skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The orange from hypergolic propellants is the oxidizer (nitrogen dioxide from the dinitrogen tetroxide disassociating at atmospheric pressure and temperature), not the fuel (typically hydrazine/UDMH these days, formerly analine was popular, many other fuels are hypergolic with N02/N204).

If the reports are correct that the explosion is 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, the orange is probably nitrogen dioxide. A high concentration of nitrogen dioxide indicates that the explosion was very oxygen-rich, likely pointing to it being accidental.

Ammonium nitrate is normally very very stable. Even mixed optimally with fuel oil, ammonium nitrate prills (pellets) won't reliably detonate with a No. 8 blasting cap, and in mining a small "booster" charge of TNT is used to get the ANFO going. However, very large piles of ammonium nitrate have caught fire and exploded, such as the Texas City disaster where a tanker full of ammonium nitrate burned for a long time, and then levelled a good portion of the town when it exploded.
There's a classical conditioning loop where you see an attractive woman dancing to a song, which makes you subconsciously start to like the song, then you like videos with that song... it's the combined power of earworms and arousal. If they somehow make it taste like cheesecake we will have achieved full wireheading.
That's the manipulated video Uber put out. Look at contemporaneous video of the same stretch of road others took - actually fairly well lit.
If you are interested in the topic of reforestation / deforestation, I highly suggest checking out the Global Forest Watch map

https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/
That's why we sequester the wood by building houses, etc., with it.
Intellectual property law is only coherent in the face of information. It's the property law of intangibles.

Economics didn't run up to the industrial revolution and stop. The book I cited, Slauter's Who Owns the News?, gives a great history of English law from before the Statute of Anne. For a view from the Internet era back, on an economics angle, Shapiro and Varian's Information Rules is a great read. For a more nuanced view from those who lean open, James Boyle's books are all worthwhile.

The author is, as it happens, an open-leaning intellectual property lawyer.
I’ve been a happy paying https://clipchamp.com/ User for sometime but will have to give this a try.

Congrats Michael.

People underestimate how hard it is to build and ship. So massive kudos to you on your new product.
Make it easy to create /r/highqualitygifs style memes and it will probably market itself!
Yes it is. This might be the last iMac with user accessible RAM chip though.
the problem stems from the fact that instacart is not doing a proper 'auction' of the orders to all participants.

if the instacart platform allows all deliverers to bid on a task (where each deliverer bids their % take of the order), and the lowest % take wins the bid, then this will give everyone a fair chance at taking all jobs.
Probably nobody cares, and there's nobody in particular I would like to tell this to, but I recently experienced a Google service that made me feel more positive about them, even though I have eaten up the negativity recently to a certain extent.

That service is the call screening. Where you can (I'm not sure if it's standard on all Android phones, but I have a Pixel 3) have your virtual assistant talk to an unknown caller and transcribe whatever they say (but they always hang up).

It just made me momentarily feel so much better about Google, the sense that this one little thing actually improves my life by leveraging the dystopian tech infrastructure. I don't hate the bots that much, I hate them not working for me.

I just thought I'd share this because you must be bombarded with anti-Google stuff these days.
You can make more money though & you can make more stocks. That's where the notion you're addressing breaks down, even in the perceived sense:

The Hong Kong dollar is pegged at the moment, this also means it's not zero sum for a buyer or seller either, especially at the peg boundary like now. They simply make more Hong Kong dollars or withdraw them.
1Password used to let you host self host web vaults. Dropbox and iCloud seem to work fine where they're still supported.

Dropping local vaults in an iOS patch was kind of sleazy. So is downplaying the ways the new security model is worse.
On a parallel front, it feels like something similar has happened with computers too. Laptops have gotten better (more cores, more RAM, SSD) over the years, but still the more frequent interaction occurrence seems to be me waiting for the computer to respond because every tiny application or website now consumes hundreds of GB of RAM .. and memory pressure.
Right, same as when talking about computer security and threat models.
I'm perfectly happy with enpass, and see no reason to move from a one-time purchase of enpass to a subscription for 1Password.
On that note, I wonder how the ships / watercraft in the area handled it. Overturned/sunk/? :(
Awesome! We'd be happy to hear any feedback once you start using it. :) - Ben, 1Password
This is misleading. The founders grew up and went to University in China. Working in California for 5 years likely isn't enough for someone to deeply understand US culture. Same goes for anyone living and working in a foreign country for 5 years. There's some things you can never understand.
> The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. Officials linked the explosion to some 2,700 tonnes of confiscated ammonium nitrate that were being stored in a warehouse at the port for six years.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/huge-explosion-rocks-...
Part of the thesis of Datomic (and also Crux, as I understand it) is that cycles and storage have gotten so cheap that some of the design assumptions made by traditional databases no longer necessarily make sense for large segments of the application software market. One of the major ones being challenged is that storage is so expensive that your updates to the DB need to be destructive. That's still true for some domains, but for many, many domains, e.g. ones where historical reporting is important and write volume isn't terribly high, it'd be much better to have an immutable database (facilitating historical queries), even if it means paying a little more in hosting costs, than to build the necessary features on top of a destructive database.
Cool project! I think the calendar interface linking to individual PDFs is kinda odd though. Why not just list it all in sequence on one html page?
Speaking of 1PW, has anyone else been having an issue for perhaps the past 1-2 months on Windows, where there's an intermittent delay before the interface opens when using the keyboard shortcut to open 1pw mini? (Likely also affects the direct fill shortcut, but I rarely use that.) Most of the time it's near instantaneous, but over the past while, maybe 5-10% of the time it takes 8 seconds to register. Started happening to both my wife and I (on separate machines) around the same time.

I figure if I can find others with the same issue, maybe I could find a commonality. I spoke with support, but apparently it's not a known issue.
Every service I've been involved with that was useful enough to succeed ended up implementing mechanisms to deter undesirable behavior. (I blame the humans.)

If you look at it the right way and are not currently under attack, they can be a lot of fun to work out and implement.
Browsing the internet with opera mini actually feels pretty responsive, until you come to a site that plain doesn't work.
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Our 1Password X extension works great on Linux. :) - Ben, 1Password
Though note this will still work for a targeted attack. You wait until your target will be out of the loop and then begin your attack run. But it would definitely help.
Quite a lot; there is a federal policy for release to home confinement of current prisoners with COVID-19 risk factors after evaluation of other factors.
One issue that may be getting in the way of you getting full time work is that you come across as being defensive/testy in response to friendly comments here. Here's some examples below of comments that could have softer phrasing (like first acknowledging the commenters point, then refuting it, instead of jumping into refutation):

"Do I need to make that distinction explicit?"

"What good would a code bootcamp do for me which I can't already do self-taught?"

"Just because that is your preferred experience, you want me to follow it? "
Nice work! FYI, on https://storycreatorapp.com/features you've accidentally used the same caption/copy for the last two features.
No clue what Instacart shoppers do. What makes the orders lucrative/better? Is it high dollar orders, or multiple orders at the same grocery store, or is the tip pre-published, or what's the criteria when looking for orders to fulfill?
Remember tannerite, the stuff you can buy at Academy or any gun shop to shoot as an explosive target ?

It's ammonium nitrate fertilizer - - hopped up by mixing it with a little aluminum powder

This guy loaded up his old rider lawn mower with it and shot it from only 43 feet away, see what happened . . .

https://youtu.be/S6V0S1m5a7U?t=26
We don't currently support ARM but we'll keep an eye out for feedback on this. Thanks! - Ben, 1Password
The you will like Italo Calvino:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/499400-when-a-man-rides-a-l...
They do it because they'd lose business by the metric ton if it was possible to irrecoverably lose access to your account.

It's probably not even legal.. I would bet it's not for a bank and if it's not for crypto exchanges it's only because of some legislative gap that hasn't been filled yet.

Crypto exchanges aren't known for their well staffed support departments, either, and they'll reset your MFA even if you haven't provided them with income (you don't pay simply to have an account, only when you buy & sell).
More focus on Performance and not just Eye Candy would benefit.

Growning up with the constraints of weaker computer hardware helped the Old Guard appreciate performant solutions.
It is a hybrid. The UI is using Electron. The guts are Rust. - Ben, 1Password
We're not thrilled about the 17+ rating on iOS either, and are evaluating our options there... Thanks! - Ben, 1Password
And if it's not, then you'll wonder if it went to the Instacart driver or the UPS guy.

(well, not my UPS guy, he's actually a she, and she gives my dogs treats when she sees him)
Cohen is mostly notable not because he was initially eligible for the general COVID-19 release to home confinement that the DOJ has set up, but because DOJ tried to unconstitutionally craft his conditions of release in a way to squelch his first amendment rights when they found out he was planning on releasing a book that would be embarrassing to the President.
This follow the most infuriating aspect of Robinhood charts - no Y axis, not even a range to show the scale of the chart.

Totally crappy Robinhood design. This library should right that wrong. But really nice work just the same.
Perhaps it is worthwhile to mint some new phrasing.

VS Code is a closed, proprietary platform. Something like emacs, vim is 100% open source, open platform.

Open platforms tend to be a lot easier to write code for, use, extend, etc. You can't build an editing empire on VS Code - at the end of the day no matter how brilliant you are, they own the distribution 100%, so it might as well be closed source - much the same as how there are hundreds of open source clients for twitter, 'open access' APIs, but Twitter is very much, very, very proprietary.

The promise of OSS is and was that you can always freely modify, build, hack on whatever, and that you don't have to be a talented reverse engineer to do it or write large swathes of 'special sauce' magic drivers yourself. Its almost the same gambit as Apple's - Darwin is indeed Open Source but nobody would say OSX is open source - quite the opposite.

Locked down proprietary walled-garden cant-take-your-code-wherever premium platform with a very much pay-to-play mindset. Which, I'm not surprised - its great that MS is doing open source, cool beans, but who really thought they'd become a charity or a truly concerned 'digital citizen'. Although those types of (succesful) companies are becoming rarer and rarer, as is wont to do with capitalism.

Don't blame the license, blame the motivations?
The moc is not the issue. The biggest design problem with Qt is that it predates move semantics. That history affects the design of almost every class.

It feels like a beautiful old walking path that detours around a wall that's long since been torn out. It's still fine... but... it's not how you'd design it if you were to start from scratch.
not otto related. why is techcrunch so slow on chromium browsers. to read the article, had to open it in firefox reader mode, private. thousands of requests to just read a wall of text.
This seems like a loophole that could be used to funnel foreign money into government departments.
Levandowski was charged in the federal system, to which California state prison policy is irrelevant. (The fact that the particular federal court hearing the case was located in California doesn't change that.)

OTOH, both delays in prison sentences and releases of current prisoners to home confinement are not uncommon due to COVID-19 in the federal system right now.
Only wholesale. Retail prices never go negative.
My rule is "measure three times, then cut the wrong side off."
I'm curious, did you use some kind of library for the little thumbnail videos under "Try a Template" or code it yourself?
Don't forget that people open the fridge, it's not realistic to make a fridge that you are not allowed to open at certain times.
Having a breadth of knowledge is one of those things you never realize the value of, if you don't have it. That's something I realized over the course of my career.

For instance, I have a broad math background, nothing too deep, but enough to have an intuition on how complex things worked. One of the defining projects of my career to date was an embedded signal processing project given to me because "it seems like you know math" -- and I figured it out on the job by intuiting my way through. I figured out Fourier analysis and windows and FIR filters by intuition, and was able to use the pieces I had available as API to do something truly impactful.

Most people won't need most things from school, but if you're the one who knows that one thing that's needed that one time, it can be disproportionately rewarding.
Something like this has happened to me in a parking garage.

The garage had a gate that would usually require a card, but if you worked a late shift, then you might get off work just after a concert or other event let out and the gate was left up for everyone to leave. Which meant the next day, it would still think you were in the garage and not want to let you in.
Duktape64: JavaScript on the Nintendo 64
Using Argo to Orchestrate NMAP Against Millions of Targets
Luckily this was the first time and totally just a fluke... wait:
https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/11/technology/google-home-mini...
Unsolicited suggestion.

Hit up Courtland at Indie Hackers. He has a podcast and your story would be a perfect fit.

Should help drive some traffic your way as well
> but their info isn't always entirely accurate. For a given board I was researching with USB3.0, PCPartPicker listed it as having USB3.1Gen1 support.

This one is just USB being USB. USB 3.0's 5 Gbps Superspeed mode was renamed to USB 3.1Gen1 with the release of USB 3.1.
> some shoppers are paying software developers who have created bots — in the form of third-party apps — that run alongside the legitimate Instacart app and claim the best orders for clients

Instacart is a real-time market. In real-time markets reaction time is paramount. "Cranking up pressure against app makers and banning violators when they find them" is swimming up a waterfall.

The solution is in the market structure. Fundamentally, Instacart needs to shift to batch processing.

This could take several forms. They could, on order submission, open a 60-second auction window. The best qualifying bid wins. Bids, mind you, could come in dollars or time to delivery or something else. Alternatively, shoppers could set orders parameters within which they guarantee acceptance. Orders could then be randomly assigned to online shoppers, perhaps with a bias towards ratings and other metrics.

Either way, a real-time market, where the first shopper to accept an order, seems under-optimised.

> cost of the third-party apps ranges from $250 to $600 in cryptocurrency or bank deposits

Instagram should acquire the differentiated apps and integrate them into its routing.

Showing every order to every shopper is inefficient. Some of these bots will just click on every order every shopper would find attractive. Those are zero sum. But some, I assume, help shoppers pick orders uniquely suited to them. Those are positive sum, and worth integrating into Instacart per se.

Fascinating stuff, nevertheless.
Cool. I hope they find some of that institutional racism so they can stop it.
What I need is search by PCIe lanes/slots, comes from PCH or CPU. Whether the lanes come from PCH or CPU is important but rarely described in specs but on manuals.
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He should go for far more. Someone stealing a car worth far less would go to prison for far longer!
off-topic: even if it's not necessary for a blog, someone needs to hook up Paul Graham with an SSL certificate.
Performance on the web is more than just runtime. That time spent downloading the Javascript and parsing it is part of the page's load time, even if the Javascript isn't executed.
Agreed on all those points, especially the desktop app which was ultimately the breaking point for me. The only thing better about Dashlane right now is the UI on the iOS app IMO.
Landfill might not be totally ideal because if it decomposes there, some of the carbon may eventually leave the landfill if gas is able to escape.

I wonder if we should compost paper instead of recycling it? Or try to vitrify it?
> Not sure if this comment is sarcasm

No, I'm generally curious, why do we have trade secret laws? Seems anti-capitalist, anti-freedom, anti-equality to me. There must be people who question them and I'm curious to learn more.

> If I invest billions...

Yes, if you had billions to invest you should strongly dislike this idea. I'm saying that perhaps trade secret laws are good for billionaires, bad for everyone else. So removing them would be bad for billionaires, good for everyone else.

Shareholders have the government's help in preventing their employees from leaving to compete. Without that help, they'd have to treat their employees on a more equal footing.

> AVOID innovation

A freer market generally leads to more innovation, not less. Sure, a small number of billionaires may stop funding innovation, but that may be dwarfed by the rise of a number of innovative upstart companies made up of former employees.
I don't see it on desktop, which means I don't get to see Mowgli and I'm pretty disappointed about that.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.2 Safari/605.1.15
Hundreds of comments yet not one questions the fact that the premise of the article might be flawed. They're using "onload" event times and calling this "webpage speed" (there's no such thing as webpage speed btw[0]). It's especially known onload is not a very reliable metric for visual perception of page loading[1] (visual perception of loading = what most think of as "page speed"), that's why we have paint metrics (LCP, FCP, FMP, SI, etc). Tools like PageSpeed Insights/Lighthouse don't even bother to track onload.

In fact, HTTPArchive (the source of data the article uses) has been tracking a lot of performance metrics, not just onload. Some have been falling, some have been rising, and it depends on the device/connection. Also, shaving 1 second off a metric can make a huge difference. These stats are interesting to ponder about, but you can't really make any sweeping judgements about it.

It looks like people just want to use this opportunity to complain about JavaScript and third party scripts, but for above-the-fold rendering, this isn't usually the only issue for most websites. Frequently it's actually CSS blocking rendering or other random things like huge amounts of HTML, invisible fonts, or below-the-fold images choking the connection. Of course, this doesn't fit the narrative of server-side vs client-side dev very well, so maybe that's why there's hundreds of comments here without any of them being an ounce skeptical of the article itself.

[0]. https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/s...

[1]. https://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/05/13/moving-beyond-w...
just for a little snark to defend client side use - lemme know when you find a responsive bin packing algorithm i can do server side that doesn't choke out the dom
The design of the full rocket doesn't have a single center engine. Instead, it has three engines at the center.

This test article uses the same layout for engines, but with one engine instead of three. So that one engine is offset from the center.

Their flight software is already capable of handling the multiple engine out-scenario and compensating for it, so there's no real reason for them to center the engine for the test article.
The crux of this trade was the TAS order type. It seems like these guys arbed the liquidity difference beyond their wildest dreams... But now they're probably spooked about it because it sounds borderline manipulation.

Order types are constantly getting traders or exchanges in trouble. If you know about the less popular ones you always stand to beat out your competitors who dont. TAS reminds me of D-quotes on NYSE.