The situation unfolded over a weekend, after SVB shut down Friday afternoon. The FDIC attempted to find a buyer on Saturday, and got at least one interested party, but couldn't close a deal. The Administration was…
If you subscribe to the point of view that Russia's war on Ukraine isn't actually about Ukraine, but about causing lasting pain in Europe, then this action is perfectly rational for Russia. It drives the market prices…
A balanced summary of the lead-up to the First (1988-1994) and Second (2020) Nagorno-Karabakh war. Note that this is article is NOT about the recent escalation on 2022-09-13 when Azerbaijan attacked inside Armenia's…
Two reasons: - To inconvenience the institutions of the occupier just in that area (Why just there? To avoid removing their incentives to change and to avoid crippling your own companies who provide a service there. If…
Incredibly, this isn't actually true, though it's tempting to think so from looking at the shapes on the map. The border actually follows the Lusatian Neisse, and then the Oder river, except in the vicinity of the port…
Bigger cities typically regulate taxis and sell licenses to operate to taxi companies, who then employ or contract the drivers. Uber was always an unlicensed taxi scheme. Their planned business model was to ignore the…
This should absolutely be litigated to stop the blatant laundering of copyright under the guise of fair use. Copilot's API is surfacing snippets of work without licensing information attached alongside. It can be shown…
There are no pipelines that cross the EU's external border that transport crude oil from outside the EU into the EU, except the ones that are fed from Russia. Before the UK left the EU, there was technically one such…
I get why the OSI published this post. They have a vested interest in the conversation and I agree with their points. But the battle for the narrative has already been lost when people consider this to be a problem with…
Reading the list of vulnerabilities that were added on March 3 to the "known exploited vulnerabilities catalog" [1] makes me want to go full Commander Adama and never network any computer ever again. [1]…
Just as the article notes, free lots in out-of-the-way towns aren't too attractive because you still have to spend many dozens of thousands of dollars to put on a house on it, and then you live in an out-of-the-way town…
The cryptocurrency boom, like tulip mania, was always reliant on there being an endless supply of greater fools to which you could eventually offload these strange wares. And, if you were genuinely using this for…
The same conundrum comes up with the medical forms that ask one to self-report any post-partum depression, or any time you can be found mentally unfit (e.g. at your job, like in 2015 Germanwings pilot-murder-suicide) so…
This essay is a thought-provoking read, because it critically analyzes riots by their characteristics and compatibility with classic Western political thought. It comes very close to making the assertion that once a…
The situation is complicated. Some EU member states are pro-nuclear, and some are anti-nuclear. In each state, the predominant popular sentiment may not actually match the current government's policy, but it usually…
In parts of the world where the cost of electricity is low but reliable internet connectivity is available, cryptocurrency mining is widespread among those who can procure the hardware. For these operators, it's a…
This essay is a frustrating read, because you can feel his condescension towards critics (oh, they must be envious, or taking cheap shots), and you get a window into his headspace in which he believes that his way of…
The article title is a misquote [1] from the interviewed subject of the article, in which the subject recounts a situation where their mundane tweet was replied to thousands of times, and was trending before and after…
On this topic, a popular previous post on HN is 'Your nines are not my nines' [1] by rachelbythebay. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20451714
There's not a lot of material to directly address here other than to congratulate Zig and its team for trying to chart a path that is both practical and principled. But yet the post touches on a dozen or so issues that…
Yes, but this happens for everything, not just articles about nuclear waste. Lots of headlines sound bad devoid of a point of comparison, and lots of articles, reports, and statistics can be mistaken as alarming in…
I wouldn't celebrate a victory yet. As is often the case, the court's choice of tests simply will serve as a blueprint for others on how to avoid themselves being caught in the same kind of result. Based on this court…
A totally anonymous vote is not possible, because at some point they must reveal the aggregate result, and this will allow the voters to reason about the way others must have voted. The minimum number of voters who must…
It's not necessary to suppose that humans date like a prehistoric caricature; it's far more likely that people are making decisions based on the kind of information easily available to them, and their intuition about…
The paper "Declines in Unintended Pregnancy in the United States, 2008-2011" [1] by Lawrence B Finer and Mia R Zolna is linked by the CDC on their page about Unintended Pregnancy, and is a notable source of data on…
The situation unfolded over a weekend, after SVB shut down Friday afternoon. The FDIC attempted to find a buyer on Saturday, and got at least one interested party, but couldn't close a deal. The Administration was…
If you subscribe to the point of view that Russia's war on Ukraine isn't actually about Ukraine, but about causing lasting pain in Europe, then this action is perfectly rational for Russia. It drives the market prices…
A balanced summary of the lead-up to the First (1988-1994) and Second (2020) Nagorno-Karabakh war. Note that this is article is NOT about the recent escalation on 2022-09-13 when Azerbaijan attacked inside Armenia's…
Two reasons: - To inconvenience the institutions of the occupier just in that area (Why just there? To avoid removing their incentives to change and to avoid crippling your own companies who provide a service there. If…
Incredibly, this isn't actually true, though it's tempting to think so from looking at the shapes on the map. The border actually follows the Lusatian Neisse, and then the Oder river, except in the vicinity of the port…
Bigger cities typically regulate taxis and sell licenses to operate to taxi companies, who then employ or contract the drivers. Uber was always an unlicensed taxi scheme. Their planned business model was to ignore the…
This should absolutely be litigated to stop the blatant laundering of copyright under the guise of fair use. Copilot's API is surfacing snippets of work without licensing information attached alongside. It can be shown…
There are no pipelines that cross the EU's external border that transport crude oil from outside the EU into the EU, except the ones that are fed from Russia. Before the UK left the EU, there was technically one such…
I get why the OSI published this post. They have a vested interest in the conversation and I agree with their points. But the battle for the narrative has already been lost when people consider this to be a problem with…
Reading the list of vulnerabilities that were added on March 3 to the "known exploited vulnerabilities catalog" [1] makes me want to go full Commander Adama and never network any computer ever again. [1]…
Just as the article notes, free lots in out-of-the-way towns aren't too attractive because you still have to spend many dozens of thousands of dollars to put on a house on it, and then you live in an out-of-the-way town…
The cryptocurrency boom, like tulip mania, was always reliant on there being an endless supply of greater fools to which you could eventually offload these strange wares. And, if you were genuinely using this for…
The same conundrum comes up with the medical forms that ask one to self-report any post-partum depression, or any time you can be found mentally unfit (e.g. at your job, like in 2015 Germanwings pilot-murder-suicide) so…
This essay is a thought-provoking read, because it critically analyzes riots by their characteristics and compatibility with classic Western political thought. It comes very close to making the assertion that once a…
The situation is complicated. Some EU member states are pro-nuclear, and some are anti-nuclear. In each state, the predominant popular sentiment may not actually match the current government's policy, but it usually…
In parts of the world where the cost of electricity is low but reliable internet connectivity is available, cryptocurrency mining is widespread among those who can procure the hardware. For these operators, it's a…
This essay is a frustrating read, because you can feel his condescension towards critics (oh, they must be envious, or taking cheap shots), and you get a window into his headspace in which he believes that his way of…
The article title is a misquote [1] from the interviewed subject of the article, in which the subject recounts a situation where their mundane tweet was replied to thousands of times, and was trending before and after…
On this topic, a popular previous post on HN is 'Your nines are not my nines' [1] by rachelbythebay. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20451714
There's not a lot of material to directly address here other than to congratulate Zig and its team for trying to chart a path that is both practical and principled. But yet the post touches on a dozen or so issues that…
Yes, but this happens for everything, not just articles about nuclear waste. Lots of headlines sound bad devoid of a point of comparison, and lots of articles, reports, and statistics can be mistaken as alarming in…
I wouldn't celebrate a victory yet. As is often the case, the court's choice of tests simply will serve as a blueprint for others on how to avoid themselves being caught in the same kind of result. Based on this court…
A totally anonymous vote is not possible, because at some point they must reveal the aggregate result, and this will allow the voters to reason about the way others must have voted. The minimum number of voters who must…
It's not necessary to suppose that humans date like a prehistoric caricature; it's far more likely that people are making decisions based on the kind of information easily available to them, and their intuition about…
The paper "Declines in Unintended Pregnancy in the United States, 2008-2011" [1] by Lawrence B Finer and Mia R Zolna is linked by the CDC on their page about Unintended Pregnancy, and is a notable source of data on…