skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly if their case depends on "he said, she said" testimony then SBF is going to be found not guilty.

I personally applauded the "soft" msm interviews with SBF as everything he does when given free reign, including these messages only makes things worse for him. They would be better placed letting him attempt witness tampering and who knows where it might lead.
Javelins themselves were effective, problem was in logistics and delivery of first batches. Many had defective battery after siting in warehouse for decades. And Ukrainian manual was unreadable, like google translated.
We have! Construct 2 was a windows program that made HTML5 games, and now we've gone full circle and Construct 3 is an HTML5 program that makes HTML5 games :)
Thanks to the globalization that solution is long gone.

How many anti-China folks in western world are living by it, by not buying anything "Made in China"?

Looking at how those 1 euro shops are filled with customers, not many.

And that is only one way how western and asian cultures are tied together in the globalization age.
> and particularly during the cold war Finland tried to stay neutral and one way this was done was that major military acquisitions were divided between Soviet and Western gear

How much of this was down to practicality, though? Being able to pick and choose the best gear from each side?
It heavily depends on which army you are joining and what cause they fight for. Joining army can be step towards supporting atrocities and it can be step towards preventing them.

Just like with joining police - in some places it is good thing to do. In others, you are joining another criminal organization.
Do we have a Gieger Counter Sensor for when the Gieger Counter falls of the truck as well and does that need a Gieger Counter Sensor Sensor? (tongue in cheek).

Seems like a simpler solution would be to prioritise checking some shipments over others at departure and arrival.

My partner works in shipping/logistics and hazardous chemicals/products are treat completely differently to regular bulk cargo.
Taiwan relies on Europe to supply it with EUV.

Building the entire supply chain for semiconductors is daunting at best.
Yep, and especially for smaller countries with smaller air forces and budgets, having more Gripens makes more sense than having fewer but more expensive F-35s. The risk of not being able to properly maintain them down the line and ending up with 3-4 operable planes is too high for the advantages of stealth (which IMO comes more into play when on the offence, which Finland probably won't be anytime soon).

Agree about Ukraine too. Sending highly sophisticated jets that will take months to learn is wasting Ukraine's time - Gripens, maybe Mirage 2000s, MiG-29s make the most sense.
Wikipedia doesn't say that, but it was given as a rate at one meter away. If you were to hold it in your hand or put it in your pocket, you'd give yourself radiation burns pretty much instantly. Imagine sticking this under(or even inside, it doesn't matter with gamma) a politician's desk where they sit for a few hours a day - at the beginning they wouldn't feel much, but after just one day the burns they suffer would be enormous.
The Eurofighter is higher specced than the F-35 on a number points - speed, manoeuvrability, capacity, and possibly endurance - but this is not really part of the debate.

The question is how they are going to be used in practice, with everything that entails. The decision also includes a gamble on how the platform develops in the future, and how adversary's capabilities develop.
From their secret stockpile of illegal unregistered radiation sources they smuggled into the country to replace lost registered sources with?
The wiki page says it all, but I'll highlight - Contiki has been written by Adam Dunkels, the one who invented Protothreads (coroutines using Duff's Device), uIP, lwIP and a TCP stack that fits into a single tweet - http://dunkels.com/adam/twip.html
With the use of VPNs, it's almost impossible to prevent someone in the EU from accessing a service.
Those two layers of abstraction make all the difference. Directly elected officials are particularly bad, imagine that.
Doesn't that mean you have to copy all your data into duckdb? I'd imagine with even a modest data warehouse, loading the entire thing to duckdb would be unfeasible.
Do we live in a society without a counterculture?
Austerity as a concept doesn't really presume that, austerity is just a weird word meaning a government cutting spending. It doesn't contain any argument about the future. The Tories implementation did presume growth which is why the UK had austerity-lite vs what actually turned out to be needed.

Keynesianism is a self-contradictory concept which is why it always fails. It's predicated on the assumption that governments are good at investing. But if that is true then governments have no answer back to the people who argue that good times = an even better time to invest, because if government ROI is always positive why would you not invest more when tax revenues are flowing freely? So in practice it immediately turns into high levels of government deficit spending all the time, because if you use wordplay to turn spending into "investment" then a deficit today can always be claimed to be paid off tomorrow from the ROI. So it's just an excuse for spending more than the tax take allows, all the time.

The problem with this theory is that governments are notoriously bad at investing. They are rarely in a position to even measure ROI let alone ensure it's positive. Beating the market is really hard even for full time expert investors, some argue it's impossible over the long run, and that's with the full accountability of market mechanisms in play. Without those you end up with Soviet-style "investment" in highly visible and labor-intensive heavy industry projects, or for the UK, an endless succession of heavy rail projects.

The UK cannot afford its current level of welfare and spending, along with most of the rest of Europe. Unless the economy suddenly goes into overdrive the future will have far more austerity, along with many angry citizens faced with broken promises and rotting, decaying infrastructure.
The game is hosted on Github here:
https://github.com/AshleyScirra/CommandAndConstruct
How is "you need to involve legal counsel and keep conversations on the record if you want to talk to people to prepare your defense" the "chinese style"? And if he needs company records etc, he can request them without privately messaging former employees.
Rio Tinto are never professional, they’re trying hard not to damage their rock bottom reputation further after the fact of stuffing something up, destroying something, being negligent. If they’re giving the appearance of being good at that, don’t mistake it for professionalism. It’s simply that they know the cost to them in the future of worldwide headlines in which they lost nuclear material.

Rio Tinto Enviro Destructo.
The way in which remote work could be bad for the economy would be reduced creativity (or “work output” in business speak) which would make us produce less, invent less, generally make less awesome happen.

That’s the root of what the economy is … how much useful stuff gets done.

Whether remote work has that effect remains to be seen. Certainly in the short term there’s a lot of evidence it has. That would make it very unlike other examples of change we have, such as switching from horse and buggy to cars.

All the other considerations are merely moving money from one area to another. This is irrelevant to a “good economy.”

In the end, the total wealth available to all participants in the economy is a function of the resources available and the meaningful work done.

That’s it.
"They" are in a dilemma, they either go total global control or they lose control. And it's clear they are going with the former.

This is just one more law that makes no practical sense even if the intentions were noble. The WHO treaty, CBDCs, and digital IDs are all in the pipeline doing much the same.

With the real-time, global, instant communication network that is the internet, "their" ONLY hope to retain control at scale is to use AI/Software and essentially force everyone to obey a computer.

They will fail, that's the good news. Mostly because of entropy - that is to say, it is far cheaper and easier to disable a structure than build it up. A $2B data center can be disabled by a fire or a virus. A "too-big-to-fail-bank" can disappear overnight when customers close their accounts.

The reason those don't happen normally is because people are mostly good, happy, and trusting. Once the trust is gone, there is anger, and self-interest trumps good-intentions - that's when the entropy and "Black Swan" events really kick in. I recommend Joseph Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies for how such processes have repeatedly taken place throughout history.

The bad news is that they are going to try and force total control through anyways, so get ready. Nobody can predict how its going to unfold.
I’m looking forward to hearing this podcast on 6 February 2023 (9:00 p.m PKT) since the topic is very interesting.

It’ll have Alan Illing, CTO at Bridge Financial Technology as a guest who will talk in detail about the latest trends and innovations in the Fintech industry, and how they shape the future of financial services. Thought i’d share it everyone as well.
I think most of what you write are possible futures. Though I'm not sure they're the only possible futures.

As aircraft (and particularily unmanned ones) improve, air defense systems will be likely to change to meet the new challenges.

I find it really difficult to conclude what the balance will be in that arms race (apart from the prediction that humans are not likely to be needed in every plante anymore).

For instance, it may be that lasers mounted in ships (or even large planes) may become really good at countering many of the threats that appear. Then again, that could lead to mirror coating as a counter, but that may reduce stealth, and so on.

Furthermore, the distinction between missile and aircraft can go away. We may get hybrids that have the range of aircraft, but the power an manouverability of missiles, but with very short range guns replacing the warhead, making them reusable.

Launch platforms may also change. The B21 may very well be just as important for anti-air duty as the F-35, if the right kind of missiles/air launched drones are available. The F-35 on the other hand, can act as drone control platforms, privding more advanced sensors and compute than each drone would have.

Over oceans, maybe surface ships become obsolete, but in addition to options such as lasers, rail guns and more advanced missiles, one needs to keep in mind that they can be hard to detect (if satellites are knocked out).

Subs are likely to stay relevant, though, even though they too may become unmanned relatively soon.
I imagine this is related to encrypted communications, where they'd want to rotate the key every day, and are unlikely to let anyone be able to generate those keys on their own.
Some cursory research indicates nothing particularly unusual about restricting the defendant's contact with witnesses.
I can't load your brain into RAM with a Python library yet, though.
Soulseek is good if you wish to sail the seas, Bandcamp for indie musicians getting paid fairly.
Also an argument against work in general: the vast majority of people were not doing work the entirety of their 8 hour work days.

Coffee breaks, social media, reading HN, which in WfH means walking the dog, spending a few minutes with your family, doing some yoga stands after a meeting.

And that is perfectly fine. Unless you're very focused and enjoying a particular task, no unassisted human being is capable of being 100% productive 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week. I might be an outlier, but in my experience, max focus can be held for up to 4 hours a day, the rest is low focus work and faffing about.
Global Banking Apps Under Attack: Researchers Find ‘InTheBox’ Web Injects
This web inject is designed to target retail banking, mobile payment services, cryptocurrency exchanges, and mobile e-commerce applications of major organizations across various countries.
Atos and Nest part company two years into 18-year £1.5B contract
There are other NATO jets outside of the US manufactured ones - Rafales, Typhoons, soon Gripens.
Is there anything preventing the ban of vpns?
A lot of corporations actually budget for fines.

People can really suck. It may be a corporation, doing the crime, but an individual made the decision to do it.

I remember a DJ, in Washington DC, talking about parking fines.

Parking in DC is expensive, with monthly passes, costing hundreds of dollars a month.

His reasoning was that he parked illegally in lots around the studio, and occasionally got tickets, that he paid without issue, and it cost him far less than getting a pass.

I assume these were not “tow away” lots.
One thing I hate about the current state of affairs is that CIs use a ton of configuration file formats. Every single one wants to lock you in and make it painful to move to something else.
No choice? That's just the way it is, it can't be helped? Did God himself come down and decree that Herokai *MUST* only hold data for 30 days? Did the FBI come in an threadten to charge your executives with sedition?

Yea, no. You decided to make the decision for contracts to be that way. The fact that you "fought hard" but that decided on the 30 day retention anyways means that clearly the opinions of engineers don't matter and that the company is completely captured by the lawyers and out of touch executives. It hardly inspires confidence.

It also doesn't at all address the fact that you failed to contact an apparently paying customer that their data was about to be nuked, contract or no.
I'm surprised dbt tests is this far down in the comments. This seems like the obvious place to start.

OP (or others) - If you've used dbt tests, I'm curious where it fell short? Tt doesn't cover everything, but it's pretty good in my experience.
My mom gets nervous as soon as there is an unexpected window on the screen. Don't understimate how confusing computers can be to those who did not grow up with them even if they regularly (have to) use them now. Computers are incredibly complex and if you have not developed an intuition for them then you really can't know if something being different means that you messed up or if it is just a normal change. This doesn't just apply to old people (see e.g. people used to Windows tryng Linux or vice versa, people used to GUIs being afraid of the command line) but IME they do seem to be more prone to it.

> I would argue that new and different can help improve their mind.

If it is something they want to learn, probably yes. If it is something forced upon them while they are trying to do something completely different, it can just as well make them even less receptive to learning new technology.
Some value is latent in listed property trusts. If that value ceases to exist, at scale, if we have a massive revaluation of commercial property of all kinds, depending how that happens then yes, it would be enormously destructive of wealth at large. It's part of billions of workers future pension income, as well as an asset class backing other forms of investment which in turn makes economic value.

That aside, there are so many upsides. Not the least of which are the reduction in time and energy waste, and pollution. Or less reductive sexist models of childcare and home duties. Work life balance, employment and unemployment and underemployment and mental/physical health could all improve at scale. Sure, some people suffer. Were talking aggregate here. Many sad special cases exist.

Work needs redefining but radical redefinition without planning is not sensible unless revolution is a goal.

Rate of profit, investment in people is complicated.
EUV is only required for state of the art chips, and it's the same as for my previous comment: The Netherlands are an even smaller country by population. With a long term, strategic vision, many countries could do the same or better.

Now, China has the mass to definitely lead in anything they 'put their mind to' given time.
"When a restaurant re-opens, it now owes tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in back rent. The restaurant goes bankrupt and the landlords get paid from the liquidated assets."

Is that what actually happens?

"That's nothing short of wealth transfer from restaurant owners to landlords."

You're arguing that the owners of commercial real estate are winners here?
Not to mention that higher fines and prosecution could easily lead to the opposite effect in such a case, namely hiding the fact that they lost the capsule.

It was extremely likely no one would have found it for years anyway.
A short story on the decades long search for the blue LED, the missing piece in the production of screens and energy efficient white light.
Let me say it again: EU citizens elect members of the European Parliament, there is no extra layer of abstraction. And it's precisely the European Parliament which can do something about it if the Commission is proposing a bad law.
I love how the word "social" has been preempted to mean the exact opposite of it.
Eurofighter Typhoon is produced by 4/5 NATO member states, and there is also the Rafale by France.
> "He said a search vehicle was driving past at 70 kilometres per hour on the Great Northern Highway when a detection device revealed radiation."

Did nobody think to drive along the road with a geiger counter for the last few weeks?
They've been pretty overwhelming to the Russians. In this report it states 300 fired, 280 tanks destroyed https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/how-small-ukraine-force-is-k...
Using tokens as context still sounds to me like you're asking someone to read back text that someone else wrote and continue the story. It might work but it's not the best way to get a coherent narrative.
China "let the market work"? What on earth am I reading.
Taiwan is an incredible success story. How Asia Works (book) covers this.
LPs are really bad at "long term storage".

You can read them without damaging them slightly. You can't make a perfect copy, so when the vinyl detoriates, you will not be able to "make a fresh copy".

CDs can be copied perfectly and can be moved to superior tech, e.g. SSD. You can continue copying a digital version for the next 1000 years without any loss.
supercomputers are basically a completely different kind of computer to a desktop, or a server, or even a more conventional cluster of servers in a datacenter. What makes the biggest difference is the interconnectivity: supercomputers use very high bandwidth and low latency links like infiniband between the nodes. What this enables is distributed processing of tasks which are a lot less easily parallelised than the kind of thing you can do with a distributed system. For the most part this is things like simulations, where every part can depend on every other part from one iteration to the next, and you can basically always increase the resolution of these simulations to fill the compute available and get better results. Yes, with general computer advancements a regular workstation can now equal an older supercomputer, but it has to be few decades old supercomputer.
The Terrible Purpose of Anger
> That’s really just a reconfiguration of the same underlying problem.

so your problem is the human condition? Where for someone to exist, they have to work and produce something from which others in society would pay for?
Maybe you're right. Physical/behavioral differences were bigger, but fears based on them were simpler. As in your wolf/dog analogy - maybe they weren't developed enough to make a big deal out of it.
> The condition that a defendant “avoid all contact ... with a potential witness who may testify concerning the offense” is a standard condition. 18 U.S.C. § 3142(c)(B)(v). Indeed, the no-contact condition is routinely imposed in cases in this district. “The no-contact condition set forth in the statute seeks to prevent a defendant from intimidating someone who, by nature of being a victim or a potential witness, is already in a difficult and delicate position.”

Or just reas the brief in full, it is short and a pretty pleasant read.
Love it — Bookmarked.
Another general purpose backend could be S3-type object storage.

If I could store all kinds of documents there, I'd adopt in a heartbeat. My use case would be to combine this with a contract management system and to attach all (email) correspondence to the respective contract, so we wouldn't have to rely on the responsible people managing their inboxes.

In turn, I'd like to attach deletion, visibility and archival rules, such that I conform with GoBD and GDPR (I am based in Germany) where on one hand there are archival rules, such as keeping contracts for ten years after they are canceled, or correspondence for six years, but also have to keep in mind that PII gets deleted regularly.

So after a contract has been canceled I'd like to archive all correspondence and the contract itself, such that the operating team only sees active contracts and correspondence older than six years is immediately deleted.
Well, ok. Let's consider the total number of employed people in the EU, around 190 million.

In the entire Union, about 16% of all employees work for the governments. That's 30.4 million people.

60,000 people work for the EU directly, which is 0.2% of the total. To put it another way, there are 500 national government employees for each one EU worker. Is this the tail wagging the dog? 0.2% is not even the dog's tail, it's a piece of hair on its back.
Ansari X Prize, I think.

Is Arianespace purely civilian, or partially funded by military?

Also, TIL about the Civilian Space eXploration Team: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Space_eXploration_Tea...
Dividends are forced liquidation events.

If you want dividends simply sell a portion of your holdings every quarter.

When one focuses solely on dividend yield and not total return, which includes capital appreciation, it's a sign they don't really what's going on.

Where do you think the dividends are coming from? Straight from the company's market cap.

By preferring companies that consistently pay high dividend yields you're selecting for larger and established companies that have no better way to reinvest the money.

This may result in a fine choice if you want income, but the important distinction is not because of their dividend yield... it's because of their positions as market leaders.

Thus you may do just as well by selecting those large market leaders that pay no dividends but are reinvesting heavily.
Oh wow, didn't know there was still such a difference, I've only ever had TMobile and Mint.

I wonder if it's worth waiting for T-Mobile's satellite features, or if I should move to Verizon?
Sadly, Mumbai already works this way.

The “toll” to be on the bridge is the cost of ownership of motorized transport. Wealth segregation by neighborhood is also a thing. This segregation is executed similarly to how it is in North America or Europe.

FWIW, in Mumbai they differentiate a bridge to be road over water and a flyover to be road over other road or residence.
I am struggling to make sense of this; if you go to a German mediamarkt (biggest electronic store here) Huawei still have a sizable presence with nice Intel based laptops and more curious android open source phones. All using American chips. This ban will kill this off.

Why now? Seems to be driven by internal US politics or perhaps a preparation for next meeting between US and Chinese officials (which seems to be going worse and worse on purpose).

Alternatively the US sees a strategic threat from Huawei’s HarmonyOS, which if it gets popular, and it requires good hardware to get popular, will be the first real non-US consumer operating system.
In college, a resident parking violation in Cambridge was $10, while garage parking in Harvard Sq was $12 or more.

Going out to dinner in the area, using the stochastic parking “garage” was the obvious choice.