skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the solution is to charge when shopping. Fast charging once per week for 30-45mins while you are in a supermarket is convenient and is probably adding enough range for the whole week.
I never really thought the engine the limiting factor in electric flight, but rather the heavy batteries.

Found this somewhere, is it still up to date?

> Jet fuel has an energy density of 9.6 kWh/L. What this means is that jet fuel, pound for pound, is nearly 50x more energy-dense than batteries. However, the inefficiency of internal combustion means that 1,000 pounds of jet fuel yields only about 14x more power than 1000 lbs of batteries.
Discussions generally don't sway people. When someone has a fixed worldview and you present facts that undermine that worldview, he perceives you as a threat (like he would a large bear) and reacts to those facts with the same fight-or-flight response that threats generally elicit.

Online, this fight-or-flight response manifests as people downvoting you, flagging you, doxxing you, and so on for presenting hard-to-refuse facts and arguments contrary to any entrenched but incorrect narrative.

The problem is exacerbated on HN by high-karma accounts having the ability to flag discussions to death without engagement and essentially end them unilaterally.
> just the general feeling like you're on a drug bender even though you took just one.

As someone who has been on Vyvanse (prescribed) for a few years now, I can say that this feeling definitely goes away eventually. Unless I drink a lot of really strong coffee…
Our tax system largely functions on trust and voluntary compliance. Once citizens lose faith in their fiat currency they're more likely to cheat on their taxes or just refuse to pay.
Another way to think about this:

The cost of gas is subsidized by cigarettes, soda, lottery tickets, and candy.

Bizarre.
> I didn't sleep for a week

lies
well, after scrolling through a good chunk of the examples, I found a cat
SpaceX’s velocity is incredible. It’s great that Falcon Heavy is being used a little and seeing their progress with Starship is inspiring.
> However, it sure is concerning that many consider abusing prescription drugs with possibly severe, long lasting side effects to attempt to improve studying effectiveness

Not getting through an education and being saddled with a heavy student debt without a well paying job is an extremely severe, extremely long lasting and quite horrible at times life destroying side effect of not doing everything the two people next to you the first day of class are to get by. Also it’s much more likely if you ascribe to the typical “look to your left, look to your right” speech.

I think it’s unfair putting the blame on the individual when objectively looking at the two alternatives presented to them has the one you want them not to follow being the objectively better. It’s like arguing that Arnold Schwarzenegger never should have done steroids.

I got through my studies without any drugs, but had you offered the opportunity to those in my starting class who flunked out, one now homeless and struggling with alcoholism incapable, I am certain they would chose it. And had you that first day given me the opportunity, I likely would have taken it just to reduce risk.
Go into a college library around finals week and you will see just how over prescribed and readily available these drugs are.
Your body doesn't magically put out more CO2 because you lose weight.
Charging stations at more and more public parking is coming. If you drive to work you'll almost certainly be able to charge there. Every time you go to the mall or food store, you'll be able to charge for an hour. Basically in few years half the 'public' parking spaces you leave your car at will have charging opportunities meaning the only time you'll need to seek out charging is during longer road trips (just like people who can charge at home)
I "just" write everydat 750 words. Well I started with a 100.

Then everyonce in a while (like every 2 weeks or more) a good idea keeps me going back. Then I rewrite that one to get a blog post.

My 75p worda a day, with mispellings and almost no coherence take between 1 to 4 hours.

I've been doing that for 7 months.
Using beeminder to keep me in check.
Unfortunately, the article saus nothing about the data it decoded.
FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) is an interface for userspace programs to export a filesystem to the Linux kernel. The FUSE project consists of two components: the fuse kernel module (maintained in the regular kernel repositories) and the libfuse userspace library (maintained in this repository). libfuse provides the reference implementation for communicating with the FUSE kernel module.

https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse
Jonathan Coulton and Andy Weir spring to mind. And both, as I understand it, treated creative work as a side thing until it could stand as their main thing. That seems like the wise course.
5-10 cents max was accurate about 15 years ago, though I lost touch with those in the know since then.

40 cents on a gallon of gas sounds pretty exceptional- perhaps a geographic specific thing.
How many people not liking murder or theft did it take to make it into a law?

How many people not liking gaslighting personal-data-theft dark patterns will it take to make it into a law?

We're transitioning from purely physical beings to having a more virtual presence. Virtual crimes are much less visible and have much greater impact at scale than their physical counterparts, identity theft by Equifax breach or a hack, VS physical force or pickpocketing, for example.
Hire someone else to do it, then yes.
Otherwise,no
That sounds like an extreme outlier. I've never heard of anyone taking modafinil who "goes on a bender", or is particularly drawn to masturbation while using it. There's no "high". If you didn't sleep for a week and masturbated for 12 hours, you might have gotten something else and were told that it's modafinil.
APL started on blackboard, where writing weird math symbols is easy. Since we have computerized tablets with pencils now, it seems like a good idea to explore weird symbols again.

https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper
Do longer/larger prop blades translate to better efficacy?

I wonder if we would be better off with array of smaller electric motors rather than pursuing 1:1 replacement of ICE engines.
in the US, employment is at will. when you hire a problem, at the 90 day point you should see that it is a problem.

take action, give 2 weeks severance, move on. both sides.

now, someone that turns into a problem after 5 years, that's on you. they weren't bad when you hired them, you made them that way.
> Modafinil isn't an amphetamine.

That's not what he said.
The different responses he gave to the questions asked on his tweet are actually interesting, you might have a look.
Sailfish already uses selinux and there is work in progress for firejail (sailjail). Sailjail is already enabled for system apps, but not for third party apps. Also, the Android App Support is running under LXC.
Links in MSWord, expanded on pages, then print to pdf. In 5 minutes you'll have a pdf, even with included links if you want.
Yeah. Exploit mitigations or access controls can improve security in various circumstances, but they are not synonymous with security, and there are circumstances where such security features are just dead weight. Real security is more complicated than just a checklist of features.
well if you think about it, a triple store is basically a database of propositional logic statements.
It’s been a long time since I was close to the numbers but there are a lot of variables. Independent stations have much higher margins - you pay heavily for branding.

When I did the books margins were 0.075/gal for regular and 0.013/gal (edit: should be 0.13/gal) for premium. I could see those as double for an independent station.

This should not be surprising at all. Consumers are incredibly price sensitive and will drive 19 min to save $0.05/gal (save $0.75 and burn $0.60 of gas in the process). The supply chain for gas captures margins, not the gas stations. I would get calls from corporate for $0.03/gal adjustments several times a day if gas prices were volatile.

It all came down to in store sales where mark ups were 50-100%. Youd be surprised how many people paid $5 for a bottle of mustard they could buy for $2 at Safeway. Cigarettes were the other huge sellers.

On a holiday weekend we’d sell 12,000 gal of gas on a Friday, make $800 on the gas and $30,000 (after COGS) on in store sales.
There are quite a few Sci-Fi authors who have a Tech/STEM career background.
Sure, if you measure security by the amount of buzzwords that were deployed, these phones don't look that great.

In practice, these phones are more secure because nobody will bother to target this vanishingly small installed base - except for a highly targeted attack, in which case Android probably isn't going to protect you any better either.
> if you just don't want to have your personal data tracked by Google and want better control over the apps you install,

Which is the most common security risk for common people let's be realistic. Yeah they are we could say ""protected"" by the trusted boot but in reality the google & manufacturer blobs sending their data somewhere are their main security threat, much more than any other kind of attacks.
A lot of the ferryboats is now electric, and Oslo just announced that all busses will be electric before 2023 after testing several different technologies the last years.
Providing ID to enter a bar or nightclub (where some have these machines which no doubt capture and store that data) is commonplace even though the venue has no business knowing who the person is.
On a visit to the Estonian SSR in 1987 I bought a bottle opener that had the price of 15 kopecks stamped on it. I assume this was quite close to the cost of production, possibly establishing that shared ownership of the means of production totally works for uncomplicated commodity "kitchen infrastructure" products, cutting out marketing costs and pricing variances. Certainly it did not close off opportunities for making fancier bottle openers. Win!
Except that (in the UK) 99% of charges are made at home or at the workplace. I imagine the numbers will be a little lower in the US since the average travelled distance is longer but as range improves it'll decrease too.
Nobody planned this. It’s the result of emergent behavior in complex systems and feedback loops.

We are still absolutely at the mercy of such forces. They rule us. We sort of understand them (game theory, complexity, evolutionary dynamics) but have yet to come up with any reliable way of controlling them. Totalitarian government force is the best we can do, and it comes with equally large downsides and is itself subject to the same forces over time. It’s a very clunky primitive instrument.

I feel like we will not truly become an intelligent species until we are able to flip the table on the complex system in which we are embedded. Until then we are merely very clever animals. True intelligence has yet to evolve on this planet.
Of course it will be able to fly. With 20MW of engine power at your disposal you’ll be able to lift an awful lot of batteries.

The real question is, how long and how far will it be able to fly? And how much payload?
The vast majority of EV charging is and will be done at home. Not everyone can feasibly charge from home today, but that'll be a transition. At home, the chargers don't have to be fast or operate during peak grid usage times.

Even many commercial fleets won't have a need for stopping there as it'll be cheaper to charge wherever they're parked when not being driven.

Fast chargers will be necessary when traveling, but that's a small fraction of what gas stations see now. And even then it might look different (big trucks require a lot of space to park while charging, consumer traveling is concentrated in bursts based on time of the year).
Thank you, That sounds like good setup to save couple of bucks off side projects hosting.

Have you checked their security promises? AWS KMS like service would be bit too much to ask I guess, Considering they're VMs FDE should be fine?
Prices do frequently come down for wheat and other agricultural commodities. However those commodity prices are only loosely correlated to prices that you pay at the grocery store.

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/wheat
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?

Also what I mean by there is no correlation between deaths and the vaccination program, and there, I could have been a bit clear in my explanation, is the following:

Again looking at the active cases diagram between 3 of March and 15 of April you get a massive peak and a massive drop. That is the expected behavior of mathematical models, and a runways virus propagating to several hosts. The vaccination program as seen in the graph here:
"A que ritmo estamos a vacinar?"
https://www.publico.pt/interactivo/vacina-covid-19

started in 28 Dec linear grow, a peak 11 July where more people on holidays have the time do take the vaccine and continues in for with a large intensity of 60,000 this 8 Sept.

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 not make a ducted engine? Just replace the fuel burning part of a jet engine with this motor?
Windy also has HRRR (among others) for hi res near term domestic US incorporating radar.

https://windy.app/features/hrrr-weather-forecast-model.html

Other models:

https://windy.app/guide/windy-app-weather-forecast-models.ht...
I agree it could be considered an act of war, which is why cooler heads on all sides may have decided to downplay, distract, and deny that that’s what happened. War between China and the rest of the world (which we all know means the US as far as war goes) would be devastating for humanity.
The inverter is more interesting here imo. Actually, that's only part of the problem. Delivering 2MW+ from batteries to the engine and other systems seems pretty hard. Delivering it without failure, even more so...
I'm in the Drive for Desktop beta program and it combines the Backup & Sync functionality with Drive File stream, so you can sync 'My Drive' to any folder on your computer in addition to having a drive letter for file streaming. It also supports multi-account support. I've had some performance issues with it so it still needs work.
Very nearly, yes. The biggest distinction is that all keys are synthetic.
I guess the span of my coding is really really small, I never really needed any of these.

to me the issue is that it creates parallel graphs on top of the FS, and that people, unless spending some time reading the spec (oracle basic doc website was utterly useless for me), will have barely no visibility on.

what I appreciate is that it's fully standardized in the spec, so you don't have to deal with competitive packaging systems / hygiene like in other languages.
> How is this "BS"? If you can replace the software to whatever you like, so can the baddies.

And how are we confident that the ROM preinstalled is itself secure? Nobody can assert that and the owner is even prevented to check it.

The most common security threat aren't coming from the trusted boot but play services blobs & manufacturer blobs, all behind the so-called trusted boot.
>... and produced nothing of value except those little canned oranges.

What?
Because US employment laws are terrible. For everyone, not just h1b workers.
The corporate leaders that make the decisions are the ones that should resign on principle. Not the theoretical H1B employee who would uproot their family, derail their career, distress-sell their house, leave the country, etc., over the setTimeout line.
Also a lot of particulate air pollution is generated inside the home. I bought a few sensors, and was quite astonished how loudly they all complained when I, for instance, fried bacon or cleaned the shower with off-the-shelf cleaning chemicals.
In consumer law in the UK _sellers_ are responsible for what they sell.

This seems right as it means you can sue the seller, they can sue their supplier if they too were sold a product that didn't meet the description of what they were sold.

That way the seller, who can afford to spend on expertise to make sure products are up to scratch, bears responsibility.

It's not perfect, but it makes sense this way IMO.
I remember using this in maths lessons. IIRC, it was used to analyze how functions behave, so `999*x + y + 99999` where `y ≫ x` behaves basically the same as just `y`. Something like that, maybe it was for big-O analysis or something.
These are the sources I know of

https://twitter.com/SecKermani/status/1431517279859224579

https://twitter.com/paykhar/status/1431572890521120770

https://twitter.com/laraseligman/status/1430901536456986625

https://twitter.com/Samiyousafzai/status/1431590453355368450

There are probably more, but atrocities such as these are rarely widely publicized.
Secure boot doesn't preclude using any software you like.
I have ADHD, I'm prescribed Concerta (which is a delay-released form of Ritalin). Because it's a gradual release, that probably affects my experiences.

But generally, the noticeable effects for me are very subtle, I've joked before that if someone swapped out my drugs with a placebo, I wouldn't be able to immediately tell. It doesn't help me at all with my time blindness, it doesn't improve my memory (that I can tell). And (contrary to other people's experiences) it doesn't even really help me avoid getting distracted (for example, I'm on HN right now). But what it does help me with is starting tasks and getting over executive dysfunction.

With my experiences with ADHD, there's this huge gulf between wanting to do something and actually doing it. So what I notice when I'm on Concerta is that it lessens that gulf. So if I tell myself to go put clothes in the dryer, then I actually go put clothes in the dryer, it's not as much of a monumental multi-step effort of "stand up, put on your shoes, find the laundry room key, walk out the door."

This could be related to the time-release, it could be that people taking this in non-prescribed settings are taking much higher dosages, it could be an individual thing? But I'm always a little weirded out by the idea of people getting addicted to this stuff, because I have to set timers and actively remind myself to take it. It doesn't make me feel wired or unable to sleep or constantly focused. When I started taking Concerta, I spent multiple months with my psychiatrist just tracking day-to-day tasks like how often I ate, whether or not I was brushing my teeth -- because without the charts I didn't feel confident that it wasn't just a placebo effect, I needed to track data to know for sure that anything was even happening.

I'm assuming that people using unprescribed Ritalin are taking it in different ways and in higher dosages. But... I mean, it's not going to make you smarter, at most it seems like it's going to make you more focused on something? But speaking as someone who is constantly hyperfocusing and hyperfixating on things, there are a nontrivial number of college/life tasks where hyperfixation is not helpful and where it would be convenient to be able to turn that behavior off. I spend a lot of time trying to manage hyperfixations, they can be beneficial but they're not universally good.

But I do know that Ritalin/Adderall affects different people differently. Back when I was in college I was not aware of people doing stuff like this as a norm, but I don't know how I would have known about it, so maybe it was happening in other circles.
There reason you don't hear about these transitions too often is because it's virtually impossible to have a "career" solely in the arts.

I've had many friends over the years who where all variety of artists/creatives working in the arts including performing art, visual arts, writing, musicians etc. Skills range all over the board from talented amateurs to highly trained/skilled professionals.

Nearly all of them, even the a few I know that played in professional symphony orchestras, needed another, non-creative full time job to pay the bills. Visual and performing (drama) artists in particular all needed another source of income. The only exception to this would be people living in extremely low cost of living areas, but even then all of them had some sort of major financial support coming from somewhere else (spouse/family).

The closest thing to a full time job that pays a living wage in the arts is to become a professor, but that is insanely competitive and many of my friends who went that route found it ultimately unfulfilling. Some visual artists will also work as graphic designers or in an area like UX, but that's still a full time job just using your skills for someone else, not really making your own art.

I would recommend you talk to artists of all sorts that you know (or reach out if you don't). If you're interested in visual arts go to a few gallery openings, chat with artist, if it's literature reach out to your favorite authors (side note, may Booker prize finalists will only every sell a few thousand copies, just to get a sense of the competition in that space) Many of the ones that are making a living at it are probably not doing the art they would prefer most of the time, and the income they are bringing in is very low compared to even poorly paying software engineer gigs.

My advice would be to find a low stress, remote programming gig and devote as much time as you can to your preferred art. Making six figures at your 9-5 and working in the arts is much easier than working at a coffee shop to support your arts. If you really want to do it full time, then I would recommend putting in a few years at a very high paying FAANG type job and finding the lowest cost of living community you can with an arts scene and see how it goes.
> Several top scientists stepped forward in the early days and claimed that the virus showed signs of being man-made

So, if you're talking about the early days: One of them was in my country, and claimed that CRISPR was used on SRAS-Cov2, probably as a biological weapon. This was the human-made theory in the early days. Two day after his delcaration, the virus sequence was available for everyone on the internet, and he deleted his tweet the day after that.

Then the narrative was about a chimera that escaped the lab (which is way more likely). People conflated the two theories

I'm sorry if people who claimed that were called conspiracy theorist, but the CRISPR theory was junky since the beginning (Since the ACE2 is not the optimal key to bind to a human host. Also you need human test subject to make this kind of experiments, i know the oversight is not the best, but this would have leaked if there was human test in Wuhan). And it was not a conspiracy theory, it was honestly just dumb as f*ck, i don't think anybody here bought it.

Now, a lab-escaped Chimera is a good theory, but since the first theory was so jank, some people thought it was just a rehash, and took it with skepticism, especially since the same network/people share this new theory. I'm still not convinced: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... But i won't call anyone a conspiracy theorist over this.
Have a look at the list of all known detainees here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detaine...

A couple of the entries that caught my eye:

Al Hajj, Sami Sudan 2001
Cameraman for al Jazeera, only journalist held at Gitmo, hunger-striker
Released May 1, 2008

Al Kandari, Abdullah kamel bin Abdullah Kamal Kuwait
* Main allegation is wearing a Casio F91W digital watch

More info on Sami Al Hajj: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_al-Hajj

More on the Casio watch thing: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-fil...
This is ridiculously cool, thank you for sharing :)
Where's the 20MW from?
D'Hondt Method