skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No they haven’t. Flying is the easy part. The hard parts are navigating and communicating. Even then, even the largest airports will only support precision approaches on some runways in some directions because maintaining ILS equipment is expensive. What happens when you push the button and there’s a massive crosswind across the ILS runway? Also communication standards have ossified such that the only way you can talk to ATC is through 50s era radios. That means any fully autonomous aircraft would have to be able to accept verbal commands and produce verbal acknowledgments. The technology is so bad that a simple stuck mic can shutdown an airport. https://youtu.be/Wcq6KipBOro
What's the difference at that point?
In this case I assume it means that Google appears to solicit feedback but than responds by saying it's the users fault since not everyone used this feature. Calling this gaslighting may be hyperbole, but it does somewhat match the definition of the word as I understand it.

Related: I live in Vietnam and Google maps won't load photos on desktop here. I and many others reported the issue, which has been going on for over a year. The solution: set your location to a rich country. Anywhere in the EU, US, Australia, New Zealand. Photos instantly work again. Set it to somewhere in the middle east, Africa, SEA, no photos. Support started replying to people on the thread with this workaround. Unfortunately, it breaks all localisation for search, shopping, and so on. When I brought this up, support asked me to provide proof that it breaks localization, and when I provided it, they then said that Google is a for-profit company and can't be expected to fix every problem in poorer countries where they make less money. At that point, I gave up in frustration.

Gaslighting? Maybe not. Shitty support? Absolutely. At the very least they have made sure that I'll never try and use Google support again.
I tried "Watch as the cat sniffs the flower, eats it, and then vomits. This is classic feline behavior" with Attenborough. He seems to slip into a bit of a German accent on the second sentence. What's the cause of that?

Thanks for sharing, though. Very interesting project!
Grouping as "Asisan countries" is wrong.
The enemy of Apple was not IBM but Microsoft and MS-DOS on clones. They made having a PC so cheap that everyone can afford one.

Props to Commodore and Atari for having a price war and making affordable computers. Apple never took them seriously like they took IBM.
How much does it cost you to have a locked box in two secure locations?

And I don't need to go to government agents, I'm just talking about simple robbers. Say for instance family members who figure out you have Bitcoin and want to take it from you.
Wish they'd bake in some sort of a solution for managing huge files. A lot of people have this problem.
Including food :)
Containers are very lightweight compared to a vm, but each FAAS container is required to run its own instance of v8. This implies some start up time (tens of ms?) and some memory use (10's of mb?).

My understanding of isolates is they are more or less a container, but at the v8 level instead of OS. This makes spinning up a function more akin to opening a new tab vs opening a new browser instance.
Doesn't need to abrade a rock, it merely needs to throw it through the air.

Any time someone has "backups" that are all on one property, I think of large floods, fires, or tornadoes that can eradicate everything, or displace it all.
A new card won't usually solve this. If a merchant has a recurring payment on the account, the payment network will happily update them with the new card details.

Look up any of:

- Visa Account Updater

- MasterCard Automatic Billing Updater

- American Express Cardrefresher

- Discover Network Account Updater
Word of warning. This doesn't always go down well as a conversation starter if you meet someone wearing one of these...
Disclosure: I'm the author.

Appreciate the feedback, will keep that in mind in future.
if writing software is what you don't like, you could try to go into something where you use software, rather than writing it, like a database administrator, a sysadmin, a systems analyst, or working in IT, or you could focus on a different role in software production, like usability/design/ui/ux, requirements engineering, QA, etc., or if teaching is something you might be interested in, consider teaching cs/programming courses, you could do the same thing there, if code is what you don't like, and teach courses about the things around writing code, as an example, the course I've enjoyed the most in my Computer Engineering program was about a lot of things around the code-writing in software production, there was only one programming assignment in the whole semester

maybe you'd like a managerial role? or if there's something you're interested you could try to get a job in that, in one of the courses in the EE portion of my Engineering program, a professor told us that after finishing all courses, with just about 4 more courses we could pursue Audio/Sound Engineering as a Career, if that interested us, it's basically some of the fundamentals, applied to sound signals, you could consider something like that

if you don't want anything to do with software... then I'm not sure what to recommend, give some more info about yourself?

like if you would think being a Mechanic is something you'd want... I've heard soldering (like heavy machinery soldering) can be very profitable, and fun, and the training for it takes around 6 months? something like that
What's the cost of having multiple secure storage locations?

Is it greater than zero?

Then I win the point.
And APFS: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/701/
Rainwater harvesting is not very efficient with a rain barrel. There are much better design patterns for harvesting rain:

1. To scale, you are really trying to capture water in the soil itself

2. This means taking advantage of terrain features to manage patterns of flow. The idea here is to slow down flow so that it cycles through the planting areas so that the water can infiltrate instead of running off.

3. Mosquitos is a problem if pooling remains for more than three days. The solution here is to add organic compounds (mulching) to cover the areas being pooled. It effectively makes the water go below the surface, and have the added benefit of carrying composting nutrients deeper into the soil.

4. Soil’s ability to hold water depends upon a number of factors. Among them is how much carbon material is there, which includes the remains of root systems. Living, healthy soil will act as a sponge and release water to the plant as needed.

5. So protecting soil erosion is a huge part of conserving water. If the rain is carrying off soil because it is running off too fast, there is never a build up of soil to act as a sponge.

6. You may need to plant more than a monocrop. At least plant ground cover to protect the farm’s soil fertility.

7. Certain soil amendments can have lasting effect on its ability to absorb water. Biochar — charcoal that have been prepared in a way to make it suitable for plants — have the property of absorbing water and releasing it as needed. They also form habitats for microbes and fungi, which can also enhance plant growth.

8. Heavy fertilizing may be contributing to soil loss. They don’t help accumulate the kind of properties that help soil absorb water.

Here is an example paper about it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biolog...

It is not as if this stuff is not well known
Wait. Neither Unix directories nor Windows folders nor Mac folders track the size of their contents. The only way to get the "size of a folder" in any of these environments is to enumerate all of their contents recursively and add up the sizes of all the files, using some kind of tool, because this information is not stored in the directory or folder.

Now who is gaslighting?
The mod in this situation isn't an employee, it looks like. Just a user doing their best to help other users, so directing to the feedback tool sounds reasonable to me...

Maybe an employee could chime in. The problem I've seen with responding "I'll work with the dev team" is that some users at least will then have some timeframe expectations on the order of weeks based on what they imagine a fix to look like. But they don't really have a good idea of the system complexity, and realistically, these kinds of issues can linger for years because either it turns out most users actually care about other issues more, or the business needs to focus on making money, or some other complication shows up; and people end up being disappointed more often than not. I think it's unfortunately better, in this realm, not to say anything until you have the fix implemented, tested, and ready to roll out.

All the free online services that I can think of have this kind of annoying issue that advanced users run into. (And unfortunately the paid ones often have that kind of issue too, but at least they have much more reason to be responsive to support calls.)
You haven't described how you will keep them secure. Don't forget, this is buried treasure you're talking about. Stealing it is the perfect crime. So, how will you secure it?

I suspect securing it will have more than zero cost, which was my only point.
Yeah the base load debate seems to often get supply and demand mixed up. It's actually supply driven (old power plants are slow to start and stop and want a number to run at without wasting too much money).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-10-12/renewable-ene...

"Technology has moved on from base load, and now you want flexible power. And that's what demand management, batteries and pumped hydro is," says Professor Andrew Blakers, director of the ANU Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems.

"If you have an increase in demand, a coal power station will take hours [to meet it], a gas turbine 20 to 30 minutes, batteries about a second, demand management about a second, and pumped hydro will take anywhere between 20 seconds and two minutes."
Except for accuracy, mechanical wear, price, and size.
this seems like one of those things where it's just ubiquitous, so of course Terrorists would use it. like Toyota trucks [1]

[1] https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-toyota-pickup-truck-is-...
Writing and communication are similar skill sets to coding. Sales engineer can pay quite well, and needs someone with a technical background. You can also do teaching and training, which is far less stressful.
Ask HN: How to disconnect emotions from hiring decisions?
I am starting to hire a few positions for my company. Up until now I have always hired contract workers and because of this my relationship with "employees" has always been "You deliver X for $".

Now I am trying to hire for a variety of positions, some on the more professional side, some more entry level. Right now I am having a hard time rejecting people based purely on their resumes because: A.) We've all had to go through the hiring gauntlet so I want to give people their best chance. B.) How can you distill a person to just what a few words on a pdf say?

Obviously I am going to pick the best candidate for the job as that is best for everybody but simultaneously don't want to reject people out of hand, nor do I want to interview people that won't succeed and make people feel bad about themselves unnecessarily.

Thoughts?
Why did Russia sell Alaska?
The absurdity is that it’s not required of any other agency or private company.
Price is in five figures, and the others are not real problems. How do you think datalinks on military aircraft work?
Passenger trains are far lighter than cargo trains.

I'd take Amtrak to my hometown, and the engine would blow past the platform at 20+mph and still stop the passenger cars right on the platform. Riding on the train and it seemed like they'd miss it.
There will probably be something like hundreds of flights in unpopulated areas, then overseas freight, then inland freight, then passengers.
I read your comment to another answer, and I agree with the others, you have to look out for #1 (this should always mean "look out for yourself"), work on your mental health, work on your stress, and try to find a new career when you feel better

oh, and don't quote me on the soldering training time, it's something I heard in passing
Not really.. it just becomes harder in some cases. For example Google Reader, that went no where and they just killed it. They really could have transformed mailing lists into rss feeds.

Also, google trips. That was great to plan trips about. (Although their map collections is terrible)
Thanks for the explanation. I get that this approach is faster than containers, but was mainly nitpicking over the statement that containers ARE VMs.
I think if I were talking about small groups of people where much of the food production is done onsite, and there is a higher cooperation locally, this can be done. It has been done, even in just a regular neighborhood. I am not necessarily talking about changing large agricorps or policy changes.
ok... and you know it wasn’t a breech. anyone you explained it to would understand it was a sales rep taking advantage of a bug. you’d sound a little off.
That's why they hire thousands of talentless hacks, at scale.
Chicago granted CTA a special exemption to its noise ordinance.

There was a study that found that, while the subway can get uncomfortably loud, it probably doesn't represent a significant risk for riders. Probably pretty bad for operators, though. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28278069/
No doubt this can help do some "creative work" while sleeping, but does it also mean that you wake up tired?
In my opinion: nothing, and I do mean nothing, comes close to the productivity of Django + Forms + FormSets + Admin. I've tried everything under the sun[1]

The model->form and presentation layer is so intuitive and robust that I'm surprised no JS framework has rebuilt it. Too much is focused around REST instead of domain specific inputs / outputs.[2]

So yea, I've focused on making Django more React-friendly. I want to stick to it.

[1] Ok, maybe Rails comes close.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21875331
I've been there. My personal take is that the day in and day out life of a coder sucks, big time. Humans weren't designed for it. If you are inventing something novel and new and actually 'engineering' then that's different, but pulling the next React feature from some PM's backlog, that's hell.

Look at your cohort, I would venture it's mostly 20 somethings men. Maybe the odd older guy but certainly not a diverse set of people. It's a young man's game because the burn out is real and for most people coding is just an unsustainable profession. Come to grips with the fact that maybe it is unsustainable for you.

It's a lot less tedious and easier in many regards working as an engineering manager. Or a product manager. Or something entirely different. Coding as a career isn't for everybody (wasn't for me). YMMV. If it isn't for you figure out how to change it, it might not be easy but it is probably worth it.

Source: ex-FAANG SDE.
War is complicated.

Depending on the philosopher or politician, soldier or commander you ask, it's purpose is fairly varied. Resource burn, attrition, making the other poor bastard die for his country... However, in general, the international community has tended to favor diplomacy favoring modalities of war. By diplomacy friendly, of course, it's still lethal, and loved ones are not at all guaranteed to come back home, but it should result in "a warrior's death". It's frankly stupid, but psychologically, to the political classes, and to the civilian classes there is just some grim acceptance of the necessity of conventional warfare and conflict. Conflicts constrained by laws of war seems to be considered somehow "cleaner", and overall more preferable to the industrial scale manufacture of blind, blistered, or diseased cripples out of the young men and women of both sides.

There are, of course, dissenters to this type of thinking, one of which was Lincoln's War Secretary Edwin Stanton if I recall, Douglas MacArthur and Sherman may also have been counted amongst the numbers of those that advocate the practice of no holds barred, total war, where anything and everything goes, since the only moral outcome of an armed conflict is to end it as quickly, brutally, and decisively as possible. To that end, any restraint in application of force is seen as a sin or needless cruelty in prolonging the conflict.

It was and remains a rather controversial view, especially given the destructive potential most first world nations are now sitting on has led to somewhat of a retirement of the philosophy; at least as long as MAD holds out.
The problem with bikes in big cities is parking and theft.

Stealing an auto is a felony while a bike theft doesn’t even get marginal attention form law enforcement.

Sorry to say but we’ll need some large policy shifts to support ebikes despite how perfect they’d be.
Machine Learning in Haskell
Potential upstream causes:

"One is social distancing, which may have cut down on the amount of general infection from contact with others.

Another is less air pollution, from fewer cars being on the roads."

I'd love to see increased incentive for cities to act hastily on reducing <pm2.5 air pollution. Talk about a covert inequality exacerbator.
Current versions of MongoDB are not available under an AGPL at all. It is effectively no longer open source.

Older, (unpatched) versions are still AGPL, but there were no commercial restrictions at that stage.
Big-vendor hardware: Sure it costs 1.5-2.0x as much as white-box equipment, but you're paying for the support!

... later...

"Can I get that support that I paid double for?"

"Oh no, for that you need enterprise support, that's extra!"
I think that depends on the mindset on what wealth is, and that the current, prevailing mindset has been conditioned. It isn’t as if such conditioning can cannot change.

I think there will always be some people who are going to be ruthless, but by and large, I think without that conditioning and given the choice, many people would prefer doing things that are fair for other people.
I used to lucid dream a lot. Probably the most wonderful experiences of my life. I did everything you could think of. Flying, visit impossible places, superhero, wreck stuff, bang movie stars, deepest oceans, space. Sometimes you get into a wierd head space where everything is hyper real. Impossible colors, undescribable textures. I got good at keeping myself from waking up, and had lucid dreams that lasted seemingly hours.

It seems I've lost the ability with age :( . They became less common in middle age and I haven't had one in years now. How I wish I could have that skill back
> folders don’t actually exist in google drive. files are shared individually.

What do you mean? Drive has UI for folders, shows folders hierarchically, and allow sharing of folders with a single dialog-box interaction. There are instructions online that explain how to use folders for organizing and sharing:

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375091

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/7166529

For a software engineer, it may help to understand how folders are implemented when dealing with tricky ACL situations, but for all practical purposes, and for the majority of (non-engineer) users, folders definitely exist in Drive.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but what's wrong with using a bank to send money? Not in US, so I don't even know if that's another one of those things you can't do like having to still use cheques
> "By staying home, a pregnant woman may have less stress from commuting and from work, and that might have helped them," Alshaikh said.

Ah yes, I'm sure my 7-months-pregnant wife would agree that this has been a lovely, low-stress time. Wouldn't have it any other way.
On macOS: right click a folder, pick "Get Info" from the contextual menu and you get a window with all the info on the folder , including size and number of files in it.
Yeah it'll be great once the countries that manufacture things starts producing multifunction robots that build their own supply chain and automatically revert to US control.
Most people will keep using the default anyway.
You need the ability to verify that no files are shared with them. "Adhering to a workflow" isn't sufficient.
Global Warming: What We Got Wrong – Simon Sinek [video]
Neat. Once you add zoning aka biomes, it seems like this could be really useful in generating realistic game maps.
Nothing like the industry now, but the Z-80 and contemporary chips (8085, 6502, 680x) came from companies (Intel, MOS, Motorola) that were as massive as the industry was at the time. The 6502 (Apple, Atari) came out of engineers who left Motorola.
> Google has very little incentive to fix the problem

A long time ago, in an internet far, far away, Gmail was brand new. The big feature? No spam. Back then we'd hide our email addresses in cryptic text and images. It was a private thing, shared between friends. If the light of the internet were to ever shine upon your unobfuscated email address, woe be onto you as the plague of SPAM descended. There were even entire websites dedicate to the purpose of "email address images". It was ... a wild time.

Then, GMAIL! For the first time since the dawn of SPAM we could post our addresses in plaintext, in the light of day. We didn't hide them like dirty underwear. The whole WORLD could see our email addresses, and we didn't have a care in the world. The smell of fresh email was in the air, unbesmirched by SPAM.

Perhaps the young ones forget. Perhaps Google has forgotten. Lost to the sands of Calendar spam...
I don’t disagree, I think you’re right. I can just identify with folks trying to slowly de-google their lives, I’ve been on a similar mission around a year. The Microsoft name does still carry a lot of weight in the business world, so I suspect that’s the only reason the parent is still partially using them. If it were me I’d go ahead and go full protonmail (or others), but I get the reluctance.
I suspect people overestimate the intelligence because they just can't grasp how much data it's ingested or don't have a visceral sense of what an ocean of data can contain. There's a saying that "quantity has a quality all its own".
After 25 years? Was there a full digital title workflow in 1995 or are you referencing a wide adoption of the internet?
My ex- asks me for $$ to cover a child expense and in Apple Cash she can have it a few seconds later, transferred right in Messages. Banks can do this, and they have integrations with Zelle and Venmo, but it isn’t as seamless, not by a mile (or a few km).
I generally try and buy counterfeit stuff, that's my thing.

But I have never checked my Casio F91W is counterfeit, so I figured it's a good time, I used this -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGuJAJ0I1Cg

My watch says made in Japan, so I guess it's a genuine fake. But it is full of water, so that bit sucks.
what is an alternative to "being framed as a witch"? Being an actual witch? Of course they have been framed!
A serialization format for Pandas isn't really the core use case of Parquet. Pandas will slurp the whole thing into memory, which doesn't take advantage of the columnar format or pushdown filtering features. It gets more interesting if you use it with a tool that uses them to avoid some large fraction of disk I/O when performing a selective query.