skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truck driving has a incredibly high turn over rate. Not that many drivers will lose their jobs but a lot who would have entered the field won't have that option. The net result as far as number of truckers goes might be the same but it is easier to divert into something else instead of retraining after investing time into a career. Of course this necessitates there being something else to be diverted into, which certainly isn't guaranteed.
I might be an outlier in the dev community, but I’m on my second Alienware 15" laptop running Ubuntu + Xfce and I really love it. It’s fast (my current laptop has an i9 in it), reliable, offers multiple possibilities for extensions and the new M form factor does pretty good when it comes to bulkiness.

Of course they are bigger than an XPS 13, but if you are like me and mostly work from office and home, it’s not really an issue.

Ho and it’s gaming-ready too (got a gtx2080 in my current laptop).

My previous laptop before that was the first gen of retina MBP (2012) and the only thing I miss from it is the almost double battery life I had over the Alienware.
Again, this is why user-friendliness and consistency are important. Terse code should still be easy to read. It should be easier to read than the equivalent less-terse code, since there is literally less visual material that you have to parse. It's a language; you have to learn it.
What ads??? I've been on Windows for decades, never saw a single ad by the OS.
Interesting read, but most of the article is about the increased costs of outsourcing of component fabrication. It doesn't really explain how the MCAS system evolved, or the outsourcing on the software side, even though the author identifies a software failure as the primary source of the crashes.
> It was a little painful but everything shipped on time.

Your last sentence would seem to contradict the entire body of your comment. You describe mobile development as a fundamentally different thing, but then your first gig was to work on a large project, the result of which was shipping on time at the cost of a “little” pain.
Boeing employees don't go anywhere right now.
See my reply to the sibling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21304987
Now imagine how many more videos and complaints would he have if he was repairing laptops from any other brand.
I would think with the advances in DNA research that animal testing would be considerably reduced or eliminated. I also don't understand how testing on animals correlates to substance toxicity in humans.
It's besides the point, but that's actually not how typical red-green colorblindness works.

We can see both red and green as separate colors, it's just much harder to distinguish them than it is for other people (especially if they are mixed in with other colors).

As far as I understand the physiology, our eyes are much less sensitive to green light, so it just doesn't stand out as much.
I generally favor UBI because it's basically wealth transfer from the wealthy to the less wealthy and I support those policies.

UBI seems like a poor response to the shifting nature of work. Yang himself implies that automation will "come for" some groups before others. I.e. subsequent subsets of the population will lose 100% of their income. Increasing the income of everyone seems like a poor response. If we want to support workers who worked or trained for a job that has been automated away why don't we...do that?

If we want to overhaul our society into a place that no longer forces people to work to live I'm also in favor of that! It's just different.
If the need for low to moderate skilled labor is going away, why are we still importing so many workers in those skill ranges?
By “monitor” I mean a screen without a tuner or other features.
The panels are pretty much the same in a commercial display screen/monitor as in a TV screen.
I swear by Source Code Pro.
> It has a little button on the side you can press which shows the rough battery charge level

Not sure if you're aware, but this great feature was copied directly from Apple, who then dropped it for no good reason.
Sounds like this is a paid article for an agenda. Yang sees where automation is going and as far as I know he's the only candidate talks about automation and coming up with solutions.
Vandalized Xiaomi Store in Hong Kong
I would argue that it is the first thing a manager looking for a cost center, cog type engineer looks at. They are not looking for an engineer who actually understands business they are looking for a “ plumbing engineer” that just keeps their head down and grinds out code. There is little upside in this position and this type hiring manager mentality should filter those jobs out for you.

I do agree that most start ups will probably restrict them selves to hiring in the same stack as their tolerance for learning curves will be extremely short.

However, I feel that many employers are used to engineers who don’t “get business” and so they just want somebody to plunk down code. This leads them to “what kind of dumb cog/stack are you?” questions as they are already assuming they won’t be able to hire a truly “full stack” engineer who understands the revenues and costs associated with their work and how they impact corporate strategy etc.
I'd worry less about a product like Casper's than a lot of other products that you expect will need repair/supplies/etc. at some point. Sure it's possible that some gross defect will be discovered in Casper mattresses in a couple years. But it's not like there isn't lots of other furniture that turns out to not be well made. And good luck getting refunds on that after 2 or 3 years in many/most cases.
arent Friends and The Office some of the most streamed shows?

I have to think Disneys back catalog of shows and movies will be a bigger draw short term than their new content. Are people buying it to watch The Mandalorian and the new Lady and the Tramp, or are they buying it so their kids can watch every disney movie ever made? Dont get me wrong, having a bunch of Marvel mini-series as their launch content is a brilliant move to make it not "just the old stuff."
We should be focusing on getting mental health treatment for many of these homeless people instead of focusing on the fact that they have no home.

Mental health is usually the root of the problem. Many homeless people had jobs, homes, families that would take care of them and now that's all gone because they can no longer hold down a job, are usually on drugs, and family can't or won't deal with their behavior any longer.
Nope, you aren't alone. I run an Alienware 15r3. Manjaro + i3.
I even went so far as to patch the Linux kernel to get the headset mic to work.
Although I've been wanting an ultra ultra thin laptop lately.
Similar story to OP. The MBP I acquired in 2017 has been undergoing rapid disintegration while the 2013 model it replaced is still working just fine.

After stressing over the problem that nothing seemed comparable spec-wise, System 76 released their Adder WS and after reading some testimonials from users online I made the leap back to Linux.

So far, I am very pleased with the choice. Here is what I love about it:

- Amazing 4K OLED display configured with pixel scaling a la Retina out of the box

- Suspend / resume "just works" every time (very different from my past Linux user experiences years ago)

- Connecting an external display "just works" like my MBP

- Pop OS is a well-designed, pretty Ubuntu variant that doesn't get in the way

- I'm really productive on it (I haven't wasted any time trying to get things to work)

- Very high-end hardware all around

Things I don't love about it:

- Battery life is atrocious

- The keyboard has a numpad so home row is offset to the left

- It is rather big (though not gigantic)

- It is rather ugly (though not hideous)

- Huge power brick with a short cable

I can't speak for long-term durability. I guess I will get back to you in a few years.
Do neuromorphic chips have any practical advantages beyond power consumption?
Most abortions are drug-induced, these days. And the surgical methods obviously also involve a variety of drugs.

So you're not getting around the drugs, even in your (somewhat insane) scheme.
Here’s my wild guess: a lot of bottled soda gets consumed and disposed of away from the home. Very few non-home waste streams have effective recycling paths. By adding a bottle deposit, you are effectively hiring an army of gig workers to paw through those other streams and filter out all of the containers. Watch carefully the next time you are out in a city, you’ll see people on bicycles or with wagons bulging with bottles inspecting every city waste bin.

As an example, at work, I could put a drink bottle in my waste bin at my desk (which normally holds just clean paper) knowing that the cleaners will grab it and recycle it.

Additionally - yes, there are many people who fundamentally refuse to separate their trash, but will do so for a nickel per bottle.
This is really exciting, I'd love to try out a build if you're able to share at some point. Nice work!

I experimented with running a React Native app on desktop earlier in the year. react-native-macos didn't seem ready for prime time and the app looked completely different to how it did on mobile - might be OK for simpler apps but the app I was porting had a very bespoke look and feel, most of which react-native-macos seemed to ignore in favour of default macOS widgets. I didn't take a proper look at react-native-windows, and using ReactXP would require rebuilding the whole UI to use their widgets.

What ended up working surprisingly well was using react-native-web to render the app to a browser, then running this in Electron (so that the app could communicate over IPC to a native backend for audio playback, more or less sending the same messages you would over the RN bridge over IPC instead) - I was pleasantly surprised how 95% of the UI "just worked", the only real changes I had to make was adding "onMouseX" handlers in places where I was using "onTouchX".

But for well documented reasons, Electron apps aren't always ideal, so being able to run RN natively like this would be really cool! I wonder if react-native-windows enables you to do more or less the same on Windows, and if there is a Linux equivalent? If not, the Electron approach would probably still win out for my use case, but definitely an area I'm excited to see development in.
Interview with Serbian Based Pop Rock Artist Andrej
Vandalized? That's completely destroyed.
The South Park gnome episode comes to mind. For values of:

1 - Demonstrate growth

2 - ?

3 - Profit

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)#/media/F...

Who knew it was a billion dollar business model?
Hi Rory. I am well aware of the flags you described - and indeed, they'd clean things up here. I am in fact tempted to go back and update the post - and either replace the shebang, or add the "early abort" flags.

But TBH, keeping that script (that I wrote in 60 seconds) nice and clean was the least of my worries... Making the damn toolchain work had far, far higher priority :-)

And after that, booting the LEON cores of course.
Apple engineer explains how the Security Code AutoFill feature came to be
It's a drop-in for vehicles with transverse engine configurations.
See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuZ6ypueK8M.
Reading this makes me angry, and reminds me that there is an already incredibly (and increasingly) lucrative market for repurposing post-consumer plastics as material for modern industrial (and home-based post-industrial) 3d print manufacture. Good food-grade filament is expensive, but with a bit of work you can easily repurpose and re-extrude food-grade plastic for new work. Similar stories exist for PLA and ABS, especially in industrial settings where machines are designed to work with less pure stock. Maybe that should be my next business...

My other question is, when do we start seeing these corporations as unaccountable extra-legal entities who are in a very real sense an enemy of future generations of humans and their prosperity? If we do come to that conclusion, what is the appropriate physical response? Do we begin to protest their plants as aggressively as US citizens protest ICE administration and/or incarceration facilities?
Which operating systems currently ship Bourne shells that aren't POSIX compliant?

I know this was a thing 20-25 years ago, but is it still a problem now?
I think it depends on your region. But I'm pretty sure every region gets a link to Candy Crush, Minecraft and other such nonsense in the start menu by default.

Enterprise versions are probably safe still.
Would you be the first one to lift the axe up?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21179240

There are many submissions of the same story from different sources, so if anyone wants to see how different publications approach reporting it, a simple search for "exploded" will prove rewarding.
>> The sweet spot worth billions would be WordPress type.CMS that auto deploys static content

that's hardypress, or strattic

I'm using hardypress, no auto deploys, but for content editors, it's a easy button press on the top of the admin area.

>> while keeping dynamic features as needed.

is this list complete enough?

https://www.strattic.com/static-tools/

sidenote: this would be extremely valuable, but as a business, it's very easy to copy. No secret sauce, no network effects, no customer lock-in.
T480 with Linux
Actually, I have done software blitting on Apple 2, C64, Atari 8 bit.

That is the only way things got done on the Apple 2.

Look at this:

https://youtu.be/t7_hvzIaqxk

On an Apple 2, using both pages of bitmap memory, it was possible to move some objects reasonably back in the day with p code Pascal. Several of us did that in high school.

A compiled version, straight to ASM would do better. What I linked was the peak possible with hand coded blitters.

There is a low, middle ground that is useful. If one can include a library, written in ASM for each machine, more is possible.

Plus 4, C64, Atari 8 bit, Apple 2, Color Computer, and others all supported a 4 color bitmap, ranging from 128 to over 160 pixels.

Tons of games were written for those machines using software objects. NES does not quite fit here, though I suppose it could. I have not programmed it for a bitmap.

I think there is a wide range of expectations here. There is also groups of 8 bitters. Nothing but text is truly portable across them.

The basics I mentioned aren't AAA title grade. They can be fun grade, depending. And on the more capable 8 bit machines, possible.

Edit: you mentioned, stretch the capabilities. Yeah, I was not speaking to that at all.

Doing a stretch type work will pretty much take assembly language.

But, there are exceptions. Take a look at this Apple 2 project.

PLASMA is a high level, ish high code density environment, coupled with 6502 assembly. Perfect for big RPG games.

https://m.facebook.com/LawlessLegends/

Plasma itself is pretty interesting from an 8 bit development standpoint.
This is also the corporatists argument for a high minimum wage - the higher the cost of labor the more aggregate pressure to automate it away. And the more abrupt the upset the more likely the necessary cultural shift occurs. The alternative, generational slow burn automation, would just perpetuate the current state of affairs - new generations being poorer than their parents gradually till the two classes - capital and labor - have totally diverged into post scarcity luxury and destitute helpless permanent poverty.
They are much, much better off. Just having healthcare makes a huge difference alone.
Something I've been wrestling with is the perceived 'unsexiness' of certain technologies, like C#. When I joined this industry, I thought that anything that wasn't powered by Rust or Python or Haskell was irredeemable, that C# was a dinosaur not long for this world, and that tech unicorns would be set the tone of our industry going forward. Now that I'm a bit older I've begun to see that something like C# isn't going away anytime soon - that people still use .NET and other technologies because the enterprise endures, and companies like Microsoft are continually investing in their tooling. This article reminded me that sometimes unsexy technology powers the world, and if you can bring value and or mastery of that technology you can greatly benefit.
The “superclass” can take a config object with a well-defined interface in its constructor, and call methods on this config object when it might need to do something differently.
> In the case of information technology-related manufacturing, research, development, and marketing are the most profitable areas to specialize. Fabricating the units and linking critical components is a low-margin race to the bottom. Inspired by this theory, companies like Boeing aim to specialize in high-margin activities and outsource the rest.

This is the core point which the author seems to be trying to make, that outsourcing necessarily raised costs because it's a de facto defective strategy for improving margins. What the author fails to delve into is precisely why subcontracting failed to deliver as imagined - did subcontractors fail to deliver airplane parts within tolerances? Were the specifications provided to subcontractors faulty? Did the outsourcing contracts fail to require compensation for failing to deliver on-time and within tolerances; did such requirements exist but in reality such financial obligations caused subcontractors to run out of money / go bankrupt and default on their obligations? Was no insurance purchased to hedge against these risks, so that costs would not explode along with delays?

Part of smile theory is that when you decide to outsource lower-margin operations, the ability to outsource effectively in and of itself becomes part of your core competency. That Boeing executives failed to reduce costs as planned through outsourcing is less proof that outsourcing is inherently poor practice and more proof that competency at shifting numbers around on bean-counting accounting sheets is not the same thing as competency at outsourcing.
Malware can do whatever it wants anyway - DNS-over-whatever can be implemented no matter who supports it. Maybe we should be banning Tor because it might be used by malware?
The article's most compelling point for me is the graph it links to showing all U.S. manufacturing jobs from 1939 to 2009.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP

There's a big, sudden drop in 2000.

It also cites a paper that says that the number of factories in the U.S. has been dropping (between 2000 and 2014)...
Having seen this essay as it's appeared a few times across HN and elsewhere, a key lesson is the extreme tendency of those who are responsible for and more specifically benefit by externalised risks, to deny, equivocate, and outright lie about those risks.

It's a lesson that applies as well to numerous other technologies: asbestos, lead paint, leaded petrol, CFCs, tobacco, vaping.

And, just possibly, some aspects of information technology.

There's also the long history and tremendous advances in fire safety, mostly through avoidance, but also through improved response and firefighting techniques. Among the notable aspects of the 1991 Oakland Hills Fire was that it was the largest urban fire in well over half a century. I've just looked through Wikipedia's listings for an earlier comparable event, and thought there was one in the 1920s or possibly 1930s, but there the only remotely similar fires were in the 1900s or 1910s, with the Great Fire of San Francisco (1906) possibly being the most notable. Also suggesting that the SF fire and quake left such an impression simply because there was no comparable disaster following it. Previously, great, city-wide conflagrations occurred with distressing regularity.
I'm surprised they used only a twin-engined aircraft for such a long flight.
You see this at startups too, middle eng management were actual engineers and as the startup grows career managers creep in and skew the alignment of the engineering departments away from engineering solutions, the “product” they make, to problems they understand instead, political jockeying, manipulation, appeasing the LCD and the next managerial rung above them.
Why the space colonization focus of techies? So much of earth vastly underpopulated and much easier to colonize. What if an asteroid strikes earth? What if the space colonies all fail?
First, jobs are work in that they’re emotionally boring repetitive tasks the bean counters have whittled down into cost saving nonsense. So fuck them: https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but...

Second, there is a ton of work out there our society likes to ignore the value of because it’s not shallow novelty: https://aeon.co/essays/the-key-to-jobs-in-the-future-is-not-...

And really if automation does take more jobs than we can replace, being really nice to each seems like a good idea. Cause most people won’t be needed. Are we to descend into Mad Max life or could we, you know, kill the notion alpha attitudes are useful.

I am reminded of a paper by chimp researchers who watched a community of chimps gang up on some alpha male chimps and kill them off. Then noted how their community became much more ethical after such selfish, entitled behavior was eradicated.
This is what amazes me; that there are so many supposedly intelligent individuals throwing money at shitty ideas.

Google investing in Juicero comes to mind.

It's like any semblance of due diligence is just an afterthought.
> Coca-Cola pushing back on a bill that would increase their overhead, increase the cost of their product, and decrease sales is disingenuous and intellectually dishonest to label as "Undermining Plastic Recycling Efforts". Especially when they do things to push for the recycling efforts in other ways.

Well, it seems to me like they're using the natural tendency of organizations to self-preserve as a lever. By giving these orgs just enough funding to be visible and retain a staff, they can garrote meaningful changes to resource management policies that hurt their bottom line.

We're not interested in ineffective measures for plastic management. If they're pushing for ineffective measures while threatening to freeze out anyone with serious conversations about effective ones, then they're not pushing for "recycling efforts in other ways." They're manipulating the system to keep it ineffective.

I'm not sure this title is disingenuous at all.
I'm super happy with my HP envy 13' with AMD Ryzen & vega graphics.
I agree only if you're not buying a streaming device that has a built in mic that tracks and sends your info anyways.

Look, I'm against the tracking culture we're in. I refuse to get IoT anything and I don't do the whole home automation crap. But I find it dumb when someone says "I don't want a TV that has a mic in it and sends my data... Alexa, turn on my Apple TV and stream Stranger Things from Netflix."

Seriously... A lot of the same people have an Alexa/Google home/whatever. IoT devices throughout their home. Streaming boxes that only use voice commands. Yet they complain about smart tvs sending their data... Almost as bad as making a movie about aliens that die from touching water and they decide to invade a planet that's 70% covered in water and regularly has water fall from the sky.