skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to see how. "Dose of reality" usually means evidence to the contrary. Even if there was some ambiguity, the first line of the article as well as the caption of the opening image make it clear.
Racing drones only ~3 minutes, barely enough to finish a single race (a few laps around the course). And battery is sometimes the limiting factor in races, where pilots have to slow down just so they are able to finish the course and not drop out of the sky before the race ends. Small FPV acrobatic drones fare not much better, 4-5 minutes at the most if you don't fly too aggressively.

The DJI Mavic 2 can stay up for about 30 minutes, according to the manufacturer.
I feel like this is more advertising than actual innovation. They claim that the battery packs form part of the structural frame, but based on the images on the site [0] it looks like they're just loose batteries inserted everywhere. The lithium batteries themselves aren't providing any structural integrity by the appearance of the drone, and I suspect that they end up using more surface area that has to be structural to encase them than if they just had one giant brick in the center with carbon fiber arms.

I'm playing armchair scientist here, but I think the advertising and marketing are better than the actual breakthroughs.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/usZuqFG.png
I think we should first measure just how much more spherical cows can actually get when exposed to vacuum, in comparison to physicists, before proceeding any further.
There's another way to view it: some projects are so important that they can tolerate a large level of rudeness and not fail.
Use of the word "bully" here is concept creep.

Bullying is a sustained pattern of targeted verbal or physical aggression.

A person insulting your work is not "bullying" unless they're doing it in a targeted, continuous way in order to get at you personally. It's just "insulting".

More on why you should not be using concept creep: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/concept...
please write a book on this, or post a link to the book that you have written :)
Intuitively? have you ever contributed code to a FOSS project?

My experience is that I try to write the best code I can to be accepted, because I care about quality.

The embarassment (my feels) is gonna be because my code wasn't up to snuff.

I choose not to contribute to projects in which the feedback might be based on feels (vitriol) rather than reals (the code quality)
It’s a perfect name George!
Is that the "At least he's our asshole". That kinda makes sense to me.
Air? You hate air?
You must not have read the article.
For the first example, with the ternary operator, I think the original has an advantage that it does not mention `Armed` twice, unlike the improved version.

The presenter mentions that there are a few extra characters, I know, but my issue is not extra characters, but duplication.
> Well you said it yourself, there's no problem, thus no need for a solution.

You misread my comment rather heavily there. Codes of conduct are (one part of) a solution to a very real problem. There's no problem to be solved with "protecting 'political opinions' that hurt people", and even if there were it'd be far lower priority than people's lives.

And to answer your first sentence: people have learned to couch their intolerance in less blatant ways, but that doesn't make them less of an attack on other people's rights. People regularly think, incorrectly, that their discomfort is more important than other people's lives and rights. People push back, point-by-point, on each individual right or ability to exist and thrive in society. And most commonly (though not always), the people saying such things already have their own rights respected.

> Should people not be able to feel comfortable discussing such opinions outside of work or project spaces?

No, they most certainly should not. They should feel about as "comfortable" as people slinging around slurs and advocating segregation. That's nearly unthinkable today; there was a time when it wasn't. People's comfort "discussing" such things comes directly at the cost of the people they're hurting or advocating against. (And in any case, don't overestimate the weight due your opinion if you're not part of the group in question.)
I agree somewhat but feel it better to say I dont think wage (assuming it is a living wage) is the biggest variable in moral behaviour.

Wage likely has some weighting (especially under a living standard), but I cant see how people disagree it is a big factor. If the counter point was true we would see reducing corruption as people go up the wealth scale. Whereas I feel there is a reasonable portion of lax morals at every level of wealth, and there is higher proportion of corruption the higher the level. My logic to this and why;

1) Firstly I am aware corruption and 'wealth have a negative correlation in terms of GDP per capita but would position this as, countries with less corruption get wealthier, and culture plays a huge part in corruption so to understand this you have to look within cultures and country to country comparison is not accurate in understanding wealth/corruption relationship.

2) There is always someone wealthier and if 'getting to the top' is a huge personal driver it doesn't matter whether you are in the bottom middle class or the top 5%. There is always more to go up.

3) Corruption scales, so at the lower level someone might be taking a $1k bribe, the wealthy are taking $million bribes so the desire for immoral money scales in value to the risk/reward so people dont become dissuaded as they get wealthier and it is more to do with personal morals.

4) Wealthy have more opportunity for corruption. E.g. as you go up corporate ranks you get bigger budgets/access and more autonomy in signing things off. And there is more grey in decisions for contracts awarded etc. Its a heap easier for a senior person to be corrupt than it is for a minimum wage employee.

Side point: I dont think its fair people downvoted the original comment. HN is better than voting on I disagree with you. It is a fair comment and while maybe could have been expressed more please lets not become the community of hivemind and agenda pushing. Lets have interesting conversation regardless of if it aligns with your opinion.
Those letters long predate TV. People are complicated. Lumping a person together into a scalar judgment is too simple.
> I find it easy enough to just take my seat and zone out for a few hours.

not on long haul flights (10 or more hrs). It's quite cramped, and your muscle all ache due to the lack of movement. The other passengers don't help either...
Did you read it or get a link to it? That's a subtle but important difference. I love RSS and it seems to be available every where I want it to be, even if it's a bit hidden, but it's almost always just links, maybe a snippet. The only exception in my current list is Planet GNU.
The subtitle of the article is:

> The US-1, from Impossible Aerospace, can fly for 2 hours

If the drones goes at full speed, it loses more energy due to increased fiction with air and between mechanical parts. So, it reaches neither maximum flight time nor maximum flight range. The optimal speed to reach 75km is probably smaller.
It is sad to see that deaf and self-centric ‘oh, my feeling’ generation took over, so that people have to manage that explicitly now. In few decades you’ll sue each other for using adjectives.
First, accept that you likely can't evaluate that person's skill. Hell, highly skilled people often have trouble evaluating someone else's skill until they've worked together for at least several weeks or months.

Once you've got that idea out of your head, it's time to figure out ways to get shit done while minimizing the risk to yourself/your company. One great way is to start off with contracts, see how things work out and re-evaluate from there. If you have the budget, do a phase two that will require the candidate to hire/supervise another developer to get a task completed.

I'd avoid asking developer friends for help as hurt feelings will tend to spring up out of success or failure. I've learned that when you're starting a company, one good friend is worth one hundred good employees.
Only on Android
There is one other reason: you just can't deal with megacorp politics.

I don't mean to suggest that startups don't have politics. They certainly do. But startup politics is different from megacorp politics, in ways that I can't really explain. All I know is that I feel much better at startups, even when there's a lot of politics flying around, than I do at megacorps, having worked at both.
I never had a micro port go bad on a phone. The c port on my Galaxy S8 has broken twice already.
There’s an interesting contingent of vegans who don’t think lab grown meat is a good idea ethically.

https://www.thoughtco.com/laboratory-grown-meat-is-not-vegan...
Why does usafacts show 500+ cannabis caused deaths? (impossible?)
You made a personal attack. If you do it again we will ban you.

Please keep the online calling-out/shaming culture well away from this site as well. That's a euphemism for people attacking each other, and we don't want that here.
I encourage you to read a book on the lead-up to WWII. The similarities are amazing. When Hitler was in power in the 1930s, his propaganda was that he was a man of peace, he only wanted to help Germans (they needed "breathing room" at one point), etc. To the wonder of many contemporaries, much of Europe and the U.S. took him at his word and did nothing - the alternative apparently was too terrible to contemplate. Neville Chamberlain famously negotiated "peace in our time" with Hitler. I recently read a story of someone at the time who talked about everyone acting as if nothing abnormal was happening, a story I've heard many times.

In real life, the bad guy doesn't wear a black hat and doesn't stand up and say "I'm evil". You are never going to see stronger signals than what you see now. If what you see isn't enough, nothing ever will be.
$190M? Wow. Here’s 15 personal yatchs worth more than Time Magazine: https://www.alux.com/worlds-most-expensive-yachts/
Not sure how much innovation this is, considering it trades extended flight time for the inability to replace the battery pack. You get to fly longer, but once you're done, you're done until you can plug it in and give it the 90 minutes it needs to recharge. For most applications, field-swappable batteries are a must.

The real breakthroughs will come from new battery chemistry and fuel cells.
How many of the folks commenting on this issue have actually contributed substantially to various FOSS projects.

I keep believing I might have wrong in thinking that most of the commenters have never done so, but so many folks seem to to tip their hand.
Salesforce founder buys Time Magazine
I understand "do not break userspace" differently than you do.

You seem to understand it as "do not make a change that could hypothetically break userspace." I understand it as "do not make a change that is known to break userspace."

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of little behaviors that a userspace program could hypothetically depend on. In many cases, it would be impossible to change things without breaking observed behavior.

A great many changes fall in to the bucket "visibly changes behavior, but it is unlikely that anything depends on that specific behavior." When the assumption that no userspace program is broken turns out to be false, the correct response is to revert that change, and avoid breaking the userspace (hopefully this happens in an RC, before a stable release). What's incorrect, is to insist that the userspace program shouldn't have relied on that behavior.

In the referenced rant ("Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!"), the problem wasn't so much that Mauro had changed the errno used (though Linus did take issue with the new errno); the big issue was that when Mauro learned that the change broke pulseaudio, Mauro tried to argue that it was a bug in pulseaudio for relying on what the errno was.
Why So Many Hip-Hop Producers Are Putting Business Before Beats
Mysterious 'security issue' forces a solar observatory to be evacuated
Huh, this is pretty cool, if anything as something to install in a VM and get a blast from the past
I'm somewhat intrigued by your comments about a leaderboard because I'm not familiar with it. Please say more about that.

With regards to not having perspective, because he's so unique (or doing something unique), you may be right. I wonder if in fact he has been enabled for many years by his closest collaborators. People who should have said, "Hey Linus don't be a dick".

There's a debate going on in Australia, about whether it's ok to bully a bit, in parliament, because it's that sort of place. It's also a workplace and bullying is illegal in a workplace.

It's ok to be a dick if your a successful, influencial genius, not ok if your not successful, not influencial or not a genius. Maybe. He's a member of a broader community, where norms exist, and courtesy costs very little.
"Firm but friendly" is a standard moto for lawyers when negotiating/talking is what I've been told.

The problem is that Engineers aren't taught this, whereas lawyers have (like rules of engagement).
I have no wish to see a usb3 on my iThings anytime soon. The lighting connector just works. There are 5 iPads and 3 iPhones in my house and I have never had any issue with the lightning connector. On the other hand everything that I have that has usb3 type C ends up becoming loose. USB is great, I just wish they made it with a good connector for once.
Amazon actually has awful customer service if your inquiry can't be solved by either refunding or reshipping your order.

Had them repeatedly ship something glass in inappropriate packaging, it showed up shattered every time. Pleas to "please package appropriately" were repeatedly ignored. Finally I gave up and decided I didn't really need the item anyways.
I mean, care about whatever you want to. I find it odd that someone who doesn't care posts in an RSS-related thread, but maybe you post about things you don't care about all of the time.

But if you care about what content is available, if you care about how people who create work you enjoy are able to make a living about it, if you care about things like who's the president of the US. Then it might behoove you to care about the fact that between them, Google, Twitter and Facebook control the majority of the referral traffic for the most popular 100 websites. A future where RSS prevailed over social media as a way of curating content for most people is a different world than the one we live in, and if you care about the world you live in, you might care about why RSS didn't prevail, even if it's still usable for the minority who prefer it.
Couldn't you just move over if the adjacent seat was empty?

But yes, airplane seats reclining always seemed to be some kind of holdover from the days when there was plenty of room between rows. It probably should have been done away with at some point, but likely was never quite worth changing.
> I ordered a replacement passport last week - it was all online including the uploading the photo

Is it me, or is does this seem like a case where they simplified so much that they lost some of the inherent checks and balances in the system?

I guess if I need a fake passport, I have a lead on how one can be made. Just social engineer the info to access government services out of a New Zealander...
I dont know if that’s true. If I could consume Facebook via RSS, I might follow it a bot more. When I wanted to respond or like, I would have to switch to the app.
Maximiliano seems like a relatively normal Spanish given name, and since Spanish speakers are a growing demographic with higher fertility rates than the US baseline, that's not too surprising. Unless there's a fad of Anglos deciding to name their kids "Maximiliano". That would be weird.
> "I'm somewhat intrigued by your comments about a leaderboard because I'm not familiar with it. Please say more about that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

Other lists:

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
$190M? Paintings have sold for more than this iconic magazine( and will probably have more lucrative returns ).
Soda.
Tangentially, this is also a great argument in music business discussions against the finality of Spotify, Youtube and other centralized streaming platforms. People are doing just fine consuming podcast RSS feeds using players when the UX is smooth; there's no reason why that couldn't be the case for music or other verticals in general (direct artist-to-fan).
Or we could take an alternative route, and collectively grow a thicker skin and show a bit more emotional maturity, instead of seeking offence in every situation.

No. I've been reading apologist nonsense like that for literally decades. I'm tired of being involved in an industry full of angry, frustrated manchildren who think that bitter vitriol is a signal for technical expertise.

Regarding "seeking offence in every situation" I'm inclined to think that you've never read one of Linus's ridiculous rants. If you have any you still think people are seeking offense, then there is quite literally something wrong with you.
Have you ever worked with brilliant assholes? It sucks the life out of you - and it really sucks when they get idolized and rewarded heavily.

It creates a vicious cycle of absurdity - the one where people appease the anger to try and achieve some good not realizing how much the bad influences the culture of the movement/organization/group.

No one is perfect, but the community for far to long treated an imperfect man as if he could do no wrong - to its own detriment. Not in quality of software, no one disputes that - but in quality of life and respect for other human beings and other views/ideas.

I think it's terrible we accept this idea that it takes an asshole to make a community
I would guess that some people achieve financial success and suddenly think their opinion in every realm is the correct one, and think every choice they make is most moral.
The advantage of micro USB over mini is that the cheap cable's connector will wear out instead of the port on the expensive device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_%28Physical%29

> The Micro connector is also designed to reduce the mechanical wear on the device; instead the easier-to-replace cable is designed to bear the mechanical wear of connection and disconnection.
Yeah, I've got a Benchmade Anthem which is easily one of my favorites(aside from the fact that the incredibly smooth action may qualify it as a gravity knife in some overly zealous jurisdictions), however the CPM-20SV is pretty hard to resharpen if you let it go too far.

I probably just need to spend some proper time to learn it as almost all my other stuff is either 30SV or 154CM.
Although part of the transition of "Angel" might come from the relatively uncommon English name "Angel" being displaced by the Spanish name "Ángel", which transliterates as "Angel".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18002020
This is a very odd comparison and I think a straw man, unless you just misunderstand. Everything you mention is internal plumbing, so of course people don’t need to care about it, by design. HTTP however does have a very “in your face” interface, which are the hypertext links themselves. People know the system exists because it is actually right there in their face. In RSS, maybe the xml is the plumbing, but there’s no clear and obvious way to access it, so much so that most people wouldn’t even know it exists. It’s hard to build and justify a system if a majority of people have no idea about it.
Please don't use code formatting for text you'd like people to read - it makes the text unreadable on mobile
This is where civility culture annoys me. @ggreer provided a technical assessment of a platform and found it lacking. The only non-technical comment was that it was corporately mandated.

You have decided to recommend counselling.

Who of the two of you is being "uncivil"?
That's also terrible from a vehicle agility/stability perspective -- generally you want to centralize mass as much as possible to reduce moment of inertia. Additionally cylindrical cells waste mass on metal casings -- li-poly pouch cells are a better use of mass.
I haven't dug into the code, but how does this differ from GWorkspace and other GNUstep components (Prefs, Terminal, Login, et .)?
Is the connection stable enough to hold in situations where you would typically have a wired headphone connected?

The usb-c connectors with adapters on my macbook are terrible. On lots of adapters a slight push to the side will cause them to lose connection. They work only in stationary use, and some adapters didn't even work there reliably.
When I left my nine-to-five to follow my passion, my life fell apart
I really like WindowMaker and similar clones, but (warning: ranting) I partially abandoned it because of how absurd it is to try to run a Linux system without DBUS-native tooling, which mostly only exists in GUIs for specific window managers/docks. Unless you're using one of a few popular desktop environments, Linux is a shitshow of bad user interface (and even some of them like Ubuntu seem to lack functionality that used to exist). I'm probably moving to Windows soon just so I don't have to spend days to get an affordable machine from 2 years ago to achieve basic hardware functionality like "graphics" and "wifi".
Not so much for iOS as on Android, because Apple doesn't sell devices with nearly zero space; some people are constantly out of space -- you don't want to be listed high on sort current apps by size.
Politeness should be low-cost. People going out of their way to make everything super nice are treating everyone as though they have fragile egos.

What people really want is to just know technically and precisely what is right and what is wrong so they can improve — leaving out all of the personal crap, positive and negative, except in the ways that people working together have normal human social relationships. So, like we can chat about our lives in downtime, water-cooler talk, and we can get to know one another. Extra politeness doesn't do that, it's just superficial.

This is what I'm saying: https://www.npr.org/2018/06/04/616127481/when-everything-cli...
A large, 200+ employee private company is what 20 years ago would have been a public company before all the internet bubble shenanigans stopped that. If it has revenues and a proven business model, it’s definitely less risky than a small startup.

I’m specifically talking about seed stage startups, where the risk vs. reward for normal employees is not favorable. Best to join these companies for experience over dreams of money.
Very sobering article about the whole "chuck it all" dream, worth a read I thought.
You're trying to reason with an echo chamber. Leave them to their insanity. They only know the pseudo intellectual dribble of the propaganda on which they feed. Wasting your breathe will only grant you condemnation.
"They are theoretically paid to do physics." can also mean someone is neither paid, nor doing physics, that they are being paid and doing physics, or could be giving permission for someone to do physics or refusing permission for someone to do physics, depending on context and emphasis.
This is great. Nice work.
Problem with video is still bandwidth and the fact that it is more difficult to distribute.

For podcasts you need one mp3, usually quite compressed. For video you usually need more than one source, adaptable stream quality and good seeking (because most people do not watch videos end to end but only view parts of it).

This is probably not insurmountable but I guess we need better tools for creators to abstract all of this.
Numerous post-quantum public key cryptosystems exist that a completely classical party can run. Schneier left these out of his discussion for key distribution if quantum supremacy were to ever occur.
A TL;DR; anyone?