skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The Boston Dynamics dog robot clearly has military applications so why not install a remotely operated gun turret, a targetting computer and a video feed on it?

Apparently research into using BigDog for military purposes was discontinued as it was too noisy (not overly surprising given it was powered by a go-kart engine). The smaller Spot robots only have a carrying capacity of 18kg, and the lightest weight variant of a CROWS weapon station I could see is ~74kg.

It would probably be more practical to mount something on an ATV quadbike platform instead of legs... less capability for rough terrain, but probably a lot more practical and easier on maintenance/logistics if you shared a common platform between manned and unmanned quad-bikes.
You literally said that soft deletes are illegal, which heavily implies what you now deny to have said.

The 30 days wasn't particularly taken from the regulation, the actual grace period for the deletion should be 90 days in total, but I'm not a lawyer nor certain about it.

What I am certain about is that your original thesis, which is soft deletes being illegal under gdpr, is complete bullshit
It's the same issue that happened with the infamous 2011 MBPs with fried Radeongate gpus. When Apple finally started a repair program years later no one wanted those machines.

That repair program was completely useless because of course I already had bought another MBP by then.
CockroachDB has "AS OF SYSTEM TIME", which even allows you to backup the database for that moment.

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/as-of-system-time....
A lot of thieves just part the stolen bike out too and sell what they can for scrap value. They'd probably find the tracker and throw it aside.
When you look into the studies for antidepressants, the track record is abysmal.

They’re not innocuous, trigger serious side effects, some are hard to quit, but more importantly they only make a difference in people with extremely severe depression.

And doctors often downplay or don’t mention side effects honestly because they don’t want patients to not take them.

The studies justifying antidepressants as effective to the FDA are disturbingly flawed: people who were not responsive were excluded from the studies…

Anyway, I found this website very enlightening on the topic: https://www.theinnercompass.org/learn-unlearn/intervention/a... along with several Reddit threads from peoples experience with various antidepressants.

This is not medical advice and there are cases where antidepressants are necessary and make a difference. But if you have anything else than extreme depression and no other mental health conditions (schizophrenia etc), consider magic mushroomed: a few intentional trips can do wonders to see what’s troubling you from a different angle and help you move forward.
From what I can tell, people in America generally work and they work hard. American productivity is usually high. I'm not seeing any large waves of unproductive twentysomethings.

It's always strange to me when critics look at this highly productive country, where many people work hard with fewer benefits & protections than other nations, and then call those people lazy.
Slightly amused here that when I click the link I get a "Read the rest of this story with a free account." pay (with my privacy) wall from Medium.
Thanks for the realization: married, two children and never thought about it this way.

Only difference is taxes and rights to decide if someone is incapable.

Relationship wise nothing changed.
Children however change a lot.
The free markets are not efficient. That’s the core reason why there are mismatches between price and value.
What evidence do you have for this? Do you think chattel slaves of the USA weren't broken in mind - indoctrinated into Christianity, stripped of their original languages, culture and names? That was not some novel evil created by Southerners - it's the tried-and-true method for enslaving populations throughout history.

But I'm sure the existence of TikTok is an existential threat.
Honestly, I'd assume he lost his key ...

Best way to get away with some crime is to act all casual about it. Wear a warning west, you can even got one printed with some official town logo the people will recognize.
Best to just insure stuff you can imagine getting stolen.
Yup, from my understanding and experience IBM is by far the furthest and easiest to use. As in, I can throw up my python shell, write 20 lines of code, and that thing will run my circuit on a real quantum computer in the next 10 minutes.
Roger Miller - King Of The Road

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4c7D0YsgnrE
Is it just me or are most responses here made without reading the linked tweet thread?

I'm wondering how much signal there is in the years in his excerpts. For example, he shows an excerpt from 1981, then jumps to 1999. Is this simply because he just found a few examples across the years and used those, or were there actually less reports during those 18 years?
Konrad is an amazing hacker <3
> The market isn't particularly free when people need to eat

> It'd be much freer with guarantees for basic necessities

You do know that would literally just make the problem worse, right? I mean, it sounds good to someone who can't work for legitimate reasons (small percentage of the population), but it also sounds good to everyone who has the capacity to earn their necessities, but would rather have it handed to them instead. It also sounds really good to politicians who seek (re)election by promising everything for free, knowing perfectly well that nothing is truly free. That kind of reasoning is what got us into this inflation mess.

Also, the "free" in "free market" doesn't mean what you seem to think it does.
Haven't you also seen lives saved by them? Because I sure have.
I'm not saying workers are against automation. They can see the hand writing on the wall, that's all. Now they want to be coders. They see the future is to be in charge of the automation.
You called? XD
Insurance is the answer. There is no decent lock since the cordless angle grinder exists.
I don't want to work. Not for good money, not in a fulfilling job, not for the betterment of mankind. I don't want to work, period.
I had the same problem, was a size cutoff caused by me setting the scaling to 200% or something. Once I reset scaling, date is back.

Hope it is that easy for you, and it isn't a bigger problem.
I read the article, wanted to comment, decided was better not to, went out for a run, and now I have decided to write something about it.

I found it a very disturbing article. Someone with a background in clinical psychology might want to explore the transference that seemed to happen in the author when she mistook a company she worked for, where she was apparently chastised, made to cry, and asked to skip vacation by appealing to her sense of guilt and importance, for a higher calling.

It is the kind of letter I would expect a North Korean army private to send to Kim Jong-un after coming back from three months of isolation in military barracks.

I also appreciate that there are people who are dedicated to the cause of corporate growth for reasons other than making bank, because I will never be one of those people.
After several decades of working in the US the main problem from my perspective is that delusional employees, favored and enabled by management, destroy a lot of trust among their coworkers and that adds a lot of workplace stress for many people.
I do effortless(=no transpiration) 30 to 35km/m on flat grounds with no headwind sustained. Where 'sustained' means something like 10 to 15 minutes max, since after that I either arrived at my location, or on longer tours I have to slow down many times for other traffic, pedestrians, traffic lights, etc.

On a three speed 28" from ca. 1985 btw., weighing 12kg with side dynamo, lights, mudguards, rack, and a wirebasket fixed with a bunch of cable ties on top of that(for my back pack).
I feel like beginner programmers should experiment with the following concepts in order.

1. File I/O to plaintext files. fread/fwrite, or whatever equivalent is in your programming language (Python fd.read() or whatever) is your first step into I/O. Especially because you can open the file and read it yourself as a human.

2. Piped I/O using Unix Pipes and/or Fifos. Pipes (./program1 | ./program2) are by far the easiest interprocess communication mechanism. They're not very flexible, but they're obvious to understand once you have mastered simple File I/O.

3. TCP Sockets are the natural evolution from pipes. Your first TCP Server will not be socket/bind/accept, since this is a bit complicated. Instead, you should write nc -l (port number) | ./myprogram, where netcat does the heavy lifting for you and creates a listening server for ./myprogram. You then have the ability to write ./myclient (which communicates to netcat, and therefore to "myprogram").

4. You finalize this by writing the server side without the netcat training wheels, to learn the socket/bind/accept dance.
By this logic, preferential marketing of home mortgages or diamonds to light skinned people is a form of racism, given that quite often a fool and his money are soon parted. Menthol cigarettes should not be banned or entirely excluded from advertisements. They should certainly be discouraged, especially among young people. At the same time, adults of any race should not be infantilized as not deserving of making their own decisions.
Turns out it's more efficient to keep the cattle somewhat happy. Doesn't change a thing when it comes time to get steak.
Most tech companies make use of short retention policies for this exact purpose. 18 months to 2 years by default, otherwise anything longer goes through an exception approval process.
I’d rather eat well and get laid. YMMV.
> the market FF serves this days is educated, rich and ahead of the curve.

That’s some weird projection that made me laugh. I used to use firefox everyday until it became too annoying and I moved on to another browser and never looked back. Firefox used to be great but those days are long gone.
I see OPs point. But I disagree with both the premise and conclusion.

Maybe it's because I come from a Mediterranean country, but I don't think we should tell people, and American even less, to invest even more time and effort in their job.

Sure, people need to feel fulfilled and with a mission. There are many ways to do it outside work, starting with family, friends, and community.

Also I find this advice a bit rich. Sure, it might have worked well for a twenty-something (I presume) early employee at a rocket ship. What about people later in life with families to support? what about all those who poured their souls into their starts just to get unceremoniously laid off?

Caring about your job can be an immense source of satisfaction and part of a well balance life. But let's not kid ourselves, the relationship between companies and employees is very asymmetrical. If you bust your ass working you might get a raise or a promotion, and make someone else a few million. If you lose your job, your life might get wrecked, and the company wont even flinch.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Hiring Freelancers
After five years wrestling with my side project, I'm finally optimistic I'll ship it.

How did I become optimistic? The short answer is money. The longer answer is indifference.

The Journey.

Since 2017 I've been working on a side project which I always intended to launch as a paid SaaS product. I matched every cliche about people bootstrapping their SaaS:

- The code isn't clean enough
- The UI isn't pixel perfect
- The export feature doesn't work correctly
- I need to completely refactor the entire app because I learned a new way to write a for loop...

On at least two occasions I became so stressed out I had to take a break from working on it.

On a side project!

Here's how I finally got some momentum.

Step 1: Hire a freelance developer

You need help. You need a new perspective. Most importantly, you need indifference.

Freelancers are hired to achieve a specific outcome. After achieving that outcome, they move on to the next project. They don't have time to refactor that same library three times. They force you to prioritize what's important to ship.

Step 2: Hire a UI/UX designer

Having a rough outline of what the app should look like gives you a target to work toward. Instead of becoming an expert with Figma, hire someone that can do it for you. You'll be shocked what value two weeks of a designer's time can bring.

Step 3: Hire a marketing agency

Digital marketing is a highly complex endeavor. If you think spending money on Google Ads or posting on Twitter is sufficient to bring your product to life, you'll be disappointed.

Yes this all costs money.

Yes you have to give up some control.

Yes you might miss some learning opportunities.

But if there's one lesson I learned after five years, it's all about shipping!
What they really mean: "We're no longer developing for/testing Firefox, and if you run into a technical issue we will not offer any support". Firefox will probably continue to work fine.
We know that a group of people who suffer from depression have lower serotonin levels when compared to someone who is considered... not depressed. And we know that SSRI's prohibit or prevent the bodies ability absorb serotonin allowing it to accumulate and be more effective and pull it in line with someone who is not depressed, resulting in the depressed person becoming less or not depressed.

So. I'm unsure how my statement is untrue in response to the parent statement stating we have no idea how they work.
In Google's (and for instance Scaleway too), the point is that some of their DCs use renewable energy only, thus are "clean". If however you use the "wrong" Google region which is hosted in Equinix's DCs, which happen to be powered by coal, it's not even remotely close. However Google make the distinction and you can easily check which region is "clean" and which isn't.
The richest take out loans though. Those aren't counted as income or capital gains
If you consider drought a common cause, then a potential relationship is there.
>Deep down, we know capitalism doesn’t really work

It doesn't? Do you have any examples of anything proven to work better? I don't remember feudalism being very good at promoting specialization of labor.
Learn to Code, Fast
Why would anyone take business advice from the person that tanked one (or two if you include Tumblr) of the most well-known brands.
A thrilling six hour coding competition
You have some of the empty lat, lon data (e.g. AWS GovCloud (US)) interpreted as at (lat,lon) = (0,0), putting them incorrectly on Null Island.
An epic showdown of programming skills with a chance to win 10,000 USD in prizes.
Funnily enough the one I used to take (Escitalopram) apparently has been found to begin permanently altering brain function after only a few hours of first ingestion. I was pretty happy with it. No pun intended
How's the government supposed to know your market share without those computers though?
I was able to cover my bike on my renters insurance. Zero deductible. All told its like $15/month for the peace of mind covering all my valuables, not just my bike.
It is the truth unfortunately
Related:

The Rust Performance Book - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25122178 - Nov 2020 (19 comments)
It was over $4T in stimulus, and extended far beyond individual stimulus checks.

Which doesn't even include forbearances that add a few T more in consumer spending power, or artificially low interest rates driven by the Fed

Here's your inflation:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSXFS

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PI

Maybe you can clue some of the others into it. Not like we have the internet and easily observable datapoints that makes it quite obvious huh.

Instead have to hear the inane idiocy of economically illiterate people promoting policy that does the opposite of what they want to achieve
Lisp itself precedes the Lisp Machines for about 20 years, and was available in UNIX workstations as well, in fact that is where Allegro Common Lisp started.
Cflag – wraps and extends Go flag build pertty CLI command
The American dream, you have to be asleep to believe it. -- George Carlin
I don't think these are mutually exclusive. There can be a local deficit within an industry, and we might not be able to meet that demand with our labor pipeline.

At the same time, there can be an overall deficit of meaningful work for decent enough wages at the societal level.

The hoarders can selectively employ people who will make them richer, all while the rest of society continues to crumble around them. That's what's been happening in America for decades. Either you're in the upper class or things or actively getting worse.
The AVF functions, in a crude analogy, as a contract force for these wars you're talking about. If everyone - and I mean everyone - had skin in the game the prospect of more of these misadventures starts to diminish. It doesn't go away completely, and certainly the elite could invent ways to get around the service requirements, but it's a start.
Whose responsibility is to provide free money or the difference they need? Market is not to provide food to people in need.
So unbelievably unread and wrong.

Ketamines anti-depressant effects are some of the longest lasting in pharmaceutical history.

Tolerance is carefully managed by your infusion provider to not build up.

The long term efficacy is insanely good - which is why we approved it in the first place.

The psychedelic experience is necessary to approach the more permanent end of the spectrum - this is by the "evidence" that you are not reading.

SSRIs continue to be a mainstay because they aren't $800 per session with insurance and have an extreme margin. They are far, far, far lower efficacy.

What are you doing my man? You just straight lied in almost every sentence.
Gonna attempt to short circuit the "you think WE have it bad? Whatabout 1700s?" argument by adding that the "broken interface" theory may be much more about the patient's perception and confidence of the trap we're in than the actual truth of relative conditions. There also might now be a greater philosophical understanding of the global picture than the average person back in the day. Back then we didn't have an internet to give us rigorous detail on both the widespread extent the human race is trapped in a broken system and the futility of the common man's attempts to change it. Even if this wasn't true (I'm hard pressed to find a more optimistic take, though I'm always searching and fighting for it - technology is the best hope imo), it is an easy perception to fall into, especially for anyone already a few steps into depression. It's a reasonable bet that even if people in the past were just as likely to get beaten down and depressed about their own lives, they still might have been able to look at the world around them and the future of humanity and see optimism and hope that the next day might be better/luckier. The world was also much more malleable at the local level - both politically and individually (i.e. go outside and chop a tree down) and less of a complex leviathan of laws and exploitations which immediately instills a feeling of being trapped in the jaws of something that you can't even explain or understand.

Alternatively - or just, adjacently - with the internet (and big business, and widespread university education) we are culture-shocking vastly more people into a medium that can barely be understood from a detached intellectual and philosophical perspective, and is almost impossible to fathom from historical, traditional, ancestral or biological ways of understanding (the way humans operated for vast majority of our existence). We have little history to compare this new way of life to, and it's unsurprising if it's doomed to breed mental disease by its very nature. We have awakened far more people to an absurd reality, and "what is meaning?" is no longer just a question for a tiny group of overintellectual philosophers. Some of those philosophers say that one must walk through the valley of the shadow of death before we can find that answer for ourselves - but even they're gonna admit that a whole lot of people are gonna get stuck in that valley for a while if you just throw the masses in like we have. Hopefully that's just a temporary growing pain of our society as we gather our strength and do better but - time will tell!

(P.S. rich people are just as trapped in this malaise of meaninglessness. They have more agency, sure, but they're also still part of the systemic trap and unlikely to have much better answer on how to change anything than the common man. Only so long even a rich person can hide in hedonism before the depression catches up - or they just embrace the cold reality and adopt the "I got mine" attitude which said system is naturally inclined to. Depression may very well be due to our moralistic social being nature chafing with a cruel capitalist system which has won by almost every measure possible)
It’s unhealthy to WANT to work in most jobs in US. If you truly WANT to work you are either doing something you truly love (uncommon) or you have a Protestant induced work disorder. Want people to work, PAY them for it. Not enough applying, PAY more in money or benefits and work life balance. All these “no one wants to work” sayings sound a lot like “my slaves are revolting”.
Then the land value goes up to match rents and thus the ubi.

The ubi receiver still loses and needs other support
it's anecdotal but mostly relates to the conversations I have with people - daily - who view their long term prospects as nil, no matter how hard they work or don't. It's recognizable to me as an extension of the Gen X dread of having lower economic expectations than your parents, but it lacks the DIY ethos or even the willingness to bite the bullet and try. I could recount a book's worth of these conversations I've had weekly since before the pandemic among the privileged white college grads in my neighborhood. I was also a wanderer and a slacker and a musician and an artist and I have plenty of sympathy for the sentiment. But at the end of the day I knew I had to work, and they don't have that feeling.
Any links to the Reddit threads if handy? I'm interested for personal issues and Reddit always comes much more useful than actual psychiatry in my case (not sarcasm, I frankly mean it).
For the AZs that's slightly complicated by the fact that at least for AWS, they are randomised (your eu-west-1a isn't necessarily the same as mine), so it might be pretty much impossible to actually check for actual overlap even if you know one DC is used by both Google and Oracle. Spreading out regions seems more appropriate to increase redundancy.
> preferential marketing of home mortgages or diamonds to light skinned people is a form of racism

Yes, addictive cancer sticks must be exactly the same thing as selling people houses.
Would you rather be safe in prison for 100 years, or free in a world for 1 day where you could die?