skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/12/elon-musk-says-tesla-will-st... last week, I take it?
I agree. Hydrogen and jet fuel are not "explosive". True explosives contain all the components they need for the reaction. Hydrogen and jet/diesel/gasoline fuel require injected oxygen to burn, and you can create an explosive mixture by mixing it with oxygen or keep it non-explosive if you can keep the oxygen out.

Yes, if exposed to air, hydrogen will mix itself more readily than jet fuel will, but it is also much less energy dense, so it will burn out quickly and cause much less damage. A Hindenburg could not have brought down the World Trade Center buildings.

If you have hydrogen sealed in a fireproof bag of some sort, you can heat the outside with a blowtorch, send giant electric sparks through it, etc., and no explosion if the bag doesn't rupture. Because it's not explosive. If it does rupture, no explosion, but the gas will burn as it rises into air with oxygen that hasn't yet been consumed.

I imagine (would have to be rigorously proved, of course) that if you compartmentalized hydrogen in lots of bagged "cells", and the cell membranes were designed so that even if the neighboring cells all ruptured, encountered air, and burned, the heat would not be enough to rupture an unruptured cell, you could have a safe hydrogen airship. It might even be less vulnerable to certain dangers (ex: shoulder-launched terrorist missile) than an airliner.
Nobody? Not one single person?

That must be why there isn't a large jailbreaking community behind iOS.

Or why there hasn't been a lawsuit over...
Apple isn't a hardware company anymore?
> US has forced that wish on commercial companies like Google

Not necessarily. Google has R&D in Israel[1]. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are both Jewish. Not that all Jews support Israel, but typically the case.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multinational_companie...
I wonder whether the Cellon dope caught fire first. It's highly flammable and unstable.

From another article, about a 1916 German bomber .. https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2017/11/eccentric-...

> First, Cellon, a type of cellulose acetate, was highly flammable, which, combined with the wooden fuselage, made the plane a tinderbox. Secondly, it wasn’t very strong or stable; in dry weather the material shrank, warping the wooden fuselage, while in damp weather it expanded and made the whole structure sag. This had a very unnerving effect in flight, as the control surfaces changed characteristics from moment to moment depending on humidity. Cellon also decayed in ultraviolet light, becoming yellowed, brittle and prone to explosive shattering.
I find the comments here to be very anti-semitic.

Can we please leave the politics off HN?
The Anxiety of Influencers
Sony and the other Japanese companies have been busy committing audio crimes by claiming their products are "Hi-Res Audio certified", which means nothing except they want you to replace everything, so you shouldn't encourage them.
A lot of people here claiming there is no evidence. Whether they think there was none because they didn't bother to look, they think the evidence is poor, or they can't imagine any authoritative evidence without the help of China it's just not true.

People imagine Chinese social media as something that is completely locked down when in reality it was abuzz with information when a new mysterious disease was appearing in Wuhan. Countries like Taiwan were suspicious and taking action as early as December.

Here is a set of evidence I have a hard time poking holes in:

https://project-evidence.github.io/

There are some pieces of evidence that are compelling alone:

- beyond a reasonable doubt, coronavirus research was done at WIV.
- beyond a reasonable doubt, collection of coronavirus from bats was done for the lab.
- beyond a reasonable doubt, there have been instances of poor PPE/safety measures.
I ran into this in Amazon's RDS not so long ago (3 years?) where I wasted a good few hours figuring out why mysql was mangling our emojis. A good test for this is trying to insert the character, which will only work with utf8mb4 as it uses the full 4 bytes, which mysql's broken 3 byte utf-8 implementation simply does not support. This is also the reason for 191 character limit as 191 is 3/4 of the 255 bytes you'd be able to store with their broken implementation. Which of course 1/3rd of the maximum entry size for innodb of 764 bytes (the last one is \0), or 4*191. They never changed the underlying implementation. Hence the weird limit.
Well, I wasn't trolling at all: I tossed out a joke after you ran off the rails.

kragen says>" I thought you were just uninformed, but I see that wasn't the problem."*

Nope.
This channel is pretty good at debunking a lot of these:

https://www.youtube.com/c/MickWest/videos
The real questions are, why does the vendor have any connection to the operational system at all, and how much can they do via that interface?
First nuclear detonation created ‘impossible’ quasicrystals
The good news is that their competitors aren't afraid to fill in the gaps. I've heard nothing but good things about the Surface Headphones, which also offer the same ANC/over-ear setup as the Airpods Max, just at a $350 cheaper price.
I’m in extreme agreement for part -- for a company to get value out of their data, you want someone skilled at data cleaning, cutting it properly, and teasing out the insights. Where I disagree is that the person can be a data scientist, but doesn’t need to be. I believe that there is a growing population of data savvy employees without that title, many of them might not even have data at all in their title (they are in business operations, marketing, finance, and sales) -- many of them write SQL and are very comfortable manipulating data in BI tools, R, Python, Excel, or GSheets.

I also believe that company context matters a lot. I think so much of getting started with extracting value from data is getting up the learning curve of understanding what it means (which columns have the truth). One of the reasons that we don’t have a lot of canned reports is that understanding these edge cases within a company often matters a lot (and that not accounting for the nuance can often lead to a misinference). With this in mind, the explosion of ETL solutions and products like Mozart Data means that others at the company can specialize in their business context, as opposed to needing someone who can do all aspects of data including engineering, data science, analysis, and communicating/presenting it.
Most of the article spends its time on the results. For people looking for the actual answer to the headline question:

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Until last year, the US government restricted the quality of satellite images that American companies were permitted to provide on a commercial basis.

The Kyl-Bingaman Amendment (KBA) had been introduced in 1997 to address Israeli security concerns.

Although the ruling only referred to Israel, it was also applied the restriction to images of the Palestinian territories.

The KBA limited image quality so that an object the size of a car was just about visible as a highly blurred image, but anything smaller would be very difficult to identify.

"We [Israel] would always prefer to be photographed at the lowest resolution possible", said Amnon Harari, head of space programmes at Israel's Defence Ministry last year, reported by Reuters.

"It's always preferable to be seen blurred, rather than precisely."

It's not uncommon that sites such as military bases have been blurred - but the KBA was the only case of such a wide area being subject to such a restriction.

However, once non-US providers, such as French company Airbus, were able to supply these images at a higher resolution, the US came under increasing pressure to end its restrictions.

In July 2020, the KBA was dropped, and now the US government allows American companies to provide far higher-quality images of the region (so that objects the size of a person can be readily picked out).

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i.e. it's only been legal for US companies to take higher-resolution imagery for under a year, and Israel is certainly not going to allow the aerial photography that gets really high-resolution imagery in developed countries. Presumably over the next few years there will be enough overflights by high-resolution satellites, and companies like Planet Labs will no longer be charging their new-imagery premiums.
In 2003, it was hypothesized that civets were the source. However, this was not conclusively proved until 2017.
There technically is now (but should be fixed soon), related to the way prices are stored in exchanges, BRK A is giving Nasdaq a hard time: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-buffe...
I know workplaces where you can get sacked just for mentioning RabbitMQ...
That is a pretty skewed interpretation. FIPS mode does things for you like flag uses of the same private key for encryption and authentication, it prevents the use of weak keys, and prevents use of hobbyist or non-approved algorithms including some sketchy PRNGs. The executable signing also makes monkey-patching harder, so it's more difficult to hook into an implementation and compromise it without detecting this at the compilation stage. That can and does have real security benefits.

The downside of FIPS mode is that because the certification process is so costly and time consuming, it will generally run behind and not get the latest algorithms until a few years have passed. That type of conservatism in cryptography can be good or bad, but overall I'd rather use a FIPS system than not, given the large number of dubious systems in use, and the FIPS system will be more secure than the average non-FIPS system, but less secure than a non-FIPS system carefully reviewed by experts.
That article says it's not "rocket fuel", but everyone knows that Cellon dope is highly flammable.

At least, those who used to make model aircraft with balsa wood and dope.
FWIW, the context of that was him defending wallstreetbets putting money into gamestop. His argument was that for most investors stocks just represent a store of value and little else - not some bullshit "owning part of a company" or even "fundamentals".

Part of his argument was that even companies like Apple have gone way beyond any valuation anyone would have thought reasonable as little as 10 years ago.
What's particularly significant and hasn't much been commented on yet is that Ralph Baric, the leading American collaborator of the bat coronavirus research at Wuhan, has signed the letter. He also (according to the OP) declined to comment further. That seems more like integrity.
Hah, of course it is! And it’s about as easy as I expected too. I got a PoC working nicely, but this looks a lot nicer than my work, with its asyncserv patch
>>I know the issue is politicized

This is becoming more and more common, Pure Science is almost never practiced anymore. The Hard sciences like Immunology, virology, general medicine used to be some what insulated from politics however in the last few years all sciences are no longer data driven.

You form a conclusion then find the facts that fit your narrative, and if your narrative is not the "correct" one you better not release your facts...
A good upgrade would be putting carpets everywhere or setting up your smart home so you can turn off the fridge so the compressor sound won't interfere with your speakers.
Apple’s $549 AirPods Max can’t play lossless Apple Music – even when plugged in
I don't know what you mean you'll need to break it again, this one particular hole is already plugged in Wayland. That won't cause additional breakage, and you'll still want to be plugging those additional holes like ptrace anyway.

Input injection is being worked on in a different library, that brings a standard API that's supposed to work the same across Wayland, X11, and with sandboxed contexts: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libei
Only mentions puts:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1649339/000156761921...
Not really comparable but Porsche sold approximately half as many cars last year as Tesla. Shows how small Tesla actually is (approx. 500.000 cars). Ferrari sold ~10.000.
There is no doubt that there is a divide in voting proportionality between Eastern and Western WA.

> This is to say he lost by a city not a country mile because he was very popular in Eastern WA where around 25% of the population lives but a dud elsewhere.

He very much did not lose by a city vs a country mile because of 21% of the vote that went 65-35. The race was close-ish because 1.2 million Western WA residents voted for him
$38 billion. woah. if US continues to give Israel unconditional aid then it will start to look like a vassal state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal_state
No; at least per the providers, actual low-orbit satellite imagery is available to the (paying) public at 50cm resolution.
But please look for "uBlock Origin" (the one maintained by the original author), not "uBlock" (which was taken over by someone else and allows "acceptable" ads):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
You have a completely wrong idea of the laws of orbital dynamics. If satellites don't want to keep burning tons of fuel, they will orbit the center of the earth, not its axis. The only situation where your comment could apply is if the satellite is orbiting only above the equator. All of this, completely disregarding the economics of satellite mapping, their operational limits, etc.
> distributed to licensed companies in binary .dll/.so/.a , and not allowed to be redistributed or reverse-engineered

Such irony in CCP using licensing to protect their IP
To be fair, the reason the lab is in that place is precisely because it's close to a place where zoonoses has occurred multiple times. Kind of like how we don't blame lighthouses for shipwrecks.

That being said, from what I've read it appears that a lab escape is a very real possibility. Though I doubt that we'll ever find out
You can sign up for a stock trading app. Make 0 trades and find out all this information.
random question, but where would one acquire old out of date imagery of this part of the world?

For example, I know through Google Earth's timelapse feature that Gaza has been consistently scanned by satellites over the last 3 or so decades. But the images on Google Earth's timelapse feature are of very very low quality. But viewing the timelapse is evidence enough that this information is out there.
The Last CPU [pdf]
Infected animals were found in the market where the outbreak began 4 months after it started. We have nothing comparable a year and a half after COVID.
I was curious and looked it up- Cisco is indeed still off of its peak stock price $52 vs $77 in 3/2000... But if you reinvested their dividends you would be a little closer! Just don't adjust for inflation!

$10k invested on 1/2000 would have peaked at $14k in March, and now would be worth $9.5k
Is this really necessary ? Its true for every other country.
Thanks. Pretty legit sources from 2005.
Beatles albums have a lot of hard pans on them as I recall.
Is the sun setting on rooftop solar?
Please stop posting flamewar comments. You've done it more than once in this thread already. That's basically vandalism, if not arson, when the topic is this inflammatory. No more of this please.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
> connects companies with data scientists to help make heads or tails of the data they're storing

the consulting "data scientist" is likely able to do better job if they have experience with the idiosyncracies of the individual company's operations. If you get a fresh data scientist every time they need to repeat the ramp-up period before they are in a position to maybe add value.

Suggests a model where company keeps the same consultant on retainer and brings them on board each time a situation pops up where the consultant may be able to assist

(this isn't a particularly novel suggestion, the same suggestion is made in a 60s/70s era thesis investigating how applicable operations research is to small businesses)
Fonthill Abbey
> This really makes me wonder how much of the lack of innovation in recent years is regulatory capture.

A relatively large amount.

For instance, general aviation use of lead-based fuels. The lead content has been reduced, but building new engines (and certifying them) is not economical. Very few people actually _like_ 100LL fuel.

Regardless, such engines have been built. But then you need to certify aircraft equipped with such engines too.

However, there are plenty of aircraft in the "experimental" category that will gladly take "MoGAS" (aka automotive gasoline). Pilots also like it because it's cheaper and there's no spark plug fouling. Some may be concerned with the environment too.

Avionics on the experimental category are arguably better.

I'm torn on this issue, because regulation saves countless lives and we don't even notice. We do notice when they don't regulate enough (for instance, let companies like Boeing self-regulate) and we get crashes as a result.
Relevant for Apple OSs: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209143

"Buypass Class 3 Root CA", which appears to be the root certificate they currently use, is present for all listed iOS versions (7+), which seems like a good sign. Let's Encrypt's "ISRG Root X1" is present in iOS 10+.

Similar lists for Android would be wonderful but probably impossible to compile due to ecosystem fragmentation. I guess there is no caniuse.com for root certificates.
> Helium is an element

Nitpick: So is hydrogen.
To be fair the lab escape scenario looks a lot like a conspiracy theory. One should remember that around that time the "flat earth" theory was still going on (IIRC), and there are similar lab escape theories about AIDS.
Ok, you have me convinced. I'm actually going to try this. I have two separate sites I want to try it on. Is it 10k free events per site or per user account. Also, is it "catch-all" event tracking or do I have to set the event tracking up manually? Apologies if that's already mentioned on your site but I did go through the article and didn't see any mention of it.
I had a discussion with my boss not long ago, he's a tax lawyer with a few decades under his belt. I asked him simply if he thinks he'll keep his job for more decades to come. His answer was quite enlightening, mainly because of how concrete it was: The problem with tax law (which is not the only set of laws, and not contract law either, but perhaps automatable nevertheless) is that it's simply come to the point that it is at right now as a cumulative effort of centuries of work. It works additively and builds structures so complex that the title tax lawyer almost becomes meaningless with so many specialties being required; VAT, corporate and personal income taxes, inheritance and property... Any effort to algorithmically digitise the existing law would fail unless it's able to perfectly replicate it in code. All of the loopholes and exceptions, safeguards and declarations, there's immense inertia ahead.

What he on the other hand thinks has been revolutionary is free access to law, advanced text search tools, and software to make filings and communication significantly easier. That's the boring part that speeds your work up so you can spend more time devising plans to get your clients to pay less in taxes, and construct stronger defences.

There are many low-hanging fruits in this process; I wish these guys the best of luck, but it seems to me that the comparisons drawn (Intuit, Adobe, etc.) are not analogues. Lawyers aren't seeking these tools for it doesn't provide them value, it only takes away billable hours away.
Excited? Maybe I’m just getting old but it terrifies me.
> any Reddit subreddit

I think you many 'any given Reddit subreddit', which is very true.

To others comments below: the signal to noise ratio here on HN is pretty good, and the average S/N on Reddit is pretty poor, but some subs over there are exceptional. For instance, https://old.reddit.com/r/askhistorians
Outsourced using in-house designs, and, in Tesla's case, in-house assembly lines and factories.

Even the SPEAKERS inside of the Model 3 and Y are designed by Tesla (and manufactured by a vendor).

That's the big difference. It's also the reason why legacy manufacturers will struggle to effectively respond to Tesla. It takes a LOT of money and egos to upend generations of culture (and accept hundreds of millions in losses in the process)
iOS Music.app does support FLAC, but desktop iTunes does not, so it won't sync them. (That's why everything says it doesn't support it.)

You can play them in other apps like Safari and Files.
Yep, somehow there is a common line going on there.
Agreed, long Treasurys has a low reward, high risk setup. Particularly if you believe the inflation narrative.
How accurate are those devices without a blood sample?
Here's the direct discussion between Rand Paul and Fauci on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkE_mw6bRcg
>Hard to assess Burry's position without knowing the expiration date and strike price of his puts.

Even if you knew the exact pieces of paper that he held today, that would tell you nothing about his overall plan. Very few options strategies involve a one-time purchase of contracts in hopes that the dates & prices on those will hold until conclusion. For something this big, you would continue to acquire (and sell) contracts at a range of strike prices & expiration dates until the overall play is concluded.
One of the comments there ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27138310 ) pointed out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2WKJtbm8yM about a project to build a cargo ship:

> This is a summary of our story so far, from building the shipyard to shipbuilding. The film follows the progress made by SAILCARGO INC. a young organisation emerging from the mangroves of Costa Rica, with the bold aim to change how the world goes about international shipping.

https://www.sailcargo.org

> Building Ceiba: 45m Square-Topsail Cargo Schooner

> We are a group of shipwrights, carpenters, business professionals and sailors. Ceiba is our effort to inspire change in the industry to which we have devoted our lives. Ceiba is a sustainably-constructed vessel that will carry cargo, 100% emission-free. When operational in 2022 she will be the world’s largest, active, clean ocean-going cargo vessel. She will elevate the existing sail cargo movement to a new level while bringing attention to the harmful and pollutive practices of the global shipping industry.

(I have no idea if it's practical, but it's wonderfully romantic and I love it!)
Lab manufacturing is one thing and has been widely debunked, lab leak is another. I don't think the lab leak has been dismissed as much.
Yes, 300% of 1 is 3. Thus, 300% more is 1+3=4 which is a 4x increase. Other commenters have already commented that the article uses both 3x and 300% interchangeably which is wrong.
I agree, and through that dynamic, we have a rich field of exploration / experimentation to draw from.

Just look at all the lessons to be learned from systems of the past. And what can actually be done on them!
For all the chit-chat in these videos aren't the first two, simplest explanations,

* plants (of video)

* electronics spoofed
I'm grateful they threw us a bone. Hope it's out soon.
What major trades he got wrong recently?
you are correct in as much as the reason isn't apparent
Google did not erase Palestine. You can search "Palestine" on Maps and be shown Gaza Strip and West Bank, areas that were named before Google existed.
The insight is that you just write on the next page as time moves forward?

Am I missing something? Doesn’t seem particularly insightful…