skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Drones are a public nuisance. The sound, having a dot just floating in view, zipping around - it's annoying and even scary to bystanders."

Whenever someone raises this gripe about drones, I wonder how they feel about cars. I'm currently in my office, with the windows closed and a heater audibly running. I can hear trucks/buses and occasionally cars on a 30-50km/h minor arterial road two blocks away. I can hear every car that drives down the road a block away.

(I own two cars and two drones.)
How does it make philosophy seem illegitimate?

I think that the three main areas of philosophy are being, ethics, and knowing. Of those, ethics doesn't apply to CS (until you try to make a program that does something), but that doesn't make all of philosophy illegitimate. It makes one branch of philosophy less applicable, that's all.
Human civilization will die an embarrassing death. Maybe we will even earn the equivalent of a Darwin Award on Gwelkklak 10, "Died by Own Avoidable Science Fiction Trope".

Maybe the answer to the Fermi Paradox is, "tripped on shoe laces while scoring +10 on the sosh meeds".
When people talk about "temperature" they mean air temperature, look at any weather forecast. Human survival is largely dependent on air temperature. While water does evaporate faster at 150 than at, say, 100, it is still well below boiling and not hard to contain -- 150 is a somewhat cooled cup of tea/coffee. Underground piping will be much colder than ground temperature.

At any rate, temperature increase forecasts for the next 100 years are all in the O(1 degree C) range. There are many reasons to mitigate climate change/decrease green house gas output/fight pollution, but let's not spread FUD.
You really should ban me. For many many years you have been severely damaging this board with your extremist agenda and your endemic bullying while you yourself never post substantive comments and you slam down hard on those of us attempting to have a thoughtful productive discussion. Ban me Dan. Do it. You are the problem here. You're a vile totalitarian sociopath enabler who damages the world and makes it a much worse more dystopian place through the actions you have been obsessed with for many years. You are a bad person, a mindless drone promoting the agenda of the elite genocidists seeking to terminate humanity for their own ego and glory. And you don't even seem to benefit from it personally. Mesmerized by the power of the billionaire elite, you protect them at all costs just like the thousands that protected and continue to protect the legacy of the sex trafficker, pedophile and murderer Jeffrey Epstein.

I wish I wasn't an atheist so I could sincerely take comfort that you and your masters will rot in hell. But hell doesn't exist Dan nor does justice. Only despicable enabling rats who hate democracy, open discussion, freedom, justice, and good.
I think the big conceptual leap in understanding math is getting beyond the idea that it’s about counting concrete objects in general, and realizing that you can create new sorts of abstract structures that may or may not have anything to do with reality and rules for working with them.
Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList
Sharing something that I wrote for my use but I think can be useful to others (I am an engineer with the title of Senior Software Engineer)

Visit [1] for a full list (table view gives a lot of options. See "Controls").
Visit [2] for a summary.
The source of the list is at [3]

1. https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-01-senior-engineer-checklist/

2. https://medium.com/@littleblah/my-top-25-items-in-a-senior-engineers-checklist-c8e9f9f6e3c2

3. https://github.com/littleblah/senior-engineer-checklist

Feedbacks/Pull requests solicited :)
If you think individual decisions are not going to send economic signals, ask the US car industry about ICE sales.
Let us take your opening statement as valid. The complexity of the problem requires solutions that allow non experts to make an impact. If manufactured goods need to be engineered, the needed investment requires group interest, a market and research and development. Reducing investment costs could accelerate this through an avenue similar to open source software. There are probably other avenues.

Re-engineer manufactured goods, make transport more renewable, reduce food miles and agriculture emissions, most consumers are supportive and simply need a simple way that they can help drive and make the change.
Quoting the grandparent post:

The students are paying to go to <top name school>, not (very often) because they want to be taught by <top name professor>. From the university's perspective, there's little financial incentive to retain that top talent.

If that’s how a university makes decisions then I don’t think it ought to get tax advantages.
>Instead, we're only interested in finding the logically valid theorems which serve the above purpose of explaining the patterns in the world concisely.

That's just empirically false though. Take the "perfectoid spaces" mentioned in the article. Do you think mathematicians are interested in them because they "explain the patterns in the world concisely"? No, they're interested in them because of their mathematical significance, and their applications to problems within mathematics. Mathematicians are not physicists.
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It is unclear if LastPass is well-respected, and if I recall correctly, at least at one point, the master key was accessible by the server.
> [...] quantum physics on a deep, intuitive level, probably do not.

Intuition and understanding are two different things. Our intuition behind quantum mechanics is obviously wrong--quantum mechanics doesn't even obey regular logic! Quantum logic gets rid of a rule, for example.

So it's probably impossible to develop an intuitive understanding if that is your criteria.

As we've progressed, we slowly just get used to new abstractions. The concept of zero, negative numbers, complex numbers, rationals, reals, they were all very non-intuitive to the people at the time but were required to understand the science of the time.
Grad students are taxed.
Note that there's no way to observe a particle without some form of entanglement, though.
This is the source of much frustration in my use of the Outlook and Teams apps on my phone.
Most new vinyl records I buy have a digital download code. If I buy them at a show it's definitely cash. I can also pay cash at the record store.
Welp, I think we've figured out what the "Great Filter" is.
In the limit of a efficient market[0][1], those lists are disjoint.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

1: And assuming non-contrived values of "what you love"; ie: this obviously doesn't apply if you love soul-crushing scutwork.
They have their own schools which is why they can do this. These are considered graduate programs as well.
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That's what makes it all seem illegitimate. The ethical ramifications of AI are a human quality outside of the computer science itself.

Computer science as a discipline like arithmetic has nothing to do with the human condition, it is just an aspect of logic. If philosophy purports to be more fundamental than logic or computer science why does it go on to talk about liberal arts topics of things like ethics or religion? It seems jumbled and disorganized and lacking of formal rigor.

Think about it. To use the analogy of arithmetic, the more fundamental theory is number theory. It dives into a lower level description of arithmetic. But then suddenly it starts talking about ethics and the moral implications of using arithmetic on human society. Is this social studies or formal logic?
I’m not sure what you think you’ve proven here. The USDA has its own unique, long winded definition, so does the EU, and so do many other countries, and private organisations.

In this context the world has no relation at all to its original meaning, it cannot possibly be concisely defined, as the only way to define it is with an exhaustive set of rules and regulations, and has no consistent meaning, because you can only talk about it in the context of the rules and regulations defined by one of many organisations at a time.
Power, perhaps. But I'm a bit skeptical about usability. Lean doesn't even use one of the most obvious things that make interactive proof systems far more usable - a declarative mode instead of the usual tactics-based scripts. (Yes, you can kinda sorta fake the former with "structuring" tactics, except not really - declarative proofs are really their own kind of thing.) There even used to be systems that automatically rendered inputed definitions and declarative proofs in natural language (given that the basic terms and symbols were previously defined of course) which does enable even an average mathematician to easily figure out what the system is up to. You just can't do this properly if all you have is a list of "tactics" fiddling with the prover state.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a pretty obvious one for this demographic.
Working from your statement as completely valid, Augmented Reality has the potential to really change this. Food Barcodes and the simple visual recognition of products have the ability to link information that previously was hard to research and make available. For me, I don't know where to find the background information on the relative "goodness" or "badness" of companies or products. I expect it is out there, I just don't personally know where. (anyone want to throw it in the comments?)
I believe the debate was around taxing the "tuition waiver" component of grad students, which grad students never see and is basically moving money from one pocket to another at the university.
The data on how to access a location with a wheelchair is also valuable for drones
In this case replace greed with hubris.
There is no such language as C/C++.

Well-written programs in C++ are very different from programs in good C. (Bad programs are all alike.) C++ programs may be easily as "high level" as Haskell ones, higher than is possible in Java. C++ is clearly the language to beat, as no mainstream production language rivals its performance or expressiveness.
I keep presenting contrarian opinions because I care about not having HN turn into an echo chamber like many other corners of the Anglophone Internet have become. Flagging and downvoting is not enough. Speaking out is necessary. Somebody has to do it.

Flagging the original comment after more than 18+hrs is not meaningful either. The damage has already been done. The crowd is ready to start the next rampant display of nationalism and attack/silence anyone who dares to speak out against it. The only question is, will you be there in time to put a stop to it?
User-extensible software to organize files, based on SQLite? Have you looked into Fossil SCM? It’s a version control system built on SQLite, but it has additional features like wiki, forum, scripting , and an extensible ticketing system.
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Cool, and they wouldn't be doing anything without the school, so the money should go to the school's general fund.
when you compare two activities with roughly equal harm, whataboutism is unproductive. when you compare against an activity that causes orders of magnitude greater harm, it starts to be a valid point.
They are generally regulated by weight at least.

I fly drones as a photographer/videographer and, for the most part, don't find the regulations too heavy handed. Worrying about distance from every single tiny airfield is the main one since, as you noted, they are everywhere (unmanned fields, helipads, etc). Applied as a hard-and-fast rule, this can be a bit much when you just want a tree-height photo of a building or similar.

I was in the US recently and took my drone (https://www.instagram.com/__serio__/ ). We were often in national parks, and there are also airfields everywhere so I barely found opportunities to fly. The official FAA app is a bit hopeless and it's often unclear about whether you're good to go or not. I think that a much better app from the authorities would be a major help. The casual drone operators I know in Australia make use of the official app here to stay abreast of options.
Yes, rite of passage. Not sure how I managed to type the wrong spelling, brain seeming a bit glitchy.
But you can speak fewer of them in a given time, so the rate of information exchange would still be basically the same. The paper does consider the number of available phonemes and syllables in different languages, which presents a tradeoff along the same lines.
Should Walmart and Other Corporations Take Social and Political Stances?
I think the difference between 'computer science' and just 'science' is definitely non-trivial. And I think that difference has practical applications and changes how we humans think about and interact with those concepts. I don't know if anything in here reflects the nature of reality, but it definitely reflects and can inform how we deal with the nature of human thought on these subjects.
Same here, I tried the data entry way (telling myself that the friction encourages thinking more before spending). It lasted about 2 years before I started creating import helpers to get transactions from my current accounts and etc.

Now, I put together some JS to create custom import helpers that adapts to different bank formats. Unsurprisingly, banks doesn't seem to want to converge/adopt a standard on transaction exports still (like a simple standard on the CSV will do), despite all the hype about open banking and such. Step by step?

I have some libraries that I reuse to create these custom helpers documented here:

https://docs.prudent.me/docs/dev/creating_ext

This works with the wrapper that I created as well :)
Agreed, I think frightening carried a connotation that I didn't intend. My intention was to state that problems like the Riemann hypothesis are of a level of difficulty such that mathematicians believe these problems cannot be solved without a major fundamental leap forward in our understanding. Erdos expressed a similar frustration toward the Collatz conjecture when he stated "Mathematics may not be ready for such problems".

So with respect to the original comment I was replying to, there are other areas of mathematics that one can study that are well understood and not so opaque as the Riemann hypothesis.
The thing I hate about buses in many cities is that they take longer than driving to get somewhere. I think if this can be changed, more people will use them.

Cities like Sydney get it right, by having dedicated express lanes on many highways for buses (and taxis). When it becomes faster to catch the bus in peak hour because they can drive in lanes that bypass the gridlock, there is an incentive to leave your car at home if you know you'll be leaving work during peak hour and need to be somewhere ASAP.

Interestingly, this has also allowed taxis to have an edge over Uber et. al. Just recently I was catching a ride to the airport in an Uber and forgot about how bad peak hour traffic would be. We were stuck in awful traffic for over an hour, and meanwhile, all these buses and taxis were flying past us in the transit lane. The fare of the Uber ended up costing more than the fare it would have been in a taxi due to how much longer it took.

If transit lanes can be put in more places, bus lanes created at more intersections (so that buses can get ahead of traffic), and fares set at the right amount, I think that with the rising cost of fuel, insurance etc., more people will be willing to catch public transport, especially if it is more convenient to do so.
Climate apocalypse is not something that “hits” it is something that grows. It started decades ago and will get gradually worse over time.

What you as an individual can do to prepare is put pressure on the suppliers of goods and services (including your government) to take their role seriously and reduce emissions. Stop using single-use plastics, stop buying groceries that are individually shrink-wrapped. Buy fresh fruit and vegetables and prepare your own meals. Walk where you can, try to use public transport for commuting (it takes longer, but someone else is driving so you can do your morning and evening reading & correspondence on the bus/train)

Basically do everything you can to reduce your energy consumption, both directly and indirectly. Energy consumptions is a very good proxy for personal contribution to emissions, including the embodied energy in things like plastic utensils and fast food wrappers/boxes/bags.

Rather than watching a movie on Netflix, read a book. The internet services and domestic devices used to watch a movie will consume more energy during that movie session than a year of reading on a tablet or paper books (with a bed lamp book light).

Apart from overpopulation, the biggest contribution to global emissions is the extreme energy consumption lifestyle of western countries. We offshore a lot of the production and point the finger at China, but China’s emissions are mainly from manufacturing and transport which is mostly for products being sent to western countries.
Ah, but is it a single sample, or multiple repeated samples at times t subscript n, with several negative observations and (at least) one positive?

Indeed, posit n repeated trials over a given time line, it seems equally implausible that an observation of a positive outcome earlier in the timeline contains no information on implied probabilities relative to a positive observation occurring later in the time lines.
> However, other than individually-permitted commercial drone use, (or SAR etc. obviously), I see no scenario where hobbyist drone use in National Parks should be an allowable activity.

in total, US national parks consist of about 50 million acres of land. are you really saying it's completely unreasonable for hobbyist drone users to enjoy any of it?
Gathering a lot of data in a legally dubious way, and publishing a statistical report on it. Reminds me of the Carna botnet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carna_botnet

https://web.archive.org/web/20151013010243/http://internetce...
Sounds like “Web 2.0” but probably just me.
I imagine you could argue the opposite just as easily.

I first heard of it many years ago, but seeing a few photos doesn't mean someone is "familiar" with it from an anthropological perspective. Especially since presumably it's changed a lot over the years.
Wife is in surgery residency, they do a lot of research projects, there is a lot of work to take home
EVO X is a turbo 4 cylinder and there's a FMIC to cool the compressed air (~25 psi stock). This offset license plate is also common with some high performance AUDI RS cars and Alfa Romeos.
I think it was actually the former I was asking about but again I recognize I am outside my zone of competence in this area.
It would be a lot easier if the law clearly spelled out who owns the air, and if there was some way to push back on the FAA's unilateral decision making processes. Below this altitude, you own it. Above this altitude, government owns it. Is it OK for Amazon to make a drone superhighway 10 feet above my house?

In our state, even the governor has tried to get the FAA to stop routing jumbo jets so that they're causing noise problems several miles from the airport to no avail. Jets regularly pass by at 2000 feet or so even though the airport is several miles away. They didn't used to do this.

When a plane or drone flies over my house at low altitude, can I charge them a toll? How high up do I own? The FAA seems to assume I own nothing at all an inch above my land.
I've been to Burning Man myself several times. Over the years it's changed a lot.

Currently the ticket price is so high no one can afford to attend except the extreme elite. This is a well known phenomenon.

When you go there are cool things but also depraved. In recent years the proliferation of orgies involving underage girls has become extensive. Burning Man is now a parallel of Mr. Jeffrey Epstein's island where the ultra rich come to abuse children.

I posted before on this fact and the moderator elite that prop up the ruling class told me my post was "unsubstantive" and they were going to ban me.

Good. They should. The problem of global elite and their sex trafficking networks should not only be hidden and anyone calling attention to it punished, but this should be done by legions of sycophantic supporters of the power structure of these vile global elite fascists. Moderators pull on their stormtrooper boots and go to work defending the agenda of the elite. For what exactly? For the destruction of the planet and of the human race, and of decency and humanity and compassion. Why? Many love evil that is why. They don't really need more of a reason. Those that speak the truth of matters are their enemies and they will go to the ends of the earth to destroy them and hide the truth.

In the end though the truth becomes known and the enablers of evil are regarded with the appropriate contempt and disgust.
I imagine there are other laws/restrictions that handle privacy issues. No one I know with a drone has any interest in what is happening inside someone's windows and anyone with that intent is going to ignore regulations anyway.
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A bit of googling led to this document: https://www.academia.edu/5256838/Rekursiv_an_object-_oriente...
> mathematical significance, and their applications to problems within mathematics

These external problems ultimately are about explaining patterns in the world.

I'm just saying you'll never replace the relationship between the mathematician and the physicist by simply replacing the mathematician. Instead, you'd have to replace the whole academic process, making fully autonomous universities. In which case they're still not interested in exactly same problems unless they are constructed in the same way (which they are not, since they are not human).

I'm not saying that computers won't be able to aid us with these meta-theories which help push our main theories forward. So I do agree that they can come up with some theory, but not all of it, and not most of it.
It might be an unpopular opinion, but IMO the MS Ribbon UI is still one of the best examples of this kind of UI (at least in a somewhat current incarnation).
Medical doctors at universities and medical schools generally make 50% of salaries for private practice.
I think Larry Page did okay in the end. It's not like Stanford takes hundreds of millions from every rinky dink idea thought up by it's students.

Another way to look at it is researchers are getting somewhat angelic investments from schools.
All the money is used to line the pockets of ever growing ranks of 'Administrators and Executive assistant' who are busy creating silly rules and pointless systems ;)
Having worked there, everything is not just motivated by money and market control, but specifically short-sighted pursuit of profit.

Anything that Oracle feels will help it maintain its 30% profit margin (as demanded by Wall St) is pursued with laser-focus. They want to turn Java into a sales opportunity.
>> He addresses the questions around this directly...

> It may be that we’ll discover that Epstein got rich by blackmailing people whom he had encouraged or enabled to commit abuse. I doubt it, but it’s possible.

providing a loose supposition and then immediately dismissing it is not addressing something directly. i am not an expert on the epstein situation, but from what i understand, lessig’s supposition is a rather naive one. it seems it is much more likely that epstein was making money from the services he provided and even more likely that he was bankrolled by some other entity or entities.

the fact that lessig, as a supposed law expert, is just grasping at straws with unrealistic guesses to recover his and his friend’s position is really depressing.
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My comment is not meant to be a defense of Gladwell. Just that this title is link bait, and this study is not conclusive.
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