skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression is that it's pretty easy to get a Part 107 Remote Pilot license; I think it's essentially just a knowledge test. Even if all you learn getting it is how the airspace system works and how to coordinate your use of it, that's a significant base of knowledge that is essential to flying responsibly in the US. There are serious civil and criminal penalties in the Federal Aviation Regulations for lots of complex rules that really do matter, so it makes sense that they at least just want commercial operators to understand what they are on the hook for.
Thanks! They certainly like very illuminating insights. From my viewpoint epigenetics seems like the forerunner to many future revelations too.
Universal Audio at least on the non-VST side and (is it) slater have interesting models.
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I try to keep my software systems as functional as possible (where "functional" here means "no explicit state"). But there are always places where it makes sense to think in terms of state, and so I try to model that state monotonically whenever possible. At least subjectively, it's usually a lot simpler (and easier to follow) than unrestricted state.

Agreed. You mention LVars so I'm curious what you think about MVars and STM in general. I've always been fond of STM because relational databases and their transactions are a familiar and well understood concept historically used by the industry to keep state sane and maintain data integrity. SQLite is great, but having something that's even closer the core language or standard library is even better.

It's part of why I like using SQL to do the heavy lifting when possible. I like that SQL is a purely functional language that naturally structures state mutations as transactions through the write-ahead log protocol. My flavor of choice (Postgres) makes different levels of efficient read and write available through read isolation levels that can give me up to ACID consistency without having to reinvent the wheel with my read and write semantics. If I structure my data model keys, relations and constraints properly, I get a production strength implementation with a lot of the nice properties you talk about. And that's regardless of my service layer choice for my language that I can trust to stand up.

There's one exception in particular that I've seen begin to gain steam in the industry which I think is interesting, and that's Elixir. Because Elixir wraps around Erlang's venerable OTP (and distributed database mnesia), users can build on the top of something that's already solved a lot of the hard distributed systems problems in the wild in a very challenging use case (telecom switches). Of course, mnesia has its own issues so most of the folks I know using Elixir are using it with Phoenix + SQL. They seem to like it, but I worry about ecosystem collapse risk with any transpiled language -- no one wants to see another CoffeeScript.
> should instead just ship a local HTTP server

and a Node.JS runtime, and native libraries to support menubars, system trays, dialogs that support folder selections, native drag and drop for all file types, ...

I agree, though: if the electron app doesn't need any of these things, it really shouldn't pull in the entire electron runtime.
Is that what he says? I thought he said “As functional as makes sense, but not more.” I haven’t read this post in a while, but it’s definitely a worthwhile read.
This will bring about new technology to deal with the rising threat. People don't take kindly to being constantly spied on. I imagine many will take matters into their own hands.
Profits of cyberpunk? They’ve been delisted from one platform and an open refund policy on 2 platforms because of how buggy it is.

If anything that tells me they may have been better off investing that developer time into the game instead of a custom engine.
This is a problem that is solving itself. As countries get richer, their people have less children. And this result holds true in every country for which we have data. The prediction is that the world’s population will peak at ten billion then start to decrease.
i'll have to try nextcloud. My previous "owncloud" solutions were rsync and then qNap's cloud.

Can you talk more about your flow, including what tools you use ? I'm mostly curious about editing text gracefully on mobile devices.
Agree that a photo alone shouldn’t be enough for an arrest warrant.

Like I said - either the officers that dealt with the suspect didn’t deal with/look at the victim, or else they’re blind (or trying to meet a quota).
My comment was about dogs that aren't trained well to be in an apartment situation. Service animals obviously don't fall into that category.

Its about someone having a loud dog that can't stop barking at night and then when anyone tries to talk to them about it they just claim that the other party are animal haters and like to enforce illegal clauses.
It's too bad that number of sources they actually support is not very good. I got a free trial with my new phone and have no intent on renewing when it's up because it's borderline useless.
With a local server, how do you avoid Windows's scary confusing firewall prompts? I'm sure they cost users, and for a local app they don't make sense. Is there a way to make your server local-only that will prevent them?
Longest continental volcanic chain discovered in Australia (2015)
It's definitely not SPARC-like.
A comparison most people likely won’t make in the near future. I think the challenge with a new array programming is striking the right balance between added complexity and capability. If someone is using numba or Julia, what’s going to incentivize them to use Futhark or Dex?
Tbh I think the age of printers is just about over. I haven't had a printer for years and get by just fine. For the rare occasion I want to print something, I just print it at the library or work or a commercial printing store.
Isn’t that Microsoft’s entire “hey use active directory, and write this no code flow app” premise?
If you are open to Windows at all, Windows Subsystem 2 handles scenarios like this well for me. The VMs are extremely fast, light-weight and integrated well. The VMs start in under 2 seconds and compile times are virtually identical to running on the host. I use the host Windows system as my "personal" computing space and all work is isolated on the WSL2 VM. I simply run a windows X server for GUI apps (X410 is my goto) and it works flawlessly. Multiple WSL2 instances can be run with different flavors of Linux in each including Arch and Kali as would be the case in your scenario.

I realize having a closed-source Windows host can be a complete non-starter for many.
UPS, Amazon delivery drones are a step closer to reality with new US rules
Except everyone already does all the time?
An elevator indeed. But there's a cost involved in elevating goods to the top of a tall building. My question was, is that cost smaller than the cost of having drones with elevation capabilities take of from the ground?
The Expanse did this.
Hot water heaters are doing this. You can buy a hybrid hot water heater for around $1200 from your local hardware store. The crazy upside is it acts as an air-conditioner for your garage, and the heat exhaust is used to keep the tank of water warm. They're loud, but it pays for itself in a few years.

I'm also surprised other homebuilders/designers haven't connected the a/c condenser heat exhaust to a centralized location for hot water tanks. I've seen a few people on YouTube do it however for their heated pools.
Haha, "helping" and "growing wealth inequality to such disturbing extremes that the richest have more than ever before and more than most could conceive whilst the poor are faced with crushing existential dread and complete lack of power" might not be analogous to me, but yes.
I like this idea! (though I don't think it's likely)

Imagine if the creators of such a system have lifespans of tens to hundreds of millions of years and so could feasibly get somewhere in the galaxy even when travelling at sublight speeds. We'd be so alien to them that they likely wouldn't even think to look for us.
I've been a hiring manager as well, and I've never failed to inform interviewees waiting for a response. Treat it as an important priority, not an afterthought.
We do not actually have precedence of this being illegal yet. You are not using the image in creation of a work (in which case, you need permission), but using it to train an AI model, which we currently have no legal indication is not allowed, even if the image is copyrighted.
Why? We haven’t been looking very long or very hard.
See also "touch DNA": https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191026/12493943266/feder...
Magnetron and a wok for a dish. Kitchen counter measures.
We already have the solutions and know they work. Solar and wind are incredibly well developed and successful. We just need to remove the politics and corruption holding them back.
The need for regulation and education around proper usage of consumer drones is definitely clear, as shown by your (and many other people's) experience! Most enthusiasts would agree that a solution is needed. Most drone incidents have been untrained or reckless operators piloting a DJI drone somewhere they shouldn't.

Most of the concern with proposed Remote ID regulations was because 1) The regulation didn't actually solve the issue of untrained drone operators and 2) Added a high barrier to entry that would stifle the large hobby/enthusiast/startup industry while giving large companies like Amazon free reign over the airspace.
Why only government agencies and military contractors? I couldn't find a price indication, but it might be interesting for security minded people in general. If it doesn't have any western IP in it, it might be resistant to influence in general. Who knows what kind of "design constraints" intelligence agencies are enforcing upon our chip manufacturers.

What better chip to use than one that the Russian government assumes is only going to be used by loyal compatriots anyway? Anyway, that sounds like something a Russian spy would say, so make of it what you will.

I'd contemplate buying it if it had less binary blobs in it than an Intel or an AMD does. But maybe we don't have to go to Russia for that, as it feels like PC compliant ARM builds are going to be a thing soon.
I suppose if the bounties got really high, and higher and higher, eventually that'd start happening more and more often.
Howard Mark's latest memo has much to say about low interest rates and market returns. He also compares today's tech stocks to the Nifty fifty stocks of the late 60s, which went on to have poor returns after becoming overpriced in the way tech stocks are now.

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/howard-marks-memos
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^when applications use these instructions; either as a result of use of a system API/framework, of the compiler optimizing code into these M1 instructions, or of the developer writing M1 assembler themselves.

It is very likely that the majority of cases that use these instructions will be compiled by Xcode without the knowledge of developers that these instructions exist at all.
Brother printers seem to work. And with after-market toner cartridges.

They have a list of models that are fully compatible with Linux. Many have e.g. a scanner that isn't, but can print fine.
Yes it does. It takes about 20 seconds to place a call. If a mission critical system goes down, customers will refresh a grand total of 3 times, then call. As I explained in the sibling comment, reporting downtime within a minute is the difference between 'what do you mean the system is down?' and 'yeah, we noticed and are working on it'.

The idea that polling should be done every minute or so is madness. Here are a few thoughts:

- If your app is meaningfully impacted by even 1 requests-per-second extra you have more serious problems to fix.

- Rounding matters if you do high uptime. If 4 minutes downtime per month is high (e.g. ~99.99% uptime), rounding to the nearest minute could make a 50% difference in your downtime reported.

- You can speed up your resolving of any downtime by a almost a minute without any extra effort in terms of teaching people or having better processes in place. Even if the gains are small, this is the logical place to spend a tiny bit more to gain a minute on every downtime.

- For most things, standards don't need to be that high. But it doesn't hurt to have quicker feedback, and the cost is neglegible.

- Some systems are quick enough in recovery that you don't notice the downtime, like when switching over to a hot replica. Your customers will notice any short downtime that occurs. Why? Scale. Your polling client is only one, but you might have thousands or millions of customers. Chances are at least one of them notices a hiccup. You should view it as your responsibility to ALSO be aware of this, even if you choose not to actively improve on this.

- To phrase it bluntly: standards are too damn low in DevOps.
Most models have the population capping at ~10B, so people don't tend to worry about it any more? (10B number is recalled from "Factfulness", which I'd recommend)
With the prevalence of "planned unit development" style suburban housing design I've always been a little amazed that no AHJs require district heating/cooling solutions. Here in Texas they already require PUD-based water and wastewater so often the first developments in rural expansion of the cities have their own small water and wastewater treatment systems.

Its a small step to run hot/cold water supply lines when you are using tax-free muni bonds to put in the streets and sewers already, and have to have a maintenance fee structure that operates the plant.
Race is on as carmakers shut, switch or sell combustion engine factories
“The lack of any language support in C++ for maintaining purity is not ideal.”

I get that C++ is already bloated and bolted on to C as is but I would have preferred to see changes like these instead of sugary bloat like “auto”. Adding a “pure” keyword allows testability not otherwise attainable without modifying the compiler. Adding “auto” is just a me-too to the “var” of C# and Java.

Basically, I’m trying to say that C++ needs to have its standards committee fired.
Why? Human longevity is a source of problems, and I personally wish we'd work harder at making the quality of our lives better instead of extending our time here.
A property tax is a type of wealth tax.

A wealth tax is no more difficult to execute than our existing property tax system.
drones represent a potential hazard to other aircraft as well as people on the ground, which, like it or not, gives the FAA an interest in regulating their use. I agree it seems arbitrary at first glance, but I think it's better to look at it the other way around: the FAA is essentially cutting hobbyists a break from what they would normally require of a drone operator.
Text to speech.

It's the next billion industry.

I wish people would stop wasting time on AI and speech recognition and work on that, it's the next step. ( AI obviously might be needed for 'deep fakes' of good speech output, we need focus on AI that gives us achievable returns, in steps )
True, but I think a business account can disable the simple "share" to outside accounts and there would be more logs (of the type the business would be able to see) of what happened.

These exploits are often not so interesting as written and with current normal setups, but eventually become more interesting if never fixed.
Typical SJW logic...

If I don't provide a source (because apparently qualified PhD expert interviews on national TV aren't a "source"), you mock me for not having provided one.

When I provide a written one which has citations from government agencies and hospitals, you just say "That source can say anything it wants".

Why don't you get a pit bull yourself, preferably one that has been in a half dozen homes and gotten back to the shelter because it killed several pets and injured young children, and then tell me how it feels like, if you don't end up on a YouTube video yourself first, that is.
You listed some valid alternatives to managing your own keys. Coinbase is pretty safe and insured (https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/other-topics/legal-pol...). Also even if you are managing your own keys, it's reasonably easy to store an encrypted version of your wallet seed somewhere it will never get lost.
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Then pay the price and stop complaining. Once again, this is a trite response but what else is there to say? Accept the cost or move. Don't wait - the things people are complaining about here have been constants in California since the 90s and aren't going to change no matter how many upvotes you earn...the people who shape these rules realized long ago that real votes outrank upvotes.

HN conceives of itself as a master-race but is really just a disposable worker-class. The real master-race are the owners of capital.
I think its more that the core concepts of a desktop UI were correct 20 years ago and other than minor refinements, there is no reason to change it up just for the sake of change. If you look at apples other products (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch) they all have radically different UIs which suit their form factor best.

We see this in basically all established industries. The bicycle of 30 years ago looked pretty similar to one you would buy today. Its just every part has been made slightly stiffer, lighter, more durable, more vibration absorbing, etc but the core shape is still the same because we already came to the correct design.
Ugh. You would think Apple would do more testing in one of their largest markets, and the place where iPhones are literally built.
Replacing JavaScript
I’m more imagining a collaborative effort much like amateur radio networks. Once you start talking you learn about the net and how to help add more nodes, etc. The node at Centauri might not be from there, but it might be from someone within a few hundred light years who has volunteered to maintain repeaters in their neighborhood.

If we came online we would have to generate a call sign (however that is done, instructions repeated along with the carrier) and then start saying hi to nearby HAMs.

There would probably be some forum etiquette. Might be a good idea to lurk a while before posting an intro thread. “Oh, look, another n00b asking about how to do net positive fusion power... read the FAQ on the wiki. Nearest mirror is at...”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_ventilation

This already exists and is starting to gain popularity for new builds. It’s also not that expensive to retrofit, but is most effective when a home is sealed well.
>(There is one notable instance where Apple embraced enterprise, and that was when Apple added Exchange support in iPhone OS and admittedly, this was a huge deal and was ultimately a fatal blow to Blackberry. But it’s the exception that almost proves the rule. Apple added support for Exchange but left it up to others to figure out the broader MDM situations.)

Yep. There have been a couple of specific things. Exchange and now MDM profiles. Probably a few others. But minor tweaks to remove major enterprise blockers. Small investments to remove complete showstoppers is just common sense.

>Apple hasn’t offered some sort of build/test service themselves and integrated it into TestFlight

Seems pretty logical. Who knows? It's certainly the trend with container platforms generally.
Gatekeepers like the guy who wrote it. Words mean things.
I think you are vastly over estimating how much energy appliances need, and how much waste heat that produces. A modern refrigerator for example can consume less than 1kW per day.

The only common appliance that I can think of that produces a lot of unwanted heat would be a dryer. But instead of a gas dryer that sends all the waste heat outside, you could get a condenser dryer with a heat pump which consumes much less energy and hence produces much less heat.

From a residential standpoint it doesn't really make sense.
Is that a jab at Itanium? Anyway 2ghz is a very 2020 speed, there's loads of brand new processors operating at that speed, especially when they've got 16 cores.
Hence even pilots need a commercial license to do paid aerial photography.

The thing that bothers me about that is the scenario where pictures are taken for fun, but later what if someone were to offer money for them?
> The poor guy had to work a YEAR for every semester of college

Is it unusual for people to pay off their college loans over 8+ years? It sounds to me like he prioritized avoiding debt.

Education is absolutely affordable. You can take all kinds of college courses for free online from sites like EdX, Coursera, MIT's Open Courseware, etc. What is not free is a diploma. You have to pay for that. If you want an affordable diploma, you can go to schools that have low tuition in a lower cost part of the country. Last time I ran the numbers it wasn't hard to find a school where you could work part time during the year and full time during the summer and pay for tuition, books, and living expenses while graduating with $0 to $2000 in debt. You can do even better by starting at a community college or if you have some skill that is worth more than minimum wage.

Education is more affordable now than at any point in history because so much of it is free. Diplomas can be expensive or they can be less expensive depending on how much you want to pay.
I will quote you, yourself, when you told me above "That source can say anything it wants".

You are bringing a SINGLE case of a "professional victim" and ignoring literally the over one hundred cases in my link with videos and photos of children, elderly and adults who got KILLED by pit bulls. Are all of those hundreds of dead bodies professional victims too?
We have a bunch of things like this. Torrents and data on the blockchain can't really be removed. The problem with a lot of uncensorable publishing is the average person does not want to be storing and distributing someone elses illegal content.
One answer is that people stopped valuing software and thus paying for software. Furthermore, every service out there now attempts to monopolize their market and intentionally degrades interoperability, further lowering the potential value these tools would provide.

Let's say there's such a tool out there and you want to buy it to roll your own mailing list and want to message your customers on Facebook Messenger. Well, you can't, and any attempt at circumventing the restriction such as screen-scraping will be met with account closures citing ToS or legal threats abusing the CFAA or even the DMCA.
The term "red flag" usually refers to a dealbreaker, like if the company tells you to expect working 7 days a week or that you need to answer e-mails urgently on weekends and holidays for no good reason.

I wouldn't rush to dismiss a company just because they let the HR person spruce up the job description with some boilerplate. You really need to talk to the team you'll be working with and the future manager you'll be working under.

Unfortunately, it's just not possible to tell what a job will be like by reading a job description. You have to talk to the teams.
D has a "pure" keyword and it works quite nicely. Agreed about the standards committee lol
Principle of Explosion
How close does AsciiDoctor + asciidoctor-latex get to that? https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-latex

I've only been using Asciidoctor for a few weeks but I'm already an MD convert.
Check https://OurWorldInData.org to see that a lot of our woes do not get worse with time. A lot of things are actually getting better quite fast. That does not mean that everything is good yet but at least it is better than it was in the past. The past sucked. A lot.

Also: peak population growth rate was 50 years ago and it has been decreasing since then: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth-past-futu...