skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not how mRNA works; the whole point is that it temporarily induces some cells to produce spike protein, but this effect does not last long as mRNA by its nature decays as it is used.

Also, that's not what autoimmune means.

Also, there were not "deaths of all animals" or even some; you can read about Pfizer's initial animal testing here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.08.280818v1.... and the results here: https://www.fda.gov/media/144416/download There's also a follow-up paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03275-y
Including frameworks that collect and sell customer data is one of the ways that developers can monetize a free app.

Selling that data to third party data brokers allows the data brokers to build up a detailed user profile for pretty much everyone.

>The data broker business model involves accumulating information about internet users (and non-users) and then selling it. As such, data brokers have highly detailed profiles on billions of individuals, comprising age, race, sex, weight, height, marital status, education level, politics, shopping habits, health issues, holiday plans, and more.

These profiles come not just from data you’ve shared, but from data shared by others, and from data that’s been inferred. In its 2014 report into the industry, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) showed how a single data broker had 3,000 “data segments” for nearly every US consumer.

https://theconversation.com/its-time-for-third-party-data-br...

The data brokers buy the data from disparate sources and de-anonymize it.

Another example of Grindr profiting off of user data that should be kept private:

>Grindr is revealing its users’ HIV status to third-party companies

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/2/17189078/grindr-hiv-status-data...
Just a layman, but it seems like you could solve the heat and condensation by adjusting ventilation.
@dang. The real link is not twitter but this: https://community.arm.com/developer/research/b/articles/post...

There is also the official paper in Nature, here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03625-w
I hope nobody's life depends on the uptime of a web-based distributed system.

But, well, I also expect nobody's life to depend on it. There would be a short window between people getting into that situation and they not have any life to depend on anything.
I can setup a Kubernetes cluster, a container registry, a Helm repository, a Helm file and a Dockerfile before you are finished setting up the infrastructure for an Apt repository.
OK, now when we say "shipped", we're talking:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=paper+boat&iax=images&ia=im...
I feel like none of the sibling answers actually answer your question which is "absolutely nothing." The function namedtuple is code generator that constructs a class definition and then eval()'s it.

The reason you reach for it is because it's tedious to write the same methods over and over to get things like a nice repr, methods covert between dicts, or pickling support.

The source from Python 3.6 is much more readable than 3.9 so I recommend reading that if you want to see how it works.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.6/Lib/collections/_...
That's a nitpick. Even five years is a pittance for taking someone's life. In this manner. After attempting to steal from them and harass them. And after showing a history of this kind of abuse directed at other human beings.
Aircheck
Do you have a source on the gun in hand thing? That isn't mentioned in the linked article. The only information provided in this case is that he stepped out to investigate and then had trouble with a fence. Presumably if he had a gun he dropped it at some point between walking outside and crawling under the fence in an attempt to comply with police.
They didn't shoot in this case, he died from the stress of the event causing him a heart attack.

Also, this is only one last straw in a long string of harassment tactics, those on their own should be enough to be sent to jail in my opinion. Releasing public information, tricking cash on delivery to the person's address, making false reporting of child abuse to security services about the person, coordinating to have strangers unknowingly perform home invasion at their house, etc.

There might be something to be said about a swat team response, but let's not get distracted by what is a much more common and growing type of crime.
In this case, yes. In many cases of swatting no. In this case, the heart attack is likely directly linked to the numerous cases were police did shoot people for no justifiable reason, and the victims fear that they would do the same to him.

The police did not de-escalate the situation, they gave orders both impossible to comply with, and in my opinion unconstitutional (they had no probably cause with which they could seize the victim), with the implicit threat that they would shoot the victim if he did not comply.
s/billionaires/millionaires isn't a very compelling argument in my opinion. It's still a huge waste all so some rich people can float in zero-g for a few minutes so making it accessable to a few million people instead of a few thousand doesn't seem like a win to me.
There are different crimes that are called murder. Pre-meditated murder with intent is often called first-degree murder but there are other crimes. Killing anyone during the commission of any felony - or even having someone accidentally killed as a result of the felony crime - can be felony murder in some states. In any case there are also other murder charges where there is intent but it was not premeditated (crime of passion - often called second degree murder) and there are may be crimes called murder where there is for example aggravated assault with disregard for human life that kills someone even if death was not the intent. Maybe that is third degree murder.
Not really. Firms hire based on the cost of an employee. If suddenly the employer portion of the payroll tax disappeared, there would immediately be an incentive to funnel those funds into the salary to make job offerings stand out against what the employee's other options would be. Sure, some firms would pocket it, but it beggars belief that most of them would, when they've already made a decision to open a hiring line based on the funds available and projected revenue.
I downvoted that post because it's just not correct: federal sentences have not been eligible for parole since 1987 and good-behavior releases are rarely if ever that significant of a reduction. I also downvoted it because ill-informed hauteur doesn't vibe--I mean, if you are going to be outraged, and there are many things (many of which go uncommented-upon here!) to be outraged about, a substantial point that furthers a discussion is pretty important.

I downvoted your post because complaining about downvotes is frowned upon here. (I've done it. I got downvoted for it. It's how it goes.)
> There's nothing anybody could do about it.

All the states with GL watershed agreed to the compact not-so-long ago. In a case of such egregious rule-skirting, couldn't they just agree to close the loophole?
I agree, but it's getting downvoted because it's wrong.
Prosecuted, no. Persecuted? You certainly might be.
you could always sell them on olddomainsforsale.me
Nothing is perfect, but being vaccinated strongly reduces your chances of a) getting infected in the first place; and then b) thus passing it on to someone else.
Of course:

echo "deb https://apt.repos.intel.com/oneapi all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oneAPI.list

You can read the "apt" section of the package managers, if that's what you prefer. https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/documen...
You're correct, I confused this case with the other cases of swatting that resulted in death.
So instead of knowing about K8s services, ingests and deployments/pods I have to learn 15 tools.

Ingests are not much more complicated than an nginx config, services are literally 5 lines each pod, and the deployments are roughly as complicated as a 15 line docker file.
Who said that he was? Wealth has little to do with productivity.
"Swatting" is a generic term for making a false report of a violent crime in progress at a target's address.

There wasn't literally a SWAT team deployed to this man's house, just the local police. And they didn't actually shoot him, contrary to what a lot of comments are suggesting. He came outside with a gun and they de-escalated. No shots were fired, but the stress of the situation caused him a heart attack.

To answer your question: The "swatting" technique isn't unique to the United States. It happens anywhere police respond to reports of violent crimes in progress, which is most places in the world.
Exactly. It reminds me of the Tamir Rice incident. If cops rush in, primed to look for violent confrontation, they can easily find it.

I also saw this some in college after sports wins, where the local police turned peaceful, happy crowds into angry mobs by behaving aggressively. And then once they had people angry, that justified further escalation.
If your ONLY source is a single, anonymous phone call, you need to verify the situation before sending armed men to a random address. For example convince the anonymous caller to give up their anonymity or call the house you're concerned about and try to speak to people who live there
Thanks for the laughs :)
The use case is:

- an asset that cannot easily be seized (safe, mobile, relatively easy to recover with seed words)

- an asset that cannot easily be debased (good at storing value)

- a network that is permissionless to participate in (no requirement for citizenship or identification, just software)

- a network that is censorship resistant (interact with willing parties, pseudo-anonymously).

What you mean to say is that YOU have no use for it. That's fine, you most likely have elite banking access, access to stable and liquid stock and bond markets, forex markets, etc.

Look up Turkey's double digit yearly inflation rate over the last couple decades. Look up the capital controls imposed by Lebanon.
> Quotas are not harmful unless there are too few qualified people to meet the quota, resulting in a less-qualified person getting a job.

Citation needed. I'm pretty sure discriminatory behavior is harmful. Just because you think it's justified doesn't mean it isn't harmful.
Good use of past tense, given that they aren't the solution any longer.
Paying a killer is obvious proof of intend. We consider intentional acts to be far worse than unintended consequences.

Say you’re on your way to pay the murder-for-hire when you accidentally run over your intended victim while checking HN on your phone. You admit to everything. Which part should contribute more to your prison sentence?
I've been using hash tags in file names (e.g. "eat more veggies #todo.txt").

To group by tags, I use the smart folders functionality on windows/macos/googleDrive to save a search for items with the tag in the name.

Definitely not as smooth as an OS-level tagging feature, but it works in a pinch. Should be easy to port to other systems with some scripts in the future when/if this functionality becomes mainstream.
Good management advice. I was a first-line manager for a Japanese company (hard estimates, with lots of international frowny-faces, if the estimate was missed). That was pretty much what I did.

We usually came relatively close to our estimates, but would sometimes encounter anomalous situations that would force us to re-evaluate. I found that my managers were pretty good at accepting these, as long as they were not too frequent, and as long as I didn't do the "Lucy in the Chocolate Factory" thing. They set hard plans, and we were not to deviate from them.

But our customers often did not like the software that we delivered on-time, and to-spec. Since we were a hardware company, it was considered OK, but we hated it.

So we delivered yesterday's technology; tomorrow. :(

But I also ran a small team of really high-functioning C++ engineers. They stayed with me for decades, and I got to know them quite well.

I can't even imagine running one of these shops with half a million inexperienced engineers that flow in and out like guppies in a pond. My management experience would be worthless for that environment.

Since leaving, I have taken a very different tack with the software that I write.

I assume that my estimates are basically fiction. I am going to make big changes, to suit changes in the deployment environment, customer expectations, competitive landscape, platform tech, etc.

I tend to write very flexible software, in layers and modules. It allows me to react to these changes fairly quickly, and to maintain my very high quality standards, throughout.

I often toss out huge gobs of code, when I hit one of these challenges. That actually makes me happy. The code I don't write, is the best code of all.

Flexible software is a very double-edged sword. Most quality processes advise against it; for good reason.

But I tend to know what I'm doing. I've been at this a long time, and have been very humbled by many, many mistakes. I would probably have a difficult time trusting developers with lesser experience to take the kinds of chances that I take.

So my personal process depends heavily on me being me. I know myself, fairly well; warts and all. This means that I can trust the Principal engineer on my projects.

I manage scope. My projects are small-batch, artisanal, projects. I don't bite off more than I can chew. That said, my "small batches" are bigger than a lot of folks' personal projects. I often spend months, writing my code, so change comes almost invariably, during my projects.

Works for me. YMMV.
Genuinely curious, do you know how police would respond in a country with stricter gun control, if you called in a report that someone was armed with assault rifles and bombs?
> Do they not want investments or a tech sector?

The individual customs official or even the department is not incentivized to look at the benefit to the entire country. On the other hand, they are directly responsible to increase their collections, based on which they get a cut.
There was another article posted on HN yesterday with more information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27900825

> "He went out the house with a gun, because he heard someone was on his property," Fitch explained. "He sees all these cops around him, and they ask if he is Mark Herring, 'put your hands up,' so he tosses the gun away from him to show he's not a threat, and [put his] hands up."

The police responded to reports of a violent crime in progress, confronted a man with a gun, and de-escalated the situation without any shots fired. There are a lot of bad assumptions in the comments on both articles assuming that the police shot the man, which isn't correct.
Sony WH-1000XM4. Works great for cancelling out the dog yipping during multi-hour zoom meetings.

Edit: bluetooth works great with macOS and does not have the audio sync issues that Bose 700have even though the XM4 do not have bluteooth low latency chip.
>Lets take a situation where someone reports something like a shootout inside a house. What would you have the cops do in that situation?

How do they handle it in other countries?

>If this is a real event, they don't go in quickly in order to confirm the situation and someone dies because of it would you blame the cops?

Yes i would blame the cops, its the police job to handle the situation without causing someone to dies.

How exactly they should do is for the police to figure out.

You can't expect general public to figure out the solution.
MADD says that the first successful attempt at someone's life in Cali while under the influence earns you at most 4 years in jail: https://www.madd.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Vehicular-Ho...

In civilized countries, the minimum sentence for manslaughter is 5 years, and that's handed out when two friends are blind drunk and one stabs the other while arguing about soccer.
I disagree. Once we have electric airplanes with lots of point to point connection, it will be both faster and cheaper. These should be coming on in the next 2 decades and that the minimum time it would take to build such a system.

Its a gigantic investment to do high-speed train and almost always is a burning money pit that needs to be constantly subsidies.

You already have an existing road network that with increasingly self driving EV (at least on highways) can be used.
It doesn't. That's the size assuming interning of string literals.
Yes. The difference is that may be "theirs", but I think it's all free software. At least the linear algebra stuff is. They supply changes for BLIS (which seem not to get included for ages). Their changes may well be relevant to Haswell, for instance. I don't remember what the difference in implementation was for Zen and Haswell, but they were roughly the same code at one time.
Let's pull on this thread some more.

So if I purchase a home and it's my primary dwelling, and the fair market value of my home goes way up (like more than what my homestead cap is) - I should pay INCOME taxes on this UNREALIZED gain?

See why this is so bonkers.

Don't get me wrong, I'm totally in favor of the super rich to pay more in taxes ... but they are not using any "loop holes" here or getting preferential treatment. It's just that they have radically way more unrealized gains than ordinary people do.

It'd be interesting if all those people who had huge unrealized Bitcoin gains had to start paying ordinary income taxes on it.
Remember how the ops team kept installing Tomcat with the default credentials?
That fear of a huge bill is real and much more common than you think.
I'm not saying he is evil or that he doesn't deserve his success, I'm addressing his point that Bezos isn't just a product of his own talents, but that of his situation and the opportunities he was provided by our society.
128 bytes of RAM and 456 bytes of ROM. Looking at the paper, we see that 64 bytes of ram are used for the register file, and the clock speed is 29KHz.

I've written and shipped useful code in much less. This might already have applications!

That being said, consuming 21mW at 29KHz is a bit much. Generally power will scale superlinearly with speed, so it will not take much more speed for this thing to melt itself.

Still, a cool demo
> it's incredible - Microsoft could definitely charge for it - but they aren't even interested in doing that.

Because the telemetry data is worth more to them.
Numba might be what you're looking for: http://numba.pydata.org/
Hardware kill switches are unfortunately pretty much useless. For camera it's okay, but a tape is just as good, for microphone, even the gyrosensors can record voice in some quality. And here is the big thing: there is hardly any threat model where blocking the camera would help when the software stack is a burning pile of C buffer overflows from top to bottom. If you can't trust the software to such a degree, then you might as well just not turn on your device. Seriously, what's up with the linux userspace where goddamn gnome initial setup is a C program?! Like, we were okay with lisp code decades ago in more serious things, and nowadays we actually have memory-safe languages with very close to native performance.

But the biggest problem is the lack of sandboxing, and UNIX permissions are way too crude to be of any use. The attacker at worst can't install a video driver, but can easily add anything to your bashrc, or read the content of your browser's cache, etc.
I‘m reluctant to change over from TextWrangler to BBedit due to fear of loosing those unsaved „Untitled text 461“ documents.

Does anyone now if BBedit restores TextWrangler‘s untitled docs?
Well this is what has left me most confused by this decision. Are Van Jones and an incredibly successful celebrity chef really the best he could come up with? If I were Bezos I'd at least give the money to a person or organization that would help improve my PR.

edit:

And by this I meant things like paying for poor kids college tuition etc. I guarantee no one in the media will be talking about this story, and where Van Jones puts the money, beyond this press conference.
> the benefits to consumers and business users of these products is many times higher than the money made by the industries producing them

the money made by the industries producing them is tangible, and there are lobbies protecting it, whereas the benefits to customers are intangible.

If you think about it, it is not the insane thing, in fact, given the system, it is the sane rational thing that benefits these actors.
The AGPL guarantees the four freedoms and specifically prevents (cloud) companies from running a proprietary fork.
Just picked up some XM3s last week. It’s the most I’ve ever spent on headphones, but as soon as I tried them on and the noise cancelling kicked in I knew it was money well spent. A little bit of high frequency still comes through but it works so well that the initial experience is a little eerie. I’m prone to finding many headphones apply too much pressure to the top and sides very quickly, these I can happily use for a few hours at a time. I’m not an audiophile by any stretch but I have found other Bluetooth headphones I’ve tried pretty lacking, and streaming with LDAC on these sounds really great to me, if a touch cool/clinical. Bass is well handled as long as you’re not producing, it isn’t monitor level flat, nor Beats muddy. Touch interface takes some getting used to, I’d probably prefer buttons, but it does avoid applying lateral pressure so it’s a win on the comfort front. I haven’t tried competing high end ACN products from Bose and Shure (wasn’t possible do to Covid restrictions here), but you won’t be disappointed with these… or the XM4 presumably, the 100€ premium was hard to justify for me.
volunteer fire brigades are also quite common in (very) small towns in the USA. it's a bit like a social club. the fire station serves as a sort of public gathering hall as well.
I wonder what they're using as a flight controller? Is it linked to the ground (via cellular or similar) during the whole flight? Or autonomous for part of it?

EDIT: Looks like their ARTF electric version uses the Ardupilot CUAV V2+ - https://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-cuav-v5plus-overvie...

I can't find any information on the data link, that they call: "Sprintlink Pro Data link & Video Link". So not sure if this uses cellular networks, or something else during flight. Hybrid products definitely exist: https://www.skyhopper.biz/products/communication-data-links-...

EDIT 2: The ARTF version is wild. For under $20K - you can just buy a drone that can deliver a 3kg package (6.6lbs) anywhere within about a 100 mile range. https://www.muginuav.com/product/mugin-ev350-full-electric-v...

Besides "last mile shipping" and smuggling implications, I'm trying to think of how this could be useful today. Maybe some kind of search and rescue where someone activates a personal locator beacon, and you could send them supplies before you could reach them? A little under a gallon of water?

IDK, seems like a stretch. But I feel like there has to be more practical implications.
The main argument for colonizing planets is some kind of cataclysm destroying earth that we had nothing to do with, e.g. meteor or gamma ray burst. It doesn't make sense to set up shop somewhere else otherwise, as we could spend resources to make earth more habitable way more easily than other planets
I think doxxing is a tool. It can be used in condemnable ways.

It's also used in virtuous ways; for example, to determine whether what appears to be grassroots activism is astroturfing (https://www.businessinsider.com/astroturfing-grassroots-move...).
What are the "fundamental factors at hand" with Kubernetes and software orchestration? How do you quantify these things?
Greyhound vs. Traxxas X-Maxx
>I agree, Blue Origin at least was thoughtful enough to use fuel that doesn't emit CO2.

I thought that too, but apparently the BE-4 engine uses LNG :/