skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this sounds entirely plausible, except for the leadoff suggestion that it "could also have lower weight, size, complexity and cost" than traditional aircraft. There's no way on earth this will be less complex or less expensive in its first or second iteration.
In Canada, substance-abuse-related deaths resulting from the lockdowns killed more under-65s than covid: https://tnc.news/2021/07/18/lockdowns-killed-more-canadians-...
Part of the reason that I acquired specialized skills was so that I could enrich myself. Acquiring specialized skills was extremely difficult and expensive. My job is also quite stressful. The reason people contact me for my specialized skills is because they have literally millions of dollars on the line.

Not everyone can be a surgeon -- like literally might not have the steady hands for it. More importantly, you don't want just anyone performing surgery on you.

Not everyone has the baseline genetic gifts + nurturing required to play sports at a world-class competitive level.

The more rare something is that is useful, the more value it has in society. I'm sorry that supply and demand is a difficult concept for you.

Now assume your utopian society where everyone is worth the same. Who does the truly difficult jobs? Do people become brain surgeons because of their gifts and training or because they want to? Why would somebody go through the rigorous education process necessary to do brain surgery if they could farm or serve food? Not everyone _loves_ their job, even at the highest levels of talent & training. Now, would you want somebody to be a brain surgeon _just_ because they love it and it's what they want to do? Even if they aren't good at it? Please.
I am all for the free exposure to all ideas. But.

We are in a horrible time where people are espousing them either for profit or outside motive, not from any core belief structure. It is unbelievably frustrating to watch, from my perspective.

In other words, people are being paid to weaponize things like "free speech" on campuses, but they don't really believe in it, they are just tools. And let me be more succinct here - it's almost all coming from the "right wing"

Kids see through this bs, at least ones I have talked to about it. "Woke"ness, to what I can process, is the push back from decades of inaction on "lets not be assholes to certain classes of people", which is largely driven by companies wanting to sell to everyone, no matter how out of sync their, and I don’t know the term for this, prejudice externalities (that is, when ones prejudices effect someone rather than just being a thought) are with “regular” society.

This was of course facilitated by the internet. Without a way to communicate outside the gated walls of mass media in the past, this would probably not have happened.

Is there some over-reaction? Sure, but it’s a massive correction to how human history has worked forever.

People who use woke, triggered, without any disambiguation or nuance are to me just not handling the massive cultural change facilitated by things like the internet. Either they hate it, or can’t understand it, or do not like the results (imo)
A software? You wouldn’t say “a hardware”.
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The world just watched three billionaires make fools of themselves to establish space tourism and I'm sure Russia noticed. This is the director's second launch this year and I can't see the Russian film industry being able to recoup that kind of investment. He must have received approval from the highest ranks in Russia, if it wasn't their idea/bankroll to begin with. Innovative propagandists even if it does seem gimmicky.
>>usually something like 9:16.

Funny way to write 16:9....

>>are watched today on a smart phone screen

This is where my age likely shows as I still can not use my mobile as a video consumption device. I need 27in or larger monitor, or even better a 40in or large TV screen. I primary consume YouTube and other non-professional video from my Roku not my phone...
Ive used both Xero and Qb, and QBO.

Xero is the best of the bunch. Far more reliable than QBO. QBO has more 3rd party apps and QB works offline.

Again. QB works offline. Thats the killer feature. Try as you might. It wont crash on you. QBO load times are brutal and crashes are common.

Xero 2FA and unrecognized IP firewalls are becoming a real pain (for someone using a VPN, good luck)

I think everyone is willing to pay $9-$29 for software that works offline, is reliable, and has banking connections that dont die every 10mins.

Solve the above, and watch as you become the next viral app.

If there is an accountant with good UX/UI skills and a solid backend team, they could clean up shop.

Accountants will ALWAYS be late to adopt new software, but if frugal HN founders buy the product because its so damn easy to use to account for transactions (and cheap, for a bootstrapped outfit), accountants will have no choice but to follow thru.
Hi there, if it's ok with you I'm going to address subsequent commenters for a moment. Anyone smarter than me, let's focus on this comment. Isn't this the type of social media post that would be immediately dismissed as self-serving propaganda that has the effect of undermining both democracy and the dollar? What is the essential difference between this post and the kind of nonsense that is now being patrolled on other social media platforms?
Is solarpunk just Socialism (or even feudalism)
that is environmentally-conscious?
Did a mainframe write this?
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Yup.
What does that even mean? FINRA has its own turf that the SEC can't touch, and the courts have been very clear about that.
You can sous vide with the engine of your car too.
> United States customary units have been based on familiar Metric units since the Mendenhall Order in 1893.

No. They may be defined in terms of Metric units, but they aren't "based on" them. If they were based on them, they'd be a sensible integer (or decimal-factor) multiple of them, not some weird fractional measure. An inch being 25.4 millimeters may be the current definition of an inch, but that arbitrary length isn't based on anything in the metric world -- it's still just as based on the average length of the top joint of a medieval craftsman's thumb as it's always been.
This was quite long but informative. Thanks for sharing. He suggests not using the pods and using dishwashing powder in both the pre-rinse and regular dispensers. No rinsing with hands needed before loading even with weeks old, dry caked dishes.
This video changed my life, and my parents lives. They always struggled with under-cleaning and pre-washed everything. Once they started using a little bit of detergent in the pre-wash, everything comes out clean with just the suggested scape off of solids. Pre-wash detergent is critical!
I don't see any situation where that works. The only variation I can think of that might work is enough hijackers to control the passengers, which seems unlikely outside of a lightly booked flight or small plane.
The risk-free rate in this sector is substantially higher than 4%.
Ok, so you can’t decide
Yes, I'd be someone who jumps up to rush the hijackers. Because I'd have nothing to lose. And if all I do is soak up some damage and die, it may give others behind me a chance.

I'm not especially brave or fearless or anything. But if you back me into a corner with no way to survive, then I'll fight back like a caged, starving rat.
TSA continued existence means lower insurance premiums for airlines, iirc.
Ah yes, that makes sense. I do remember seeing in the code that they add … 23 seconds? I think to the current time. I imagine that the time is shown in the video at the 23 secs mark?

So yes you’re right, they do take that (minute changes while watching the video) into account!
Do you worry about family members in lockdowned states drinking themselves to death? In Canada lockdowns killed more under-65s than covid: https://tnc.news/2021/07/18/lockdowns-killed-more-canadians-...
I learned about this while on a tour of Boston. They referred to it as the Boston Molassacre.
I love this! I previously used Parker Higgens' 78 sampler twitter bot to discover new entries in the collection, but I really like your autoplay/jukebox feature.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123888

https://twitter.com/78_sampler

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26124267
I hand wash our stainless pots and get (what I think is) the same. I think it’s a very thin film of something (not likely soap as I can get it without soap).

I use white vinegar to dissolve it about once a month (making me think it’s basic, possibly calcium carbonate). Pour in a cup or so of white vinegar and set the pan to heat. When it’s hot but before it boils, swish it around and then pour it into the next pan. Rinse the first pan in plain water while the vinegar sits in the second. When the first pan is rinsed, pour the vinegar into the third, etc.

Our stainless pans never see the inside of the dishwasher and still get this.
Allergies.

You end up with a large segment of the population who sneezes a little bit, which is sort of annoying but sort of okay.

You end up with a small segment of the population with asthma attacks, anaphylaxis, and other life-threatening conditions.

Universal use of dogs would mean that there would be people who simple cannot travel, ever, anywhere beyond driving distance.

There's a small war between extremist dog-owners (the ones who believe dogs are people too, and sneak them into all sorts of places dogs aren't allowed as "activism") and people with severe allergies.
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Mozilla and Twitter are US concerns. What is it their business how politics are conducted in other countries?

What’s the difference between Mozilla and United Fruit when it comes to political interference? They both were are agitating for their PoV and not concerned with local mores. They both have foreign agendas.

One could argue United fruit advanced agriculture and provided jobs whereas Mozilla gets involved but provides no jobs to locals. Yes United fruit engaged in bad behavior but Mozilla should not get a pass either for interfering in foreign affairs.
The 2007 article "API: Design Matters" by Michi Henning gave insights on how to better design APIs. However, people I have shared it with don't seem to be excited about it.

Should the authors of lousy APIs be held accountable for their crimes? Why changing APIs might become a criminal offense
Why changing APIs might become a criminal offense - Should the authors of lousy APIs be held accountable for their crimes?
The article is blaming Twitter for being callous with its trending algorithms being abused with some coordination between larger number of folks. I think this is very much Mozilla’s business, just as much as any campaign in the West.

The researchers are based in Kenya, writing about Kenyans. They just happen to be employed by Mozilla. Sorry I don’t get why that is a problem?
Twitter removes accounts at the whim of specious evidence. The removal does not make the evidence more credible.
"Please don't fulminate."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder how many years worth of fuel they have to maintain orbit, and what happens when orbit fails. Does it settle into the L point instead of orbiting it? Does it fly off?
I wonder if the USB thingy is a detector of some sort. It seems must have some reason, to stick out of the armor like that.
Isn’t this one of the main aspects of “terrorism” - while tragic, the act itself is merely trigger to induce fear and impact society in more subtle (and long lasting) ways.

e.g we get screened, we fear people who look “suspicious” (even when they are just normal people) etc.
To be fair, while not as big as flying a plane into the WTC, blowing one up would still be possible.
The fact that hoax papers can so easily get through makes a mockery of the process. It shows there is next to no rigor on what is being submitted and it is just an echo chamber where ridiculous topics like “canine trans community discrimination” can masquerade as philosophy or science.
The Guardian left out what I consider the most likely 'failure mode' for someone that thinks dishwashers are a magical cleaning box. Make sure the spinning wash arms are not blocked AND everything is secure, so knives, forks, lids, etc. can not fall and block the wash arm's spin. Lots of cycles seem to fail around here when someone can't seem to remember how gravity still affects things in the dishwasher..
Are they counted as votes? That would mean the person at the top of the ballot have an advantage because of these donkey votes.
Lemi shine is the game changer for us. A tiny bit into the machine and everything comes out way better. Unfortunately everyone is switching to pods which do a bad job in the dish washers I've used. Seems like only the dollar stores sell the dishwasher powder these days. Lemi shine and lemi shine boost, not paid by them but give it a try if your machine always does a bad job, a little goes a long way too. I originally found it by washing brass (I reload ammo).
Batman is better.
Did somebody even expect that people who did not have lung function affected would develop a long term lung issues?
4 transactions per second is for the main chain, not side-chains.

Nobody uses side-chains, so I don't think their capacity is the interesting number.
> When the majority of the country doesn't have internet access

The Chivo application works for free over cellular data without the need for a data plan. WiFi public hotspots aren't hard to come by either, especially in stores. If anything, getting more people online would be a good thing.

> It makes it a lot easier for the government to track people though given that they are getting their citizens to download the government-sponsored wallet

It should be noted that you don't have to use the government-sponsored wallet, but that is how they're distributing the $30 drop. For all intents and purposes, you could get the drop and delete the application.
Things like this are why I'm so cynical about COVID stuff. We have an unconditional commitment to stupid reactive policies that elevate symbolism far above sensibility, and boy does it have a lot of inertia. The parallels between COVID and our post-9/11 reaction are eerie.
What were the most important aspects of the technology stack which enabled that?
> The cameras don’t play fair; they throw away all context (it was 4am with nobody around, it was icy and a sudden stop would have endangered somebody etc).

How is this less fair? One of the biggest criticisms of the police apparatus is discretionary enforcement of the law. I bet Black motorists would overwhelmingly support a system blind to the "context" of the driver's skin color.
> I don't feel comfortable even linking to this stuff

Why not? "eww this is propaganda" or "talking about terrorist makes me one?"
The author ignores that large cloud providers design their own hardware. They are not using generic systems, but are designing their own. My own personal hypothesis is that the "servers" that run the major clouds will converge on something that looks like mainframes.

They won't be mainframes, because as the author does correctly point out, mainframes are unmatched at large-scale, high throughput, resilient, stateful, transaction-heavy workloads. While that is part of what the major cloud providers support, it is not everything. Because it is not everything, the systems the major cloud providers design and build will look different from mainframes, but I think they will have key similarities: virtualization and security features provided by the hardware; high reliability through redundancy and in-hardware error-checking; easy physical maintenance through hot-swappable components.
I think it comes down to one simple thing: Is there sufficient securities and disclosures in place for the financial vehicle (which looks a LOT like a bond). Saying "hey why can't we do what all those other (unregulated) exchanges are doing!!" is not a valid argument in the eyes of a regulator. I don't think any of coinbase's current clientele would be using coinbase if it wasn't a regulated compliant solution. You make your bed and you sleep in it.
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I don't think it's that cut and dry. Before adwords, it was already known advertising was a scummy business, accused of indoctrinating children and the like.
If they want to fly without control surfaces I would start with those aircraft that are already doing so. Hand gliders have no control surfaces. They maneuver by the pilot shifting their mass. Build a fixed-wing craft with two internal pipes, one for-aft and another left-right. Inside those pipes mount dense weights. Maneuvers are then accomplished by moving that weight along the pipes to create pitch and roll moments. It might not win any dogfights, but a slow and stealthy drone should be able to navigate relatively easily. Yaw would be an issue, but that should be easy enough via differential thrust between a pair of engines. No super advanced tech needed.
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Right.

I sponsor Rust through patreon.

I asked many times how can I donate money to mozilla with the guarantee that the money is used for Rust / servo ?

The answer was that this was not possible, so I never could donate through any official channel.

TBH, mozilla does too much random stuff for it to be attractive as a donor.
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So you're saying there is an edge ? ;)
The gspace extension! - https://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/07/gspace-firefox-extension/

I still have emails that I uploaded with it. Need to sit-down and look how that extension worked
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Oh, so you’re saying that there are only 3 unique video segments, but you might get a 1..3 random number for all b, e, g and h arguments…?

So 1440 per-minute videos * 2 pill colors (red/blue) * 3^4 segments (1..3 values for each b, e, g, h argument) * 2 video qualities (high/low)!
Yes, thank you, I did manage to find the words. The quote you reproduced does not “compare Occupy Wall Street activists to flat-Earthers and climate change deniers” in any way, even remotely.
Deplatforming unpopular voices. And there is corruption everywhere as exemplified by the Cuomo shenanigans and now sime activists are quitting because their superiors were using them as puppets to enhance their agendas.
Precisely. It is the best cover up for global domination while distracting populations with concern trolling around a virus that is not all that significantly worse than the flu given the level of risk across all age groups.

Heart failure and car accidents claim a higher risk.
Yes, and this is why crazy pilots suffering from depression can bury their planes in the ground and nobody can do anything about it.

200 people lost their life in the crash of Germanwings 9525 on March 24, 2015, but this is not classified as a terrorist attack so it doesn't really count for anything.

However, it is the direct consequence of the so-called security procedures implemented the world over; those 200 people are victims of "security".
> master

Careful there - this word is now criminal. /s
20 years after 9/11, the official story still doesn't add up
They want the real deal -- CGI can't handle the nuances of astronaut bloat face, clearly.
I've never liked the argument "how many shoe bombs have been intercepted?" or "how many terrorists have been stopped?" when it comes to TSA-style security. The presence of the security isn't necessarily meant to find people in the act of carrying out terrorism, it's mean to deter it in the first place since you will be found out (well, in theory anyway...). It's impossible to quantify how many plots have been deterred due to this.

I'm no TSA apologist, it's obviously security theater, but is it totally without merit?
Yeah but they always think they have a gun, or so they say. It's not always having a gun pointed at you, it's the threat that it could happen. Very real to American police that keep them on edge, where in other countries that risk is lower so there is less sensitivity to a suspect moving there arm near a pocket or behind their back if they are far away from the officer (which makes it naturally harder to see what they are going for). Not saying it's a good thing, it's just a large contributing factor.
He's right. You don't have the option to choose which laws apply to you, and your attempt to explain why is irrelevant, as the law does not support your claimed definition

The SEC is getting involved because they are the correct people to handle this.

This is not something an outsider should be trying to pan as someone else's wheelhouse.
Ignoring for a second that they claim these have the same performance without providing any actual benchmarks that I see... the server configurations alone make no sense. In 2021 nobody would order 12x HP proliants with less than 256GB of memory per server and then run 1,000 VMs on them. That averages out to what? Roughly 2GB of memory per server unless you're horribly oversubscribing them - which nobody who has ever designed a virtual environment would ever tell you to do - so your VMs are going to be memory starved pretty much 24/7. Even IBM tells you not to oversubscribe memory on their mainframes.

I also struggle to believe that oversubscribing the z CPUs 66:1 isn't going to result in performance issues. The documents on limits aren't clear but I foresee that mainframe spending a LOT of time on locks even with all the work IBM has done to help manage them.

This whole thing just really smells like a bad advertisement for IBM, which aligns with them announcing their latest gen z processor last week.
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The z13 hardware is a bit more costly, but yearly maintenance and ops cost is lower. The margin would probably be lower (you'll still want some support from vendors) but the convenience of having all your data-center inside one box is tempting.
Funny thing is if he'd posted this on Facebook the Victorian police could well arrest him for incitement.
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I think the nation should make military training/civil service mandatory. The reality is that random attacks will happen in random places and everyone needs to be equipped to handle accordingly.

Basic combat training and paramedic abilities, disaster recovery and such associated procedures.

This would create a tighter bond between citizens and improve communities ability to look after one-another.

If everyone handles those situations steadfastly, terror won’t work.

Another benefit is less reliance on national guard to handle climate crisis like hurricanes, fires, and floods.
Ever since I watched that a few months back, I run the tap go get the hot water closer to the washer for the first cycle (as recommended in the vid), and I do notice a difference. So much so, that I've completely eschewed the pre-rinse (also recommended in the vid).
At Geneva airport they have a separate line with what looks like some new machines that basically require nothing, you just drop your bag full of laptops, tablets and liquids and you go through the metal detector. Can’t wait for it to generalise.