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propwash | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

Skybrowse[1] does this.

propwash | 3 years ago | on: DJI Drone Flies over the Top of Mount Everest

Yes, You can find a map with news about (almost) all drone rescue events around the world here - https://enterprise.dji.com/drone-rescue-map/#map

propwash | 3 years ago | on: India's drone startups could change healthcare

As long as they get past the regulatory red tape that's holding everything back

propwash | 4 years ago | on: Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

Agreed. Whenever I hear stories like this, I recall this recent essay [1] that said it quite well -

> designing a human process around pathological cases leads to processes that are themselves pathological

[1] - https://jacobian.org/2022/feb/14/that-wild-aam-story/

propwash | 4 years ago | on: Drones Raining from the Sky in Zhengzhou

Not sure why it happened, the company claims that it was sabotaged by a competitor.

If you want to read some more about how they work and how they're priced, I wrote about it here - https://propwash.nihalmohan.com/issues/are-drone-light-shows...

propwash | 4 years ago | on: First in Nation: Drone Detection Technology at Miami International Airport

Worth noting that the Gatwick incident mentioned in the first paragraph is highly contentious and it hasn't been proven to have been by a drone. You can read my summary of the event[1] or one by the guardian[2] on the same -

[1] - https://propwash.nihalmohan.com/issues/propwash-7-how-a-ufo-... [2] - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/01/the-mystery-...

propwash | 4 years ago | on: Curated list of personal blogs

This is the sad part.

If your news diet is consumed by negative press and sad stories, they become more readily available[0] to you and can affect your decisions adversely by making you think that the base rate of such bad events are more common than they really are[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy

propwash | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why did all of these sites just go down at once?

Akamai Edge DNS went down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920665

propwash | 4 years ago | on: Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

No restrictions on number of devices for one.

Everything else was the same and I didn't feel like I losing out, so it was easy to switch. They have an import tool that made it easier

propwash | 4 years ago | on: Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

I use Bitwarden and it's open source. Switched over from LastPass and haven't regretted it since

propwash | 4 years ago | on: FAA releases TRUST: Free online training required to fly drones recreationally

The test is easier than a full part-107 exam and I was able to finish mine in less than half an hour for free. The FAA did the right thing by making the test free to take. If there were any fees involved, it would hinder adoption and work against FAA’s goal. Some might see the test as another thing to do, but making it free really does have a lower barrier of entry, and is a necessary step in the right direction which could’ve easily gone wrong if a fee was involved.