skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm American and I don't consider myself to be brainwashed nor do I find anything horrifying about this technology being deployed by our military or by anyone else's military. I think that once you have developed tech like this it is inevitable that someone down the line will attempt to fit it into their own use case.

For heads-up goggles that incorporate real-time information and allow a user to understand more about their local environment than they could with their natural senses I think it is inevitable that a military use case would be high on the list. Once something like this is deployed by one nation, others find themselves needing to develop similar tools to maintain parity and they will focus their attention on meeting that goal or they will attempt to purchase or steal this tech from those that already have it.

Will that lead to more destruction, more control of the globe by America? Is the rest of the world shivering in their boots at the thought that American troops may eventually deploy with these cool goggles? I doubt it.

I don't know where you are from and I'm not in the habit of scouring other people's post histories in an attempt to find a reason to disagree with them or to criticize them. I just think you may be being a bit hyperbolic here and that you are failing to consider that the US military will not be the only military actively utilizing this tech.

I think we should all, regardless of where we are from and where we call home, be mindful that a lot of the technology being developed in Silicon Valley and other tech hubs will have a potential military use case and that some of it will be actively financed and supported by governments to that end, knowing that there will also be civilian use cases that can be explored and commercialized.

There is an active tech trend of improving tools that can be used for active surveillance of civilian populations; improving methods of identifying individuals who buy and use common products so that you can either slam them with ads for your product or use more discreet tools to suggest that they should switch products; developing technology that has the effect of throwing all of us into the pool of potential suspects, etc.

Those things worry me more than any goggles will.

A lot of people here on HN work writing the code that robs us all of our privacy rights, our individuality, our ability to live what used to be normal lives in relative obscurity. Those are the things that I consider more subversive since the people know in advance how their tool will be used and they actively work to optimize the functionality that in some cases actively destroys society and any sense of community that we formerly enjoyed.

Perhaps a trip to the mirror is in order? You can answer that for yourself better than I can.
> No, because Tether can issue it's own coins to pay for it.

To a point, and that point is far larger than any of us imagined.

But the Titan / Titanium collapse shows that you can't print money forever (or in the case of Titan / Titanium: print money automatically). It only takes a small downturn to make everything go to crap.
I agree and I would say that choosing to work on the right things is much more important than being a fast programmer. Sometimes you need to spend more time thinking about a problem, do a bit of a "market study", or gather more data. Too many startups out there are solutions looking for a problem. On a smaller scale, as an individual programmer, it's easy to get caught into yak shaving or trying to optimize the wrong thing.
If you worked towards the higher standard, of trying to avoid even the potential appearance of inappropriate action, you would never do what they did.

Deep down do you believe that they would have changed if not for this public outcry?

Make it free for 30 days THEN throw up a pay screen. You're a funded startup what's the issue here?
No, the category is a performance specification (higher category is faster), the band is the frequency of the radio signal.
For a real-word cargo flight there are climb conditions and cruise conditions and a fixed-pitch rotor can't possibly be efficient at both - it will be tuned for a given rotation speed and a given airspeed across the disk. At any ambient conditions outside those regions efficiency will suffer. variable-pitch rotors can adjust to high efficiency in cruise and good climbing performance, depending on requirements.

Electric cargo vehicles are neat, and maybe the loss in efficiency is acceptable, but you undeniably lose efficiency with a fixed rotor design.
Totally agree, as someone very pro-vax, that news outlets are blowing it in terms of how they report things. The whole "99% of deaths are now unvaccinated" (with tiny subtitle "since January" -- when the biggest spike took place and hardly anyone was vaccinated) is misleading too. Granted, even Fox displayed that statistic.

I wish they would just present raw numbers of X vs Y without trying to push a view (even if it's a view I agree with). But, that doesn't generate the clicks they need to fund themselves. And of course, "lies, damn lies, and statistics", IDK whether there's a way to present data completely neutrally, but they could at least try.
it's explained by dang here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
Do they ship here? A lot of products shipping from China have trouble getting to India.
I'd love to read a blog post on that. I completely see how it's a difficult line to walk - you don't want to be "Rust is better than all these rubbish languages" but you still want to provide people with information so that they can make informed choice.
To most people, it's not Nomad vs Kubernetes - it's a choice between Nomad vs Managed Kubernetes.

All major cloud providers offer a managed kubernetes service at minimal added cost to running the worker VMs yourself.

With managed Kubernetes, the simplicity question is no longer obviously in Nomad's favour. As other comments allude to, Kubernetes as a user is pretty easy to master once you get used to its mental model.
It is frustrating to me that despite the blunt verbiage about it being a beta device for software and hardware developers, people even here are griping about it being not ready for everyday use. If a free and open-source mobile operating system is missing software support for a feature you want, please contribute to its development.
Yeah that's fair, and I've seen that. I think the key is authenticity. As others have mentioned sometimes it's just a firehose of good things happening to other people. I've also seen a friend speak candidly about their struggle with mental health and suicide - again great to see everyone rally around them, and be aware of it. Probably a good way for them to get more support, and make other people aware that (a) current mental health resources kinda suck, (b) other people might be struggling just like you, and (c) everyone realize that their friend needs help.

But yeah - being vulnerable and open like that is hard and not for everyone. And it can also be faked for attention. Ultimately I don't know what a platform is supposed to do if everyone starts optimizing for the algorithm or is constantly consuming the very content that is bad for them but doesn't want censorship. There's no win - social media would be amazing if everyone was kind, honest and authentic. But I realize that's asking the impossible on a global scale.
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It requires a lot of energy to extract, but when you’re the extractor of that energy in the first place, your costs ride up and down as your selling price does.

To date, no oil sands operation has shutdown.
It would be quite expensive for the Russian government to poison everyone who ever went to a protest, or who socialised with the wrong sort of people.

Also, if it's cheap enough, the government can apply low-level incentives/nudges at the top of the dissent "recruitment funnel" as well as high-level high-profile actions against the few brave people who make it all the way to becoming leaders of these groups.
Trenches weren't even all that great at protecting people in their days. What the multi-layer trench systems were good at was more or less "making it hard for the enemy to hold this territory for more than a few hours or days after taking it."
> You're looking at this from a western perspective. Some non-western countries are entirely linked by Facebook products. When Facebook went down last week, some people couldn't access their BANKS. You OK with that?

Wasn't this because DNS servers were effectively DDoS'd when applications overwhelmed them with requests looking for Facebook without caching the response? Or are there actually banks out there that require Facebook to log in?
> you can't just label an entire political faction as crazy.

I didn't say that. It was a general statement about crazy people. Everyone has their own distortion fields; they are myriad and contradictory and situational. Please don't start with this left/right splitting and victimization stuff. There's a ton of shit I won't say on HN because it doesn't go over well. It's not a left/right thing, believe me.
Poll Everywhere (YC S08) Is Hiring a Front End Engineer
The cool kids today are into cryptocurrencies, AI, and robotics

That too is where the cool kids were 8 years ago... Even I was into all that 8 years ago and I was never a "cool kid". I have no idea what the cool kids are into these days. AI is still hot though, so perhaps they are building GPT-4.
I am not making any claims of any of these substances effectiveness in treating covid. I'm just pointing out that this substance claims to block the same human protein ivermectin does. We can all make of that what we will.
>That, plus setting my threads to high-priority and possibly pinning them to the right cores.

What language was that - [normally] Java does not respect priorities at all for instance. Running with higher priority may require root as well.
My exact setup. Using Gaia for maps.
That is indeed a very big main rotor. I wonder what the material limitations are on rotor length?
some good points. I would add also:

5) limit how many posts / pictures / content you can share per day to avoid information overload. This should make people double thing what they are writing and hopefully more higher quality content.

6) automatically limit time spend for everyone on social media for e.g. 30-60 min per person per day.

7) Different business model than ads.
Hey jnsie, sorry for the poor experience. I'm still working on the product and it definitely is in development mode. Although this sounds unintended, this is currently how the recipe search algorithm works. Because the recipe does not include the ingredient "chicken breast", no results come up. However, multiple recipes include the ingredient "chicken", which lead to you getting a result. I'm working on developing some kind of smart detection algorithm that will ensure you're getting more results and a more accurate result page.
Seems like a wonderful product, but I'm with the others: I probably won't be using it if you need my personal information first. It's a dark pattern (not that I'm accusing you of being malicious) to force people into disclosing anything to use your app, so I'd recommend adding a simple feature like bookmarks that signed-in users can get as a bonus. Otherwise, I see a lot of red flags as a developer when someone is so upfront about needing my email.

Regardless, keep up the good work!
Very comprehensive blog, nice work.

As a pentester, I always get excited when I see ACAO or an OPTIONS request in my proxy logs. It's still really hard to wrangle and get right.
The CPU has a passmark of around 2000 I think. It's clearly quite an upgrade. Also, they have kept backwards hardware compatibility (Pogo Pins, Screen size and Button Placement), that's a huge motivator for a hardware eco system to pop up around it. Can't wait for these tires to warm up!
Sol is gas, right?

Gasses cool when they expand, right?

What’s the expected surface temperature of Sol after it has expanded past Earth’s orbit?
How much audio sample data would you need from the subject you're impersonating to do this? How did the fraudsters know what the manager's voice sounded like?
That's a shame because I do think they are doing a lot of things right as far as being an open source company goes. The software people who work there don't seem to have anything to do with any questionable financial decisions, but they get associated with that just for being there.
The classic CBT (although not ADHD focused) book by David Burns is $8 on Amazon
> you can't just label an entire political faction as crazy.

What would you say if - hypothetically - an entire political faction went crazy? There are examples from history.
Node isn’t a language, and these are the most recent wave of popular programming languages.

C++ went hand in hand with a great IDE (Visual Studio). Java was always used with Eclipse (not good, but ubiquitous).
> I'm also wondering if you've thought of going the DBaaS route.

A different take. Instead of coming up with one more DBaaS, they can just focus on making the existing DBs better and smarter that could potentially bring back a lot of those customers moved to cloud to back to on-prem.
Once again, this demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of fractional reserve banking. Fractional reserve banking is how new money enters the financial system. When you borrow money for, say, a mortgage, new money is created - alongside a liability on the banks books. [edit: This liability is what gives fiat value - money is always 100% backed by the demand for that money].

As you pay off your loan, the new money that was created is destroyed.

This is how the money supply is actively managed, it's not some tinfoil hat conspiracy haha.

There is also a 1/2 trillion dollar fund (FDIC) and a further 1/2 trillion dollar line of credit at the Fed to ensure depositor funds are secure.

The federal reserve, created via act of congress, exists to manage the money supply - to maintain a low, fixed rate of inflation and maximum employment. These two features are correlated, by the way, as you can see in the Philips curve.

Now, Tether on the other hand is just printing fake money to pump up the market to benefit themselves and a small cabal of crypto holders who recognized early on the liquidity did not exist to support their desired level of wealth.

They lie about it regularly - in fact their announcement of this settlement included a bald faced lie.

> Tether: "As to the Tether reserves, there is no finding that tether tokens were not fully backed at all times—simply that the reserves were not all in cash and all in a bank account titled in Tether’s name, at all times."

> CFTC: "In fact Tether reserves were not “fully-backed” the majority of the time."

This is the central bank of crypto, 85% of all trading volume is against USDT, and they have shown themselves to be the least trustworthy entity in the world. Just a new Liberty Reserve.
I got the UB Ports Community Edition of the PinePhone and found Ubuntu Touch to be a very unpleasant experience and not at all what I signed up for. Luckily postmarketOS was exactly what I wanted and I moved to that within a week or so of owning the device.

Ubuntu Touch mounts stuff read-only, pushes you into using webapps, discourages using normal shell stuff like you would on a desktop GNU/Linux system, and has some poorly-working container system for if you wanna use shell stuff. It honestly felt worse than using Termux on an Android phone.

With pmOS you can install nvim, firefox, mpv, minetest... Things just work how you'd expect. It's like a single board computer (raspberry pi, etc.) that comes with a screen and other things already attached. You can ssh into it and update your packages all at once. It's really nice.

I think it's a stretch to say they're starting from scratch, but if you just mean the UI, Manjaro supports Lomiri (the UI from Ubuntu Touch) while also giving you a more normal OS experience. I'm glad to have some diversity in the desktop environment. Phosh is one of the more polished options, but has the issue of being GNOME-flavored and having all the issues you'd see with regular GNOME. Plasma Mobile feels more Android-like and familiar, but is still rough around the edges. Eventually it will hopefully be as good as Phosh and people can choose whatever they like the look and feel of more.
Again, you have to look at the odds: that person is far more likely to miss work from getting COVID than getting vaccinated — very few people have significant reactions requiring multiple days off of work — and most employers are allowing leave above the legal minimum.

Also, let's not forget the context of this thread: a quote about New York business' vaccination status checks. That person barely getting by working two part-time jobs probably isn't spending their time on the indoor dining, bars, gyms, etc. where that requirement applies:

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-vaccines-keyton...

Note also that they required to be allowed up to 8 hours of paid sick leave to get vaccinated:

https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-02909

So to the extent that there's a genuine concern here, I would think it would make more sense to focus on places which have a combination of a vaccination mandate but not a leave requirement. I would be surprised if that was common since typically the politicians opposed to one of those policies would also oppose the other.
"having them tell me ... does not make me feel the same way... "

You don't get the warm fuzzies when someone tries to harvest intimacy across hundreds of their relationships simultaneously with a post? Weird.
Your doctor charged you $3k and diagnosed you with a mental illness but is unwilling to prescribe medicine? That feels like theft to me.

Can you at least see if they can start you on a non-stimulant pharmaceutical? Some people really like Strattera (I tried it and had horrible side effects that landed me in the ER, but I know other people who love it). Unfortunately I think Strattera is still patented, so it’s pretty pricey if you don’t have insurance. Make sure to look for coupons that will save you about 90% of MSRP.
We could start by calling it what it is -- antisocial. Spending time on media content aggregators is an antisocial activity. Not that spending some time on an antisocial activity is inherently bad... studying and research are also antisocial activities. But let's not call something "social" when it is the antithesis of anything that could be considered as such. I think this could be a decent start!
In case you weren't aware of it, MacOS also has a `Shift + Cmd + 5` screenshot shortcut that allows for more configuration (save location; whether to capture the full screen, a window, or a specific area of the screen; and whether to capture an image or a video) - in particular, I find that the screen area capture is better than using `Shift + Cmd + 4`, because you can adjust where the edges of the box are before capturing, rather than needing to get spacing right in one go with the crosshairs.
You could argue that it is not the technology stack that creates a barrier to entry for financial services but rather the existing relationships and levels of comfort with the regulators.

Said another way, let's assume the regulator is not keeping up on the latest and greatest trends. Let's also assume the regulator wants to avoid adding lots of extra work and due diligence. We could assume the regulators were not quite as smart as the higher paid banking executives. What do you think the response will be when you push for big changes that need to happen quickly? What incentives exist for regulators to change?
I couldn't agree more. It is a spectrum.

<-- Fully MPA ... MPA with mini SPAs ... Fully SPA. -->

Many don't venture in the middle. Not sure why. Do not stay on either end. It will bite you!
Out of curiosity, the video part way down ("White Drwarf System Animation Text") showing the dying star... how are these videos created? Is it done in something like Blender? The video credits Keck Observatory, do they have 3d artists on staff for this kind of thing? Do Astronomy grad students just learn how to create visualizations? What's the turnaround for getting something like this made because I'm assuming it was made for the press release.
Let's rephrase your category b and see it it sticks:

b) the tribe that reacts to any criticism of public health experts with hostility and threats of violence, pushes an anti-intellectual agenda, pushes pseudo-treatments that are at best not known to work or at worst a health hazard, and tries to fill in the gap between their beliefs and reality with conspiracy theories?

Yep, fits like a glove and with that shows it is unwise to try to frame one of the sides of a polarised discussion. If you truly want to engage in a debate on such subjects the first thing to do is to leave your bias at the door, otherwise you'll only add fuel to the fire.

Whether Ivermectin works or not is something which can be found out through the scientific (with a small 's') process, is it not up to 'The Science' to decide this upfront. If it does work this would be a good thing given the relative safety and low price of the preparation. If it does not work, well, that's too bad, hopefully something else will be found which does work while having the same advantages - safety and low price - as Ivermectin has.
Piezoelectricity is not photons. It may generate photons, but is not created by photons.
Is this research based? Are you sure your "interventions" help?
Especially for purposes of monetizing YouTube videos.
> If your request to fetch new data and patch the DOM takes 5ms

Even in the US people are still dealing with pretty bad internet in a lot of places. Even with the best internet, and assuming it takes 0ms to handle the request, 5ms sounds insanely optimistic. I'm in a big city and my ping (to my ISP's datacenters in the same city) is 10-20ms...
I don't think that's really true at all. You can pretty easily run any damned thing in Borg. If you want it to do stuff with other Google services then you need a lot of Google code, but if you just want to run 100000 replicas of `/bin/sleep 100000`, Borg makes it easy.
If you install them to your home directory, no. If they install to system directories (/usr, /lib, /etc, /var) then they could cause issues. I personally would not run any installer script that asks to use sudo or otherwise give it root permissions, that's a recipe for disaster. If you have to do that, run it in a container.
Things are properly 60fps and hardware accelerated now if that's what you mean. postmarketOS is a lot smoother now than it was at first.
I think if you return to first principles, where the military exists as a tool of the state to conduct policy through violence (or threat of it) then most of the projects don't make sense given the abject failure of the military to achieve success over the last few decades.

A better use of technology for this kind of policy would be on offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, control and monitoring of social or media networks and telecommunications. The CCP seems to understand that those are better tools for conducting diplomacy with 21st century violence more than making it easier for a soldier to hit someone with a bullet, since that is mostly a solved problem (shoot more of them and care less about who they hit)
Betting on Coke doesn't short Pepsi because you're still long on the overall soft drink market fluctuations that impact both.
Right. I'm just saying that if the are any black dwarfs (which there should not be), we should be able to find ~arbitrarily dim ones as well, down to our ability to see.
I look for 3 things that vary greatly between brands/models:

1. Modular build. E.g. with new thinkpads you can’t even remove the battery. That sucks.
2. Good keyboard.
3. Linux support

Everything else is usually pretty great by my standards.