skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wash all my laundry on cold and dry on low heat because I'm fat and don't want my clothes to shrink. I have eight of the same black cotton T-shirt. I do not separate my laundry. I do not wear any exotic fabrics, designer clothes, or bright colors, and if I did, I would wash them in the same load of laundry as my other clothes. I am not a benchmark for laundry ability. Maybe there's some easy, incremental improvement I could make. But the current symbols do not help me do that.

All I'm saying is that maybe, with the full power of graphic design, we could have something a little more self-explanatory than triangle = bleach, circle = dry clean. The iron symbol is perfectly clear, for instance.
Drones are much higher pitched than cars/trucks, so a lot more annoying at least to me.

The reverse beep sound is comparably annoying but not so common in a quiet neighbor.
> FD: My employer.

Oh, that's interesting.

Did you write this blog post too?

You've been pretty anti-crypto in previous comments here.
I like how I've been able to use MOSFETs as switches for the past 5 years while being almost completley unaware of the other things it can do. To me, it's a component that uses a small (low-voltage, low-current, low-resistance) signal to switch on a much larger path. Anything that makes it not behave like that idea is just problems for me (I spent a better part of a day debugging a circuit that works fine with a 5V arduino but not a 3.3V ESP32. I don't think I've even built a circuit with two transistors (multistage amp, flipflops...)
I don’t know about y’all but I’m pretty tired of big tech’s “disrupt first, lobby government for permission later” approach to profiteering off the less regulated aspects of society. I’ve soured on a lot of the (often yc-backed) unicorns that came out of the early 2010s.
Just so you know; that’s an entirely meaningless comment to me. If you can’t be bothered to understand the difference in our views enough to make a comment that has a chance of bridging the gap and moving the needle then don’t be bothered to write a smug comment. Just because you feel self righteous doesn’t mean you are.
No problem for us.

We use Skype for Business, which is so flaky at times that the default assumption if somebody is not joining is that the system conked on her.
As a former athlete, you would be surprised how much function you lose after a few injuries. Range of comfortable motion can rob you of those benefits in under ten years, and most of us have up to 20 from retirement to the grave.

My first injury was knee cartilage. My last was wrist, which makes lifting and even yoga hard. But tai chi helped stabilize my knee, and made me feel 10 years younger. Also it made me “need” 30 minutes less sleep a night, and I stuck with it once I realized that the time in class paid for itself.
Unnecessary hate. I used it a while ago while writing some complex aggregation and grouping of data. It was pretty painful to write until I tried with Copilot and the result is both accurate and easy to read. I wrote unit tests and it's been fine ever since. This is but one example of the value of it.

I am sure some of the typical cynicism here will turn this into a protracted argument of "well maybe you shouldn't be a shit developer and you would be able to fit all the complexity in your head" but whatever.
If we get good body and face and eye tracking all built into a headset I think social VR will have everything it needs. I’m pretty sure all tracking can be done purely with cameras, maybe even only with cameras on the headset and controllers though I think having a single wireless base station studded with cameras would make it easier. Touch is great but not really necessary in most cases.
I can't imagine how it's physically possible for drones to use less energy.

But it doesn't matter how many of them there are - they could be able to fly at an altitude where they don't cause meaningful noise pollution.
LMAO. Ah yes micro-targeting, used by firms like Cambridge Analytica. Who really wants any ads in their reading or surfing experience? I don't and most people don't either, which is why adblocking is huge.
If only there was a way to easily search for patents on a specific topic! [1]

[1] https://patents.google.com/?q=drone+landing&oq=drone+landing
Bad headline, because it'd sensationalist. But, the article was okay. It gets at the clash between tech companies who are excited about testing out some new thing they think will be big, and the actual, real people who become their non-consenting experimental subjects. As a product person, I can understand the people working on this thinking it's a win-win for everybody, but I can also sympathize with any residents who think they have no reason to trust Amazon.

In particular:

> [An Amazon spokesperson said] The company’s drone “does not capture imagery from underneath when it is flying to its delivery destination and back” and doesn’t use that data for any other purpose.

I have low confidence that the spirit of that statement is true today, given all the places in that sentence that leave room for interpretation, and I have every confidence that they would gladly use a fleet of drones to capture valuable image data once it's in place and people are used to it.
But a truck isn't an entire round trip for every item.
Loved the little spectrogram at the bottom. Such a nice touch.
I guess one could argue it isn't an outage since it only seems to have affected a subset of users

If an electric company serving a million people leaves 100 of them in the dark, it's still an "outage."

Why give a free pass to Zoom? Because it's a tech company, and we've been trained to accept failures as the cost of admission?
A collection of resources to learn about MLOps
The subtle distinction here is David Chalmer's easy and hard problems of consciousness. The easy problem is what everyone can point to, and what we have ample evidence of what brain parts do what. The hard problem however, in my experience, is something not even educated adults even think about. It's so hard people sometimes can't even register the question itself.
Elon Musk's teenager says she no longer wants to be related to billionaire
I use FreeBSD for bhyve. It works pretty good on my old Lenovo X1 laptop.
If the code is nontrivial, then yes, it is a violation. To be in compliance, you need to write your own code.

If I am writing a novel and I copy a section verbatim from another novel, I am infringing on the other novelist's copyright, regardless of whether I wrote it from memory or not.

And this makes sense. For a trivial operation, there might be only one way to write the code. That's not copyright infringement, just like you're not infringing on an author's copyright by occasionally writing a sentence that was similar to theirs. For a nontrivial operation, you can easily write your own code without copying someone else's work.

Remember also that you can use others' ideas. Copyright only cares about the code itself. If there's a clever trick that you've seen someone use, you're free to use the same clever trick as long as 1) they didn't patent it and 2) you're not actually copying their code
So what exactly does "endangers" mean? What scenario requires you to shoot a drone to "protect" something?
Hmm. I mostly agree with the author's statements like "documentation exists so that code can be easily used" and "it [the code] is the most honest account of what actually happens when you run the code." But introducing the triangle as a metaphor infers each member of the triangle is the same type of thing. The "WHAT" vertex is the code itself while the "HOW" and "WHY" verticies are natural language text. "HOW" and "WHY" are not easy to distinguish and seem to be used to mean "context outside the immediate function" and "programmer's intent."

I think the triangle metaphor muddies the water a bit.

But... I agree with most everything else the author says. Context is important and is not present in the code (usually.) The developer's intent is generally absent from the code and should be supplied somehow.

I might even go further to explicitly mention documentation at the top of a function traditionally describes that function's context in the greater scope of the application or module or class while documentation inside the code body often describes the programmer's intention with respect to the function's implementation. (This is just an observation from code I think is well documented. Maybe there are counter-examples out there.)

I have a bit of an architectural bent, so I might have talked about documentation and it's relation to interface/implementation and problem domain and solution domain. Which is to say, documentation should be clear about which domain you're documenting.

Though I don't understand why the triangle is important, props to the original author for saying "no. code is not self documenting."
The clutter on most landing pages is very confusing.
Great comment! It does intersect a bit with Active Admin, but it's meant to do so much more.

Avo is not meant to be an "obscure admin panel" where only the core team members go to do some CRUD operations. It's meant to be the interface on which you build your back-office. Something that you'd love to give to your users from day one. Something that will make you, the developer, look like a superhero, all with little to no sweat.
From the first link: "Bitcoin has achieved a level of comput[ational power] that no single nation state can overthrow it through computation alone. The effort to do so would require a massive covert operation of chip fabrication. Then, the coordinated assault would give them over the next block for 10 minutes, until we kick those bastards off the network... they would be revealed, they would have lost billions of dollars doing this, and all they would have got was a double spend"
> No program exists in a vacuum. There is always some environment, some organisation, some process that it lives in or serves, and taken out of said context, it is entirely useless.

> Failing to recognise this is the number one leading cause of new users and junior devs being unable to do 'this simple task' (don't quote me on this, I have no data).

This. At all three startups I've worked at, founding/senior devs err on the side of assuming that any process not involving writing code is trivial and self-explanatory when in fact those things are some of the biggest time-eaters. Big organizational wins can be had by documenting them well.
https://qz.com/1033675/a-nasa-study-found-drones-sound-more-...
Gps is jammable and spoofable.

https://ctstechnologys.com/gps-spoofing-technology
Indeed. The bulk of the article is about how few local residents actually knew about the drone plan. The only real concrete thing in this article is from one man who was concerned the drones would be capturing imagery of his backyard.
True, the density gets much lower in the villages and especially those in the mountains. But for the average person in _most_ of the Swiss villages there is some connection they can take to get to where they need to go (though it may not always be the fastest, depending on where you live)
You think a jury of my peers in rural Colorado is going to send me to prison for shooting down a drone that was endangering my family or property?
They are linked. Tai chi and yoga both work on hip flexibility, and without that flexibility I don’t think my hams would be as strong as they are. I was always unbalanced to quads, even before I got into cycling which made that worse. And that’s a quick route to chronic knee pain, which makes everything else harder.
Previously:

Mammals can breathe through their intestines (2021) (science.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31721077

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I have worked with senior software engineers that would never think to do this and do not have the skills to do it if they did. Impressive.
Unless you live in the countryside, there's plenty more noise coming from other sources - including delivery vans, cars, lawnmowers, etc. Drone noise is only audible when they are close. If they get authorization to fly sufficiently high(and it doesn't need to be that high) the only noise you'll ever hear is when there's a delivery next to you. Some would think that's an advantage.

At 100m high, noise varies between 50dB to 55dB, depending on drone size. That's for current drones. That is below daytime noise levels in many places.

That's not even accounting for specific measures to decrease their sound levels. Those are going to be delivery drones, after all, not racers. They can use larger, slower and specifically designed propellers.
What form are you studying? I started with Yang, which is the most common one you find in the US, but also usually taught in a way that is very soft and the benefits are mild. I travelled to china and started with a Chen New style instructor, and it blew me away. Dripping sweat, exhausted, sparring regularly. Lots more stretching and Qigong. Pretty much standard martial arts training. But way more effective than Yang at building skills and mindfulness.
How do you tell a drop of water apart from a drop non-water liquid?
The API version of copilot exists.

It's called OpenAI Codex. https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex/
The GPL is scary enough even with the ways it really is viral. Just look at the torches/pitchforks any time some company violates it accidentally. People calling for the company to "lose" its GPL license and have to stop shipping products, or have to open-source their entire portfolio. Crazy stuff.

And to avoid accidents, it requires top-down scrutiny of the sort most companies aren't prepared to enforce. You don't want to hear "The intern accidentally used a 3rd party proprietary code module in our GPL software and shipped the binary, a month ago, what do we do now?"
This may vary in the IDEs they support, but theres an "Activate Copilot" toggle button right in the status bar in VSCode to toggle on and off instantly that appears on every editor window if the extension is installed.
Honestly I suspect that the success of exercise classes in retirement homes speaks more to a lack of other pass times.

This makes me feel better and it kills three hours a week.
It's both I think. I can understand employers wanting employees to know more than leetcode for example. English/writing would help having good documentation for example. The current undergrad regime is too broad is my argument. I am not a coder but in my field undergrads are not very well prepared to enter the workforce.
When I started messing around (the 90s), all my partners were on the pill since high school and HPV wasn't even in their vocabulary.

We had access to porn on VHS and for us nerds via BBSes/dialup, if anything that just increased the drive to find the real thing. You don't lose interest in eating your dinner just because you saw pictures of it on the menu when ordering. Especially when it's still all totally new experiences and hormones are raging.

But what was also true in the 90s was men still largely controlled access to resources. That alone puts significant pressure on women to subject themselves to men, just to have people to drive them around and take them out to dinner or on vacations, or pay the rent in a first apartment. Combine that with a seemingly total ignorance of facts like practically all cervical cancers are caused by HPV, and casual sex can easily be common.

Today it's very different. Just the other day I read an article about GEICO being sued for their insured negligently giving a woman HPV during car sex [0]. I have the impression that women are simply better educated and have better options today, and that's A Good Thing.

Having said that though, the last time I tried online dating, which was before it all pivoted to mobile, the few dates I went on were very obviously women seeking free dinners. So at least within my age group, things seemed to still be more of the same in that regard.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2022/06/10/1104134521/geico-lawsuit-std-...
I'll be honest I love the technology involved in this product but I hate that it's another aspect of monetizing the efforts and humanity of millions of people.

It's incredible that we're able to do these things but awful at the same time since this data was / is not theirs. Same as something like Dall-E.
Yes, but I do not want to learn all the internals of every random API, if copilot can help me with avoiding some, I am interested.
That’s really my worry. ML is crap in crap out. If you train it with more crap it’s an exponential decaying curve.

Now I have to gate declining quality marketed as a time saver. It really just moves the cost elsewhere.
Same goes for playing games or browsing on a computer. Most people aren’t capable of keeping up active conversation while immersed in a game or even just reading an article. VR can include other people that are present physically but it really should be treated as a separate activity. You should make time in your day for your loved ones outside of VR.
Fire danger would be another.
If you have an efficient website, you can get decent performance to most of the world with one pop on the West cost of the USA.
8th century architectural wonder carved out from a single rock
Coreboot could be a standard if people stopped ignoring it.
Well the U.S. Nuclear Security Administration did get hacked within days of plugging into the Internet. https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/#seealso A year later the only guy who officially had the power to unleash those nukes gets banned from the Internet on sites like Twitter.
What is your argument then? Saying nuh-uh you're wrong isn't a valid argument.
Sorry to hear. We're here for you.
> We were taught that the enemy we are most likely to fight is the environment, not some assailant.

I'd hope so if you are learning tai chi.
Take that ARM!
> Do people really boil clothes? Obviously that's not a thing in the US, but I could see it being useful for whites, perhaps.

It's usually for really sturdy whites you want to disinfect after they've been soiled for instance. Use of that program has definitely gone way down over time. The energy requirements alone make it not a routine wash thing.

It's also used to basically deep clean the washing machine itself.
(serious) Are there any examples of new/innovative/disruptive technologies that got government permission first before successfully launching?
All the more reason to make said allocation easier to handle.

A unified system of land organisation, subdivision and addressing would make it easier to determine/refine/update which land is allocated how, similar to how unified systems of measurment made trade easier a long time ago.

Even for entities in conflict over what land belongs to whom, such a system would simplify the formulating and argueing of their respective claims.
From the FAQ

"""
We built a filter to help detect and suppress the rare instances where a GitHub Copilot suggestion contains code that matches public code on GitHub. You have the choice to turn that filter on or off during setup. With the filter on, GitHub Copilot checks code suggestions with its surrounding code for matches or near matches (ignoring whitespace) against public code on GitHub of about 150 characters. If there is a match, the suggestion will not be shown to you. We plan on continuing to evolve this approach and welcome feedback and comment.
"""
> including delivery vans

I can not understand why Amazon vans make that horrible sound when reversing. Surely the croaking hurts them more than saving a few accidents helps.
If you can, the best is not do anything personal on your work machine. A VM doesn't offer your any privacy if a rogue admin really want to spy on you.
It was more the complete inability to catch aborts that caught my eye. Aborting strikes me as a good enough default, but I might like to be able to recover from something bad happening. In the particular case of math you can still write a plus that detects whether it would overflow first, but in general catching aborts seems like a good bit of functionality.

Personally, if I were writing a serious language like this I'd consider turning all + operations into things that return two results, one for the result and one for if it succeeded. Do it Go-style, do it with a Result type, I don't much care. The point is just that in the context of something like this, bringing it to the programmer's attention that + is not a safe operation on every usage is probably worth it. I reluctantly concede it is overkill in normal languages, but if there is ever a time to bite that bullet and make them do a full Result-style unpacking on every arithmetic operation, it's here.
If they're dropping shit from the sky willy nilly, we're gonna have problems long before anyone gets hurt.
There is also our somewhat older sqlet.py at http://www.sqlet.com with multiple input files, column index shortcuts.. (and probably overdue for an update).
from Microsofts standpoint the shot across the bow for open source licenses is clear: do you have enough lawyers and experts to convince a gerontocracy of the legislative branch of the US government that its not "okay because its AI" because if you dont, then thanks for the code nerd.
Lighten up Francis. Jira is simply a tool. if you care that much, apply to be on the team at your company that defines the workflow rules and strip away what isn't needed.
From time to time is very different from being a hate movement. In any large group of people weird stuff pops up from time to time. I think you can only classify something as a hate movement if the hate is inherent to the large majority that make up the group, which didn't used to be the case for MGTOW.
Are you looking for react-admin? https://marmelab.com/react-admin/
Has horse behavior been tested? Who's interested enough to actyally look into negative outcomes?
Yeah but it takes forever to get off the waitlist (I've been waiting for almost a year)
I was on a severely understaffed edge team fronting several thousand engineers at a fortune 500 - every deploy felt like a spacex launch from my cubicle. I have a lot of reverence for the engineers who take on that kind of responsibility.
I didn't quite understand this. It sounds like Cloudflare's outage didn't affect you depite being their customer. Why did their large outage not affect you?
Nonsense. I've been using it to write tests, and it does a phenomenal job. If I write out the positive case, it will suggest the negative case and help me through the various permutations. This has by-far been the most useful part of co-pilot so far.

It's nothing I couldn't do myself, but just makes my job that much easier and quicker
PyCon SK 2022 – Call for Proposals
I put it with the correlation to health decline and grip strength. While training pure grip strength will not keep your health from declining, there is a natural tendency to increase grip strength with full body exercises and strength training, which help people live longer by increasing cardiovascular health and pushing blood to our extremities. There's even some (I'm not sure how much) research into this type of full body exercise helping ward off cognitive decline... but the articles focus on the grip strength, as that's the one through factor as you use your hands in body weight exercises, kettle bells, dumbells, martial arts, climbing, etc.