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I Fixed Poison Ivy
I got a poison ivy rash, from weeding. It got annoying, so I bought a white boletus mushroom, shaved the stem into a mix of hand sanitizer, dish detergent, and hydrogen peroxide 3%, and mashed it up well; rubbed it thoroughly into the rash, rinsed, put more on and let it dry. The swelling started to go down in only minutes. Three hours later, it doesn't itch at all.

I gather that in Japan they make lacquer out of poison ivy sap, polymerizing it with enzyme from shelf fungus.
Yeah, it sounds like they're saying they get the efficiency of a permanent magnet motor (which can be around 95% or so) without using magnets. Induction motors I think tend to be in the high 80's.

I don't entirely buy the rare earths thing. You can buy permanent magnet EV motors without rare earths, like the Netgain Hyper9 [1] (which I'm using in a conversion I've been working on for awhile). The hyper9 is kind of heavy for its power density, though, so maybe that's the advantage of rare earth magnets. If this company can get the efficiency of a permanent magnet motor but without rare earths and at a high power density, maybe they've got something new and interesting.

[1] https://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=...

edit: another advantage of avoiding magnets is that they tend to demagnetize if they get too hot. Not having magnets means you might be able to run the motor hotter without damage. Though, a 95% efficient motor should be pretty easy to keep cool.
As a dedicated Johnny player in any kind of game. Having to shell out for that 1/10 amazing win before trying something new is harsh.

I thank the internet for proxies and fan clients.
The director of the CDC during most of the pandemic was Robert Redfield. Dr. Fauci is director of the NIH, so his statements are not relevant to the credibility of the CDC.

In defense of Dr. Fauci's statement, saying "there is no reason right now to wear a mask" is quite different from "masks are ineffective", as it keeps getting paraphrased. The latter is obviously absurd, as there were numerous studies on the effectiveness of masks against various viruses prior to 2020, just not against SARS-CoV-2 specifically, since as far as we know it didn't exist yet.
The UK is the Dunning-Kruger-Effekt applied to a whole country.
I just shared with another commenter that this caught my Mum recently[0], but a quick search for the same terms "change driving license address" doesn't show anything now.

I did report it at the time (and suggest other family members to do the same) but from a numerous list of sponsored results to now see none is a surprise!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27151919
I think it's more a coordination problem than a consensus problem. Ditching first past the post for approval voting or somesuch would likely solve a lot of issues.
Why not? Obviously not in exactly the same sense but if there is a limited resource (attention from customers to solve their particular issue, and dollars dedicated to solving it), and a spectrum of solutions with niches for different clients, the analogy with space seems legit. And if there is a space of solutions and you are very close to another one, and you can only differenciate in price, you can say you are uncomfortably close to the other one. If moving away from the similar product to differenciate yourself makes you very quickly uncomfortably close to another product, then its crowded. Sounds very useful for discussion.
The two are incomparable.
Maybe you could bring up a bunch of fake-servers, that "implement" every rpc call with a long sleep or maybe by responding with internal error. Then take them down gradually as real ones go up.
The "thundering herd" problem implies a misconfiguration - surely you can crank down the accept limit on the server? This is a problem that Apache spotted in the 90s and provided tuning parameters to mitigate.
Can't have a bankrun if you don't allow withdrawls. Tether will not actually redeem your USDT for USD.
Are you really comparing tether to a bank?
The “not aerosol“ hypothesis was based on the assumption that the spread rate would have been much higher than observed with an aerosol capable virus. Turns out this one just happened to be quite bad at spreading amongst humans, despite being capable of residing in the air for quite a while. It's rather unsurprising then that we now see many mutations that fix some low hanging fruit "bugs", bringing the spread closer to what people would have expected. Arguably hope may have been a factor in weighing that hypothesis, but that's truly nothing anyone should be blamed for.
Cheaper than Digital Ocean too.. Recently moved my projects there and quite happy.
any good sources for further research on electric motors evolution ?
Is this a cyber attack? List of IT incidents and their status as a cyber attack
It's a pyramid scheme, Works until people start to pull out their money collectively
I'm really glad that you're going to get vaccinated!

But the thing that really bothers me about your previous rationale is that it doesn't take anyone else into account. What about people who would like to get vaccinated, but can't because they're deathly allergic to components of the vaccine (or some other medical reason)? What about people who would like to get vaccinated but can't afford to take time off work for the shot, or to rest during possible side effects?

You getting vaccinated protects those people too, when you walk past them in that grocery store. They deserve to be out and about without fear of infection just as much as you or I do.
> because rocket science is a solved problem

Some time ago I wondered why rockets keep blowing up because I thought rockets would be a solved problem by now. Given the time and money involved in launching an object into space there is every incentive to make it go right.

I'm not an expert in rocket science, physics, or mathematics but seeing rockets blow up before having left the atmosphere makes me think it is not a solved problem.
No mention of drag apparently. It's a nice write-up but that is an important point that was simplified.

Because it helps with deceleration and with rotating the rocket.
I'm very likely being the one who is incoherent!

My concern is something like this: observing and modelling patterns in the universe can only take place within time. If your models derived from the observed patterns then allow you to model a universe that does not have time, then there is something fishy with the model -- you've bootstrapped a timeless universe that is only intelligible from within time.
It will be a lot less popular once British people arriving in the EU receive the same treatment and get told that this is what they voted for.
dai ?
Exactly, citizens demand a government that enforces laws.

Unlike the EU, where about 30% of illegal immigrants are expelled, while no one no one is interested in changing that legal status.
>People who know the craziness in their heads will go away,

You're making the assumption that most of these people learned to live with a bad environment and they expect to live in that bad environment for the rest of their life.

What about those whose anxiety stopped because they left the bad environment? You're not going to leave Mars.
Right, but if you're not on a device with a built in phone connection then it's reasonable to open skype and similar apps that can do phone calls (even if they cost money).
It's still unclear whether or not masks helped reduce the spread of COVID-19.

https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/
This sounds like model predictive control. Does anyone know the difference between the methods?
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Sibling comments express justified disbelief at this question, but just in case: in our modern monetary system, reserve requirements aren't the "last resort" against bank runs. The central bank will jump in and provide the required liquidity to prevent a bank run as a last resort, and (since it is the entity which ultimately runs the monetary system) the central bank is by definition always able to do so. For a bank to fail in the modern system, it has to fail its capital requirements, which is a very different story (the keyword you'd be looking for here is the Basel regulations).

Tether cannot fall back to a central bank, so the cases are completely incomparable.
> “There is no reason for anyone right now in the United States, with regard to coronavirus, to wear a mask”

Isn’t this defensible if it was indeed true that there was a temporary shortage of masks for health care workers?
you could call the waaaaaambulance and just ignore it
At this point it kinda looks like a "pump&dump" operation.
You're very right. Berkeley was the heart of the whole anti-vax movement a few years ago. So much so that I felt safer taking my (then newborn) to Eastern Europe than taking her to Berkeley.

But if you dig into the data, it's only one zip code in Berkeley with a high vax rate -- the wealthiest part of Berkeley up in the hills, which are mostly older people.

The zip code with all the students is one of the lowest in the state.
What definition of "understanding" are you using? Why are you confident that the existing authors of pop-sci and political movements have it?
Ask HN: How does charts.bogged.finance pull data?
I am trying to understand how does charts.bogged.finance pull data.

It seems that it fetches historic data from bitquery.io and then somehow pulls transaction data using web3. Can anyone explain how does the latter part work and how I could inspect it?
Amazon to create more than 10k new UK jobs this year
exactly my motivation for ferreting it out and it's worked great for the simple scenarios. the only thing i'm missing is a .mogrify() function.

this guy has put one together though; might see if we can get it migrated into the original version.

https://github.com/realazthat/aiopg8000/blob/master/aiopg800...
Show HN: MPL Plotter – Python library to make technical plots more efficiently
I used to loose quite a bit of time making technical plots with Matplotlib, and set out to remove that overhead from my university projects. I got to learn some Python along the way, and this is the result!

It saves me quite some time, so I guessed I might as well share it :)

All feedback is welcome! It's my first library so there's quite a lot of room to grow. Thanks in advance for checking it out!
I wonder why it's not on the official site [1].

[1] https://www.scala-lang.org/
That makes a lot of sense, let's hope that most of the people can turn Israel towards a lasting peace.
call the waaaaaaaambulance, they can help
Try möbius sync
It could be also Poland.
Bare in mind that eu citizens still don't need a visa to travel to the uk.
This is a circular argument since motion is a change in position. So a change is a motion and a motion is a change. This implicitly refers to personal experience of perception of time flow, but nobody has figured out how to describe it with equations or model without references to that perception.

It can be that this is even impossible since as with equations the words of language are static and can only refer to the perception of time without capacity to describe it.
Just imagine what's going to happen when there's a bank run on Tether.

Tether FAQ: "Unfortunately, Tether has decided to stop serving U.S. individual and corporate customers altogether. As of January 1, 2018, no issuance or redeeming services will be available to these users."[1]

If there's a significant net outflow from Tether to USD, there's a good chance the whole thing comes apart.

Remember, with Tether, there is no potential upside. If you're not using it for something within days, don't keep any money in it.

[1] https://tether.to/faqs/
How are they any different? They both do fractional reserve banking. If anything, Tether is more robust because they aren't controlled by central banks.
Just wanted to say thank you for the content you put out. I was watching your stream yesterday and found it very interesting despite my lack of knowledge when it comes to Linux kernel stuff. Hoping to learn more as time moves forward so I can start to grasp more of the content in the videos of this topic. Looking forward to the next one, Jeff!
Is Dotty the official compiler now?
Read his book, then you can feel the same way much more authoritatively!

I've only gotten some way into the book, it is very confusing and people who have read it don't see much better off than the rest of us.
I'll try, it's a very slow moving hobby that got a boost from lockdown but I'm now back to flying so a bit less time. Once I have something that works or is a good foundation for others I'll definitely put it on Github.
There are over 50 studies showing Ivermectin is effective.

https://ivmmeta.com/
"New" jobs - what about the jobs displaced because of Amazon. Is this really a net gain?
Yes because it's an unregulated offshore private company? In the physical world it's like giving money to someone in exchange for a piece of paper with "1 my token", freshly out of the printer. It's worse than banks.
Does it use less energy intrinsically, or because it hasn't gone up enough yet, triggering more hashing with a concomitant increase in difficulty and energy use?
> It’s going to act as a proxy issue for many other sociopolitical and psychological issues that will be channeled into this conflict.

That's the key observation, I think. It's not about the mask, it's about something else entirely, and I don't know what that is. Where I live (Sweden), there is little of that tension, and so masks weren't needed.

> We are going to need to respect other people’s choices and try to be as patient and kind as we can.

You cannot just stand by what amounts to religious zeal. It will affect you one way or another.
I am generally against vindictiveness, but I am looking forward to English officials getting a horrific treatment for how their government treated or treats people. Sorry for all the Scots that are caught in the middle, we hope you find a way through and away from the torries.

Finally, to the English, your politicians and your law enforcement deserve nothing less than cruelty for how they act.

No apologies.
Well, the comment still stands. You can't /reasonably/ deploy Confluence on premise any more when weighing up the cost feasibility of using the on premise service for Data Centre vs Server.

The idea of using their cloud service (Atlassians) wouldn't be that daunting if it wasn't for the consistent feed back I see here and else where that performantly, it absolutely sucks.
this has never been proven. but it was the final blow to his public image after the rape charges. from then on most intel / infosec people who still remained partial moved on to condemning him.

Even if he had collaborated would it matter? what it proves is that you can not do OSINT and be "independant/neutral". bellingcat and all other self-proclaimed citizen journalists know it too. the message here is "if you stand up against the US and hang out in a FVEY country you're dead".

collaborating with enemies of US (no matter if DPRK, Iran or whoever) would be justified considering the nature of the material which was exposed. but doing so without thinking about his location and safety is the most "I can fix society because I'm a hacker" thing I've ever seen. it is a small crime though in comparison to the shit the US has gotten away and still does so until today. e.g. Gitmo and black sites are still operating, drones still kill civilians, their war on terror will go unpunished, people are still being brainwashed into believing "US army good", the CIA is still executing people overseas the same way as the FSB, while they shout "terror" or talk a big game about "law and justice" their crimes can't be held accountable in the ICC: pot. kettle. black.
I get paid to write TypeScript, it has come a long way to a relatively enjoyable experience compared to how expressive i feel with Scala. Looking forward to giving Scala 3 a spin to learn whats new
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Why all mechanical keyboards needs to have those weird RGB lights? I understand that it might be useful to have backlighting, but why it's always RGB? And before anybody will tell me - you can turn it off - yes, I know, but why it's there in the first place? I know that gamers like to have those shiny lights because these are additional points for their skill, but I'm not a gamer.
Seems that a journalist got sucked in by marketing hype.

I had expected better of the IEEE.
Actually, now that I look at other articles from IEEE Spectrum, most of them seem full of uncorrobrated and unwarrented hype.
Thank you - this is the closest I have read on this thread as to the real security practises we will need in the future - if you can elaborate more that will be helpful.

Are these (i suspect not) published anywhere as "Three letter agency network security standards"?
Oh yes, they're now saying that the "spike protein" is actually causing the health problems and that vaccinated people spread it. And that everyone vaccinated will die in two years.
> This is government policy and it is popular

Be very careful with such a statement.

Regardless of where you sit on the issue, the Brexit referendum was roughly 50:50. The UK is fiercely split [1] and such issues are not going to be resolved anytime soon. It is incorrect to state such a policy is popular..... roughly half the population voted against it.

[1] And dare I say it... looks in danger of splitting up.
A random individual in the street can do fractional banking too, and by that reasoning is more robust than a bank. Why would you specifically trust Tether with your money?
Biden cybersecurity order mandates new rules for govt software
That's something I've been suspecting for a while. More powerful models produce overfitting, so it is likely that GPT-2 is simply memorizing whole texts and then regurgitating them in whole.

Knowing how they're generated, a sequence of sentences that make sense are likely copied almost verbatim from an article written by a human. Without understanding the concepts, the algorithm may simply repeat words that go well together - and what goes together better than sentences that were written together in the first place?

What the GPT model is really good at is at is identifying when a sentence makes sense in the current context. Given that it has half of the internet as its learning corpus, it is easy that it's simply returning a piece of text that we do not know about. The real achievement thus is finding ideas that are actually appropriate in relation to their input text.
I just can't understand why anti-immigration policies are so very popular. I'm absolutely certain that this is what a proportion of brexshit-voters want -- the cruel and degrading treatment of those who frankly better the country they come to work in. I just don't understand the reasons behind it and why governments, which privately acknowledge that immigration is good for the economy, remain so keen to be seen as tough on it in the eyes of the tabloid media.
Pretty sure if you’d allowed or even encouraged unmitigated spread of the virus, you’d also get the same or similar recession, though perhaps slightly later.
I would guess that they aren’t distinguishing on the basis of phase state, but rather atomic number.

Astronomers presumably mostly think about matter in the form of a star, in which presumably all the hydrogen and helium would be in some sort of plasma state, and perhaps all the “metals” would be too.
"Bear in mind". "Bare in mind" sounds like you're thinking about the people naked.

:-)
Very cool project. There is a video of it in action[0] at the bottom. This is something that screams Kickstarter to me.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a3JiGTE9sc
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There is no reason why this couldn't be provided as an option by a seller. You could pay money, or get it free by providing an email - buyer's choice.
Out of curiosity, in the hypotethical future case where the custody accounts would start to "pay" negative interest, what would happen to USDC?

To me, there are only a limited set of options:

1. the peg fails

2. the custody accounts are switched to riskier assets - with or without knowledge of USDC holders. This, of course, has implications to the "stablecoin" status. One could even argue that USDC becomes a de facto fractional reserve bank at this point.
As much as I hate "twitter blogs", this makes a lot of sense.
Although it is more probable that Elon was just in a manic phase, and once he came down realized that car companies don't hold bitcoin.

(let me preempt the argument that Tesla is not a car company)

Very few companies, to include tech companies and / or car companies need to be speculating in cryptocurrencies.

Elon needs to spend his time getting those robot paint guns calibrated so all Tesla's off the line meet customer standards, and debugging the mythical FSD.

SEC should regulate the markets. They are not at this time.
The dawn raid in Glasgow looks a lot like a deliberate provocation from the Westminster government and the Home Office. It was in the First Minister's constituency; it was as the new MSPs (Members of the Scottish Parliament) were being sworn in; it's in the constituency that the leader of Scottish Labour, Anas Sarwar, contested in the May election; and it was the first day of Eid Al-Fitr.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-57100259
they just created a tag, i guess they are preparing the press release :)
I would trust a random individual more than a bank. There is a chance that the random individual might be honest... On the other hand, I know for sure that banks are running a pyramid scheme.
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Anecdotally, dozens of people in my social circle (aged 25-45 or so reported severe side effects, including at least three or four of sore arm, fever, chills, headaches, exhaustion, body aches, nausea, and brain fog. My girlfriend and I had five of them, for an entire day.

I'm not sure if your group's experience or mine is more typical. That's why comprehensive data is required to sort things out, and limited-number anecdotes are useless.
Where do you get that idea? The CDC is catering to several interests, whereas readers of this site are free to research the facts and bring critical thinking and perhaps professional experience to bear on the issue.

The CDC just now declared that the primary mode of COVID transmission was through the air. I expect that most readers of this site reacted to that declaration with "No shit." The fervent wiping of surfaces always struck me as futile, when we've known for a long time that this thing was airborne.

What this sad chapter of our history has made clear is that the CDC is somewhat a political tool instead of a source for the latest findings.
Europeans and the EU are the ideal scapegoat in the UK. I always felt that Europeans were blamed for immigration policies as it is politically correct to shame them. Shaming non european immigration is a social minefield, very few people would dare to say it aloud as they would categorised as racists.
Apple says it rejected almost 1M new apps in 2020 and explains common why
shutup and take my money. i want one yesterday!
And they keep creating around half a billion USDT per day ...
On top of the sibling's comment on voters, it's also important to consider outside influence & lobbying. The incumbent Israeli establishment's ability to retain power doesn't occur independently of substantial aid from abroad, both pubic[0] and private[1]

[0] https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/total-u-s-foreign-aid-t...

[1] https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/charitable-giving