skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not surprising because it is Standard Operating Procedure for Republicans in the US.

1. Perform illegal activities
2. Accuse somebody else of said activity
3. Disenfranchise and / or suppress the middle & lower classes to continue the wealth transfer to the rich.

The claim that $400b in fraud was committed against the government is probably true, but it's more likely that Republicans did it[1]. Shifting the blame to the lower classes was used to justify ID.me and get contracts from the government and transfer more wealth from the lower tax-paying classes to the rich non-tax payers.

Forcing people to sign up for government services using ID.me serves two purposes:

1. Impede and reduce access to government services (i.e. reduce government outlay to the lower classes)
2. Become a de facto "National ID" for the US Federal government that links your face, phone, social security number, and Facebook profile to further aid in potentially suppressive measures.

A priori rebuttals:

"The government already has that information" -- The government is not a single bloc in the US and the law says the Federal Government cannot cannot use your tax ID as a national ID. Even the Real ID Act which imposed standards on state-issued IDs was controversial because it was perceived as a back-door attempt to create a national ID. But because ID.me links all of this this information and because ID.me is considered a third party with who all of this information was shared, the US government can simply issue a subpoena to ID.me and the company will simply hand it over, thus bypassing the national ID restrictions. In fact, an internal portal could be established to automatically process subpoenas that could charge a small fee for each identity request processed.

"My SSN already effectively acts like a national ID" -- You are never supposed to share your Tax ID with anyone, but we stupidly do so to sign up for credit cards.

"The rich will have to sign up as well so they're not excluded from ID.me" -- False. The rich don't do their own taxes so they would never need to interact with the IRS. They have accountants and tax preparers who work hard to ensure they pay zero taxes. [NB: Middle and lower classes could avoid using ID.me to access the IRS by submitting paper returns; or they could use a tax preparer, but that simply transfers more wealth since you have to pay the tax preparer anywhere from $50 for HR Block to $500+ for a really good tax preparer.]

"Why are you blaming Republicans? Democrats are rich too!" -- Fair point. Republicans have perfected blame-shifting, so they are an easy target. However, the proper class is wealth, because Democrats and Republicans will clearly work together as soon as their wealth is threatened.

[1] https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/ppp-fraud-charges-ceo-...
Leaded fuel is still widely used in piston engine airplanes (most small airplanes).

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/leaded-gas-wa...
It means you could have ADD/ADHD.
Show HN: Blogstatic.io – Blogging and Sending Newsletters from a single platform
It's amazing that they pulled this off without node and electron, you mean?
This is what this site uses: https://openseadragon.github.io/
I've bought systems off of Amazon that had pirated Windows licenses on them (otherwise a great little fanless box)

In a previous life I was an infosec consultant. We did some work for a hospital that found malware on the control hosts shipped with a brand new turnkey MRI system from a German manufacturer.
The space shuttle is a sad story. On the one hand the military’s money made it possible but they also influenced the design in a very bad way.
Wow amazing. So long ago, but still so relevant and also well executed back then.
I am @valsopi on Twitter

A bit of a backstory: The first version of blogstatic (about a year ago) was built in 30 hours over a course of a month. Since then, it has gone through multiple iterations with 95% of requests coming strictly from registered users. The "newsletter" feature was included around December '21 after a long hesitancy on my end to implement it.

Everything started around December '20. I wanted to create a Medium like platform without the paywall. However, being that 'distribution' is quite a hard thing, especially when working solo on a product, I decided to not pursue it.

Here's a cringeworthy tweet I had posted back then : ) https://twitter.com/valsopi/status/1337540047470551040

Then, around March 2021, I exited a product that I was running since 2017 (Claritask), which created the perfect conditions (read: more runway) to create something I've been wanting to do for quite some time, even if it didn't make any money: an online CMS's of sorts for bloggers, which makes it easy to create a blog and start writing, with as little hoops to jump as possible.

Hence, blogstatic.

Since implementing Stripe so users can pay the low yearly fee, I've added 1 new payment per week on average. Fingers crossed this continues.

If you want to give it a go, there's a forever free plan. And you don't have to confirm your Email address. So your blog will be created a few seconds after you hit "Register" — it takes a minute or so for the SSL to be created.

Here's what it looks like inside (the editing area) — a tweet from announcing a new feature: https://twitter.com/blogstatic/status/1458507499263430663

You can also hook up your own custom domain/subdomain on the free plan. No restrictions there.

Next: I plan to upgrade the "Newsletter sending" section, which I had avoided for so long to implement initially, but I have noticed that users are wanting to do more with it.

Sort of maybe go a bit into Sub*tack territory and implement payment plans for bloggers, without taking any fees whatsoever.

I know I will be leaving a ton of money on the table, but I have no investors and can spend my time listening to my users.
In the official feedback discussions [1] from December 2021, the answer for this question was "won't start working on it for 2-4 months".

[1]: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/7744#discussi...
A human standing next to a full-size replica: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

It looks the same to me.
It's amazing it didn't catch on.
The figure comes from this paper [1].

I gather they do estimates based on sampling, but no doubt the testing rates and accuracy vary a lot from country to country, and the figure is presented for rhetorical impact over precision.

[1] https://www.unicef.org/media/109361/file/The%20toxic%20truth...
The Neue Pinakothek in Munich had a sunflower painting and I noticed the same thing. The textures really pop and there’s so much paint it is protruding from the canvas.
The malware analysis report they've ordered (https://www.rmcybernetics.com/files/pdf/Malware-analysis-Fly...) is extremely light on details.

Yes, some things look suspicious (packing, lack of signatures, hardcoded IP addresses/hostnames, network traffic) - but I'm not seeing any clear-cut evidence that this is malware?
Assuming it's static. If there is any post hiding, or filtering based on filters/search etc that might not be cached.
I think it's actually a pretty bad experiment, even as a concept. And because the same behavior is not applicable at scale, which is what these types experiments seem destined to promote as policy, whether intentionally or not.

It's attributing a gain in purchasing power to an increased absolute dollar amount, when the extreme top and bottom segments of market participants are affected more by their position relative to everyone else participating in that market.

In other words, as we've sort of seen with covid, the markets where everyone at the bottom gets aid in the same/ similar amounts are also the markets that see the greatest shortages and price increases, leaving those at the bottom in the same relative position as before, despite having more money.

It's a similar phenomenon to how anti price-gouging laws will often make shortages worse or result in higher demand or both. Or will manifest a black market of profiteering arbiters.

(There's also effects due to lack of overall supply and lack of elasticity or a slow market response time. Eg, in rental markets with the most protective eviction moratoriums, landlords were much more likely to require extreme vetting of new tenants as well as large deposits or even prepayment. All things that disproportionately hurt those who are at the bottom end of the market.)

>It would also be nice to see how "low income" is defined for this study.

Yeah, especially if it's based on a family size/status-adjusted percentile-type metric, which would make everything above even more pronounced and potentially inflationary.
If it fully works, it is at least under my control what data I handover to the advertisers.

So it is better. I just think that it will not achieve the endgoal because every user will just deactivate it and the ad business will find another way to track me.
The sum of your comment seems to be the subjective belief that the statue of liberty and 737s are "not that big"...

Not sure what size you'd expect the shuttles to be, but being in the same ballpark as the statue of liberty (without pedestal) seems a great deal larger than my expectations.
The malware now has 60/67 rating [1] on VT. Their analysis [2] is pretty good too.

[1]: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/1679b086f649d92456b2f600...

[2]: (PDF) https://www.rmcybernetics.com/files/pdf/Malware-analysis-Fly...
just enjoy, if you have a disney+ account, the documentary "among the stars" where you can view the astronauts repairing the hubble telescope
GMX
Amazing, we might finally be able to solve the great university diploma verification problem.

It’s really held back society that we haven’t been able to verify diplomas issued by centralized trusted institutions in a decentralized trustless fashion. /s
I'm similar. I've narrowed down my learning to two things I need:

- Principles for how things fit together. This is similar to your comment about digging into the assembly. Understanding how something is built is one way of determining the principles.

- Understanding of why something is needed. I still remember back to first learning to program and not understanding pointers. I pushed through in reading the book I was using and eventually they talked about how to use it and it finally clicked.
what side effects did you experience? (if you don't mind me asking)
Yet again mosaic blur's inferiority to opaque rectangle is demonstrated.
Considering China keeps shipping toys to the US with high lead levels, I wouldn't be surprised if they make lead paint for domestic use. I have no interest in looking up how, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was easy to find the recipe for lead paint and make it in your garage. I have read enough about making homemade finish to think anyone who gets the recipe - including passed down over generations by people living in mud huts - can make it.
>The salad years of buying almost anything at Walmart, Tesco, Amazon for 15% less than what it'd cost from the west and taking that to the hoop as success are long gone.

Picking a current tangential issue and globbing it on to a needed global trade correction which has been in the making for the last 20 years is opportunistic. Inflation like this hasn't been seen in the US since the late 70s, for which there are many factors including Covid.

>The west cannot do expensive labor forever. It's dying faster than cheap labor.

US labor & regulation (where I am) is medium. Not stupidly high certainly not lowest. I think other places in the west find it harder here than us. Still I am not particularly pleased with US governmental institutional competence in the last 15 years. We are nowhere near our best, and sadly sucking in a few important areas.

I would remind that outsourcing to China did not start the behest of a US politician taking a call from Joe Smoe manager who asked if he should outsource. The move east with consequent impact on labor and larger issues was done by US business people. Further examples are obvious, but let's not dismiss self interest either.

Going back to my original point: I absolutely could not care less what the Chinese think on this particular issue. ARM isn't theirs anyway. China, whenever strategic dependency arises, wants their own lock-stock-and-barrel-stuff. MC/VISA will never be top there. And Intel/ARM/AMD/TSMC will never rule the roost there either. They will not be dependent on the west. So my question for the west: how much and how long are you gonna play a part in their goal? What are the limits? How do we know when enough is enough?
> the American person is not at fault for not understanding this.

Part of being an adult is understanding that generally, people are not 4chan trolls.

If someone who's not a crackpot says to you "can I burn a gay", even though that seems unambiguous, they've probably just misspoken or are joking.

In real life almost everyone seems to get this, online it's like everything is a strawman.
> Nobody seems to care about any of this.

Leaded petrol has been banned from sale at gas stations by every country in the world. [0] Unlike many important issues (such as overuse of antibiotics), it did receive the attention it deserved, at least eventually.

Work is ongoing in phasing out the use of leaded fuels in aviation. I think it's mostly a matter of testing existing aviation-approved engines to ensure they still perform as required on the various unleaded petrol blends they hope to transition to.

(As I understand it though, leaded paint is far more of a problem in terms of lead poisoning, than use of leaded petrol in aviation. I was still surprised the article made no mention of aviation.)

Aside: Someone at Cessna apparently thinks the transition away from leaded petrol will reduce carbon footprint. [1]

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/final...

[1] https://www.flyer.co.uk/cessna-singles-ok-to-use-unleaded-fu...
I'm pretty sure it was a hardball negotiation tactic that failed. The employment market hasn't been as good as it is now since before 2008, a lot of assumptions would have been built in that time about how to negotiate with employees. Those assumptions clearly aren't valid any more.
I’ve seen it mentioned tons of times in articles. Especially in regards to how well it did which which leads to fuel savings which leads to a longer life.
Mormon tea is merely the folk name of a plant, it doesn’t mean they all drink tea made from it.
This one was posted two hours ago (first) while the one you linked was posted one hour ago (second).

Though the Schneier article links to https://slashdot.org/story/395213 which should have been what was posted to HN.
Hey while we're here in this closet shhhh posting non-additive replies... I have a website that's still up from 1996. Older than so many Kids These Days. :P
Non-AMP link: https://www.theverge.com/21298762/face-depixelizer-ai-machin...
It's pretty hard for Russians to get US visas for startups. They probably went to HK because that's a far easier place to build a team.
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That's not what I was implying. I'm implying the mass (and volume, and especially servicability) constraints required expensive engineering. Those constraints are relaxed with much cheaper launch, especially if in-space assembly and maintenance (by astronauts!) becomes affordable.
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I really can't wait until the have proper first light. They say June will be the earliest after phasing has completed, but it can't come soon enough.

That being said, I've waited 25 years so far, a few more months won't hurt
Rust is in this weird place, because it needs to be palatable to C/C++ programmers. C has pointers and a vague notion of their lifetimes, but barely any type system to speak of. That's the lens through which Rust needs to present the problem.
I've taken it twice. Once for an overnight implementation, and once as a pre-workout for a strongman competition.

There used to be a vitamin for sale in the UK called Berocca that had the slogan "You but on a good day." Modafinil for me felt like me on a really, really good day.
> Infinite sums are among the most underrated

I don't know about that - series like the Tailor expansion are used all over the place.
Look at what happened in flint Michigan. Lead pipes were calcified, but then the water bureau stopped adding an agent to reduce the natural ph of the river water. This caused the calcification to get stripped and for lead to start leaching into the water.

All it takes is a change in ph of your water supply to put you at risk.
I also heard that for this launch, Arianespace made sure to make no innovation whatsoever to the launcher (usually each launch is used to test small improvements).

Source: podcast in French
Never done anything IV, but I do plenty of drugs (cocaine included) during basically every weekend, and have been doing so for the last ~30 years more or less.

Sure, some people do fall down into the trap of doing something too much, this is true for lots of things, including video games (which I've been more addicted to than drugs at some points in my life). But if you have a kind of normal life during the week that you like too much to lose, then it's not that hard to keep your drug usage to where it's accepted, for your sake and others.

I do love cocaine, but seeing what happen to others when consuming things too much, is a great tool to avoid liking it too much so it takes over your life.
They’re not “imperial” units, since those were set by the British Empire in the first part of the 1800s, and the Americans never adopted them.
That's really something entirely different than malware. You know that Amazon books on kindle are subject to that. It's not malware on the Kindle, it's their whole schtick.
You could force it into that mould by saying that the black kids were at least as smart as the white kids within the two groups (exposed to lead, not exposed to lead) but they were less smart when the two groups were combined.
I have to make amends to Fred & Paul because of dogarandkazon.com - I was following the original case there a few years ago (you know what I'm talking about) and I was extremely sad because it seemed that they engaged in that copyright issue just to make sure nobody else could make another Star Control game again - but it looked like they weren't interested in making one themselves either...

But today I learned that they were not just pretending, but are actually working on a sequel! I am so happy, here is bright and smooth. Campers are the best!
That's a subset of CRPGs, which simply stands (as the sibling notes) for "computer role-playing game". It's not the entirety of the genre by any means.
Ordering anything from Earthly e-shops would certainly be a challenge :) No free same day delivery there, unless you bought some downloadable stuff!

I guess the contents of planetary Internets will just be synchronized periodically, the physical limitations do not really allow for a different solution.
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true! But yes, it is. This map shows a summary of tests of paints on the market: https://ipen.org/projects/eliminating-lead-paint/lead-levels...
(These are studies of oil-based paints, rather than water-based paints which don't usually contain lead, but in LEEP's experience from Malawi and Liberia lots of homes are painted with oil-based paints, inside and out)
> Start at edge computing;

It seems pretty clear that this what they're thinking of. They want to be able to license an integrated architecture that includes power-efficient computing and a powerful ML engine. They've been so heavily investing in this space for a reason.

What I can't figure out is why this is such a big deal to regulators. Nvidia doesn't manufacturer these things (aside from Jetson I believe? Not 100% clear on this). They license IP. And this is IP that I think the world would really like to have.

Currently the only player in this space is Apple. They've built their own integrated silicon with their perpetual ARM license that is now giving them a huge market advantage, and will continue to do so until there is another competitor. The R&D required to compete with a cash-liquid >2.5 Trillion dollar company is just not feasible for any of the other major players at present. Nvidia/ARM opens doors for tons of other companies.

I also think it's foolish to think that Apple won't try to expand this tech offering well beyond personal computers and tablets. They will expand to IoT/Edge devices and services. But the difference is they won't be licensing their IP to other manufacturers, they will be building it themselves (or contracting Foxconn to) and keeping everything in their walled garden.

Guess I'm just frustrated that of all ridiculous acquisitions and anticompetitive nonsense I've seen in the past decade, THIS is the one getting smothered.
"your browser determines a handful of topics"

And that's where I stop reading. Now the software installed on my own devices is going to provide third-party sites with information about myself against my will?
Since the site seems to have been hugged to death, here is the link to an archived version from a few days ago: https://archive.md/DIrdx
That’s still much less serious than lead paint being used for the interiors of houses and apartments, which it was in the US until the 1970s. Was it in Europe?
No, but Thames Water will replace the external lead pipe for free if you get your internal lead pipe replaced (as in, up to the demarcation point, which is probably the external stop valve). (More complicated if it's shared, of course). Other areas might be similar.
It definitely is. 6.5m diameter of the mirror only on JSWT and 2.4 of Hubble.
Archive.is link: https://archive.is/JNKju
Keys set aside, one can now use Free42 on a phone to get a taste.
https://pharmaboardroom.com/interviews/alex-zhavoronkov-ceo-...

Besides Aspuru-Guzik, this author seems to be the most wellknown in the field.

My read is that they are in HK for the diverse CS talent (ie other russians) and second, better funding options compared to being in China proper.

Knowing russians, they have been considering the Far East as more culturally accomodating than the SV corporate style (combining the poorer aspects of left and right) for some time now. I would say if Texas had a insilico pharm industry that might be comparable to HK..
> Piracy is not a theft in a sense that it's just illegal, not fundamentally immoral.

Piracy is definitely a theft. It’s ludicrous to suggest that IP doesn’t have any value like physical property.
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>> With Topics, your browser determines a handful of topics, like “Fitness” or “Travel & Transportation,” that represent your top interests for that week based on your browsing history.

Google's definition of what is a browser absolutely disgusts me. Please Firefox, Waterfox, Whateverfox, stay in the game for as long as you can because when you die, a piece of me will, too.
Since ever few years someone finds new childrens toys being manufactured with lead paint, it seems it's still being used once in a while at least.

https://uspirg.org/news/usp/recall-toys-still-found-lead-pai...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02697...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2016/04/26/the-ot...

https://www.insider.com/amazon-selling-toxic-toys-lead-poiso...
These are subjective things, sure. My personal feeling upon seeing the shuttle was that it was not that big, because I've seen big airliners all my life. I was expecting the shuttle to be bigger. So when I looked at the parent's infographic and saw a 737 and the Statue of Liberty there, they didn't seem right (I've also seen the SoL in-person). So the size comparisons I think are quite misleading in that graphic, and yeah, I was surprised how much smaller the shuttle is than what I expected.