skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks interesting, I might give it a try over the weekend.
Synology removing support for various USB devices in DSM 7
I had some initial succes in having the code do the same steps as UPRT training teaches pilots:

1. Unload the wings (usually push the stick forward)

2. Roll shortest path to level (easy to calculate, but needed a bit of tweaking to make a smooth roll input)

3. Set power according to energy state (slow = set full power, fast = set idle power)

4. Pitch back to level (9 out of 10 times this means pulling out of a dive)

Easy to combine 2 and 3 at the same time, more tricky than for humans to get 4 correct because you're often in an overspeed condition where just pulling sharply up will over stress the airframe. But if you take too long you're losing altitude rapidly and may hit the ground.

I think the correct software solution would be to always aim for a min(3.8, stall load) G pull (the maximum is 3.8 for a normal aircraft to not break), calculate the expected altitude loss for current speed and if you're going to hit the ground pull as hard as you need to miss the ground by a small margin and hope the aircraft doesn't break apart. I haven't written any code for that last part.

And I haven't added rudder input to it other than using the standard function to coordinate rudder with ailerons when rolling level (the sim has this built in).

If the airplane gets as far as to enter a spin condition the procedure above will no longer work and you really need rudder. And the power change for a prop driven aircraft or an asymmetric thrust situation in a multi-engine then has to happen at the start, everything idle even at low speed. So here you enter a more complicated area to determine what the state is and adjust the response as opposed to following the standard rules.
Man, if 9/11 got us 20 years of terror/war/etc., what would losing control of 'the aliens are attacking!' narrative get us?

I like the mention of Ted Chiang's "The Great Silence" -- slammin short sci-fi story:

https://electricliterature.com/the-great-silence-by-ted-chia...
Actually plutonium belongs to the so-called primordial elements, which existed in the matter from which the Earth and the rest of the Solar System were made.

Among the primordial element isotopes, a large number are radioactive, including e.g. certain isotopes of the potassium and calcium of our body.

All the radioactive primordial element isotopes have partially decayed since the formation of the Earth, so they can be found now in smaller quantities than in the beginning.

Among the isotopes that can still be found in large quantities, U235 has the smallest half-life and it has decreased about one hundred times.

The next isotopes with the longest half-life, but lower than U235 are plutonium 244 and one isotope of samarium, which have half-time close to one hundred million years.

So these 2 have decreased about 2^45 times. This is a lot so you would not be able to extract a visible quantity of plutonium from a terrestrial rock, but due to the huge number of atoms that existed in the entire Earth, there are still a few atoms of plutonium 244 that have survived from the formation of the Earth.

A few years ago, it was announced that a team succeeded to detect some atoms of primordial plutonium 244 in some rocks, so the primordiality of plutonium can be considered as proven, even if that does not matter from a practical point of view, as there is too little primordial plutonium left, to be useful.
> So yes it has lost its credibility.

I feel like this black and white, "you get one chance" kind of bridge burning is very unproductive. When you look at these agencies not as omniscient entities but as what they are - a collaborative effort of many individuals - then you allow for the evolution of understanding.

People can be wrong, especially in regards to more novel situations, so why should we view our institutions as any different? Yes having more eyes and varied perspectives means that it may make sense to expect something more reliable than an individual, but that doesn't make it infallible and IMO that's ok.
Disappointed to see Synology again planning to remove functionality in an “upgrade”.
People think I'm paranoid checking domains, certificates, and bank numbers but it's a small price to pay as you found out. You lost $250, some lose thousands.

This stuff needs to be regulated, companies like Google need to be held accountable for what they serve up to users. No more hiding behind this shield of "we're just a platform" when they damn well know they're the platform. It's all fun and games until your (grand)parents lose 20K to some scumbag scammers.
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I’d be pretty careful drawing any conclusions about the mood of the nation from Twitter. The Twitter crowd are very loud and quite extremist but I believe they are small in number. To be honest I’d just avoid Twitter all together. Nothing good comes out of it.
> a mix of background, technical skills, domain knowledge, and personality

What kind of position did you get hired for? An IT related role, or something more exotic? If it is the latter, I would be delighted to have a chat if you would be interested. See my contact details for my profile.
I think the way out of the cycle here is that your equations are not specifying the universe, they are merely describing patterns in the universe. So we model the universe with numbers, which are based on set theory, which like numbers is a product of our mind, which is a structure that exists in space and time.

It is helpful, I think, to think of numbers, sets, and the like, not as anything fundamental but as tools that help us make sense of the world.
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Is it time to introduce A.I into your company?
Also what's the paper and who issued? AAA or dogshit wrapped in catshit?
You post on your website, somebody notices, 'spreaders' race to get faulty quick copy out (better fast than right), gives the conspiracy theorists a headstart as people start looking for more detail.

Or you issue an embargoed release, allowing responsible 'spreaders' to get their ducks in a row, and then cometh the hour, cometh the copy-edited verbose well referenced pieces.

The latter is far better than the former.
Microsoft Teams Will Soon Let Hosts Block Attendee’s Video Feed
Well, the name of the site is Hacker News, not Startup News.
I don't think anyone ever thought that every 95th percentile IQ person is an intellectual overachiever. Question is how many, if any, 5th percentile IQ high achievers there are.
Thank you for the your answer! I will check out the URIs.
Commercial paper definitely shouldn't be classed as cash. They can have quite a lot of risk attached to them.

The biggest problem with this whole thing is that Tether is essentially acting as a unregulated and unaudited bank. It has a whole bunch of depositors that have the right to demand their funds within 72 hours, meanwhile many of their assets cannot be converted into cash within that period.

Tether is highly susceptible to a bank run and isn't eligible for federal deposit insurance.
HSE shuts down IT systems amid significant cyber attack
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Have you read what I wrote? Because you sure are not responding to it.
It is possible that we will hack our own biology to grow stronger muscles without exercise or at least not as much exercise. Famously, Neanderthals, a very close species, were more muscular than us. It probably translated to higher consumption of food, though; a muscular body needs to eat a lot to maintain itself. That might be a problem on Mars.
this is completely unfounded comment

there are varous studies showing most of the infected people have immunity at least for 7-8 months, while we don't have any studies about how long last immunity after vaccination, for what's worth it can last less than immunity from infection

yet people are shouting vaccine good, get it, get immunity and completely ignore the fact we should measure antibodies of vaccinated people while same people will shout oh if you were infected you are immune only for short time, I mean if you work for pharma lobby I can understand it, but are people really that trusting to pharma lobby, I remember also talking with doctors long before COVID how long last vaccination effect, they will tell you easily twice as long time as pharma company selling the vaccines, the reasons are obvious

Study from Italy - only 3 out of 162 symptomatic infected didn't have antibodies after 8 months
https://www.thelocal.it/20210511/covid-antibodies-last-8-mon...

Study from England - antibodies persist for minimum 7 months
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/04/previous...
> 3) hoarding $175.6 billion in stolen wages during a pandemic,

I hadn't seen this before. Do you have an article diving into this number?
It is a scientific fact that there will be more of it. It's called operant conditioning. If you reward behavior, you get more of it.

If you think it's about the ransom though, think bigger. Can you even imagine how many billions of dollars silicon valley is going to make off it? They just paid Microsoft dozens of billions for some AR glasses.

How much for some software to prevent cyber terrorism? How much did TSA get to secure planes? $8 Billion/yr.

$18 Billion for border protection.

How much for cyber border protection? $100 Billion? Where will it go? Google? Microsoft? Palantir? Facebook? Twitter? Amazon?

Trillions.

They haven't even gotten started. $5 Million is pennies. Rounding error.
On the other hand, during the formation of the planets, in the early Solar System, plutonium 244 and many other short-lived isotopes, with half-lives of a few million years, could have played a non-negligible role, because they were a significant source of internal heat.
To have the one and the two in the first place grants spatial dimensions, to separate them. Otherwise you end up with a single point, or maybe not even that.

I can't get my head around how anyone can generate time (whether an illusion or not) just from spatial dimensions. If I have to assume spatial dimensions to get anywhere, can I also assume time?
Yes, that is very bad. It also never happened. There are only vague claims from the US intelligence services to this effect, which mean less than nothing.
I think the WSJ is confusing the concept of working hard because you value hard work (work ethic) with working hard because you can't afford not to (see Iron Law of Wages[0]).

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_wages
Seattle is already mostly above 60%, up to 87%
https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccinatio...
Also I didn't know what commercial paper is but it is apparently a very short term loan up to 270 days: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/cr...
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It seems overly complicated.

Just raise the air exchange per person and or per volume by a significant factor and mandate a very fine particulate filter. You could do many measurements and lots of theory but nobody is going to engineer their buildings like cleanrooms anyway so the results of a lot of science wouldn’t be so good regardless.
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He will sell an all in one renewable energy crypto mining pods or similar.
It’s not that long ago that Tether was claiming that all reserves were cash deposits.

Now something like 75% of the reserves are loans to ... well, who knows? My guess is other crypto-companies, but it’s impossible to tell.

(It’s also very weird to lump together “bonds” and “gold” in the same pot - these are completely different asset classes.)

If one were of a cynical turn of mind (and who wouldn’t be, given Tether’s history?) one might suspect that the commercial paper consisted of loans of freshly printed USDT to crypto companies & trading platforms who are using it to trade cryptocurrencies (because you can’t really use USDT for anything else at this scale). One might also suspect similar things about other entries in this breakdown.

Tether is a wildcat bank.
It already was in that category: natural plutonium has previously been found in Oklo, Gabon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo).
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The WHO and CDC have had their head in the sand for 60 years when it comes to airborne pathogens. They have only acknowledged aerosol transmission of covid in the last couple weeks. It was physicists who had to figure out why they were domatically denying reality. https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
The giveaway is that they don’t even disclose what this commercial paper is or who the issuers are. Given their history of fraud the most likely explanation is they are shell companies run by the same people and the money doesn’t exist.
There's an interesting system called "Phenomenal Aire" that I recently installed. It sort of achieves what you're talking about, but uses a very different mechanism called "Cold Plasma Generation" (caused by dielectric barrier discharge). The air smells noticeably "fresher" though that might just be due to the ozone. It does seem to have a dramatic neutralizing effect on VOCs [0].

Interesting article re: use in meat packing plants [1].

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03088...

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33876887/
Im not vaccinating period. If you try to force me with this bs Im just gonna bribe the nurse here sign this paper and good fucking bye.
Can't it be both? You won't get anywhere today with a world view that doesn't integrate financialisation.
> This type of thing has the same smell like the initial mask guideline which was intended to protect the supply of PPE.

Is there any proof the initial mask guideline was intended to do that? I feel like the initial mask guideline really was what it was, and later they added the "yeah, we knew masks work, but we wanted to protect supply" to save face.
What you lack in the asteroid belt is the feeling of a planet with a reasonably short day/night cycle, some kind of skies and a diverse landscape. Maybe we can live without them, but for people who grew up on Earth, living on Mars might be psychologically easier.
Okay dang, here's what I'm curious about. People walking around without a mask. How are they going to know who is vaccinated and who isn't? Say someone who isn't vaccinated is walking around without a mask. What is the officer's reasonable suspicion to stop them and ask for ID or ask for "papers?"

How will this be enforced? How are they going to stop all the non-vaccinated people from walking around without a mask?

Are they just wagging the dog with this because Fauci's in the hot seat?
Yup, it’s a fork of KHTML, much like Blink is a fork of Webkit.

One thing that WebKit does better than other browsers on OSX is hooking into the native rendering APIs. That’s something that Firefox does a shoddy job at.
Pg8000 is a pure-Python PostgreSQL driver that complies with DB-API 2.0
> At no point has Hamas tried diplomacy.

I should have said, Palestine got nowhere with diplomacy, Israel still refuses to not illegally occupy and resettle Palestinian land, so they ended up with Hamas who at least propose something to combat Israel's, again, illegal actions.

> There was nothing illegal about the resettlement, if you don’t have legal permission to live somewhere you’re gonna get evicted eventually.

I sure hope that happens to Israeli settlers in the West Bank. According to international law, the UN, and common fucking decency Israeli settlements in illegally occupied lands ( like the West Bank) is... well illegal.

> How is it illegal to restrict gatherings? We’ve been doing that for the last year plus!

Never said it was illegal, just that it was one of the things that add fuel to the fire. Jewish festivals were allowed ( and people were crushed, so obviously there were no restrictions), but Muslim ones weren't, while Muslims are getting evicted so that their lands can be resettled by Jews. Don't you see how that might be perceived as unfair by the people living as second class citizens and/or in an open air prison? And make them want to protest? And when those protests were met with extreme violence by police, everything went even more to shit.

> if Hamas wants to fight with honor, nothing is stopping them. They instead choose the cowardly route, hiding behind their wives, elderly, and children.

Sure they can, and they'd get slaughtered. That would be very honourable of them, and then Israel can do even more whatever it wanted with Palestinian lands and people. Hamas are backed in to a corner and fighting against a much better force, and have to be asymmetric to have any chance of not failing miserably. Hamas obviously hates Israel, but seriously, remove the labels ( jew, Muslim, etc.) and think - how could they not? Did Native Americans in the US just accept for their lands to be resettled and them to be displaced and shoved in reservations? Did any other ethnic group?

I'm going to ignore your low-level ad hominem attacks. If you think anyone is the good guy in the Middle East, you either haven't being paying attention since before WWI, or are enormously biased.
I have an instructor rating, and in teaching GA I've seen this hundreds of times also from experienced pilots. It's all easy in theory until in practice there is some sun in your eyes, the nose is pointing away from the runway due to wind and something inside needs attention (even more likely in a Cirrus, lots of tools = lots of distractions). Takes all of 10 seconds to be completely through the centerline and if reallt unlucky into the path of another aircraft.

Can't really blame this on the Cirrus pilot alone. They probably made the mistake here, but they were not set up for succes (no navigation available as backup) and ATC had zero safety net (both at the same altitude). So my prediction is that the final report will include recommended changes and not just "pilot error shouldn't fly through final, any student pilot could do that"
"Colonizing planets is a Star Trek fantasy that, most likely, will not be worth it. "

Worth what? Some people may be willing to pay a high price in order not to be submitted to Earthly governments anymore. We do not know yet how our home planet and its politics will look like in 2050 or 2100. There is a chance that it may be a cruel dystopia.
But that's obviously not true. Hamas launched these rockets into Tel Aviv and killed multiple civilians.

It is grotesque to claim that Israel should accept this without response, or only launch an equally sized rocket back (???).

Israel still drops blank rounds and pamphlets as warning, before striking buildings used by Hamas (if they also house civilians, which they usually do).

Israel takes steps to avoid any noncombatant deaths. Hamas actively aims for noncombatant deaths.

Edit: oh and I simply disagree that firing rockets at civilians is a legitimate tactic in response to land disputes.

Perhaps some of the Israeli settlements are unjustly resulting in eviction of Palestinians - this is rarely if ever actually proved instead of simply claimed by Hamas and its supporters - but even that doesn't justify bombing civilians in a different city, does it,
I've been following the CDC's messaging since the start of covid. They edited the same URL without info that there were updates or informing the public. The case numbers posted in Q1/Q2 of 2020 were an absolute mess which IMO missed out on an opportunity to instill trust in the public. Previous administration's anti-science stand might have contributed to that.

I'd imagine people aren't just being "stupid" when they decide not to trust these institutions but are simply cynical knowing the process can be hi-jacked by politics (regardless what side) every 4 years, and hardly any continuity due to the deep polarization. It doesn't make people trust in institutions when its core mission can be put upside down simply because a new administration comes to power.
In Denmark there were news stories about the real name of the AZ vaccine, just about the same time the bloodclot issue appeared.

I don't know anyone who uses the name Vaxzevria instead of the Astra Zeneca vaccine or just AZ.

The UK is about to open up fully in June but is now worried about the Indian variant (B.1.617).

Even though we in Denmark back in january was informed by health authorities that the English variant (B.1.1.7) was very worrying.

Truth is there will always be another variant, just look at this overview.

https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global

The trust in health authorities have been reduced greatly and have been replaced with mistrust to politicians motives, I'm sad to say.
dupe / repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27142823
Dear submitter,

I have now died on Zot 5, after what I suspect to be order 20hrs of gameplay since Sunday.

I hope you are pleased with yourself...
preach.

there was that recent article here on HN about how the computer destroyed the human body, or something like that.

interesting tidbit was that Shoshana Zuboff, the awesome 'surveillance capitalism' teacher/author/activist, wrote a book back in the 80s studying what computers were doing to us.

yeah, i'd say it's hard to talk about staying put when we don't even have theoretical numbers to talk about.

for $500k payout? eh.

for $1M payout? stay.

that might be my calculous.

but depends on how bad it is.

micromanaging is brutal. it sounds like you're getting counter-offered. that would change things.

2 years is a _long_ time not to live up to your potential, not to be engaged, to be micromanaged, etc.

i'm interviewing lately, and get some gruff about moving around - only some of which were my choice. you run in the startup world, you get laid-off, acquisitions, etc. oddly enough, my last one was by a very large bank, so....

point is - i often want to ask folks, "You never had a monster boss? You never had an insanely dull work life and wanted to be engaged? You never wanted to try your own startup? You never wanted to live?"

My ideal would always be at a smaller company -- 5 people, 25 people, < 200 people.

If you're a FIRE type, then I'd advise staying put.

If you want to live a full life, bounce.

...ps, i'd also advise taking some of that hefty paycheck and finding an actual expert workplace consultant to find out how you might be able to fix the micromanagement, and/or anything else that needed urgent addressing. and even if you're too cheap to drop a little coin to try and fix your job situation, you can still _try_ to fix things. it most likely won't work, but as least you'll be a bit more satisfied that you actually tried. and that's regardless of whether you end up staying or going.
First off, you didn't link this supposed article that claims what you're arguing.

But I just don't believe it. If the Atlantic published that, they sought out the small minority of people who believe that in order to make waves.

Wearing a mask is not a political statement. It is just a prudent measure you can take to help protect yourself and -- often more importantly -- others. It isn't a guarantee that you won't get (or give someone) COVID, but it can help, when combined with other things like social distancing.

It's funny, because my perception is the opposite of yours: that people who refuse to wear masks have turned that into a political identity. That somehow refusing to wear a mask is the patriotic, freedom-loving thing to do. When the fact is that they're just selfish, and view that refusal as marking themselves as part of a tribe.
> Wait the guy is talking about getting promoted, the team doesnt matter at all for that.

I’m... astonished by this response. Of course the team matters. What the heck do you think you’re “senior”ing? A calendar??

You’re demonstrating your ability to lead, mentor and support your team. That’s what it means to be whatever that next role is called.

This isn’t shark tank.
Same thing here in Finland, in early months of the epidemics health officials said wearing masks has no benefit.