skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentioned that smaller helicopters can't do the job because they don't move enough air. It likely has to be done from above because there just isn't enough ground clearance to do it from below.

The capital costs to get ground-supported fans above the trees and the maintenance costs of operating them are likely much higher than just buying your own helicopter and training as a RW pilot. Given that, the farmer might as well rent the helicopter and RW pilot.

I imagine a 10m fan mounted in a moving carriage, on a serpentine track supported by tall poles, and powered by electrified rails in the track. Then you'd need a shed for the working fan, the backup fan, and the repair parts, plus the generator and fuel storage. It would cost less than the helicopter to operate, but the capital costs seem like they'd be much higher, especially since every orchard block would essentially be a custom job, and helicopters can be factory-built.

Maybe you could do double duty by also having a sprayer carriage that can use the same track?
Homeless – Ted Baker
How many articles about jokes from 1913 have you read?

Do you care? What makes you think future generations will care about yours?
This reminds me of a quote by Brian Eno: "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them."
Giving up on wlroots-rs
The article doesn’t seem to point out that this only happens to some people.

I don’t have this issue. But yeah there should be refund policies in place for people who are affected.
'Any man who must say, "I am the King", three or four times in a single blog post, is no true king.'
The App Store isn't only curated on the basis of legality.

Research shows customers do care about a company's ethics / moral stance, so I don't see why Apple wouldn't want to do this.
My nephews babysitter has Facetimed me from my dead sister's iPad accidentally a few times, very heartbreaking to see it pop up.
Unfortunately Facebook seems to tightly integrate Occulus with Facebook - like you cant even use most things without logging into your Facebook account.
Well done George Gascon!
I'd agree with all points, but you should really aim for a non-negotiable 8 hours of continuous sleep time. At 7 hours total sleep time, you're still in a sleep deficit as an adult. As we age, we get less and less stage 3 and 4 deep sleep which is responsible for clearing tau and beta amyloid through the meningeal lymphatic drainage system (and the glymphatic system). Alzeihmers and related dementia are disorders that arise due to impaired sleep, either through sleep deficits, or from disrupted sleep due to sleep apnea.

If you think about it, you can go without food and water for long-ish periods of time, but you can't go without sleep longer than a week or maybe two before you have irreparable damage. From an evolutionary perspective, this seems crazy since you're in your most vulnerable state and you're missing out on 8 hours of food foraging, or procreation. Obviously evolution has found that sleep is absolutely necessary for all living organisms. It's by far the most important aspect of living healthy lives, but it's the least appreciated in Western society.
My understanding is that it's not parents who have access to devices (via MDM profiles), it's developers who create those apps?
> this is pretty cool. I would love to see a service takes writing samples in your own handwriting and produces a letter that looks like you wrote it.

That would personally be horrifying to me. Imagine, someone can make it look like you said _anything_.
I think this is becoming the new normal. Especially when each provider has one or two massive and expensive "hit" shows. But once enough people do this, they'll just change the structure to something that doesn't really allow it, e.g. $50 for the fist month, $20/mo after that or $200 for the year.
I tried this with the F# mono REPL - it eventually failed after creating a let binding with 1328 params: http://blog.mclemon.io/f-number-polymorphic-parameter-overfl...
Several reasons come to mind:

The helicopter overcomes its own weight. So, a similarly effective ground based solution would have to push up so much air as to push into the ground with at least twice its weight (well, or be heavier than a heli). Might run a risk of getting stuck.

Next, the heli rotor blades are above the tree line, where there are no branches and no trunk. A ground based solution would necessarily be between the trunks. You'd have to not only protect the rotating blades by ducting them, but also have a much harder time navigating.

Finally, helicopters exist already and have other use cases. Ground based vehicle would have to be specifically designed and built, and would not be useful for much else.
I would counter argue that it's irresponsible to proliferate doxxing.

And personally speaking, I think it's a shame that a valuable message was lost in the poor taste in which it was executed.
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I will just avoid these articles. Sorry i hurt the outrage.
Guilds still exist and wield considerable power. See the the American Bar Association or American Medical Association.
The Telegraph Was America’s First Singularity
That's becoming less true with Apple's increasing revenue from services.
Yep. Everyone and their dog can understand the long-term insidious effects of Walmart using its clout to force suppliers to accept the bare minimum to keep operating. Change the topic to governments and pharmaceuticals, and suddenly the practice is harmless and has zero downsides we should care about.
My question was "Is this against the rules?", not some silly discussion suppression attempt.

Is doxxing (of anyone, even if incredibly guilty like this scammer) allows to be linked to from HN?
Isn't that the same though as if you have ill gotten funds / drugs, I steal them from you but you cant report that.
I've still committed a crime against you but you cant report it due to the fact you committed a crime in the first place.

Kinda hard to feel sorry for a criminal being unable to report a crime.....
Maybe this is mentioned in the article, but my first thought was that the license is photoshopped.
I find it frustrating that BDSM folk seem to have settled on "play" as the standard terminology. These activities are purely recreational, sure, but when something is a big part of your life, when you spend a lot of time and effort honing your craft and performing to the best of your ability, it feels dismissive to call it "play".

I also do long-distance cycling, which is just as much of a purely recreational activity (even when competing for points). But no-one calls that "play".
The ideas are built on. The code? Our industry is constantly modernizing things in the name of technical debt. Often, the call gets made to make a new offering to replace the mistakes of the old.

And I'm, frankly, calling bs if you are claiming this as not something that happens regularly. Just look at all of the articles that constantly crop up of the form "why we left technology x for y".
why not support WASD? we've been using our left hand for directional controls since at least 1981

http://www.sextonsmusicandgames.com/80s-classic-arcade-games...

probably want to make jump / shoot right-hand actions as well, like in most games

I really like the concept and wanted to play the game, but as it stands the controls are too annoying for me
Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention, by Front CEO Mathilde C. (Recap)
A lot of developers are in a hurry and interested mainly in getting their builds to work so they can move on to the thing they actually care about. They don't think about the potential consequences of the easiest thing they did to make it work.

This is how a sizable number of security incidents happen. The easiest thing to do is reckless, so people do it.
It's like a dumber version of dance marathons and things like that from the 1920s. So, a side note on the culture of the time.
Time to reassess the safety standards for our airliners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing

They've pled guilty in the original DRAM price fixing collusion and they just got sued last year for the same charge, it's ongoing.

I can only guess that laws are more lenient in Asia and they can only be charged in US after the fact.

Edit: removed my opinion about getting sued again as that's off the topic.
I used https://galleryserverpro.com/ many years back. It was one of the better ones back then. I switched to Amazon Photo as I didn't want to deal with another server and backing up my precious family photos. Looks like it's open sourced now, which is even better, if you don't mind .Net and SQL Server.
(totally unrelated, but made me remember it). When I went to college for a BS in Computer Science, my CS adviser (a woman) pitched some of the equine courses to her male students as a way to meet women on the campus. She actively pushed to get you to sign up to the class as an elective. :)

(I probably would have done it, but I'm horribly allergic to horses.)
So do you use LOC as the primary metric for productivity? I've definitely had insights into a current project while performing a mindless task like washing dishes, in fact there are certain times where I will seek out a task like that.

To me, the bigger WTF is having to train people to use a dishwasher--hopefully that is something most adults can be expected to know how to do already.
> Connect to the WiFi in any Starbucks

Need to cross national borders for that, more than once.

> That redirect to the Starbucks WiFi login page certainly isn't being served from example.com

Also saw these things here in a couple of places. Most places here don’t charge for WiFi and have a single PSK key for all clients, but couple indeed ask for authentication this way.

I’m not sure how SSL helps? As a user, I don’t want to have access to WiFi blocked, I rather prefer redirects. Despite it’s technically MITM, it does the job i.e. allows to access the network.

> stop spreading misinformation about SSL

I have written that unless it’s credit card numbers or other sensitive content like e-mails or facebook messages, there’s very little security value in it, and it costs web sites owners. What exactly do you think is the misinformation in this statement?
Apple’s pejorative comments about MDM make sense if you consider Apple thinks MDM an necessary evil that they must provide for their phones to be viable in the enterprise.

I think the prospect of MDM establishing itself as a necessary evil for consumer use-cases is such affront to their thoughts about individual data privacy rights that they would rather trash MDM than risk that possibility.

If you want to get a sense of how Apple thinks parental management of a device and enterprise management of a device in a corporate setting differ, all you need to do is compare the experiences and features. MDM is like a nuke compared to screentime and parental controls.

As a final note Apple refuses to even provide the management server portion of MDM, another clear signal that of their split feelings on the matter.
Yes, let's all downvote the best representation of the prevailing opposing opinion. Wouldn't wanna have a balanced argument about this now.
Make the UI more clear then a regular EULA, like when you want to allow a webpage or application your microphone or camera you get a clear warning, do you also consider that it will be fine Apple not allowing you to use the webcam on third party applications because users are naive.
With online photo galleries either private or work related for many years I'm always relaying on piwigo. It's great, handy and easy to setup after the first try. We're hosting even big internal photo archives with upload via ftp, and piwigo does a great job at handling it.
> They make this sound like MDM is some scary third-party attack on their platform, neglecting to point out MDM is a system they designed. There's always been some schizophrenia from Apple around MDM

Apple is a huge, gargantuan company, and it wouldn't surprise me that the implementation details around enterprise deployment probably didn't get far up the chain to the people who actually care about this stuff. Someone like Tim Cook might have spent five minutes talking about its existence in 2018.

> So Apple's stance here is really that parents should have less control over their children's devices than employers have over those of their employees?

No, Apple's stance here is that app developers should have less control over your child's device than employers have over those of their employees.

> the way it's phrased here clearly seems to be framing MDM in general as a nefarious tool.

MDM is a nefarious tool when incorrectly used. Its intended use is to allow big corporates to deploy nerfed and bugged phones to their minions.

Facebook and Google abused MDM a few months ago and the community cheered when Apple ripped these toys away from them. The same abuses are now discovered to be used to make creepy "child control" apps that place an app developer in control over your child'd entire phone. After all the shit went down against Facebook and Google, these app developers received fair warning that what they were doing was wrong.
Speaking as a bystander, there appears to be an inherent, magnetic attraction for some young girls.

It's not exactly recent. Black Beauty well predates MLP.
This is classic example of fighting the wrong battle. We shouldn't be outraged that drug prices are high, but rather that drugs are marketed, used, advertised, and otherwise prescribed for "treatment" of countless curable diseases such as diabetes, Crohn's, Colitis, MS, etc. with the use of herbs, fasting, and fruit diets.
From the article:

> “When we found out about these guideline violations, we communicated these violations to the app developers, giving them 30 days to submit an updated app to avoid availability interruption in the App Store,” a spokesperson explained. “Several developers released updates to bring their apps in line with these policies. Those that didn’t were removed from the App Store.”
Yes, that's the complaint, but it's not a convincing one. Apple doesn't make money from Screen Time; it's a default part of iOS, with no subscription fees, and everyone with a compatible device gets iOS upgrades themselves for free (and Apple's been really good about compatibility in the last few releases). Apple saying "We wish that third parties were not abusing MDM to provide this feature, but we recognize the feature is important, so we'll just implement it ourselves and only kill the third-party apps once our thing works" is an entirely coherent thought process. It is exactly what Apple would do if the are genuinely motivated by user privacy/security and genuinely not motivated by trying to be anti-competitive towards these apps.
With all the bots running around ? 2-3 days max I would say
Maybe you never wanted to do (insert your project here) it hard enough?

Also, having no superfficial friends, absolute no gaming/tv policy and constantly reminding yourself that you are wasting your time on this planet by not being productive, helps me a lot.

Force yourself to get bored by not gaming, surfing the web, watching tv, listening to music. Force your mind to accept that working on your goal is better than sitting quietly and staring at a wall.
Practical advice is often the advice you're most likely to ignore
Link to Apple's Press Release : https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/the-facts-about-paren...
My younger brother (deceased now 10 years) is still one of my LinkedIn contacts. It's not so bad as other platforms since I don't interact with LinkedIn much but it hurt a great deal at first and LinkedIn had no mechanism to retire or close his profile.
IMO it really doesn't matter if people make an example out if it, they should go to such lengths if they have such power - assuming that won't take away their sanity or much of their time. That's how things change.

Companies and countries starts to recognise these problems as the number of complaints gets higher. They become familiar with the problems so they don't get confused with the following cases.
This had a brief moment of IPV6 confusion, it is now working, tox for letting me know
Doesn't that violate the Apple store's terms of use in a completely different way (ie adds no functionality outside of what the user can do in the browser?)
I love this! In particular i'd love to see a version of the Purism Librem 5 phone with EInk display.
Please also check Xapian [1].

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My Grandfather died 3 years ago.

Still haven't taken him off my favorites contact list...

Google has a system for sending your account to someone else after a timeout period. I thought it was a great idea until I got to the part where you're given an opportunity to add a message.

Thinking of my kids / wife / family what went form an administrative task got really heavy suddenly... i stopped at that point.
Stealing Ethereum by Guessing Weak Private Keys
You paid for a lot more than content then. Unless Netflix is burning someone elses money I'm assuming they're getting by on their subscriptions. They also have a much larger user base than specific cable/sat companies, so they win on scale.

I'm not saying people can't pay more, I'm saying they don't have enough time in the day for the amount of content that could be produced by that amount of money.
Quora has a great discussion of gender in Anglo/Euro horse culture, with good and bad partial answers.

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-it-seem-like-more-women-than-...
Yeah, I'm specifically pointing to the idea of leveraging HTTP/2's multiplexed streams to embed VPNs into the same connection as normal web traffic from CDNs. Things like 1.1.1.1 Warp don't attempt to hide the fact that they're a VPN and thus wouldn't really help with what I'm talking about.
Understanding Data Modeling Part 3: OO/UML, and “Graph Data Models”
In Texas, at least, "unclaimed property" goes to the state comptroller, who holds it on behalf of the person for some years in case they claim it. My dealings with them were fairly straightforward (but weirdly insecure?) to reclaim a security deposit I had forgotten about.
I mentioned this once before, but there are reports of women escaping KSA by surreptitiously using their guardian’s phone, approving travel, and getting the heck out before the guardian figures out what is going on.

Their laws are their laws, and they suck. I’d rather have an app that at least allows some women to escape.
> They make this sound like MDM is some scary third-party attack on their platform, neglecting to point out MDM is a system they designed. There's always been some schizophrenia from Apple around MDM (publicize new control features to admins in one release, add a big scary vague user-facing warning when that feature is actually used in the next release), but their general stance has consistently been that you, as a company, have a right to enforce whatever restrictions are available on devices used by your employees so long as you own them, and so long as you accept whatever user-disclosure features they decide to implement. Likewise, you have a right to enforce a more limited suite of controls on your employee's personal devices, so long as it's all opt-in.

Right, sure. I got a work device and the company owns it and I don't do my own personal stuff on it (and hopefully other folks follow suit). If the company screws up its security, those devices are utterly compromised. MDM, for all its good intention, is a comprehensive surveillance system for a phone. It is a little piece of the corporate panopticon on your pocket. That can actually be quite convenient, but I certainly think folks should keep the aspects of their lives separate.

It's a bit different with kids and parents though? MDM is a massive invasion of privacy and unlike in the work phone relationship, we'd expect a vulnerable young person's entire personal life to be embedded on the device. Also, children generally don't have the option to walk away from their parents and find new, less restrictive parents.

It is true, the parents own the device legally. They can take it away. That isn't necessarily a call for Apple to enable parents to run spyware run by third parties. Quite frankly, third parties no well-informed consumer should trust given their abysmal track records for privacy and security issues. The idea of Kaspersky running the intermediary rendezvous server for all of my child's private communications is pretty scary to me.

I appreciate the desire to keep kids safe, but coming from an abusive home I have to tell you that computers were my escape from physical and mental abuse and I am fairly sure I wouldn't be alive today if my parents could have closed a net as powerful as MDM around my life.
While this seems an unpopular opinion here, it's correct. The economics are such that fission is out of the game, and fusion is out before it even got a chance. Now maybe one day we're using so much land area for solar and wind that it changes the calculus. But at least for this century renewables are going to dominate.
Awesome. One correction needed.

Can below json element be array instead?

"url": "https://unsplash.com/...",
"download_url": "https://picsum.photos/..."
This is the LA Times, a major US newspaper. The article says "65 percent of patients insured by Medicare."

I guess we get the journalism that we pay for.
Being around more disciplined, always active (dynamic) people is the best way.
Why It's Cool to Be Unpopular
Microsoft learned from the past to design its future
You pay a monthly fee, so it doesn't really matter to them how much do you use the services during this month.

In fact, the less you use them, the more profitable it is for them.
For what it's worth, the conditions for termination from the Public Interest Registry (.org's registry) are slightly better than Github. PIR has a five-items list of possible reasons: https://pir.org/policies/org-idn-policies/takedown-policy/ while "GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time."
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