skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am serious that I can envision a drone that could be used for crop dusting. I personally wouldn't use a quad copter, but probably something more like a 20-30 foot flying wing powered by a small gas engine. My example of a predator drone was to illustrate that it is entirely possible to design a UAV that greatly exceeds the specs needed for crop dusting. I also think most people here are vastly underestimating what a Agricultural UAV is capable of. Take a look at this page https://store.tmotor.com/product/P80-v3-pin-kv100-p-type.htm... and some of their possible configurations.
There's no purity test and the Hare devs aren't prohibiting you from using Hare on macOS or any other platform.

They just don't want to maintain Mac/Windows ports themselves. If somebody else is interested, they can maintain a port. Like that macOS one that you've already found.
It might be illegal / legally risky for a big company to RE and implement airdrop.
Depression (2014)
Original site is gone, but I wanted to share the snapshot of it. I went down a rabbit hole after reading the FOIA request that confirmed his death in 2021.

The Depression post was one that resonated with me and kept me thinking of the quote from True Detective, "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at."
Interestingly our dentist says waterpik devices work better. Not sure what data exists supporting either.
I figure we've each made our points about envy and jealousy and whatnot but I feel like I need to address the "sus" business. I explained what happened with the current thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40437018 - users flagged it and it set off the flamewar detector.

The difference with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40448045 is that the latter story contained Significant New Information (SNI) relative to other recent threads. That's the criterion we apply when deciding whether or not to override penalties (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). It doesn't have to do with who an article is for or against; it has to do with not having the same discussions over and over.

> a manual override [...] might have improved at least the optics

Sure, and we often do that (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), but in this case it didn't cross my mind because the current thread was so obviously derivative of previous discussions that had been on HN's front page for 18+ hours in recent days.

And in any case the next day it flipped back and this story spent 16 hours on the front page:

Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40447431 - May 2024 (515 comments)

... so I think we're good on "optics". The important point is that the last link (the vox.com article) contained SNI, whereas the slate.com article was a copycat piece piggybacking on other reporting . In the case of a Major Ongoing Topic (MOT) like this one, that's the key distinction: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
De gustibus non est disputandum; there are some things that ruin many people's lives that have no appeal to me, there are some things many people enjoy responsibly that I have learned to stop myself from using because I will not make good decisions over a period of years, and then there was that freaking cat song, which gave me the strongest "WARNING: Your brain is not in control of your response to this song, in a way which is qualitatively different than the usual ways music is moving." when listening to it that I found it remarkable.
PE sold red lobster in 2016, so you are 8 years too late.

The current owner (for the last 8 years) is the multinational seafood company Thai Union. They conducted a 150million stock buyback the same quarter they declared bankruptcy for Red Lobster, and are doing fine.
Agreed on abolishment of the death penalty. A life sentence can be overturned, death cannot.

Since I don't think anyone can agree on a definition of "high crimes against the people", 10 years is far too little if we're referring to convictions of mass murder.

Seung-Hui Cho who went on to commit one of the deadliest mass shootings in the US back in the mid 2000s killing 32 people (assuming he hadn't taken his own life) would have been out of prison at the relatively young age of 33.
There's Dylibso's Extism, a WebAssembly plugin system. The company building it begins with D. https://www.dylibso.com/products/extism/
I wonder if this might have been influenced by how the "gamer" demographics has expanded due to mobile gaming too.

It used to be that "gamers" were either console or PC specific, and these platforms not only naturally allowed for more complex games but also attracted a specific demographic who prefered games with more challenge, strategy elements, and planning. But now "gamers" is much more diverse. The casual mobile afk gaming demographic has eclipsed that of the more serious and old school gamer persona, and by design and nature mobile games tend be much less strategic.
That is almost certainly what’s happening here. They raised $3M three years ago, at the peak of evaluations, and don’t have the metrics to raise a Series A in the current climate. Running out of money and want to leave some artifact behind. A very difficult and emotional transition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neverhood nostalgia intensifies.
The experience of abuse, especially directed at oneself rather than towards everyone, can lead to an idea that one is uniquely, shamefully bad, cut off from others, abnormal in an essential way, as opposed to the idea of everyone is in the same boat, we share a common humanity etc. Normal in the latter sense is what I meant - in opposition to being on the other side of a glass from which one can observe humanity without feeling connected to it. Probably a sort of dissociative symptom.
That’s… 1/4 PFAS. At that point it’s essentially made of PFAS.

I’m not 100% convinced this is that problematic though. You floss and then rinse/spit. And of course this would only need to get rid of the quantity actually shed from the strand. It would be interesting to see the load actually consumed on average, but my gut says it’s probably irrelevant.

The real issue is the unchecked spread into our environment, causing us (and everything else) to unavoidably ingest it regularly and without limit.

Edit: To be clear, my general position on PFAS is “broadly enact bans on its use out of sheer caution” due how rapidly it’s turning up in the environment. This would be no exception. I’m just saying I’d be surprised if its presence in dental floss actually contributed meaningfully to your daily load given the amount you consume incidentally due to widespread environmental contamination.
I feel everything you said applies to every subject in US public schools.
There's no way this person works as a quant. Almost every statement they've made is wrong...
You dont understand, the PE firm IS red lobster. The old owners were paid 2.1 billion for the company and retired.
I am curious which part of their comment makes it sound bad. It seems neutral to positive to me.
When was the last time you got out to spend months of your life and of the people around you intent on trying something that you expected not to work?
Ah, I never used AIM directly. Maybe that would have worked with ICQ too, though?

In any case, Meebo worked using the (back then) advanced, exciting magic of AJAX :)
The fact is, 99% of people do not care about high quality audio (me included)
Yeah, those incidents only have to be reported to the CPUC and they don't make the data public.
How do you do secrets with CFs without lock-in? Telemetry? Releases? and on and on
Why would you report financial crimes to Twitter? If your LLM uncovers financial crimes you should contact regulators and prosecutors. They're both incentivized to do something about it.
Unix signals do... a lot of things that are separate concepts imo, and I think this is why there are people who don't like it or take issue with it.

You have SIGSTOP/SIGCONT/SIGKILL, which don't even really signal the process, they just do process control (suspend, resume, kill).

You have simple async messages (SIGHUP, SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2, SIGTTIN, SIGTTOU, etc) that get abused for reloading configuration/etc (with hacky workarounds like nohup for daemonization) or other stuff (gunicorn for example uses the latter 2 for scaling up and down dynamically). There's also in this category bizarrely specific things like SIGWINCH.

You also have SIGILL, SIGSEGV, SIGFPE, etc for illegal instructions, segmentation violations, FP exceptions, etc.

And also things that might not even be good to have as async things in the first place (SIGSYS).

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As an aside, it's not the only approach and there's definitely tradeoffs with the other approaches.

Windows has events, SEH (access violations, other exceptions), handler routines (CTRL+C/CTRL+BREAK/shutdown,etc), and IOCPs (async I/O), callbacks, and probably some other things I'm forgetting at the moment.

Plan 9 has notes which are strings... which lets you send arbitrary data to another process which is neat, but it using the same mechanism for process control imo has the same drawbacks as *nix except now they're strings instead of a single well-defined number.
I believe they retain every "conversation" in your account, purely for your convenience (not for training), manually review exchanges that flag their moderation filters, and retain replies that you press the feedback buttons on (like/dislike).

The moderation filters are (or at least were back in 2022) activated by the client, which is hilarious.
What's the current precision for measuring devices?
> What new features do you want for a music player? Better audio quality? More discovery features? Lower memory usage? More responsive UI?

You just perfectly highlighted the business mindset that never fixes a goddamn thing they rushed out.
i used to feel this way and say “the government is terrible, look at example x, y, and z” until someone asked me a simple question, “using the same standards, how many companies have we seen that are just plain awful?”

this simple question made me realize that honestly, i think far more often i see terrible customer service, terrible end product, etc… from companies than i do from various government projects—particularly the larger we go in scale. it feels like daily here in hn we see someone who is struggling with some company with literally no way to get help at all.

for every bad government project we can point to multiple awful corporate attempts.

at the end of the day i don’t think better or worse is inherent to either. there are positives and negatives to both but missteps, growing pains, corruption etc… are pretty clearly not limited to one or the other.
It's the mouth - a whole lot of kids aren't spitting properly and swallowing a bunch of the organoflorines. Also your dentist is probably using Glide stuff which is the biggest offender.

As a side note, definitely switch to silk floss - completely natural stuff + wax. I prefer the Radius brand since they were the first.
I lament the loss of the Old Growth Internet as well, but I feel we can never go home again.
I thought ICQ died with AIM, darn.
ICQ was nice but everyone moved on to Yahoo Messenger. That was the bomb. Truly unbelievable Yahoo didn't capitalize on that. Everyone used it.
These articles are not written to inform the reader.
I was under the impression that ICQ turned off when AIM did.,
Pants-less transit civil disobedience when?
Flossing doesn't replace water picking, and vice versa.
"I am very tough"

It's not a great move, but I don't think it calls for wishing harm on anyone, let alone a majority of people who at most had a hand in making something you did feel was useful enough to pay for.

It was possible to drive in silence before and it's possible now. Perhaps explore a radio station.
I've heard differently from the two dentists I've seen. The first suggested using a water pick and the second told me it was fine as a first pass but I still needed to floss. Might be because my teeth are very close to each other though.

If there's evidence stronger than a dentist's opinion, I'd like to hear it, because I preferred the water pick...
I'm a little annoyed for the fact that the map shows South America and avoids showing the Argentina label because it overflows but doesn't give a fuck about Chile and its 2mm of width.
The difference is that lousy companies get flushed away by the market (unless government keeps them around), but nothing next to a miracle can get rid of a government program no matter how bad it is.
Seems like an excuse that might be fine for small indie teams for a while. The blog certainly blurs the lines between unit and functional tests. In the end, even modest code coverage can pay off. Tests help with code review, understanding the codebase, and can provide an easy map for debugging. But if you’re in an environment where everyone is constantly demanding changes and only testing the happy path, then good luck.
There was a SciFi story that sort of anticipated this. A researcher discovers how to move into an alternate dimension (parallel to ours, not like the "rolled up" dimensions that are said to exist in some versions of String Theory). It turns out that the speed of light is slower in this other dimension. Disappointed, he brings the result to a supervisor, who tells him this was already known. The researcher asks why this result hasn't been made known, and is told there is still hope that someone will find another dimension, where the speed of light is faster.

I may be garbling the story a bit, and unfortunately I remember neither the title nor the author. And of course in this article, the speed of light is the same, not slower. But still.
In bankruptcy the term is called “fraudulent transfers.”
But verbatim is not useful these days imo. Usually I rather accept that there doesn't exist such information than waste time in googling stuff.
Thank you for the write up.

That seems like a bad scenario with bad technical management. I am wondering if you have considered not trying to implement unit tests and think about end to end tests. This might be easier for antitesting people to buy into because it’s directly ensuring your end users get the desired outcomes.

It doesn’t matter what bad terrible practices you have inside your library if the output is correct…

If you input 1+1, and it outputs 5, it will be obvious how this can be an issue.

What this will enable you to do is get some quick wins and make refactoring safer.

If management still says no, I see 3 major choices.

1. Quit

2. Write your tests and keep them to yourself

3. Mind control
The leverage game is much tougher to do now that ZIRP is thankfully over.
Before the current phase there was certainly a radical transparency cult. See “The Circle” which wasn’t as obviously satirical as it probably should have been. But also lifestreaming etc.
How much money do you have?
> PE isn't an exotic business philosophy. It is literally just a private buyer.

With a complex tax-favorable structure, https://www.ropesgray.com/en/insights/alerts/2019/02/tax-iss...
Did the Vision Pro ruin "Spatial"? Now when I hear "Spatial Display" or "Spatial Future" I think something else I don't need.
My question about these things is always, "what are we not thinking about?"

There's a lot more to environmental responsibility than just carbon. Killing all the fish to reduce carbon isn't an answer. Of course we're not talking about doing that, but aren't we? How do we know?

History tells us that government has repeatedly destroyed ecosystems while trying to repair or preserve them. The Grand Canyon, African elephant, countless small lakes and canyons around the US.

All of these were well meaning projects to preserve, protect, and repair ecosystems.

Responsible environmentalism is far more important than reducing carbon, is my point. So let's do both by asking questions.
Untreated mental illness.
Nice to know. I’m not a regular flosser but I do have Glide floss. I never considered that it contains PFAS, it was just the first thing I grabbed. I’ll toss it and switch just to be safe.
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I really don't know what to make of that. I can say we did make a point to keep a distance from others, changed our masks pretty often, and we both used hand sanitizer when we were out in public spaces, so it's possible that made a difference.

We were both in our 60s when this crud began, the low end of the high risk group, so could be were more cautious than most.
No runtime
No BCL
No objects or GC
No debugger
Strings are ASCII

I did not see the readme mention anything about bool/byte/char/short/int/long sizes or signed and unsigned. It can be quite a surprise to find yourself with 8 bit long longs! As some found with sdcc for gameboy.
Thinking about PFAS makes me feel so unhealthy, how screwed are we?
The “can information be harmful?” is indeed an interesting debate.

I think it can. Take social media, for example. It is associated with increased depression rates, so the information people are exposed to on these networks is harmful.

Another case I can think of is certain knowledge. Certain knowledge exists in the world that we are better off not knowing. Like what some war trauma or childhood abuse survivors know. Or learned helplessness. You would probably not want to surround yourself with that world view. It can be so shocking that it will stick with you for life and harm your mental health. Especially if that information is made available to a child.

Trigonometry and calculus are constructive information. There is probably also destructive information.
Frida Kahlo's final painting vanished into storage
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explan...

There's no intelligence involved in "artificial intelligence" as it currently stands. It's all marketing hype around a really fancy statistical completion engine. Intelligence would require thought and reasoning, which current "AI" does not do, no matter how convincingly it fakes it.
My waterpik has solved pretty much all of my gum problems. I have one attached to my shower which is very convenient. Highly recommended.
Has those tests been repeated by any other researchers? The company refutes the results and I've never heard of this group previously. Not refuting the risk but would like corroboration
plenty of non-pedophiles did a lot more interesting work, not sure why we have to even mention him.
"The agency’s new advisory levels aren’t requirements that drinking water suppliers must meet."

So it's entirely meaningless.
Please add 2022 to the title.
Sorry, you misunderstand. I’m not defending billionaires, I’m condemning politicians.

Politicians and policy should not be for sale in the first place. The fact that they are means, yes, rich people have more power to control policy, but the solution isn’t to ban rich people from getting rich. We need to ban money from influencing policy.
Instead, the Supreme Court decided that money is speech and political corruption is protected by the first amendment. We need to undo that.

The brain dead part are the people (apparently common on hacker news) who think that stopping people getting rich is a better solution than, for eg., campaign spending limits.
What does it cost me to p .95 reliably differentiate 0.04 ppt from 0.02 ppt?
Some people get bleeding gums when they floss, which would introduce the PFAS directly to the bloodstream..
Can confirm that water pick and flossing work differently. Flossing is not primarily to dislodge food particles but distupt bacteria between teeth. So just water pick alone would be like trying to wash your car by just hosing it down with mild pressure. You want to firsh disrupt bacteria with mechanical action them flush them away with water.
It’s not insane.

Holding a ton of a cash locked up in assets is highly inefficient.

Google did this - sell a building they own and lease it back. Do something else with the money.

The nice thing about the lease is that it’s a tax deductible expense for the business, and if you no longer need it, just don’t renew the lease.
That may be so, but I doubt it, this was Hamas's most successful attack in history, and will never happen again, with or without Israel's genocide of unrelated Palestinians. The claim that Israel definitively saved >35,000 lives by killing as many, is simply implausible. And that's to say nothing of the denial of (and attacking of) supplies.

Having said that, none if it justifies the crimes or racial discrimination I mentioned above. As I said: If all innocent civilians are equal, then it's not acceptable to kill 35,000 Palestinian ones to avenge <2,000 Israeli ones, or ——>even to prevent another <2,000 future Israeli casualties.<—— That math makes no sense from the outside perspective, unless one discriminates based on race, or otherwise believes Israel civilians are somehow more valuable than Palestinian civilians.
You can develop it later in life from head injuries.
I wouldn’t say that Chinese verbs have no tense so much as that they are uninflected and that tense is marked with particles (which admittedly do not cause difficulties with irregular infexions).
Call Gandhi.

google Gandhi Western civilization good idea
"Most deals are successful under their management"

Although often to the detriment of customers as I have seen with several vets and my former dentist. Prices suddenly doubled and tripled or even more.
Living in perpetual paranoia and fear?
again, if you keep the same metrics. there are plenty of just plain awful companies that have been around for decades. i’ve seen terrible restaurants, terrible construction companies, just awful search engines, etc…

and we’ve all seen many government projects started and then abandoned.
I would use 320kbps mp3s. At this point the space savings from 192kbps isn't worth anything and it's one of those things you wish you'd thought through so you won't have to do these steps again.