skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some domains in which delivery is highly time-sensitive. Food is one canonical example, best illustrated here: https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...

Burritos are particularly robust to delivery (along with Pizza, Chinese takeaway, and curries). Most finer meals, and even items such as sandwiches or hamburgers, aren't. I don't see a large market for duck a l'orange avec quadcopter however.

Even food deliveries, though, probably don't pass the sniff test.

For me, seeing some new fancy tech prototype or proposal that looks to be unsuited to general commercial or residential use, I tend to see a submarine military application. Drone distribution in a combat environment could conceivably make sense (though it would risk blowing cover in many cases). Emergency response, research, fieldwork, construction, and disaster response are a few other potential fits. Much less price sensitive, high time sensitivity.

But mass delivery of random consumer stuff in an urban or suburban environment? Not very likely.

I suspect the problem just sounds too cool and is sufficiently engineer-catnippy for anyone to say "no" in time.
Sorry for what I’m sure is a stupid question, but what base this on BSD rather than Darwin itself?

Or, probably a better question, how am I misunderstanding the situation :)
Conspiracy theories don't even make sense within their own universe any more. At a mass vaccination clinic, there is no "black line" or ""white line", people just randomly get in line, and since a vial has multiple doses in it, it's obvious the same vial serves all races of people in the line.

Favorite recent meme I saw "People who believe in conspiracy theories have never been project managers." That is, when you know how much of a herculean task it is to organize a group of say 20 people with a relatively small project, you understand how impossible it would be to have some mass, global conspiracy where everyone managed to keep their mouth shut.
Most “satellite” imagery is actually aerial photos taken from an airplane which can easily get to 10cm. At least on maps websites; local governments typically give away the imagery they pay for. Of course that’s not taken all the time, so it’s not exactly spying. We do have satellites that film the whole hemisphere constantly, but GOES only has 0.5km resolution or so — depending on latitude, of course.
I think there should be federally mandated sick leave for getting the vaccine cuz yeah if you're hourly and get this shot you are paying for it in lost revenue.

So let's make the policy be "you get $500 to get the vaccine or get a doctor's note saying why not. If not you pay a fine". Yeah Bezos gets it (that's why you tax rich people more than poor people, to get the money back later).

Now do you have a problem with this policy?
It is better to spend one's creative energy innovating and coming up with better solutions rather than re-implementing what Apple is doing.

What if you spend your entire career innovating and the result is still worse than Snow Leopard?

(/me kicks GNOME into a bottomless pit)
It's horrible how confident and grandstanding the NYC government is of their own policy:

“A strong stance needs to be taken,” the lawmaker added. “It will be controversial, but your stance — when we look back in history on this one, this will be a defining moment in your government.”

They act like they know what's best, when in fact we have no idea how COVID-19 will evolve in the future or what the efficacy of the current vaccines will be with future variants. Also, we have studies coming out that show natural immunity is stronger than vaccine immunity against future COVID-19 infections. Simply put, this virus is going under evolutionary pressures that nobody can predict.

Having the NYC mayor saying things like, "it’s the only way to protect our people"? Um, you could do lockdowns, mask mandates, social distancing, or IVM. He is trying to incite hatred and war, with words like "We could not have been more kind... The voluntary phase is over". Pretty shameful in my opinion.
people are hungry for a new utilitarian but fresh desktop OS. after the phone-home thing macos doesnt even exist as an option in my mind. i really like elementaryOS.
Passe.

Starship ports.
No need to upload every hash or download a huge database with very hash. If I were building this system, I'd make a bloom-filter of hashes. This means O(1) space and time checking of a hash match, with a risk of false positives. I'd only send hashes to check against a full database.
If this is a good faith question that's fine. A health passport to buy groceries is the hill to die on because you are consenting to a lifetime of injections just to live.

No one should be under the impression that the next booster won't be mandated. You give these people an inch and they take a mile.

And it's also not a government thing. I would think that the White House is upset with New York's decision because they preferred private business restrict access to the unvaccinated, New York might have jumped the gun, revealed the play etc.
Is this an absolute or relative thing? If I have Ebola and actively contagious, would I still have to right to peacefully assemble in a crowded venue? Or is there some cut off of potential harm where this is true?
.73 m^3/s of seawater is only a pipe of 1m diameter with water traveling at 1 m/s. Not that big a pipe in the grand scheme of things!
This clearly doesn't explain Western countries (Australia, NZ) where very hard lockdowns worked quite well.
I'd almost argue its a net benefit to the world if it wasnt for the fraudulent test results thay real people thought they could rely on.

Any moneys taken from a kissinger "merchant of chaos" types, should be celebrated.
> Unshared data shouldn't be subject to search. Once it's shared, I can make several cases for an automated scan, but a cloud backup of personal media should be kept private. Our control of our own privacy matters. Not for the slippery slope argument or for the false positive argument, but for its own sake. We shouldn't be assuming the worst of people without cause or warrant.

I have a much simpler rule: Your device should never willingly* betray you.

*With a warrant, police can attempt to plant a bug, but your device should not help them do so.
If we have 100 people responsible for a bad thing happening to 10 people in that group that is proportionally the same as 10 people being responsible for a bad thing happening to 1 person in that group and having 90 unrelated people to the side when we are divvying up blame.
The article mentions homomorphic encryption, which is a way to perform computation on encrypted text, yielding encrypted results _without_ revealing the plaintext. Instead of f(x) → y, you do f(encrypted(x)) → encrypted(y).

So if you think of a function 'f' that can take text content and produce a relevant ad for it, and an encryption algorithm that converts plaintext 'x' into an encrypted 'X', then instead of running f(x) and getting an ad 'y', you'd instead run homomorphic_apply(f, X) – on the encrypted text – and you'd get an encrypted ad 'Y' without revealing 'x'. The device can keep the keys and do the decryption of 'Y', but running 'f' using homomorphic_apply can happen on the server side.

In principle homomorphic encryption is very cool and the "trick" involved to get fully homomorphic encryption described in Craig Gentry's dissertation in 2009 is pretty amazing. When it finally clicked for me I thought this was one of the most clever papers I'd ever read and truly a "mind: blown" moment.

That said, this is Facebook. As others have pointed out here, there's no need for such fancy processing and it makes much more sense to run the targeting algorithm on-device with access to the plaintext.
Perhaps because APSL is incompatible with GPL?
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids all men to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread-the rich as well as the poor.
Frighteningly, there really are people who think that's a good idea. The "If you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide" crowd. And the cops.
Privacy is and always has been an emergent legal construct to counter advances in surveillance and intrusion capabilities.
Where did you see V2V mentioned? Or are you assuming it's possible due to the normal plugs? The V2H charging is an extra $7500 (included in the platinum model) for the interconnect to your house.
> we have studies coming out that show natural immunity is stronger than vaccine immunity against future COVID-19 infections

Which... studies? As far as I've seen the opposite is true.
Are basic human rights really what we're talking about here?

If so, they've always had limits when it came to impacts on others. The freedom to swing your fist ends at the tip of someone's nose

Whoa, you've got that horridly twisted.

It's not a human right to demand that others undergo a medical procedure for your own perceived interest.
It's not a human right to demand others undergo a medical procedure, or be injected with something, because you've been told it will benefit you in some way.
Every individual has complete choice and autonomy as to the medical procedures they undergo. That is the human right.

>Article 6 – Consent

1. Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice.

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058&URL_DO=DO_TO...
I don't think you know many anti-vax people if you think education is the answer. Every one I've met is completely unwilling to look at data coming out, and instead relies solely on headlines they've read that are usually incomplete or outright wrong.
An other Ray Tracing book I've really been enjoying recently is the Ray Tracer Challenge by Jamis Buck https://pragprog.com/titles/jbtracer/the-ray-tracer-challeng...
I dont mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but there is also only a single line at school, at colleges, at jobs, and at the courthouse -- yet outcomes are very, very different between different groups.
gtfy: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/can-vaccinated-pe...

There's even data to suggest that getting vaccinated after already having long COVID can improve symptoms.

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/vaccines-long-covid
Your reading is basically that the first amendment prohibits an otherwise permissible state law because voters support that law based on their belief in Christianity. But it would be fine for voters to support a law based on their belief in say socialism or secular humanism. That’s exactly backward—it singles out religious faith as an improper basis for supporting an otherwise permissible law.

Regardless, that clause is about the federal government not interfering with official state churches (“establishments of religion”) which existed until the 1830s.
Is it that expensive to pump the c02 back down an old oil or gas well so that it is stored underground again?
Not that this is very relevant to drones, but I've found over the past ~year that burgers survive being delivered surprisingly well, and the burritos I've gotten have been disappointingly soggy by the time they got to my door.
Those may be his origins but these days he seems closer to a glorified carnival barker (albeit a very successful one).
They are putting disproportionately and unjustifiably lot of effort in trying to verify the safety of the vaccine for children compared to teens or older. It should have been available for them along with the rest of the population.

The argument that "there haven't been enough clinical trials in order to allow children to take the vaccine" is similar to the whole "there hasn't been FDA approval!!".

Also, just came to my attention that you ignored the "You oppose discrimination. I'm immune but not vaccinated. Where's my immunity certificate?" part of tomp's argument. Why do you want him to take the vaccine despite the fact that he is not endangering others?
How many other fly swatting games exist? Weird for sure
Because a particular vision of the future requires everything that can be done to be done via "Flying X." Even if they're literally worse at everything than the alternatives, cost more, are less reliable, etc.

We've had flying cars almost as long as heavier than air flight - they're not some future tech that has yet to be invented, as much as everyone pretends that they're some magical thing just around the corner. We've had them for over 100 years, and they've sucked as cars, and sucked as airplanes for 100 years. Any materials breakthrough that will "make flying cars possible and too cheap to meter!" can also easily be applied to both cars and airplanes to make them better (see carbon fiber).

Drone delivery is worse than wheeled delivery in just about every option, but "flying is the future," so people have gone down that path, dorking around with it for a few years (which, honestly, sounds like a ton of fun). The results end up being quite reliable, which is "There is no way in hell we can actually make this work in any practical, economical sense."
Wheeled delivery vehicles do not make sense to me, because they can be easily ran over by cars (limited view bc of very low height). Many suburban roads do not have sidewalk on both sides, but bushes can be seen almost everywhere. Actually, bodies of dead animals ran by cars are so common...
Not op, but this has happened in every major project I have seen: Typically, someone started out thinking "This is the simple, I don't need the overhead of [orm]". Then as time goes by, helper methods for data mapping between the DB and the domain objects crops up and one day you realize that you now have your own half decent ORM.

You don't even need to start from scratch, in the project I'm currently working this happend on top of Dapper sometime on the past.
A better line of reasoning would be based on power symmetry rather than just race.

The Tuskegee experiment happened because the black population was essentially powerless to fight back, perhaps coupled with a feeling of contempt from the ruling class towards them as a people group. Power preys on weakness.

Fast forward to the current day, and although white populations have more power than black populations on average, the ruling elite has a total asymmetrical power advantage over both populations. Therefore, they are able to experiment upon the entire population without much repercussion.

Black people understand powerlessness from their history, and therefore they know to be on guard (more hesitant). White people are less familiar with powerlessness, and can be caught off guard (less hesitant).
To be fair the Twitter thread says (emphasis mine) "These tools will allow Apple to scan your iPhone photos for photos that match a specific perceptual hash, and report them to Apple servers if too many appear."

I don't know what the cutoff is, but it doesn't sound like they believe that possession of a single photo in the database is inherently illegal. That doesn't mean this is overall a good idea. It simply weakens your specific argument about occasional false positives.
Some blips of that alternate timeline:

Schlumberger buying Fairchild, which had FLAIR (Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research), then opening SPAR (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research) and moving FLAIR into that. Also long forgotten CPU-Architecture called

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

later sold to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergraph

https://www.slb.com/who-we-are/our-history/1980s

Closing of SPAR, and moving parts of that to Austin.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-10-18-fi-4498-s...

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

Some leftovers, via acquisition of Applicon and Bravo3!VLSI:

https://www.staticfreesoft.com/electricHistory.html

Steven M. Rubin, Computer Aids for VLSI Design
https://www.rulabinsky.com/cavd/
The man did suffer from mental health issues, which apparently is why nobody believed his protests, instead construing the protests as evidence of delusion sufficient to justify continued institutionalization. The Guardian article fails to mention this critical detail, but other articles do, at least in passing:

> His sister, Vedanta Griffith, spent nearly 16 years looking for him. He moved to Hawaii with Griffith when her husband was stationed on Oahu with the Army in 2003. He moved to the Big Island and then disappeared, while suffering mental health issues, she said.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Mistaken-identity-l...

It's still unacceptable, but not quite the same story. The counterfactual would likely have had him released to the streets, continuing to suffer from mental illness.

Our unreasonable, narcissistic, excessive fear of authority is why so many mentally ill are left to rot on the streets. In fact, our culture's extreme paranoia regarding these risks seems to detrimentally manifest itself in the mentally ill, such as with paranoid schizophrenics. AFAIU, schizophrenia manifests differently in different cultures, and it manifests with particular paranoia, fear, and violence in Western societies and especially the United States. In general it seems the mentally ill often reflect and act out, in an exaggerated manner, our shared cultural fears and prejudices. For example, most of the recent anti-Asian physical assaults were committed by the mentally ill. It begs the question, is it their fault or our fault collectively?

Compare popular opinion surrounding the defund the police movement. Most people are willing to except the risk of police abuse, including those communities most at risk from abuse, given the benefit that the police provide. Opinions seem to shift when it comes to civil commitment, even though civil commitment abuses seem less common than police abuse. As a culture we seem to feel more vulnerable, perhaps because mental illness contradicts our cultural beliefs regarding autonomy and agency.

We need to get over it. The mentally ill used to be able to rely on family and community for support. But as a society we've eviscerated if not completely destroyed those support networks. Nuclear families don't have the resources to take on that burden alone. An early consequence was a shift to mental institutions while the community looked away; but then we swung wildly in the opposite direction and just dumped them out on the streets where we can't physically look away, but can still lie to ourselves about the reasons they're there (e.g. blaming income inequality). In both cases it's a failure to face our fears head-on.
Simply worse for the environment?
All policies being equal, I can see this accurate. What it does not (and realistically cannot) include is the willingness of the population to do anything about the pandemic. Western health systems probably held up better under similar caseloads. Western delivery of vaccines was probably close to the top. Certainly won on vaccine production and logistics and research.

The death tolls in the USA and to a lesser extent Canada, the UK, Italy, and Spain were an unwillingness on the part of some of the population to act on the pandemic. They wouldn't social distance. They wouldn't put on masks. They wouldn't stop travelling. And the governments were unwilling or unable to force them to do so.
I mean, Apple isn't too far from the Mac thing you mention. Since Catalina running an executable on macOS phones home and checks for valid signatures on their servers.
In some places, the front-line worker category included people who work at target, walmart, grocery stores, etc.

Everywhere I've lived, these people skew minority. There are probably more of them than there are front line health care workers.

I appreciate your taking the time to run the numbers on health care workers though.
> I wanted to help, they gave me a chance and 5 years later I'm responsible for entire backend of this company.

With a commensurate increase in salary?
Yes and no; if you're accusing unvaccinated-by-choice people of recklessly endangering others, then it's quite different whether they're endangering random other people or only other unvaccinated-by-choice people. (Similarly I have no problem with drivers on private car-only roads, only those who endanger pedestrians and cyclists on the public roads).

Also the dynamics of how far any given infection would spread are very different in a post-vaccination world.
The problem with this is that you simply cannot compare the covid death statistics coming out of a country in Africa with those reported by USA or Germany.

Even in India, where we do have excellent reporting in some states and cities, the vast majority of covid deaths are expected to go unreported or undetected.

I think a more valid chart would be to plot only countries with comparable per capita GDP, and comparable health indicators (life expectancy, infant mortality, etc.). That would confirm the implication that USA's GHSI rank of 1 was inaccurate.
The Senate was there for the small states, which were evenly split between free states and slave states (whether or not you count enslaved people). Big states likewise includes free states (MA) and slave states (VA).

Don’t mix up the parts of the constitution compromising with slavery with the parts liberals just don’t like for unrelated reasons.
There is a ton of cross-pollination between the ReactOS and Wine projects. Sure, Wine is more useful but they wouldn’t exist as they do today without each other.
People dying from covid are old, to very old, and/or in poor to very poor health.
People dying from and having adverse reactions to the "vaccines" are young to not that old, and in good health.

Big piece of the puzzle you are ommiting there.
Maybe the part in every TOS that says the company can change the TOS at any time without warning and you should regularly check the TOS page and stop using the service if you saw a change and didn't like it?
that is cool "artificial ionosphere"
Pretty much any suburb around Austin meets that description.
Given the stakes, it is a small ask. It will help end the pandemic.
A core difference is the smallpox vaccine had/has sterilizing immunity while the covid vaccines do not. I think given non-sterilizing immunity and the rate and scale of global vaccine roll outs, zero covid is virtually impossible.
> The biggest thing I have found is that the salt solution for Thorium reactors is quite corrosive and that is challenging to contain.

If you can figure out the molten salt problem you can replace the nuclear reactor with concentrated solar thermal and get solar baseload power without having to worry about meltdowns for way less than the cost of a nuke plant.
Yep, apparently the excuse "they're a private company they can ban whomever they want" is only valid if the banned person is someone whose ideas you don't like.