It is a pretty good test to find out which people are simply egoistic bastards, who really don't care about others.
Many of them are somewhat stupid, in that they think that it will not affect them personally, and have not really thought about the effects on other people.
But a lot of them are simply anti-social persons, that don't really give a shit about others.
The other question of course is how much time will it take to develop the correct hardware and software?
A lot of things that are easy for humans, like object and speech recognition, are still very difficult for machines. It took a long time to develop this. There is no real reason to believe that computers will match this soon.
There is one thing missing from this list that works in some other languages as well: use plurals (groups of people). In general, the words that are used to describe groups are gender-neutral, even when the words to describe the members of the group are not.
Just a simple example. With "nurses" we use "they", "their", "them".
With "nurse" you might use "she", "her" and "her", or for a male gender: "he", "his", "him".
Trucks are heavy. This means that they have a lot of kinetic energy. This means that they can do a lot of destruction to anything that comes in their way.
Trucks are big. It is very easy for them to block many lanes at once.
We currently don't have any fully automated driving normal cars (And IMNSHO we will not have them in the next decades). The risks with automated trucks are a lot higher than the risk with automated cars, so it makes no sense to start with the trucks until we are certain that we have solved the problem with the cars.
Many people believe that a fungus is either some kind of mushroom (they are possibly good-looking, sometimes good to eat, and sometimes poisonous) or some kind of mold (which most people regard as something bad).
Fungi (yes that is the plural of fungus) play a very important role in our world. Most higher plants depend on some fungus to get important nutrients from their environment. The first real antibiotic (penicillin) was derived from a fungus. Many products that we drink or eat, like wine, bear and a lot of cheeses, also depend on fungi.
First of all, congratulations, when you get Bruce Schneier to endorse your work, you have probably done something interesting.
But still the article is not very clear on technical details. Of course on initial contacts your phone has to provide information about your service provider (they will somehow have to pay for your communications) and it has also has to have some form of identification about your phone (so that the service provider can decide if they want to pay for it). If I understand it correctly, normally this identification is the IMSI, which is normally constant for your phone. From the article it is not clear if you are proposing to generate multiple IMSI's for a phone or using other types of information in the protocols.
Do you have some links to a more technical explanation of PGPP?
From a PR point of view it is probably not a very good idea to call yourself a troll.
Also it does not describe what these people are doing. Typical trolls do not really believe in what they write, they are just trying to start a flame-war.
The people that are described in this article obviously believe in what they write, and are using it to push back against the propaganda by big corporations.
It is highly unlikely that recovery will be so fast. Some things take a long time to learn for a population. For example learning which plants are poisonous is quite costly for a population. Elephants in Botswana travel through the Kalahari desert to get to the Okavango delta. On this 650 mile migration they travel from watering hole to watering hole. It will take a very long time to recover from the loss of memories about their locations, because they die if they cannot reach the next watering hole in time.
As for the fiction part, it is written by someone who has a lot of literary talent.
For the science part, I don't believe for a moment that the "computer generated" parts of this story were actually written by computers. But they can already generate very convincing texts. It is very well possible that they will be able to generate texts similar to these in the near future.
> What is likely is that the virus jumped from bats to humans 'in the field', i.e. in nature. This is what happened with SARS and MERS to the best of our knowledge.
Both SARS and MERS had an intermediate host before it jumped to humans. Many other species are vulnerable to COVID, so it is not at all necessary that it was directly transmitted from bats to humans
Insinuating that this was caused by the group that was studying bats at the Wuhan institute is not really good science because there are so many equally likely hypotheses.
This does not really help finding the real origins of COVID. The most likely outcome of the current pressure on China is that this country will try to destroy all results they have on bat viruses.
This is a temperature at which humans normally cannot survive. It is yet another example why climate change is not just about raising the average temperature by one degree.
For many HN readers (like me) Washington DC is in a foreign country. But Washington DC is not a US state, so it is not at all surprising that many Americans treat it as a foreign country :)
What is happening here is the same thing that happens with UFO's. There are multiple incidents for which there is no good explanation, and many people automatically assume that they have the same cause.
What is happening here is the same thing that happens with UFO's. There are multiple incidents for which there is no good explanation, and many people automatically assume that they have the same cause.
Just a few remarks.
The incidents occurred in foreign countries. These countries may have diseases to which US citizens have not been exposed.
The persons involved were mainly CIA. They are payed to be paranoid, but sometimes paranoid people are wrong.
What is the motive and who is the perpetrator? Russia is the obvious candidate, but why would they do it with some weird kind of radiation. They are perfectly capable of killing people with chemicals.
Automated reporting only works well if you have got good input data. The article gives many examples of problems with input data. Using automated reporting on an important and sensitive subject is probably not a good idea.
This article does not give any explanation, neither from a business point of view nor from a technical point of view, why a new microservice was needed.
Please, let's have a brief moment of silence for the poor souls who build this system, and especially for those who will have to maintain it in the future.