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wp381640on Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters

He has donated it to a great aircraft museum in Australia - it should be making its way down this year.

They have spent years getting it back to spec to make the trans-pacfic flight back home

wp381640on United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic

I never knew I was so into construction until I started watching it

wp381640on Zerodium offers $100k for a RCE in Pidgin, who received $25k donation this year

Pidgin is ubiquitous on darkweb drug markets and in exploit communities.

wp381640on The US military is starting to get interested in Starship

Most execs are PR/investor relations manufactured corporate clones.

They all have their own flaws, Elon just doesn’t give a shit about wearing his on his sleeve

wp381640on How Intuitive Are Macs Really?

Even as a power user and someone who loves to not RTFM i've found with iPhones / iPads / Macs you gotta refresh and reads tips / the docs to make the most of it since so much UI is hidden now (unless you're a 9 year old!)

wp381640on Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall

Nope this is all from the compromise of Encrochat.

There have been dozens of stories about the pseudonymous users of that service being linked back to real identities since the initial first large wave of arrests

Sometimes you don’t need crazy parallel construction theories - just a simple criminal network cracked because the participants believed it to be secure

wp381640on Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace

I doubt that - pre-COVID they were one of the most profitable airlines in the world

They’re just ruthless in cost cutting to get those profits

wp381640on Digging for Diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas

There are _a lot_ of places in Australia that are the same but with gold.

You can pretty much drive an hour of out Sydney or Melbourne to some rivers and turn the soil and make up to minimum wage extracting river gold, but you can't run a motor doing it or use any equipment that is larger than what you can carry.

A lot of independent mining is like that - it's borderline low wage work but with the promise of a lotto ticket sprinkled in to keep you working.

wp381640on Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Switching from Linux to M1 MacBook

I think i'm ok with it on the Air but went with 16GB for my desktop.

On the Air right now I have 20+ apps open (Firefox, Brave, Chrome, Safari, Slack, Signal, WhatsApp, Microsoft Todo, Excel (4 sheets open), Mail, Calendar, VS Code (2 projects open), iTerm (8 tabs), Postico, Datagrip, Contacts, Messenger, Spotify, Calibre, Docker for Mac (4 containers running)

Memory used is 6.47GB of 8GB physical, cached filed 1.2GB, swap used 8.15GB

It's running more than fine.

It's why I don't think you can compare with other systems in terms of RAM capacity - there is no way I would get away with what I have open now on an 8GB machine running Ubuntu desktop

wp381640on Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Switching from Linux to M1 MacBook

The M1 Air might be the best hardware I've ever purchased. It not only matches the hype, it exceeds it.

I also switched permanently from Ubuntu on an X1 Carbon - docked into a 4k screen.

Unit tests and builds run faster, VS Code for both client and server dev is very responsive (3-4 react / python projects open at once with the language servers running), battery life is out of this world - I don't even pack my charger when I'm out on the road all day.

The machine just feels very snappy - even with 20+ apps open, videos playing, 50 or so browser tabs, watchdog running for dev (css, uvicorn). I feel like I spend a lot less time waiting on the machine. No fan spinning and barely any heat.

I really enjoy switching back now to using Microsoft Office and the Adobe Suite instead of the OSS alternatives.

I don't think RAM is like-for-like comparable in terms of capacity, because I see a lot less memory pressure on the 8GB air (I didn't want to wait the 2 weeks for the 16GB delivery) than on my 16GB i7 X1.

The disadvantages come down to architecture compatibility (problems building cryptography and numpy from pypi which was resolved). I offset this by also running a dev server environment on my HP Micro (with ESXi and a bunch of docker machines) over the LAN.

I've since switched my primary desktop to an M1 Mini (16GB) driving 2x 4k screens, and will use the Air for on-the-road work and personal browsing.

I still have the X1 Carbon sitting on my desk - but find myself using it less and less.

The only other disadvantages are number of USB-C ports on the Air - you'll probably want a hub with power pass-through. The display on the air also isn't the brightest - but still comparable to the X1. The pro is better in this regard. Third disadvantage is inability to access high-end GPU if you require one.

There is no real cost argument against the M1 - I don't even know how to spec an equiv X1 Carbon with similar performance, but even customizing the upgrade to a similar WQXGA display and 400 nits takes you to $3k+ (AUD) while the M1 air was $1950 (with 512GB). Leaves you change to get an x86 server to put on the LAN [0].

I'm a huge, huge fan of the M1 and endorse it to everyone I know. It really is a game-changer.

[0] Geekbench for the intel i7 i7-10510U in the X1 shows 992 single core score 3106 multicore, vs 1700 and 7375 for the M1 air. The display is 1440p (vs 1600) and 300 nits vs 400

wp381640on The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

I was anticipating clicking on it hoping for the source code - because at the time I was writing an HTML editor myself (as a young teen) and was blown away by some of what HotDog could do. Would love to peer into some of those older projects.

wp381640on Everyone Loves the $100M Deli

It’s not only not news but one of the larger finance stories years ago was the spate of fraudulent Chinese reverse-mergers

Wouldn’t surprise me if they have another run at it considering how many new retail investors there are today and the froth in the market

wp381640on Missing hiker found after man using computer at home pinpoints his location

I know people with _boats_ who go out all the time and won't shell out for Iridium

wp381640on Just Be Rich

In the US you could start with the carried interest rule and the capital gains rate

wp381640on Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

Tape over camera originated with the spate of online webcam blackmail attacks a few years ago.

Lots of young girls were being lured into installing malware and had their bedrooms recorded.

wp381640on Things I learned while developing a billing system

    In [8]: "ß".upper().lower()
    Out[8]: 'ss'

wp381640on Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

This is just class action ambulance chasing. Almost all of these guys are assholes.

wp381640on Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

I'm just going to cash up and pay for Ruckus for my Wifi6 upgrade

OTOH not sure what i'd recommend to others - there must be 20+ unifi networks out that via recommendations i've made to friends + network

wp381640on All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk

JP Morgan? They’re infamous for bad internal IT

wp381640on Transiting the Suez Canal in a Private Sailboat (2003)

UWO’s are new and Abramovich has said he’s bailing on the UK

I don’t think his purchase would work today

wp381640on All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk

Lotus to Exchange migrations were all likely in the pre-Sarbanes Oxley and other retention regular era of email retention requirements

iirc at the time the only industries that required retention were health, legal and government

With SOX (PCI, FDIC, et al) retention laws we had another explosion of work rolling out all the compliance features of Exchange

Those were crazy times getting everybody either migrated with email or onto corporate email - there's a similar explosion of work right now with migration to M365

wp381640on GeoGuessing with Deep Learning

I started working on a similar project - my approach was to train a model based on all of the geoguessr contest sets.

Geoguessr gives you both the street view _and_ the correct answer when you guess wrong.

They're all hand-curated so there are only so many points that you need to identify (the largest sets are 100k+ points) so the idea would be to run through it thousands of times with wrongs answers but use the correct answer to train the model

It's only a matter of time before the game has cheat bots and that problem, much in the same way online chess has that issue

wp381640on Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator

Having them spend so much with Western companies on such an ineffective military can be seen as a form of punishment

wp381640on Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator

Their wealth is overrated - they run huge deficits and the writing is on the wall for ARAMCO

wp381640on Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator

I’d like to hear more about your experiences with UNICEF. It’s one of the only places I donate to and I’ve heard many first hand experiences of where they’ve saved lives and provided opportunity

wp381640on Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default

There’s little point in encrypting if you’re not authenticating

wp381640on AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't prevent B1351 Covid in early trial

Thank you - much appreciated

wp381640on AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't prevent B1351 Covid in early trial

Yes! She actually volunteered to be followed up with and tracks her symptoms daily and is due to get the Pfizer vaccine next week.

We're very hopeful that it might improve the situation.

wp381640on AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't prevent B1351 Covid in early trial

> In a young, low-risk population with ongoing symptoms, almost 70% of individuals have impairment in one or more organs four months after initial symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.14.20212555v...

> The five children with potential long COVID had a median age of 12 years (range 9–15) and four were girls. They had symptoms for 6–8 months after their clinical diagnoses of COVID‐19. None were hospitalised at diagnosis, but one was later admitted for peri‐myocarditis. All five children had fatigue, dyspnoea, heart palpitations or chest pain, and four had headaches, difficulties concentrating, muscle weakness, dizziness and sore throats. Some had improved after 6–8 months, but they all suffered from fatigue and none had fully returned to school.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apa.15673

Research into what is being referred to as "long COVID" is early but the signs are not good.

wp381640on AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't prevent B1351 Covid in early trial

I can't believe people still only look at the headline mortality figures. My partner is young, fit and in her 20s and she caught it (despite taking every best precuation)

6 months later she still isn't back to herself - gets out of breath, no sense of taste and insists her creative forces just don't fire the same way they used to

This is a fucking scary disease and to see so many people be blase about it is pathetic.