skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fighting proxy wars against Russia is kind of our bread and butter, we've been doing it for decades and nearly always win.

Russia on the other hand has had far more success with injecting propaganda in Western institutions, recruiting assets, and getting people in the west to parrot their propaganda.

Hollywood makes a movie about every other year about the blacklist under McCarthyism as if this was all in their paranoid imaginations. The truth is that the Soviets DID get numerous people into both high ranking positions within the US government and other influential positions in American life, especially in entertainment and higher education, the effects of which linger to this day.
Then wtf are they listing the main federal building in Seattle and for many agencies in the NW. Please stop spraying your same opinion all over this discussion.
Idk. When I see something like that in real life my conclusion is that people have different levels of intelligence.

Also I don't know what or how to teach someone who falls into this pitfalls.
A big issue I see with this is that it would necessitate a new fast charging standard, which (due to the extra ground connection) could not be backwards compatible with any existing fast charging standard - rendering it useless for the 40 million electric cars already on the roads worldwide.
I was curious about that too, I think probably a Splendid 33 - inquiries have been made (will update). Why do you ask, is this a judge worthy topic? You don't meet many people who've used a.. true mechanical keyboard these days :D
It's a pity they didn't discuss 2-way charging
The Ukrainian constitution does not allow elections during war, but that is not what I was responding to. The post I was replying to was asking how an election could be held during a war. I was just pointing out that it has been done in the 1800s, 1900s, and 2000s.
It is obvious to me that there are two types of thinking: there's planning, which only goes so far, and there's ongoing introspection into the work you're doing, which is what most people really need.

I'm trying to write fiction at the moment. It's far, far harder than technical writing, programming, writing a reply on HN, or anything else that's remotely similar. I'm not used to it, at all. My brain suggests things that just aren't good ideas, and then I spend time eliminating those bad ideas, and then my brain suggests more things, and I find one good one, and so we continue. I have to work in ten minute stretches and then go for a walk to clear my head.

I think this is how most skills are learnt. You try something ("write the first chapter of a novella"), you analyse what went well and what went poorly ("I felt my writing was boring, and I noticed that nothing really happened because all I wrote was description and exposition"), you deliberately practice ("I read through the first chapter of some books I enjoy and tried rewriting my first chapter with similar interactions and events"), and then you go back to the base task and get a little further ("the first chapter was compelling but I didn't leave any story hooks and don't know where to go for a second").
Heck, no need to subsidize oil or ag, they are doing fine.
Nothing personal or valuable leaves your computer. Maybe the location queries, but I expect they are anonymized.

You are focused on some concept of perfect confidentiality, which is not how real engineering or confidentiality works.

I'm not interested in your personal comments. Keep them to yourself.
why does my brother printer need to be online? I dont add it to the allow list at all.
I'd love to see it, but realistically that's not the world we're living in. 99% of people will just pick whatever box in the store that looks snazzy and is cheap.
Ask HN: I once built a domain registrar. How can I make money?
I once built a domain registrar and have a lot of knowledge about how they work. I’d like to put this knowledge to good use and try to build a side business, but it’s hard to find ideas since it seems like domain registration and availability is a commodity.

Is there an opportunity here?
Of course. My comment doesn't claim it doesn't. My only point was that BTC has limited supply.

In almost all other ways, crypto is not great.
Love the description of intelligence.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_induc...

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

Seems like these could be related, going to dive into this more! :)
One way to slightly mitigate the difficulties of nuance in language when translating to formal arguments is to attwmpt to always steelman the argument. Afford it all the guarded language and nuance you can, and then formalize in premises and conclusion.

This would also make interaction much more civil as well, given so much proclivity to do the opposite (straw man).

It's not a perfect approach, but it helps. LLMs are quite decent at steelmanning as well, because they can easiky pivot language to caveat and decorate with nuamce.
The argument sounds kind of persuasive to a layman (even one that did a little bit of EE a while back), but my gut says there would be no need to write this article if there weren't regulations or other engineering traditions that decided galvanic isolation is necessary for safety.

I guess the difference is galvanic isolation is physically (i.e. passively) fail safe, while ground detection is an active safety measure? You can always put in two ground wires in the current system too...

Is there some way for the ground wire to have a signal in it even if it were broken (via EMF)? Can the chip fail in an unsafe way?
Thanks for noticing my post, building agents.json and open sourcing it.

This is why the Internet is awesome.
People who have dedicated multiple years of their lives to this topic, at a bare minimum. Technologists are not knowledgeable in economics, medicine, or the other technical fields they routinely embarrass themselves in. Narcissistic overconfidence can look like expertise to an outsider but it isn't. Being high IQ is a necessary but not sufficient condition.

If you want a center-right take on economics, go to someone like Tyler Cowen. There are also plenty of economists who argue in favor of onshoring some manufacturing under a security/defense as public good argument.
Very jaded take with no context. I'm sorry that was your outcome, but it is not good advice.
It blows my mind at how so many people think this is unprovoked and think we somehow have a responsibility to resolve this conflict.
> This discussion is about whether or not the US is a top brain drain destination.

And my point is that this is increasingly the case due to a combination of inertia and people’s bad EV calculations:

> They will already be able to retire in 99% of the world, with enough savings to lead incredibly comfortable and luxurious lives.

Just demographically, this will never be viable for a large fraction of the population, regardless of any economic concerns.

This leaves truly exceptional talents, and those that incorrectly assume that that’s them.

And this isn’t even considering how AI is potentially going to shake up knowledge work.
The gold standard works until it doesn't. Then the only option is to bail from it. That's why no one is on it anymore. It's not a sufficiently flexible currency.
I self host on hetzner. ticket to support to open 25 and mailbox on a 5euro machine.
The issue is that Mozilla Corp has a license over what private videos people upload to their Nextcloud for example, which doesn't make sense because it's not Mozilla themselves processing your input but the locally installed copy of Firefox. Mozilla doesn't need my permission to use my own content I'm about to send online just to provide basic functionality present for decades.

The explicit disclaiming of ownership is definitely good (the previous version didn't have that), but it's not enough. Mozilla should just nuke that section completely like they did with the AUP part if they're doing this ToU in good faith.
For what it’s worth it wasn’t me that flagged your reply.

All I’m saying is that politics is as intertwined with technology news as much as economics or religion or pop culture or anything else, and imho should be considered as equally valid sidebar conversations as the others.

If we can’t talk about things that make people uncomfortable, sicko people will take control of those very things and we will all suffer down the road. Better to just bite the bullet and let it all hang out.
On a side note, how long until we realize the current incantation of the pile of hacks upon hacks that is SMTP is fundamentally flawed and widely adopt something that has cryptography, authenticity and transport-level security built-in from the start?

Oh wait, yes, that'll never happen.
Annihilate. Decimate would only be 10%.
Lightning strikes...how do EVs currently guard against it?

- With galvanic isolation baked directly into onboard charger, I'm thinking worst case outcome is charging infra and isolation link get fried, but that really expensive EV battery remains safe.

- Without galvanic isolation, battery goes...boom? Hopefully without you or your family waiting inside the vehicle under some false pretense of safety.
> But a single plant is really not interesting for the discussion at hand.

Maybe, but the UK has 4, and is building another 5 in the next 5 years.

Average grid consumption is somewhere around 30GW, the existing facilities have around 30GWh of storage. The additional 5 should bring around another 100GWh.

So we’re already at 1 hour’s worth of grid capacity stored, by 2030 we’ll be at 4 hours, and that’s assuming absolutely zero energy from other sources (wind, solar, nuclear, fossil fuel, biomass, other countries), although to be fair the existing facilities can only deliver at around 3GW, and the new facilities will only bring that up to 6GW.

I’m not sure if you’ve ever been to the UK, but a whole week without either sun or wind seems a bit unlikely, especially when half of the UKs wind comes from offshore wind farms.

Stick in a few more of these, and keep a couple of the existing fossil fuel plants around in case of emergencies, and I can definitely see how this continues to be just a “cost of doing business”.

I appreciate the situation in the US may be worse.
I have supplied reason after reason for why supporting Ukraine is in the interests of USA.
They're not selling user data in any sense that any ordinary, reasonable person would understand, only in California's excessively broad definition that may technically cover a litany of entirely noncommercial uses, like using opt-in customer metadata to improve their own free product, without distributing it to any third party at all.

Businesses like to avoid risk where possible, and Mozilla's lawyers pushed this wording to ensure compliance with the riskiest possible interpretation of California's ambiguous and poorly-worded law.
Or magic link logins...
US Demand for Gasoline Faces Long-Term Structural Problem
It would be nice if instead of the fast charging problem the focus would be shifted to standardized battery packs, that can be field replaced. I don't really want to own 50-100kwh battery. I just want to use the charge in it and happy to pay for that.
Original title "US Demand for Gasoline Faces Long-Term Structural Problem: Plunging Per-Capita Consumption" compressed due to title limit.
Same reasons you might need Ctrl-a instead of Home...

1) Some keyboards don't have it, or have it in an awkward place. Most Android on-screen keyboards don't have it (good time to plug Hacker Keyboard). The gestures on Blackberry (e.g. Android) physical keyboards act like scroll-wheel movements rather than cursor keys.

2) Some shells/systems/terminal emulators/some TERM= settings/etc. just don't handle cursor or home/end keys in the console, and instead splat out garbage like: ^[[C^[[D^[[7~^[[5~
Somehow, predators succeed in many scenarios that have plenty of time for evolution to solve the problem for prey. But of course it's also solving the problem for hungry predators.

It raises an interesting question about the limits of evolutionary adaptation, and how the evolutionary competition reaches a stable equilibrium.
The endpoint of this argument is pure self-reliance, for strategic reasons. And that endpoint is North Korea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche
I just logged in, saw my Karma, and just got the double arrows... I did not have that before... I have downvote for posts, but not for comments. ( hence, I cannot downvote your comment. )

Down vote comment. Nope, only 1 arrow for up, and I am good with that.

Just refreshed, and now I can down vote some comments...

Refresh again... I cannot down vote posts, but can down vote even less comments... someone is watching, and laughing at this. :P
There are zillions of cheap, chipped third-party HP toner cartridges for Pro and enterprise printers.
This has to be a joke. You’re saying the right move in WW2 would have been for the allies to just allow the axis to seize land?
Quoting from Mozilla's blog:

> The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because, in some places, the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is broad and evolving. As an example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”

How is the CCPA stupidly-worded when that's what a layman would think "selling data" means?

I do wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments about the WHATWG though, as someone who contributed to Pale Moon's development. That web browser cartel should be investigated by the US government for anti-competitive practices as they did with Google and Microsoft.
I do think there's some mutually-assured destruction here. If trade truly ends, I suspect it might end in a hot war, and no one knows how that would go. (Though to support some of the comments here, and the implied point of the original essay -- China's manufacturing base becomes much more strategically important in a hot war scenario.)

I mean, we've sort of long assumed that increasing trade ties led to peace, and the detente between the US and China was long taken as proof of that axiom. But morons with half-formed ideas about trade policy can blow up detente in less than 100 days, as it turns out.
So you can put it in your pocket
The book you cite and more generally the arguments traced in the Deep Roots literature are not very strong and often deployed to support anti-immigrant, anti-assimiliationist views.

I'm not persuaded we could recreate America even if we took any 1000 people, even people who can trace their apple pie eating back to the Mayflower, because you know, America is a country and more generally complex arrangement of stuff that involves and entangles hundreds of millions of people (if not the entire planet).
The real life is not as simple as you wish
The energy I produce can only go to my neighbors,
it can't be sent to a different region in the same village
it is a grid limitation.

Also when the weather is bad it is bad in a big chunk of Europe, sure in the South they will probably have nicer weather.

What about the issue when everyone has solar? then who buys my extra production?
Or if there is someone that can buy it because of too much solar the prices would be close to zero then the solar panels investment will not be worth it since you could be cheap energy from the people with solar panels when the weather is good.

My gut feeling is that 100% solar is stupid, it is like the 20-80 problem
we see now a lot of growth since it is very profitable, when more grid investment is needed and profits will go down this growth will stop.
I use backticks in shell scripts all the time. Meanwhile, I've never had a legit use for: Ctrl-y so that's my tmux escape.
This doesn’t make sense. Of course I know you are a different user, otherwise I would have reiterated the unanswered question directly.
Report on the Work of the Government [pdf]
This sentence will tell you everything about what is being written: "People who have higher intakes of several common emulsifiers are more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer, according to three recent studies by Touvier and colleagues"

Emulsifiers are present in processed foods, and processed foods are known to cause all these conditions. Not only that, "emulsifier" is a mechanical category; they are grouped because of the function they provide. Xanthan Gum, Corn Starch, and Eggs can be used as emulsifiers. But they have very little to do with each other chemically. Besides the proteins(?) that allow for binding different substances.
How much land on average have the Russians gained over the last 12 months? What is the projection of time until they take all of it? I recall the calculation bring 20+ years.

The Russian war machine cannot replace its losses, thus they rely on NK men and equipment, amazing job by the Ukrainians and the West destroying the Russian army twice and depleting all the old Soviet stock.
I cannot think of a way to talk about this article and not break the rules of Hacker News, so I flagged it. It's that bad.
Just replaced a 17 year old Brother with a new one. Seems to work just as well, although I've always been using first party cartridges.
We passed legislation spending a few billion on charging stations and totally failed to get any built.
You don’t really need two ground wires, CP has a diode with series resistance 2.74K to PE (ground) so it’s trivially possible for the EVSE to just send a push/pull waveform over CP and if it reads push but not pull (remember diode) then it knows it’s connected properly.

The return path for the pilot current will be over the PE contact, so it can also be detect and doubly verify that PE is low resistance, although ideally you’d want a much smaller series resistance.
And that's because western nations are run by idiots that can't do long term planning to save their lives.
Right, like propane tanks for my bbq
Deciding not to update it anymore is probably the right choice.

Killing access to old files is an abomination of a choice.
Are you confusing Publisher with Visio?
On the contrary - i don't see the value in playing couch psychoanalyst when there's a perfectly legit realpolitik reason available.
The system proposed in this piece could probably be safely implemented, but it would much more challenging to do than the author seems to indicate. There are a variety of failure modes that they ignore.

The author also glosses over a 20% power loss (to heating), which would cost money and bulk to dissipate.
We passed legislation authorizing spending a few billion ($7.5B, 2021 Infrastructure and Jobs Act), and have deployed a portion of it. Most of the authorized $$$ has not yet been spent; it unlocks over the decade from 2021-2030. One fault of the bill is it depends on states actually doing the work to build these stations; the feds aren't doing it directly. If states drag their feet, stations don't get built.
This is exactly in line with Thiel's principles.
That page only says they are supporting it, not dropping support for it?
I'm not a mind reader and my question was never focused on that part of the conversation. I have no opinion on the aforementionedtamgent. What are you asking me about (since you won't engage in the original conversation)
Because that's how democracy works. Democracy has no need for rational thought, only feelings and ego matters.
How would they do w/o the current subsidies?
Require a coin-operated 120V outlet with gfci and accessible way to reset the breaker for every two parking spots, everywhere. Many benefits:

1. Everywhere you go, you know there'll be somewhere to charge overnight.

2. It's the cheapest per installed spot, by far, allowing way more locations.

3. Renters can safely by an electric car and have home charging.

4. Coin-op 120V are far more robust than cables with valuable copper.

5. It de-incentivizes excessive parking.
Maybe an entire organization will spring from that to combat proprietary software :)
why does a nuclear superpower need a digital asset ?

Why wouldn’t the US make up their own Dollar$, outlaw all the others and force everyone to use it ?
For context, US agriculture subsidies come principally in the form of Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC). These programs pay subsidies to farmers based on price or revenue losses for covered commodities like corn, soybeans, wheat, and cotton. Farmers choose between PLC, which pays based on national average prices, and ARC, which pays based on county or individual farm revenue.

ARC and PLC are projected to cost approximately $1.6 billion in 2025, which is more than triple their 2024 levels, but The American Relief Act of 2025 allocated $31 billion in ad hoc disaster aid to farmers. So maybe I was wrong about ARC/PLC being the principal method of subsidy?

> Under current law, USDA’s total outlays for 2025 are estimated at $231 billion. Outlays for
mandatory programs are $189.6 billion, 82.1 percent of total outlays.[0]

0. https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-usda...
https://web.archive.org/web/20250305054921/http://www.npc.go...
Like Henry Ford tried on the Model T: The Model T was offered in three fuels: Gasoline, Electric, and Alcohol. It only took I think less than a year to make it Gasoline only.
Ok. It's the failure to build that's the issue more than the spending.
Some seem to have forgotten how the neocons/CIA have stirred the pot in Ukraine for at least a decade under Democratic administrations. Some say it was a mistake to do what they (neocons) did but I think it was a good outcome. Russian is now like North Korea, able to "win" (and even that is questionable) only a nuclear conflict.

Furthermore Russia's population of fighting men is down, which will require that they return home to seed a new generation of cannon fodder (not an entirely bad assignment BTW in either Russia or Ukraine) for their czar-like leaders. I feel sorry for the handicapped wounded however.
They also want a PTR record on your IP to match your SMTP banner matching you hostname. Having an mx record for you sender domain also helps. Just sending form an IP address usually is tagged spam in my experience. Its weird their FAQ doesn't mention reverse DNS at all, its a very important step in having a good sender reputation.
I wish humans were better at coordination, or instead of "social media" people got addicted to social bargaining: because this would be the perfect time for a united consumer front, demanding that that big companies take more of a hit from their profit margin than from employee wages or raised prices. Threatening to starve out a company if it doesn't implement these tariff increases in a more reasonable way than the entirety of capitalism history would be the only way to turn around the avalanche it has been
So basically, remove isolation transformers, and feed the line voltage (7.2kV or so) through a simple buck converter into the car.

Instead of galvanic isolation, use redundant ground connectors that are monitored for continuity.

I'm not sure I agree with this. It puts too much responsibility onto the EVSE side, as it'll have to be able to break the fault if it happens. If something like emergency pyro disconnects are mandated, I might be able to trust it a bit more.