skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nice thing is that the drone is completely independent :-). You can use any frame (quad, heli, fixedwing, vtol, rover, boat, submarine, ...) with any autopilot (betaflight, ardupilot, px4, ...) and try it with any camera you want.

At the end of the day, all you need is pictures taken "the right way" for the engine. Typically, you want:

* Sufficient overlap between the pictures: you need multiple pictures looking at each point in the scene from different angles.
* Don't change the focal length, because that changes the camera model and makes it at least harder for the engine.
* Ideally have some fairly accurate GPS location in the exif metadata of the pictures.
* Avoid motion blur (i.e. don't fly too fast for your camera), and blur in general (i.e. you don't want too much vibration, but you don't need a gimbal).

Some Android/iOS apps out there do "flight planning" for you, so it may help (you select the area you want to map and the app instructs the drone to take the right pictures for you). Different apps support different drones, so that's something you want to check.

But anyway you should try ODM, because it does not depend on the drone, it just needs pictures =).

Hope this helps.
Maybe my wording wasn't precise enough. My kids have a reasonable amount of privacy which is less than the amount of privacy I expect them to be granted by other people. The internet grants access to literally every type of content and image if you try hard enough and there are obvious things I don't want my children exposed to. My idea of a dystopia involves children being exposed to rotten.com, porn, and communicating with pederasts in any way. And honestly it doesn't seem like people are building much of anything, just abdicating responsibility for the most part.
> quality adjusted life years

Do you feel comfortable acknowledging that this metric in isolation could result in trading years across age demographics? To what degree does it matter if we take 1 year of life from a child and give it to a middle aged person, doing exactly that would be fairly neutral according to QALY.
from the presentation in https://act.progressive.international/aegean (which was first posted here):

"Today, Forensic Architecture has released the largest trove of data on drift-backs by the Greek government in the Aegean Sea, revealing a ’systematic’ and illegal campaign to brutalize and abandon asylum-seekers approaching Greek shores.

Council member Eyal Weizman writes: "Our mapping reveals Greece’s Aegean border to Turkey to be a cruel frontier of violence and lawlessness on an unprecedented proportion.

Our investigation documents the way in which the most vulnerable are brutally and arrogantly pushed into boats and then abandoned to the waves that would drown them, or — if they are lucky — carry them to the same Turkish coasts from where they fled."

here a video presentation https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/drift-backs-...

I must say I am pretty shocked!
I know people from the Dodecannese do their really best to help refugees, I think coast guard have bad orders to follow
Some may like and some may dislike this solution. Sharing in case automating some of these challenges using smart DNS is useful for your use case.

https://github.com/1stOctet/YouWillUnderstandWhenYouAreOlder...
> 221.6 million subscribers

It’s absurd to me that a company with this many active subscribers can be called in “rough shape” simply because they cannot continue to grow (there is an upper bound to the number of people worldwide who can and will subscribe to streaming)
My wife is a pediatric occupational therapist who works with children in Silicon Valley, including the some of the uberwealthy (Los Altos Hills, Portola Valley ranch wealthy, "would you just come with us on the jet this week" wealthy). She has also worked in pre- and post Katrina New Orleans, college towns, east coast, west coast. tropical islands. She's been around, seen kids at the absolute top and some versions of the very bottom (families living in shipping containers). I'm a physician informaticist. our kids are now 17 and 20. One is going to UCLA, the other is going to run out math at the local community college before he graduates high school.

I generally agree with the others who say if you can solve child-rearing, please let me know, we're going to be rich.

That said, the best advice I can offer is exemplify the adults you wish them to become. To the extent possible, raise children through benign neglect.

That said, screen time is the devil incarnate. You don't want your kids to be the first ones with a phone, or the last, but you should try to be as close as possible to last as you can.

The pediatric in-patient psych beds in California were full a decade ago. Californians are now filling all the psych beds in the neighboring states. It seems to hit young teen girls the worst. If you want a peds psych bed and you live in California, start looking at Denver or Omaha. I personally know two teen girls who are seeing psychiatrists or psychologists. Their younger brothers tend to follow. And two other girls in long term, out-of-state psych wards.

It's dose dependent. BEFORE they have devices (which, again, you should avoid like the plague) get Google WiFi and time-limit their access. If you own a TV, throw it away now. My wife threw ours out in 2007. Best decision ever. We eventually bought a projector, but it only works if it's dark enough ... Which is not much of the day.

Get a lockbox. Put it at the front door. Sometimes, shit's gonna get real and you'll need rules like "Devices go in the box when you get home", "Devices go in the box until homework is done", or "Devices go in the box and hour before bed". You should also have them reflect, even journal, on the experience so they concretely incorporate the knowledge of how they feel with and without the phone.

Once they are in either middle school or high school, encourage them to take notes in bound notebooks. My daughter prefers spiral college rule 8x11, my son prefers Leuchtturm A5 color-coded by subject. Tell them you will keep those notebooks for them until they are old enough to store them themselves.

Encourage paper books.

Buy subscriptions and shun any company that serves ads despite having paid for the subscription.

Take long walks. Get a dog. Get two. Take your kids out into the world. A lot. Every weekend.

Fuck kids sports. My daughter's gymnastics coach broke the Nasser story. Fuck kids sports. The adults are awful. High school sports are pretty healthy. JV is fine. Kids need a lifelong love of exercise, not ACL repairs in high school (record I've heard is a girl who got 7 ACL repairs before graduating college).
Yet all the summer music festivals are packed, sold out within minutes. It's just that the kids value live experience more than they value mp3 or Spotify.
Misinformation alert! I tried to track down an article substantiating the comment above, and what I found was news outlets reporting that alt-right trolls organized to artificially spam 1-star reviews of her special.

https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/amy-schumer-netflix-alt-ri...
> We need no algorithmic timelines,

Any timeline provided by a computer is algorithmic. You just prefer a particular algorithm.
Perhaps then the best investment for music labels would be to fund research into drugs that increase neuroplasticity.
They could also potentially buy Peloton now whilst it’s struggling. Buy Dropbox and Substack as well and now you’re a full Apple One competitor.
And valve for games.
Market Cap (billion dollars):

Netflix: 84.02

Spotify: 19.71
Dropbox: 8.17
Peloton: 2.86
Valve: 10
Substack: 0.65
A24: 2.5

Sounds doable looking at those numbers.
When I think back to such experiences I tend to remember how annoying other people were rather than the event itself. As a consequence I rarely go to concerts, the theatre or the cinema any more.
Pretty sure the ATF doesn't like people doing that
Here's another thing, Firefox use OCSP to check certificates of websites by default, but Chrome don't.
My favorite part about Safari is how, because I don't own an Apple device, I have next to no options for testing and fixing the issues that get filed with regards to my web application not working in Safari.

Probably 2/3rds of the bugs I get are specifically related to Safari while the other 1/3rd are just general issues that affect every browser.

It's insane to me that they provide no way to possibly resolve this without going out and spending money to buy their hardware.
>also if it's the police

"and the statistics on that are"? Well, in that scenario I'll be doing the same thing and I will have to let my lawyer and public opinion get me out of jail

Now, for the question you've asked me: there are 2.5 million burglaries/home invasions in the USA per year. 25% of these occur when someone is at home. Quite interestingly, there are 450,000 rapes per year in the USA as well, which lines up quite scarily with the above number.

If someone is in my home, I'm not going to rely on my kung fu to save my family, who are depending on me for their protection.
You know suppressors don't work in real life the same way they do in movies, right? Gunshots with one are still really loud; they're just not loud enough to cause instant and permanent hearing damage anymore.
Sure, it's not even that hard to configure, just set it to "disabled" and things actually start working. :-)
We're no longer only fed music by the top 40. That's not a bad thing. We're in a musical renaissance.
https://archive.ph/ghlsv
Yep, besides, by the definition on the graph their own examples of Kate Bush's "Running up that hill" and Metallica's "Master of Puppets" would not count as "catalog" and counts as 'new music' while The Weekend's "Blinding Lights" counts as 'catalogue' music (i.e. 'old' music in the context of this article).

Seems overly simplistic to me!

It's also worth accounting for how music is consumed and how this is accounted for - i.e. I assume the shift to streaming platforms would naturally cause reporting of old-listens to increase (i.e. if you buy a CD once in 2015 and listen to it every year, this would be recorded as a single 'non-catalogue' sale, while in the streaming world it would be classified as 'two non-catalogue listens and then five catalogue listens'), so I assume more people streaming would drive more 'recorded' catalogue listens unless this is carefully adjusted for.
Halfway to boiling: the city at 50C (2018)
I had this problem living in Dallas: it'll hit 108°F just about every day this week.

I also couldn't spend thousands on an energy recovery ventilator (ERV) installation because I've been living in rental properties.

My solution was to buy an ERV for ~$500 and rig it up to an open window: https://gen.co/air

I've since moved into a condo with a bedroom with no windows and french glass doors so I installed a cat door and mounted the ERV vents to that.

I think there's a lot of money here for someone to build an ERV designed to be window mounted.
If you’re looking to discover some up and coming bands from across many genres check out https://mileofmusic.com/ a crazy good festival in northern WI (Appleton). Free outside of beer, food, and the merch you pick up to support these bands. They have a channel on Spotify of each year’s 150 artists, all doing strictly original music. (I’m one of “older ones”)
> You are allowed, it's just that they are allowed to kill you if you do.

To be fair, in practice, they are allowed to kill you if you don't, too, they are just more likely to avail themselves of being allowed to if you defend yourself.
It's not a lot of code for an hour...
It doesn't matter much if you only ever want to poke around in a swimming pool or very shallow stream like shown here, but if you get into this hobby and ever want to run in deeper water without a tether (whether autonomously or acoustically) you'll either want it to be positively buoyant or have an independently powered emergency surfacing mechanism (eg. drop a weight).

Otherwise if you lose power or control you will lose your sub.
> The other problem is that PCs basically weren't fast enough for full graphical interfaces at the time.

A PX XT (8088) with the graphical GEM was absolutely usable. I was impressed by it in 1986, at a time were Windows 1 was nearly unusable, and Windows 2 (from 1988) not much better.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/IBM_PC_G...
the "fuel filter" thing with the right other stuff is constructive possession even if u dont build it.
If Mozilla really cares about your privacy, why do you have to install extensions in Firefox to get it?

By the way, Firefox does track you. At the very least, it phones home, and it gives each installer a unique identifier.
The point is that Erlang (the BEAM VM) follows this pattern everywhere, not just for web requests. It’s baked into the language and runtime, and that’s infinitely more powerful and customizable than not crashing in a request handler.
> a different study methodology would be needed

Now I'm wondering how that's gonna work. De-tongue some woodpeckers and see if they get concussed? There's not any imaging that would work for this is there, where we could paint or inject their tongue with some dye and watch it flex inside their skull? that'd be a lovely video if it could be made.
It's a bit strange that it got BigInt before Int64, for most applications 64 bits are plenty and arbitrary precision arithmetic is just needless overhead. Maybe a sufficiently smart JS engine could deduce that a BigInt can't exceed 2^64 and lower it to native 64 bit math, but that kind of magic is hard to rely on.
Note: The article is about the resignation of the old Minister of Economy "Martín Guzmán" that happened two weeks ago, not about a resignation of the new Minister of Economy. Two weeks are a lot of time here.
This is the second time this guy's blog has been featured here in a week. His articles are borderline trolling to for old guys. I am not even young myself.

"They don't make anything new :(". No, bruh. It's you
1) It was a 4 week experiment. This may show that the participants had become too reliant on Facebook for news. It seems likely that people will adapt after qutting Facebook entirely.

2) How likely is activism to come from people who are only connected to the outside world via Facebook?

3) Reduced "factual news knowledge" is not the same as "didn't know about the Roe verdict". I was somehow aware of the verdict without being on Facebook. It's hard to tell from just the abstract, but we don't know how they define "factual news knowledge". In my opinion, most so-called "news" is just trivia and unimportant. Politician A said X, politician B said not-X, blah blah, ad nauseam. IMO it's actually better to take a step back from the daily trivia and look at the broad historical perspective. Better to read a book than a headline. A person can become "too informed" about things that don't matter, missing the forest for the trees.
I have a theory around this.

Short version: Music is no longer the center of popular culture.

Longer version: the 60s/70s/80s saw a technical revolution in producing and distributing music. Each year, new and even more amazing things were possible, and a steady stream of geniuses came in and produced groundbreaking masterpieces using the new tech. It changed the world, and the world loved it.

But now, that's all pretty much done, and the exciting things are happening elsewhere.

You can see similar cycles earlier in history when novels or films were where new amazing things constantly captured the world's imagination.

What's the current "thing"? Computer games, internet stuff, maybe streaming TV.
It crossed my mind that perhaps content is actually a relationship business. You need to have a bunch of connections with the creators that goes beyond just giving them money to make a show. There's some kind of negotiation between what the artists want to make and what Disney wants to sell that requires some sort of hard-to-put-your-finger-on experience to handle. But it's not my industry, so very hard for me to anything but speculate.
There are a few addons that use the builtin feature.
This couldn't be more wrong. It's a safety device to protect your hearing.
`$` is an operator. There is no ambiguity (you might not know the precedence table but that doesn’t make it ambigious).
Never allow a children below 12 access to internet, a not give to they cellphones until the 14 or until they needed, in my experience as father, I give him 4 or 5 hour in videogames or videos in the computer monday-saturday, sunday is for family time, everytime he ask for buy something, I tell him that he must work for obtain that as reward or compensation, not let them take the monitor outside of your range, even in his room my son has the monitor close the wall but in front of the door so I can see what is he doing when I pass to his door, our family policy is that all the rooms are with open doors, is forbiden stay in a closed door, constantly I ask what is he doing in the computer, sometimes he lies but is ok, I not cross certain limit, sometimes I stay with him looking him playing his videogames, talk a lot with them, tell all the good and bad things that are in the internet, tell about the scamers, and all the bad actors in the social networks, but most important, show they that you love them and you care them and those are the reasons why are you doing this things.
Ask HN: What item do you use for something other than its intended purpose?
Mostly thinking here of physical tools, but it could also be software etc..

Example:

I use a heat gun in my kitchen. I use it for roasting coffee beans. Also, it's great for quickly melting cheese on a sandwich (and probably more energy efficient than turning on the oven).
How to Use Any/All Efficiently in Python
Why is there a belief that the provider of content should also be the source of quality recommendations? I also see this disappointment with for example Steam and gaming. Or Spotify and music.

But the days of walking into department stores and purchasing things based on a service rep's recommendations are behind us. We understand stores are incentivized to sell you the item most profitable to them. The Internet has a vast amount of places to inform your decisions independent of parties acting against your interests.

Netflix is a gigantic warehouse of a lifetime of content. Some bad, some good. If you select something poorly, perhaps you're better served honing a better selection criteria.
Sounds like a positive outcome.

Vaccination status is something between the patient and the doctor, the police have no need for that information.

Red flag laws are both blatantly unconstitutional and have been wildly misused in their short time in existence, the only people I see defending them are mostly those who see it as an inch towards a complete personal gun ownership ban, which is what they really want.

Doctor/Patient confidentiality used to be sacrosanct, and it is no longer, and realistically I know many people who refuse help because of this. The Defund the Police folks are right, America needs more social workers, not more police powers.
No. Both JACK and CoreAudio ensures that there's no buffering between audio nodes in different processes either.

Again, cc @PaulDavisThe1st
I wanted to take a moment to say that I really appreciate this thoughtful and detailed comment.
Once upon a time, I would ship word docs with a remote image using a unique URL that I host. When someone opens the word doc (and accepts remote images) the URL is fetched and I know when someone opened a doc that was destined for a particular recipient.

It's quite interesting when the doc intended for a specific recipient is opened in 15 different geographical areas. Even more interesting when that specific recipient was under an NDA.

My question to you is if this should be made illegal? (since it is the same action facebook appears to be doing)
Is there a point at which Wikipedia can or should seek restraining orders against some of the more egregious offenders?

Like, editing "farts" into articles is one thing, but some of these people sound seriously dangerous.
> In order to find "new music" the listeners themselves have to put in some effort

This is a very good point. I listen to a lot of great "new" music, but I do that by listening to oddball radio stations (like KCSM San Mateo), going to music festivals (just got back from the Sicily Jazz Festival in Italy), and "new music" events (like the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music https://cabrillomusic.org/ ), and I play the piano with amateur groups and in amateur recitals.

It takes a lot of work, but all I hear is new music, or fresh takes on old music. But sadly, the audience for this is either people like me (men 55+ and some women) and kids who are music majors. There's little in the middle.

I think the average kid who simply followed pop and rock back in the 70s knew more about "music" than the kid today to whom it's just a branding, or a backdrop for a TikTok. They don't listen and pay attention. Pop culture doesn't resolve around music anymore. There's too many other things (games, social media) to worry about.
But also builtin cryptoscams :(
I like how you all are talking about this, when the number of people killed by police each year is in the hundreds, while the number of people who are assaulted every year by random strangers is in the hundreds of thousands.
If you use Firefox Focus, you don’t need to install extensions.
> When I did my internship in an ad agency the first thing I was told was to install an adblocker.

Is it possible there's an innocent explanation? Like to avoid accusations of impression fraud or otherwise mitigate the risk of false impressions?

Yet I imagine one would also need a non-blocked browser to check results and competitor ads too.
> and wife's son

holup
Are these the best solutions? There’s got to be something else, maybe something more drastic when fighting with your self over things that life important.
Yes WebAuthn (passwordless mode) really needs to be fixed on Firefox.

It still doesn't work on Mac or Linux.. FFS.
My understanding is that it was largely as a way to appease slave states and provide reassurance that there wouldn't be abolition at the federal level, not to provide an idealized balance between states.

And even if it were for that purpose, having a "winner takes all" that requires 51% to achieve would still be better than the current system, which still allows for a winner-takes-all state but with much less than 51%. Checks and balances were designed under the assumption that the legislative, executive, and judicial branches would be balanced by a constant struggle against each other. They didn't account for political parties, which can result in multiple branches of government being controlled by an overarching party, effectively negating those balances.
Theoretically, you are correct. However, growth and non-growth companies are valued significantly different. Growth companies have a P/E multiplier, while non-growth companies can be valued like an annuity.

No member of the board would ever sign off on a plan that involves valuing the stock at 20% the current price. That’s why no CEO will have a no-growth plan.
That may explain the behavior of Woody Woodpecker.
PipeWire can supply even lower latencies than PulseAudio (approaching jackd or perhaps matching it if mic and speakers run at the same clock and don't need resampling), but the only way to fully take advantage of PipeWire offering "zero latency routing and no mixing latency beyond hardware buffers" is to rewrite apps from the PulseAudio API to JACK or native PipeWire, which most browsers (and presumably VoIP software) haven't done.
Within the past couple years I've went from Chrome to Edge, then to Firefox, and on to LibreWolf. Edge is probably my favourite of the bunch, and I think the CSS devtools are a lot nicer in it, but I just want to keep my stuff as independent as possible etc.
You should, but at the same time kids are naive and sometimes do things they know they shouldn't