skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course there are different shades of white, what I am saying is that the color of the sun during the day is what people most would classify as "white" and not as "yellow" if it the color was printed on a sheet of paper.

If the sun color was actually yellow, people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a white object and yellow object under the sun light (they would both appear yellow). And clearly they are.

On the other hand a white object doesn't get any "whiter" under another kind of light than it appears under direct sun light, this again is because the sun light is white, and not yellow.

Of course there is some subjectivity here, but it is a misconception to call the sun light yellow. For example, this "bright sun" RGB [1] color, is clearly not the color of direct sun light. Hopefully, you will agree with this.

[1] https://www.colorcombos.com/colors/FCD440
>And how are we confident that the ROM preinstalled is itself secure?

And what about your linux phone's rom? Do they have reproducible builds yet? Sure, it might be open source, but did anyone audit the millions of line of code to make sure it's actually backdoor/bug free? Moreover, HN readers might actually understand this stuff, but what about non-technical people? They're probably better off using a locked down phone with OEM ROM (you already have to trust the OEM) than with a locked down phone that can possibly be replaced with malicious firmware.

>The most common security threat aren't coming from the trusted boot but play services blobs & manufacturer blobs

source?
Ok, so tweets, not ‘the BBC’
While this sub may be a bit distasteful for some, I recommend spending some time reading through the countless examples documented there of folks who refused the vaccine based on this kind of thinking and then ended up dying often very unpleasant deaths while unable to breathe for days or weeks: https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/

This sub has seen extremely rapid growth, which is perhaps one of the most tragic "success" stories of a subreddit ever.
How so? 10kW/kg is a pretty relevant metric.
I don’t want to argue it is a weapon, but just playing devils advocate here … the pandemic has been far more destabilizing to democracies in the west than autocracies. Unilateral, heavy-handed action is effective at combating pandemics. And it’s not inconceivable that some bigwigs in Beijing could see some population culling, especially in the more rural regions, as not a terrible thing. And it’s good cover to argue that it wasn’t an intentional weapon if it affects your own population too. I don’t believe it was an intentional release of a weapon, but if it were it wouldn’t be as self-sabotaging as it may first seem is all.
It’s definitely not the same thing as the mail I received as it isn’t that directed.

But based on my experience, I would say someone worked their ass off to make that UI (because Docker is damn hard for newcomers) and the automatic updates (because zero-day exploits can happen and almost nobody checks for updates manually, and then you have tons of users at risk and incredibly bad PR) and simply didn’t consider adding the possibility of skipping or hiding those functionalities.

You just can’t do everything users want, but you do try hard to please almost everyone.

And if that person that did that work reads this comment, they will feel horrible when even after all this work, they still get mostly bad criticism and no thanks. Comments like these can break a person.

We got used to critiquing companies and products because we keep forgetting that behind them are just people working hard, and maybe 2-3 people in charge that make bad decisions along the way dragging everyone down with them.
User choice could be good
Yo if someone wants to visit my house/town/city then fuck yeah they need to put up with my shit
It estimates 11,400 per month (not year) in gross profit. Sure there are additional expenses -- credit card fees, utilities, rent, labor -- but those would seem to be attributable more towards the convenience store part of the business.
The largest machines humanity has built (typically mining machines) are electric. I don’t see why people think total power is the real limiting factor vs, say, specific power.
That's the role the US plays, we do it so they don't have to.
At the upper end, the largest aircraft engines such as the GE CF6 (used in 747) produce about 40MW [1] and there are 4 of these.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_LM6000
Yeah this sure is a common talking point that comes up, but unfortunately for those who enjoy enforcing these things, it is not backed up by any data.

Daily deaths (which is the best proxy we have for hospitalization) is nowhere near any of the peaks we have had in the last year and a half.

If somehow deaths are down but hospital capacity is also down, that is the fault of the hospitals, not the vaccinated. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
I accidentally ran into a case once where an artist of some notoriety (had showings in various large city MOMAs) needed help, and I ended up helping them for several months. It was various forms of modern art that needed some tech assistance with IoT type stuff (LEDs, audio, etc). I wasn't particularly interested in the art, but if I had been, it would have been an avenue to get some advice, experience, etc. All stuff done in my spare time.

So, perhaps that's one avenue you could try. I imagine there are writers that need technical help with blogs, publishing tools, and so on. You could barter that help for advice, contacts, and so forth.
Then get a colorimeter that can measure that ambient light and recalibrate your screen. The highest end monitors have hoods on them to prevent external light from having too much influence on your screen.

If your desk doesn't move, you could always have a cron job that loads different color profiles based on time of day and possibly weather if you really want to make a project of it.
You don't know half of it. When done you will always find a user able to break everything with a different browser or version, settings, an extension, an outdated machine or odd screen size etc etc. IOW: Just make it in html and have someone tweak it where required. Focus on functionality. What does the user need? I mean really need.
I think lots of little motors are the approach lilium is taking.
https://lilium.com/
I’m a firmware engineer not an aviation engineer so I have no idea what the efficiency would be.
I've been using PrivacyBadger, made by the EFF.

https://privacybadger.org/
> Look, I've been Indian my whole life.

Why is this relevant?

>The reason gas stations run aggressively on cash [...]

they do? Most of the gas stations I see are pay at the pump, and inside the convenience store I'd say most people are paying with credit/debit.
> ”whats the solution for millions of renters that dont have access to ev stations at home though?”

The solution is to get chargers installed wherever you park the car. May require legislation if your landlord is uncooperative.

In the mean time, charging at a public charging station isn’t so bad provided it’s convenient and reliable. If you can combine charging with shopping or dining etc it’s not much different to topping up at a gas station. Probably cheaper too!
As far as filesystem goes, it depends if your device is rooted or not. Assuming nonroot, you could use adb to list then download all packages. This would provide copies of most apps. In many cases, these can be decompiled with apktool.

You could also use adb to pull other files, though not all, from the phone for inspection.
Not YC, a YC-funded company from four years ago.
Thanks for answering. Let's address point 1), now that we have a definition:

1. Unsafe labs:

a) Since 1903, the vast majority of known bio-lab incidents have been in the USA and then the next largest group is their western allies;[1] so any solution must address this, no?

b) this 2105 USA Today article describes just 10 recent bio-lab incidents, including this gem:

"In November 2013, a University of Wisconsin researcher in an ABSL-3 punctured skin with a needle loaded with H5N1 avian influenza. The researcher was quarantined for seven days in an empty home."

or this:

"Between April 2013 and September 2014, eight individual mouse escapes were reported at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill."

or this:

"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention inspectors and University of Michigan officials found materials labeled as Brucella, a select agent, outside the BSL-3 containment area in April 2012."

And as a finale [3]:

"Scientists inadvertently switched samples designated for live Ebola virus studies with samples intended for studies with inactivated material. As a result, the samples with viable Ebola virus, instead of the samples with inactivated Ebola virus, were transferred out of a BSL-4 laboratory to a
laboratory with a lower safety level for additional analysis."

There are (literally) hundreds more examples.

So having established that unsafe labs abound in the USA (per your definition), let's move to point 2
in your suggestion: "diplomatic pressure and travel and trade restrictions "

What possible restrictions of any kind do you possibly see any ally of the USA enforcing in any future
"world-wide, no-execptions-to-the-rule agreement" scenario, given that they already tolerate all this incompetence?

And that's just the Western allies. Do you see any third-world, dollar-dependent, tourist economy
placing any restrictions on American tourists because a rate escaped from a lab?

So, for the sake of brevity, did you really mean: "the USA and its allies must put diplomatic, travel, and trade restrictions on China?"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/29/some-recent-u...

[3] [https://thebulletin.org/2019/02/human-error-in-high-bioconta...
The only people they would need to protect are other unvaccinated people who have made the choice to take whatever risk there is in going unvaccinated. The choice to not be vaccinated involves knowing that you may contact the virus from someone else and may become very ill or die. Attempting to protect someone by taking away their ability to make that choice is equivalent to removing the option to eat enough food to become obese.
And if you just look at the state of battery tech, that does not actually look unreasonable to provide.

There are commercially available high-energy cells that provide ~900W/kg. That's ~22t for the cells, round up to 30t for the other stuff. Coincidentally, that's roughly similar to the fuel capacity of an A320, to which they compared their engine power.

You could push the specific power up quite a lot, but you'd have to start sacrificing specific energy, which is the sticking point of electric airplanes. With those batteries, you only get 5MWh, or you could only provide that 20MW for ~15 minutes.

This is not as bad as it sounds, because airplanes only need to provide near their maximum power for relatively briefly. There are many short hop routes where that airplane can operate profitably.

Still, it should make clear the point that the deficiency of electric airplanes is not their power, but their range. When you fit a plane with batteries that contain sufficient energy to go anywhere useful, you also provide it with frankly excessive power to run it's engines.
This NASA project seems to be pursuing that line if thinking

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/X57/
The reality is that big oil squeezed these operators as well as they do with consumers. They need to buy the gas anyway, but by contract they can only do that from a major supplier. In other words, because they don't have pricing power, big oil took from them almost all profit associated to gas sales.
Specific power is also not a problem. Specific energy is.
>Look at the active cases graph starting at 8 Aug and the line to latest 10 of Sep. In approximately 45,000 cases there is a variation of -/+ 2000 is that not basically a straight line?

Look at the daily active cases, does it look like a straight line?

>So I am calling attention to very quick and strong record of active cases seen within 2 to 3 months in the active cases diagram versus the gradual vaccination program.

Why do you dismiss the number of active cases when you're talking about deaths? Isn't the fact that we have more than double the active cases an indicator that less infected people are dying?

Because what you're doing is simply assuming the virus mortality rate remained constant, and all the extra cases are just cases that weren't identified in the past, and you have nothing to back this claim.
I agree that there must be a strong correlation.

I had a classmate who was horrified to learn I checked the organ donor box in my driver's license. Their parents told them if you check that box, the medical staff will be more likely to let you die so they can reuse your parts. I did't have any authoritative answer but the point is there are people out there with fears that sound rational but are completely in the realm of conspiracy theory.
It's not 1.5 seconds, though. https://twitter.com/pixelscript/status/1436711732152504326 shows it taking nearly a minute.
Manufactured phones under contract for DNS - a retail chain in Russia which got hit by preinstaled malware https://therecord.media/malware-found-preinstalled-in-classi...
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I'm a lot further than a day trip from any part of Florida. Could you tell me why you say it's "done right"?
Hmm. Actually, ”le vent des fous” seems to be referring to a wind from the south, supposedly bringing in heat and humidity from the Mediterranean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence,_Drôme#Climate

> Valence enjoys a humid subtropical climate, whose main characteristic is an almost constant wind …. When it comes from the south, it usually announces the arrival of stormy disturbances. It is then called le vent du midi ou le vent des fous [the midi wind or the uncaring wind] because, for some people, it makes the atmosphere painful to bear, especially in the summer.
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In addition to the power, don’t forget the pseudo celebrity status that many formerly ignored politicians and bureaucrats have enjoyed.

The hour long daily briefings rarely contain any new information and are nothing but pure ego and attention seeking.

Exactly like a movie star whose time is passing, you should bet they will do whatever it takes to stay in the spotlight and stay relevant.
The fake "processing" delay is likely there because averaged across all visitors (not just averaged across HN commentors and voters) it increases visitor confidence that a change has occurred in site tracking activities as a result of clicking that button and hence it's there because it net increases both customer confidence and flow through to the rest of the site, as annoying as it may be to HN readers.

The problem with having three sigma or more excess knowledge about a problem domain is that solutions designed for the center of the bell curve likely won't work well for the many-sigma outlier population, and the fraction of the population out in that many-sigma part of the curve is too small for providers to justify expending significant resources there. It's not uncommon for businesses to optimize for the center of the bell curve and leave many sigma outliers poorly served, as is happening here.
Delta has an R value of 6 to 7.

Measles has a much higher R value of 12 to 18, yet the vaccination is highly successful.

You’re promoting disinformation.
> The article confuses FireWire and USB in the last paragraph.

I believe he's not; the paragraph about USB and the one about FireWire are separate ones. And his point that kernel isolation of the modem is flawed because of properties of the Linux kernel seem accurate, though I don't have the expertise to confirm that (you'd need to ctrl+f "kernel", not "USB", since the point is a general one)
If retaining control of my own devices makes me less secure, then I want to be less secure.
Why does it flood my navigation history? I couldn't use my back button to return to here after playing around a bit.
Wouldn’t another reason be to reduce cost? It’s expensive to treat covid patients and the vaccine is proven to reduce the incidents of hospitalization. But I’m willing to forgo all vaccine mandates, mask mandates, etc if we can all agree that unvaccinated have to pay for their own treatment or buy bespoke covid insurance.
Have you found that feature requests (not issue reports) were also received in the same manner?
Which govt?
Ya, but it's still an impressive description of working with the radio traffic.
Yep, for months it was where he lived. People suspected something odd when they saw him long after he'd "gone home for the day." Someone eventually went up to the floor under renovation (it was bare concrete and steel) and found his stuff. No one ever said anything to him that I'm aware of, but everyone (in our division anyway) knew he was up there.

He eventually got an apartment, and I ran into him in that neighborhood so we knew he was really out. I'm not sure what his situation was, we were all quite well paid by local standards.
> Some people learned faster than others.

exactly.

Same with basketball, music, same with programming.

Some people get it immediately, some people never get it, and infinite shades of in between.

Only a true few truly are stars though.
Why do you need a duct?
Doses don't mean much if a large portion of the population have taken none.
> I'm not entirely sure what the goal of this propaganda was.

See Jay's quote. The goal was popularizing the ideas behind "public choice" theory, more specifically the idea that individuals that form the government are necessarily self-interested, without working for the public good.

> It did a better job of showing how government works than the 6 o'clock news, and yet it was constantly funny and thought provoking. The acting was superb.

That makes it effective propaganda.

In case it's not clear, I'm not of the opinion that no one should watch Yes Minister, rather my position is that the specific propagandistic nature should be made clear upfront.
Here's the story about why I quit tech to become a psychotherapist: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/
Econ 101

This generalizes as the business model is based on creating a "basket" of complementary goods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_good

There are things like loss leaders and subsidies that are designed to create a funnel for customers, which you then convert into higher margin item sales. The popocorn at movies is a great example. Warranties and online shipping fees are another one, as they are almost pure margin. Sure, you may make a 10% unit margin on your $20 tchotchka (e.g $2), but you make 80% margin on your "shipping cost" of $10, so your gross margin selling tchotchkas is really $10 (or 50%). It's same as how printers are just a way to sell ink in cartriges, which has probably a 50x markup, or 5000% margin. This is only slightly different from the old music business, where you paid $30+ for a $0.10 blob of plastic wrapped in cardboard with a marketing machine on top of it.

Social media has more of a publishing model, where their tech is "free," as a way to attract viewers to the ads they sell to advertisers. Most consumer software has this publishing model these days, whereas most enterprise software is really a channel to convert customers to high margin consulting and support services on top of the loss leader amortization of the cost of software development - which is why most of it sucks so badly.

Like selling gas in stations, subscription revenue for tech is good, but it's monotonic based on users and inelastic, where what gas stations figured out is that their core "subscription" business was really just a funnel to get conversions for higher value users.

For this reason, I'd speculate that gas stations periodically sabotage their pay at the pump machines, probably toward the end of a quarter, as a way to get a bump in people coming to the register and driving conversions to high-margin sugar/water products there.
The authors suggestion to “install android” as a way to fix the security on these Linux phones obviously misses the point. People want a phone where they can do whatever they want with it.
Three, if you count disabled.
Jet engines achieve higher speeds and efficiencies.
Still heavy cash transactions for the bootstrapped <15 location gas station franchises.

ATMs, etc...

60% of the 130K-ish gas stations in the USA are Indian owned, but we only make up <1% of the population. (old metrics)
> Why is this relevant?

I don't try to stereotype, but i've heard that the culture in India encourages getting free stuff or paying as little as possible to get the most stuff.

https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/business/indias-culture-f...
In the US, we were told our son had too much energy and would be medicated when he gets older. We moved to the NL and the teachers say he’s perfectly normal, despite having more energy. She said it would only be an issue if he wasn’t learning; which might indicate an issue with focusing. It turns out, you can still have energy and learn at the same time.
Reading threads like this, I get the sense that the very notion of civil liberties is completely foreign to vaccine fans.
Consider that you're contradicting the very creator of the two shows.
Depends on flight speeds and prop rotation (tip speed specifically), but the propellers have for a long time had a 90+% efficiency already. Ideally, a long and narrow one-bladed propeller would have best performance, somewhat similar to sailplane's wing. For practical reasons (ease of balancing and limited diameter) we use two or more shorter blades, even if it causes minor efficiency loss.

A compounding concern is that of a propeller tip speed - when it approaches speed of sound, the physics of airflow become complex and it's very hard to maintain efficiency - and near impossible to maintain reasonable noise levels. This necessitates keeping blades of high speed propellers rather short. The Tu-114 was exceptionally loud for a plane, both due to propeller speed concerns, and also due to contra-rotating propellers inherently causing increased turbulence.

There is a good four-part series on propeller theory and practice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgoPPg8oVt8&list=PLD2EcpzcvT...
Depending on browser support, there's a good likelihood just skipping a lot of these things for CSS grid could be a shortcut. As a bonus, gap for gutters is widely supported and takes away a lot of the headaches of float and flex-based grid systems.
I get what you're saying, but even if this design feature comes out of good intentions (which I honestly doubt), requiring the user to wait almost a minute so that it can "process" is rather excessive.

If they really needed this delay, surely it only needs to be a few seconds tops.
Wow, you’re not kidding about the LCH picker working poorly near the gamut boundary. Changing hue is especially poorly behaved.

Hint to people trying to reproduce this: start by clicking the input button at the top and typing #ff0
because a significant number of gas stations are run by Indians.

Owning a gas station is on the ... Truck Driver -- Gas Station -- Motel .. spectrum for blue collar immigrants from the subcontinent.
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