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San Francisco Wants to Require Permits Before Rolling Out 'Emerging Technology'
thank you :-)
btw, i run on same software also
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https://pythonjob.xyz
https://javascriptjob.xyz
Why are companies so intent on turning this planet into an auditory hell hole?

I know happy people consume less than unhappy people, but it's probably just not giving a fuck about the negative externalities and having long since captured any public body that would interfere on behalf of sanity.
becoming a craftsman and getting to the 99th percentile has major trade offs. In order to survive as a business you need to create value and capture the market faster than your competition can. To do that you need to do more than your craft.

You have to operate a business or you’ll get swallowed up by competition who doesn’t follow your mantra.

I also believe the cheapification of so much of society and the shallowness of so many companies means that people will be craving high quality, authentically produced goods and services.

In the long run quality may win out, but that’s if your competition doesn’t put you out of business before.
Alphabet is claiming the sound is significantly lower in their drones than typical ones.

I'm curious how this works in practice because this is the type of thing that quickly gets legislative push back from municipal governments.

I'm also curious if drones can fly higher than usual or would that endanger planes...
In the same way WWI was not really under the control of Franz Ferdinand’s assassin.
You're arguing against a position that nobody sensible holds. It's like you're yelling at the invention of the train because it can't fly to the moon. Well, sure, but it's a necessary step on the way. Researchers aren't not solving your problem because they've not realized it would be an impressive thing to do, they're not solving your problem because the science isn't ready to tackle it yet (and also because it's an incredibly biased metric).
Until they can make them so quiet I don't hear them I'm going to work hard on regulating them so they cannot bug the hell out of me and cause damage with they malfunction.
Same. I use their cameras and now their motion detectors. They are cheap and work well. Their IR filters jam regularly though on the cameras, giving everything a blindingly purple shade unless you just have IR/night mode on at all times. Small price to pay for the cost of the camera I guess.
The media has published a disproportionate amount of hate content on Elon Musk ever since it was revealed Musk was a donor to the republican party in 2016.
A tree needs pruning now and then :-)
The public narrative was that you were pressured to resign because some employees were upset that you had made a donation to an initiative opposing gay marriage. I did not “make that up” - it was all over the Internet. I won’t bother posting all the links here, but a simple Google search reveals hundreds of articles all saying that my summation in my original comment is dead-on accurate.

So please do not accuse me of “making stuff up”. I was simply repeating what literally every article on this matter says. If the entire media got that wrong, then fine. Ultimately only you know why you left. But I “made up” nothing.
do not build in the middle of the forest. simple, really. Well, not that simple since people spent their lifetime savings buying the land and building but nothing else works. You probably need 500-1000 yards cleared forest to avoid the fire (embers in the roof and all) and even then all the infrastructure will be melted.

PG&E is trying to hold the state hostage. Want us to pay for fires? Fine, we'll cut power to danger zones that weren't economically viable anyway.
Appreciate the content, but not sure that "craftsmanship" is what is needed, it's a "generalist" approach rather than "specialist" that entrepreneurs need.

Craftsmanship is about a dedication to a single activity, so a master cabinet maker, or a Wall St quant, or a "rock star" programmer (titles may vary).
Use normal network enabled cameras and make them remote accessible via a Tor hidden service: https://github.com/n8fr8/talks/blob/master/onion_things/Inte...
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There's a _lot_ of work on hierarchical route planning in games. I don't mean to put down the developers or anything, and I'm so glad all of this works, but there are plenty of ideas in the academic-world that I think developers should know more about.

Botea, Adi, Martin Müller, and Jonathan Schaeffer. 2004. “Near Optimal Hierarchical Path-Finding.” In Journal of Game Development. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.112.....

Rahmani, Vahid, and Nuria Pelechano. 2017. “Improvements to Hierarchical Pathfinding for Navigation Meshes.” In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Motion in Games, 8:1–8:6. MIG ’17. New York, NY, USA: ACM.

Toll, Wouter van, Roy Triesscheijn, Marcelo Kallmann, Ramon Oliva, Nuria Pelechano, Julien Pettré, and Roland Geraerts. 2016. “A Comparative Study of Navigation Meshes.” In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Motion in Games, 91–100. ACM.

And route planning in graphs (with static edge weights) has been studied to death.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.05140.pdf
And with no cares or worries that the noise would bug the hell out of your neighbors?

Come on... this is an awful idea.
Have you heard of cars? They make noise and cause damages too.
Worm and it's sequel, Ward, are amazing.
I believe that the strongest root of bias is society. Paraphrasing Sartre, bias is the others. So I disagree with the other thing the author is conflating: that society often holding ridiculous opinions is because individuals can't think rationally.

It's the other way around: individuals can't think very rationally because they're pressed by society.
Pay attention to large, sharp option orders: buying anove the ask or selling below the bid. Something is up when multiple millions of dollars are spent and the trader doesn't care about the price.
How to make track changes in word according to our need?
We need to convert Microsoft Word Tracked Changes according to the
following rules:

For insertions of new words or phrases, the new words should be
underlined.
For insertions of characters (letter, numbers, symbols, etc.) into
existing words, the old word should be deleted and the replacement word
should be underlined.
For deletions of entire phrases and/or words that are longer than 3x
characters, the deleted word should be in strikethrough.
For deletions of entire words that are 3x characters or shorter, the
deleted word should be in double brackets.
For deletions of letters into existing words, the old word should be
deleted and the replacement word should be underlined.
The old Tracked Changes should be rejected and there should be new
Tracked Changes for the above revisions.
Call of Duty League Commissioner: It’s Time for a Franchise Model
You can vote out elected officials, it forces transparency, and also has the bonus of a government multiplier[1], you can't do that with the C-levels of PG&E and a private company.

Additionally, and I think this is non-debatable in the USA (though I'm up for debate, and to be wrong), C-levels have their primary and sole obligation to shareholders. When push comes to shove, and tough decisions need to be made, in
the USA it is always in the interest of shareholders unless mandated by the government. Sometimes better businesses push for that mandate, so they can remain competitive and not be flaming piles of shit unable to compete... [2].

PG&E executives, right now, can use this (shareholder returns) as disguise for moral ineptitude in their social circles allowing them to escape ridicule as monsters.

No amount of competition will fix these problems and incentivize the correct behaviour for a _utility_ as long as they're obligated to return dividends before moral decency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_multiplier#United_State...

[2] This is also a vector for abuse by monopolies and oligopolies; where, they lobby for regulation which creates a barrier to entry (in the market) insurmountable to new organizations and institutions.
He should be an honorary software engineer.
Let me preface this by saying I am sympathetic to breaking up monopoly-esque companies that amass too much power. That said, I think this sentence is the crux of your comment:

> If you're banned from YouTube, you basically can't upload videos anymore, period, at least if you want anyone to look at them.

There's a pithy statement that applies here: "freedom of speech is not freedom of reach". Because there are plenty of other ways to upload videos — Vimeo and PeerTube and your own server — but none have YouTube's killer feature, which is distribution to a built-in audience.

Let's back up a few decades and say you want to promote Nazism, which is legal. Your options are pretty limited! No major newspaper will publish your article, no major radio station will let you speak and no major TV channel will give you a show. You can distribute your own newsletter, get on public access TV, transmit on unused radio frequencies, or maybe even find a small company that will allow you. But for the most part, you can't distribute to large audiences, and no one has a problem with this.

Enter the Internet. Now anyone can publish things consumable by anyone in the world… but all of a sudden that's not enough, and it's imperative that it's just as easy for Nazis to reach a huge audience as anyone else? What is so fundamentally different about YouTube vs. TV networks that we need to revisit this?

Granted, Nazism is an extreme example; it's more likely that people are concerned about e.g. alleged censorship of conservative views. But it's difficult for me to really care about this, because these are still mainstream views! Even if you don't think you're welcome on Twitter, you can go to Gab or Voat. You can read about it on Breitbart and The Daily Caller. You can get it delivered in the Wall Street Journal. You can watch it on Fox News. For speech that is being "censored", it sure is easy to find.

I'll finish by reiterating my support for breaking up giant companies that effectively control a large part of discourse. Concentrated power is never a good thing. But I think it's a gross violation of free speech to force networks to distribute content they don't want to — especially when there are always options for people to get their speech out.
V is a pretty interesting language. I've been playing with it for the last few months, it takes a lot of the good stuff from Go with saner syntax and defaults. And compilation speed is amazing.

The big missing item so far is GC (memory management is manual). Another thing is that the language evolves constantly, so you keep having to change your own code every week or so to stay valid.
It's already obsolete for people who do ML work.

I remember having to wait days or even weeks for something to train while I either sit back and relax or work on the next thing to train.
This is a severe blow against holding politicians accountable and informing the public on state wide corruption and abuse of power. This bill essentially bans criticizing those in office, by unofficial media sources, which is a horrible precedent to uphold. Especially given the monopolistic and heavily centralized nature of the media atm.
Sorry what? This will be much quieter than roads and gas truck by like 100x?
Does anyone have any good resources on how to design systems like these? I find the idea of computers that have to work for decades, be autonomous and self reparing really exciting.
Sounds somewhat reasonable actually. Companies shouldn't be free to just dump their scooters or robots or whatever in public spaces without approval.
> pilots can't hold more than one, so it's a huge issue for existing operators of 737s

You can hold more than one but you need to maintain each separately.
Pleased to read that hot reloading is a central feature!
Indeed, the language changes very quickly. Things will stabilize by 0.2.

The memory model is going to be similar to Rust. No GC or manual management. I'm actually working on it right now. Should have done it sooner, but it took me lots of time to do the research and chose the right model.
Unfortunately, that's not what OAM could provide to you.

OAM is just a contract between dev and ops so ops could tell what he has (Trait) in a way dev understand, and dev could tell ops what he want (Components) in a way easy to manage by ops. That's all.
Wow, on my old i3:

0[08:48:16] /v/v $ time ./v v.v

real 0m0.219s
user 0m0.153s
sys 0m0.064s
0[08:48:25] /v/v $

I guess it is high time to upgrade my machine...
Coding MapReduce in C from Scratch Using Threads (Benchmarks)
Apart from climate models of course. Science is settled.
How many of Dodrill's problems have they solved so far?

https://christine.website/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23
ChatOps Deployments on GitHub with Deliverybot
> The big missing item so far is GC (memory management is manual).

It really isn't. That's the one thing that would make me immediately lose interest in the language. Are there not enough options out there for non-realtime critical code?
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Do you think taxpayers ought to be on the hook when a state-run electric company burns down a town, or should California invoke sovereign immunity when that happens?
Yes, really excited about it.

Hot reloading UI:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/592118040179507207/63...

Hot reloading a graphical application:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1153363259715702784
This is admittedly correct. The tool sends (edit: sent) to an API that processes your credentials into the user database.

I had not expected submissions to surge as much as they have, and had not built proper encryption into the user signup flow.

I recognize the issues here and am glad you called them out.
To respond:
1) I've changed the web form to gather emails as a waitlist until I properly handle new user submissions.
2) I'll develop acceptable user account creation.
3) I'll give current users the ability or change their credentials under the proper system.

My truest apologies for this oversight, and thank you.
And now you do not have to wait more than a few seconds, while you train them?
PG&E posted pictures of quite a few down lines in areas they cut power to. It's pretty credible that that blackouts actually prevented fires.
I can't help but feel that if you want to limit your potential hires to those you can sell your vision to in interviews and get their commitment to and belief in that vision then you will be limiting your pool to the mainly naive and inexperienced.

on edit: fixed grammatical error
Comes with. They’re actually fairly separated from the rest of Ubiquiti’s offerings. I have seven cameras currently and would like to add a few more.
You did pick a (very) pre 1.0 language to play with. Constant change is to be expected.

I wonder (and hope!) V lives up to the hype. It's a lot.
See also - Smart Referer[1] firefox extension. Only blocks cross-domain referer leak, and has a built-in whitelist to prevent breakage.

^1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smart-referer...
The test coverage should be so good that mutation testing finds nothing uncovered.
Given the 5 or 6 brands of (mutually incompatible) scooters littering Bay area streets right now this is not such a terrible idea. They weren't declared a public nuisance by heartless bureaucrats (indeed this didn't happen at al where I live): they just started taking up street space and getting in the way of disabled people, people with kids, and anyone needing to push a cart on a sidewalk. I've lost count of the times I've had to move one or more of the things out of the way to get where I was going, where's my check?
V seems pretty similar to Zig in that it tries to compete directly with C. Has anyone here used both? Which do you prefer and why?
As much as I appreciate Wayback Machine, it's the responsibility of authors to choose an authoring format that can stand the test of time, at least for content you care about. HTML is built on a rich foundation of markup languages which is more than adequate for preservation. Just that it renders in a browser isn't good enough as browsers have turned into overly complex monstrosities with a high risk of loosing further browser code bases going forward (eg. Moz loosing their Google deal, and developing browsers becoming economically infeasible) at which point we're at the mercy of an ad company to even read our documents.
Not what I hear. My sister-in-law is an RN at an assisted living facility and she's dealt with people in the very last stages of life. Sadly, many wish they actually worked less and spent more time with loved-ones and friends. Anecdotally, she also noticed that when it's someone's time to go, their feet curl up first.
Last time when V was presented in HN, it got completely ripped apart by most posters. This was probably due to the many empty promises by the creator which V simply wasn't able to deliver on.
There were also hard criticisms posted by creators of other languages like Zig, wren etc.

I want to know from V's critic, where do they feel the language is right now, now that it has had some more months behind it? Do you still feel that its a lot of snake oil or do you think it is going along a good path? Not trying to push an agenda but I am genuinely curious because I have never seen such definitive opinions against a language before in HN.

I am yet to use V (waiting for the Doom demo which would be the proof of the pudding for me), but i do check its chat and github every now and then; and things seem to be going along much better now. lots of contributions, better project management and timely fixes.

Here are some of the older threads on V;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403271

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20250990

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20229632
> What can a human do that a machine cannot?

The ability to think like a human. The ability to see and recognize the world around you. The ability to change your behavior. The ability to communicate. The ability to be free in a society driven by fear and self interest. The ability to look for love and trust in others. The ability to learn how to love yourself. The ability to be independent. The ability to be successful by your own choice.

A human can make you laugh, cry, scream, and cry again.

A human can design, analyze, execute, innovate, understand and apply new technology. A machine cannot do that.

- GPT-2 774M (cherry-picked samples)
Interesting that garbage collection is listed as a miss due to latency, and Go has gotten popular with garbage collection with an emphasis on low latency.
Cunningham's Law victims. Or troll victims. Or both. Or neither.
Do you feel the same way about cars that are much bigger and consume more fossil fuels?

Wing had to get approval from the FAA and the city to operate and noise level is regulated.
California has real livability problems even for wealthy tech workers. The traffic has become unbearable thanks to Waze routing everyone all over surface streets, mass transit changes of any kind reliably take 10 years minimum to implement. Heck even closing Market St to cars is going to take more than 5 years for some reason. This is just icing on the cake. It’s really time to think seriously about moving.
That Go code on this page [0] isn't particularly idomatic (or even functional), consider something like this [1] perhaps.

[0] https://vlang.io/compare

[1] https://pastebin.com/raw/FsjAQvGt
Having a good community also helps to separate the good books from others. I mostly read fantasy and the community on reddit is so good to get recommendations, participate in polls, interact with authors, etc. There's also a yearly contest where 300 self published books are reviewed by bloggers. Here's a recent poll [1] and here's a somewhat older thread for recommendations [2]

I got a Kindle Unlimited subscription this year and some of my favorite series are:

* Cradle by Will Wight

* Arcane Ascension by Andrew Rowe

* Heartstrikers by Rachel Aaron

* Worm by Wildbow (I'm counting webserials as self published too)

* The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/cwz83u/the_rfantas...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/7lib3d/what_are_so...
And before the wise guy chips in: yes, or a tautology.
At a certain point, at the very highest levels of 'work', work becomes more of a game when you don't need to worry about making the mortgage payment or the kids' college tuition bill. This is very true for CEOs, hedgies and many types of jobs that require a high level of skill.
You do not have kids, don't you?
I dunno, I suspect this is a cause and effect sort of thing. The grains and abundance probably came first, civilization came second, and with that came taxes and government.
There's already growing competition in power generation. But power transmission is a natural monopoly, and that (the power lines) is what causes fire risk.

The fact is that many Californians are served by an under-maintained aging grid, nominally maintained by a public-private utility with regulated pricing. PG&E is thrashing because they can't raise rates and they can't cut off customers and they don't have a maintenance time machine, so they are made a whipping boy for not solving the impossible.

At least this is focusing our attention on our electrical grid issues. There's major fire risk, but solar demands modernization as well. Let's hope this crisis does not go to waste.
Up is galaxy counter spin wards, and changes as we corkscrew around the sun.
It is not just Google. Regulation on listening devices, especially those that can connect to or transmit to a network, needs a big overhaul.

Yes, I know every phone is basically the same thing and we all have those near or with us all the time, but that does not mean all our conversations and other sounds are up for grabs.

A more sane model could be requiring a deliberate manual action to turn on the the microphone for up to 10 seconds.

Something like STNG's comms badges that you touch to speak would be nice.
Yes and I agree with 99% of all the things they do, and appreciate them, but the thing with threating to merge all file sets because the few people non-deliberately choosing the non-default case are tripping over their incorrectly tied shoelaces too much. why not just ignore those few people and not force X window system binaries on thousands of network equipment?
Maybe we could consider Craftsmanship in this sense to be the dedication to building a good business. Ideally, the CEO/Founder wouldn't be the most skilled artisan in any one thing in their company, but would be an artisan of integration of available parts into a viable business strategy. To borrow from your cabinet maker example, the cabinet craftsman isn't necessarily great at making high quality lumber, or fasteners. But trains themselves to understand the parts available and integrate that through skilled labor into a fine cabinet. In some sense, all craftsmanship is skilled integration.
Who are you talking to?
I believe the point is boot speed. Larger initramfs take longer to unpack.
Soon I'll actually make a post covering all these "vaporware"/scam posts and articles.

Zig's author's criticism is hard to respond to, since he claims things like "the V compiler has freetype and glfw dependencies", which is absurd:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20230351

Also he claimed there was no REPL, cross compiling or hot code reloading, when all these things were there:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1137537130887077890

https://twitter.com/i/status/1153363259715702784
This is on par with when Google tried to force google plus on youtube.

Just no forethought at all.
Yes. You did not misread - "Slow AF Apps" - it was an intent to capture user pains and seem human.

Judging by your response, it was not in good taste. Curious to anyone else reading this: is a statement like that offputting?
A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics is probably what you're looking for.
https://pimbook.org/