skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They talked about how they caught the guy spotlighting a live deer at night. I can see it from both sides. On the one hand, you want to allow hunters to recover animals they've killed, otherwise it's all a waste. On the other hand, some people will use drones for poaching, or to get an unfair advantage. There are artificial restrictions built into hunting, that is not new. The question is how to write regulations to get the good effects and not the bad effects, which is incredibly difficult.

I agree that it seems unfair to charge this guy when he was not trying to poach, he was just trying to help recover the animal, and using a flashlight on the drone to do it. That's really not the guy you should make an example of.
Their public Instagram posts make it pretty clear. https://www.instagram.com/p/CwMTdvNOuoB/
I fail to see how monopoly is avoided by using a Google driven rendering engine.
Again, this comes down to "Third Party Doctrine" - effectively (in the US), you have a right to privacy until you give your data to an unrelated third party.

For example, if I want to give you $100, I can go to your house and hand you cash and it should be "private". Unfortunately, drug laws also add some exceptions. :(

Alternatively, if I give you $100 via check, paypal, venmo, stripe, or any other service, I no longer have an "expectation of privacy" and therefore law enforcement can request it and do what they want.

Now apply that to banks, cell carriers, ISPs, libraries, traffic cameras, your frequent flier account, and any website you visit. There was recently ruling - in California, I believe - where spousal privilege was pierced because a husband and wife discussed the situation via text losing their "expectation of privacy".

If we want to restore anything resembling privacy, we need to kill Third Party Doctrine and that can ONLY happen if the law changes.

And to preempt the "well actually" folks.. No, it started 50+ years before the PATRIOT Act. Some of it tracks back to RICO and organized crime. No, it doesn't matter what the Constitution says, there's plenty of case law that refines/contradicts it.

Check out "Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech" for some background on this in the US.
Last I heard the largest export for Brazil is their meat. The largest producer of meat is in fact headquartered and based out of Brazil — JBS, SA.

They are a very corrupt entity [1,2,3] and likely have many Brazilian politicians in their pocket/on payroll. The list of controversies this company has would put Goldman Sachs to shame [4]. So it would not surprise me if the government was blind to the destruction of Amazon Rainforest.

At this point, I am okay with the world taking ownership of the Amazon Rainforest and delegating protection to the natives that live in the Amazon Rainforest.

Fuck JBS. Fuck the corrupt Brazilian government.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/meat-giant-jbss-owner-settles-u...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-15/brazil-s-...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/jbs-parent-to-pay-3-16-billion-...

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBS_S.A.
thank you, this is very illuminating. i'm very weak on thermodynamics
Whether this was entrapment.
Good points.

In the grand scheme of things, I don’t think the CO2 emissions associated with EVs matter at all. Is our goal for to cut emissions by 10%? No. It’s to cut emissions by 100%.
To reach that goal, we need all vehicles to be pure BEVs (approximately.. some ICE on biofuels/e-fuel could work, but it’s not sustainable on a large scale), materials must be near 100% recycled, and whatever mining is done most be done with electric equipment.
To get there, the hard requirement is that we need to mine a certain amount of battery materials and build a certain amount of EV infrastructure.
Hybrids contribution to this is mainly that they have some batteries, so they drive battery development and material production. Plug-in hybrids help drive EV infrastructure to a small degree.
But nothing is better than just going pure BEV. The small short term CO2 emission gains that might be had with hybrids could easily be outweighed by the long term increased emissions associated with delaying the progression to a 100% renewable 100% carbon neutral ecosystem.
But I won’t fault anyone from buying hybrids. Pushing for a more aggressive transition needs to be a policy decision. If hybrid makes more sense than EV from economic or practical point for you then that’s what you should go for.
So, here's what I've found works for me. Picture this: I'm in a meeting, and suddenly I'm put on the spot to make a decision. My mind goes blank, and I start feeling like I've lost half my IQ points. It's frustrating, to say the least.

But then I realized something. Just like how martial artists rehearse their moves over and over again until it becomes second nature, I started rehearsing scenarios in my head. For instance, before a big presentation, I'd run through possible questions or objections I might face. It's like mentally preparing myself for battle, but without the black belt.

By recognizing when I'm slipping into slow-thinking mode, I can catch myself before I spiral into panic mode. It's all about staying cool, calm, and collected, even when the pressure's on.

Breaking tasks down has been a lifesaver too. Instead of tackling a decision head-on, I break it into bite-sized chunks. It's like eating a massive burger one bite at a time. Much more manageable, right?

Plus, I'm not afraid to lean on tools and resources. Whether it's jotting down notes or consulting with experts, these little helpers give me the confidence to tackle even the toughest decisions.

And hey, slow thinking doesn't mean I'm not sharp. I'm all about continuous learning and improvement. Whether it's doing brain teasers or engaging in a lively debate, I'm constantly flexing those mental muscles.

With a bit of rehearsal, mindfulness, and a trusty toolkit, you'll be navigating those fast-paced situations like a pro in no time.
Having worked for Teleperformance for 3 months in 2002'ish... i can honestly say they won't be missed. Horrible horrible experience. Sure, lots of people will lose their jobs, but it has to happen, better it happens fast and then we deal with the next phase of our economy whatever that entails than a slow churn, like a frog in a boiling pot where people die from starvation because nobody is aware of the changes... i.e. a little accelerationism might be okay in this instance to figure out what we do when 95% of us don't "need" to work...
> Business leaders can't learn enough engineering to manage engineering companies.

Cisco Systems was led by CEO John T. Chambers from 1995-2015. His education was BS, BA in business and a JD. After he got his MBA he started in sales. During his time as CEO at Cisco, sales went from $1.9 billion to $49.2 billion. In 2000, Cisco became the most valuable company in the world.

Before Chambers was John Morgridge, who was an MBA. He helped oust the two founding engineers. Before him was Bill Graves (who had a BS in physics, but was only at Cisco for a year).
I use the doge at work. But it is even worse than chrome with spying and adware.
I've not experienced any problems using Google Meet on Firefox. A few months ago, you couldn't do some of the features such as a blurred background whilst you could on Chrome. That's fixed now though.
Assuming a, b are integers, the following answers are exact:

def div_floor(a, b):
return a // b

def div_ceil(a, b):
return (a + b - 1) // b

def div_trunc(a, b):
return a // b if (a < 0) == (b < 0) else -(-a // b)

def div_round(a, b):
return (2*a + b) // (2*b)
Let the Elon-hate-machine comments begin...
Holy cow. ChatGPT 4 actually decoded this. It went into analysis mode, wrote some python, ran it, and gave the correct answer.
Now if only there was a comfortable on-boarding to VATSIM because it's great if you know how to talk to ATC already, not so much if you don't.
> Also seems like it would be tough to do the former without accidentally doing the latter.

Like put away your gun? I have walked in forests with a flashlight without killing anything many many times. The trick is to not bring a gun to the experience.
is it really 1nm in size? like which dimension?
That's easier said than done.

Do you know your state's entire vehicle code by heart when you drive?

Do you know every environmental and wildlife law when you go on a hike?

Do you know every state's tax laws when you do business online?

Our legal system is incomprehensibly complex, and the average person stands zero chance of "knowing" all of its nuances. For every subject matter of law, there are specialized lawyers who spend their lives studying and practicing just that one little sphere.

Now, maybe the context is that there is something obviously illegal and commonly understood about recovering game at night that hunters know and I don't...? Is there?
I hope somebody gives this team access to the good data and a lot of crunch, I'd love to see what happens when you train the big fella.
I didn't ask to remove controls. I referred to customizing controls to the level you could as of Firefox 2016. Or like you could do in Super Metroid (1992). For example, if I want shift-J to move to the left tab, and shift+K to move to the right.

As of now, extensions can kind of customize this like before, they just don't do it in a fully general way (like you'd get from a supported settings feature). The extensions will only apply after a given tab's page has loaded. So if I want to go left three tabs, I will get stuck on any tab which needs to reload, or doesn't have a page loaded, or any number of exception.

So, bottom line, I can't customize controls in a general sense anymore.
They publicly post on Instagram that they do this regularly. https://www.instagram.com/p/CzaboSqu4qx/
If say it has been narrowed, rather than narrow.
If he did, he would apparently just be another kind soul, like ole Jack.
of course today in Madison the high is 15°F
SymPy is open source, mathematica is not.

Additionally, SageMath (which depends on SymPy) is the more comparable product (and is open source).
I'm incredibly glad they created firefox VR and that its development is being continued as wolvic. Only VR web browser I've come across that supports ublock origin. I might switch if the regular android firefox could use the quest's VR features though.
Don't mistake noise for action. One thing corrupt people love to do is make loud sounds that they are fighting corruption when they are not doing that, instead having their palms greased by people doing that exact kind of corruption.
Yeah different industries need different approaches. For services which serve North America, you’d preferably have a capable team in Australia, or similar, so you can push changes during their biz hours but our off hours.
If you can assure that bounds checks are not necessary (either by construction, because it's a statically sized array, or by runtime check because you do a length check once at runtime), then doing those same things will tell rustc enough to know that bounds checks aren't needed[1][2]. If you think you don't need bounds checks, but can't communicate that in code, such as with an assertion (or if rustc had a bug that misses those checks, unlikely but could happen), then yes, you'll end up with bounds checks unless you use get_unchecked in an unsafe block.

I'm failing to see how this is an onerous difference.

1: https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/bounds-checks.html

2: https://github.com/Shnatsel/bounds-check-cookbook/
I am trying recent kde again on one laptop and mostly like it a lot. It looks relatively slick and a lot less amateurish than it used to.

But, right click on konsole and the context menu is just an absolute mess. I use that a lot and can’t believe they fucked it up so bad. Enough that I consider removing it for cinnamon occasionally.
It's a rubber duck that never gets tired and is available all of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
I think the reason behind declining birthrates is simple.

Men are totally on-board with having more children and tend to report a happiness increase afterwards. Women are not because it will reduce their self-reported happiness. Before in the past getting married and having kids would give women access to financial security and social acceptance. Now you’ll likely end up poorer than single women and there’s no social benefit, and contraception also exists. The constraint here is mothers.

I hear lower birthrate blamed vague on “economic development” or “wealth” but the main factor is really just the utilization of both genders for salary labour combined with the increased dependence and non-productivity of the young. An increasing focus on and the suicidal subsidization of education only makes this more extreme, given we’re directly economcially incentivizing to now have kids when they’re most reproductively fit. I honestly think education is lowering the IQ by causing increasing amounts of birth defects among the kids who are getting born due to advanced maternal age, while education has simultaneously become more and more performative signalling. We’ve had a reverse Flynn effect for decades, epigenetics are a huge part of why.

I hear a ton of comments from feminists is the problem is men don’t contribute their fair share to childrearing. I absolutely agree, women DO (on average) work harder, the men who ARE having kids are frequently either phoning it in or being total deadbeats, but having dealt with a deadbeat dad before, liberal society cannot effectively force them to contribute. If men equally contributed it honestly might be enough alone to spike the birthrate like 0.5 or something absurd like that but even if you instituted a social credit system I don’t know how you could actually accomplish this. It is simply evolutionarily incentivized for women to invest more parental effort than men. Maybe just tax all men (not just fathers) harder for the sake of ease of tax collection.

Governments should give financial incentives for women to have kids, although emigration is a concern for many countries, the US should at least be able to do this. I’m not talking about subsidizing the childrearing - which I think misses the issue - I’m talking about giving women money they could spend on themselves OR their children. I’m saying the incentive should exist even if the kids get adopted.
Hey, does your tool anything extra other than sending the image to an LLM with a suitable text prompt and returning the response? I just tried the same image on your website on Free version of Gemini and was able to get the entire text. And also it would be great to have a trial before I pay for the tool.
Citizen asks a question, "Why are rents increasing so rapidly?"

Politician sticks to his prepared talking points and riffs for fifteen minutes about something else.

Citizen feels disrespected.
Why?

This is free, and the simple fact of Jack being a grand mal jackass is relevant.
Based on his Instagram, this is a regular service he offers for deer recovery. It doesn't really matter though, it's the operators responsibility to know the law. If you are going to operate a drone for the purposes of hunting, common sense would dictate Googling the legality of doing so, since both airspace and hunting are generally heavily regulated. Upon finding ambiguity, I would probably opt not to do that kind of work or accept the potential for consequences.
"We have held that 'persuasion or mild coercion' and 'pleas based on need, sympathy, or friendship' constitute sufficient inducement to permit jury consideration of the entrapment issue." - United States vs. Nations

Need, sympathy or friendship. I think it's trivial to allow that finding a wounded animal would constitute a sympathetic plea.

It's the predisposition that gets him here. Given that he advertises the service, he's obviously predisposed to the action.
If you use Firefox for privacy reasons, and especially if you're concerned about your data potentially ending up with Google (or other entities), please be sure to read the Firefox Privacy Notice:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

It currently mentions "Google" a number of times, along with "Microsoft", "eBay", "AdMarketplace", "Cloudflare", "Comcast", "Adjust", "Fastly", "our partners", and other entities.

I think a lot of people believe that Firefox respects its users' privacy more than it actually does.

They may be surprised to learn how many, and which, third-parties might be involved when using Firefox.
You propose to make the real estate markets work better by further restricting supply?
These were game wardens.

It's quite literally their job to enforce the laws regarding hunting/game/etc.
If the ai can get hotdog wrong sometimes, shouldn't you be extremely concerned that the military is using to kill people and destroy things. I feel like "hospital or not" is a much more dangerous game.
It was just an example. More realistically the facts are about his specific decisions he made, business events, etc. – the kind of thing you'd want to know if you're interested in business history and/or reading the book to glean some kind of entrepreneurial knowledge.

A better example might be related to the Roman emperor Augustus. Memorizing the various events of his life, his personal quirks, and so forth is absolutely going to give you a sense of the man moreso than just reading a random biography about him.

I do agree that a book provides the "gist" of the subject's character, but I think you can get that from watching a 30-minute documentary, not reading a 500-page book.

> All this information is stored somewhere in your brain in some way.. it can possibly be used at some point without you even realizing.

It's a pretty big assumption, if you're implying that we somehow remember everything we read.

In any case, I think the best approach is probably to combine reading a book with specific facts that easily fit into a SRS system. This is something I've been thinking about quite a bit, in fact: how would one design a narrative-based book such that it is more easily remembered? My initial thought is something like this: at the end of every chapter, a list of 100+ specific points made is presented. You could also include a premade Anki deck with the ebook edition.
They do, but in most things the inauthenticity usually gets rooted out eventually when results aren't delivered.

True confidence produces results.
Perhaps a bit of a tangent, but are there other folks on HN who still wear "dumb" watches? I personally cannot find the idea of these landfill-destined gadgets compelling enough to add yet another screen in close proximity to my eyes. I can't be the only one :)
Concrete examples:

The web interfaces for both Jitsi and Zoom fail to recognise my web camera. I've gone through the permissions settings a dozen times and Firefox says that it sees camera, but it only displays a black feed. Vivaldi correctly accesses the camera on both sites.

imascientist.org.uk makes it "impossible" to sign up for outreach sessions under Firefox. The div with the sessions has a `max-width` parameter, but the contents are significantly larger than this width, resulting in the buttons being outside the rendering area and inaccessible. I have to go into the dev tools and edit the CSS every time I open the page.

These are just the issues that I've dealt with today. Don't get me wrong - I'm literally typing this in Firefox at this moment. However, it doesn't help anyone to pretend that these issues never pop up. I simply feel that the benefits outweight these annoyances.
Might not handle exactly the difficulties you're having but you can do
`from sympy.abc import *`. This will create symbols for pretty much all letters (lower and upper) as well as a bunch of greek symbols (but written out, e.g. "delta").
> Sure, lots of people will lose their jobs, but it has to happen, better it happens fast and then we deal with the next phase of our economy whatever that entails than a slow churn,

I am glad that is a sacrifice you are willing to make.
I saw this tool mentioned recently along with the release of https://github.com/ExOK/Celeste64 . It's mentioned as a tool that was used during Celeste64's development so it's clearly not just for Quake engine based games.
And if you break the window of the bakery and steal a loaf of bread, you get 5 years of bagne because that's what "breaking" part automatically entails, never mind the pettiness of the theft itself. I think a story like that would make an interesting starting point of a book.
"Piracy is just a convenient scapegoat to hobble emulation" is just a convenient scapegoat to justify piracy.
This may be a silly question, but is it even possible to detect radio signals from 100ly away?
Study unravels the earliest cellular genesis of lung adenocarcinoma
It's been rainy lately out west, I think. Kayaking in Death Valley!

They needed it.
Not really. There is nothing about systemd that makes bluetooth or audio its exclusive purview. You just have to put in the effort to make it happen. Gotta figure out how they did it and do it too.

It's not gonna happen without somebody making it happen. Be somebody. Systemd is influential because the people making it often are those somebodies but the fact is anyone can be that somebody, you don't need their blessing or that of some standards body to make anything.

I went as far as getting rid of libc. Made a lisp that runs directly on top of Linux using nothing but system calls. It can do anything other software can do: I run strace on a program, my lisp can do what it does if it just replicates those system calls, doesn't matter if it's simple I/O or mounting disks. I want to eventually boot Linux directly into it.
Exactly. Modulo is not an operator, but a term for an equivalence class of differing by a multiple of a number fixed in advance.
Show HN: I made a tool to change the vibe of your photos
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Currently, the results are great with close-up photos and portraits but feel free to play with it. Check it out and try it with your photos or your profile pic even! Each photo takes about 30s to complete.

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A simple way to get microplastics out of your water
https://archive.is/d9gsd
The current announcement: https://blog.cloudflare.com/pingora-open-source
It's incredibly difficult to contain. These are very remote settlements and deep inland. Furthermore the government is ill-equipped to fight against it all. To have been working for years now on a project to protect the Amazon rainforest in southern Peru, even when pointing the illegal farming operations the government can't do much. At best they are overwhelmed, more often then not they don't even bother intervening if it's not on a national park land or border. Only private conservation efforts are managing to help slow down the spread, and they are very very localized.
NonprofitAMA.ai: chatbot trained on U.S. nonprofit resources
Is Google's Gemini chatbot woke by accident, or by design?
36. Many of them are inactive and I should clear them out. Just got rid of F1 because I watch on catch up and I was fearful it might have spoilers - season starts this weekend.
Hiccup: Mystery, Nature and Treatment

https://www.jnmjournal.org/journal/view.html?doi=10.5056/jnm...

Systemic review: the pathogenesis and pharmacological treatment of hiccups

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26307025/