skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also agree with you. However, there are large downstream effects of tech jobs.

1. Lots of people in rural places migrate to urban and semi urban places and make a living off of providing some sort of service to people in tech jobs.

2. A large section of young population in rural areas come to cities and start businesses, very small scale, such as eateries, curry points, trades, cab drivers, etc.

3. A good chunk of people go into the maintenance and services sector, such as building maintenance, sweepers, contractor jobs, etc.

4. A good chunk are employed in the large and ever expanding construction works in almost every nook and corner of India.

So each IT tech job, indirectly employs a bunch of other jobs, most of which are done by younger people.

So tech jobs do put a huge dent on the availability of labor services.

As an example, I am an engineer in a highly respected company, earning on par with an IT guy. But in the last decade, labor cost (daily wages for unskilled labor, usually in the construction business) has gone up to be about 1/4th of what I earn in one day. And that is a significant increase. It used to be about 1/10 of what I earned.
OPNsense on fanless small x86 mini-PC for router and external wifi APs.
Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months
Let the computer decide an album you should listen to this morning
It was discovered by locals, dug up by archaeologists, and predicted by literally no one but Hancock.
"I don't see it succeeding or replacing farm hands for the reasons above."

In my country, the first horseless carriage (car) was produced in 1897.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A4sident

It still took cars about 40 years to displace most horses from the larger cities. But the sign was on the wall in 1897. Once such labor-saving technology exists, it tends to improve, slowly or faster, to the point that humans or horses cannot really compete anymore.
My claim is that raising taxes won't by itself bring an effective program to fight income inequality into existence. The poll question is like asking "should the federal government expand its office space to deal with income inequality" - how's anyone supposed to know without an explanation of what it'll be used for?
Well if our robots beat your robots in killing each other, the logical next step is that the robots would kill the human opponents. So it’s not quite like a contrived chess game if the humans are reasonably inferior fighting machines.

It’s more like proxy battles, and in real life we do this with expendable humans rather than robots. When a side decides to surrender it’s not necessarily when the last person is wiped out... usually done when the military is near or close to defeat.

OP is suggesting that one day robots could outclass flesh and bone humans so much that real humans will be like the women and children of past society that will not have to fight in real battles.
> laws in the british empire were enforced, and followed almost religiously.

No, they weren't. The upper classes, both aristocratic and capitalist, in particular, has quite a bit of license in practice that wasn't on the books.

> The HMS bounty is about the only time anyone has openly mutinied against the empire and kept their life and freedom,

Yeah, you'll find most governments, especially ones that otherwise grant a pass to elites, take rebellion/mutiny quite seriously.
Experiment appears to show that Twitter's cropping tool is racially biased
Given the fact that the training that goes behind this is a brutal busniess and the fact that monkey is a God figure, it would not be received well in India, I believe.
Load testing APIs and websites with Gatling: It's never too late to get started
Google Domains I have liked. There is DNSSEC, support for some of the more exotic records. You can secure access, if you're really motivated, with G-Suite Enterprise with Titan Key + Advanced Security turned on.

Otherwise AWS Route 53.
Yeah, I was thinking also that it could be related to some kind of "fly on the wall" symbolism. I am just wondering if it is somehow a more general level symbol in the context, not just for the CIA or in the US. Considering the CIA Labs for example, they probably do a lot more stuff than just develop dragonfly type drones, so why put the dragonfly in the logo. But maybe the "Insectothopter" project and similar ones have just been so significant projects for them in the past that they want them to be remembered.
Ask HN: What slows you down most when interacting with your infra?
Once SARS2 is history it will be interesting to compare the approach in places like NYC to those in e.g. Florida. I suspect the latter will come out on top when it comes to efficacy of the approach while the former will end up both bankrupt as well as looking for a new mayor and governor. Especially given the number of retirees living in Florida these results are remarkable, when the epidemic (as in 'local version of the pandemic') began I suspected FL would end up topping the mortality lists. A number of bad decisions were made in the beginning - e.g. allowing infected elderly people to be sent into care homes where they infected others - which have been haunting state and local government ever since and probably gave rise to the continued lockdown measures - a classical example of someone closing the barn doors after the horses escaped.

I live in Sweden where similar mistakes were made in the beginning, in this case mostly caused by personnel in care facilities not following the mandated personal protection measures which caused them to spread the infection between infected and 'clean' departments, facilities and people. In contrast to NYC this has not led to more draconic lockdown measures, probably because the problems in those care facilities were recognised. Unfortunately they were not dealt with in time which has led to a large number of vulnerable people getting infected. Apart from these (grave) mistakes it now looks like the Swedish approach might start to show its merits given the low infection rates here compared to surrounding countries. Things can still change but currently the number of new infections in Sweden is lower than that in surrounding countries.
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Very interesting work! I didn't see any cameras or any obvious sensors, is the robot autonomous or being remote-controlled? I always heard tell-tales about how dangerous it is to harvest coconuts and be near coconut trees. If the device can harvest quick and safely nothing is better.
Bad bot, the subject is NYC not SF. Very different places
Summary of 12 studies on converting street parking into bike lanes
I've seen a lot of people mention the advantage of feature flags over feature branches. I've never worked with feature flags on any reasonable scale[0], and I can't help but wonder how they can possibly work while keeping your code well-organised.

A lot of features touch a lot of different parts of the code. Some features require parts of the code to be refactored, or it will turn into a mess of warty exceptions and if-statements all over the place, which to me sound like it would make your code hard to read, hard to maintain, and hard to test.

So how does this work? Are there good frameworks that abstract this mess a way in some easily readable and maintainable manner? Do you postpone refactoring the code until after a successful launch? But then how do you launch the refactored code? No matter how I think about feature flags, I can't help but conclude that it would turn your code into a hard-to-maintain mess.

So how would this work? How do you keep your code clean? I'm sure someone here can explain this or point me towards a good explanation of how to actually implement feature flags the correct way.

[0] In my current project we've got a login system that needs to behave differently in different environments, controlled by environment variables, and it's by far the ugliest part of our code. I have no idea what's going on there, which makes it very hard to address bugs.
Frozen Synapse is a simplified clone of Laser Squad Nemesis, which was done by... you guessed, the Gollops.

Sadly that game is no longer available. It was multiplayer only (it had some single player but it was an afterthought) and they've taken it down long ago.
"for many or most of us, this is a strategy game to play through once rather than over and over again"

What part of that do you disagree with? He didn't say that everybody only played it through a single time. You don't need to argue against a strawman.
Surely death dies with life? Once there's no life, there can be no more death.
It's an interesting article.

The gem of this article (in my opinion) is the "Animation of a torsion spring oscilating":

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/...

Why?

Well, that's one potential mechanical analogue candidate for the vibration/oscillation patterns in EM waves (although, there could be, and probably are, many others, i.e., longitudinal waves, spiral waves, etc., etc.)

But that video represents one potential mechanical analogue candidate, among others...

Anyway, thanks for the link!
"Let's bake cupcakes instead"
> a Range with start 0 and length 0 may be out of bounds.

Is this indeed so? Presumably on an empty slice, but then `get` would just return the empty slice again?
Since I cleaned out and restarted fail2ban yesterday (~1800BST), the sshd:22 filter has banned 291 IPs whilst the dropbear:2222 filter has banned 8.
We got the Prima Games strategy guide which was superb in that explained every single mechanic of the game.

After reading it my brother worked out how and then made a super bad ass psy team.

The key understanding is that there is a base psy attribute for characters which can never change and then another one which can improve through experience.

So your previously best characters probably land up having terrible base psy stat, so you need to abandon them ultimately unfortunately.

So he made lots of psy labs to find the strong soldiers. Then started getting them to skill up psy skill on missions.

Once they could mind control then it was to skill them up in other regards like accuracy and reactions. You would mind control aliens, have them drop their weapons then end your turn with them facing away from your guys ready to shoot them. During the aliens turn they would start walking and then get shot by the reacting “rookie” 3 blocks away. The rookies accuracy and reaction improved quickly.

If I recall he managed to complete the final mission in like 3 turns per part by mind controlling the first alien he could see, then using that to find the next alien to mind control and so on.
Thanks for the links! One would have thought that after the 737 Max debacle, Boeing would do anything possible to at least retain the trust of their customers for the 787. Instead, they seem to be eager to set up another debacle with the 787...
> Actions should be judged by their consequences

I agree, we just have different perspectives on which consequences are relevant, and on which timescales.

Optimizing for "size of resource collected" at time 0 affects the system and each agent's incentives within that system, usually leading to the kind of adversarial loophole-chasing/closing we see with income tax and tax havens.

Optimizing for economically sound incentives will lead to higher "impact" (by my definition, reduction of externalities, inefficiency, and inequality) in the long run for a dynamic system, imho.
What does external mean here? An external aerial like a USB or a totally separate device?

oh - thank you btw !! :-)
I am surprised about Canada. I always thought being nice and saying sorry were just Canadian stereotypes, but maybe it's because of a culture that doesn't promote violence?
What kind of service is Sandstorm? I'd like to know more but the term is too broad to search for, I need more keywords.
i know, I'm German myself. It's just the acronym used for the service.
I mean, this is kinda what the olympics does, right? Show off how good you are at making soldier-like people, celebrate some nationalism, acknowledge that the other countries are also humans capable of training good soldier-like people, and then everyone goes home and continues trading.
See: BranchByAbstraction.com

And: TrunkBasedDevelopment.com

Essentially you go up in the code path until you find a single place where you can introduce an abstraction, and make that the single toggle.

It works brilliantly. It is more overall effort. But it keeps the velocity higher as well because you no longer have head of line blocking.
Just occurred to me that passports (the paper ones that you use to cross borders) are an example of a federated system.
You don't need to apply the flags to every part of the application where the feature is implemented, mainly in the user-facing code (so the UI and (exposed, documented) API). The rest can just be left alone and developed (in trunk/master). The main thing is to not expose a feature until it's done, which will actually allow you to do all the implementation, refactorings, testing, etc.
I've always said that people complaining about portrait videos don't understand how much more convenient it is to watch. TikTok really takes the one-hand casual video watching to its extreme.
Yeah this is like two hands drawing each other.
It's Not Just Size That Matters:Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners
> Idleness leads to thinking, which tends to lead to people testing their cages.

I think it has more to do with the fact that you'd otherwise starve to death. There was no wholefoods to trade food stamps in. Also preindustrial probably any man hour had to be useful.
> Drink driving is banned

Yet it still happens and claims innocent victims.

> smoking is banned in many situations

Yet it still happens and claims innocent victims.

> Having sex doesn't affect passers by, just the active participants

By making protection mandatory we keep people safe and healthy.

> Junk food you choose to eat yourself

As stated earlier it has been repeatedly shown that obesity is a social disease.

I haven't even brought up second order effects.

How much police and health care costs would we need by banning alcohol? Can you think of other second order effects?

> This is a once in a lifetime pandemic

This is a once in a lifetime panicdemic.

Is it a pandemic if governments and organizations are begging people to get tested?

Is it a pandemic when less than 1% of populations are positive let alone in a hospital or morgue?

This isn't a pandemic. It's a panicdemic.

Please stop keeping us safe. I appreciate your effort but let me choose.

This is about choice.
From my understanding awarding legal fees (even if someone sues in bad faith) is pretty rare, and even if they are awarded this it is difficult to collect? Any lawyers can chime in if this guy is actually likely to pay this sum?
Algorithm decides on bail in New York courtrooms
VSCode is growing which is concerning, not from a competitive point of view but actually from the point of view that there is clearly a lack of understanding of what an IDE gives you. VSCode is a code editor with some features that you’d find in an IDE, and extensions that can provide additional functionality – so if people are turning to VSCode for developing it may imply that developers don’t know what a fully-featured IDE can give them. In the web space it is understandable to use an editor as web developers are typically working with dynamic languages, and often use other tools like browser plugins to give them what they need.. But in Java, especially professional Java, you really get a lot out of a good tool that has integration with the application server and you can really use the analysis and refactoring and everything.

IME a lot of developers don't like their IDE heavily coupled to backend servers and environments, but actually prefer the "code editor + useful features" approach. It makes combining with CI/CD a lot simpler for one, since the activities run on a project can simply be the same as those run on the pipeline. A quick "mvn install" is often enough for many/most modules. Many devs only really want advanced editing + syntax highlighting + language server.
Unfortunately most of the standard stuff (Optitex, Gerber) is industrial software with "contact us" pricing.

What I've found works best for me is:

- Seamly2D (https://seamly.net/) and Valentina (https://gitlab.com/smart-pattern/valentina) - these are two forks of an open-source project. They do pretty much everything I want them to do.

- Clo3D: https://www.clo3d.com/ - horrendously expensive subscription software ($50/month or $450/yr) but there are.. Uh... Less legal options available online. My favourite aspect of this particular software is that it lets you view the constructed object (usually a garment) in 3D and run physics simulations on it.

I've tried Optitex and Gerber as well but despite being the standard in industry, I don't find them to be great pieces of software. Of the two, Optitex is much better than Gerber but both are really hard to use.

I think Clo3D is probably the most approachable option but it does cost. Seamly2D/Valentina have a steeper learning curve than Clo3D but they're also much more capable when it comes to design and in particular, parametric design.
This is a very nice thing to see as it ensures that only content approved by a human reviewer can be promoted by the algorithm, hopefully reducing the risk that malicious/illegal content goes viral.
> Next, identity. If grandpa can post, so can the bots

Yes, protection against a million fake accounts is the key scientific problem to solve (Sybil attack).

Our university lab has worked on this problem for 15+ years, its hard. Early indications are that ActivityPub and federation are not going to scale. Bot attacks are too ferocious for amateur admins. Big instances attract more people, however a single instance fails to scale.

Nobody knows how to build trustworthy self-organising systems with "self-governance". Somehow you need to deduce the reputation of others from their signed interaction history. Their privacy needs to be protected, but you can still calculate a reputation score. After 20 years of scientific progress around "distributed reputation systems" with 100+ scientific articles they have one thing in commons: they don't protect from the Sybil attack.

Server federation is not going to help if there is no trust fabric to build upon. The effortless onboarding plus mobile-first requirement of today means you even need to have smartphones talking to eachother directly, P2P-style. <plug> thankfully students in our lab now have carrier-grade NAT traversal operational between Android devices. Google: "Technology Stack for Decentralized Mobile Services" (quotes required).
Documenting C++ with Doxygen and Sphinx – Exhale
160 CE is an upper bound, not a lower. The Phoenicians all over the Mediterranean did not all die when their city was razed, or stop speaking or writing their language.
Thanks for the inspiration. I have similar problems now. Gonna use icloud as buffer and start moving out and sort photos to own NAS (synology in this case).
A built in feature on LaunchDarkly.com

They are extremely awesome for the price.
> Note that I'm a leftie and I love the video...

Please don't explicitly state things like this, it only leads to more polarisation. Keep people guessing at your personal political preferences, they should not have any impact on whether what you say is deemed 'acceptable' or not.
It’s already like that today. The robots are unmanned aircraft with missiles. The US kills a fair amount of people using this method, though it is not widely reported.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/14/122732/
One of the fatal flaws that made the reboot X-COM worse than the original was the inability to control the environment. Shots could no longer be aimed at scenery, and stray shots that hit the walls anyway proved that said walls were made out of cardboard. Even a pistol round could break an undamaged wall!

This made hiding behind corners much less useful: if you're suddenly flanked, you have a great risk of losing your cover entirely, no matter how strong the wall looked.

Not being able to create own passages or drop floors from under aliens are just nasty consequences of that.

The second flaw was that the enemy did not just seek you out, they always knew where you were, making it impossible to sneak up on them. I get the need to shorten the battles, but catching enemies unaware was my favorite tactic to survive despite technical disadvantage.
Out of interest, since you’re in a mood to generalise, which nation’s people are worthy of your respect for their ambition and focus?
And exactly the reason why archiving is so important, even though the process and data stored seems trivial and wasteful.

Mind you there's plenty of archiving still going on, but it's personal / behavioural data.
>"Way back in the late 90’s from the University of Utah there was this fantastic project that promised to bring Operating System construction to mere mortals but taking existing PC operating systems, Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD and break them down to their best components, and then interlink them using COM allowing you to glue the best parts together like lego.

And the project was called OSKit.

It was fantastic for something unknown at the time for creating so called ‘bare metal programs’ that didn’t have a real operating system, but rather could use operating features like LIBC, or the EXT2 filesystem."

[...]

>"I was kind of surprised it never really took off, maybe

it was too far ahead of it’s time."
That's fine. It's just that when you get to the very bottom of axioms, it can get a little weird. Like, is the underlying basis the one, the nothing or the all? Is it being or not being? That is metaphysical -- and has implications for the foundation of any axiom, no?
Nice article. That said, to talk about the benefits of software federations without conceding that cryptocurrency is the ultimate foundation for such an ecosystem is delusional.

Money is the only incentive which works in our modern age. Any federated or decentralized system needs to start with money because money is the ultimate tool for control.
Ask HN: What privacy apps do you use?
Ask HN: What privacy apps do you use to protect your data safe?
Well, if you all guys here are EU citizens then interestingly you have same attitude against FB. Looks like EU should get clear green light from its society to stop people data harrasment.
Hi HN,

I want to show you my solo project, Makely, which I have been working on for a little over a year.

Makely lets you find 3D printing enthusiasts and small businesses that will help you to 3D print your ideas.

I created Makely because I saw how, despite existing giants like 3DHubs or Shapeways, 3D printing is innaccessible to the everyday user. With current platforms, the minimum requirement is an existing 3D model - this is actually quite a high barrier - 3D modelling is hard, and modelling for printing has its own requirements.

Makely eliminates the need to have a 3D model ready and any knowledge of suitable materials. You just need to post a description of your project and the creators on the platform will send you a quote of how much it would cost.

If you own a 3D printer, you can start earning by taking on projects.

Happy to answer any questions!

- Petar
Olduvai Theory
I don't have an account with Quantcast. That's the whole point.
well, it used to be like that in less civilized times, except you'd be spending your first 6 years of life training for work and then work for the rest of it, be it another 6 or maybe 30. no weekends and winters sucked really, really hard.
The XML version of lisp is far more readable and intuitive.
go with apple, get App store serfdom. Go with google, you get smoother sailing until one day they cancel the sea. Moral of the story is dont build long term on these platforms. Use them as an onramp and get out. The web is still our most open precious platform. TBL never banned anyone