skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have long felt that short to medium term deliver drones will be ‘last mile’ solutions. Think of the UPS truck as the aircraft carrier and the drones as the jets. Interesting that they only speak of a single robot per vehicle in the article, that seems silly.

The truck pulls into a neighborhood and parks. The bots deploy to all houses within x range and then return to the carrier. In some cases the truck may not even stop, or it may be traveling to the next drop point while the delivery drones are doing their thing.

This would greatly enhance speed and efficiency without the need for crazy battery tech and lifting gains required on the drone front.
If you work with Windows at all it's worthwhile to have some Powershell scripting chops for system automation. And while it's kind of like Bash, it's syntax is more common and everything is an object which is nice. No more string parsing hoops to get basic info.
Two of my colleagues (both developers) had a phase where they unironically showed up in a tailored suit to work. I still don't know why, I mean I guess the one guy had more of a CTO role but the other one was just a regular developer like me, and the suits didn't make them come off as more important - just more uncomfortable.
C# is one of the very few modern languages that has kept goto. A similar comparison in most other modern languages does not make sense because you cannot even use it.
> It's reprehensible.

You mean something like this - Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19986910
Same! In fact there's an entire subreddit devoted to the idea of very specialized tools [0].

There is one example that is still firmly lodged in my head from the labs in my electonic engineering degree. It was this big box with a nice keypad, a screen that could display a few characters, and a big handle to lock in place the integrated circuit you wanted to test. You would slot it in, pull the handle, then type the ID numbers of the particular IC. If it was functioning as expected, the screen would say something like "OKAY" and that was all this thing did. Truly magical! On further googling and reflection I'm now not so sure about how big the handle was, but the machine was something like [1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/specializedtools/top/
[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Digital-IC-tester-digital-in...
Sometime Muscular Weakness is common and it is on your back and that is occur due to poor posture, lots of works, Stress,etc.
Here is some Tips: https://www.fitnesshealthforever.com/meditation/yogas-contri...
> Following the consensus is a fine choice if you're trying not to get lynched by the mob, but it really has very little to do with science.

As opposed to ? Being so skeptic that you deny everything you don't personally believe in no matter the amount of proof your are given ?
What’s their extortion based business model? I thought their deal was they pay sites with their schrutebucks based on user monthly pay-in (ie, I pay $10/month, I spend 50% of my time on HN, therefore HN gets $5 minus Brave’s 30% or whatever).
Jim Starkey the man who probably invented mvcc back in the 80s had some interesting thoughts on this topic.
Firebird a fork of Interbase used to rely on visiting transactions to clear up garbage. This meant that old versions of a record would hang around until a query pulled the record up, saw there garbage versions and deleted them.
At some point Firebird introduced a dedicated garbage collection thread to do the job instead, which to me sounds a bit like how vacuum works. Here is what he had to say about it:

...but the garbage collect thread is an
unmitigated disaster.
The theory of cooperative garbage collection is that a) garbage
collection only takes place when the page has already been read,
minimizing additional I/O, and b) it keeps the length of record chains
to the theoretical minimum. The garbage collect thread not only defeats
both of these, but is only of those rare features that the higher the
load, the worse it works -- under load record chains get longer, which
increases the cost of index and blob updates as all old record versions
must be fetched and scanned, which increases the load even more, causing
the garbage collect thread to fall farther and farther behind,
increasing the load even more -- well, you get the picture.

https://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/mailman/message/17015961/
Makes a lot of sense and is very logical --- that person still has to get off the train somehow, and better at a station which the train is already going to, than to stop and wait somewhere between stations for help to arrive. Perhaps the reason people pull the brake is more of a panic reaction.
So you think emacs is a simple editor, eh?
As the linked article (and the API docs linked from that article) indicates, it contains a Google user ID, which is unique to a user. That by itself already makes it PII.

Furthermore, you probably know the IP of the user you're serving a page to, that combined with this data also makes it PII..

It's not about wether you can determine the person's name, mail address or whatever, it's wether this combination of data is or can be unique to a single person.
IKEA? STFU.

I bet there’s some cool nerd code I can comment that alerts the mods when a kiddie bot vomits on a post. I dim care for
Leaded gasoline, rivers that you can light on fire with a match, and chlorofluorocarbons are all things that were around America in 1960.
Do take a look at Korg Gadget - it is a tremendous piece of software. VERY easy to pick up and just jam even with the vanilla synths (Chiang Mai is one big sweet spot), but really also deep enough to produce pro level tracks. The additional KORG synths (especially the wave station and ODYSSEi) are high end emulations and basically indistinguishable from the original hardware.
Switched last year to Lenovo and while the ecosystem around Windows has for sure its issues, it's still night and day. I've been decades on Macs and I lost the interest for computers then. Since I am back to Windows/mainly WSL somehow this interest came back.

Back then, I was smiling at those PC builders with their RGB 'crap' but now I'd love to build my own battlestation with RGB everywhere. The PC ecosystem is more authentic, honest and more about tech.
Rockefeller Was Almost Three Times Richer Than Bezos
Give the Privacy Badger extension a try.
British not European. Europe is a large place on a map.
What do you find most stinky about their business model?
> Anyhow, I'm looking forward to see a similar feature implemented by Gitlab, even without the matching donations.

You can check out this issue [1]. Please upvote it if you want to see this implemented, or join the discussion if you have any additional ideas.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43468
My laptop (from 2012) might die soon and I'm thinking to replace it with Raspberry Pi 3B+. These kind of computers can be an option for light computing while traveling. I just wonder if it can run Sublime.
So, flagged now. :-/
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Ask HN: How do you save time?
Hi HN,

I was hoping you can share some tips and hacks how to save some time either in work or personal life.
I have really high hopes for Avalonia but don't know anyone who's used it for anything other than kicking the tires. I'd love to hear of any experiences.

And I really hope MS is neglecting WPF because some key insiders are looking to hand over the desktop story to some combination of Avalonia and Blazor.
Any time I've seen this, the person was interviewing elsewhere and just didn't want to bother bringing an extra set of clothes and changing.
Social Media and the Future Electorate
"French Supreme Court rules for Google in trademark cases" https://europe.googleblog.com/2010/07/french-supreme-court-r...
> Perhaps even more surprising than the long intervals at which they flower is the fact that all plants of the same stock of bamboo will bloom at the same time, and then die, no matter where they are in the world.

> Although the mechanism has yet to be explained by science, many believe there is some kind of natural “alarm clock” in the plant’s cells causing the behavior.

That is amazing. I'm having a hard time imagining how that could even be possible, for DNA to have an "absolute" sense of time. Some kind of day/night/time of year "counting" mechanism?
The consensus is not science.

There is no accurate number not even a range which can be scientifically demonstrated.

The data is not showing what you think it is and it's not the data you are getting served. You are getting served interpretation of that data which is very very very different.

The reality is this:

Temperature increased 0.5 degree celcius from late 1800's to 1950 before there were any significant CO2 emissions. Then it took a break and continued with about the same up until today.

How much of those last 0.5-0.6 are caused by humans?

That would be science. What we have today is mostly political and ideological and only a fraction of it is actually scientific by any reasonable interpretation of that word.
> As a security engineer, I like having a core team and a standard library in place that has gone through a long mature process with experienced developers,

Yes, but do you like funding them? This is all freely downloadable open source software.
The south end of the Lexington Ave line is a loop.
Named after a rugged but beautiful place.
I love working with 2kb of RAM. What is your point?
>>if the police are after someone "that person must have done something wrong" and therefore "deserved" whatever happened to them

> This, to me, is one of the primary tenants of what is evil about naziism, or tyranny, or whatever you call it.

Indeed, this is what Arendt meant by "the banality of evil". It's what people are cautioning about when they tell us that by far the smallest, most vulnerable, most heavily-oppressed minority of them all is the individual.
Thanks! We have plans to make it even more awesome from within GitHub :-)
RFC 8548: Cryptographic Protection of TCP Streams (Tcpcrypt)
I found it amazing how far a single "trip" (~US$1) on the Barcelona public transport could take you.

What a great way to generally enable the people living in the smaller towns around the city, and keep the towns themselves alive.
Global Consumer Trust Is on the Offensive, Survey Finds
First off: Diagnosis and medication access is one thing, but maintenance is another key — find a psychiatrist or physician who you get on with well and can work with for a good long while.

Other tips:

* Use hyper-focus when you have it, to the best of your ability. I think of it like a gift from my brain, and I try to get the most mileage out of it as possible, even if the task I’m working on isn’t top priority.

* Focus on building good habits. I find it’s a way to trick my brain into doing things that are good for me.

* For meetings, have someone(s) who you can check in with about what’s been discussed. Ideally, someone who you can say “hey, I didn’t quite follow what happened — what are the key points?”

* Strong agreement with other folks on using task management systems. My general recommendation is to find one you like (Getting Things Done is my favorite, but there are no shortage of others) try it out for a good long while (2+ months), and slowly adapt it to your personal needs.

* Talk to your people manager about work you’ve been assigned to that you’re not interested in. Sometimes you’re really needed in a particular area and other times you’re not. If you express your preferences for particular types of work, you’re more likely to get it.
Reasons to Avoid the Gardasil Vaccine
The Rise of Data Dictatorships
Collecting best freely available university lecture notes
Many universities have their lecture notes freely available on their websites. Also, the quality of these lecture notes frequently vary significantly at one university. I'd like to make a list of best university lecture notes per common computer science subject such as networking, compilers, etc. What were the lecture notes at your university that you'd recommend?
Those are list / map comprehensions. So it's still declarative—you can't iterate and do anything while iterating. Only transform items in a list.

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-terraform-0-12-prev...
I'm pretty sure if you read, execute and understand all the code in most advanced guides to a language you will suddenly find yourself in the top 10% of the users of that language. But the understand is the hard part.
I've just made a unique ID for you, it's XYZUser. This is unique to you, and I'm storing this on my computer indefinitely.
All of this conveniently ignores everything that everyone has said about their reasons for promoting GDPR, and the history of data protection and privacy in Europe, in favour of injecting your own explanation of "what's really happening".

Copyright reform is rather different - I suspect you'll find that among the people lobbying for that are quite a lot of multinational/American record labels and film industry, as well as German and Spanish publishers.
The main thing I notice is that Koreans have slightly rounder faces, and smoother features. Koreans also tend to be slightly taller and more robust physically.

You are right though, the occasional Japanese person is going to be very hard to spot since they usually fall within the range of Korean diversity.
> What gave you the idea that other places would not be allowed anymore?

Well, that's similar to crowd control. They can't block other areas. But there will be less traffic and different monitoring and control requirements for those areas.

> How would safety be impaired by photographers outside fences?

You could use photography as a good cover to do other stuff. For instance, controlling an amateur drone or collecting intel for airport robbery.

I assume it would make sense to monitor activities around the airport fences.
I belong to a 100+ team working on the Chromium code base; a project having 150+ third party sub-projects, all tied up by and build in the command line with a few build tools like GN and ninja.

Not one in my team use an IDE because they die merely trying to index everything. Everyone uses a simple editor of choice: Emacs, Vim, VS Code and Notepad++ are the popular choices. Everyone has at least two Bash/CMD instances open.

The systems programming world is a different one unlike the web programming world where everything is small and self contained for an IDE and GUI.
Simulating A/B tests offline with counterfactual inference
The master's tools are required to render the master's house.
Now compare it to other countries in Europe

I do (Norway, Sweden and Denmark). Still not expensive.
We had a vendor that we bought software from require, as part of the software requirements, both Red Hat and Oracle. This is not unique as many small specialized software shops do the same. I still have some government software that requires Windows 2008 and no other version is supported.
I met my Islamophobic troll
I could smell some Teenage Engineering influence when I first saw it. That being said, I do kinda want one. It's a neat little bit of design.
"Present" ≠ "invent."
Id that were the case targeted das wouldnt be a thing.
If they only charge the card processing fee I'd say that's still pretty darn good.

Although I wouldn't necessarily be mad if they charged more than that. The incentives seem to align pretty well. GH makes money when people support OSS.
Now there's finally a comic about Alpine Linux
Sadly, this will get a lot less press than the previous story claiming the government "agreed" he invented Bitcoin.
Manchester airport has a viewing park along with a Concorde in a hangar you can walk around. (I’ll take any opportunity to plug a visit to Manchester)
"International" sanctions by whom? Most of china's pollution is manufacturing for the west.

The biggest polluters ( in total and per capita ) in the world today are still europe and the US.

Almost all the pollution and environmental destruction the past 200 years were by europe and the US. Should there be "international" sanctions on us?

There ain't no saints this world. And those who claim to be saints are the worst villains.
Huh? Am I the only one that has exactly the opposite line of thinking? If I see an underfunded project that I enjoy, I’m much more likely to donate than if something already makes many digits money.
> should we ensure food security by stockpiling long-life foods and water sanitisation methods, how do we ensure energy security, how many years of self-sufficiency should we prepare for etc

i've never tried to do the self-sufficiency thing myself, but from reading a few books about it: it is very hard to become completely self-sufficient. It is more realistic to aim to become partially self-sufficient, and develop strong ties with your local community. E.g., if you get seriously sick or injured, and there aren't functioning institutions, who is going to help you? Your family or your neighbours.

What skills or resources will you be able to offer your community in return? enterprise software development? not very useful. Skills in low-tech medicine, farming, construction and repair with hand-tools, a bunch of surplus vegetables? likely far more useful.

> ensure food security

not sure if this is a helpful comment, but: i dont think it is realistic to be able to ensure security (food or otherwise) of any individual. diversification helps -- may be able to ensure security of the species, if not individuals.
I think the idea is that dopamine is involved in rewarding novelty seeking behavior. (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060826180547.h...)

A new email is a source of novelty (it's new) and obtaining it requires little effort. So for the brain it's tastier than spending another block of time on some task that you've been working on and isn't new at all.
Maybe the best way to look at this is to recognize that people have concepts of how the world should look like, naturally that usually includes pleasantries for them. And when the world does not match their predictions, they want to correct for this error. Of course depending on cognitive patterns (which depend on exposure to others' cognition, eg. upbringing, peers, and all their previous experiences factor in to path dependence) one might try to look into themselves, look for their faulty base assumptions, look for causes external to their own sphere, and so on.

Normally, people who are not familiar with the problems of borders, the arbitrariness of them, who grew up in a culture that never experienced a downsizing country, a war in their country, stories about how political persecution and/or absolutely bleak prospects drove hundreds of thousands (or millions) of their fellow countrymen away are not going to be very understanding of these problems. On the other hand they will understand that their life is not going as well as they would like it. And they are caught by the meme net cast by whatever lucky political group. (And "blaming the victim" fused with "the outside enemy" is a pretty proven strategy for populists.)

And populists always advocate for more power to themselves to fix things. (Obviously, politics is about power, and populism is pretty much the shit tier direct marketing of politics.)

Hence the thinking of "america first", "make america great first", before we deal with whatever is outside our borders. This also implies that listen to "americans first", and then listen to any external criticism. (This is again always a pretty great strategy to consolidate power - a form of divide and conquer.) And naturally, this has the effect of basically diverting the attention away from global issues.

And since we're living in a global world for quite some time, without at least partially understanding global issues making sense of the local ones is a fool's errand. Because a thinking that tries to somehow understand everything locally inevitably runs into "outside powers caused this to us", and this feeds powerlessness. (It doesn't matter that the USA has and had a very significant factor in shaping that "outside world".)
It depends on the position and depends on the company/locale. It's very possible in Silicon Valley that you get interviewers judging engineering candidates because they dressed up too much. [Have to have that culture fit, you know.] At most companies, and certainly for non-engineering roles, it almost certainly doesn't hurt to dress up a bit and is considered normal.
I remember science bloggers complaining that the recent IPCC report didn’t predict enough doom and gloom to get political results.

They may well be right, but they weren’t saying that they had reason to believe the IPCC had understated the influence carbon dioxide, methane, or some other gas has on the climate, or that predicted emissions where wrong, etc. They were complaining that the report didn’t have enough scare mongering. That’s not science, and it could easily lead to a big overcorrection in a few years.
Would you care to elaborate on how these might be deployed to form policy on this particular issue?
This logic is strange.

If this repo receives $20 a month, if I donate $5 I'll increase their budget by 1/4, a huge impact.

If this repo receives $500 a month, my $5 will increase their budget by 1%, barely visible.
When I enjoy what I am doing and I feel like I'm learning something
Wonder why they advise cat /dev/null > file to empty a file rather than echo > file
Sure the aesthetic is old-school, but look how much more informative a proper GUI is. You can tell immediately which item in the task bar is active.

"Flat" UI is both lazy and an overreaction to the ridiculous skeuomorphism that plagued us years ago.
Thanks for sharing this.

So you don't run Xorg at all, right? And you don't carry around any persistent video output?

I am running Raspbian Desktop on RPi0w, using Vufine+ head-mounted display and Twiddler 3 as a keyboard.

It is cool, it can even run heavyweight web stuff like Slack in Chromium, and VLC with 720p video. Has some reliability issues with graphical stuff - have to restart lightdm sometimes after such heavy exercises. I wouldn't imagine RPi Zero could do that much with so little, but the man always want more, so I am considering more powerful computing core for my wearable computer. Trimming down use of GUI apps is another venue for progress, of course.
Most Americans don't even know we helped sack Beijing during the boxer rebellion.
Recursive PowerPoint Presentations [Gone Fractal ][video]
Webinar: Graphs of Game of Thrones
If you're uncomfortable in a suit then you've just got a badly tailored suit.
i cannot comment on that, as a first aid guy, i can refuse treatment to anyone. i'm not sure if it's the same with paramedics.

but, of course "ambulance services protocols put the safety of their staff over those of injured members of the public." doing the maths, if those paramedics were shot while doing work, now you just have even more people injured and require more medics.

police can be armed, with direct contact to support, medics aren't.

the ethics, and legal standing around paramedics refusing to treat wounded civi or other are buried deep within code.
I think "email" is probably meant to represent anything of that ilk: emails, tweets, text messages, Reddit posts, blog posts, etc.
I don't think using a text editor is limiting, using an IDE certainly is. When using Visual Studio, you're definitely limited to Windows. When you're using an IDE, they lock you into a certain set of paradigms.

An editor like Vim or Emacs ia great because eventually

_the editor adapts itself to the programmer and not the other way around_.

Every other configuration of Emacs and Vim have been different, suiting the programmer writing it. People have distros of Emacs/Vim

- Doom
- Spacemacs
- NeoVim

Etc.
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