skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can mostly scan the South Australian ones on the move and as the article says they appear to be simpler.

The main problem with fast scanning is selecting one at the right height. Often the first I encounter is placed at waist level for wheelchair access which is a very good thing but often worth walking past that and using one at a better height for me as the keystoning of the image makes scanning less reliable.

The checkin data in my state is guaranteed to be kept for 28 days and treated as health data and not available for other purposes. But it was recently announced they discovered they had been keeping backups for longer than 28 days by mistake. That is probably quite relevant to a lot of businesses I think. Backups tend to be handled separately. I am sure I have worked on many systems where client data has been deleted in the app but persisted in backups long after they should have. Might be some lessons in that.
This is a bit like asking if you can make a coal-rolling pickup truck more environmentally friendly by letting your friends carpool with you.

Technically, yes, but it's kinda missing the point.
I remember seeing this years ago, and feeling like "more people need to watch this".

Thank you for sharing it in this discussion!
There's some evidence that major mutations are happening in severely immunocompromised patients, since COVID is able to stick around longer. [0] The length of infection seems to be one aspect allowing for evolutionary success of the virus:

> A leading hypothesis is that these variants, characterized by a large number of nonsynonymous mutations, originated within individuals with long durations of infection during which the virus was subject to prolonged immune pressure (7, 8), and that this was potentially facilitated by the within-host emergence of deletions (49). [0]

Consequently, some have suggested that monitoring for new strains might focus on such patients as a way to predict future adaptations in the wild, as scientist have observed some mutations re-occurring within immunocompromised individuals. So it might be possible to predict some mutations.

[0] : https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/15/health/coronavirus-varian...

[1] : https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abg0821
Manager: We need API gateway and Service Mesh in Kubernetes for our service

Engineer: I have come up with solution that wouldn't need all these frameworks.

Manager: Good. See how soon you can integrate with API Gateway and Service Mesh.

Heard at friend's workplace.
This reminds me of “Temperature Blankets”. They seem pretty well known in knitting/crocheting world. Typically they’ll do a row or two of a color representing the weather for each day of the year.

My wife made one for the year 2020. It’s really neat looking at it and seeing how the weather fluctuated in and out the days and weeks. I think it would be so cool to have several for different important/notable years… but they can be so much work!
> I just cannot wrap my head around being so upset that a public official lied you're willing to sever friendships, familial ties, and sacrifice your career because you refuse to follow sane and frankly manageable guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It's not even that the messaging is currently or has been conflicting now. It's like carrying a grudge for years over the smallest of infractions. Are people so bored, they have nothing going on other than to get in a big tizzy about having to wear a mask?

It's rare, but some of us developed actual health issues from the mask itself, be it the reduced airflow or excess humidity from trapped exhalation. I didn't make the connection for myself until this spring when the mandate was lifted and my problems completely went away.

So, I have no intention of wearing masks ever again, regardless of mandates.

It's not just a grudge or being stubborn when people are asking you to actively hurt yourself.
Reminds me of this story which is apparently is one of the most famous meteorite incidents, being filmed by 16 angles in 1992, across multiple US states before smashing into a cherry red Chevy.

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

This was a noteable Wikipedia story recently (maybe coincidently).
I have no insider knowledge, but my guess is that nobody wants to work on this project. Best to avoid any project that might get you hauled in front of the senate, which has already happened to Libra.
"One problem is that right now we can only retain evil crypto developers, due to our new platform stance which is pro-evil," said Eris Jùmen, head of media abuse at Facebook.

"These two were clearly non-evil developers, and frankly we are looking forward to returning to alignment with our core values of insularity, dark patterns, and subjective ethics."
Because the picture of Calvin peeing isn't the NFT, the NFT is a cryptographically-secure blockchain that records ownership. They exist so that people can "own" the "real copy" of data that has no reason to be scarce. And like the article says, this worthless math is indeed mostly used for cash grabs and money laundering.
robin hobb excels at world building and plot weaving while having a very pleasant prose style, as does lois bujold.
The school district itself was relatively chill, however the individual deans freaked out. Because the penetration report was sent to the tech team and not the deans, the deans were intent on finding out exactly who did the hack to find something to report to their bosses (and according to them concern about the grade book system being exposed?? Not sure how you’re supposed to rick roll a grade book but if anyone has an idea i’d love to know). As the earliest poster of footage of this event, I actually got tracked down (despite the fact that the only information they had to go off of was my youtube channel which had no references to my actual name whatsoever) and interrogated about what I knew of the event by the dean. The penetration report had been sent a while prior to this (which I knew about, as being a sibling of the original blog poster can have many benefits) which made the entire thing so much funnier. I was thankful that masks were a requirement for in person students at the time, as my mouth was literally twitching the entire time during the interrogation.
Most candidates in the pipeline are off shore
Hyundai Made a Walking Car
there actually are a couple of antifa groups on there
> Imagine the U.S government started incorporating this global ledger to account for home ownership — automatically, they have a reputable brand. Since the code itself is out in public, it can be trusted and audited. Take this idea further and imagine the UN starts to keep track of land ownership for the entire world! Same deal — brand and trust, both satisfied.

Where to even begin with this idea? First of all, many local governments in the U.S. already have public databases of who owns what land. This is a problem that can be solved with a SQLite database, it doesn't need a blockchain.

Second, controlling access to individual pieces of land through ownership is a fundamental function of capitalist states. It's even more important than coining money. Why would a government delegate that to the UN? What would the benefit be? If a state can't effectively control access to land, that's an existential threat and not something the UN's "brand" can solve for you. The potential downsides are huge for everyone involved - sorting out disputed ownership or inheritance now requires a call to Brussels or Luxembourg?

If this is supposed to be a reason why NFTs are useful rather than stupid, I still feel like I'm not getting it. That isn't to say there couldn't be valuable use cases out there.
And how do you suppose we figure out who has natural immunity and thus doesn’t have to get vaccinated? Do we trust people to tell us (if they even know for sure that the fever/cough they had a year ago was covid)? That won’t work, I know people who have forged vaccine cards because a talk radio host told them the vaccine will make them sterile or whatever. Only sure fire way would be to first test for antibodies, which requires an additional appointment and test result, followed by the vaccine anyway, if it comes back negative. So that would likely be even more profitable for the drug/health companies.
Deno was fortunate to have come into existence as Web APIs were maturing (unlike Node). Deno can build on all of the years of discussions and concensus that went into features like the Web Crypto APIs (which looks great!)
> The real fear was that there would be a run on masks by the public, making them unavailable for hospital use.

No, that wasn't the real fear.

> But instead of just saying that, the message from the vast majority of public health officials (and media types like Sanjay Gupta) was that "masks don't work for the public". It's not hard to go back to March 2020 and find lots of videos to this effect.

This was the real fear. They were telling you then what they really believed. (And there was plenty of evidence supporting it.) The statements now to the effect that they were lying all along for the greater good reflect the idea that it's better to be perceived as an evil genius than as a buffoon. They do not reflect reality.

Compare https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/14/a-failure-but-not-of-p... :

> A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on face masks. It reviewed the evidence and found that they probably helped prevent the spread of disease. Then it asked: how did the WHO, CDC, etc get this so wrong?

> I went into it thinking they’d lied to us, hoping to prevent hoarders from buying up so many masks that there weren’t enough for health workers. Turns out that’s not true. The CDC has been singing the same tune for the past ten years. Swine flu, don’t wear masks. SARS, don’t wear masks. They’ve been really consistent on this point.
Well you see that's the whole idea, pixel alien isn't the NFT, the NFT is a cryptographically-secure blockchain that records ownership. They exist so that people can "own" the "real copy" of data that has no reason to be scarce. And like the article says, this worthless math is indeed mostly used for cash grabs and money laundering.
NFTs or whatever we call them in the long run will probably be important. I started working on an Ethereum game dApp in 2017. My NFTs are actual assets in a game that also runs on-chain. By following the ERC721 standard, I don't have to build a marketplace for my game assets. Gamers can just use any marketplace they like. I'm also going to have an ERC20 token that is just the in-game currency. It doesn't have to be ERC20 but by following the standard, again, I get the benefit of being able to trade the currency using most wallets. We're definitely heading towards a new kind of ecosystem where the concept of tokens are going to play a huge role. But I think we're also still pretty early in the cycle of innovation. Exciting times imho.
That’s where stereotypes come from.
> SHA-1 will still work fine for the purpose of git.

So why are they changing it? That's pretty strong evidence it's not fine. I found this Stackoverflow question, "Why does Git use a cryptographic hash function?" [1], which points to [2]. Note: pretty much every DVCS uses a cryptographic hash function. That doesn't seem like an accident.

Reading through some of these old posts and threads it seems like performance was the main factor combined with the expectation that SHA1 collisions just wouldn't be an issue. The latter I find to be surprisingly naive.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28792784/why-does-git-us...

[2]: https://ericsink.com/vcbe/html/cryptographic_hashes.html
* I had this wrong.

It's just:

Rancher.Desktop.Setup.0.6.0.exe /S

The --force-run option you specifically don't want for a silent install. Also, the --allusers option doesn't work.
PhD nuclear engineer here:

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a fusion facility that seeks to study fusion (ie, meet the Lawson[1] criteria) through compression of a tiny spec of tritium or deuterium-tritium ice inside of a cylindrical tube called a Hohlraum[2]. Achieving fusion in this case can be assessed by a simple energy balance, canonically referred to as the "Q" factor[3]. Q=1 implies the fusion process released the same amount of energy the input-laser put in to the reactor. Q=2 is largely accepted as the minimum viable criteria for a fusion-power reactor (one unit of Q to return to the reactor, one unit of Q to be exported to the grid, power conversion unit etc for actual use).

1.3MJ is the claimed number by the article, while impressive for inertial confinement fusion (ICF), it lacks the context that the laser-input-power is ~2-4MJ (ie a Q~0.5).

A bit more context: the best-of-the-best shots at NIF produce an idealistic energy balance that cannot sustain a reaction. There are a lot of other practical considerations such as how you would provide continuous power from the NIF Holhraums, what materials would stand up-to 100 DPA [4] damage from radiation bombardments, and a host of others.

An open secret is that NIF's purpose is not exclusively fusion.

Additionally JET appears to have a Q~0.67 according to wikipedia [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_criterion [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohlraum [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor [4] https://gcep.stanford.edu/pdfs/UVaodfDrAb3BdgeRCpoy-w/10-Zin... slide 11.
How does that line of thinking not contradict with the entire concept of democracy? "The rulers know better than the proles so they should make the calls." How do we trust these idiots to vote in the right leaders?
There is also Doppler effect, and dogs are known to be able to hear ultrasound.
The claim specifically said "bar-headed geese", though. That's a concrete species, not just some random evolutionary ancestor.

> 50M years back, the "dinosaurs" flying that route - let's call them "Goosey" - already had phenomenally efficient lungs compared to say mammals. As the land rose, they simply adapted a bit. Given how efficient their lungs are I doubt there was much to do. ... It looks miraculous to us but we don't have those lungs. We didn't evolve the double ended lungs and hollow bones etc because we simply didn't need them or the cost of some part of that mix was detrimental for our use case or "we" simply rolled a double three.

Are you saying that the Himalayas drove the development of birds world-wide? But despite that, we can only observe it in one species today? That makes even less sense to me.
TL;DR: Big fat paychecks, and the rest of the article is just some mental acrobatics to satisfy the author's moral conscience.

In yesterday's news: I'm a Marlboro scientist, here's why I still falsify science for them.
Highly recommend this as well. And I encourage people to not get scared off by the "sales" aspect of the job. As the technical resource, you're almost never closing deals, cold calling, or any of the other salesy responsibilities. Your job is really just to help the potential customer solve a problem with your technology. You gather requirements about their problem, and have technical conversations to show how your product(s) can be a good fit.

You get to build demos, and learn new technologies and never have to be responsible for production.

The earning potential can be very high, especially if your team exceeds your sales quotas.

Look for jobs like solution architect, sales engineer, customer engineer, pre-sales engineer.
I know the picture of Calvin peeing isn't the "proof," it's just the public facing instrument.

But this still isn't satisfying: anybody can put another transaction on that same blockchain (or a different one) with another proof of ownership. So which one is the real one?
Where are all these people preventing internment happening right now?
Would you mind sharing that script? I have been looking for something simmiliar, but didn't find anything that worked well and did not have the time yet to give it a try myself. I would really appreciate it.
I've considered that but then there is transport encryption.
A variant on that: A German woman did a scarf with lines showing how much her commuter train was delayed: https://www.dw.com/en/german-train-delay-scarf-sells-for-tho...
> small subset of the whole will get a disproportionate amount of traffic [..] even if no members of the system actively work towards such an outcome,

Except the all mighty algorithm of course.

This isn’t really an issue with creator economy per se but rather the way all the major platforms work.
carbon dating is really unreliable on photons.
It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”
A record of positive infection. I'm in LA county and they keep a database.

How do you make sure people aren't faking vaccination status, as you say? A positive PCR test on public record is in fact more trustworthy.
They keep yelling “follow the science” while completely ignoring or ridiculing science that goes against their pro-mask, pro-lockdown, pro-vaccination narrative.
This turns out to be wrong; for a 6-member programming team, that probability is about 2⁻²⁴⁵, which is about 2⁸⁵·³ times less likely than an accidental 160-bit SHA-1 collision: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/rpn-edit#3_8_0_1_0_0_0_...

Aside from being bullshit, it's also irrelevant, since we're discussing a collision being generated on purpose, not by accident.
> for whatever reason

Gimme a break
Yes, it's risky but given all the alternatives, it makes the least nonsense. It works because there is massive redundancy and datacenters aren't all updated at the same time.

When I worked at Google I worked in hardware platforms and I spent a lot of time working with hwops people, who have to go physically out to some server and press buttons (whilst chatting the results to me). If corp gmail, chat, and everything else was down, I might have some trouble getting in touch with those folks and verifying the right fixes (which is why the FB situation is so crazy).
It's not like that by design. It's still very niche from a dev perspective, and constantly evolving with so many different protocols released on the regular (most are shit), but you still have to sift through it to stay in the "know".
If a significant amount of consumers would not hold their BTC on-chain but at some institution (which, if BTC would become very popular, would very likely be the case for most users - these mainstream users are very different from the groups which use BTC now) then they would effectively be holding IOUs-denominated-in-BTC issued by that institution, and the supply of those would be likely be much larger than real on-chain BTC, just as in the fractional reserve banking scenario.

I.e. I strongly believe that any widespread mass adoption of BTC would actually result in a mass adoption of BTC-flavored-fiat and a relatively smaller use of actual on-chain BTC; simply because of the preferences of the mass consumer market which aren't really aligned with the advantages of keeping stuff directly on-chain.
Couldn't we be landfilling all this plastic to capture its carbon, instead of helping it turn back into CO2?
Ask HN: What do image processing sites like imagekit.io use in the back end?
Websites like https://docs.imagekit.io/features/image-transformations/overlay or https://www.canva.com/ which basically allow you to use a template programatically to create overlay on images?
There’s a wonderful passage in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry‘s memoir “Wind, Sand, and Stars” where he describes being marooned in the saharan (or is it Arabian) desert, and didn’t think much of the many small black stones speckled in the sand until night fell and he saw the steady stream of meteors falling from the sky. (If you’re in a truly dark environment, like a desert in the early days of electric light, there doesn’t even have to be a meteor shower to see a fireball every few minutes)

The description in the book elicits a sense of one-ness, that earth is not separate from the space it inhabits, but very much interacts with all the other flying rocks.
On the question of whether we need to update the vaccines: Sara Gilbert spoke to this in some detail in her TWiV interview [813]. They have been testing versions specific to other variants, but haven't found a real need. Delta is not very different antigenically than the ancestral type - beta and gamma are more so, but delta is winning because it's more transmissible. The story becomes quite complex when you get into details - the T and B memory cells broaden the response, so are unlikely to need much updating.

[813]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_5o6qZyyQk&t=1145s
Sweden also trusted the public, they had many times more deaths than the surrounding countries (Finland, Norway, Denmark), and closer to mainland Europe.

You simply can't compare countries. Some countries have different levels of trust of their governments, different customs, different densities, different borders, etc... Most of Denmark by population is a small island, and by their culture, people tend to keep their distances. It is also a rather rich, homogenous country with a good welfare program. The policy to "trust the public with hard truths" may (or may not) be good for Danemark, maybe not for another country.

I live in France. We are not Danes. We don't trust our government, and anything is ground for protests. We can also panic, I noticed it first hand. So we have a part of the population panic buying toilet paper while the other part is protesting, and while I don't particularly like our government, I kind of sympathize with them, we are not making it an easy task. Ah and we are famously anti-vax too. We are also a well connected country, at the center of western Europe, so of course we have more cases, and I don't thing "telling the hard truth" would have changed anything. We do have a decent welfare system though.

So, I'd like to say that "trusting the people" is a good strategy, but really, it depends on the people in question, and many other factors. Every country is doing its best with what it has, even if it doesn't look like it, and we can't generalize.
Not only can anyone create another NFT; there's no reason the rightful ccreator can't decide they want to pretend the og NFT was "1 of N" and then create more later, diluting the value of the original.
and I'm out

Lack of JSON(B) is a complete no-go for me
O1heap: Constant-complexity deterministic memory allocator for embedded systems
> Where to even begin with this? First of all, many local governments in the U.S. already have public databases of who owns what land. This is a problem that can be solved with a SQLite database, it doesn't need a blockchain.

I believe you're missing the opportunity that exists for automation. That database is heavily guarded by layers of human administration. I can't sell you my land without involving a bunch of humans who interpret contracts and push buttons. In a world where land ownership were recognized by tokens on a distributed ledger, buying and selling land no longer requires the overhead of all that administration.
That's not a given. How strong an immunity you develop from getting a disease varies widely depending on how your case plays out.

Here's an article I just came across today on this [1]. It is originally from the NYT, but I saw it reprinted in the Seattle Times so that's where I'm linking (and I think their paywall is more lenient).

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/if-youve-already-h...
I hate Digikey's too (tons of script dependence even in the checkout page, including a recaptcha iirc). Really by now, I'd rather bypass the web site altogether and just use an ordering API instead. Digikey actually has that, but they only offer it to large customers. Seems lame.