skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With modern software, shouldn't it be possible to create accurate kit that can determine the location up to few hundred feet based on pictures we take of the Sun or moon, compass and altitude reading? I thought sailors in the old times could do it with just their head and primitive tools, with modern cameras and compute power I figured we can do better.

In Ben Rich's SkunkWorks, he said the SR-71 had a similar system that would lock onto stars, but I am not sure if it could work when its cloudy, something that's not a problem when you're flying above the clouds, but should still be handy for the airforce or even navy if they can get small drones.
I'm making an assumption here wrt OP, but I think that a lot of people are taught that an integral is a set of fancy tricks that you use to simplify down equations until you get ... an answer.

In my experience, students are expected to memorize all sorts of equations without ever really being expected to understand why you're calculating the integral in the first place (even at decent universities). Obviously the risk with that is that you won't recognize any problem can be solved with integrals, no matter how concrete. Once I left the fancy tricks behind I felt like a fog lifted and it was actually really fun to see how integrals fit into both applied and abstract examples.
I completely agree with you about the patent system. There are plenty of companies that tried to do medical innovation and failed because the big corps owning these don't even want to license the IP that their half public funded PhD students create.

But I'm not sure realize where the privilege actually is. People aren't "gifted" with technology. Oftentimes it's because they were exposed to it and didn't have other obligations combined with a mixture of curiosity that was triggered by something. I knew people that had to think long and hard if it's worth saving up 150 dollars to buy a laptop or PC to MAYBE learn skills that MAY help them or if they should just continue working as a hostess. If you have to spend 12 hours a day to grind through school and after-school activity and then homework when society has decided that you can't be a productive member of society later AND then have to help you parents on the farm before you collapse of exhaustion then yes, you won't be able to acquire these skills.

I was privileged enough to have my mother sacrifice everything(her property, her life, her family and her homeland) to pull me out of a warzone to provide for me so I would be in a position to be able to build these skills. Just calling the whole thing privilege is such a disservice to all she had to sacrifice for me to be able to be in this position.

If we want to talk about privilege how about the fact that if the garbage worker wouldn't collect our garbage and the farmers wouldn't provide us with food then we wouldn't even be able to do the things we are able to do and while they feed us so we can build the things that replace them, we tell them how they should have just got to school to fill out excel charts, powerpoints and the next world change ai pipeline, or photo sharing app that nobody needs.
> adopted the Aramaic script even when they did write Hebrew

Indeed, what we think of as the Hebrew alphabet is actually Aramaic (and Aramaic the language is now written using Syriac instead).
What part of the article did You find scary? I like the idea behind this but am going to wait for more exchanges to pick it up before converting any of my Monero.

I also like Sentinel but it has the same problem of limited exhange availability.
Kinda makes the Paris climate agreement look stupid. If only there was an agreement which would force China to reduce emissions.
Both sides in the Donbass war regularly capture each other drones by spoofing/jamming GPS (1. both sides are naturally using non-military GPS; 2. because of the ceasefire the drones is one of the major modes of the war there currently)
Human organ chips enable rapid drug repurposing for Covid-19
The last time I got rid of something with refrigerant in it, I took it to the local recycler and they paid me for it.

It was a little office/dorm fridge and an old dehumidifier, both of which had a Freon charge attached. The person running the scale rang up the recycle value of the junk so that I got ~$5 instead of paying $30.

Of course at that time they were able to recover and sell the Freon, not sure that's the case anymore.
I learned structured programming using COBOL in the 1970s on a Xerox Sigma 6 and went on to use it on Burroughs Medium Systems (B3500/B4800).
Repost. Also a pseudo science paper by a quack amateur in a fake journal.

https://youtu.be/_9ZGcKA_Vk4
You need JDK 16 to use records without preview flags. And "with" syntax probably won't be available for JDK 17 which is next LTS, so for the next 3 years records will not be very useful for most projects, I guess.
> But that produces cyanide when your liver processes it.

Very small amounts.

I don't see much evidence that people should be scared of cyanocabalamin (smokers potentially excluded), but of course if it's something you're worried about there are supplements that are based on adenosylcobalamin and methylcolbalamin instead.

I'm sure some people will disagree with me on this, but I would not personally recommend going vegan without taking a B12 supplement. Yes, there are fortified foods now, but I sort of feel like it's safer. Honestly, it's something that non-vegans should at least kind of think about as well, since... a non-trivial number of non-vegans are also B12 deficient. But the more straightforward way to sort this stuff out is to just get a blood test and then ask a doctor.
Audacity Telemetry and Why Free Software Means Better Privacy
At my company in the Bay Area, we get 30 days vacation plus 10 holidays. For the first few years, it was a bit less vacation.
I could do that, I think. I know someone who does that. He worked in the US for some time and went back to France consulting for both French and American companies. Lots of time off and good pay (for France).

But... he is self employed, which means a significant part of his work includes sales and management. That's something I don't enjoy doing and I am very happy having a boss do it for me. He also has more tax and less employee protection and other advantages, which he compensates by having insurance, but that extra expense is to be considered when comparing income (it is still more than me in the end).

As I said, I am content with my life, even though I know I could make is "better" if I really wanted to. It is just an insight on a reason why many engineers prefer to stay despite the "low" pay.

Also worth noting that many French people dislike the very idea of working in the US. Sometimes because they don't like the culture or the sometimes misguided idea they have of it. Sometimes it is the language, or just moving and leaving their relatives behind. Canada, especially Quebec can be a "milder" alternative, I have several friends who went there, some stayed, others came back, I think the pay was higher there every time.
That's just fear mongering and conspiracy theories. Looks like someone watched too much CNN/Fox.
While you're still stuck "using" Whatsapp, I've had great success using the Matrix bridge [0] on the homeserver I run [1]. Your contacts still message you, but you don't have to give Whatsapp your contacts list, other apps installed, or location via ip/wifi network.

It won't work for calling (as it's not supported on Whatsapp Web), but images and groups (which I use) both work perfectly.

[0] https://matrix.org/bridges/#whatsapp

[1] https://matrix.org/faq/#self-hosting
You can be able to cook for yourself to survive but not be a great chef. So you might not have high engineering expectations from researchers either, as it's not their job.

Also, if you wanted to rewrite some scientific code relatively painlessly, perhaps D would be a vastly better choice than Java.
The linked articles about "Inquiring Based Learning" (IBL) seem to be making the claim that this type of teaching is somehow more effective than lecture based teaching. I'm not entirely convinced this is true. My doubt is in part fueled by the statements on IBL not really being backed by anything other than intuition on the part of the author of those articles. If it is backed by more than intuition I either misread or they talk about it in an unlinked article. The remainder of my doubt is due to the mismatch with my own personal anecdotes.

IBL reminds me a lot of breakout sessions or whatever you want to call mini group projects that take place in the span of instructional block. Some people in those groups will already know the answer, some won't care, and some will count on the person who knows the answer to carry the group because that person isn't so great at teaching it themselves. Why would they ask questions about answers they already know? When I was still in school IBL style was used far more in sciences than something like history. But I loved history. Especially lecture based history classes. Part of the reasons for that many professors I had loved to talk about the subject they taught. That doesn't mean the professors didn't love the subject they taught, but talking about it didn't seem to be something the loved doing. I personally struggled with the IBL format and did well with the lecture based format.

I'm not an educator myself. I just bring that up because at least for me I did not find the technique helpful and got less out of it than I did with lecture based classes. Everyone is different. I imagine the IBL format does appeal to some more than others.
Well Christianity is from a Hellenizing faction. That's still here.
Note that Goodwill is a charity in the same way that IKEA is a nonprofit. They take your stuff for free, and give you a tax receipt, but they don’t give any of it away. They sell it for as much money as they can in their stores. The “charity” part is that they provide jobs and job training … to the people who work there.

Goodwill is simply a way to launder your possessions to feel like you’re doing good, instead of throwing them in a wastebin.
You’re saying that the Arch Wiki has some good how to’s that are applicable to all distros?

I respect Arch. It’s hard core!
We found the tomb of every ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ story last fall. My two year old loves it still.
Orange man was right?
I would choose Protonmail because your emails won’t be readable by their staff.

I’m on Fastmail but will switch to Protonmail when my plan is due to renew. My emails are my life and it’s unsettling that people I don’t know can access them, and that they sit on a server unencrypted.
I was born in USSR and Mongolians were our Asian brothers, together with Uzbeks, Kazakhs and Tadjiks and all the other tribes in the 'stans. I remember perusing Uzbekistan main daily in Tashkent as a young child, seeing gobbledygook in Cyrillic and thinking that it was really funny.
My mother was had some really wealthy Mongolian clients who were parking money in USA real estate post 2009 meltdown and for a while they were visiting a lot. We had them over at my place and their Russian was remarkable. Basically everyone in the ruling classes was educated in USSR and spoke perfect Russian not only conversationally, but down to the cursing and jokes. My uncle went out with these guys to fish for flounder in Puget Sound and confirms pretty good command of those last two. They brought me a bottle of Chengiz Khan vodka with Cyrillic label and poitless flakes of gold in it that just sat there for a few years until I re-gifted it. Fun times.
Say what you will about USSR, they brought out a lot of people from nomad lifestyles to the modern life with widespread education, without barriers to entry that we have here in USA. Ken Alibek (https://www.amazon.com/Biohazard-Chilling-Largest-Biological...) was one of the examples of going from village to bacteriological weapon design and on the strength of being smart.
This is why all modern navy ships still carry sextants and train extensively in celestial navigation. It's pretty much a forgone conclusion that GPS will become immediately useless in any large scale nation state war of the future.
yeah, I really used to eat up the existential-but-unresolved-open-ended-philosophy nonsense as if it was the coolest thing ever.

Maybe teenagers today wouldn't find something "old" like the first FLCL or Evangelion appealing for a variety of reasons (I think those stand the test of time, but you tell me).

But right now I feel this onion-peel story telling for some pretty obvious tropes to be unappealling. There are so many design decisions that fall flat. I like the button mashing combat and fetch quests. I don't like doing it 2.5 times like Groundhog Day. I don't trust Square Enix to do anything right. That's certainly something that younger audiences wouldn't know about since Squaresoft used to be perfect. You know, maybe that hits the nail on the head, most of this is probably me judging Square Enix instead of just enjoying a raw experience. (but I would have the same gripes about this game from any other publisher, just likely giving it even less of a chance)

A great musical score is not news for a Square game. An article about cross fading to a pre-recorded 8-bit version of the same song is nice and interesting to see the behind the scenes, its also like the bare level of dedication I expect from Square.

And then the rest is

"here they go again with these PS2 graphics, come on Square, a lot of gamers in Japan don't even know about your Final Fantasy flagship series so you can at least put some budget to all your other IPs"

"look at that, you can blow off the clothes of the blindfolded lolita sex bots, way to go everyone wtf Square"

"a re-telling of the exact same game for Route B because of some design by committee nonsense, probably the same reason Nomura wound up putting that Kingdom Hearts dementor bullshit in the Final Fantasy VII Remake jfc"
Agreed! Chasing comp for its own sake is unsatisfying. Pursue the vector aligned with what you like and with what pays well enough.
You do it like this: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/...
I believe if you look in your ads settings, you can disable ads about alcohol products explicitly.

Take a look and good luck man.
Original source was this:
https://www.mediaite.com/news/true-u-s-death-toll-from-covid...

Which is where the title came from.

At the last minute I remembered there was an actual scientific paper so I changed the URL to that.
Is being "fair" more important than stopping global warming? And besides, most pollution comes from industry, not from individuals.
In the new icons, is it just me or the drive on the top right looks exactly the same as the drive on the bottom left? They are different in the old icon set.

The new folder icon looks much better than the old one in my opinion.
Sure, but it’s still worth explaining what X is to give people context. Also the majority of question askers tend to be the ones who came up with the incorrect solution or are trying to use something dangerous to solve their problem.
Yes. People who run antique stores usually run side businesses cleaning out deceased peoples houses. They charge a discounted rate to haul all the stuff away, then keep what they can sell in their store, donate most of what’s left for a tax deduction that they keep, and haul the rest to a landfill.
There was an original Hebrew alphabet. The Aramaic script was adopted when Israel was conquered by the Persian Empire as all the empire used Aramaic.

It's a good thing, though, the proto-Hebrew is much uglier (IMO) than the square script.

But judge for yourself which glyphs you prefer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet
Palestinians criticise social media censorship over Sheikh Jarrah
Well the steppe the highway of Eurasia, so it makes sense those language families are strewn all over it.
That's an interesting hypothesis.
We should sabotage the Chinese by giving them Boeing and Lockheed.
Yeah, maybe we can have a "digital" sextant that instead of relying on specialized training to humans, just pushes all the sextant data plus altitude, barometer, universal time (UTC), timezone and sunset/sunrise from a perpetual calendar and such inputs to an android gizmo that gives us an approximate location, something that can be sold commercially for hikers, boaters and everyone for fun.
Chinese companies and state actors regularly attempt to hack US entities with zero consequences ofc. But, I never hear about US individuals/groups going on the offensive against the CCP.

For example, if an American hacking group decided to serve out some cyber-vigilante payback to these genociders and somehow were identified, would they be protected by the US? I'd hope so. I mean, from what happened to malwareTech, I wouldn't hold my breath.

On a wider note, what avenue is there for a diplomatic solution to this CCP problem? They're clearly on a path of oppression and destruction with no end in sight. At what point do people in tech reconsider their cooperation with Chinese companies? At what point did American companies during the Third Reich stop working with Nazi companies? I see some people in tech already making that decision - I have too. Unfortunately it's a drop in the ocean for now.
Do they make a profit? If so, where does the money go?
> They MIGHT take a quick look for some metals but most likely it all goes straight to the landfill.

Every time I get a dumpster in my driveway I have strangers show up wanting to dig through it for metal. I wouldn't be surprised if Junk King is careful to sift out anything they can get paid for.
The student activist's father was also a Communist leader in Madurai.
That money in your bank account has value like hard currency, and it can't be transferred between two parties in the same way that hard currency can. Transfers from your bank account require a number of intermediaries, and (in the US) it still takes days to be finalized.

A digital currency would not only have value like cash, but would be transferrable like cash. The only middle-men would be the fed (or whoever would be running the currency), who would track transactions to prevent shenanigans (like someone trying to spend the same digital dollar twice).

As an aside, the hype around cryptocurrencies is that they offer the same sort of cash-like transferrability, and by using a distributed 'trustless' model, they are able to guarantee safe transactions without the need for a trusted third party like the fed.
Probably a different use case then what you might have imagined.
Why should the federal government bailout private pensions?
20 years ago a similar venture in the UK and Australia attempted to create a dedicated network of towers for locating stolen vehicles. It didn't survive. I think the beauty of GNSS at this point is that if you muck with it the whole population will notice, and that is kind of "bad media". Not exactly winning "hearts and minds".

While IIRC GLONASS, Beidu and Galileo have less than full-planet coverage, https://novatel.com/support/known-solutions/gnss-frequencies... suggest there are a reasonable range of frequencies in use. As I am not a radio guy, in terms of countermeasures, then, would using multiple GNSS systems in places where their constellations are visible frustrate jamming, since standard ICs now support all systems?

In cars and boats, inertial navigation is also common. This is what provides the "you are x% through the tunnel" movement on car navigation screens. In the event that GNSS is lost, just like driving through a tunnel, one would expect operation to continue at a lower resolution / slowly increasing error on many of these systems.

In addition, there are alternate systems for shipping. I believe AIS publishes last known GPS position/heading, which RADAR and depth-sounding can confirm (along with terrain knowledge). By utilizing the shared state of nearby vessels prior to and during an outage, presumably inertial navigation assumption related error could be greatly reduced (as per the DGPS idea that IIRC was common prior to the unmasking of higher resolution GPS signals earlier in its public-use evolution).

Finally, free data sources for celestial navigation systems, terrain-based navigation systems (including bathymetry) and cell sites are available which can provide pretty reasonable estimates as well.

I think it's a safe bet that, even more so than at present, future systems will typically operate on "sensor-fusion" to de-risk outages in sensitive applications.
The evil Chinese manage to emit so much CO2 despite not owning any F150s. How do they do it?
> Innovation happens in fields where our ideas are limited by our means to pursue them.

Citation needed. I'm pretty sure innovation is happening in all fields.

> Software is no longer such a field, our brightest minds should be going elsewhere.

Citation needed. Pretty sure innovation is happening in software too.

This post is... utterly fact-free, and really just reality-free. It literally says nothing besides "biotech excites me". The author had no need to add a bunch of false generalizations on top of that.
Protonmail emails are end-to-end encrypted such that the staff can’t just login to the database and read your email. Sure, maybe it’s not going to protect you from the NSA, but it’s a lot better than leaving everyone’s emails unencrypted at rest for any admin to access.
We definitely need to produce healthy incentives and non-market rate housing, and IMHO housing is a human right (as the UN declared and the US signed on to last century).

However, this is not the primary problem in California. The primary problem is that the wealthy are doing all they can to make sure that housing prices rise as much as possible. And because of the 5x leverage that a mortgage with a 20% down payment earns, any small shortage of housing greatly amplifies prices even further, accelerating asset price inflation for the landed class, giving them even greater gains.

So we have two structural problems 1) the one you mention where wages are not enough to produce or maintain housing, and 2) those with the resources to build housing for themselves are not allowed to use those resources for more housing, instead transferring all wealth to the landed class instead of productive uses.

If we don't solve 2), we will never have enough resources done 1) because the landlords will still take all the money of the working class.
Right when this happens:

https://i.redd.it/5buckgok5lx61.png

What am I to do???
The modern view is that they are sweatshops, and most of them are being shut down. https://www.paraquad.org/blog/lets-reform-sheltered-workshop...
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Thank you sir for very interesting stories, and a good point about water potentially being a limiting factor - clearly a solvable problem but not at all ignorable or trivial either. Please don't mind the downvoters and continue adding your unique and interesting perspectives!
As a side note, if you want to be a hero to your local non-profit, particularly community colleges, then write a check for their general fund. You won't get the cool building, but you'll do an amazing amount of good by paying their operating expenses like utilities. Its amazing how many donors forget about that.
I know the usa is working on optical and electronic technology to use the stars even during the day. They can combine that with inertial guidance on cloudy days .