skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3. Drones, autonomous or not, aren't anywhere near reliable enough to do autonomous remote delivery. Final delivery is fraught with a myriad of things that can go wrong. GPS is not 100% reliable or accurate in urban areas. Failure in flight means both drone and package are lost, with the added bonus of potentially hurting or killing someone, liability for which the insurance company is not going to underwrite because drones aren't reliable. Backup flight modes add to weight and cost, and reduce deliverable payload. And even after all of that, aviation authorities at least in my jurisdiction are extremely conservative and won't approve them for autonomous delivery and flight near anywhere people live.

4. Payloads on flying things have severe weight and volume limitations. This limits what you can deliver to things that are small and light.

5. An autonomous drone represents an opportunity for theft or interference. See the drone coming, then: steal the goods when it delivers, interfere with its GPS and force it into an error mode that lands the drone, etc. You don't even need to be at the destination.

6. Multicopters, the devices most people think of when they think drones, have terrible range and payload capacity. The flight mode is akin to helicopters, "beat the air into submission". On the upside, they can hover on the spot. In contrast, plane-style drones which fly aerodynamically or "on the wing", have more range (being more efficient), but have difficulty landing on specific spots and then returning back to base. There are solutions around this, but not 100% viable in all cases. VTOL planes exist for instance, but they're finicky. Parachutes as a delivery mechanism also exist, but not everything can be delivered by dropping a payload.

And much more...

Air delivery exists in places where these aren't concerns and where the cost benefit analysis skews the other way. Zipline [0] has been doing a great job delivering blood to remote areas in Rwanda for a while now. Their product, payload, delivery method, geographical location, regulatory environment, all align to make it worth it. Watch some youtube videos of their operation, it's pretty neat.

[0] https://www.flyzipline.com/
You're clear with no restrictions from about Downtown to North Lynnwood. Even then, as you approach Paine and SeaTac, you can fly with altitude restrictions (300, 200ft, etc). On the eastside along 405, permissible areas are even greater.

https://b4ufly.aloft.ai/?lat=47.124171412997555&long=-122.39...
Why is that a concern? When’s the last time you needed to remember a phone number or directions for travel?
Normalize transition in your kids lives'. It will serve them so much better in the long run.

I had my own dramatic "mid-life crisis" a few years ago in my early 40's and have two teenage kids (pre-teen at the time).

We didn't hide anything from them, including the overall shape of the career issues, relationship issues, hopes and dreams, how we were handling regrets and commitments, and so on.

Of course we didn't involve them in all the nitty gritty (and what we shared, we do so with respect to their relative ages and levels of experience), but the idea that hiding what it means to be a complete, imperfect and yet aspirationally evolving human being from your kids is a major opportunity lost.

Now my kids know that just being successful doesn't mean you're happy, that everyone goes through changes of heart, that our goals and dreams evolve, and that this is a natural part of life.

I'm a huge fan of parental role modelling through action and reflective practice. Showing them how you go through your own life transitions helps them tremendously in theirs.
There definitely are companies that do this "strategically". But then there are employees who intentionally become freelancers for their own benefit.
A lot of shows on Adult swim. I have seen many folks that have worked with the network basically say they have near 100% creative control. Mind you it is about 90% animated stuff.

You see absolutely crazy stuff like The Eric Andre show get 6 seasons. A talk show that is basically just out to torment all their guests. 'Off the air' while only a few episode every few years, is much more of an art experimenter than anything you would consider a show, it is wonderful.

Every few months there is something new and twisted that comes along, it feels like Adult swim is that TV studio that the main company complete forgot exists and that head corporate hasn't checked on since the late 90's.

But the budgets also show, there are no million dollar budgets here.
An article in Cree posted here in the past:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30807401

Submission link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/%E1%90%8A%E1%90%A...
Well it's a facet of day to day safety - if the police can detain you and torture you to death because they don't like your T-shirt's opinion, that country isn't safe on the expression side. Safety isn't only from random robbers and murderers, but also the state.
In Norway, this car would be very unlikely to pass the mandatory roadworthiness test.

You would be forced to fix the car, or sell it to someone who will fix it, or remove the plates and deregister it, or scrap it. If you don’t do anything the police will remove the plates.

I would advice fixing the car or selling it to someone who will fix it because it has some value.

https://www.vegvesen.no/en/vehicles/own-and-maintain/eu-mand...

https://www.vegvesen.no/en/vehicles/own-and-maintain/eu-mand...
>>Am I the only person who doesn't want or need to give the app all of my contacts

No, you are not the only one. I don't understand how sharing contacts with any app is legal under GDPR without getting consent from all contacts
There is also foreman/katello
I mean, if you're looking at averages here, then of course the average content produced for YouTube is worse than the average Hollywood-produced movie.

But at the top end, I don't think there's a direct comparison - stuff gets made for YouTube that wouldn't get made as a movie and doesn't make sense as a movie, but it's no less valuable IMO. There is a lot less of it, and that industry has existed for less time.

Just look 3Blue1Brown's educational math videos, or Veritasium's science videos, or any of the other countless videos on various topics. Better at what they're trying to achieve than almost anything comparable that has existed before, IMO.

Even for things with more direct comparisons - take cooking YouTube vs cooking shows on TV. I believe cooking YouTube is much better in most ways.
I know little about the behind the scenes machinations in the US film/tv world.
The one union says they have been on strike since May.
That is, in my opinion, a long time.
Which may indicate that the other party is not hurting too much from it?

On a sidenote:
With the horrible quality of the major films and tv show these days,
these guys should be on strike demanding higher quality productions.

Soom seems to be
"Ok give me an explosion here"
"Move 3 steps"
"Give me an explosion there"
"You get on the motorcycle. "
"I need 3 explosions there and then you four open up with machine guns"

Some movies seem to have bypassed the script writing entirely
Actually you are ignoring the main argument here that people aren't perfect and that the risk of losing more time due to people getting distracted, reading slack, going on long coffee breaks, etc. is substantial and very real. You lose all that time; not just the build time. And having to wait is frustrating and demotivating. And let's face it, a 1 minute build is actually pretty sweet. I've been on teams where it is closer to 20. And worse. That really sucks the life out of you if you have to sit and wait for that to happen fifteen times in a day. People wasting hours per day waiting for builds, CI, etc. to happen is not cheap.
Enterprise stuff is decided by directors over fancy dinners, charity events, and business class plane flights by bureaucrats. Enterprise Linux needs to learn how to play the lobbying game

This is sometimes called "compliance".

At a previous job we had a bunch of servers that were reaching End of Life and the tech staff already was planning on upgrading, but someone in the bureaucracy with veto and signature powers decided to extend their life to an extended warranty.

We had to keep running those slow and power hungry things for a few more years because we run out of budget.
I'm gonna start with your 3rd point. I think that's an okay time to feel fine about a thing. Honestly, I think that's the best time to feel good about something.

#2 Yeah, sorry, I think I made it seem like I was suggesting something about you, when in fact, I was just reminiscing about how much I didn't like that roommate. I don't know you. But I think that doing nice things for people without expecting something in return is fine regardless of your sexual inclinations. It doesn't make you a "good man" or a "good woman" it makes you a "good person". And I think that's the goal above the other 2 goals.

#1 I think I understood your original point, and I'm asking why do we think that the things that would attract a partner of a different sex than us, are necessarily different? Why are some good/bad actions necessarily gendered? I think we've been fighting a bunch of double standards that negatively impact everyone, and we're recognizing that it's good/bad behavior regardless of who it is. For example, holding the door open for someone is a fine behavior regardless of who you do it for. There's nothing inherently nicely masculine about it.
Then perhaps they should find other means of livelihood, instead of preventing the rest of the world from making full use of the information and technology available to it.
Drones are promising for longer-range deliveries, where they gain some competitive efficiencies. The Rangelov brothers' Dronamics is doing really cool work in that space.

https://foundersfactory.com/articles/dronamics/
Consumption is a terrible proxy for quality of life.

It's also terribly USAian of you.
> I was taught that titles were always written in katakana, similar to how titles in English are always written in title case

Whoever taught you that is wrong, titles are not written in katakana. Katakana is mostly only used for loan-words and onomatopoeia. English titles of foreign movies will be written in Katakana, maybe they were confused by that?
My first car came with instructions kinda like that, by the time i sold it.
Occasionally there is a good show. More often than not on AppleTV or Amazon (entities with more money than God) these days and more often than not completely overlooked.
More specifically: Induction doesn‘t inherently provide visual cues–eben better, they shut off themselves if no pan is detected.
I mean… if you are comparing the last century of filmmaking versus whatever is on YouTube, sure. But if you are comparing the last few years of movies vs what’s available on YouTube, I’d much rather watch YouTube.
By the same token, avoid seeing oncologists, EMTs, many kinds of surgeons. These people see death every day, ask yourself why: they must have a sick fascination with it. Or they stopped caring. Is that something you want in someone caring for you?
The Criterion Collection has new films? What I see on their site is only classics. Is there a list of newer movies?
I’ve got parents on both sides that are too busy going on cruises and vacations and only call us for the good times, so yea I can be pessimistic these days.

Friends and siblings though have been coming through like champs during these hard times.
Honestly? It sounds to me like a meme. A bit like "Math is hard" for freshmen

There's nothing specifically hard about it. Maybe harder-ish than other subjects, but nothing specifically hard (I mean, specifically about Calculus 101 - later ones are of course harder)

> Are the teachers bad or the curriculum or books?

But yes, yes and yes. All of that. And wasting too much time with crap like "theorems about limits" which literally nobody cares unless you're on a pure math track.
Use multiple Git SSH identities on a single computer
Saw a few people struggling online when managing multiple git SSH identities on a single user account.

Created a seamless solution for them. It lets you:
- create and switch between work and personal SSH accounts in any repository
- create new git SSH keys, and switch within existing git repos
- upcoming: automatically tie git config user{name, email} to an SSH identity so that your commits follow your identity

Note: It supports Github.com at the moment. Support for any other git provider coming quick!
But what if hating or not caring about source material is a mystery box?
snprintf_l() is not standard, but you can simulate it with uselocale() to save and restore the per-thread locale, which is standard (POSIX.1-2008) and supported by Glibc, FreeBSD, MacOS and other OSes, though Windows requires its own, different way of doing per-thread locale.

It seems it was once an explicit design choice in Glibc. Here (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10891) a Glibc ticket refers to documentation "Thread-aware Local Model, A Proposal" of the plans for the _l() functions (https://akkadia.org/drepper/tllocale.ps.gz) long ago, which are nowadays implemented in Glibc.

It looks like snprintf_l() and other <stdio.h> functions were not part of that plan.

That plan or something like it also made its way into POSIX.1-2008, so it seems likely that the committee gave some thought to including strftime_l() and not snprintf_l().

The paper linked above includes a rationale that tiny, potentially performance-critical functions like isalpha() need a fast version that takes a local parameter, thus isalpha_l(), because of the overhead of fetching a thread-local value inside the function.

Perhaps the intent is that only those tiny functions, or even macros, whose performance would be greatly affected by the cost of fetching the thread-local locale, need a _l() version. That mostly makes sense for the functions which have _l() versions in Glibc. But with that rationale, I don't see why there is strftime_l() but not snprintf_l().
No, because then you have no one to do manual jobs because the native well educated youth won't take those.
First-generation Apple iPhone sells at auction in US for $190k
Absolutely spot on here, there's no reason for the obsession HN (and the wider internet) has with upgrades in these kinds of environments. These are not environments where you can tolerate unplanned downtime, this isn't a silly web app running in us-east.
That one was a bit like not hotdogs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACmydtFDTGs
> Actors are featureless blobs that all look the same.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice this one. There seems to be five or six "allowed looks" for each gender, and many mainstream Hollywood actors and actresses have become almost clones of those archetypes.

I thought maybe I'm just old and more familiar with actors from older generations. Show me a random famous Hollywood actor who's under 35 years old and I probably can't tell you who it is. But maybe it's because they all actually do look the same!
As with many other industries, I assume that VC, PE and Financial Engineering have also played havoc with these markets.

Everything is fine whilst we are awash with loose speculative money, but when the tide goes out there isn’t enough real demand to keep the lights on.
I think there are a lot of religious conservative women who are discovering there's more to life than having children with aggressive men. And also that they don't find themselves attracted to those men for very long.

But also, you're making it sound like we're just animals and nothing more. And while I agree we're animals, I think it's unfair to reduce us to our most animalistic traits. Why are you typing on a computer if you're just an animal and nothing more?
Other couples think of ‘we’ differently than you do. Everybody deals with money differently.
4 has nothing to do with caches.
Yes, there's substantial value in being able to have a specific bugfix and not have to upgrade an application and a ton of dependencies.
Sure. I was speaking in generalities.
What counts as "new and twisted" these days? I guess I'm wondering what sort of thing is being held back from wide audiences because of studio money men rather than just current tastes.
Ask HN: Math books that fundamentally changed the way to view or learn new math?
While self studying mathematics have you worked through any book that made a fundamental shift in your mind about how you viewed math in general and learn new math topics?

Can you write a few lines about those books?
Yes, this exactly - the quality of writing on a lot of shows these days is absolutely abysmal. Not just dialogue, the plots - so much 'tropes copying', pointless or stupid 'reveals' or just plain dumb twists to make things edgy and exciting. I feel like the average IQ in Hollywood writing departments as dropped significantly in the last 20 years ... sad
"Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?"

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt

I think of this quote whenever I am waiting for my iPhone to boot. Though I suppose Apple would argue that you don't need to reboot your iPhone every day the way you might have with older computers. There were never a billion Mac users though.
> It's not WHO's job (nor is it possible) for them to ensure every global publication regurgitates their press releases accurately.

But the whole purpose of a press release is to communicate accurately with the press. The WHO, being a global organization, is also very much supposed to work with the press globally.

Not to mention, the aspartame story was not coming out of some small paper from Trinidad, it was coming out of major publications in the USA. If the WHO can't even manage to communicate properly to them in its press releases, why bother putting out press releases at all?
Same. I love extremely spicy food but otherwise have very little interest in food; I also can't smell sour milk most of the time which is partly why I don't drink milk, and judiciously sterilize my kid's milk bottles. I generally only eat if I start feeling weak or it begins to impact my mood (low blood sugar)
The most awesome, genius stories are where adults act like adults and wild drama still happens despite their best efforts.
I didn't realize the question was about newer films. My mistake.
I don't think that statement is meant to be taken literally. Playing chess takes ridiculous amounts of mental effort and that's still subjectively significant even though the brain isn't consuming more glucose. We aren't machines, our attention is limited and chess consumes vast amounts of it.
Would be cool to have projects write documentation in a form that's annotated for LLMs, ie. premarked topic breaks.
Actually Munchausen was remade by Terry Gilliam in 1988. The same Gilliam in 2009 made The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, which was also pretty wild.

> the wild artistic risks taken in the movie would likely never happen today

Tim Burton or Christopher Nolan would disagree. And there are plenty of brave films out there, just not necessarily from big Hollywood studios.
It actually is Unix, depending on your definition. If you define it as meeting the standard, it is. If you define it as being the same changed code base, it's not.
Sorry to hear about you and your daughter, and I hope you're both doing better. Was she a heavy social media/cell phone user? It's been shown to cause mental issues in teens, especially girls.
I get the feeling.

When I felt like writing again after years of closing my previous blog, it though about it for a while before committing to https://bitecode.dev.

But eventually, I realized that

- I also write for myself, not just for others.

- People like reading things without having to prompt for it. So they will read the blog because it's nice and topics come to them even if they don't think that they need to know.

- ChatGPT doesn't have opinion. It tries very hard to be balanced. Your blog will have an opinion.

- There is more to the experience you provide than just knowledge. You can add tools, exercises, videos, etc. Which GPT cannot, for now, replicate.

- GPT can replicate style, but will not by default. People will come for your style as well. And pics. And design. And jokes.

- People value the interaction they feel when they content seems like there is a person behind it. They get attached. They develop sympathy.

- A blog puts things in context. "If you want to know that, you probably need to know that". It also gives information about what happen right now.

- Humans curate. In a world where creating crappy content is very cheap, a good filter has tremendous value.

So yes, you will be scanned, and replicated. Doesn't mean you don't have value in writing what you do.

And making something of value is nice.

This may change in 10 years or so. Maybe the LLM will be able to do all that. But depriving yourself of a rewarding experience right now for the fear of what might happen is not worth it.
Why are they slashing prices at all? Who is their competition? They're worried the market is saturated with the 1 cybertruck that just rolled off the "production line" 4 years late?
> “publish a few things you know a lot bit in exchange to read stuff other smart people have shared

I feel like this hasn't been the majority of internet users experience for ~20 years
What always confused me about such a large number of networks/IP owners deciding to open their own streaming service was that even if every single streaming service was full of amazing content, there never was any indication that most people would want to subscribe to all of them. There's a big market for people willing to pay $15/month to get a ton of stuff to stream, but there's a lot fewer people willing to pay $75/month for five different streaming services; it doesn't matter if each of them had 20% of the "good" content from before if no one wants to pay 5x what they're already paying. Some of the wave of services coming out after Netflix's boom made sense; Disney probably has the largest set of IP of any company in the world for a streaming service, HBO already was a premium service that had demonstrated they were able to produce content people were willing to pay for but...is anyone really shocked that CNN didn't have enough draw to maintain a profitable streaming service? I suspected that the proliferation of streaming service wouldn't last forever, and that eventually there would be a consolidation into a much smaller number of major players, but I didn't think it would take so long that the people in charge would end up grinding the entire industry to a halt because they'd take so long to finally figure out that it wasn't sustainable.
Jules Verne's books basically 'young adult' fiction in his day. I think the 19th century nature of his works, which may challenge modern readers, likely obscures this fact from people today.

I've been reading some of his books recently and enjoy them, he's a legend for a reason. But once you get accustomed to the style and archaic words, you start to realize the stories and characters are pretty basic. Where he really shines are the creative premises.
> The assets get stripped and sold off to the next company who can just continue to do the same thing.

But the shareholders of J&J lose everything, making the ones of the next company think twice before doing the same… Whereas with the shell company bankruptcy, J&J shareholders losses are limited, and they still own and run the company that killed thousands of people.