skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is quite literally a USD 18,000 "reacher" [1].

I remember a reacher being a pretty successful present last time I played "white elephant gift exchange" :-).

1: https://www.amazon.com/Reacher-Foldable-Lightweight-Reaching...
Exactly. I wish people would stop referring to the feeble efforts the states implemented as "lockdowns". It's an absurd word to use. There were no lockdowns in the USA. There were a bunch of half-assed "Stay At Home" orders, which may as well have been called Stay At Home Suggestions because they were largely ignored. Nothing was locked. Nobody was locked in their homes. Few people, if any, were even subject to enforcement actions. Everywhere you looked during the so-called "lockdown" people were out and about, horsing around, going to parties, trying desperately to maintain business as usual, flexing their freedom just because. Every single place that the government begged people to not go, people went, saying "Nyaa Nnyaa! You can't tell me what to do!" Total eight-year-old mentality. The whole thing was a complete farce. Please, people, stop calling it a lockdown.
I'm sorry but I cannot, in my right mind, recommend anyone ever use Tornado. Not least because python now natively supports async/await. There was a thing.. an unholy union of threads, sleeps, and tornado.gen co-routines. It would always break. How could it not when mixing every concurrency paradigm imaginable. When it did everything started burning. Data stopped flowing. Many an engineer tried and failed to fix it. Have you ever seen three TLS client hellos on the same TCP connection? I have. Tornado is actually the most accurate name you can give the framework: a big whirling mess. Maybe I'm being too hard on tornado, but I kinda blame tornado for introducing co-routines before python was ready for it. The company has since moved on to golang, but the tornado is still whirling and will be for years to come.
Pay a robot[0] to operate a robot[0].

[0]: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/robot
$1.8k buys you a mid-range bicycle. $2.5k buys you a high end laptop. Both of those are made in millions. This is roughly a combo of the two.

So I'd guess that with sufficient volume this could get down to the $5k mark.
Apple is fine as long as you're under AppleCare(+) - you don't care if they have to swap out a whole motherboard for a single blown 0 ohm resistor as long as they're the ones paying for it. When I had the original 2012 MBP Retina, AppleCare swapped out literally every single part on it piecemeal, with no complaints.

The hell starts when your AppleCare ends (unless you're lucky to be covered by an repair extension)
Even if you're not immobile it would be great to have a cleaning robot. Hiring housekeepers is a thing. Do you actually enjoy cleaning?
Maxim always was an interesting company. They started out iirc with the lowly MAX232, an all-in-one single supply level converter for RS232 applications, then went on to crank out one neat package after another. Good to see such innovation deliver a payday of this magnitude, and Analog Devices is another top of the line company so for once I'm not afraid that the acquired company will be mismanaged or the product lines killed.
Wondering what the benefit of a dishwashing robot is? Better off just wishing for a more convenient / compact dishwasher, I think.
You would need to implement a persistent datastructure, but without refcounts, you would have to do a gc. I guess you could do a refcount tree and only RC at the last common node.

Really atime is the devil. Funny thing is, is that all modern higher level systems have some form of data access logging, which is what you want anyway. So why not form some easily compressible event log?
This is about Gitlab's dormant policy which is similar to Github's name squatting policy.

Only happens to long inactive accounts and both platforms will not notify the owner since it's about name squatting. They just rename the handle and you still have your account.

Why anyone should be concerned if his account has been inactive for a long time?
> 1. They're stored right next to variables like PATH,

So what? If the problem is that people might accidentally log secrets then the problem is not env variables.

> 2. They'll get printed any time someone writes a shell script

The set -x flag is a debugging flag to print out traces of a shell script being executed. This flag is disabled by default. Why is this far-fetched example being used to justify not using env variables?

> 3. They'll probably end up in your developers' ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc,

No, they don't. With containers you may launch devel env variables some way or another (env files, setting up the IDE, setting env variables manually) but at most they are a part of a testing config. The env variables used in production are handled by the deployment.

Even if you're able to sniff a env variable used in development, that has nothing to do with the production service.

> 4. Because they'll be in ~/.profile or similar, the secret will be in a file on disk anyway

This complaint makes no sense at all. No container orchestration system stores env variables in ~/.profile although their containers use env variables For secrets extensively. The container orchestration service provides secret-management services, including setting up the env your containers are launched, and all you need to care about is that your container needs to accept certain env variables that you will use on your app.

Even if you deploy services on bare metal, you should still use env variables for config and secrets, but you need to be able to manage secrets and rotate keys with a non-pet method.

> So I can understand why people might end up stuck with environment variables despite their downsides.

I'm sorry but you failed to both present any downside of using secrets and point out any scenario from the real world. I mean, anyone who ever read any intro tutorial on how to deploy a system is well-aware that you should not store passwords and keys and secrets in plain-text files. That has nothing to do with using env variables at all. In fact, all your examples are entirely oblivious to the standard workflow of deploying a service, moreso if it involves a container orchestration system.

So if the examples don't have any relation with basic practices and real-world workflows, why should anyone avoid using a best-practice?
Well you've been very purposefully deceptive in your defense of racists in this thread, repeatedly attributing words and thoughts to me that I did not say and think, so there is probably a very good reason you got in trouble at work.

You seem to have a lot of preconceived false notions that you project onto other people, and you're spending a lot more energy attacking people than defending them. I'm sure you co-workers and managers really cherish your argumentation techniques. If you get fired, Tucker Carlson is looking for a head writer.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-addresses-raci...

I'm sure you can find some other forum more appropriate for defending White Supremacy, like the ones Tucker Carlson's previous head writer hangs out on -- why don't you take it there instead of here, edgelord?

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Edgelord
Sorry to burst your bubble Shopify is loss making except when it was itself a small service provider. In 2020 has a loss of 132 million dollars so far. It's a listed entity so you can check Income, Balance Sheet and Cashflow. The most important thing cashflow and Incomes both are negative for shopify. Since it's listing never made a single dime of profit. So please before putting a link to news verify on their annual reports [1].

2019-12-30:
Total Revenue: 1.578173 billion dollars
Operating Income : -141.147 million dollars
Net Income: -124.842 million dollars (i.e. loss of 125 million dollars)

To this month (TTM):
Total Revenue: 1.727692 billion dollars
Operating Income: -178.590 million dollars
Net Income: -132.120 million dollars (i.e. loss of 132 million dollars)

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SHOP/financials?p=SHOP
At least Finder is still better than Windows Explorer. I have no idea how anyone can get work done with that thing.
They said it would have been insurance fraud. Would you commit fraud to recover $2000? How much is your freedom worth?
Futuristic Architecture of the 70s: Photographs with a Twist of Science Fiction
Robots have a big problem - price tag. Research robot for $18k, Spot for $75k, single robot arm moving stuff from A to B - $50k+. How many organizations can afford that? No wonder, that robot adoption is extremely slow.
Maybe they need a baker
I disagree that these conversations are inevitable and I disagree about your contention that the marketplace of ideas is no longer a foundational concept in our discourse.

People filtered in the past by what they cared about and who they spoke to. Now much of that filtering and indeed much of your friends are algorithmic suggestions. We're put into interactions on the internet with people you'd conceivably never meet offline. The fact that wasn't true in the past isn't white supremacy or the patriarchy or manufactured consent, it's logistic. It simply wasn't possible for the average person pre-phone, full-stop. Now people follow the people that they feel epitomize the precepts of the identity they agree with most which means naturally the popular people to follow must either become purer representations of the ideology or become less popular than those who are willing to adopt a more refined tankie, neo-nazi, athletic, techie, or what have you interests based persona.

And many many people still believe strongly in the marketplace of ideas. Just look at the Harper's letter from last week. I doubt the many intellectuals there don't represent a broad base of three population.
Hmm, maybe am I wrong on this? Can the down-voter educate me?
Show HN: Bluetooth Hacking with Bluesnarfer
Guess they'd better sit inside all the time then, can't risk dying. They clearly meant that they wanted to live life more fully.

Thank you for pointing out that people can die on a post about a person dying.
Yes. This is why running without `env_reset` is considered inherently insecure and the typo fix wasn't considered a security fix by the sudo maintainers.

The list is still relevant to this discussion though as a nice "greatest hits" cheat-sheet of fun environment variables to play with here.
In the demo video, for every basic task it needs some setup by a human (see how they fixed stuff on the stretchable arm for every action other than picking-up something) and all the interesting tasks were teleoperated.

I don't care about teleoperation, for a home robot I want automation.
F1 visa is non-immigrant; you are supposed to go back to your country after you're done with your studies or if you drop out. So the author was never promised a path to immigration, in fact, he actually promised to leave the US unless granted a change of status (which is a privilege and cannot be automatically expected, of course)
> Now with virtual machines being supported by LXD, we found ourselves needing to support attaching both our traditional filesystem backed volumes to virtual machines (which has been possible for a while and uses 9p) as well as allowing for additional raw disks to be attached to virtual machines.

Didn't know virtual machine support was offered by LXD -- I haven't had much time to actually play with LXD but sure hope it gets more coverage in the future. It's like the alternate more stable (and feature-ful in some rights since they've had rootless containers longer) kubernetes that no one's ever heard of that's been around just as long if not longer.

For those who want more introduction to the ecosystem -- https://linuxcontainers.org

A short primer -- LXD is the "kubernetes" part, LXC is the "containerd"/"docker" part. LXD is far more "batteries-included" than LXD and runs "system containers" (user namespace-mapped containers that offer better security) easily.
You have to consider the rather high failure rate of public schools in the US. Professional teachers cite lack of parent involvement as the number one reason for failure in the classroom. Homeschooling usually implies significant parental involvement, though some religious parents homeschool for their own reasons that I don’t agree with.

I disagree that parents must have lots of education, because unschooling lets the child direct their interests, and it’s easy to find other parents, tutors, resources to fill in. Neither my wife nor I could teach music but two of our unschooled kids learned to play instruments competently, for example. Music lessons didn’t cost any more than paying for school sports equipment. I agree that unschooling and homeschooling require time and patience, but that’s true of raising children in general.
Well, touche.

I think that the fail-close design (I know them as positive-style branching) should be embraced everywhere possible.

But can this be actually achieved without breaking the ecosystem in the sense of having to start all over again?
If an attacker can force Signal's cooperation, why does that attacker need to worry about SGX at all? Isn't it necessarily simpler to force Signal to change the client?

The unique thing here is that Signal controls both sides of the SGX barrier. The strength of the SGX barrier is not terribly important when the same party is on both sites. Not completely unimportant, but not nearly so important as when the attacker is someone else.
The gartner quadrant is mostly pay to win, so who really cares about that one? I'd at least not make any decision solely, or to a large part, based on it.
Better that something is expensive than that it is not for sale, and I'd rather pay up front than be shoehorned into some subscription model a-la software. Keep in mind that this stuff is physical and that software economies of scale do not apply. Not all of AD's chips are sold by the billion.
I would bet they all will be renewed at least till the election.
That explains why I got a loading screen for a page that was just static text.

I don’t get why people use those kind of shitty frameworks for sites that don’t require interactive content.
I found this number highly suspect. As they were unable to even cite an official making this claim I'll provide a source that does give a more realistic figure: https://vietnamtimes.org.vn/433-rivers-across-china-exceed-a...
I had something similar, currently running 3k "lambdas" of rules to check if a user action is fraud or not. Running 60k qps with 32 nodes, Python2+NSQ.

A new "lambda" takes at about 1-60 seconds to propagate to all nodes.
Neat article, the picture makes me think he refrigerated his entire neighborhood.
> A majority of the movies would gain more by giving it away to the public domain because most movies fail.

What exactly about being in the public domain would help a movie "gain more" if it hadn't had a successful box office run previously? "GPL-based businesses making billions" does not strike me as a meaningful comparison here. ("Well, 'Cats' is a fiasco, but if we give it away for free we can make a killing selling enterprise service contracts for it!")
For the first seven years of my schooling, I had the privilege of going to classes with only 8 pupils per teacher. During this time I felt like I had a personal relationship with each of the teachers, and that my schooling was a mutual effort.
From the 8th year onwards, I went to schools where we were at least 30 pupils per teacher. During this time, dealing with teachers was more like dealing with a 'school official' rather than a person, and my schooling had turned into a number of abstract criteria contained in a standardized form.

Ironically, I've had a much better experience at university, where courses often has had more than a hundred students and only one professor to manage it all.
Same here I had both replaced, but they would only let me replace one and later the other. Replacing was great at first, I observed that the first few days the sealing test was perfect, but already the test is not passing. I m pretty sure it’s a hardware problem, could be shock resistance could be wax could be humidity but it looks like the mic (or many?) who is needed to do the noise cancellation gets faulty somehow. If it’s a design issue I guess the only option will be to wait for the next gen, apple might offer a discount if you bring back your pro but I’m pretty sure they won’t do a thing unless this becomes a public issue (maybe the European Commission or some class action) too bad as I love this product hopefully the next gen will fix it
> Or letting your kids play in the play room and then the robot comes in and puts all the toys back.

That's the kids responsibility after they are done. Otherwise I do like the application to keep things tidy. It's a small thing but it improves quality of life and removes a common task of dealing with clutter. I think a lot of robots will start with huge limitations that nearly paint it into a corner. Eventually a more generalized platform will exist. Too many companies are attempting to make that today and skip the necessary steps in between.
They actually drove down prices on some LTC SKUs, and there's the 800-pound gorilla that is TI to contend with, so I think pricing will be fine through this merger.

(The caveat to the above is that LTC pricing was previously absurd.)
I've lost count of the number of internal projects I've seen named after mythological figures.

The Athena team ran out of names and one major component of it is called Bob.
1939 Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden
> you don't care if they have to swap out a whole motherboard for a single blown 0 ohm resistor as long as they're the ones paying for it.

Some people do care about sustainable and environmentally friendly practices though.
This is very cool.

When you say "CMS", do you have (or look to have) CMSey features such as language translation support and approval workflows?
This is a pathetic policy, Gitlab. For this reason alone, I'll stick to GitHub.

What if I'm hospitalized or away on an extended trip? You just going to let someone else take my account username?

No thanks.
This is just a guess, but I assume both are suffering crew shortages as a result of the pandemic, resulting in the excess trash that fueled the fire.
Design the next-generation mask. Win $1m
Relevant, one of the reasons I decided to homeschool and then go full unschooling with my three children:

https://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html

Also “Deschooling Society” by Ivan Illich.

You start by examining and questioning what you think you know about school and education. Most of us only have our school experience to go by so we interpret any other path as inferior, subversive, deviant. There’s more than one way to get a useful education.

My kids all turned out just fine, two went to college, they have careers, active social lives since very young.

I think the biggest mistake parents make is thinking they can shape their children into something. They fail to see their children as individuals, separate from the parents, with their own personalities and desires. Schools by and large follow that model, trying to force children to conform and behave and learn the same things at the same time and rate as everyone else. Montessori comes closest to unschooling, but it’s quite expensive.
Aww man...i was just heading to bed and took a last look at hn and then this. That really sucks. :(
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They do sell refurbished machines, we don't know if the parts are repaired and put into those
And another proof why nuclear power is the safest form of power generation.
I think the weakened blood vessels show up on MRI and CT scans. I don't think it's usually done unless you have specific risk factors. Probably best to let your doctor know about your family history.
The grand parent post also mentioned "the international political stage"
this is very cool. could anyone help break down the costs?

specifically:

1. what are the most expensive parts, and how fast is technology advancing (or costs declining) on those parts?

2. what scale is necessary for a comparable robot to retail for < $1000?
If something like this succeeds to the point of mass production, I could easily see the retail price been cut by 75% or more. That might be a big "if", though.

I imagine a bit of the current price tag is "we want serious purchasers who will be partners in the development of this device"; they don't want to build them for people who will just dick around with it for a bit and then relegate it to the corner of the room.
Twitter has no incentive to change the current structure as their platform now has a massive sway over discourse and an unrivaled ability to create seeming majority opinions. Why would they build tools to make this better?
Based on the article, the robots researchers are interested in seem even more expensive?
I also rewatched all of Mythbusters early in college as I was struggling to figure out what I wanted to be. They really showed the fun to be had building wacky projects!
You say a year but (1) colleges care how far you are in technical subjects like math, (2) you should care too because it affects what classes you take while in expensive college, (3) one year is what some students are looking at if they attempt some pedagogical plan, but others are looking at way more than one year of advancement. Without looking to extraordinary students, compare the lowest vs highest math tracks in schools, which is already an advantage in years.

Sometimes advantages accumulate until you take a different pathway in life that was otherwise not a confident bet.
Hey Jash,
Curious: with your email list, do you send value-giving emails at regular intervals -- ergo a weekly digest

Or is it more just for paid offers whenever you have one? Or both?

I feel like content strategies are a double edged sword. Sure you could have YouTube, Twitter, email, and a blog but then what time do you have left to work on product?

Anyway thanks for the info
Good chance of that. As a 'smaller' (compared to the giants) player Maxim was doing everything they could to not pay a premium for fab capacity and this has at times hampered their ability to supply product. Overall though I'd say they were quite good and one of the effects of them being a bit unreliable at times was that companies would stock up by buying larger batches which in turn worsened their ability to supply product.
Friend of mine had his brother working for a big ISP, they had an internal NewsGroup with everything you could dream of, only the tech people of the company were on it as you might guess though.
Yeah, they should go here price first and make cheap hackable platform that would be awsome.
As someone with weak lungs and a weak immune system, how about we not deliberately let the virus spread, mmmkay? That would be really super. How about, instead, we actually implement a Stay At Home order with teeth and enforcement, and actually try to wait this out until a vaccine becomes available. Unlike what we did which was an overtly unenforced Stay At Home Suggestion that people predictably ignored..

> Part of why I make this strange argument is because CA seems to have endured a lockdown for virtually no gains.

California never implemented a lockdown. The people staying home did so voluntarily, but the rest were out horsing around as usual doing whatever non-essential tasks they could find among what businesses they could find that were also defying the "order". Putting everyone else at risk who had to step out to do actual essentials like limited grocery shopping.