skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boy, flywheel batteries. At the Ford Museum (in Ann Arbor I think?) they have some of the earliest versions of these, for steam generators I believe. Maybe 30 feet in diameter, must weigh a couple tons at least? The idea of one spinning even at 20 or 30 RPM was a scary demonstration of potential energy. If it got loose it seemed like it would blast through the wall and roll halfway across the country. But they were beautiful, well made, and instructive.

That said, it's an interesting way to store energy and I hope it can be deployed safely and beneficially.
A bit of both. We can fix a few bits in compatible ways, but it's not a reliable long term solution.

Long term, we really need an upgrade that breaks compatibility with old unfixable clients
Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/20180514170531/https://m.faceboo...
> Eventually my wife countered with a suggestion that if he really wanted “her” John so much, he should loan John Lassiter to her media company for a day of consulting. Steve went from full charm to ice cold really damn quick. I didn’t do that keynote.

When I start getting a certain vibe from some people, I start countering requests with similar but slightly smaller requests. Amazing how so many people can demand another's time and resources but refuse to return anything themselves.

Often even making that straight-faced, respectful, comparable request will end a relationship. It's sad but it must be done.
I believe that's BrainInAJar's point: the number of people killed by regular ol' humans with weapons of war is massively dwarfed by the number killed by drones. ICBMs (to my knowledge?) haven't actually been launched in a war ever, so their kill-count is "0".
As D.I.Y. Gene Editing Gains Popularity, ‘Someone Is Going to Get Hurt’
It belongs to Carmack, it's like copying the entire text of a blog post from someone else's blog and then hosting it on your own blog.
Why not both? Documentation can also be faulty
this is the top comment?! the most active discussion thread? Somehow dystopian handwringing and cheap, shallow, commentary is so much more interesting than progress, technology, and business to the audience here (of all places). get a grip. gossip elsewhere. </smh>
I do think an ethical debate exists. To me the question is whether John published this purely to get his word out, or if he did it as an agent of Facebook to increase traffic and thereby ad revenue to Facebook. I believe it is the former, in which case I haven’t done anything wrong. But that could just be my moral compass baising towards anything I do.
My employer recently started installing motion and heat sensors under employees’ desks. They claim it is not for monitoring individuals, but for analyzing workspace usage and identifying free desks.

Given that the company in question is a bank, and teams must often be physically separated from each other for compliance and liability reasons, I am highly dubious of that explanation. Only a handful of people outside my immediate team can even access the floor where we’re located, and they certainly couldn’t just plop down at an empty desk and start working. And yet we have the sensors anyway.

And even if that were the reason, the fact that they thought anyone would believe it is concerning in itself.
Of course they will. They're already doing it to get access to Facebook, etc, so they just think that's the way the world works now.
great talk. posted by my IOT policy friend: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gilad-iot
Persistence hunting
What it that something depends on a different operating system and libraries that conflict with yours?

Also the world you describe as should is not the world we live in. I should be able to exist in the world without danger or undue prosection.
It’s rampant in the young as well, but they’re just doing it in circles you aren’t a part of, on apps you don’t use or haven’t heard of.
On the other hand, what if this attitude had existed in Nazi Germany?
I eventually want to create a something similar to mgmt but with separation of concerns, the language would simply get compiled into an idempotent shell script that would use POSIX CLI tooling. The issue with doing this is I don't know many languages or compiler frameworks that compile down to shell (if any).
If you don't have food, you will die of starvation.

You don't need one particular food that is only available from one manufacturer. Not the same at all.
Without punishment we get societal collapse. This is very different than saying increasing punishments, from their current form, would decrease crime. In other words, at the current level of punishment, what is the marginal effect of an increase in punishment on crime rates.
That'd actually be the "rat thing" guard dog in Snow Crash. ;)

I can't remember the exact quote, but when someone comments on how horrible it is to cyberize a dog, its creator says something to the effect of "People keep saying that, but nobody asks the dog." Jump-cut to a couple pages from the point of view of the dog, which (relative to its past life on the street) is incredibly happy with its new function.
> thinks production or revenue are down because people who didnt go to $college are inherently lazier than he is.

"Than he is" is unnecessary: He may think himself lazy, even to a point of pride when he thinks of the clever stuff he gets away with.

There are fundamentally two schools of thought when it comes to management:

1. People are inherently lazy, and work only to satisfy their needs - enjoying their job is at best a distant second priority. The best way to get things done is to drive them harder with closer monitoring, punishment for failures, and threats to their ability to satisfy their basic needs.

2. People are inherently creative, and work to satisfy their desire to create - your job as an employer/manager is to help them not have to worry about lower needs on Maslow's pyramid. The best way to get things done is to give them them a vision, opportinities, targets, and tools to be productive.

Just quit a job after 5 years slaving under the former type of manager, and my life has never been better since I began working under the second.
How we can create zero carbon websites
Gender Differences in Use of a Pedestrian Crossing: An Observational Study
Not PowerPoint but the ease of near total surveillance that's available now.
You would think so but companies like google do this for facilities management to divine usage patterns and whether to devote more or fewer resources to something. To know if more efficiencies might be derived. But yes it’s pernicious.
A response that isn't mentioned here (perhaps because no one issued it?): WTFM.

The manual is a community project. Improve it and send a patch! Do not be afraid to send patches to anything and everything, this is the beauty of the open source world we live in.
Noo! Not the worming! I meant to type warming. Again, no posting before coffee next time!

Although a worming might be fun. Trimmers anybody?
> Killing format strings makes l10n much harder.

Wow I'm not sure who posted this comment but they got it exactly backwards.

Format strings being easy to use (and the alternatives often being non-existent) make it very likely to have shit l10n, because most every culture needs their own format string so you'll have to fuck it up for each and every culture before being corrected (if you ever are).

Despite there being an entire organisation dedicated to — amongst others — collating and encoding locale-dependent date and time formats: https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/33/by_type/date_&_time.g... (warning: humongous page)

Datetime format strings need to exist as the underlying low-level API for these, but the average developer, the developer who is not working on a datetime parsing or formatting library, should not have to ever write a "raw" datetime format string.

Sadly even in the best of world they'll have to deal with inane datetime format created or specified by some coked-up aye-aye, but that's basically the exception.
That seems like a HUGE reach to me. Not every technical person is a FOSS warrior. Would you say the same thing if he posted on Medium?
I seem to recall that the new class of carriers being built use flywheels to store up the energy used to drive the catapult.
I suspect that tattoo/piercing artists are simply an affordable set of professionals with the right experience for implanting various body mods.
For the %G issue, I think it should be as simple as changing the %G description in the man page to "This is probably not what you want to use. See %Y. [insert current description here]".
I'm not sure of the validity of this. Those fantasy creatures if anything tend not to have any real theology or philosophy behind them in practice. Elves steal babies and leave changelings, but why? There is no real explanation. Elves can be told from humans in some traditions because their backs are hollow. Why? Again no real codified theology or philosophy of elves; if anything, they often vary so much and tales are so sparse its hard to tell.

Tolkien and Lewis were part of a cohort that really enjoyed a form of pagan Germanish/norse Romanticism. Novalis was a big influence, and Lewis was quite open about his love for the Eddas. Both of them also were devout Christians, and I feel this response is more of them attempting to baptize the things that they love in a Christian sense. Christian philosophy tends to find in many things God working in them to bring people to awareness of Him, and ultimately to a saving reconciliation through Christ. But that tends to impute characteristics that go beyond the actual intents of the works as written, sort of a metatextual thing which can be valid in a sense (lewis's love of romanticism probably did awaken him to Christianity) but otherwise isn't, since each person would approach the work differently.

As for barbaric, ugh. Tolkien bowdlerized the old myths as much as anyone, with his happy little Hobbitses enjoying their baccy and his noble, stately ageless elves. In the old myths elves stole babies, made milk curdle, inflicted sickness through elf-shot, and much more.

Tolkien to be blunt is a huge snob. He loves his happy little common people so long as they are the right type, little red-nosed burghers who live on their green farms and enjoy good pipeweed. If they are the wrong type, if they happen to work in factories instead, well there are your orcs and goblins. It's no coincidence the Trolls in the hobbit speak cockney. he dislikes Disney because Disney is vulgar in the old sense, low culture, but seems to forget that a belief in elves or fairies was pure low culture, until romanticism made the elites interested in it. Chesterton says you need to be a common bumpkin (like himself) to really deal with them.
I don't think this is correct. As I read it, the issue was that, as others have said, the federal government attempted to regulate what laws a state could pass (which is related to a broader body of law about federal laws that compel states* to enact certain laws or to implement federal laws). Note, however, that this not to say that congress can't make its own laws and that, if it does, they would override state laws.

Maybe one way of summing this up that makes more sense of the distinction is this: Congress can make laws that regulate behavior as a general matter (subject to other constitutional restrictions), but cannot regulate directly the behavior of state governments themselves.

It's unusual for congress to do the former but not the latter, but that appears to have been the case here.
"Philanthropy", heavy emphasis on the air-quotes.
I still think you were paying on the significantly higher end for what you were getting, unless you were living in The City, or had a pool in your building or something like that.

I expect that I probably pay about average. Most of my colleagues seem to be paying a little more than me. Some of my friends in lower paying jobs are paying much less than me.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I think those icons do a pretty good job...
Keras.js
I’ve worked at a maximum security state prison. It is not a vacation there for any but a small number of people.
This seems like the most plausible theory to me. Even _if_ one day these robots can handle a lot of manual tasks, they won't have big enough batteries to last for more than a couple of hours unplugged
The naive part of me hopes that experience is recognizing a mistake the second time you're making it.
IIRC it used to be all text. I remember feeling the same thing when they rolled out the icon only design and was frustrated that I had to relearn something I had already been using daily (memory is fuzzy, it was many years ago).

Now I am actually okay with it. For a product that is daily use, you get used to the icons fairly quick and am glad it doesn't take that much screen real estate.

What I hated is that it inspired a lot of other products that are NOT meant for daily interaction to do the same thing. For example I probably only interact with the dropbox desktop client once every blue moon and they have icons that make no sense (First icon is two squares for opening Paper which I don't use. Next icon is a globe which is for opening the web ui. All I want to do is revert a file!).
DOOM Level Generation Using Generative Adversarial Networks
They are, but if you pull up the videos of Big Dog and its smaller chassis-brethren, you find that they're quite a ways towards solving that problem.

That having been said: special-built inspection systems would make more sense if it's cheaper to retrofit one in than to buy a robodog.
Have used the FreeCAD plugin a little bit, useful to create some parts that are hard/tedious to do with visual constraints/operations. However I did struggle a bit with the DSL, think I might be faster if just using the FreeCAD Python API directly...

Jupyter Notebook support is super cool through, will give that a go for generative/data-driven models!
There are three main kinds of ads I see: (1) products I just bought, (2) products I would never ever buy, and (3) creepily manipulative clickbait. None of these should be worth the money to the advertiser.

I test drove a car and after I got almost a dozen follow up calls while I was busy with other stuff, I blocked the dealership number. They kept calling me from other numbers, which I also blocked (with the new Android spam filter on my phone). But the amusing thing was that I started seeing ads for the dealership online promoting their "low pressure" sales team!

I made fun of a company called Salsify for naming their business after oyster plant, a root vegetable I can't stand, and now I see ads for them all the time.
This doesn’t really change anything. How is archive.org reposting it different from ycombinator.com doing the same?
Yes. Show me the right message or nothing at all.
sudo apt install finger
finger johnc@oculus.com
finger johnc@facebook.com

sigh. his old ones have been archived https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive

Finger was really great microblogging platform.
Non-mobile link:

https://twitter.com/ProtonMail/status/996006094605570048
I was thinking up a reply and now you're confirming it before I even write it. That's amazing.

I tend to be critical during interviews and demanding during work... but I'm always ready to forward some trust towards the guys on my team. More often than not, I end up assuming "There's probably a good reason for that decision".

And so far, it has paid off. If I trust people to make good decisions, people make even better decisions than I could ask for. Many, many people want to do a good job I've found.

Over 20 - 30 people I've had on teams, there has been 1 guy who stretched that trust and he was a known troublemaker people put on my team as a test. As a result, I gave them a clean and solid case to fire that guy.
That's not how copyright works. Unless you have his permission, you really don't have any right to repost his blog post in it's entirety. If you were engaging it criticism or some other kind of fair use, that would be fine, but you can't just assume that the copyright owner is ok with how you're using their copyright unless you asked them or they gave everyone permission.
"Hey, can you take a picture of me and my friend?"

Later: "My phone got his RFID. Let's clean him out."
This isn't undefined behavior. This is malleability. Attackers get to change some parts of the plain text without needing to know the encryption key.

This is very much an issue with the S/MIME standard, which has no defence against this kind of attack. For PGP it is slightly different, as there is a defense against it (the 'MDC', a sha-1 hash of the plaintext) but it has a soft-fail if the MDC is not present.

Both are issues with the standard. For S/MIME it is a total failure, whilst for PGP the failure is mitigated slightly by an obscure and non-urgent error message. But, it is unreasonable to expect users to act on this kind of error message. Really, what you want here is a hard fail, but that would break backwards compatibility.
People would be more secure if the web didn't use HTML too (or certainly if it didn't have JavaScript), but trying to convince users not to like features of their software has never been a very productive security strategy.
Facebook removes 200 apps in ongoing app investigation and audit
He doesn't work for Medium.
Since when news reporting practice standards equalize clickbaiting?
Please note my write up on QAnon being a government-sponsored PSYOP for Trump here, and don't forget to petition the government and seek restitution for the harmful propaganda being spread on American citizens:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-citizen-psychological-wa...

Since Q was partially outed a couple days ago, Corsi has been on Alex Jonestown twice now (even though they were previously promoting it) saying Q has been taken over and is now disinfo generated by AI.
Why not Scrapy[0]? Just curious if there's any fundamental limitations I'm not aware of. A reasonably reason for the existence of Colly would be that people wanted something written in Go :)

[0] https://scrapy.org/
Have you seen the vast region of plastic bags floating in the Caribbean, between Puerto Rico and the Northeast US? I'd wager that is all American trash, one way or another.
Human perception is a funny thing.

I used to find the look off-putting, but having seen more and more videos of the thing, I sort of find it adorable.

I guess that makes sense though; some people think insects are really neat. There's bound to be some variance in human reactions to appearance.
I’m going to bet a huge portion of websites do not delete data again upon backup. It’s the simplest implementation. Data deletion usually does not matter to the flow of business unless in specific cases.
> We can mandate that customers can't futz with our image. Our software becomes an appliance that plugs into their network.

One of the overlooked benefits of this approach is how technically aggressive it lets you be when deploying components into strange environments... More and more we're getting tools from our suppliers based on containers that use databases, proxies, heavy server tools, and such. We fire up in seconds tools that could never viably be installed in our environment and that we have 0 competence with.

Long running databases in containers is something you need to think about, but guaranteed known states for supplier-side configuration frees them up to be daring, and firing up local DBs for config data with no outgoing ports lets me not care about how other engineers see the world.
A scientific abstract exists to summarize the results of a study not to promise the results. This abstract is poor professional practice.
I can certainly see how it could be frustrating to be without a bag if you need to transport your items on a motorcycle (though you were on a motorcycle trip and no one had a saddle bag they could put the things in?). Extending your experience to 'travellers' at large is a bit much. I'm from one of the dozens of other American cities with a plastic bag ban(yay!) so I think I would be quite non-plussed were I traveling in Austin. :)
Personally, I wouldn't bother introducing a word besides "phone," because we shortly won't be carrying one single device like this anymore. May as well just keep saying "phone" for the few years left.

Gizmodo tried to suggest "com" instead of "smartphone" about 10 years ago: https://gizmodo.com/5061705/smartphone-is-a-dumb-word-we-nee...
Ok, well, if this is really some big ploy by Facebook to now allow their employees to have personal blogs, then why do so many exist?

https://medium.com/facebook-design
Isn't that implicit, though? By virtue of being able to state that at some point you were not born, you were necessarily at some point born.
Also along with the simply push API, the Aggo server serves static assets 2000 times faster with sub millisecond latency.
As Stallman says, there is no such thing as „intellectual property”, at least not in law. There is copyright, patents, trademarks, etc., but „intellectual property” is an abstract invention.
>No, contrary to what you're saying, virtually all the work done in retail cryptography over the last several years has been in secure messaging.

That is not contrary to what I'm saying, that is exactly what I'm saying. Much of the world, both corporate and private, do not want "messaging", they want "email". I use scare quotes for the latter because I want to distinguish between email as in existing technical standards dating all the way back to RFC 561 and email as-in that kind of information transfer service and format, distinct from messaging. Messaging has its place too, but there is clearly a desire for an electronic version of sending a piece of mail. It fits human and cultural psychology. It produces a different kind of consideration and formatting, which has both its merits and demerits. But messaging is not a replacement for email. You can insist that it is but I don't think you will be successful, and you should know better then most that security which isn't used isn't useful security.

>Don't send secrets over email

Back here on Planet Earth sending all sorts of secrets over email and using it for authentication of incredibly important accounts is the regrettable rule, not the exception. Like use of passwords. It is the reality in which we live. I see no sign of it changing either unless there is a direct in-place upgrade available. Which there is not.

>replace email with this thing that requires a phone number and is not like email

No.

>replace email with this thing that didn't even bother to add e2e crypto until 2016, claims to be agpl/gplv3 but then adds a bunch of other random crap on top, etc. Also not email.

No.
"DO NOT BE ALARMED. I AM A HARMLESS ROBOTIC ASSISTANT. I AM JUST HERE TO OBSERVE AND MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS OKAY IN THIS SECTOR."

Said in the most synthetic-sweet robot voice they can find, pouring out of the speakers every two minutes. ;)
Good for you. One of the most important lessons I've learned in life is knowing when to quit and having the gumption to leave unacceptable situations. The struggle of finding a new job, stressful it may be, is still a better feeling than being treated like a crap-piece. Life's too short for the assumed-guilty workplace, or to work for hack managers.

I think a lot of people grow up being told to "never quit", so they don't prepare for the day when they should quit. Thus, they don't sock away f-u money and they take on too many responsibilities too early in life.
Rapid switch between charming and aggressive. Creating an environment where you surround yourself with sycophants. Punch downwards at employees working for you to assert and maintain your power while projecting you aspire for "higher standards". Set unrealistic expectations to see which folks will work nights and weekends to your order.

^^ Managers take note. These are excellent traits to climbing the corporate ladder. Just be a dick without looking like a dick.
I'm an old millennial (or young gen X, depending on who you ask), but I can't see anyone thinking it's "cool" to have a tracking chip implanted like a dog.