skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Usually provided by American companies supported by venture capital.

And bought by Europeans with European money. What's your point, beyond nationalist bickering?
A smallish chunk of Strontium-90 would safely power quite a lot of moonbase for years, as the Soviets did their remote lighthouses. Strontium-90 is the ideal radionucleide; emitting negligible gamma rays or neutrons, it just sits producing heat.

For power in the cloudtops of Venus, Titan, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, a full-scale nuclear reactor is as simple as a naked atomic pile hanging near the bottom of a big fabric tube with a wind turbine at the top, supported by a balloon. All the radiative output goes into heating the air around the pile, which rises and drives the wind turbine, which is the only moving part.

On the gas giants, it would have to be supported by a hot-air balloon, because the atmosphere is hydrogen.

On all four planets, surprisingly, gravity is very close to Earth-normal. (On Titan it is rather less.) Orbital velocity at the gas giants is much higher, though, so as comfortable as it might be there, it's hard to get home from them.
Reminds me of how the USPS scans the front and back of every piece of mail; I think they may do this with packages. If machine reading is anywhere near current levels it would be trivial to create a map of you, and every person, organization, etc that you get mail from.
Fields in Physics are like Curried Functions (1994)
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The comment you are replying to does not look like it was written by someone from the USA.
Icarus: Attacking low Earth orbit satellite networks
Do you have coax connections in each room? If so, is ethernet over coax an option?
Sorry, to clarify, you do in fact support Apple running the exact same scans on their server side CPUs? A situation that has the exact same effects on society...?

Your only concern then, is with a future authoritarian policy of your own imagination?
>His disagreeability is probably correlated with his track record of innovation

No, it's probably correlated with a lack of accountability for his behavior. What is his track record of innovation? He has no technical background, dropped out of college and apparently does not know how to manage people.

He worked as a political aide, a consultant, is somehow very close to Demis Hassabis (who is an actual innovator), which I assume got him his position. Looking at his bio his only innovation is how to network yourself up the ladder
How do you connect fiber? I thought you need very expensive soldering tool which stopped me from looking at fiber for home network.
A subreddit that's full of [deleted] isn't trustworthy. Unlike HN, non-admins can downvote posts they don't agree with on Reddit. A subreddit full of [deleted] indicates it's one sided.
You have a shitton of solar power at your disposal during the lunar day. Lunar surface is raked by the full solar constant of power, no atmosphere = no attenuation. That is quite a sizzle.

So you can smelt a lot of aluminium during the fortnight when the sun is up. And build a web of wires around the entire Moon so that during the cold and dark lunar night you can get power from the other side of the Moon.
Sounds like a reasonable guy. I wouldn't want Google spying on me either. It's amazing that he made everyone use Signal.
I’m the one saying it is, not Apple.
On Earth's surface? No. But various forms make sense elsewhere.
I agree. It takes a lot to create something that you know you likely won't see the fruits of. Its certainly a great thing to strive and work towards, but many people seem to think he'll have us on Mars in a decade such that we can just trash the earth because we won't need it anymore.
> Host death does not stop transmission of Covid-19

Huh? It does for that host. Yeah their corpse can still spread it for awhile or whatever but they're no longer engaging in society.
> Since you can’t travel faster than light

The Relativity prohibition is that anything with mass can not travel as fast as light because approaching c, mass increases requiring more and more energy while time slows, such traveling at c increases apparent mass to infinity, requires infinite energy, and time slows to a stop. The same thing could be said for anything moving FTL, as it approaches c, mass increases and time slows to zero. Relativity does not prohibit FTL travel, only travel at c.
Normally perhaps. But this is askscience, which just has a high standards when it comes to answers.
If you are talking about cryptographic hashes, then yes. But perceptual hashes are design to be similar if the images are similar. I still have to read the tech paper, but most likely it uses some sort of perceptual hashing or AI recognition.
It is difficult to make one's mind up on the matter without knowing what racial slur it was named after. The topic is so heated the article didn't dare mention it.
There are captcha providers besides google, such as hcaptcha, or even rolling your own solution (a la old vbulletin forums)
> thousands of innocent people will have their most private of images viewed by unaccountable strangers, will be wrongly suspected or even tried and sentenced

Apple says: "The threshold is set to provide an extremely high level of accuracy and ensures less than a one in one trillion chance per year of incorrectly flagging a given account."

What evidence do you have against that statement?

Next, flagged accounts are reviewed by humans. So, yes, there is a minuscule chance a human might see a derivative of some wrongly flagged images. But there is no reason to believe that they "will be wrongly suspected or even tried and sentenced".
Another nearby place with really long nights is Mercury.

Well, Venus too, but surface conditions are absolutely unsurvivable for people. While you can build an underground city on Mercury.
Something melancholy about them is the loss of the idealism of "User Agent" as a scriptable machine which can act on your behalf on the innocent and collaborative proto-internet.
The article also said:

> hitting a high of 74 degrees Fahrenheit on July 29 at the Nerleit Inaat Airport
The likelihood of wiping out (as in, totally eradicating) a respiratory infection seems really low. Are there any examples of that happening in the past?
So you want us to DDoS the captcha networks? Hmm is that even legal? But it would be somewhat cool if millions of people starting failing captcha on purpose it would be something like decentralized volunteer mass ddos attack.
Were they bad architects though?

It's easy to paint bad managers as bad workers (or even bad people) - but sometimes, they're just bad at managing. In such cases, it's better to shift them into roles they're more suited for than to fire them and hire new people for those roles - existing employees already know the company's procedures and products. Plus, it'll likely be cheaper salary-wise - in our industry, new employees have a much better negotiating position than existing ones.
Sugar

Edit: Didn't mean to post a one word reply

While it's not classified as a drug, it's definitely addicting. Also, you question is very leading. More accessible? Depends on location. There are plenty of places where meth is much more accessible than anything else including alcohol.
Sci-hub is doing what google once promised: making the world's information accessible to everyone.
There’s something sick about their economy. Quite a few economic dynamos emerged from the legacy of bloodshed and dictatorships. Argentina has natural resources. It has institutions. But perhaps it lacks vision and the will to carry out that vision.
That's when traditional medicine like traditional Chinese medicine come to be helpful. Although traditional Chinese medicine lacks preciseness and reasoning of the modern medicine, they possess a truly whole body methodology of treating ailment and diseases.

It's under major criticism nowadays, although mostly for the wrong reasons. Because like so many once beloved and respected professions, they become the unfortunate prey of the capitalism frenzy and being used as the tool for profit.

Practitioners now use the inherent fuzziness to hide their ignorance. Putting the ineffectiveness of their treatment on some seemingly plausible "theory" that was never proclaimed by their ancient predecessor.

Even worse, the herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine are now toxicated by the industrial wastes grow into the soil. Merchants are now more than happy to adopt modern agriculture techniques to improve their quantity and cases nothing about the effectiveness.

Alas, sadness is now upon the ones who truly see and feel the greatness of the traditional Chinese medicine.
>>If "vote with your wallet" doesn't work and only causes, say, 1 million people (out of the billion+ customers) to switch off of iOS, doesn't that mean that the rest of the billion+ people really don't care enough?

IMO, no. This is silly logic. I don't particularly care that Apple scan my photos.

First, most people don't care about or understand any particular issue well. You might care about the freedom issue here. Another person cares about oceanic biodiversity. Another person cares about factory working conditions. All of them make purchasing decisions that affect all of these. The civilians will always outnumber activists 100-1 on any particular issue.

Second, in this particular case, choices are few and poor. Hence exasperated declarations of going back to dumb phones or DIYing something.

Third people's individual purchasing decisions don't have any effect on the thing they're trying to affect.

In any case, my point was empirical, not theoretical. There are very few significant examples of consumer action amounting to anything. Where it has (eg dolphin safe tuna), consumer action was one piece of a much bigger puzzle, and more about raising awareness than direct. IE people buying dolphin safe tuna also become insistent on regulatory action. By the same logic, you could conclude that people don't care enough about anything. In which case, we come to the same conclusion.
A plain text note-taking system for problem solving
E.g.:

> The ship, without a mast or a rudder, was carried across the northern Pacific Ocean by currents. It drifted for 14 months, during which the crew lived on desalinated seawater and on the rice of their cargo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otokichi
Because they have produced Oxygen on Mars

Source: https://sirelonmusk.com/nasa-produced-oxygen-on-mars-for-the...
There's also the indignity of doing unpaid work for Google. We're not their fucking slaves.
It's not a 'neverending fractal of bullshit' - it's two emails showing that the term was used before they claimed to have coined it. I showed a second after you complained it was just one. Are they bullshit? Why? I'm not going in in a circle - I'm still pointing at these two examples you haven't explained yet.

At the moment you've just entered a conversation, said you don't agree, then refused to explain why when asked, and complained that you'd be a fool to reply. Why get involved in the first place when you don't have any arugments to offer?
If you are storing gases at the lunar pole, liquid is the right form. Then the tanks are very light and cheap. Liquifying gases is very easy there.
> My solution was to use webcam if available and make people wave hand or some other gesture in order to verify that you are really human.

This seems even worse to me. Wave at the camera to prove you are human... This is a whole other level of creepy above depressing captchas. I would not do this, ever.
Because FTL travel is not possible, so there's no way to know what would 'really happen.'
PS5 Firmware 2.0 tested: M.2 NVMe storage upgrades – can they match stock drive?
Coffee. Tea. Coca cola products with extract from the coxa plant (cocaine removed, other medicinal compounds retained), cinnamon which is a blood thinner, olives and hot peppers and myriad other things which have medicinal uses.

Edit: I forgot to say alcohol for those folks who think of "drugs" primarily as recreational drugs. Not everyone is into getting high. Some people have other interests in "drugs."
Exactly this. Insofar as the vaccines actually worked to protect people who had never acquired SARS-2, an even somewhat vaccine-evading mutation has a sizeable population of real-SARS-2-naive individuals to spread through (i.e. the vaccinated who never had natural infection).

This is why I and others have opposed the concept of mass vaccination for an endemic highly-spreading respiratory virus. It simply doesn't make sense unless you can develop a vaccine comparable to natural immunity (both in magnitude of immune response but also robustness/resiliency to mutations; over the long-term the current vaccines offer neither).

SARS-2's risk is incredibly well bounded; we have a great idea of who is truly vulnerable and who would have to get struck by lightning 8 times in a row to be seriously harmed. We should have recognized that fact from the beginning; but recognizing that fact runs counter to the narrative required to scare the whole population enough to accept lockdowns/etc.
> local street market had signs posted by the local government that mandated prices-in order to curb inflation. That was a first for me, seeing vendors unable to set their own prices

I'm sorry, could you be more specific about what it is what you saw?

There are no "government mandated prices" in this country, at least not like you make it sound(Apologies upfront if I miss understood you).

There is a government program where all big market have to carry products where their price is fixed by the government. The idea is that you can always have the chance to go for a cheap product if you are poor, but it's not for instance that all milk brands have to have the same price.

And milk can get pretty expensive pretty fast in this country: It always come in 1 litre recipients, and the cheapest one (The one that is within the mentioned program) is right now at ~70 pesos (Some 73 dollar cents at the official dollar price, 40 cents at the current rate for the dollar in the back market... but foreigners can hardly get this price for their dollars).

I don't know what the prices are in other countries, but I think tourists will find prices rather high compared to their countries once tourism starts again.
They of course have the ability to exfiltrate data, they created the hardware and OS.

However since this is part of the opt-in iCloud photos sharing mechanism, it doesn’t appear they have started to exfiltrate data without consent.
That's actually a contested theory these days.

Many doctors are now advising patients to stop taking antibiotics when they feel better.

https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2015/5/stop-antibiotics-exper...
I agree. To my understanding, it's basically the polar opposite -- it's primarily spread by walking, healthy-ish people in the early stages of disease.

e.g.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/11/covid-19... ("COVID-19 most contagious in first 5 days of illness, study finds")
They are, just not as profitable as YouTube and Patreon.
sorry. meant better than captcha like solutions. i know there are others, but it's still click here until we believe you're not a bot.
It's a total mystery to me why do people feel the urge to defend him. I kind of understand this in the case of technically brilliant but socially awkward people, but this guy seems to have done nothing but management in his life. And if this is how he's doing management then I don't understand why he's tolerated at all.
Maybe it would? I mean if yyou're smart tell us how 50 percent of Canucks getting wiped out would play out. You act as if plenty of political entities didn't cease to exist because of the plague.
Not all articles are available this way, even in fields like cryptography, which have a decades-long tradition of using preprint servers.
(Sadly there are a bunch from major film festivals that never are screened again, I wish I could torrent some)
"The Makah took the three survivors of the broken ship and held them as slaves for several months before taking them to Fort Vancouver."

^ Their story only got worse! The tribe turned them into slaves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makah
This is great! Really creative use of different data sources.
The guy is certainly a terrible leader if these accusations are true. But if worst things he did are giving dumb assignments and being mean to people he's planning to fire, I'm pretty comfortable saying that's not a big deal in the scheme of things. I'm not excusing the behavior, I'd never work for someone who acted like this, but I don't know why it's important news either.
Well said, as I like to point out sometimes, Signal is a privacy app not an anonymity app.
I don't believe it's a matter of 100% guarantee of immunity. The current covid vaccines are designed to prevent severe infection, NOT prevent infection. My understanding is that the current vaccines ~95% efficacy is against severe infection, but we don't actually know what the efficacy against infection is.

If you compare this to say smallpox vaccine, it is 95% effective at preventing infections.
https://www.health.ny.gov/publications/7022/
We have a very crooked political caste.
I'm giving this as an example; I don't want to get into a political discussion. But in the last government alone, we received around 50 billion dollars from the FMI also alone, that was entirely dilapidated.
Yeah, but flipside, you're probably gonna need things on the Moon that you wouldn't for a terrestrial base. I think it's fair to assume that the $7bn a year figure is just a very rough number, but still a useful one for understanding just how outrageously expensive it would be to maintain a Moon base.
I looked for that, found it on github and then looked at the build instructions, followed the link provided to GBDK and saw my credit as one of the contributors. Totally forgot about that... :)
I was hoping for an in depth historical treatment of Argentina's fall from the club of wealthy nations, but this article feels much more shallow. It's immediately clear that the author is neither an economist nor sociologist, and I would hazard to say has never lived in Argentina. While strictly true that the Macri administration's "neoliberal toolkit" failed, I feel like the article suggests that there is some inherent flaw in neoliberalism, whereas in reality Argentina is uniquely ungovernable. I'm reminded of the classic quote: "There are four types of nations- wealthy, poor, Japan, and Argentina". There is so much wealth in the county- you see these massive infrastructure projects everywhere: huge hydroelectric dams, well-constructed pristine highways in even the most remote parts of the country, beautiful parks... but for the most part, these projects are used to feed the corrupt state. The amount of corruption and bureaucracy is difficult to grasp as an outsider. I remember the first time I visited Chile by bus. At immigration before we got off the bus, they made an announcement that we should not try to bribe the Chilean police, as they wouldn't take kindly to it. They couched it in terms of the police being too proud to take a bribe, as though there were something abnormal about that. This illustrates the key sociological problem to me- beyond the normalization of bribery, there is a pervasive bureaucracy used for resource extraction by the political class, and I think it has too much momentum to end.

To return briefly to the economic side and why I think a bit of neoliberalism would be a breath of fresh air, I'm reminded of when the government banned beef exports. They wanted to lower the price of beef, and thought they could do this by banning exports. I don't think it's uncharitable to say that any moron could predict how this would play out with a bit of thinking. Ranchers stopped raising unprofitable cattle, switched to soy (which the government then also raised export tariffs on) and other crops. Argentina is rife with this type of economic magical thinking, not just in the political elite, but in the popular classes they pander to. Argentina has been poor since the advent of Peronism, and yet the average person- perhaps like how a fish might not be aware of what "water" is- continues to support the same policies that continue not working 80 years later.

In summary, I think that the author should take a more in depth look at the sociological and economic currents that make Argentina such a unique case of a poor country that by every right should be wealthy.

Edit:
I feel like the above comes off as too negative, so I want to add that Argentina is a great place to live, especially if you are a person of means, and not tied to the Argentine Peso. There are a lot of world class software developers in Buenos Aires, and apparently Argentina is one of the top spots to buy 0day exploits. The culture, food, weather (you can choose anywhere from arctic to tropical depending on your preferences) are all perfect for me- I just can't stand the bureaucracy and corruption.
Organ-on-a-chip tech used to investigate bacterial infections of urinary tract
Interesting points but I would like to add my takeout at how I see Devops and how we use Devops engineers in our organization. My previous boss came up with the definition that most closely describes Devops for me and it is the following: Devops are set of practices that increase the team velocity. And in fact Devops engineers wear many hats. The team needs to get faster their code from developer workstations to production - a Devops engineer could help set up ci/cd pipeline. We need more quality checks and gates before releasing to production - a Devops engineer could help. We need the service to handle spikes in traffic, database backups and failover operations - a Devops engineer could help. We need our infrastructure to be scripted as code, automated, immutable and easy to replicate - a Devops engineer job. Developers have a hard time localizing an issue in production - again Devops engineer could help setting up better logging and monitoring. Also it is not a job in isolation. Devops engineers work closely with the team to transfer knowledge about the tools they built and also observe what is blocking the devs from doing their job in terms of tooling. It seems like asking a lot from a single person in that role but for small teams people often do various tasks by themselves. In bigger organizations people could specialize in different roles like release engineers and SRE but I do believe that there is always a need for someone to be in the Devops role to keep track of the bigger picture and bridge the gaps between devs and operations.
I think, divisions by zero would happen.
"n****r head". Also a commonly used term in early 20th century America for any large black rock
Honestly the most important use of a carrier (especially for china) is going to be in supporting naval vessels interdicting against pirates harassing or stealing from oil tankers shipping from the middle east; china depends on mideast oil to feed its people. The us does not as of 2019-ish, and may in the short to mid term cease protecting international sea lanes especially in the mideast since we are rapidly disengaging out interests in the area (e.g. pulling out of Afghanistan).
Only photos being uploaded to iCloud are scanned on device for CE imagery. This is the alternative to having cloud storage having broad decryption ability to do scanning in-service (as say Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and Facebook do)
The original SARS virus was eradicated.