skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scientists Have Designed Tiny Robots That Can Clean Your Teeth
To be fair IEEE spectrum does cater to exactly the people most likely to be in those niche areas.
> Nothing stopping you from capturing packets at the router or using tcpdump on your phone. Not convenient but theoretically possible.

You don't interact with people out of your bubble much, do you? It's time to start write better code, not blaming users for the programmer's incapability.
Well, Sweden is really really sparsely populated. As are Norway and Finland, the latter of which I hail from. The northern parts are simply wilderness.
India's space program is a potential money-maker for them. They get paid a lot for commercial launches and satellite communications. The moon landing could be viewed as a marketing expense.

Their space program is actually closer to profitability than a lot of the tech IPOs recently with ~$780 million in revenue on ~$1 billion in expenditures[1].

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/isro-earns-rs-5600...
The above statement is not correct. You’ve always been free to sell non digital goods through the App Store. For instance, you can buy anything through the Amazon app that is actually shipped to you.

Can you set up your own independent shop in Walmart and sell stuff?
Anand is not seeing the bigger picture: it's about hush money and the cloak of charity, not prestige-for-cash which does not make sense if you think about it.

I had a long comment explaining my interpretation backed by quotes, but it's too long for HN apparently so here is the link, at a text storage site (I couldn't get past pastebin's "SPAM filter" captcha)

https://textuploader.com/192lt

EDIT: I am not on twitter, so if anyone could mention this to Anand I would appreciate.
Isn't that an engagement metric? Lots of people load articles and don't read them…
> P.S. First year of being completely remote was fantastic. Fifth year? Really lonely..

Yeah, I have taken to trying to find work-ish community outside of work. If you don't meet many people who have shared as much of your experience as employees of your own company, at least you can meet people who have shared similar experiences. It's a bit easier than getting to know complete strangers.
Oops. Correct phrase is "Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics". Thank you for the nudge.

https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Outstanding writing.
That’s true but I doubt the types dropping $ to have their papers professionally written are the types who would otherwise go and become plumbers or electricians.

Who buys a paper? A lazy child of the ruling class.
You’re free to make a web app as long as you don’t try to sell things through it.

The clarification made it less clear. You’ve always been able to sell physical goods through the App Store.
The naming system ... Route53, Fargate, Greengrass, Sumerian, Step Functions, Kinesis ... none of these conjure up basic computing concepts.

Why? Why should "Greengrass" be used for IoT?
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I was thinking the same thing. I worked near a Pret and it never seemed very popular and at least two of the Boston locations have closed in the last two years. There are just too many better sandwich options even if do cost a little more.

I travel to Europe a lot for work and its frustrating when you try and get a sandwich and its been sitting premade for a while, soggy bread, and its got a single slice of meat in it. Sure it may be a little cheaper, but compare that with sandwich you can get at Casa Razdora[1] or Bob's[2] and its not even close to as satisfying.

[1] https://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/jDayx34LzPfip626pT1g...
[2] https://hiddenboston.com/images/BobsDeluxItalian.jpg
I wonder if they're lumping Octave in with Matlab. The numerical analysis class I audited last quatrimester was taught using Octave, for example.
Maybe I'm just being overly sympathetic, but having worked on UIs with complicated UX, I know how extremely hard it is to get right. Especially with something so complicated and sprawling as the AWS console. There's plenty of irritations, but the fact that it works as well as it does is amazing.
Wow.

Are you still doing well?

I must say thank you to you for authoring something that spoke to me logically and perfectly encapsulated the feeling I had.

I shared it with my teenage daughter and will share it with my other children when they become older teenagers.

You have made an impact.
No thanks. I'd rather DDoS attcks than whatever the version of a seatbelt locking "safety" mechanism is that these moron companies would force upon people.

"Place eyeball for retina scan to unlock your dick pic machine."

No thanks.
Java apparently has a solution, named ‘shaded dependency’: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2972...
The name seemingly stems from the Maven plugin: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/

JS sidesteps the issue by having imported modules as local variables, and thus modules may have different versions of dependencies by simply dropping different files in the hierarchy. In theory this should also be possible in Python, but PyPI modules are usually installed as shared dependencies there.
The infrastructure in many big cities is so broken, daily existence is kind of painful. I live in Austin which isn't really even that big of a city but the infrastructure is so poor that commuting anywhere is very painful and there are a lot of road rage incidents as a result. Unless you live downtown there is no walkability and if you live downtown you need to work downtown. The public transit system is laughable. We have a metro rail that doesn't run after 6 and doesn't run on Sundays.
Given that people literally want to move to states like his, due to their better qualities of life for less money, I think its safe to say their politics may be superior
Maybe the rope is to stay in place while getting on the sled.
Its not some secret knowledge you have that recruiters don't. Its just that their goal is convince you to take the job.
Yes - Goodreads is pretty awful when it could be so much better. The searching is awful, the comment UI is grim and the suggested books lists are poor. The most useful tool I've found for finding new authors is this: https://www.literature-map.com/

I only use it for keeping track of what I've read and to look up negative reviews to see whether a book is likely to be one I won't like.

The scoring system is almost useless, as certain categories of books just get endless 5 star reviews from fans.
It's wise of you not to trust the ratings. Practically all VPN provider rating websites give those score based purely of their affiliate fees [0].
I would recommend not to purchase any subscriptions. This whole "VPN for privacy" thing more and more looks like a meme created by the industry of useless entities that resell bandwidth. It's a very profitable industry because they do nothing but receive money, they don't protect you legally either; those who lie about their no-logs policy, without hesitation give your data away to the law enforcement agencies.

[0] http://vpnscam.com/is-purevpn-legit-proof-that-purevpn-bough...
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Kudos to India for even trying. While they are trying to put a probe on the moon, we have a President going through dementia arguing about a 2 week old weather forecast.
Some clown named ukdrillas. That's about all any one knows.
Biohackers trying to build a bootleg version of a million-dollar drug
Zen is zen. Not-zen is zen.
They do at least address this:

> Below the top 10, some items of note include Arduino at No. 11 and HTML/CSS at No. 12. In previous years, some readers have complained that neither should appear on a list of programming languages. In the case of Arduino, the argument is that there is no such language, that “Arduino” is actually the name of the family of hardware platforms on which the language runs, and that this language should be called Wiring (or sometimes C or C++ for historical reasons). In this, we are led by simple pragmatism: When faced with a programming question, the overwhelming majority of Arduino developers search Google using terms like “Arduino Code for…,” rather than any alternative. By choosing the de facto name, we avoid deeply discounting the popularity of programs written for the Arduino and similar microcontrollers.

>Pragmatism is also the name of the game when it comes to HTML, with the objection here that it is not a real programming language because it doesn’t have branching or loop constructs. But given the huge popularity of HTML and CSS among developers, and the fact that they are used to instruct billions of computers to do things daily, we feel any academic arguments about Turing completeness and so on are beside the point. A markup language is still a language.
>I've seen people attacking Steven Pinker for the same reason.

Steven Pinker literally helped out with Epstein’s defense...

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/07/17/steven-pinker...
"Check out the mid 1200s. The Mongols created a single unified empire than stretched from western europe to eastern asia."

The main problem with this argument and others statements similar to it is that we don't have objective evidence for the state of the world in 1200.

The information from before cheap printing is heavily biased, mostly hearsay from few individual sources that had their own agenda.
There are commercial scale providers of bulk alcohol that is taxably considered beer. It's not quite as cheap as neutral grain spirits, but ours definitely a lot cheaper then brewing it.
> But there are groups of people, and they are different. Farmers in Iowa are different people than programmers in San Francisco.

Again, I disagree with this. Plenty of programmers in San Francisco grew up on farms in Iowa. (And to be transparent about my biases here: my parents are Indian Christians, a distinct culture from the Hindu majority; my dad worked for ISRO; and I was born in the Deep South and worked as a programmer in SF for a few years. So the culture of "India" as a whole doesn't resonate with me, nor that of "the Deep South" or "SF" nor "America," and I don't feel like a lesser person for it.)

And I would claim that the fact that you can migrate from an area with one sort of politics / culture / economy / etc. to an area with another one (as a pointed example, anyone remember the "It Gets Better" videos from a few years ago featuring gay people who grew up across the country, half of whom seemed to say "and then I moved to San Francisco"?), and that people do that quite frequently, is evidence that there isn't much reason in attributing politics / culture / etc. to people as people in the way we've historically seen it, i.e., as correlated with place of birth or parentage or childhood culture, or proxies for those like religion.

If anything, the unrealistic part about Star Trek is that the various alien species had personalities influenced by their biology (the Vulcans with weaker emotional processing, the physically resilient Klingons, etc.). If they didn't, given pervasive interstellar transport, it's hard to see why so many people stay on their home planets. (And indeed the whole conceit of the Federation is that they don't have to.)
Or maybe stop planting trees if your people are so ignored and powerless they feel the need to destroy it.
You can tell from the photo that the low res is from the screens physical pixel density, not a poor optimized taster graphic. SVG wouldn’t help here.

Also, interactive maps aren’t as simple as “make it from D3.js”. You’ll have a screen that thousands of people interact with every day, likely. The UX needs to be thoroughly considered so that it’s non fuck-uppable or breakable. That’s actually the #1 problem with digital maps, they break.
I guess I might have picked up the idea from other kids somehow - but

- I don't have older siblings

- I didn't go to kindergarten

- and I generally can't recall playing much with other kids except for my younger brothers before I started in school

There must be an explanation - I don't think this was a miracle and I also think guns hasn't existed mong enough to make an impression on our genes - but I don't know it.
Could you ELI5 how these sorts of attacks are possible and what the average Joe can do to mitigate them?
I primarily use the api to create and manage infrastructure, but I still use the console to view my infrastructure, and it is pretty painful.
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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire.

Will the students who purchased these essays go on to build bridges, rockets to the moon, cure cancer? Hah...

Interestingly, there is probably little or no supply of German, Dutch, Scandinavian bootleg essay mills.
Trading a house for another house has no effect on the prices of other assets (i.e. non-housing assets) or their rate of return, which was what the original argument was about.
Applied Ethics is a great book, though a bit pricey: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0198750676

Ethics In The Real World is good, too: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30272030-ethics-in-the-r...
I mean I'm brown and I left san francisco for a smaller city. Although unlike most people here I actually liked the san Francisco area and the 'rat race' and would like to live there but it is cheaper outside of course
Is there some equivalent of a WeWork, where you can socialize with others? How are the coffee shops?
"Yet that difference is enough to justify thousands of years of murder."

no, that difference is not the reason, that difference is the fabricated reason. The actual reason is the power transfer, and who gets to call the shots and be the "official" true heir.

I anything this example shows that conflict is always created by people and is about power and influence and never about "objective/valid" reasons.
In California it's pretty easy to find like, perfectly pristine greens -- like, zero wilt or bruising or yellowing whatsoever. I'm at WFM and Sprouts nearly every weekend and have yet to find for example cilantro or kale or spring greens that don't have some wilt or yellowing going on. Which makes sense -- the climate out here isn't really amenable to picture perfect greens like California is.

But also, I'm probably more critical because I ran buying teams at grocery (brick & mortar and ecommerce) stores for 10 years so I'm always instinctively looking for minor blemishes

And yeah, really and truly I'm not being completely fair -- I haven't visited the farmers markets yet, and I've heard that about the trucks. Would love to check them out, hopefully I'll find some time this weekend.

The fruit has been pretty great though. I've been really happy with the stone fruit. One weird thing I've noticed is that the California avocados out here are consistently better than they were in California -- like, perfect ripeness, no browning, never disappointed when I get home, which would happen every other time in CA. Maybe there's more QA going on between CA and here, and time to ripen on the trucks
Profound lack of knowledge on the part of those who designed the study, I think.
This seems like a fun side project idea honestly - can I ask what’s most broken and which great features are missing?

I took a quick look and there is a official Goodreads API that you can use to pull titles from people’s accounts (once they authorize your app). Yes, Amazon could shut it down but eh, might be worth the risk
I really hope not or we will start to see the same problems in these small cities that liberal policies caused elsewhere creating an endless cycle of rich liberals migrating to conservative run higher quality of life cities and ruining them.
Not a readymade solution, but https://github.com/vilhalmer/oguri could maybe provide examples of the code needed to make it possible for Wayland.
After living in London for a year and coming back to the US, I was perplexed at how much better (and cheaper) the UK supermarkets were when it came to prepackaged food. I rarely ate at restaurants and did a lot of cooking. Sainsbury's had a really great selection of pre-made chicken and tuna salads. They cost like $2 US (equiv) and all you needed to do was get some bread and it was enough to make two sandwiches. In the US, similar items cost around $6 (so over-priced). I would go to Pret quite a bit too, but there was also another chain that was cheaper (can't remember the name), but after like 4PM all the sandwiches they didn't sell got discounted and you could get some good ones for half-price.
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Sadly, Apple almost seems to purposefully keeps mobile Safari buggy for HTML5 apps. You might think, why not install Firefox or Chrome on iOS then? Well, turns out Apple only allows those apps to use an outdated version of Safari as their browser engine.

Here's a regression that appeared in iOS 10, which affects HTML5 games. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37808180/disable-viewpor...
The US portion size thing I am not so much a fan of lately. I tend to make my own and put no more than an ounce or two of meat. (28g-56g for non-americans)

Whenever I am in Europe I am super impressed with the availability of good cured meats, often from Italy or Spain regardless of what country I am in, and cheaper than the same quality item in the US.
For comparison:

TIOBE Index - https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

1. Java
2. C
3. Python
4. C++
5. C#
6. Visual Basic .NET
7. JavaScript
8. PHP
9. Objective-C
10. SQL

Language popularity on Github:
https://octoverse.github.com/projects.html
https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/

1. JavaScript
2. Java
3. Python
4. PHP
5. C++
6. C#
7. TypeScript
8. Shell
9. C
10. Ruby

StackOverflow Developer Survey
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology

1. JavaScript
2. HTML/CSS
3. SQL
4. Python
5. Java
6. Bash/Shell/PowerShell
7. C#
8. PHP
9/10 C++ / TypeScript (varies between surveys)
>> Goodreads is bad because it is a monopoly, and that, frankly, sucks.

I'd be more disappointed if I had to go to five different sites to see what different segments of my friends were reading. Sort of like...messaging...where I have to use WhatsApp, SMS, FB Messenger, Slack, and GChat because different friends/family are adamant on one particular silo.

I know monopolies are not good, but there are some benefits in scale, especially for a site like this where i'm not paying and i'm not forced into buying bundles/packages I dont want.
Yes, those are the incorrect arguments I was responding to. (The relationship between Arduino and C++ is not historical.) Thank you for taking the time to quote them!
>Your politics are not superior.

One would think that if you are moving away from California for reasons in part caused by political factors (progressive NIMBYism that opposes new housing development, tent city promotion), you would reconsider whether your politics are really that beneficial to the community you're moving to.

Alas, people don't really learn and Austin is already starting to have a flourishing tent city complete with typhoid fever and all. I'm beginning to understand the "Go back to California" sentiment.
Rents have stabilized even in sf the last few years. Boston is still wildly expensive even compared to LA
Also ejecting SIM card trays on most modern phones, which is probably my most common use for paper clips.
Making sure the systems are actually clean after getting the files decrypted costs too though. The comparison would be (due diligence to make sure systems are clean + ransom) vs. (restoring backups + lost work).
It is semi-voluntary and I don't think it's enforced for now - not heard of any end user getting punished by government for circumventing.

DoH is a simple solution that works for now.
TorBrowser takes it to the other extreme - it's a good secure solution (I think), but not required as of now, and seen as slow with plugin and other usage restrictions.
VPNs, proxies are not seen as good solutions because people prefer free to paid, and they are not as trusted as CF and Mozilla.
Self-managed VPNs/proxies are not easy for the average person to setup.
I think this is sample bias. Plenty of people were accusing/defending in both cases. How people remember such discussions is basically a plaster mask of their own views on the topic.
per Wikipedia, the difference is even larger:

LA Metro area: about 13 million

Austin: about 1 million.
They are advertising their services.
Better user experience. Certain things are better, faster, etc. as a native app.

Apple's policies are rooted in totalitarianism and greed. As both developers and consumers we shouldn't be enabling them.

You really should be asking the reverse, what motivated Apple to block software from running freely on their phones. After all, their marketing campaign for a whole decade was how secure their non-locked-up Mac was compared to a PC, so we know security isn't the driving force here
When I read about email being too hard, I hear about configuration headaches, deliverability, and spam, but the real reason that I outsource email is because of security. The horrible history of MTA security drives me into a very conservative mail strategy. Short of DJB devoting his life to qmail, I don't know if this problem can be solved.
Streaming makes up 80 percent of the music industry’s revenue
Assuming that there is no scientific progress on moving off of these... which there already is.
Google's cloud put a CLI in the web console. Its hilariously ironic but it solves for this, I suppose.
Gee, lemme just call up my grandma and teach her how to set up kismet and snort.

Seriously though, this is like holding some one liable if his car is stolen and used as a get-away car in a crime. It's also not really possible to get a shell on most of these devices with serious effort, so apart from turning one off, I'm not sure how any one is supposed to mitigate this. They're too locked down to do any kind of disinfection, in most cases. I guess now I have to teach granny to use a uart cable, too.
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When one travels to China, is the iCloud data entirely compromised?
I'm looking for someone that works at Apple iCloud that can speak authoritatively. When one travels to China, is the iCloud data entirely compromised by Chinese access? For example is it all synched?
I concur. It's important to be engaged with what's going on locally and things that will directly impact you and people around you. If everybody ignored these things and just kept their heads down then I'd argue we'd all be worse off. Your own mental state could be improved by ignoring them, but I do believe that we all have some responsibility to try and improve the society around us.

I've found that keeping exposure to media down to every week or two and mostly reading summaries of events after the fact has helped immensely. It filters out all of the noise you get from live reporting. This helps get down to the facts of what's happened, and allows one to keep a certain emotional detachment from the events and focus on the important things.
This approach relies on having a wife who is free to go shopping during the week.

Even the isle of Harris, which still maintains Sunday closing and the slow island pace of life, is changing away from it.
That's a very American view. In most places around the world, guns are so rare that nobody will mistake a realistic toy as a gun.

In India, it is somewhat common for kids to have toy guns which make a loud sound if you insert a 'cap' and pull the trigger. This is sold as a firework, and can be seen everywhere on the streets during festivals.
‘medium is broken’
I didn't downvote it, but it's likely due to the unsubstantiated claim that suburbs are evil or the sweeping generalization that all cities have poor zoning and land use planning. Or perhaps the biased implication that large cities are good for everyone.