skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Autogyros are cool, not quite a helo and quite a plane. They have several unique advantages and are undergoing a modern renaissance after being used in the very first days of non-fixed wing flight:

-Inexpensive and reliable. Far simpler to build and fly vs a helicopter

-Can fly at very low speeds without stalling

-VERY short landing, pretty much anywhere. Not quite so short take-off, but pre-spooling the horizontal rotary wing can mitigation this.

Cost and low stall speed are probably the biggest factors for their choice of autogyro.
Vocdoni Bridge, a universally verifiable digital voting protocol for Ethereum
The open alternatives for the Nordic NRF5x are not at the same quality level as the Softdevice:

- the idle power consumption is noticeably higher, there are open bugs for more than 1 year about that

- They are not validated by the Bluetooth consortium. You're gonna need to get your own certification to claim product supports BLE.

If you're building a commercial BLE product - my advice: go with Softdevice.
I think one would look for a mechanism for how that could work. "How could grip training increase lifespan?"

I can't think of a mechanism for that effect, where something else wouldn't be probably better way to spend that effort. Like cardio training.
Yep, I've found I'm less effective at remembering fully detailed information but more effective at remembering 'bread crumbs' which let me quickly find the information in documentation or online. It's sort of like I store the index internally and the data table externally.
So you are taking the contents of the article at face value, but somehow I am the silly person doing mental gymnastics?

Common sense is essentially how people think. Scientists are also people. If claims don't add up or data is missing to support a claim, common sense can be used to spot it.
Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products
That difference is the entire point of the comment thread, though - the reason ransomware thrives on Bitcoin, but not on cash.
It certainly has improved.

Don't worry though, you can still select another filesystem at install time.
https://corrierefiorentino.corriere.it/firenze/notizie/crona...

> Mediante alcune aziende dell’hinterland fiorentino, pratese e dell’empolese - le stesse che producono quelle che poi diventano le vere borse firmate - il gruppo provvedeva a tutte le fasi produttive e commerciali

your turn.
This so much. When I first learned about how US copyright laws were extended (and then pushed on the rest of the world via trade deals, etc), my respect for IP rules plummeted. In college I had no qualms using Napster, and later bitorrent, etc.

Even today, I get frustrated by geo-ip blocking (I'm Canadian) and I have no idea how I'm going to watch the Animaniacs reboot (Hulu isn't available here). Even worse, a lot of content gets licenced to Canadian media companies which then (if I legally want to) force me to watch through terrible apps with terrible commercial interruptions at bad times. The last movie I tried to legally watch via that last method has 20 minutes of commercials for every hour of the film.

I pay for Netflix and Apple music because they're affordable and extremely convenient, but get in my way and I'll have no qualms finding a better way.
What GitHub Pays Senior Software Engineers vs. Google, Microsoft
The world's unwillingness to do so boils down to two reasons.

Firstly, all of the proposed courses of action involve giving more power to the US, which shall I remind you, kills millions of people in wars like it's nothing. It's not clear at all that decreasing China's power but increasing that of the US will do any good to anyone. Just in Iraq, the US killed more people than anyone accuses China of imprisoning illegitimately. So unless you can find a way to reduce China's power without also increasing that of the US, no one outside of those under US propaganda or interest will want to do much of anything.

Secondly, China is a nuclear armed country. Intervening in their domestic affairs is not easily done.

Finally, comparing the CCP to the NSDAP is frankly absurd. They are not comparable. The Nazi party wanted to kill around a third of the world's population and enslave another third. The CCP is accused, at worst, to be trying to change the culture of one of their provinces using inhumane tactics and torture, which sadly is just par for the course for the world in general.
Post really resonated with me which is perhaps ironic given I’m looking to switch back to being an IC after 3 years. I think I got pretty good managing in that time (at least, got much better than I was). But at the end of the day, I feel the IC tracks pays roughly the same for much less stress. And it’s much more intuitively rewarding. Yes, coaching up someone and seeing them get a promotion is great. But it takes so long to get that payoff. Ultimately, for me it’s a question of happiness.

Plus, if you’re a good leader you don’t really need the title to affect change.

Total aside but the comment about joking “you’re fired”— does that actually happen? It’s just so...unfunny. In any context. Never mind being super inappropriate. I ask because this is the second post on software eng. mgmt that’s mentioned that exact point.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_time#UTC_in_Wind...

IME it worked better the other way around, setting Linux to local time. But the Wiki recommends the opposite.
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It's the same with npm for Node.js, there is a company behind the package manager.
Off-topic, but there's one funny thing about psychiatric clinics. Waiting rooms are completely silent. Everywhere else, patients (especially elderly) won't shut up about their pains and treatments.
I have PiHole set up, and it's great. I do need to figure out a way to VPN to my pihole while I'm out and about.

I also am using cloudflared so my upstream provider is CIRA's excellent Canadian Shield DNS provider and all the clients in the house end up going over DNS-over-HTTPS.

If you upgrade your router to something like FreshTomato or DD-WRT, you have a lot more control over what DNS servers you advertise to clients on the network.
Plato's Phaedrus (c. 360 B.C.E.)

> ... If men learn [writing], it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written ...

http://www.umich.edu/~lsarth/filecabinet/PlatoOnWriting.html
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I literally just spent an hour trying out different apps on a windows pc to annotate a scientific paper (standard arxiv paper) with a stylus.

The results are devastating... Every app is so broken, hidpi isn't there, font rendering is crap, touch on windows is essentially unusable, many apps didn't even let me un-fullscreen without going back to desktop mode (this is a convertible).

I surmise that the "upload your pdf and do the editing in the cloud" market only exists because the user story on windows is utter shit. It is so much worse than on debian, running on the same hardware. This includes the touch screen and stylus handling, font rendering, UI, responsiveness, essentially everything that people always claim linux is so bad at.

I'm not comparing it to apples's golden cage of course, they may have amazing pdf editing but I'm not interested.
Waymo and Daimler team up to sell autonomous trucks in the US
I spend a lot of time thinking about these sorts of topics (actually, I just taught a 4 hour session yesterday that used most of the terms in this article), working with newer, less experienced developers, and trying to figure how to distill the essence of "architecture" down to something simple that everyone can start with.

This is what I’ve started telling people:

Use mostly functions, try to make most of them pure.

I think that can get people (even new devs) 80% of the benefits (testability, composability, loose coupling, and the ability to reason about code) of more complicated, prescriptive architectures (Hexagonal, Onion, Ports & Adapters, Clean, etc) with a minimal amount of ramp up.

Of course, this isn't the solution to every problem (it obviously depends on the domain you are working in, for me its webDev and backends), but I think maybe its a good way for people to start.

Edit: Here is a great talk demonstrating that by following a simple functional approach, your code can naturally fall into a “pit of success”: https://youtu.be/US8QG9I1XW0
Exactly for the sharing features people have been discussing. It may be OK for the design team to download the app, but product managers, devs, marketers and other stakeholders don't want to also have to go through the trouble of downloading the app.

A primary thing Figma understood better than pretty much anyone else is how collaboration among different teams (not just design) works in product development.
I like that I have a large music library--some of which is at least a bit oddball and, I'm guessing, not available streaming. But that's in no small part because I ripped a large CD collection (and pulled other songs off Napster, mostly to replace songs I only had on old vinyl).

That said, I'm not at all sure that I'd try to build a library from scratch if I were starting today. Maybe I'd buy the odd album here and there but probably not wholesale.

As for video, the vast vast majority people of people don't buy a lot of DVDs any longer. Heck, I've certainly had people express surprise that I even own a DVD player.
Hope that you have been able to recover. Been there. Done that. Got the T-shirt (see "MRIs and CAT Scans," above).
How would a search engine be "severely limited, crippled, and provide a worse experience" when used from a web browser?
Yes but its us that live in era of weaponized attention grabbing.

People are being paid millions to figure out how to hijack your attention, how to use yourself (body, mind functions) against you.

Writing is a tool, it doesn't try to work against you, or have an agenda that might not be aligned with yours.
The crux of the problem seems to be "when merchants set up shop on Amazon, they waive their right to a day in court by agreeing to binding arbitration to resolve any disputes".

Is this even legal?
Same thing can be said for money, that money spent moving from the baker to the record store operator in days, is people money.

Money sitting in vault is rotting food and weekends not going to a rock show.

Inflation is a way to decay the power of money and make way for the new.
It did introduce Boba Fett, though. But yeah, it's still terrible.
>Ah yes, the notorious bitcoin that stole this data and extorted people. Curse this troublesome software that has gained sentience wreaks havoc on the world.

I see this exact argument -- almost word-for-word -- applied to guns.

I don't presume to know anything about you personally, nor about your political opinions, but I've encountered many west-coast, left-leaning, tech-industry professionals support $TECH on the basis of individual responsibility, whilst simultaneously opposing guns due to their potential for misuse.

What this tells me is that the "X isn't good or bad, it just depends on who's using it" argument is weak. It's weak in the sense that it doesn't capture the nuances that might make someone support bitcoin, but not guns.

(Again, I don't presume to know your thoughts on gun-ownership. I'm making a more general point.)
More a road-legal autogyro than a flying car.
A quick list (likely much more / more complicated than this) of carveouts I could find:

accountants

architects

cartographers

copy editors

dentists

direct sales salespersons

engineers

fine artists

fishermen working on an American vessel

freelance editors

freelance writers

insurance agents

insurance inspectors

investment advisers

landscape architects

lawyers

manufactured housing salespersons

musicians involved in sound recordings or musical
compositions

musicians with single-engagement live performances

newspaper cartoonists

photojournalists

podiatrists

private investigators

producers

professional foresters

psychologists

real estate appraisers

securities broker-dealers

still photographers

surgeons

translators

veterinarians

youth sports coaches

Industries with exemptions:

appraising

auditing

competition judging

copy editing and illustrations

digital content and feedback aggregation

home inspections

insurance underwriting inspections

international and cultural exchange services

landscape architecture

manufactured housing sales

master class performance

performing arts

recording arts and music

registered professional forestry

risk management and loss control

translation of documents

You make claims that this list is shorter than other non-trivial bills. I've worked in this space trying to get things right - this is BY FAR the hardest to implement law out there. A seller wants to sell their home, as part of that they pay out of escrow for an appraiser (normally handled as a contractor) to appraise the house. Under AB5 they had to HIRE that person as an employee in most cases - they are not even setup to run payroll!

An org wants to sponsor a "fellowship" for $1,000 or $2,000 to a student and have them attend an event / do a presentation. Can't do that under AB5, they can't be 1099'ed anymore, they are below exempt comp threshold, even if you pay them as non-exempt this student has to track their hours "working" for employer, get paid overtime etc. Reality - student doesn't want to track their hours, employer doesn't care and doesn't want to have to onboard and ramp up someone for a feel good thing like a $2,000 fellowship and program is cancelled.

You hire someone to write an article. Do you want them tracking their hours, do they? Will you hire them if you might have to pay for hours and overtime and missed meal breaks while someone is at home writing this article?

The list goes on.
I’m still on the fence. He claims no code has a niche “concretizing workflows”. The problem is vendor lock-in, as well as the myth of the non coding business analyst. I’ve seen enterprises sink millions into BPM software to crank out a few forms a Dev could do in open source code overnight. Inevitably the “business analysts” can’t use the tool either, so now the company gets 300/hr specialist Dev who only knows this bpm tool. Finally they realize the costs and absurdity, but are faced with upgrading or scrapping and rewriting these processes in custom code or the new hot tool.

Concretizing workflow is good, but take care what concrete you use and who pours it. Could end up pouring your company a new pair of boots if you know what I mean.
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The L.A. Dodgers Are Named After Terrified Brooklyn Pedestrians
Maps had a rough launch but I find it's good now tbh.
It also doesn't mean it is unhealthy. And yes long ditance running itself isn't HIIT, but if you are training to race a long distance, you will invariably be doing a lot of high intensity work.

You might not call it Tabata training, or HIIT, but once a week you are probably doing 6x15second sprints, every other week will do something like 10x60 hill repeats (which others might call a sprint), and most weeks will be running some form of speedwork. This could be 8x800m/2 minutes, some form of pyramid (1min, 2min, 3min, 2min,1min, 2 sets), or some other combination. All of these though come down to going unsustainably hard for a short period and then having a recovery period. Is that not what HIIT is?

The same applies to many other sports where this simple caricature is applied. Most sports, done right, do involve high intensities, and recoveries.
...added electrical subsystem, replaced combustion engine with batteries and electric motors, we're adding various degree of autonomy.

In parallel, we've replaced sane controls with frustrating and dangerous touchscreens, we've added countless types of comfort features, we've improved security, we've computerized engine controls, we've DRMed the car - ostensibly to prevent theft, but actually to route more money from aftermarket towards the manufacturers. Etc.

Cars do suffer feature creep, and not all of the features are beneficial to their owners. Just like with the web.
Just for clarification - those numbers are 550,000 lbf for the BE-4 and 500,000 lbf for the Raptor.
Without intending to criticize your relationship to your girlfriend, I think your experience presents a lesson in client-provider relations. It’s absolutely vital that you understand your client’s needs before running off and building them a solution they may reject out of hand.

An overpowered Windows machine is best suited for gaming, not design work. Vector graphics tools like Sketch work fine on a MacBook. They don’t need a desktop grade CPU with tons of RAM and a powerful video card.
The initial post and data dump was on a Finnish TOR-based imageboard but it was written in English. It is still being discussed if the hacker actually is from Finland but uses English to not reveal that.

Most Finnish people are fluent in English so it wasn't an issue. The leak was in Finnish mainstream media before the Finnish extortion mails were even sent. When the mails were sent, all hell went loose.
[Off-topic] I see the other post on Scott's blog "My summer 2020 road trip along the Italian Riviera", and I have to give impressions.

It's not the first time I hear the story along the tune of "we went on vacation, and it was so strange, everything was deserted, people were masked". There's a reason for that - it's called a pandemic, it's taking lives in the thousands per day. Yet, people still can't seem to rationalize that we shouldn't do unnecessary trips, even if we really, really need a vacation right now (and probably everybody does).

The author said they chose Italy because they were "only country that seemed to have a handle on infections". Again - that's because Italy was the hardest hit country at the start of the European side of the pandemic. It's like saying "Wuhan seems to know how to deal with the issue".

Usually, I go for the ad-hominem attack "people are too uneducated, they don't understand..." when I see this kind of behavior. But this year - I see it over and over again in highly (formally) educated (PhD-level) people, who keep track with things, are aware - and yet, can't help themselves. Scott certainly doesn't seem like a uninformed person, nor is he blind to the situation. That's the kind of contradictory examples that whisper "this isn't going to be OK, we're always going to have easy short-sighted goals that will justify the risk and make us go downhill".

I do see that Scott is the original poster, and would like to hear the rationalization beyond "we really needed a vacation".
“Start at the edge, typically with an API gateway, and work inwards”
Ryan Dahl has talked about how he regrets making npm the default package manager for Node. I think its smart to have some explicit separation between framework and package manager.
I still know Amiga inside out, even after all these years. I don't have to look up that $dff180 is palette entry 0. Or how to set up BPLCON and bitplane pointers, etc. in a copper list to set up a graphics mode.

Alternatively you could of course do those the "proper" way through exec.library vector at address $4. But the name of the game was to extract all the performance available and that meant bypassing the operating system. :-)

Programming Motorola 68000 was so simple and enjoyable. A very elegant and orthogonal design!

I miss Amiga.
In a real project - millions of lines of code - there is no chance to understand it all. You have to trust the abstraction does what it says without caring how it works. You only break the abstraction and understand when you have reason to suspect that it somehow isn't obeying your quick mental model of what it does - normally this means you suspect the bug you are working on is down that abstraction, but sometimes it is just the name is bad and so you need to figure out what it is really doing.
Another good one is called “Moonwalking with Einstein.” Very interesting and entertaining, I highly recommend it.
My reasoning is something like: I didn't really mind not existing for 14 billion years, why should I worry about not existing after I die.
We are really good at adapting. Today I and my phone can do better at remembering stuff I need, than me without phone 10 years ago.

Is this really a problem if you think about it from the standpoint of human evolution?
According to the hacker (messages with tripcode on TOR imageboard) the DB was using a public IP and he gained access with root:root credentials.
> So I don't speak Finnish, but to commit extortion in Finland you probably need to right?

Reportedly, the extortionists bought translation services from a TOR chan.
I don't think that is unusual.

I also don't try hard to memorise things I know I can trivially lookup.

Other things I have a directory called `useful_things` that has markdown files broken down by category I can quickly grep for that thing I remember I needed but not how to do.
How does the number of packages in nixos compare to, say, arch's aur? Looking around, I see a decent selection, but I figured I would get more feedback from the community.

Also, what don't you like about nixos?
Ok, cool, I stopped reading because i felt confused
Remember that fire was also a technology at one point. Our species is sustained by technology and there's no going back. There's always going to be some baseline we can't live without.
It's so easy to write those words, but so hard to put your own name and reputation behind it. I would like to know persons behind it and their expertise.

Trust us, we are website and service running from digital ocean.
Perhaps you can explain this part from the post you linked which is perplexing me:

> AppDomainAffine, therefore, would be a more appropriate name. Unusual perhaps, but that's because of the common drift toward the mechanics of things and away from concepts (because the mechanics are usually much easier to get for techies)

how is 'AppDomainAffine' not a concept?
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The irony of reading this, over two thousand years later, translated into a different language, presumably by someone who is, even after all this time, still able to read the original--it's almost like writing helps us remember, as a species, in ways that would have otherwise been almost completely impossible.
Not just health care, but income as well.

Now, I live in a third world country, and have had cancer scares and other medical checkups that only cost me a few hundred US dollars vs. the tens of thousands that _would_ have cost me if I had lived in the US.

I'm probably never going back, partially because of this. I make a good living. Better than I would be back in the States.
If an argument is applied inconsistently, that is not necessarily a flaw of the argument.
Employees suffer data breach, and company pays a €35.2 million fine to Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.

Employees are the ones that suffered, but do they get anything?
Caching is not only magic
One thing isn't clear to me, for lack of background knowledge: have there been several strains since the beginning of the pandemic, or is this study based on evidence of mutation in the wild?

It sounds like the former, but since it wasn't explicitly addressed in the abstract, I thought I'd ask.
> Everywhere else, patients (especially elderly) won't shut up about their pains and treatments.

That is not my experience with clinics at all. People waiting for doctor usually wait silently.
How do you know he wasn’t right and writing indeed worsened our memory? Maybe you’d remember who it was if not for knowing it is written down somewhere.
So if Apple give up on Google - how can they replace the revenue Google gives Apple?

Google makes money by building a profile on every internet user and then uses those profiles to target advertisement.

Can Apple do something similar? Apple not so long ago offered iAd:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd
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