skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine that given the low resolution, 3D would have been much harder to understand (identify) for most viewers. Unless you happened to be facing the "front" of the 3D representation, it would probably just look like a bunch of sparse dots.

As for the flight duration, they probably have larger/more batteries than consumer drones since they should be purpose made (carry self, more batteries, light+electronics (small/light), communication electronics (small/light)).
Spoken as someone who never had to deal with decades of prolonged abuse for the crime of not having enough dopamine
Furthermore, if you have a one-assertion rule, some bright spark will realize he can write a single assertion that checks for the conjunction of all the individual postconditions.

That's one way to get dogma-driven assertion roulette, as you will not know which particular error occurred.
It's the Trust Thermocline: https://mastodon.social/@garius/109279394369832433
way, way too long. author needs an editor… whole article could have been one paragraph.
> Why bother though?

See 18:20 [1] and 19:52 [2] in the talk linked on this post. Nobody will visit r/scienceforall because r/science will remove references to it. Plus, forcing me to set up a group doesn't sound like a solution, it sounds like a shake down. To get an open discussion space I have to moderate it, and then have the social media site threaten removal of my mod powers if I fail to remove something they don't like within their desired time frame. That means I have to review every piece of user-submitted content. No thanks. Transparency and light-touch moderation would be more efficient.

> The /r/science sub has decided that it’s a space which should have heavy moderation - a totally legitimate viewpoint with obvious benefits and costs. You might not agree with the balance, but the beauty is you don’t have to.

My issue is with the system, not moderators. Legally speaking, shadow moderation may be in the clear, but it's still harmful for society while we have just a few major platforms. We should all know and share what's going on.

[1] https://youtu.be/aCadmiIfbcI?t=18m20s

[2] https://youtu.be/aCadmiIfbcI?t=19m52s
I'd personally like to own my own digital currency, so that I don't have to depend on third parties to access my funds and protect my privacy.
> this isn’t technologically useful.

> REASONS:

> 1. Over 80% of breaches happen because of KNOWN but unfixed vulnerabilities.

This reason only makes sense to me if I assume that all KNOWN vulnerabilities are (and remain) UNFIXED. Assuming otherwise doesn't make sense because I can't tell how many attacks the KNOWN and FIXED vulnerabilities prevented.

> Most attacks lead with phishing and account takeovers not software vulns.

This might be true, but you seem to suggest that we can only concentrate on preventing one type of attack at a time, and therefore we should only pick defensive strategies for the most common attack,
None of my removed comments on reddit have ever broken any site or sidebar rules. When I've used this tool to ask mods for clarification about removed comments, mods have just made stuff up (example: saying I was engaging in namecalling when I didn't even refer to another person at all... the real reason is the mod disagreed with the position I was advocating for) and sometimes issued bans. As a user, revealing this moderator abuse is more important than helping moderators abuse their powers without anybody noticing.
Personally, I think this adds to his "artistness", rather than detracting from it.
Because, if they did that, they wouldn't get your email address.

How could you even consider such a thing? /s
So if it is, on one hand, "collaborative" and it expects people to work for free, and on the other hand there is apparently so much value in putting misinformation on twitter, wouldn't most people that work on that be paid by the various parties that want to put misinformation on twitter?

You know how amazon reviews are collaborative and volunteer based and 99% of them are made for money and are easily spotted lies.
Perhaps it isn't for some things or if you can't install it. But that's really dependent on use case and user, isn't it?
I’ve never been able to see them live, but did see Prophets of Rage at a small local venue a few years ago. That was pretty sick.
> And I doubt he fixed so much.

Do you think manufacturing cars and rockets happens without a lot of course correction, pun intended?
Ask HN: What are the downsides of working for a consultancy?
I have an offer from a consultancy for projects in EU public sector. The salary increase is not bad and the title is a move up (I think). I'm getting to an architect role up from Senior Dev. WLB will be a bit worse though. I'm currently in a known product company in Telecoms sector.I'm in my 40s and have worked mostly as a SW dev up to now. The new role won't be hands-on as the roles I had so far (so I'd be very interested to read experiences from people that did a similar move).

Is that a good move professionally? Does it make sense? What are the downsides of moving from a regular product company to a consultancy? Would such a move increase my future prospects or narrow them? I need to be in business in some way or another for at least another 20 years.

No significant connections or network. I mean I won't be able to move to a high power/salary position to which this role would be a good stepping stone. Just me with my abilities have to be marketable for a good few years to come.

Thanks
Visual Studio Code extension bisect utility
This is amazing. I’ve been buying this for nearly a decade and refer to it as the angry lady hot sauce.

I used to enjoy perusing the “hot sauce aisle” in my local Great Wall Asian supermarket and this jar looked great. The jar said “spicy chili crisp”, which I also joke are the 3 most wonderful words in the English language. I also liked that it looked like the lady was angry (I chalked it up to cultural differences in marketing):

> “Lao Gan Ma deliberately places an extraordinary average-looking and old Chinese female on its product package, which conversely arouses strong curiosities of foreign consumers,” it says.

It’s a staple in my kitchen (along with Lee Kim Kee’s Chiu Chow Chili Oil and Momofuku’s chili oil) and happy that they’ve seen the success they have.

I just realized if they wanted to be cute here, Lao Gan Ma sounds kind of like “Love, Grandma” :-)
You might disagree with this point of view, but that doesn't make it unreasonable.

As Wright notes in https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/sex-is-not-a-spectrum, this view of sex as a binary system is based on the concept of male and female being the two discrete halves of the reproductive system in humans (and other anisogamous species):

"Biological sex [...] is connected to the distinct type of gametes (sex cells) that an organism produces. As a broad concept, males are the sex that produce small gametes (sperm) and females produce large gametes (ova). There are no intermediate gametes, which is why there is no spectrum of sex. Biological sex in humans is a binary system."

Surely this is not an unreasonable starting point for an evolutionary biologist to extrapolate from?
The word you're looking for is "pidgin" language, not "pigeon," but no, English is not a pidgin language. An example of a pidgin language is something like Tok Pisin. Pidgin languages essentially start out life as a not-quite-language, with such restricted vocabulary and grammar that there are concepts that can't be uttered, and such languages tend to grow back a grammar on top of that as they develop into a full, proper language.

English is not a pidgin language because the grammar is very clearly identifiable as a Germanic language (albeit a clearly simplified form), but with substantial lexical borrowings from other languages. Grammatical simplification and lexical borrowing is not particularly unusual in language development--in fact, English may not even be the biggest offender in these departments (I believe Turkic languages borrowed more from Mongolian languages than English has from Romance languages).
definitely not. (speaking for myself that is)

But I do appreciate the generally more "adult" tone to HN.

Reddit is fun n all but sometimes I dont want to be made to laugh/scoff/get angry.
I’m of two minds with opposing viewpoint presentation, one of them being I respect giving a reader the opportunity to consider multiple viewpoints for themselves. The other I worry about giving false equivalency to flat earthers or something like that. I don’t know if I want holocaust denial presented as an equal opposing viewpoint to holocaust remembrance, for example.
Someone should make a “is Mastodon Twitter yet” page. So many including me have tried and quit in frustration when the federation/server nonsense gets in the way of actually emulating a centralized Twitter clone.
Yep. Why even consider geoengineering while we're still pouring fucking CO2 into the air? If we can't stop increasing the damage, we don't deserve to continue as a species.
Since when did eating meat and flying concern only the working class and poor? How is collectively cutting back on carbon-intensive activities going to create these rifts?

Also, and more to the point, if these sectors have such a large carbon footprint, then where did that demand come from? I don’t buy that cutting back on animal products or flying aren’t scaleable. Our global culture isn’t inexorably evolving to flying helicopters to work and eating meat 4x a day with a tall glass of milk, so why aren’t we talking about behavior change more in the West? We’ve always had a choice, and we know better now that these choices and path dependencies are destructive.

Furthermore, companies that produce these products are simply providing for demand. It’s silly to lay the blame at their feet when they’ve no incentive to stop.
Easy. We just need a collaborative fact checking system for the collaborative fact checking system.
Perhaps he used his "bad" painting techniques on purpose. Consider the possibility that the techniques he uses are a part of his work's impact, just like the content.
I guess in this tin foil hat theory, his investors would help him keep it alive while he cut costs enough to sustain it on membership revenues, or selling user data or some other yet to be unveiled monetization strategy.
I think you are diametrically mistaken and echo chambers are actually good for civil society because they allow the illusion that people outside your ingroup are basically good. I think what happened is our echo chambers got punctured and so we suddenly got the realization that other people lived in echo chambers, which is why it seems like those suddenly popped up. But well-insulated echo chambers (ie. not what controversy-driven twitter gives you) are good for mental health and society as a whole.
I don't understand. Isn't classes what the author asks for?
> Suddenly everyone is going to assume something is really wrong with the company.

This can work both ways. New management can be a really big boost.
> Overall I don't see it replacing any serious tool at the moment, its quite slow in modeling (because of the rendering) and precision.

Signed Distance Function modeling has different strengths to other approaches. It's one more tool in your toolbox. One could just as easily say "I don't see [insert other paradigm here] replacing implicit SDFs".

In terms of "serious" usage Inigo Quilez did a ton of incredible work on Pixar's Brave using SDF techniques.

https://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2012/Volume-35-Issue-4-...
I'd say Pötr would be a (technically) correct transcription, although it looks super weird.

On pronunciation: “Pyotr” is most close, if you use the “y” just to note that the “p” is soft and not as a separate sound – i. e. “Pjotr” would be incorrect.
> Mathematica is ridiculously expensive

This is something I used to believe.

I am a hobbyist user. Mathematica was not required for my work or for any other interests outside personal curiosity and an ever growing love of math and science.

I’ve made it an indispensable part of my work. A small side-project in Mathematica blossomed into one of the key ways my clients analyze data now.

Mathematica costs less than a dollar a day. It’s always open among the apps on my desktop on both my work Mac and my kitchen Mac.

To stop using Mathematica, you’d have to pry it away from my cold, dead hands. It’s really that great.
An AI doesn't have agency in the same way humans do. The AI has zero understanding of holocaust denial, in the same way another tool does, or a dog, or a child.
Also the actual value of Mathematica or Maple seems to me how good solvers are. E.g. when it comes to Integrals or just solving a non-linear equation. Also most common tasks work good enough. A good/fast UI is also important (like for Maxima, although I miss modern convenience a bit)
While this is a good idea and we did something similar in my company, the only concern is the slippery slope of extending markdown. It is just a matter of time reaching this: https://xkcd.com/927/ .
Apple: Warren's Favorite
Advertisers now are in "victim of blackmail" position. Think about it, Volkswagen tweet handle being auction off to "anyone" with free reign to post using "Volkswagen" name worldwide. They have reach the Yelp position (even bigger) and more entrenched. There way more celebraties and companies than restaurants. Nearly every westernized governments (and their ministries and agencies) use tweeters to disseminate information.You are looking at easily 1B per month simply from this kind of susbcription. 8 dollar might just be the retail pricing. There is always the premium-enterprise special pricing.
It has been a long time I have met somebody stupid enough to push this kind of meaningless rules forward.

Test setup is sometimes very complicated AND expensive. Enforcing only 1 assertion per test is moronic beyond description.
Paying some of those people to manipulate reviews wouldn't really work at scale. See here how Twitter automatically ranks reviews: https://twitter.github.io/birdwatch/diversity-of-perspective...

> To find notes that are helpful to the broadest possible set of people, Birdwatch takes into account not only how many contributors rated a note as helpful or unhelpful, but also whether people who rated it seem to come from different perspectives.

> Birdwatch assesses “different perspectives” entirely based on how people have rated notes in the past; Birdwatch does not ask about or use any other information to do this (e.g. demographics like location, gender, or political affiliation, or data from Twitter such as follows or Tweets). This is based on the intuition that Contributors who tend to rate the same notes similarly are likely to have more similar perspectives while contributors who rate notes differently are likely to have different perspectives.
It was always about reduce, reuse, recycle. You can reduce by using your own cups. It’s just a habit we have to get in to. Once we do it’ll be a status signal like YETI on steroids.

It’s disappointing though that you assume that all of your recycling ends up in the landfill. This pervasive myth is spreading through society to the point where recycling companies are literally running TV ads to dispel the myth. Even if it’s locally true for you that your recycling goes to a landfill, it’s important to add a caveat that it’s likely to only be locally true for you. Otherwise other people will become apathetic too.
Individual purchasing habits are not the _only_ solution at scale. Individuals and the collective are in fact, not powerless.

While the whole “carbon footprint” thing was clever misdirection by the fossil fuel industry, there is still value in examining what aspects of your life are causing problems for the planet and trying to rectify them.

To say that the solutions to climate change are only large scale and available to massive corporations and governments is as foolish as to say that they are only small scale and available to individuals.

Whatever solutions are available to you, wherever you are in life, do the work to see them through. We need all the help we can get.
if Musk cuts $1B from the run rate and there isn't a bad outage, a lot of people will look pretty stupid.

A then-current Twitter employee told one of the New York Times podcasts that Twitter's infra looks overbuilt because the teams focus primarily on reliability, with new features presumably coming second.

Feels like Twitter is now joining the "move fast and break things" club.
I mean, nothing fits into modern war when cheap portable anti tank and air defense system exist.

It's always been the same, I think people are confused because for decades the US has been attacking AK47 wielding farmers with $$$ cutting edge technology but wars between relatively equivalent forces is always a blood bath, everything you can come up with has a cheaper counter measure
The amount of setup and teardown necessary to test something is a property of the system under test. It is not susceptible to one's opinion as to how things should be.
It is worded in a way that 'can' imply that there has been a switch from paid worker to unpaid volunteer.

'it is not related to X' suggests that X exists in order to be the subject of such a relation.
Devious commenter was describing a (normal) scenario where a unit test is not precise. No need to follow up with an aggressive "so what you're saying is".
Rubens and Hopper lived in different eras. Most notably, Hopper lived in a world in which cameras existed, and had led painters to eschew photorealism for more expressionistic images.
> With pytest you can use the -x flag to stop after the first test failure.

> Even better you can use that in combination with -lf to only run the last failed test.

Fwiw `--sw` is much better for that specific use-case.

`--lf` is more useful to run the entire test suite, then re-run just the failed tests (of the entire suite). IIRC it can have some odd interactions with `-x` or `--maxfail`, because the strange things happen to the cached "selected set".

Though it may also be because I use xdist a fair bit, and the interaction of xdist with early interruptions (x, maxfail, ...) seems less than perfect.
I agree with this. Such policies often have very ableist results for people with dopamine shortage. That may not be the intention, it's often a purely business decision based on economic analysis of the business model, but that is a common result.

The sad part is, it would be entirely possible for ADHD and other ASDs to be accomodated in daily society. But, people without those differences would abuse the absolute piss out of those accomodations. How do we prevent abuse without harming those who legitimately require such accomodations? There's a reason there is such a concept as "ADHD tax".
I haven't ascribed an independent perspective to india exclusively, merely pointed out india has an independent perspective. And I did not say west are arrogant morons I said "Some in the west".

I agree with you and as does anybody with even a passing familiarity with international diplomacy, foreign policy by its very nature is about engaging with other countries to further a nation's self interests.

The problem is western democracies need to create a narrative of being the white knights of the world in order to justify use of force, coercion or influence to their people no matter how hypocritical that narrative might be considering their own actions in the past. This absolute narrative by extension also means anyone who isn't falling in line with the party line is painted as being on the "wrong side of history".

India is neither aligned with the west nor russia because of a single policy issue like china, and india does not see the world as a bipolar place like west vs russia, west vs china, whoever vs whoever...

India always engages and will always engage with nations where mutual interests are aligned, help where it can, and be assertive where it needs to be.

India is already aligned with the west in containing china amid other common objectives in the indian ocean through QUAD.

Also china isn't that big of a bugbear for india as some outside india think it is. China is the dominant strategic regional threat but is by no means even remotely close to an existential one.
I have met people that thinks HTTP calls are great!

- "But it tests more things!"

Well ok, but those are integration tests, not unit tests... It is unacceptable that a unit tests can fail because of external system...
A relative of mine has applied to work there. He told me in all seriousness that he wanted a place where women couldn't get away from him. Thankfully, he was not selected.
Warren Buffett discussed this in his 2007 letter to shareholders
Buffett says that "90% of your job as a director is having the right CEO."

"There is a natural tendency for people with big egos and big motors who get to be CEOs who like to do big things and to become bigger spending other people's money. Normally, when big deals come along [for approval] management has already made the deal anyway, they have investment bankers there that will go through a little ritual - I've never seen one come in and do a presentation which says it's a dumb idea! They know what the answer is supposed to be, and it becomes a little game."
> How to save some cash: 1. Fire your staff, 2. outsource their work to the general public. Brilliant!

What are you talking about? This program has existed at Twitter for years.
Range and eyeballs are the elements a lot of people leave out. Helos carry the eyeballs with them long ranges. Drones require radios with enough bandwidth for real time video. Which at the range of 100s of km is very non trivial and non cheap.

That’s to say switch blades don’t have comparable range obviously, and that’s not nothing.
The possibility for improvement without massive government intervention exists.

The rate of increase in CO2 emissions has seemingly slowed down dramatically. Emissions increased ~5% over the last decade while the decade before that was 32%.

On the surface increasing emissions is still terrible, but as oil, coal, and natural gas are only getting more expensive and the alternatives get cheaper. Many of the worst estimates are no longer relevant and people in 2070+ might not need dramatic measures to deal with climate change.
Raymarched SDFs: https://jamie-wong.com/2016/07/15/ray-marching-signed-distan...
And by posing it as a yes/no question, it brings to mind Betteridge's law of headlines.
Naive question but is the architecture trying so much to optimize branch prediction because software is more and more dominated by conditional logic(if statements)?
It's not unusual to spin up a local dev server in the same environment (or on the same machine, ie at localhost) as the tests. There's an argument to say these aren't "unit" tests but your definition of "unit" may vary.
I absolutely agree with you that comments should not explicitly cast doubt on the authors competency, nor insult them or their reasonings. However, that is not the rule we are criticising. The rule is:

> Criticism of published work should assume basic competence

That rule for example would bar a commenter from critiquing the work for not taking into account a confounding factor, or for using a non-representative WEIRD [0] population sample to reach overly broad conclusions. Taking these issues into account can be argued to be "basic competence", but they are too often ignored in many the most headline-worthy social science papers that attract the most upvotes.

[0] western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnational_psychology#WEI...
It's worth it if you happen to have Chrome installed. (I keep it around for times like this)
maybe that is true, but there exist others for whom that is not true, and as long as they number greater than zero, the argument that 'open source means free to use however for whatever' will be invalid