skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Festo has a good product with its pneumatic muscles, but the same problems apply to them as it does to fluidic types. Complexity and the trade offs with force, frequency and range of motion.

I suspect the Festo muscles will end up in mostly industrial products which need simple, linear motion, and weight and efficiency don’t matter as much. Eg manufacturing equipment and active vibration damping systems.

Would love to be proved wrong on this however.
Scale kills them all except for Apple? There is a comment somewhere here saying that levels at Apple are private.

This seems to be an interesting concept to keep a somewhat flat hierarchy.
Goggle Interview Question
"No technical barrier" means nothing with respect to Bitcoin. You have to convince a large majority of Bitcoin users / miners / exchanges / services to switch to your new genesis block or other protocol modifications, otherwise your fork will die off, or at least not "be Bitcoin" as the rest of the world sees it (e.x. Bitcoin Cash, etc)

But really it's not even necessary, nodes can and do prune op_return, spent, and otherwise unspendable transaction outputs.

The point though is someone is likely to always hold onto a complete history of the Bitcoin blockchain, even if most users don't.
I really don't have any qualms with Safari personally, since the websites that usually don't work on Safari are the websites that are incredibly bloated with JS and shouldn't really be opened in any other browser. The sites using the shiniest features are the ones that I usually avoid anyway.
How to hack a car – a quick crash-course
For anyone who doesn't get the reference: https://thehackernews.com/
>Webapps don't have to be terrible.

Yet they mostly are.
I have read the paper. There were several things wrong with it. The most glaring example was comparing the power consumption of training a machine learning NLP model with a gas guzzling jet.

Not once in the paper does she mention that Google has been carbon neutral since 2008, because that would trash half her paper. The paper seemed of desperation to make non existent arguments.
> She/her, millenial

say no more, lol
I acknowledge and address that other hand both in the linked issue and this comment thread.
AMD spun off GlobalFoundries to save itself, and suffered greatly for many years afterward. Let's not pretend it was some kind of masterstroke done by a company that was firing smoothly on all cylinders.

Do a Google search for the stock price. AMD announced the spinoff in October 2008.
Presently no, the brain computer interfaces are at least an order of magnitude less capable than they need to be for this. But the team at neuralink is making Great progress in this area and I have high hopes for the next few years.
Translation for people who are unfamiliar with the acronym: SME seems to stand for “subject matter expert.”
My first two paragraphs are the subject matter of Aristoteles' the Metaphysics, if anyone asks. Study at your own peril.
The US needs a blanket federal law, perhaps even a constitutional amendment, that precludes any publicly elected official or appointee at any level from directly owning individual stocks. How could anyone possibly argue against that?
What do you mean by "rewards"? I've heard there are crypto rewards for watching ads in Brave, but I've never heard of anything from Edge and Vivaldi.
The point is someone will always store a complete history of the Bitcoin blockchain, even if most users/miners prune it.
Having too many homes is a much smaller problem for society than not having enough.
I couldn't agree any more vehemently than I am agreeing right now!

I used to think the Model M was great. And then I bought a reproduction Model F and now I'm convinced the Model M's belong in the dumpster. Okay, maybe not, but they're definitely inferior. The F has a lower actuation force, which is nice for people like me who mash on the keyboard like monkeys. It also feels 'smoother'. The inner assembly is individual barrels instead of a single plastic barrel sheet, so repairing individual keys is a lot easier. Also it's held together internally with clips instead of blobs of melted plastic rivets, making it possible to actually get inside to replace flippers or barrels without going through an entire ordeal of 'bolt modding'. It's just a much higher quality overall.

If anybody is interested in a brand new (reproduction) Model F, they're still being sold: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/

The reproductions are nice because they have a semi-modern layout (compared to the original Model F's that are generally available on eBay) and fully programmable controller, so you can give it whatever layout you want. It can also be physically configured to resemble the HHKB if you're into that sort of thing.
I’m not sure if waging a siege on ourselves is a free market solution here.
I did this five years ago:

https://www.edmstudio.com/news/faux-vinyl-experience-spotify...
Doubly true if the elided part of the quoted section is

> Maybe not as (I) originally envisioned, but I like the aesthetic.

I am guilty of this in every book to film adaptation I've ever seen.

(Also - book sales / movie audience ratios will almost always necessitate generalization.)
Just because you're an unimaginative, naive moron doesn't mean something is "far-fetched" or "nothing to worry about".
Are you sweeping something under the rug? Loss of interest or pleasure is a symptom of depression. When you get rid of your depression, you'll enjoy programming again.
If you don't think you have depression or other issues then try to find a challenge in programming. For me going through Programming Pearls got me hooked again on programming after a period of boring work.
npm audit is pretty damn meaningless at the moment. Creating a bog-standard react app with create-react-app (`npx create-react-app my-app`) right now results in

> 68 vulnerabilities (21 moderate, 45 high, 2 critical)

Even installing the latest npm itself (`npm install -g npm@8.1.1`) results in

> 3 moderate severity vulnerabilities
Also typing on a "New M"!

I was worried as many reviewers claimed they were slightly worse than real Model Ms but I have to say, I think they got everything down. (I've used an SSK and Lexmark Model M for reference.)
I've been where you're. It's maddening.

Everyone is recommending you find what you truly love - that sounds good and all, but life is not that simple (you got to make a living for example - what you "love" might not provide for your family) and more importantly there's no guarantee you'll love it forever or even next month. It's sound advice but it can get you chasing the highs (what you love) forever.

The issue might not be with what you do per se - perhaps its depression or unhappy environment (relationships, coworkers, job, family etc) or hormonal imbalance of some sort manifesting itself via work.

What has helped me is paying close attention to & managing depression. It's a multiplier for me for sure - I try to put in as much miles as possible on the good days (before she cometh again). Also doing a reset (whatever that means to you) once in a while also helps... a trip to Cuba a couple of years ago helped me get out of antidepressants for example.

@Rury mentioned psychology of flow and it reminded me of a book called Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [0] - it's a little dated but it was helpful to me. Also checkout The War of Art [1]- it's basic but sometimes it's the reminders you need.

Good luck. You're not alone - my contacts on the profile if you want accountability partner of some sort.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117101.Flow
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14653803-the-war-of-art
I can imagine a monument in a very stable location that very securely stored an incorruptible, no-maintenance, solid-state 2-hour presentation about their lives ... that could without any contact (by magnetic field for example) be 'read' and played on a special player.

If my great-grandparents had such monuments - low-cost, no-maintenance, high longevity monuments - I'd certainly want to 'see them in action', once or twice.

If the monuments looked like worthless rocks, they might go unnoticed for a long time. (Maybe there are some already out there!)
Why make it so confined? Do not allow them to profit from their position.
I know the feeling. I have spent the last two years with almost half a dozen “introductions” with possible co-founders for a business card reading app who just do not have the bandwidth or the gumption to take that “leap in being”. I’m finding in this phase of the tech cycle, it is simpler to bring the product to market through contractors and then finally lure in a tech talent once market fit has been established. Obviously there is great advantages in having a tech lead from the ground floor, but so far, it is eye opening to me how complacent people are with their current high paying jobs. I suppose that’s self-evident, but why not try to live a little?
I had some sympathies with her when the initial story broke out. But the continous flaming on Twitter, harping and retweeting her supportive followers and the performative activism for a select set of racial topic makes me feel she cares only about her own set of interests.
Reminds me of Tyrell Corporation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSOzdFoZsho
Can you explain why you think dragging a low level IC who worked at the company less than year over 10 years ago and afaik never really did anyone any harm into this is appropriate?
Non-structural brick and columns aren't the same thing at all. They look like they could be the real thing doing the real job.

These shutters are visibly non-functional.
Does "chassis" ~= "truck"? It seems like maybe a technical, specific term that I don't understand.
I realize he’s writing from the Thomist tradition, and so his peers let him get away with such things… but assuming platonic essences exists and are simply given to our minds, and then using that to base the argument for how an intellect apprehends “truth”?? That’s begging the question of the worst kind! It made me cringe while listening and occasionally shout back, “But you can’t just assume that!”

In the analytic tradition, I think you’ll find no better explanation for truth than Quine’s explanation of Tarski’s “Convention T” for the semantic theory of truth. Quine’s short book “The Pursuit of Truth” is a somewhat technical, but richly insightful explanation of how truth works, explained by one of the 20th century’s most important logicians. It’s small, but it’s a slow read, and probably fits well to the kind of formal logic that programmers could enjoy.
I’ve come to suspect the reason (ex) Google people write these is basically humblebragging. There just isn’t enough interesting material presented to have any other explanation make much sense. Just an opinion; ymmv.
the Model F repro is on my list of keyboards to buy, the price is a little rich however.
That's why I mentioned simpler intelligence like that in insects, where recognizing a predator is still a form of intelligence, even if it's rather crude and very analogous to current ML capabilities.
This is my understanding. The ports are "backed up" in the biological sense.
I just realized that several AWS icons[0] always remind me of the guild navigtor's tank[1] due to their "protruding-front" shape.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/RnK3e9C

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/yc00FNz
Well, it is not our choice for them to do so, only the Mozilla workers' collective will would make this happen. But if it were ever achieved I would gladly support them via financial means.
This might be from the later Brian Herbert books, but I recall ornithopters having jets or thrusters for VTOL.
Reading these always makes me a bit sad. There is a lot in here and people have their reasons, but levels are not everything and various “cuts” aren’t that meaningful when you consider TC of faang. Where else are you going to have a chance to make things better for billions of people? Maybe not life changing but at least slightly better?

A small improvement for billions adds up. Though burnout and pain are real, there’s more to all this. Hope OP finds what he’s looking for!
Sal Khan's plan to educate the world
Where Are China’s Recent AI Ethics Guidelines Coming From?
I blame Lin-Manuel Miranda.
For a sufficiently high quality UPS with sine wave output, yes, I suppose so.
I have an engineering background. My experience with cofounder matchmaking services is that non-tech cofounders often just want someone who will code the entire product in exchange for some equity. Hard no.
This Guardian article highlights deregulation as a root cause of the current problems:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/01/americ...

A quote:

Another example is railroads. Since deregulation in 1980, Wall Street consolidated 33 firms into just seven. And because the Surface Transportation Board lacks authority, Wall Street-owned railroads cut their workforce by 33% over the last six years, degrading our public shipping capacity. The Union Pacific closed a giant Chicago sorting facility in 2019; it now has so much backed up traffic that it suspended traffic from west coast ports.

Ocean shipping is the same. The 1997 Ocean Shipping Reform Act legalized secret rebates and led to a merger wave. The entire industry has now consolidated globally into three giant alliances that occasionally crash their too-big-to-sail ships into the side of the Suez canal.

Then there’s trucking. Talk to most businesspeople who make or move things and they will complain about the driver shortage. This too is a story of deregulation. In the 1970s, the end of public rate-setting forced trucking firms to compete against each other to offer lower shipping prices. The way they did this was by lowering pay to their drivers. Trucking on a firm-level became unpredictable and financially fragile, so for drivers schedules became unsustainable, even if the pay during boom times could be high. Today, even though pay is going up, the scheduling is crushing drivers. The result is a shortage of truckers.

end quote.

These problems have been building for some time. There was no spare capacity left and the sudden rise in demand overwhelmed the system, and it takes years to increase capacity. After deregulation hedge funds bought up railroads, gutted common carrier regulations, and forced railroads to only carry the most profitable cargo, while _closing_ rail terminals! This also forced more cargo onto trucks.
You can configure it to be a 103 key with long space bar (it's under chassis style). That's more or less a normal layout, I think.
The basic problem is the increase in e-commerce.

Since more goods are being shipped to people on a one off basis, there is more demand for all of the resources needed to do this, from boats, to containers, to warehouses.

When you start to see slow-downs in international shipping, there become large incentives to do silly things, like stockpile supply in warehouses, so all of the warehouses fill up, and then all of the container yards fill up, and then all of the container ships have to wait, exacerbating the problem.

On top of all of this, there is a huge shortage of truck drivers, because it sucks to drive a truck for a living.

What can we do about all of this? Expand the number of containers we can store? Seems like an unlikely fix. If you have a clogged pipe, expanding the size of the funnel feeding it doesn't solve the problem.

Why not put a price on the clog itself? If it cost an exponential rate to store containers full of stuff at ports I think the stockpiling would quickly subside, wouldn't it?
I think those are orthogonal.

Sure, you have the biggest chance of having something preserved if enough people care about it. This is a case where, as you rightly point out, technology matters not.

But we can still discuss technologies of preservation, especially in the light of non-physical creations like works presented on a digital machine.
Have it crawled by web archive
There’s a reason why people chose RDBMS or NoSqL DBs right? At the end of the day durable object is a simple kv which is the api it provides right?
How to build complex apps, without Indexes, or any other basic features existing DBs provide. Not every company can afford to build a new DB from basics, and you don’t expect to which is good. I agree workers shine for MVPs or even stateless functions. Or something with simple state. But once you start needing some basic features, we have to end up implementing complex loops/map-reduce to search, sort etc. Which is literally more code and maintenance. The benefit provided with server-less is quickly overcast by dev cost.
Thats why I said at its current state Workers have a niche.
And coming to edge I made a point to dig deep is because, Durable objects are not edge but global. Thats a huge difference. When the clients are far enough. Proponents of this feature here seem to imply they’re edge, distributed and strongly consistent, which is not exactly correct.
> I think about how we can enjoy booting 30 years old retro computers and how the next generation will not be able to do the same because of locked down hardware.

I worry about this too. It's been a great experience collecting and _using_ devices that were made a while before I was born. It's sad future generations might not be able to use the tech I'm enjoying now.
> Lol FFS to allow them to employ people to focus on addiction techniques like what the hell how was that even legal

Gambling industries all over the world have been doing this longer than Facebook, and nobody seemed to bat too much of an eyelid.
It is based on a machine learning model. I've been using it for a couple of months now and the suggestions are generally speaking surprisingly good. It has been able to usefully complete very obscure things, like parts of a PEG grammar for parsing Quake-C. I'm not using it to generate implementations of algorithms from scratch (because it just doesn't have enough data to do that properly), but rather as a fancy extension of regular code completion.
There are already several implementations of this great idea.
Finland plans to create a circular bioeconomy that runs on wood
That the package is downloaded 7 million times a week exacerbates the impact significantly. The CI/CD trend of pulling everything from upstream over and over for builds (despite caching, as the absurd NPM download counts indicate) ensures that any upstream issue is distributed widely and frequently.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment of vulnerabilities.
Any kind of hardware tools? Furniture? I’m pretty sure I can come up with more examples if I’m thinking about it. But those just came immediately to mind
Thank you for your response, I think I'll bring this up at the next book club :)
Higher tax rates despite having higher living costs. Your coworkers and boss assume you're cool with off-hours work because you don't have a family. Food packaged in sizes that you can't possibly use before it spoils or molds.
>I would credit Moore's law for that instead. Really, if one can do e.g. affordable, real-time machine vision stuff today, it has more to do with CPUs and GPUs gaining power every year, than software getting better.

Not really. AlexNet was a watershed moment for computer science, and the kind of things that were possible by 2015 with AI that weren't possible in 2010 far outstrip the gains in hardware advancement during that time.
For those looking, this is the diff. I'd be really curious how that got in.

https://my.diffend.io/npm/ua-parser-js/0.7.28/0.7.29
that was it actually. brave, not Vivaldi. edge has some Microsoft rewards when you click on news or whatever. I don't remember exactly but I tried edge and saw it and was immediately turned off.
Eh, most PWAs are still slow and have non-intuitive UI.
You could write a program that did a double blind experiment on you to verify your perceptions.
Exactly, perhaps people read too many comic book with these one dimensional villains to think that an employee asked Google to be more ethical and then they fired them right there and you could hear an evil laugh in the background.

I've looked at some of the correspondence between Timnit and others and it's fairly unprofessional on her part if you ask me and it has this self righteousness tone to it too.

Another very funny thing people believe is that Google wanted to do "evil" things but their perfectly crafted plan fell apart at the last second when they realized that they have "do no evil" in their code of conduct. After much scrambling the order came from the top to quickly remove it to unblock the evil plans.

That said, there sure are jerks at Google like any other company but I've realized most these dramatic stories regurgitated by the media is BS
And after whoever started the project gets their promotion, the product will be killed off and Google will chase another shiny thing. How much does anyone trust totally new Google things these days?
Yes, thank you, this is very important. Whenever someone says they might be asking a stupid question, I make sure to interrupt and remind that there are no stupid questions, only stupid people asking questions.
ICOs are almost all securities and requires registration with the SEC. It's hard to do something like that as a service.

If someone puts money in and expects a profit, then by the Howey Test, it is a security. Most funding in crypto is now going through VCs. Rich getting richer and all.

Hacker News is largely anti-crypto. You will find healthy skepticism in the comments on high score stories. You can use the search to find them.
ProtonMail iOS app works offline, at least you can read email and draft email offline. The client is also open source but they don’t seen overly keen on accepting contributions.
I'd like instead to see a new experimental browser.

Chrome does most of what I need , I want a ultra focused single tab/window MIT licensed browser. Build in an ad blocker too.
One everyone should see. Another two important adjacent docs are the Facebook Dilemma and the United States of Secrets by PBS' Frontline.
"Carbon neutral" via buying offsets and renewables made electricity is better than nothing but also a half truth. Their energy demand is displacing other consumers of that electricity, and for example, who will then consume eg fossil made electricity instead.
Sono Motors F-1
What is the reason for limiting it to 2 when clearly it can be 4 or 5?
Option 4: "asking employees to do extra work because they are single constitutes discrimination based on marital/family status. Don't do it. Ever."
You'd think Apple would be doing their best to help with this, considering they market their "neural engine" pretty heavily.
There’s mention of “stages” of navigators in one (or more?) of the books. Stage 3, as I recall are the advanced form in the tank.
Diaries of Lady B. Good
Thermodynamics is only mentioned once, as a response to an anticipated counterargument.