skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there are 'trackdyl's out there with the trackball.. if you look in the photo gallery 'oddball' and 'beast' are probably the best known...
Good point -- The way I described it really applies to _any_ object floating in water.
I don't have much experience with ship design, but on small boat design you can rely mostly on the geometry of the boat to produce a sufficient righting moment even with a very high center of mass.

Some off-shore speedboats have really incredible self-righting because they've been designed to always have positive stability at all angles. One of my favorite videos of this in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2i1fOJ-itw
That same reasoning is why Google is having a YouTube app on AppleTV which does not use native widgets, so bluetooth keyboards don't work, scrolling is off etc.

It's not that they cannot afford building 10 native AppleTV apps in parallel and pick the best one.
If you really just want everyone to have access to banking, create post banking. [1] Then, if you really just want everyone to get monthly checks from the government, deposit them electronically. That’s all you need to do. This already works in many countries. It can even work in the US with a bit of spit and polish (we used to have a post banking service and it’s been proposed to be reinstated).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system
Is there a way to browse Instagram in reverse-chronological order?
> UBI can free scientists from grants

No it would not. The money necessary to find a lab is orders of magnitude higher than any reasonable UBI.
“Obviously if Bitcoin succeeds so does Coinbase”

This seems obvious, but I’m not sure it’s the case anymore.

DeFi has been growing, although hampered by ethereum right now, could eventually consume much of Coinbase’s income stream.

They may need to pivot to more of a banking role as ethereum solves tx fees and DeFi grows on L2. Whether that means more or less profit is not clear. I have a theory this IPO is really a calculated approach to facing such a reality, while they’re still considered untouchable.
> I don't like where we're going.

Me neither, not at all.

The idea of a digital Euro is already worked on:

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/html/digitaleuro.en.html

Obviously, it's an "inclusive" system, a term that evokes in me strong feelings of mistrust, as it has no provisions of alternatives like not moving to a digital currency. "Inclusive" by mandate and without consent, or the possibility to opt out. (Somewhat reminds me the Onion's Google privacy village.)

Let's crack open the windows, so we can throw privacy and liberty right out.
Mastodon Is Bound to Fail
A hole in Clang’s -Wsuggest-override
What do you find outdated about Kobos? I find them pretty much perfect. And the constant software updates make them even better.

Mine is a couple years old and has an embedded light that automatically adapts warmness throughout the day.
They also deliberately selected to be exposed to the rate market. Griddy is a unique provider in that.
The only Ultima game I was exposed to. I found it cool and exciting. Very frustrating, certainly. But I'd not played anything quite like it. I never back-tracked through the series.
But they don't really need 90% of the stuff in Ardupilot - driver support for a myriad of sensors and other peripherals, MAVLink protocol, OSD, RC control... All they need is the PID loop and ESC/motor control, and they are using a hardened CPU for that, so the low level interface has to be rewritten. And the visual navigation stuff that's running on Snapdragon doesn't exist in Ardupilot anyway..
That's interesting. As I commented elsewhere on the thread, I'm not sure why people think that with a central bank digital currency the retail banking and payment processor sectors would be shut down, or at the least that it would be possible to easily circumvent them.

I think they will continue the way they do today, but instead of trading in "paper" tokens they will trade in digital ones. Which, what with the fractional reserve and all, shouldn't be all that different. So they could continue with their current kind of policies, like "we won't do business with people / companies we consider undesirable".
I had to fire a guy in 2003 for installing webmin on a bunch of internet facing servers (webhost). Any Linux guy worth their salt isn't using a web gui for administration.
Hot and cold treatments were used to kill infection before we invented antibiotics.

Not sure how pertinent that is to your experience, but it's the first thing that comes to mind.
I'm going to sound insensitive to some but this is too much soap opera
That, my friends, would be the first step for my dream to finally map historical data, like in the OHM, directly in the OSM without anyone feeling bothered by it.
The code must somehow compute bouyancy in a way that reflects the object's arbitrarily complex shape. It's likely carving the object up into some number of smaller primitive objects whose equations for bouyancy are known. In order to make the whole object move as one rigid body, though, it's probably computing force vectors for each primitive, and then summing them together based on the overall object's center of mass and moment of inertia.

My guess is that the object's mass and inertia is calculated in a way that is sensitive to the handedness of the drawing. The code probably takes the absolute value of the result so that right-handed and left-handed drawings both end up with positive mass. When you draw lobes though, the signedness alternates and cancels out, leading to less mass. With even numbers of lobes of near equal size, you end up with near zero mass.

The forces being computed on each primitive are probably representative of that primitive's true mass. Subsequently applying those same forces to a rigid body with significantly less mass therefore results in extreme acceleration. f=ma, f/m=a. f/0=explode.
If regular citizens could get an account with the central bank, with a specified protocol and digital currency, there could be several providers in open competition using this protocol.

Switching banks would become like switching email clients. They could expose new functionality over an existing prococol. But it would also introduce new problems, malware banks could proliferate just like malware flashlight apps.

These comments threads always attracts comments like how these are not trustless, not mined by anyone etc. That misses the point. CBDCs are exciting. Citizens never had an account with central banks before.
Check this ThinkBook Plus by Lenovo (2nd Gen)[1]. The latest version has an updated e-ink secondary screen with bigger and higher resolution to match the main conventional screen.

[1]https://www.engadget.com/lenovo-thinkbook-plus-gen-2-i-e-ink...
Some do, but not all scientists need expensive labs. Some equipment is getting cheaper too.
site doesn't work well with the "midnight lizard" web extension for dark background viewing.

hurts eyes at night.
> It’s interesting that proponents of a simpler web argue in favor of Jquery for a use case where jquery is in fact very easy to live without. One would almost think dogmatic thinking is involved.

But to do without it, you will end up rewriting the shortcuts and utility functions that JQuery provides, effectively recreating a project-specific, less-tested and less-supported JQuery.
Privacy is ranked the second after security in a recent survey from ECB, so it is a known demand and design criteria for both sides.

CBDC will co-exist with cash for years to come. Fully monitored CBDC will be at a high disadvantage by citizens specially in modern world, while fully private one would not be allowed by CBs due to need for transparency.

Here also comes the product builders. We could design a CBDC that is fully transparent, which is the easiest to build, these days mostly DLT based. The challenge is how to enable some TXNs to be private by design and not only policies.

A major country is taking the extreme case of full transparency, while ECB and others like Canada are strongly focusing on privacy as a feature.
I'm not complicit. I've never been in a position of authority over hiring or loans, etc... nor have I ever treated anybody differently for their skin colour. Racism is about intent and your definition expands it well beyond what figures like MLK understood it to be.

To do anything else is evil.
If they'd created burnt toast (how does one do toast with non-sliced bread?) because the managing company had declared that the pizza must be shipped before the pizza dough was ready, you'd have some sympathy, no?

The jury has been in on EA for a long, long time: they milk franchises ruthlessly and eliminate talent and entire acquisitions the second it fails to meet their terrifyingly all-consuming goal of gigantic profits.
Icebergs really are unstable, despite the popular perception that 90% of the berg is underwater, ensuring that the top 10% is stable.

Eg: https://www.instagram.com/p/CFMVvtQhLZj/
Outside of the US it is not uncommon. I believe US eggs are washed with a detergent which kills salmonella and sterilizes any fertilized eggs. As a side effect, US eggs are more prone to spoiling at room temperature.

Anyway, in Europe or Asia one can buy 30 eggs, incubate them for a few days, and hold them up to a lightbox one by one. Probably at least one of them will be fertilized.
I currently working on persistent data structures. If I can make them fast enough they will be added.
SDF is a great example, wish I had thought of that.
from my observations of the masses that Alexa and co try to cater to, that's too much work or too technical. we have to remember the average joe/jane don't know what a browser is.
junior devs say dumb things about jQuery because they need to build experience and clout in complicated bloatware

fortunately the crypto space is paying well enough these days and all you need is a wallet connect button, without a backend, so devs don't have to deal with this particular elitist bullshit to get hired by someone else anymore

its actually questionable whether you need a frontend to make money right now. I've seen plenty of "dutch auctions" with just the liquidity pools: just gotta deploy a smart contract and give instructions on how to form transactions to it.
In the end it's just another censorship mechanism, and the only question will be how to extend its use. Once the system is in place, it becomes a neverending temptation.
It is a good idea but it is not a new idea

the interesting history of these sorts of frameworks is that Google actually created a framework that did this and stopped development on it. the code is still on GitHub. And there's a bunch of other frameworks that use a variety of different languages not just rust as the application language that also have this idea of not bundling chromium but instead using the system webview for rendering HTML and JavaScript.

You can find a bunch of different approaches in lists like "alternatives to electron." There's some on GitHub.

I took a slightly different approach where instead of using the system web view which I thought you know is going to be inconsistent across systems and it's not going to support the latest HTML JavaScript and security features I used the assumption that the user already has chrome installed which works in a high number of cases or can download and install it if that's not the case. predictably I suppose some people express to satisfaction that it was not using Firefox. using Firefox becomes more possible and more likely I suppose as firefox's support for the dev tools protocol achieves parity with chrome support for that.

https://github.com/c9fe/graderjs
There's the X62 upgrade kit, which is basically refurbishment of X60/X61 with 2018-era hardware. Might be up to your alley.

I would be interested in any Ryzen aftermarket kits as well too hehe..
I want to die too...
This is superbly cool. “Emailing hardware to space” is a great way to frame this technological achievement.

To see this premise explored in science fiction, I recommend the novel https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/d...
I think its human nature. If you don’t think this is something you do, then you’re probably doing it more.
>> All bubbles pop eventually. I think there's little doubt crypto is a bubble right now.

Same thing was said in 2013 and 2017..
Recently it's just Valve publicly stating revenue share cut due to competition with Epic. Since Valve is a private company we have no data on how much they they charged big publishers earlier.

For all we know Valve could also have any kind of agreements for games of Rockstar or Bethesda. It's hard to believe that all top titles on Steam paid thr same 30% cut till recently.
What's the "right balance" between Type I and Type II errors when assessing the quality/potential of new research?
Witnessed a rejected mask purchase because of a recent mask mandate. He resigned to stealing it instead
Accurate. Gotta keep the engines of crypto trading churning.
That's mind-boggling. I'd thought it was just me and my budget PC the first time I tried. Why would they set the system requirements so high?
Technically I should still have a floppy and its backup, but the old laptop I used to make it is dead. It's kind of difficult to find floppy drives these days, and the whole thing is so old that the floppies might be no more readable.

The dlopen trick is something I'll remember if I need that sort of stuff, but I've grown wary of FFIs. With libraries, there's often #define constants or macros that make FFIs a bit awkward. I prefer to use static linking if the lib is not too big, or dynamic loading but still with light bindings if not. If you know a bit the internals of Lua, I use a very similar method to extend Forth's "vocabulary", and the loading (and manual linkink with dlsym) is done only when the extension is invoked and initializes itself.
I spent... longer than I should have trying to take advantage of this bug to
recreate a stable version of the stereotypical tall iceberg that the original tweet was complaining about.

https://imgur.com/a/WG6D0RJ
The BIOS used in the original Compaq machines is the classic example of this.
> specifically, I'd like a more accessible UI, automatic updates, sensible defaults on all apps, an easier way to get started and so on.

Isn't this kind of what Ubuntu does with the snaps? You just snap install someapp and there it goes. It will helpfully restart to update whenever the developer publishes a new version, etc.

There's an infamous, quite involved debate, over this exact thing with a bunch of people wanting an option to actually disable this behavior and another bunch arguing why that's not a good idea [0].

I guess the issue with servers is that there isn't really a one size fits all, or at the very least it's not easy to figure out what it is. All this combined with the fact that one argument in favor of running Linux is the customizability, I'm not sure all that many people are looking for such a solution.

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[0] https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...
This comment made me flip. Just signed up for a 10 year archive account.

Never used pinboard but frequently enjoy and admire the whole story and the level of dedication that flows into it. It’s like watching the story of „UP“ (the movie) happening in the internet.

Most businesses are neither fair nor transparent in their business decisions which is often interpreted as a sign of strength and thus fosters trust by users. Moves like this are uncommon and could / should give us faith in the product, but don’t , because we interpret transparency as a sign of weakness.

For those arguing that asking for money is somewhat a moral question: try to run anything someone relies on for more than year, then come back discussing the right topics.
>political extremist sites like Parler
You’re right I took it too literally :) All that light beer crap is like water!
I understand the potential nightmare scenarios that the author describes, because the author is worried about the sheer amount of "editing capabilities" of a company compared to a small community of OSM editors.

But doesn't that automatically imply that the current way of verifying OSM data is flawed and needs a better architecture?

Setting aside my personal opinions about feasibility... I think that this is actually a valid use case for a proof-of-map based system that removes the statistical power of a company with too many (maybe unintended) potentially malicious editors.
Not the best start when you name your platform something that has the same sound as the more vulgar name for the hole between someone's butt-cheeks.
Just because the central banks issue the money, it doesn't necessarily mean that they also have to handle the transactions.

The current state of merchant banks and payment providers can very well continue, without CBs having to assume new responsibilities.

After all, the trend is towards more privatisation, not less.

I share your pessimism. I'd say the central bank is the oven wherein the commercial banks bake their pies.
Cockpit is a nice frontend for servers.

But for my homelab I run UnRAID (https://unraid.net/) which is an amazing software to rollout your own NAS and run services as Docker containers. Furthermore, the web UI is amazing to manage Docker containers and VMs.

And the community is awesome if you need any help.
Trump was and is a clown. Brin, in that video, was expressing his personal feelings (that he doesn't like Trump) being a refugee himself. He was not expressing company policies.

That was supposed to be an internal forum. From what I've heard executives treated internal q&a sessions as public press conferences afterwards and try to be "politically correct". Not a good outcome for anyone involved
> Important note: central bank digital currencies are not crypto currrencies. They are not block chains. They are not decentralized. They are not permissionless. I cannot find a record of any CBDC which clearly states that it want's to use any of these technologies. I'd be interested to be proven wrong.

Indeed, by default almost majority of CBDCs are permissioned chains since CB is the only authority to create money and destroy, aka mint.

Technology-wise though you‘d be surprised. Most of the solutions out there are actually DLT based, almost all blockchain based. There are modern aspects that work differently than other cryptos (well, borrowed), e.g. there are permissioned blockchain solutions that allow „channels“ to be private. This allows a bank to still be on a ledger while txns are hidden from other banks. They are also decentralized because Central banks are not high tech companies, but they have trusted middle layer still to be fast and cheap at some other disadvantages for citizen, e.g. control.
You know.. thank you.
Happy user as well. I use it as a hackish solution for ssh-ing to my closed-down homelab. I love how well their authentication & security is modelled.

This is great news for them.
This is less true than it used to be. The US is unlikely to sail a carrier through the Taiwan strait again to intimidate China.
I was on SSRIs many years ago. I don’t recall feeling any better or worse, with them. I was also on other things with larger risks that’s thankfully didn’t materialize. But again, didn’t feel like they did anything.

Unfortunately psychedelics I’ve tried just up anxiety and paranoia. My last experience had me crouched up on the couch alternating between sweating and chills, hating the time dilation and just waiting it out.
Totally agree, at least anecdotally.

Working in ML for a large company has really tested my liking for programming. The amount of plumbing/testing/code reviewing needed just to get a tiny feature usable for a ML model is absurd. Taking 6 months to push one model improvement is really draining.

The pay's nice though.
Cash is private. Most cryptocoin are not particularly private. The few that set out to be private may or may not succeed at being private or being a widely exchanged digital currency.
If you got the email, it was by mistake. Old-timey users who have archiving are already paying the full rate and were not the audience for what was supposed to be a modest effort to expand the recurring revenue base in a low-key way.
It still sounds so wild for some reason! 60X closer!

You’re saying these and other satellites are planned for this ‘shell’ and maybe others at different distances? Could this be partly due to congestion and the problem of ‘space junk’?

Also, won’t satellites in an orbit this close to earth eventually be ‘sucked’ in to the atmosphere and burn up?
I was considering getting Remarkable 2 when I am in a country they deliver to. Do you know whether it preserves the qualities of Remarkable 1 you mentioned, apart from the price?
It is super easy to use.. that's why. Fiat ramp-up in other exchanges are P.I.T.A.
Love the shade throw by the professional forecaster at the amateur who upstaged them and the class shown by the amateur at said shade.

"The IHME’s Murray has his own take on Gu’s exit. He says Gu’s model would not have picked up on the seasonal nature of the coronavirus and would have missed the winter surge in cases and deaths. “He had the epidemic going away in the winter, and we had picked up that there was seasonality as early as May,” Murray says."

The machine learning methods used by Gu work well at short-range predictions, Murray says, but “are not very good at understanding what is going on” in the bigger picture. The algorithms, based on the past, can’t account for virus variants and how well vaccines may or may not work against them, according to Murray. For its part, IHME called the early peak of the virus correctly, then erred when it came to predicting a steep decline in deaths until it adjusted its model to better reflect reality. “We got it wrong the first of April,” Murray says. “Since then we are the only group that has gotten it right consistently.”

What a di$k with a small ego and a terrible model. Forecasting is a hard business especially something as hard as a pandemic. Why not accept your faults with grace and learn from others?
I will leave you with this cartoon:
https://images.app.goo.gl/dzZNEDdz4HkcSEaS8
> Most likely not, the new guys were phd-types that was ultra smart but did nothing except have meetings.

There's your problem, regardless of architecture, it would most likely have been over-engineered anyway.
What’s your strategy? Because if that’s the case with the US then holding cash has its own issue too?

Even Silver is being pumped.

Can’t we say the reason why gold isn’t up 1000% is because its digital form of it, bitcoin, took that position?

Isn’t QE inflating assets instead of monetary value hence why stocks/equity is going up?

Btw very interesting take thank you!
I just get a nice white screen on mobile :/
I love the linked twitter page detailing the ... details of floating configurations for icebergs. My old mentor used to talk about how hard it was for the solvers to find stable configurations for floating bodies/structures/rubberDuckies “back in the old days”

Ah well... good times, and watch out for rotations that don’t matter!
Last year, NASA had a public challenge for teams to submit designs for Venus rovers. The winners were announced in July[0]. The designs are pretty interesting!

As far as planned missions go, a proposal by the Goddard Space Flight Center for a 2021 Venus atmospheric probe called DAVINCI+ was shortlisted in February 2020 [1], but was waylaid in favor of asteroid probes Lucy and Psyche[2].

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-venus-rover-challenge...

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-goddard-team-...

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/planetarymissions/discovery.html
You forgot to remove the hardware, recurring cost(like the data link) and tax from this estimation.
For the first dozen or so years of my life, virtually every adult I met thought they were clever by referring to me as "Sam I am" (like from the Dr. Seuss book). Although thankfully that eventually waned, I still have a very intense dislike of that phrase.
So, we just print 5x normal amount (which is also a big why) and it is all good.