skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds reasonable, and was probably triggered by events like these. It seems in some years, they had almost 100 deaths a year.

"Mont Blanc deaths spark calls to end ‘free-for-all’"(2014): https://www.thelocal.fr/20140717/mont-blanc-climbing-alps-da...

"...With figures quoting up to 100 deaths each year in the entire Mont Blanc range, some consider it one of the most dangerous mountains in the world. But it's a reality that many see as entirely avoidable...

...It’s on the same list that includes going to Mont Saint Michel and getting a tan on one of France’s beaches and the whole thing reminds one of a large amusement park that goes by the name of Disneyland,” Jean-Marc Peillex, mayor of the town of Saint-Gervais which sits at the foot of the mountain, told The Local. “Mont Blanc is sold like it’s a simple trek, but in reality it’s a high-altitude act of mountaineering...”"

"French rescuers refuse to airlift Mont Blanc climber" (2014): https://www.thelocal.fr/20140709/mont-blanc-rescue-climber-a...

"Fed up French officials refused to airlift a Polish climber off the slopes of Mont Blanc, when he called for help after deciding he didn't want to walk down. The local French mayor blasted 'ad hoc' alpinists for being like 'urban consumers'."
Most people, given the choice, do prefer to own cars.
Amazon probably cares most about getting all the robot making talent and capability they can for a wide range of robotic needs they have/will have.
Convenience. It’s the same reason many people will pick safety over freedom. I’m not making a judgement. It’s just an observation.
Ask HN: As a software developer, what do I focus on next?
I'm a young software dev who moved into SW from a different engineering background, so I don't have much formal CS experience. However, I really like the field and have enjoyed some CS-ish online courses. Since I don't feel like I'm learning a lot at work, I've taken it upon myself to bolster my software-related education.

The thing is, it's all been a bit scattered - some computer architecture, algorithms and data structures, playing around with new languages. As fun as it's been, I'm starting to feel like I could be making better use of my time and interest to build towards something, especially since it's all on my own time. So that's where my question stems from - what do I build towards now?
- I use Kotlin and Python at work - is it worth it becoming more deeply familiar with these languages?
- Or should I focus on software architecture and design patterns, concepts that transcend computer languages to some degree?
- I could afford to learn more about algorithms and data structures too, is there a good way to do this that isn't just memorizing, but also implementing them?
- Or should I try to learn new technologies that could maybe have uses at work now or later, like containers or databases?

I think related to this and also really important is a question about how to best go about these things. For example, do I read books (there's plenty of suggested reading that comes up oh HN)? How can I best make use of new knowledge - should I focus on things I can apply easily? Do I jump into open source software? Or should I find a job where the environment is better for teaching young devs? Though I'd probably have to learn more to prepare for an interview...so maybe there's other stuff to focus on first.

If anybody has any advice or suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.
Yep, and they added them back in and the current M1 MacBook Pros are their best yet.
Banknotes of Scotland
> Amazon definitely cares about automated appliances (as demonstrated by their warehouse automation)

This is almost equivalent to saying that Boeing cares about paper planes because they make airliners.
> "You can only text them in the app. Nobody will give you a number to call."

Why does this person not go to one of their service centers and talks to someone in person? I've done it and the staff were super helpful.
> The panels were designed as a replacement for brick and cement, which are expensive, difficult to make

How much is it? At our place (developing country, heavily depends on imports of everything, but private entrepreneurs somehow mastered the production of "difficult to make" bricks) a traditional 2 floor, 200 sq. meters (~2153 sq. feet) brick and mortar building with reinforced concrete belts (seismically active zone here), insulation, finishing & decoration will cost:

1. $80k if you don't want to take part. You give the money, the architect asks what you want and does the rest.

2. $40k if you hire workers for every stage of building yourself.

3. $20k if you can also make some work yourself, delegating only qualified work.

Is this technology going to be cheaper? Or is it like those California kennels for homeless $40k apiece?
I've been wanting a Microsoft Courier since they first did that concept video - I'm getting one of these Asus ones even if it is very early days. This Asus has a better setup than the X1 fold, I've saved up the cash, I want one.

The current ultimate OneNote device!
> A warning sign should be instinctive to most of the population.

Isn't it good to also have standarized signs for warnings that are meaningful for a smaller subset of the population (e.g. "rapid movement of workpiece in press brake machine")? It's not like you're going to see this sign on the street anyway. And if you happen to see the sign somewhere and don't understand it, at least you understand that it's a warning sign and know that you should ask someone what it means.
Not every other company. Apple - to name one - are often simply excellent at this because they understand the power of customer satisfaction. There are numerous stories of apple replacing failed hardware with equivalent, newer models - phones and laptops alike.

There are plenty of legitimate criticisms one can make of Apple but customer satisfaction under warranty is not one of them.
One way to do discoverability here is to make a suggestion if you notice the user hoping around between texts during typing.
I'm a programmer that spends a lot of time programming on my laptop without an extra screen. I use 15" laptops exclusively because it has a decent balance between screen size and portability. But when coding (and a lot of coding is done over Zoom where folks with bigger screens are sharing their desktops) every little bit of real-estate counts. So the idea of having a 17" in a more portable form factor, and weight is very intriguing. Like its crazy to think a 17" laptop can be under 4 lbs (3.3 lbs to be exact).
I know mine still refuse to pass on an area where it got stuck once and I can't find how to reset this area to tell it's safe again.
People in general are animals that do not reason abstractly, but rather react emotionally. I've had conversations with family members that were already coming into the conversation caring about being "tracked by GPS satellites", and I've tried to explain that it's mostly software on your phone doing the tracking, and that there are ways to mitigate much of it. Rather than seeing that I share their concern, work with technology, and perhaps they could pick up some tips for me, I just got othered for not mirroring their party line of being helplessly attacked.

So no, abstractly trying to tell people they're being continually surveilled and trying to get them to care is not a useful indicator. Even if you could obtain and present the contents of their permanent records in a shocking way, there's a good chance they'd just react to the overwhelmingness with cognitive dissonance.
Global Rescue comes to mind, I used to have a $100k evacuation policy with them thanks to some of my Mountaineering club affiliations.
I missed the part where they explained how they went from harvest date to temperature. I get that earlier harvest dates will imply warmer temperatures, but ...
I have been eyeing the new Roborock S7, but that has both lidar and camera I think.

Interesting that others handle this better. I had heard great things about Neato before so that's why I went it. But it just ended up being more frustrating and not worth it.

Guess I just had a really bad experience.
The Island directed by Michael Bay.
There are a lot of people who want to live there. Sure more people want to live in the Valley, but there are still a lot of smart people who don't. And also a few people who moved to the Valley who want to get out. Most of this is about family - it is very hard to move to a new city as your family support network is gone. Those who had a bad family life growing up don't care, but those who had a good family life will accept a lot of pain to stick with family. (I live 300 miles from my family, I'm jealous of my siblings who call grandma for an emergency babysitter at the last minute)

With remote work there is no reason you can't hire people who want to live in whatever rust belt city, and there are a lot of them. Just giving good salary to people in rust belt areas would go a long way to helping those cities.
> There is no insurance company that will insure you on doing that. Unless I don't know something

You can find an insurer for everything. You disclose to them what you want to do and they set a price. It is up to you then to figure out if it's worth paying for it or not.
Yes, that's what I said. My point is the proof of the bomb would have ended that front of the war even if Russia hadn't.
Over here in Portugal, many small merchants don't accept card because of this, or at least have a notice mentioning "5€ minimum to pay by card".
How do you adapt culture to issues like this when they aren't cool and people generally want to avoid and not confront uncomfortable realities?
The ubiquity edge router x is about $60+
ETH 2.0 sounds like commercial fusion power.
They're counting on their target market to feel superior to others by knowing (or pretending to know) and thus being more likely purchase.

These statements also give purchasers psychological cover for spending an exorbitant amount. This is not some overpriced pedestrian device.
Wow, that version's even darker!
Same here, I did a bachelor in CS/math, then a masters in Data Science. Really enjoyed the theory/application a lot but did not like the idea of having to do it as a living.

If I have to build a piece of software then I can be quite certain that I can deliver. For a Data Science project on the other hand, there are a lot of ifs, e.g. quality of data, how well does it actual generalize, etc.

I think in an environment where the higher ups understand ML well and you have a good team it could be fun; the moment the higher ups don’t understand it so well, I feel like it could be the source of a lot of stress.

My recent recruiter was also skeptical at first when I applied for a swe position with an ML background.
What's the implication if everyone does this? Does it eventually converge on a working consensus?
> If you look at the tear down from the first couple gen, the PCB and components were exactly the same compared to Neatos.

I'm interested, please link to that.
I've had great experiences with the Xiaomi products I've bought (34" monitor, earbuds, security cam, air purifier, soundbar). They are popular here in Thailand and at a really, really great price point
I was wondering how and why text selection seemed to have gotten much worse. Now I know
Technically not a "fee", it's a deposit that, if you are the sort of person with the sort of equipment who has any business climbing the mountain in the first place, you will get back.
I don't like the term quietly quitting. I was always an overachiever at work, producing 10x the amount of other people. I've basically "quiet quit". I only work a few hours a week but I'm still producing a very acceptable amount of results, partially because I'm good at what I do and partially because I only choose to work on high ROI projects. I say I don't like the term quiet quitting because it feels more like I stopped overworking and now do the same amount that lots of other people were always doing.
It is confusing because Microsoft works on Decentralized Identity and would almost certainly have wanted to be involved with this.
Largely agree. An app basically gets one chance with me, and if it sends marketing or something through a notification, it is uninstalled or at least silenced completely (if I really need it).

> Maddest of all, it has been trying alert me to the current weather throughout the day

Ugh. One of my pet peeves. Everything has to tell me the weather. My android tablet has it (permanently?) in the notifications. Windows has it in the menu bar. Various apps have it somewhere in the corner or something. And you can't remove/change some of these.

I feel like weather apps/programs are something that programmers think is useful to people, and is relatively easy, well-trodden territory. But in reality, it's not really that useful to know the exact temperature constantly, and have it take up space on my screen.
Their mopping robot was an extreme letdown. We bought the nicer one and it has such a tiny tank that it can't clean my downstairs without needing refilling halfway through.

Plus any cleaning solution besides theirs breaks the robot.
Plus the cleaning pad it uses to mop needs to be replaced after every run
Plus it's a lot more aggressive than the regular roomba and slams itself into things, knocking all kinds of things over.

The cleaning solution is very expensive. The pads have DRM and are very expensive. The robot is very expensive.

Thanks to all it's drawbacks it's not really able to be automated. So you wind up with a mop that you still have to manage, direct to run, and feed expensive soap and cleaning pads. In reality, I have the robot, and it's been plugged in for 4+ years and probably not been ran for 3+ years.
Slippery surface exists because of stupid architects / builders / customers ordering buildings. 
 In Norway, there are a bunch of grocery (and other) stores that put those signs out when it's raining or snowing outside, i.e., the floor is likely wet. How about thinking upfront and choosing a non-slippery floor material, even if it doesn't look "fancy".
Watch vacuum reviews on Vacuum Wars channel, tons of innovation, mostly not with Roombas though

https://youtube.com/c/VacuumWars/videos
The dots here are simple. We have long standing elected officials (start at the WH and work you're way down) who insist on doing a lot of things (read: grandstanding; just two recent examples given) except for the things they should be doing. But we're to believe The Root Cause is Andreessen? Or maybe it's Trump? Sure, let's play the age old game of distraction and deflection. But let's call that journalism???

Did you miss anything? Yes, apparently the pile of stink that's sitting right in front of you. The irony of you questioning me (i.e., stating the obvious) should not be overlooked.
These features really need games added, where the only real requirement to play is learn the new feature.

Some say it's why minesweeper et al were added to Windows, so people could learn how to use the mouse.
> If the committed state in the database records the transactions in a different order than an external observer could have observed them

So, property (1) provides this for non-overlapping commutative transactions. If w1 writes c1, then finishes; w2 writes c2 then finishes; then if r1,r2,r3, etc don't overlap either w1 or w2 either, then they must correctly witness their execution order and be "externally consistent".

If transaction executions overlap, we must work harder to ensure we see each others' strict serializable order, and so we simply avoid ordering ourselves with transactions that cannot affect our outcome. If these other transactions cannot affect our outcome, then we can't witness anything externally about them, by definition.
100% agree on the ethanol-free gas to reduce carb gumming.

For overwintering, I just detach the hose after the fuel filter and drain the remaining mower fuel back into the can. Or, on small push mowers where this isn't possible, use the fuel shutoff and just leave the gas in the tank.

Then run the mower until it dies. Doesn't take more than a minute.

Finally, unscrew sparkplug(s), pour a teaspoon of motor oil into the cylinder (keeps rings from seizing/rusting).

Leftover gas in the can gets put into vehicles at the end of the season so I'm not storing stale gas.
>By that definition, the US is in a recession, case closed.

That's like saying "Your physical health is defined by your BMI, case closed."

NBER has published work going back 40 years that demonstrates why a simplistic measurement of contraction duration is flawed.[1] Just like your physical health, economic health should really be measured holistically across different aspects.

[1] https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/business-cycles-infl...
And it turns out that doesn't matter much in terms of adoption and popularity.

After all, if predictable behavior in the future across all possible configurations were a high priority requirement for the tools people use to make computers do things, neither C nor C++ would have gotten off the ground. Instead, people don't memorize the entire standard. They write code that works on their machine, publish it, fix the bugs when people say it doesn't work on their machine, and maybe converge towards something that is standards compliant but, more likely, they converge towards something that works on the standard implementation on 90% of the operating systems available.
Real wages are falling and are below what they were pre-pandemic, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q.
The headline is false. It’s a refundable deposit to cover potential rescue costs.
Very pleasant read, thank you for sharing this.
Sure.

The weirdness comes from the intersection of believing/espousing in the possibility and necessity of A, while also negating A. I'm not necessarily that annoyed by the straightforward hypocrisy. Everyone does that kind of thing. But once you start evangelising for A... either shut up about it or embody it. There's a difference between the minister moonlighting as a stripper, and a parishioner doing it.

Peter Thiel's a particularly onerous example. He's all talk about Bits & Atoms, objectivist ideals of productive billionaire industrialism. His post paypal investments are in: (1) fintech (2) paper trading (3) social media (4) data analytics for governments. He doesn't seem to have invested anything in "atoms" at all.

Hell, Peter Thiel is himself one of the clearest negations of the claim that billionaires and bankers perform the necessary and crucial function of capital allocation. None of Thiel's investments are in capital constrained businesses at all. There aren't really any investments one can point that lead to something happening which wouldn't have without him or his money. I suppose Palantir wouldn't exist, but I don't think that affects much.
> In an academic setting the person with the strongest argument generally has a long term advantage.

This is a remarkably naive view of how contemporary (and likely, any) academic institution or academia as a whole operates. Do you actually believe this?
How to choose your college degree (2021)
Yea, this is a case of not being customer centric.

I absolutely believe that Google has advanced technologically. Whether that's translated to improvements for users, it's not clear.
You're comparing an (I'm guessing) few years old xps that needed replacing, to a last year's premium quality/pricing laptop. I know Intel is still behind on efficiency, but you should try a 12th gen with p/e cores before you write the whole thing off as legacy.

Also I'm not sure apple wants to license anything - they're doing quite well keeping the design to themselves.
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> Whenever F2Pool's block timestamps reach the point where mining difficulty is supposed to decrease, they artificially set them to be one second earlier. F2Pool has been executing this attack over the past two years, and the evidence has been hiding in plain sight! ...

This has the effect of making it harder for the rest of the network to compete against F2Pool's blocks. In this way, F2Pool can, or so it appears, give itself an advantage while taking zero risk. It would be irrational not to adopt this strategy. The thread doesn't say what happens if the entire network adopts this strategy - maybe it's in the paper...
There are a number of rescue and related insurance options for climbers, either through affiliation with professional organizations (eg: AMGA) or privately as a perk of clubs/public organizations (American Alpine Club membership tier that includes rescue and insurance packages). These are meant to cover the costs of being helicoptered off the side of a mountain and some associated medical bills.
I have had super poor experience with iRobot to the point that we discarded the vacuume+mop unit we had.
There'll surely be custodial services if this takes off.
This is a misunderstaning. A Thinkpad does not let me take off the keyboard.

That's why I want a tablet and a keyboard.

So I can put the tablet on a stand and the keyboard in front of it.
> I now live in a large southern city with lots of sidewalks

So you pretty much agree with the person that you're implying is an elitist, and live in exactly the same neighborhood they would choose if they found a good job in your city. You're not defending McMansion-dominated neighborhoods very well.

I don't understand the aggression.
I agree. One thing I've noticed with most image generation, including faces, is that it makes the same mistakes that a novice artist makes. It draws eyes where eyes should be, mouths where mouths should be, but doesn't actually shape them correctly for the 3D head and viewer perspective. It can perfect a specific viewpoint with lots of training (like a novice artist who perfects drawing realistic faces and not much else). But my interpretation of much of the artifacts are that they are just missing structural cues.
This is not about rescue costs or solidarity. An insurance for this is quite cheap. This is about having fewer people up there and maybe more tax money locally.

It's a trend among French mayors since tourists are back after 2yrs of covid. They want to get rid of the crowd while still benefiting from high-income tourism.

In the end this is allowing only rich people to enjoy mountain / wild-life.
Alexa, where you are stuck now?!
You typically pay on behalf of the user, in their local jurisdiction, so where you are matters not.
Unfortunately this proprietary marketing-speak BS makes it easy to sell to creative professionals and those who care about color, and does signal somewhat well-defined properties.

DolbyVision works well if you have the proprietary stack (it's the format newer iPhones shoot HDR videos in -- and even DaVinci Resolve didn't support it last I checked), and PANTONE does reasonably solve the important problem of color matching.
> smaller laptops like the Macbook Air

iPad Pro 12.9” as external second hidpi/retina monitor for Macbook is remarkable in three modes

- USB-C to USB-C for all day powered zero latency extended desktop

- WiFi for cable free extended desktop

- keyboard mouse sharing (by pushing your Macbook cursor against the side of your laptop screen by the iPad, till it “pops” onto the iPad) for seamlessly running Macbook apps and iPad apps side by side using your main keyboard/mouse, able to not just cut and paste but drag and drop (!!!) between the two devices and OSes.

And then just the iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard (and its trackpad) on the plane/train tray table (hinge design sets the screen in from the hinge, allowing use in shallower depths like the tray tables).
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