skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'll indulge some science fiction dreams: I'd want something like the canadarm on the ISS but with ~4 segments of 50 cm each, a multipurpose gripper/vacuum/button presser attachment on one side and it'd be attached to some sort of rail system on the ceiling and/or walls.

Software wise it'd be both individually programmable and have access to some sort of thingiverse equivalent with actions that others have dreamed up. Otherwise it would not really need an internet connection at all, except perhaps to the local wifi to talk to other more-or-less automated systems in the same house.

For applications, some of the ideas I had while typing the rest of this comment:

- If there is a package outside the door, open the door, pull the package inside, close the door again.

- If the mail has been delivered (for houses that have a front door with a mail slot in them), use the vacuum attachment to pick up the mail and deliver it to a central location (desk? dinner table? kitchen?)

- If the dishwasher is done, use universal gripper to pull it open, open the closet and put the dishes away. (Or into a drying rack, whatever).

- For most people I know the washing machine for dirty laundry is someplace away from the bedroom. I don't think it'd be reasonable with current tech to expect robot folding of clothing but at least it could pick up dirty laundry from various places where it's collected and bring it to the washing machine so people only have to come in and turn the machine on.

- Depending on how good the gripper is and how well adapted my coffee machine is to it, perhaps it could pick up a coffee capsule and prepare it while I'm in the shower.

- Once per day it would make a round around all the bathrooms and refill the spare toilet paper roll holder if there is only one roll left.

- Maybe it could wipe down sinks and stuff regularly too.

All in all, it'd be useful several times per day I think. Not doing anything I couldn't do myself but definitely taking care of various simple chores throughout the day. It would need pretty good sensor coverage as well of course. Finally, I realize that with current tech this would be prohibitively expensive.
I haven't used gnome since I tried version 2, and KDE was before then. I spent years on icewn, blackbox and fluxbox, but now I'm happy enough with xfce.

I haven't customised things like colours on my user interface since the days on windows 3.1 though. Mouse focus, click to hover, highlight to copy, various keyboard shortcuts for sticking windows in the right place (top left, bottom right, full screen, half screen, etc) sure, but colours?
Is the more accurate statement "The Poisson distribution is the limit of the Binomial as n goes to infinity" not a better summary?
It did until recently (6.x series).

With 7.x series, XP is not suported anymore.
Ask HN: How do you share secret configs with your team members?
I always struggle to share secret configs with someone else working on the same project. I wonder if there is a secure way that HN community uses that I don't know about. Thanks!
People have been saying that since the first implementation of System Integrity Protection/Gatekeeper 5 years ago. It's been long enough to the point I think your comments counts as FUD... yes they can do it, but there hasn't been any indication they would.
Deaths and injuries don’t “continue” to rise. They’ve been falling dramatically since the 80s. They’ll continue to do so because of safety technologies like rear cameras, blind spot monitoring, lane departure detection, etc.

My balance is based on my personal values and risk assessment. I don’t fear injuries or death when I get on the road. Nor do I fear it when walking or on my bicycle. Overall the system is pretty safe and I like my modern conveniences. My point is simply to say that perfect safety isn’t a realistic or desirable goal since the returns for the risks are high.
I think you're right about the touchpad, it's my understanding they removed scrollbar visibility because of that input style, however ATM I'm using windows and and I have a trackball with a scroll wheel and I very regularly look at the scrollbars when I'm doing C#, or looking at browsing in palemoon, my two main activities. It tells me where I am (heavily looked at in vis stdio), which us part of the reason some people (not me) like minimaps.
Not much so far. Probably going to renew the TinkerCrates for my son, and drop the Doodle and Maker crates for my daughter and wife, they just didn't end up doing them but my son can't get enough of them.

Bought my wife the Paprika recipe app on the black friday sale so she automatically had the recipes I had been entering for the last year. I mean, it was $3 instead of $5 or something, but she hasn't really felt the need for a recipe app. I've loved Paprika if for no other reason than 95% of the time I can point it at a web page and it strips off all the surrounding prose and just gives me the recipe.

Some random crafting stuff to make home-made Christmas gifts and ornaments. My wife was just selecting some 3D ornament models to print as samples to select from earlier today.
How is this not copyright infringement?
Interesting... I’ll try to add some kind of indicator to show there’s some more content below the fold
My initial comment said that, but was edited 30 minutes prior to your reply to include ‘as much as they do in their current forms’ to make my point clearer. I’m not sure if you had the old message cached, but I’d recommend re-reading the point I was making. I don’t believe we disagree with each other. Stopping distance does matter, but there are solutions that exist that are cheaper, more effective, and less destructive. It unfortunately feels like you’re the one being snarky though by comparing street-level solutions like daylighting intersections to idealistic daydreaming and something only fit for an ‘Emperor of the world’ to take on. In reality, those changes typically come up during community meetings and DOT planning sessions. Hardly emperor-level discussions, and input is typically open to the public.
A truck mounted machine gun parked 150 meters from the principal’s house did not seem like a problem to the security team? Are they that common in Iran?
Actually n=2*83=166
The course is apparently being released when the accompanying book is complete. The book is free, and you can see the current version here: https://cryptobook.us/
Eliminating risk. Planting a car bomb is a high risk for the attacker. This remote control truck belongs to a person who left the country (Iran) about a month ago.
A simple bomb does not have enough certainty that it will destroy its target without exerting exorbitant amounts of explosives.

Yes this strategy is much more complex but I would argue it has more precision and certainty around its efficacy.
Why not simply use BitWarden?
MPA Hits MediaBox HD on GitHub: “Massive” Movie and TV Show Piracy
> “ You will often find that the 4th or 5th comment will have a sensible commentary on what that means for the market, the synergies, challenges, etc.”

It sounds like you have your own personal opinion of which commentary is “sensible” that you want to see.

But nobody is obligated to share your opinion. The point of democratic upvoting and downvoting is precisely to allow everyones’ different opinions of what makes a valuable comment to compete and the net result determines comment order.

It’s rude for you to imply the result of that process has a “signal to noise” problem. That’s your opinion, which you can use to vote like everyone else. If you don’t like the results, that doesn’t mean you should rudely insult them by suggesting the situation needs “improvement” due to poor “signal to noise” problems.

Given the insulting nature of your post and the implied arrogance of believing your assessment of sensible comments is better than the community average, I’m inclined to believe that if the type of comment you would prefer isn’t appearing in the top few, that’s probably a good thing, as it means these negative qualities of your own communication might be less correlated to the top voted posts.
I love how the circuit diagrams were part of the manuals. Admittedly, an Amiga 500 was vastly less complex than a modern computer, but still: what today companies like Apple want to keep under wraps, so not everybody can just repair anything easily, everyone got whether they wanted/needed it or not.

Amiga nostalgia isn't just nostalgia, the Amiga was great. From age 10 to 14 most of my life revolved around my Amiga 500 and then Amiga 4000, and while it was great then, too, I feel doubly blessed in hindsight, considering what tech has become and where it's heading, to have been allowed to catch a brief glimpse of what could have been. And the music. All that music.
>>We must bring the security to each individual endpoint.

>Why? Why must we treat adults as children

I am suggesting the opposite. Rather than treat adults as children and censoring what they can and can not see. I am suggesting we give them the skills to critically analyze input they receive.

> that we have been entrusted with, and that it is our responsibility to give them 'mental medicine'? What makes our thinking superior to others' that we need to lord over them in this way?

Why provide any education at all then? As a society it is our responsibility to skill the next generation with the skills they need to operate in our society. I believe critical thinking skills is one of these required skills.

> I believe that these ideals are bottom-up. We form governments that align with the ideals of the people, not the other way around

I agree with this. But to get the best form of government we need educated and intelligent citizens.

> If the people out of choice or ignorance no longer care about the ideals of liberal democracy, who are we to force them onto others?

We really are fucked then aren't we. I kind of like living in a liberal democracy. If we throw our current system out due to ignorance I am very confident what comes next will not be superior. I'm not willing to accept that as path we take.
I wouldn't trust Apple with anything. Lock-in is their bread and butter. Just because they didn't lock something down for some time means nothing given they are very aggressive with lock-in in other areas. You don't need FUD to know their infamous reputation.
This is just a fictional story, right? ...right?
I am learning programming in C++ and found this course nice.
C++ Data Structures in the STL
https://www.coursera.org/projects/cpp-data-structures-in-the...
For most people outside US, like over 7 billion people, both of these would be invalid webs of trust.
Try taking melatonin when you wake up too early (0.3 mg, from NootropicsDepot). Taken in the morning it pushes your wakeup time later. Won't make you fall asleep, but in a few days it shoulx be noticeable.

I'm managing the same insomnia with very low dose of mirtazepine (1mg per evening) and the occasional ambien when I wake up.
Beating Up on Qsort (2019)
It's called WPAR. LPARs are hypervisor level partitioning.
It's like "third party investigation."

In other words, BS with no teeth.
A car bomb might accidentally kill or injure innocent bystanders.

A surgically precise assassination is its own message: "We kill exactly who we mean to and you cannot stop us."

Pretty scary stuff.
Michael Abrash is an excellent chronicler of technical history. Reading through his contributions is always time well spent.

See also https://fabiensanglard.net/ for a more contemporary take. His 'Black Books' on Wolfenstein and Doom are directly inspired by Abrash.
Ask HN: Where do you host images for your markdown documents?
I work a lot with Markdown files and Jupyter Notebooks. Including images in these public documents is always problematic. I can use some basic Image hosting services (imgBB, Imgur, etc), but there are 3 problems:

1. I can't be sure my image will be deleted without me knowing (so I need to keep backups in versioned repos or google drive)
2. I don't have a visibility of the status of those images: if the service is ever down, if they have downgraded the quality, etc.
3. The interface isn't great. I'd like something more markdown-friendly. Ideally with "paste from clipboard" capabilities.

Is there any service that can handle these use cases? Am I alone in this or you folks also face the same issues?

Ideally, I'd love to hook up my S3 account (or generate some keys for the service) and they could keep an automatic backup for me.

Thanks!
Because people on the right only lie?
In my robotics experience I've come to the conclusion that some problems just need to get back to the physics, and trying to put labels on things like "grasp" is fraught with problems that constrain things in unhelpful ways.

It's more useful to think in terms of what forces are needed to be applied to the environment to accomplish a task. Then you can build a solver to develop innovative physics based solutions that are unconstrained by the semantics.
What about lefty antivaxers?
But for the time it looked OK, especially on the typical bedroom 14" CRT.
Hashicorp's Nomad comes close to meeting these requirements: https://www.nomadproject.io/

If you want to stick with k8s, the k3s project is an attempt to simplify it: https://k3s.io/
any good reason to use this over v8/Node?
Software developers, unfortunately a mistreated and underappreciated lot, love to be called engineers because it gives them gravitas.
2k+Games+and+Counting:+GeForce+NOW+Library+Taking+Shape –+Nvidia+Blog
> A 2017 scientific literature search of 13 industrialized and industrializing countries found that an average car loses between a quarter kilogram and two kilograms of tire fragments annually. In the car-happy United States, the amount jumps to nearly five kilograms—or about the weight of a cat.[1]

1. https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/when-rubber-hits-the-...
Their effects weren't, which is the point the parent was making I think.
Who is funding those goons?
> you believe nothing is a fact

No, but I do believe that “fact-checkers” get it wrong often enough to be skeptical about what they say is.
Not coursera
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtl7M3yp-DV69F32zdK7...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL462275E91FC7844D
From the very twitter thread you're replying to: https://mobile.twitter.com/marcan42/status/13331260180689551...
Well... not a direct answer to your question, but I was prompted to post this as a result of seeing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235772. An excerpt from the article there:

> Tires have one engineering principle that’s unlikely to change: they shed. The friction of rubber on abrasive surfaces is what allows a heavy vehicle to grip roads and stop when needed, sloughing off bits and pieces of the tire. A 2017 scientific literature search of 13 industrialized and industrializing countries found that an average car loses between a quarter kilogram and two kilograms of tire fragments annually. In the car-happy United States, the amount jumps to nearly five kilograms—or about the weight of a cat.
I'm a pretty big fan of plain text for many things, but in this case it seems significantly simpler to just use a more full-featured password manager. I'm not sure I really see the benefit of a system like this.

This setup (as well as pass) has one security downside over other password managers like 1Password, BitWarden, etc.: they leak information through the filenames you use to organize your passwords. Depending on who you are and your threat model, it could be pretty bad if someone gets a hold of your password store that contains an (encrypted) file called `silk road` or whatever.
It does not need to sell in any quantities. The mere presence of it hurts the trademark.
"Just 2D" isn't really a thing, given modern GPU usage is all based on fully programmable 3D pipelines anyway. What I mean is the endless frustrating job of debugging closed source game corner cases (and often outright game bugs) is less critical here, since those games won't exist for ARM anyway. If it gets to the point where X11 and Wayland, desktop environments, common widget toolkits, browsers, media players, etc work smoothly and stably and perform well, then a lot of people will be very happy already. The long tail will always be there to chip at, and that will take years (not like vendor drivers are bug-free on any OS either!), but it's not a blocking factor to a usable desktop Linux experience. Lower-hanging fruit first.
Something like this? https://www.theburnin.com/technology/toyota-ceiling-mounted-...

Thanks for enumerating the use cases. They are fun to think about. I wanted to dive into the first application you mentioned. As mentioned in my post, even the most basic manipulation tasks on human-centric objects and spaces are actually full of little details.

I hope people think more on that low-level dextrous manipulation when designing robot hardware rather than the fairly high level "open door, pull package inside, close the door", which might make robotics people receptive to the idea that a humanoid is truly the only viable solution.

What if your door has a step down to the porch where the package is delivered? The robot can't "just" pull a large box inside, it would get stuck. You'd need to lift it up, and at this point you'd require two arms or a gantry that can extend outside of the home above the porch. Obviously the home can be re-designed around this, but my point is that there are really two kinds of robotics - ones that try to solve a human problem, and ones that try to do everything a human can.
I use vim to develop, and it runs on Rosetta just fine, so I can continue to use all my existing plugins.

Don't forget—Vim comes as a Universal binary, so it already runs natively on the M1.

/usr/bin/vim: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
[x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64e]
/usr/bin/vim (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/usr/bin/vim (for architecture arm64e): Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64e
A meeting room filled with endless cameras and censors to record and judge every facial expression and body movement I make...

Do they purposefully make these patent diagrams look as dystopic as possible?
It's worth noting that my use of GPG is completely disjoint from everything moxie discusses here.

I use GPG to sign things. Git commits, mostly, but I've used it to sign legal documents as well, and a small grab-bag of other cases.

Is it the best for this application? It is not. Many of the objectionable aspects of the PGP standard apply to signing as well.

But also, yes, it is: it's supported by GitHub and GitLab, and if any other way of signing commits is supported, I'm not aware of that.

I'd be happy to switch to a better, modern cryptosystem for signing things, if it were adequately supported.

What I never do, is use GPG for encrypted communication. Given moxie's particular claim to fame, I don't blame him for focusing on that application, and he is (of course) correct: if you're using GPG to communicate 'securely', stop.
One example of what you're talking about is the conservapedia: https://conservapedia.com/Main_Page. Although it doesn't allow tracking edits like you mentioned.
Enough to wear the treads down.
Agree. No guarantees, but I think the most reliable way to expose bad ideas is to actually expose them. Shine the light of critical examination on them. Don't try to stuff them into a closet and lock the door.
I second the recommendation for "Automata Theory", the explanations are crystal clear and I learned a lot.
I think there have been many missed opportunities in computing, however I'd suggest that the Internet and GPL (open source licencing in general) would have come regardless of the diversity of operating systems. Both these two innovations have really bound the software world together - compatability these days is really at the TCP level (eg. docker and APIs) and allows for a massive diversity of architectures (kafka, istio, materialize.io, IFTTT, Macrometa etc) - the bar has moved in a way.

Having said that, some of the missed opportunities of note are:

MINT: Gem and Tos weren't really developed much by Atari, but they did buy in MINT which has preemptive multi tasking and memory protection. With the Aes being retargetable (graphic cards), gdos vector fonts and postscript printing, tcp and lan networking stacks, shell, global shortcut system, posix compatibility and multi-user capabilities, it managed to evolve Tos to effectively a unix with usable desktop aka a standard OSX or linux-on-the-desktop well before now.

Secondly, choosing A2 instead of Android would have been huge. A compiled multithreaded, multitasking self-hosted OS with GC, zooming UI, 3x faster than Linux and small enough for one person to understand (250k kernel).

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20....

One other benefit here would have been no Google-Oracle lawsuit to mess with API copyright :)
Attorney featherbedding. One gets paid to issue, one gets paid to respond. Did I mention lawyers aren’t my favorite group of people? LPL is a notable exception.
That is insane speedup! Thanks for sharing. How do I find next and hasNext is the bottleneck? Should I run profiler to see if they are being called a large number of times?
I was unable to find the original tweets that are in the picture, do you have another source?
Initial reports were of a car bomb powerful enough to knock out a power line, and gunmen shooting the scientist up after. The only consistent thing I've read is that a Nissan was involved. We'll probably never know what actually happened.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/world/middleeast/iran-ass...
I rewatch B5 every few years. It still looks great with some exceptions (Vorlon planet killer looks like it didn't get much time).
Visual method for solving polynomials (Lill's method)
This is not even remotely what I was saying.
Considering how long wearing economy tires fly off the shelves compared to "nice" tires that easily have 10-20% more traction I think that society has made its preferences quite clear.

What I want to know is how many of the people in these comments talking about unconscionable even an extra millimeter of stopping distance is are actually putting their money where their mouth is and buying season specific tires.
It was created originally at Bloomberg but I've never heard of that level of adoption internally in BBG. Nowadays from what I've seen the highest adoption is at various web devs in Europe and US.
Not to mention the energy consumption involved in hovering instead of being supported by the ground.
That's not the thing that got Microsoft into trouble.

>Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his findings of fact on November 5, 1999, which stated that Microsoft's dominance of the x86-based personal computer operating systems market constituted a monopoly, and that Microsoft had taken actions to crush threats to that monopoly, including Apple, Java, Netscape, Lotus Software, RealNetworks, Linux, and others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

It's the taking actions to crush threats to that monopoly part of the equation that got Microsoft into trouble.
Setting Up Laravel on macOS
Well for filming people you can use a wireless lav.
Adobe Flash/Animate provided a best-in-class animation and vector art package that still has little competition. Animate can actually export to HTML5, but they didn't bother using the SVG/SMIL animation model. Instead, they pre-render everything as a series of spritesheets and render them to a canvas.

I can see why they did this - the SVG and canvas vector rendering models are different enough to make blindly rendering SWF content to it cause rendering artifacts. (It's one of our biggest longstanding bugs in Ruffle - canvas masks just look weird.) However, Adobe could have ameliorated this either in the exporter, the authoring environment, or by pushing for Flash-style mask options in web standards that deal with vector rendering. Instead, they went with the far worse but quicker option of prerendering so they could say "hey we totally do HTML5 now".