skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, no one denies that reusability is still not profitable. This includes Musk himself and heads of all the other rocket companies who have all made it clear they aren't pursing it because these is simply no business case for it.

It makes no sense for them because they can't offer a low enough price and otherwise create payloads in order to achieve a flight rate.

ULA simply only has one costumer, the US military and very occasionally NASA. They have never really competition in the private market or ever tried to generate their own payloads to increase flight rate.

Arianespace is a incredibly bureaucratic organization where everything has to go threw a political process. It cost them 4 billion to create a pretty average quality large rocket and doing re-usability for them would take 1-2 decades and another 10 billion.

The idea that it is not profitable or more generally wroth it for SpaceX is crazy. SpaceX has mentioned many times that even only using the rockets 2 times already makes sense for them. They are getting 10 reuses out of the Block 5 rockets. The idea that it was not worth the investment is frankly speaking laughable.

Without re-usability things like Starlink would simply not be possible in the first place.

> He currently sells 1 regular launch for 50 million each, so your numbers just don't add up. This isn't a money making scheme.

While I agree that Mars travel is not a money making scheme, those 50 million includes a huge margin and another huge cost for the second stage.

If you assume almost no margin and you assume a equally reusable upper stage, far less operational cost, no fairing recovery cost, less refurbishment cost and so on you can get the number way lower then the current Falcon 9 price. Depending on flight rate cost in the low millions are approachable for LEO launches.

There are other opportunities, dedicate tanker Starship should reduce the number refueling required. Next generation Raptor 2 versions and new ally for the Starship should eventually make it possible deliver a 250 tons reusable. Meaning you can potentially do 4 refueling flights, not 8.

The pure business case for Mars colony still doesn't add up but low enough to make a Mars bases together with NASA totally feasible.
If they sold the stock, it would just be passing the loss onto the new buyers. In the grand scheme of things it would not reduce the net amount of suffering, but only transfer it to someone else.
I once had a company ask everyone to sign updated employment contracts that changed the vacation policy to "unlimited PTO".

So I opened up my original contract and compared them... and wouldn't you believe it? There were other changes in the contract: they'd added non-compete and non-solicit clauses, and tweaked the IP language to make it broader.

I talked to the company lawyer to ask for an explanation, and they became very embarrassed and they walked back all those changes, claiming that they'd used a new law firm and this happened because that firm had used their "standard boilerplate". They sent everyone a new copy with just the PTO change.

Of course, then I refused to sign the updated one, because I'm a jerk who thinks "unlimited PTO" is a scam. :)
You misread that statement and the excerpt you copied completely changes its meaning if you remove the surrounding. Read it as:

"U2F/WebAuthn is secure because it does origin binding which is not phishable, unlike entering a TOTP or a code from your hardware token or authenticator app or SMS"

Putting the original parenthetical in between the start and end of the main clause definitely makes it easy to misread. I just moved the parenthetical to the end of the sentence.
Just because a server is headless does not mean that it isn't interactive in some way or running some user-submitted scripts or code.

Also, compromising a service running as a user (not root) would be sufficient to then escalate.
Buckle up. Quoted tweet[1] below:

Congrats to Ben Jackson, @maciekboni, @viralverity, @AineToole, @robertson_lab, @EvolveDotZoo, @arambaut et al for their recent Cell paper.

Rock solid evidence of alpha/non-alpha recombination in #SARSCoV2 in the UK.

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00984-3

[1]: https://twitter.com/MichaelWorobey/status/142851583662971699...
I think the problem is that we try to simplify healthcare - like it is vertical. Healthcare is more like world on it own. The only way get into “healthcare world” is to attack a very specific niche but the niche is too small for big companies. So the companies decide to “boil the ocean” - which always fails.
careful. you're massively opening yourself up by using a personal machine for work. use hardware they own, with your configuration.
Even sitting in the back of the NON-smoking section was bad, because you were still close to the smokers.

And let's not even talk about the departure lounges in the airports.
see how quickly that slope gets slippery?
Why not fight heart disease with this voracity, since it kills more people?
It's important to consider the complication that there are few black people in technology who you could ask. Inevitably, most people talking about Github are white.
lol dang, didn't know she duped that many thirsty fans so badly.
This is the problem with having the public and private key be the same. Anyone should be able to access your public key, and anyone you deal with should be able to ask you to use your private key to verify your identity. The problem is when that entire process is reduced to "give us the number the government uses to ensure you're you. Don't worry, we won't use it to convince anyone else we're you ;) Or leak it so anyone else can do the same ;) ;) ;)"
https://www.vintagearcade.net/ - ships anywhere.

Also Ebay and Craigslist.

Not a cheap hobby though by any means.
Why? What is the consequences of having a resource and not spending it?
Relevant HN discussion from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21171324
> The sovereign is he who selects the null hypothesis.

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2012/11/adore-river...
By the same logic, YCombinator is "exploiting our free labor" through Hacker News. People write thoughtful comments, get nothing in return, and YC benefits from free publicity. Same for facebook posts, instagram, reddit, and every business that benefits from community and network effects.

Same for every video game that allows mods, custom levels, and so on. The only difference is that Minecraft users make no money at all for their efforts. How terrible! Poor children!

Either that, or people just enjoy being creative, making things is fun, and it's okay for kids to just enjoy making things and sharing them with each other, even if (oh, gasp!) the business that built the engine benefits from it. And being able to make any money from this at all is just a nice bonus.
Facebook revenue per US/Canada user per year ~$160
This is one reason I enjoy the fact that I really only use one card. It's dead simple to review one bill every month.

99% of all my economic activity (excluding my mortgage) goes through my Amex. I have a MasterCard, as a backup, but I almost never use it for anything meaningful (it actually lives in my cycling wallet, so I have a card there Just In Case).

My actual bank account sees very, very, very few transactions by comparison: I get paid there, I transfer out to savings, I pay the mortgage, I pay any tiny charges on the MasterCard, and I pay the Amex bill, and that's about it.

This makes it VERY easy to keep track of recurring charges.
> Most people in rural areas should use 2.4 GHz for its greater range and penetration

Uhhhh, well; 900mhz would be better if you need penetration.

As for range, the higher the frequency, the narrower the fresnel lenses and therefore the better the range you get without tall towers.

What makes 2.4 particularly usable in rural areas is that you’ll have the lowest amount of interference (usually).

What I like about this install is that they’re going through glass, which might even be worse for RF than the barn wall.
WebAuthn (or its predecessor U2F but that's obsolete, so in green field deployments do WebAuthn) is the only practical non-phishable second factor for ordinary users on the web.

You can do this two ways, one of which will make more sense for your web site:

1. PCs/ laptops/ etc. can use little USB hardware devices, from outfits like Yubico, the word to Google or type into your preferred hardware source is "FIDO" although if you have spare cash and like cool toys FIDO2 is a more capable second generation of the technology.

In this situation the FIDO authenticator is your second factor. Your web browser takes responsibility for telling this authenticator which web site you're looking at, and it's just a dumb machine, so from its point of view obviously refunds-my-bank.example isn't mybank.example because those strings are different. The FIDO authenticator just does whatever the browser tells it.

This could be attacked by specialist malware, but it's tricky because the FIDO authenticator wants you to take physical action to trigger authentication, so the malware needs to not only tell the authenticator "Yeah, I'm totally er, Internet Explorer, and I need you to authenticate for mybank.example" but also persuade you to press the button or whatever to make it happen.

Or I guess bad guys can be like "please FedEx your FIDO dongle to us" if people really are that dumb, but then no need for phishing, just call people "Hey, I'm the IRS, send me $5000 in unmarked bills, in a FedEx box marked er cat food for some reason that totally makes sense, to a residential address in a different state, yeah".

2. High end smartphones, the sort with a fingerprint reader, can do the same exact trick using that fingerprint reader (I think some iPhones do facial recognition instead?) to do WebAuthn instead for their onboard browser.

In this case the smartphone is in charge of everything, it knows which web site this really is, it knows if that's really your fingerprint or not (the fingerprint never leaves your device) and it decides whether to send credentials.

For machines it's much easier to do a secure transaction, but machines don't fall for a lot of phishing scams.
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It's the latter two. It's generally out of the jurisdiction of local police departments, and the FBI doesn't have anywhere near the manpower to take every threat seriously.

Personally, I'd really like to see them put at least a little effort into it, to send the message that it is in fact illegal and you take at least some risk. As it is, people often make no real effort to disguise themselves, but get away with it because no authority cares enough as long as they don't commit actual violence. So they can shut down speech with impunity.
> Would I kick off the arbitration process to get that shut down? I’m actively exploring the possibility.

DO IT. Please, do it.

While it's a damning write-up, words won't change anything. Lawsuits might.
Yes, quite. The idea behind liberal democracy (and, more extremely, libertarianism) is to design government in such a way that politicians can't accumulate too much power. Depending on your political worldview, this concern may trump the benefits that are thought to accrue from handing power to the government and thus the politicians.
I certainly hope it isn't leading to a society where papers are checked and masks are always required. Although I am vaccinated, I feel vaccine mandates constitute a breach of bodily autonomy and medical privacy. As for masks - I find them stifling in more ways than one - it is hard to breathe, it fogs up glasses, it causes me to feel overheated, and it really diminishes human connection and exchange of emotions. I think the impact of masks on developing children who need natural socialization will be drastic and dangerous.

So my take is that at some point, we just need to deal with it as a background event and move on. The infection fatality rate for COVID is incredibly low, particularly for those under 50. It is irrational to worry about it to the extent we are, since we don't typically worry about such rare possibilities. I am also betting that phenomenon like "long COVID" will either be found to be other conflating factors, or found to be a phenomenon associated with any illness. It's just that we're so focused on COVID as an entire species, that we're spotting all the little things we would normally ignore.
I guess I have been lucky to work in groups that were fairly focused on operational and personal security which requires quite a bit of separation between business and personal. Although the larger organization always has broad-brush security measures that lump it all together.

Pretty sure my next phone will be a feature phone.
Right, we should blame people who actually decide what gets published, not the messenger.

It's the publisher and owners who make that choice. In fact on occasion some publishers acquire exclusive rights to a story just to bury it: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/national-enqui...
>I'm not exactly sure what the biggest reason for that is

I suspect healthcare in the US (and probably elsewhere) has to deal with a lot of liability, and so processes that fly in other situations do not fare well in healthcare. Everything i has to be dotted and every t crossed to make sure you do not end up with any part of the culpability for an adverse healthcare outcome, as well as liabilities from laws such has HIPAA.
actually it's the loudest voice with the best appeal to emotion that gets to define what things mean.
Mikrotik has a number of point-to-point products [0] some of which are pretty inexpensive ($50 per device). Promotional material for the DISC Lite5 mention a ~5-10km range.

The LDF [1] in particular is intriguing -- it is "meant to be installed on satellite offset dish antennas" i.e. you can re-use a (potentially already installed) dish antenna as a reflector.

Configuring these devices is not exactly intuitive though.

[0] https://mikrotik.com/products/group/wireless-systems

[1] https://mikrotik.com/product/rbldf_5nd#fndtn-gallery
The advantage in my mind is you can avoid the most costly mitigation strategies.

Unfortunately, vaccination rates are age dependent so opening schools is a very high risk activity. Children are at low risk for COVID but they would be a major vector for transmission as everyone under 12 is unvaccinated.
This sounds like a great opportunity for those ~500 past employees. 500 is a pretty big number to start a competing business that would work for the employees the way they wanted it to.

> “We knew from the beginning we were teaching the algorithm,” said an East Coast–based stylist who requested anonymity because she still works at the company. “We know the ultimate goal of Stitch Fix was to get rid of us.”

I have a hard time with the above statement. If you "know" you are training your replacement, or believe you are, and stay anyway, and then you get replaced/eliminated... that just seems to ignore the writing on the wall and being upset post fact when you had full knowledge of it up front, or so you say. It rings kind of hollow. I understand losing a job is an emotional gut punch, even if you're kind of expecting it.
But I’ve always heard this argument made by white people.

Are you actively seeking a diverse range of people to listen to? The majority of prominent people in tech are white men, so it's not particularly likely you'll hear non-white people's opinions unless you actually seek them out.
I stated facts, and you concluded I assumed bad faith. I could write a lengthy explanation, but as I said: You're not offering anything to the conversation. When you are willing to, we can engage.
If starlink ends up causing a big mess in orbit preventing launching new satellite and space travel I want the mess to be named after Elon.
Again?

I had a colleague go work for Google health in a fairly high role, but I didn’t know them well enough to ask why. Seeing what they did, it was a lot of positive sounding, but vapid, content put out and I could never tell what they did.

I kept thinking, “who would work for them when they’ll just get bored of this as PR?”
For anyone who doesn't know, after the elected government headed by Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized Iran's oil, the CIA and MI6, in 1953, overthrew the government to install their puppet, the Shah. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
So the email address is not 2FA secured?
No; phishing / vishing is contacting the customer to get login details. Contacting support and getting them to circumvent security is social engineering.
Your biggest problem is that your data isn't accurate.

The page notes that it's case count isn't necessarily correct. This page shows the total case delta at 650 for today versus yesterday: https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/case-numbers-and-spread

Whereas the spreadsheet from your page says 426. It's not even clear to me that the 650 number is accurate because not everyone may necessarily be reporting they have COVID. I know when my whole family got COVID we didn't report it to the government. I've seen estimates in the U.S. that actual case count is more than double reported case count: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/07/us-covid...

Secondly, ICU case counts are based on people who are in the ICU and happen to have COVID, not people who are in the ICU primarily because of COVID. So for yesterday the delta in ICU COVID case count was 15, but we don't know how many of those net new 15 are actually in the ICU for COVID symptoms primarily.

So taking the raw numbers for yesterday's delta, that's 15 / 650 as a rough estimate (dividing the deltas isn't really what we want but it's the best I can come up with), and that lands us at 2.3%. I also believe that number is far too high for the other reasons outlined above.

For comparison, the numbers here seem to indicate a 5% chance of hospitalization for the unvaccinated: https://www.wbay.com/2021/08/19/covid-19-wisconsin-dhs-compa...

They give no ICU numbers, so we can expect the ICU odds to be closer to 2% again, and their data suffers from the same problems.
what are 18+ interstitial pages? I didn't find much on 1st page of ddg
WorldWideWeb wide-area hypertext app available (1991)
Nomadomicile
Are you claiming that you read all the studies linked above and none of them show actual causal determination? We can't really prove anything 100% in biology but the totality of evidence is very strong here.
If you choose to opt-in to Advanced Protection, you can keep a backup hardware token somewhere outside of your house.
In exchange, we'll give each of you a 90 day free Stadia subscription!
Each of these scenarios was predictable and in fact, predicted by many. Yet here we are, still pretending to be shocked at the intensity of human autonomy.

If your plan requires everyone on earth to cooperate, it’s not a good plan.
Not successfully for several hundred years, no. Bottom-up creation of payment methods isn't a thing. Please take a look at the history of the Diner's Club card, and compare it to Amex.

Apple Pay is widely accepted because of three things, ordered here from least to most important: Apple applying pressure on the processors to accept it, paying them when necessary, and the fact that giant card data breaches like Target and Home Depot meant that the whole market needed to move away from magstripe anyway. People taking grass roots action was not a part of the change in any meaningful way (at least partly because it never happened).

There's this very popular cryptocurrency story that individual people have power in this market. The problem with that narrative is that virtually nobody cares enough this issue because it's just not that important. Sorry.
I'm fairly removed from the scene at this point but Bemani arcade games have been thoroughly cracked for years. Most of the serious players now just buy custom controllers and if they really want fit them in custom cabs.

I don't think Konami cares so long as you aren't posting videos on YouTube or setting the games up for profit. They don't sell the games to consumers anymore.
I maintain portable fork of the project: https://git.sr.ht/~graywolf/acme-client-portable
Starlink’s idea is to provide service where is not economical to run cable or fiber. Rural areas mostly, underdeveloped countries, the seas, etc…
The unwillingness to venture into territory that would make the previous claims quantifiable (and falsifiable) is noteworthy.

$ sha256sum "./PR?-ORLY.txt"
52028d35999a481e7cb19b14eae3bf66cb7c9c4fe2e15b56b55f3ccadffeee1f ./PR?-ORLY.txt
$ cat "./PR?-ORLY.txt"
Did you commit to source control and submit a pull request to post this comment?
But that is just communism.
Is neurological damage in mild cases backed up by data? The only study I saw was based on self reporting and an Internet based IQ test.

Also considering perhaps 30% of the world has had covid now (anyone have the exact figure?) that would be an unbelievable amount of brain damage. I’d think we’d be aware of that if one in three people had recent brain damage.
Works mostly the same in the US
What are some good references on asymptomatic transmission?

Early 2020 reports of asymptomatic transmission from South Korea were later retracted. There was a contact tracing study of 10 million people in Wuhan which found no asymptomatic transmission.
Apple is dismantling an internal project for tracking employee health that was likely an incubator for future health projects.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/19/apple-health-divi...

If Apple and Google are both ditching health projects simultaneously, I wonder if that suggests that they have advance warning of some change to the regulatory climate.
That’s quite regional. Nationwide there is still plenty of ICU beds available, and presumably if it gets bad enough hot spots will respond appropriately.
Can't they detect that the session cookie is coming from a different IP than the one it was originally issued to?
> Priority order is determined by the owner's purchase date (1st buyer gets 1st choice, 2nd buyer gets 2nd choice, etc), with the order rotating each year (2nd buyer gets 1st selection in year 2, 3rd buyer gets 1st selection in year 3, etc.).

That's pretty awful.

Do early buyers pay a premium? Do late buyers get a discount?

Why not do a lottery? Or an actual cash based auction (proceeds go to maintenance fees... which is good for everyone)?
jailbreaks are currently described as semi-tethered.

meaning a jailbreak app must be ran after a phone has booted. your phone stays jailbroken as long as it does not power down.

it is functionally untethered. as the app that jailbreaks the phone persists through reboots.

there are firmware restrictions where these methods work however.
Does this include Verily, which is part of Alphabet? They just got funding last year: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/yea-verily-google-s-he...
Another poster has mentioned it, but I will add weight. This is super ultra mega wrong.

Phishing SMS and TOTP codes is way more common than SIM-swapping. Outrageously so. SIM-swapping does not scale. You need to call up a company each time you want to do it. Yes, it works. But you cannot sell a tool that just automates it. In comparison, there are many off-the-shelf phishing kits that fully automate SMS and TOTP 2FA theft.
Yubikey is actually pretty "phishable", at least in the OTP mode. It will happily put the token into a phishing website (or literally anywhere else) as soon as you touch it.

It's also good to know that Yubikey's OTP tokens don't expire based on time, but based on a hidden counter that gets incremented with every issued token.

So if you've accidentally touched your Yubikey and leaked the token publicly, you just have to log out and then log back in using your Yubikey - that action will invalidate all tokens issued before this point.
Nice.

Will actually go this route in the future.
> detracting from the real issue of institutionalised racism

that just gets you demonized too, for not falling in line 100%. any questioning of the narrative means you must be racist yourself