skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice.

What makes this work is the motors.[1] It's using 3-phase drone prop motors with no gear reduction. With direct drive, the mechanics of the joints are simple. Not too expensive, either. Each motor is about US$120.

I used to work on legged running back in the 1990s. But there were no motors good enough to build a small machine like this back then. All we had were R/C servos, gearboxes, and screw drive actuators. So I was stuck in simulation. All the early legged robots were mechanical nightmares. Springs, cables, pulleys, worm gears, harmonic drives... Now, at last, enough torque in a small package.

What you want in a leg muscle is well known - something that behaves like a spring/damper combo for which you can set the spring constant, the damping constant, and the spring's zero point. People have been trying to do that by mechanical means for decades. There were pneumatic systems, hydraulic systems, things with springs, pulleys, and wires, and a kludge called a "series elastic actuator", which is a stiff spring-damper combo in series with a screw drive actuator. They're all terrible.

"You cannot strip the teeth of a magnetic field" - GE electric locomotive sales rep, early 20th century.[2] That's why they can drop this thing and have it spring back. Try that with any of the mechanical nightmares and the results will not be good.

[1] https://store.tmotor.com/goods.php?id=774

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24288264
Multiply that by ~70 (number of active subs in the fleet)
You're right fruit is the exception. I can only eat so much fruit.

If I want to buy lunch there is nothing within a 20min drive that is a reasonably healthy choice.
Omicron variant found in nearly one-third of U.S. states
Even among previously respected outlets, there’s a trend towards more clickbait style stories. It feels like a response to losing ad revenue to social media and search which is unfortunate. Things like The Wirecutter have definitely lessened the whole outlet to me.
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You can't know how many times your browser's let malware through, there's practically no supply chain security, no reproducible builds, no way to know what code has been executed.

I don't need anyone's approval to run native apps either, both my PCs run C apps I built from source and shell scripts I wrote myself without it, languages of my choice with implementations simple enough to write myself, not runtimes that literally no one that's not Google can afford to independently maintain. That's real openness.
This is not the case where I am in Canada, but your comment caused me to check Google Images.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gabion+wall

What is going on here? This is a totally bizarre architectural element.
I can't recommend KeepassXC enough! Its completely offline and also has a browser exetension.
Yeah I'm a weirdo and use YouTube Music, but it has the same problem. It just shows me things that I'm already interested in.

When it comes to "discovery", I want to find things I never knew I wanted to hear.
i believe it reauires a type of seamlessness that requires very specific technologies that d9nt exist.
This might depend on the field.

But for the most part, you want to interview as soon as they can and if they have multiple rounds (phone, meet a manager, meet the team) you want to do them as quickly as reasonably possible. They have a position open, they want to fill it, if they hire you quickly, there will be no more competition. They don't want to interview any more people than they have to, so if you're right for the job, they'll hire you fairly quickly. If they aren't willing to schedule your interview fairly quickly, they aren't particularly motivated to fill the position (or have other candidates that they consider higher priority) and might not be worth your time.

When interviewing, remember that the interview is a two way street. Try to figure out what the job really is (the hr who posted position and phone screen people likely know much less about the actual job than the interviewers). If after finding out the details, you are genuinely interested in what they do and what you would do in the position, it'll keep the tone positive, even if you struggle. An underqualified, but motivated, candidate is much more interesting than a highly qualified but apathetic candidate.

Also, by keeping the interview as a conversation (trying to figure out if/how their questions relate to what they job is), you might get glimpses of feedback on how you're doing that you will almost certainly never get directly. This should help get you an idea of if it is going to be a good place to work or not.

If possible, show usages rather than tell qualifications. Rather than saying you can do X, tell a 10 second elevator pitch style story about how you've done it before. Try to have something to say about anything on your resume. They should come out confident that anything you claimed on it was actually you, not just "your team".

If they ask about something you are weak in, admit it, and try to see how they use it and try to offer related experience that shows you understand and are willing and able to learn it. They don't really expect to find a candidate that knows everything, but if you can demonstrate that you are familiar with the space enough to learn it, they'll be more willing to give you a pass.

If you totally fail at the interview but are genuinely interested and show the ability to learn it, you still have a chance. If you show disinterest or get defensive (rather than motivated) when challenged, they won't want to hire you.

If it isn't a good fit in your mind and you'd be looking for something better the day you start, be honest with yourself and them, thank them for their time and let them know that it isn't what you thought it was. A gracious interviewee who doesn't waste their time, may get called back if they have a position that better matches your interests (perhaps even if that interviewer moves to another company). If you accept a job and leave it fairly quickly, that's a big red flag and future employers will likely check that company for references.
You could make a very strong case that they're forming, and that at the least a precursor has existed for a decade or more now.

They're not yet at the scale of slums, favellas, barrios, etc., of third-world cities. For the most part that role remains the domain of "retirement" communities of the less-than-privileged sort, usually in outlying regions or depressed (e.g., Rustbelt, rural Sunbelt) areas.
It would be interesting to see how well the study was controlled for specialties.

The abstract states:

>Gender differences in career earnings were largest for surgical specialists ($2.5 million difference), followed by nonsurgical specialists ($1.6 million difference) and primary care physicians ($0.9 million difference)

There is a lot of variability within each of those groupings.
> feel like I have one hand tied behind my back

I’ve heard of an editor that can be used with two mice.
I heard that most of US navy runs on WinNT, and it is the world's biggest user of it.
This is Google.
I don't think React hooks will be outdated in 1-2 years. Between Svelte and Vue I don't see a path for a formidable challenger. You get the complete ecosystem around it. There's tools like Stencil, and I like those tools, but giving people whole-cloth access to make anything, with no 'base' design system, tends to lead to the creation of inaccessible UIs. And it's quite simple to introduce a11y issues. The front end stack isn't moving at the speed it did in the early 2010's, of which I am personally appreciative of.
I don't think that was the point of the linked article

Pretty sure it was the threatening someone to burn them alive
There is no consumable liquid helium. Past space telescopes have used consumable coolant, but JWST has a closed refrigeration system to cool the one instrument that requires active cooling.

If all goes as planned, the limiting factor is propellant. And the propellant tanks have the ports for on-orbit refueling, in case there is ever a desire to develop a robotic servicing mission for the task.
Pretty sure \m/ (> <) \m/ is the next Haskell infix operator beyond monads and arrows.
to put things in a perspective:

"At least 16 U.S. states have reported Omicron cases: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin, according to a Reuters tally.

Many of the cases were among fully vaccinated individuals with mild symptoms, although the booster shot status of some patients was not reported.

Despite several dozen Omicron cases, the Delta variant still accounts for 99.9% of new COVID cases in the United States, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told ABC News in an interview."

taken from the article
> Although the one thing speaking in favor of buying Apple despite this is that they sell so many of the same machines that when one of these major design issues pop up, it's likely to build up enough steam and bad publicity that they fix it/implement an extended warranty repair program

Apple has never admitted fault for their shoddy MagSafe charger cable insulation, which always end up disintegrating and spewing blue stuff all over my furniture.

I've had multiple cables flake over the years, and every time I bring the the charger to a Genius bar (so far: Australia, Japan, and Singapore), they've always fallen back to "policy" and blamed it on me for not taking care of it properly.
Phil's PGP Docs
MeshCentral is really good and open-source https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral

It pairs well with Tactical RMM https://github.com/wh1te909/tacticalrmm
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They talk about gaming the metrics. Something the Soviet Union was known for.
I'm sympathetic to the need to do this, just admiring the kludges. It's not just user agent spoofing; some of the compatibility hacks seem to be modifying CSS of websites.
Giving foreign aid instead of spending the money directly allows circumventing WTO rules about subsidizing your products. The book The Dictator's Handbook discusses this in detail.
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And I have a set of Boston Acoustics speakers sitting on my desk here that are almost certainly older than the Boston Dynamics trademark.

Hmmm, just looked it up: "Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992" Boston Acoustics was founded in 1979. Th A40s on my desk came out in 1986, bu6t I'm not sure how old this specific pair are, I bought them 2nd hand. I have a pair of their bigger brothers, the A60s downstairs that I bought new in 1988...
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I didn't see you admit that a 6 order of magnitude difference isn't "negligible", as you originally claimed. Instead you're making the argument that we can throw hardware at the problem, which is fine, but a very different statement.
The video didn't show up for me
I think you're kidding? That's not an NTP server. It's not a very good NTP client, either.

I'm hoping they switched to chrony but I don't know.
That's fair, but does it tell anybody anything meaningful? How do we know that the reports are accurate?

I've seen some of the reports, and they're fairly elaborate, like multiple pages.
I see it all in my job and certainly things like this. Generally perks don’t work as expected if you’re asking the employee to pay for them. Which is basically what you’re doing if the competition is offering $5K more. Also people often will prefer base comp as it is seen as cash. And, squabbling over $5K is a sign that future salary conversations/advancements will be challenging or signals the company is “cheap”.

The weirdest thing I ever saw was an employee turned down their ~$50K bonus due to taxes. Or, likely, their misunderstanding of how marginal taxes work.
Wow, amazing how they bent over backwards to keep customers up and running. I wish they cared that deeply about their users today.

(Not saying the approach should be the same, just wish the attitude and motivation were as intense and that Win 10+ were less user-hostile.)
> We’ve also reduced the power usage of software decoded video on macOS, especially in fullscreen. This includes streaming sites such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

Thank god. This has been a real problem.
Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg: act now on child and adolescent mental health
Why not use Pandas?
Don’t know if staged is the right word, but it’s a little sketchy at least that the car drove using a method they’ve mocked other companies for using and have stated they have no intention to ever use in their consumer product.
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I took ximeng's interpretation of my comment yesterday and worked on it. Here's my newest attempt at the USB-C explanation.

A. The USB C cable physically consists of:

1. 60/100W power wire pair

2. USB2 speed data wire pair supporting 0.48Mbit/s

3. 4 high speed data wire pairs (“high speed lanes”). These can be ommitted.

Each high speed lane supports at least 5/10Gbit/s depending on cable length.

4. Separate wire for negotiating power roles (source/sink) and data roles (upstream/downstream or host/peripheral).

5. eMarker cables are required for rapidly changing wattage of power supply (Programmable Power Supplies, PPS)

B. Protocols (all over high speed lanes apart from USB2):

1. USB. 480mbit/s over the dedicated pair is always possible. 5/10gbps USB using two high speed lanes is the default mode for the high speed lanes depending on cable length. (four high speed lanes at 20gbps theoretically possible but rarely supported by hosts)

2. DisplayPort 1.2 (8.64Gbit/s video data over 2 high speed lanes) / DisplayPort 1.3/1.4 (12.96Gbit/s over 2 high speed lanes, double over 4). MST technology allows splitting the aggregate video data bandwidth across monitors but Mac doesn't support this. DisplayPort 1.4 supports video compression, but this is rarely supported by monitors. If using only 2 high speed lanes the other 2 can be used for USB data. This mode doesn't require any protocol converter to connect a DisplayPort device, only a simple USB C controller to negotiate DisplayPort mode. The USB C pins become DisplayPort pins, essentially.

3. Thunderbolt 3/4 (needed for Mac dual monitors). Thunderbolt 4 is USB4 with optional features mandatory (however in practice these optional features are likely to always be included so they can be treated as the same). TB3 carries PCI Express + DisplayPort packets, TB4 also native USB packets. Thunderbolt controllers are required on both ends. In a TB3 dock, this controller provides the USB root hub, in TB4 the USB data comes from the host. Bus bandwidth is maximum 40gbps, depends on host and cable both (this is why TB peripherals ship with so short cables). The bus can have two independent DisplayPort connections (which PCs can again split to even more). Laptops with TB4 and/or two Thunderbolt ports always have two, most TB3 laptops with a single port will only provide one -- and that one will only be DP 1.2. Note two ordinary independent DP cables can carry 51.84Gbit/s worth of video data (if the host and monitor both supports at least 1.3) but the TB bus is limited to 40Gbit/s.

Finally, power: 5/9/15/20V. Requirements signaled by resistors on the device side if only 5V. More than 5V negotiated between devices: 1. Agree source and sink, by default the data upstream/host is source but this can be negotiated, 2. Source indicates how much power it can provide, either 3A or with a 20V cable optionally 5A. This assumes fixed power, some devices now support PPS.
iirc elb+autoscaling
Those are all fantastic reasons to use relibc, the libc written in Rust, which has the additional benefit of already existing.

https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc
Repeat it again: XPS 13 with the TB16 Thunderbolt dock gives me 3 external monitors. I tried the dock with the Mac M1 and obviously one monitor is supported because... Apple limitations. The problem with the XPS 13 is that it doesn't have the same battery duration of the M1 but beyond that in term of features is a top notebook.
My career has been all but 6 months pandemic, so that may play a factor. I also live in Canada, where I earn now what seniors at my first company did after 10 years as salaries have spiked across the board.

But yes, I can't say I have been at my full potential for more than 3 months as there has been so much team churn and directional change.
I quit my “good” job to start a business
Years ago I reported a bug in a VB function, something to do with date calculations. I spent quite a while on the phone with them, feeling like I was banging my head against a wall. They readily admitted that the output of their function was wrong, yet steadfastly maintained that they would not fix it because other programs might depend on that incorrect output.

If the answer to any bug report is that the buggy behavior is now the baseline standard, what's the point in reporting any bugs?
> including rounded corners

I have no idea how I got on all these years with square corners in my text editor.
Awesome stuff to look forward to. I wonder how long it will take GCP and AWS. Wish there was an easier way to provision dedicated hosting providers like Hetzner and OVH and create a federated Kubernetes environment.
There is a difference between a fleeting feeling of loneliness, and the prolonged feelings of social isolation that the article is talking about. Just like there is a difference between "feeling sad" and clinical depression. They were equating them, which is silly.
How do you define "productivity software?" What are some examples?
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They're also unable to refund Kindle book orders via their website. The "Request a refund" page has a 500 error, so they fall back to letting you request a call from a customer service rep. Initiating this request also fails, so they then fall back to showing a 1-888 number that the customer can call. Of course, when I tried to call, I got "All circuits are busy".
I had to re-read that line as well. I have huge respect for Lillian's work so this line just didn't make any sense to me, forcing me to read it carefully!
The way to break free of this is to create Notepad2, leaving Notepad as it is.
> I've never had subprocess deadlock — was this on Windows?

I've seen this happen seemingly randomly in linux trying to pipe the stdout of one subprocess into the stdin of another.
It only takes 300 units of science to research Nuclear Propulsion and 10,000 kerbucks to unlock the LV-N "Nerv" Atomic Rocket Motor. I say go for it. :)
Does Amazon host its core infrastructure in us-east-1?
Windows Server 2022 support was targetted for 1.23, but it's not clear if it made the release...
From personal experience with multiple cases of impacted earwax, dripping a bit of olive oil to soften the earwax is probably the least intrusive.

One can follow up with a bit of 3% hydrogen peroxide one day after. The bubbling causes the impacted earwax to break up mechanically.
Making 'science' a fungible unit allows scientists in one domain to leach off the reputation earned by scientists in another domain. Accomplishments in physics lend credibility to accomplishments in social science, due to the commonality of both using the scientific method, even though the scientific method is not uniformly effective across all domains of inquiry.
Anyone knows what software/package she uses to make the diagrams?
Seriously Microsoft must be openly mocking users. I recently had an issue with Microsoft Edge reverting all my privacy settings. They are full on hostile at this point. If you sign into the Windows store then suddenly they revert your privacy settings even if you set it to disable sync.
I wonder if it will support versioned symbols for ABI stability like glibc does.
Those Increasing error rates with some customers affected... /s

All green
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29473630
I've started to see this everywhere also
When we develop tech like this, we are betting against environment and habitat. And trees.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%3...
Also:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211206194029/https://thedanish...
It would appear so. Also it’s good Amazon has skin in the game here.
But I mean, you immediately went to Hitler which is a lazy exit in a discussion and hard for me to defend, but let's try, since I'm French. When Germany had to submit to the Versaille Treaty and pay gold fines every year until 1975, went into a crisis compounded by the US financial crisis and we robbed the Ruhr coal mines to solve our own issues, voting Hitler with all his promises may have turned Germany around from its abject submission and sad destiny. It was too far into insanity but... wasnt it better than having the French elites continue to think that Germany had to be punished forever ?

At least in school in France we now learn not to blame ONLY the little guy voting out of despair, but also the unfair winners of WWI. Without that crowd deciding together to do something, anything, where would Germany be today ? Hard to be optimistic in 1933. And it drove the WWII winners into building a better post-war reparation program, not only explained by the communist scarecrow but also the lessons of the inception of WWII in Germany: revenge against abject humiliation.
Yes TikTok is a serious threat to YouTube because they have solved the chicken-and-egg problem. Most YouTube competitors don't have enough users to be worthwhile for content creators, but TikTok now has billions of users. Currently TikTok is limited to short, popular videos but if they can branch into long-term videos it will kill YouTube
Do any of the CDNs use JPEG XL to reduce storage usage for JPEGs yet? (JPEG to JPEG XL to JPEG gives back the same bits)
For starters, an individual can not be at two different places at the same time to report (for example about a fire and a football game happening at the same time). If they report about both tomorrow, then it is not news anymore.

Also an individual may not have the same knowledge or understanding to report about science, sports, education, economy or crime with same quality.

If you propose multiple individuals forming an organization and using substack as a platform, that is fine, you just replaced paper or a website with substack, so the platofrm changes but they would still be running a news organization/news company.
Their main page ( www.nordicforestfoods.com ) is up, bit the blog itself ist caput.
I read his point to be something along the lines of 'Hubble is great, I'd love to see it one day.' I guess some people are offended because he suggested spacex might be used to retrieve Hubble instead of letting it become derelict in orbit.
Because product managers see the product from a UX perspective and cannot approve nosense features.
cat is good enough for entering text (it’s a computer version of a typewriter), but ed is a real powerhouse.
Excel famously has a date calculator bug that cannot be fixed without breaking spreadsheets everywhere (which of course now expect the bug).