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> thinking how helicopters can't fly over everest.

A specially built helicopter did land at the summit.

[0] https://youtu.be/iu46fJDUvog
I wish more people questioned mandatory car insurance.

It just seems like a huge racket.

I once heard a political analyst say Sacramento (I live in CA.). politicians take in huge donations from Insurance Lobby groups, and those lobbiests practically write/refute any bill even tangentially related to their coverage, or premiums.

(I don't want to start a debate. I know the positives/negatives. I looked into that Pay per Mile insurance. They all require a computer to plug into. Their are many vechicles still on the road that don't have a diagnostic port.)
Additionally, there is an instruction ‘mov r64,imm32’ which nasm would select even if it did not have this crazy peephole; that is only 7 bytes, not 10 (rex, op, modr/m, id).
Multithreaded Python without the GIL is possible
Not much.

My employer has been very smart in adapting to the remote-first approach.

We hired a lot of full-remote people during the pandemic, the company is allowing people to switch contract and go full-remote and is allowing non-remote people to work from home until the end of the year.

Starting from 2022 the rumor is that we'll be hitting the office once per week, mostly due to legal reason/constraints. If that's the case, I've proposed such day to be friday and I'll be pushing for all the meetings to be on friday, with the idea being the if I have to go to the office at least let's make it a social event (meetings, meetings with other teams, lunch together etc).

This still has to materialize though, so we'll see :)
Alibaba T-head RVB-ICE dual-core RISC-V SBC supports Android 10, Debian 11
I could not agree more :-) thanks!
> Rationed for the usual reason because it's hard to make and there isn't enough to go around.

The technology to make monoclonal antibodies is simpler than that for mRNA vaccines.

> That's also the reason they tend to be so expensive

Economies of scale play a big role. At similar scale mab should be cheaper than mRNA.
I don’t think you’ll find many anti-nuclear people on HN that are also pro-fossil-fuel.

It’s a false choice, we can choose to not use fossil fuels, and decrease the risk of nuclear meltdowns and dirty bombs at the same time.
IIRC, this turned into a large and complicated reinsurance claim case because they couldn't work out if the second plane hitting counted as a separate event, or if both planes should be counted as the same attack. This made a big difference in terms of who should pay whom, and what amount.
Their business model is simple:

* You can hack free boxes and get a mediocre VPN connection to their boxes (that are playable as free). It's doable, but I got annoyed by certain things.

* You can get a subscription for (I forgot) like ... 10$ per month? And then you get a good VPN connection to an entirely different set of servers. It also opens up many more boxes to hack!
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Isn't 86box the natural successor, given that it's an actively maintained fork of PCem?

https://github.com/86Box/86Box
This is also something I've experienced a lot in large orgs. Having 10 developers +2-3 managers have weeks of endless discussions, design work being done to avoid "costly" development.

Sure developer time is costly, but developers in meetings and design rounds are just as costly if not more so, because more people are involved.

This then gets exacerbated when after weeks of discussion and design an attempt is made to implement an MVP where it is noticed that none of the decisions made work very well for this particular use case.

You can of course face the opposite problem of not designing and implementing something wrong.

This is why I always ask to make a small test first. say you have 5 possible rendering backends for your graphical output, where you don't know which one to use. Spend some developer time building a miniature test to see if the features are there for each one. Often as soon as you start using it you can rule 1 or two out after a few minutes. (Installation breaking). The rest you can sort out in a few hours by modifying the examples they use on their web page.

This often leads to only 1 or 2 actual possibilities, focusing the ensuing design work on what matters.
Never thought of it this way TBH. Proverbs are common in Russia, so it might have been Taibbi's cultural misunderstanding. He's usually pretty astute about things, and he has lived in Russia for a while (and at an interesting time, no less), so he knows the mores and you can trust most of his observations, just not this one.

That said, I can confirm that even in USSR people did very much harbor original thoughts even though quite obviously there was no free press and one could pay dearly for speaking their mind. You just had to be sure that you know everyone you're speaking to really, really well. The KGB had lots of "secret collaborators" embedded within the populace (much like the FBI in the US today), so if you're not careful with your jokes or thoughts, you could easily get 5 years in the labor camp. I predict that the United States will be like that within 10 years or less.

There's even a Soviet joke about this: a judge is heard laughing when exiting the court, and a friend of his asks "why are you laughing?", "The guy on trial told a really funny joke.", "Could you tell it to me?", "No, I can't, I just gave him 5 years in the labor camp for it."
What about the studios who spent 5+ years and millions of dollars in development to release their game to a particular console? How will they recuperate their costs if no one is buying their games in the critical 6-month post-release window because the console is too expensive? Fewer early customers means fewer dollars to reinvest in the next Playstation game and that's fewer dollars spent by Sony for the next hardware release. It's a vicious cycle that's going to hit Sony right in the pocketbook in the short- and long-term.

Third party studios aren't going to develop for a console with high a development cost AND reduced ROI.The result of your proposal is stagnating hardware and low game sales. These days, developers could just build games for the Xbox and easily port it to Windows and vice versa. Two markets for the price of a Windows server farm.
That's the point. Where is the 3050?
True, yet in a few cases the not-dropping of privileges is a real risk, like with `less` [0], which allows for arbitrary shell access despite being meant for for just paging. Also, it's useful to know that a program is sloppy with permissions in case any bugs are found in it; a CS prof I once had always insisted we dropped permissions and capabilities as soon as we were done with them so that any calls to other libraries or our own buggy code could do the least damage possible, just like how it's good practice to not run every command as root.

[0]: https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/less/
Nice! Thanks.

Edit: That sounds like either an exploit or a murky corner case, interesting.
Their cryptocurrency FAQ is comical at times:

> How do cryptocurrencies work?

All transactions are done on the internet. Each unit of cryptocurrency is made up of a unique computer codes that can be bought and sold.

> Who runs cryptocurrencies?

Instead of a central (or national) bank there are thousands of IT experts, known as ‘miners’, whose job is to verify transactions and release more crypto-coins into the market. The Bitcoin miners use a system called blockchain.

They are sustained by their users, who believe the value of their digital currencies will increase (or at least remain the same).
It costs 1-2000€ in Europe. A day in the ICU costs 7-8000€.
This looks good. Will give a try.
I know this is also more analytics/product focused. But one feature that I absolutely loved from another company in this space (https://www.fullstory.com/) is the ability to see the log of network requests and console logs. It was fantastic for debugging. Just thought I'd mention in case its a useful data point.
Fuel Cell Industry Giants Join Forces to Develop High-Performance Hydro-Fuel Sys
Django's DEBUG setting is not a feature flag
Sounds like fun! I don't have the copious amount of time I had when I did hackthebox, but when I feel the need to hack, I'll check it out. Thanks!
These legislations keep me from publishing some of my private projects because I don't want my full name, address and phone number on the internet
Good. Makes sense. Much of the speculative narrative around bitcoin has been pure gambling and it resembles a cultish sickness.
I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but historically, Online.net (now rebranded as "Scaleway") has always been the main competitor of OVH in France. They were known for their "Dedibox" when I was younger.

OVH kinda won because their VPS pricing was always dirt-cheap compared to the cheap dedicated servers provided by Online.net/Scaleway. Since then OVH VPSes got expensive, and Scaleway started offering cheap VPSes, the prices got aligned. I know a few people who used to be OVH-fanboys and they all migrated to Scaleway and Vultr the last 4 years.

But I agree, the competition for unmetered reliable VPSes is getting thinner and thinner… People are even started to consider metered VPS solutions like Vultr…

Rasmus Lerdorf (the author of PHP) did an objective non-sponsored comparison[1] in 2019, I'm using IONOS personally, but since then strato.de appeared. (Both are German) I'm thinking about adding another node from them to avoid relying on only one vendor.

[1] https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing
> I disagree. Perhaps not specifically these subs but the sentiment certainly involuntarily spreads opposition and one main purpose of subs like these is to have something to feel superior about.

No, that's not really true at all. For a clear example, here's a link to a post from /r/HermanCainAward that popped up in /r/popular right now

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/q701sk/tir...

Every single time I stumbled upon a post from /r/HermanCainAward in /r/popular, the theme has always been the same. It's pretty much a one-trick subreddit.
Risk in insurance is more complicated than probability x cost.

It is more something like

probability x cost x liquid_captial / (liquid_capital - cost)

Essentially if the cost is so high the insurer would take a massive hit. This is the same reason why normal people by health-insurance. Essentially the 'value' of money is not linear. The less money you have the more value a single dollar has.
Exchange fees are different from spreads (and, in US venues, much larger than spreads)

Do people really place 100% taker orders?
I think it goes lost that my original comment said "an" essential cause, not "the" cause. Obviously social systems are complex creatures, and isolating a factor does not mean excluding all the other ones.

> Japan was a very aggressive empire not even two generations ago

Aggressive externally but peaceful internally, which is really what we're talking about. Probably as a reaction to centuries of brutal internal warfare, since Meiji internal cohesion has been emphasized above most other things, and it has held in a way that we've not yet seen in Europe on a comparable scale.

> Germany

Interesting mention, because German practices and values were among the most significant ones "imported" under Meiji; Germany had recently made a massive social and technological leap forward, precisely the sort of thing the Japanese wanted to make (and did make), and Germans were extremely self-assured. However, Germany lies on a cultural bedrock of fundamental individualism, like the rest of Europe, and various factions were soon clashing in the streets in the name of various ideologies, with the result we all know. I think a lot of Germans would find your "bite-less protesting" as a mischaracterization: German movements have been very, very bitey, before and after the various recent conflicts, producing (and exporting) terrorists and disruptors pretty regularly.
The consequences of their decisions and actions are significant raise in income, experience and exposure. Are you actually expecting people to stick around for "form's" sake ?
Will the business invest in these people and keep them around during the hard times to see the benefit of good corporate governance ?

Devs are not stupid.
Fun, I guess this is just a question of habit. Nowadays I use OSMAnd mostly, and when I have to use Google's Maps (OSMAnd's search isn't great, and public transportation isn't there), I'm lost, and the app never shows the information I want.

It's happened to me a lot of times with Google's Maps (with regard to how frequent I use Google's Maps) that I'm looking for something, I KNOW it's there, I'm searching for it (like "groceries" for a grocery store), and the only way Google's Maps would ever show it to me is by zooming it until the ONLY thing on screen is building, and then it does display it.
If masks worked effectively, it would be quite simple to find a strong correlation between cases and areas with lax mask usage. Instead it is all over the map (pun intended).
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Air resistance is to first approximation quadratic with velocity. High initial velocities lead to very high braking force, so it wouldn't have 70 km/s for very long. Also see surrounding comments for more related physics.
How Windows NTFS finally made it into Linux
> V8 is an excellent JS runtime

Doesn't Electron use two instances of it though, one for Node.js and one for the browser UI, with some sort of message-passing inbetween? That would tend to slow things down.
Or Motif's UIL, as if people cried out for that.
> drove a ways to a bank and found they lost their last "banker". All they have are tellers now.

My dad used to work in a bank and is now retired.

The way he described the retail banking industry when he left is that "bankers" were being basically phased out.

Banks nowadays mostly have tellers and 90% of their work is to gether documents and documentation, all the important decision will be taken more centrally, probably with the aid of some kind of AI/ML engine.

This view is confirmed by my recent experience in getting a mortgage: all the bank clerk did is collect documents proving my ability to repay a mortgage, but the final decision was delegated to some sort of central evaluation center.

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On a sidenote, this also means that the performance of a bank office in a certain city mostly does not depend on their employees there, and marketing mantras like "we entrust people to thrive / we empower people to thrive" is mostly BS.

Whereas 25-30 years ago a "banker" at the local branch of a bank could have followed their own instinct and could actually have helped people thrive, nowadays there probably is a hughe part of the decision taken by an automated system.
You are viewing the list from a position of great privilege, due to your greater knowledge. Many devs don’t understand how sudo or setuid binaries even work, some may not even know that sudo itself is a setuid binary. Asking interview questions like “how does sudo work” yields interesting results ranging from “magic/witchcraft” to “it’s part of the Linux kernel”, even in some very senior engineers. As an educational/training tool, including at least one example of the unintended consequences of ill-formed sudo configurations and setuid binaries in GTFOBins makes sense to me.

Heck, IMO, we shouldn’t have a single role with all the privileges, opting instead for a capabilities-like system with specific admin roles for different domains of control. There are other *nixes where this was the case historically.
Agree. I left California for Taiwan on Christmas (time flies!) and have zero regrets.

I’ve doubled my life style and halved my costs. If you’re even remotely thinking about moving abroad remember: you’ll never have MORE time and LESS responsiblity than _right now_.
I made this comment to my wife yesterday. I like an aggressive grill on a car but find it quite funny that it’s becoming more fashionable as air intake is becoming less important.
yes ... being a boss is for most bosses about being and feeling important. and you can only feel that in personal contact. also employees are less impressed by higher ups when they can hide behind a screen.
Enjoyed your post, except that one superfluos, harsh self deprecating word.
Exactly! GTFOBins is an educational tool, not an exploit list, in my opinion.
From Melbourne, in the state of Victoria, Australia here. Currently in lockdown again. Last year, when there where huge amounts of unknown unknowns, our state premier stood up and did a press conference every day for 120 days straight. Every day of the week. In every one he stayed for as long as journalists and Murdoch media employees kept asking questions.

He did quite a good job of explaining the reasoning behind decisions (IMO). The answers stayed consistent when asked eight different ways in a row, and from day to day. Decisions were following the science (like wearing masks is effective as reducing the amount of infections from an air-born pathogen, duh) and the counsel of the chief health officer (among many others, I'm sure).

There are still daily press conferences going on, although they've mixed it up a bit with who is available - usually between the premier, the health minister, the chief health officer and a few others.

We were successful in reducing community transmission to zero last year, and even beating back an initial outbreak of the Delta strain before it surged back and dug in roots. It required a huge effort of societal and political will and cooperation to achieve.

We are now relying on vaccination to open back up. (Unfortunately Australia has been a bit slow off the mark with vaccinations, in part because we managed to have such low infection rates. In part...)

The two main milestones in our staged open up are when 70% and then 80% of the population aged 16 and above have been fully vaccinated (two doses). At current vaccination rates we are looking to hit those milestones in Victoria on Oct 22 and Nov 1 respectively[1].

As of today[0], 73% of the total Victorian population have received at least one vaccination, and 50% fully vaccinated with two doses[2]. Of those who can avail themselves of a vaccine (those aged 12 or above) those numbers go up to 85% and almost 59%.

Currently we have vaccines approved for use for people aged 12 and above. (Provisional approval for Pfizer for ages five to eleven happened today, however that will take some time pass through the various bureaucracies before doses start going into arms).

[0] Wed 13 Oct 2021

[1] https://covidlive.com.au/vic

[2] https://covidbaseau.com/vaccinations/
It has a lot in common with religion where you do penance for your original sin and lead a simple life of contemplating God in some monastery.

Hence the faithfull can demonstrate their goodness but flying to some enviro conference even if the private jet burns a bit of gas getting there.
Adaptive Cards (platform-agnostic snippets of UI, authored in JSON)
Show HN: We launched Uber for startups and salespeople on Product Hunt today
The small biz software helping the climate
'Our mission at Crank is not just to provide SMBs with awesome tools for their business, it's also to enable and facilitate every one of them to help make our planet greener'
You could, but its not producing that much heat.

Moreover, a normal reactor has two loops. The first is an internal loop that moves heat from the core to a heat exchanger. The second is an external loop that takes heat from the heat exchanger and turns it into steam that goes to a turbine.

This is done because the internal loop gets rather contaminated with radioactive materials. Turning that contaminated water to steam and venting it to the outside world is... bad.
A new energy economy is emerging
That didn't stop them from making fraudulent concept video demos that they falsely claimed to be actual existing games that they were already playing around the office, and that they promised much much more than they could actually deliver.

So if you can't reproduce the experience on a 2D screen, then fake it and lie, you're saying? That IS the whole point.
Personally I'm not really worried about the technical side - just the way it's handled. Here's a lesser known minor incident:

https://www.edf.fr/en/the-edf-group/dedicated-sections/journ...

Which wouldn't be newsworthy if it wasn't for how it was handled - the local authorities outright refused to even entertain the idea of even temporarily shutting the plant down to check if everything is okay.

This incident isn't serious, but I'm afraid that should a serious incident happen, we won't know until it gets out of control.
Necessary disclaimer - the primary goal of my extension is yet another way to deliver my artworks to my users' screens. I wrote a bit about it here - https://vlad.studio/blog-post/1002 . Hope you are not annoyed too much with my selling vlad.studio accounts through the extension!
So its basically "Crafted" thing? Thanks TIL.
Argh. And it has a pretty user image which attempts to say that.

Only the image is conveniently cropped to a circle so that the "Un" part isn't visible and it reads "OFFICI".
Yes, I've seen this myself. It's overall still miles better than AWS UI.
Copyright in interfaces entrenches monopoly.
A good example of the revenge of plugins thanks WebAssembly.

Looking forward to more OpenSilver releases.
Not in the immediate future - it is really fiddly and not a core requirement for most of our customers.

If this is critical to your guys' use case, let me know! Happy to consider bumping it up in priority.
I used zenity but found yad, mentioned elsewhere, to be AFAICT zenity compatible but with more features.
I Started with NixOS
I feel you… yet it's good and necessary someone gives a divergent opinion.
It's not a false choice. Anti nuclear is pro-fossil-fuel.

I've been hearing the pro-fossil-fuel misinformation that nuclear is 10 years too late for the past 20 years at least. Many of the same people saying this were also the ones 5 years ago insisting that coal was dead and renewables killed it.

Take a look at thermal coal prices, https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/coal and look up global coal consumption and realize we may not even have hit peak coal yet, let alone any real prospect of a massive short term reduction rather than a very long slow decline.

They were wrong about that too.
I wouldn't call what happens in occupied territory to be internal civil unrest though.