skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Gravity Gradiometer

System Description.

Gravity gradiometers are instruments and systems that detect mass density
contrasts. Recent gravity gradiometer research has focused on sea-based submarine detection applications.
This concept goes several leaps forward and proposes its use in space as a passive detection system.

Concept of Operations.

With multiple gravity gradiometers located on multiple satellites in orbit,
approaching “foreign bodies” can be passively detected. Data and measurements gathered could be
combined with data from other detection devices in Kalman filtering or data fusion algorithms to enhance
detection and even identification probabilities."

This is interesting, the concept of a Gravity Gradiometer.

I did not know that these existed, before reading this article.

The following seems to be a good (albeit, somewhat commercial) page about this technology:

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/gravity-gradio...

These are apparently supposed to be used in space, from a satellite, and are supposed to measure data about the earth.

But, I'm wondering (from a purely theoretical basis) if a "Poor Man's Gravity Detector" could be created...

Postulated theory of operation: Use two waves (they could be beams), two frequencies from the electromagnetic spectrum, and measure the time they take to cross (bounce back) from a specific distance.

The idea would be that a lower frequency beam -- would be more affected by gravity than a higher one (although, perhaps this would be reversed, I don't know, experimentation is needed), and that any microscopic difference in the amount of time for the beams to be reflected might indicate the presence of higher or lower gravity.

Of course, the prerequisite to creating something like this would be to have a way to test it. That is, first create a device that creates a miniscule amount of gravity (which I wouldn't know how to do -- although one guess would be that large amounts of a heavy metal would generate a microscopicly increased gravity field around it (like a milimeter away from its surface); for example, a large ball or other object made out of iron...)

Anyway, an interesting article!
I still remember playing night time missions up late in a darkened room, hearing the soft padding of those alien footsteps, somewhere out beyond the limits of vision in the darkened fields...
Seeing faces doesn't matter, there are other ways to create an association to get on target. Distance doesn't matter. Some people are more naturally talented. But since it's relatively unknown there are probably lots of very talented people out there who have no idea they have talent.

You can check out the Applied precognition project. this group brings together many of the well-known and prominent researchers and I suppose former government practitioners. and also permits I think members of public to get involved in regular taskings.
Göbekli Tepe was discovered by actual archeologists as far as I know.
>Assange tried to crack it so that Manning could use it to steal more data.

*so Manning could steal the same amount of data with a bit more secrecy. The account in question was a generic Windows account that only had access to thing Manning had clearance for.
It's where you'd go to buy games and other retail-y computer stuff. Kinda like Steam, except it's a real place and it's in the mall.
> Can you please invite me to your Western society that celebrates idleness?

You don't need an invitation to visit Western Europe, but I'd wait a few months.
What is the anomaly? Sweden has done substantially worse than all of its neighbors in both lives/health and economic impact. Which was exactly what many people predicted.
Laser Squad is basically the perfect level for me.

Lots of complexity and subtly in the battles but just one off scenarios, I had no desire for base building on long term character development.
Can you add comments to that without a lot of extra work? I got started on a simple markdown solution, but stopped because it looked like I'd need to develop or use a third party comments system.
Amazon Sidewalk paves the way for more connected communities
Someone on a different thread asked what new smartphone CPUs would be used for. The answer, according to this article, is gaze tracking the infinite scroll.

(Hmm. Part of the idea presented here is that it really doesn't take that long, especially in short-form, to gather less than thirty bits worth of targeting. In a world where "bespoke" is available to everyone, will hipsters have to shift to lauding mass-production to differentiate themselves?)
Old discussion links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16447905

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9575786

https//news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23943784
List of Latest Pinterest Video Downloader Applications
Tethered power + laser cutting would solve the weight issue and the don't-drop-a-saw issue. Not sure how thick the branches are that need to be severed, though.

But drone solutions seem much more efficient, especially given how long it takes to set up the robot featured here (15 mins per tree). This time would undoubtedly be reduced in production units, but variability in trunks will always complicate things. With a drone, it doesn't matter.
Google did actively slow and cripple its flagship sites on competing browsers without suffering any consequences. No amount of money will help against that kind of advantage.
I’ve been using RouterOS on a rb2011 since 2014, and it’s been a great device. Only wish I could have something like Pi Hole running on it, rather than a separate device.

Not sure if I would ever try to install something else and loose hardware acceleration.
If they were a better solution all apps would already be PWA’s.
Sounds like a surveillance network
> I made a long loop in the mud that went around all these trees. I'd pull water out of the well using a rope & pulley & pour it down the loop. The water would wind its way until it reached all the two dozen trees. About an hour of this water pulling & the loop would stay wet for a few hours.

IIUC this was your role un maintaining the trees, and wasn't related to harvesting the coconuts? So it was for irrigation, I guess?
I cannot find docs sating nitro has any general purpose chip to run a hyper visor to manage the VMs, how customer vm get launched and managed from outside the physical host?
It is quite interesting to read through the threads here. Most people generalize India in terms of society or income. The south of India is pretty different from the northern part. The state in the video here especially is vastly different in terms of socio-economic structure from the rest. The caste discrimination is almost non-existent in the Southern part of Kerala. In the context, it won't affect your choice of life or jobs available to you. Or won't face any discrimination in day to day life. Thanks to a strong Communist/Marxist political presence.

In terms of economy, the southern part is well off, there are few pockets of poverty. But poverty isn't as visible as rest of India https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/southern-comfort-indi...

Coming to the robot/contraption. Growing up in an environment with an average-sized coconut farm. The device is completely useless. The assembly time per tree, even if its 5 minutes, would take 5*200 trees -> 16 hours in just assembly. And this amount of trees get covered in almost 2 days of 6-hour labor in a season by manual labor. Also, coconut harvesting isn't just about plucking the coconuts, but also involves cleaning the top. Picking the right coconut to be plucked etc. In that aspect, the robot would do more harm to the farmer. Though the cost of labor is high, a serious farmer is going to convert a portion of his yield into oil, which gives a decent margin. Also, this won't be the only crop they depend on. My family had a rubber plantation along.

Labour shortage is a real issue and it isn't economically profitable for someone with about 20 trees or so. But this device under the current design solves only one problem, i.e plucking and solves it very badly.
Great article, and a very fair review of a wonderful game with very sharp edges.

I will say, the best part of the Firaxis reboot of X-Com is that it perfectly captured the fun that I _remembered_ from the original game. It captured this so well that I remember thinking it was literally the same game with new graphics.

Then I went back and replayed the original... and remembered how hard and clunky it actually was :)

But still one of my all time favorites, along with another Microprose title of the same era, Master of Orion.
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This is not true. Moving the port doesn't increase security by itself. BUT. If you use it with portsentry, it IS security!

- moving the port filters bots trying to connect
- if an attacker tries to scan the open ports, will be immediately firewalled for that ip.

This protects not only the ssh service, but all the listening services on the host! Separates the clients by behaviour.

This can be bypassed only if the attacker spends a lot of time and IPs for the attack, which is a whole another level, because that is a very targeted attack and all of your security is under test.
So in short the Super-apps of the East are the way forward?
Don't forget the damage dealt to UFOs when they were shot down. Sometimes there was but a single alien with what amounts to a few tiles of scrap left from the encounter with my vigilant fighters. Talking about immersion.
When someone proposes to address a problem by giving the government lots of money, I'm always skeptical. Why should we expect them to spend that money wisely? I'm not opposed to raising taxes if there's something important to spend the money on, but the words "income inequality!" aren't IMO a sufficient description.
Xinjiang Victims Database: setting up an RSS feed for all of the 10K victims
I suspect that is because that would really blow up. It would show how many 'near misses' (thanks, George Carlin) there were and that number is likely a lot higher than the number of crashes.

Keep in mind that without that data we are all focused on the two times MCAS led to crashes, we are all in the dark how widespread the problem really was and once that data is out in the open the FAA's reputation (or what is left of it) will be further down the drain.
Is this not the case of banks finding money laundering and then collecting the transactions and sending it to the authorities?
The CDC just said yesterday that they confirm airborne transmission, and from the case of the choir whom was 6 feet apart, it sure makes it seem beyond one table worth.
18 metres tall 1:1 replica.
Have you thought about how many people need to die for you to change your mind on this one? Just curious where you draw the line.
Top of the chain is "dumb money". Like pension funds and municipal or foreign funds. Those got destroyed in 2008.

The Fed can only absorb so much (currently at a record 30% of mortgage bonds). Banks and the financial markets are not stupid and quickly resell everything. In 2008 they were caught with just ONE batch of mortgage backed securities and it bankrupted a couple. It's not going to happen again.

It's dismaying how GP proposes such a terrible idea. And what worries me the most is the majority of voters have the same feel-good ideas. We are going to get screwed from both sides.
The point of a lockdown is to stop people who think like you from hurting others. If we could trust people to act responsibly we wouldn't need to lockdown so strictly, but in example after example someone who thinks like you will ruin it for everyone.

Regardless, the US has largely already decided to be on your side and let you make your own decision about how to act during a pandemic, and the results speak for themselves. A wholesale failure. Good job, you win, 200,000 people are dead, is that enough patriotism for you?
Linux Kernel: The seqcount latch lock type
the researchers' recommendation:

> "'Implementing safe practices to reduce exposures to SARS-CoV-2 during on-site eating and drinking should be considered to protect customers, employees, and communities and slow the spread of COVID-19,' Fisher and colleagues concluded."

which is exactly in line with opening restaurants with modest measures.

the study only provided impetus to look closer at restaurants as potentially not insignificant localities of spread due to self-reports citing slightly higher restaurant patronage in the 2 weeks prior. they declined to put forth any conclusions on prevalence or mechanisms for spread in restaurants because they didn't study those things. they only presented some statistics on the self-reports. that's it.
I'm from Southern India as well. We have four coconut trees in our house, it's as common as having a lawn in U.S. but having coconut trees has economic benefits to us as coconut is part of our daily diet.

The trees are over 25 years, it's taller than a two storey building[1], it's getting harder to find someone who can bring down the coconuts as the article states and also to maintain the trees(debris). Many of our neighbours have removed their trees for the same reasons and we have started to contemplate it as well, but it's hard to think about as these trees are like our family members.

So, naturally I've thought of mechanical devices which could solve this problem, there have been numerous attempts to solve this problem by various institutions and independent inventors incl. use of robotics like in OP; but those without human intervention hasn't made it mainstream and only those devices which help a climber climb fast/safe has seen some success.

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/1KBjCcj
Anticipating pilot episode for NCIS: Vancouver ;-)
'not much' == 'some'.

If you've never built a radio and tried to shield this unintended export than I can totally see how you might think this is just a matter of careful design and more shielding but it really is a lot harder than that and you will simply never reach zero to the point where even an ordinary spectrum analyzer hooked up to the input of your radio will not show the oscillator frequency as a nice fat peak.
It is not really a concept of western society, it is more so a concept which predated capitalism (i.e. in FEUDAL society which did not have finance or wages) in north western europe. particularly for instance with laws like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Labourers_1351 , and the one from 1349

Idleness and failure to contribute to the state was seen to be a fatal flaw. It also predates the protestant/catholic dichotomy stereotype of hard working wasps vs. mercantile catholics
Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland (Without Warrant)
Again the issue here is that the SAR’s were disclosed to the regulators if the regulator isn’t following up on them it’s not clear where the fault lies.

If HSBC wasn’t following the guidelines and covering this up yes jail them all, but this seems to have been a major regulatory failure.
Not to mention suddenly disappearing by third party decision.
> If people are responsible and won't go to restaurants

See here's the thing: Just because you and others like you have a certain definition of "responsible" doesn't mean it should or does apply to everyone.

Should we ban skydiving because it's irresponsible? Condom-less sex?

This is about choice. Re-open and let people and businesses choose.

Have a laugh with me tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko
You're spot on and I wish we knew what to do about it. I think there's a very good parallel between music and games, in both industries it's possible to create great works with innovation, creativity and not much capital. Unfortunately the greatest works don't necessarily bubble up to the top, because the money isn't in producing them, it's in controlling the channels of distribution.

There was great optimism 20+ years ago that the Internet would change this with music, artists would have direct access to their fans, the middle man would be eliminated, and the major labels would crumble. That's not what we got, we just ended up with a new group of megacorps like Apple and Google and Spotify duking it out with the old majors for control of distribution.

To have watched these dreams die in the music industry and see a very similar dynamic unfolding in the digital native industry of games makes me think that maybe this isn't a technology issue, maybe it's something that runs deeper in society and the way people are wired. Then again if we go way back we can argue that the problem was created by technology in the first place (monopolies on music distribution were impossible back when everything was live, they only emerged once we devised technology for recording and copying audio!).
the reason why these coconut jobs pay less is because, the product does not fetch too much. there is stiff competition for the produce to be sold within few days. some posters discussing discrimination have no sense or understanding. the discriminated 'part' was the entire country. I grew up with coconut trees. I do all the hardwork mentioned and would take the coconuts to be sold and would get no more than 1 rupee in the late 80s. people did not have money to pay for coconut. if it costed more they would go without coconut for a couple of weeks.
Is there a difference though?

If I perceive a “perceived” value, who perceives the “actual” value?

Spreadsheets?
The prevalence of Spring(Boot) is insane. Talk about freedom of choice!
There was OpenFlow firmware for one of old Buffalo 11n routers. That comes top of my head...

Pulling implementation details from memory, router SoC of that price range has one port for Internet and one port to connect to onboard port-VLAN switch as bifurcation/USB-hub-like multiplexing. Each of “eth1.1” through “eth1.4” ports appear as ethernet ports on Linux and OpenFlow software layers use those as interfaces.
Sure. But it's still far better than any of the alternatives.
> records show the city did not turn the fountain on until April 2000

This is the kind of thing you pay defence lawyers for... I mean, I wouldn't even expect the city to keep records of when the fountain was switched on 20 years ago, let alone be able to get hold of them! And imagine you went to all that effort only to be told "yeah, they were turned on in march that year"...
I cannot help to lament in the lack of ambition from Japanese people nowadays.

They seem content with cute ideas which has little relevance to major global problems and tech advancement. They still have a top notch scientific and research system, and produce great results every year.

But they seem completely lost the drive for building the actual things that can affect people.

Put this in perspective, aside from a fan service, and commercial benefits, what’s the point of a actual size gundam model that can move?
Ah yes. He's a NYC real estate specialist, but also a part-time apple device repairman.
Banks will never, ever get caught with bad debt again. They learned the lesson in 2008. There's even regulation blocking that. This will be "dumb money" so our pensions and government funds. These take ratings agencies at face value and have no nuance and very slow to move on news like GP's feel-good idea.
What happens mid 2021 when there's still no vaccine, the liberal get sick of the masks too and the ego boost of virtue signaling starts to wear off? Will they move back to the cities?
When it comes to land ownership, I'm pretty sure the two are equivalent.
The Future of Digital Asset Management
It's certainly true that if you want your resolver to live on a separate node that you trust, yet there's a network you don't trust between you and that node, DPRIVE attempts to solve that and DNSSEC does not.

But without DNSSEC a middlebox still gets to tamper anyway, since there's no authenticity of the answers you receive, you're just moving your trustworthy source of these potentially bogus answers for whatever that's worth.

Thomas believes your ISP is "one of your most important and active DNS adversaries" and yet astonishingly he trusts them to provide you with authentic DNS answers.

If you do local validation, which you're free to, DNSSEC solves the problem.

If you do remote validation but you trust the remote DNS server to do that on your behalf correctly, DNSSEC solves the problem and then any DPRIVE protocol brings those correct answers home intact.

If you believe there are certainly authentic answers where Google is (I have a lot of used iron available, central Paris area, it's in the form of a big tower so you can't miss it, buyer collects) then just DPRIVE lets you get their authentic answers. Notice that Google does not warrant that this is true, and "where Google is" might mean a data centre controlled by your country's censors.
Frustration in a time of triage. You don’t discuss Philosophy or process while a patient is bleeding out in the table. We should be copycatting solutions we’ve already hashed out before.

As others have also asked, why are we discussing this now instead of six months ago? If we had anyone with any leadership in either the Legislative or Executive Branch of the Federal government, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
A solid article. I'd disagree with the "single play through" and "pointless starting weapons" comments though. For me it was multiple play throughs learning about what worked and what didn't. This for me was actually a thing that kept me coming back. Trying out new tactics, base locations and equipment to see what worked. All the while trying to balance the budget and keep the squad alive long enough to level up. A truly great game. Played the newer versions on Xbox 360 and mobile, and whilst fun, they had removed far too many features to keep me engaged for more than a few hours. OpenXcom is a much better offering, especially on mobile.
How I made $4.3k as a junior developer with no prior experience
TikTok’s recommendation system is absurdly overrated.

I tried to make an account where I only watched (in full length)/searched for/liked videos of a specific gender/race/age group.. yet even after liking over a hundred videos, then 100% of the videos they suggested to me were the wrong gender/race/age group. YouTube on the other hand is capable of recommending the correct videos after watching just a couple. Instagram’s recommendations are also far more accurate (although I dislike the fact that Instagram mostly recommend popular users).

It’s very easy (and shouldn’t take long) to conduct this experiment, just make sure that the race you target doesn’t represent the majority of the users in your proximity. For instance, if you’re in Norway then try to get TikTok to recommend Asian girls aged 20-35.. sounds like it should be easy, right?
Isn't the number of Americans wanting to emigrate into other first world countries (Austria, Norway, Germany, etc) at an all time high, though?
Surely the photographer would have gone to his PC and found the raw file and matched it up pixel for pixel for verification before filing a lawsuit?

Perhaps he did, and then thought "I'll file anyway, nobody will know"?
The question isn't whether it's possible at all. It is, I don't dispute that, but even post-vaccine we'll never reach a point where it's impossible to transmit the virus. The question is how high the risk is relative to other things.
> Those monkeys can live a happy life in the same way as an ox that pulls a tiller.

Those are very strong implications you are making. What makes you think an ox that pulls a tiller is _happy_?

Generally enslaving an animal to do something is considered unethical. How we much of "unethical" we accept as a society is a completely different matter though.
Cool UI! What stack did you use?
I don't understand why you think I trust residential ISPs with the DNS, since that's the opposite of what I believe --- residential ISPs are actively monetizing the DNS.
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