skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would a kite be stable enough to count on? It sounds very clever, but the main advantage of a windmill is that you know where it is at all times. It can't fall out of the sky if something goes wrong. (They do require some continuous monitoring, but not what I'd expect for a kite.)

It would be really great to take advantage of all of that fast-moving upper air, but I wonder if it might be more practical just to live with what you get between tall buildings. Or even, conceivably, stretched out between existing windmill towers. (Though that will surely require even bigger effots to scare off the birds).
Europeans are multiracial and it's discriminatory against people living in Europe that don't know how to use ssh proxy ;)
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There are many kinds of drones, not only energy-hungry quadcopters. What if they glide and use energy mainly for steering? Or autonomous sailboats?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27311877
I have a theory that the US govt will eventually push for 'Space Force' claiming a threat from UFO's
> This is the continued dilution of security with audit/compliance. It's a mindless, check the box mentality.

If I can play devil's advocate for a moment—isn't this just how insurance necessarily works? Your car insurance company isn't going to interview your teenage son; they don't care that he's a particularly mindful individual, who never speeds because he remembers the time a close friend died in a car crash. "The policy says 17-year-olds are high risk, pay us a zillion bucks a month."

Of course, guidelines that have literally zero value still have zero value. But they have to come up with something concrete...
Cargo, fishing ships or submarines.
I loved the original turntable but that site for sure looks like vaporware and the article is just a drama fest between the original founders. Nope.
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The only argument that document takes about it actually being better is that with some vaccines you need two shots instead of one. That's not compelling as being "better" at all. "Better" would imply that, once the complete course of vaccination is complete, the immunity is somehow more complete, stronger, or longer lasting.
I seem to be in the minority but I'm not a fan of jinja2. I like mako better, I guess you have more leeway to do silly things but I never feel like I can't do what I want.
Release them from an autonomous submarine?
No, the pilots saw the tictac with their own eyes. I recommend you watch the interview.
I agree with your sentiment, but using your own anaolgy, someone who put the time into throwing everything at the wall likely is your best source for what sticks. Because, you know, they tried... everything.
If reports like that accurate and it's a human adversary, we might as well shut down our military, it won't do any good anyway.
larger aircraft would be downed before it would get in range
You can always use sendmmsg(2), writev(2) or other iovec-based APIs.
oh this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27311866
HTML still have a definition of valid HTML which is reasonably simple to parse. Now it also have exact specifications for how to parse invalid HTML which is of course much a more complex task.
I am currently arguing with the bargain-basement pentesters one of our clients hired. They are claiming the system we built is vulnerable because, and I quote, “any credentials sent over HTTPS are transmitted in plain text until they leave the user’s local network”. Not sure how exactly they think HTTPS works, but five minutes on Wikipedia could debunk that one.

They also flagged up that users can access JavaScript and CSS files. Not the original source files mind you, nor is directory indexing enabled or anything like that. They pointed to our compiled and minified app.js and app.css, and suggested we block access to these files as the source code to the app is “sensitive information”.

Having to tell a client another company they’ve hired are absolute clowns, without making it seem like we’re trying to save our own skin, is certainly interesting.
Windows 10 telemetry and whatnot can all be turned off. It's still the desktop OS it always was, just with some extra crapola (Cortana) that iOS millennials expect. At least Windows isn't sending a hash of every file I open to their servers like Apple is...
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” -Genesis 6:3
Correct.

Here is the Ada 2012 standard: http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-TOC.htm...

If you create a programming language that meets all of the Ada standard requirements, you will have your own Ada implementation.

You could use whatever backend suits your needs (or write your own) and license it accordingly.
I think you have the wrong takeaway from this thread. The project marketing is terrible, it is confusing, lacks focus, makes senseless claims, and doesn't showcase the project's strong points. People are telling the author where his marketing is falling short, and the developer has already updated his marketing in a few places to make it better. What you're watching is improvement in real-time.
I think in the US, it's a war on drugs thing--though it could also be a Cold War thing. Just musing though, but yeah it's wild that we don't think this is a right.
It's discriminating by source IP address, not race.
Anyone tried automating KPI/goals updates in Slack?
I've seen several companies building custom code to get key company metrics to Slack (i.e. # bugs solved, MRR, Pipeline, product adoption metrics, NPS etc...).

Teams love it, becomes part of their daily routine, but it's such a pain to build and maintain, or to give ownership to non technical team members.

We've built Droyd, a SaaS product to do just that without the hassle of making a custom bot.

We'd be curious to get feedback from the HN community on it. Have you built custom slack bots to get metrics in Slack? If not does it sound interesting?
"Crop circle season" ... surely that's just late-spring into summer ?
And it's especially ironic given that most of the shaming is coming from the 'my body my choice' proponents on other issues.
I get it pretty often too. Having said that, I haven't typically had much to show and I've usually been offered the job anyway so I'm not sure it's typically given that much weight.
I reckon I had very little network effect at unis, nor did I really remember any of the classes.

But it's still useful as a time where I get to think about what I want to do and actually try them (software, hah) with abundance of freedom.

That part was really important.
Yeah, but you did get it. I'm not particularly careful myself, but I obey our local laws, wear a mask when required, etc. and I haven't caught it but I'm still getting my vaccination on Monday.

It's also baffling to me that you say you act responsible and two paragraphs later admit to being around people who have had COVID!

To me, it's completely irresponsible to not get a vaccine if offered but I'm not going to hold it against you and I can at least understand where you are coming from.
Isn't that how vaccines works?
There are cases of even young, healthy people getting severe complications from COVID. This is not "just the flu".
This presumes you trust the workload in the container (which you might!).

Containers are not an adequate security boundary for untrusted workloads to assume they leave the host unchanged.
Did your comments back then add anything interesting that everyone else didn't already know or did you just fling mud at the wall? I absolutely did and still do down vote posts that try to point fingers without proof, no matter if it is for or against.
Ivy League schools are not meritocratic. The SAT is not meritocratic.
If her ovens are rigged to bypass the electricity meters, then yes, she does.

If she had a large bitcoin mining operation going on, and used the profit to pay an electricity bill that was in the right ball park, then the cops would leave her alone.
> Probably you just need to share official documentation from your government and official health body with your family.

That's going to be tough[1]:

> Yes, you should be vaccinated regardless of whether you already had COVID-19.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html
This seems like one of those situations where we all need to be saying "The plural of anecdote is not data" on the rosary every morning.

Assume, for the sake of argument, that prior infection reduces your risk of future infection by 95%. That's a far sight better than most the vaccines, enough so that a 2nd infection would be noteworthy on a personal level. But then, since this is an Internet forum, we need to throw the law of large numbers at the situation. Those figures still mean that there are perhaps tens or hundreds of thousands of people out there who are known to have caught it twice. Which then translates into a certainty that there will be quite a few people mentioning it as an interesting anecdote on public forums like this.

Then you throw a novelty effect on top of that. Say that prior infection actually confers 99% immunity. Fewer people will get re-infected, but each of those re-infections is more noteworthy, which makes it more likely that someone will want to talk about it. So the actual rate of re-infection and spread by people who've caught it gets a lot smaller, but the rate of people talking about it on the Internet, and the resulting perception people might infer of how likely it is, might stay about the same.

(Disclaimer: I do mean, "for the sake of argument." Until some firmer science on the subject is forthcoming, AFAIC it's still within the realm of possibility that prior infection doesn't confer much practical immunity at all. This study is promising, yes, but I've been around the block too many times to get all that excited over something that doesn't amount to a whole lot more than an in vitro study.)
There've been multiple reports of pilots reporting that they saw some sort of movement and frothing beneath the surface of the ocean - as if there were some sort of vehicle there, they specified. They then reported seeing whatever was under the water seemingly suddenly shoot up at high velocity.

I wonder if those reports could potentially be consistent with a submersible craft launching drones. Maybe such a craft could even be... "catapulting"?... or otherwise giving the drones an initial boost, too, combined with self-propulsion, which could perhaps make them fly from the surface faster than they could with self-propulsion alone.

(Obviously this is all pure uninformed speculation on my part and could be total nonsense. And one would think one of these hypothetical submersible crafts would've likely been detected at least once, given the US Navy was operating in the vicinity on multiple occasions.)
And, at that point, you'll probably want an easy way to orchestrate work across your multiple nodes.
> Who knew such an admiral goal: "having women entering the workforce en mass" would have such a depressing result: "it is now much more difficult for a family to survive on one income"

Is it clear that the causation is only in that direction? I am not familiar with economic history back into the 40s and 50s when a lot of women started entering the workforce (note more than 25% of the civilian workforce were women already in 1945 [1]), but could it have been that it's partly the other way around?

In other words, how much of "it is becoming more difficult for a family to survive on one income" caused the need for "more women entering the workforce en mass"?

[1] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/data/facts-over-time/women-i...
There was also the Seychelles data point which had the highest vaccinated rate and then had a large outbreak after.
That's household income. Top 1% individual income starts at $361k. To be in the top 10%, you need to make more than $125k.
Clicky: https://wefunder.com/demonpore

Do you have a prototype? Do you have at least on of the scenarios™ already implemented?
Basically, today fees make up ~40% of payout for miners.

with EIP 1559, those fees will be reduced and also completely burned instead of given to miners.

Instead, miners will receive "tips" from users trying to encourage faster block inclusion.

No one knows how much "tips" will make up for the lost revenue, so it's kind of hard to mount a sizable resistance to the change, in the context of the obvious benefits it conveys to miners by making the currency healthier.
> It seems to me the increases of efficiency should allow all people a minimum quality life(...), no matter their contribution to society. I think this can turn people that are a strain on the system to contributors

How would they be contributors? I'm thinking maybe you mean that they will participate economically (buying stuff and making more babies). Is that really a good thing though, to have people who do nothing to contribute besides consume things--especially from a climate standpoint? It seems unnatural to me, because nature rewards competition, survival of the fittest, etc..
People talked about 'saving granny' to get you to comply with Covid restrictions but now there's literally granny's dying in India and we're giving the vaccine to perfectly healthy people in America and no one gives it a second thought!

Meanwhile, under 55 age group has a fatality chance of Covid that is less than dying in a car accident and will develop immunity after natural infection. And the under 55 age group makes up over 80% of the population.

I completely agree about fact based realities needing to take hold again!

I think we may be in a post-truth society and all that matters to people is what's the news media report instead of actual science and statistics.

The upside to people getting their reality from the media is that when the news media quits reporting on an issue it will be COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ABOUT, much like darfur, metoo, blm, starving children, dead innocent civilians in the middle east.
Poof it will just vanish in the wind as long as the politicians don't make it actionable.

So just hold out for a bit longer and the news media will stop reporting on Covid and switch to a new topic that people can be outraged over.

And no one will care at all about your vaccine.
I think supply is not the only thing to consider. I suffered a SARS-CoV-2 infection around Easter, and received my first vaccine dose a week ago.

The days after that I felt much worse that when I had the actual infection, albeit for a shorter time, so I personally would appreciate an official recommendation to not have to take the second dose.
It is obvious to anyone that is truly objective that _anything_ to make Trump look bad was going to be pushed hard by the media during that time. He, like it or not, brought the lab leak to the forefront of mind and was summarily dismissed because the media couldn't stand him.
Even if we can, there is no harm in hoping for the best, and expecting the worst. There is no real evidence that any of us are going to live this long, so while it may be fun to read about this, we're not going to be the ones to do so.
What's your area of expertise regarding antibodies?

I'm quite happy admitting that I do not know anything other than the basics and trust in experts in their respective fields instead.
The so called developing nations are often dictatorships that want to get rid of their "intellectual capital" because it destabilizes the dictator's position.
Or, you could just shoot lots of autonomous supersonic missiles at the ship from the aircraft.

Drones seem to have a lot of disadvantages to previous generations of rocket technology.
No dufflebags?
Yep. If women are [10,20,30,40,50] and men are [100,200,300,400,500] then p90/p10 is the same for each, but combined it's 500/10.

Terribly off numbers for illustrative purposes of course.
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> how have we always just accepted the lack of personal privacy when it comes to finance?

It was very easy. The American public was hoodwinked into accepting the 16th Amendment (levying an income tax) as a tax the rich scheme. And like all tax the rich schemes it was a cover to tax everyone, especially the middle class. You can't have an income tax without the government prying into everyone's finances.

Before this financial privacy was the norm.
So there are really two options here. Either the instruments used to detect #1 and #2 are reporting inaccurate data, OR technology far beyond what the public knows about exists and has only been seen under circumstances where no one had a high resolution camera to get a detailed picture. #2 seems unlikely because the availably of high resolution cameras has gone up a ton in the past 10 years ( cell phones / satelites ), but a clear picture of a UFO has not shown up.
The platform the drones launch from is the weakness.

If the drones have less range than the combat radius of the fleets air power, they just need to locate and destroy the launch platform.
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Sorry, I would like to keep my online anonymity.
All these types of articles always include photos of Calment, even though it's highly likely she was a fraud
> a laptop from a reputable vendor

Why are comments here always so deliberately vague? I'd like to know which manufacturer. It seems like an important detail.
We don't know their weight, so we don't know how much downforce they have to generate. The water's not exactly still, either.

Also, if they were radar-spy drones, they don't have to go home -- they've likely transmitted everything they need (overhead satellite or a nearby sub?). They're going away far enough to sink to the bottom of the ocean with little chance of recovery/identification.

So, I can imagine drone that carries some basic RF sensors, a basic quadcopter (or equiv) propulsion system, then a one-time-use escape system. Perhaps a short-range turbine or simple chemical rocket.
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> Meaning, the intent behind an action matters despite the consequences. So if you are willingly putting people at risk...

People by and large don't intend to put people at risk. The intent of someone who causes a car crash is rarely malicious.

> This comes across as a "no true Scotsman" defense...

I suspect Kant would agree with me that it would be a difficult argument to carry as a philosopher when you are arguing in favour of increasing the corpse count for no particular reason. "If a self-driving car bugs out and kills someone, who's responsible?" certainly isn't a reason to kill people. We can afford to live in ignorance if it means more people live to die in their old age.

I'm on board with the idea that maybe someone has a reason that it is a good idea to just let people kill each other by accident. But so far in this thread nobody has bought one up.
> Everyone loves CSS grid layout now, right?

As someone who does not primarily do web development... no. No I do not :). I am trying to get it to do what I want in Chrome and I find I hate it only slightly less than older CSS.

Anecdotally, friends have told me I shouldn't use grid, I should use flexbox instead.

Clearly I'm not meant to be a web developer. Some people like it, I gather.
> The article --- published Wednesday titled, "Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?" --- shared the name and personal information of a Chinese doctor and researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and linked him to a theory claiming the new virus is an engineered bioweapon.

If you in good conscience think the above is at all similar to the current claim that the virus might have been an accidental leak, then there's no point in further engaging with you.
Nothing the parent poster said is an emotional argument - quite the opposite. It may be that you have an emotional response to those facts but that does not make it an emotional argument.
https://www.spaceforce.mil/
You're right, the analogy is wrong because the conspiracy theorist is actually just yelling "this will stick" at every object they pass, and then doing strange analyses of their favourite objects to try to justify it, but never actually testing the results.
Sounds like fun. I had no idea something like that was possible.
I fully agree but sadly in the U.S. it will take the better part of a decade just to explain binaries, toolchains, and trusted reproducibility to politicians.

I think the larger issue is that the political and legal class in the U.S. has a combination of arrogant ignorance and willful ignorance when it comes to anything to do with tech.
This Warzone story is also interesting, because it contains actual logs and emails released under FOIA. Those are much less sensationalist than the OP story:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39913/multiple-destroy...
Sure. Many things are possible. Twitter could be using an embedded hypnotron in their apps to control elite opinion. But when people are talking about effectively nationalizing one company because they don't like its moderation policies, I think we need more than speculation.

And you might not care about why we have antitrust laws or how monopoly impairs free markets. But I sure do.

If somebody wants to make the claim that Twitter has too much power in some way unrelated to monopoly, they're welcome to take a swing at that. But that's a very hard claim to make in that without an actual monopoly, I don't see a plausible mechanism for unfair dominance. Not only is it possible to compete with Twitter, many companies, some of them with vastly more resources, already do. I'd say the rise of TikTok demonstrates there's no particular barrier to entry, and Gab and Parler are eternally claiming success in attracting millions of users.
My understanding is the antibodies created from the vaccine are not the same antibodies that maybe created from having one of the main strains of the virus and thus would not offer the same level of protection.
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If there was still a shortage of vaccines I'd totally agree with you, they should go to someone who doesn't already have immunity. But that's not the case, so I do think you have a responsibility.

From an administrative standpoint, it's much easier to confirm that everyone has had the vaccine. And, there's some evidence that the vaccine provides better immunity than the virus itself.

IMO, this is even more true for the flu vaccine! Flu vaccines are less effective on an individual level, so as a society we're more reliant on collective immunity to slow down the spread. Lots of people die from the flu, and a little shot each year can help keep them alive!
Joy "This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws"

As somebody in the UK, that kinda seems messed up.
Sure, it’s just a number.

The point is that if we made the effort, there’s likely easy things we can do to extend life beyond 100.

Studying Blue Zones, for example

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone

We really haven’t made an effort to study aging.

Why do some people live well into their 90’s and appear to be in good health?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Van_Dyke
Am I correct that the interesting thing about subluminal warp drives is that they do not require working mass for propulsion? So if we had such a warp drive, we could put energy in and get motion out of it, without being subject to the tyranny of the rocket equation?

It seems like this idea is not correct. The authors write in section 5.2: "Warp drives, being inertially moving shells of normal or exotic material, do not have any natural way of changing their velocities. They are just like any other types of inertially moving objects. Similarly, just like for any other massive objects, achieving a certain velocity for a warp drive requires an externally applied force or, more practically, some form of propulsion.", from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.06824.pdf#page=17