skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was certainly a test under non-normal circumstances. People didn't know how long it would last, and may not have the option of going in to the office at all.

For example, a lot of people have put off moving out of expensive, bad accomodation near the office because they didn't know if it would last; working from home in an overpriced flat, where a significant other and handful of children are also all trying to work from home and nobody can go out, is a very different game to working from home in a nicer, bigger, cheaper house with a lot more room in a nicer area where people can go out and where people can go to the office as needed (which, I have to say, for me is basically never - I have sat at my office desk once since March 2020, and that was to empty the drawers and clear it, since I'm never sitting there again; I do have a strong bias in favour of WFH).

I now have someone on my team moving a couple of hours out of London, to live by the seaside in a house rather than in central London in a little flat, and one chap has moved all the way back to Yorkshire, where he is now near family and friends, back where he grew up. For them, now that they have the assurance from our big boss that this is a permanent option (with new contracts, no less, stating that the employee's place of work is their own home or other such suitable location) WFH has suddenly transformed in an enormous way that it hadn't really permanently done so during the immediate Covid response.
According to Wikipedia, European Magpies have been observed performing funeral rites (alas, the link to the study is gone). It's not impossible you witnessed a similar but undocumented phenomena.
When it does turn out to be "spammy mail ad crap", doesn't it backfire?

Note that I have no idea what kind of letters he sends.
How much of the content you enjoyed on Youtube ten years ago is still there? I've witnessed a lot of videos taken down... I'd much rather trust a non-profit host with my content than Youtube.
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How is that canonical? λ x . f x is the original syntax of Church, Lisp came around decades later.
I am shaking my head. Is this the future we are entering? Drones delivering coffee? Super-annoying sound to further drown any hope of tranquility in the mornings. There are certainly many meaningful uses of drones, but delivering coffee is not one of them.
I can’t see all the lights on outside from inside my house at night. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of light pollution.

Houses dampen the sound which animals don’t have the luxury of having. All that noise could be a real problem for them
> Humans function properly in small tribal groups. If the person invading your privacy is a faceless bureaucrat, then you're much more likely to be misjudged. That's the problem.

Small closed groups feature bullying or enable serious abusers fairly often. Misjudging kids or mistreating them, domestic violence, guys beating weaker guys were just fact of life in villages.
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The government used the ‘extremist’ classification, yes. Telegram’s Durov referred to the ‘silent days’ practice as his excuse.
protecting their next meal?
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Seriously one benefit of covid had been hardly any noise on the flight path I live on. If you have 24/7 drone deliveries it would drive me crazy. Probably have to set up some surface to air defence against it.
> Generally can’t hear them inside the house.

So you can sometimes hear them inside the house? That sounds possibly-OK in a sparsely populated area. But in more dense areas with lots of deliveries and people walking outside who can hear all the noise, I'm not sure this will scale well.
That is also an extremely noisy drone. I live below the approach of an airport and the noise from the commercial jets are less annoying.

Would it help if the drones where less noisy? If the birds don’t get them, the complaint from neighbors will.
It almost seems that the original post is a humblebrag promo about the Wing delivery service, to get us aware about some newfangled product/service via some quirk or curiosity.

But I could be cynical.
Am I too cynical now? I feel like this is an advertisement. The guy is a director of communication.

Maybe I’ve just become overly sensitive.
I used to live in Canberra, right now it's magpie season. They are super aggressive and are also super protected.
It's more likely the Raven will experience regulatory capture before the drone company does.
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Yes, but the goal isn't to make coffee - it's to create a recurring revenue stream. Coffee is just a bait :).
> Does China see other countries as equal partners? Their Howling Wolf diplomacy seems to kick in whenever anything they dislike appears in any media.

China is an authoritarian country with a strategic vision which put it at odd with its closest neighbors. It's in no way an easy partner. Then again, neither is it an unreadable one nor a completely unreasonable one. What China wants is pretty clear: control of the South China sea and being the dominant soft power of the region. With this framework in mind, a lot can be achieved through negociations.

I am not saying countries should always be soft with China. Their track record record regarding human rights is worrying. I am very much in favor of using tit for tat measures regarding their distortion of competitive markets and their threats on the Chinese diaspora in Europe and the USA have to stop.

Still I am not convinced that a policy of systematic opposition and war mongering will do much good. Xi Jinping is already 68. His rule won't last eternally. It seems better to me to adopt a position of observation, containment and soft power influence than direct confrontation. I understand that Taiwan might be a victim of it which sadden me a bit but is something I am fine with from a realpolitik point of view. I consider this position better for Europe than following the USA in its opposition which I view as essentially motivated by a desire to protect the position they consider to be theirs in the international order rather than some kind of moral imperative.
> A visual prototype of Horizn ONE, the world's first space luggage, due out in 2030

This is too much ........
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I'm aware of no off the shelf solution, but this does sound like a problem that can be solved with electronics.

The motor controller could do electric braking if the rider's phone isn't in the vicinity of the bike. This would mean you can't push the pedals, but the wheels will still turn without resistance. If you forget to unlock it, you won't break the spokes, and there's no sudden halt, so you can still manually and safely break.

You could still run off with the bike on foot of course. But maybe if the pedals are blocked by the motor, you can use the standard lock without breaking the spokes?
I misread "ravens" for "ravers" and wondered why a bunch of people probably off their nut would be guarding a body...
Seems like the sort of thing machine learning actually ought to work quite well on, if you had enough hand written letters as training samples.
I keep seeing Australians online saying this meme that Australians care a lot about coffee quality, but when I lived there everyone I knew would make instant coffee at home. Then they were often highly critical of espresso at cafes. Odd
Following a quick search I assume you're referring to popularity of niche content? [0]

Peertube should fare just fine with that. It's just important that instance operators consider the broader implications of running an instance:

- you should find an organizational/financial model to still be around in a decade

- you should find like-minded instance operators to seed one another's content across continents, to ease reachability

If those two aspects are taken care of, "long tail" delivery should really not be a problem for Peertube.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2004/10/tail/
You know that you could just name yourself "John Doe" and that's it, right?
You can also use buried components, which are sandwiched between layers inside the PCB. This of course requires a thick PCB and is really expensive. Though it would be quite nice for an art piece I suppose, zero exposed circuitry, everything buried. You could achieve a similar effect for this particular project by just ordering ~four PCBs with the necessary cutouts and gluing them together yourself, as connectivity between the PCBs isn't really required.
You believe yourself to be wise in the ways of law, and yet do not know the difference between criminal and civil penalties. 100 hours of community service is better than jail, but they lost the civil trial also, and have to pay the entire amount plus penalties.
I have applied it to testing Common Lisp implementations, but there has been much work on applying it to other languages (most famously C and Javascript.)

I applied the following techniques:

(1) Generate random valid well defined programs and see (a) if they crash the compiler, (b) cause different CL implementations to produce different outputs, (c) when modified (by addition of randomly generated optimization directives or valid type declarations) they still produce the same output. This is differential testing, which was used by McKeeman at DEC in the 1990s to test C compilers, and later improved (again, on C compilers) by Yang, Chan, Eide, and Regehr at U. of Utah (csmith, creduce).

Since a running lisp image can generate and compile functions internally (this IS lisp, after all), the testing loop can be very fast. Since 2003 I have run this on and off for many billions of iterations on desktop and laptop machines on various CL implementations, now mainly on SBCL. Most of the test input reduction is handled automatically, which is a big help.

(2) Generate random possibly invalid code by mutating or recombining snippets drawn from a large corpus of code, to see if it crashes the compiler (in CL implementations where the compiler is promised to never respond to bad code by signaling an error.) This was also the approach jsfunfuzz took on Javascript.

(3) Extensive fuzzing of calls to standard functions in CL, using random generation of input values and random generation of valid type declarations, with the invariant being that the same values should be computed (and the compiler not fail.) This is a specialization of (1), but was sufficiently different that the bugs it found were not the same.

Examples of tests produced by (1) and (3) over an early period when this was being developed. Each caused a failure in some CL implementation: https://github.com/pfdietz/ansi-test/blob/master/misc/misc.l...

This was one of my favorite bugs found: https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl/+bug/1730699

The experience with this sort of testing of compilers (in any language) is that if the compiler (free or commercial) has never been subjected to it, it will immediately find bugs in the compiler.
Workflow and Low-code. A perfect match?
Specifically, instead of directly providing numbers in html,
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<br>ж</td> which supposed to be an integer number. Apparently they have more than one way of doing that.
It's probably not a coincidence that Chip Morningstar, the author of the article you linked, was one of the top 20 or so followers of Norm Hardy, who wrote the article that we're commenting on.
For reference, this is how my workplace at the time handled remote through the years:

2015-2019: "If you take a day to work from home, that's fine. Just don't make it a weekly thing. We don't allow remote work as a general rule. Working together in the office is a key part of our culture."

Jan 2020: "We've heard your concerns about coming to the office, but we assure you that we follow the government guidelines, installed sanitizer stations everywhere etc. Working together in the office is a key part of our culture."

Feb 2020: "OK so the government now officially recommends that all employees work from home where possible - we will look into that, but for now, let's all still go to the office. Working together in the office is a key part of our culture."

March 2020: "OK so now the government has made it illegal for us to ask you to come into the office. We are grateful to have this opportunity to embrace remote work! As we've always said, we are glad that we are now fully ready to allow remote work for the future!"
I guess it depends on how you consume media.

A big part of what I consume on YouTube is on my TV, thanks to subscriptions to channels. Since there is no Android TV app for Peertube at the moment, the only way I would watch content from a Peertube channel would be on my computer. Which is not how I like consuming this content.
It surprised me to learn that automatic drip coffee makers were invented only about 50 years ago.
Not exactly, no. It uses Webtorrent, which is a WebRTC-layer port of the Bittorrent protocol. The Webtorrent and Bittorrent protocols are incompatible, despite hashes being the same.

With libtorrent starting to support Webtorrent, we should "soon" see a new generation of torrent clients who can bridge the gap between those two protocols.
IMO this branch of the thread signifies the core of the issue.

I'd argue that if we went down the rabbit hole of delivery startups to find where the thought originated that these kinds of businesses "must work somehow", we'd find irrationality.

Recently, I've come to realize that maybe all that's bad in the world is simply that at one point in the value supply chain someone favored an irrational over a rational thought. In case that person was very influental, we get cases like this where food is delivered through a permanently unprofitable strategy.

I wish we could just further rationalize the whole business to find the actual product's value and its market fit. Intuitively, it probably lays within canibalizing the actual business heavily and by e.g. not really delivering food on demand anymore. People just want the convenice of getting food quickl yand a wide variety + a threshold of quality.

Delivery drivers are one option to a huge solution space.

But those companies and investors can't afford to backtrack anymore. They now have to die to make space for a more adjusted solution. It's absurd.
> can actually be a net negative

Gen Z gets perpetually triggered, so there is a move to not do code reviews.

I just make an effort to be first to review and keep the mood light.
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Are they attacking the drones because they're carrying food? Ravens are incredibly smart birds so I don't imagine them attacking the drones for no good reason.
They fit both Chrome and the app itself into 20MB? Must be a miracle.
Personally I think that is pessimal, because if I am the person investigating in 5 years time I want to see the change split up into multiple logical commits. So lots-of-commits-plus-squash-and-merge requires the developer to do the work of splitting up the feature implementation but doesn't give the benefit of having a usefully split set of commits to the future-debugging-person...
At least she has a writing career to fall back on.

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I would like to know whether these mail are sent to everyone with an account there or only to people who had some standing balance.
I can play more games now but my overall experience is worse.

I am not happy with the desktop environments we have now. I have to use a custom Gnome Shell to make my experience acceptable.
It may be because noone else was watching that video, or because your browser doesn't support WebRTC, or because your browser blocked the 3rd party request to the STUN server for peer discovery. In any case, the server could and should have other peer instances seed its content ; if that's not the case, you could contact the instance admin and suggest they get that kind of replication going to ease distribution.
blogs are more alive than ever.

they make up a smaller % of the internet, but that's because the use-base has increased.
Various credit score systems played the same role here, and banks banning too many people despite always promising otherwise is what finally brought down the regulation hammer on them.
FWIW if you talk to Jonathan Shapiro he will happily tell you that he was the one that convinced the L4 folks that capabilities were the right way to do things, replacing Liedtke's kind of lame chiefs-and-clans model. I think he's probably correct, because (quite aside from the particular encounters he describes) the resurgence of capability systems in the late 01990s owed an enormous amount to his work popularizing them.

I'm pretty sure your memory of sensory keys is correct, but I haven't run KeyKOS either.
Sure, I definitely want to use a web-browser on my TV with a remote control.

On mobile I'm not the kind "I need an app to access that service", but on TV, where I consume most of my YouTube content, I DO need an app. Because otherwise the UX will be an absolute nightmare.
If that were the case, the US would form a mitary alliance with Taiwan, including mutual defence like say Nato. Instead the US maintains a policy of "strategic ambiguity" over whether and how much it would interfere were the PRC to try for "reunification" the hard way.
You're probably not getting coffee beans on a per-cup basis. I personally order a batch of tea leaves a handful amount of times per year. I think coffee beans are a bit more sensitive than tea leaves, but even they should be fine for months if stored properly.
which shouldn't be a problem if you were transparent about meeting with said experts (name them) and explain your change of mind accordingly.
This seems about right, just anecdotally though.
Given the choice between a world that has delivery drones and one that has delivery ravens, I definitely would prefer the latter.
If the delivery industry can properly solve the problem of bike theft it would probably be the best thing it can possibly do for the climate and city life worldwide.
I feel like there's a poor buffering algorithm involved. It was a bit choppy for me even though the playback bar indicated that the video had loaded well ahead of time.

Downloading that video with wget took me 0.4 seconds.

Connecting to peertube.tv (peertube.tv)|77.168.118.55|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1058937 (1.0M) [video/mp4]
Saving to: ‘de5a56e4-036c-4536-b1a6-4ac45b872516-576.mp4’

de5a56e4-036c-4536- 100%[===================>] 1.01M 2.79MB/s in 0.4s
It's a wonderful note about the difficulty of explaining things to people. It has nothing to do with category theory, so the title is bad, but unfortunately HN's policy doesn't permit providing a better title.
At least not vote in clear and blatant contradiction to promises they made.
The main reason is because Bittorrent doesn't have a "social networking" layer like ActivityPub fediverse has, for user/channel following, comments, etc... We could (should?) build a Popcorn Time "social" UI using RSS feeds and some semantic metadata to discover content, but that just isn't there yet. You suggest we don't need it, but what do you use for that purpose?

Peertube reuses an established social networking protocol, adding Bittorrent-like P2P video seeding on top (using Webtorrent protocol, not Bittorrent), taking the best of both worlds in a "low(er)-effort" manner.
In C++ I’ve gotten in the habit of `enum class is_gain : bool { no, yes };` so the call site is `v = calc_formula(ia, ib, is_gain::yes);`. An advantage is that such stron Boolean-like types can be passed repeatedly and maintain their type safety.
In Austria there were multiple times that all planned operations have been postponed. This has never happened previously. I would present that as a clear case of this being a different situation.
Does Google have a reliable way of doing age verification on YouTube these days, or is it still as easy as creating a new GMail account?
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This should really be solved by using named parameters or by writing docblocks so that IDE can show hints.

Another trick, at least in js, is to use destructuring assignment, e.g.

function calc_formula({a, b, is_gain}){
...
}

calc_formula({a:1, b:2, is_gain:true})
You probably have a web browser on your TV that could go to any peertube instance. Even if it doesn't support WebRTC, plain HTTP streaming would be used as fallback. Also NewPipe client on Android has Peertube support.

Slightly off-topic, but do you think having a computer you don't control running in your TV is such a great idea? It sounds like an IoT/security nightmare, unless you can flash a system you control on there.
Same here. Usually informal and under the table cash transaction. Not nearly as common as a formal lease though, but some people have issues with those.
At current polls it'll be SPD/CDU/Greens. Good. The AfD is a bunch of nazis anyway.
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It's already passed, so one way or another it is a part, as it faced very little protest.
Are we in a bubble? Afraid of an IT job market crash?
And probably the answer for why things are the way they are: most people likely just want the report for insurance payout, and not getting their used thing back.
Closer to a post-mortem. They apparently do a threat assessment so this particular cause of death can be avoided in future - though standing in a group on the road is maybe not the brightest idea.
I believe the distinction they are trying to make, if any, is harvesting attention vs harvesting information. Fair enough, while Google as a whole is more on harvesting information (I would say Facebook too), Youtube employs a bunch of dark patterns to make users remain on the site.

At the end of the day, they go hand in hand, those ads need to be served.
The most efficient peer reviews I participated in were early code walkthroughs (prototyping/implementation phase) combined with code reviews. The actual code reviews were much more interesting because you could see what and how the programmer implemented points of critique that came up in the walkthrough. Navigating through the code was also much easier (with bigger changesets), because you already knew to some extent what was changed.
I think the usual approach is similar to any other service hosting: don't do open registrations unless you feel like dealing with the moderation and legal consequences.

Have a contact form where people can request an account. Create accounts for trusted peers. I'm unaware if Peertube has a "moderate first" setting but it should not be hard to implement... it's just not the assumed usecase of Peertube so far.
I wish this was possible today. But I won't get a small Windows 10 distribution no matter how hard I try or how much I'm willing to pay.
Triggering inoperability in a safe way is not an issue.

The problem is that you would need to reach mass adoption of the technology, so that the fact of that specific item not being worth stealing would become common knowledge.
The anonymized routing prevents them from tracking the source to your computer.

If someone downloads something on Freenet they don't know where it is coming from.
It might be just the projects I work on but I find that the vast majority of bugs I encounter are ones that property testing would not catch.

The two most recent (entirely typical) examples Im thinking of being third party systems behaving unexpectedly and a "bug in requirements".

I can see that where it might be effective would be in finding obscure edge cases in very complex logical code with simple inputs and outputs - e.g. a DSL parser or a sophisticated pricing engine. Weirdly it seems I do less and less of that kind of thing every year.
I don't follow Android development at all, so thank you for the correction.
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