skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe Oumuamua was a carrier and something got off. It would make sense. It could also have been a spent deceleration stage. All speculation of course, since we just didn't get a good look.

Of course if whatever got off wants to ever go home it would need to set up shop somewhere and build a new multistage interstellar rocket. You could probably do that in the outer solar system and not be noticed.

People who dismiss UFO sightings have among other points argued that the small craft sighted are too small to have the kind of crazy propulsion systems required for interstellar flight. That makes sense, but why assume those are interstellar? A staged fusion rocket or something would make more sense. The small craft would be interplanetary scale.
rate of acceleration was more in line with object offgassing due to irradiation from the sun, at least as what I got from scientific sources last year.
For this particular business, it's about unlocking certain levers for future growth. My SaaS has 300k+ users, mostly automated, and grows itself, but the product is positioned in a spot that draws quality issues that prohibits more premium users. The next level would be about attracting premium users.

Even that is achievable on my own if I put some effort into it, but I've been busy with another startup recently that's doing 20x my solo project. Also bootstrapped, but not entirely owned by me.
I'm not surprised that the Palo Alto store is closing. It was built in an abandoned warehouse, and the land is now far more valuable than the store.

It hasn't been a useful place for electronic parts for ten years. For computer components, try Central Computer. For electronic parts, DigiKey or Mouser.
No, but my impression is that even in cities in the US which have the density to support good systems, the systems tend to be... not great. I go to SF from time to time, and it's the only place I regularly have to resort to lyft/uber/etc, because the public transport system just doesn't seem... very useful. And I'm coming from Dublin, a city with a pretty bad system by European standards.

And it's _possible_ for public transport to work for fairly low density suburbs; I think some places have had success with small feeder buses feeding larger buses or trams.

Also, of course, urban planning can be improved. And tastes can change too; my impression is that the very large McMansion type houses are getting somewhat less popular in the US now, and they're a big contributor on two grounds (they exacerbate the low density problem, and they're expensive to heat and cool both due to sheer size and to generally relatively cheap construction prompted by the sheer size).
The explanation I've seen is that Oumuamua is made of a "frozen cloud" and has lower mass than that used in the expected trajectory model, and was possibly pushed by solar wind into that observed trajectory.
Gaming on the web was tiny til broadband became mainstream. There were lots of dial-up services (DJANGO, MSN gaming, etc) but latencies over the web were not so great. I remember getting pings of 700+ trying to play Jedi Knight deathmatch on AOL
Think React-style. A button becomes a component. Otherwise your page may look noisy with each element having 5-10 tags attached.

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/extracting-components/

You can either use their built-in system or whatever your JS framework provides or both.
So we can determine the orbit using only line of sight measurements of the object relative to the Earth.

This is a problem originally solved by Gauss for Ceres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s_method

More generally given sufficient observations one can use many similar methods of orbit determination to get a relatively accurate orbit of the body. All of this is standard stuff in astrodynamics and happens on a near constant basis for both man made and natural objects.

A good introduction is the classic BMW

https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Dover-Aero...

None of this requires the shape or material of the object, just some fuzzy measurements of the position
I think it may do the subject (the interviewee) a service to take a skeptical approach as the interviewer in a situation where many readers will bring a lot of skepticism. If the interviewer seems _too_ friendly, many readers will dismiss the responses and not listen as carefully as they might otherwise. It seems like a justifiable approach to me here.
I don't know how old you are, but at a certain point, the input of a general practice doctor becomes very valuable. Remember, the doctor doesn't even do the little tests you mentioned, like taking measurements and blood tests - they just order them, and nurses or technicians do the work. The doctor's job is to make decisions and give advice.

About a dozen years ago, my doctor caught my blood pressure shooting up in my annual exam and started treating me for high blood pressure. High blood pressure is a "silent killer" that leads to premature deaths for millions. You don't feel sick, while your heart struggles and your brain risks explosions. And treating it, once diagnosed, isn't straightforward. It took six months of experimenting with various medications to find the combination that worked for me. That's a doctor's judgment and expertise, not something for some technician with a community college associate's degree. And this summer, when a critical potassium depletion drove me to a scary ER visit, she noted that one of my BP meds could affect potassium and adjusted my dosages.

And it's not just an expert-system thing that could be replaced by a robot, either. She's not just dealing with my measurements - she's dealing with my fears, and helping me decide on best approaches. That requires a human touch.
"Fitzsimmons, A., Snodgrass, C., Rozitis, B. et al. Spectroscopy and thermal modelling of the first interstellar object 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua. Nat Astron 2, 133–137 (2018)"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0361-4

"Here, we report spectroscopic characterization of ‘Oumuamua, finding it to be variable with time but similar to organically rich surfaces found in the outer Solar System. We show that this is consistent with predictions of an insulating mantle produced by long-term cosmic ray exposure4"

Which means that it can be concluded that:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/11/08/alie...

"The spectral signature of the object, its color, reflectivity, and other properties are consistent with a natural, rather than intelligent alien, origin."

But it's really fun to imagine "alien" possibilities and all the arguments that could support that; Loeb's page with his related papers:

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Oumuamua.html

The object is already out of our reach and we should just be ready to make more observations of the next objects with such trajectories (that one was really the first in our history!), and make even more precise measurements in the future. If "aliens" in this specific case would help to have more money being redirected to scientific astronomical investigations than now, then maybe it can be OK to talk about these "possible alien" aspects too.

What's still wrong is to mix these tiny possibilities with most of the "commercial" uses of "aliens" which actually sell really unscientific and really stupid stuff, like "Ancient Aliens" and similar.
Kubernetes Using AWS Spot Fleet with Kops
And its speed!
Microsoft Planting in an Indiana High School with Hopes of Harvesting Talent
Many people from Peru and Bolivia (edit: I guess also Mexico) also inherited some genes like these in Tibet that let you breathe at high altitudes. I'm wondering if it could be the same explanation since natives of the Americas allegedly crossed that land bridge from Asia. These people's chests and lungs are quite large compared to a normal person and you can see it in the body type.
Welcome feedback - you took the time for careful read-through, thank you!
I was a Google evangelist until the penny finally dropped and I saw that their business model was a disease. Chrome OS is cool, as are many of Alphabet's products past and future. But I no longer use any Google products or have a Google account, and actively take steps to prevent them having even passing access to any of my data.

I think there are good use cases for a cloud-based OS, and it's something I could be interested in using, even helping develop. But, like Android and Search, Chrome OS is just another harvester of personal information to feed Google's advertising profit machine.
State Department Urges U.S. Citizens to Leave Iraq ‘Immediately’
Not really, the deviation is not that large for the scales we're talking about and there are still plenty of potential explanations. Hell, for the longest time we couldn't explain why our own Pioneer spacecraft deviated from expected trajectories and we knew precisely what they were made of.
Neat. I'm curious, which problems did you have with existing password managers that made you write your own? You mention Lastpass and mitro in the REAMDE, but there are lots of other good options available, like KeePass or Bitwarden.
The Australian Aboriginal oral histories are believed to be potentially accurate to 7000 years or so. There are a lot of links. This is the one I'm referencing: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-16/research-gives-merit-...
Thanks! That's certainly one of the confounding factors I had in mind when I was writing this. The same goes for traveling to and fro meetings. This is especially painful for hardworking yet poor mentally ill and unskilled workers trying to get their life together. Overcoming mental illness, childhood abuse, medical issues, witnessing or being a victim of a crime, and bettering oneself, oftentimes several of these at once, is a Herculean feat. Asking for help does not mean someone is lesser. In fact, by not helping someone in need they're less likely to ask for help before they do something permanent. For some all this work proves too difficult. For so many reasons.

Most Americans are scraping by with medical, addiction, or mental issues on top of being underpaid, under educated, overworked, and priced out of necessary services like mental/health/child care, housing, and transportation.

It's no wonder so many articles and studies bemoan the current state of affairs.
> My last post was about either The SSH protocol or The reason you need to install a karaoke captioning library if you want to change your desktop wallpaper.

I was really hoping for the latter.
It depends on what your comparing.

Win 3.0 came out March 1990, which puts HDD at 4$/MB or 50MB for 200$. https://jcmit.net/diskprice.htm So 6MB win 3.0 should be ~12% of a hypothetical 200$ disk.

Now HDD prices dropped a lot, but high end PC’s used SSD’s in 2009. A 120GB SSD cost ~250$ when windows 7 came out, which is ~13% of the drive.

Inflation pushes these further apart, but $200 in 1990 is only $324.15 in 2009.
Congrats for doing this!

Regarding this:

> There should be no problems with running on a publicly-accessible server [...]

Looking at the https://github.com/jarmo/secrets-web source code, I don't see any place where it sets the `Content-Security-Policy` header. Or am I missing something?
You’re in their store. If you don’t want to follow their rules, don’t enter their store.
How Does Alibaba Ensure the Performance of a 10k-Node Kubernetes Cluster?
Totally the right move.

I’ve been through an acquisition. Everyone is jockeying for position and if you’re not, unless you’re really good friends with the founder, you will be exploited. As an engineer, they want you to stay on to increase the value of the deal. If you’re a star on the team, they absolutely need you to stay on for the deal to go through.

All of those extra hours, nights, weekends, that made you the go-to dev, pays off with this piece of leverage.

Use it. Say it loudly that you’re willing to sink the deal for everyone else impress your demands are met.

If they let you go, you never had any leverage to begin with. But if they listen closely to your demands, you’re right where you should be.

Do not think for a second that any of the founders, managers or other devs have your best interests in mind.
You quoted "a vibrant ecosystem of banking functions, asset management, trading exchanges, and more" and called it a stretch. Now you're complaining it's just stuff for speculation like exchanges and derivatives. That's literally what the quote said was there.

A popular asset management system is this: https://www.tokensets.com/

Maker and Compound allow borrowing backed by collateral.

Decentralized exchanges include the various DEXs and Uniswap.

All of these get substantial usage.
Agreed.

I'll write something (or even just put together drawings) for someone and the first review of something like really light prototype / sketch where I get direct feedback from decision makers and/or users is FAR MORE TELLING about where things are going to go than anything else.

It's amazing how much pivoting can happen there.
I mostly agree, but...

Insurance is one of the oldest industries in the US, which means they have accumulated many (probably well meaning, but ultimately stupid) regulations over the years.

For example, to be taxed as an insurance company (e.g. avoid paying tax on premiums that will partially be paid out in the future), most states assign a maximum profit margin.

That means, in order to make more money as an insurance company, it's perversely in their best interests to increase the cost of medical care as much as possible. Medical care is not like cat bonds that might wipe out your risk pool, so it's just a cashflow game.

That's not to say there isn't any downward pressure. On a day to day basis, individual claimants eat more into that margin than was budgeted, so a company might have to raise rates higher than their competitors (essentially they have some pressure to deny claims), but there is very little systematic pressure to reduce overall costs. Also, marketing budget does not count towards profit, which is why insurance companies are in this rat race of brand advertising to steal customers from each other. With auto insurance, for example, upwards of 40% of your premium is just going out the door as ad spend.

Anyway, I would assign a lot of blame in this perverse incentive scheme to poor regulations.
Ask HN: Care to make geopolitical forecasts for the new decade?
I elaborated the reasoning behind my statements in another comment to your child comment. Would love to hear your response!
I'm sorry this is off topic but do you still maintain cryptomarketplot.com? I sent an email few days ago to register for paid subscription but haven't got a reply since.
Yeah, probably. Though I'd guess that anywhere that has a policy that bans smoking tobacco probably wouldn't be excited about marijuana either...
Yeah, he was awful. I also thought it was interesting he left in the bit about not knowing the persons pronouns. It was entirely unrelated to the conversation or topic, and I assume he did it to paint the scientist in a certain light to certain people. Idk if that’s true, but the alternative is probably that he is just bad at his job.
Hacker news is probably one of the least important places to do this.

It has a high concentration of technical users, only supports public posts (where technical users will notice and comment on such urls), and has very active moderation.

Texting apps seem like the most important place to implement it... judging by the spam that I get.
Cheats detect that and change things back just before the screenshot is executed.
>if you cut my portion size in half, you better cut the price in half too,

Nah, they just need to shave $1 off and call it tapas. :-)

I'm being mildly snarky. I like tapas for the variety. But, in part, because they mostly don't have the relative filler you have in a typical big dish main, they tend to be relatively pricey.
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We know genetic basis of high-altitude adaptation for Tibetans and Andeans is different. So probably not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_adaptation_in_hu...
Show HN: RepoStats – Track GitHub Release Statistics
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I run two Open-Source projects and we host our releases on Github. Github maintains a total counter for downloads but there is no way to track downloads per day.

It is pretty basic and bare-bones but works. It tracks downloads per asset, which gives you a good insight into adoption of your product.

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"Indiehackers" - community of bootstrap founders, you can find them online... Direct access to business owners. Good place to start!
As an outsider to the blockchain world, I would be more interested to know why proof-of-stake is not used by Ethereum yet.

Found one article on the subject: https://medium.com/ibbc-io/the-beautiful-complexity-of-pos-3...
>you could also refer to the original article you posted in your original incorrect claim that Musk violated the updated agreement.

What are you even talking about? I made no such claim.

Elon Musk settled fraud charges with the SEC, and is being sued in civil court, as we speak, for the same infraction (shocking, i know).
Harvard's stock just dropped like a brick
Access to files is the critical issue here. Look at these examples from the article:

> Chrome OS doesn't have a robust photo editor? Don't worry, you can download an [Android] app! Chrome doesn't have native integration with cloud file services like Box, Dropbox, or OneDrive? Just download the app! Chrome doesn't have Microsoft Office? App!

The problem is that Chrome OS is attempting to be a desktop platform, using web apps and mobile apps.

Desktop OSes (Windows, macOS) are all about files. Apps are files. Your documents, photos, and videos are files. Any app can access any of your files.

On mobile, you don't normally interact with files. Apps aren't files; you launch apps directly from the app launcher, and they store data internally; when you delete an app, its data is deleted, too.

Web apps are like mobile apps: they don't have access to your files. You can't make a web app photo editor that opens a file, makes some changes, and then saves those changes to the file. Instead, you have to "upload" the file to the web app, and then you have to "download" the modified file.

Microsoft Office has a web version (Office 365), but it's like Google Docs, lacking access to your local files. Dropbox has a web app, but it just lets you download files one at a time; it's impossible to implement Dropbox-like file synchronization in a web app.

Google is aware of this problem, but you might not like their proposed "solution," to develop a cross-browser standard file access API. https://web.dev/native-file-system/ Google's currently running an "origin trial," where a small number of web sites have temporary access to the feature to try it out.

I think Google's not going to ship it until they convince Apple or Mozilla to approve; it's not clear when (or if) that will happen. Here's the most recent discussion from May. https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154

So file access isn't technically "stalled out," but it's still going to take a long, long time.
"Laziness" is probably unfair - but there is a lot of evidence that everyone, doctors not included, will get stuck in their ways unless forced out of them.
Best Buy price matches to Amazon. They also work with cashback services and often times gives you a $5 coupon after purchasing a certain amount. Finally, they also let you return open boxes, no questions asked. Forgot to mention, you can do same day pick up for an item.
This is precisely why we need universal healthcare. The incentive structure of private markets don't properly value human life.
Having read The Three Body Problem, I am no longer nearly so excited for our first encounter with an alien civilization...
Except that Valve develops and promotes Proton for running Windows games on Linux, which also uses DXVK and other tools.
We plan to split marketing and app pages up, so no more spinner soon. Apologies for the wait time!
In the ancient Athenian democracy, they had the ostracism [1]: once a year they could hold a vote and whoever got more votes was sent to exile for 10 years. No bad feelings, shaming, etc., they simply had to go, because people just though the city would be better without them. I think this mechanism would work as well for game servers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
For compatibility purposes, WinSxS basically contains every version of every DLL ever shipped with Windows from 95 to present day.
It's not just conspiracy theories. The focus of much of tech has focused from providing value to its users to extracting maximum value via behavioral manipulation. (Sorry, "engagement" and "stickiness")

People who can afford to reject the services provided, or can afford to buy them non-sticky elsewhere, will. Same as it ever was - money buys freedom.
I think you could take some ideas from the Foundation Series of Asimov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series)
ESP32 too: http://www.fabglib.org/
Why would a private SaaS that sells to companies do better than the public markets in bear market? If anything if the market suddenly turns then holding a stake in a company that is illiquid is worse because you can’t sell if you need to.
The importance of calculus and the power of mathematical lies (2019)
Does anyone know Bob Brisco the C.E.O. of Web MD?

I'm going to try and get this in front of them using my contacts, but it is a long shot.