skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be far more effective to just add machine guns to UAVs like they do on the Apache [0]. It's simple, proven and effective. There is absolutely zero need for the bullets to be delivered by a crappy quadrocopter. You can send out quadrocopters for face detection and then just shoot people with the machine gun. This reminds me of that stupid missile that shoots blades. It's completely over engineered.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=629&v=vMylpfX7_S0
A single gigabit interface is such a pain for anyone wanting to build a router. The best option seems to be a USB 3 gigabit ethernet interface, which may be usable, but isn't ideal. And wouldn't work on this thing, since it only has USB 2.

Anyone know of an SBC that would be better than a Raspberry Pi 4 CM on an I/O board with a PCI gigabit NIC?
Very interesting, I always wondered how that worked. Also the huge loss of track, - 23000 miles in 1936, 10000 today.
By your logic, Denmark or The Netherlands would have been the prime location for bicycle routing to be introduced. Not only are the governmental infrastructure data sources of pristine quality, those places also see the most amount of cycling hours in the world. So they would rapidly get more data that they could fine-tune their algorithms with.
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I think that was expected. Article from September 2020 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/07/health/covid-flu-season-f...

"In August 2019, there were 61,000 laboratory confirmed cases of influenza in Australia. In August 2020, there were 107. "This is virtually a non-season," said Ian Barr, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Melbourne. "We've never seen numbers like this before.""
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Similar things happen fairly frequently if you ask for directions in remote areas, Google maps just directs you on long unmaintained old but officially mapped "roads" on public land. You really need to follow the land management agencies official maps to know the appropriate routes. Some paper maps (ex. Benchmark Road Atlas) are pretty decent and I've found worthwhile to keep in the car for these situations.
The values listed there are the sugar cane harvest, not the sugar produced from it.

Per https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/outlooks/100085/sss-m-388.p... the recovery rate varies from 9 to 14 percent.

Cane sugar production runs about 4 million short tons, which is about 8 billion pounds. Beets add a similar, somewhat larger amount.

HFCS production is also on a similar scale, billions of pounds a year. But then 80% of corn goes to animal feed and ethanol production, so HFCS isn't the major end use.
Nice. Weather Report is great (Jaco!), and Zawinul's other band too, Syndicate.

I'm happy John Mclaughlin is still playing. Here's a song from a couple weeks ago you might like!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ1Jx1hf0I8
I don’t vote for a president to achieve global fairness. I vote for one who will make my life the best. If that’s not great for Chinese peasants that’s not the US President’s problem. China should develop its economy, but the US should not have allowed its corporations to have given China such a huge leg up in doing so.
I have age related hearing loss with 30db at low frequency and 65db at high frequency. Surprisingly you can't tell you lost that much if it happen gradually. You just don't realize you no longer hear the birds chirping or the computer fan running. Eventually you realize you have a hard time understanding people and ask them to repeat words. When you get hearing aids you realize your brain has been trying to compensate for this hearing loss. You relied on lip movements and context more. Suddenly everything sounds much louder with hearing aids. But over time your brain adapts back.
My Prius can climb a hill like a champ, until the battery is drained and the poor ICE is all that's turning the driveshaft. Torque matters when it comes to hills, not the number of wheels connected to a driveshaft.
What's the positive case?
May as well blame a spam filter for letting a phishing email through. The weakest link is human judgement. I wish NYT used a headline like "Another Arrest, and Jail Time, Due to police trusting flawed facial recognition and not doing enough due diligence before arresting"
A) Subway is not garbage, but it's neither good nor good for you. If you get rid of the loaves of sugar and nitrites, you're left with a small amount of salad, which shouldn't cost $5.

B) I typically bring my lunch from home, and that costs less than $5.

[EDIT:] It's not too late to edit out the baseless "rich snob" accusation... you're calling me "rich" and you regularly waste $5 on terrible unethical food.
Yeah I think they’re okay with a tax for military/police purposes. Either ways I don’t identify with that mindset because it would lead to a whole hog ripping out of civil liberties which probably means things like slavery (albeit not race specific) and back to the kitchen for women.
I'm confused as well. I think a letter like this would be improved by adding some supporting references or examples.
Citation, with inflation adjustments. Please provide.

Why is the US passing stimulus packages if it’s going so well?

(To further my point was that growth a hang over from the globalist President? Or a result of the protectionist one? Did it continue throughout the 4 years? I already know the answer, but just pointing out the flaw in your point for you so you don’t need to find it)
17 billion $ is a joke the Intel share buyback program is 20 billion $....
instead of buying their own share they can do that without raising or borrowing a single cent.
The one where the government is simply not involved in lending students money.

Situation A: Government offers unlimited amounts of loan money for students. Colleges increase prices since their customers have infinite money. Children and their parents go into further and further debt as colleges keep raising prices and there is no limit to the amount of debt the government will underwrite.

Situation B: Government does not lend any money. Colleges have to keep tuition at affordable levels, and/or obtain funding from government. Children pay an appropriate amount of money for education and don't waste money on fancy gyms and stadiums and catering halls and ceremonies and extraneous administrators.
Google Maps is notoriously unreliable on Indian Reservations. If you’re ever driving near an Indian reservation, stick to state highways because the “shortcuts”may very well be impassable if they even exist.
Apple has official repair locations all over the planet and they stock parts long after products are discontinued. Yes it kinda sucks that they killed third party repair but having an official location with official parts is actually more useful than being able to do it yourself but not being able to get parts.

For my pixel 2, while there were no technical restrictions preventing me from replacing the broken camera, the screen was glued in in a way making it very difficult to open without smashing. There were also no places to buy the camera other than what seemed to be cameras stripped out of broken/stolen pixel 2s.
Or buy the Librem 5 USA model, made in the USA. https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa/
Bipedal robots will replace human labour and the first person to make them inexpensive will become unfathomably wealthy.

How much did slack go for? 30 billion? For a shiny chat client with fewer features than the 25 year old tech they ape.
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I'm not doing anything to build a readership, so my content doesn't get a lot of interactions. So for me, no.

If I had a real twitter following, though, I might have a different answer.
Yeah - I'm confused if this is a general sentiment going on, or a recent incident going on. I did like "Quantum Computing Since Democritus"
I sincerely don't want to enter the pro- or against-Trump discussion (I don't care too much...), and at the same time I don't want to sound too aseptic toward the situation that Americans are going through. Forgive me for any political tone I couldn't remove from the following question!

I'd like to understand - sincerely! - how such a move can be justified even at a political level. Bloomberg proposes a "rebuff" of Republicans against Trump, but they're paying this rebuff with the anger of millions of Americans that won't receive this money if not for this kind of childish behavior.

So there should be some thing I am missing, I'd like to understand better: what's the justification for such a move, beyond playing this strange game?
I'm honestly not sure what effective policy kneecapped by developers you're talking about. Can you help me understand? I don't think any of the things I mentioned were set up or advanced by developers to kneecap effective policies, but I'd love to learn more!

If anything, I would naively expect most of the relevant policies here to be things property developers would be quite strongly against. Perhaps you can enlighten me with critical factors I've overlooked?
We at croit.io do let the employee decide how much time a day, week, and on what days of the week he will work. Of course the employee can change the decision when ever it pleases.

Never had an issue, got lots of positiv Feedback and will continue to do so.
I’d target startups <20 people. They’re both desperate enough for devs and willing to try different working styles. Large companies with recruiting and HR functions will not be able to even consider this arrangement unless they have existing policies in place.
right here:

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/doctors-reanimated-pi...
> You’ve just had a “protectionist” President, US is worse off by almost every measure...

Could we get some citations to back this up? It seems too soon to even evaluate all of the effects of the (soon to be) previous administrations policies.

But as a discussion point, Trump moved to end the postal subsidies China enjoyed which made it cheaper for us to have something shipped from there than to buy locally. How does this hurt the US?
On a trip through Sicily with my SO, I was driving through mountain roads in a compact rental car, and using a combination of an old GPS unit provided by the agency and Google Maps to guide us to our hotel (Maps' spoken directions were useful when navigating through Italian roads with Italian signs, while the GPS unit worked better in places without reception). We were already behind schedule, it was getting quite late, and had turned very dark (this part of the island isn't great about roadside illumination).

We arrived at a roundabout, and saw two signs, both pointing to our destination -- we could keep straight, or turn right. The old GPS told us to take a right, which would put us on a course to reach the hotel in an hour and a half. Google Maps, on the other hand, recommended going straight, in a more direct route that would get us there in 40 minutes. We'd had great experience with Google Maps in Sicily so far, and opted to try the route it suggested.

Driving past the roundabout, the road became a bit rougher, but not outside of the norm for the area. We wound around the mountains in the dark, and Maps continued to assure us we were getting nearer to our destination. The first sign of trouble came when we took another right turn, some time later, into a smaller road. We carefully drove around the first pothole. Then came another, and another. The road kept steadily getting rougher, but the car was ok, and we were driving carefully. There were absolutely no lights anywhere to be seen.

After a few minutes on this road, we started following it as it curved left -- and came face to face with reeds taller than the car. Our road vanished into them, turning into an old, rough path that had clearly not been used in years. I got out of the car to look around -- and could see absolutely nothing not illuminated by the headlights. No house lights, no street lights, no sounds except crickets. No cell service. Maps said we were only 15 minutes away from the hotel.

I got back in the car up to turn around, and the car wheels into mud and started spinning. It was at this point that my SO started freaking out. I don't blame her. We managed to, very slowly, turn the car around, drive up over the potholes, and make our way back to that roundabout. This time, we went the other way. Eventually, we reached our hotel, which was pitch dark with no outdoor lighting, had peacocks running around, pictures of Jesus nailed to the room walls, and a deserted wedding banquet hall for a restaurant, but that's a story for another day.

I still wonder where we ended up -- what that road looks like in the light of day.
David Burns, that's correct
That was my first thoughts watching this video "Shit, these things are going to be on the battle field any day now".

I mean, I guess better a robot than a person.. but still.. pretty terrifying to think we are soon to have people hunting robots.
huh, seems like there are numerous towns visible on the satellite/aerial imagery on the "old summer road". Are those towns cut off in the winter (by land)? Do they have an ice road? Seems unusual that travel is easier in the summer. In northern Canada summer travel is often not possible by land due to extensive mud and bogs. In the winter you can travel across the frozen tundra much more easily (although you need to be prepared if you car breaks down).
Correct. Using the right microformats, it'll auto syndicate notes as tweets and full posts as tweets with a summary and a link. All my site has to do is shoot out a webmention to brid.gy and it does the rest.

Then when people react (reply, like, etc) it'll proxy those interactions back as webmentions.
This is really interesting to me because of the way the information age seems to have collapsed claims and evidence into one another. I was actually recently discussing this with a friend and we formulates three rules:

1) Claims of neutrality are evidence against being neutral

2) performance of neutrality is evidence of neutrality

3) blind adherence to neutrality is evidence of not understanding the goals of neutrality
I try to remain optimistic about this stuff. The other comparable are the "blank paper" protests, which also have a long history. Here's an article from the same site: https://unintendedconsequenc.es/blank-paper/
People who care about that support them using (for instance) Patreon, and that makes them a LOT more than youtube will, especially with the demonetisation bonanza as of late.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_s...

I mean it's hard to say there's "no link" given that the above link is a link.
This trope is always getting trotted out by fiscal conservatives without any actual evidence. It's an imaginative extension of the "being poor means you have poor character" trope.

Also, when it extends beyond actual luxuries to basics like having a refrigerator (yes, I've actually heard this one) or the classic "an HD TV" (when was the last time you saw a non-HD TV for sale?), or in this case an iPhone (smartphones are no longer optional luxuries, and a used iPhone is one of the better investments in that category), it suggests that poor people should be robots who totally forego the very most fundamental creature-comforts until they've managed to turn their world around completely. It's dehumanizing.
I never said it should be used as a guide for how things should be. Merely pointing out that many systems naturally result in this type of distribution. We have to realize this is a natural outcome if we don't actively try to make things more equitable.

Not just people, but companies as well. For example, the top 10 largest publicly traded companies make up 30% of the total value of the S&P500.
Have they made a useful quiet version of Big Dog? I know that’s one reason it was initial not very pragmatic for the military
>In fact, I would be surprised for there to be zero correlation (even assuming there is no causation), as it is a reasonable assumption that naturally violent people are more likely to play violent video games.

There's a lot of violence in society. There's even more violent media available. From news broadcasts to internet forum posts to books. Perhaps violent video games aren't particularly worse at that than all of the other media that portray violence? The news tends to have stories that are more gruesome than the things that happen in video games. The violence in video games is usually toned down or limited.
Those +/- 5kg are coming from the water inside, that's normal. I am talking about real fat burning. Think about it - if you don't eat at all, aren't you going to lose weight? Our ancestors often went through feast-famine cycles and survived, likely because they accumulated fat during feast periods and then spent it during famine periods. Our issue is that we are always in the feast period and can't allow body to enter the famine one. The first three days are usually the worst, then it feels normal (assuming you take your electrolytes).
In my experience, video games didn't desensitize me to violence -- the world just hadn't sensitized me yet.

I spent my youth playing first person shooters. Now, with a little bit more life experience under my belt, participating in a war simulator feels a bit tasteless.
Either this is a stop-motion film or there is a cripple reunion in the second floor (https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw?t=57).
String theory at least predicts gravity in three dimensions. Other approaches to quantum gravity are not even far enough along to do that - it was an immense and relatively recent accomplishment to have LQG on a circle.
Instead of rambling about social justice better start vet your suppliers. People think Facebook should be responsible and vet what billions of people write online but somehow Apple the wealthiest company can't vet their damn supply chain? It has really come to this that these affluent privileged Silicon Valley tech bros rather have some 90 year old arrested for not wearing a mask while rambling about it on Twitter than have Apple vet their God damn suppliers.
I would also consider that the problem is the client you are using to connect with the VPN. Sometimes the VPN provider's client are just borky and Google is the first to figure out the issue. I just recently encountered this.

P.S. 95% of search attempts can be adequately satisfied with DGG. I'd suggest you isolate G products to a specific browser, this way you isolate what data you actually provide G with.
Plagiarizing Piranesi
Nothing illustrates the vastness of Russia quite like a story with a map showing two dots that seem to be fairly close together yet labeled as “2000km, or 30 hours by car.”

Wow.
The big canary in the official timeline is the sudden cutoff date at that time. However the unofficial chronicles are very detailed about what exactly happened and when. From those chronicles, it was a black people civilization, it was massive, advanced, but didn't have any tech in the modern sense, it was on the rise when 850,000 B.C. it suffered the first major cataclysm (this matches with the official timeline when the earth poles got swapped), so I suppose the total lifetime of that civilization was close to 2 million years. For comparison, were only 14,000 years old - toddlers in some sense.
If you're looking for a quick way to kill your youtube addiction privacy redirect sends youtube to invidious which has a much less addictive recommendation algorithm.
As long as companies Apple are not legally responsible for their supply chain in front of developed countries’ courts nothing will change. In Switzerland a law that would have changed this was recently rejected. Hopefully another country makes the first step.
>> You're really derailing the entire conversation with trivial what-ifs that aren't even related to the original point.

My original point was that (some) people teach their kids that when in trouble to rely on themselves and not on established social structures yet as adults they do the opposite (the sane thing to do).

Look back over our conversation. You are the one making the what-ifs, while I am merely refuting your points as they come.

>>Not if they're making entry to the attic right outside the room you're in so they can work on that and watch the door.

Read that back to yourself. The intruder is both in the attic and at the door at the same time.

>> You might be suprised at how often burglars use tools they find in the target house.

So 5 minutes to locate where the occupant keeps the ladder, fetch the tools from their car (unless they were carrying them under their arm when breaking in) and/or break down a door before the target climbs out the window.

Realistically, the occupant of the house is most likely dead within seconds. But if they have some kind of head start, the police advice is to find a secure location from which to call the police. I'll take that over the advice of someone whose seen Home Alone too many times.
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Companies are fleeing California. Blame bad government
>You’ve just had a “protectionist” President, US is worse off by almost every measure... as a counter example to your “protectionism is needed”

That is not a counter-example to anything AFAICT. We didn't have a 'protectionist' President. We had an incompetent President, who faked to be a protectionist.

A real data point would be this:

https://imgur.com/a/q3GUEzc

The US had a decent economy when we had high import duties.
Hey Carol. It's good to hear from you again. What's your life been like since they wrote that article about you? [0]

[0]https://local.theonion.com/woman-a-leading-authority-on-what...
Once you get below the level of "real road," maybe best defined as well-maintained gravel road, databases get sketchy. (And even paved roads can be seasonal but at least these tend to have gates when they're closed--not that you can really count on lack of gates to mean the route is safe.)

Once you get off the beaten track, you really want to tap into local knowledge if you can. Don't just trust Google or paper maps for that matter.
the 20/80 rule is an observation that holds true in most cases. It's like Moore's law. You can't just deny it because you don't like the outcome.
And in some cities with grid layouts, Google Maps loves to route a zig-zag stair pattern with 15 turns to save you thirty seconds vs the obvious single turn L-shaped route.

I often wish the app had a "simplest route" option.
Same here!

I have OrangePi Zero v1.4 and it have some overheating issues that didn't present in previous releases.

Also it freeze on 14 days uptime. Sometime even earlier. More strange is that this is with kernel panic. Sometime it freeze and i can't SSH to it, but i can ping device! I couldn't figure yet why. Maybe i finally should get some RS232 USB connector and connect with serial.

On other side - i have few RPi's that works with month without issues.
Countries like Norway show no significant excess mortality for the year despite lockdowns.

Suicides also seem unaffected in the UK: https://twitter.com/samaritans/status/1326184288958746625?s=...

Happy to see evidence otherwise.
The DJI drones that can do that are significantly larger. A 250 gram DJI mavic mini can do 30 minutes and with significantly larger propellers.

The efficiency goes down with smaller blade sizes (more losses to vortexes) so from the photo 20 min is the max to expect with regular lipo batteries.
Hard disagree on #3. He seems annoyed that he didn’t get any followup, which is totally warranted.