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AareyBabaon First flight of the Airbus A321XLR with up to 4700 NM range

For those of us used to Freedom units:

4700 nautical mile (NM) = 95,192 football fields

AareyBabaon Amino acids found in asteroid samples collected by Japan's Hayabusa2 probe

"but we're rolling an awful lot of dice."

but are the odds better than 2^256 ? https://youtu.be/S9JGmA5_unY?t=38

AareyBabaon Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

The data matches a spike in actual cases. See https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-cases-and-deaths

AareyBabaon My students cheated... a lot

As Electrical engineering TAs in the late 80's, we knew who was copying class homework assignments from their classmates based on transcription errors in the handwritten work that was turned in. Since the class professor couldn't care less about the cheating, we would consistently score the source assignments a few points less than the ones that had copied the assignment. We kept this up for the entire semester.

AareyBabaon Cockroach Reproduction Has Taken a Strange Turn

https://archive.ph/1cBXZ

AareyBabaon Judge orders trial in Tesla autopilot manslaughter case

This guy tests Tesla's object detection - it fails badly. https://youtu.be/p7lp5f0aqzU?t=62

I'd like to see others duplicate such tests and a response from Tesla on whether this behavior is as designed.

AareyBabaon Indian cows and buffaloes are going online

They are cows. India has many indigenous breeds. https://agritech.tnau.ac.in/expert_system/cattlebuffalo/Bree...

AareyBabaon Utilities Want to Convert Coal Plants to Nuclear; Skeptics Abound

This video (llinois EnergyProf) covers the accident scenarios for nuclear power https://youtu.be/c1QmB5bW_WQ?t=453

Short answer, the design is such that reactor shuts down automatically with loss of cooling.

AareyBabaon Life in the soil was thought to be silent – what if it isn’t?

susurration : whispering, murmuring, or rustling.

AareyBabaon Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs

It is exactly the same scenario where Uber self-driving killed a pedestrian crossing the road at night

AareyBabaon I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

Paul was wasting his time sending email to the corinthians

AareyBabaon The Shameful Decline of Scientific American

The problem with NOVA in this TikTok era is the hour long format that was designed for broadcast TV. A topic with 10 minutes of material is stretched into 45 minutes with unnecessary drama and reenactments as filler.

Like the kids say these days 'Ain't nobody got time for that'. I'd rather watch a 10 min video on Youtube that covers the same topic.

AareyBabaon History of Pepper

Pastrami, Italian sausage

AareyBabaon Apple and other EV hopefuls chip away at auto industry pyramid

https://archive.fo/dWh2X

AareyBabaon Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

You entered data in a pop-up frame - how are you confident it is Equifax that you were providing your SS and birthday ?

AareyBabaon Julia frameworks to create desktop GUIs and web apps

The startup time was a blocker last time I jumped in (mid-2021). Have things changed ?

AareyBabaon Ask HN: Does anyone else get sick when their vacation starts?

It's a breakfast meal in the U.S. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=steak+and+eggs&t=h_&ia=images&iax=...

AareyBabaon NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft

Unfortunately, the U.S. gov has gone in the direction of using a shady private company ID.me [0] to provide this service. Starting 2022, the IRS is using ID.me to authenticate login to the irs.gov website. Same with California DMV. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID.me.

Millions of American citizen will be forced to provide their info to this private company. Authentication involves you providing your cell phone number, then uploading a photograph of your drivers license or passport with that phone and then allowing ID.me to scan your face using the same phone camera.

You may think if the IRS and DMV are using this company it must be a serious identity service vetted by homeland security and what not. I did some digging around.

ID.me has a shopping site where you can shop for deals on sunglasses, sneakers and food kits [1] https://shop.id.me/. They use .me which is the top-level domain for Montenegro.

There is one hackernews thread about this company filled with clearly fake reviews made by accounts created the day the post appeared [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831921

What could go wrong ?

AareyBabaon Tell HN: If you use Verizon, opt out of “Custom Experience”

Looks interesting. However, what gives you trust in this 'Mudi by GL.iNet' device and app ? Genuine question since I am in the market for a hotspot device and reviewing my options.

AareyBabaon Web3 is going just great

Site is down. Wayback link = https://web.archive.org/web/20211214210514/https://web3isgoi...

AareyBabaon Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern

> All current vaccines target few/couple specific proteins and protein groups

Since you have the specific background and understanding and know what you are talking about can you explain to us how inactivated virus covid vaccines target specific proteins ? I would expect them to target the whole virus.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covaxin [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoronaVac

AareyBabaon Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing

“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.” ― Jordan B. Peterson

AareyBabaon A 1980s space telescope may have seen planet nine

Finding it may be complicated if it is hiding behind a cloaking device.

AareyBabaon Love seems like a high priority

Parenthesis ?

AareyBabaon Helion

This video by Sabine Hossenfelder has tempered my expectations.

How close is nuclear fusion power? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY

AareyBabaon Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff

I suspect the 'AI software' running these companies is using linear regression to predict housing prices and one of the inputs is the price of similar houses nearby.

AareyBabaon Prague's Brutalist Buildings

What the buildings look like in color

National Theatre https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Pr...

The Transgas building https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Pr...

Koospol (The CUBE) https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-waymarking-images/315ed165-5a22-...

DBK Department Store https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Pr...

AareyBabaon Flexport CEO on how to fix the US supply chain crisis

A UBI experiment with confounding variables: lockdown, schools closed, travel and tourism restricted, parts of the economy shutting down, job losses, women out of the workforce to take care of children, health care sector under stress, 734 thousand people dead etc.

If you can correlate UBI with labor shortage and high inflation from that data - then perhaps you were predisposed to that conclusion.

AareyBabaon Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths

$35 Non-Electric Bidet Toilet Attachment https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075MMHQX7

Takes a few minutes to install. I recommend it if you don't want to spend $$$ on an electric Toto.

AareyBabaon MIT 18.404J – Theory of Computation [video]

The MIT Undergraduate Curriculum Map https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSRLIYaPPA0