skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool to finally see this in a browser. The video continually stops for me though, although audio is still playing. Looks like it's making use of the GPU to decode as well. Both CPU and GPU usage were pretty high for me.

Edit: I think the GPU usage was high due to using WebRender
> "I'm sure that Waymo has done some shady stuff too."

TLDR so what? it's completely unrelated to this case. However, because you asked:

Google (in the Alphabet family) is being/has been sued/investigated for:

- gender pay bias (unrelated to this case)
- antitrust by the EU (unrelated to this case)
- James Damore is preparing a lawsuit (LOLLLLLL and he has no case, also unrelated to this case)
- antitrust by Missouri attorney general (unrelated to this case)
- salary fixing with Apple (unrelated to this case)

So top level's comment that Waymo/Google has done shady shit is true but ... what is your point? There's plenty of stuff we have evidence for, but there's no evidence they've done anything shady against Uber. Hell, geo division launched an Uber integration, the ventures arm even invested in Uber ...
indeed, never
this is a bit off-topic, but... ben makes a good point when he says regulations is about trade-offs, but the kind of knee-jerk "i hate regualations" sentiment in this article is a real turn off. case in point:

> "A classic example of this phenomenon is restaurants: who could possibly be against food safety? Then you read about how San Francisco requires 14 permits that take 9 months to issue (plus a separate alcohol permit) and you wonder why anyone opens a restaurant at all (compounded by the fact that already-permitted restaurants have a vested interest in making the process more onerous over time). Multiply that burden by all of the restaurants that never get created and the cost is very large indeed."

yes, regulatory capture sucks, but y'know, just kinda maybe, most of those restaurants that would have been created in a lax regluatory environment are exactly the ones you don't want? the kind that don't care about structural integrity or food safety or having a bathroom? he's focusing only on the costs, not the benefits, to justify his argument that regulations are bad. trade-offs have 2 sides: costs and benefits.

the problem isn't the 14 permits (which represent the things we want) but the 9 months it takes the bureaucracy to issue them. that 9 months, representing pure negative cash flow, is the onerous bit. make regulatory agencies issue/deny permits within 2 business days (so maybe it takes a month to get all your permits in place) and we won't see this kind of misplaced hate for regulations.
Huh. I guess I always just press the button again if I'm unsure if the car is locked or not. "Effectively impossible to verify that the car was locked" seems like a bit of a stretch. I not-infrequently hit the lock button on my fob while I'm in the house just to see the lights flash on the car to confirm it's locked, particularly before I go to bed.

This is the same behavior I've used on all cars I've owned that have (push-button remote) keyless entry for, I don't know, decades?
Whatever comes next may not afford all the little nitty-gritty things you can do via HTML/CSS/JS. Imagine a VB for the web that hides that stuff in a better conceptual model: you lose the ability to do some things (potentially) but get the ability to do other things more easily.
The proper comparison is not with the pulley, the wire or the winch, but rather the structure holding the pulley up.
This is mostly very good, but it wasn't a lack of technical capability that kept the ISPs in line. It was the continued threat of having net neutrality legislation updated to apply to them (or worse, for them, having internet access regulated completely as a public service).
I readily acknowledge I'm attacking your metaphor and not your argument here, but I'm curious about your perspective because I don't understand it.

You really think that if the government decided to stop regulating car safety tomorrow that car manufactures would STOP putting seatbelts and safety features in cars?

You realize that seatbelts were invented by the industry right? You know all those cool new driver assist saftey features that are poping up in cars? Those don't exist because they were regulated into existence. They are there because the market wants them people want them and will pay money for them so the industry is responding to it.

Regulations are for addressing tragedies of the commons, externalities, and market failures. Your smoking metaphor is a GOOD example because there are externalities that can't be addressed by the market. But this belief that companies whole purpose isn't to give it's customers what they want (yes so they can make a profit) is bonkers to me.

Now if you want to talk about how a lot of ISP's have a quasi-monopoly, then hell yes let's have that discussion. I'm right there with you, and those companies have done a lot to try and prevent creative solutions to the last mile problem(municipal fiber). Those are the sorts of things the FCC should be working to straiten out.
Yep. And its treated as a "Rights issue" with the respective companies whom do this. Of course, only the behemoths' rights are protected.

"Google's not required to index your site."
"Facebook isn't required to allow you to talk to people."
"Microsoft doesn't have to allow your website to exist on Azure."
"Amazon disagreed with your business plan as it competes with them. You're kicked off AWS."

Sure, they have the "right" to maintain their business. The problem is, when they run as Kingmaker, they should be held to a higher standard of law. We already have this jurisprudence, known as Tortuous Interference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference . Lets start
enforcing it, when they do things like "Interfere/Clone/Absorb" or "Embrace/Enhance/Extinguish".

Getting "Netscaped" should qualify under Tortious Interference, and should bring swift remedies. Because when the big players provide a stable interface and set of service, without discrimination, that levels the playing field for more players to get in and do cool things. With their Axe hanging over others heads, why bother playing the game?
Consider also that the major ISPs are more desperate for new income now than they have ever been. Especially the cable TV providers.

I would have a hard time believing that they are NOT looking to compete directly with us (actual information services); considering the massive advantages they are technically capable of providing their own hypothetical services while they own the pipes. I imagine they won't do a very good job of it, considering how easily they can throttle, manipulate packets of, introduce latency to, and just plain break competition (or anything they don't like). Or they'll just take the easy route and tax both ends and sell your personal information to advertisers.

Dystopian future, here we come!

The only silver lining I can imagine is that we may get LAN parties back. I miss LAN parties. Everything else about this very likely version of the future is pretty depressing.

Maybe next the water companies will lobby not to be utilities anymore and provide clean, and mostly clean water. $20 premium for water guaranteed not to cause brain-damage.
> maybe i have poor product/market fit

This is going to sound harsh I guess, but you don't just have poor product/market fit, you have none at all.

I would recommend reading Steve Blank's Four Steps To The Epiphany (again if you have already).
No - I am stuck with a solution which works out of the box. I mentioned in an earlier comment that downloading Minecraft and opening it by double-clicking opens an archive. This is simply unacceptable for a desktop version.

At the same time I run and ran hundreds of servers on Linux and I would never run anything serious on Windows Server. I am probably stuck with a Linux habit here.
The Kindle and Nook iOS apps both let you copy/paste. I did it all the time when I got stuck having to use DRM ebooks in school, and never had a problem with it. There may be limitations on how big a region you're allowed to do it with, but, if so, the limit's large enough that I didn't encounter it in the course of normal academic use.

I did sometimes run across ebooks that basically used images of the text instead of actual text, and copy/pasting from those naturally doesn't work. But the ebooks in question were all non-DRM.
> only if ... ISPs are a monopoly,

This is already the case.

Google's inability to push fiber everywhere shows the market is demonstrably closed. It's so cost ineffective due to corruption and in-place infrastructure, that it's an effective monopoly. This is why I have between 0-2 providers to choose from, depending on where I go in the US.
So impressive. I could see human exoskeletons being made with this type of tech.
> "The G5's considerable weight is focused on these little pads. There were aftermarket cork pads, but I've used masking tape to wrap a pair of old cycle gloves around the handle-stands, which doesn't change the fact that in 1998 The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, causing him to plummet sixteen feet through an announcer’s table."

I wasn't expecting a shitty morph!
If you get something working I'd love to see a how-to article.
The difference is that some assets (in retirement accounts) are protected from financial aid inspection and inherited real estate is not. If that seems unfair, it is because it is.
Thank you, this is a great summary of many important points on this topic.
But you can already do this.

FROM myregistry.example.com/foo:1.2.3@sha256:<hash>

You can call `docker build --network=none` to disable network access during the build step.

Why would you make a lock file from a Dockerfile? You can specify everything inside it already; from the version you pull with yum to explicitly COPY'ing RPMs/debs you keep locally.
Games industry takes first step toward lootbox regulation without the government
Much of the advice I have seen is very relevant and useful, especially the idea of saving up and living well below your means. However, to more specifically address what you are looking for, I think the most important thing to think about is what are your risk factors, and how can you mitigate them?

Here are a few risk factors (more to give you an example):

(1) Loss of income from employment / Inability to get a similar income in your next job
- Do you have the savings to weather 6 months of unemployment (or more)? There is a saying, though I don't know how true it is, that for every 10k of salary, you need to plan to allow up to a month to find a comparable job.
- Is your job set something that will always be needed, or is it something that is somewhat fickle based on the markets? As a concrete example, ActionScript may have been a popular language at some point, but you would be out of a job now if that was all you knew.
- Are you yourself either specialized in something that will never go away, or flexible enough to handle whatever comes your way? You need to be one of those.

(2) How is your health?
- I think this is something most people missed below in terms of preparedness. It is easy to think you can weather any recession if you have your health... but what if you lose it? The #1 cause of bankruptcy is due to Medical Issues. Do you have a means to weather medical issues?
- Are you actively keeping care of yourself (an ounce of prevention is worth a lb of cure as the saying goes).
- Do you have a healthplan (or means of switching to a health plan) that will cover you in the worse case scenario? (note: you can usually use COBRA if you get suddenly unemployed, but what is the monthly cost?)
- Note the specific "backup" health plan should be tailored to your risk factors: does your family have a history of cancer, etc.

(3) Risk of your assets getting severely depleted
- People make a lot of assumptions about how "safe" their investments are. It is always worth taking a hard cold look as to what your risks really are, and making sure they are diversified. For example, is real estate in the bay area really independent of tech? I would harbor to think NOT.
- A general safe bet (if you follow Warren Buffet/Ben Graham) is to look what everyone else is doing, and do the opposite. "Sell when everyone else is greedy, buy when everyone else is scared".

(4) Your "other expenses"/Cost of living
- Do you have any expenses that may come up? Do you have a kid that might be needing money for school?
- What is your monthly costs, and how easy would it be to slash them?
- While I don't know this from personal experience, what I have heard is that the single biggest mistake that a person/company can make is not cutting hard enough early enough when faced with depleting resources. The early you make those hard decisions, the better you are able to weather hard situations.

Those are meant as examples, you know your personal risk factors than anyone else. The best thing of course is to be prepared with options.

Hope this helps...
The article relaying the whole communication has been published:

http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Uber-Waymo-case-...

> The unit acquired leaked code from competitors via Github, dug up information on overseas drivers and researched global competitors, he said. While he didn’t believe that work was illegal, “I had questions about the ethics of it,” Jacobs testified.

> Tactics included use of attorney-client privilege on written documents, and encrypted, ephemeral communications.

> It also used “non-attributable devices” to communicate with third parties providing on-the-ground intelligence about threats to Uber, and to research Uber protestors, he testified.
where do people go to get those graphics/illustrations created? they all look in the same style.
Not as easy as handing them a $5 bill.
They really should be asking on the second visit. I've enabled them for some sites (actually, this reminds me I haven't seen notifications for one in a while) but popping up before I've had time to assess the content is rude.
Yeah I actually ordered the power folding mirrors from europe for my Golf -- it sounds silly but my favorite 'feature' is if the mirrors are folded I know it's locked.

There's an edge case where if you unlock the car, the mirrors unfold, and if you don't open the door within 60 seconds, the car re-locks itself, but the mirrors do NOT fold. So you might think it's unlocked when it's not, but you won't think it's locked when it isn't.
I ran into this problem with my previous startup. We had cool tech, but it didn't solve something that was a major active problem for them.

OP - you may want to examine if you're offering a solution in search of a problem. Problems are harder to find and drill into than solutions. (And enterprise sales are hard, so make sure you're aware of the software valley of death and are in the mid 5 figure annual contract if you've got a long sales cycle).
No, I understand, but this is also an overdramatic hypothetical. My point in the article was that this is actually happening under Net Neutrality, from private companies doing it. I do not believe it's wise to support the government control of broadband internet not being repealed, as an attempt to try and solve a problem that is clearly already not being solved while the government has control of broadband internet.
it's true that one of the difficulties has been finding who exactly in the larger organizations to pitch the product to. early on we figured out that it should be people with a budget (i.e. those directly in charge of p&l) rather than executives or product teams but we've actually been "gatekept" from getting access to those people.

but this is a good idea. i've tried cold outreach but to larger organizations. i'll try reaching out to smaller (tiny) customers. thank you
My advice: take a sales class. I waited waaaaaay to long to do that and realized so many mistakes and missed opportunities in hindsight.
Good advice -- I don't know of any cars that have this feature on the rear doors.
Probably while still having huge mortgage interest deductions.
Bitcoin is just a perfect example of the greater foo theory in action. Someone’s going to be left holding the bag.
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Agreed with the automation — I’m a fellow bootstrapper[0] in the SaaS space, and wouldn’t be without it. If there is anything that can be automated, even if slightly prematurely before the need to scale arises, I do so.

In terms of infrastructure, this meant using Ansible for quickly deploying new servers where needed and adding them to the right load balancer. Currently all I need to do is spin up a new instance with the right tag & run the relevant Ansible script - this will grab a copy of the site from git, sort out dependencies and any other apps needed (supervisord and so on), and add it to the nginx loadbalancer config as a new upstream server.

Same applies for things like billing. Yes I could have started off doing billing manually, sending out invoices etc, but these take time and realistically need to be automated to avoid any errors.

These things definitely meant I didn’t get my MVP out in weeks, but meant I could still do this as a solo-bootstrapper and look after a young family and such.

[0] https://breachinsider.com
> No, the argument is worse than that because it is intentionally inaccurate.

Seems on the nose to me shrug
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Enjoy your job!

It might be detrimental if you stop growing your skills. Learning can be painful, and so it's tempting to just coast on what you know. A good company and manager will help you grow your skills, but if they're not your job can go from great to "oh shit" very quickly when you realize your skills are obsolete.

https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/10/23/obsolete-skills/ explains the dynamic (organizational technical lag) and has suggestions on how to deal with this.

https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/04/15/40-hour-programmer/ and https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/08/06/learning-at-work/ have some more ideas for proactively making sure your skills get better.

In general nothing wrong with it, though. I stayed at one company 8 years, switching teams when I got bored, and it was mostly pretty great for my skills and career.
Interesting how much of this is strategic vs. operational.

Can you elaborate on this?

> Create jump discontinuities for future
(my background: tech evangelist at AWS for 6 years, then CTO at VMware's public cloud for two, then CTO at startup, now CEO/founder).

I am super impressed by Alphabet / Google / GCP in the linux container segment: this announcement is very timely both as a response to Azure's announcement (quick decision making considering how big Google is), and both in relation to re:Invent and to upcoming Kubecon in December.

GCP is building an outstanding technical platform. I believe this will pay off big time in a few years. Azure, instead is super well positioned as a true hybrid cloud approach, although people overestimate the importance of "hybrid" and underestimate the complexity of it.

I wrote this a year ago on the subject, and I think it's still quite relevant: https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-cloud-wars-of-2017-ac...
Researcher discovers classified Army intel app, data on open public AWS bucket
In 1 μs light travels 300 m (984 ft) in a vacuum, or 225 m (738 ft) in air (roughly). That's not good enough.

1 nanosecond is about a foot. A 100MHz clock gives us a resolution of 10 ns, which translates to 2.25 meters away by light in air.

As a backup if your fob battery is dead, you could use inductive power in the door, or just use that to begin with (still with distance-bounding).
Paying customers are "free-loaders"? That's so nonsensical.
My 3 monitors (which have different DPIs than the monitor that comes with my linux laptop). Trying to do this with the tools Ubuntu provides doesn't work. Ubuntu's GUI doesn't scale well, and I can't find a setup that does.

I just want this to work, but it doesn't. This was a Dell laptop that came preinstalled with Ubuntu, too.
> The unit acquired leaked code from competitors via Github, dug up information on overseas drivers and researched global competitors, he said. While he didn’t believe that work was illegal, “I had questions about the ethics of it,” Jacobs testified.

Fair point... But I'm not sure this has any bearing on Waymo vs Uber. This can, however, expose them to all sorts of patent litigation from the parties whose code they looked at.

> Tactics included use of attorney-client privilege on written documents, and encrypted, ephemeral communications.

I'm not sure about the former, but the latter is SOP at any company that has a legal department and regulatory concerns.

> It also used “non-attributable devices” to communicate with third parties providing on-the-ground intelligence about threats to Uber, and to research Uber protestors, he testified.

Shady shit, but not sure what bearing this has on Waymo vs Uber.
Can't wait for this to happen, the whole system is so inefficient it hurts.
So it's going to be like meetup, but for business?
> BTC isn't an asset

Sure it is. But that's not what makes this analysis a bit silly.

The problem is he's comparing Bitcoin to shares on regulated exchanges. And it's not subject to the same constraints as shares on regulated exchanges so it doesn't follow that it will have the dynamics of said shares.

He ever points out that it's already priced way beyond what you'd reasonably expect if it was a regulated share.

So sure it's likely to fall at some point and maybe it'll crash. But until it's controlled like a regulated asset it's just odd to assume it'll behave like one.
The reason FCC made change in 2015, because in 2014 court ruled that with prior classification, FCC had no authority to enforce anything unless they reclassify the Internet.

Before the ruling, the companies were still respecting what FCC said (here are some cases that happened between 2002 (when FCC reclassified Internet as a telecommunication service) and 2015[1]), now the cat is out of the bag.

Also note that 2015 change essentially brought back what was changed in 2002.

[1] https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-vio...
I am also totally against locked black boxes. This hiding and obscuring practice is just preventing learning, repars and inspections.

It is a similar problem like Intel ME and closed bios.

We use usecure proprietary code, closed unreparable one-purpose 'kiosk' devices yet we can still record video output or make a screen (camera?) recording. What are they thinking? This is all just to give them advantage over users, to more control and restrict them. Terrible.