skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it would need to be fit into a legal framework, and would benefit by being integrated with centralized systems made by companies. I think you are arguing against some kind of "everything should be fully decentralized" ideal, which is not what this would be. Rather, it could offer clear benefits here and now by integrating with current systems and institutions.
Will more hate crime laws help StopAsianHate? Not all Asian Iowans agree
It's a really interesting and fun area of programming to explore, did you have any success? I think I saw that the XPlane developers released a Starship model for their simulator too, which could be fun to play with.

I'm using Unity for the front-end visualisations, then the simulation & avionics are run on a headless server that currently uses Havok (realtime physics engine for games) with some layers to add aerodynamic forces and some tweaks to try to keep things as realistic as possible. More info & code behind the aerodynamics here: https://avionic.dev/blog/simulating-aerodynamics/

This video: https://youtu.be/GSJPm4uG42M is probably more interesting to the HN crowd than the one I shared in my last comment, and gives a little more context as to what's going on behind the scenes than the abstracted UI dashboard.
It's really simple. He and Tesla are moving the crypto markets and he most likely knows it, while his fans blindly buy in because he said so.

Elon and Tesla and those in the smart money are not interested in hodling. They are here to make money out of it and know how to take advantage of a classic recycled pump and dump. He tweets a cryptocurrency like DOGE for his minions to go and buy it and they always fall for the dump.

I'm just sitting back laughing and watching the new crypto investors fall for the same obvious tricks again and again. If the great large scale Twitter bitcoin scam of 2020 happened once again, this time it would get a greater amount of fools to fall for it and part with their coins.

Name this chapter in the cryptocurrency story, 'What goes up, musk go down.'
DST Root CA X3 Expiration (September 2021) – Let's Encrypt
> python's dollar literals

Did you mean postgresql's dollar literals?
Are You Headless?
2 weeks of asymptomatic spread has been known about since late January (edit: in 2020). [0]

And Fauci said at one point (2/14/2020):

“There is no reason for anyone right now in the United States, with regard to coronavirus, to wear a mask” [1]

And at another point (6/15/2020):

"[...] we were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N-95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply." [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYyH4N8VXvA

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dr-fauci-made-the-coronavi...
> China didn't even admit human to human transmission until mid January.

Because it was even newer and more unknown at that point. Wuhan was in lockdown on the 23rd of January, so they had a pretty good idea by then. Meanwhile the rest of the world twiddled their thumbs and lost the opportunity to contain it.

> They haven't even admitted when the outbreak started, which almost certainly wasn't November 2019

How do you "admit" something unknown? Either way we know it couldn't have been too much before November/December, considering everything we know about how fast it spreads.
Baseline implementations should be predictable
Payoneer 2021 review: price, features, top alternatives
I once speeded up a program by changing from the normal native wrap MySQL drivers to a pure python one.

The pure python MySQL drivers were marginally slower for cpython.

The native drivers worked fine with pypy, but pypy didn’t give any real performance gains as the program spent all its time in the native code

Then when testing pure python drivers we found pypy made the whole program massively faster.
I’d say it’s not too hard to get offers right now but the offers are bad as far as I’ve seen. Especially at startups. Every startup I interviewed at completely lowballed the shit out of me on either salary or equity or both. Even public companies did the same - there is literally no interest in giving a good offer upfront. You need to pull teeth and have competing offers. Walking away isn’t enough! They want to hear companies and numbers and see proof.

I went with an offer in the 350-400k range like above. Hard to get above that without going into staff or getting lots of high competing offers. Even then, it’s risky.

Got a half dozen or so offers. It was a terrible time. So many startups withdrew at random stages because comp would come up and they realized they were too cheap to even bother sending an offer. Huge waste of time.

Great time to raise capital, terrible time to join a startup.
Shameless plug: If you are searching for a Postman alternative for gRPC, give https://kreya.app a try.
Mostly because it took hours to make an exploit on Safari compared to days on Firefox, however the final approach ended up the same. Only Chromium has a built-in scheme anti-flooding protection.
It is called "third-party doctrine". It is a loophole for "fourth amendment".
We have DC-Motors with brushes on work (50kW-500kW). Brushes really need a bit care all the time. And if something happened, you have to rework the whole thing on a turning machine.
This article is working on a 10 year past. Food desserts in 2021 Los Angeles are fiction. There are more than 8 grocery chains and online services that will deliver any produce, meat , packaged food that you want. Many also accept EBT cards. This is the extension of a popular fallacy, by lazy journalists.
Yea I'm very curious about this too. Oddly enough, it's not the first time I've heard someone on HN complain about a search query being hard for Google to answer, tried it, and found the answer in the first result (and the next half dozen).
I love the idea of Syncthing (p2p, hell yes), but besides wishing for a “streaming”/“on demand” mode (only downloading a file from a node when you need it, basically Syncthing lite but in the official project, eventually evolving into a mixed mode with local and remote files besides each other) it just ... doesn’t work that well for me. Initially it kind of works but doesn’t saturate the network connection, then after a while it just doesn’t do anything anymore. The web interface doesn’t provide much information about what’s happening.

I tried it with multiple different devices and know someone who has the same problem. At the same time I know many people it works flawlessly for. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
> They're not ad blockers, they're domain filters, nothing more than a big hosts file, and they block absolutely nothing at the page/element level.

I don't think this is true. I use 1Blocker and it seems to have tons of element-based rules. You can also create your own element-based rules easily with the Safari share extension. You tap the element you want to remove, tap buttons to go up or down the DOM to make sure you hit the right level, and then add it to your blocklist.
Moneystuff had a good post that touched on this today.

Even if they don’t pay, the scammers buy puts on the public stock for the companies they’re ransoming so they profit off of blowing them up too.

I’d imagine that’s easier to track and stop, but it’s interesting.
> At least a dozen U.S. National Security Agency employees have been caught using secret government surveillance tools to spy on the emails or phone calls of their current or former spouses and lovers in the past decade, according to the intelligence agency’s internal watchdog.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog...
We have to wait and see if future results justify current actions, when the action is preparation for some future event. It is only in hindsight that we can truly point out if someone's risk/reward calculation for the future was flawed.

I'm not buying gold, but the odd thing is that Russian and Chinese central banks are. I would assume those people know a thing or two about economics. I'm curious to see what the future holds.
> there are suspect cases in Europe already at the beginning of December, of people that had never been in Wuhan.

If this is true, then it's not a given that COVID-19 even originated in China.
Even if it‘s by design that you can share a page, you shouldn‘t be able to change account data should you? And it sounds like the author didn‘t share their page and it was still accessible.

MW made a video: https://youtu.be/ILcjmnFCID8
Ironically, I believe this was overturning a law made by elected officials (on constitutional grounds)
It's actually not an induction motor. It's likely synchronous, with the wound rotor actively energized.
> I think it's worth noting that among the demographics that frequent this site there is ostensibly a deep distrust and skepticism of the American government on matters of surveillance

I don't think that many people on this site are claiming that the American government is incompetent in their surveillance and SIGINT endeavors, from a strictly scientific/technical point of view. Rather that they're too competent and being too effective. Whether those technical capabilities should be applied in certain situations is a political question.

> CDC

I would hope that the majority of the site here, who do not have doctorate level degrees in epidemiology and virology, can realize the extent of education and experience that it takes to get a PhD in those fields. My primary complaint with the American government's handling of covid19 (600,000+ dead??!) is not with any incompetence on the part of the scientists, but the policy makers, in particular the previous administration. And the general populace's resistance to measures that could have halved the cumulative death toll. Additionally with state governments that have gone through multiple rounds of "we must reopen the economy!" to "oh shit! coronavirus is spreading again!"
Coinbase will be very happy with the influx of USDC users.
No One Reads Poetry
I’ve been using program blocks in Space Engineers to play with some parameters as well. I still need to install the orbital mechanics mod though. The math is incredibly hard (if you have basic training) , even if you have a simple model, but it’s fun to figure out.

Hats off for your project and what you’re trying to do!
Why is everyone forcing email logins? How can i give this to my coworker to work on with my email if he doesnt have a password? What is the easy solution for me without me having to forward the login email each time?
> Chief Technical Officer Paolo Ardoino

Can't say this news comes out as a surprise. I'm actually surprised by the fact that there are any reserves at all.

What is really interesting about Bitfinex / Tether is to research the history of the people who started these entities, especially their history prior to Bitcoin's existence.

Here's a taste:

https://nicolaborzi.medium.com/the-lawless-rollercoaster-of-...

As much as I'm a proponent of crypto, some folks very early on intuitively realized that the friction-less nature of the new technology made it the perfect vessel for running scams:

https://steemkr.com/bitcoin/@binyamin/bitfinex-s-founder-see...
>This is a very privileged, first-world perspective on things. You probably have a checking account, and a debit card. If you only have cash, and want to send money to (for example) family in another country, it gets very expensive, very fast.

I live in Mexico, I don't know if we're first world or not. We're kind of in between. We have bank accounts and debit cards here too. In the past when I wanted to send cash to the US or vice versa, I've used Western Union for the convenience - the local corner store (which in Mexico will be Oxxo or 711) has western union. When my family here in MX needs money, I just transfer it to their bank account via my bank's app.

I think many people in the US overestimate how privileged they are compared to most of the rest of the world, to be honest. I lived in the US when I was young but left because life felt easier here in MX.

Sorry for this kind of ambling response, I don't really disagree with anything you said, your perspective just piqued my interest :)
This was my first thought too. And then I remembered reading so many entries at the USPTO's website where they simply wrote about a 100-year old technology, obfuscated the heck out of it with convoluted language, and got the patent through. The odds that this company is doing the same thing are pretty good.
We will make a detailed report with some statistics, after the vulnerability is fixed
I used bittorent sync right from the day it launched. Then stopped after they moved to paid tier with forced obsolescence of free version features.

I was pointed to syncthing and never have had any serious complaints. Good job
The pitch is clearly a lie, but I'm also not too worried about them counting commercial paper and t-bills as "cash."
It’s an interesting thought isn’t it.

Many of us in the haze of an enlightenment narrative in the 90s thought the web would empower through a decentralised model, and while it’s done that of course, it has also created powerful new sources of centralised power, monopolies, and walled gardens, that have challenged (and often won against) existing legal, societal, and political structures and norms.

It starts feeling a bit Neal Stephenson or Max Barry if you imagine a world in which monetary policy underpinning Western (and other) economies is further removed from existing political (especially democratic) levers.

Weber’s argument that states draw their legitimacy from a monopoly on the legitimate use of force is largely supported in Western economies by a monopoly on the legitimate exchange of value as well.

What does international trade, yet alone your annual tax return, look like in a world in which “govcoin” is just one (and a lower preferred one at that) of many currencies used day-to-day?
When I do that search, neither the knowledge box nor the top 3 results answer the question.
After struggling to keep VPSs up to date with security patches for small sites, I've become a fan of shared hosting again. When I was a teen I hosted my sites with Pair.com, and they still have an excellent record and provide full shell access.

If your really want a VPS, they also provide an inexpensive fully managed VPS solution.

I got really tired of keeping the OS and patches up to date; I just want to get to coding. I also hate CPanel-based hosting.

I believe Pair.com is a good solution when you don't want an unmanaged VPS but you don't want to pay for Heroku et al either.

They're based in PA, though. So probably not the best if you're in the West coast.
A "fun" problem with thrust vectoring and multiple engines is that the engines can most likely physically interfere with each other when actuated to their opposite extremes. There may or may not be some software somewhere to explicitly prevent nozzle collisions, but it's kind of a no-win situation if that software needs to kick in. If the controllers are commanding thrust angles that the engines can't physically achieve, then the rocket is probably going to blow up anyway. In some ways it's better to just let the engines smash into each other and hope for the best, if it gives the controller slightly more control authority in exceptional circumstances.
Isn't that exactly what "risk" means in this context? Sometimes you get very rich (see the early google/microsoft employees), usually you get nothing or almost nothing. If you don't want to play the lottery there is nobody forcing you to work at startups.
I expect better from FT. Tether is very similar to prime money market funds, in both structure and portfolio composition. I guess the Fidelity's of the world aren't keen on competition.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/business/20moneys.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/business/coronavirus-mone...
Would it really be the earth's magnetic field? Residual magnetization of the steel laminations seems more likely.
> Although this feature from ALBs is relatively new but the arguments for sticky gRPC connections and NLB are also applicable with ALBs. If yu end up with a single sticky and persistent connection from a client that starts sending a large volume of requests, you are overloading a single server instance that holds that connection and the requests are not being load balanced as they should.

That seems strange to me. Without end-to-end http/2, ALBs would load balance individual requests, not the entire TCP session, even with keepalives. And it sounds like individual messages on the same connection can be routed to different target groups, which would make it even more stange not to balance individual requests.
management was open to "exploring alternatives" whenever a component needed to be redone.
For YouTube on mobile, you can get ad-free experience with their premium tier[1] or YouTube Vanced[2]. Both come complete with background playback and overlay player.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/premium

[2] https://vancedapp.com/
Oh, bingo

https://player.admiralcloud.com/?v=34a065e8-47e7-4a52-b679-f...

That's a rotary transformer excited synchronous motor. A bit better, they are now only 90-80 years too late.
They specifically recommended not wearing N95 masks, which were very scarce and in limited supply at the beginning of the pandemic. With the goal of maintaining the very limited supply for medical personnel, while cargo planes moved around the globe and production ramped up.
I was going to say there used to be (home office applications come to mind), but searching for something like ‘SORN’ still returns 5 scammy ads above the real page you need (but the more common V5C doesn’t. I do think gov.uk has improved this compared to the past.
I also noticed the uk govt is running google ads for some keywords themselves.
I'm not sure the title is accurate. We've known about fires like this for well over a century. The military wondered if it could weaponize them to destroy the enemy.

The first real world use of such a weapon was in WWII when the USA firebombed Dresden with a quarter million incendiary bombs, decimating a city, sending a vortex of fire a mile into the air visible 500 miles away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_Wa...

It traumatized Kurt Vonnegut for life and he wrote Slaughterhouse Five about it, among other sci-fi works.

I'm surprised the article didn't mention it, but it should be known. It might be a like a lot of the climate change stuff that thinks all this is new, but it's not. Makes ya wonder. Makes me wonder anyway.

The darkness of humanity scares me way worse than some wild fires which are natural and necessary for the cycle of life. We are control freaks to some degree and encroaching more into mother nature's territory.

Just because these things are having a bigger effect on human life, doesn't mean they haven't been around for a long time. There are more of us, so it's just math.

Every predator species exhausts the environment of prey. We've reached a tipping point for sure. We aren't immune to the laws of nature. Too many livestock will destroy their habitat eventually too. Too many foxes will eat all the rabbits. Keep thousands of birds confined to small spaces, they'll die of viral infections too.

We are animals too. We can over run our environment too. We've done it over and over. Just... now, there's nowhere left to go and we've created all these artificial boundaries around areas. Walling them off from natural migration. Koalas die that way. Deer and wolves die that way too. Artificial boundaries.

The atmosphere is a pretty hard stop. Sure, there's the moon and Mars, but there aren't many rabbits there either. Or potatoes.

You know I realized tonight, we have this natural instinct I think to get sick of ourselves. Forge ahead to new worlds. Get away from the oppressive people sapping us of our productivity and labor. We want to be free!

But there's no where left to go. And now we are stuck with ourselves. And we can't get along. Some people want to oppress and some people want to be free. And there's no where to go. So, there's going to be a fight.

Like those foxes over that last rabbit.
Stop the email-only link sign-in madness
How can you perform work for clients or ask your employees to work on a platform if you have to send them the login email each time and be present in your inbox for that.

I had to waste time setting up a forwarder with filters because of a service that thought it was smart to make it email link-only login.

Why are you doing this to me?
Cool, thanks for that, I'm definitely not the average person, but I'd never seen people calling him that, but searching on your view found lots. Thanks! I think pump and dump is different to what I think he's doing, which is somehow playing the shorts. Like I think he's somehow benefitting from stocks as they crash, TSLA included, and I think he's deliberately crashing them somehow. I have no proof of this, and I don't really care that he does it or not. I just think it's weird people don't see it. It seems he repeated the cycle of "boost, crash" a few times and is happy to do so, with TSLA, BTC, and likely Doge and GameStonk. I'm not an expert on this just a feeling. What do you think about it? :p ;) xx
that does not matter, backup should sync files from the phone to the backup-device. it should not sync deletes from the phone to the backup-device. but uni-directional still syncs both, only ignoring delete on the backup-device prevents syncing deletes.

the point is that it's complicated and the 'ignore delete' is easily missed. also because it is not shown in the status. so every time i have to wonder, did i set this up correctly?

and i have to check the status on both the phone and the backup-device to make sure all is right.

when i want to delete something on the phone i have to check on the backup-device to make sure that the file is backed up. because the phones status does not tell me that. it only tells me whether it downloaded everything from other devices which is less usefull, i can see which files are on the phone anyways. i can't see what's been uploaded to the backup-device unless i go look.

just the other day i realized that for a new folder i had not set up ignore-delete. luckily, because i am paranoid, i made a hard-link duplicate of the backup before starting to delete files on the phone.
This is possible in theory.

For example, Safari opens the Apple Music without any user prompt. The app itself is designed to handle deep links (such as opening an album or starting the song).

That means you can perform a deep link forgery, in order to force the app to perform unwilling action without user confirmation.
What a good read. Shame on the authors for putting such an important article behind a paywall. Thanks someone for filesharing it.

#AbolishCopyrights #AbolishPatents #EndIntellectualStupidity
> And denying covid kept workers in his factory, against the law

not sure if there even can be a complete list with Musk but, let's also add:

1) privileged background thanks to emerald mining fortune made in apartheid South Africa,

2) union-busting and abusive employer,

3) hoarding $175.6 billion in stolen wages during a pandemic,

4) encouraged a coup
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> What does international trade, yet alone your annual tax return, look like in a world in which “govcoin” is just one (and a lower preferred one at that) of many currencies used day-to-day?

That's already a reality for many companies doing international trade. Especially global special-purpose device producers from smaller countries. It's annoying with paperwork and dealing with "what price was actually paid at the time", but it's not new. They contract a team from X, do work in Y, source materials from Z, V, W, then pay local accounting and tax in their govcoin equivalent - which happens to be the local currency.

For day-to-day multiple local currencies check out the history of the Brazilian Real.