skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a Von Neumann probe. Good idea, but to my knowledge there aren't any here.

The craft being observed (all over the world) are from a breakaway civilization. They were developed within the last century, possibly with the aid of extraterrestrials via an archeological finding or even direct communication, but that's an unknown for me.

I do however know the names of most of these craft, and once you know the names there is more detailed information out there including close-up images. They are quite cool, but to my knowledge are entirely terrestrial. The USG may try an alien false flag as a ploy for funding in the near future.
I’m trying to imagine how remote software engineers would picket the company. An organized social media campaign?

“What do we want? Reimbursement for home office expenses! When to we want it? Time.now.utc! #unpaidhomeoffice”
Not really sure why 4-day workweek is as popular compared to alternatives. If i could choose between 4-day 7.5h workweek and 5 day 6h workweek, i would definitely chosen the later. I wonder how many computer programmers can really work for 8 hours in a day.
I doubt that. She wrote impossible fantasy that convinced wealthy fools they were destined.
Sure. But now transfer the money from the “criminals” back to you in some untraceable way. Oh, and that’s money laundering, so additional charges on top of tax fraud.
Bingo. There have been anomalous radar tapes, sightings, and videos since the 50s. Why is this suddenly an issue?
and the blog post also removed. weird.
Why go through the trouble of ransomware, which might get the FBI involved and put you in a bad light? You can very well just pay a "consulting fee" to some offshore shell company. Any business expense is tax deductible, not just ransomware payments.
‘Blind date’ for political rivals? TV show is breaking down barriers
Definitely an amazing tech given the tight budget but I struggle to see the appeal beyond pleasing my curious engineer mind. Any idea how such robot could be of any use for a “normal” private citizen (beyond carrying my water bottle while running)?
That would help developers in low wage countries, at least!
SO many lessons here for a lot of people.

1. Always do backups. REMOTELY. OFFSITE.

2. Check your backups regularly. Make sure you can restore from them if needed.

3. Don't ask Interns to run delete commands casually. Heck, don't run deletes casually at all.

4. See #1.

5. Don't be a dick. This was really bad for the firm but having worked at investment banks myself, people can be dicks especially in high pressure environments like that.
Not really, what you have is videos and testimonies of surprising things, not of aliens.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

Isaac Asimov
One of my favorite sci-fi tropes is post scarcity
Yeah, but you couldn't fit all those 10k people in a Hollywood movie.
An average software engineer can traverse the entire SDLC of a major revision of a product in less than a year. Perhaps in big tech that would be ~2 years if not less.
Good. Market incentives are not always unethical. If anything, we should strive to build an economy where market incentives align with moral objectives. I welcome a world where artificial meat is practical.
To stop the ransomware pandemic, start with the basics
Sorry, you would be wrong. There was no internet. You were lucky if there was one other person around you who knew BASIC and could answer questions. Everything you needed to learn came in books that cost $30 each (at a time when $30 was a lot of money), and most of the books at the computer store were for using spreadsheets and word processors, not actually coding. Great, you had a DOS shell right in front of you, but learning what to do with it was a struggle. And writing .bat files isn’t very exciting. Maybe if you were in a place like SV, there would be tons of resources to learn, but in most other places you would be in an information desert. I was interested in computers but gave up because I hit the limit of what I could learn pretty quickly and couldn’t get any further. Kids have it MUCH better today.
You don't have to give me an excessive list, a rationale behind your criticisms of Safari's design or explaining what constitutes an adult color scheme would suffice.

Flowery language and technical jargon don't actually have much substance on their own.
I had a company that allowed half day Fridays if we worked 9 hours a day M-Thu. I only chose to do that once. Staying in the office twiddling your thumbs for an extra hour felt more excruciating for me.

I would prefer we adapt a flex schedule type of work. If you’re done for the day you should be able to leave instead of acting like you’re busy.
I was reminded of "BBS In A Box" — a very early CD ROM offering of freeware/filez.
I think it's great if something I said made you self-aware, if you think you may have been in error and are asking for clarification, but what is making you pipe up? It seems like you want to be included.

I'll reciprocate. - If I'm understanding what I am reading, at the stage of life OP seemed to be when he had his experience these would have been relevant social categories. They are highly generalized like you say, but none of us were born with perfect reckoning. This comment is not strange, because I am showing that there are others who suffered the same and we don't have to be silent about it.
Yes absolutely -- in many places, like Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Germany, Austria, France, Netherlands, etc.
That particular gag is rather meh, compared to the rest of the show, IMHO.
One thing I noticed in Chinese cities is that they often had a cleaner assigned to each block. They would have a blue jumpsuit, broom, shovel, and wheelie bin.

In the big cities, streets were very clean.
To be fair, AFAIK it's just a consequence of how our tax code is structured. Business expenses are tax deductible, and ransomware payments just happen to meet the definition of business expense. It's not like congress got together and thought "yep, we should definitely make ransomware payments tax deductible!".
I was going to criticize his posting frequency, but on the other hand...he's getting more done for the tech world than many of us ever will.

Maybe we should be the ones submitting and talking about the 4 day work week more often.
Ask HN: What has happened with “HCI over PCIE” Bluetooth host interface?
Young ambitious people are starting companies, not going corporate.
It's on topic here because the person who posted the comment is the same person who posted the article.
A 3-day workweek can even better, especially if you get paid as if you work 5 days a week.

But either or 4-way workweek at full pay will be a problem, so now we just need higher taxes, minimum corporate tax globally, and some MMT to go with that and we'll enter nirvana!

Ridiculous socialist fake news and psyops.
0.866. Feels lonely :(
How can you be so convinced that plants feel nothing given that we have absolutely 0 understanding of what consciousness is?
What to do if you have often spikes of 180 or even 200 mg/ld but it returns to under 140 after 2hours? Can someone share insights. Sure avoid some food. But is it time to take some medicine? Or some radical measures? My consern is a bit that even doctors cant tell since according to the blood tests everything might be looking good.
>My portable air conditioner uses about 1200kW/h according to my 10€ energy consumption meter.

JFYI, 1200 kW/h sounds a tad bit too much to me...
Thanks, that's helpful.

Across all those sources, though, I can't find anything indicating that deindustrialization was a goal.

Even the Wikipedia article which has a whole section on it seems to present it as a side effect, while Clinton's talk about the "knowledge economy" is framed as it being an area of economic opportunity.

And I found the debate transcript [1] (it was a famous one for the "giant sucking sound"!) -- and Bush is arguing for increased exports (which means greater US manufacturing), while Clinton is explicitly arguing that other countries need to be as open to trade as we are.

So if anything, Bush appears to be pro-manufacturing, and Clinton is against one-way trade deals.

And your Colombia example would show that then -- if it was a one-way trade deal, it's to benefit American manufacturers rather than consumers.

So I still don't see where a shifting employment away from manufacturing was a goal anywhere. Is there something else I'm missing?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/16/us/the-1992-campaign-tran...
> the definition of market in a digital economy is global.

You do realize that global average GDP per capita is $11k?
If you are in the US or Western Europe then the switch to "global economy" would probably push your salary down to $30k or less.
Yes, a biological machine. Just like us.
I agree. But if their parents are not able to say « shut up and study », it should be the role of the public power to say it, even if it means transferring them into specialized schools, but letting them aside of the road should never be an acceptable option, because it will hurt them and it hurts the society (by making up future criminals and spreading wrong values)
While they could, I don't think so in this case, as the drivers mentioned report back to C&C servers in China. While the NSA could obviously set up servers there, the simpler case would be that they have not.

Don't forget that the other mission of the NSA is to protect American computer infrastructure. Doing something like this where the driver distribution is so wide and indiscriminate would also argue against their involvement.

My guesses are in order: 1. The driver authors copied source from somewhere else without understanding what it did. 2. Malicious intent from the Chinese firms. 3. Malicious intent from the CCP. 4. Any other reason.
If you want to keep learning about great Common Lisp books, I recommend following Rainer Joswig or Zach Beane on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/xach

https://twitter.com/RainerJoswig
They aren’t trying to start a productive discussion. Anti-vaxxers don’t approach debates in good faith. They tend to drop long-winded comments that vaguely link together different conspiracies and anecdotal bits of “evidence” but then never cite sources and never back up their claims when pushed.
It’s more the effects of free circulating spike protein in the bloodstream than mRNA triggering ribosomes.
I've just realized they posted the article just so they could comment, a bit lame. Maybe just post their project and have links to that The Atlantic article or whatever inside the project itself.
Rad, it's MIT-licensed open source!

https://github.com/philhartung/aes67-monitor
>Many animals we eat in industrial quantities are intelligent life...

Not at the same level as an octopus.
This is just a spam submission that keeps being posted by the same user to flog their booklet site.
Also, no pooping or vet bills.

But awesome security implications.
slow news week for texas
I think that's a very astute observation and it gave me a different perspective on the situation

Do you think there's a way to use the leverage of these abstractions to get better (aka decent) compensation for open source contributors

I'm thinking of for instance the maintainer of Faker, who posted that he would not continue maintaining the project unless he got compensated adequately for it going forward
Is a ransomware payment a bribe? The linked page doesn't really say what constitutes a "bribe". The next paragraph says that it only covers illegal activities, which AFAIK isn't the case for ransomware groups unless they're a designated terrorist organization or something.
Agreed. I was an SRE for over a year and the philosophy is that anything that is shipped can be broken. SRE is all about detecting, limiting, and mitigating damage. I think this is the right philosophy for SREs but should not be the total picture in the org.

I am also agreed in that I anecdotally often see a disregard for automated testing. I am still trying to understand how to eliminate this tendency. I know that in every software project I've had a major hand in building, I've helped ensure automated testing, with a heavy emphasis on unit testing, become a major part of team culture, and I've always felt the tests more than paid for themselves over time, even in the relative short-term.
I’ve parted out my last 2 MacBook Airs for ~2/3rds of their retail value, after 4 years of use.

From that, all I can say is don’t break your LCD or logic board. Coffee on your keyboard or touchpad aren’t so bad.
> We can't decide because we don't have a machine that objectively measures consciousness.

We can say that insects don't have the brain capacity to be conscious. I'm pretty sure we might say the same about many fish species.
I once worked for a startup where the founders had a very obvious bias towards hiring people with a certain skin colour. My mistake was mentioning it to HR. I was accused of racism, demoted, and forced to take cultural sensitivity training. That was the day I learned you can't trust HR no matter how friendly they are in person.
This makes no sense to me. I was under the impression that Android is essentially spyware for google.
+1 overall.

>> I'm with you on filtering out the key points. But I felt I had to do that in paper meetings as well.

Agreed. Even for the verbal discussions after paper meetings, the law of triviality still usually applies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

Just that it has become worse with online documents.

>> I have no real issue closing out comments after the review.

+1.

>> are a lot better than sending around word docs with track changes on tho.

I agree, collating feedback from multiple Word documents is a lot harder for accommodating the smaller comments (i.e., those comments which should be handled later offline).

It would have been ideal if (online) document review tools had the following features:

(a) Allow the reviewers to mark their own comments on importance. I would find this useful even as a reviewer so that I can bring up only the important points into the verbal discussion. It would also be helpful if I can mark some comments as intended for myself only.

(b) Submitting the key comments first (using 'a' above), subsequently the remaining ones after the meeting.
> I do not think that is what is going on but it is certainly a possibility. Very remote, of course.

I agree and put in Bayesian terms it seems to me that the prior for “aliens are here, and are hiding from us, but are hiding badly” should be non-zero but very low.

The kind of evidence we have seen should just our priors upward very slightly, but has too many other (more likely) potential explanations to have a significant impact for me.
Amazon has had this reputation for as long as I can remember. Sounds like they treat their employees like shit at every level and in every country. When I was looking for a new job it was not even a consideration to apply.

The only defense of the company seems to be "well maybe you'll get lucky and work for one of the good managers who will treat you with a modicum of respect and they'll stay good as long as you're there" - not exactly the dice roll I'd aim for.
Once I tested whether I had any leverage as a software engineer in an american company I was working in. I started a discussion about a unethical issue, indicating that I can't see myself working there anymore if they wouldn't fix it.

The company didn't fix it because they were profiting from it, and so I left, which cost the company >10x those profits. Either they didn't care, weren't aware of the tradeoff, or simply didn't want a lowly engineer tell them anything about ethics.
I would argue that being able to easily do that would be a security issue in itself - imagine an evil maid attack that is just installing iOS with a change that sends all keychain items to a remote server or makes it easy to obtain the encryption key that protects all user data.
Also available here as an audio recording, read by Wallace himself - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fZOl7C_vDI
I guess the article is an attempt to introduce the mysterious Idov.
Who is Idov? Probably a strange soviet design.
Please don't label people as laggards. It is dehumanizing. They could be your lost identical twin who had a chemical accident at a young age and never got the opportunity to develop properly.
Oh, you are right. A typo. Thank you.
I’ve always been more on the skeptic side, FWIW — but the two pilots on 60 Minutes came across as very credible. And they — and others — claimed to have seen these things with their own eyes. The one pilot described the object as being around the same size as their fighter jet. I’m not arguing it’s “aliens” — just saying that while we’ve only seen grainy weapons-tracking footage, there seems to be a decent number of pilots who have seen similar objects first-hand. Not sure we can dismiss it as equipment glitches.
Your very high probability rides on the virus dying down. Which will happen after enough people get vaccinated to bring Reff < 1. Which with the original variant required 50% of the population and probably only adults counted. With the newest variant, that threshold grows to about 80% and probably needs to involve children. The longer we wait, the higher the chance it will never die down.
I'm arguing that the decision might not be the same for everyone.

> This is all disgraceful, and if we can't at least respect the animals we eat, we probably don't deserve to eat them.

This will sound completely bananas to someone who doesn't live by the same principles as you do.
> And did they do the same study against people who got the flu and other diseases?

Does this matter?
People only become wealthy by capitalizing on the skills and labour of those less wealthy so I don't see any problem with taxing some of that and using it to help the less wealthy, instead of allowing them to evade paying anything with loopholes and hiding their money offshore.
Exactly. The real reason for high SWE demand is that the world is absolutely littered with computers, and their value appreciates each time they're taught to do something new.
> Our company actually spent more manpower and money than software on the hardware level such as machinery.

I would like to know what was meant here -- software was the biggest cost?
Yeah, a "spider this page with depth X" would be a neat addition.

Edit: Though the way it works as a sort of proxy, it seems like you could combine it with something like this, and it would just work: https://github.com/naoak/chrome-site-spider
In Paul's defense, it does seem to be a pattern:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27534517 (3 days ago; exactly the same (well... I guess they added "absolutely"))

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468882 (3 months ago; exactly the same)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26114570 (4 months ago; exactly the same (except for the last sentence))

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26015969 (4 months ago; mostly the same)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25765787 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25674756 (both 5 months ago; both exactly the same as each other and only slightly modified from today's posting)
Firstly, you should specify what it means to have “more money.” For one, her wealth is (to an approximation) all Amazon stock at a zero basis. She can’t spend Amazon stock, so in reality, she doesn’t have the amount of money that say Forbes claims she has. She has a massive tax lability before she can turn this wealth into money. So, you should be asking “how does this minimize her net monetary position after liquidating Amazon stock?”

To that, I don’t think it’s true. Yes, she can “double count” the donation, but that would require her taxes be over 50% to come out ahead. Given she has mostly zero basis long term cap gains, I don’t think she’s even close to that rate.
It is definitely possible, and even has a clear financial and reputational incentive. But a lawyer only needs one expert witness and can pay that expert. And then that expert can use his testimony as validation of his skill or a new concept. So the expert witness would also have financial and reputational incentives to defect from the licensing board's dogma. Many people have heard of doctors and psychologists using roles as expert witness to push their theories.

That leaves the risk of a board ousting (or implicitly promising to oust) people based their expert testimony in court. Which would fall back onto the board's rules about revoking licenses. Lawmakers would likely get involved if any funny business happened; revoking isn't an obscure bylaw, but one of the two major purposes of the board (giving licenses being the other). I'll admit this hypothetical gets too complicated and delves too deeply into politics for me to guess likely.

Do you know of any historic examples besides police unions? I'll admit they match your worry, but the police benefit from massive public support that borders on mythology. So it's hard for politicians to do much about those problems.
Americans Are Keeping Their Cars Longer, as Vehicle Age Hits 12 Years
I’ve tried to explain this on HN twice before and been immediately downvoted, despite my best attempt at explaining the nuances. Your comment sums things up well, thanks for sharing.

For anyone else who’s curious to learn more, as mentioned, Superstonk[1] is the place to go. Don’t be put off by the name — Superstonk is dedicated exclusively to monitoring the GME situation specifically.

It’s actually the third subreddit used for this since January — r/WallStreetBets has clearly been taken over by pump-and-dump schemes on a mass scale, and the older r/GME subreddit saw a mass exodus of users to the newly-formed Superstonk, after mods lost control of it to speculated “shill” posters. Plenty of evidence has arisen showing anonymous recruiters offering to pay Redditors to spread GME misinformation.

I’d suggest filtering Superstonk posts to just the “DD” flair to hide the humour/camaraderie, which can understandably be a bit off-putting to outsiders, unfamiliar with the myriad of crazy events that have happened so far[2].

Having followed the GME saga very closely since January, one of the most enlightening revelations for me has been the blatant media manipulation surrounding GME. There’s just far too many examples to ignore — so perhaps it’s unsurprising that many people still think it’s simply a “Reddit meme stock” that’s run it’s course.

If the DD is to be believed, this thing is far from over. Regardless, I’m thoroughly enjoying watching how it unfurls.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/

[2] https://gmetimeline.com/
Surely an old android smartphone can do all this better than a hard to replace/repair UNIX "internet-in-a-box"?

Old Android phone:

1. Has screen - (strong, tested, replaceable).

2. All the Android apps.

3. Wifi hotspot functionality + FTP + server hotspot.

4. MicroSD slot for massive and switchable data store.

5. Solar powerable, with removable and replaceable battery.

6. Touch friendly, kid friendly, low IQ requirement UI/UX.

7. Easy to code to extend functionality any way you like.

Any old Samsung would be great, S4 was good and less than $50 a shot used with an OLED 1080p screen.
Why does the Spot Mini cost so much and this so little?

This isn't industrial espionage is it?

Is Boston Robotics trying to recover R&D for everything else they do?
I will listen to an audiobook from time to time myself. A good reader makes for a nice experience! Thinking back, I have never referred to those as a show.
> Humans (should) have empathy for others

It seems you forget that not only humans are capable of feelings and empathy.
The options here are not binary. There are other possibilities than keeping them ruining the class or abandoning them.

A lot of countries have dedicated schools for those children, so they damage nothing around them and can be treated individually. And in lot of cases, since it requires removing them from families where their problems comes, it’s a breadth of fresh air for them.