skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my conclusion too. This isn't a hobbyist. This isn't even a rogue professional drone pilot that flies drones for Hollywood movies or something.

This is a real UAV that is military grade.

It was either the actual military (it was first discovered just outside of an AirForce base) or a drug cartel that got their hands on a drone. Military Grade drones are pretty available at this point to any group with enough means (money). For example the Elbit Hermes 450[1] is a long-endurance tactical drone that has been sold to many countries outside of the big militaries. For example Georgia (the country), Azerbaijan, North Macedonia, The Philippines, Zambia, Botswana, Thailand, and even Mexico, Brazil, Columbia. Columbia bought a ton of drones from Elbit in the range of "tens of millions of dollars". The benefit of the Hermes 450 is the cost, it is supposed to cost only around $1M, which makes it very affordable for countries without massive military budgets like the US. I don't think it is a stretch that a drug cartel bought one ($1M is a small price to pay if it can save a single $10M drug run from being captured), or that they bought it from another country like Georgia or Columbia.

They are satellite controlled and have a 20 hours flight time, meaning it could have easily flown from a long ways away.

Oh and even the US Customs and Border Patrol own two of these same drones. Which I find also interesting.

These helicopter pilots were either chasing a drug cartel drone like this or a USAF drone. Because they first spotted it nearby the Air Force base, it seems to me that most likely it was actually an Air Force drone (most likly a MQ-1 Predator drone) that was conducting a training simulation near the base when it was discovered by the helo pilots. Then it just proceeded to play around with them. The one pilot talked about how it would fly in front of the helicopter and then maneuver to get behind it and follow it, staying in the helicopter's shadow. That sounds like a military move. I bet this whole thing started off as a training mission and then went off course and they decided to train on the helicopter pilots. They even said that the average speed of the drone was an estimated 70 knots. Well the MQ-1 UAV has a cruising speed of... surprise, surprise... 70 knots!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbit_Hermes_450
I don't drive very much, and I've seen several ICE car fires just this year. Almost all in the mountains, which are hard on cars.
Not really.. Japan ranks among the top 10-15 countries in terms of cars per capita.
Could this be a selection of screenshots? It's one of the most confusing things I've ever interacted with.
Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD
Back to Basics: The Importance of a Strong Foundation in Tech
I love the simplicity of CGI, it was ~2002 when I read about it in a book on Linux and had my first server-side generated HTML output a couple of minutes later. But: It has no place in todays world except of educational use. Especially the fact, that every HTTP request would spawn a full new process makes it unfeasible for any serious webapp.
On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking
That's because this thread is specifically about the license.
Absolutely. Outdated zoning laws are public enemy #2 for livable cities, just a hair after outdated tax laws. The root of both issues is misalignment of incentives.
On the front page today:

Project includes a dependancy that has a license that forbids its use - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28263721 - (125 comments)
I mean, you may find it a big relief to get out. I prefer to get to my destination faster. Or, if we do want to get out, plan to stop at a cool restaurant or something instead of at a random supercharger location.

BTW: Did you know you can bring snacks and even coffee with you in your car? Those don't have to be purchased on route. You'll even get lower prices and a wider selection.
True, but all other things being equal (in particular, controlling for people's innate level of dogmatism), a world where more people accept the best available theory represents progress over one where they espouse an outdated/discredited one.

edit: Or maybe not? I guess my concrete question to you would be what balance of E/C believers do you think would be ideal?
Aria2: Lightweight multi-protocol download utility
HN tends to be US-centric, and there are not a ton of Japanese immigrant engineers in the US last I checked. Some but not all that many. Most of the immigration from Japan to the US occurred generations ago. Plenty of Chinese people who chime in on these threads though.
How about FCGI?
Just a few points to consider here.

1) the companies may be agile, but there is a very big difference between competency in mechanical device/metal working/plastic moulds etc and ramping up electrical / battery / material science / control systems. I see similar challenges in the global 3rd party parts suppliers being valid too. The % of value add of an electric vehicle that the existing infra can support is significantly less than a vehicle with an ICE engine / transmission.

2) Batteries, with the right thermal and charge management systems can last the life of the vehicle itself, with the whole set of components reaching 1 mil km in distance with 1.5 mil km (1 mil miles) in reasonable approach.

3) charging infrastructure can scale with the number of vehicles - other countries have power grids too!
I very rarely focus on the person but rather on the output. I try hard to deliver feedback genuinely, respectfully, and with an interest in elevating our collective work product. I try to offer advice or potential resources for the improvement that needs to happen. In addition, if I ever had a similar issue with my own work product, I definitely share the story and what I did to improve it.

What not to do? Make snarky comments, laugh, put down, say "dude...". Things my current boss does. :)
Project repo: https://github.com/aria2/aria2

New release after 2 years, btw!
"If a medical test is used in a way that is frequently prone to misinterpretation, it would be fair to call that entire test useless."

And yet there are many examples of this with malpractice, unnecessary deaths, etc. Lyme tests are notorious for false negatives depending on the lab you use. It's also a widely held belief that you want tests done in the middle of the week instead of on a Friday or weekend because some techs just want to get out of there and are more prone to mistakes.

The reason I'm drawing a hard line is because of fact vs opinion. This same line gets drawn in court. They will ask experts if it's a fact or an opinion that they testified about (usually to attack a witness). Autopsies are full of facts, and then there are opinions on what those facts mean. If it's an opinion, it's possible to counter it with another professional opinion.

The only sort of opinion they should be sharing is included, excluded, or undetermined. Hair is not a "match", but it could include or exclude someone and maybe mathematical probabilities.
And how much of it is just old people dying versus people legitimately changing their minds
Why do you need to jump to "Full Self Driving"? Presumably there are intermediaries.

They're whole plan lacks a feedback mechanism.

You don't even know the return if they succeed. Drug companies have a long history so they can anticipate the cost of development, odds of success and payoff if successful. They do all these things prior to any investments being made.

The closest Waymo has is # of truck drivers * salary = profit.

The top-down Waymo method is a failure.
I can effectively burn off my fingerprints completely... They are not completely effective at all
This. "Michael Williams, 65, who denied any wrongdoing, sat in jail for 11 months awaiting trial for allegedly killing Safarian Herring, 25."

Do not waive a speedy trial ever. The judge will want you to, your attorney will want you to ($), the DA will want you to. Tell them to go fuck themselves.
>But I can buy the same game on all three major consoles. Plus PC. Plus Steam, GOG, Humble, Epic (where I can get it free), or even pirate it with little trouble (if I didn't have qualms with the ethics).

You're still missing the point. There is no way to buy a game for Xbox without going through Microsoft's official channels and giving them their huge cut. There is no way to buy a game for Playstation without going through Sony's official channels and giving them their huge cut. There is no way to buy a game for Switch without going through Nintendo's official channels and giving them their huge cut.

Being able to buy the same game on different consoles is immaterial. The stores themselves are the monopoly.

>None of these stores do my email, dating, finance, math, fitness, banking, web. They're not fitting the computer role like laptops and smartphones.

What difference does this make? If they did these things, would it suddenly matter that the only way to get software onto this platform was to give 30% of revenue to the console manufacturer?
An accomplice is a liability though. Also it's harder to make it rhyme. "If you're doing a felony, give your phone to Melanie."
My experience with Notes is positive.

What I especially like is the simplicity overall and good sync between mac/iphone/ipad.

And that it works great offline.
Michael Shellenberger is not a "business as usual" do-nothing denier. This guy's mission has been to push for clean energy solutions (renewable with nuclear base load) and GMO crops to get higher-density, more nutritious food sources. He wants to solve environmental challenges without sacrificing quality of life or condemning the poorest billions to perpetual poverty. This is not the do-nothing "burn coal and export corn" denialism of the Koch brothers et al.
Veritasium has about 2800x more subscribers than the linked channel.

I wonder if removing all the engaging "fluff" and just listing information reduces the impact of videos. Like, maybe the trade-off is between having a shorter, denser video so the few people who watch it can get their information in less time, versus having 10x more people watch and learn the information.
>“The problem? When we made it possible for anyone to generate art with artificial intelligence, barely anyone used it to make actual art. Instead, our AI model was forced to make videos for random inputs, trolling queries, and NSFW intents.”

I am struggling with the use of the word "forced"; the researchers put their software out there to be used by anyone with an internet connection. The researchers created that dynamic.

And how are they not seeing that AI created no-humans-used-to-make-this-porn could be a net good.
For anyone wondering what "ancient" means - it was 5 months ago. Maybe the commenter has a different definition of ancient than me.
Twitter’s topic modeling is really bad (and seems to be getting worse), but I still like using the feed to interact with people, just wish they’d either build better models or get rid of surfacing topics.
It's an interesting idea, but there are lots of problems this article doesn't address.

At most of the companies I've worked for, there is a bunch of up front ramp up before someone can complete even a simple task. You have to become familiar with a team's frameworks, the business context, and the structure of the code base. To do one real task then requires all that ramp up first (or else, you'd need to simplify it so it's not a real task).

How big a task? If you are interviewing new college grads, it might not matter, but people who already have industry experience either have to use a large chunk of vacation time or leave their current job if the task is non-trivial (taking, say, a sprint or two to do).

How much do you pay? Do you have a fixed bounty? Do you pay senior engineers more?

I get how you want to see someone do this for real, but I've already built something like this 20 times. If a company trying to recruit me asked me to build this, I could spend a few hours building it again, or I could just tell you about the times I did something like that (and the challenges I ran into), which would take 30 minutes.
Russian and Ukrainian are walking down the street. They both spots $100 bill. Russian picks it up and says: "Let's split like brothers!" and Ukrainian says: "No! Let's split 50:50"
If you want to export your Keep notes (and almost all of the metadata and media) into Markdown format, I helped write keep-exporter, a tool to accomplish just that.

It downloads the text content of the notes and the majority of media (some of the annotation stuff doesn't work quite right). So assuming another app supports markdown import, this would work.

https://github.com/ndbeals/keep-exporter/

(note, the version in PyPI is behind and I don't have access to update it, so pull from the repository instead)

It uses gkeepapi (https://github.com/kiwiz/gkeepapi), but it looks like there's an official API now (https://developers.google.com/keep/api), so maybe Keep isn't going away anytime soon.
I agree that believing in evolution is not a sufficient condition to demonstrating critical thinking skills, but I do think it is a necessary one.
EVs do have brake fluid, but the brakes are used significantly less in EVs than in ICE vehicles. (Most slowing is done via magnetic resistance from regenerative braking.) Presumable this means brakes in EVs are subject to a lower rate of degradation caused by use.
40 miles is close to a sweet spot 99% EV daily driving range. The current 20-ish PHEVs aren't up to snuff.

In the short run (5 years), I agree that PHEVs are the best use of the available battery materials supply if we want to get to low hanging fruit of 90% consumer trips are EV.

Teslas are great and they absolutely should pursue the research on full-EV vehicles because that is the 10 year future. But how many PHEVs could be made out of a P-100's battery? 10?

... that is assuming the mainline autos hadn't been dragging their feet for 20 years putting a goddamn electric plug on their hybrids, and not pushing the technology.

That Toyota so stringently resists even a plug in for their platforms in 2021 (for example, the new Toyota minivan is a hybrid with no option for a plug) is so mindboggling it must be intentional.
The USA is a pretty extreme place!
> rent control/regulation

No government, ever, has managed to repeal the law of supply & demand. Not in 4000 years of trying.

Even in communist countries, where housing is "free", it applies. It's just that the cost is in terms of something other than money, often a network of favors. The same goes on how military base housing is distributed.
The problem actually goes much further back than the pandemic... The housing bubble/crises lead to a massive supply of homes being foreclosed on and purchased by wealthier groups. It also lead to a large exodus of home building professionals as the demand dried up. This resulted in the US building 500,000+ fewer homes per year than the typical demand of the growing population normally demands. The US is now > 7,000,000+ homes behind were we should have been at this point, which means home prices skyrocket making them unavailable to entry level workers. On top of this, it's a common strategy among the wealthy to but a 2nd, 3rd, or more homes, which they rent to rent out at their mortgage rate or higher because the system allows it... So someone who can't get a $1200/month mortgage (for an example) now has a $1200 rent paid to someone for their second home... Though generally they pair up with others or other couples to live together and afford the rent...

This also ignores the trend of businesses engaging in the activity.. buying homes in mass for rental properties instead of the typical apartment/townhouse apartment developments.
Google Maps navigation can't even reliably call out which lane to use for turning in major metro areas, and that's kinda the basic best case scenario: clear images/footage, unlimited compute time, static road markers, common use case.

I'm not sure how they can do better with far more stringent resources and requirements.
Moratorium on evictions?
I’ve been using the native Apple notes for years now. At first it was convenience, but at some point I thought about it and decided there was no reason to switch. It has shockingly reliable sync (for Apple), and the right number of formatting options for me. I wish it could syntax-highlight code blocks, but that’s not a universal use case.

Export is fine if you’re only moving a single note—it just strips formatting and shares it as plain text. Similarly, I don’t know if there’s a bulk import option. If you have a text file, you might need to copy-paste it into notes.
https://archive.is/auv0N
> Data are liability

Data is gold
The biggest problem from my PoV is that people seem like they are always absolutely sure that the contemporary understanding of morals is actually correct, unlike the primitive beliefs of the past, and that there's nothing left to challenge. Convincing people that this is what people always believe and yet it has never been true seems impossible. It seems difficult for people to imagine that there's more left to discuss.

What I'd rather do is try to convince people that it's wrong to apply this kind of ideological control regardless of whether or not you think it's correct. But that's hard, because if it was correct, and people do earnestly believe it is, then what do they have to lose?

I also think that dishonest portrayals of even recent history are a huge problem for understanding that a lot of the moral conundrums we have today are not new. It's mostly the sensationalism and moral panics that are always changing.
As a fun exercise, try to get a house built in any metro area with a pop > 750k and see what you have to go through and how expensive and time consuming it is to jump through all of the hoops. You will find the answer to your question.
This is used a lot on routers nowadays, for certain things it's great. I'm not sure running sh in cgi-bin would work for c10m (unless you've got a lot of servers!) or sanitization etc.
This is well into "tin foil hat" territory for me personally, but I've stopped automatically putting my phone in my pocket when I go out for an errand.

I lived the first fifteen years of my life without a "phone" on me at all times, and I don't see why I need one now.
Yeah I don’t get why people keep repeating that electric cars have fewer components. Most of the car is exactly the same. But batteries have thousands of parts and electrical connections. Motors and the attached gears also fail. Everything else is the same as IC.
Click and view income.
We used fcgi at my last company in routers. When you make a request to a router's embedded webserver internally it forwards the request via unix sockets to a persistent CGI process which sends back the JSON. Worked really well and had a tiny memory footprint.
The sources you shared seemed to indicate that the government declares what it's willing to pay for particular services and only pays that. I'm not sure if that's the same as

> The "insurers" (better referred to as managed care organizations - MCOs) are simply hired to implement the government's pricing and reimbursement policies, and to take the heat from vendors and the public.

Could you perhaps quote a relevant portion that indicates private insurance operates at the pricing whims of the government?
Yea, that whole, "How do you keep a secret between three people?". Kill the other two.
This has always had me wondering about the viability of self driving: what's it going to be like in different countries?

Not only are there different signs, different line marking & colours, & different widths. Cars are different: not all models are sold equally throughout the world. People are different: through their clothing, height and build. But the really big difference is that not everyone drives on the RHS...

The article lists left turns as a problem, whereas on a LHS road system, right hand turns will be the problem.

In NZ (a LHS system), I've heard that turning right across traffic has priority over oncoming traffic.

In Melbourne, VIC Australia (also LHS), right turns are made from the left most lane because of trams lines.

I'm sure there are loads of other issues specific to other geographies.

To me, this never ending self driving experiment screams out that the wrong solution is being pursued. (That doesn't imply that I know what they should be using as a solution)
Not quite light, but: https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
Don't run it xD
How to get all the documents out of a MongoDB collection
Most ML requires collecting, cleaning, and transforming datasets into something that a model can train on for a specific domain. Codex and Copilot aren't good examples of this because they are training on terabytes of public code repos - meaning that there is no code cleaning step. It's relying on the sheer volume of data that is being processed to try and filter the 'unclean' data (think buggy code written by a human) out of the model.

These are really the exception rather than the rule when it comes to collecting data for ML/AI applications.
https://innocenceproject.org/what-is-bite-mark-evidence-fore...
Maybe before COVID, but car prices are insane right now. Just go to carvana.com , or carmax, etc... You are seeing for example: a 2010 corolla with 100K+ miles in 8K+ dollars, total madness, you could get this car for 4 to 5k easily. I put this example, because this is the type of cars regular folks have access to. Dealers don't even show MSRP prices anymore, in most official sites I have seen in the west coast, you have to call in.
Melonie rhymes better !
They lost me at:
> However, the study concludes that consumers need to be more aware of what they are buying.

I can't "slow clap" enough for this statement.
If by hundreds of millions they mean "tens of hundreds of millions", then yes.

> "with location data switched on"

People need to realize what these two things together mean. Google believes that its anonymization strategy for device location data masks user identity. This is why they use the term "devices". It depersonalizes the information they have. De-anonymizing high-accuracy location data is easy. That means they really have location records on people. They don't technically store and index by people, that's why they can keep making carefully worded plain-English (but mark my words, it is absolutely lawyer-speak) explanations that sound innocent. But de-anonymization is just a map-reduce away, and the government knows this.

They will not open up technical details of Google Location Service (GLS) until they are forced by court order, and even then, maybe never, as it will be redacted for the public. It will be redacted because its very existence represents next-generation espionage capabilities.

Read their own documentation [1]:

> On most Android devices, Google, as the network location provider, provides a location service called Google Location Services (GLS), known in Android 9 and above as Google Location Accuracy. This service aims to provide a more accurate device location and generally improve location accuracy. Most mobile phones are equipped with GPS, which uses signals from satellites to determine a device’s location – however, with Google Location Services, additional information from nearby Wi-Fi, mobile networks, and device sensors can be collected to determine your device’s location. It does this by periodically collecting location data from your device and using it in an anonymous way to improve location accuracy.

[1] https://policies.google.com/technologies/location-data?hl=en...

They use it in an "anonymous way". Pardon my french, but horseshit! They are sucking accelerometer and WiFi data with GPS and calling that "anonymous".

When are people going to realize the technical capabilities of Google's dystopian location tracking? The US government already has. Google has built a one-stop shop for totalitarian government's location-tracking needs.
Downvoted. lol.