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Ask HN: Work on robotics or agents?
I'm a recent Mechanical Engineering / CS graduate working in the Sales Engineering space for a cybersecurity company.

I have an opportunity to join an early-stage robotics company in SF and work with some amazing robotics engineers. However, I've also been building security-related agents/workflows in my free time that have gotten the attention of some senior people at my org.

This isn't necessarily a "which one should I pick?" but rather where you all see both of these industries going in the next decade or so. No one can predict the future, but would love to hear thoughts from people way more experienced than me in either field.

Thanks!
Oh there’s cesspits and there’s cesspits.

Facebook at least had some small community groups and market place utility.
> Now the car will basically sacrifice itself to absorb the shock as much as possible. Plus airbags are everywhere and rearview cameras are in all new cars.

And what of the safety of the people outside of the cars?

Morning Brew had an amusing short/skit, "Big car safe…?":

* https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DEd1HXrX6-4
> The sad thing is that I've reported these posts and they always say it doesn't violate their terms.

Nothing I reported on FB was ever removed, even obvious spam (e.g. comments in different language than the rest of the thread, posted as a reply to every top-level comment in the thread). I think this message is most likely just generated automatically. And maybe, if hundred people report the same thing, someone will review it. Or it will be automatically deleted.
> copying files within a repo while preserving file history (if you just copy+paste you lose, if you edit the files after moving with git mv, but before comitting the move first, you lose all history)

This is much closer a description to svn (and probably other systems), and doesn't describe git at all. Git doesn't store file renames. It reconstructs them from the history based on how similar an "add" and a "delete" were in the same commit. There's even args to change the sensitivity and look for line sources in even broader scopes* - which means git can do one thing others can't, show you where lines came from when two or more files were merged. Others can only show you one of the source files, the one that was explicitly renamed.

* See "-C" in "git help blame", the broadest scope even looks for the source in other commits.
I'd be interested to see Atwood and Ballmer in a room to discuss this (given Ballmer's Billionaire status and what he's working on recently).
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> People were also pretty annoyed that they would be allowed to drink while driving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xcQIoh3FQQ

Correction: "…they would not be allowed to drink while…"
Switching inputs is by far the thing that causes the most anxiety for a regular person (based on observational evidence). I really believe that it makes or breaks whole lines of service.

IMO, streaming won in part because once people (i.e. grandma) changed the input to the streaming device, they couldn’t figure out how to get back to the cable box, or at least didn’t want to risk “breaking anything” when trying to do it when their resident tech person wasn’t around.

Getting rid of the input button is either really bad (making this process even more fraught), or is a sign that the whole idea is just going away. Input switching should be incorporated into the home screens instead of being a separate menu/function. Hopefully this is the direction LG is going.
This underestimates the absolute hold MS currently has in this space. It's not that they have nothing to fear because the opposition is small, but rather the terror comes from the fact that serious opposition in the OS space exists at all. I think a lot of this site doesn't realize precisely how important easy-to-use gaming is to the popularity of an OS. It's 90% of the reason gaming consoles exist at all, even.
OP, listen to this. You may be giving lots of nonverbal signals. It’s not necessarily a simple conversation hack that can be described in text.
You probably have a shitty soldering iron which can’t deliver heat consistently. Try grabbing a used Metcal PS900 or MX500 on eBay. I have done zero maintenance or tinning on either of mine. They just work. I do SMD and TH stuff and rework no problems at all.

Literally everyone who gets one goes “oh so that’s what soldering is supposed to be like”

Also might be crap solder. Get some decent Felder or Multicore stuff. Leaded is easier to work with and harmless if you wash your hands and don’t lick your PCBs. Silver bearing leaded from Felder is what I tend to use. But it’s about $70 a roll

Edit: I see that you have a Hakko. Buy genuine tips. Or replace it with a different iron. The cheaper Hakkos are terrible.
...Crooks? IE Trump Shooter? Or is there a different person just named Thomas Matthew? I'd think there's (a) a significant difference when someone fails, (b) more unity in dislike of the insurance system, and (c) Crooks is weirdly inscrutable in terms of motivation.
The rule might have made things even worse, since now total costs have to go up for their profit to go up.

Contrast this with a non-profit which has no incentive to increase profits and thus no incentive to increase costs.

I agree that these conversations mainly reveal to me that many people don't understand the economics driving costs in US healthcare, since they are so willing to carry water for private insurers.
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So what kind of people creates these scam sites?
Less sensational, but also more concise and more direct.
There were still underground events held in parks and other unofficial spaces after the regulations came in; I attended a number of small events by Moonshadow and others. Black Light Activists kept going with a regular dose of psytrance, and the monthly Darkrave event at the Big Bop continued until 2010.

Long gone are the exceptional raves like the ones held at the Ontario Science Centre which had staff manning the displays from 10pm until we were kicked out via the loading docks at 6am on Sunday morning... There's nothing quite like being 1 of ~6000 people on astroturf at a hanger in the Downsview airport watching the sun coming up at 4-5am on a warm summer night to a great morning trance set!
I think there is a market for it. There's no way that most people actually enjoy the slowness and bloat of modern TVs. The only potential snag (and it's a big one to be fair) is that modern consumers are extremely price sensitive, to the point that it's literally the only thing a lot of people care about. So as long as the shitty bloatware TV is cheaper than the actually good TV, they'll sell more of the shitty bloatware TV. But the market for an actual good TV is still there if only some company will actually bother to serve it.
My Samsung has one, but it opens a slow, animated, dynamic menu based on HDMI data. So depending on what devices are turned on, the input you want might have moved in the list.

When I turn the PS5 off before the TV, the TV forgets the input ever existed. So it goes back to the TV's default channel - which oh, is GB News (the Fox News of the UK).

So every time I play I have to watch a bit of bilious TV while I scroll through the input list.

Truly a cursed device.
Fascinating, do you think this is the reason why Linux started there?
Xywav, with the 2-dose schedule. My impression based on how I feel waking up at various times in the morning is each dose produces effects that last somewhere around 3–5 hours. My understanding is most people taking this drug are falling asleep much more quickly than I am, and I do feel it trying to make me sleepy shortly after taking it, but not enough to defeat my delayed sleep phase disorder and various insomnia issues. But my point was that "falling asleep quickly" is not a direct goal of the drug, even if it is a common effect, the goal of the drug is to change what your brain does while you're asleep.
> Last time I had an Apple device the only way to backup was plugging it into a desktop with iTunes.

Apple's supported full iCloud backups and over-the-air restore for at least 11 years, maybe 13 years.
My neighbour's internet was terrible last year. He replaced a bunch of stuff, and went as far as switching ISPs to my recommended provider. Nothing worked.

Finally a savvy helpdesk person had him move his ADSL router. I believe he moved it off a cheap power board and plugged it directly in to the wall.

All problems immediately solved.
Ask HN: Are there web-of-trust style online communities?
I have this idea that's been rattling around my head lately, whenever I get depressed about the quantity of drek I have to wade through online. And I wonder: has anyone implemented something like this? I had a hard time finding existing projects that match it.

Here's the idea:

We have a solid existing mechanism for digital signatures: I can publish a public key, and if I sign my communications with it (such as this post, for instance), you could be sure that only the owner of that private key could have written it.

I could go around collecting public keys of other people online, and I could associate some "trust" value with each one. I could publish my list (and sign it), and others could perhaps say "I trust you, so I'll trust the people you trust a bit as well".

In this way, a web of trust grows, and we could use this information to filter the crap we encounter. If someone "backstabs" and starts spewing adverts from their previously-trusted persona, communities could adjust their trust values to punish that behavior.

Basically, it's the same thing we do in daily life, with our interpersonal relationships, just made explicit and cryptographically secure.

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I realize there's PGP, and it's "web of trust" concept, and it's close but not the same. As I understand it, that's based on "key signing parties" where you verify that someone is who they say they are. It has a notion of physical identity. What I'm describing doesn't care about that; you could have 100 anonymous online personas, and what matters is only how they behave, not what physical person they're tied to. Also, you'd use associated trust values to rank info you see, rather than having a yes/no verification. Also also, PGP was a UX disaster, so I'd want something much easier-to-use.

I realize that it could be abused (eg: witch hunts), but I don't see it as being worse than what can happen in real life.

I'm also aware of things like China's "Social Credit System"[1]. But that is a centralized system. What I'm describing would be controlled by each individual.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
Interestingly, it was this line of thinking that once upon a time led to the rejection of the idea of free will: a thought is caused by another, and that by another yet, and so on, so there is no free thought or deliberation.

From that perspective, it was mentioned in this Russell Ackoff talk that recently emerged on HN: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGN5DBpW93g
I learned to solder electronics using my father's giant Weller soldering gun. 40 years later I was visiting and had to repair a tiny connection on an electronic candle. I felt like Captain Caveman wielding that giant humming pistol with the lightbulb illuminating the work but by cracky I could still do fine work with that monster tool.

This was the longest video I have watched on Youtube in ages. The lack of intrusive ads was refreshing.
Sleep prevents unwanted memories from intruding
> Facebook tolerated groups where online dating users doxed and smeared each other.

This hasn’t been proven as the case is still ongoing. Also the plaintiff in this case got arrested last year for tax fraud
I really believe every software engineer should set aside some time and just watch a normal person interact with technology. Don't interrupt, just watch their process. It's mind-boggling how many inefficient workflows people are using because they aren't confident enough.
“Breeding psychopathic cows seemed like a good idea until they took control” seems like a very weird comic book plot line or something :-)
It sounds like maybe either you're doing something wrong or there's something wrong with your iron. I have a Hakko and it works great, I have no issues with tinning the tip at all, never had to do a vinegar soak or anything like that.
Lovely and well told story though I'm not sure what the following excerpt has to do with anything:

> The second is that nowadays the real problem perhaps is not with Christmas decorations staying up too late, but with them going up too early, and with shops selling Christmas wares and playing Christmas music well before Advent, let alone Christmas
I vaguely remember that Corel WordPerfect Office, which includes the previously separate Quattro Pro spreadsheet application, has features that specific'ly target law professionals.
Sceptre has a few 55 inch and 65 inch models.

E.g. 4k 55" for $599:
https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV/U557CV-UMRB-55-4K-UHD-T...

I've also seen Supersonic and Caixun mentioned in these discussions.

Can also be worth looking at "outdoor TVs" like Sunbrite.
It’s funny, if you open a TV set it’s already super modular like computers were before we had standardized parts, ports, and form factors. It’s got the power supply which makes the 24V for the display, 12/5/3.3V for the other electronics, an I/O interface board, the MCU and its peripherals, the sound driver, and the IR receiver/Button control.

They do this so a manufacturer can use the same parts among different products or simply install an upgraded one to unlock more features.

If it were standardized, this would be fairly easy given that they all pretty much work the same but then they would have write actually good software and UI for people to elect to use their specific product.
My understanding is that it depends very much on the card. Certain ones can be done more or less with just the chip, others are much more involved, and others can't be done at all. From my brief research, there is a lot of technological variation inside credit cards, even if they mostly all look the same on the surface level.
Why is it that so much online discussion of Mangione's actions is supportive?

Wouldn't social desirability bias predict that people would be reluctant to support Mangione's actions in any way which might be traced back to them personally?

Hypothetical evil plutocrats would be far more likely to dig up your social media history to get your take on Mangione than somehow obtain your response to a telephone poll.

The supportive online climate suggests that supporting Mangione could even be more socially desirable. There is social pressure to support him.

In any case, your Harris/Trump example suggests that social desirability effects should be on the order of perhaps 2-3 percentage points in a poll. So it wouldn't represent a drastic change to the overall picture.

My theory: Mangione cleaves society along an "extremely online" vs "touch grass" axis.

The passionate social media addicts, who see conspiracies and exploitation everywhere, support Mangione.

The "touch grass" people understand that healthcare is a systemic problem which requires systemic solutions. Political murders undermine the social contract, increase the likelihood of subsequent political murders, and contribute to the unraveling of society.

The "touch grass" people are underrepresented in online arguments, but well-represented in a randomized poll.
I mean, fwiw, Insteon is in business today as a new entity. They're producing new hardware and all. It's viable enough a technology to have survived business issues that killed the company.

I disagree with your assumption you understand consumers: Many prefer to buy all products from unified systems, and the complaints about how disconnected and disjointed having odds and ends are have led to Matter, which is struggling to solve the problem.

The major players have all sold home automation hubs, and a lot of solutions still use them, but a lot of the hardware is still overengineered, has a short usable life, and creates security risks.
TVs still are cheaper.

There are differences.

Just to name a few:

Monitors have better colour accuracy, higher refresh rates, have features like Gsync/freesync, way faster response times, more and better ports like displayport 2.1 and usb c, lower input lag.
Yeah. Longer if you include non-silicon/germanium computers [0].

The approach seems to continue to work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
It's more that if you are at all concerned about security, then by far your biggest threat to worry about is the provider of cloud services, so that needs to be your starting point. In practice, any home network in the last 20 years is behind a firewall that blocks incoming connections unless you go out of your way to open the firewall/forward ports, and will be secure from other attackers by default. There's no point in discussing security if your threat model is completely wrong.

It's not random hackers in Russia that rendered people's solar setups inoperable. It's the inverter company using their backdoor. Ubiquitous backdoors and pre-bundled malware are the top security problems in the industry.
There's a _lot_ of smoke and mirrors. Paste a sudoku into chatgpt and ask it to solve. Amazing, it does it perfectly! Of course that's because it ran a sudoku-solving program that it pulled off github.

Now ask it to solve step by step by pure reasoning. You'll get a really intelligent sounding response that sounds correct, but on closer inspection makes absolutely no sense, every step has ridiculous errors like "we start with options {1, 7} but eliminate 2, leaving only option 3", and then at the end it just throws all that out and says "and therefore ..." and gives you the original answer.

That tells me there's essentially zero reasoning ability in these things, and anything that looks like reasoning has been largely hand-baked into it. All they do on their own is complete sentences with statistically-likely words. So yeah, as much as people talk about it, I don't see us as being remotely close to AGI at this point. Just don't tell the investors.
Per the sibling commits, you don't want to use "margin" to control width. Use margin to control spacing between elements / the edge of the screen. What you want here is to put "max-width" on the content.

Specifically I'd suggest:

* Change "margin" on the <p> tags to "1.5rem 0"

* Change "margin" on .blog-page to "1.5rem auto" to keep the grey background centered based on width

* Add "max-width: 800px" (or whatever) to .blog-page
If 150k will get you through six months and then some, take the time. If not, evaluate your spending and increase your savings so that you can take time off.

If you are taking time, expect that you will need or want a new income vessel when you come back, and that will take time to put in place. Few career paths will let you take any significant time away and just jump right back in where you left off.

Also, if you are burned out, start thinking of a clear exit plan.
> That is very wrong, in my experience

It's right in my experience, but I'm also aware that its 2025, not 2007 when I got away with this.
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Same. The only time my TV leaves HDMI3 is when I want to watch a Kraken game (local OTA subchannel that isn't on YoutubeTV) or Formula E (US broadcast rights are on Roku Channel which isn't available on AppleTV devices). I do have a Blu-Ray player on HDMI2 but I haven't used it in about a year.
As a vegan I agree with that. However not all huntings are great, especially when conducted for fun instead of meat. Perhaps your already know the famous footage of new-head of NRA struggling to kill an elephant : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56923507.amp

(He says he gave later the meat to the villagers. I guess they ate it but I’m not sure they requested it in the first place)
Can confirm. It certainly wasn't painless, but my experience didn't merit anaesthetics. Even the slight pain in the hours afterwards wasn't all that noteworthy.
First thing I did when I set up my TV was making sure I won't have to touch any of its 'smart' features by connecting to Apple TV.
My Pi-Hole was constantly crying about tremendous amount of requests coming from webOS.

LG IMO is the best (W)OLED TV in the market, but their software as all other TVs' software is crap.
You make it sound like "they" is stackexchange inc. Don't you just mean another user of the site, just like you can edit other posts? The feature that always shows who last edited a post and what changes (byte for byte diff) were made if you click on it?

If it's against the rules, like a meaning change rather than a correction, you can report it. I don't see how simply leaving your name next to it and leaving the site helps anyone nor lets the person who did it even know they made a mistake (without link, from experience moderating the edit queue I can only assume good faith by default since the overwhelming majority of the edits I reject are made for understandable reasons; one of my reject reasons is conflicting with the author's intent btw, and there's no qualification about the author needing to be correct)

Edit: I'm not sure this needs a disclaimer at all since I'm a normal user but, to be clear, I have no affiliation with Stackexchange. I posted answers mainly on the IT security site and one of them blew up the karma points, giving me access to some of the moderation queues on that specific site. I was always annoyed how slow these things are handled so I started looking at those queues on occasion, and that's basically all moderation I've ever done. No special instructions from, communications with, or particular love for the company that operates the site. I just feel that the parent comment misconstrues how the software works if it wasn't actually the company that made the edit in a hidden way (I only know of that happening for things like switching http to https)
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oh, that's interesting. do UNC paths not have to be valid UTF-16?
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Honestly, do these people hear themselves? I guess the product echo chamber is too loud to hear the needs of actual customers (or what they don’t need).
But "git switch --detach master" leaves you detached.

So switch is just a dumber checkout that has to be told when to detach or not instead of inferring it from the kind of revision.
> Their childhoods were spent with memories of a backyard pool and frequent vacations—because they were ten and their parents were forty-five. These kids might have grown up considering themselves “middle class” when they were actually safely upper middle class. Their parents, not wanting to be unseemly, probably told them they were middle class. Twenty-somethings who grew up kinda rich probably don’t yet have the money their parents did, and this can be confusing if they were led to believe they had a modest upbringing.

My parents could not afford the house they own if they had to buy today, even with their now-end-of-career salaries, at current market prices—never mind with their starting salaries (and my mom was only working part-time when they bought it).

Quality of life has improved in many ways over the last 20-30 years (tech, medicine, etc), but wage increases have not kept up with cost of living in many sectors.