jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Between certain models, the Dell Inspiron and the Dell Latitude had interchangeable motherboards, had the same integrated graphics, and sourced the same LCD panel. But the actual 'same-ness' is irrelevant in this case - the real issue is my impression that I'm going to get 'ripped off' if I don't sit down for hours and compare their entire product lineup every time I want to buy another Dell laptop.

That's a terrible customer expectation and experience vs. Hey, I want an Apple laptop. Oh, I want the Macbook. Look, it's $999 + some basic options. Done.
oops, misspoke. I meant a 1.9.x version of REE :)
While Honda, Toyota, and many companies in the Japanese robotics space do devote quite a lot of resources to thinking about the elderly population, a significant amount of the R&D work done is not done with the intent of being immediately productizable, but rather to do basic R&D and to fly the company flag. (See Asimo or, indeed, any robot which looks remotely like a human. Or the gigantic eight-legged spider robot who existed to wave a large fan at people that my tech incubator made, which existed to say "Look at us, we're capable of making a gigantic semi-autonomous eight legged robot with one functional limb which you could mount all sorts of things that are not cooling devices on.")
Great... ANOTHER browser to test for?
Wow, you need Flash to access the demo/download links?

Is this to prevent someone from scraping their tutorials?
I'm not particularly impressed by the chair (references to both pg's Segway essay and the fat people in Wall.E come to mind), but I'm very interested in the omniwheel technology.

Imagine a wheelchair with one omnidirectional wheel instead of four. That'd make a world of difference for disabled people!
This reminds me of my first partner in our software/consulting service business. He was absolutely fearless.

We would always arrive at appointments very early so he had an excuse to "poke around". He'd ask anybody, the receptionist, someone in the breakroom, even the janitor. He'd see what was going on in the parking lot, the loading dock, even in the warehouse or factory. Seeing him in a business for the first time was like watching a kid in a candy store.

In our first meeting, he always knew something about the client's business that they didn't. He'd say things like, "Automating the inventory won't help if Fred and Jean are counting 2 different things." This always led to interesting discussion and often, follow-up business.

Once he even spent a week of his own time on third shift, going over procedures and reports with factory supervisors. They didn't know who he was; they just figured someone from the main office sent him. He did a complete analysis in Excel which we used in a proposal. That got us hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of work.

I often challenged him, "You can't just do that," I would say. To which he would respond, "These people need help and don't even realize it. We have to find a way to show them." Then the inevitable, "It's better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission."

Looking back, it didn't always work. It pissed off some people and burnt those bridges. But when it did work, we often concluded that nothing else would have.

I learned a lot in those days. I'm still not as fearless as my partner was, but I'd like to think I'm getting there. Thanks for the memories.
The filename seems to indicate that it's a song from 13 years ago?
A philosophical zombie is not a decision tree incapable of learning. A philosophical zombie is something that is exactly like a human in every way except that it lacks consciousness. The concept has more than a few problems - see http://lesswrong.com/lw/p7/zombies_zombies/

If a decision tree (or a clever algorithm or whatever) REALLY did perfectly mimic a thinking human (including our ability to learn), do you still think it wouldn't REALLY be intelligent? That there's some sort of important, qualitative difference between being shifted through a decision tree and sensory inputs and feedback loops building up neuron action potentials? That may be true, but the evidence is heavily stacked against such a worldview.

That said, I agree that this is a bad approach to AI. It's not like people haven't been trying to stitch together various subproblems of intelligence for the better part of 50 years.
What about some of the current crop of procedural languages - I've heard alot of trading firms use them.
Tesla lost the right to call their drive assistance "Autopilot" in Germany because Tesla couldn't stop implying that their cars were already very close to FSD and more capable than they actually are.
Previous discussion from 2 months ago with 277 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25320536
RAV4 Primes seem to be selling pretty well (supply constrained for now).
Cool, hadn't heard of seamless. Something similar to this for other langs wrapped in a CLI with an integration with Digital Ocean/AWS/etc. could be valuable
Wow, I guess I touched a nerve :-) Have you ridden in an early model S? Tried to repair a Roadster? I am a big fan of Tesla and impressed at what they pulled off, but I don't forget that when they started they cut all the corners.

It is common, perhaps even expected, in startups when an engineer says, "Well this won't last more than 5 or 6 years" to be told by upper management, "Well if we're still around in 5 or 6 years, we'll do something about it."

Given that Tesla is not a startup these days, and is on the other side of that chasm, I was surprised that their response here was "oh we'll replace the board with another board with the same issue."

Perhaps there is not a good understanding about the differences in the legal ramifications of a vehicle failing and resulting in property damage or loss of life from the failure of something considered a 'wear' item versus something that is not classified as a wear item.

I am not a lawyer, one of my friends who does consumer product safety litigation and is a Tesla owner, immediately responded to this news that this was just Tesla trying to avoid criminal liability when a failing EMMC chip kills someone. Sure, they see everything in terms of liability :-)
Agreed. Pop is the distro to beat for daily use for me at least. I've been using Linux as a daily driver since 1998 and until Pop, the only thing I felt comfortable with was Window Maker.
It wasn't that long ago that programmers had to be reminded that there were non-VAX processors.
So... while I respect avoiding shameless self-promotion, referencing your hobby project, or at least including it in your "About" info would be cool, for those interested. :)
This is still another variant of the pop quiz... but a better one.
The idea that Canonical was just testing the market with this crowd funding effort, and that they are using it to prove demand to carriers is absolutely ridiculous! A failed crowd funding campaign is not good publicity. I would bet that after this a significant number of the persons/organizations who pledged will not pledge so easily again.

I would love if this phone saw the light of day. But Canonical were way too ambitious with this campaign. They should have asked for less money, and gotten a majority of it from large investors. But I guess they didn't want to give up any stake in the venture.
i agree, it's just frustrating to have to hop through them. and even though you're probably right, without actually seeing what is redacted, we will never know if that's all that they redacted.
Change all your passwords with insanely long random keys.
Store these in a place you cannot access without being present (for example bank) (encrypted so the bank doesn't access it, and possibly, more then 1 copy).

Don't travel with anything you wish to loose. On return reclaim saved passwords.
inappropriately catching and ignoring an exception is the same as ignoring an error return code, deeper down the call stack and not in the code you're looking at. the difference is, catching and ignoring the exception requires that it be actively done, whereas ignoring an error code is the default if no action is taken.
From the Alice FAQ:
"Why was I charged sales tax on my Alice order?

Alice.com is a marketplace that enables you to buy direct from multiple manufacturers without a retail middleman. Because of this direct relationship, we need to collect and remit sales tax in all jurisdictions. The sales tax will be calculated based on your ship-to zip code and therefore, you won't see it in your Order Summary until you enter your shipping location. You will see the final sales tax amount before confirming your order on step 3 of checkout."

I don't think they had a presence in CA though I could be wrong.
i was wondering the same thing.
And type safety, even when writing macros!
What do you mean by x person key system, multiple parties are requested to auth to grant access, something like shamirs secret sharing?
Yup, as soon as you need to change ID schemes, you risk breaking query logic. Sure things like v1 UUIDs and Snowflakes (and ULIDs and so forth) try to maintain temporal ordering in their ID formats, but what if you need v4 UUIDs for better clustering in some hash-table or SHA-256 hashes for some sort of content addressing scheme?

Also, it's just a very premature optimization in a world where CLUSTERED INDEXes exist. The database engine doesn't have to cluster by primary key, it can cluster directly by time (or any other index) if you ask it to. The power of doing it that way is that you can flexibly change it based on real performance issues (how do your execution plans look?) and characteristics (are you read heavy or write heavy? which ones are your bottle necks?), whereas if your application makes assumptions about ID format it's a lot harder to on-the-fly tune queries that all need to be rewritten.
> From what I see in general MS like Linux on the server, not so much the desktop. The reason for that is pretty obvious.

Because that’s where the entire market has gone, and Microsoft is trying to be responsive to their potential customers?
maybe the Pi 4 would be able to do this with a USB attached disk box, but you'd be much better off with something like a commercial NAS - and I say this as someone who has used ARM boards since the Sheevaplug.

It all depends - do you want a fileserver or a crash course in how to build a fileserver?
I don't think anyone has a psychological issue with USB C.

What they have is a perfectly legitimate issue with not being able to use their existing peripherals with a supposedly top-of-the-line professional laptop/desktop with an unquestionably professional price.

Removing the reviews is PR sterilisation. It's appearance management. It's wilfully turning a deaf ear to any feedback that suggests the Emperor may not be fully clothed.

It has absolutely nothing to do with raising the SNR in the store.
Blender has fairly decent FBX support these days. The Unreal guys gave them some money to bring their exporter up to scratch.
My guess is that being a nurse is a fairly tough job. Nurses are well respected and (at least in SF) paid well, as they should be.

I can see reasons why people would want to be nurses or dental hygienists rather than developers, and vice-versa. if you consider pay, training, the possibility of age-related discrimination, career stability, the ability to scale back for a while while you have kids without compromising your ability to get back into the field later… all in all, I think that the decision to avoid software development in favor of other career paths is a very rational one.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying it's necessarily irrational to go into software development, at all. It can be the right choice for some people. I just don't think the case for software development as a career compared to other options available[1] to high talent, academically inclined people is anywhere near compelling enough to be talking about a "shortage" of software developers.

[1] the right to live and work in the US at the time you are making your career decisions is a major factor in what options you have available, of course.
The post is about Postgres, you were referring to MSSQL mirroring, which can fail back from primary to secondary and back to primary almost seamlessly, depending on type of failure and log catchup.

Postgres has been a pain as described in the article.......
Animation/rigging tools seem particularly lacking to me. For example, a "set driven key" in maya is simple, very common action. You can do the same thing in blender, but it takes more steps and seems kind of obscure.

Blender often has trouble dealing with scenes at production scale. Not that it can't do it (as the blender movie projects prove) but generally you have to know the strengths and weakness of it well to set up a scene at production scale. And to be honest, the scale of the blender shorts is pretty small compared to a typical maya production scene.

It's getting better with every release though. A lot of the tools, for example the texture painting and matchmoving tools, are already better than maya. Render layers have recently caught up.

I think maya still has an edge in production use, but we're starting to see blender being used in real production situations. If you look at the trajectories of development of both programs, blender is moving fast and maya is more or less sitting still.
The current Iranian political religious hardline situation has pretty much been the result of the US/UK meddling with their politics and having the democratic/progressive guy killed at some point.

It's disgusting.
As Italian, I suggest to migrate in Netherlands. It's a country with a huge IT sector, few bureaucracy compared to others, high salaries and low taxes (for Europe). Everyone speaks english correctly and there is very few racism in the society.
Also, an older paper (1981)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2552796/
Maybe, but I didn't see a linked paper (I could've missed it).
or an exact quote when George bush said there were WMDs in Iraq?
President shouldn't talk about things he clearly doesn't understand. Compare this to how Obama used to measure every single word he said.
Reading down the comments on this thread, there is a big question. How did this person acquire the drug? It seems to be a controlled substance, ie a prescription drug for malaria, so what happened? Did they also happen to be diagnosed for malaria?

In times like this we should advocate for more information and getting facts out.
Post a link because I right now I have no reason to believe you.
Notably almost none of Rust's new features are replacing old ones. Most of them are either opening up new capabilities (e.g. async-await), or making existing mechanisms more general/flexible (e.g. const generics, GATs).

It might accumulate cruft eventually, but I think it's at an inherent advantage over C++ due to its heavy functional influence, which is all based on math / PL theory. On the other hand C has always been a quick-and-dirty language, and C++ inherited a lot of that legacy.

The macro system also helps a lot, as features can be prototyped as macros, and only stabilised once the design has been iterated and used. More niche features can stay as macros in 3rd party libraries.
South Korea had massive economic boosts under Park Chung-hee
, he industrialized the country, destroyed corruption, and laid the complete foundation of what South Korea's economy is now today. Pre-Park Chung-hee was a democracy that the US implemented and it was terrible. There was massive widespread corruption, the economy was worse than the Congo, and it was awful. Compare pre and post dictatorial South Korea and there is a stark contrast.

Another example is Singapore.
Claming the hackers would have been able to compromise SolarWinds even with good security pratices does not absolve the company of having actual good security.

I know there are people that can pick a lock. Still gonna have them on my doors anyway.
You mean they employed Germans to make unhealthy diabetes-inducing drinks to other Germans instead of letting them go to the battlefield and kill Americans, or work in weapons factories that all demanded all the labor they could get?

Yeah right, really evil, specially evil when they handed all their profits to the US when the war was over.

The US embargo was on exports only, which is why Fanta was invented in the first place when the Coke syrup was no longer allowed to be exported. Coca-Cola did not violate any embargos.

The company was founded in Germany in 1923 ten whole years before the Nazis took over, and when US had good relations with Germany. You can't fault them for doing business in a friendly country.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-coca-cola-invented-fanta...
> Apple is still selling Macbooks with Intel inside. That cannot be just stupidity, right?

No, it just means the transition to ARM is not done. At WWDC they said it’ll take two years to convert the whole product line [1]. We are only a few months into that. Judging by the last couple years, the Apple HW ship turns slowly, but it does turn.

Also, there’s no need to be so harsh. When other people do something you don’t understand, it’s bad to assume they’re stupid. They probably have reasons you don’t know about.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/this-is-apples-roadm...
There is an audio recording by L.A. Theatre Works that you can listen to here https://beta.prx.org/stories/43614 and https://beta.prx.org/stories/43844
Speculation is enabling to non-coercive frameworks. If I say a token has a use value that I will use to supply goods and services, you may want to acquire that token. If I can also control issuance and supply of that token, then, short of direct threats of violence or enslavement, you must negotiate with me or with a marketplace.

Most of the ill in the world has something to do with gatekeeping replacing speculative activity.
> When you leak your contacts, you harm others, not just yourself.

As Eben Moglen puts it, privacy is ecological, not transactional.

See http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartIII.html
Google tracks your behavior during searches so the longer it takes you to press the back button to return to the results, the higher that page scores. All the recipe sites seem to have figured out that score weighs heavily in Google's rankings.
>Word 97

Is there a FOSS program with a comparable user experience?
i never spent $10k on a home system in 1991. What ???
It does not matter what you think how good the M1 is, what the author states is the opinion of the potential buyer of a mac out there.
I do not see it as so much superior as he does, but the prices will crater because most think it is.
As it turns out, this is addressed in the class specification. I wonder if it’s the spec that’s deficient or whether the devices in question are non compliant.

See page 40: https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/CabConn20.pdf
I'm curious, which demos and talks are you referring to?
Thanks for the feedback! Hopefully the community will contribute..
The cookie is the secret, they fatten up their customers with the free cookies and in a year pivot into an apparel ecommerce play now that their user base has outgrown their clothes.
> And makes your code 20% longer, which makes for a lot of extra fun not-really-so-cost-free-after-all maintenance.

Less than that, in my experience. Certainly a lot less than the amount of tests and documentation you'd need to make up for the absence of types.

> I found the complaint that it finds bugs earlier (at compilation time!) ironic given that, in my experience, running a suite of unit tests takes less time in python than, say, compiling does in Java, never mind compiling and running tests.

You need to work with the language. Is a python test cycle faster than a full rebuild? Probably. Is it faster than the time between making a change and seeing the red underline in one's IDE? Absolutely not, in my experience.
I expect transaction fees will dominate the block reward within 4 halvings, as they are already within an order of magnitude of the block subsidy...
Yes. For those of us that actually went through the Slicehost, Linode era, the time when paying per month and not per hour for a simple VPS before everything was rolled into the word Cloud. Those comment read more like an accurate account of history while others read it as an attack of a company.
These things never work because consumers care more about brands than rights
Basically a hook in the kernel ?
I'm pretty sure gmail caches everything to prevent anyone from getting useful data from this.
You're absolutely right, it is.
It originally had a play button, which disappeared when pressed, but no video appeared. Just tried again and it seems to be working, iOS8 iPad. When the share icon is pressed, the bottom bar flashes, but no other options appear.

I assume this is a Javascript-controlled HTML5 player driven by your playlist API, so all content comes from YouTube and doesn't impose any streaming cost on you?

It looks really good! You should create somewhere for users to comment on the UX, and link that from the UI. This may find unexpected and interesting applications, e.g. custom channels.
Lol? Now next project is to integrate facial recognition and compare with driver license/passport photos and were in business.
Your summary of medieval Iceland displays your ignorance. Go read the article I linked and see Byock from UCLA if you will only crack open mainstream history. Byock supports the history just fails to recognize the polycentric and anarchist interpretation.

The point is that society functioned well and civil order, viz. not the chaos that "anarchy" is assumed, was maintained for longer than the US has existed. In the grand scale of history medieval Iceland succeeded almost 3x as long as the democracy you surely worship has been unquestioned as superior (just ~100 years now).

>Can you actually make a real case in teh real world that "government" in some for is not nesercery?

Let's gloss over that Lex Mercatoria why don't we. Yeah, I missed mentioning my #2 area of knowledge, Xeer customary law in Somalia. The quality of life there has improved vastly despite the UN insurgency (see proof in my past comments from CIA/World Bank stats).

Wait, I can just hear it now, "warlords". I'll spare myself the time responding to ignorant people like you and just drop one more link. Maybe one day I will be bestowed the honor to silence those who disagree and remain happy in my ignorance without reading.

http://daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/Legal_System...
The mainstream press also has an interest in operating on the ground in China. Promoting the attack on Github as newsworthy has some potential for making that work on the ground more difficult or impossible. It's as simple as a business decision that reflects the greater profit tweets about presidential contenders as the subject of journalism.
While vacationing last year in New Orleans, they had a Belt Manlift used by the parking attendants at the Omni Hotel garage. It was scary as heck looking, but the valets seemed quite confident on it.

It's basically a continual ladder running through holes in the floor in a continual loop. The best picture I can find is something like this: http://www.americanbeltmanlift.com/main.png
At amazingly huge expense. It's way cheaper to re-string it every few years on the pole when it gets damaged then to avoid the myriad of other cables already underground.
If its for production use, I would think about it twice, and analyze the other options first.
official word: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mars-decoder-ring
Why stop there? Why doesn't Mozilla switch to using Chrome? :)
Modern AA missile systems are also very expensive - a S-400 battery cost you $500 million. [1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/19/russia-lures-buyers-as-s-400...
I've seen this point so many times. First, the word "most" is doing a lot of work here. And the point about existing financial infrastructure is completely irrelevant, because bitcoin doesn't replace that infrastructure. The energy use of bitcoin is on top of that other energy use.