alephnerd

> The entire compute core is offline, and even worse, Cloud Backup

Their Kazakh regions are available according to the dashboard, so it isn't as catastrophic.

Their managed DBs and data processing services are heavily affected though with no Kazakh redundancies from the looks of it.

Of course they do, but they are quick with account bans when notified because of the liability issue unlike Yandex.

The account almost exclusively posts X/Twitter accounts on HN. Unsurprisingly it's a post-2021 HN account.

If being anti-vaxx and anti-masking is far-left you are absolutely in the right wing.

Not really. HN got a massive influx of right-leaning users around COVID.

Not just lawyers. You get a personal physical and cybersecurity team in most cases. Most largeish businesses also have a dedicated physical security team as well.

You as a normal individual simply cannot replicate the kinds of services that an Executive Protection services provide [0][1].

[0] - https://www.pinkerton.com/services/high-net-worth-individual...

[1] - https://vespergroup.se/en/

> One should be careful with vibe-written / vibe-aided articles here. Who knows what is actually supported vs what sounded okay and the author (who is not a clinician) then signed off on.

The poster is SEOing their substack and product (modulo). All their posts are either related to their product, their product's substack, or talks related to their product.

HN has been an SEO and content marketing target for years now, and existing HN moderation is increasingly failing to catch these attempts.

Heck, a bot account for The Register reached 66K karma and was undetected until a couple of us complained.

That's a political thread on HN so everyone's going to be a dick.

Constructive versus non-constructive criticism.

Politeness is not lying. And the biggest issue was the second unnecccesary sentence in their reply.

"Interesting! I’d love to hear how people would use this or what this solves."

Basically, instead of automatically taking a negative tone (which turns off people or turns a thread into an argument), a more positive tone would elicit more positive responses and maybe even a subject matter expert to chime in.

This comment - "This doesn’t seem at all significant to me" - comes off as negative or closed minded. We can already infer you don't understand the significance or usecase (nothing wrong with that), but the way you said it comes off as standoffish.

Notice how almost every response on your thread is now negative. If you set the tone to negative, all you're going to get is negative, combative, or non-constructive comments.

Well, thank goodness I was too lazy to deal with my insurance provider and stuck with dieting and exercise.

We had lockdowns.

Hmmmm, imma try that. Would be a fun weekend project. Thanks for the idea! I might throw an age exception though (plenty of great comments from older accounts with lowish karma).

Oh it's absolutely ironic, but I've also grown tired of how HN has degraded over the last 3-5 years.

I know the complaint has been banded for decades now, but the platform has gotten really insufferable after COVID.

Gotta get your kicks somewhere ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This comment sums up why HN has gone to shit - there's no curiosity or interest into what problems are solved by a product, just performative cynicism.

The Byzantine "Empire" in 1204 was barely an empire at that point anyhow. It was essentially a rump state consisting of Greece and small portions of Anatolia.

Or, if the Byzantine Empire can be treated as an empire in 1200, the Kingdom of Hungary or the Kingdom of Poland should be treated as an empire as well.

Has everyone memoryholed the COVID Pandemic?

> When we have plummeting scores for the PISA exam across the world...

COVID generation.

The pandemic was barely 3 years ago, and stretched over 1-3 years depending on where you lived.

It will likely have a material impact on most developmental statistics for another decade.

Fundamentally, it comes down to whether or not you think "AI/ML" can disappear tomorrow and the world would continue to run as normal.

From what I have seen, it cannot. It has become foundational the same way Internet 1.0 (eg. Email, Static HTML, Web Directories, SSL) became foundational for a significant portion of the global economy in the 1990s and 2000s.

He's also been a major ideologue for what became Chat Control [0]

> SWFs are a great tool for reducing inequality

Closer to Europe, Norway and Ireland have also successfully used SWFs and SDFs.

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> "Journal of Democracy"

It is a journal just like Nature. This is a paper he published within the journal. Policymakers don't read blogs.

[0] - https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/liberation-techn...

There's no point bringing this up.

Whenever anyone does, there are dozens of posts acting conspiratorial on HN.

Gift article - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/71bd10...

But basically, the argument is that a government shouldn't accrue and own appreciating assets mixed with AI skepticism.

Well yeah, hard power is a major impetus behind sovereign wealth funds - be they ADIA, Temasek, Master Trust, QIA, PIF, CIC, etc.

But this is the world we live in.

If you put your head in the sand, you become the EU - squeezed by trade wars against China and the US with two large scale conventional wars within your near abroad.

Yep. It's basically noblesse oblige. At that level and stage of life, the main driver is legacy building ("will I be in the history books").

If someone wanted to live hedonically, you don't need to be a billionaire - a $15-20M net worth would be more than enough.

Those who make the jump from VHNWI to UHNWI have a whole different mindset and viciousness.

JB's philanthropy tends to target Duke and Northwestern (his alma mater).

The push into Chicago was independent of Springfield. It was almost entirely private sector driven and Pritzker's PortCos also participated.

The Quantum Exchange being in South Side occured becuase it's tied to Argonne, Fermilab, and by extension UChicago.

Once you climb high enough the ladder everyone basically has the exact same interests, especially in cities like Chicago.

Something something 1871, ChicagoNEXT, Techstars Chicago, UChicago, Northwestern, UIUC, Purdue

It's the same way Penny (JB's sister and former Secretary of Commerce under Obama) and Ken donate oodles to Harvard because it is their undergrad alma mater (eg. Pritzker Commons, Pritzker Hall, Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences).

Also, Ken couldn't control Rauner given that Rauner was equally wealthy (he founded and chaired GTCR with Carl Thoma of Thoma Bravo fame).

Pritzker and Rauner is basically two sides of the same coin where both were essentially retired but in the same circles and decided to compete because of personal ambition.

That is up to the students and alums of these programs. And many do non-profit and humanitarian work as well.

The world is competitive. It is what it is.

To have the power to affect change you need power.

Ken played a role in bringing the UIUC CS program to Chicago which itself is a major feeder into Citadel. Citadel was one of the founding partners for City Scholars [0] along with DRW and Ocient.

[0] - https://cityscholars.grainger.illinois.edu/

Yes and?

You went to a school who's founder was a robber baron (Carnegie) who deployed the army to put down a strike [0] and who's other founder (Mellon) caused the Great Depression [1] and whose family funded Trump 2 [2].

Alternatively, be happy CMU has more capital to continue to build programs.

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> To be fair, the Trumper is a different Mellon

It's the same family and Timothy Mellon is a direct descendent and heir of Andrew Mellon's

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike

[1] - https://time.com/archive/6757394/the-cabinet-death-of-mellon...

[2] - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9eed9g3vlyo

Doesn't matter. It was fake news that percolated right around the time the incident was reported.