skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's likely a scammers account, I wouldn't worry about it. I have a short gmail address and a scammer was getting AT&T phones and not paying the bill. They gave them 5 in total I think. I exerted a bunch of effort trying to warn them, but it didn't help. I saw the bill get bigger while no payments were made until eventually silence.

Repeat variations of the above 4-5 times with similar outcomes.

You could dedicate weeks to trying to notify the relevant parties and you will get nowhere. Identity theft is so rampant in the USA I guess they just consider it a cost of doing business. It might even increase total costs to try and deal with each case individually at scale, I suppose.
This is not totally crazy. A problem would be you then need a lift to carry everything to the top floor and an expensive structure to support it. You also have local wind and weather conditions to deal with at altitude.

Alternatively, you could use a ground-based slingshot to vertically propel gliders, an approach that is already used in the military and for some long distance UAV testing. However, the wing-based UAV vs. rotor-based UAV physics are very different. Landing an elevated glider with a clear path to its target is one thing, maneuvering between trees and power lines in a complex environment without rotors is quite another.

Then you need to look at a 'convertible' UAV with both features... undoubtedly this raises the cost, reduces the carrying capacity, and is already being pursued.

Finally, you could zoom out and re-evaluate the business case. Why not use a network of local dispatch points (handover points to ground-based UAVs or vans) to reduce the distance to the consumer and with the smaller geographic scope negotiate private airspace access on locally agreeable terms. I believe this is the future for general consumption (food, regular deliveries within small package weight/dimension limits).
Ultimately what the executives think is the reason is the real reason, as we saw from Oravle reproprietizing Solaris.

And yes, it was a while back that literally lawyers had to get involved in their blatant GPL violation in the compiler space. We absolutely get to judge a company on it's past actions.
Correct. It’s quite clear these are different guys even with the low-res images. So maybe OP was comparing the wrong photos.
Be careful there tough guy, drones receive the same protections as aircraft. A threat against one is punishable under 18 U.S. Code § 32.

"Whoever willfully imparts or conveys any threat [against an aircraft] shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."
Ask HN: What are the hottest startups to work for in 2021?
What cool companies do you think are on the up and up and would be great places to work?
I started with Ansible for automation, and still use it, but have abandoned it for setting up my personal environment. I still use it to set up services, such as sshd, webserver, printer, samba, smartd etc. I found it was more cumbersome for personal environment setup than my script method. My method of re-initializing my environment rests on three pillars:

Ansible, for server/OS setup. Things run by init/systemd, involving anything outside of $HOME basically

Backup, using borgmatic. I use this to restore most things in $HOME, except random dotfiles. My documents, my checked out git repos, etc.

Script "setuplets". These I run on demand, to set up my environment piece by piece. Perhaps I do not want to restore my programming environment just because I want to have my custom prompt on a host, for example.

Finding the balance between these have been difficult. What bootstraps what, and especially, how to handle credentials. My backup is encrypted, but how would I make sure I had the keys to restore it? I could restore it from my pass password store, but how would I get the gnupg keys in place first? I have not solved this completely satisfactorily yet
> I had already decided the panda should die before you finished that question, not the other way around.

I appreciate replies on HN as they show the flaw in my assumption.

Speaking of assumptions, indulge me for a moment: I kind of find the trolley problem difficult because all legality aside, I feel like if I pull a lever and one person dies, I am responsible for that one death but if I don't pull the lever and n people die, I wouldn't feel as bad. Is there a name for this?

I mean like the idea that if something happens by my action that is worse than if something happens by my failure to act. I mean who am I to choose those n lives over that one life, right?
Wouldn't #1 and #2 potentially reduce their profits, especially if there's nothing limiting it to the poor?

#3 sounds good.
Haskell doesn't force you to make the separation either (nor does it trivialize software design). You can write all your pure code in IO if that is what you'd prefer. I look at types as more of a way to communicate to others using my code as "here be dragons, this has side effects" or vice versa. The developer using your code doesn't just have to trust a comment block, they can see it directly in the types.

I agree monad composition isn't amazing. When I was writing a lot of Haskell (I was working on real time 3d reconstruction algorithms from video feeds using camera input and OpenGL output) it wasn't a very large roadblock though. But effect type systems seemed like they might be cleaner.

I don't have time to read through that article right away but I saved it for future reference - thank you for sharing.
I originally went with the bare git repo technique, but found myself not liking how to store multiple computer's dotfiles in a single repo.

I ended up switching to https://www.chezmoi.io/, after learning about it here on HN.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database
The solution is generally to not be doing full duplicative backups but to check hashes between already backed up files and new files, only backing up what you need.

I don't recommend backing up to HDD's. They are prone to early failure from portable use because of vibration and drops.

What we need are more affordable sata SSD's. Currently nvme SSD's are very close to the same price.

If you could sell a 1TB portable usb 3/usb c backup device that comes with good software the vast majority of people would be set.
A whore? In the sense of prostitution? Time for money? Or money at the cost of your integrity?
Real curious.
They definitely care about devs less than Microsoft. They know that they have a relatively captive rich user base and devs will kowtow to them in order to develop stuff they can sell to that user base.

That's the real target.

And you can see it by how they treat the development tools (stuff like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25563276 or the many deprecations, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25562604). Or CI/CD setups using their tools.
Two weeks is fine. Candidates can take the first offer and continue their interview process.

Then two-months later they can give notice when the slow deciding company they really want to work at finally makes an offer.
Humans could have lifespans in the millions of years in the reference frames of planets in the galaxy, assuming they spent most of their time traveling at acceleration. I haven't done the math, but long-distance interstellar travel at >=1G could result in some pretty impressive time dilation.

Edit: here's a nice diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roundtriptimes.png
This gives me a nostalgic reminder of when I used to watch Nickelodeon GUTS. Whenever a countdown timed challenge was about to end, I would hear the audience count down starting with "10" at maybe 10.7 seconds, "9" at 9.7 seconds, etc. Then after "1", there was a small period of awkward silence and murmurs from the audience before the siren blasted.

It's a good example of how measurement of time in terms of human perception differs from the pure mathematical sense, and rounding is a good compromise here (wherever it doesn't display fractional seconds).
Fiat currency has evolved from being an I.O.U. backed by real commodities, to worthless paper.

On the other hand, crypto-currency began life as a worthless stream of numbers, but is now (mysteriously) worth quite a bit of cash.
Normal people don't know what a checksum is.... or they think that's the amount their paid every week from the bank.
The last time I moved, I had 2 months OR rent responsible till end of lease (or until they lease it again). It depends. I picked "rent responsible" per their friendly advise and paid 5 days of extra rent since they could clean and re-rent that fast (this was 2018).
I was pleasantly surprised: when I've seen the source (“nakamotoinstitute.org”) I expected the typical Austrian “First barter, then gold as money and then the fiat scam” narrative, but this one is much deeper and uses references that goes way beyond the Mises/Hayek pair you see on almost every bitcoin related publication. Sure, it talks about Carl Menger but it also talks about Graeber, which is as far of you can get from the Austrian school.
The prices are much cheaper now. You can get a single tape drive for under $300 and enterprise grade single tape drives for under $3k.

https://www.newegg.com/p/2BM-000A-000M5

https://www.provantage.com/quantum-tc-l72an-br~7QUAT0JW.htm
My reaction was that any kind of tape can hold 580 Terabytes if it's long enough.
Do you have write up of this retrofit? How is it triggered?
Obviously not a shotgun - but if you're serious about wanting to safely disable drones you can buy net guns that actually work.

https://netgun.com/
Yup. The earth's crust is less than 1% of the earths radius. Just below the crust is all the energy we would ever need for a long long time.
> but not many databases do.

Really? The underlying storage engine of most databases stores all data necessary for an "as of" query. Simply ignore all data pages newer than the timestamp cutoff, and prevent the garbage collection of any page that could be part of such a query.

In fact thats the way [eg. postgres] can do a long-running query on a table that someone else is modifying. You in effect are looking at a snapshot of the table at the moment you started the query, even if it takes an hour to produce all the results.
Effectiveness and chemical makeup of home remedies/ancient medicine. I know there is no money in researching non patentable chemicals, but I'm surprised that governments are not sponsoring the research

Collection of environmental/lifestyle information of cancer patients. I know it would lead to a ton of stupid headlines, and correlation does not equal causation, but I think if you have cancer they should ask where you live what you eat what products you use and whatnot. Atleast for the cancers that do not have well known causes.

Superficially, why is there no standard video streaming api. Do content/platform owners really want to be in the app business? They are all bad it.
Apple's whole shtick is hardware/software integration; they'd have to make and sell the hardware for the VMs to run on.
This will never, ever happen. English Wikipedia (w/o pictures) copressed is measly 20 GB. It is hard to quantify "all books ever written", but I have kept copies of some online libraries large enough that they for sure have pretty much every book you can remember and 10 000 you never heard of for every single book you can remember. It's not that much, you can fit it on 1 or 2 regular HDDs.

Now, I did it because I'm that type of guy. There's not that many people who actually do this bullshit, even though it's perfectly doable.

So why don't they? Because it doesn't make much sense, if you aren't afraid of upcoming nuclear winter. Wikipedia is updated and improved every day. You only sometimes want to refer to something old, but you nearly always want to check out something new. Petabytes of video are uploaded to Youtube every year. Probably TB/day wouldn't be an overestimation for audio on Spotify. All data is being updated constantly.

Also, the above is valid for pretty aggressive data compression. Is aggressively compressed data what we want? No. 2h video compressed into about 500 MB was totally fine 15 years ago. If I download a 2h movie today, it's normally around 20 GB. And by no means it's uncompressed.

Seriously, by now you should know for a fact, that if one believes there's such thing as "too much storage space" — he's stuck in the 80s.

And even if there would be such thing — realistically, a cluster of nodes in Google's datacenters can find you a book or a video you are looking for way faster than the most perfect HDD you could theoretically have locally. So, again, normal people wouldn't want to have all this stuff even if they could.
> a $5k tape drive and tapes are designed to last a significantly longer period of time

You're going to use the drive for 50 years? 50 years? Half a century? And you think it'll be working and supporting a format with a useful capacity in half a century?
Whit these issues I always remember the unix “uptime” command and their rounded precision.
Reddit clone Voat, home to hate speech and QAnon, has shut down
I think parent is after Stephen Hawkins, not Hawking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawkins
True - such surveillance is still costly, and not yet omnipresent. Similar to speed cameras at certain intersections in the US. The hope is that it remains just that, an occasional feature that inspires deterrence, and does not escalate into omniscience.
Huh, sorry about that. There you go, much more specific cases and scientific studies from reputed sources as they get:

https://www.aaha.org/publications/newstat/articles/2018-08/g...

https://www.toledoblade.com/local/2012/03/18/Many-shelter-do...
What do you do if you find a checksum error? ZFS mirror will fix it for you.
Innovation in the mental health care space. Right now most of the top funded startups are working on either 1) Simplifying access for wealth people to the already available supply of therapists; or 2) Removing the human component entirely by creating with apps which have very little evidence to back them up.

I see mental health care as one of the most important problems of out time, at the root of so many of the issues we see in society today. Yet government has been very slow to act, which in turn means insurance companies don't modernize their reimbursement policies, which then stifles innovation.
It's a good question. I don't know about film, but I do have visibility into the game artist market.

The pay is OK but not fantastic: generally in the 60-80k range, depending on experience. Many of the very low paying jobs ($15/hr types) have disappeared. And I do know decent artists that frequently get recruiter calls, albeit usually for a couple large poorly managed studios that have trouble filling positions.

I think it depends a lot on the exact nature of the work being done as an artist. If it's more technical, it seems to demand better wages, but in games there are still some fairly nontechnical roles that are either paid poorly or farmed out to offshore agencies.

Work conditions still aren't great, but this is mostly at bigger studios.
Sports club (table tennis)
What makes you think I meant home use?
dolphin communication research
The checksum isn't the relevant bit. That doesn't change whether you use a hard drive, a tape, or a DVD. Forget about it as part of the discussion if you want.
Don't know if the "joke" originated with Abelson and Sussman but here's Hal Abelson talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/v/-J_xL4IGhJA

"It's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators."

I sort of agree, but I guess it depends on what we mean about computer science being about computers. We can do things now that were downright impossible when A&S recorded their Lisp lectures simply because we can think differently about what's reasonable with regards to time and space complexity. And, of course, Abelson himself jokes about everyone wanting a faster computer in a later lecture.

Perhaps we're simply confusing CS with software development, which I suppose could be likened to confusing mathematics with accounting.
User authentication using client-side (aka mutual) TLS certificates. This was promoted with netscape navigator and then never came to be. Be authenticated everywhere, without ever having to log in.
> [taxes] are a taking, a legal one, of something that rightfully belongs to someone else

IMO a LVT holds up (relatively) well under this sort of moral reasoning. I'm sure many arguments can be made around what's fair, but it's intuitive that income from labor, investments, etc should naturally go to who performs the labor, who makes the investments etc.

The (unimproved) land itself is a bit different. It can't go to who created the land, since no one did. In the US, the closest thing is maybe who first took it from the Native Americans. The moral argument for strong property rights (on the land without improvements) to begin with seems weaker than the other cases, since there's no contribution to society tied to making the land (of course switching from one tax regime to another is another matter, since people certainly buy land that is valuable under our current system with their hard-earned money).

That also leads to its (relatively) small effects on incentives for a tax. Taxes on labor and investment income of course discourage labor and investment, but the amount of land does not decrease no matter how much it is taxed. Even a huge tax probably does not affect the monthly payments to use land very much (since the supply and demand still remain similar), it would probably just lead to lower land values and more of the monthly payment going to taxes instead of interest.

> Now the reason I bring this up is because if a tax were enacted for the express purpose of shaping public behavior and the resulting revenue was greater than what the government needed, what ought to be done with the surplus revenue?

I think this is an interesting question especially with things like carbon taxes being considered seriously. It seems like two natural things to do would be to either reduce other harmful taxes that exist only to raise revenue, or to distribute the funds to everyone equally. I could see an argument for the latter if the incentive-shaping tax was something that would raise living expenses for most people (for example, a carbon tax that increases electricity costs), since otherwise it would negatively affect people living off savings or others with low incomes.
What do you think I do? Copy from the last good copy.
I love stow. My only complaint is that I cannot seem to remember the name of the command: Is it "grab", "collect", "pirate", "organize", "install", "push", "pull", ...?

So I added a note to myself into my .bashrc about this command, and patted myself on the back. The next time I reinstalled Linux, I couldn't remember the name, but I remembered that I wrote a note to myself about it. So opened up my .bashrc, and... I didn't feel so smart.
Cool, so to clarify, you're asleep in bed, you hear someone smash down your front door, and you exercise your 2nd amendment right to shoot at the home invaders who are not actively saying they're police the entire time. The only people who can back up the statement that they identified themselves are the police who mysteriously can't provide body cam footage, despite body cams being available.

Her boyfriend shot at armed intruders. Who then hung around while she died, without providing any aid.

The purpose of a no knock warrant is to provide cause to execute people.

[edit: hear vs. here]
To be fair, libgen has a lot of PDFs. Libraries in fb2 or such are orders of magntitude leaner.
AWS Glacier?
Copyright is a barrier to that.
There's Anka https://veertu.com

There's Orka too, but as far as I can tell, you have to run it in MacStadium's cloud https://www.macstadium.com/orka
This is 10 months old, shouldn't the title clarify that?
Not disagreeing with you but some additional points:

I don't think CT's housing issues are anywhere remotely as bad as the Bay area. Stamford is the tier 1 city in CT IMHO, which seemed kind of lame. i.e. we would have friends in places further east (almost as far as New Haven) who would come to Stamford for the "scene". I use quotes because the scene in Stamford was pretty muted. We (who lived in Stamford) would drive to Manhattan for our weekends and special weeknights. I thought it worked really well for us. For 2400 a month, we were living in Luxury apartments and life was car friendly. Housing didn't seem too overpriced (starter homes were 600K IIRC). IMO, Stamford was pretty neat a few years back .. not sure if it has changed.

Bay area housing just went stupid until the pandemic hit. I moved out and so did many people I know. It was just not "affordable" on a 200K salary if you have multiple kids and a stay at home spouse. The housing you could get for $2400 was terrible in most parts that were reasonable commuting distance. I also would take metro north over caltrain any day.

Taxes are bad in both places. Stamford seemed more affordable and a lot better culture to me. I love the Bay area but can't make the math work :(
right, but that was on the dude's property, not a public beach. also it was in kentucky.
I wrote my thesis with Markdown, combined with pandoc. Worked out allright. I think Overleaf supports Markdown now as well, which might be a more practical approach for those not familiar with git/make/shell.
Most likely there are standard sizes of containers.
Good documentation will come. Apple's current priority right now is converting macOS to a closed OS like iOS. Once this is done, Apple can advertise the fact how "easy" it is to build apps for both ios and macOS with one codebase. Apple will then taut "courage" as they force all Apple developers to switch to Swift if they want to develop on their ecosystem. You will ofcourse have to pay them for this privilege, and that ofcourse is the end goal.
It's just not competitive with alternatives in most cases.
So having worked in the tape library space, they don't really make sense for home users.

They say that they have a 50 year lifespan, but everyone in the industry knows that's a blatant lie these days. The tape customers transfer everything over to the new generation every 2 to 3 years, so it's never tested and none of the customers really care.

You also only get a couple hundred writes to a tape in it's lifetime. That includes bulk appends as the stress from seeking is a major factor of what kills them. They really need to be treated as WORO media, bulk, the whole 12TB or what have you at once. Not a great fit for home use.
> How many hours / dollars / gigatons-of-carbon / calories are wasted on this comically inefficient, user-hostile and gratuitously complex state of affairs ?

Many, many more that are being "saved" by them not bundling chargers in iPhone. Kind of shows you where they stand.

Follow the $$$.
>Interestingly, AWS and Google weren't really B2B plays initially either

AWS was nothing if not a "B2B play" from the beginning. Having developed their own expertise with data centers and distributed computing, Amazon proceeded to sell that to other businesses.
U.S. to allow small drones to fly over people and at night
> You don’t know the value of work, if you never _had_ to work.

I know there is a lot of negativity towards hard work not paying off nowadays, but doing the work you're talking about when I was younger has carried me through life. At a minimum, I wake up every morning amazed that I'm getting paid to play with and figure things out on a computer. It's a long ways from when I was a barely a teenager and my dad made me help him split firewood (he sold) using the hydraulic splitter or pick and sort oysters (he also sold in season), or the other random jobs I had until my first programming job in college.

And you're also right about there being some complexity in all jobs. I could go on about all the important lessons I learned at my various jobs that have helped me my entire career.
goodbye blue sky