skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true... Even in 2021 robots are not graceful. I think of those old videos with Honda's Asimo that look a little painful. Asimo solves for the configuration space that the joints move through, it can't take advantage of the momentum of the body, so it works really hard to move awkwardly.

Newer robots are better but still have a way to go.
Remote work has been around quite a while. Used to be called 'offshoring'. The main driver is raw economics: the price of tech labor is too high. 'Social distancing' is simply an excuse to push it into overdrive.
I'll probably match with a 51 year old Austrian woman who acts like a 22 year old, or my sister.
Severe migraine sufferer.
At peak in bed 20 hours a day lights offs
Almost a former one now.
Those are all key vitamins that I take that have helped immensely.
Would add vit D, e.
Also anti inflammatory diet.
Also eliminating caffeine.

Energy level isn’t where I want it, but getting better.
For the same reason public-key signatures are worth trusting: if correctly designed and validated, it's computationally intractable to construct one without the information (private key or otherwise) being proved. (You do lose the inability of coparties to prove that you know the thing, but that's not always a problem.)
I think using NetBSD might put you in the nerd camp ;-)
> If the server operators rebel, they can effectively veto a change the vendor wants to make.

How often do you think there will be a change so controversial that teams who have volunteered to secure the update system will start effectively carrying out a Denial of Service attack against all the users of that distro?

We also have to imagine that these malicious attestation nodes can easily be ignored by users just updating a config file, so the only thing the node operators could achieve by boycotting the attestation process is temporarily inconveniencing people who used to rely on them (which is not a great return on investment for the reputation they burn in doing this).
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> I have scarring from a TB vaccine on my arm the size of a dime.

That isn't some systemic malady, it's a scar. I've got one from cutting myself shaving, but shaving isn't really a problem.

> You have negative, declining reproductive rate hovering around 1.6

This is clearly because people are choosing to have fewer children as they get richer. And is a bizarre point as you earlier argued that the virus killing people was good for "natural balance."

It's really hard to believe you're acting in good faith here and not just trolling.
As a person? Kind of an idiot. As an architect? Most of his stuff predated the stuff I'm thinking of, and most his work is at least interesting to look at, despite apparently being not very well-designed overall. I don't know if you'd necessarily look to him for examples of modernism
Piggy-backing on the top-most-voted comment for those that will only read this one and not go to page 2 or onward.

Drama gets heavily upvoted.

If you keep scrolling you will find many individuals whose experience did NOT match this person (or OP's), who have a good work life balance, solve challenging tasks, and think this is the best job they've ever had.

I'm one of those people.

I've been at Amazon for almost 10 years, worked on a half dozen teams. Sure, there were outliers and a couple bad managers I've worked with, and some folks who left the company on bad terms.

But by and large, the experiences I had in 2 different countries on 2 different continents were mostly positive.

Yes, my job is tough. Yes, the oncall can be challenging sometimes too.

But I've also never stopped growing in the last decade, and have achieved bigger things than I ever thought possible.

Every single product and feature I've shipped have been immensely successful because of Amazon's deeply ingrained "Working backwards from the customer culture". And since that's what drives me - shipping cool stuff and having users on Twitter go crazy for it, I have never been more fulfilled.

Amazon is huge. There are now >60,000 Software Development Engineers worldwide. I'm not in Seattle but I'm in one of the largest offices outside of it.

So I'm sure every single horror story is true. But even so, they are a minute exception, and not most people's rule.
Highest budgets still aren't very high though. It's anchored low.
I don’t know how to square this description of high quality outdoor spaces with your claim above that it exists in the suburbs of American cities (is this your claim?), and my understanding of American cities. Is there some specific place you have in mind? Or is “high quality” relative with you describing an unattained ideal here and the reality further above?
I say we catch that sucker, tow it into our neck of the woods as a second moon, and use it as a space port. Are there a million problems with this proposal? Yes. But would it be totally rad to do this? Also yes.
There was some controversy here (Sydney) when it came out that one of our local universities (UTS) had been working on facial recognition that was then used for exactly this purpose [0].

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-16/australian-unis-to-re...
Body-coupled power transmission and energy harvesting
Looking at KSP, this is a courtesy of the developers since they decided to keep other versions available as _beta branches_.

This is certainly not the common case. Look at other games, Doom Eternal, Hollow Knight, Arma 3, Divinity: Original Sins 2, ... They don't offer that.

Look at the automatic update settings. There is no option to not update a game at all such that you can keep playing the current version. At any setting it will still check for updates when you launch the game (for the first them since starting the Steam client).
As if there were all that many options to choose for.
There is absolutely nothing inherent in iPhone devices that would preclude them from using them as general purpose computers. For the amount of money I payed for them, I would better be able to use it some more than a fancy feature phone with better cameras. Hell, they have killer hardwares.
The fantasy weapon to kill something like that is a pulse laser or hypervelocity kinetic gun that produces a plasma explosion exceeding 30,000 K on the surface of the thing.

The plasma explosion creates an electromagnetic pulse exactly the same way that an atom bomb does, but it happens right on the casing of the thing and has a stronger effect.

That kind of electromagnetic pulse can directly trigger nerves to cause pain and a "stunning" effect, which together with the impact of the expanding fireball can have a knockdown effect. Somebody from Sandia National Labs told me about this possibility circa 1992, but research got stopped on it circa 2006 when it got out that it could cause pain without tissue damage and they might be zapping people with it at Gitmo.
Why is it that amongst all the tech Co's, Amazon seems to have the highest proportion of horror stories? It's almost a meme at this point.

I mean the forced attrition and PIP culture is a known thing (x% of employees must be let go each year). Google/Apple/etc. do not have forced attrition or a known PIP culture.

Bezos is on the record for having said "humans are lazy and we need to give them incentives to quit".

No other Tech CEO has said that.

So perhaps your story is the anomaly?
Reproducability is an option to mitigate backdoors and incentive developers to operate openly. It's no panacea, but it makes a lot of sense in open-source projects where individual actors are going to represent your largest threat vector. That way, it becomes a lot harder to push an infected blob to main, even if it still is technically possible. Hashes are also "technically pointless", but we still implement them liberally to quickly account for data integrity.
Nah, I do not need exposure, it is just another side project. You may make a better argument with saying that the bar of that project is set too low (academically, technically, commercially, whatever), which I can see as well and agree. Then, I also have to turn off this device, go out of my cubicle and meet real people from any environment and segment of life. That’s where the need for compiling such admittedly bland summaries was felt the most, at least becoming able to offer a few, valuable references to the fellows asking for them.
As they should be.
Children don't raise themselves, this is real work.

I am not talking about money, but time, opportunity cost.

Rapid population growth has been achieved by forced dedication of half of the population to this task, this is not free.
Apple really needs to do something about these calendar scams
I would go with random but with limited strikes on prosecution and unlimited strikes for defense.

I want to bias things in favor of defense. If the prosecution can't make the case given all their advantages, they should fail.
We pay for that dearly with lower wages and higher taxes.
So what should we do? throw children in the steet to die?

Quality foster homes are in extreme low suppply.

Children need care, and schools are whar we have. We need more therapists and parental substitutes, not fewer.

Dedicating resources equally has never been how government works in any area. If that's how government works, why have government at all? Just let people handle themselves.
PLC programmers are a different breed of person. Note that they ARE often very skilled at industrial hardware and electronics; so never underestimate their abilities!

A lot of them just... aren't what you think of as programmers. (I've quizzed a few, they can't do fizzbuzz).

I semi humorously tell people I want to overthrow the industrial programming market. If you want to team up and try to corner the market, drop me a line (email address in profile)
Yes, just like searching for any other character.
The page lists these uses for 128-computing, any of which seem like sufficient motivators for it to come to pass:

- The free software used to implement RISC-V architecture is defined for 32, 64 and 128 bits [...]
- Universally unique identifiers (UUID) consist of a 128-bit value.
- IPv6 routes computer network traffic amongst a 128-bit range of addresses.
- ZFS is a 128-bit file system.
- 128 bits is a common key size for symmetric ciphers [...]
- The IBM i virtual instruction set defines all pointers as 128-bit.
- Increasing the word size can speed up multiple precision mathematical libraries [...]
- MD5 is a hash function producing a 128-bit hash value.
- Apache Avro uses a 128-bit random number as synchronization marker [...]
This is incorrect: https://blog.aboutamazon.eu/discover-whats-behind-the-amazon....
In Russian it's simply "Ooran".
Signatures are not technically pointless, they mean you only have to trust the developer - not the mirror operators.

Reproducibility is technically pointless, because you still have to trust the developer, and they can still add backdoors.
I graduated undergrad a few years before you in 2002 in the Bay Area. My time there included the run up and bursting of the dot com bubble. There were _plenty_ of people in my program at that time who were in it for the money or their parents wanted them in it for the money.

Since I had trouble finding a fulltime software job at the time, I ended up going to graduate school for a few years instead. That period (2002-2006) was a kind of golden era of people studying CS because they were interested in it. A popular mythology had set in for those few years that "tech was over" and studying CS was no longer worthwhile. Enrollments cratered.

By about 2006 or so, things had already began to pick up and were accelerating before the financial crisis started in 2008. There was a blip there with some layoffs and no raises, but things really started accelerating after that. More students eventually flooded back into CS programs, with increased dreams of striking it rich.
> ...we don't need a pyramid.

The core financial architecture of the world is pinned upon an assumption of monotonically-increasing global population on a 3-7 generation moving average. So far, history has not been kind to those civilizations exhibiting declining populations over sustained multi-generational spans. We're into generation one or two depending upon your definition of a generation, so we have some time before we see how this pans out.

I'm trying to find the data to establish whether we are engaging in the incipient factors of collapse as identified by the WEF [1]. To my untrained mind, demographics are a trailing indicator of those five factors and not a leading indicator, but I haven't rigorously analyzed this hypothesis.

From what I see from my limited perspective, I wouldn't be as cavalier as "we don't need a pyramid". As near as I can tell, this kind of demography at this global scale and technological strategy to try to King Knute hold back the demographic waters is completely uncharted territory for our species recorded history. I'd sure like those who study this at the intersection of demography and technology history to give some pointers to some of the analyses going on in the field. My Google-fu has so far failed to turn up solid leads on comprehensive data surveys.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/03/why-do-civilizations-...
NerdSeq
Reproducible builds solve many security problems for sure but but the problems it solves in no way help you if the maintainer is not alturistic or bad at security as originally stated. It helps tell you if the maintainers toolchain wasn't compromised and it does it AFTER the payload is delivered and you built your own payload not made by the maintainer anyways. It doesn't even tell you the transport/hosting wasn't compromised unless you can somehow get a copy of the source used to compile not made by the maintainer directly as the transport/hosting for the source they maintain could be as well.

Solving that singular attack vector in the delivery chain does nothing for solving the need to trust the altruism and self interest of maintainers. A good thing™? Absolutely, along with the other non security benefits, but has nothing to do with needing to trust maintainers or be in the niche that reviews source code when automatic updates come along as originally sold.
Web-based Theremin synth instrument
How is that not a win-win scenario?

Moving to Canada improves their standard of living.
I do not want to wade into the "should these vaccination websites be made accessible" argument. I think they should be, full stop.

But, it isn't clear to me from this article the extent of the difficulty people are having, how many people are having issues, what those issues are, etc., and the overall tone of the piece seems light on information and heavy on righteous outrage. It's in that class of badly written articles that just wants people to be angry but not necessarily better informed.
This is one of the few tools that really gives a good sense of the relative scale of the solar system.
I thought this might be about shopify's liquid madness
Beware that curcurmin supplements can have high lead levels due to spiking with lead chromate for coloring high up in the supply chain. It's why I won't take it unless I can find a reliable brand that specifically tests for it.

If you do take it, it's good to take with piperine (or just black pepper) for bioavailability.
Thanks to both of you for the reply.

Agreed that we are "not there yet" - but given that they are physically capable of the moves we have seen in this demo, irrespective of it being a static demo, the balance and complexity of poses, pose-transitions is what is scary to me -- all the other AI stuff mentioned is already here, in possibility, no?
I remember when this was just a proposal. Half of the users of the Facebook group that it was posted in declared that such gardens were ableist towards people with bee allergies. Yikes.
Put it in orbit at a 90 degree angle from the moon with Earth as the center and you can cause destructive interference and lower the tides :)
I was thinking more of a weapon a common citizen could use against them, not a Delta Force level weapon.
Not just time, IME. Also 1. highly resource intensive, e.g., cannot compile on small form factor computers (easier for me to compile a kernel than a "modern" browser) and 2. brittle.
1999. A look behind the scenes, written by a celebrity chef.

Anthony Bourdain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Bourdain
Cuz in Greek (my mother language), we pronounce "Ουρανός" as "Ouranos".
I’d argue that in a nuclear family culture, kids are also expensive in indirect ways which are hard to account for. You sacrifice a lot of personal time and often health when you need to be there for kids virtually constantly, and while daycare is very expensive in some places ($1200 CAD/month for us) I feel like it’s one of the more manageable costs.

During the pandemic, having no friends or family around to help and needing to work full time jobs is a lot harder to manage than money.

I’m not complaining at all. I just spent a great day with my kids at the ocean and I love having them around. It’s still a daily task to juggle them, work, and my well being without much in the way of outside help. I’m fairly sure my life is shortening considerably as a result of the stress, so like I said, daycare seems pretty cheap in comparison.

Just my take on it - I know some people seem to manage it expertly, and maybe more people do than I realize.

In any case, that cost is still very high these days since both parents typically need to work. Money becomes easier to find than time.
The experience seems to also be very different for those with at least a few years of experience and for those who are looking for an entry level position
It's a good thing as we get more high res monitors the solar system is going to shrink. This would have been much much worse back on my Atari800xl
Really? It seems very obvious. This is a discussion of how "UX is why Microsoft is losing market share", which is what you replied to.

I'm reminding some tone-deaf wealthy users that COST is the #1 factor behind OS usage, and the rest is basically irrelevant window dressing except to the upper class.

Is what it is, but you'll struggle to find a more privledged and clueless group of commenters than here. Part of the charm, I suppose.
Indeed, if it can't be tied to a physical object, then there is no way to prevent two completely independent markets from developing for the object and its associated NFT. People could buy NFT's with no interest in getting a counterfeit, but simply selling it to someone else at a later date.

Granted this is strictly a hypothetical for me since I don't buy luxury items. My most luxurious possession is a musical instrument that I love dearly, but that is in fact fairly generic, and its value is based solely on its quality. But supposing I bought a laptop computer and it came with an NFT, my first impulse would be to sell the NFT as soon as possible, treating it like a rebate card.
The 'need' part you're missing isn't some moral declaration - physically, it isn't healthy to eat as much meat as many people do
So if you read my comments you’ll know that I really can’t stand the automobile culture on America. Just want to get that out of the way.

But something I’ve come to realize is that American suburbs have great potential if only people wanted to do things and were allowed to. All that green space? That’s a garden waiting. It’s a place to re-plant native trees. AND it’s also a place to do fun stuff outside like throw a football or play soccer a bit.

But many people don’t take the time to do any of these things, which is such a shame. We have all this space and green space that we can do things with. Why aren’t more people planting!? :(
A kid doesn't like the professor, thinks something malevolent is going on, tries to get their "friend" to confess to something that didn't happen, then outed them publicly and without their consent.

Unbelievable what people think is their business sometimes.
Well, that and health care (in the US). And housing. And those two don't go away until they're out of the house.

But yes, next to those three things most other expenses aren't that bad, or are avoidable with little down-side. Only other notable one's probably consumables (diapers, food, that sort of thing) which doesn't come close to any of the other three. Toys and clothes are practically free, if you're not picky. People get all kinds of expensive crap at baby showers, but very little of it's actually of much use, and most of the rest could have been had used for next to nothing.
Not really though, because your kernel would most likely abstract that away and bunch up the writes.
> websites are accessible to the vision impaired by default and it takes extra work to render them inaccessible

Is this really the case? If I build a website that entirely consists of a WebGL canvas, E.G. for a 3d graphics demo, I doubt screen readers would be able to make sense of it. But I didn't necessarily do any extra work to impair this usage, it was just a byproduct of the tools I used.
Economic incentives are never going to really work well in improving fertility rates.

If you look at the data in the US, the biggest predictor of fertility is religion, with religious people in the US having 2-3x more kids than non religious people.

Most of the decline in birthrate within both western Europe and the US can be traced to increasing drops in religion.
But why? Don't we already have a moon?
That's terrifying, no? A whole planet (yes a dwarf one, but still a PLANET) is just rogue and will wander through the orbit of Sol as it pleases.
How big is the psychic industry? Most psychics I've seen have very cheap shops in the shitty parts of town. They aren't making much money as far as I can tell. Advertising though? How much is spent on that every year? It must be trillions.

I believe that "advertising doesn't actually work" is a coping mechanism from people who work in or adjacent to the advertising industry. This belief, that advertising is actually just about scamming corporations, is popular because it seems preferable to the reality that advertising is about manipulating the general public for profit (advertisers and psychics have this in common.)
Incredible demand? Are you referring to their stable ~15% market share? And decades of uninspiring market performances? The company which didn't experience its meteoric success and growth until after the computer, with the smartphone?

Interesting. I figured the people here are completely ignoring maybe half of all users, but you seem to be ignoring about 85%!
For items made from natural materials, it should be straightforward. For instance my musical instrument has unique wood grain patterns that could be memorialized in high resolution photos.
As Cardinal Richelieu apocryphally said"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

I dont doubt you can present a similar set of "warnings" for any undesirable who refuse to toe the corporate line you are ordered and paid to maintain. All those rules are ambiguous, opaque, arbitrary and subjectively interpreted and enforced, but you know that.

The most ironic thing is that the measure you take with people who refuse to follow you faux-polite tone is censorship and virtual obliteration, something 1000 times worse. Most of the people I got personal (in argument) here were being racist/clasist/homophobic/ethnocentric but since they can shield themselves behind rhetorical what ifs and sing paeans to the geniuses of YC they have carte-blanche.

Give me a million times better the dysfunctional governments we all have before techno-fascists like you and your bosses, censoring anyone who does not suck up to them.
We have moon, but what about second moon?
India is still at 59% agricultural employment. China is at 25% and dropping. The US is below 2%. Attempts to commoditize agriculture in India have caused riots by poor farmers.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Indian_farme...