by 0.75%". Am I the only one who is bothered by this?