skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are open questions around the limits of airspace below the FAA ceiling and property lines. There's been multiple cases in the US of people intentionally shooting down drones operating above their property, including in urban areas, and it has not yet been heard by the Supreme Court. Common Law held that property owners controlled their property from the Earth to the Heavens, which is inclusive of airspace. The current law in the US says that property owners control their airspace within their "reasonable control".

I am not a lawyer, but is is a very open question if you're flying low enough someone can visually sight you and shoot you down over their property, whether or not that this is a violation of the law /for unmanned vehicles/. Drones in particular have become a serious nuisance and many property owners have taken actions against them in the US triggering court cases, most of which haven't yet reached their conclusion.

EDIT to add that the rules here even vary by state in the US, in some states you own 83 feet over your property of airspace, in others it could be as much as 400 feet (above 400 feet is controlled airspace under the jurisdiction of the FAA). Generally speaking, shooting any aircraft, jamming any radio signal, or shining laser pointers on any aircraft is already federally illegal in the US and violates FAA/FCC regulations, but it's not clear that these regulations are actually constitutional and enforceable, or that it cannot be an act of self-defense to shoot down a low-flying aircraft intruding on your property.
The Tale of a Corrupt Backup
Everyone is the hero of his own tale. Anyone who behaved otherwise would be a reverse narcissist. (Inappropriately diminishing his own importance and value). We are all our own main player. The question is are we a main player to anyone who doesn’t know us personally?

A more interesting framing for “player category” would be “if an article called you out by name would anyone know who you are?” The answer for most of us is “no”. Because we’re not famous. I, for one, prefer it that way. Michael Jackson would have paid a million dollars for a single day when nobody knew who he was. There could be some interesting here, but that doesn’t seem to be the thrust of the article.

The NPC framing for common behavior patterns is nonsensical.
Sure we fall into common behavior patterns but so do names everyone recognizes. Either discuss player category or discuss behavior ruts. The two areas of inquiry travel in different directions.

There might be something here (potentially two things) but the author loses the opportunity to convince by adoption a false and inappropriate framing.
Revise and resubmit.
I generally think it's fair for utilities to pay wholesale prices for dumping excess solar energy onto the grid, but the situation in this article is more subtle.

If you have a building with solar and 10 apartments, at a given moment the building could be supplying 100% of the residents' energy demand, yet the residents still have to pay the "retail minus wholesale" price because utilities can't be bothered to write the software to measure what the building is actually doing.

That is an injustice.

You could sort of argue that the energy is traversing "the grid" when it bounces off the local utility-owned transformer, but the additional maintenance cost is basically zero.
What?

The market has not delivered a resilient supply chain.

If you want it an America, you will need to subsidise it.
It's been true for a long time that people working at that store couldn't afford to live nearby (in general).

What changed in the last few years though?
On the topic of sleep deprivation, also consider all the gradient of rest + recovery that you can do to support your body even if it's not getting the best sleep.

Mindfulness Meditation, NSDR[1], Box Breathing[2], Saunas / Cold showers, adequate protein intake, basic movement like walking for bloodflow/lymphatic drainage etc.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKGrmY8OSHM
[2]: https://www.webmd.com/balance/what-is-box-breathing#1-3
> per my recollection, cowboys played both sides of the law

Cowboys were animal herders, not police officers.

You're probably thinking of the romanticized "Lone Ranger" image of the cowboy as seen in Western movies. This is almost entirely fictitious.
> Are there some fundamental aspects of git that would make it either very difficult to improve that, or that would sacrifice some important benefits if they were made?

I can't speak to improving git, but I think some light on this area can be shed by Linus' tech talk at Google in 2007.

1. Linus says there's a specific focus on full history and content, not files ... so it's a deliberate, different axis of focus than file count:

https://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8?t=2586

... AND it's a specific pitfall to avoid when using Git:

https://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8?t=4047

2. As Linus tells it, Git appears to be designed specifically for project maintenance while not getting in the way of individual commits and collaboration. But the global history and more expensive operations on things like "who touched this line" are deliberate so lines of a function are tracked across all moves of the content itself.

Maintainer tool enablement: https://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8?t=3815

Content tracking slower than file-based "who touched this": https://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8?t=4071

===

I have no answer, but ...

Practically, I've used lazy filesystems both for Windows-on-Git via GVFS [1][2] and Google's monorepo jacked into a mercurial client (I think that's what it is?). Both companies have made this work, but as Linus says, a lot of the stuff just doesn't work well with either system.

Windows-on-Git still takes a lot of time overall, and stacking > 10 patches of an exploratory refactor with the monorepo on hg starts slowing WAY WAY down to the point where any source control operations just get in the way.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/announcing-gvfs-git-vi...

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit
I believe the API (chat completions) has been private for a while now. ChatGPT (the chat application run by OpenAI on their chat models) has continued to be used for training… I believe this is why it’s such a bargain for consumers. This announcement allows businesses to let employees use ChatGPT with fewer data privacy concerns.
No, after acquisition usually the existing product is usually shutdown or phased out while its features are absorbed into some <new thing>.

With Google, everything has a huge chance of being shutdown, unless its Gmail or Search, but in both of those cases they will also continue to get worse over time.
> the latest retailer to capitulate to rising crime and lower foot traffic.

Nordstrom also bailed on the entirety of the Canadian market. Was that also due to crime in SF?

It's difficult to communicate and explain the enormous secular and systemic rippling shifts in economic conditions that have followed the pandemic and the shift to work from home, particularly and extraordinarily pronounced in SF for various reasons much more so than other places in the world.

A much easier story to solely blame localized crime. It is doubtful this is the real cause.
Moving forward.

That said I still dunno which 64bits risc-v MCU board I'll use for my future keyboard (if I ever get the brain time and energy). For the moment I am targetting a mango pi with a D1 (yeah, completely overkill, but I really don't want to code the firmware in 32bits, as I would code it in 100% assembly, without abusing any preprocessor of course).

Hopefully RISC-V will be successul. For that, it must have extremely performant implementations in major use cases (server/desktop/mobile).
It is pretty much is if you use OpenAI via Azure, or you're large enough and talk to their sales (the 2x faster is dedicated capacity I'm guessing)
They don't train on data when you either use the API or disable chat history, which is inconvenient.
I went to an extremely conservative school in an extremely conservative school district. We also had protests over dress codes, and it wasn't about the "right to dress like slobs." It was entirely about reinforcing existing community standards (i.e., freedom of expression through clothing) against an aberrant decision (a district-mandated dress code imposed by a newly-elected slate of neo-conservatives).
I'm really not sure at all this can be interpreted as them being startled at LLama 2 at all.

From the very beginning everyone knew data privacy & security would be one of the main issues for corporations.
To me it seems ftxbro is jesting at the fact that Darwin studied a "useless" subject rather than something practical and marketable, like modern liberal arts majors saddled with tons of debt.
I find interesting the last example with find and ldap queries. I'm not too familiar with ldap, but i do use find frequently. Could you expand on the example and what happens and why it's bad?
My philosophy here is never automate/gitops something that you cannot revert manually if something goes wrong. I learned this almost the same way as OP, but in test and dev environments. As my K8s clusters crashed irrecoverably in many different ways (etcd, pvcs, velero, hdd failures, shared storage, databases) to the point where they'd need to be rebuilt, I imagined what it would be like in prod, and the thought made me quickly decide to:

- Not host databases inside k8s
- Not host shared storage or storage clusters in k8s
- Drop etcd, use external postgres as control plane database
- Use velero, but make sure you do no need to rely on velero (backup manifests, not databases or volumes)
- Also keep your manifests in git
- Generaly treat your entire cluster as ephemeral and optimize for full rebuilds (drive your time to rebuild down to a few hours or minutes).
Absolutely not. Forks are extremely important. Where did you come up with that idea?
Driverless cars are no place to relax, new study shows
I likely am far less neurotic than you, but for me I've found reading fiction really helps to clear out the thoughts that are keeping me awake.
Why did you have users in your AWS account besides a couple of emergency break glass users?

All other users should have been going through some SSO using Microsoft AD, Okta, etc.
Yet San Francisco continues to have min wage workers.
Another store lying about "crime" being the reason they're closing.
Ask HN: Email Accounts for Minors
More and more schools are asking for gmail accounts for kids around middle school. Parent of those who have experience with this can you share your best practices?

1) person email domain vs Google provided
2) how do you monitor the account? Can you setup alerts ?

3)what else do you recommend based on your learnings?
> Under US law, a license is different than a contract. The GPL and friends are very explicitly NOT contracts (in contrast to EULAs, which try to be).

Why are EULAs contracts and the GPL is not?
The theory is that 99% of the code is in the high level language, and 1% is in the low level language.

In my experience, that means that 80-90% of the developer effort goes into getting the FFI bindings to not be terrible. (In fairness to things like python, most of my FFI experience is with Java, which is notoriously bad at such things)
> > I notice it most when things here by chance are done in metric, but the units still aren't converted. E.g. I might see something listed at 1000mL, instead of just writing 1L. Or 3500g instead of 3.5kg.

> I see things like this constantly in shops in Europe. I think it is part of a dark pattern to make price comparisons less intuitive and even misleading if you just skip over the prices trying to find the cheapest.

It doesn't really matter though, as conversion is so easy and automatic.

Meanwhile in the US, if I want to determine which product has more fat, my butter lists nutrition per tea spoon, my milk by the cup, my yogurt by 3/4 of a cup, another butter per 100g, yet other products per 24 ounces.

Honestly I don't know if anybody is able to extract useful information from those comparisons, without pulling out a calculator in the super market.
That's not clear to me. The examples I've seen from anywhere that Rust has to deal with hardware suggest that you have to throw out most of the safety guarantees of the language, and this applies also to dealing with OS-provided abstractions of hardware (like MMU-mapped registers and mmap-ed memory regions).

I don't have the impression that Rust's container idioms match those of, say, Python, but I may just not know Rust well enough.
If, say, only 5% of the people undertake that screening and manage to bring up the population expectancy by four months, then the actual effect could be over six years for screened individuals.

It's pretty dishonest to be confusing the effect of screening by counting unscreened individuals.

It's like claiming that seat belts don't work by looking only at fatality figures that don't inform to what extent seatbelts were worn.
Short Biography of Steve Jobs
They did not do surgery on a banana over 5G
when a company buys another company it kinda does the opposite would be the outlier
How do you get an interview in the first place?
All the followups pretty much just talked right over the point I was making.
I don't know that it's happening now, I was making a suggestion that it could happen. If you're having economic troubles in a country, especially in an authoritarian country, blaming the outside world for your troubles can be a smart thing. No one can really argue with you in a dictatorship - if anyone is powerful enough to contest with you, you just kick them out of the ruling party, just like what actually happened in China with Xi removing Hu Jintao in a very public way at the party Congress. Another example is Russia threatening to invade the smaller countries around them if they make treaties with Western countries, and then invading them for being "bad" like in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, etc.
US bases in the Iraqi Green Zone, and other spots like Bagram AB, had a lot of contractors and had reputations for culture like this, too.

I had a signals MOS and it was a gut check coming to Baghdad and doing work around the comfy contractors after time at Camp Fallujah. The jokes about Filipina Contractors, Cinnabun, and homemade hooch are mostly overstated... but not false...
Despite calls to defund the police, it hasn't happened, basically anywhere (and certainly not in any big cities). From last October:

> Police department budget up 4.4% since 2019, despite SF officials making bold promises to defund

https://abc7news.com/sfpd-budget-defund-the-police-departmen...

The police budgets are as bloated as ever, and they remain as useless as ever.
You have exhausted your region's capacity for testing. Game over womp womp
most teams don't want to self-host, and definitely don't want to have to run on-device eating up their ram
You still need to show that rescinding the license you granted for your open source code is even a thing. It would basically look to collapse a good portion of the software industry into an endless flurry of lawsuit from any number of contributors and their heirs looking to monetize blackmailing projects by threatening to take back contributions. Why wouldn't the US court system nope out of all that by any means available?
> a large company like Amazon has figured out how to get by with a small subset of "historical" CS knowledge.

All software companies do this. They focus on just the aspects of engineering that directly serve to produce the products and services that particular company produces.

This is why if someone has only worked at a single company -- regardless of how prestigious that company is -- their education and experience is incomplete. A well-rounded engineer will have worked at a few different companies that are doing very different things from each other.
(Note: very US centric comment here) I’ve become skeptical of the motives behind any article that seems to seed some level of doubt about health screenings and any preventative or treatment measure that involves the healthcare system itself. They always stink of the insurance and for-profit healthcare system and their aversion to paying anything out beyond the absolute bare minimum to get people the care they need. I often wonder how different public attitudes would be towards treatment and prevention if the US healthcare system wasn’t profit driven.
> New users will not be able to sign up for Fig's products right now while we focus on optimizing them for existing customers and addressing some needs identified to integrate Fig with AWS.

This sounds a lot like the product is dead, and may emerge again at some point as an AWS hosted, Amazon branded product...

I'd never use a subscription + telemetry laden product like this in my core workflow, but sucks for the current users I guess.
We shouldn’t tolerate shoplifters either. Theft is theft.
The original author of LFortran. Great question.

We designed LFortran to first "raise" the AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) to ASR (Abstract Semantic Representation). The ASR keeps all the semantics of the original code, but it is otherwise as abstract/simple as possible. Thus by definition it allows us to do any optimization possible, as ASR->ASR optimization pass. We do some already, we will do many more in the future. This optimizes all the things where you need to know the high level information about Fortran. Then once we can't do any more optimizations, we lower to LLVM. If in the future it turns out we need some representation between ASR and LLVM, such as MLIR, we can add it.

We also have a direct ASR->WASM and WASM->x64 machine code, and even direct ASR->machine code, but the ASR->LLVM backend is the most advanced, after that probably our ASR->C backend and after that our ASR->WASM backend.
I have certain books that I just gave up on for this reason. Once it becomes my "bedtime book" its impossible for me to read a few pages and not nod off!
This seem like perfect replacement of Amazon's cloud shell thing
> I can see why she left him...

I agree. It doesn't matter that it's his regretful private thoughts. I'm not a therapist, but that email is an artifact of a bigger mental health issue that is expressed in other ways. Narcissism? At least that!
San Francisco needs more police officers.
Zero execution risk, rather than zero effort. There’s always a 10% chance that implementation goes on forever and spending some money eliminates that risk.
I'm all for the post, but are we really attempting to add logic to stock prices? The price of NVDA stock does not correlate with any sort of logical math, this plus this = stock price type of equation.

Stock prices are entirely based on what people think they are worth.
That 4% number is extremely wrong. Either you or the podcast has a misunderstanding. Though I guess it is EconTalk, not MedTalk.
Then the way this is being divulged is absolutely a very bad way

Yes, life expectancy should count premature deaths

Saying it "doesn't extend live" goes against that, because it absolutely does increase life expectancy

Science communication is bad
Maybe domestication more than industrialization. Were there other animal species that used to be more commonly grown by farmers that disappeared with industrialization?
I don't know either. I think part of it is that some e-bike customers are not otherwise bike buyers and go for the niche of huge-wheeled quasimotorcycle. I recommend keeping e-bike weight under 50 pounds because it is the design limit of the bike carriers on American buses and on Amtrak. There are plenty of e-bikes under 40 pounds even.
I'm hugely disappointed with OpenTelemetry. In my experience, its an over-engineered mess and the out-of-the-box experience is super user hostile. What it purports to be is so far away from what it actually is. Otel markets itself as a universal tracing/metrics/logs format and set of plug and play libraries that has adapters for everything you need. It's actually a bunch of half/poorly implemented libraries with a ton of leaky internals, bad adapters, and actually not a lot of functionality.
Or maybe they got urged to offset more operational costs - and I would believe that companies already paying for Microsoft things Wille happily pay for OpenAI in addition just to be safe.
The store may or may not be telling the truth. Either way, it's undeniable that SF has changed dramatically over the last several years, with dramatic upswing in property crime and complete unwillingness on the part of law enforcement to fight it.
Scrum and agile always fails if your company has a finance department. The finance department is never agile an will demand numbers every quarter. They don't care about your sprints. They want a plan for the next quarter and don't care about your sprints or your t-shirt estimates of your Kanban backlog. Unfortunately since they have the money the needs of the finance departments always win over all agile processes you have in place.

No agile book or manifesto ever mentions this issue, because there simply is no solution for it.
Right to repair and a phone's ip67 rating can't coexist
Citation needed. I googled it and it appears to be a common myth.

(Aluminum powder is used in propellant, it was used to coat the Hindenburg, therefore the Hindenburg was coated in rocket propellant.)
Aye that’s a great one. Even testing and treating not so rare conditions can lead to statements that seem different when you know the details.

Imagine you test early and often for a condition in country A much more often than country B which waits until some more late stage easier to detect symptoms occur. Now compare survivor rates. Much higher in country A! We should clearly also be testing in country B, right?

Depends. If the condition is something that doesn’t often actually kill and typically remains at a non lethal but detectable state then all you might have done is treat a lot of extra non fatal conditions that usually only is detected in country B once it evolves to a more advanced and dangerous state. You may have put many people in country A through an unnecessary, expensive, and frightening treatment regime.

The point is that these things are complex and need thorough analysis.
Ya exactly, I’ve had 2 family members catch pancreatic cancer early and be cured. It’s typically the most fatal cancer.
Good thing he didn't discover any poisonous mushrooms.
I use them for all sorts of things, even now. They make excellent VPN devices, they're great as local recursive DNS resolvers, and I have several that're backup NAT routers / firewalls for various networks. They also are perfect for ssh-based port forwarding / jump hosting for networks that have crappy NAT firewalls.

Turn off atime and devmtime, turn of daily and weekly cron jobs, and log to tmpfs, and SD cards will last for many, many years. I have one that's been running continuously since 2015.
Days since AWS last announced they were killing a devtool service: 4

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254198)
Yep, there's a giant pile of training (and inference) that has yet to be done because we've barely touched real-world data (audio, visual and tactile). GPT-4 already demo'd a multimodal version, and I don't see a reason why GPT-N won't be able to seamlessly work on video and tactile input and output actuator commands. I also don't see a reason why humanoid bodies would cost more than a car.

Maybe people don't realize how low the bar for mass-adoption is? We're kinda mesmerized by Boston Dynamics' Parkourbot, but the real-world is made for people of many different abilities, you don't need to do summersaults, or run, or lift a lot to be able to do useful work. A $30k robot with a lifespan of 8 years would cost $10/day. $10 is very little money for in-your-house work, being able to do basic cleanup will be worth it for a vast number of households.