skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, by "wrong" I just meant "losing". In the late 1980s, Poland was a dirt poor, sad place.
Are you hiring only from the US?
Physical sticker exposed to the environment. Scrapes/marks are common, they would render the “HR” code useless, but the QR would be fine. Or at least stay fine for longer. So the trade off becomes: do I post something that will be accessible to everyone, even those without a phone, for a week; or do I post something that will be accessible to everyone with a phone for two weeks. Given almost everyone has a phone, the answer is obvious. (Making up the times, but you get the idea)
Humans are good at filtering out bad information because the whole system is understood. I can’t see some of the road, because it’s snowing, and I can quickly stop paying attention to the non useful parts of my vision.

It’s definitely a hard problem, but I don’t think it’s insurmountable
That sounds interesting, could you elaborate more?
That's not an example of the saying, though. They asked for permission.
Do you have a reference for that? It sounds interesting.
agreed, but...

https://old.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/
What type of risky maneuvers are you imagining are required to drop some water on a fire? And how many $30-100 million dollar planes would you throw away to do it?

It's risky enough as it is, I doubt anyone wants to increase that risk.. and it seems to me they're perfectly capable of fighting fires without the multiple $100m losses you think might be "effective". It isn't like these fire depts have that kind of money to throw away.

And they would still want to clear unauthorized drones from the area... It would be a big loss if one of these crashed because of someones hobby drone. And unpiloted or not, a plane that big and heavy won't be capable of moving out of the way of a small drone that gets in its way.
I would actually draw the parallel with cars here; the airspace/roads are similarly regulated and should require a license to use. For sure some uses can be less regulated than other (like bicycles or kites), but drones have demonstrated to be clearly more complex.

I realize that we should not be rushed in disturbing a blooming industry and I have a lot of respect for the progress made in recent years, but as things stand in my (uninformed) opinion something akin to license plate registration/piloting license is the best long term choice to protect good actors.
Loyalty? Thanks for the laugh, mate. Nope, it's just dollars and cents.

It sounds like you think employers should be happy to be somebody's stepping stone and eat the cost and man-hours of hiring a new employee to replace them before they've even contributed enough to break even on their own hiring expense. Funny how hiring managers somehow don't think being stepped on is a good deal; gosh, I wonder why?
Sheryl Sandberg went from feminist hero to total sellout
It's kinda funny, discussions about time zones usually devolve into the idiotic "UTC everywhere" suggestion, but your suggestion is the complete opposite, and will result in time being different for everyone, from city to city.

So you'll have a gradual half-hour difference between San Diego and Seattle in the summer. When it's sunrise in San Diego, it's Half Past Sunrise in Seattle. You're in Seattle, you have a phone meeting with someone in San Diego at two hours past sunrise. Uh, when is that again? Oh, and you bring in a third party from someone in SF, he's 15 minutes off to both of you.
Never underestimate the ability of people to convince themselves that something they wish was true actually is.
I agree that "this law is hurting the web" but I don't see how shifting that from the website to the application is going to solve the root issue. Prompts like these are annoying speed bumps that I have a hard time believing are in anyway effective -- paranoid people already deeply evaluate the software and services they use whereas the casual user is likely to just to "yah yah, get this out of my face" click it.
> My latest trick is taking long hikes. I used to think running was a better form of exercise than hiking because it took less time. Now the slowness of hiking seems an advantage, because the longer I spend on the trail, the longer I have to think without interruption.

I love hiking for this reason.

That said I’m distractedly on my phone while walking around a mall.
Cray Blitz chess might be a fun one to get running. Source code is at https://github.com/swenson/cray-blitz/.

"It is a mix of FORTRAN source code and Cray Assembly Language (CAL), and looks like it supports the Cray 1, Cray X-MP, and Cray Y-MP machines, and possibly a SPARC machine."
Those People We Tried to Cancel? They’re All Hanging Out Together
Wow how do Automattic have 1140 employees?
Yeah they say this:

> It’s a bit hard to tell whether 3,000 employees are a part of the TopTal freelance workforce or actually working on the core software platform of the company, but we’ll give them credit and say that they’re three thousand strong and a fully-remote, distributed company.
I wonder if https://twitter.com/ilistes/status/250658949467099136 was the inspiration for this (from 2012). I wish there were more scrollbars from cool Unix window managers, BeOS and such. Now that scrollbars are almost done it's a really nice idea to document not just their existence but also their behavior.
Such a brilliant idea that, using your own brain to give yourself advice is the best. We should all be taught this in school.
The WordPress.org home page says 34%: https://wordpress.org/
You don't need 120 separate questions, just a single list with all 120 cookies and their domains, with a checkbox next to each one and some "select/deselect all" buttons.
1. As I read it the quoted text doesn’t describe or attempt to define shorting. It describes a subset of short sellers. Straw-man?

2. Again, I see no contradiction here.

3. Why does this matter? The article is about censorship on Twitter. If there is just one shorter that can censor Twitter for market manipulation purposes, then that’s a problem, right?
Unless the dev team is super responsive, and well resourced, reporting bugs can soon feel futile for support.

Then they become susceptible to internal fake news,e.g "I heard someone in Dev say they'd never fix that, it's too hard to test". Or "Dev seem to have a policy of only working on new features".

As well, support knows that many bugs go unfixed for years/months, and/or the issues that do get fixed don't seem to make sense (to them anyway).

So eventually they stop reporting or pushing for bugs.

The next stage after that is that this world view gets propagated outside the company - support (maybe subconsciously) lets customers know that there's really not much chance of this issue being fixed.

Then customers get the vibe that the product is not being maintained/ the company's priorities lie elsewhere.

In turn the customers talk about themselves and perhaps move that little bit more towards going elsewhere.

IMO it's a very dangerous situation and companies should take extremely strong measures to keep a positive mindset in the support team, whatever that takes.
I clicked on the link with alarm, because Amazing Goop is one of my favorite products, and really works:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Amazing-Goop-3-7-fl-oz-All-Purpo...
The sort of arrogant self-absorbed people who would fly a drone over a wildfire are the same sort of arrogant self-absorbed people who would flash their drone with hacked firmware to bypass any restrictions.

Rules are for other people.
There was a marketing campaign for a jamming gun to essentially disable drones. (I imagine some would just float statically though)
Do you think google is not aware of how terrible Chrome's auto-correct suggester is? Mind blown.

IE - it has no idea what words I'm trying to type: civillian, millenial, EMBARRESSED. (for some reason the last one works fine in lower case, but can't guess in upper case - even though it guesses some words in upper case)

It seems to struggle with double vs. single letters. I've always just assumed they don't care. But maybe they don't even know.
Actionable Book Summary: Mastery by Robert Greene
What I'm saying is that, here in the US, when people say things like "I get two weeks of PTO per year", they mean 10 business days, not 14.
It could be someone in fire operations themselves that wants to try out using off the shelf technology to improve their operation

It's a conflagration. The people in fire operations have better things to do than play with toy "drones." They also know better than to fly in areas where water is being deployed.

It's naive to think that since it's possible to write code to enforce a condition, that this can scale to the level of society!

We can control technology a lot easier than we can control people.
The problem is finding another job that pays as well - I'm low on the totem pole but earn 4x the average salary for my expertise.
WordPress is the software HN loves to hate, but while it certainly has plenty of warts it's also a very flexible, pliable system for building the kinds of web sites that most people want to build. It'll never win any architectural beauty contests, but market share is driven by utility, not beauty. And WordPress can be very useful software.
Another proof that good ux isn’t universal:

If anyone had asked me it would been a clear no, and I would have thought that answer was obvious.
As a premise I am not an expert in any related field, but with regards to flying in the smoke it is possible (maybe, I do not know which constraint are relevant) that an unmanned could have more freedom of approaching a fire from more angles.
"Some corn grains can actually work like magnets, helping us keep energy levels the highest we can. "

Good to know!
Oh my god, you just triggered some horrifying memories of that popup.

No, you definitely don't want the web browser to ask.
> aren't required by law to prevent arming in no-fly zones

Arming? Are these drones carrying some kind of weapon or explosive?
You still found a bug - the error claimed it was a bug, but it wasn't!

The point of technical error messages, imo, is to tell the developer what they did wrong to get into this state. They can't be allowed to be wrong, otherwise developers stop trusting them (this bites us a lot - we get dozens of incidents along the line of "error says very specific thing related to my scenario is configured wrong - is it actually?")
I honestly can’t figure out how these popups became so prevalent. They’re so obviously not compliant not just with the fine print of GDPR but with its spirit.

Even if you’re completely cynical about being compliant with GDPR I would imagine that not having popups like that at all is more compliant or less likely to get you in trouble than having those flagrantly-non-compliant ones...
Probably many people are just ignorant, not deliberately mischievous.
Not always... They could just be curious people who want to see the fire. Just because they didn't fully think through their actions doesn't mean they would continue if it was pointed out to them.

And some people might want to see the fire.. but maybe not enough to risk bricking their drone. Introducing additional financial risk could be all the disincentive they need.

If you caught a flashed drone and found the user, it would enable stiffer penalties also. Flashing the drone would signal clear intent to break the law.
> I'd like to point out that GDPR compliant sites don't need to ask permission for strictly necessary cookies.

That's also my interpretation. If you use cookies for session state, authorization, then it's no problem.

The problem is that every website decided that they needed to track users. Or that asking for permission would minimize liability.
Re: post-war Germany, yeah, I've heard of it. For example, this war criminal [1] was never deported to Poland and was even a successful mayor. Communist propaganda had a field day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Reinefarth
I wonder if a new product that would be similar to UserVoice or Fixya could help for this problem.

Imagine a site that has elements from the above mentioned and also StackExchange or even the Apple Discussion boards. The input would be people reporting bugs they encounter: is it reproducible? known workarounds? maybe severity ratings. A "page views" count.

The output would then be either selling or giving away aggregate reports to vendors, like Apple. "Hey Apple, here are the most important bugs people are reporting. We suggest you fix these first."

If anyone has interest discussing this further, get in touch.
An interesting question would be how long is needed for a human to fix a clearly nonsense article into a passable low quality article (of which humans produce already a lot).
Tesla’s Streaming Data Platform
Waymo is potentially the world most valuable company some time in the not too distant future (before the commercial space industry really takes off). I doubt they will hesitate to scale once the time comes.
A car can go pretty much anywhere, public transportation not so much. If you can sleep in a self driving car then logistically much more of the world will be accessible to you. Hit a button, go to sleep, wake up wherever you want. To me this would be much more exciting than cheaper taxies.
you can do it with birdshot.

You can also do with with a bird.

https://time.com/4675164/drone-hunting-eagles/

(Awesome picture in the link of an eagle sinking its talons into a drone mid-flight.)
It is sometimes for good reason.

More often though, it's just the apocryphal story of the monkeys and the ladder that informs the organisation's behavior:

> This human behavior of not challenging assumptions reminds me of an experiment psychologists performed years ago. They started with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, they hung a banana on a string with a set of stairs placed under it. Before long, a monkey went to the stairs and started to climb towards the banana. As soon as he started up the stairs, the psychologists sprayed all of the other monkeys with ice cold water. After a while, another monkey made an attempt to obtain the banana. As soon as his foot touched the stairs, all of the other monkeys were sprayed with ice cold water. It's wasn't long before all of the other monkeys would physically prevent any monkey from climbing the stairs. Now, the psychologists shut off the cold water, removed one monkey from the cage and replaced it with a new one. The new monkey saw the banana and started to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attacked him. After another attempt and attack, he discovered that if he tried to climb the stairs, he would be assaulted. Next they removed another of the original five monkeys and replaced it with a new one. The newcomer went to the stairs and was attacked. The previous newcomer took part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, they replaced a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey tried to climb the stairs, he was attacked. The monkeys had no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they were beating any monkey that tried. After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys had ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approached the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been around here
Can people see very well through the snow? If visibility drops to zero (in human terms), then don’t people just stop driving anyways? Is “use the force” really a thing on the road?

During a heavy snow the accident rate shoots up anyways. If waymo does a taxi service, it would make sense for them to stop service even if the car could drive just as well as a human, it just isn’t worth the risk.
Is that because Africa is equatorial? Day length and Sun rise/set times don't change much over the year right?
I had to search for a while, but I've got it. Here's the article I've first read about it:
https://www.telerama.fr/scenes/comment-la-copie-des-noces-de...

Here are two other articles in English on the subject:
http://www.factum-arte.com/pag/38/A-facsimile-of-the-Wedding...

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/arts/design/29pain.html
it’s hard to hit a small moving target that may be hundreds of meters up in the air.

I wonder if a local skeet-shooting club could be deployed for this sort fo thing. Certainly they have the practice. But I'm not sure about the range.
Sometimes he still no fly zones can be quite large. I currently live about 40 minutes away from the St. Louis airport and last year President Trump decided to visit St. Louis it is continuing campaigning for 2020 and made a stop at that airport. The FAA no-fly zone prevented me from taking off my drone 100 m in the air to take pictures of wildlife over my pond for something happening 25+ miles away.

I am all for maintaining user discretion over absolute lockouts and work on education, situational awareness and heavy fines and punishment on meaningful infractions.

And lastly if the systems are to encumbered people are just going to roll their own software which is an avenue I then investigated for my Mavic after that incident.
Is this position remote only for US based candidates?
I think you should stop swinging at that straw man long enough to read what I actually wrote.
There's a very big difference between the maximum distance an individual pellet of birdshot will go (which is still likely less than 300 yards at its maximal ballistic trajectory)and the "effective range" which is usually defined something like 'the maximum range at which accurate fire will produce a 50% hit probability'.

For birdshot, that's usually considered to be around 40 yards for a bird. A drone would probably be similar.
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> you seem to be having a hard time with this

It may come as a surprise to you, but when people disagree with you, it's usually not because they don't understand the infinite wisdom of your words. It's often because they understand and think you're talking nonsense. And sometimes - like in this case - it's because you are.

> an awful lot of racists like to say, 'illegals'"

So what? Awful lot of racists also like to say "hello" and "breakfast" and "cat" and "good evening". Obviously, that doesn't make these expressions taboo. It would only be meaningful if the link went the other direction - if this designation was predominantly used by racists. So what you're doing here is trying to imply it's the case, by stating the reverse and hinting there's a casual link, but because your case for it is so weak that it would not tolerate direct confrontation, you avoid telling it directly. So that, when challenged, you can feign innocence and cry "I didn't say it's racist, I just said it's used by racist!". Taken literally, you didn't, but you words only have any meaning if that's exactly what you tried to imply without saying it directly, as to avoid being confronted and revealed as falsity. This is an insincere and I'd even say cowardly way to discuss things - casting implications without daring to stand behind them and defend them.
Curious: does anyone have an actual negative user experience on the website? I tested it on both my shotty WiFi (for reference, I’m unable to stream YouTube at 720p), and cellular (2 bars), and I found the page to load quickly and be reasonably responsive either way. In the thread I think twitter user Kenneth Auchenberg puts it best:

> Come on. Look at the experience and tell me you expected it to be 1kb? This is an interactive application, not a text document. [...] We have started to chase a false “unicorn” narrative of websites with expected app-like experiences, but sizes like text documents from the 2000s. Something doesn’t add up.
While I personally wouldn’t that doesn’t stop a bunch of people from kicking their feet up and texting as their Model S’s drive them down 280 every morning. They’re already agreeing to the trade off between convenience and liability. I think you underestimate how much some people value the convenience.
If only everyone read Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark[0], or at least the Baloney Detection Kit part.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle-Da...
I think that’s definitely changed. I can’t imagine any situation these days even embedded where you would run out of memory for program storage.
Broadcasting an identity would indeed be a good way to do post-facto enforcement instead of resorting to technological authoritarianism.

However, it's worth remembering that car license plates have become a major surveillance vector in the modern age. It would be straightforward to fix this - imagine RF or eink transponders with a number that changes every minute, with a cryptographic key required to tie the broadcasted nym to anything else, and a public audit trail every time it is done - but government inertia is huge. This regime should really be fixed before it is expanded.
In the winter, I don't see daylight neither in the morning nor evening. One hour sooner would mean there is at least a bit more sun after work, when I can actually spend that hour outside.
I'm in Norway and really appreciate every extra minute of sunlight in the autumn. When commuting, dropping off the kid to school, walking through a frosty parking lot to the office building, and taking the first cup of coffee with glimpse of sun in the window.

It makes the workday morning a lot more tolerable.
It's amazing how HN sentiment on driverless cars seems to change from week to week, from article to article.
FWIW, I'm not able to replicate that - getting ~70-80 requests with 2.9MB transfer/4.8MB resources on Chrome.
No, Africa extends between 30 south and 30 north, roughly. Same latitude as the south of the US.
No surprise there. The whole point of DST is for the clock to loosely follow sunrise, as opposed to the solar noon - so that daylight doesn't get "wasted" in the longest summer days.
Same thought - Goop adhesive is pretty good in general. For those who didn't click through to the article, this is about the Goop online retail site/"lifestyle brand" that peddles a bunch of new-age garbage.
Unfortunately your map has cropped out several countries, included where I live. Do you have a copy that has Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, New Zealand, New Caledonia, etc?
How about, if you install software such as a web browser on your computer that has a certain functionality intentionally exposed via an API, and you then visit sites that make use of that API, you have given consent for them to use it. And if you don't like it, you can reconfigure said browser to block them.
A pattern is something that repeats. Frequency is a mathematical description of repetition or cycles [1] . That's why spectral techniques and their relatives are so useful when dealing with patterns and information. So if you want to think about how patterns are constructed, frequency components are useful as the building blocks of those patterns.

And from the other angle, if you stop thinking about frequency as "cycles per unit" and more in terms of just cycles or repetitions, then it's more intuitive when you talk about spatial frequency.

[1] or to get really into it, it's one part alongside magnitude/phase components of linear/nonlinear combinations of time varying exponentials which abstract any pattern/signal/system.
> What if I own an office and I rent it out for people to have meetings, and they meet there in person and...

If you are the property owner, taking care that the people on your property is safe.

As a steward of the land that’s your job. By purchasing the land you are saying: no one else has title to watch over the people on this land, only I do.

So yes, you then have a responsibility to do so.
On holiday, with our 100MB datarooming package outside Europe at USD13, watching this page would cost me over USD8?!
Opened on a Moto G6 (but on a good enough wifi internet) and it loaded seemingly instantenously. No problem scrolling too.

Wholeheartedly agree with the quoted comment