skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the utility of having the propellors be able to go up and down relative to the body? Usually they show the propellors way above the camera, which makes sense to keep them out of view. But one of the shots shows the arms way down with the propellors very close to the camera. Why?
software engineering is decently paid

and I picked this job among all because you can apply anywhere, in any country, and in any city.

I would also recommend to work where "travel", so that you contribute the build the place and join the social fabric. That's how you actually discover regions of the world.

So IMO, keep being a software engineer for now, and spend a few years working in different locations !

However, if you're senior(-ish), you can also become a freelancer, and work remotely. There are hotspots of IT freelancers who do that, like Malaga or Thailand !
I want to stop whining about cookies popups. Any actionable items, besides browser extension to eliminate them for good?
Everyone who doesn't agree with me is a fascist!

I think you may want to look at history who confiscates guns.
> about the environment are just nonsense (looking at Apple in particular).

What's this in reference to, with Apple? I don't recall any communication that their in-office policy was related to the environment.
On the flip side, preventing others from crafting a narrative is just as much a part of the job of a mod as anything else. It's a hard balance.
> If it had been available freely one year earlier, Linux wouldn't have gained momentum.

I doubt that. Real Unix was a pretty horrible experience for a lot of hobbyists starting right from the disklabel, and many of those smug bastards where pretty horrible people to hobbyists.

The fact Linux worked on crap hardware meant people who could only afford crap hardware could learn it, and get good at it. Linux overtook Real Unix real fast in-terms of hardware support -- so fast I don't think *BSD ever stood a chance.

Stability and quality is a double-edged sword: You think you gotta keep the crap out or it gets crap, but the reality is that crap is what makes it fun, and fun is why people used Linux and not Real Unix. If you want to make something great, you've got to do is focus on things that matter, and remember: fun matters more than scsi.

> Would it be better to have one true free Unix-like OS now, rather than two? Did the free-for-all development in Linux depend on it having no "pure" ancestry? Nobody knows.

Some people say "pure" and others say "inbred". I say this thing you're thinking about is a distraction: anything that prevents people from trying things out is slowing progress, there just ain't two ways around it.

Worse is not better: It just means you don't know what's important. Better is better.
Clickable
https://www.youtube.com/@GrowingUpInScientology
https://www.youtube.com/@blownforgood
https://www.youtube.com/@KelliCopter
Not a Scientologist but also discusses other cults https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwU7HOfuSL5LKf6ixFYuH...
For one, 70-40 years ago is 2 to 4 generations, so I do think it's still relevant to think about. Also that history shaped what SF became, so new people wanting make changes doesn't seem unreasonable.

For another, the fact that some people are able to make it work doesn't change the fact that the policies you and your friends advocate for actively make it harder for people to "stick it out." Which is a convenient way to limit who gets a say in what this city becomes.
I think you would end up simulating a childhood, society, cultural history, etc, - basically a human world - if you want to develop a human intelligence. I feel like this is an even harder problem than simulating a brain by itself.
> With a decentralized exchange, your transactions happen within a matter of minutes and your only exposure to any potential failure is during those minutes.

I thought many DXes operated by people effectively parking tokens in them for long periods of time so that others can come by and trade for those tokens (otherwise you'd need a way to sync up people who want to trade). The credits received for parked tokens can be redeemed for any token at the exchange, but during the possibly extended period of time you're holding a credit instead of holding a token, you can lose it all if the DX is compromised.
From the same wiki page

The adoption of CinemaDNG among camera manufacturers appears to be hindered by Red Digital Camera’s patent US9245314, which covers in-camera recording of lossless compressed raw video. There had been an unsuccessful attempt to invalidate the patent.
Related:

Brandolini's Law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25956905 - Jan 2021 (59 comments)
If you have no experience whatsoever, how do you know what to avoid? I can tell that phind is a great educational tool, but without the proper knowledge it can give you answers you might not know how to cope with, and you need to ask and ask again and again until you get half a convincing answer.

It's like reading exclusively the accepted answer on stackoverflow. There are many reasons why that's wrong: it can be outdated, it might have been upvoted simply by the "wrong" people, etc.

I am honestly very scared by the amount of people that never wrote one line of code and suddenly can "deploy" things. Not because I am afraid for my job, but simply because in any language and framework there are implicit things to learn which take years to master, and suddenly everyone knows how to build a product -> why does it take our engineers so long! Look, here is the code!

Yeah, that kind of "mindset", I am afraid of. Wrong tool in the wrong hands.

As long as you do it for hobby, I wish you all the fun of the world.
Three Years to Shake Your Head
Sorry for the dumb question; but what is the purpose of marketing an open-source library? The more popular a library becomes, the heavier the burden on the maintainer. Why would a maintainer go out of their way to increase the popularity of a library?
It wasn't a logical conclusion.
Seems unlikely it could work for both. GitHub does not allow . in user or org name, so a $1 that works for GitHub would generally not work as a hostname for curl.
> There are tons of businesses selling products that are ideas brought to life from scratching their own itch or simply a desire to make something and put it out there.

I'd bet money that the number of businesses which fail because they boil down to "a solution in search of a problem" is vastly larger than the number of businesses that succeeded despite performing "no validation".

That said, "making something" and "starting a business" are two different things. I would challenge you to point out where in the post he argues against making something, especially for the reasons you mention.

> I am one of those people who started a business based on an idea with no validation before launching it. I built it in its entirety, then went to places and people who I expected would want it and low-and-behold, I am making a living doing it.

Consider the possibility that you're in the minority there, and that you succeeded despite performing no validation.

> Sorry, this is bogus.

So if it doesn't apply to you personally, or in all cases, then you dismiss it as "bogus", full stop? Are you in the habit of doing this often?

Also, for future reference, it's "lo-and-behold", not "low-and-behold". [1]

1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lo_and_behold
On my phone so the whole “open the dev console” thing doesnt bode well for me. Code samples look nice though. I would definitely add a demo video / gif.
Unlike most I can see things in great detail, including text in my dreams. Consistency in time is absolute mess, for sure, but then again, I don't find this odd to begin with. In fact I kind of expect this. As in I realize I'm dreaming, and yet I don't.
Cf. "Help, I'm a prisoner in a fortune cookie factory!".

Apparently something like this really does happen, although it continues to be hard to tell whether any particular instance is real:

https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-prisoners-sos-messag...
Why aren't ZYXNOO and BAJIP and all those Amazon brands selling cheap and modular replacements?
In my admitted limited experience (small amounts at work and in personal projects) it's some integer multiplier. For routine code it's really nice. But for something more complicated it was distracting. Copilot had an opinion of what the software should be which wasn't quite right and had to be ripped out later. It feeds on itself and your program is further shaped in that direction.

Of course I could have made a similarly poor decision but it's interesting to see that automated to the point of convenience.
Adding a new RISC-V extension (to spike)
Dreaming is the condition where the parts of your brain required to form memories, and to have consciousness are active enough to participate and take part in what the other awake parts of your brain are doing while the sleeping parts like sensory input and motor control are shut down. We already know the brain creates an active predictive model of the world that is what we experience, so it makes sense the brain can continue creating that model when asleep and untethered from sense input.
>There was an article a while arguing that we humans are very early in this universe and that’s why we don’t see any other alien species.

I recall that discussion and added to it with a link to a PBS SpaceTime Episode[0] which discusses this in some detail.

Since you find it interesting (I certainly do), check it out. Actually PBS SpaceTime has lots of other really awesome stuff too![1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTrFAY3LUNw

[1] I am unaffiliated with PBS SpaceTime, rather I'm just glad it exists!
What are the competitors? Have you used the competitors in the past and encountered pain points that motivated this?

( I have never really cared about logging with js. Console.log has been good enough for me. But I also don’t make monolithic apps in js/ typescript. Just vanilla web js. )
Maybe not intelligence with conceptual capabilities but what about direct experiencing or witnessing? For every one of us, animal or human, we start primarily as an experiencer of reality, then as we grow we build a model of the physical world and how we relate to it. But that "subjective" experience is primary, and our model of reality, materialist or otherwise, is conceptual and inferred and secondary, including the idea that our firsthand experience and bodies are one in the same.
I can only speak for myself but my productivity has definitely improved 10x. It's not that I do everything 10x faster, but when I'm stuck on a long standing problem i resolve it much quicker.
There Was No Crisis for JPMorgan and Its Big-Bank Peers
Yeah I met him at a conference in Firenze a few years back. Really nice, bright person.
Habitual daily intake of sweet and fatty snack modulates human reward processing
After watching the Tetris and Mario films I really hope Sega makes a comeback and brings more playable games like the 80s and 90s, rather than all the first person stuff you see on the top end consoles.
Off the top of my head: Career considerations, raising one’s profile, obtaining requests for contract work.
Transmission loss is little. The bigger issue is the cost of maintaining transmission lines, but that's a problem we need to solve either way. Which PG&E has done a horrible job at.
> Why is it OK to bail out the Silicon Valley bank but not this one?

1) Because SVB paid at least some money into the FDIC insurance fund.

2) Because SVB's deposits are mostly backed with still viable investments, and do not require an extended clawback process that will only ever get a certain fraction of the funds back.
> Also if your vision of WFH is that everyone sprawls out then it doesn't solve some of your other issues: people will still need to use their vehicles to get places (because unless we solve the root issue of 'too few homes' then those people will be spread out from each other or services to not create more cities with too few homes) and their sprawled out suburban communities will not suddenly become more walkable. They'll just drive everywhere.

Partially disagree.

Maybe I'm not representative, but most of my family's driving is specifically _commuting_. All other weekly errands add up to less than one day of commute driving. Actually, less than one way of one day of commuting.

Unless you compare a "fully rural" drive-60-miles-to-get-groceries lifestyle to basically a "downtown manhattan" walk-to-the-office one, I'm skeptical that total car-miles will increase when transitioning from WFO to WFH.

Most "completely non-walkable" suburbs will still have a grocery store within a few miles, usually in a so-called super center with a bunch of other stores. I don't have data to back this up (other than talking with coworkers), but my sense is that people who talk about transitioning to a "rural" WFH really mean "move to a small town" or "move to the outskirts of an exurb".

So, even if they become completely car dependent, they're still reducing from 50 commuting miles per day to 2-3 "errands" miles.
Comparing SQL-based streaming approaches
Apple ramps up 15-inch MacBook Air testing as release looms
I have made 2 iphone apps in the past week. I have never before been able to finish an app as i would run into some insurmountable issue and lose interest. The apps are simple but functional. It has really made me excited about doing lots of things that I could never get over the competence hump of doing previously.
Sounds like slavery

Why even have sense of self?
Perhaps different flight modes, with the "camera low" case having a much high moment of inertia, so more stable flight? The "camera high" case should reduce the moment of inertia, fore more nimble movement. For rotation, moment of inertia acts as "mass" does for a linear movement [1].

I don't think you would want to zip through obstacles in a "camera low" scenario.

1. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/mi.html
Things like AutoGPT and BabyAGI seem intelligent to me.

Intelligence is defined as the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.

How could it be denied that things like AutoGPT can acquire knowledge and apply skills?
To whom would they sell this real estate in a tanking, high-interest rate market, exactly?
The obvious question is how effective at carrying small improvised explosives is it?
Interesting that based on the text message from the sister, she knew who the murderer was as soon as the news of the murder came out, but presumably she did not come out to give up her brother. Wonder if she could get into trouble?
Correction: It was a Monday night.

It's doubtful moving to Miami could have much to do with safety as Miami has higher crime rates than SF. More likely the reason was political.
I'd bet a large sum of money I'll never die in a plane crash. Maybe from a lot of other stupid things, but not in a plane crash.
I cannot understand why the cultural understanding of planet wasn't respected, while still making whatever nuanced distinction scientists wanted.

My solution would have been:

Planet = any standalone body in space, formed around a star or brown dwarf, large enough for gravity to mold it into a sphere, but not massive enough to enable any fusion. (i.e. exclude stars and brown dwarfs).

Then:

Major planet: Planet that has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. We have 8 of these.

Minor planet: Planet that has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. This would include Pluto, Ceres, and many extra-Pluto bodies.

The current scientific definition is tortured. I.e. a "dwarf planet" is not a "planet", which is just unintuitive nomenclature grammatically, as well as violating the regular use of the word "planet".
err, not Thirteen Tribes but Twelve Tribes.
The problem is that it's absolutely something you can sever from specific senses or specific parts of your body. If I were to go blind, I suspect I would be the same person afterward (or at least no more different than I would be had I retained my sight). If I lost an arm, I'd still be me, just a me controlling one less arm.

I guess my point is that if intelligence is really inseparable from the body, you'd expect that it would be impossible to keep a head alive without a body- not for any biological reasons, but because the patient would become abruptly...well I'd like to say braindead but apparently there's some other source of intelligence. And you can debate about whether a sci-fi "upload" of your brain is still you, but if you're going to say it wouldn't be able to think at all then you're the one proposing mind-body dualism.

edit: Of course the obvious counterargument is that plenty of people get minor to moderate brain damage while plausibly remaining the same person. I don't think I'm willing to bite that bullet, so my best pitch is that "me" is as made up a category as every other, so we should expect some weirdness.
I don't belive weren't closer to sentient intelligence than we were when babylonians started counting on tablets.

But it seems pretty intuitive that intelligence can exist outside the body. If you suddenly lost your body and had your brain in a computer that could receive audio and video input, couldn't you still act? What if you had no senses and just had info fed into your mind for reflection? I understand the idea of "embodied intelligence" and that sensory awareness is a big part of our intelligence, but I don't see why it would need to be mandatory to be intelligent.
There is almost a (probably misleading) glimmer of “i could have done that”, because the story is so human, he really did have to learn assembly by printing A and Bs, he didn’t have a grand design and just smash out an OS in vim and upload it! This is real agile programming.
This is not correct. You did not need to 'subscribe and pay for games seperately'

You could buy a game and play it on Stadia, you did not need a subscription. The subscription was to play the included games and get a few new ones each month.

The controller wasn't bizarre, it used Wifi to connect directly to the servers to reduce latency of it having to go to your device first via bluetooth then to the servers, hence why 'it didn't work with anything else', which is also not correct, it worked fine wired, you could also use an xbox controller just fine which is what I did, it wasn't something that 'shipped' with Stadia, it was an optional extra.
Well-intentioned social-engineers like this fellow pave the road to hell.
Chironomids probably. They swarm and have short lives of days or hours, don't eat and are tiny and harmless, so probably more a welcomed change to the numbing routine than real nuissance.
Looking at the recent history of a lot of 'disruptive' new tech it sorta seems like waiting to 'see what impact itll have' means being too late to reign it in. I can hardly think of any recent tech that doesnt have horribly negative impacts and that i wouldnt rather be heavily regulated tbh
"This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental."
https://archive.is/v5LjK
since -p- can take a while, you can also speed it up with --min-rate=2000
Basically, this mechanics is the drone's landing gear. When on the ground, the arms pivot down, allowing it to touch down with the camera staying above ground level, protected from impacts. When airborne, the arms pivot up, opening up a 360° field of view for the camera. DJI have done this since the original Inspire 1 and it seems to work pretty well.
You know that because you read it somewhere else, because someone put it online. Your brain took that as training data, and now you're regurgitating it, are you going to pay that person for the data your brain is using?

A musician is just a big neural network, and they sell content that is nothing but the product of all their influences, of all the music they listened to.

I don't see a difference between a musician making music after having listened
to thousand of hours of music throughout their lives and an AI generating music.

It's the same thing, in one case you have neurons made out of flesh, in the other neurons made of transistors and code.
I'm sorry but there is no way he is breaking even. Elon lies are historic and unless there is proof nothing should be believed.
Awareness of self and of your own mind doesn't require a body, nor feelings for that matter. Human intelligence is actually limited by evolution and our meat bodies. It's quite evident that it's possible to engineer a mind more intelligent than evolution can ever hope to produce. Evolutionary intelligence is limited by biology.
Thanks, that's starting to make more sense. With LLMs as the execution platform that both reads data in natural language and takes instructions in natural language, it becomes harder to separate instructions from data.
As I understand it, this isn't some new interpretation from the FDA. It's always been that way. The only new thing here is adding "sesame" to the list of recognized allergens.
I agree, but the funding still has to come from somewhere. SF has an 800M budget shortfall and is looking at slashing services ~20% https://sfstandard.com/politics/city-hall/san-franciscos-def...

The BART website clearly states that they are able to provide current operations due to COVID funding which runs out in 2025. They plan to stop offering weekend routes, stop running after 9PM, reduce train frequency to every 60 minutes, etc.
LWN is consistently good, I really should subscribe.
But it makes no sense that I the OpenAI customer have to pay for the fact their product is racist.

Again:
1 I give them safe/clean prompt
2 AI returns 2 of 10 times unsafe crap that is filtered by them
3 I have to pay for my prompt, then have to catch they non deterministic response and retry again on my money

What should happen

1 customer give safe/clean prompt
2 AI response in racist/bad way
3 filter catches this , then it retries again, a few times, if the AI is still racist/bad then OpenAI automatically adds to the prompt "do not be a racist"
4 customer gets the answer
this is really cool! i'd still prefer gas for _control_ over the heat, but if this is mapped well enough i could see it working as a temp readout. though i have little faith this would be mapped well
Perhaps the actors just want to provide “a more personalized experience that respects your privacy”
Anyone know what the largest moon of a moon of planet would be?

Around a star around a binary star around a massive star? (Star systems can be embedded. We know of double binaries.)

Seriously, it would be interesting for someone to study how deeply nested a system might go, and be plausibly stable, from what we know of solar system formation and dynamics.
That attitude is fairly old fashioned and narrow-minded.

I share it completely.
Well it's gotta be landlocked, and it'll probably be small.

Wikipedia reveals that it's... Lesotho. Sure enough, landlocked and small. I'd never have guessed it, because I didn't realize that part of South Africa was a big mountainous plateau.

Nepal evidently has some quite low points, as it's nowhere near the top of the list. Bottoms out at 59m/194ft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elevation_extremes_by_...

Sort by minimum elevation, descending. The "Lesotho" page confirms its #1 status for highest-lowest-point. It wins by a large margin.
Pretty sure "fancy camera quadcopter" is the wrong quadcopter to be using in a warzone where things tend to get blown up.
Pride? It must be nice to see people using your library.
Wow, 11 years to Jupiter. I wish we had better propulsion systems.

EDIT: This wasn't meant to disrespect the ESA mission. I'm just sad that the outer planets are years away, rather than the hours, days, weeks or months of science fiction.
In my 20+ year career I've still yet to see the myth of a "10x developer" as a reality. It just doesn't exist.