skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Police have run bait car programs, and youtubers have run successful bait package schemes...

Don't see why this couldn't be scaled up to a large number of bait packages at pretty low cost... you just need a small GPS tracker embedded in the box.
> "When closing sentences in presentations, you finish the sentence in a way that sounds like you're asking a question."

This is called 'uptalking'. The name may help folks who are trying to figure out if it's professional or not. I don't see any consensus so far. (but FWIW, I don't like it, myself)
How do you know you could have done it for 2/3 of the price? All my internal walls are solid brick, so running a cable from one end to the other would involve drilling through at least one, but likely 3 brick walls, and either channeling through the wall or pulling up the hardwood floors above them. No way are you going to install 5 points for €500 in a job like that.

Also Ethernet is definitely useful for latency. Having sub 1ms latency on a wifi network is very very difficult, and definitely not going to happen with 5 routers.
Using this reasoning shouldn't the flu vaccine also be required? Many immunosuppressed individuals cannot survive the flu.

BTW, I'm not implying a stance here as pro- or anti- vaccine requirements - just probing this particular talking point.
It's worth noting that while many of the comments here involve the interesting problem of if drone delivery is viable, the article itself focuses on what appears to be a mismanaged project by Amazon. That is to say, their failure here seems to be separate from the difficulty of the problem space itself.
My impression as well.

Tradesmen that can run a business and aren’t in the auto mechanics space, the oil industry, or working (vs supervising) in construction seem to do so well.

Those three are caveats based on anecdotal evidence on industry trends and manual labor injury risks.
Better to refer to an observation than a definition, when discussing real stuff. It's the more solid reference.

We can observe attention.

Can we observe this alternative to which you refer?
I was actually looking for something like this. I have one computer that I want to back up to both local hard drives and to the cloud.

A NAS is great, because you can back up to it and have the backup stored on local hard drives, but it also has a CPU and it can be responsible for uploading the data to the cloud. This is better to do from a dedicated device, especially if you are uploading large amounts of data with limited bandwidth, which I am.

The constraint is that locally backing up to a NAS is slow, even though it is sitting next to my computer. Instead of buying into 10GbE networking, it’d be nice to just use a Thunderbolt cable.
It seems unfair to point out the lack of evidence of long-term side effects when there hasn't been enough time for them to appear. Did we have any evidence that thalidomide was harmful in pregnant women before babies started being born with birth defects?
No one is suggesting requiring medical records at internal US borders (which, incidentally, the Constitution does not prohibit, though it doesn't allow states to unilaterally adopt such controls), so your entire argument
> Any actual valid examples of exaggerated claims?

How about this one:

> It will be launched this month. We're actually going to switch to Gitly CI, since Github Actions has been really slow for us.

I setup a reminder for 1 month.
Anecdotally I have heard this exact same thing from Western Canadians, almost exclusively women or gay men, to the point where I just consider it the default feminine accent of the region.

I have described it to them (friends from the area) directly as "it sounds like you're setting up for the next sentence and never go there. It makes me think '... and?'"

While I wouldn't quite call it sexist to point out, it definitely manifests more as a feminine accent in my experience.
NOAA's updated hurricane outlook calls for even more storms in 2021
You can support vaccines without support a government mandate of them and all the operational xlusterfuxks that come with that
Except how will people access such Windows 365 VMs usually?...
The real question though is do policies like this affect change or do they only stoke animosity. This is a sincere question.

Do we know that the activities where vaccines are required are in fact hotspots? If you consider states that did full lockdowns compared to those that didn't but had mask mandates (California and New York vs texas Florida), there wasn't an appreciable difference in cases or deaths suggesting the mechanism of transition lied outside the reach of government. What's to say people still won't congregate elsewhere?

In turn, I'm not convinced this will incentivize people to vaccinate. My mother refuses to get the shot and digs in more against it as penalties show up. Sure this is and data, but I know that many, many people have left New York City due to what they considered draconian lockdowns and I suspect many more people might leave to "freer" pastures.

I'm not convinced this will achieve the intended objective, but instead far more animosity and pushback which is what you see in this thread which is far more tame than what the general population thinks.

Would love to hear a rebuttal.
What other choice do they have?
Here is a podcast excerpt (FXguide podcast) of Alvy Ray Smith describing the whiteboard incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0RRx0Wd7w
Is this what news is now?

Someone is airing their dirty laundry on Twitter and getting one or two responses, and this is worthy of coverage?
The kinds of workplaces where I could be "my authentic self" are the kinds of workplaces that white collar people deride as "toxic"
You won't need to show a vaccine card to cross state lines, only to go out to eat.

Of course its okay to walk around without an ID, no one suggests otherwise. But if you go to a restaurant without an ID, and get carded you can't order your drink.

Is the restaurant obligated to serve you then? Absolutely not.

You can enter the state without a vaccine card, you just won't be able to enjoy eating out in all the incredible restaurants in the state.
@dang, what’s the idea here?

Are we allowed to slander groups if they’re not here to represent themselves? For example, I would never write something like ‘baritone.org is a crypto-homophobic site that Jeff Fields maintains.” is that okay?
If you look at what Tog says was actually tested, every single test he describes is completely bogus. There's more detail on this in https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/, but briefly, a test he describes is:

> the author typed a paragraph and then had to replace every “e” with a “|”, either using cursor keys or the mouse. The author found that the average time for using cursor keys was 99.43 seconds and the average time for the mouse was 50.22 seconds

Sure, keyboard-only users who do that exact task who literally use the arrow keys plus backspace are slower than mouse users, but since keyboard-only users don't do bulk search and replace by navigating to each relevant character with arrow keys, that's a meaningless benchmark.
Just curious why the three different constant values here: https://github.com/jbroll/xlsx-expr/blob/master/xlsx.tcl#L30...
How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda
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Here's a well cited perspective, written by one of HN's own active commenters:

https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html
50 pound drone seems inherently more dangerous than a baseball.
If you doubt or question that sexism exists, that will be used as an example of sexism and hostility.

Ive seen it a lot on HN--when sexism is mentioned, any comments that doubt it are themselves hostile. I am not trying to chase anyone away. If you want to tell me I am wrong and explain, go ahead.
The relevant number unfortunately is the percentage of the total population which got two shots. One shot is unfortunately no longer good enough against the delta variant. And for transmission, the whole population has to be counted in. And then the numbers might be 60% or less, which isn't quite enought to be a robust blocker against the delta variant.
Without the variants, especially the delta one, the battle against SARS-Cov-2 might already be won, but the virus shifted the goalpost, so to say.
> Again - you cannot require a driver's license to cross state lines.

You can require a driver's license to drive on specified roads in the state, and you can apply that rule to out-of-state residents.

Similarly, you can require proof of vaccination at certain public venues, and apply thar rule to out-of-state residents.
> based on Israel, the vaccine is also losing efficacy after 3-6 months so they are giving a 3rd shot now

A study[0] released last week shows that the Pfizer vaccine's effectiveness is still in the high 80s/low 90s after 6 months, and still 97% effective at preventing severe symptoms and hospitalizations.

When compared to the annual flu vaccine, where the VE typically falls in the 30s and 40s, this vaccine is remarkably effective, even after 6 months.

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v...
Whenever I zoomed out of my bases in Factorio, I always was reminded of IC die shots.
> The systems required to make drones land outside people’s homes were heavy and Amazon’s drones ballooned to about 27 kilograms…

:

> “The hard bit is the last two metres off the ground. It’s astonishing what machine learning can do, but it’s also astonishing what it gets wrong,”

First child killed by a delivery drone and it's over.
The flu virus can and has mutated in the past to become extremely deadly (see 1918). Why is it different this time? Why should it be treated differently than the flu, when it comes to variants? I think everyone should get vaccinated, but I want to fill in all logical holes to help this debate.
That's not really true in noisy areas. The available radio spectrum is limited, and as more users inhabit an area you are basically time-sharing. The less time you have to send packets, the more latency some of those packets will experience. Empirically, wifi latency can be _extremely_ poor in busy areas.
Perhaps, but so far this isn't a problem. Let's stay focused on the actual problems that we're facing. Maybe some businesses as you suggest will refuse a picture and only accept the physical card. So far this may be up to businesses to decide for themselves.

This is otherwise whataboutism about an issue that isn't an issue.

FWIW, the excelsior pass may be far harder to fake and end up being a solution to this currently non-problem
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Who uses remote attestation for what purpose? I have never used it.

Secure boot is simple and lightweight. Should I just wait until some damage happens? I agree it's not the most critical measure. I have at least one machine where it doesn't work and many where initramfs remains unchecked. Have not lost my sleep yet.
Toronto robots bring you local food but their drivers may be a 17hr flight away
I find them to be annoying too but I imagine it's the same as the car superseding the horse on streets i.e. "get off my lawn" more than anything else. When they really bug me, for the same reason you have, is when I'm away from people, roads and industry and I hear them.
What does "systems" mean here? Does it mean "game"?
I think that's a pretty universal reaction in that case.
If it makes you feel safer, come to Europe and recieve a shot with fully approved vaccines.
Half-a-job Bob, hahaha!!
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Nor is there a challenge to shooting a window. Nor is there potential for getting a "prize" for shooting a window. Playing a game amongst friends with slingshots (or other drone-incapacitaing devices) where the one to disable the drone gets to keep the delivery. Hell, it doesn't even have to be a game played amongst friends.
If prices get that low in his lifetime, that'd be one of humanity's greatest achievements. I'm skeptical, but happy to be proven wrong.
I think it's interesting that these examples are considered [at least by some people] to be examples of sexism.

Even though giving feedback on presentation skills might literally be "tone policing", I'm not sure that it can be considered sexist. Men and women are both guilty of "uptalk", or using high rising terminals. IIRC it's more closely correlated with age and geography. But even if we say that it's correlated with gender I'm not sure that it's sexist to say it detracts from a presentation. It would be super jarring for me if Tim Cook walked out at a keynote and said "this is deadass the best iPhone we've ever made". Even though the word 'deadass' is associated with African-American Vernacular English, I don't think it's racist to say that using AAVE might distract from a presentation given to a wider audience.

The second example also seems odd to me. If you're going to start a political discussion at work, I don't think you should be immune to hearing counterarguments. More generally, the whole concept of needing an email from your CEO for emotional support (on non-work related issues) seems really unhealthy to me. That seems like a way to create a toxic relationship between employer and worker-- your emotional well-being and ability to cope with politicians you despise should not depend on Tim Cook (maybe the culture is different at Apple?). The whole trend of a cookiecutter email for every bad thing that happens in the world seems like it could even emphasize certain divisions. How do you decide what deserves an email without "all lives mattering" a demographic? We see that on a smaller scale here on HN when people argue about what deaths are worthy of a black bar. You also have a VERY difficult tightrope to walk when two marginalized groups are being victimized by each other (e.g. recent violence in the Middle East, which also resulted in bigoted violence here in the US).
I have thought about this a bit as one of the parks I walk through has a few homeless people and a lot of litter. And I don’t like litter.

Picking up litter in a park isn’t a steady job, but it’s something they can do because they’re already there, and paying them to do it seems better than handouts of equivalent value. It’s a win-win in terms of value exchange, and it doesn’t push the recipient into the mental role of panhandler or beggar or unworthy-person. They did something, they got something for it.

When I've thought through this, some of the scenarios and questions that come up are interesting and I'm not sure how things would play out. Would homeless people litter more, in order to be paid more? Would everyday people litter more because they know the homeless will get paid to pick it up? Is there any net gain for society? Would I be exposed to liability if I were the one paying these people? Should the public be the one paying?

In a way, this thought pattern is akin to finding a way to gig-economize homeless people. idk. Just things on my mind, about my community that I would like to improve.
Just chiming in to add some data I ran across earlier today. The spreadsheet showcases data from Israel which was updated yesterday, 8/3/21. I found it very valuable as it broke down demographics by age and vaccination status.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mg6NEp4iKcSR1O8l47bL...

The source for the data is linked in spreadsheet. You can copy/paste the link in google translate.

Imgur links of relevant translated data:
https://imgur.com/a/uV2wP5B

This clearly shows a significant portion of the new cases are among the vaccinated.

Anecdotally, those I know who have "breakthrough" cases are having fairly moderate flu-like symptoms. I am quite confident those who are symptomatic are capable of spreading illness even if the vaccinated as a population are less likely to transmit disease.
Same here, we must have been lucky. My early experience in agencies were fantastic.

It was only when I began contracting that I started to encounter scrappy companies, which made it a lot easier to deal with the dysfunction. We often had the perm benefits, a decent day rate, could clock out on the hour, and didn't have to take part in internal politics. Blissful in comparison to the perm roles.
If its design allows it to somehow avoid a BLEVE [0] from whatever fluid it uses to move energy from the reactor to the generator being suddenly liberated.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor...
I think these types of takes are too harsh on nutrition. Nutrition are not only observational studies, you know? For example, we know that LDL is causally connected to our killer number one (atheroschlerosis). We are pretty pretty pretty sure that it is true (both clinical interventions with statins as well and mendelian studies confirm that). So, if that is the case, we can just split people into groups that consume one pattern of food and another one that acts like control. What happens to their LDL after some weeks? See, not that hard. There are a bunch of other biomarkers as well that can be used to do experiments like that. There are of course always a possibility that these changes on biomarkers don't mean anything at all, but this is something that will eventually show up on data. So... I don't really understand all these skepticism about nutrition as a field. People are too dramatic and react weirdly with all this "omg they are lying to me! I can't trust anyone" and go on to trust bro science. Grow up. Obesity epidemic is very real and somewhat there is this idea that we don't know anything about what a healthy diet is. This is ridiculous and shouldn't be that hard to discredit. Tribalism perpetuates that shit.
It's seems it would suffice to have enough nuclear power to keep the grid going when the sun is down and the wind isn't blowing. You could then have a zero-carbon system. You'd need designs that you can turn on and off easily. Maybe a bit of battery storage to handle transitions smoothly.
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In a world where the delta variant can infect fully vaccinated people fairly easily, aren’t the vaccinated the real problem? The unvaccinated aren’t putting any particular pressure on the virus when it comes to evolving around the vaccines, but the vaccinated are.

Unless we could magically get the cases to zero this problem isn’t going away. Mask mandates will slow things, but eventually you’ll need enough people to actually get infected to drop the replication rate.
It's the "but I'm here to tell you folks, it's real" story.

Some people just don't give a shit if it doesn't affect them personally.
Absolutely. I firmly understand that natural immunity is as good, if not better, than the vaccine.

The trouble is, how do you prove it? There are antibody tests that maybe are positive even months later? I'm not sure, honestly. The tricky part is just the recording of the matter, not the science behind it.
I mentioned it in my earlier comment but in my experience it really comes down to continued funding and not "half assing" efforts. The successful homeless shelter I mentioned earlier is not a revolutionary shelter that is doing vastly different things, it's just a shelter that, due to outside donations and support, is able to actually follow through on things like providing security, nutritional food, community building, and opportunities to gain work experience.

In contrast, some of the other homeless "shelters" I've seen are just barely funded enough by the city to keep the roof from leaking and the lights on with minimal staffing. That just doesn't work.
The neighbor's window is a fixed consideration: you mentally map out who can see into your yard once and you're done. The possibility of a drone requires that mental calculation to be played out on a constantly repeated basis.
At this point when I see "comprehensive data is lacking" in some NYT article hyping the Covid threat I just close the tab. About a week ago they were trying to say children were dying in droves from the Delta wave in Indonesia based entirely on the testimony of one doctor who was probably confusing TB for Covid. Two weeks ago they were saying the J&J vaccine was useless against Delta based on a dodgy study that contradicted all sorts of real-world observations, like J&J's effectiveness against the South African variant.
Exactly, in France when you're asking for a loan to buy a house, banks include the repair/whatever costs into the loan on top of the selling price.

If the buyer hides problems from me, I will still have to deal with it, and it won't be included in my loan, so it will be out of my pocket.

An advice from my father: Visit houses in winter and not in summer, you can't check the isolation in summer.

In my experience, honesty in any business works better than lies.
Biking while Black: Racial bias in Oakland policing (2019)
Then what does law enforcement will do with the perpetrators? If they don't investigate this [0] will they really go after package thieves?

[0] https://youtu.be/arss9V3A1VA?t=95
At some point, the local Corvidaes (e.g. crow, raven) will figure out that some drones are carrying food.
Okay, so then you die. Nihilism is your choice, so that's cool I guess. But your post is about you, and only you, fullstop. There are other people out there, despite whatever solipsistic beliefs you have.

With an R0 value of 6, you're statistically likely to infect 6 other people. Why is that acceptable to you?
I am also voting with my wallet. Despite being vaccinated, I am watching the infection dynamcs closely when considering indoor activites, especially where I can't wear a mask.
Those few big cities have lax homelessness enforcement. Chicago used to have a massive homeless problem up into the 90s (homeless died in the winter all the time), particularly underneath the freeways and Wacker Drive downtown, then they practically made it illegal and fenced up those spaces.
Good neighbors don't track people's every move online either, but here we are.
> My problem is that the whole thing is based on old data and a false premise that life is safe when vaccinated people are only around vaccinated people.

No, its not; its based on transmission being reduced and infections less dangerous among the vaccinated, which mitigates (though does not fully eliminate) the dangers of being fully open, and the policy judgement that the burden of requiring the (freely available) vaccine for such activity is warranted by the public health benefit.