skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to agree that this seems like a lot of fun. A lot of people in this thread are focusing on quality and comparing to other, more capable and more expensive drones. However, something small and relatively cheap that you can carry on a strap around your neck seems like a unique value prop. So long as it passes the bar of reasonable durability and quality I could see a lot of people wanting one.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27796821
the pixels are WAY smaller nowadays, though; perhaps that constrains the nanotexture fabrication process in an expensive way?
I wonder how are they able to call it Pixy. Isn't the word trademarked?

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4801:d0...
You don't use a wash dryer I assume. Or Christmas lights? Plugged out all standby appliances? Never drive a car? Working without a laptop?

Comparing energy usage of a global system with the total energy usage of a country is absurd, and people doing it should feel ashamed they didnt rationally think about what they said/wrote.
How would the structure change?
i hate and distrust fungi. sinister organisms. don't turn your back on them.
This got me thinking. When I was young I took some guitar lessons, but the instrument never _clicked_ for me. Now I have a (very basic) Yamaha keyboard, which I thought I would learn to play "at some point". It's been years since I last touched it.

> If you've ever fell in love with a song, or an artist, or totally jammed out to some track in a manner that would be embarrassing had you been observed, or if you constantly walk around with a tune in your head, then yes, learning an instrument is a great idea.

That is very much how I am. I almost feel restless if I'm not listening to music, I wake up with specific songs in my head almost daily; I have a decades-old music collection with all sorts of stuff, from the most commercial pop imaginable to obscure metal bands, or bizarre experimental soundscapes that some people wouldn't even consider "music". Music is one of the constants in my life, and one of the few things that are guaranteed to bring me joy, or peace, or _something_.

> [...] because I'm the kind of person who bounces from hobby to hobby and project to project and rarely finishes anything.

Also sounds like me, 100%. Now I'm wondering if there's an instrument out there that I would be able to stick to. Goodness knows I could use something to keep my brain somewhat in line these days.
Aye - I only listed more common bands. You won't find Godspeed You Black Emperor or Mogwai on the list either (which I found absurd) ;) The list gives an idea what post x is and gives examples, so goal achieved :)

Still I double your recommendations. 65daysofstatic might not be what OP is looking for, but is still a great band. For more similar see math rock.

The Evpatoria Report is one of more obscure post rock bands amongst listed. Still, their Maar album ranks amongst my favourite, with highlite of Mithridate, hence the inclusion (apropos of none)
Dte – A small and easy to use console text editor
Right? Its so close to being wonderful, and I really like the raspiOS desktop. I think we're right around the corner from a new ARM frontier opening up.

Tomorrow (today!) my experiment is a minimal systemd linux. Thanks, something in your writing reminded me of that, I had just started reading about it last night. My inspiration was the "minimum linux live" project, which of course is not really a practical start point, and would take a ton of work to build up, but none of the tiny linuxes like DSL and Puppy Linux scratch my itch. So I think a tear down is my path forward, then once I find that, start from scratch and aim for that target.
I tried this too, it was great to have a wall of slowness as reference.
These are not show-stoppers, nor are they something that Georgists have failed to consider.

"Another basis on which it is argued that greatly increased taxes on land are infeasible is that if land values were to fall precipitously, the financial system would collapse. It is true that many properties have mortgages that would exceed the value of the property if land taxes were increased significantly. This makes it necessary to think carefully about who should absorb the decline in aggregate asset value that would accompany a significant shift toward taxing land. Nevertheless, it is possible to plan for a restructured financial system that would have shed its dependence on land as collateral." http://www.wealthandwant.com/docs/Tideman_CTL.html#I._Taxing...

"Furthermore, as we discuss in more detail in our paper, the number of net winners from this reform would far exceed the number of net losers, who, if necessary, could be exempted or compensated at little budgetary cost. The winners would even include almost all of the very rich, who not only hold the vast majority of US land but who as a rule are also very well diversified, with land only accounting for a small share of their portfolios. They would benefit greatly from the countervailing cuts in labour and capital income taxes." https://voxeu.org/article/post-corona-balanced-budget-fiscal...

"It came as a quite natural development that also the question of incorporating these ideas into Danish Law was raised. From the very beginning, Jakob E. Lange was convinced that the problem of indebtedness, especially the mortgage debts, must be solved when the full Land Rent, or Ground Duty (in Danish "Grundskyld") were to be collected for a public revenue.

When in 1889 Henry George was on a speaking tour in England, Jakob E. Lange made use of the opportunity and went to England to meet him and to discuss the problem with him. The memoirs of Jakob E. Lange relate that Henry George completely accepted his standpoint; an eventual full Ground Rent which were to exceed the present property taxes ought to be proportioned between the title owner and the mortgage holder. This agreement between Henry George and Jacob E. Lange is also found expressed in the later correspondance between the two." https://cooperative-individualism.org/bille-frank_danish-ame...
And what if we could mount these directional speakers directly on someone’s head! Then we could reduce the volume a lot so it’s even quieter to neighbors. Maybe use some sort of physical bell or cup shape to direct it right into someone’s ears without ultrasonics (for cost reasons). Then we might save enough that we can use 2x speakers to get L/R audio streams.
As a web developer, this is one reason I enjoy working with microcontrollers in my spare time. There's something immensely satisfying in writing software that does something useful on a chip with 80 KB of RAM.
Laws are never enacted or repealed without some politically motivated reason. And every time a law is enacted or repealed there are winners and losers, be it politically, socially, financially, or whatever.

I'm not sure the point you are trying to make, but, you are not currently making a good argument to defend it.
> regardless of how hard deniers keep denying.

sorry, but lol. We've had very good evidence for some time. This is "just" something additional. The deniers aren't operating on evidence.
There is a large portion of music performance that is simply muscle memory, but probably a larger portion is really perceptual.

In order to develop better motor skills, you need to be guided by the resulting sound compared with an intention, an idea of the sound you want. This implies that the first thing that has to change is perception and imagination.

There's a literature on how to practice music. Many of the techniques you'll encounter really have to do with aiding perception (the idea, the sound, awareness of what you are actually doing) and interfering with "muscle memory" so that you can break down and improve execution.

Coordination, rhythm, or pitch will not improve until perception does, but perception can certainly be trained and improved!

Also -- just try practicing something intensely for 10 minutes, then practice/play something else. Then come back next day after a good sleep. The improvement that happens while you sleep is almost creepy.
> the open-source versions are significantly worse

That can be overcome, especially with sustained collaborative effort.

But the production of the displays, controller software aside, will not be "cheap".
Gnome patent troll stripped of patent rights
I wrapped capital up in productivity since machines/software/tools are a facet of how the labor population manifests productive use of time (and to simplify the discussion:) )
This doesn't mean very much. Most people find the Rust borrow checker "vaguely confusing" (if not very confusing), and most people also wouldn't use it were it not strongly suggested by both the compiler and the community ("suggested" as unsafe Rust exists, but you of all people are aware of that).

Conversely, I understand condition systems, and I'm not a very good programmer. (I've tried and failed to learn Rust once already) That's a pretty low upper bound on how hard they are, especially relative to advanced features of languages like Haskell.

We're very fortunate that programming language design doesn't advance solely by giving people more of what they already use.
Yeah, according to the paper you pay for it by a very high overhead, up to 2x. So generally, pick your poison ;)
Or you could do what we used to: put them in mental institutions. But it's considered better these days to just have them on heroin and living in the middle of the street
One of my best friends sent it to me and asked if I had read it. "No", "Do it, it's right up your alley", "What is it about?", "I'm not going to tell you, and don't google anything about it. Just dive in." It is soooo good.
Once i had an idea: instead of styrofoam or packing peanuts just use pop corn or puff rice. Thermal insulation, shock absorbent and biodegradable! Not sure about flame resistant.
Also reusable. Make a mash, add some amylase and yeast and you can distill biofuel. Win-win.

EDIT: (fungal aspect) seed it with the right spores for container shipping and you get some free penicillin upon delivery!
Because I find/found it surprising and was curious if the Hive Mind of HN may have an explanation.
I don't know about "failed"... if you use a different identity for each different site it seems that your identity is pretty decentralised.
I do not like when it becomes a puzzle and multiple clicks to find tech specs. Also I really dislike this "lasts longer" style description of a battery life / flight time. I would very much prefer X minutes when hovering and no wind as a rough measure.
Well, they can't just give her the title of "Director of Internecine Information Warfare" now can they?
Not that I think it should be done, but since the drone is carrying the phone, you could have the phone save a GPS point of where you are standing, and then the phone guides the drone away from that point to photograph toward it.

Depending on GPS accuracy in the phone it could work well. GPS waypoint missions are already well established in the drone world.
I somewhat agree. I think it's important to not censor anyone.

However, it is necessary to curb bad-faith actors: users who don't engage civilly and get in the way or overwhelm other types of civil discourse.

Disconnecting between instances should be reserved to such extreme cases. Otherwise, (if there are too many bad-faith actors in a single instance), you should leave to individual users.

Moderation is an important concept. How do you promote a healthy atmosphere? Downvotes are a kind of crowd-sourced moderation that seems to work well. In a federated context, you could assign weights to votes of different instances (i.e. trusted instances get some weight, untrusted instances carry none).
I'm heartened by the interest in better packaging and it seems like it's having a moment. Last week Cruz Foam[0] (probably a direct competitor) had an announcement that it had some celebrity investors[1]. It's probably not a popular opinion but I think adding more regulations or incentives (tax breaks) to discourage the use of non-biodegradable packaging, especially in foods, is long overdue.

[0] - https://www.cruzfoam.com
[1] - https://www.cruzfoam.com/post/meet-our-new-investors-advisor...
> For Inform that human-readable format is a website, rather than a printed book

I dunno. I think hypertext, while well-suited to model traditional non-literate programs, really punts on the promise of literate programming. Even ignoring that—

Previously:

> Have a look at this slide in particular: <http://inform7.com/assets/images/NS2/slide036.jpg> Here's an excerpt:

> "Once The Historian is done, the instructions are passed to Instruction::read, which parses them more fully (see below) and returns an intest_instructions object".

> It goes on in that style. This is reminiscent of every bad attempt I saw during Java's heyday to ensure that a given codebase was 100% commented. People just end up writing "documentation" that consists of low-level repetition of what the code is doing

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594817>

The problem, it seems, with people who try to do literate programming, is that they're too close to the thing to be effective at fulfilling the promise that literate programming sets for itself. I'm curious to see if the 3 years' overhaul changed Inform 7 substantially so that it's no longer on this track. Keep in mind that at the time, the slide containing that snippet was supposed to be a good example of literate programming—instead of what it actually was, i.e. an example of how not to do it...
I am somewhat proud that because of UE all the world went ROHS. Let's go forward!
I can think of one feature that I'd pick the subscription over the upfront cost: Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD). It's $12,000 or $200/month. Five years is the breakeven point, assuming that the prices stay the same (which is a bad assumption). $12k is a big chunk of change - could be around 10% of the car's value. There are also some question marks around whether the FSD is transferable to a new owner.

I've driven in a Tesla with FSD, and it's underwhelming. There's no guarantee that in five years, it will perform significantly better - maybe even require additional hardware or a newer car/platform.
From their FCC application:

Battery: 3.85V DC, 860mAh, 3.311Wh

https://fccid.io/2AIRN-006/RF-Exposure-Info/220100298SHA-004...
I would look for a reproducible test case but I'd feel like I'm doing Reddit's job for free.
My first thought was "isn't that COBOL?"

But I think there's room for another attempt after 60 years.
To my knowledge they're revealing this for the first time in this quarterly report.

As for "then what", there's always the possibility of a shareholder lawsuit or Musk using this as a pretext to back out of his offer. That said, the OP indicated the impact on MAU is pretty small (I didn't check this myself), so in the end it's probably all sound and fury signifying nothing.
Sounds like a bunch of scarcity minds trying to cobble together scarcity in a post-scarcity context if you ask me.
Is there a breakdown you know of for where the agriculture use happens?

For instance, central valley California versus Arizona (which the map shows only slightly in drought)?
very good point!
I discovered while visiting Northern Germany that the word "See" (which is etymologically related to English "sea") can refer to either a lake or the sea, depending on the gender of the article that precedes it - masculine for lake: "der See", feminine for sea: "die See".

The result is a lake called the "Selenter See" that is a short distance from the Ostsee (the Baltic Sea).

Pretty confusing at first!
can i eat it?
Nano is great, when I did not know how to use vi, vim or emacs I used nano. Nowdays for quick edits in terminal on unexplored servers I use vi. emacs and vim are not always installed
So, I have yet to buy or have interest in NFTs. But to post a bit of a defense for them, I think the underlying technology is interesting and has merit.

Transferring the title for a home is a big, complex, and fairly expensive affair. Literally nothing is stopping me from just marching into it if I wanted to, but society says the title is a valuable legal thing and so lots of elbow grease and paperwork gets filed to make sure they own the house and then I own the house and in the right order.

An NFT (or a blockchain in general) makes this complex ownership handoff so cheap and easy that I can essentially do a title transfer for, like, a breadstick.

Because it's so cheap (and kinda crappy right now, imo), it won't replace the escrow company just yet. But I could foresee a future where it gets out of the gimmicky crap and start to have some legitimate uses. And again, it's very cheap relative to the alternative (an honest to goodness title transfer). Email is kinda cheap and used for a lot of garbage, but it's cheapness certainly lent it to supplanting actual mail.

And while we in the western world have pretty stable rule of law and rights and clear ownership records, I could definitely see parts of the world where something decentralized and cheap and slightly better than their local options might catch on.
This is a really good business idea, it's going to be very successful. I also hate everything about it.

The selfie sticks were bad enough but just like you say soon every idiot tourist is going to have an autonomous drone following them wherever they go, capturing hours of social media material that no one's going to care about. Unless they catch you doing something that goes against their boring norms, because then they'll plaster it all over without a care for your privacy. I must have seen a dozen videos of "creepy old man naked in the woods near our children" or some similar phrasing when it turned out every time it was just some hippie nudist who thought he'd have a bit of peace and quiet being outdoors, far away from the city. But you can't go anywhere these days without these gopro morons filming your every move.
I don't know about any other thing that's literally designed to consume as much electricity as possible.
Huh? Snap has really buckled down and gone from a forgone conclusion to having record quarters of revenue growth and monetization. They have repeatedly focused on digging in and trying new things.

Spectacles wasn't a ground-breaking idea, but it was a GREAT innovative shot which was hard to copy by FB at the time. Similarly this is another great innovation hard to have others copy. Is it niche? Yeah probably, but it shows they are looking at ALL the interesting areas.

For what it's worth, Snap has been ahead of the game on AR filters and AR tech for a while. Releasing this doesn't imply they aren't also doing work there.
If `ls` can't render a filename that is legal under the POSIX specs, there are two possibilities:

- `ls` is wrong and should be fixed.

- The specs are wrong and should not allow filenames to be arbitrary bytesequences.

The third option ("The user is wrong even though they did exactly what was in the spec") is just unsatisfactory because it self-contradicts.
We had these people come in at a company I worked at, the problem I found was “it” at this small to medium business was very different to “it” they had experienced at a large enterprise.

It usually took 6 months for them to understand the domain and the problems we needed to address, by which point they didn’t know how to execute because they didn’t have that experience.
Nukes will never be more competitive than they are right now, and they aren't, now. Renewables+storage cost is still in free-fall. By the time things stabilize, even just sunk-cost operating expense for a nuke, ignoring capital, will be way too high.

There will always be a place for nukes in the outer solar system, ultimately pB11 fusion. Out there, you don't need to bother with containment. On Titan or in the upper atmosphere of Venus, Saturn, Neptune, or Uranus, a reactor is as simple as a a big fabric tube with a naked pile near the bottom and a wind turbine at the top. One moving part.
New Feature: "The delete everything button -- it deletes everything! Great for GDPR requests!"
Solar power doesn’t need a heat engine and can therefore avoid heating the atmosphere. We would need to be using something like 20,000 times as much energy before moving off the earth becomes useful.
I found out about this one a few years back from a former (online) friend who worked on it (although I'm not entirely certain in his specific involvement, I want to say he was the lead developer initially though), his name is Joe Hegarty[0]. There was another implementation as well from him in TypeScript for Node.js called Ratatoskr[1].

As far as I've always known him, he always works on networking projects, I believe he worked on the Fable 3 networking for coop and several other games. I can't even imagine what he works on at EA now honestly.

JoeH if you're reading this by chance: Just remember you were an inspiration back in the day (mid to late 2000s) to a lot of people who became developers and learned a ton from your work back then, myself included. To this day I remember asking you questions almost every day. Thank you for your efforts and your patience.

[0] https://www.joeh.ca/

[1] https://github.com/ratatoskr/ratatoskr
> If there also is a large profit margin the desire to keep wages down is more of a fetish than the sensible choice it is at the other end of the spectrum.

I'm consistently surprised by misunderstandings of supply and demand.

There is a labor market. It's relatively free, all things considered. Sometimes companies conspire to keep prices down (see: high tech antitrust lawsuit/settlement) but usually the thing that keeps wages low isn't business owner collusion it's the availability of workers accepting work with a low wage.

Sure, all things being equal business owners would like to pay less for labor. They'd also like to pay less rent, less for insurance, lower taxes, etc. And sometimes they want to pay less than anyone is willing to accept, and sometimes instead of raising wages they rant about it on Twitter or in opinion pieces or whatever.

But that doesn't get them employees!
I'm going to sound very elitist, but there is 0 chance I'm going to use Java. Aside from my own bad experiences with Java in a professional setting, .NET Core is now a thing, and I'm actually very experienced with C#, so I'd rather just use C# at that point rather than become proficient with Java and the JVM.
OpenRA: Open-source RTS game engine for games such as Command and Conquer
It’s unfortunate how the entire blockchain ecosystem is overshadowed by overhyped scams and nasty hacks.

There are countless economy-changing experiments happening in the DeFi community. Rebuilding of Wall Street and insurance infrastructure being attempted on chain, where trust and centralization and scams or unfairness are ripe for disruption. Staking assets to provide liquidity pools has resulted in billions coming on chain.

Plenty of people are trying to make a quick buck. Plenty of hacks and bad engineering is happening. Most things don’t need a blockchain. I wish HN community looked deeper though.
"I don't care that my application doesn't need to be on all 7000 nodes, not even a factor."

This is an interesting topic, blockchain security is very useful for a bunch of applications (i'd prefence that to say stop trying to touch the real world with the blockchain, and you realize it's fucking amazing) but you don't need the same amount of distributed security for all applications. Banking apps need high security, gaming apps need a lot less. Avalanche is really interesting in this respect. It has the main C-Chain which has thousands of validators but it also has subnets which might have just a few validators. This gives you the ability to toggle your security needs to your application (it also let's you toggle the VM, so you do things like add stateful precompiles which let you do things that may not be practical in the EVM.