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Alphabet held back robotics by purchasing a military industrial complex corp that produced excellent terminators and then couldn't handle the backlash from the public when videos started coming out of scary bipedal robots that could bring about the apocalypse.

They proceeded to tell their engineers to "cut it out" and started creating parameters like, "no more bipedal robots" and "stop scaring the public." And, actually, their engineers ignored them and kept doing it, which annoyed Alphabet further so they put additional pressure to stop work in that direction. Though, the irony is that this led to a pretty awesome terminator bot that uses wheels, moves ridiculously fast, can jump and balance better than their bipedal robots and therefore become your friend faster.

I don't personally feel they've held back robotics as an actual field, because the progress continued internally in spite of Alphabet's mismanagement and fear. However, Alphabet suppressed those robots from becoming mainstream products because they weren't the products they wanted and they were very sensitive about the impact on their public image.

That division fully had the capability to release robots that could help people or industries in various ways; military (pack bots, soldiers), police (peacekeepers), steal your job bots, medical (bots that help lift people out of bed, or keep old people from wandering out of their prisons), pets (pet dogs, cheetahs that can hunt down your ex with speed and accuracy, a spider that can climb in bed with you and inject you with life saving chemicals that extends your life before giving you a hug goodnight), companions (definitely think sexual here, perhaps even combined with some of those pet ideas), and so on.

It might have begat the dystopian future that keeps many of us, or just Elon Musk, awake at night. And, if that's the case be thankful Alphabet couldn't manage to get much into production.

The only real way they've held back robotics is by never releasing anything, beyond previous commitments of course.
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Congratulations for the work, that's an interesting move and it allows to align resin os more with what's being used in classic traditional IoT, I think in long-term it would be possible to plug-in other technologies within Balena easily, maybe support other deltas mechanisms, and other features. Most containers are over-engineered, they are build around kernel technologies to hide some other mis-behaviour of Linux kernel sometimes it is legit, sometimes not. Anyway with Balena I think that's better for resin OS and it can be adapted for more cases easily.
Nowadays there are great alternatives such as Affinity Photo.
Do you get a kick out of shitting on somebody else’s work? Idiot.
Ask HN: Does anti-virus software increase or worsen security?
Since quite a while I'm asking myself whether one is better off using an anti-virus software or not.
The recently uncovered events concerning Kaspersky seem to support that one might be better off without an anti-virus software installed.

While I feel a bit naked without even a basic scanner installed, I also must admit that I feel uncomfortable with today's bloated "everything solutions" that obviously come with a huge attack surface from a security point of view.

How do HN readers deal with this situation?
When an individual pays that much, he will not admit he has lost his money on a shitty software. He will spend all the efforts of learning how to get all the benefits of the software, then he will pretend (sometimes to himself) that the software gives valuable features that justified all this money and time.

The same phenomen occurs for cars. People are always less critic when they have payed a lot.
Agreed. Their past post with huge lot of pretty pictures have been awesome.
Mission and working environment have already been mentioned plenty of times, and are certainly important.

One that doesn't show up a huge amount at the moment, but which holds huge weight for me (potentially trumping salary) is autonomy: to what extent am I going to have leverage to build useful things as an individual rather than a mostly-fungible "team member".

I'm wondering whether some people have actually been a little scared off from advertising this because of the risk of being dinged for {bad,lack of} process.
I see that you have already gone through 3 weeks of his episodes. I walked through the page provided, I can not see in what language is he writing ?
Author here: interested in any strong views on this - @ianmiell on twitter.
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Another example, wich is quite popular yet expensive, is MatLab (the licence costs over 2000 USD). https://www.mathworks.com/pricing-licensing.html
They mention that in the part about vesting periods and executives leaving.

As a result I would expect to see a flourishing of robotics research in the near future, I'm just disappointed that they were stuck there for 4 years in the interim.

It makes me wonder if companies that are attempting to acquire smaller companies might not just be better off leaving them in situ and acting in more of an investment role than an ownership role. Buy 52% of the company for $x/1.9 instead of the whole thing, and in doing so provide them with funds but not interference.
Or because it's a bigger market? How much do most Americans spend on transportation compared to say, things that come out of assembly lines? And how much value can robots add to each of those verticals?
It might be relevant: https://github.com/galfarragem/hamster-gtd
That was an interesting read. Don't know how much of it to believe though.
Also, this makes it sound like he'd do this out off ego.

In fact, there's a likely chance he is his own worst enemy, really combatting his own perfectionism.

Not to mention, when everyone tells you how smart you are, it feels good in the beginning, but after that compliments can be interpreted as expectations and all the pressure that comes with it.

One should have had (potentially 3rd party) come up to talk to him privately months prior to that and adress his motivation.

Ideally this is for the hiring interview itself, but re evaluating once a year is a more healthy prospect for both the company and the worker.

"Rick" might feel great, but by dropping based on something that is so tied to his identity could be very painfull for him nonetheless.

Not going to judge, you should always hold the company as a whole before the individual imo, but there are more amicable ways to do so
Target easy buyer.
Many corp has $500 approval-required-threshold.

So if your software cost $499 - then you may make more sales that if it would cost $1000 a pop.
That's my point :)

The parent poster was saying the US needs to "reindustrialize". I'm saying that not only it never de-industrialized, but if you were to pull in more industries (using tariffs and such), it wouldn't matter in the long term since - as you correctly point out - increasing the size of the industry doesn't increase the qualify of life for the lower class.
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Matlab/Mathematica and its ecosystem of plugins as well.
I don't doubt toxic people bring others down - but I do doubt that toxicity is one-way. I think this person is really the toxic one, with their prejudice against others.
I just love the fact I can now charge my laptop and my phone using the same charger - and both charge super fast. I travel often and going with one charger is a life saver. Being able to charge my laptop from my old power bank to get two more hours is also super cool.

I remember discovering that some of my Micro-USB cables could only charge and couldn't transmit any data. I honestly don't understand why people talk about the issues with USB-C as if it was a new thing. Seems to me like most of the problems are theoretic and that most end-users are actually happy with the new standard.
Indeed. Not if you buy old oscilloscopes they’re not!

They’re still perfectly useful instruments to be honest.
I think you are confusing ripping off someone's creation and stealing a tool used to create. Photoshop is no different from stealing paint, paper, paintbrushes, woodworking tools, pencils, pens, and so on. People might be able to tell what tool you used to create the work, but they won't be able to tell if the copy was legal, illegal, or if you used a borrowed computer - just like the physical tools.

Besides, not all the tools are good enough. Not everyone can buy tools. Hence the listing of the free tools, including the fairly common practice of having an illegal copy of photoshop (or other creative software). It is a commonly known issue to Adobe itself.
Another category is audio software plugins (aka VSTs / AudioUnits), which are sometimes sold in bundles of $1000 or more. The plugins often cost more than the software that runs the plugins. Take a look at the Waves bundles:

https://www.waves.com/bundles#sort:path~type~order=.hidden-p...

Or some of the iZotope products:

https://www.izotope.com/en/products/repair-and-edit/rx-post-...

Certainly many of their customers are recording studios, but a lot are individuals. If you're a voice-over artist or producer, you probably don't mind spending this much if you're making money with it and it saves you time. If you're a professional, you're probably spending $1000+ just on a microphone anyway.
Those founders were stuck at Google after their acquisition weren’t they? (The article implies that but I honestly don’t know.) The “talent” they brought with them to Google was held back from working for other robotics companies by the 4 year vesting requirement.

I can see where your idea has merit in the long term, google seems to have set back robotics by 4 years or so in the short term.
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>In memtesting we boot a custom MemTest86 image and monitor it while it completes a full pass. Our custom version of MemTest86 changes the color of the failure message to red which allows us to detect trouble. We’ve hacked together a Ruby script that retrieves a console screenshot via IPMI and checks the color in the image to determine if we’ve hit a failure or not.

Wow. Why is this done this way? Is there no other way to receive hardware memtest info? I would have thought that there was some way to revive machine serial output status in a datacenter.
Linux OCR is priced like this. Unfortunately.

http://www.ocr4linux.com/en:pricing:start

This pricing is prohibitive expensive for most private users.
Yeah they’ve come a long way since the analogue units. I’ve got a new Chinese digital unit as well (Rigol) and it’s got Ethernet and USB and stuff and you can drag data off it with python trivially for example. Colour wide screen and measures just about every parameter for you automatically.

But it feels like it’s lacking a soul.

Playing around with Electronics is my disconnect from reality for a bit. Works pretty well :)

If You find any of your father’s stuff, spend some time with it. It helps things believe it or not.
Indeed. Works better with tubes. I built a slightly more modern version with an op amp and a small 28v bulb in the feedback circuit and it didn’t quite perform as well as I’d hoped. Was interesting however.
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Exactly the same for me. Although I do not use all tools at the same time, I still feel the money was worth it.

I have thought to do the same with Visual Studio, but VS Community Edition + ReSharper is basically VS Ultimate.

For HexRays... Its a really high price, and its software I don't make full use of, so i just keep working on the older, leaked versions instead.
The newer ones don't have the color coding anymore, they're all just black, and the always-on ones have an additional symbol under the SS<USB> symbol.
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Yeah, this seems pretty terrible compared to a modified memtrest that reports results.
I agree with what you say, but using an editor with bookmarks and simple find ability - and almost every editor has these - is more than enough for efficient navigation of code. One does not have to spend months using vim/emacs until its use becomes muscle memory, to efficiently browse code.
Just to clear up an ambiguous sentence: It's the CEO of Boston Dynamics, Marc Raibert, talking at TED, not the CEO of Softbank.

It's a good talk, and probably the first time I've seen Boston Dynamics robot portrayed in a positive light. The videos they have released in the past, has always given of this Terminator vibe.
Ah, I see what you're saying, but I disagree with you. A lot of the kinds of manufacturing that was shipped to Mexico was the kind that couldn't easily be automated or demands in some way some form of manual labor. Some manufacturing processes are simply too complex to currently be done by machine, from what I understand. If we bring manufacturing back, those jobs would likely end up in smaller cities where the cost of living is lower so they could save money, thus driving up wages in the exact kind of areas that have been hurting.

Would it be a net positive with regards to wealth generation? Absolutely not. There are massive capital flow optimizations available with globalization. I just don't see any other way of increasing quality of life for our lower class in a way that's politically attainable.
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That's not a matter of "browser compatibility" which is what GP complained about. The browsers are compatible, if you decide not to use them, you can hardly fault the browsers.
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It's in 4.6.0-beta1; I've been playing with it a bunch, it's really nice for single stat and when you have time series tables.

Also worth bringing up: http://www.timescale.com
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Yeah, I mean it's not like anthropologists and the oral histories of the tribes themselves have ever recorded the practice of head hunting on multiple continents or anything...
People who don’t use their text editor in the manner I do have a brain disease- oops, I mean cognitive bias.
Full autonomy attained in 2 hours 55 minutes 58 seconds

The strategy seems to heavily rely on investment, that seems not to my liking.

I'd want to see purchase item to fully automate all sub-games to make the late game less tedious.

One thing I think might be helpful:
Make sure there is unsold inventory once you want to deposit to the stock market, to avoid stuck money generation and crushed stock market killing you...
Weird. They almost sound like.... humans, or something.
That seems pretty realistic. The easiest path to taking over the world could well involve accruing vast amounts of money.
Brighton is a pretty nice place to live.
I have a diametrically opposite experience instead.
For me taking notes is most of the time harmful.
If I need to document something it is much better to write a confluence page so everyone in the team can access it.
While I'm coding taking notes breaks my flow of thoughts and I lose the momentum.
Obviously I do write schematics or structures of the components on which I'm working on, but I don't consider that note taking, it is really part of the designing process and at the end the architecture will go in any case in confluence.
Last but not least, I noticed that if I can just read some note easily I don't commit that information to my long term memory, so paradoxically, writing notes actually harms my memorisation process.
I know it's extremely unlikely, I do wish Apple would move its phones and tablets to use USB-C too.
There's a cautionary tale here for developers. If you're productive, hard-working and have enough grit to complete projects, you'll get noticed and handed even more responsibility.

Eventually it will be more than any single developer could handle and you'll burn out.

Often, if you bring it up with management they'll do very little to fix the problem. Projects that could be completed in a few days when delegated to other teammates will somehow languish for weeks, at which point you get roped in anyway to hit the deadline, except now you have to do it ASAP and you're working nights and weekends.

At the end of a project like that mgmt will consider it a success, since the project was completed, and the whole thing will happen all over again.

The only thing they'll actually notice is failure. But who wants to let something fail?

So keep your head low. Get a sense for how long it takes others to complete projects, and aim to be in the same ballpark. To get management to make rational scheduling decisions you need to control what they see.

Which for this type of engineer is going to be really hard. Management should be better at this, but in general they're not, so it's either constrain your productivity or be successful for a year or two till you're overworked out of a job.
Oh my gosh. When are people going to give up and just admit that Lisp (=lisp-family) just wins? The list of dead contenders for The One True language is breathtakingly long, but it's Lisp that everyone eventually comes back around to. Even in the last decade we went thru PERL then Pyhton and now it's js. And everyone just keeps adding in more and more lisp to their language du jour (d'annee?) until, well, they just give up and build a lisp on top of it, like Clojure or Hy. Please let's just come together and get to where we've been headed for 50 years anyway.
I'm another who thinks the original has stood the test of time pretty well (with the "quiet" looking more precious than ever).

But were I updating, I'd be thinking about something like "do you compare your developers to assembly-line workers?". Management-speak definitely seems to have been heading in that direction recently, with terms like "backlog" particularly grinding my gears.
Not sure how you reached that number. The Elm code, with blank lines removed, is less than 320 lines. Given the incredibly spacious style its written in, I'd definitely say 300 rather than 400.

But sure, that's still a lot. Part of it is that Elm lacks the proper generics support (which you can observe in the function names) and part is that the archotecture chosen by the creator may not be optimal in terms of maintainability. For example,

type Cell = NotOwned CellLocation | OwnedBy CellLocation Player

and I think, why not

type Cell = Cell Location (Maybe Player)

? Its isomorphic (carries the same information) and it removes the need for the complicated getters.
If you ask me he should actually set up a proper crowdsourced database of all those cables and cases.
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It should be quantified whether we are talking about $1000 one time or $1000 per month or $1000 per year and for how many users;

$1000 one time (multiple users) - this is an investment quite affordable by small scale enterprise ($2M-$5M annual revenue) even in developing countries

$1000 one time (per user) - this is usually for the medium and large scale enterprises. But actually really affordable if the expected ROI is large, typically will apply to any software that deals with direct revenue generation e.g. Sales enablement

$1000 per year (per user)- this falls under the radar of even professional individuals if the software delivers something really critical for them. E.g. Adobe CC single user license

$1000 per month (per user) - this falls under the reach of medium and large scale enterprises depending on how many users need the software

$1000 custom built software - if you get yourself a custom built software for $1000 by paying a freelancer or a really low profile dev shop, then it is jackpot especially for an Enterpise. I assume/hope this is not what you had in mind.

All this is typically is for enterprises and I firmly believe the enterprise demand for software is why the software industry is as large and as sustainable as is today.

We should all thank software that are priced $1000 and above, they are in a way the reason for our existence (as software professionals/companies)

Strive to build such software and don't hesitate to price it as such.
Your problem is not with USB-C its with Dell, everything they sell that i have seen was rubbish, we had to replace the majority of screens and keyboards year after year and now we dont touch them with a barge pole now, i cant imagine they have improved.
In the model train world, we use car brake light bulbs as current limiters for a reason similar to why they used one in this monitor. http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/215408.aspx
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I'm working with someone making software in that range. They target retailers, saving them easily hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. The idea behind the pricing was to make it seem like they are naive for charging so little.
> marketed as

Anti depressants are addictive in the classical sense. But the pharmaceutical companies don't call it 'withdrawl' but rather 'discontinuation syndrome' when you're coming off them. Looks like not much as changed in 100 odd years of pharmaceutical marketing.
I don't use every tool, but I still find it worth it. I mostly use PyCharm, WebStorm, DataGrip (if you do any SQL work give it a try!) and of course ReSharper. I don't see Rider as "ready" yet, seems to not support opening up some of my .NET Core solutions still. Hoping it becomes stable and usable like regular VS.
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I hear you. That's exactly how I feel about it.

When I am in an answering mood I'd like to be able to see the newest asks without the distraction of the other posts.
I'm assuming they've taken the example to the n-th degree. You're right to question why you would want 3 libraries, but it does happen.

I'd think, the "right way" would be to have each feature's logic built as a micro-service and styling as a service. That way you have consistency where necessary, but divide up feature needs into more manageable chunks.
Maybe time for us to grow up and stop judging. The article is trash IMO bc it's written by somebody who has a very buttoned up view on sexuality.

> There are many billions of individuals living under vastly more oppressive rule than we have in the UK.

worldwide yes, compared to any other place in EU the UK is certainly the most oppressive and surveilled country. Beside the point ofc.
Well just because static typing isn't present in your language the benefits of the concept is still something one has to consider in a non static language. My experience of people coming from non static typed languages to a non static language really have a problem with the effects of what static typing brings, like encapsulation. While the contrary, when I write in non typed languages I really benefit from the thought patterns static typing creates and helping me to produce better code.

Not having static typing is just freecard of doing what I want instead of relying on explicit (language) structure. With that said you can still produce good code in non static typed languages, it's just damn easier to not to since the language doesn't help you with it.
Over network? Needs a networking stack in memtest.

Over serial? Physical serial is rare. SOL would work, but since it is connection-based you can't poll it.

This seems like a simple and reliable method to me.