skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally the FAA thinks of commercial activity as advertising a [drone] service to the public, or being paid by somebody else to pilot a [drone]. They have never consistently said that incidental (flying it yourself and making sightseeing photos) is commercial activity.

If you read the entire article, a Miami FSDO issued a letter regarding Youtube posting, but another (traditional) FAA official did not agree, and said it was likely a perceived safety issue.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gvykaq/the-faa-says-you-cant...

I tried the FAA flow chart tool for drone operator certification, and they do not call out Youtube-type sightseeing photography for certification - only drone training films.

So my point is that you should research it yourself and get the rating you think you need, but Youtube videos you make yourself don't appear to be commercial activity.

Part 107 "drone operator" certificate is a good idea so you know what you're doing, especially if you're not an airman.

Source: I hold a commercial pilot license. This means I've spent a significant amount of time reading and understanding FARS, including airspace and regulations. Drone rules are evolving, but they will parallel other ratings since they share the same airspace and enforcement personnel.

Virtually no drone hobbyist would understand the above, hence the FAA being so hesitant about how to integrate drones with the NAS - it really can't be done safely, which is why they want hobbyists in Class G.
Parent is talking about the SP not the original

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance_SP
The Switch is great but you have to get a third-party dock and AC adapter for optimal portability[1]. I'm kind of perplexed by the bad design of the official dock.

[1] There were some issues with unofficial docks/adapters bricking consoles, but they seem to be sorted out in the current gen third-party accessories.
Those theories are bogus however under the big umbrella of technologies in '5G' are new frequency bands. Those bands may have different absorption characteristics in tissue than previous ones. Buuuuuut they're not viruses, and they're not used for 'spying' any more or less than 4G.
How should their happiness be ascertained? Their word?
Photos, videos, music, but also current laptop backups, servers/VMs backups, current and past phones backups and HDD images of past computers hard drives (to be done), digitized family videos and photos (also to be done).

It adds up quite fast. And being able to have put everything on a tape every year with a label on it would give me some peace of mind, even more if I place 2 of them on different location.
After dealing with someone like this longterm, I jettison relationships that even tries these tactics. Be thankful you got out of it.
So then what should this code produce?

i = -0
return arr[i]
The mental model doesn’t really jive with circularity since arr[arr.length] is not the same as arr[0] in any language that I know of. With a circle, you would expect that arr[0], arr[length], and arr[2*length] are all identical.
A very poorly thought out article. The author tries their best to assert a false dichotomy that the only two possible responses to an injustice are acquiescence and anger, by attempting to reclassify all non-acquiescent response as just anger by a different name. At very best this is just a contrivance that attempts to remove so much meaning from the words involved in the debate that it ceases to be a debate about anything at all.

The author also seems only interested in the moral corruption of anger in so much as it draws the judgement of others. The other moral corruption brought on by anger, which I would say constitutes a greater harm, is the burden of having to carry it around with you. Living a life burdened with ever increasing levels of anger is most certainly a moral corruption, and one much more likely to harm you than the opinions of others.
Covid did cause the market to crash. It was one of the fastest crashes in stock market history. However, the federal reserve and government acted in tandem to enact the swiftest and largest economic response to an event like this in history.

That's what drove the turnaround and led to the subsequent (and ongoing) bull market.

However, the market is much frothier now (in certain segments) than before covid hit. For example, Tesla's value has increased by 10x from the March lows. Tesla is being priced as if it will be a near monopoly on both car sales and the self driving market, which is pretty clearly not true. Even though it may take legacy automakers or Apple a few years to catch up.

There are less levers to pull than before. Interest rates are close to 0, congress has already passed trillions in new spending. Ability to counter a second dip will be more limited than before.

A catalyst would be something like accounting fraud being uncovered in one of the growth stock darlings (ala Enron), or perhaps Tesla simply reporting numbers far below expectations. Volkswagen EVs are outselling Tesla in Europe for example, so the bull thesis of a monopolistic market position is a bit weak. Another catalyst could be unexpectedly high inflation, which would indicate the Federal reserve may raise rates soon.

It's also entirely possible the market just trades close to flat for a few years until valuations level out into something more realistic.

Is it possible that we're in a "new normal" where stocks are just valued higher than historical norms in perpetuity? Maybe, but when things look this frothy, the "new normal" thesis generally doesn't pan out.
Cross platform accessibility APIs for integrating with OS and programs with high level scripting language bindings such as Python. Most of the stuff is written in c# sharp or c++. that is platform specific. Honestly until platforms integrate accessibility into their frameworks that do not take Dev time to implement, accessibility access will continue to suffer.
Right, and now you've achieved the same noise cancelling performance... That off the shelf noise canceling headphones achieve (1 kHz) without putting 10000 microphones on the plane.

Again assuming this all works, which is a massive if.

Look, this isn't practical.
I don't think Japan is any different than the USA here. If you go look at paperback novels in the USA they are 95% all the same width and height, only the thickness changes.

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-stack-of-science-fiction-p...

Conversely there are plenty of randomly sized books at a Japanese bookstore. I can go walk to some today and take pictures if you don't believe me.

It's possible the USA is 50% standard sizes and Japan is 70% but it's definitely not close to all of them. Even in the USA many hardbacks are a standard size. At most they are off by an inch so that you can get by with certain sized shelves and have on extra shelf for really odd sizes.
Both of the comments below are correct. In addition, the system I worked on had a strobe that flashed when the camera took a shot. If you zoom in to just the plate it's actually pretty difficult to differentiate a day shot from a night shot.
I'm curious if you could elaborate what you mean by abandoning anger. I would imagine if someone at the office started claiming your work at your own you would probably experience something rather analogous to anger.

I know it's a bit nitpicky but I would imagine that what you've done is become excellent at managing anger rather than banishing it entirely. (Which is an impressive accomplishment that you should feel very pleased and proud of nontheless.)

My understanding from modern psychology as well as buddhism that one never really gets really of anger, but rather, can develop excellent control of it. It might also be your life situation is such that people don't really try to take advantage of you or mistreat you very often.
If Musk’s claims are true, neuralink could make you hear music by bypassing your ears [0]. That could plausibly cure many types of deafness.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
Right. At least when you're old enough to be in retirement there are a bunch of ways (expanded this year) to sell and keep your old tax assessment on your new place. AFAIK redevelopment will always trigger a reassessment no matter what.
It’s not so much about conscious control as it is reconditioning your reaction(s) to different stimuli. It’s essentially the premise of cognitive behavioral therapy, which is that your thoughts, lead to feelings, and feelings lead to behaviors. Successful therapy usually includes reworking of thought patterns via neuroplasticity.

I do agree with you though, that for me personally, I could try to get rid of angry reactions until the day I die and I know I will never be successful. I have settled upon finding better outlets for my anger and conditioning reactions that are less destructive than, say, lashing out at someone.
While I like most aspects of Stoicism, I do have a vengeful streak that I don't want to completely abandon. I agree that communities are the way to think about it.

I think I've managed to get more mature and strategic about revenge than "tit-for-tat", because I've noticed that this is usually calculated for by abusers, so I look instead for a combination of getting myself to safety(thus avoiding the self-inflicted trauma) while creating a subtle barrier or danger zone for the other party, a place where they spend more energy than I do to get less results.
> “If there is intelligent life there, it would almost certainly have spread much more widely across the galaxy. The chances of the only two civilisations in the entire galaxy happening to be neighbours, among 400bn stars, absolutely stretches the bounds of rationality.”

This is a fallacy. If there's life all over the galaxy, then we'd be the most likely to detect radio signals first from our closest neighbors. Interstellar distances are, well, astronomical. Proxima Centauri is 1700 times farther from us than Voyager 1 (which was mentioned in the article). Because of the quadratic decay, a Voyager-type source in Proxima Centauri would send to us a signal more than 3 million times weaker. A star that is 10 times farther still will get a dimming of the signal of a factor of 100 on top of this. So, if there are aliens habitating the planets of all the stars around us, probabilistically we'd expect to first detect the signals originating with the closer among them.
Doesn't seem that bad to me :)

I noticed some people like to work on their own, while others like to work as small teams, or do peer programming sessions or whatnot.

Maybe you could try to find similarly minded people within your team.
Because you can get drone photos from locations you would not have access to unless you were trespassing

I hope buildings in future can implement some sort of electromagnetic area denial system for drones sort of like a robots.txt that drones have to respect (or active denial) and they can't cross some boundary like a airspace around the building so you can't have drones flying up to your windows in your 30th floor apartment and peering in
it limits Assembler access and tools written against that particular instruction, but does it really create a closed API? Surely apple will release libraries that make use of it internally with appropriate compatibility guarantees.

Is it inherently wrong for a hardware vendor to make a high-level C api the interface?
This is theoretically possible but practically the cost would be too high for an average consumer to do this right now. Right now, to learn about an organism's DNA, we'd have to first (1) sequence the DNA (actually read the raw DNA in) and (2) analyze the sequenced DNA. iGenomics is free and so the "DNA tricorder" software is free. However, the most affordable DNA sequencer as of now is the Oxford Nanopore MinION (https://nanoporetech.com/products/minion), which starts at about $1000. Oxford Nanopore is working on a more portable, and hopefully more affordable version, called the SmidgION (https://nanoporetech.com/products/smidgion) that they hope to have out within the next few years.

I'd estimate we are about 3 - 5 years away from hitting the point where ordinary people start to own DNA sequencers.

Worth noting, while DNA could be useful here, there's likely more affordable ways to differentiate between plants today.
This is one of the most copied and pasted pieces of advice on the internet. Just shave it, grow a beard, and become muscular! Not everyone looks good without hair, some people have faces that look young instead of manly, can't grow a full beard, etc. Plenty of reasons men still hate losing hair.
> found a stack of MiniDV tapes from about 15 years ago ... I wanted to preserve them

Here's where I raise my hand and ask "Why?"

They've been sitting in a box for 15 years. You never watched them, you never even thought about them. Why preserve them?

It's why I stopped taking pictures and videos of things. I never watched them again. It's all just a lot of waste motion over some dream that someday we'll find value in sitting and looking at this old stuff again.
For me too, thanks :) Interesting given the decades lag.
Or for getting drunk at a con. If those ever happen again.
The nuclear family is the reference implementation for this.
Do you understand why we’re all talking about housing? What you said seems to be a “whoooosh” moment.
All the times I was able to find or figure out both numbers it was state government related, so that probably played a role. Wouldn't surprise me if private sector was 2-3x higher margins across the board, for everyone.
True,

http://gruberpeplab.com/teaching/psych131_fall2013/documents...

There are fascinating implications for those that are closer to 10% than the average tithe.
Net population growth has not certainly peaked. The earth’s resources are limited in absolute terms, not in terms of exponential growth. A linear increase looks like a declining exponential rate, but still grows unbounded. Any trend of growth exceeding a constant multiple of the inverse total is unbounded.
Problem is not many black people work for clearview
Systematic or a policy of ghosting is terrible - yes. The other consideration is that some recruiters are handling up to 60 (or more) jobs with hundreds of applicants each. And all of those people are at different stages with different roles and different questions, etc.

Sometimes ghosting may be a very understandable human error and there should be some room in this conversation for that too.
This is part of what I take issue with, yeah.

I'm just past the point in my life where I want to itemize this stuff. Take my money and give me the best package possible. I've got better things to do with my time.

The entire buying experience also feels very sales-like - which, yes, it's absolutely a sales process - but the buying experience with Apple is leagues better and feels more human. This isn't even hardware, but website UI/UX... why on earth is it like this in 2020? This is much easier to solve than hardware chain issues.
Potential flow theory tells us that the lift L is L = rho U Gamma, where rho is the air density, U the flight velocity, and Gamma the circulation, i.e. the tangential velocity of the rotating surface times the circumference.

L is then only proportional to the radius, not to the square of the radius.

But it sure does produce enough lift to let things fly! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6geOms33Dk&ab_channel=Peter...
Isn't that what -D, -S, and more simply -R do?

I did not use stow 2.x, but my understanding is that running stow -R will allow you to remove previous dangling symlinks (during the unstow) and add missing symlinks (during the restow). Effectively allowing you to only manage a single state: your git repository.
Some people consider that spammers have crawlers scanning the web for email addresses to add to their lists, since I guess that addresses shared publicly might be more likely to be active and respond to emails from unknown contacts. That's why it's common for people to describe their email address instead of writing it outright. You'll see stuff like "my username (at) example (dot) com" and other more creative obfuscations instead of just writing "foobar@example.com".
No worries, I’ll think about how to do better with my wording next time too.
I got 'em from a book I read standing around at the bookstore like twenty years ago. They were good rules. If I could go back in time and hand Broke 2000 Me twenty bucks to buy that book I would.
Probably not. The labor force ecosystem behind those got hung out to dry this year and overwhelmingly don't have the capital to move. It's the upper (and upper middle) consumption class that could move on a whim, and will move back on a whim.
luckily the GB/GBC was nice and slow so homebrew emulators could totally run your legally dumped gameboy carts onto your extremely legal flash carts
Is “Lac” like “Crore”?
Reading this list matches my personal search history pretty well, which is to say, it’s hard to find a good email provider.

I would have been interested to see an analysis of Apple’s iCloud email offering. Perhaps that’s not mentioned because it’s not popular enough?
Given the pace at which storage capacity increases, what is the rationale for not copying over your data every 5-10 years onto the next cheapest consumer mass storage of the moment? You get all your data in one place and you don’t have to deal with standards disappearing (I read 2020’s game consoles can’t read CDs anymore, people should rip their CD collection right now).
> Church goers regularly give up 10% of their (gross) income to be part of that group.

We sorted out the tithe issue a while ago. Heads rolled. You can show up to any Christian church on a Sunday morning and be welcomed with open arms, no matter how rich or poor you are.
> This is exactly the same like saying black people are less intelligent because they don’t hold the higher paid jobs.

Well thats an effect, they are less intelligent due to genetics and the less than ideal environments such genetics create for their children to grow in.
The Chinese experiment is rather well known so I think it being in the title gives good context to the reader.

Ironically, this article is from December third, so the Chinese experiment being well known is only because past articles like this!
There is the principal difference, which is well seen in how software engineers compare to all other sorts of engineers (less so today, as apparently all engineers now are a little software engineers).

Plumbers, welders and civil engineers are supposedly trained in their area and know well how to solve a pretty well defined set of problems. Much better defined than a similar set for software engineers. So for plumbers "execution" is paramount, not - mostly not - the creative side of designing. While software is bigger, more vague and with less clear-cut recipes area.

This is less and less true lately - last couple of decades in particular - as more and more software engineers are actual plumbers in this sense. Those don't make drainage systems - or, write program - in their spare time - they take photos, sing or enjoy woodworking. Even though their employers seek people who'd program in spare time.

Those who do - there are plenty of those who enjoy programming more than just to make it a profession - can be attributed to first or second group. I think the third group actually has plenty of them as well. They don't need to think of technology to be all, end all of one's existence - they just enjoy programming, and doing little, or pretty big (this is harder, so has a lesser chance) work pieces for people. But they don't necessarily not programming on weekends.
I've uncovered craziness in candidates late in the process when they are no longer guarded about what they're saying. So, for myself, it has indeed produced objectively better results. I expect that most seasoned managers have had similar experiences.
But sometimes "miss raising" a kid is the right thing to do. This is especially true in a society that has gone awry. Shouldn't I as a parent and who knows my kids and their needs better than anyone be free to raise them as I see fit?
The Next-Generation Query Planner (2013)
I definitely feel frustrated at times!

I don't really feel "anger" though. I think I know what it feels like: uncontrolled, fuming, yelling, on the verge of physical expression.

It's as if I have trained my subconscious anger is useless effectively enough that it doesn't even really attempt it anymore. It channels into either resignation or frustration or problem-solving instead.
There's "quantum supremacy".
Oh damn, I forgot this was a GBA model. I always remembered it as a DS model, not GBA.
I’ve been thinking for a while that this is needed too. This is a big role that priests play in communities.

If I were to start something up, it would start with a clubhouse and probably two employees—one is an event organizer who plans parties and other special gatherings, and the second would be a host/hostess that is responsible for welcoming new members and ensuring they’re comfortable as they try to fit in. Maybe something like an “onboarding partner” would work too when you’re trying to scale.
I was doing yoga in a sports bra and short shorts on my back deck that faces a canyon and had a drone with lights and cameras fly down to my house directly above the deck railing within a few meters of me. It was completely obnoxious and completely startled me. I thought it was a neighbor playing with an RC car out in the street at first until I saw the lights in the sky.
Such a user would be fooled by a plain old phishing attack then and there'd be no need for such sophisticated methods.
Webflow and Firebase Integration
I've been thinking about making a complete guide to integrate Webflow and Firebase, only the hard topics:

- Authentication
- Push notifications
- Offline
- Etc

What do you guys think?
Yay, 2 downvotes from racist and sexist trash so far! Let’s keep it coming!
But the whole game of airfoil and wing design is to optimize the lift to drag ratio, i.e. how much lift is produced per propulsive power needed. Sure, given enough power, you can just remove wings altogether and simply fly an engine.
One serious problem is that email, apart from a means of communication, is also a means of authentication. Taking away a person's email address could easily mean that they will have to spend a tremendous amount of time changing it with various parties that have it in their records. At least those of them that can actually accept to talk to you (e.g. your bank or the IRS).

An non-optimal approach would be to actually own the domain name of one's email address and then use one of those providers listed there as the "backend" mailbox, by forwarding the "real" email address to the "backend" mail address. Most domain name providers will actually provide this kind of email forwarding for free. And it would be much much easier to switch between the backends. Or even use two of them simultaneously.
I don't doubt it. Have any anecdotal evidence to share?
To quote the Hayabusa2 team directly (http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20201204_ts3/) :

> You might therefore wonder if we should instead analyse meteorites. However, meteorites consist of the material that is left over after re-entry through the atmosphere and their structure, along with easily volatile substances, have been lost. They will also be contaminated with substances from the Earth. On the other hand, samples from the asteroids are brought back to Earth in the same condition as they were in space, with the “re-entry capsule” protecting the sample through the atmosphere and landing.
Oh, I see. I guess I misinterpreted what kind of censorship you were asking about.

But that also might help combat censorship by governments if you can get your data hosted outside of your country. Not sure how well that would work in practice, though.
I've really liked Gigabyte's gaming laptops (aero) for this reason. They've got premium build quality and excellent specs but don't look like a Mardi Gras float. They're also very light and have long battery life for the specs. Only downside is the price and mail-only support really.