skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, reading the fucking manual BEFORE you touch a machine is a very good idea. Otherwise the machine may rip out your limbs, or worse.

The manufacturer of the machine won't be responsible for sure if you didn't even read the manual… Clear case.

That's reality in engineering.

If developers want to call themself "engineers" they should behave as such.

On the other side you don't let people without special training even close to industrial machines! The risk they could get killed by an accident is just to high.

Here lies the discrepancy actually: "Software industry" is as much an industry as running a kindergarten is. Also there is the most time no "engineering" at all in "software engineering"… Just trail and error until "something works" (or at least looks on the surface like it would, no matter how broken it is on the inside).

As long as people are supposed to "learn on the job", and there are no clear quality / security standards in this "industry", and stuff is called "engineering" even no true engineering approaches are followed, nothing will change. Machines will continue to kill people in completely avoidable accidents (virtually)…

But that's in my opinion a fully homemade misery actually.
I think he probably imagined it being a little thinner. The box on the desk hasn't changed size much.

But certainly the majority of "stuff" people do at home now takes place in data centers. And as a percentage of all computing cycles day by day, data centers do effectively all of it.
I hoped for a future free of Microsoft software, and free of UIs designed by software developers. I hoped for a future with no drive letters. The first two are successful: I use no Microsoft software in my life, and many user experiences are now designed by specialists. Although I don't have to deal with drive letters, it is odd that Microsoft still has them.
> >[the companies fired him] based on fear of social media.

I have no idea if this is true and neither do you.

Fair enough. We don't have access to internal company deliberations.
It's just a shame that field combination is the normal deinterlacing paradigm for modern encodes of SD media, so it's hard to get digital copies that will make full use of a setup like that since the only interlaced encodes are generally like 15+ year old terrible-looking DiVX ;-) rips. I think most people don't even realize what's getting thrown away since it's been so long since they saw interlaced media on a CRT and have probably never compared them side by side to a 30FPS Handbrake-deinterlaced DVDrip.

For a non-infringing example of what I mean, check out my personal 60FPS HEVC encode of the Netscape "Code Rush" PBS documentary that was released freely online in 2008 as an interlaced MOV: https://mega.nz/file/QhtHzBZD#Z8eUnBgmk3lsjRgKQsiSaGD_gAnRgN...
A few years back, we flew to SEA->MSP to visit family but opted for Amtrak for the return trip. It did happen to save us a couple hundred dollars and the circus that is TSA & airport security, but it was 36 hours. When we were moving, it was a reasonable speed (certainly nowhere close to a TGV). The problem was that we had multiple stops, such as maybe four hours sitting in Spokane.

I would happily spend 12hrs on a train to do that trip -- even 18hrs overnight -- but 36 is way too much.
Genesis Robotics Launches the Next Generation of Robots with LiveDrive
I love what I see there!

And like you said, dog friendly is awesome. What is not awesome is when dog owners assume that everyone is fine with the same things that they're fine with from _their_ dog.

Now for one thing that I love here for example is how dog owners clean up after their dogs. That is exemplary. There's a law here that requires dog owners to clean up after their pet and take the poop with them/to the next trash can. Compare that to Germany, where there's dog poop all over the place. Not many people clean up after their dogs there (haven't been in a while, so maybe it's changed and Switzerland might be different - my great aunt always carried a bag and a shovel even 35+ years back but she's the only one I've ever seen do this and we had lots of dogs around)
There's a calculator discussion now that calc is open source: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/issues/209

All other UWP apps that do not get GitHub attention are 100x worse. Microsoft Photos, for instance...
There are way too many confounding variables in those numbers for you to directly compare them like you are doing. The biggest being that Autopilot is predominately engaged in situations that are already safer than average driving.
This is just retarded.

You don't want branching and you still think git is the tool for you? Compared to say svn?

Honestly, use svn, its the better tool for your use case.

You don't have to use git.

Don't gaslight me by saying you don't need gits main feature and then suggest I'm gstekeeping, I'm not, youre welcome to use git, just don't complain about your lack of ability to RTFM.
Definitely did not predict Javascript.
We wouldn’t make applications. Rather we’d deliver components which could interoperate via a binary contract.

Components would be “snapped” together by non-programmers to make an application.

I suppose that pieces of this became true with the proliferation and adoption of open source. Rather than a binary protocol, HTTP came out on top.

SharePoint brought us WebParts which tried to put the power in the hands of business users, but it turned out they were still too technical and not flexible enough.

I don’t see the role of software developer/engineer going away anytime soon.
Forced exclusion sounds terrible. It's about having options, so there is not forced inclusion, which is the trap we've found ourselves in.
CNN is still here. Apple Daily can fight in court and change jurisprudence.

Let's see how they explain their trumpist ties, because Im not naive enough to believe Apple Daily did all their insane drum up without a bit of encouragement from elsewhere.

It s easy now to speak like a freedom fighter, but in 2019 Apple Daily was insane. They d encourage you to attack, I havent forgotten.
I thought x86 was on its way out in the 90s. It was, but amd64 gave it a new lease on life.

We had search back in the 90s. Archie, Yahoo, Lycos, Altavista, etc. But Google brought better ... advertising.

What did I expect? I expected hardware to get better. I didn't expect the phone to be so dominant. The iPhone 12 to someone from the 90s might as well be a Cray tricorder.

Hardware is a LOT better now. Dunno if software is that different. JITs are crap; they re-invent the same thing over and over. Linux re-invents what VMS and other commercial operating systems have already done. Most progress has been either hardware or enabled by hardware.
The expectation was low/no code tools would put many devs out of work and it would only be a niche job. The idea that we would have a decade+ labor shortage was unheard of until the craziness of the dotcom bubble (which then popped and people moved to assuming dev work would be permanently outsourced like textiles and never coming back due to high US labor costs)
> is so incredibly indefensible

How can you make such a strong statement when you simply don't know how to achieve full autonomy? This reminds of the teapot orbiting the Sun argument [0]. You and people defending Lidar by their teeth don't sound too different from religious zealots who've "seen the light".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
I expected distributed parallel computing to be the norm, for software to get faster, not slower, and for advances in algorithm design to lead to more efficient, robust, advanced solutions to common problems.

We still build ETL pipelines to process text files into new text files on a single machine like it's 1995. Oh, but it's a virtual machine now. Progress?
What I was referring to is this type, which is all over NA: https://guernseypress.com/resizer/wqzY3eM03C94C0m8mSZP_zKpXI...

Now imagine that the dog literally licked the part that the water comes out of all over.

I'm totally fine with dogs. I'm totally fine with dogs licking their owners and anyone that wants them to. Heck I have nothing against dogs licking my hands. But I absolutely cannot understand how I am downvoted for an unsanitary practice that nobody has a chance to do anything against. The next poor guy going to the fountain 30 seconds later will have no idea.

Would you find it OK if I went and spit on the nozzle before you went? That's the equivalent.
Because Visual Basic was the next hot thing.
Not really sure why this is downvoted, as it is absolutely correct.

Human beings are still barely-evolved monkeys, with a keen sense for, and penchant to exploit, perceived weakness.

Apologies to third parties never make things better. Rather, they signal weakness to the mob, which emboldens them to pile on harder.

Absolutely, you should apologize to the specific people you've hurt, as I gather the original poster did. NEVER apologize to random unaffiliated people looking for outrage fuel. It always ends badly.
> Low/no code drag-and-drop style programming tools would take away many dev jobs

this is still something some of us think about today
It is happening now, which is one of the points of this piece. Apple has been laying the groundwork bit by bit since 2019, but there’s also lots of AR today, just not in “the metaverse” sense as discussed here quite yet. Snapchat filters, AirTags and UWB, and Google Lens are some of the most popular examples right now. Anything that adds a digital layer to the physical world via a computing device, is AR.
The problem with this is that eventually you need to branch, in that case, stash works well. But eventually you learn that branching is better and easier than stash almost 99 times out of 100.
Deloitte tells staff they can work from home forever
> The human vision system operates at a bitrate equivalent of well beyond 500 gigabits per second

Do you have a source for this claim? Academic sources suggest numbers 4-5 orders of magnitude smaller: 6Mbps [1], 10Mbps [2].

[1] The Oxford Companion to the Mind (1987)

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564115/
Wasn't Rust also lacking libraries as well?

Example: Last time I checked couldn't find a firebase library for Rust, so gave up on it.

Rust seems a bit immature in the library department no? But didn't stop it becoming popular. I bet Crystal will do the same.
I totally agree, a Vegas Airbnb I stayed at was a prime example. It was purchased for $500K in 2005 and Redfin estimated its value in 2018 at $220K.

Cities like Detroit or Pittsburgh (until recently) are also examples. Large cities along the west coast could probably be too new to suffer a collapse in prices yet.
So use svn?
I question your memory. Lol.
Run Perl in the browser!
More like VDIs everywhere, rather than SaaS suites, I think.
Even for high range cars, this makes so much sense to me. The biggest situation keeping me from getting an electric truck right now is towing something long distance since it kills your range, and often the long distance is way out in the middle of nowhere away from any chargers.

This might be oversimplified, but trains have been giant diesel generators powering electric motors for decades now, so why not add diesel generators to cars?
How much spam there is.
Security Implications of API Gateway Lambda Authorizers and Wildcard Expansion
> Let's see how they explain their trumpist ties

The fact that they would need to explain such ties, even if they existed, before a court is part of the problem.
Two? More like one for each member age 16 and up. That's how it was in my family. I'm glad these days to live in a human scale city and car free.
I was referring to the practice of restaurants not reporting income from cash tips but usually doing so for tips using credit cards, since an auditor can "see" that income.
I don't know about slowing down: I do know that I keep getting stuck on some update after which I can't moved beyond due to some cryptic and unfixable error.

This has happened for the 2nd time in a year and I end up having to download an up to date iso to move past the dead end update
Kiwi wars: the golden fruit fuelling a feud between New Zealand and China
This is really interesting and reflected in some things like dreamweaver and Oracle Apex.

I can actually see some of this happening in the crypto space. Things like MetaMask and now chainlink combining into some form of low code smart contract app tool. As you say though even in this scenario devs don’t go away.
> I believe he does have legal recourse against false accusations.

He does if he can prove damages. In practice that is extremely hard to do, even if we leave out all the additional difficulties associated with accusations made by anonymous people on the Internet.

Also, the only legal remedy is compensatory damages and punitive damages from a successful lawsuit. But who is he going to sue? Twitter? They'll just say they aren't responsible for false accusations made using their platform, and AFAIK that position has already been upheld in court. And beyond that, we come up against those difficulties I just referred to: how do you find people in the real world corresponding to various Twitter identities and get them into court? And what do you do if they turn out to be judgment proof?
> Is there something magical about Swiss people that makes them handle direct democracy responsibly that other populations doesn't have?

This doesn't have to be anything magical. Do you believe there is no cultural difference? Or do you believe culture doesn't matter to a democracy system?
I did not expect the internet would become so ephemeral.
Less of a dystopian wealth-inequality driving nightmare for one thing.
VRML should have taken over the internet by now.
The rise of eBPF for non-intrusive performance monitoring
"It's so drag-and-drop and easy you won't even need programmers anymore" about various form builder apps. People still think this today.
> 3) Low/no code drag-and-drop style programming tools would take away many dev jobs

I started programming as a kid in the early 90s, and went to college in the late 90s/early 00s. It might sound crazy in hindsight, but between these tools and outsourcing, everyone I talked to thought being a programmer was going to be a dead end minimum wage type job, and I was strongly advised by many to pick a different major.
10,000 years is not a large amount time for the Milky Way, but a very long time for a civilization. In that amount of time, humanity could find its self in another dark ages. Would they still be in contact with the people who colonized another star after that amount of time, even if society collapsed into a dark age? If the two groups were no longer in contact, would they still be considered the same civilization? Also isn’t the galactic core a very dangerous place for leaving things because of density of stars and frequent solar flares? From what I know, life is more likely to survive in the galactic arms, where there is less density of stars and thus less solar flares to wipe out all living things.
> He apologized... by saying that his comment meant that I was STUPID..and wasn't a violent threat!

So I've got to ask this, because I'm curious: is it inconceivable to you that someone could have made a mistake in their reasoning, and pointing that out wouldn't constitute a personal attack or a violent threat?

I'd point out that you've made a LOT of statements about me being wrong (and lot of other more colourful language). Did I misunderstand? Were you making personal attacks or violent threats towards me?
> if your money can do better in another investment, I feel you're better off renting and making money in other ways.

This can be true, but the math is complicated - it depends on the differential between a mortgage payment and what rent in the area would be, as well as expected maintenance costs.

If you assume a mortgage runs 3% (which seems to be approximately correct this month in Canada), housing appreciates 5%/year, we're looking at a 500k house over 25 years, and you can invest cash at 8%:

- Annual mortgage is 28,395, or 2,366/mo

- Total mortgage payments are 710k

- Home value is 1,693k

- ROI is 983k

- Matching that ROI at 8% needs almost exactly $1510/mo

- So naively you'd need to find rent at $856/mo to come out ahead renting

- But now adjust for property taxes and maintenance (over 25 years you probably need a new roof, maybe new siding, furnace, hot water tank...). Like I said, it gets complicated.

The other reason people buy homes is stability and control - you can't be evicted from a home you own other than for non-payment (no risk of the landlord wanting to move in), and you also have the freedom to renovate to suit your changing needs.
> Low/no code drag-and-drop style programming tools would take away many dev jobs

When I was a kid my dad refused to teach me to program, he thought it would be a useless skill to learn because he believed in the future there would be no more programmers, as everyone would be able to program anything they wanted through drag and drop interfaces.
That isn't sad. I'd say EL is probably almost as bad as you can get, and Ubuntu is one step up.
I think it stalls more innovation than it encourages, and generally prevents new entry into a technology space, because the existing players have all the patents that a new player would need to get started. The fewer players you have in a technology space, the less innovation there will be, because “necessity is the mother of invention” and people don’t generally start working on an idea unless they are exposed to the problems of that field. In theory, a non-player could start a research shop and then sell the results of their research in the form of a patent, and this happens sometimes, but just as often the industry decides they don’t want to pay, and leaves the idea dead until the patent expires.

My pet example is the mosquito laser. They invented it at MIT, and showed that it could effectively shoot down mosquitos that pass between posts. The hardware costs were a bit high, but would come down drastically if someone mass-produced custom chips for it. But, the overall idea is patented, and currently held by a “think tank” licensing company, and no product has emerged. I can only assume that it is because their licensing demands are too high. I’d be happy to start my own company to build mosquito lasers, but I’m sure that their licensing costs would kill any profit from it, so I don’t. And so the world is left with no mosquito lasers for more than a decade.

If you want another extreme example, the 3D printer craze was kicked off by the expiration of a patent on the FDM process: https://www.fabbaloo.com/blog/2020/3/2/the-challenge-and-opp... The innovation in the 3D printer space probably lost 10 years due to that patent.

One possible solution to the problem, without throwing out the entire patent system, would be to create a mandatory licensing system with fixed rates. For example, if you know that your design is about 60% patented, and there is a law that says 20% of your profits have to be given to the patent holder, then you might be able to go ahead and make the product and still turn a reasonable profit. The patent holders would get paid something and the products would continue being innovated without these stupid wait-17-years delays. Also it would put less severe stake on the patents, so people could just argue out the details in court about who gets how much money without worrying that it was going to bankrupt a company or kill the product line.
Can anyone from Hong Kong help clarify what role Apple Daily has held over the past several years?
I expected Linux to pose a serious threat to Windows and Macs eventually. The rise of OS X and the later polishing up of Windows into something acceptable took me by surprise at the turn of the century.

One of the biggest reasons for the miss was I had expected cross-platform app development to become much more mature much more quickly than it actually did. The long persistence of apps that only ran on Windows was something that I didn't expect.

I also didn't expect the fast decline of desktop computers leading to the vendor lock in effect that led to the best laptops tending to either run Windows or Mac OS, further eroding the relevance of Linux not just because Linux didn't ship on those devices but also because it was a second class citizen for drivers.

I also did not expect to be making this post from an Android phone decades later.
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Mentour Pilot: "How you can land a passenger aircraft! 12 steps"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePDl1JNqjpM that explains which are the minimal instructions to land a 737 with help of air control.
Why, exactly, is the pee bottle situation a "joke"?
Roblox? I'm not sure if it's still in the class of hyper-growth companies, though. That said, what I had in mind were more of those pre-IPO companies. Some companies do set up office in Seattle, but not all. Plus, Seattle teams often had to struggle to get impactful projects given most of the executives and teams are in the Bay Area.
This is commonly called power braking, usually called up in an emergency. It's a good technique that preserves handling. If you have RWD, your front suspension will remain more unsprung, in any case you can quickly apply the throttle to maneuver.

The friction isn't what's working here, it is the compression of the cylinders in the engine draining momentum from the wheels, think of it as negative torque.

As the forward momentum of the vehicle causes the rotation of the drivetrain to begin to overcomes the speed of the engine output shaft at the clutch or torque converter, torque is effectively being reversed. Instead of engine output pushing the rotation of the transmission, the forces invert causing the transmission to drive the engine speed upwards. Most ECMs will recognize the zero throttle position and cut off fuel, but older vehicles may not have this capability and especially carburetor fed motors are mostly incapable of reducing fuel delivery in this manner.

If you need to stop quickly and have the time, you can downshift even in an automatic, just throw it into 3 or maybe 2 while braking. If you have an electronic dual-clutch transmission with a "manual" mode, the electronic management controls will prevent the engine from over revving and causing damage.

Its important to keep the RPMs low if you do this a lot, if you redline, you redline no matter what your intentions are. I'd wager that running your ICE at 80-90% redline at low speeds for extended periods is also going to affect longevity.

There are other effects you might notice, such as additional bump and over/under steering as your suspension geometry responds to the unusual load. Also, other components will become loaded in usual ways during this maneuver causing some possibly unexpected handling characteristics to present themselves. Its good to practice this in a safe location, before employing it in the field.

If I may venture to say, it gets even more interesting; some vehicles are constructed in a manner where this happens all the time, the old school Porsches were notorious for an effect known as "Throttle Steer", a description of which exceeds the scope of this post, but a curious person will find several references to this in automotive literature.
You are victim blaming here. If you have good reasons to believe the victim was attacked for a good reason then state it, otherwise don't blame the victim.