skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of issues that led to these fuels being abandoned the first time around, most of which are unavoidable.

1) Boron Carbide and Boron Nitride particles form in the exhaust. These are extremely abrasive, destroying downstream engine components. They also make the exhaust plume highly detectable over long distances - think of the particles like soot from a coal burning ship.

2) The fuels are extremely corrosive, and thus you can't leave a tank full with them, and even when you do fuel up, you can't run on pure boranes, you need to mix them with other fuels. This means you can't keep a boron fueled missile on standby, so its speed advantage is rendered moot except for surprise first strikes. Further, in diluting the fuel the performance gains are reduced.

3) Boron based fuels suffer from incomplete combustion, dramatically reducing real performance below theoretical values.

4) Manufacturing and storing these chemicals is incredibly dangerous and expensive. One of the major reasons for the initial program's abandonment was that a production plant exploded. These safety concerns were damning in the age of atmospheric nuclear tests, one can imagine the difficulty of production in a modern regulatory environment.

In short, boron based fuels offer only questionable performance gains at very high economic, technical, and human costs. I won't say there is no future at all for them, but the idea that they are the fuel of the future is laughable.
Awesome, thanks. I'll give it a look! Q - are there plans to make this available to startups affiliated with other orgs outside of YC? Or allow to apply directly?
Do you have any proof to back up that "the rich are 10x more likely to be audited"? Not trying to call you out but I'd like to read it, that number seems extremely far fetched. My guess is everyone has a small percent chance to get audited every year (unless they find a obvious issue) and it's just a flip of a coin.

I imagine they have some kind of algorithm or MI to assist in finding discrepancies based on historical wins/loses.

I doubt it's as simple as I made 10 million, therefore I am going to get audited eventually.
But don't they have to spend it eventually?
Not a big surprise, the state doesnt want any competitors.
I guess all those working class people who have been doing this exact thing for centuries better get with the times.
Suck my dick.
A benefit of having committed innumerable crimes is that talking heads, politicians and anonymous accounts everywhere can defend you by simply picking one and fighting about it endlessly, as if in a vacuum, and keep moving the goalposts while they do.
I think that you will find that generally you can make roughly similar trips, assuming you are in an area what has the stations installed.

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That $74B isn't cash though, its in stock value. Jeff can hold that stock for a while and only pay long term capital gains. He can probably also make any W2 income like $1, giving him a 0% tax rate on those capital gains. Which means he'll pay more in sales tax than income tax, even under the current system.
Local history curriculums never push into anything that would be politically uncomfortable locally.

This is usually done by requiring certain things be taught in great detail in order to preclude time being spent on other things.
Why would anyone concerned with privacy have an apple account?

I would like to believe ElBakyan is wise enough not to have anything significant/private on such an account.
> you can't easily find again later.

I sometimes have problems to find the new message I know I just got a few seconds ago due to how "non read messages marker" and "threads" (or however they call it) interact.

I never understood why people where so hyped about slack while there most times where better alternatives.

And let's not even get started about slacks audio/video chat function which is by far the worst I had used in recent times. Even the unliked MS Teams is miles better for voice or video chat. (Just to be clear I never used MS Teams for anything but voice/video chat.)
> Price of gold and silver is at its peak and people are buying it more than ever

no, you've got it exactly backward. People buying it more than ever is driving the price up, and the feedback of higher prices is actually slowing down their purchasing not only by changing their minds, but also because their purchasing budget is spread more thinly.
Remote work made digital nomads possible. The Pandemic made them essential
Cheers mate.

The original comment linked ransomware to crypto, which isn't too controversial. There are good things about crypto, which may outweigh that... certainly discussable.

Personally, I don't see either point as representing the most substantial positive or negative of crypto... so I don't really have a dog in this one.

No need do indemnify or vilify anyone. It's perfectly ok to hold any of these views. It's also fine to make an unconvincing argument... it just may not be convincing.
That smear against Bernie was pretty easy when there are like a dozen videos of Bernie praising communism, being sad that Reagan was so popular in Russia in the 80's, thinking Castro was a really great guy, or generally publicly sucking up to the USSR or USSR clients.
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Calling CTO of a big company who come to talk with us "scam" is very counter-productive. Some of CloudFlare bad sides are certainly by design and cannot be changed, but they can still change their default filtering policies in a way that will help open web greatly.
> That kind of unthinking obedience to authority is how people commit atrocities by "just following orders"

That slippery slope must be lubed up real good for anyone to fall off it. Wearing masks, staying away from people, getting vaccinated, etc are far, far away from committing atrocities, and you know it. The point GP was making is in times of crisis, following advice from public health authorities, even if it changes, is the general best strategy. It’s extremely (that’s not even a strong enough word) unlikely they’ll be goading people into committing ‘atrocities’ when a novel pandemic is taking place.
And yet, CR2032 batteries are not rechargeable, so it doesn't make a good misquote either.

ML2032, VL2032 and LIR2032 are similarly sized variants that can be recharged, but they're not the same, and you shouldn't attempt to recharge a CR2032.
This may not be what you are looking for, as it’s about history rather than usage. However, if you are interested in the subject you may find it quite interesting, and perhaps helpful in some manner too.

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>"without feeling culturally intrusive"?

What does that mean? When I'm overseas and I go to a "Western" supermarket that has western goods/brands that are very atypical to that in local supermarkets, the locals that shop there I am absolutely sure, don't feel they are being "culturally intrusive". The supermarket is there to SELL... They don't give a rats ass who comes in to make a purchase and I, as a western visitor, also did not see it as "cultural intrusion" when locals shop in these western supermarkets. The idea never entered my mind.

I like H Mart, by the way and I like the Japanese supers too.
JavaScript has Node and Deno? Not sure the point you're making about serverside.
> Politically, I am sympathetic to anyone would want to put as much distance between themselves and the CCP, Chinese or not.

Okay, but if how close I am to the CCP is seen as a function of how I look and where I’m from, then what the fuck am I supposed to do? Walk around in white-face with a big American flag and tell people I’m from Kansas?

The problem is that people are inferring political beliefs from how people look or their race or their nationality.

Regarding Japan, the narrative was different, but the sentiments were similar. Vincent Chin was murdered for being Japanese (although he was Chinese) and his murderers only got a $3000 fine.
> windfall from RSUs/Stonk/inheritance/coin there’s marketplaces

Do you recommend any specific marketplaces?
Refer to your sibling comment, IMO
mAh g-1 is very simple to understand. It is common notation to put a -1 exponent to indicate division.

Work to calculate the energy density comparison when that isn't even the point of the article. Everyone can look up the energey density and theoretical of a li-ion battery: 100-265 Wh/kg. There is absolutely no need to calculate anything.

Focus on the substance of the article. 60x faster charging rate as compared to Lithium-ion and make a comment regarding that. Otherwise your comments are as pointless as my reply to it.
That study only compared age at death to life expectancy at that age. Since those who die from covid are generally in much poorer health than average, the real number is somewhere much lower than that, although I’m sure finding a way to estimate it would be pretty difficult.
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Miasma was a perfectly good theory and if anything, is obviously true innately. Bad smelling air from urine, shit, festering corpses and the like, was often laden with viruses, bacteria, and noxious chemical fumes. Sure, plenty of diseases are not airborne but air that smells like shit isn't exactly a boon to be inhaling. There is a non zero chance of getting sick from noxious air.
If people intend this to happen, sure . But how many people who put their sites behind Cloudflare is aware that this might be a side effect?
What does it predict?
but nobel prize doesn't deserve her
That doesn't matter, you still need a way of turning 50 USD into crypto. You can either give a random stranger 50 USD on the street for X crypto - some kind of a black market fee or you give coinbase 50 USD via credit card and it's in your account immediately and a reputable company backing it.

The more "illegal"/gray crypto becomes the less it is worth, the worth (at least at todays scale) is due to the ease of use/popularity. It's super easy to buy 1 BTC right now, go back 5 years you basically needed to know someone who knew someone or be part of a forum and hope the other person didn't scam you.
Not talks, but maybe an index into some names you can google to find talks. http://luc.devroye.org/usa-newyork.html
Agree that programming has that aspect. Just knowing that code does what you expected it to do at the technical level is great.

But ultimately when you write code it was done for some purpose so a similar delayed / subjective feedback mechanism is still relevant (i.e. does it solve problems for users? Does it work with real data? Does it scale?)
> The wealthy are, justly, disproportionally targeted by audits,

Nope, they, unjustly, are not:

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-now-audits-poor-ameri...
Russia. That's not exactly a secret.

I didn't say we needed to turn it hot. Where did you read that? But, I do believe this idea that we "shouldn't escalate" emboldens the aggressors.

There is no defense-only solution. Your profile says you work in IT, so you know that.

Why are you against punishing/deterring the aggressors?
You're making me think that maybe I shouldn't have sold puts on DOGE, levered myself up 20x, and wait for it to go to the moon. There's no way I can lose!
I would generate a JSON feed for the site and upload that (I am curious if this can detect duplicate records. Edit: it can using the UPSURT call), that way you could even have full text search.

A crawler is probably not the best tool for this if you use some form of site generation, as you can also use it to generate the information that goes into Typesense.
We plan to be long term holders, eventually taking the company public. We look at Constellation Software up in Canada (where Allan is based) as a great model. The entrepreneurs often stay with the company since they know the customer and product better than anyone. Then with shared resources, best practices, and talking to their peers they can grow their business.
That's a very low standard you are setting for your democratic government. Political prosecutions and spying on counsel is something that the Communists and Nazis did. But even they tried to follow their own laws.
Sony's Image Sensor Industry’s Highest Effective Pixel Count 127.68 Megapixels
The NIST 800 series and the CNSSI 1253 series cover pretty much everything you need to worry about.
I don't think saying ORMs are an implementation detail is useful. DDD is a design and implementation strategy. It is telling you how to structure and build your application. For example, DDD says you should have entities and repositories. Well, that's an ORM: you have models (entities) and some kind of querying facility (maybe a fluent API, maybe a parameterized API, but whatever, it's a repo).

Realistically, when using an OO language w/ an SQL database, there's realistically no other way to do this. You'll either use an existing ORM, or you'll end up building a weird, custom ORM.

In fact, some of my frustration with DDD is that because it uses so much new language to refer to existing concepts, techniques, and technologies, it obfuscates the fact that you're probably already using DDD in some significant measure. Like are you using Spring, Rails, or Django? You're probably more than 3/4 the way to DDD.
Cheers!

> - seems like a manner of construction to swap tensile strength in certain spots, thus allowing for an awesome "against intuition" visual effect.- seems like a manner of construction to swap tensile strength in certain spots, thus allowing for an awesome "against intuition" visual effect.

I recommend building physical models. It's hard to convey how strong and light these structures can be. Very "against intuition". :)

> - could be nice from a packaging point of view. Collapsible objects, the wiki link mentions the nasa ball robot.

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

https://www.nasa.gov/jpl/news/origami-style-solar-power-2014...

Yes. :)

> - maybe it could shift Bill-of-Materials costs through smaller amounts of expensive extremely high compression/tensile capable materials to be offset by savings on larger amounts of cheaper other capable sections.

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

Bucky again.

(Kevlar tendons and carbon fiber struts...)

> - I am not convinced it would allow the superstructures much sci-fi requires as the basics of tensile strength, compression strength are still in play.

I'm not an engineer, but we can already build some impressive structure w/o advanced materials. Cf. "bamboo scaffolding" (DDG image search: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=%22bamboo+scaffolding%22&at... )

I'm imagining swarm cellular kite robots that can self-organize to create whatever size lifting body is needed. I'm thinking about things like how to move millions of people at a time (which we might want to do due to climate change, etc.)

Have you read Vinge's "Rainbows End" (sic)? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End ) There are buildings in the story that are too flimsy to stand up without active control and feedback, something like that could work with these kite-bots.

> - As mentioned in the tensairity article, if humanity could make a pressure withstanding, airtight object, say a sphere, around a vacuum with less mass than the air it displaces, we could have architectural "anti-gravity".

We don't have to go that far (although it would be neat if we could, diamond vacuum bubbles?) Did you read about "Cloud Nine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(tensegrity_sphere)

I've thought about this a lot but not yet gotten my act together enough to do it. I wrote up some of it here: https://lists.sr.ht/~sforman/heliotrope.pajamas/%3C202012290...
("heliotrope.pajamas" is my mailing list if you want to reach me in re: this stuff)

Well met!
Depleted uranium has indeed been used in airplanes. Some models of 747 have a ton or so of depleted uranium, though I believe this practice was phased out in later models.

It's not just planes though. Some sailboats have been made with DU keels. Usually lead is used, but DU would presumably allow for a smaller (thinner?) keel.
They never said that "masks don't work", you'll find that they instead said "There is no evidence that masks work" as there wasn't yet evidence at the time. It was correct, but a poor way to communicate the situation.
from the phone i want the files synced to the backup as soon as they are created. if i only sync those that i don't need then the once i do need never get synced.

unles you mean to sync first, then move files i want to keep on the backup only out of the way and rsync --remove-source-files those files again.

the problem with that is that when i do remove files on the phone, then it's because i need the space. at which point i don't want to wait.

syncthing does what i want. that is not the problem. them problem is only that it is easy to forget to set up ignore-delete, and that it's hard to monitor the sync status of the backup from the phone.

i appreciate the suggestions, but they don't really do much to help my case. what is really needed is an improvement of the syncthing UI and in particular a redesign of the way the status is handled.

for my backup maybe i'll set up an rsync with hard-links to create a second version of all files which protects them from accidental deletion.
It's only couple of $ so I'll let it slide this time
Not at all, I had issues running CSGO when you can't set stretched resolution or play 4:3. The performance was way worse comparing to Windows.

I think the game itself was broken for couple of days for GNOME because of some library and if you want to play you have to switch to KDE.

Even if you want to game on linux, you have to install a ton of libraries, hope in wouldn't brick your system and then jump through the hoops all day and in case if something breaks you have to spent time debugging / reinstalling system instead of playing.
Not saying you're wrong, but where do you see that they are backed by YC? This reminds me of Thrasio and all the similar companies that have had success with buying Amazon businesses. I assume they have quantities of scale with in-house devs, operators, etc., which gives them a built in advantage.

Edit: nevermind, I see now that they are in fact YC-backed. Don't think I've ever seen YC back another "fund"
That’s not obvious because of the ultra low pressure.
This is a really good argument not to "allow unobtrusive ads" in your adblocker. This is an example of an ad that would be allowed. Just FYI this is the default behavior of some adblockers, notably Adblock Plus.
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Sure you can, CTCP supports sending multiline messages. I even wrote support for them in an IRC lib I made once upon a time. No other client that I know of supports them, though.
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I'm not a Democrat, which shouldn't really matter. I'm just relaying what actual surveys found, they were regularly asking questions about who was a trusted source of information on COVID and reporting on trends. Feel free to Google for them if you can't accept what I said as plausible.
jgrahamc is one of the most active HN users. He's in the top 20 on the "leaderboard". He has a good reputation. I'd hesitate to call this offer a scam.

That said, I don't think it's a good situation that this is the solution rather than a proper, documented position that people can work to.
And in Polish 'hazard' just means gambling.
Regarding: The US Constitution only applies to American citizens.

False.

In U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, an 1898 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the term “person” under the Fifth Amendment applied to aliens living in the U.S. In Fong Yue Ting v. U.S.,the court held that Chinese laborers, “like all other aliens residing in the United States,” are entitled to protection of the laws.

"There's no dispute at the absolute core," said Andrew Kent, a constitutional scholar at Fordham Law. "If somebody is picked up by police they the have same Miranda and due process rights in all contexts except immigration law."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2017/01/30/does-th...
Nah go to the Jersey H-marts if you can, they’re pretty big.
I was so confused the wehn I went to fill out a change of address form when moving recently. Not only do I have to pay USPS, but they sell my new address and I can't opt out? I don't get any mail that's important enough to put up with that nonsense. Surely it's in the USPS's best interest to encourage people to complete a change of address and yet they seem to do exactly the opposite. Hope whoever moved into my old apartment doesn't mind getting junk mail from whatever airline frequent flier programs I forgot to update.
It depends on definitions. Hate crimes against asians are increasing. They're still relatively rare. Are more people becoming anti-asian? Or are the usual suspects just being more vocal in the last gasps of trumpism? Are we able to differentiate anti-asian hate from hostility towards the CCP?
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I have long since switched to only doing local encrypted backups, but for some reason it never clicked that of course all of my messages are included in other people's backups. Frustrating that its E2E with a bunch of caveats.
Hang on, how are robocallers terrorists?
Looks like the redesigned carrier board for 2GB is missing M.2 Key E connector
I travel a lot (well, not right now because pandemic), and live in countries that I don't have a bank account in, or speak the language of.

This is a problem for a lot of web services. Apparently where your IP is located determines where you bank and what language you speak. Apparently people like me don't exist, or rather, are a small enough market to be completely ignored (which was the upshot of my conversation with Spotify support when I asked them to send me invoices in a language I understood, please, since they know I use the English client but send me bills in German).

So to make my life easier, I use a VPN and pretend I'm in Australia/UK/Jersey/USA/Estonia/wherever makes most sense.

I'm happy to pay for that. So far PIA have been great. They even have a good-looking Linux client that works with Wireguard.

But if there's shadiness, then I'd like to be aware of it. I was genuinely asking where the shadiness is here.
When I first saw many of his videos, I was like: "damn, this dude has access to all sorts of chemicals, radioactive stuff, I bet he lives in Texas or Mexico".

Then I learned that he lives in the same city as me.
“There’s no evidence that wearing masks on healthy people will protect them,” Perencevich said, the publication reported. “They wear them incorrectly, and they can increase the risk of infection because they’re touching their face more often.”

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article240...

"Masks may actually increase your coronavirus risk if worn improperly, surgeon general warns"

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/02/health/surgeon-general-co...

It was literally everywhere until correction in april 2020.