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Ask HN: Can someone calculate the current value of the dollar compared to YTD
I'm curious on how all the trillions in stimulus affected the dollar, in tangible numbers
Not when you have Javascript blocked by default, using some adblocker. Try the difference!
resolved has been enabled in Ubuntu for years and in the next Fedora.
Location information, political preferences, socioeconomic status, photos, emails, search locations, to name a few. Is very dangerous that they are openly monopolizing access to everybody's life without regulations in place. I personally believe that Engineering teams do their best to anonimize individuals but reality is that other products teams such as Ads or growth don't do it
I dumped my Google 'account' long ago, when I signed up for Plus and they wouldn't let me back into my (4-year-old) Blogspot blog without verifying my name.

What I did then was to block most everything Google (less Youtube) and find working substitutes. It didn't hurt me for long, I routed-around it. After that, I was never hurt by any of their service-shutdowns, and they've earned my scorn in many new ways.
That was what the lawsuit was about. To stop him enforcing NN. Verizon won.
Does lethality after the contagious period matter? Doesn't seem that there would be any selective pressure if the host (and its extant, too lethal viruses) perishes...
> "Ripple Controls The Network And Who Gets To Validate Transactions, Making It A Centralised And Permissioned Blockchain" [1]

The quoted part is a misunderstanding that's refuted in following paragraphs. I fully agree with it - Ripple isn't centralized.

> That's literally how SWIFT works. It's literally how TransferWise works. It's how every international exchange mechanism works, and it's what you described as "not actual transactions."

Nope. There's no way for me and you to directly access SWIFT for deposits and withdrawals like we can sign up with TransferWise or send funds directly from one crypto wallet to the other. We have to go through our banks, who route transactions through chain of trusted intermediaries, who add their own processing fees.

TransferWise cleverly bypasses this in balanced corridors where no money has to be moved though the network of financial institutions, but that's a very limited business. They are very far from serving the whole world at cheap rates, and their niche business is no indication of how much a typical international transaction costs.

> InteractiveBrokers will charge you 0.002% ($20/million) for any Forex transaction you like, up to $1B per month

How reassuring. Sadly, banks do not pass on the savings to customers, and the entry barrier for newcomers with better pricing is very high. Even smaller banks are getting fucked, let alone retail customers.
I’m syncing my org files with Nextcloud, with an S3 bucket configured as a backend [1].
I can even sync to my org files and agenda to my phone configuring beorg to sync to Nextcloud via WebDAV. I’m still pretty new to emacs and org but this is very close to what I would consider an ideal note / task management solution. It’s all plain text (even in S3) and S3 is configured with server side encryption and versioning enabled.

I highly recommend Doom Emacs [2] and Zaiste Programming’s DoomCasts playlist on YouTube [3] to those just getting started.

[1] https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/15/admin_manual/configurat...

[2] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

[3] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhXZp00uXBk4np17N39Wv...
I mean, HVAC systems are supposed to remain usable for 20+ years, it's not really something you can throw on a production line in a matter of days. Most likely, someone already is working on such a system.
Can you use the DMCA in this way?
I don’t trust deaths as well coming from China. There has been some interesting research into sudden changes in number of mobile subscribers in China suggesting it was much, much worse.

Although it has been bad, parts of Europe has not been that bad. Germany, Norway, Denmark and maybe others have had very low numbers of deaths with much less impact on the population than China. Also of course New Zealand have done very well.

Sure we should ask our governments to do more, but this issue is because of China. They create the conditions for Coronaviruses and they are extremely unhelpful in fighting them.
> We've had strong evidence that the Earth is very, very old for hundreds of years, which was the scientific and religiously backed conclusion in the early 1800s.

Sure, among experts. But what about popular opinion? And did the Scopes trial (1925) mark a resurgence in creationism?
> If SpaceX gets Starship flying I think we'll see SLS outright cancelled.

One can only hope, I really wished Bezos had stepped up and fulfilled his promises/potential, but that's what you get when you confide in a guy that, consciously or not, looks and behaves more and more like Lex Luthor by the hour.

I personally think any Lunar expeditions are a waste of time and nothing more than geo-politics harking back to the Cold War, this time with China, and will do more create division amongst Space exploration than cohesion. But it seems NASA is resolved to do it, so its being funded and several contractors have submitted their designs [1].

If they landed tomorrow on the moon I still would think Starlink delivering on its promise and SN4/SN5 doing a launch test would still be more impressive as its success can aid to unify a fragmented Species--polarized by petty distractions and affairs that mainly try to give credence to prolonging the Nation-State model.

I'm entirely indifferent to the Moon as a habitat/colony for Humans, and aghast at the idea of a Lunar Gateway; then again that is the SLS project model that has prevailed.

1: https://spacenews.com/nasa-evaluation-sees-spacex-lunar-land...
"The logic behind the sun not burning a fuel like coal is entirely sound"

That is precisely why I called it "reasoned bollocks" - perhaps a bit colourful for HN. As you say the theory was wrong but the article was describing current theory at the time and is of course ... science.

I really am praising a long running science magazine as best I can. I am a massive fan.
> Popcorn Software is a multi-platform, free software BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player.
As an Australian who has privacy concerns their government's COVIDSafe app (see https://github.com/vteague/contactTracing), and hence not installing it, I'm really thankful that Apple and Google are pushing this model of contact tracing. We still don't know if digital contact tracing is effective in practice, but it's still important to try, but we can do this in a way that avoids giving governments with worrying authoritarian tendencies another tool.
And unless I'm misremembering my stat mech, the heat capacity of fermi gases is pretty high.
I have a local ZFS pool of hard drives and a script that `rsync -avz`s my iPhone's photos+videos to it. Then a separate cron script that periodically syncs from the ZFS pool to my S3 bucket using `aws s3 sync`. The S3 bucket has versioning turned on so it's effectively append-only.

I used to be able to trigger my iPhone -> ZFS script when I plugged my iPhone into my Ubuntu desktop using udev (also had to wrap it in flock[1] because it would trigger multiple times for some reason), but at some point that stopped working and I've been too lazy to figure out why.

It's far from perfect but for me it works alright. In this scenario I prefer straightforward and slightly kludgy compared to something with hidden complexity that could go wrong in so many ways. Could you imagine if you used a tool like restic or borg and the pack encoding format changed, or if the tool sources are simply gone when your relatives have to figure out how to get at the files in 10, 15, 20 years - I don't want my relatives playing code detective or archaeologist!

Which reminds me of a downside to using tools like restic, borg, and the like I forgot to mention. When I evaluated them for my hundreds of GB of family pics+videos, there is a "dedupe" step that all these tools want to perform. When I tested them a couple years ago they were dog slow for my files, because pics + video are already highly compressed and there is very little "deduping" you're going to wring out of them unless you have multiple copies of the same files. IIRC borg took several hours to run at at the end it reported 0.01% or less deduping efficiency. Also as I recall there was no way to opt-out of the dedupe step due to the way borg stores "packs". Very annoying!

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/169969/215168
The precedent the notice cites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,..., specifically the opinion provided:

> We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties.
During a training, demonstrating how to do geo searches on license plate data from ALPRs, a detective insisted we look up their car.

The hits were all more or less expected, a bunch around their home and the precinct, local supermarkets, etc. But then a weird grouping way out of town. Detective insisted it was a mistake and wanted more data, thinking someone stole his license plate (insert eye roll here).

Anyways, zooming in and looking at the highest density of hits, it ended up being a strip club that he frequented. He got bright red and his buddies didn't stop giving him shit for it all day.

And this was a detective, not a beat officer.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/1619-proje...

While this list contains everything that is positive and great about journalism, it also embraces what makes journalism reviled. The Pulitzer award going to the 1619 project despite it's mistruths further erodes people's willingness to trust the media to do their basic job - to tell the truth.

The NYT article embraces the conceit from the media that they are they experts - they need not listen to historians, but instead journalists can be the sole arbiter of truth.

The articles "overarching contention that slavery and racism are the foundations of American history" is simply a story that the journalist wants to tell. The journalist ignored the truth in order to tell that story risks kicking out the legs to a true evaluation of America's (and more generally the west's) troubled history with race.

To some, the 1619 project becomes incontrovertible truth, backed by the Pulitzer and the NYT, and anyone who disagrees with it are racist. To others the easily disproved assertions discredit not only this article, but all well-founded criticisms of race in America.

This is how we get two Americas. Every man is entitled to their opinion, but not their own set of facts. If we ignore facts in order to feed our biases, we will never be able to talk about the truly hard issues that we have to master.
Of course. But the question is if a smart, malicious, dedicated insider with a lot of privileges could find some way to access information while evading logging and covering their tracks in other ways.
Since there's a counter notice, I guess Github will put it back up now? That's the normal DMCA process I think?
SARS-2 isn't particularly dangerous for children. Most of them don't even have symptoms. Maybe all of our cold-causing coronaviruses are deadly when they present for the first time to an adult but since we all get them as children, our immune systems are better prepared.
Biden will stick with the party and it's "obligations" no matter what, so you've got a really good point here. Trump could punch low and swing left, where biden has no footing. Maybe maybe, this could catalyze a general republican swing to the far left?
According to the notice the code in the repo included links to pirate sites, so it seems to be the case that it not only promoted copyright violations, but directly enabled them. I wonder if the takedown would still have been possible if those links would have been located outside of the repo.
I thought helium was named for the sun (Helios), by spectral analysis of sunlight. In hindsight it's weird that they can know that in the 19th century (per Wikipedia of Helium) and the next conclusion has to wait until 1925, with controversy.
The DMCA is easy to abuse without any consequences. There's no known case of anyone ever being legally sanctioned for filing a DMCA takedown, even when it involved lies such as assertions of copyright ownership that were clearly untrue.
I think a lot of it has to do with scale and the ease at which that scale can be increased (and in some cases monetised). Some of it also has to do with mitigating risk as it's easier to manage what happens in a container as opposed to just letting an agent roam free.

What I really take issue with though is that a lot of the solutions only support a containerised approach, I'd much prefer they start from a general "agent" that can also run containers (et al) rather than hard coupling to one technology.
>It might be more economically efficient (and convenient) for the strong and healthy to purposefully self-infect

If someone told me I should deliberately catch a cold I'd say no. What about Ebola? I'd say no! A germ that I don't know? I'd say no!

If a police patrol arrived somewhere and someone ran away, that person would be suspicious. If I'm asked to get any germ I'd suspect that it's very dangerous, even if it was just a cold.

So telling people to infect themselves deliberately won't work.
They were right! The Sun would have to be more than 8 times more massive to be burning coal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-burning_process
I’m nitpicking, but there’s no rule that a blockchain node can’t check a website before deciding whether a block is valid or not. It’s usually a bad idea, since if the page changes between different nodes’ requests, those nodes would end up disagreeing on validity. And it’s not necessary for this scenario. But it’s possible. It does imply trusting the owner of the website, whereas most cryptocurrencies aim to be trustless, but in this case the premise already involves trusting the government.
One is explicit, the other implicit.

Palantir is _explicitly_ contracted by a government to create a tool for combining surveillance information to make tracking individuals more effective.

Github is providing tools (Github Enterprise IIRC) which is presumable being used to create tools which are used to track and deport individuals.
Before Einstein it must have been maddening to estimate the mass of the sun and ponder why its energy output was so high.
Although Charles Lyell had already suggested the Earth was much older than 6000 years in Principles of Geology in 1830. Darwin took the first volume of Lyell's book with him on the Beagle.
Why are you so sure the data remains private? Has Apple never handed data over to the gov. for investigations criminal and otherwise? Some of the genetic companies hand data to the FBI. The reason is great and moral, tracking down serial killers and the like. But, still, regardless of how good the proximate reason, the overarching trend is not so great.

And yes, I'm sure all the telecoms, hospitals, etc. also hand over our data. Adding one more, much more comprehensive data source to the pile doesn't help anything.
Never work for other people. Never work a 9-5. I would have started selling my own things or working for myself before leaving my parents house.

At 32 and finally working for myself, I can’t believe I spent almost 10 years building someone else’s dream.
> Spending a few weeks in the ICU is a good way to bankrupt yourself

Only in the US :|
> The new product complements a face-covering mandate Frontier is imposing for passengers starting Friday to help guard against the spread of the new coronavirus

The article indicates that they have you(r mouth) covered.
According to TFA, Frontier is also requiring every single passenger to wear a mask, regardless of whether they are showing any symptoms.

If you have a cough or a fever, you apparently just don't get to board the plane.
Resurgence in hunting... air travel is rare.... home hair cuts... families are playing board games....

We've gone back to the late '40s!
Which sounds about right to me. This wasn't ever that controversial a suggestion, nor is it unique to this essay. But it was an easy target for people who wanted to oppose the project as a whole. So we get comments like the grandparent, who apparently views this one idea as the "core" of a project that literally covers four hundred years of history.

It's tiresome. I mean, I read this stuff when it was published (it was really great, and absolutely Pulitzer-worthy), and I swear when the knives started flying I had to go back and find the passages in question because frankly I didn't even remember them.

It's also really upsetting that still, in the year 2020, the idea that black folks experience endemic racism is a partisan idea that has to be opposed by half the population as a matter of faith.
Yes, but the DMCA requires them to wait at least 10 business days first. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512#g_2_C
How does the Pi-hole achieve this? Does it have a blacklist (I assume) or can it use a whitelist? The services my TV needs to reach are easily enumerable, I pay all of them subscriptions. There is no other valid connection for it to make. Maybe firmware/app updates but I'd kinda prefer to do that myself at this point.
There seems to be legal precedent for holding GitHub liable for distributing software that encourages piracy according to MGM v Grokster[1]. Unless I'm reading that incorrectly, if they can prove that the software "promotes" the infringement, the claim will stand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,...
Funny that you mention Vegas: I actually think I got it there (in the airport) on the 21st of February. I went to California for a meeting on that week, and took a flight back to Mexico City, with a 6 hour airport scale in Las Vegas.

My flight was delayed, so I was in the airpot for about 8 hours. I decided to walk a lot during my time at the airport (I do that when I have long flights), so I walked about 20,000 steps in total back and forth in the waiting hall.

About one week later (beginning of March), I started with symptoms and since then it has been a nightmare from which I still haven't completely recovered.
I interviewed quite a few times when I was at google, and in very few cases would I deduct score for something that could be looked up online. I always started the interview with saying that if they wanted to look something up they could ask me, and if I didn’t know we could make it up and pretend the API existed. I frequently discussed this with others and they all did the same.

The point is absolutely not to find some technicality and use it against the candidate.
Convenience.

Convenience always wins.
Not misplaced, unaccounted for based on what is visible (or more accurately, detectable).
This is clear DMCA abuse, the popcorn time repository itself does not contain copyrighted content. This is why using a centralized closed source service managed by a tech conglomerate as the “hub” of our open source movement might not always be for the best
some note for those want to use pihole

- in windows, if you use primary dns as pihole and secondary dns as another cloud option (cloudflare, google), some ads will go through. secondary dns is not failover dns. try it and you will see.
That seems likely the case. Plenty of tools enable copyright but don't do it for you. For instance, Blu-ray decoder applications generally can operate unharassed as long as people have to "find" the decryption keys elsewhere.

The fact that Popcorn Time comes preconfigured to find illegal content is what they're going off of, and it looks like in Popcorn Time's reply, they're claiming the removal of those specific configuration files, they want the repository restored.

As usual, I truly love GitHub's policy about handling these complaints publicly, they offer so much direct value in being able to see the process and procedures outside of any sort of NDAs.
That's fair, a "convective mantel" model which accepts Kelvin's other assumptions gives 2-3 billion years, so it's at least ballpark compatible with biology. I think you'd have struggled to hide the mismatch eventually but it does pass a laugh test unlike 20 million years.

Unlike radioactivity, Kelvin could have considered convection and so that's his fault.
You don't want to see what kind of change?

I'm talking about neutering the surveillance state. That's not something that demonizing individual companies is ever going to do. You need to push for that change at the government level.

Unless you're pro-surveillance, but your previous comments made it seem like the opposite.
Is uptime really desirable in this situation? How do you get security updates for a device that lives near the edge of your network?
What is PopCornTime?

It is the “Netflix” of pirated movies, learn more here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time
The same tired socialist story about working less for the same amount of money.

But using the government to enforce lower standards of competition internally doesn't help one compete against the less lazy workers abroad. Even if this worked, you'd eventually get laid off.

And may I remind you it is immoral to use coercion to legislatively limit income of people willing to worker longer than you. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
There shouldn’t even be an option to buy adjacent seats
As usual, if you want to be healthy, you pay extra.
Wow I'm sure everyone can experience the exact same unique circumstances! all it takes is a few choices! there's nothing wrong with the fundamental structure of things! just follow my survivor's fallacy!
Yeah, we think we run the machines but the machines really run us.
Because this data doesn't exist on Apple servers, and what does exist are a bunch of randomly generated identifiers. Have you read the proposal at all [1]?

[1] https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing
That doesn't mean its subject to the DMCA
It's more accurate to say that recursion got into recursion.
It isn't actually a law yet - that happens later this month. Instead, we've received a determination by the minister [0], which will act as a kind of back-date for when those laws are passed.

> A person must not decrypt encrypted COVID app data that is stored on a mobile telecommunications device.

That video shows them looking into how the data bundle is assembled, but I don't believe they actually touch it or run it in an emulator, which would very much breach the determination - because unless you're one of the exceptions, you're not legally allowed to run the software outside of tracing.

Exceptions are given for those in employ of the health department, or other government bodies.

Whilst that might vaguely not mean decompiling the app, the minister's own press conference is clearer on the intent [1]:

> It cannot leave the country, it cannot be accessed by anybody other than a state public health official, it cannot be used for any purpose other than the provision of data for the purposes of finding people with whom you have been in close contact, and it is punishable by jail if there is a breach of that.

Decompiling the app steps outside the provisions for looking at the data, and yes, you don't have permission to look at your own data.

[0] https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2020L00480/Html/Text

[1] https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-greg-hunt-mp/med...
Wtf? That’s insane. I can just randomly DDOS projects by submitting DMCA notices?

Edit: Just realized there’s nothing distributed about it.
Came to echo many others here - great work and fantastic attention to detail. Thanks for your effort.
I haven't used PopCornTime for a long time, as I have Netflix+HBO subscriptions, but it's time to reinstall it as a way to disobay the takedown.
Yes, the point is to detect hotspots early and effectively isolate them.