skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These boys https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40642968

The ennui of their life clearly leads to their prematurely choosing one answer to Camus’s great question.
Medical equipment rules and price gouging. More medical equipment standards for the CGMs. More price gouging for the now $300+ vials of humalog.
Now consider the military is trying to add weapons to bots.

Probably already has, imagine those beta-test stories and "just ship it" results someday.
Tell that to all the people who are furious about the Windows 11 taskbar changes.
Ehh... I started reading the Dune novels after loving the movies, and they have honestly have been disappointing.

Some parts of the first book dealing with environmentalism are great, but the rest is kinda meh. My main problem is that the Dune Universe seems too small: almost all important events in the Universe happen to the same couple of main characters, and almost everything that happens to them is very important to the Universe.

There's a part in Dune Messiah when someone mentions a certain event happens to a very large number of people; they could have made that number 100x larger or 100x smaller and the result would be exactly the same.

I read that God Emperor is good, so I'm trying to decide whether to start the third book or just cut my losses and abandon the series.
This is one I've seen in the wild. The K5 rocket-shaped model is heavy, 400 lbs (180 kg)

https://www.knightscope.com/
Moderna Applies mRNA Approach to Herpes, VSV and Cancer
> > transferred to the storage device

> MacOS does that.

Depends on the definition of "storage device", I guess. If it's physical media, then OS X doesn't. If it's the controller, then OS X does. But since the intent is to have the data reach persistent storage, it has to be the physical media.

My guess is that since people know all of this, they'll just keep working around it as they already do. Newbies to OS X development will get bitten unless they know what to look for.
Certainly we can have nice things
I've moved some old troll comments here for reasons described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387521.

(The comments are all dead so only users with 'showdead' turned on in their profile will see them.)
>An hour will erase about a third of a normal person's diet.

Pretty sure most people shouldn't be eating 3000 calories/day.
Unfortunately the most realistic scenario where the birthrate drops below 1 comes from extreme economic inequality or authoritarianism. The birth rate does indeed drop as countries develop more, and as more people get educated about birth control, but controlling it beyond that is likely not a good thing.

Jail time for frequency jamming seems very extreme (if you want to see the failure of jail time to curb behavior, look at how many people are in American prisons and how high their recidivism rate is).
Yeah, link to the date of submission snapshot. I think archive takes you to the nearest snapshot in that case?
25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer
Yes it is. Also for reference, here's list of number 1 posts on HN since that day: https://hnhd.io/
Right, this speaks to women being more selective than in the past, but says nothing in either direction about promiscuity levels overall. Women could be simultaneously more selective than in the past, and less promiscuous. Or more promiscuous. That data doesn't tell us.
Maybe he'll get Joy Division back together again.
> Sex is the peak of human connectivity and intimacy.

This philosophy is a recipe for a disastrous relationship. Every single person I've ever talked to in a long-running successful marriage has told me that sex is not a substitute for emotional intimacy, and that emotional intimacy is the core of their marriage that survives even as they age and even as they start to have sex less.
I work in finance. I have the seen the same situation play out with salespeople. As risk taking at large investment banks has fallen dramatically since 2008 regulatory reforms, the value of sales people has only risen. The "alpha" sales person seems to have no ceiling. Ideally, this sales person is working in a product area that does not increase balance sheet risk... holy moly... they are worth more than weight in gold. They bring big new accounts that trade like crazy, but balance sheet (and risk) does not balloon.

And now to offer a small criticism of your post: I prefer to say "conventionally attractive" over "tall white guys", because that would be more inclusive. Yes, really, I have seen very successful women who present just shy of pornstars-in-real-life and absolutely clean-up by selling to drooling old (dumb) white, male, portfolio managers. The sooner all of this is replaced by passive investment, the better for all customers -- but not big banks(!). After all, as the saying goes: "Where are the customers yachts?"
You just described everything that is wrong and also most profitable about Youtube culture
Anybody knows who make these robots and what model is it? Can i buy this robot?
how about that we're also social creatures? Devs get a bad wrap as anti-social intraverts who want to sit in a dark room alone all day, and yes there is a time for that, but I absolutely love learning from someone directly AND sharing something I know. Sometimes I wonder if the resistance to pairing is because of the weaker relationship between the individuals and not the act itself.
There's no greater motivator than telling somebody they can't do something they want to do.
M1 macs can take some light gaming pretty nicely actually.
I had a friend who wanted to lose weight, and so he’d walk about one mile to a local restaurant, where he’d proceed to eat a 1,200 calorie meal. It’s not as if he didn’t burn calories while walking, but he severely overestimated how many calories he had burned.
> Seems like the company might eat the fine, the city will take the money, and the problem persists, but now the city is happy too.

Then the fine isn't big enough? (:
It's one of those things where what is said works in the way it has been worded, not in the way its author thought it worked.

I mean, at its face value, the bugs have a better chance of being fixed because more people can see them. And the open source license, technically, empowers every user.

Yes, even today, I can fix whatever I please and disregard whatever everyone says about "being a part of the community" and "decision process". And I can distribute the fixes on my own.

In this sense, the "law" is working, it's just as obvious as the fact that it's way easier to run a company in a country with fewer regulations and simpler tax law than in a country with more regulations and more complex tax law. However, there are also other confounding factors which may negate this maxim.

For example, the bystander effect is pretty big. Sure there's someone else fixing this. Or there's the fatigue of pull requests being enqueued for years. Or there is, on one hand, a stigma that you have to have a galaxy brain to work on X, while at the same time people making X may make mistakes but no one feels it's right to question them, because they are "galaxy brains" by definition.

There's also this factor of eyeballs being tired, not really interested, not looking really carefully. And yet, once known, things do get fixed rather rapidly. In open source, I haven't seen yet an equivalent of the AWS status page.

So, yeah, it doesn't guarantee you things. But when we're talking about all else being equivalent except for the license, an open-source X will be better, on average, than a closed-source X. Most areas of work benefit from transparency.
This assumes that there isn't a spectrum of running intensity. In this case they were running 10s of kilometres every day during the study, an absurd distance. So they were likely experienced runners already who were engaging in this extreme competition and took it up to an abnormal intensity that they weren't used to.
Ought to be a trigger warning for that one. ;-)

I was bullied in elementary school which gave me a high sensitivity to social rejection. I was really afraid of dying alone in high school. Although I was not treated cruelly as a teen I heard a lot of "be yourself", "be a decent person", "it will get better in the sweet bye and bye".

That was the beginning of seven years of despair which still affect me decades later. In particular, a lot of guys seem to focus on "being a decent person" and find that what they get is a lot of listening to women complain about their bad boyfriends. (I didn't particularly fall for that --it but I have a tenant who tells me all sorts of things that women told him that he shouldn't be repeating to me.)

I think a lot of men are in situations where they see no path forward. The blackpill incel stuff is poison but I know I felt absolutely alone (couldn't get any recognition from adults and teens that I had a problem) when I was a teenager and if Wheat Waffles had been around back then I probably would have thought "here is a movement of people like me, for the first time I feel like somebody hears me"

(My son had a friend fall under Wheat's spell and he disconnected from my son Scientology-style because my son was taller than him and was concerned my son would "heightmog" him.)

Listen or not you're going to hear more and more from people who steal the vocabulary and discursive techniques of the incels.

If people pay attention they might discover the magic keys to solving problems like "blacks vs the police", "residential segregation of racial minorities", "women getting paid less than men" and "i can't afford healthcare" that never go away -- all of them have a structure similar to the incel problem in that people are making a demand which could seem reasonable in the abstract that becomes unreasonable or unsatisfiable when you expect that some particular person in some particular situation do something for you.
This is one of those online exaggerations. Occasionally some people will behave badly. Just like sometimes you’ll see people stop their cars on the sidewalk or whatever. It’s fine.
So, to me, this implies women being more selective of partners than in the past accounts for some of the overall decrease, but not all.
I had the impression it was the other way around.

Women judged on appearence and men judged on financial success.
STM32 is a very broad range of chips. STM32MP1 runs Linux and I am sure SQLite as well ;)

And even leaving the MP1 aside, the STM32H7 micro controller has a ARM Cortex-M7 core which runs up to 550MHz.
Tipasa, Algeria’s ancient melting pot, faces an uncertain future
What a weird story. I have limited, tangential experience with getting the FBI involved with crimes of an employee. In our case, they were not in a rush to make any moves against the person until they had an airtight case with indisputable evidence. Honestly felt strange given how obvious the crime was during the investigation.

Although in this case the seized funds were apparently returned. I have a feeling a lot of crucial details have been left out of this piece (EDIT: See links below to the investigation details. There are multiple parties involved and some of they were keenly aware that they were breaking laws that were "FBI-type stuff"). The devil’s advocate take on this outcome would be that the person cooperated with the FBI to provide evidence and/or testify against bigger fish in the case in exchange for being let off the hook. If this was the case, we’d probably see some headlines about an Amazon-related criminal charges in the coming months or years. Although in our case the released documents were full of “Company 1” and “Individual 2” anonymity, so someone (usually a journalist) would have to figure out the connection.

Or maybe this really was some big misunderstanding with disastrous consequences to the family. Impossible to know from an article from this perspective.

EDIT: There's a more in-depth review of the case here: https://www.geekwire.com/2021/former-aws-real-estate-manager...

From the summary, it does appear that multiple people are involved in the case and the person in this article (Nelson) doesn't look like the key player in the alleged frauds, though he would have played a significant role in facilitating the accusations. There's definitely some shady business going on, but this guy could have been more of a pawn than active player.

One of the text messages from transcripts is notable (Note "Nelson" is the accused person in the Medium article):

> “Flip me a couple buildings … and let me really line your pockets like we were discussing! ” Ramstetter wrote in a Dec. 17, 2018 message to Nelson, according to a copy of the exchange Amazon filed with the court.

The transcript in that article is also enlightening, because it's literally a conversation between two of the partners who acknowledge that what they're doing is "federal, FBI-type stuff" and express concern over it. If you ever get a message like that from someone proposing to "line your pockets" in exchange for facilitating deals with your employer, maybe don't work with that person any more.
If you are actually in this position, then you should understand that the advice is not to fix the other issues, but to stop doing what you are currently doing, not because it's not working, although that is a very good reason to stop expending the energy, but because it's making the situation worse.
Likewise, not a fan of folks who dismiss others' predicaments via injecting their own misunderstanding into an argument they neither understand, nor engage in earnestly.

Clearing the sidewalk is being nice. Clearing the sidewalk to help multibillion dollar companies so they cause less of a mess while pushing millions of others out of work is not.

Spare me your judgement.
Thanks. Probably useful to remember that this isn't a production run of thousands of units, and I already had the WROOM board on hand…
That's why the second task is hard. Probably the right way to do it isn't via the electricity angle, but the securities or commerce angles.
Ha the British made real Daleks (yes yes I know they aren't bots with living organism inside)

Eventually learn to self-upgrade to overcome stairs, then you've got a problem.
They have allegedly started lobbing shells. [1] You may have to find non US media news sources to see it.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9zusfX8F7o [video]
I had to look it up: the term "glowie" apparently comes from a quote by Terry Davis, the TempleOS guy (of all places!). Far-right groups (and possibly others) use the term to refer to government agents, who apparently act so conspicuously that they "glow in the dark".

I don't personally know any US federal agents (that I'm aware of), so can't comment on the accuracy of that.
Huh, don't remember that being there but, honestly my memory is crap. Apologies!
Echoing others, I don't really respect LTT. They are more entertainment than information or any real attempt at tech journalism. On the other hand, Ian would be a great addition to a group like Gamer's Nexus, which is more focused on objectively testing technology products and diving into how they are engineered and what trade-offs are being made and why.
I agree, and am not making a Goldilocks argument (i.e. we must be just right because we're in the middle) - that's not only a non sequitur, it's a cognitive bias (you can make anything seem reasonable by framing it that way).

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

We do mark some accounts as banned in extreme cases, but it's a manual switch. We added it a year or two ago because some people would forget that they had turned on 'showdead' in their profile and then get upset about all the dreck they were seeing on HN. If anyone notices a particularly egregious account they're welcome to bring it to our attention at hn@ycombinator.com and we can turn that switch on.
I agree you about LTT to a certain point but I think you are dragging them too much. LTT has done some very good tech journalism in the past and brought some very important stories to light. While I do not prefer them for my hardware information for reasons you stated, I would not call them the polar opposite of quality.
> it was more of an RTS game

I think you mean the other classic Dune game, which was an RTS. This Dune game the parent comment refers to was a mix between realtime simulation, RPG and point-and-click adventure. You had to converse with family members, travel to Fremen Sietches, etc.

I agree neither game was 4X, though.
As always, this is about nuance. Too many concepts are forced by management, instead of being organic.

Organic pairing is awesome. Forced pairing is garbage.
The crime in this case is littering, and the person your hypothetical scooter company is going to pursue for moving the litter into the road where a car hit it is quite likely to be a minor whose identity you'll never determine.

But you're creating circumstances for this outcome to be probable by leaving unescured scooters littering sidewalks. Much like leaving your car idling with a key in the ignition and the doors unlocked creates circumstances for someone, possibly even a child, to climb in and commit a crime with it. It's negligence on your part.
> The coordinator communicates with each worker using an improvised JSON-based RPC protocol over a pair of pipes. The protocol is pretty basic because we didn't need anything sophisticated like gRPC, and we didn't want to introduce anything new into the standard library.

Interesting that this does not use `encoding/gob` by these criteria. I think `encoding/gob` is a nice example of what is possible with reflection, and I've certainly learned techniques from reading its implementation, but I haven't seen very many uses in the wild and this certainly would seem like a vote of no-confidence.
I disliked the Dropbox redesign as well, then I went back to using it exactly the same way I've done for the previous 10 years -- not seeing any UI whatsoever.
I don't think it's fair to blame the pandemic measures, at least in the USA. People weren't nice and then all of a sudden turned shitty because they were asked to voluntarily stay home. I think it's more likely that they were already antisocial people, but spent most of their lives keeping it inside and mostly hiding it under a thin facade of basic manners. Then, maybe several years ago, something happened that encouraged them that manners didn't matter, and it's ok to own your own asshole. Maybe someone showed us that you could just say the quiet part out loud without consequences. Hmm... Some human embodiment of narcissistic anti-social contrarianism... Can't quite put my finger on it though...
Robots are also more functional.

What's your cut off for accepting this nuisance and detriment?
Please don't pollute our waterways. Place them where they belong--into a nearby dumpster or the middle of the street.
Is it time to live with COVID-19? Some scientists warn of ‘endemic delusion’: https://www.science.org/content/article/it-time-live-covid-1...
this is more like what the author described as pairing than what I would hope it is like. I view the ideal (and try to make my sessions) more like translating two people working at a whiteboard to programming. It's tough to get it right though.
It's kind of ironic that it required a wealthy british entrepeneur to be the victim of systems like this before this article could be written.
Low blood/coffee levels?
The consumer products industry is largely vendor driven - companies decide what products to offer and then make and sell them. The big money in the defence industry is customer driven - the DoD (etc.) decides what they need then goes out and gets several companies to compete to drive it.

I think this has implications for the particular question being asked here in terms of growth opportunities, but I also think it's a big reason why the defence industry is stagnant and has to copy innovation from the consumer sector. If companies were coming up with products (all the way up to warplanes), and then selling them to customers I think there would be much greater advancement, and probably much better product focus on what the product is trying to achieve!

There are obviously business model challenges to this - you're talking about a product with potentially 1-2 customers in some cases, and therefore a lot of risk. But it's interesting that the Israeli defence sector has moved a little more in that direction.
Happy birthday HN! 10 years ago, I accidentally found HN and left the local pirate community, which translated many posts (for Non-English speakers) from HN and never gave links to original content.
Where the Western "Oh god, it's so tiring vacationing amongst the sahhhvages. Pass the gin, darling?" reaction still happens, it's based on the perception that in the tourist's home country, the law means what it says, and in the visited country, context is king. That's a useful adjustment to make. However, law enforcement in the West seems to be catching up in that respect.
Happy Birthday, I love HN but I still miss Usenet...
I picked up biking in my 20s, and was slimmer than I was in my teens. That's with no intentional change to diet. No one will ever be able to convince me that you can't lose weight with exercise. When I was doing ~90 minutes of cardio a day, it was impossible not to notice.
I switched to iCloud and apart from not seeing the sync status in the menu bar (and the folder location being .. worse) it's as good as Dropbox. Set and forget.
For many of those people, it's not a risk of homelessness but rather that they would have to rent someplace outside the favela at a much higher price, one they may be able to barely afford. Sort of like in the US, where zoning/building don't generally make people homeless but instead put a person into the situation of the favela dweller who has the option to rent while paying a large portion of their income, except without the option to build their own sub-code housing.
The worst of pair programming, in my opinion, is that people come to a consensus among themselves, as the author stated. at some point it turns into a mechanism where each group defends its own opinion.
Good to hear Orleans is being developed, maybe I'll finally try it out.
Propshaft – a new asset pipeline library for Rails
I guess you've never been in SOMA in San Francisco. I used to live in that neighborhood and in the 3 block walk to the coffee shop I could easily pass 20-30 of them. In my current neighborhood I'll see about 6 in the same distance.
Like I said, I agree things could be better. I just don't think things are currently quite as bad as your original article makes them sound, and I also think it's unfair to single out SQL Server as if it were worse than normal, when it's exactly the same as basically everything else today.
It's most strange to me, and I am not saying this applies to you, that one can have legit concerns about Musk and they are simply dismissed as "hate" by so many.

Why some refuse to hold him responsible for his statements is just weird.