skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Taken together, the researchers found that excess deaths were estimated to be in the range of 3.4 million to 4.7 million

Gotta give points to BBC for being just as good as any tabloid out there: the headline says "crossed 4 millions" as if it were a fact, while it's obviously a range and the lowest estimation is BELOW 4 millions.
Farm Grows Fruit and Vegetables Under the Sea
Longmire’s Future: Season 7 or a Movie?
"last mile" problems are real -- and frequently rather more than 1.6 Km.
The sea is flat and you can see a long way. Radar can see a long way. These people could choose a landing spot in a hilly area with few people and many roads, where few people could see the drone land and they could unload, drive off and mingle with traffic after only a few minutes' driving.

Maybe the drone could even finish charging unattended and take off to fly back to Morocco.
Of course it's possible. The government will charge you if you filled out the forms wrong, so they have a lot available - instead they could prefill a lot of the information.
On creating image thumbnails / previews:

> My recommendation is to use a combination of cropping and scaling, resulting in a technique I call relevance-enhanced image reduction.

(There's an image in the article to demonstrate this since it's a little hard to understand from the textual description.)

That is _brilliant_. I had a lightbulb moment there: that is undoubtably the best way I have ever seen to show a small preview of an image.

I then looked at the author name. Jakob Nielsen -- and this page is on the Nielsen Norman group website. For those who've never come across them before, they are extraordinarily skilled interaction and interface designers, and I really wish more products today were designed with their principles in mind. If you ever think to yourself 'computers used to be easier to use' or 'macOS or Windows 10's UI is wrong, but I can't say how' then the likely problem is loss of design principles that these folk can describe.
A Python-based optimization framework for high-performance genomics
Yes. Pretty much. For example your conscious awareness processes all the time just 2% of the image your eyes actually see.
> A journalist's job is to sell newspapers, or clicks, not to keep anyone informed.

Yes. And to propagandize on behalf of his and his organization's preferred political views. Seldom do they probably consciously realize they are doing this. The echo chamber synergizes with their prejudices and steers them in that direction. And for them, it's a job. Their reward is the editor's approval, or at least the absence of his disapproval.
Well in fairness the UK gov did roll back some laws, but they’re certainly keeping some and riding this pandemic to write some even worse ones. Terrorism has been put to bed, and now it’s viruses’ turn I guess.
The link to Scott Aaronson’s “Is P vs NP Formally independent” actually points to his broader survey of P vs NP. Here is a link to the one about independence http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~fortnow/beatcs/column81.pdf

Both are enjoyable reads.
It's the BBC. They love their clicks more than the truth.
That means a lot to me. Thank you.

It’s so dumb to even be worried about it. I’m going to ask them to invert a binary tree on a whiteboard.

Nonetheless, I’ll take your energy and channel it into an interview win, anime style. https://youtu.be/pktMqkfvoBM
The reason I was at this second-choice (also virtually abandoned) pizza place last night was that our normal/preferred pizza place had jacked up their prices so much. This one had done the same, which ensured that parking was plentiful right in front of the joint, but also meant that the owner was forlornly leaning on the empty parking meter rather than being needed inside selling pizzas.

I suspect I'll now mostly eat out when the company is keeping me on the road (and paying for it), but will overall eat a lot more at home now.

Probably healthier anyway, but this can't be good for restaurant owners and workers.
> If you have my phone and it's still activation locked, then it was lost or stolen and should be returned to me or my next of kin.

If i find your phone and it lets me know of a way to contact you, i'll probably return it to you whether there's an activation lock or not. It's a common courtesy that applies to wallets as well.

> My right to own a secure device massively outweighs any desires held by criminals

Your device is not in any case secure, as Apple has all the keys to break in. That's why there's an entire gray-market of icloud unlocking based on corrupting Apple workers.

Since you are so much in favor of private property, i suggest you invest in a self-destructing phone, wallet and car. If anyone who doesn't match your DNA even just touches it, they should get blown up along with the device. Because that's the only way to be sure you own stuff while making everyone else's life terrible for your little material comfort. /s
I think the difference is between people who see science as a process and people who see science as a priesthood.

A true pro-science position is to follow the conclusions from scientific observations wherever they may lead however uncomfortable that may be. Someone who is not pro-science but merely adopting the aesthetic of science will claim "obey the science" as though it's a doctrine rather than simply a tool.
This seems illogical.

This boils everything down to brains, and discards the human individual, and how different human individuals react differently to the same things depending on their pre-existing understandings of their worlds.

So this statement cannot be true.
“ abused by America ”

what does this mean?
It’s not terribly hard given a decent enough constraint programming environment I think, although I haven’t tried to implementing the construction problem yet.

Given that one is typically limited to at most 10 different letters (since each letter must have a unique corresponding digit), the number of possible word combinations is reasonably limited as well.
Doesn't that more or less equate to doing your taxes, just in little updates for each thing, rather than one big update at the end of the year?
> … was especially furious when he saw that German equipment was used to shoot down German pilots. He said they would respond "in another manner".[17] On 20 June 1940 …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_during_the_World_W...
Credit Karma (owned by Intuit) is totally free. FreeTaxUSA has been free for 15 years. There is no shortage of actually free ways to file taxes.
The other comments here talk about hoarding potential for rain in the future and depriving others of it but what about weaponising it? You could potentially annihilate your enemy by generating masses of rainfall and destroying their infrastructure could you not?

It wouldn't be as targetted as a missile strike but you could easily say "it wasn't me!"...
It's a Mugin - https://www.muginuav.com/product/mugin-6000mm-extra-large-hu...

Payload is "25kg" and that's probably optimistic.
Sort of off-topic, but before building a shared library, I strongly recommend reading up on Jeff Atwood's "Rule of Threes". It's harder than most people think, and I've seen them do far more harm than good because authors aren't disciplined & lack domain expertise. The biggest mistake is thinking "Something is always better than nothing" when in fact that something can easily become your biggest liability. If you must do it, keep it as minimalist and focused as possible, and don't hand the task to junior-level people; hand it to someone who recognizes that it's 10x harder than it looks.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-delusion-of-reuse

https://blog.codinghorror.com/rule-of-three/
It'd be too cumbersome, there'll always be a new 'hack' to install a different package, then there's the ability to inject your messages and to send over these 'approved' apps and little to no way of ensuring such a huge infrastructure are all up to date on 'security' patches which stop these exploits.
> most high earning professionals I know do not need an accountant to file their taxes

Yes you don't need an accountant (and I didn't say that you did) but if you want one instead of doing it yourself they just about £100 rather than I don't know how many thousand that would cost you in the US.
I can’t access that because it requires you to be logged in.

I’m not creating an account without knowing pricing.

What does it say?
Impossible to reach all minors with so many absent parents.

Sometimes these events are like getting struck by lightning, and all we can do is install lightning rods to lessen the statistics.

In this case that might look like further anonymity or public service announcements explaining to people that if you share your address some crazy person may end up killing you (somehow).
>So Freedom Phone either didn't build an app store or is pirating the Google apps.

That said, what is an estimated missed profit from pirated Google apps?
Its a mugin if anyone is interested (take the manufacturer specs with a handfull of salt) https://www.muginuav.com/product/mugin-5-pro-5000mm-super-la...
Yes, being suburban Londoners in early 2020 we were checking the car would start periodically and contemplating getting rid of it. But then Covid struck, and us being high risk, public transport suddenly looked really unattractive. We haven't used it since. It is such a shame. We still use the car sparingly and one day hopefully have that conversation about scrapping it again.
Companies make more profit off cheaper labour - it's hardly a revolutionary idea.
I've also been thinking about that! I wonder if https://archive.org/web/ is an alternative though, as in could I pay them so they could mirror it for a 100 years?
tl;dr- Humans may consider their own intelligence as a reference-model from which to conceptualize AI. Biases in self-conception may undermine that reference-model, thus undermining conceptions of AI.

Earlier version: https://www.naverlabs.com/en/storyDetail/212
But at least you don’t get your info stolen when you park [0]. It’s a nice side-effect of using physical money. Also nice that it’s cheap.

[0] - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/parkmobile-breach-expose...
Yes, it'll have a Pixhawk or similar in it running ArduPilot (or maybe PX4). Both open source (and ArduPilot is maintained by Tridge of Samba fame).
Looks like a good product. One very minor point: on Safari 14.1.1, the "Say goodbye to publishing code" line is too close to the "coding tutorials" line above it, so the descender of the g overlaps the b beneath it.
Hardware kill switches do protect from spying whenever they are off. How can they not? Librem 5 phone has them.
Micro Marketworld 1978-1987
Tesla plans to open its charging network to other EVs later this year
The US military stopped using pennies on most foreign military bases decades ago. So there is at least precedent here.

If there was actually a push to abolish pennies, it would become a partisan/political issue immediately and all rational discourse would evaporate.

If you really want to see the penny go away, do what I do: literally throw them away. I did the math and found that the time, space, and attention needed to deal with them was costing me more than 1 cent per coin.

I estimate that I have thrown away about $10 in pennies over the last few years and don't miss a single one.
Then you aren't learning AWS, which was the stated goal.
NSO Group
I've been a game collector for several years now. At the start of the pandemic, when every other other collectible started rocketing up in price, retro video games were no exception. Some games have doubled or tripled in price. However I'm not sure how susceptible they are to pump and dump schemes. They are fairly large physical objects, compared to trading cards and digital goods. The auction process and shipping takes takes days for one item to move. You can sell them to retro stores, but only for about 30% of their ticket price. Prices have remained stable according to reliable trackers [0].

0: https://www.pricecharting.com/game/super-nintendo/earthbound
>by your own logic then we should just skip electric and go full on hydrogen

This would be true only if hydrogen extraction, transport, storage, and use had no downsides or costs. Instead of playing childish "gotcha" games, why don't you actually articulate a cohesive point about why hydrogen is the best route forward.
How do you plan on getting your critical mass/user base for your social network? The biggest problem with social networks is that at the start people won't want to join if there're not already many others using the platform?

How does it compare to joining relevant groups on Facebook or searching for specific meetups?
Why exclude gang violence? The US has armed gangs.
A WebGL version would be nice.
> but there's only so much time in life to hoard useless shit

There’s this very strange episode of the original run of the series Amazing Stories starring Mark Hamill in which some sort of gnome whom only he can see follows him around telling him that the most important thing in life is hoarding toys. He spends his life homeless, hauling his toys around in a shopping cart, completely alone in the world. When he’s like 80 years old and literally planning his suicide, a wealthy collector bumps into him on the street and buys his toys and he becomes rich overnight, and the episode ends with old Mark Hamill and old gnome dressed like rich folk, apparently very happy with themselves and giving off an “it was all worth it” vibe.

Even childhood me, who was very into this tv show (the introduction to which featured computer animation!), Steven Spielberg, toys, and Mark Hamill – even that young version of myself could see this was a terrible message.

https://youtu.be/Hbn5cNgEzKA
Are there any known side-effects of inducing rain in an unusual place like this? The weather is a complex system, so I hesitate to speculate too much, but would it reduce rainfall elsewhere?

With geopolitical tensions rising over rights to the Nile, I wonder if rainfall patterns could follow a similar trend.
Yes, the "altering" you're describing is what the theorem would call a hidden variable. Seems reasonable, but when you do the math it's exactly he kind of theory Bell's inequality rules out. There's no way to set the "polarization angle" (or any other set of variables) such that they obey the probabilistic laws we've observed (without violating some other assumption, like single measurement outcomes, statistical independence, determinism, or locality)
Product Hunt is made to be a VC
Ask HN: How big of a concern is cloud provider vendor lock-in to you?
Loved your write up of your amazing experience, what a great post.

Typed in game listings, I remember those well! There were magazines devoted to these for the Vic 20 / C64, with pages and pages of source code to type in.

(We were absolutely glued to them.)

I recall having the C64 basic manual for quite some time before being able to afford the actual C64, selling my Vic20 in the process and doing a summer job as a teen to afford. I stayed up at night reading it from cover to cover in anticipation. Not nearly as impressive as your story (I grew up in the safety of Norway, and you were picking up the languages way, way faster!), but it hints at a passion for computers we were both yearning for!

(I got into assembly on the Amiga but never C++, sadly)
A very modern version but for one adult:

https://www.podbike.com/
You can just define a generic fallback method like `eff(p, d1, d2) = eff(p, d2, d1)`
> There is a tradeoff between letting user do everything themselves such that they know exactly what's happening in their system

That makes the (IMO false) assumption that people doing things for themselves by following instructions tend to learn what those things do, rather than simply remembering a "magic" ritual that made something work. Some people will take the time to study and learn how the various commands work and the syntax of different shell & scripting languages. Most won't.
It makes perfect sense to me that there would exists a centralized list inside the company of the people being targeted.

There would need to a server serving the exploit and also collecting the data from the comprised phones. Naturally that server would have a list of the phones it collected from, probably keyed by phone number as that would be the most straightforward identifier.

Also I assume nso bills their clients pr. target.
I have personally been in fast food, and I worked my way up to management. If what I say contradicts the article, then my personal experience contradicts the article.

Management is more stressful. That is a different from the line worker who has been working the same position for the last 5 years, with no interest in advancing. I saw several people refuse advancements because they didn't want the stress: they knew how to do their job and it wasn't stressful at all anymore. (they learned to shut off the customer who yells at them while the cook is behind on orders - this coping is an important skill)
This interesting analysis was written in 2016. Is there a more recent version ?
This argument can be applied to anything: “everyone must have or experience the same government thing because otherwise the government provided good will be shitty.”

The counter-argument is the same in all places too, which is that: “freedom is good, so you should have a really good reason for restricting it and restrict it as little as possible, and this isn’t a good enough reason because it probably won’t work out like you intend”
It's not like this is a new concept. Geopolitical considerations come into play all the time with shared waterbodies. Canada and the U.S. have treaties governing the Great Lakes, Egypt threatens war with Ethiopia over the dam on the Blue Nile, etc.
> It's not that easy to keep young people, but I find that more and more "older" people (like around 30) start with the firefighters because they want to take part in the life in their village and what not. So, there's hope.

With a long life of "tech nomading" I'm pretty comfortable living alone and in strange environments. But the older I get the more I feel unfulfilled due to lack of real community around, contributing to it, taking ownership and responsibility in it. I guess that happens to those 30 year olds in Germany as well.
Integrating Text Embedding in Xamarin (Android) Using Huawei ML Kit
The part of the bookmark UX flow I dislike is having to organize them. Especially on mobile chrome. The UX there for folder org is so bad I just have a "log" folder and basically everything goes in there, like a sightly more durable and focused history.

I use the exact same trick - just let the search bar index it.

What I really want is a system like a personal search engine. Bookmarking starts a flow which downloads the page, strips out all the garbage, indexes it in something like Elasticsearch or Bleve, tags some metadata, and organizes it by facets.

Google is decent at getting back to places I once found, but there are still 404s that Archive misses. There's also sites like stackexchange where it's easy to get drowned out by irrelevant results. It would be nice to have a more personally curated view into it.
Interesting, so that’s what the film was based on.
> And simply having or moving money is not probable cause.

What do you mean? AML laws specifically call for investigating suspicious transactions.
I saw this in another thread, opened the link, tried clicking around, nothing happened so I closed it.
I also tried dragging elements but it didn't work, or double clicking a cell to add new content.

If it is optimized for keyboard shortcuts you should clearly show those shortcuts at all times by default.

Overall the UX is really poor, very hard to find out how to achieve your desired result. You should look at people
using the interface, if you are used to it, it will be hard for you to understand what works and what doesn't. Maybe session recordings can help understand what people are trying to do (see my top level comment for a possible tool to help you).
Sequoia: A Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Linux’s Filesystem Layer
It is an online function from Google where Google checks with elevated privileges if your system isn't rooted, that no custom firmware is installed and the bootloader is locked. Some banking apps require this service to "certify" your device too.

Devices that fail this check cannot install some apps via the play store (netflix is a prominent example, don't know if that is still true though). But also some banking apps refuse to launch when the check is failed.

Of course it doesn't really say anything about the safety of your device. It is a check that your device really doesn't belong to you and you cannot do everything with it.
Many biological systems are suggested to depend on quantum mechanical effects. See quantum biology.

There is such a thing as plant intelligence. Could they have quantum intelligence then? Do dolphins and elephants have quantum consciousness?

I think we would understand brains better if we would stay with rat brains instead of chasing flimsy concepts like consciousness and soul. Rodents don't require either apparently, so this gives us an opportunity to focus on their neurobiology.
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> most everyone knows to find the button which wipes it

Not talking about Apple hardware/software specifically here, but i don't see the same here. Most computers donated to associations i'm involved with was never wiped, even when coming from corporations/institutions. Sometimes though, we do receive computers without (EDIT:) harddrive, but it's still the minority. I can count on my two hands the times someone has donated to us fresh system installs (user data wiped), in over two decades.

> they can disown the device by signing into icloud.com from any web browser

That is, assuming you know these credentials. Most people who are not entirely locked inside the Apple walled garden create an account because they're forced to but don't care/remember actual credentials, then forget it. Same goes with other kinds of credentials, not just Apple... but only forgetting Apple (and a few others, like Samsung) credentials turns hardware into useless paperweights.

Or maybe the person has diseased, or moved to a foreign country. Or maybe they've just donated the old phone in a box full of random stuff and by the time you realize the phone is locked the person has already gone and you have no way to reach them. In my personal experience, even with hardware directly donated by friends, fishing for an old passphrase more often than not raises "uuuuuuugh i gotta have this password somewhere, let me check and i'll call you back in a few days" (<-- loop here for about 3 months before you give up).

> It's curious that you don't even know how the process works

I pretty much know about it, thanks. I was suggesting precisely that iCloud lock be entirely removed, and instead a recovery mechanism would wipe the entire device as a privacy-protecting measure.
A Failure of Product-Led Growth
It is at least half true though.

Once you can cook well you learn that cheap is typically bad food. Expensive food can be good or bad, the good is worth it for those other reasons you state.
As per votingprawn, it's 25kg at the absolute most (from the manufacturers website). If you're flying any distance, a lot less than that.
> if you're a tycoon traveling the world

You've got a biased view here. This is not a tycoon level of earnings. That's a standard citizen who moved abroad and works as a (senior) software engineer.
Study can be found here:

https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/three-new-estimate...
I don't think I've ever opened Notepad and saved a new .txt document from there.
> Funny diversity does not include Asians even though they are a minority of the total population in the US.

More Asians in STEM = less diversity. Asians are massively overrepresented in these fields
Can you expand more on your distinction between talking about brains being bad and talking about individuals being good? Are you saying all brains are the same, and something else makes us different?