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From the article:

"Arenas, whose father Gilbert played in the NBA, was involved in the single-car crash last April when he said the Cybertruck's keypad and steering wheel wouldn't respond. Arenas said he awoke to find the passenger side of the dashboard engulfed in flames and tried to use his digital key to escape, only to find the Tesla app had locked him out. I tried to open the door and the door wasn't opening," he said."

See also this very cool poster displaying a classification scheme many people probably don't know exists: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/orders...

Have seen at least one other of these articles lately, on the theoretical limits of some human physical capacity. Here's another, on sprinting:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/interactive/2...

A few follow-up questions that occur to me: will an understanding of theoretical limits make the actual record breaking seem more routine and less interesting? And will many records be broken beyond the theoretical limit, making these calculations seem rather crude and short-sighted?

I found this aside on one of the graphics rather surprising:

> Sometime in the next 2000 years, the Sun is expected to leave a local cloud of gas and dust. After that, it may enter the G cloud. If it is denser, it would squash the protective magnetic bubble of the heliosphere, potentially exposing the Solar System to a barrage of cosmic rays.

Mostly surprised that I hadn't heard more about this. 2000 years is practically tomorrow in cosmological time!

A little more here:

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

Worth mentioning this great book on the subject published last year:

https://docsfordevelopers.com/

From article:

"There is a simple way of... [accurately ascertaining] if a novice can indeed land an airliner, according to Patrick Smith: use a professional flight simulator, the kind airlines train their pilots with.

"Stick a person in a true, full-motion airline simulator at 35,000 feet, with no help, and watch what happens," he says. "It won't be pretty."

Mailmate (https://freron.com/)

Have always been surprised it doesn't get more attention on this forum. It's a paid app, and it shows in the quality. Very smart and dedicated single developer (this is feasible for an email client since the protocol is stable and doesn't change very much), an active mailing list and user community. Clean with few bugs in my use. Definitely aimed at developers and people who want to peer into the internals of email.

Example of this 'jack-in-the-box' effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgqmGdvxwEs

I'm thinking more of an institutional solution, like if a research library or archive wanted to preserve the above article, with all of the original interactivity, for a viewer 20+ years from now, is there any kind of consensus on how to go about that?

As far as I can tell through a few searches, their record of 64 days, 22 hours, and 19 minutes of continuous flying is still unbeaten:

https://disciplesofflight.com/flight-endurance/

Have used Octal for over two years--been mostly happy with it.

* High-quality reading experience. Appends the title and other helpful info to the message if you want to share something, and provides easy options to share the HN discussion or the original article. The UI also prioritizes reading the discussion first which, let's be honest, many of on HN are known to do. ;)

* It mostly stays in sync with the front page of HN (and you can keep scrolling down, making it easier to read stuff that has fallen off the front page but is still valuable).

* The search function finds what I want about 80% of the time.

* You can log in with your HN account and see account stats, I sometimes see issues with the account stats (recent submissions, karma, etc.) staying up-to-date, but that's not a big deal to me.

According to the Wiley website:

"E-books offered from Wiley.com are delivered on the VitalSource platform. To download and read them, users must install the VitalSource Bookshelf Software."

So no epub, you have to read it through some other third-party software.

Could ask the similar questions about police sirens while the car is traveling at high speeds. When I watch a police cruiser shoot down a residential street crowded with cars and pedestrians 60-70 miles per hour (or faster), running its lights and sirens at full blast, I often ask myself if the immediate risk of hitting someone is worth whatever advantage of time they achieve by arriving at the scene 2-3 minutes sooner.

A few times, I've seen police or ambulances race up to a building where they've been called, then get out and loiter while waiting for something else--immediately burning off whatever time they'd saved by speeding and running their lights.

This is a wonderful podcast--thorough and incredibly well-researched by a PhD astronomer. If you care about the history of astronomy it's definitely worth your attention.

I read the book about 2/3 through, then felt I'd gotten the idea. I would second a lot of these criticisms of the author's specific understanding of digital ad markets.

My broader problem with the book was that it seemed to use up most of its space rooting around for a good formulation of the comparison contained in the title: that digital ad markets offer an opaque and sometimes fraudulent form of value, in much the same way as the real estate market hit by the 2008-2009 mortgage security crisis.

It was almost as if the author wasn't fully convinced of his own analogy, like he needed to keep looping back to it to add a few more points to really nail it down. All the while, what the reader cares about is why this analogy is important, not that it can be made!

The book could have been much more effective on these counts, I think, if it had been shorter and better edited.

If it's reasonable to assume that someone like a Fed president is aware of the perils of market timing, of information asymmetries, of the disadvantage that an individual investor has against institutional funds, etc.--is there any plausible explanation for his trading individual stocks outside of being in possession of some kind of insider information that gives him an edge on the market?

Surely he can't just claim that he doesn't know what he's doing.

And could a Fed president be in a position to have legal insider information that gives him an edge on trading individual stocks, or is any insider info that he could trade on illegal to do so by definition?

Curious, what is the book?

Agreed!

The title is a little misleading. Prior to this article, at least one of the companies advertised its difficulty selling masks in a local newspaper, and then promptly sold out of all 250,000 masks it had manufactured.[1]

The real problem here is the difficulty these startup mask manufacturers have with securing bulk orders. Those lucrative deals are often, it seems, prevented by preferences for existing models, restrictions on models, and sheer institutional conservatism about trying something new.

Another issue is the difficulty legitimate manufacturers have listing their articles on search engines and online retailers, which often still restrict mask listings due to concerns about fraud or price gouging.

Also, the website of one of the companies has a website that is down on day article was posted.[2] Not clear if that is due to the coverage from NYT, or other operational problems.

[1] https://www.unitedstatesmask.com/products/1836-n95-particula...

[2]https://www.demetech.us/