skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if the device touches the Internet, then you need to have a reality-based update program and security assessment/analysis. There is a 99.999% of a major security flaw. If all it takes is an update that gets installed automatically, good. But chances are there's a architectural flaw that will require major redesign, which means new hardware. Frankly, security has to be designed in before the hardware is designed.
The Covid lab leak hypothesis is primarily implausible because of Occam's razor.
This is my feeling too.

Was this contest run poorly? Definitely. Is the claim that SpaceX is getting funds for census areas that really shouldn't have funds attached true? Almost certainly.

Are they the primary beneficiary of the contest being poorly run? That seems very unlikely. The FCC and Ajit Pai attempted to exclude them from this competition entirely [1], it seems pretty clear from the start that this competition was designed to give too much money to the incumbents, not SpaceX.

Do I think that the FCC would be trying to clawback money if SpaceX hadn't won? I wish I did, but the fact that they're primarily trying to clawback money from SpaceX makes me skeptical. It seems much more likely that this is just corruption in action trying to stop money going to the "wrong" recipient.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/elon-musks-promi...
>In reality, crazy unfair downvote bombing is not even close to the norm here in my ~decade of experience. What makes you certain that someone with multiple accounts has downvoted you?

If you write a comment that is against what the majority of the site beliefs you will be downvoted. If you agree with the majority you probably won't have experienced this.

I know that if I make a comment that is positive of bitcoin it will get to -3 or -4 in a very short time and then in a few days it will get to +2 or +3.

I don't know that it is a specific group of people who do that, but it is consistent enough that I can pretty much count on it happening every time, and clearly since it earned more upvotes than downvotes the community did consider the comment somewhat valuable.

Granted you get hammered much harder on r/politics or r/news, but the problem is the same.

The solution is also pretty obvious: randomly review downvoted comments and if they are downvoted for disagreement and not merrit, ban the people who downvoted it from future voting. For new users shadow the votes for a while to be sure they understand the community[0].

[0]: No democracy permits people to move there and vote right away. For native born citizens they have to wait 18 years to get the vote.
I'm betting the politicians are all getting some fat checks from comcast and spectrum to look the other way.
In double entry accounting, the $9B has to go somewhere, or you defeat the primary objective, which is to make it harder to forget transactions by maintaining a number of invariants. The two relevant ones here are [Equity]_t = [Assests]_t - [Liabilities]_t, and [Equity]_t = [Equity]_t-1 + [Profit]_t + [net cash from stock issuance/buybacks]_t - [dividends]_t

The method that GAAP chooses is to move the $9B from cash to goodwill (assuming a cash transaction), which is a transfer from one type of asset to another. The alternative that I think you're suggesting is to move it from cash to expenses for the period in question. There's not necessarily a right answer to this question, accounting conventions are subjective, but I think most people think that the market premium you pay in an acquisition is more like acquiring an asset that will yield future business profits than an expense which, now that you've paid it, will have no future utility to the business. And it's easy enough to look at it the other way if you care to: the goodwill is reported in the balance sheet, and the cash flow statement shows the huge outlay of cash.
I first discovered this game back in school at around 2010-2011 and it quickly turned into one of the defining games of my childhood. I wish I had some numbers but I am certain that I played hundreds of hours playing this game, installing countless mods, learning orbital dynamics, spaceflight history, and so much more. I flew to mars and back, landed on the moon, programmed flight computers (sometime catastrophically wrong), docked so many different vehicles in orbit and generally had the time of my life in this game. Dan's Orbiterpage and his world class mods for the game (including the excellent sound mod) really made this game (or sim, whatever you call it) shine. I probably also spent days of my life browsing orbithangar for the coolest new vehicles.

At some point I discovered Kerbal Space Program and eventually got older and had less time for Space Sims altogether, but Orbiter (especially the 2010P1 version) will remain closest to my heart.

I am really happy to see this game become open source.
Volt was a great car and 5 years ago it was a great solution. Now that long distance road trip charging is good enough I think the value of a PHEV is greatly diminished. They are an especially poor solution to the largest charging hurdle still remaining of apartment and street parkers since PHEVs must be plugged in nightly for carbon reduction ROI.

The issue isn't so much weight as volume and packaging. Having 2 powertrains really eats a lot of interior space. Pure BEVs can have some impressive packaging with a truly impressive amount of leg room and spaces to shove tons of stuff. My parents love their Volt, but there is no denying it's a very tight squeeze and even with the hatch there is not a lot of space in there not taken up by batteries and engine.
> I wonder if these arguments take into account decreased battery life with a smaller battery in a plug in hybrid.

I would think that it would be primarily a function of how much of the battery is treated as a 'reserve'. If you have 10-20% set aside that is not "useable", regardless of total capacity, then you could get similar cycles.

There's also the possibility for using super-caps taking some of the brunt for high discharge (2-4s) events which could help with longevity. How expensive are they for these type of use case?
Could be; it’s a reasonable explanation. But that this is organized activity is a reasonable hypothesis as well.

The article that I and someone else submitted on consecutive days is https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/med-schools-are-now-denying... (“Med Schools Are Now Denying Biological Sex”). Some people might consider that a clickbait title, but it turns out to be a simple statement of fact.
I have a fun trivia fact to share actually - here in UK, it's one of the only remaining places in the world where you can still legally buy leaded petrol for automotive use. Only a handful of garages around the country are certified to sell it, the prices are very high, but it's the ultimate fuel for people who want to preserve their old vehicles in original factory state, without modifying anything to run on unleaded fuel. Alternatively, the sale of leaded additive is still allowed(which literally just contains TEL - tetraethyl lead - effectively turning 95 unleaded into the old 4-star leaded).

This website used to list the garages still selling leaded petrol, but they have changed the whole site very recently - so you can only see the list on wayback machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20210225112828/https://fbhvc.co.u...

TEL additive:

https://www.classic-oils.net/TetraBOOST-E-Guard-15
I will also be interested to see if they pull back cash from the local CLECs partnering with electric companies in Georgia. Georgia, a little over 2 years ago, changed their state regulations to allow rural CLECs to partner with electrical coops (it may have been broader than that) to bring better than 25/3 to their customers. In the counties that concern me, Polk, Haralson, Carroll, and Heard, in west Georgia, a partnership between Carroll EMC and SyncGlobal (small rural CLEC) should bring fiber to every Carroll EMC customer over the next six years (2 phases). Funding for this may or may not have come from these allocations. The whole process is incredibly obscured by government and short staffed implementation providers.

For reference https://carrollemc.com/broadband
...I also have a pre order in for Starlink to hold me over.
Hypernotes as an Educational Tool
>why did he get himself killed in such a dumb way? We know today you can't just go around telling powerful people they're wrong.

Maybe he was on the autism spectrum?
It's not, but the implication is that they're touting their effort to be "much more protective of the privacy of Techdirt's readers" as they begin self-hosting their tracking tools, while reader data is still being sent to SoundCloud, a private third-party with a heavily-vested interest in user tracking.
I grew up in an emotionally and physically abusive household; left in 2006 and haven't had contact since.
As a european living in the countryside: Public transportation works really well. You can reasonably commute at 50% speed of a car in the worst case in most situation IMO. In non-countryside areas, public transportation often outpaces cars.
I should note, that I don't think massive political shifts should be tested in production.

So whether communism is a good idea or not remains to be seen. We need to run a solid pilot, get the as many kinks out as possible, and then assess.

Similar with taxing damages to Earth.
How hard is it to concentrate hydrogen down post-production to where the Mirai/another FCV could use it? I ask, because I at least understand it's possible to separate hydrogen out of water relatively easily once you've got the water.

(More and more, the ocean seems like a huge resource we're not tapping: the most lithium reserves on earth, pulling carbon out of it (for sequestration), and potential hydrogen source just off the top.)
Can you explain or direct me to resources on what these are/do?
The Tech Executive Operating System – Part II
We have video by default off in all of our meetings, and here we talk about top 10 bank in the world and 80k employees. The reason might be due to the fact they didn't provide us laptops with covid (or before), or any dedicated hardware like webcam, so we have audio-only meetings via app calling our phones. Mind you, I WFH on quite high-end desktop with 32" screen and very good webcam for calls with parents.

The benefits are that I don't need to mind what clothes I wear, since comfort is a major improvement for WFH. I can have my child running around while being on mute, dedicating to him small slices of my time. Anybody who has kiddo or two knows how perfectly clean place gets into messy state in few minutes, so there are toys and stuff just lying all around. Being so corporate, 3-5 meetings/day is a norm. I can have the meeting anywhere where phone can ring if quiet enough. If we need more cooperation, sure skype/screen sharing is an option too.

There are almost always more people on the call then really need be, or their time is 5-minute slice out of 30 minutes, so we all still stay in case of sudden questions/brainstorming, but we do our other stuff (and there is endless stream of it). Actually when randomly 1-2 persons come with video, it looks a bit weird. You don't want to study their facial expressions when they do other work, and I've seen a butt crack of a very high manager once or twice on a call with 10+ very senior people. If you think video is helping you stand out and looking oh-so-well dedicated, well not in such cases.

Nobody is bothered by this lack of video, once you get used to audio-only, it works great. I mean we are all adults here, if any doubt or unclarity, why being afraid to ask? There are no stupid questions as we all know.
Tesla expects to start Model Y production in Germany by the end of the year
I'm pretty fucking excited about this! Fully modular laptop!
How did you get them? I checked a few years ago to see if I could buy a /29 or something small and remember thinking I couldn’t do it as an individual.
Makes sense - the 172 is one of the most common training planes, getting a TON of low-altitude hours in the pattern.

Also because of the low altitude flights 172s will probably run rich.

Granted, they aren't burning a ton of fuel per hour - around 8g - but considering the sheer number of 172s out there this will make a reasonable dent in the total fleet of pistons.

Though I expect the infra changes to actually support this will take a very long time to actually put in place, and many people will opt for 100LL for a long time because it is all that's available at their local airport or it is cheaper.

I own a 182 that has the STC for auto-gas, and barely anyone sells auto-gas on-field. The only other option is to maintain my own tank, but that can't go on trips with me.

Still good news in the long run.
Jet-A is Jet-A. It's the engines: the Army would like to avoid having to schlep around two kinds of fuel that can get confused to disastrous results.
>I assume there was something different about that fuel, or the engines in those trucks.

Nope, it's just that the operational lifespan of those trucks isn't long enough for the Jet-A to really matter. It's only a major issue for the fuel pump, anyway. Those can always be replaced.
Very cool! I have not tried a ton of Nocode but have been watching with interest from afar. My main question is: How do you go from Nocode MVP to a fully productionalized system? It seems like there's a gap there that would still require a team of engineers building the thing with code. Or do tools like Bubble provide ways to incrementally transition?
Pardon me if I'm not thinking about this in the right way, but how would you hold the store owner accountable for refreshing or updating their catalogue on the app if they don't already use an inventory management system for purchasing and re-stocking? Isn't that a huge shift in behavior?
The trouble starts only when the hardware has time + space to breathe and consider its position. As long as you're working them to exhaustion 24/7, there's no risk of rebellion.
Only for specific DCMA violations...no different than taking down videos for copyright violations. No one is arguing these types of "censorship" because it's theft...it's when opinions are taken down for being "wrong".
I really wish there was a right click option for "Open link in this tab"
> Upvotes, downvotes, they're just fake internet points, they don't mean anything.

I think this should be true to individuals, in regards to the ownership they feel over their online account and the content they create.

But I do not think this is (or should be) true in regards to an online community. Because I think sites like Hacker News and Ars Technica have relatively healthy comment ecosystems, where the content of the comments is valuable and contributes immensely to the store of knowledge these sites contain.

(Notably, Ars Technica has a more obvious, perceivable liberal political bias which I happen to agree with, so I'm sure the value of that community is divided, whereas I think Hacker News is more politically balanced.)
The Dogecoin Bubble – List of 34 “Inu” coins spotted in the wild
> The solution is also pretty obvious: randomly review downvoted comments and if they are downvoted for disagreement and not merrit, ban the people who downvoted it from future voting. For new users shadow the votes for a while to be sure they understand the community[0].

Even if you could objectively review that, HN doesn't have a rule against downvoting for disagreement, pg decided it was acceptable very early on and it hasn't been changed. (although plenty people think it should)
> If any company is in a position to help unserved rural areas it is SpaceX, no?

Not really - it is very unlikely that SpaceX will be able to cost-effectively serve high-speed internet for any interesting amount of people in a relatively small geographic area, such as the United States, as at any one time only a very small number of satellites can serve a particular area. This becomes especially problematic with any realistically achievable size of the constellation, which is going to be much closer to the current size (~1700 satellites) than to the "promised" size (~42k satellites).

Laying cable seems much more achievable and maintainable than launching 42k satellites every 2-5 years as Elon is "promising" (remember that the maximum life span of any satellite in LEO, as mentioned by SpaceX, is 5 years, after which it will de-orbit naturally).
To me the interesting information in the article is that they are aiming to build a new "updated" version of the model Y:

> Tesla has also given itself extra work by redesigning the Model Y for its Gruenheide and Texas production to include new aluminum casting for rear body structure, including the crash rails. The Model Y built in California only casts the front body structure, itself a new technique.

> Musk also said on the call that Tesla plans to make the battery pack for the new Model Y part of the body structure and they will feature new, larger 4680 cells.
How is this exactly an issue if the general consensus of the team is to mostly not turn the camera on? Meetings are there to enforce synchronous responses and to quickly clarify issues and arrive at decisions. If the meeting has so many participants that people cannot communicate without visual responses, then the meeting size and scope should probably be reconsidered. It is tiring for minimally involved participants to maintain presence, both in real life and on camera.

Now, I admit that it makes sense to request camera time or meetings in real life once in a while, to maintain that human connection. But I'd argue that it should be mandatory only in contexts where it is reasonable to expect deception or where the stakes are especially high. For example in performance meetings, job interviews or negotiations.
One of the real missed opportunities of covid was real epidemiological research. We could of picked some large town and doe a big testing program and KNOWN R numbers etc under different conditions. Instead we're still trying to do a backwards statistical analysis of school districts...
We could quibble about this, but I don't think that makes their love political. The repression is external to their love of each other, not part of it.

In fact, it would be a diminishment of their love to analyze it purely through a political framework—which is one reason many people don't like "everything is political". It diminishes many of the most important aspects of our lives.
To be fair. A Chevy volt can be more environmentally friendly than a Tesla.

Most people don’t drive more than 50 miles per day. Pushing for hybrids with 50-75 mile range might do more for emissions than pushing everyone to EV convert.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/are-chevy-...
I need to checkout some of these low / no code tools to see if anything is new since I last checked.

In the past I have found that as soon as a server push action is required things break down pretty fast.

IE display alert at a certain time but not if the user has focus in a text field. Show an message indicator instead.
Thankfully, it does seem like the EU at least is moving towards trying to quantify real-world emissions with the clear goal of wanting to ensure the homologation measurement reflects reality.

I wouldn't be surprised if the rated fuel efficiency decreased and emissions rose for plug-in hybrids in light of data showing relatively little usage of the battery.
It always amazes me how so few HN'ers know about the largest no-code platforms out there: Salesforce and Power Platform.
That's where DKIM and SPF come in.
I think two things are simultaneously true about no-code apps:

1) They really are a fast way to get an MVP that can be shown to investors and customers and even process customer transactions for simple businesses. Many simple businesses don't fit into pre-packaged SaaS platforms like Shopify, but don't really need a fully custom solution built from the ground up. No-code is good for these.

2) No-code quickly hits a wall when things start to get more complex or as the scale grows. At some point, trying to coerce the no-code solution into doing what you need becomes increasingly painful and a custom solution becomes necessary.

In reality, I think many small businesses and simple startups are actually a good fit for no-code websites. The Wordpress analogy is a good comparison because we all know how unnecessary it is to write a blogging platform from scratch in 2021 (unless for hobby, of course). Likewise, it's going to become silly to write a custom backend and frontend solution for a client whose entire business is basically a couple of web forms and simple workflows.

It's all about picking the right tool for the job, and no-code tools can be the right tool for many jobs.

But they're not the right tool for every job. Knowing the difference is important.
> ... rawgit.com ...

Wait, they're still serving things via rawgit? They started shutting down in 2018! That service has been deprecated for three years. That sounds like an attack that is just waiting to happen.

> GitHub repositories that served content through RawGit within the last month will continue to be served until at least October of 2019. URLs for other repositories are no longer being served.

> If you're currently using RawGit, please stop using it as soon as you can.
I know it's a cheap way of thinking about it, but I just can't get over writing a whole article (on further reading: a whole book) trying to convince your audience that they shouldn't be trying to persuade people. (Of course, that's not the whole of the point—it's that discovery should be a collaborative process, not a one-sided process of the 'right' imposing their worldview on the 'wrong'—but writing a Boston Review article, or, rather, a book from which a Boston Review article is excerpted, is a pretty one-sided process.)
It makes waterproofing a bit easier I think
Commandments of Higher Math Learning
That is comical. Who cares?

As if people aren't already sick and tired of various government officials constantly declaring lockdowns and various other nonsense rules on an almost daily basis.

Enough already!
Heh. FBI is using Cloudflare.
https://www.hp.com/us-en/campaigns/prime-graphing-calculator...
It looks like they're only trying to claw back a small portion of the overall award to SpaceX ($111m out of $885m), so on its own, this doesn't look like a move to kneecap SpaceX. At least not on the scale of what we see with AWS vs. Azure on the JEDI contract.
Public health officials have the goal of maximizing public health, within the constraints of the law. This often requires second and third order thinking (IE, anticipating the actions of people who don't want to comply, and finding ways to convince them or compel them, and even considering the actions of the people who are aware you are doing second order thinking so you can counter them).

I believe it is legal, and sometimes best, but most of the time not, for public health officials to say things which could be construed as "lies" (by a bad faith opponent) but, in full analysis, can be seen as ethically the most economic way to achieve a reasonable public health objective.

No scientist should make any public health pronouncements about herd immunity, there just isn't enough data to suggest its a clearly achievable goal. Make reasonable statements that are well-supported by evidence, and when you need to force people to do something for which there isn't full evidence, be transparent that it's not well-supported, but still prudent.
> They all charge faster, sure. Where?

Everywhere there's a 350+ kW CCS charger. Even Teslas charge faster on CCS chargers: https://insideevs.com/news/507489/tesla-model3-charging-fast...