skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would help to know which drones and/or the software/OS controlling them. Many drones already have APIs that can give you X/Y/Z positioning data. If this is indoors you may not be able to rely on GPS data, but you may have options for other coordinates based on triangulating wifi control signals.

Doing it with machine vision would likely be challenging (and I say this having a fair bit of experience with AI/MV systems). The area you are covering a very large field of view, and drones are generally very small relatively speaking.

If you can't do it with native APIs, I would probably look into an RF style system with a small transmitter on each drone and then antennas places around the stadium to detect and triangulate the signals into 3D space.
I don't want my women being with other men either. You can still be with other women, though, as long as everyone is comfortable. It didn't really work for me because I found it requires far too much emotional energy and the sex wasn't worth it in the end. Having a harem isn't really compatible with going to work etc.
How is not touching a programming language until college a bad thing?

I am the OP you're asking this of and I don't think first touching a programming language in college is a bad thing. And I also don't subscribe to the belief that learning has to become more difficult as you age.

What I was doing however was responding to the statement, "I think it ends with everyone becoming a developer". The reality is that almost all people have no interest in becoming a software developer. Most software developers have no idea this is true, but it is. This doesn't make most people's lives less valid or make them "dumber" or anything else pejorative - they're just different.

On the one hand you have people like me who stared fascinated watching my 5th grade teacher program a VIC-20 in Commodore BASIC that led my parents to invest a giant sum of money into buying a Commodore 64 for Christmas when I was 10. To give me a 300 baud modem when I was 13. I couldn't afford to buy computer books in the mall bookstores so I would go to a "book warehouse" near me as often as I could and I tell you I would literally get butterflies in my stomach as I approached the computer book section. I wrote my own BBS program at 14. In 1988 I read the Waite Group's Turbo-C Bible cover to cover repeatedly.

There are people out there who get just as excited about and have as much proficiency with bass guitars. I have a good friend that is like that. I respect his ability and interests as much as I hope people respect mine.
John McAfee died by suicide in prison, Spanish judge rules
That man in front of me going too slow is an idiot!
That man behind me going too fast is a maniac!
You won't see the majority of it because setting a few examples means the many will not voice their true opinions.
> I don't understand what the payoff is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
To comment on point 5. The three spelling errors I caught tell me you are using a phone with autocorrect turned off.
Imagine you woke up one day set on the intention of digging a tunnel to China in your backyard by only using cutlery. Would throwing more people in the hole armed with spoons fix the inherent issues with your project?

The reason why there are lots of experts criticizing the current implementations and crypto concepts is because it's vastly easier to realize the flaws in one's idea than coming up with a new proposal. Yes, PoW works but it does not make sense, it's just a very interesting gimmick that makes cryptocurrency doable. That does not mean it actually makes sense or that it represents a stable foundation for a digital currency in practice.
The biggest pitfall with manual bulk transcribing Pascal to C back in day, was that operator precedence between both languages are really different. Not only is their model of thinking different, it is also wrong.
I don't understand your point?

You think that the average person:

- Be fully educated on every product and service available to them in every market they encounter

- Spend the time to speak to N amount of people via word of mouth and understand how many N amount of conversations are required to have the confidence to buy the best product (in terms of value, feature set, price, etc.) for the item they're looking for

- Discover products and services that they didn't know existed but may solve their problem in a novel way

All without any marketing/advertising interaction? And that this is somehow going to magically make buying decisions more clear (i.e. not muddy)?

Sorry but that is hilariously out of touch with reality...
Marketing is basically hacking, so yes, it doesn't have to be evil. Apparently there are a few white hats.
Sorry if I seemed to suggest that your perspective wasn't valid. I think your experience is a common one, and a lot of people agree with you. The tide is in your favor, in fact. I just hope people "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater".

I think that most pragmatic people understand that they have to do something to help the poor. Even the most callous people still understand that doing nothing may affect them negatively (unless, perhaps, they're rich enough to flee to New Zealand). The thing at issue is how much to give to the poor and how best to administer it.

Because I'm a success story, I will continue to support the programs that supported me. However, I would gladly welcome improvements that make those programs more effective and efficient.
I run a successful SaaS and while we have 2 engineers including myself, sometimes there are issues that are outside of my skill level (usually devops or db-related) or just aren't worth it for me to deal with on my own. I would likely pay 3 figures a month (maybe low 4?) just to have the privilege to field technical questions a couple times per month and ensure I can get good advice/help quickly.

It's not that I don't have developer friends, it's moreso that I respect their time and would rather not bother them for tech problems related to my business. I would love to pay for help, but at the same time my friends would never accept my money, so you can see my dilemma. I've used codementor.io in the past but there's a lot of friction in terms of finding a developer/posting a "job", scheduling a time with them, and so on. I'd like to just field these questions into a discord group, feel zero guilt/shame about it, and feel like someone smart will be able to help me within a reasonable time frame.

Of course, whoever figures this out would need to figure out how to balance the costs and the scope of the problems (i.e. I obviously wouldn't be able to have someone just rewrite my entire app), but for example here are some things that I've recently had questions about that I would love to have solved for me that vary in difficulty:

- What CSS do I need to write for me to get these boxes to look this way given that the widths/heights can be variable? (css questions)

- Figuring out what is going on with node-sass and later versions of Webpacker preventing me from compiling assets. (js problems)

- I have no idea how to do this query in an effective manner, here is my data model, can someone help me write an ActiveRecord or SQL query for this? (DB-related questions)

- We have a massive performance bottleneck in this part of the app, here is the business context of why we did it this way, but also why it ended up being really bloated, I'd like some help talking through a better way of fetching and serializing this data for the frontend. (performance problems)

- Our site is going down intermittently and nginx is giving me weird errors (devops problems).

- Here's a feature we want to implement, what do you think is the best way to execute this in terms of tools, packages, and so on? (general consultative questions)

I know these questions on HN are usually fishing for some 100% automated software solution, but after 5 years of building SaaS, this is the one recurring problem I've had.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not looking to hire a consultant specifically, but rather that I think something like this can be productized if someone were ambitious enough to want to assemble this sort of marketplace.
> The polio vaccine serves an actual need, and if you're not selling something I would refrain from using the word marketing.

Then I believe basing policy off your definition of marketing would require first a tribunal to decide if something is "marketing" or... Whatever the polio campaign was. Because the national, then international, polio eradication project absolutely included perception and behavior modification.

Polio was only paralytic to a fraction of a fraction of its victims. For most, it was a bad bout of diarrhea and several bad days. And the vaccine (unlike the safer designs we have now) was either killed virus or half-killed live strain; in one terribly unfortunate batch, it caused polio. People had legitimate reason to believe things were good enough as-is (after all, most everyone had either gotten and survived polio or knew someone who had, with far, far fewer "Uncle Harry got it and he's in an iron lung" stories by volume) and getting some (possibly still-active) vaccine shot into their arms was going to be a bad long-term decision.

Against all of that, the March of Dimes did a huge amount of work to get people to go against their inclinations and the evidence available to their eyes to move polio from an "everybody eventually gets this" common environmental risk to a "makes the news" occasional outbreak. It's a brilliant success story of perception adjustment, on par with Colonel Stapp's crusade to make the seat-belt mandatory (speaking of which... http://persuasion-and-influence.blogspot.com/2015/02/wear-se...).

> Marketing is all about changing perceptions

No disagreement here. Sometimes, it's used to help people believe that the world can be other than it is, if we only all change our behavior to make it so.

> I used the cosmetics industry as an example because they've turned this into a veritable industry: people are made to feel terribly unhappy

No disagreement that cosmetics is full of bad actors and bad action, but people were putting eyeshadow and rouge on back when the closest thing we had to marketing was some statues declaring that a dead pharaoh was a cool guy (with the name scribbled out and replaced by some other dead pharaoh's name). I submit to you the humble possibility that people don't doll up because they're compelled by advertisers to do so (though I've no doubt advertising plays a huge factor in the way they choose to doll up).

> even marketing a good product comes with the implied 'right to market', where possibly none exists

The right to freedom of speech isn't universal, I agree. I submit that we do more harm than good trying to split the hair on deciding when something is freely-offered speech and when something is marketing, however. Good luck squaring those circles without getting eerily close to "prior restraint on open communication of ideas."
Ah, shitty headline, and I was too cool to read this article.

It sounded like the Apple App Store was wait-listing downloaders.
What happened to the alleged mastodon license violation ?
Anyways, if this still based on mastodon code, maybe that will help mastodon codebase to be stress tested.

Fediverse rules
That 20/20/20 rule, assuming that the exact times are not critical, would fit in well for people using the Pomodoro Technique [1] for time management or something similar.

I find it interesting that it also fits will with ergonomic recommendations. Both sitting too long while doing computer work and standing too long are bad for you. See this article from the old Cornell ergonomics group site [2] for details on the perils of both. Their recommendation:

> Sit to do computer work. Sit using a height-adjustable, downward titling keyboard tray for the best work posture, then every 20 minutes stand for 8 minutes AND MOVE for 2 minutes. The absolute time isn’t critical but about every 20-30 minutes take a posture break and stand and move for a couple of minutes. Simply standing is insufficient. Movement is important to get blood circulation through the muscles. And movement is FREE! Research shows that you don’t need to do vigorous exercise (e.g. jumping jacks) to get the benefits, just walking around is sufficient. So build in a pattern of creating greater movement variety in the workplace (e.g. walk to a printer, water fountain, stand for a meeting, take the stairs, walk around the floor, park a bit further away from the building each day).

Do something like pomodoro for time management and during the breaks between pomodoros spend a couple minutes walking around and looking at things in the distance and you've covered protecting both body health and eye health from the risks of computer work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

[2] https://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html
There's a lot of FF7 that made my childhood. Reading the article seems like a blast from the past.
Can strongly relate to both parts of this. Particularly a source of conflict when partners have different family of origin experiences— the one whose parents normalized buying a round of drive thru coffees every Sunday on the way to church is going to really struggle to ever be frugal enough for the one who grew up eating out once or twice a year and never having take-out. "Cheaper" families can often end up developing an attitude that buying a solution to a problem instead of reusing or making do with what you have is a cop-out or sign of being bougie; it's important to be able to shed those things (with the help of a therapist, if necessary) rather than bringing them into a relationship where they erode trust and safety. On the other side of things, a lot of upper middle class families think of themselves as "not rich" so that can be an adjustment to look back and recognize that oh yeah... I kind of was well-off wasn't I, and part of the privilege of wealth/class is actually being shielded from the full reality of it and just thinking of whatever your experience was as being normal.

Anyway, one of the keys I think is explicitly acknowledging the transitions to different tiers of financial security as they happen. Otherwise a lot of that early stress/judgment/anxiety can hold over from the early years until long past the point where any of it really matters any more. A few $5 treats a week is a way bigger deal when the household income is $50k than when it's $150k.
> they are trying to push you toward serverless with Lambda

With bare metal code written in modern memory-safe languages, serverless/FaaS could easily become a cross-cloud abstraction much like k8s. AIUI, there are already some experiments along these lines. It turns out that the main cloud services differ slightly in how they account for resource utilization, etc. in serverless deployments, but not in a way that would make a cross-cloud abstraction useless.
It's only stochastically useless. I'm sure it's very useful most of the time.

And keep in mind, if software didn't randomly break for mysterious reasons we might be out of a job, eh?
Twitter but where all the users have to be verified.
I agree. I've used Mint since Daryna and since version 19 it has not worked on my older, but still quite good laptops. A similar issue with having to choose between dual monitors or having brightness buttons working. It's a shame, since it has always "just worked" for me, unless I was doing something complicated.
And this is for a very beginner friendly distro.
Flowed text doesn't mean that it won't be printed. It means that it could be printed the way you want it, not the way the author wanted.

This comes in handy when the author decided that 50% of the surface of paper should remain blank, or using a tiny font. They may find it helpful, others not. Same goes for the decision to have pages at all.

The only aspect where I see in which someone else making an unappealable decision for you is superior, is convenience. Conditional on that other person being an expert in the field [of printing].
'free speech'... "PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES... disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site." - TRUTH Social TERMS OF SERVICE 7.12
I find this view of history very perplexing. Workers movements in the US have lead the things like a 40 hour workweek, paid sick leave, weekends, minimum wages, workplace safety standards, etc. The people standing in the way of those reforms and, and indeed who employed state violence against workers to prevent these reforms we enjoy today, were capitalists.

People like to say that America is the home of the free, but we have the world’s largest prison population. This happened under a democratic capitalist system.

> With capitalism, the coercion to work is decentralized in the form of people promising to give you somebody else's work (money)

You say the system is decentralized but 3 individuals in the US hold more wealth than 50% of the population. If money is the method of decentralized enticement, yet a handful of people control most of the money and assets, is that really decentralized control? “A handful of elites owning the nation’s wealth” sounds like most people’s perception of communism, and yet it describes reality in capitalist America.

> Being decentralized makes a dictatorship unnecessary to sustain it.

Last January a defeated President and his followers attempted to overthrow democracy and install himself as the first American dictator. This happened under a capitalist republic. If capitalism makes dictatorships unnecessary, why is an authoritarian movement growing in capitalist America?
If you deplatform people from the mainstream, there will sure be an uprising like this.
I’ve made it to the top 5% in a few competitive games, top 1% or 0.1% even. Once you get there, it’s surreal because of how sloppy you know you are: everything you do is still so clumsy and you still have so much uncertainty. It’s just that most other players are even more clumsy and even more confused (often more confident however).
That's what I use currently, but kanban boards look and feel like an afterthought to me. Sprints would also be nice to have.
I've never had issues with the ads on social media. Some are indeed reasonable.

What I hate about FB or Instagram is the "look how great my life is" aspect.
In USSR you couldn't own much, thus rent-seeking was not possible.

House ownership was limited per-square-meter (varies on exact period and location). Most rooms/apartments were technically state property and you just rented them. Building „cooperative“ apartments where one would own it was a rather late development. And even then I believe limits of apartments-to-own were in place.

On the other hand, room-renting was tolerated in two cases. Resorts (no enough spots in hotels) and university towns (no enough places in dormitories). In resorts locals would move to, for example, garages to make money from renting their own apartments to holiday goers. Students renting was usually old lady business where after your kids are gone and husband dies you rent spare rooms.
There are always a lot of options if you don't have marxists around :)

Cuba was just a Soviet Union's project to burn enough money to show that socialism
works. But it didn't. And I very unhappy that we were living so poor in soviet era while paying those "democracies" which were modeled just like our country - with literally no choice on any elections.

And being rich is not a sin, btw.
This has been tried though, app.net came and went. I mean if you want those things they exist in some form with Mastodon, Matrix/Element (not sure about the event scheduling).
I can think of several things. First two are about heat. Cities are heat islands, maybe they 'like' that, because they have to burn less calarories while being there in general. Second, maybe they utilize thermal updrafts rising above such heat islands, a.k.a stack-effect?

And then the lights. Maybe they like them?
> Today, even electron is reserved for the experienced web dev. See roadmap.sh

I am a recent graduate, but I think UI development has always been hard, whether mobile, web or desktop. Web seems to have had the least barrier to _entry_ (because HTML and JS, I think).

I have had classmates who tried flutter tell that it's so much easier than doing the same thing on web. While it was UI builders then, UI-as-code is new trend. There are some exciting directions now too (Flutter, Jetpack compose, svelte with its first-class reactivity).
It would be nice if I got original software files were made with. Still looking for ChartViewer for dBase interface (?).
SourceForge stopped including spyware and malware installers near the beginning of 2016 when new owners took over.
The bootloaders of the devices that Google sells in its own store are already unlocked. The only exception are Google phones that are bought from some mobile carriers such as Verizon.
A streaming service for my children that allows me to choose which advertisements/PSAs play to them, preferably for values and not products.
Extinct Languages
and started using "Then, Now, Together, Forever".

Or maybe that was the WWE, who can tell them apart.
To be fair though, that's wholly within the scope of what one would expect a Principle Engineer to do.
North Korea's Mysterious Cryptocurrency Ambitions
By having a longer term outlook and doing things might actually gain you market share in the long term.
They probably can't, which is why I'm pessimistic about the idea being viable - unless there is some way for the application to be open-source and quasi-federated; for example with people/companies/communities hosting their own nodes - like Mastodon but with some kind of auto-discovery for regular users to make it approachable.
Also, it bears mentioning that there has been a lot of momentum around new language feature in the past 5 or so years.

Good overview here:
https://advancedweb.hu/new-language-features-since-java-8-to...

And many other changes in the pipeline too..
Might want to explain in the README that Prisma's core is written in Rust. You don't need to install an entire JS stack to use this.
Our outdated marijuana laws put Americans in danger
> Kubernetes could promote profit margins for Google whilst simultaneously being good for OSS.

Yup, a typical "commoditize complements" dynamic. Google/Azure's cloud services do not implement AWS's existing API's and ways to interact with the platform, so they address this by making an alternative available.
Looks neat and I particularly like the 80 day startup thing you've got going on :)

The product isn't exactly what I'm looking for. I have a web based, more visual application in mind.
Waiters tend to be paid better than supermarket staff (at least here in Austria) due to tips.

I could imagine a future system where outside of regular operating hours supermarket prices increase by x% and in return hourly salaries during that time increase by y%.

Shifting the off-core hours work from grocery store staff who are salaried employees to delivery people who are contractors (let’s be honest, as soon as one of these companies is dominating they’ll try to pull an Uber) doesn’t help anyone IMO. It’s just looking away and pretending the issue doesn’t exist.