skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Tons of people no longer have a computer at home"

Sure, and those people are the perfect target market for being able to connect to full keyboard, mouse, and display from their phone without the need to buy another computer.
How long till Slack can replace webex/adobe connect (both terrible at multiplatform)
I don't understand these articles

zero marginal cost in fuel?

Take a chevy volt (I have one, so speaking from experience). it takes over 20kwh of electricity to fully charge (there's at least 10% loss) and get a bit over 50 miles on charge.

Lets equate this to a prius, that gets about 50mpg.

the cheapest electricity rates in the bay area is about 11.5 cents kwh. or if it takes 20kwh to charge, one is looking at at least $2.30 to "Fill it up". That's not much cheaper than it costs to go 50 miles in a prius.

If gasoline prices crater (as the article expects), it make gas cars even more affordable. Now arguably the electrical generation can be better for the environment than the car itself burning gas, but the argument on fuel costs seems very weak.
I see mentions of Screen Hero in a way that makes it sound like it's dead, but my team still uses SH daily (via Slack's `/hero` command). It's easily the best _remote pairing_ tool that I've found.

This new Slack feature seems like something different, for presenting content to everyone on a call, not for collaborating on code.
I didn't :-)
I still use Screen Hero daily. Your account probably still works!
Good grief, how many times are you going to submit this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=miggyzerp21
Until the backup doesn't work or it does but it takes a day to recovery it or whatever. DBs aren't free, ever.
Of course, that's not what I'm trying to argue against. The fact that the city is vastly underpopulated per square mile is arguably one of the core sources of its public infrastructure issues. What I was trying to say is that there's still ~700k people already living there, who have been living there for decades, but the angle of a lot of the "Detroit comeback" press is to focus entirely on how happy the new transplants and the surburban visitors are, and on their wants/needs, and to ignore the hundreds of thousands of people that have remained in the city this entire time. I'm speaking in generalities of course, but anecdotally it's an angle that I've seen come up in a lot of the press cycles about new developments in the city.
Completely unrelated, but thank you for posting the chicken papricash recipe on your website. Sounds really good. Just printed it out, am planning to try it.
I think this company is underestimating the slip-and-fall lawsuit people. They must be salivating at the autonomous robots.
One downside to MP3s is that it's not possible (or maybe not always possible, or not easily possible) to prevent silence from being added to the beginning and/or end of the audio. This complicates things like gapless playback or loops. It also complicates using audio where a high level of precision is required (e.g. "I want this widget to appear exactly half a second into this audio").
Are you asking why AI is impressive?
Yes but to get to that point, Herbert needs to know the physics of the world, cause the mail may be under the kid's football which would drop on the floor of the mail is pulled and bounce around and break some things. And the robots also needs to know about making the right decision: is it better to let the ball break the China vase than making a move that would hit the dog in the face even not very hard?

In order to get there, you need a robot that knows a lot of stuff.
Presumably also just sharing a single window which is very useful (e.g. for PowerPoints).
No one has a real air force or a real navy except USA. Well some have, but 10% of the size and much poorer trained as well. And air force changed little with respect to asymmetric warfare, and Navy didn't change at all (it only starts to, pouring money into things like lasers to protect from small inflatable boat attacks). They are still pretty much Cold War-ish.

Ground forces will lack artillery pieces and shells and will find its logistics stretched, and tank mods of recent 20 years were going the wrong way for a shooting war, and new combat vehicles like Stryker and not what a real war requires, so it will have some trouble, but ground forces need to act only in the very end - where enemy is softened enough by airstrikes - and that will work whole lot better than in Desert Storm these days. Much more kills per sortie due to all these smart munitions - and there are sufficient numbers of them to break down any armed forces in the world.

So in essence, air force will make sure that every adversary will be pretty soon down to 'asymmetric warfare' level if not completely defeated. Think Russian WWII partisans. And that is what US Army has an excellent experience dealing with.
We can all sit in a room and recite things that do not sound right to us in our little high-chairs.

The point is, she did not tell the CTO that she was a victim of sexual harassment. End of story.

Informing the CTO that one of the managers said (verbally) something in regards to the conditions of the employment is an entirely different issue.

The idea that you think both of the issues are even remotely compatible scares me.
Concern is not the same as responsibility. Our society puts more responsibility on women for childcare, in the sense that if it's messed up somehow, the blame tends to fall on the mother first. Men (in general) end up paying less attention to childcare, since they can get by with letting their wives take care of it, whereas women have a much harder time transferring this responsibility to their husbands.
So this makes me wonder: HN what would you want in a reddit alternative that HN doesn't provide?
You are correct that Screen Hero still works and all, but it is technically "dead." No one new can sign up for the service. You can only use it if you already had it setup. I would personally consider that "dead" if it's now closed off for anyone to signup with. It's not like you can recommend this as alternative to what Slack is doing with their screen sharing.

On https://screenhero.com/login they even say "New signups are closed while we integrate with Slack." - I consider that "dead."
Cost of employee not the cost of building.
Interesting you mention Quake in this connection - I feel like at least someone on the Dead Space 2 writing or design team must've seen Gibson's spec script at some point. Some of the Anchorpoint sequences in the script match pretty closely with some of the game's sequences in the "Sprawl" station - and I mean, the station is called the Sprawl, so it's not exactly a far reach to suggest the game devs had some Gibsonian influence going on.

Not a criticism, I should note - I feel like that's some of the strongest material in Dead Space 2, which is admittedly very uneven, but when it's good, it's good indeed. If we couldn't have Gibson's version of Alien 3 - and I agree with the article author that we'd have been better off with that one than with the one we did get - then it's nice at least to see some of it end up surfacing in another venue.
For books, if you're ok with older books, and don't mind if they're occasionally a little more beat up (but the condition classifications are usually accurate), thriftbooks.com is addictive. Super cheap books, and the first time I saw "free shipping in the US over $10" I went right ahead and spent $200.
Retaliation is illegal under federal law.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/retaliation.cfm

"Participating in a complaint process is protected from retaliation under all circumstances."
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I grew up in Detroit and get back at least monthly. For the past five years all I've been hearing is that all the money is going into downtown and nothing is happening in the neighborhoods.

Well now things are beginning to happen in the neighborhoods. Huge amount of activity in Midtown (Cass corridor) with the new Red Wings/Pistons arena and the entertainment district being built around it. Lots of buildings also going up on Wayne State campus.

Now lots of buildings are also getting restored in the New Center area. The neighborhood around Marygrove College is being rebuilt. There's also a development of a neighborhood being re-imagined on 7 mile.

It took over forty years to decline and now people want it all rebuilt in less than ten years.
I guess it's Journalistically Ethical, but as a person it just didn't see morally right to me. I think it went from telling a compelling story to airing something the subject didn't explicitly disclose, and in some regards intentionally masked.
I believe the usecase is needing high bandwidth interconnects, eg, problems with a lot of synchronizations across the dataset.
Based on reviews I have read, this arm is probably the best you can get on a budget:

http://dobot.cc/dobot-magician/product-overview.html

Now - granted, that's a lot of money for a small robot arm (actually, it isn't - price out a TeachMover or Rhino arm), but take a look at it - it's not just a robot arm.

Probably it's best additional use is as a 3D printer - so if you have given thought to buying one of those, too - well, here you can have both.

You can also purchase one on Amazon, if you prefer that method. It was also reviewed in March in Servo Magazine:

http://www.servomagazine.com/index.php/magazine/issue/2017/0...

Now granted, this arm isn't a kit - but usually, if you want a kit, you'll sacrifice precision, and if you want precision, you'll get it (usually) pre-built.

Note that the lower the mass on the end of the arm, the more precise it will be and move (and be able to lift more). If the servos or motors are mostly near the base of the arm, that's going to be the best placement; the popular "pallet stacking" style parallel arm kits you see sold out there typically have this arrangement, with only a servo on the end for the gripper (one of these actually isn't bad, if you pair it up with quality metal-gear dual-ball bearing servos).

Another option would be to 3D print a robot arm; there are plenty of examples and files out there for that, if you already have a 3D printer or access to one.

You might look around on Ebay or similar for an older "vintage" desktop robot arm from the 1980s (and old TeachMover or similar arm is ideal), and try to repair or refurbish it (there are a few sellers that do this as well, and their work can be stellar - but you'll pay the price for it, too). For instance, I got an old Rhino XR-1 arm from Ebay for a couple hundred dollars - it's controlled using a simple serial port (RS-232) protocol. Most of those early arms work the same way.

Another option might be to try to replicate one of those early robot arms, or build your own arm from parts - pringles cans can make a great starting point!

Finally - and only do this if you are really serious - you can find on Ebay used industrial robot arms for sale; look for one that is "lab grade", as they'll usually be smaller in size and cleaner (most of the arms on there - while a great buy considering what they cost new - are so big you'll need a truck and pallet jack to move them, plus 440v to run 'em - not to mention all the hydraulic mess). The downside will probably be on the interfacing end; you might have to do something custom there (ie - rip out the old controllers and hack your own in place).
+1 for anything by Brendan Gregg.

I wasn't aware of the polling limitations of sysdig, but it definitely explains some things I've seen in the past. This is definitely going in my toolkit. Cheers!

Edit: dammit, spelled his name wrong.
I'm surprised no one has challenged this yet - if there is anything that cloud spanner does better than most things out there, it's "full-blown horizontal scalability"! There are very few systems out there that have tackled the issue of scaling beyond cross-AZ in a non-bullshit way.
Regarding 2, I'd be interested to know whether there was a different legal/ethical standard for people who have died. Surely there must be a journalism professor around here somewhere.
is Comcast one of the most famous companies in world having few hundred billion of cash available? since i am hardly familiar with them (ISP, carrier?) outside US i doubt that

it's like thinking Microsoft can't make things done in Redmond or Google in Palo alto
Not the parent but I'll take a stab at this anyway. None of this is actually about moralizing, but very much about signaling that one is part of the cohort of "discerning" consumers (who wouldn't be caught dead, darling, eating a Red Delicious), and not among those great unwashed backwoods jerkwater hordes who eat them because they don't know any better. Hence the religion-like simplicity of the message "red delicious bad" which bears some similarity to a moral pronouncement while not actually being one.

Whatever. Red Delicious, Gala, even Mackintosh (remember them? usually for pie)... they're all good. Red Delicious is unfashionable, plain and simple. I find them great, when fresh. They get mealy/mushy when they've been sitting around too long.
I remember reading that script, some years ago. I feel like it would've ended up like Jodorowsky's Dune if they'd tried in a serious way to make it - failing that, like Lynch's, with the same heroic but ultimately foredoomed struggle to carry a burden of story and symbolism that's just too heavy for a feature film to bear.
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Give residents special permits which allow the to park for free. That's how it works here (Helsinki, Finland). Permit is not free, but cheap. It is for specific vehicle and the registered owner needs to live there. There permits are not per street, but the city is divided to several areas.
So they are paying this guy to run the beer pong on Fridays? How about focus on building a sustainable business?
I also still use SH extensively. However, it's clearly at best in maintenance mode. A few weeks ago it was broke from some time Saturday to Monday afternoon. I spent probably the hours in total on two different projects with two different pairs to get sooner other acceptable solution to work before SH became functional again. I'd rather pay for it and have it be reliable. Signing up for it is also not creating trust when I try to bring new people to use it with me.
I've made apple sauce a few times for near-immediate consumption (over the course of maybe a week). There is a big, notable difference in taste and quality from the store-bought. Might be time to try canning it for longer term consumption.

However, stores near here do carry a no sugar added bottle of applesauce. That's all we ever buy, and I can't imagine why they would even consider adding sugar/corn syrup. I like making it at home because I can play with the tartness a little more by adding in some grannies, and I like to leave in the skin for the added nutrients.
I’m convinced that the US needs to differentiate and separately fund resources for limited and unlimited wars. The military has squandered trillions fighting limited wars with assets designed for more conventional wars. It has also led to a less effective effort as the needs of operators on the ground are often disregarded for what the services want to provide to justify funding. Finally, legally separating the two would allow a better application of ROE and help prevent the current state of never ending “war”. The goal being to constantly strive to downgrade from unlimited war, to limited war, to state department diplomacy, with different funding for each and understandable reasons and criteria for transition between the categories.
Or that everything will be remembered, but no one will remember what was important.
I'd recommend one of HN's own, @fecak[1].

For the first time ever in 7 years, last year I was in a position where I had to create a resume and apply for a position -- needless to say, because I was lacking any experience in this matter, it all went horrible :)

I noticed the valuable advice he was dispensing around here on HN, then saw his jobtipsforgeeks.com site which is packed with useful information.

For example, I printed out his "How to Apply to Jobs"[2] article and used it as a guideline when applying because it made more sense than writing what just came to mind as I was applying (I hate canned stuff, I always researched the company and personalized my cover letter).

Anyway, reading more and more articles on his website (especially the Java developers have longer resumes), I came to the conclusion that I have no idea what I'm doing and decided to use his professional services.

He went above and beyond.

Rewriting my way-too-long-java-developer-resume live in google docs, getting the time to know me and digging up some notable past accomplishments (why do we usually suck at this?) and all of this close to New Year's.

He's very humble as well, don't let that fool you in thinking he's inexperienced -- I did, only when I saw the final result and the change in response rate did I realize what 20(?) years of experience look like :)

Contact him.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fecak

[2] https://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2014/02/10/apply/
On the other hand, I don't want to see giant a 'D' over where I live because on a far out zoom level it happens to say 'UNITED KINGDOM', and someone wanted to zoom in to see the font.
In a lot of ways, it's Alien: Vietnam.
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right, you and I are agreed and your third sentence is exactly what I was arguing for - it goes against the OP's request that that third sentence evaluate to true.

this was the OP in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14348066
Can’t someone just dislike a type of apple without it being a political statement?

I have thought “red delicious” were terrible since grade school, when they used to hand them out as snacks, and I promise you that 6-year-old me was not trying to signal anything.
They have a more technical run down of how this works on their engineering blog: https://githubengineering.com/integrating-git-in-atom/
Unplugged
I've dropped the Screen Hero binary to a few people (even outside of my Slack org) and they were able to sign up via the app even after that message appeared, but you're totally right, we're on borrowed time.
I recently switched to JavaScript by whitelist only and now I won't go back. I always thought disabling JavaScript was just for tinfoil-hat luddites, but now I realize how often JavaScript detracts from the experience and how little it enhances it. Speed-wise, it reminds me of going from 56k to DSL back in the day.
If your child is not yet attending school, and you don't have a spouse/partner/grandparents to watch them during the day, then YES, that situation is quite literally incompatible with holding a job. That is in no way unique to Silicon Valley.

It sounds like really you're critiquing parents in general for sending kids to daycare.
" so our robots are initially being controlled from Colombia." There was a sci-fi movie about that[0]. In short a wall gets built between the US and Mexico, and telerobots controlled by workers in Mexico start being used for the jobs normally performed by migrant workers.

That being said there are some interesting legal issues with telerobots. Currently, most laws we have presume the person performing the crime is physically present. For example, in the unlikely event that one of these robots injures someone or causes property damage who exactly is held liable?

Another interesting case is if an evil set of Berkeley engineering students in desperate need of robot parts for a project, pays the driver of one of these robots to disable tracking and drive it to a secret robot chop-shop. Supposedly, the penalties for the evil Berkely engineering students can be less than if they went out and kidnapped the robot, because the company allowed and trusted the worker with access to the robot.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer
I think people calling this expensive are missing the point - the main use case for this is large organizations that truly need to scale globally, at which point you'd probably sink many times the money to have that problem magically solved for you.
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It sounds intriguing but you really need to put a lot more info on that website.

Forcing me to request an invite or register to know more about a product is the fastest way of making me close the browser tab.
Do you not keep old computers as you update?

Have you considered having a cheap chromebook backup or something?
Why America can’t make up its mind about housing
You're welcome. :) Not sure I wrote it on there, but you can substitute plain yogurt for the sour cream for a smoother taste. Also, my brother sometimes adds a little powered sugar right before blending for extra sweetness.
Did Ubuntu Phone ever actually work?
if you look at nothing else on this page check out their 'timemap' here http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak/timemap

Mixing geo & chronology is something I hope catches on everywhere, but glad it caught on in archaeology.

Overemphasis of the new is an unpleasant side effect of the search/news driven web.
Try a pacific rose if you like pink ladies.
>I'm not sure how this is true. Perhaps you can persuade me?

This could actually apply to the hunter&gatherer because those didn't care much about sustainability. When a region was picked/hunted empty they simply moved to a new region, few enough of us around back then so this actually worked and regions had time to recover.

Now imagine nearly 7 billion humans living the same way: Gathering/hunting everything in their closest region until most of it is gone just to move on to a new region, no permaculture at all. It wouldn't take long before there wouldn't be anything left to hunt or gather.

>A one acre garden is not a "hobby" in my opinion. The amount of work involved in cultivating an entire acre is immense.

Not every one-acre garden is actually cultivated, that's how some people are able to have them as a hobby ;)
those taxes don't really resolve congested roads
You can take a trained model (TPU, GPU accelerated) and replicate it to an embedded board. It would be possible to use the Cortex M4F FPU to accelerate the deep learning inference functions. Using a TPU-like core on a microcontroller/SoC would be an improvement.

Deep Learning inference processing is not reliant on the cloud, and once trained can work fine without any connectivity.
I almost exclusively share single application windows. Sure, on Mac OS you can turn on "Do not disturb" while presenting, but it's too easy to have information from other customers, or internal, show up when you don't want it to.
I charge around $70/hour for that kind of work, which tends to be a mix of CAD, CAM, Setup, Lifting/moving crap, packaging, and cleanup. Usually 1 hour minimum. I charge more for work in MDF because of the mess and because the dust is harder to clean up/get rid of and it is heavier. More again for aluminum. If I need to make whole assemblies with glue, finishing, etc, I tend to just go fixed bid. It's not super scientific, and I have to turn down certain types of work due to garage constraints, etc. Most of the work I end up getting that follows through are from contractors wanting one-off cuts, jigs, or templates. I get 2x inquiries from people, but they usually don't want to follow through with actually paying money for things.
Significant breach in the context of web development is usually logic error that leads to unauthorized application-level access, leaking cookies, service unavailability etc.

This is however not the most likely thing to go wrong, in general. Topping the charts is as always, the one and only, User Error!

Restricting db access is the last line of defense against accidentally DROP-ing TABLE in production.
This is great!

Too many companies are in the 1920's, where they want an open plan so bosses can stare at people while they work.
Who is "we" and what's stopping you from asking your sales team for the numbers?
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