skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As stated in the article, he used low-noise propellers, and eventually the bears just ignored him. If he's using a modern drone, it probably has a zoom lens on it.

I've filmed a black bear and her cub with my DJI Mavic 2 Zoom, and never really came closer than 60 metres or so away from them. They didn't even notice the drone. I used low-noise props that change the pitch of the sound as well. Here's my video (I'm an amateur!) from a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyEPvcLOTUk

However, if you check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JHyUieKqoU you'll see some video from the author/photographer of these Polar bears. And at one point the bear is heading directly for the drone. I'm sure his curiosity would result in a swatting of the drone if the pilot didn't move back as he approached. I think he's closer than I would dare, but I don't know what equipment he's using.
Ask HN: Orgs that offer Financial Support for Conference Speakers?
Conferences will sometimes offer to help with travel or hotel expenses, but does anyone know of any orgs external to conferences that offer financial support for speakers to get to conferences that they wouldn't otherwise be able to?
So what are those 'trick of the trade' and what makes a drone propeller quieter?
That's unfortunately very true as I've experienced myself.
> imposed on customers

They are imposed, because dumb equipment is getting harder to find. You can't buy a dumb TV any more. It'll soon be the same with dishwashers and washing machines.

Incidentally, I don't want a smart machine with a 90's mode; that gives you all the complexity and unreliability of a smart machine.

I've heard that industrial-grade clothes washers are reliable. My toaster is a Dualit, and has no electronics - the timer is clockwork. This is industrial-grade - it's pitched at people running a bar or cafe (and priced accordingly). No planned obsolescence, and it's held together with screws - it's eminently repairable, and spares are available.

I'm prepared to pay for stuff that is un-smart.
The rumor is that it was abandoned 3 years ago due to resistance from upstream developers that are focused on Wayland. This could be true, since apparently, most of these changes had been done already, but not rolled out. So an independent developer, Povilas Kanapickas took up the challenge of releasing it. Well done, that man. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...
Hiring wasn't in the articles' checklist though ;)

Valid point anyway
That option was not on my radar.

>execute the code inside the NIC driver

this is ... a NIC+FPGA which can execute code?
go inside and pay when you're done.

Go inside where and pay whom? The vast majority of charging stations I've seen are unmanned.
Internet outage affected nearly 30k people after Oakland fiber cable was shot
I may the only greybeard arund here who remembers (and has the screenshots to prove it), used to be from 2005--2008 when you would open a message in Gmail, all of the sponsored ads would show up over on the right-hand-side of your email message, and would all be related to keywords from the inside of the email.

Making it grotesquely blatant, how very much the Google computers were reading all your email.

At least now they conceal it a little better, by storing your keyword/interests in a giant permanent database, then bringing the advertisements up on other, non-Google pages!
The fact you worry about what language they're written in - while you shouldn't need to ever edit any of their code - already implies they're not boring and you're overthinking the decision already.

Pick the one that gets you up and running the fastest, ideally one that doesn't rely on you installing additional runtimes.
Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
Most nations spend a notable portion of their defense budget, on disrupting opponents via whisper campaigns, and dividing an opponent from within.

This has been going on through all of recorded history.

Disrupting belief in any important part of your opponent's society, is key. The goal is to cause societal disfunction, an inability to work cooperatively.

Why fight a war, if your opponent destructs from within? Or, almost as good, loses some capacity to make war?

Also good, is if your actions cause your opponent to change regimes, and become aligned with your goals.
All totally fine except it's in the context of an involuntary OTA update with unknown content. But we've decided that manufacturers have an incorruptible right to tinker with goods they've sold you after the fact. As usual the conflict between compliance and consent is coopted by the true product owners to gaslight (and ultimately to fleece) you, as you find you've become the mere licensee of your vehicle, which is not so much an object as a piece of embodied IP. The way your car works is a trade secret, don't ya know.. and today's value add is next year's rootkit.

If the tesla software were open, it'd be trivial to make this feature optional.

I know boycotts don't work.. so somebody (Cory Doctorow?) Wake me up when they start making an OSS car.
> when HA notices, that the machine has not run in 3 days, but is closed, then it can send a notification to my phone

But why? If I haven’t run it in three days, then I don’t need it to run. The only way this might be useful for me would be if HA could magically realize the dishwasher is full and I forgot to run it, but it’s not going to be able to do that. It can’t tell the difference been “I forgot” and “I don’t want it to run yet” and I absolutely do not want HA sending me a message every time I leave asking if I meant to run the dishwasher.

> And I thought at least some dishwashers heated the water themselves, like my washing machine.

Maybe some dishwashers do have internal heaters to reheat the water? Mine definitely is connected to the hot water supply, though. I am not aware of it containing an internal heater. Definitely some dishwashers have a heating element for drying (mine does not) but I don’t think they use those elements for heating the water.

Also, does your clothes washing machine actually heat water? That seems pointless when you already have a device intended to provide hot water to the whole house. Mine connects to the hot and cold lines. I’d be annoyed if I bought a washing machine and then realized it had a heater inside instead of using the hot water supply. The extra complexity and failure modes and wasted time to heat the water do not seem to provide any value.

> At least the water-hardness value is nice to know, and (since it's super-easy with HA) log/graph it over time. Plus detergent and salt levels are nice to know for shopping-list-planning.

Personally I don’t want “nice to haves” that requires my devices to be internet connected and have apps etc. The value is way too low for the complexity it adds. I especially don’t trust these device manufacturers to keep these systems running long term.

If you find value, though, I’m not saying you shouldn’t be able to buy one of those smart dishwashers.
Flip a coin, try the first one out, and if anything pops up in a few days that makes you think the other might be more suitable, evaluate the other one.

I recently started experimenting with Snowpack for JS build. I realized it doesn’t do sourcemaps very will so I grabbed Parcel. That worked great but doesn’t have a testing story and Vite has a couple options there. Vite has been good.

It was work to evaluate each of those and switch between them. But not that much work really since I hadn’t committed a huge codebase yet. But it was worth it because now I know why you might choose one over the other.

Granted the “boring” choice would be Webpack.
One day, if we wait long enough, The Boring Company technology will be boring technology.
We can implant false memories (2003)
Rogan responds to Spotify protest, Covid advisories
imo it would be helpful if the interactive visualizations indicated that they are interactive—I skipped right over the first one!
> sadly its not. you're in pain? you need to visit a medical facility to figure out whats wrong. without knowing how serious it is it can lead to a life long issue. again you don't really have choices here. pay the healthcare tax or risk long term issues.

I don't see how that is a congruent thought. The 'sadly it's not' doesn't follow from your statement after. If you are in pain without knowing how serious it is, you would likely get opinions from several doctors. You're not going to walk into the first hospital you find and say "I'll pay anything you ask just fix me."

> the capitalists idea of a market simply doesn't apply to healthcare.

You still haven't made a logically coherent argument as to why it doesn't. The vast majority of healthcare transactions are made between two lucid and consenting parties.

> this isn't true. we fund hospitals in rural areas because there literally isnt enough people to keep one operating via patient care.

That backs my point, right? Those hospitals aren't funded by emergency care either, which means the point about costs being a one sided negotiation while the other party is dying is still inaccurate.

> you're also asserting that if the populace can't sustain the healthcare system then it shouldn't be available to people. which is fairly cruel and immoral.

I don't think recognizing the limits of a given resource is cruel or immoral, it's reality. Us not having perfectly clean energy is killing us all, but it isn't cruel and immoral, it's a problem that needs solving. If a town can't afford a hospital, and you want to live in a town with a hospital, move, right? I don't see any reason why taxpayers should pay so a small mountain town in the middle of nowhere can have a staff of doctors and nurses to support a population of 100 people. If someone wants to live in the mountains of Oregon, I don't see how we have a responsibility to pay for a medical care facility to follow them up.
I found this:

https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server...

> So here's the thing: X works extremely well for what it is, but what it is is deeply flawed. There's no shame in that, it's 33 years old and still relevant, I wish more software worked so well on that kind of timeframe. But using it to drive your display hardware and multiplex your input devices is choosing to make your life worse.

> ...

> So, is Xorg abandoned? To the extent that that means using it to actually control the display, and not just keep X apps running, I'd say yes. But xserver is more than xfree86. Xwayland, Xwin, Xephyr, Xvnc, Xvfb: these are projects with real value that we should not give up. A better way to say it is that we can finally abandon xfree86.

---

I think that to the extent there's confusion, it's because a lot of people (myself included) don't understand the project structure of Xorg. I honestly still don't know what the distinction is between these projects, I just know that around this time people started saying that it was time to switch to Wayland.
It is interesting how often a new EV "goes straight to the head of the pack". Even the article suggests the Hyundai Ioniq 5 "went straight to the top of the class" when it was tested late last year.

This for me is why I'm currently cool about EVs. The technology is moving forward so quickly that even in the space of a year you could be driving around in "old tech".

It feels to me as if EVs are currently at the Motorola Flip phone stage of their evolution, with a new car offering significant performance enhancements released every few months and a gamechanger, such as solid state batteries, just around the corner.
>Spontaneity: You need to wait for the car to show up

Imagine not having to walk to your parking spot or trying to find parking at your destination though. It will actually be _more convenient_ to carshare than to own private.
Hey OP or mods, could you please update this link

Dunno where the staging server came from

https://blog.begin.com/posts/2022-01-27-the-boring-technolog...
Cecilia suffers more than most songs from typical FM-radio car-listening conditions. It's like a whole different song when played back at home on even minimally-acceptable speakers, from a decent medium.
The problem isn't tech per se, it is the many poor implementations and the push by manufacturers to get you to subscribe to their cloud service.

You can have your cake and eat it too, but you do have to do some work to get there. I can control every light switch, thermostat, garage doors, deadbolts, and a few other random things. All from my phone. Automate things, get notified if I want, when the door is unlocked/opened/whatever. But critically, if my Home Assistant goes down, it all fails back to 1950s style. E.g. the deadbolts still have a physical key and a twist knob on the inside (though the keypad functionality is not Internet-dependent). This does mean I don't use any devices that become unusable when the HA server or Internet disappears (for example, Hue bulbs).

For devices that don't have local control as an option, I just refuse to buy them. I won't buy things that require a 'net connection to function.
> I'm not bringing my family (or even myself) anywhere near the lightrail. I'd prefer to drive just for their safety and mine. I know it's worse for the environment but their safety is my first concern.

It's not just worse for the environment but also much more dangerous to drive a car compared to the incidents you cited. You think you are in control because you're behind the wheel, but you're not. You have no more control over other drivers than you do someone attacking someone on this light rail. It's like if you ask someone today (2019) if America is more dangerous than before they'd say yes because that's what they hear on the news, but the statistics show otherwise. Similarly here but with car crashes actually causing quite a lot of death and destruction.

> I'm not bringing my family (or even myself) anywhere near the lightrail. I'd prefer to drive just for their safety and mine. I know it's worse for the environment but their safety is my first concern.

> And such is the problem with public transit. It's easy to think of it as reducing load on the environment while forgetting that lax law enforcement turns it into a somewhat scary place to be with family members.

It's mind-boggling how so many countries can do it but we can't in the US. How is it that China, Japan, Korea, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom can do this but we can't? Are Americans objectively worse people?
Looks awesome! Greetings from another IT-savvy Harry with a law degree :)
For those of us that aren't in the loop, care to explain? Why would radon be a problem here?
Ha, just had a similar experience over the weekened with my Lifx light bulbs needing to restart to apply a firmware update.

Yes, the freaking light bulbs themselves needed to reboot... we've come too far.
FYI GitHub Enterprise can be self-hosted https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/learning-about-github...
Otherwise know as a Möbius transformation...how is this terminology missing from the article?
One thing I like about X is I can run x2x over ssh to move my mouse pointer and keyboard control from my laptop to my rpi-hooked-to-a-TV.

So I can watch stuff on the TV, and when I want to choose a new thing I just mouse past the edge of my laptop screen and now I'm mousing and typing on the rpi.

Is this currently possible under Wayland with stock Ubuntu and stock Raspbian?
Not all IoT is the same. I only buy into IoT systems that I control and have zero or minimal cloud connections. Started years ago with the original X10 powerline control stuff, but as soon as the ZWave wireless mesh stuff started getting traction switched to that and never looked back. I use HomeSeer which is commercial home automation software - that will talk to just about ANY home automation standard out there. The UI is ugly as hell but its ridiculously versatile and functional. If I were to set up something now I'd just stick to stuff that can work locally with HomeKit and use HomeAssistant as the brain to replace HomeSeer. I already have HomeSeer and it works so no need to replace it, but thankfully there are alternatives like HomeKit that are capable - and free!
Oh man, I hope it isn't true that the equipment was sold off and / or junked. I have held out hope that the staff could be hired back. The LCM was a true gem. My first time there, I was continually freaking out "OMG, I'm touching an actual working [X for a dozen or so values of X]." Subsequent visits, I'd just hang out on the second floor, huffing the Old Computer Smells. Very therapeutic.

I have to wonder what Paul would think about all his cool legacy projects being shuttered like this. Add the Cinerama to the list of things that I used to go to all the time, and miss bitterly.
10 years later where is Wayland...
Interestingly I think that would be a trivially solvable game with traditional methods (like checkers, connect 4, or tic-tac-toe were) due to the seemingly overwhelming likelyhood the game could always be forced to end in 5ish ply or less. Could be a fun weekend programming challenge to prove it!
This article would be enhanced with concrete examples. The "Boring Technology" argument is hard to attack because it's an opinion, an ideal. It's a good ideal, mind you, but it has the problem of being different for each person, even if they're all on the same team looking at the same use case.

Another good extension to the topic would also be defining when Boring Technology becomes Ancient Technology. You need to hit that middle of the tech curve where it's understood and stable but also still being maintained and keeping up with modern needs.
On the other hand you attract a certain kind of developer with those roles than generic languages.
Modpol Is a Self-Governance Toolkit for Communities in Online Worlds
My most meaningful work of 2021: A mutual aid fund
You can, but...

1) if you run HassOS (Home Assistant Operating System), getting root shell where you can run appropriate nmcli commands is unnecessary convoluted (there are two "ssh & terminal" extensions, the "official" one won't give you a shell on the host, due to "security").

The good news is, that once you do have the root shell, configuring vlans is easy, it runs standard NetworkManager.

2) if you do not run HassOS, but inside a docker on some other common home devices, they can have their footguns too.

For example, if you have Synology NAS and run HA in docker, you are going to google for blog posts how to configure vlans + bonding (spoiler: no hybrid ports, only trunk), or vlans + openswitch, or, heaven forbid, vlans + bonding + openswitch. That are going to be few evenings appropriately spent.

3) Some devices, when connecting to wifi, would connect successfully only if the device you are pairing it from is on the same wifi (i.e. you can't have your phone on your main ssid/vlan and connect the device to isolated ssid/vlan). Bosch Home Connect, I'm looking at you...
regardless of what you guys think, Harvard seems to have a pretty good system in place to benefit themselves, until that stops working, i don't think they will stop using their own admission policies.
https://www.google.com/search?q=iiuc+acronym
Maybe I just read too deeply into your statement:

> People who don't want masks aren't getting fitted properly for n95's, they aren't shaving, they aren't behaving consciously in the many ways you can behave that render masking ineffective.

Maybe you weren't saying not shaving renders an n95 ineffective.
Spotfire, for the curious.
Ask HN: Where do you hang out virtually online?
In the past, the place to be to connect with like minded people was on IRC; in particular ##java Now with Slack and Discord, I haven't found a community of folks who are building products, ideas, sharing thoughts, talking tech, talking lessons learned about growing their company, virtually collaborating on problems by sharing ideas, etc.

This has created a bit of tension mentally for me. The feeling of being caged up with no physical cage.

There was a Slack group for startups by Jason a while back, but that looks to have died off.
Isn't the whole point of an archive that it can't be altered? If you're allowed to alter it, then you aren't allowed to call it an "archive".
Here, the quote by J.S. Mill comes to the rescue:

> But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion

This applies to flat earth theory believers as well. If they are unable to refute the reasons for the sphere theory, they have no ground for preferring either theory.

There's also the part "where he must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest" and I have a hard time imagining that most conspiracy theorists actually believe their theories -- in my experience, most people cling to conspiracy theories because they're more convenient to them; the need to believe is stronger than the actual belief. But that viewpoint is exactly what Socrates was denouncing ;)
My developer experience with Citrix last year:

1) Contact Citrix support about some missing details in their SDK (Dynamic Virtual Channels were not loading properly on XenDesktop, and the SDK docs just said "Use the Microsoft APIs for registration")

2) Citrix ponders about the issue for a few months. I write a full DVC plugin for them to test things with, because they don't seem to have anyone in-house who knows their own tech stack

3) Citrix finally declares that dynamic virtual channels are currently broken. They might get fixed in a future release, but they're not on the active roadmap.

4) Citrix is still releasing frequent updates to the SDK, advertising DVC support. NB this is not just a small typo in the docs, they have a long chapter dedicated to the topic ( Citrix Dynamic Virtual Channel Protocol at https://github.com/citrix/receiver-for-windows-virtual-chann... ). The feature is very thoroughly documented, it's just...not actually implemented.

I can't imagine how many developer hours get wasted yearly with people trying to get virtual channels to work, when in reality they're just flat-out not supported.
Consumer wallet software gives you a warning that this is probably not what you want.

> In the US at least, you can get your money back through the legal system. Accidentally dropping your money into someone else’s account does not give them a right to it and for substantial amounts of money people can and do get their money back.

I doubt this is true in the case of uncooperative out-of-country second party - yeah they have no right to the money, but they don't care and the legal system won't do much for you.
Yup, and anyone with a heartbeat figured that out at some point in the last 20 years. Yet the article also says

> Not having GPS or data (or hidden microphones or cameras) also makes your vehicle feel more private, obviously.

I can't exclude the possibility that the author is a moron, but I suspect it's just outrage-bait. Like that whole article.
Giant Pyrosome
I think there IS a useful reason to count the pennies, if you are one that needs help staying within self-imposed spending limits. But even tracking it doesn't solve the actual problem, which is behavioural, it might help enough to be useful.
Bought a Mazda CX5 a few months ago.

Thank god Mazda currently has the "driver first" mentality.

NO Touchscreen!

Main input is through a comfortable knob in front of the arm rest, where your hand naturally lands when resting.

Gauge cluster is digital, but analog type dials for spedo, etc.

AC, Power Cool/heated seats, driver assists, auto-park, all controlled via BUTTONS!

It's a modern miracle and one of the big reasons I chose to buy it over a new Tesla Model 3.

"Horse and rider" is truly a wonderful concept... Go Mazda!
Nomad supports it. I ran Nomad instead of Kubevirt at some point. Functionality was great, but it missed the live migration. My usecase did not require it, but it was later pointed out to me.