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>Rotor is not the only company looking to introduce autonomous flight control systems for helicopters, although it could be the first to have an uncrewed helicopter available for commercial use.

I think this has to be wrong about it being the first for commercial use but I am willing to be wrong in my assumption. Several years ago I watched an unmanned helicopter fly past my property less than 200 feet altitude and less than a half mile away. It was flying the route that I knew to be the proposed route for a bypass around my town and there was a small plane like a Cessna circling as it flew along. I know that it was unmanned because there was no windshield or cabin. It looked to be sized like a two-seater. I tried to get a photo but by the time the camera started it had flown far enough that you couldn't make out the fact that there was no cabin or cockpit or windshield. I had the feeling it was mapping the route as it flew. That bypass is now open, right along the path that chopper flew. These guys can be the second but they can't be the first.
Way more possible today than in the past, but still would be insanely impressive if executed in reality.
You just opened my mind that I did this to somebody at a conference a month ago. Perfect is the enemy of good I guess.
> As you may recall, Bourdieu thinks we acquire tastes based on our life trajectories, and this helps perpetuate class. Upper-class people get access to upper-class culture early in life, which helps them appreciate upper-class stuff, fit in with upper-class people, do well in life, and repeat the cycle with the next generation.

This may apply to acquired tastes where causality can be from a desire to fit into group(s). Devoid of caring what others think there are personal tastes such as flavor likes/dislikes which can be arbitrarily distributed at a very early age. I recognized this when I found out BMW drivers are considered to be a-holes and statistically likely. I didn't stop liking their form/function but may not own one (unless it's a small convertible, they're for fun-loving people).
That's interesting. In the states there are an absolute abundance of rpg's available. Many rule sets, many settings. It's an actual renaissance of the field, I would argue.
Who defines what a 'fence' is in the first place?
Because if you buy five of that item, you pay €4.95. Few people go into a store and buy one €0.99 item.

And if you pay with your debit card then it's still €0.99.
Yes if you consider the fact of how much carbon production did not grow compared to the amount of power being produced and consumed. We need to keep moving in this direction I felt trade protectionism was going to slow this move down a bit but now I think it might accelerate it instead as US and Europe try to block Chinese imports of solar and wind to protect their own manufacturing. I expect China to provide finance to poorer countries to buy it's own solar and wind at least that would be my move solar and wind might be cheaper but upfront cost is higher so it is harder for them to install large scale.
I wonder if I’ll ever find another type of software that makes me as happy as spreadsheets, whatever implementation really, Excel, Google sheets, …. Perhaps not the Apple one actually.
I think you have to have WSL for this to work, but this is how I do it on Linux with Xorg:

sleep 3 ; xdotool type --delay 5 "$(xclip -selection c -o)" ## Force-paste the secondary paste buffer (Ctrl+Shift+c)
Oops. I didn't remember it being that much bigger than Earth's.
If you’re trying to solve a problem and think “I’ll use mongodb”, well now you’ve got two problems.

Just pick postgres. If you have unstructured data as input, either put in the effort to create some kind of schema for it if you can or just use jsonb if you can’t.
Sure it is. They all involve visual experience. Why would imagination be different, other than in the capacity of the individual to voluntarily visualize?
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There is something similar to the Global Assembly Cache for .NET Core. This allows WSUS to automatically upgrade the .NET runtime installed on the system.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-core-updates-comin...
Well someone is preordering all these games that are almost garunteed to be unfinished, at best. What shod we call them?
I suspect you could extend that line of logic to always combine privacy and security. Which, granted is not exactly wrong, but that's just security through obscurity and you really shouldn't rely on it.

(Of course, if it's free then you should strongly consider taking the obscurity, and privacy is a compelling argument all on its own. I just think blurring the line here is iffy.)
Agree, I can easily see a team of a dozen developers shrunk down by half and still maintain the same quantity and quality of output.
It’s a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B.

Sure, as a dev, there’s plenty to do and test and update, but there’s also heaps I get for free, especially when following Apple’s “best practices.”

A simple example was a year ago when Apple tweaked some UI elements to look sleeker and changed default styles (e.g., lists, pickers, etc.).

My SwiftUI app and other SwiftUI apps compiled against the then-current iOS SDK immediately showed the new UI elements when run on the latest iOS beta. Didn’t even require me to recompile.

Stuff like that is elegant and can only be done when the libraries are included in the OS.

The flip side is, of course, that if you, for some reason, have a particular thing in mind and you don’t take precautions to lock it down in your code, it’ll stop looking that way when changes are made in the next iOS.

But I guess that’s what beta testing is for, and I’ve yet to come across a freebie that I didn’t like, but I’ll concede that it’ll depend from dev to dev.
The same was said about developers relying on search engines, now google-fu is generally considered an essential skillet for the modern programmer.
It's a cool idea, but I'd prefer to browse myself rather than receive an email :)

I am very interested in your methodology here, though. Are you using the Reddit API or scraping the pages? How do you determine what is a product recommendation? Do you determine quality of the recommendation (eg, "Product X is awesome" vs "Product X sucks")?
Sounds great. Can't wait for the Branch functionality.
ChatGPT DDoS attackers: we'll continue TIL it stops 'dehumanizing' Palestinians
It’s insane how small transistors are now. Technically you could have a full 2 bit adder inside a single virion within a generation.
> it happens in the uk as well as the us - university lecturers are bribed by the publishers.

I really, really, really wish people would quit repeating this without evidence.

Maybe ... maybe ... this is true for some huge name who can force the adoption of some huge number of textbooks. Maybe.

However, for any random lecturer who teaches an upper level technical class, the maximum level of revenue any seller can expect from that class is probably about $200 x 50 students = $10,000.

Where the hell is the bribe money going to come out of that? By the way, last I checked, the publishers wouldn't even let us keep the sample copy they sent to us. Yeah, they're that cheap.

And do you really think that your technical lecturer/professor or anybody in the publisher is going to risk going taking potentially illegal behavior for $1000?

If your lecturer/professor is that money driven, they would be better off simply not taking an underpaid, overworked position teaching your sorry ass and instead teach the same technical material to professionals who will pay more than your semester tuition for a one-week program.

Now, if you want to talk about the publishers bribing government bureaucrats over high school textbooks, that is an entirely different and completely documented thing.
Tell me about it. My favorite airline from Beijing to anywhere in Europe was Aeroflot, the Burger King at the airport in Moscow served beer. Glad you can find flights so cheap, all I can find from Seattle ATM is $2k/person, most with one day layovers. We used to have so many direct flights a day, it’s around 30+ hours now unless you want to pay even more for something that is only 20 hours.

Far Eastern territory airspace being closed really hurts the west coast.
This would also be very interesting here. I believe the intensity of storms passing through has increased over the last couple decades. I am in tornado alley so intense storms are part of life but the wind speeds associated with non-tornadic storms that pass have increased. It is not unusual now to get warnings for winds greater than 60 mph (96 kph) and we have seen winds greater than 80 mph (129 kph) several times in the last five years. I think wind speeds associated with storms are increasing so it would be interesting to see whether that data matches my perception.
There is this bit (emphasis mine)

>This means Chimera is not a GNU/Linux system, as it utilizes neither GNU utilities, nor GNU libc, nor GNU toolchain. However, *the project is not anti-GNU/GPL*, and its userland choice is primarily technical. Users are generally free to use whichever software they like.

https://chimera-linux.org/about/#alternative-userland

This quote from the faq literally made me laugh out loud:

>Another side of the coin is the so-called “systemd-free community”, which tends to spread a lot of misconceptions and frankly deranged opinions that end up hurting any sort of positive effort. Chimera as a project denounces such people, and is explicitly not a part of this community. Such people should also not view Chimera as some sort of haven, because it is not. The project is explicitly anti-elitist and aims to find constructive solutions.

https://chimera-linux.org/docs/faq

Anyway, I wonder if they should be emphasizing security more on their homepage.

>Being a single lightweight package, it makes hardening the userland a lot easier too. It is possible to compile the Chimera userland with CFI and other techniques very easily, and it applies to all of the tools. With GNU tools trying to using these tends to fail, and addressing the issues becomes harder because it is out of our control and involves a much chunkier codebase where more can go wrong and where things are harder to track down.

https://chimera-linux.org/docs/faq

I would like to see more security-focused operating systems. And simplicity is obviously quite valuable for security. Perhaps they could find a nice niche as an accessible, UX and desktop-focused competitor to OpenBSD? Qubes is nice for desktop security, but it requires a powerful machine, and also maybe I could run Chimera in a qube some day for defense-in-depth :-)

One advantage of a desktop focus is someday you could make money selling laptops with preinstalls. I'll bet a lot of people would buy a cheap security-focused laptop to manage critical accounts, infrastructure, private keys even. Especially big companies that care about security. Then roll your profits into creating a great bug bounty program for your OS, in a virtuous cycle.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38660646
I think we’re likely a few years away from a tipping point beyond which adoption of powerwall style home batteries takes off in a big way. Assuming that dynamically priced electricity becomes more common, which seems inevitable.
Of course it's easier, that's why it's the most popular form of computer interface, however what it gains in ease of use it sacrifices in efficiency and precision. Conversely, a CLI is completely opaque to the uninitiated, but it is far more efficient than clicking around an arbitrary sequence of windows/tabs/menus.
Maybe they do it so they can count all tourism between the SAR as international tourism. Results in lots of gained face.
I totally agree, but I see lots of projects with a site that looks a lot like an end user project, and some design choices that kind of seem like it's meant to be mainstream, without really being clear on what it's for.

It took me a long time to learn not to expect too much, and my choice of projects has been very different since learning this.

Some projects seem like they're held back by trying to be kinda-mainstream-ish, rather than being fully able to try whatever they want.
The Epic question: how Google lost when Apple won
Empires of Light
How to Develop Immunity to Nonsense: Lessons from a New Science
Give them some time.
That sounds like an amazing vlog/blog article. Any chance you made one?
Did it look like this by any chance? https://newatlas.com/schiebel-next-generation-uav-camcopter/...
An rounding error is inevitable, but the question is: Should this potential error be multiplied by a factor of about 5, 10, or 25?
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> Nope, it's a distiction. And an important one

It really isn't. I find you making this point funny though after accusing me of being here in bad faith.

> TFTFY.

Not really.

> Literally the rest of the world managed it.

Well, Americans are weird. It's why the blue/green bubble divide even exists in the first place. And if Apple users don't get on board it's just the same situation that already exists right now.

> I disagree because every point you have made has be immature or wrong.

Well that's just plain not true. Although the same could easily be said about your arguments. And again this is funny after you claimed I'm here in bad faith, but you're the one throwing out insults and being dismissive.

> blue/green doesn't exist anywhere in the world,

lol what? It's a problem in the US and not in other countries. If you deny that you have to be pretty out of touch. There's a ton of articles written about it.

> You bringing it up leads me to believe that your likely in your early twenties.

Lol you're desperate to try and dismiss my argument any way you can and it's sad to see. You're about 20 years off.

> You said it, silly, and nor really big bad Apple's fault.

Ahh I get it. You're hooked on the Apple Kool-aid. That explains a lot of your responses to be honest.

And yeah, of course it's Apples fault. They're controlling the way it's implemented.

> They cannot solve for childish responses from people that should know better.

This coming from you is quite ironic.

> It really does, if they want said manufacturer to adope their standard.

Again, it makes no difference if the biggest manufacturer won't support it or chooses to bypass it for most of their users.

Please make sure you read the above line before replying.

> And it was going nowhere then. It's still not widley used.

And if Apple had contributed to the standard instead of offering their proprietary service instead, everyone would be better off.

> So Google restricting access to their proprietary implementation of their RCS service is Apples fault for not contributing to a standard that they were unable at the time to contribute to because they were not members of the standard body drafting the standard behind closed doors. That takes some mental hoop jumping. Are you smelling toast?

Good lord the fallacies here lol.

Google restricting access to their proprietary implementation has nothing to do with Apple not being interested in collaborating and working on a common standard.

> If that is genuinely the case, why isn't a problem for the rest of the world?

Why are many of the problems unique to or prevalent in the USA not problems in the rest of the world? Generally there's not a simple answer.

> Reminder to future me. Don't respond. It's a waste of time.

I honestly hope you won't respond against to this message although you seem like someone that's going to need to. Honestly it's discussions like this that make me wish HN had a block function. You've been rude and dismissive from the start.
On Android for free apps I believe the default is no password confirmation
Assuming recent versions, you could press home + type "Play Store" to search and open the app, search for something and install without a password, assuming an unatended device, in my phone at least you can click to wake up the screen
> Aside from not having a well-developed intuitive sense for what Celsius means from a comfort perspective when traveling

20 Celsius is comfortable. Plus or minus 20 (so 0 C and 40 C) and you're at extreme temperatures that will kill in a few hours of unmitigated exposure.

So the questions then are: Is it above or below 20 C. How far above or below?

3 above, comfortable. 10 above, probably comfortable, bring some water if you'll be doing physical work. 20 above, make sure you have a large supply of water available to avoid heat stroke. 10 below, wear a jacket. 20 below, wear a warm coat and maybe gloves. Etc.
I don’t know, looks like globally we’re still hitting the fossil fuels pretty hard:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-primary-energy
Define rapidly? From my understanding any individual photon takes thousands of years to escape the dense inner area of the sun.
Maybe a bit contrarian but unless law enforcement is abusing this I think it's good for Google to share this info. I want to live in a society where criminals are caught.
This is cool, but I'm a bit surprised this isn't AGPL.
Yeah, I was in Shanghai recently and it felt like there were an order of magnitude less tourists than a few years ago.
> Subsidize workplace EV charging, and create a standard that lets workplaces pass along energy costs from it to employees.

I've never even managed to get my workplaces to provide a parking spot, you can absolutely forget about workplaces paying for EV charging for everyone. It'll never happen even with heavy subsidy.
In areas undergoing tectonic shifts, sure. In some regions, the same rocks have existed for a long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_dated_rocks
For faster session establishment in OpenSSH consider ControlMaster in ssh_config(5), which multiplexes multiple sessions in one connection instead of creating a new connection for each session.
It’s wild how people never seem to say “wow, now our team of 12 can be twice as productive. Think about how much less stressed they’ll be and more productive we’ll be able to be for the company!”.
"A layoff gives managers the opportunity to fire people who they've wanted to fire for a while"

This may be true sometimes but I have seen plenty of layoffs where whole projects/departments got axed based on not very good information. A lot of C*O people make these decisions based on very flimsy information.
perhaps another interesting question - how to deliberately leave an indicator that we did exist? i would suggest the moon landing sites, and maybe the stuff we have put in the lagrange points (don't know how stable those are over long time spans are)
I'm a geologist and have worked as such academically and professionally. Yes, there would be ample evidence to work out an industrial society jad once been present. The research and discovery would take time, but given what we have done to date there would have been time enough to find evidence of a society like ours.
> a fresh empire of creators

there's so many indie games out there that i have not even considered buying from a corp made game for many years.

As for mobile games, it's a blight on the landscape, best left alone. Dont feed that industry, except to buy indie games that you want to support.
Novel cooling solutions, among others, one suspects.
suckers?
What does heat do in these chips? How does it not melt?
People from many countries can enter Hong Kong without a visa. It draws tourists and helps with many export businesses.

For this reason people in Hong Kong have not passed the stricter scrutiny applied to people who visit the mainland, so they have to be re-checked at the border.
I'd figure pronouncing it as "filesystem check" or "f.s. check" would be common too.
" they have stagnated as their profit have soared but like most things"

That's the preferred mode for a lot of managers. There are only a few company leaders who can push a company forward and keep it innovative. You could argue Apple is at that stage. Profits are strong but their innovation output is pretty low compared to the resources they have.
It (still) has different laws, different visa rules and a different passport.
General question about semiconductors: Why is there so much emphasis on the density of transistors rather than purely on the costs of production (compute/$)? CPUs aren't particularly large. My computer's CPU may be just a few tablespoons in volume. Hence, is compute less useful if it's spread out (e.g., due to communication speeds)?
If I was one of the excellent artists at Wizards of the Coast, I would be worried about Stable Diffusion.
Seconded as an excellent resource.

My team used it as a reference point for creating an event store for the write model and separate projection based read model in Golang. If you happen to be a Java shop you could obviously use the implementation too.
I really, really, really hope we will discover life on another planet, preferably in another solar system. Right now we have a sample size of one so a lot of thinking about the origin is speculation. I hope this will change.
With everyone carrying a phone things are getting increasingly silly.

The convincing part to me is the bad guys increasingly sophisticated use of technology. They know exactly where the victims are 24/7 (if they want to)
Awesome! I've been looking for almost exactly this. The only issue is that I'm not totally comfortable installing a Mac app to try it out. I'd be happy to try it out as a web app first.

When you snooze it for >=1 day, does it reappear at the time that it was snoozed or do the tasks somehow group into buckets where if you snooze all tasks that appear today for 1 day, they'll all appear tomorrow at the same time?
For most of the history of earth there hasn't been permanent ice.