skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the US started transitioning to vertical launched missile ships circa 1970 Robert McNamara had a lot of trouble with Congress because the ships didn't look as aggressive as previous ships and might not intimidate our foes.

Quite a few ships with some history are docked at the Philadelphia Navy Yard awaiting decommissioning

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Philadelphia,+PA/@39.89541...

but vertical launch missile ships never gripped the public imagination and I'm afraid none of them will turn up as museum ships which I find sad. (Note if you scroll down a little you will see the John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier which is also in line to be scrapped; there's certainly demand for aircraft carrier museums but it is so expensive to run one that nobody can do it.)

The Chinese on the other hand are very proud of their VLS missile ships and feature them in action movies like Wolf Warrior 2.
> The fundamental problem is that there is not enough oil.

This is a farce. There's not enough oil because OPEC+ has decided there is not enough oil. They can easily increase supply, causing the price of oil to be more consumer friendly, but no, won't someone think of their profits?!
Metals generally are.
They've always been around and fairly frequent. Pretty high quality source for hacker related stuff.

Check out this, for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=news.mit.edu&next=220...
I thought this was incredibly obvious, but when you are not inside the US it becomes a lot more clear that it's foreign policy or stance on human rights doesn't change. It doesn't matter who you have in charge. What US news reaches outside of the borders frankly also doesn't convince me it's the same clusterfuck year after year. It wasn't always like this - it's gotten a lot worse in the past twenty years that I've paid any attention to it.
> People in Germany are already clearing out electric heaters and it’s record hot outside…

That will also be fun. I just made a new electricity contract, from 0.26€/kWh for my current one, it will be 0.42€/kWh and that price is only because I changed to a 24 months contract (gambling prices won’t fall in a year).

I guess it’s better than freezing, but those heaters will be expensive.
Maybe if it were more focused on using email as an identity provider for other sites.

For example, Facebook started where people needed a university-validated email address to join. This allowed there to be a one-to-one matching of account and human. While there are some ways to do KYC online, I imagine an in-person solution might help a LOT. It couid still be tied to an email address, if you wanted, as it can be easy for sites to restrict login to specific email domains. I just think for me, what I want the most as a user and especially as a site designer, is a way to more confidently prove someone's identity or at least their humanness.
Well, lots of places already have name:la (Latin) tagged, and since it is a dead(-ish) language it often matches the historic name Romans used, but you'll get edge cases like Lugdunum Batavorum which has been used as the Latin name of Leiden since the renaissance, but which is now considered to have been the name of nearby Katwijk. So the tag name:la=Lugdunum Batavorum is correct for Leiden (it is called that in Latin), but arguably not historically correct (it's not the same Lugdunum the Romans knew).
Because someone asked 'why do they do this in America when they don't do it in Europe' and your explanation was 'because if you have lawns trees can smother them'. That doesn't make sense as an explanation to the question unless you think having lawns and trees or not is a difference between Americans and Europeans. Otherwise how does it apply?
A great video on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8sjdOjNxIE
>That isn't really a worthwhile path to go down

It sure is. Given a year in my garage, I bet I can make a more useful, power-converting device from scratch using internal combustion tech than using electronics.

>I believe the first EV might even predate the first ICE vehicle.

I also believe that is true. What's old is new again - time to get rid of those "dinosuar tech" ICEs and move on to...the even older EV?

Somehow electric delivery trucks are the new hotness, yet here in the UK, (lead-acid powered) milk floats are also a symbol of a byegone age.
You can guess how sovereign a country is by how they protect their own people, and how much effort they put into it (or rather their lack of motivation)

To me this looks like their government have different interests to protect, than protecting their own people

Not a great outlook for the future of India, in a world where tech will be even more predominant and cyberwarfare will pose serious threat to democracy

They are at the mercy of the american tech giants, maybe they lobby over there? I wouldn't be surprised since both Google and Microsoft are present over there
Does Godwin’s law (rule of Nazi analogies) apply in observable reality? (2021)
I suspect it's a chain reaction. Someone (from here) follows one link, then starts clicking around, and finds more interesting stuff, and so on.
MIT produces interesting engineering content. They've been a regular on the HN frontpage for as long as I've been coming here which is a pretty long time. Why would it be weird?
I assume it’s time travelers trying to post enough so their message persists.
It's not that there is zero applicable knowledge transfer, but there are definitely some fundamental differences between digital components and analog power devices, in particular.

For digital, the transistor are CMOS, optimized to be as tiny as possible, running at < 1V, and with individual devices mostly driving microamps, going up to milliamps in some particular areas of the chip.

For power, we're talking about IGBTs, optimized to handle as much power as possible with maximum efficiency, at hundreds of volts.

They are both semiconductor devices, but they are about as similar as the engine for a sports car vs. for a panamax cargo ship.
My biggest question is whether this will be the next climate crisis. There have been recent articles about how the earth's geology is cooling faster than expected. There are questions around if our planet will become a dead planet as it cools. It seems like speeding this up could be an issue, especially given how little we know.
a few questions: is there a general FAQ besides the one about pricing?

does sourcehut have tools to import assets like wiki, issues, etc, from github/gitlab besides the git repository?

what payment options do you offer? credit card, paypal, crypto?

is there a trial period? basically, can i import my projects and make sure everything is working the way i need to before i start paying (with the expectation that if i am not satisfied, the projects will be deleted again)

if i decide to selfhost sourcehut, can i easily replicate all my projects from public sourcehut? (the promise of full data autonomy suggests that this may be a feature in the future)

is 2FA required or optional?

is it possible to pay for other peoples projects? like gandi and some other domain hosting services allow anyone to pay for any domain, even if they don't own it, such a feature would be very useful for project hosting too.

it would allow small projects to receive "donations" in form of hosting credit, or allow a project community to continue managing a project even if the account manager is unavailable.
Companies are incentivized to produce more oil as long as it is profitable. They're not going to stop producing oil if they're getting less per barrel. In fact, they'll be motivated to produce more because they want to increase profits.

Further -- the medium and short term supply of oil is determined by existing infrastructure, which already exists. (Oil sands facilities in Canada, for example, were extremely expensive to build, but are now profitable if oil is at $20 a barrel.)

To say that oil companies won't increase supply if prices go down is like saying you'll stop breathing if there's less air. You'll actually, in all likelihood, just breath more.

In terms of supply -- the amount of supply very closely matches demand. A shift of less than 1% of supply versus demand shouldn't be allowed to send the economy into a recession, much less subsidize Russia's war efforts.

Supply/demand can (and should) be mediated by sensible regulations. Just as with drug pricing -- buyers should be able to negotiate. Oil sellers operate cartels. Buyers should as well.

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/global_oil.php
I transitioned into being an independent contractor this year:

I found another job, and quit my previous, and as part of negotiating contract, I said that I wanted to invoice rather than receive a salary. I had a good reason, but mostly, I just insisted that this was best for me. Secondly, asking for the contract to not require you to be in a specific physical location.

If you want money for work, in some way, you have to do someone else's thing, too.

If you want to do your own thing, that comes with risk. But you can use a portion of your time allocated to that risk while getting paid for doing someone else's doing some other part of the time. Make sure your contract does not prohibit you from working on other things, or at least other things not in the same domain.
My wife and I just agreed to put our deposit down so we can join the 2-year waiting list to get one of these cars. It's honestly just such a great vehicle for the price point it's at.

Guess it'll be 3 years then.
Wiki says it's basically nil:

> The flow of heat from Earth's interior to the surface is estimated at 47±2 terawatts

And

> Despite its geological significance, Earth's interior heat contributes only 0.03% of Earth's total energy budget at the surface, which is dominated by 173,000 TW of incoming solar radiation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget
Wikipedia: Deserts of Europe
What kind of passive income?
It really depends on the scale of the punishment doesn't it?

Got sent to the gulag - well now you have a major problem.
Can't post meme on reddit - oh no!

Websites generally aren't obligated to accept all users, precisely because we as a society decided that it's not really a big deal if you can't.
When the big corp releases an extension it then it likely gets reviewed by the exec team's gophers to ensure it gets done expediently. For anyone else, the review is processed by folks at the bottom of the organization, possibly even contractors, that have no budget control for devices.

They can only review a certain set of things based on what they've been provided. In the case of mobile, they will actually be using their own hardware instead of being offered test devices. Therefore, they have to go and find the one guy who has a specific Android device to repro an issue.

In way it's good that they got a response like this. Many times the folks doing the review want to do their best, but it takes a lot of time to escalate. Eventually there is a spat internally because no progress is being made. Someone forces the folks dealing with the external person to use some generic response because they don't want to admit the real reason.
“Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.”
- Guindon

(Shamelessly stolen from a Leslie Lamport talk)
Can you link an article?
Yep. On the hiring side, you can absolutely see this when you get someone's resume. A person with in-industry experience will often not list their HackerOne profile (if they even have one), while students mostly do in my experience.

Payouts are a joke and progress is slow. It wasn't that long ago people were overwhelmingly just arrested or threatened for reporting these kinds of things but thankfully that's becoming rarer.

The amounts for these bounties though seem to be a token gesture and not much else, especially considering the damage someone could have caused with this.
This is a common misconception. Cold emailing is legal under the CAN-SPAM Act.
> What's the best way to meet someone who has a problem that needs to be solved?

As cliche as it is, you’re the someone that you need to solve problems for. I’ve thought about taking low paying jobs in random industries just to find itches to scratch, but haven’t pulled the trigger on that.

In regards to the other stuff, if you want to be entrepreneurial, stop thinking of yourself as a developer. Maybe check out the book “The E-Myth”.
Anyone aware of any major platforms taking this approach?

The Postal Service?

Sure, there's junk mail, but imagine how much junk mail there would be if it were delivered for free. It wasn't until phone calls became so cheap as to be "unlimited" that we ended up flooded with billions of junk calls.

Microtransactions (non-crypto, thankyouverymuch) would solve a certain number of today's problems.
It’s exactly the CO2 that was captured when synthesising the methane from hydrogen.

So it’s CO2 neural
On legacy code and bug fixes: “Who wrote this s**t, asked the CTO“
If taking away normal users' agency is an advantage to you, you go and use it.
Ask HN: Do I have any rights to data uploaded to cloud providers?
I'm thinking about getting a paid subscription to one of the big techs cloud storage (Google, Amazon, Dropbox, Flickr etc.) In the past I've had my Amazon photos account locked and data deleted, and there was 0 recourse (as a Prime member). I'm wondering if the same is true for all the other companies? It seems crazy to pay for storage with no guarantee of its reliability or safety.
Slightly modified from the wise Abraham Simpson:

“I used to be a feminist, but then they changed what a feminist was. Now what I am isn't a feminist, and what is a feminist seems weird and scary to me.”

It should come as no surprise that the opinions of young people are changing when what the term covers is changing it’s meaning. It used to be that if a man would not allow his wife to take a job, he was anti feminist. Now if a man doesn’t happily accept his wife supplementing her income through selling on-demand pornography to strangers online then he’s portrayed as being anti feminist.
Yeah, also this is not latin but french, with a typo even (i believe): should be "par expériences nombreuses et funestes" ("et" not "at"). (translation: by numerous and disastrous experiments)
It’s not just a shell service it’s a community of people who started out providing a shell service and kept it running . They also provide access to Lisp machines I believe and other things like a Minecraft server .
Does a void move?

No really, by our current definition of 'void', does a void move or is its position and shape solely defined by the objects moving into and around it? Separately, is the void inside the universe the same as the void outside the universe, or is it fundamentally different somehow?

I don't expect we'll ever answer the second question, but the first is able to be answered by how we choose to define the term 'void'.
What are you driving in the meantime?
> If you have a consistent supply of something then a slow but lower cost delivery method is entirely sensible, as is switching to higher cost but faster methods when there have been interruptions.

It might make sense from an economical point of view, but not from a resilience point of view. Ignoring the chip shortages over the last two years, there have been major disruptions in ocean freight logistics. Given the relatively high value density and the crucial role of these components in the vehicle manufacturing process, making air-freight the default would have been a sensible choice as well. Despite the feasibility of alternatives
As a spammer I wouldn't care much about this, they run thousands of requests in parallel and don't care if they take 1 second or 10 seconds to finish. After all, their machines run all day long.

Much of the more professional spammers are running on hacked botnet machines anyways so they don't really care about maxing the CPUs.

Compute is cheap and the only loser here is the end user with a low end device.
Now you know first hand why Thomas Jefferson so feared the Judiciary/Supreme Court. This is exactly the type of destabilizing effect it can have. There is tremendous power vested in largely unaccountable, unelected Justices, such that they could be wielded as a tool by one party or another to instill one view or another over the populace with no recourse.

The Courts are the nuclear option in our System, and disturbingly, people have been looking more and more to them as the way to get things their way in the abscence of a non-assenting populace. I fear that our common law system may have too much to it to be reasonably refactored without some serious innovation in the space of jurisprudence, or to be accepted without giving widespread access to every last citation and point of historical fact that weighs into one particular decision or another by the Court.

The crows must come home to roost in the Justice System at some point. If we can't agree on the facts at the Federal level, we've got bigger issues, and we've got a tragic contention for having historically factual evidence honored for acts of the judiciary, and the need for a judiciary that can collate and parse those facts fast enough to make decisions within a reasonable timeframe without Yoloing it. Trying to do that though, increasingly feels to me like work more appropriately done by the legislature.

Perhaps there needs to be a sort of link between the legislative and judiciary as far as facilities for research? Both seem to be in dire need of the same thing.
I absolutely hate ghost kitchens, I think they should have to be labeled as such since they are often only a step at best above straight up scams. The 2 times I accidently ordered from one ("Oh nice, I didn't know we got an X nearby") the food has been below subpar and generally a huge disappointment.

These days I really hate using delivery apps. You have to dodge the ghost kitchens which isn't easy (both the fake brand name ones and the fake made-up restaurants like "It's just Wings", "F*cking Good Pizza", and "Super Mega Dilla"), you have to compare the DoorDash/GrubHub/UberEats prices to the restaurant's app prices to see which it the better deal (sometimes even if they use DoorDash for the actual delivery it's cheaper to buy through their app), and unless you are paying for the monthly/yearly subscription you can get fleeced on fees even after wading through all the bullshit to find real restaurants that have real storefronts in town.
The issue with the electric ones is that those lawn care companies have crews that run leaf blowers all day long from one house to another. This is no longer possible as they take hours to recharge after each use.

It works if each home owner buys a leaf blower of his own, but that's way less efficient from a manufacturing/maintenance perspective.

We're just increasing inefficiencies.
Yes, this is... just weird. And she has an SS Death's Head on her headband.
> making their life slightly more difficult should the need ever arise

Sorry to break it to you, but countries have had "Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties" for a long time. It's just another form that may take another day of two because of timezones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_legal_assistance_treaty
Who is hiring? (Sept. 2021)
I've always found DigitalOcean to be a source of very high quality tutorials / documentation, and therefore think you can't go wrong with familiarising yourself with their guidelines https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/digitalocea....
Nope, they failed when they didn't put the brakes on when inflation blew past 3%. They were "trying not to shock the market" but they were probably dragging their feet worrying about political blowback. Others were predicting that inflation would stay high and continue to increase along with energy prices. They only acted once it became undeniable that it was never going to be transitory.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamstrauss/2021/07/30/here-are...
Geothermal heat provides less than 0.1% of the total heat of our planet. It is pretty much all just the sun. So as long as the output of the sun does not change much it won't be a problem (so will have to wait billions of years and even then sun will actually get bigger and hotter first before getting colder)
Maybe tech giants don't like the legal implications of signing each other's consumer EULAs.
Show HN: Killer Crossword - A crossword puzzle variation with no clues
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Now you are thinking outside the box! why don't Hyundai just use a potentiometer to control the motor.

They can even make it go to 11 on the performance spec.
Autor doesn't appear to be talking about research/publishing. He just wants frequentism banned for undergrads.
I've experienced the same thing. Blog posts I wrote almost 10 years ago are still getting traffic to this day. Sure, it's only 4-10 views per day (which is still thousands of views per year!) but sometimes it'll get referred by someone else's blog and there will be thousands of views over the course of a week or so. It's been fascinating watching this process over the years.
I think you are right that we may not agree with each other but I now understand your position and appreciate you explaining it.

Its funny - we probably agree with each other on the items you think we disagree.

Seriously though, I do suggest reaching out to your local state representatives if you have never done it. I've done it multiple times and have always been impressed by the discussion, their opinions, and actions from it. This is just general advice disconnected from the article / topic. Hopefully you have a similar experience.

Been a good conversation man.
> By the way, the author has some interesting obsessions:

> https://twitter.com/FamedCelebrity/status/155513494784911360...

> https://twitter.com/FamedCelebrity/status/155516247586318336...

> https://twitter.com/JohnZmirak/status/1554969385860796420?s=... (retweet)

None of those twitter threads have anything to do with statistics pedagogy at all. What sort of irrelevant, ad hominem argument are trying to make here?
It's probably similar to the fact that wind turbines don't stop wind around the world :D
> Are there any reputable Indian law/policy news sites or individuals who you (or anyone) might recommend following?

https://www.livelaw.in is a pretty good one, it is usually very upto date and accurate.
People are going to get hurt whatever you do. Inflation driving up wages is going to suppress investment and hurt jobs as well. Arguably increasing interest rates suppresses all forms of investment, and thus demand. High wage increases not only directly feedback loops into higher inflation due to higher labour costs, but also specifically hits employment.
Apple retaliated against women who complained about misconduct
Trump isn't quite like Johnson.

Johnson is a liar. Trump is a bullshitter. Johnson knows what the truth is, and is actively trying to deceive or confuse you. Trump has no idea what truth would be even in principle, he's just making whatever noises seem to work.

Probably this makes Johnson a worse person, and Trump a worse leader? I'm not sure.
In a sense, this comment [0] from bitexploder made me money; it gave me a framework I used to learn how to be a security engineer. Funnily enough, I unknowingly applied to his consulting firm years later before I found my current role.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14103349
> To me this looks like their government have different interests to protect, than protecting their own people

Where did you derive this from? They are not scrapping the bill in its entirety, rather, they are bringing out a replacement bill.
Aside: The piece on DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage is always a great read [0]

Not sure if it's still working out for A.J.'s Pizza, but that it did at any time should tell you everything you need to know about DD's internal structure; there is no there there.

[0] https://www.readmargins.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage