skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some cultures (some nations) cremate their dead. Others bury them. Some bury them in the soil, where they are eaten by soil organisms, some bury them in the sea where they are eaten by fish and some bury them in the air, where they are consumed by scavenging birds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Silence

Relatedly, animals still kill many humans every year:

> Philadelphia, February 28, 2018 -- A new study released in the latest issue of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine shows that animal encounters remain a considerable cause of human harm and death. Researchers analyzed fatalities in the United States from venomous and nonvenomous animals from 2008-2015. They found that while many deaths from animal encounters are potentially avoidable, mortality rates did not decrease from 2008-2015. The animals most commonly responsible for human fatalities are farm animals, insects (hornets, wasps, and bees), and dogs.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180228112528.h...

Though most of the humans killed this way are not even eaten, which is arguably a waste. One reason is that many of the killer animals are herbivores, particularly cows:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cows-officia...
Yeah, that's a pretty unconvincing excuse he gave.

Although i think in this case its a bit of a tautology - the fundamental feature of beurocracy is its dehuman-ness. Any descriptor of that is going to be dehumanizing because fundamentally that's what its describing.
Full Title:

The U.K.’s Delta Surge Is Collapsing. Will Ours?
If the forever-COVID reality for 95+% of the population is "you really, really ought to get that annual booster shot" (instead of "get the flu shot iff it's convenient"), that's not actually so terrible.

If it becomes century-long endemic in the population, kids are exposed to it, likely creating a productive exposure-related immune reaction until they're old enough to get an mRNA vaccine.
> "Our kids, by contrast, have had pictures taken of them every week at least. With metadata so you know where you were. And they're digital images that won't fade"

They might still wonder "Why only 8K resolution?! Why aren't they in 3D and interactive?!"
The Death of Commuting
It worked and it didn't. In large parts the bureaucrats actually opposed linear programming methods, but really the biggest issue was data, not planning. They had no automated data collection systems to speak of.

Beyond that, the Soviet economy was solidly middling as far as the world was concerned.
Then don't give these companies your business. I certainly don't. There are enough games that don't pull this kind of shit to keep me entertained.
I yearn for better personal financial software with things like purchase queues, a simple “should I buy this?” UI, and a way to quickly calculate the downstream effects of financial decisions. Open banking, or at least clean, timely bank data is prerequisite to anything like that, but it’s been elusive for solo devs in the US. The UK and EU is far ahead in that regard.
Does it use key management like SSH or more like certificates with TLS?
This is so true for me, only had yearlies and occasional family events. It’s really cool to be able to look back through the years of pics I’ve taken of my kids.
Steam uses flatpak-like runtimes now that should hopefully make backwards compatibility a non-issue going forward.

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> The semiconductor industry is busy building more capacity.

How does that relate?
Over the long run, more volume would provide more work for the FAA and its employees. For now, though, loosening the rules in hopes of getting more launches would serve to reduce work for the agency and diminish it's purpose. I could see a business making the short term tradeoff in the name of long term gains but not a government bureaucracy. Does that make where I am coming from a little more understandable?
I don't see the point of your comment. I made it very clear that I agree with the basic proposition that censorship is bad, but that we should also talk about vexing problem of intentional lying.

It's perplexing to me that you launched into an attack on an argument that nobody was making.
Probably the kind of thing you should do before posting a launch HN
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You're right. I was trying to write up a cpufreq driver for the Nintendo 3DS and found that LKMPG's complete lack of DT info astounding.
Many convergent evolution paths led to the same similar form, in time. That was the point. If the environmental pressures are similar, the forms may be similar.
Ah, more than a decade ago I found a similar issue on Friendster (anyone remember them?), I could embed an HTML image tag in my profile which loaded a PHP script (under my control) that would redirect the user to something like friendster.com/poke?id=[my user id], so if anyone visited my profile, their browser would GET that URL and I'd get a "poke" (I don't remember the Friendster term for it), notifying me who visited my profile.

I didn't get many pokes, and I can't tell what part of this story is the saddest. Maybe the part that there probably weren't bounties back then (that I was aware of) and I didn't get any money for this discovery.
Love the enthusiasm to share! This is a bit of a coming out party for us, so not much out there in the way of public information. We'll add to that as it comes higher on the list of priorities
The test flight trajectories are posted with the FAA and covered in numerous places, for instance

Article:
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/05/13/spacex-outlines-plans-...

Video (Marcus House):
https://youtu.be/9-9k513UIVw?t=298

Basically both vechicles (the massive booster and the starship itself (2nd stage) are going to "land" on the water, which means a hover and then sinking into the water.

Booster - Boost and separate, boostback burn and splashdown off the coast.
Starship - 90 min orbit at about 120km, reentry and spashdown near Hawaii

It's fairly quite likely that both would crater on this first flight - for instance this is the first booster flight and also the first reentry for the starship itself.

The Falcon 9 booster also had similar flight plans until it could successfully fly a controlled trajectory to the surface of the ocean before they risked a drone ship too.
Homeless burnout here. I've been homeless for three out of the past four years. It's a miracle that I'm still here.

Someone here told me that I'd be cleaning the gene pool by completing suicide, after he diagnosed me through a comment. Dang banned him, then let him back on.

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You did categorically state it: “So vaccines do not reduce Covid-19 mortality, period.”

You also missed my nuance, but that’s not surprising at this point.
Maybe not once you consider the R&D costs of figuring out how not to melt a solid gold Merlin engine ;)
Strangers don't owe you a response, and not being expected to give one is not a regression.
Cloud infrastructure market kept growing in Q2, reaching $42B
I like 'em crisp and tart (and cold), so Granny Smith from the refrigerator is my default.

I recall Newtown Pippins being a bit sweeter than I like, but I understand they vary. Is there a time of year, or another way to select for tartness?
> Probably Delta will blow through literally all the remaining unvaccinated people and that'll be the last surge, at least unless we get a vaccine-resistant strain.

I think you're right, but that will still happen over years in multiple waves. Barring some sudden uptick in people changing their mind about vaccination.
Wow, no kidding. The gold Merlin would be a quarter of the price![1][2][3] (At least in terms of materials.)

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/nasa-will-pay-a-stag...

[2]: https://www.google.com/search?q=merlin+engine+dry+mass

[3]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28630+kg+of+gold+in+U...
IIRC, there are two primary reasons why dollar stores are cheaper:

1. Dollar stores do (as you say) offer products in much smaller sizes. This isn't necessarily bad for consumers: if you don't have the money to pay for extra product, it's to your benefit to shop at a store that lets you buy in smaller increments.

2. Dollar stores have no fixed inventory. They buy whatever brand is the cheapest at any given time, rather than trying to stock the same brands consistently. This leads to them often having unusual versions of products that aren't available elsewhere.
As I understand it, the max out of pocket is a federal legal limit that has nothing to do with level.

Some states do, unfortunately, have very high premiums because their anti-Obama leaders intentionally chose to screw over their constituents for political points.
My school actually used to give out awards for it, which always used to annoy me as I generally had 100% attendance excepting 1 or 2 days off for illness each year.
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Gear:

- Normal DSLR camera with the IR filter taken out and a different (~700nm cutoff) IR filter put in -- you don't need this for broadband objects like galaxies but for emission nebulae that have a lot of 656nm light, it helps a lot. For some emission nebulae I use an dual-narrowband (H-alpha and O-III lines) filter.

- Some pretty normal camera lenses. Actually mostly 30-40 year old manual focus lenses that are built much better than today's plastic crap and easier to focus properly. I highly recommend the Nikkor ED Ai-S 180/2.8 and Nikkor ED Ai-S IF 300/4.5 if you want a couple of winners.

- A sturdy tripod that won't vibrate in the wind. Heavier the better. None of that carbon fiber BS. Steel is good. Video camera tripods work well.

- Tracking mount, such as an iOptron Skyguider Pro in my case.

All of the images I take are as close to natural color as I can make them, since landscapes in false color aren't exactly good looking. Most Hubble images on the other hand are false-color, and for a good reason: The Hydrogen and Sulfur lines both fall in the red, so in order to be able to visually distinguish the chemical processes they assign S to red, H to green, O to blue. This is commonly called the "Hubble palette". In my case O spans green-blue and S/H are both in the red, and although you can't really distinguish S from H in my pictures, but that's how they would look if our eyes were more sensitive.
I agree with you. Many of these templates do offer specific cases, as that's how designers operate/think.

They are not really generic components that can be used in different use cases that the designer didn't think of.

But, they are a good source of inspiration though...
That is robustness. A robust thing can endure many stressors, but the stressors either leave it as is or make it worse.

Antifragile systems can get better from being stressed, at least to a limit. Muscles are antifragile, as one example. You stress them moderately, and you grow stronger. Stress them too much and you'll break, but within limits your muscles don't just endure the stress, they improve from it.

No physical phone is antifragile.
I don't think it's even slightly true that compilers default to Intel-specific optimizations. All the Linux compilers default to k8-generic, an obsolete AMD platform.
What is it about America (or other countries) that makes you think this couldn't happen anywhere else?
Yeah, the plan is to have enough money to do whatever you want, regardless of the pay. So you don’t ever need to work a job you “kinda hate”, and can maybe find a startup or something that you think is good for the world.

I totally get that it would be so dull to do no work for more than a few weeks, ha. I’ve taken a couple months off between jobs before and had plenty to do, though.
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> Walmart’s vaccination mandate, for example, doesn’t cover the company’s most vulnerable employees: workers at its stores and warehouses. The retailer, the biggest private employer in the United States, announced mandatory inoculation for employees at its headquarters and for managers who travel domestically.

Office workers come into contact with executives. Pretty simple.
>But if that imessage vulnerability was FOSS and you could flash your own image

1. the vulnerability wasn't FOSS. It was kept under wraps because otherwise it would get discovered and apple would patch it

2. what makes you think that amateurs working in their free time can patch 0days faster than the vendors themselves?
I am optimistic that I can use the upcoming Focus mode in iOS 15 to start broadcasting my unavailability to my contacts
We're here discussing a hardware launch from Google, with a rumored selling price of $1000+. In what way does that not imply that Google wants to make money from hardware sales?
Can You Hear It? Backdoor Attacks via Ultrasonic Triggers
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.14569.pdf

"Deep neural networks represent a powerful option for many real-world applications due to their ability to model even complex data relations. However, such neural networks can also be prohibitively expensive to train, making it common to either outsource the training process to third parties or use pretrained neural networks. Unfortunately, such practices make neural networks vulnerable to various attacks, where one attack is the backdoor attack. In such an attack, the third party training the model may maliciously inject hidden behaviors into the model. Still, if a particular input (called trigger) is fed into a neural network, the network will respond with a wrong result."
Why abandon all priors? Take the case of someone whose previous statements show an acknowledgement or awareness that proposition X is not true.

If they go back to claiming proposition x the next day and the next and the next, then they're lying. This isn't a philosophical problem.
Consider the fact, that the publicly richest citizen on Earth, as well as one of the people behind one of the largest financial transaction sites, may have genuinely already concluded that, as the history of politics among other things have shown, that the Earth/humanity may simply be unsavable, for whatever reasons they find.

He has a lot of talent at his disposable, and presumably information to a decent bit of otherwise locked away studies/reports. Do I think he is correct? Perhaps not, but my nor your opinion really matters.

If he's made the decision shits truly FUBAR, ala Foundation, then leave him alone while he works on what he may genuinely believe to be a shot at surviving the FUBAR long-term.
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What about weight? With some of that removed you get the wrong feeling for how it handles. Not exactly unimportant for power tools.
Does that not assume that you’re symptomatic at the same time you’re spreading the virus? With covid you appear to be able to spread before you know you have it. Given that, what force would cause the virus to be selected for less lethality?

With a different presentation of disease where symptoms and spread occur concurrently then there would be a pressure on the virus selecting for strains that arent so lethal a carrier has no chance to spread. In covid’s case, that pressure doesn’t exist as far as i can see?
Reminder of the classic "Mathematician Hacks OkCupid" story from a few years back:

https://www.wired.com/2014/01/how-to-hack-okcupid/
> we clearly have evidence that on a short timeframe a version with _wildly_ enhanced transmissibility has evolved. So speculating that changes will continue is reasonable.

So let's be clear: the claim is that the virus can mutate, therefore, any particular outcome is equally likely?

If I speculate that the virus will mutate into a hemorrhagic fever, like marburg or ebola, is that reasonable?

If I speculate that the virus will lose its pathogenicity, is that reasonable?

(hint: all of our best data suggests that the IFR of the Delta strain is considerably lower than previous strains: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...)

There's obviously a limit to how much you can speculate about "continued change". At some point, it just becomes a scary story.
I LOLd but then had to do the math. Turns out that the dry weight of a SpaceX Merlin engine, in gold, costs almost exactly the same as a production RS-25.

Current spot price of gold is $1800/oz. Merlin dry weight is 1380 pounds. 1380 pounds of gold is right at 40 million dollars.

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-25#Space_Shuttle_program :

"A total of 46 reusable RS-25 engines, each costing around US$40 million, were flown during the Space Shuttle program"

Beautiful.
It's not obvious from use? It's been a long time since I was in this world (well, Erlang), but it was application:ensure_started(App) that let me know "this dependency has its own supervision tree".
Most of the discussion behind this decision, including feedback directly from Evan You (author of Vue), is here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241180

It's pretty interesting to read through.
I like reading stuff like this, the McMansion Hell girl, the Humans of Flat Design guy (RIP), etc because I have no design expertise and they put real words to aesthetics I find viscerally revolting. But something keeps gnawing at me whenever I engage with this sort of criticism: maybe I just don't like design trend X because it's popular, and seeing X always reminds me that I'm living here, now, in 2021.

I think this article is more about homogeneity than "gray floors bad," but I imagine much of the first world has been locked into this monoculture for some time now. Would be fun to read a 90s/naughts version of this same piece, where some now hopelessly out of date color or piece of furniture is cast as a shibboleth of souless globalism. Lime green? I feel like like lime green had a moment forever ago.
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i'm not sure if it's standard on Windows, too. Or on ChromeOS.

I still feel like it's too hard to get a simple split screen of the windows/tabs i want to see split - maybe i need to look it up again.

having another monitor has helped.