skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SyncThing is an absolute treasure. I mean I have 20 years of rsync scripts, I've used Unison for real. But SyncThing is next level. The key part is once you have it set up it just runs and runs reliably without any attention. Also it works great on Windows too, including handling differences in filesystem semantics with Linux. Really well done.

I mostly use it to keep Windows' Document folders in sync across various machines (through a Linux server). Windows apps still put files in lots of random places but most of the important stuff is in Documents these days. I also use it to sync GPS traces from GPSLogger on an Android phone to my server. The Android app works great!

The setup of a new node is more complicated than it should be, that's the one product weakness.
Correct. They have just reiterated repeatedly in different ways that they are not listening.

What everyone wants is the phone home code removed.

If they just did that a git commit comment would suffice.
FAA Handbook: How Humans Learn [pdf]
Maybe that's Bezos endgame. Your Amazon packages are dropped from space. Delivery time is only limited by terminal velocity.
> UC reports international students separately. [sic]

The report cited in the article isn't as clear on their distinction and in some cases the numbers indicate that the comparisons are among feeder, in-state high schools; and others are general enough that the lack of detail is concerning as the study leaves out the total population and only provides percentages.

> Not in higher ed.

While the common/colloquial understanding through recent years shows that Asian students are more represented in higher ed; the general notion of what URM is codified as in higher ed contexts is less known; and wasn't clearly defined in the article. And I initially spoke too broadly, as the PI (pacific islander) portion of AAPI is included in URM, the Asian portion is not; and the PI portion is not mention anywhere in the article; and with AAPI discrimination being in the current cultural Zeitgeist, if that distinction goes unmentioned it's a leading statement.
It's pretty eye opening how comments like this gets down voted.

Is providing legal information with authoritative sources in a thread like this somehow offensive?

(I've wised up personally, never try to do that myself again lol)
Nothing says serious business more than a Medium post.
>If on the box there is written "THIS DEVICE WILL ONLY RUN SOFTWARE APPROVED BY APPLE", how many people would buy that?

My toaster can't run any software at all.

Most people will care about their inability to run their own software on their iPhone about as much as they care about running it on their toaster, or car, or desk. Most people are not naturally hackers or tinkerers.

>Or when someone goes to you asking for an iOS app and

If someone is going to you asking for an app that you compiled yourself, let alone one that you programmed yourself, they're such a statistical anomaly it isn't funny.
Yeah. Their contribution to Linux over the last few years always has me either giggling or suspicious. I realize that they have concrete reasons to support it considering how dominant Linux instances are on Azure, but considering the "open source is cancer" or "Linux users are communist thieves" comments from the late 90's or early 00's, it's hard to believe.
I believe the TRUE science – Econlib
Glad to see there are other fans of Granola Shotgun on HN. Most of the titles Johnny uses are probably too vague to capture interest here, but a few submissions have made the front page:

"Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25626389
https://www.granolashotgun.com/granolashotguncom/2mvygaw3y67...

"The Show Horse and the Work Horse"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20497711
https://granolashotgun.wordpress.com/2019/07/22/the-show-hor...

"Eating Jell-O with Chopsticks"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060732
https://granolashotgun.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/eating-jell-...

"Guaranteed Minimum What?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326505
https://granolashotgun.wordpress.com/2017/05/05/guaranteed-m...
Awesome thanks, that'll be a helpful addition :)
An malicious app that turns your device into another botnet zombie definitely does affect others.
The Design of HES and Fress
(I think the original title “Introduction: Demo or Die” is vague and could be seen as linkbait, so I picked the text of a header in the document)
And that betrays the whole game, right? It's not about teaching knowledge. It's about filtering and sorting people into legible strata for employers.

That and babysitting so parents can work without their kids setting the house on fire.
Nginx CLI – It is a command line tool that will simplify Nginx operations
"goal of ultimately saving planet Earth."

You could say this about Bill Gates he has actually eliminated disease, ventured into Nuclear, Renewables and food security, he has legitimately saved perhaps a few million of lives.

But how could you make such claims about Bezos? Of the big three cloud providers, AWS his the only one still spewing out carbon.

If we were to make "life/death" balalncesheet, did his Amazon and other Bezos companies save lives or contribute to people's deaths, net? It should be obvious that Amazon has reduced living standards and wages for so many people, some of them have suffered ill health and death as a result.

Wit this track record, how could anyone claim Bezos is "saving the planet" with some hypothetical projects that noone even comitted to? In my book, Bezos needs to pay off his debt to humanity and the planet first.
Probably around the time they launched Swift Playgrounds, I have not checked. They set the rules, they get to change the rules. But the same rules still apply them as to everyone else.
Well, not one I'll be in.
Ok, this is funny and odd. This immediately reminded me of the scene in Cryptonimicon where Waterhouse takes a 'simple' math test. It apparently reminded my past self of the same thing 11 years ago, when this was posted back then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866629 (I dug up the actual passage from the book, so you can read it)
The other solution is to stop using Gmail and switch to something like Fastmail.
As someone in his 40's who learnt Python, I found working on a project that you are keen on is the best way to learn programming in general.
It seems to be true. It's mentioned in the article and one of the things Insiders with hardware that supports 11 are currently complaining about. The new taskbar can't be moved to any other position than the bottom for the first time since Windows 95. As a right side taskbar user since before even the age of 16:9 panels but who especially appreciates vertical taskbars in the age of 21:9+ ultrawides, everything about this loss of such an old feature boggles my mind (and makes me angry).
I seriously hope enough people are still grounded enough in this reality to reject AR/VR bullshit besides as a fun playground like VRchat or what have you. Integrating either or both into daily life would be fucking godawful.
Possibly to support wireless connections? You;ll be able to move your mouse across devices in the next version of iOS/macOS, so maybe this will allow you to use a screen without a device connected to it?
So you don't want to be embodied in a world full of Russian and anti-vax propaganda (along with the fictional 'best self' content from 'friends')?
50%+ of my friend interactions are me staying in touch (text/ messaging) by sending them a funny meme from Instagram
If he's so clever then why hasn't he figured out how to have neighbors that don't hate him?
Going off on a tangent now but I used to be a regular slatestarcodex reader and had somehow missed the fact that it was back. Thanks for cluing me in! :)
Sounds like Zuckerberg is getting high off of his own fumes. This is the 2021 version of "Facebook is changing the world!"

Also, Second Life did it first in 2006.
Right on. I quit Facebook about 2 years ago for the exact same reason and never looked back. I think you're on to something here. Network effects work both ways. If each new user on a platform compounds it's utility and desirability, then the reverse is also true. This means even a relatively small, but non-trivial, number of people shunning Facebook can drastically reduce it's desirability and power.

I saw a little tiny glimpse of this when an organization I'm in wanted to use Facebook to schedule events and communicate. There were perhaps 30 of us in the group and myself and one other person spoke up and said we weren't on Facebook, so we would either need to be emailed the events or simply not participate. The head of the org decided it was easier just to send everyone an email. So two stubborn people out of 30 changed the way an organization decided to interact with it's members.
The author of this article seems to think that social interaction in video games is a new thing.

> many newer games blur the lines between video games and other types of social activities. Pokémon Go, Fortnite and Among Us...

I agree that video games are reaching a wider audience now, but the big online multiplayer networks have been active for a couple decades now. For years for me, catching up with long distance friends has often been over a video game. It's a low social stress situation when you have something to focus on and talk about, but can also catch up on what's been going on in each others lives.
I believe most of the huge ones you see on the interstate are ~2MW, so imagine ~5x the scale

woooo
In the old days the Syncthing on Android had a pretty clumsy UI; Fork fixed that. But when I evaluated this in June 2021 the main app had improved enough the fork didn't seem necessary any more.
I think the key here is that Intrinsic is (apparently) focused on designing new interfaces for existing, proven industrial robot models, rather than being focused on novel hardware R&D (a monumental task).
> regardless of age

Age is a very important factor; high risk is heavily weighted towards the elderly for infection, and so far side-effects seem to hit all age groups for vaccination, possibly even weighted slightly towards the young due to an overreaction from a stronger immune system.
I understand you're angry. But an (somewhat arbitrary) age limit has to be set between what we consider children and adults, and once it's set there is no logical reason to make exceptions.

Would you make the same argument if the kid involved was 16? 14? 12?
Tunnels are round because a round tube on the inside is stronger against compression than an equivalent square tube is. They are like vaults.
On anyone-can-spend Pay-to-Taproot outputs before activation
AWS Egress - $0.09/GB

Azure Egress - $0.0875/GB

GCP Egress - $0.11/GB

Alibaba Egress - $0.123

Interesting that no mention is made of the other cloud providers pricing here when AWS isn't even the most expensive egress...Oh! I wonder if it is because Cloudflare has data transfer agreements with GCP, Azure, and Alibaba! But that would mean this is a shoddy hit piece to strong arm AWS into an agreement with them. Nonsense, I'm sure Cloudflare would never do that...

Edit: I've removed claims about Cloudfront's pricing since it isn't actually clear what they charge for egress and seems to vary on a number of factors. Thanks Dylan16807 for pointing that out.
$210,868,435.04 invoice for cloud storage
I don't know if they're personnel constrained. I do know they are financially constrained. For example even today https://twitter.com/DrPhiltill/status/1418241459342520321

Bezos tossing extra money into it defiantly helps.
It is definitely not always true that competition drives advancement, even if there is sufficient personnel. As a super simple example: There's a couple of restaurants nearby and competition is fierce, but it mostly results in the restaurants going out of business at a steady pace and being replaced by new starry-eyed entrepreneurs willing to give it a shot.

Space tech is also always considered to be a national security topic, so the available personnel does not just have to be talented but they need a security clearance as well.
Second life is a truly sad consequence of late-stage capitalism.
That's one hell of a way to brand "extending the tentacles of our monopoly into your daily life".

> Mr Zuckerberg has made such comments before, hypothesizing that humans should “be teleporting, not transporting ourselves” into various environments through virtual and mixed reality environments.

"You will live in a pod and you will be happy with VR"
I really wish there was a large enough player to get non-Android (Linux) drivers for the flagship mobile phone processors.

The fastest of the open source phones right now has the same processor as the Pixel 2. IIRC it might even be another libhybris implementation (glibc/mesa/gbm userspace on an Android kernel and driver stack).
I think lots of industrial processes actually require an atmosphere or at least some of the gases in ours. It would make more sense to make those processes less harmful down here than move them to space
> "Neither side is necessarily wrong."

Yes, being greedy, envious, and jealous of other peoples use of material goods is wrong. Its time we start calling it out. That doesn't make you progressive, it's a poor behavior attribute and you should not partake in it.

As far is 'how did it advance spaceflight'. its called progress. 20% is better than 0%. Maybe next time they will be 40%.
https://archive.is/coicj
In light of all the details that has come out with regards to buying out Instagram to prevent them from being a competitor, it's a massive uphill regulatory approval climb even if money is not an issue.
This is so prevalent that there are many study groups on facebook just because of that: it is the only place they can "freely" exchange ideas, and voluntaries from other countries (without these limitations) help by copying and pasting info and documents so others can 'freely' download it.
Tell HN: It's incredibly difficult to find and download the Posix specification
Good keywords and historical moments to Google here are "The Great Northward Migration" and anything related to the founding, population, and history of 19th/20th century Chicago. I believe there was a Chicago newspaper (Tribune, maybe?) that circulated special edition pamphlets to the Deep South with instructions and guidance on how to successfully migrate North. Black supporters caught circulating documents like this could be killed in retaliation -- it was a wild time.

Edit: it was the Chicago Defender.

>Chicago's African-American newspaper, the Chicago Defender, made the city well known to southerners. It sent bundles of papers south on the Illinois Central trains, and African-American Pullman Porters would drop them off in Black towns. "Chicago was the most accessible northern city for African Americans in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas." They took the trains north. "Then between 1916 and 1919, 50,000 blacks came to crowd into the burgeoning black belt, to make new demands upon the institutional structure of the South Side."

If a recall correctly, they also circulated imagery and content about the Black experience abroad; for example, in Paris. Arguing that if the condition for Black people was comparatively better abroad, then there was no reason for conditions to remain so dire in the US. This sort of content was particularly enlightening.
They don't, though, at least not in this case. There are special exemptions for educational programming software in the App Store, that covers Swift Playgrounds, but also others wanting to create similar things.
It is - but I’ve not seen that built as new in ages.
You have termux and lots of cli languages. Also, TCL/TK with AndroWish.
i'm with you on the pessimism. I haven't quite experienced a continual "push" by news narratives.

I think this is likely just excitement by nerds within the establishment, just like there is outside of it, at all the crypto stuff going on.
Is HN social media? It's media, its sort of social, but I don't know anyone on it personally.

I tend think of social media as non-anonymous (onymous?), because it seems far from a "real" social interaction when it is a faceless (possibly non-human) text account. But could just be me redefining things.
Reminds me of this CNET interview[1] on Second Life in 2006, where pretty much exactly this happened.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2006-12-20-second-life-millionaire-...
In principle I agree, but I think that in many cases these developments are not well thought out.

Any time the housing values in an area significantly drop or the population largely leaves, what gets left behind is a poor and poorly maintained neighborhood that creates a ton of negative externalities for surrounding areas. When you build an entirely new development on undeveloped land this is almost guaranteed to happen as all of the buildings and infrastructure will need to be replaced at the same time.
Zuck pitches it as being like current social media but that you're embodied in it. That sounds pretty dystopian to me.
"data controller" is a GDPR term.
Amazon is really good at leveraging its semi monopolistic presence in different markets. Once you are big enough you only need to tweak a few parameters to dominate the market.

It's interesting how AWS uses egress to this effect. Your comment is very insightful.
This is a Google company.
Fair. Do you have any examples or links to the offending remarks or practices? I’m trying to build up my own profile in order to understand the negative responses to the blue origin flight.
> "Space tech is highly specialized, if you can't hire enough people already, more competition just spreads the available talent thinner."

Try to avoid 0 sum thinking, its often wrong. increased competition for talent in space will drive up wages which will result in more people going into said fields.
> If you want Coke and you start with Pepsi, you'll get back Coke (1/2 + 1/2x1/2) or Pepsi (1/2x1/2). However, you could pick it and get back Pepsi 10 times in a row.

Why would you push it ten times in a row? If you get a Pepsi from it on your first press, you now know:

- The button labeled Pepsi is actually Random (it can't be the actual Pepsi button, since none of the labels are correct, and it's also not the Coke button)

- Therefore, the button labeled Coke is actually Pepsi (it can't be Coke by rule, and it's also not Random since we know where Random is now)

- Therefore, the button labeled Pepsi is actually Coke (elimination)

So the max is still 2 steps, but you have 75% chance of getting a Coke on the first try instead of just 50% chance. Same lower bounds, but better expected value.
5 Gigawatts to Kilowatts = 5000000

5000000 kilowatts / 1kW per machine = 5,000,000 machines internationally?
Fwiw, you don't need to be an Insider to install Feedback Hub. Just search for it in the Store. Now would probably be a great time for even non-Insiders to download it and pile on votes for stuff like this.
It's a step in the right direction, but I found it pretty frustrating in comparison to the way Linux/Windows handle things. It's not as draconian as iOS, but I probably spent 50-60% of my setup time trying to get Gatekeeper to treat me like the administrator of my own computer.
> Cognitect was a successful consulting services startup that didn't build a scalable software product/service, right?

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by that, Cognitect is a relatively small company (if I'm not mistaken, there are fewer than 20 engineers work there). And there are plenty of products built on Clojure ecosystem. It scales very well. Cisco, Apple, Walmart, etc., are all successfully built and keep expanding their [massive] Clojure code-bases.
It’s already here. All you need to see it is either Steam VR or Oculus. Then try Virtual Chat, Alt space, Rec Room, or Facebook’s Horizon.

Even Roblox and Minecraft support VR now
notifications silenced this way are not guaranteed to be kept in memory, so this roughly equals just stopping the app - especially on crapphones by Samsung and Xiaomi, which are the worst offenders of Android's background functionality.
https://www.gmto.org/
As I understand it there are even sub-dialects for each of these bird calls/songs. The example shared with me was compared to the English language in the U.S. where you would expect to hear stark differences in the southern states vs the New England area with a greeting like: "hey ya'll".

Unfortunately/fortunately I can't get the visual out of my head of a southern speaking crow looking for trash near my house now.....
Tokyo Olympics: Sony Obtains High Court Order to Prevent Piracy
> "Facebook is changing the world!"

Zuck wasn't wrong when he said this, I just don't think the change he had in mind was giving a platform to anti-vax conspiracy theorists and helping Russian troll farms influence U.S. elections. That is one way to change the world though.
You did in 1960 or whenever this ancient news happened.
I wholeheartedly agree that UberEats has some serious business process concerns but I'd need to see more cases before being able to assess the claim that this is definitely racist. It could simply be an individual error unrelated to race and without looking at trends and overall biases you cannot tell.

As this gentleman is based in the UK he stands a good chance of getting this resolved if he takes them to a tribunal.
Why choose Containq over Datadog?
That really shouldn't be a controversial statement. Having a government that imposes the values of one group on everyone sounds great when you happen to be a part of that group, but what happens when they decide to impose values that you don't agree with?
Startup Digest Developer – Issue #1
To watch out --

Russ Cox breaks down hardware memory models in 3 parts, how they differ, and how to overcome those differences to ensure the programs behave consistently across CPU platforms.

Erik Bernhardsson discusses primarily organizational challenges that could happen if you are brought in to grow a tiny data team at a mid-stage startup.

“Enable Copilot” and how is it a curse and a blessing?
This is just AOL or Compuserve again. Zuck wants you to use Facebook for everything without the need for any other site.
Just block all of it and throw out your phone. If people need you they have your email and landline number.
> These people shouldn’t get a free pass because they were almost-adults rather than legal adults at the time of the crime.

I personally disagree with this. A specific age must be decided between children and adults - let's say 18 (depends on the country). What would be a good clear definition of "almost adults"? 17? In that case, just make the adult age 17. Then you'll get the exact same argument for 16 year old kids committing crimes.

There is no logical reason to consider children adults.
I agree with you. The clarity in their response is commendable, even though I disagree with the policy itself.
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So they are scripting Kuka robots effectively?

Well, actually if they do some AI stuff that might be impressive.

I guess stationary robots are seen as less of a reputational risk in comparison with Boston Robotics nighmares.