skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is this confusion over the word “drone”.

What you say is absolutely true about quadrocopters and octocopters. It is much less true about fixed wing drones.

You don’t have to go all the way to a Global Hawk to get reasonable carrying capacity. Even hobby sized stuff could be used for this reasonably well. Parts are easy to acquire, they are easy to conceal, you can launch them with a catapult like setup, they can drop off their load and fly back autonomously.

I bet that it is already happening or at least there are smugglers experimenting with the tech.
Determining how Covid started would be extremely important imo if there was a chance its release was intentional. But every virologist take I've read suggests that the virus does not look man-made. Nor would it seem that covid's effects and behavior could have possibly been known to any usable degree without the worldwide experiment that we've all been part of the last year and a half. And finally it's really hard to come up with an incentive for intentional release - assuming the suspect is China and not some Bond villain madman.

So we're left with determining if this was a possible accidental release. Which I agree is important. It's just orders of magnitude less important than determining the source of an intentional release, imo. If China accidentally released this, they screwed themselves, very hard. If it was an accidental release, and they know it, one would assume they have a strong incentive to clean up protocols in the future. If the U.S. had accidentally released something like this, they'd certainly try to cover it up, but also try to make sure it never happens again.
Unpoly looks really nice, something I need to investigate as a comparison against htmx.

Server Side Events (SSE) is better option to websockets IMHO, it is a much simpler protocol so you can implement in any backend of choice with a few lines because it just a HTTP request that is kept open for a longer period of time.

Websockets are bidirectional whereas SSE are unidirectional, but you rarely need the client to push huge data sets to the server.

And if you already have endpoints for fetching HTML fragments for rendering a components, SSE fits well as enhancement into that architecture to get a more live experience.

e.g.

model update in backend -> notify frontend with SSE that model changed -> component that renders model fetches new HTML fragment over HTTP.

This makes the messages over SSE tiny, only need to say that a model changed, not the entire model data. This means that you can turn off SSE and the applications still works, just without live updates thru push, e.g switch to timer based solution instead.

What is also nice by fetching HTML fragments over HTTP is that you use cache headers, if you already have the latest fragment that is just a 304 Not modified.

I think that SSR with dynamic updates of HTML fragments closer respects how the web was intended.
I haven't used doctests in Python, but I have in Rust. It really helps that any code blocks in a docstring is a doctest by default, so they ensure that examples in your documentation stay evergreen. It's nice to know that if there's a code example in documentation, it will compile and run properly and hasn't been broken.
To find out where it came from, you have to look at conspiracy theories to be honest. There is nothing in the mainstream media even remotely true about its origins.
> All humans will lose weight at 0 calories per day

It might be meant in jest or just as a rhetorical point, but it is really the core of your argument. Basically it’s a simple recipe for anyone to lose weight if they don’t care about any of the consequences, including straight dying. So then is there any point for losing weight to them ?

It reminds me of the rule of metrics: when you replace a complex goal with an easy to mesure number, that number will be optimized irrelevant of the complex goal being met or not.

My personal position is that people should accept there’s no simple and universal rule if they deal with a complex system. And god are our bodies complex.
I thought your comentarii was referring to the practice of adding copyright notices to files in general. Specifically adding a copyright notice to an otherwise empty file is indeed scummy.
I don't think they've been dishonest, or denied that this is endemic, the problem has long been understood to be that of rate. Being physically unable to treat a wave is what will lead to massive numbers of deaths.

Masks, distancing, working from home, won't defeat covid19 but they all slow down its transmission, slow down admissions, and let hospitals recover.
There's a gallery that gives a nice overview with examples and compilable code: https://pgfplots.net
An amazing accomplishment! Honestly, I don't really know about any other open source mobile game as active, polished and feature-full as (Shattered) Pixel Dungeon.
If you folded the entire thing then it could mean that.

But you want to shield the parts which do not directly need to receive rf signals, like the mainboard.
And there's the Postgres fanboy I knew was coming eventually. :)

Could you elaborate on why timestamptz should be used? The name would imply it stores a time zone; is that correct, and the normal timestamp type does not as in MySQL?
Because if it’s human negligence or malfeasance that created the virus it should be studied on so that we can take better measures in the future. I’d argue that in the latter possibility the people responsible should also be tried for crimes against humanity, both for justice and as a disincentive for future bad actors.
The arrow just looks too much like the one used in chemistry.
I like to see others’ notes and highlighting, as long as it’s not too much. If the notes are banal or stupid it just makes me feel better about myself. If they are too smart for me or make connections I cannot, all the better.

My preference, rather than write in the book, is to write notes on little notepads and leave the note in the book as bookmarks. Probably not good for the books themselves if I add too many but it is convenient and I don’t have to worry about someone downstream finding my marginalia banal.
I think the earliest sample found of C19 was in Barcelona in march 2019(If I remember this well).

1+1=? I would say that you either want to blame someone in particular or Spain is a genocidal communist dictatorship.
Using TikZ in your (La)TeX document is great for a number of reasons:

* Fonts and line widths are always correct. It looks really unprofessional when your figures have completely different fonts and line widths to the rest of your document,

* Symbolic/declarative description of figures. No need to guess or manually calculate where an equidistant point is or how to draw an arrow between two points, you can just write it down. Your figure will be perfect, not "close enough",

* Ability to write macros and other stuff you would expect from programming your figures.
Because if there was a lab issue, a violation of international rules, e.g. chinese labs west funding could be cut off.
Yes, I should have written "practical programming language". It definitely possible to resolve many equations like this (though not all of them), but is quite a slow process, which is ok for a math system like Mathematica, but not for a real-life programming language.
Conclusion (from the article):

Symbolic story generation systems were capable of generating reasonably long and coherent stories. These systems derived much of their power from well-formed knowledge bases. But these knowledge bases had to be structured by hand, which limited what the systems could generate. When we shifted to neural networks, we gained the power of neural networks to acquire and make use of knowledge from corpora. Suddenly, we could build story generation systems that could generate a larger space of stories about a greater range of topics. But we also set aside a lot of what was known about the psychology of readers and the ability to reason over rich knowledge structures to achieve story coherence. Even increasing the size of neural language models has only delayed the inevitability of coherence collapse in stories generated by neural networks.

A primer such as this one makes it easier to remember the paths that were trodden previously in case we find opportunities to avoid throwing the baby out with the bath water. This is not to say that machine learning or neural network based approaches should not be pursued. If there was a step backward it was because doing so gave us a powerful new tool with the potential to take us further ahead. The exciting thing about working on automated story generation is that we genuinely don’t know the best path forward. There is a lot of room for new ideas.

My personal view is more critical than the author's. There was an approach that worked reasonably well but needed more work to improve it. It was abandoned for a flashy new approach that doesn't work and doesn't seem like it could be made to work ("Even increasing the size of neural language models has only delayed the inevitability of coherence collapse in stories generated by neural networks"). Why was the working approach abandoned? The answer seems to do with a certain tendency in academia to blindly follow new trends with the only criterion being how many published papers can come out of it. That is no way to make progress. That is the way to waste time.

Besides, this is not true:

>> There is a lot of room for new ideas.

Once your field has been taken over by neural networks, there is no room for new ideas. You are destined to tweak hyperparameters for the rest of your academic career.
There's a certain amount of inflation that has happened to job titles.

Previously, my last 4-5 job titles have included the word "manager", yet I have never performed any managerial tasks. My current title includes the word "engineer", yet there is no engineering in my job description.

I fix bugs, implement workflows and rules, and onboard customers on a platform. I don't consider that engineering, that's operations.
As I see it, the paradigm that Windows (actually the programmers working on windows programs) broke was the centrality of keyboard.

In windows (or more generally GUI) you usually need to constantly move your hands from keyboard to mouse (to click a button and "go ahead") and then back to keyboard to type soimething, then mouse again, etc.

I believe this is only due because of the choices of the programmers that used some "default" modes.

To give you an example the good ol'Dos program I was talking about used Enter to confirm data typed in a field AND move to next field, to go back to a previous field it was Ctrl+Enter, then you had to press F8 to confirm the whole form and exit to the main menu or F10 to confirm the whole form AND go to the next form of the same type.

When you got to a field like "state" or "country", that need to match an existing database, windows programs mostly have a drop down list (and you need the mouse to open the drop down list and scroll down until you find the one you want), the old program allowed to either enter the two-three letter country id (like IT for Italy, DE for Deutschland, etc.) OR to type the first few letters and then autocomplete with - if I recall correctly - F4.

Dates could be typed without separators, i.e. 22082021 and when you pressed enter the field would be automagically formatted to 22/08/2021, currently in lots of programs (or web sites) you have to click and then a calendar pops up, and you have to click three times for day/month/year, some "smarter" ones have a button for "today" but that, for a field like "date of birth" makes no sense whatever.

This latter is a pet-peeve of mine but 3/4 to 7/8 of all web shops, including those that are clearly national only have a drop down list for countries that invariably starts from Afghanistan, which possibly represents 0,0000000001 % of the orders.

Then you have "tabs", on a huge screen 1024*768 or higher resolution the actual form is a tiny window, and you input name/surname/birthday/address, etc. on it, then you have to switch (why?) to another tab to enter (say) fiscal data and to yet another one to add notes.

Of course there are also better UI's, but the large majority is as I described above.
Are we just going to brush off the US’s involvement in funding WIV? And how even Fauci tried to cover that up? China is not the sole one to blame.
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> CBP pilots say that it is hard to see on night vision goggles and has a low heat signature.

Yeah definitely not a jet powered one.
>It’s not being discriminated against based on some protected class. Being vaccinated is a choice, unlike skin color.

Good to know we've established that you're ok with folks being shut out of a diner by mandate of government, so long as the reason is something other than related to a protected class. How about we ban everyone under 40 from dining indoors -- after all age discrimination is legal as long as it's against those under 40. We can also outlaw anyone who makes their living in the information economy, they shouldn't have chosen that career if they wanted to . And I think I want to ban anyone who drives or rides in motor vehicles, because there's a public safety risk as drivers and passengers of motor vehicles are one of the most common causes of traumatic death.

>The government will not let you serve alcohol at a restaurant unless you check the drinker’s age. The government will now also not let you serve diners indoors unless you check they have been vaccinated.

So you're one of those that thinks those old enough to go to war shouldn't be able to have a drink? The drinking age is one of the weakest arguments for government control and is an excellent example of overstepping gone wrong. I seriously can't tell if you might be using that example as evidence to discredit the mandates.
Why? What would that change, apart from distracting everyone into another giant anti-china campaign? Would we solve covid if we knew how it came to be synthesized?
I find it all too easy for my peers to know my value while my managers are less clear. Your peers only have so much influence over raises and promotions and so over time you can end up in a bad spot.
Let go of what? It's pretty much impossible to prove COVID was an accidental lab leak, unless there's a huge smoking gun. Even if there was a proof, what would be the point of revenge? Did any country take revenge for Chernobyl?
A year ago, after becoming fed up with my dad clicking financial scam ads, I switched his search to DDG. Thus far, he hasn't noticed.
"He was in the habit of giving his staff ambitious or unusual projects when they were between client commissions such as "Get a thousand luxury lovers from New York to Paris fast. Forget the limitations."" he could have inspired Elon Musk with this
Because a specific category of people want to blame either China or Russia for anything without any proof.

In this particular case there were reports that the virus was present in Spain and Italy before China. They seem to ignore that and keep screeching that CHina is to blame.

Edit: added source:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-...
I love my job and my coworkers are nice, smart people who are good colleagues and whose company I enjoy. But I've already got my family, and they're not it. That corpo-speak is complete BS - it's both incredibly insincere and incredibly condescending. Like I don't know how to be nice to people unless they're my family, and I'm so stupid that there's no other way of telling me "be nice" or "let's work together towards a commonly beneficial goal".
Have you heard of Pavlovs Dog, that started salivating when he rang a bell? Normally it's seen as an example of conditioning. But I think it's an illustration of something I noticed in my own life: That the primary cause of hunger feelings is expecting a treat.

When I haven't eaten in a while and know food isn't coming, I don't really feel hungry, I just feel tired.
I remember way back when the Megabus from Edinburgh to London was the same type of bus as the one I used to go to school on :) And it cost 1 quid (plus 50p booking iirc).

Also, for GP, afaiu, the rules in Scotland are kinder (includes long distance) https://www.transport.gov.scot/concessionary-travel/60plus-o...

P.S. Hi Andy!
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As for results in the cleanup of Chernobyl, they did not fare that well. About 10% of the roof was cleared before radioactivity made it impossible to continue.

Though that effort probably saved lives, so mission accomplished I'd say.

https://spacecentre.co.uk/blog-post/the-moon-rovers-that-hel...
Chiplets aren’t a desired technology. It’s done for either yield (more common) or thermal reasons (less common).

It’s not something to brag about.
Love the idea but you'll have to be careful about not putting too big files on it I suppose ?
https://archive.is/2aP1f
When I grumble about collecting needless data, conditioning users to insecure practices or similar ethical concerns, my manager usually drops it. There - I think I've made some difference.

If you have an source of developers, where you can discard 95% without effect, could you please find me a haskell developer, sysadmin and a ee engineer woking in kicad? Salary - good in Eastern Europe. I'd prefer those that do have morals and standards. Thank you very much.

95% of developers refusing to build, won't stop PRISM or FAANG by not building. What it can do (along some explanations and reasoning), is to unrecognizably change the landscape, change availability and perception of privacy and security, and in a roundabout way, maybe even stop or at least reduce PRISM, FAANG, et al. data collation.

Currently, about 5% of websites respect their user's data? What if it was 95%?
My kids have not done that. Which leads me to question: did adults mimic pretend play like that with her when they were socializing with her? I have seen adults do it in front of kids as attempts to interact with them. But we did not done that and our kids have not done that until much later.
Except it's only occurring while simultaneously uploading to iCloud. The hash is metadata that goes along with it.
I think you bring up some good concepts here with working above and beyond for promotion. That sometimes we do voluntary build these tools in hope of some reward even if it is not specifically asked for. And maybe not even directly as a job but for a resume project. I think quiet a few here would probably agree twitter to some degree has had a negative impact on society or conversation. Yet, many of us build something to scrape data and utilize for something, put it on github not thinking how that tool could be misused.

Also bringing into scope of "us" being moved into management. While I do meant boss man to be interpreted more liberally. "Boss man" can be a direct manager/supervisor (who may be an MBA or a prior engineer him/herself), it can be the CEO or shareholders. But yes, in some case those of us become the "boss man" and ask for these features or do not get in the way when someone higher asks for them.

To answer the last line, it surely is not the "only thing" that can stop us. Regulation can work also as has been brought up. But I fail to see where years of screaming for regulation has materialized in anything meaningful, at least in the US. The quickest way would be self-regulation. Adhering to a code of ethics or principles voluntarily.
How long have IBM been doing MCM ?
Yes, you are right. Bash 5 on AIX 7.2 works with process substitution. Thanks for the advise!
> The CCP knowingly hid information about infections. This whole thing could have been contained in China with the right information at the right time.

Plenty of CCP members have already been punished for their failure to contain the virus. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/11/china-fires-tw...

Maybe they weren't really the ones responsible. But if someone is powerful enough to avoid the CCP-internal punishment and have others take the blame, they're not going to let themselves be inconvenienced by foreign investigators.
I like this one, written by a former colleague: https://www.amazon.com/Concise-Guide-DNS-BIND/dp/0789722739/
Now the question is what percent of that energy is used by the chip. I understand it is a nice kettle but will be nice to see what can do in terms of computation.
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What people (me included) take issue with is not wether it’s easy or not, but if it makes any sense.

People with health conditions that directly depend on them losing weight will need specific ways, adapted to them, to lose that weight. Telling them “just eat less dumbass” (which is an actual advice thrown at people, almost verbatim) is condescending, ignoring the complexity of dieting, and only looking at it short term when they are trying to change the rest of their life.

We wouldn’t throw “money in/money out” mantras at random bankrupt people (or do we? I can’t tell anymore), we shouldn’t do that to overweight people either.
As a hair removal method i would call this pretty radical.
I think if you put more newlines in your code example (at least two per code-line) it might come through the HN formatting thing better?
Yes, and please keep that little tidbit under your hat. You don't want Big Planet to know we're wise to them quite yet.
I bet if their was a chance that a US lab leaked the virus you would not be wanting to just let is go
Check out pro broadcasting drones. They can carry 3-5kg cameras with power packs. Some go as far as 1h fly time. They are expensive as hell though.
Starlink satellites cause 1,600 close passes a week
For one, we could take action to help prevent another Covid from happening.

It’s really not that hard to see how it could be useful to know about the origins of Covid. Really tired of people making it about racism (or whatever) against China. And I say that as a Chinese person.
If your target country has a large coast, there are submarine drones already https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine
Mini AMA here?

I was an international student in Canada 2010-2012, and Singapore 2007-2009.

The one in Canada, my parents sent me to had a reputation of a somewhat of business degree mill despite a good name, and rankings.

I studied business administration there, and can tell it was useless. I never used any of the skills I learned professionally.

Experience of an expat student in such places:

Extreme pass rates, with few "hard" programmes to save the face.

By Canadian own standards, the academic ethic, and discipline was so, so, but tolerated, with tacit understanding that a lot of "foreign student friendly" courses exist for such sole purpose.

There was only 1 real native (in a sense being born there) Canadian citizen out of a class of 24. Everybody else was either completely foreign, recent naturalised immigrants, PR holders, and children of people on investment immigration programs.

You pay 3 times the Canadian rate.

And yes, my parent used a shady "agent" as well, who very visibly been communicating with uni higher ups.