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> Otherwise, you should politely ask if you are still needed, wait for the "no", and only then leave.

Pretty much hit the nail on the head. So much passive aggression, frustration, and abrasiveness injected into the work environment just because people don't have the face to say "Hey guys, if theres nothing else for me/for me to add here im going to drop off the call/go back to my desk."

I do this in about 30% of the meetings im in, probably twice in 5 years someones said they'd actually like me for something they were going to lead onto, and both times it was genuine.

Also, if you run a meeting, and you move onto something that doesnt need all parties, you can just say "So we're going to move onto X, you guys might not be so interested in so feel free to leave, unless of course you want to stay"

Never any hard feelings either way. It just business.
> Mass surveillance is very expensive in order to be effective.

Not if done right, according to William Binney who worked on designing the systems that eventually (d)evolved to what Snowden leaked information about.

That was re: (actual) national security - but the same mechanisms are at play: if you can record what you need to achieve a stated goal for 250m - why do that if you can spend N billion on a less efficient system?

Compared to manual policing, automated surveillance is a really cheap way to run a police state.

Now, if the goal is to minimise crime, as opposed to maximise catching criminals (which really should be a means to an end, not a goal in itself) - better welfare, psychic health services and after school activities are probably the way to go...
Tracking everything you do on the internet and offline using your phone including 24/7 location tracking and passive wi-fi mapping is not intrusive enough for you?
I've had QSOs from my home in California with hams in Hawaii, Japan, Australia, England, and Poland, among others. It depends on a number of things, like the band you're on, the time of day, antenna, power, mode, etc.. I don't have a big antenna farm or 2KW linear amps, just 100 W radio over wire antennas. In fact, I've made long distance contacts in QRP mode, just 10W or less. It's a lot like fishing. You keep throwing your lure into the water until something takes it.
Available cars are not fully self-driving. I think this year only Audi will release one where the car takes full control on motorways. All others require you to remain vigilant. If you sell a self-driving car you can't put warnings like this in the manual since the manufacturer is on the hook if anything happens during self-driving (at least if it was the car's fault).
As does Opera Mini and its on the App Store. I don't take Puffin's statement at face value.
I used ` for a long time, but it got old pasting old-fashioned shell scripts (which use `…` instead of $(…)).

Nowadays I use C-z: easy to hit with one hand, and easy enough to do C-z C-z if I actually want to suspend something.
That's... that's not what "distributed" means. DNS is distributed because it's arranged as a tree, with the root nodes delegating to the TLDs delegating to individual name servers for each zone. Just because someone chooses to use a service instead of running a nameserver themselves doesn't make DNS centralized.
I've submitted this for discussion and asked the mods to give you the credit you deserve for putting in so much effort!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16238937
There are mountains of evidence to back this up, quite a bit of it stems from the problem of keeping airline pilots engaged and alert while the autopilot functions as it should.
How did Facebook place IT to be a 'product organisation' from being seen as IT?
FWIW, I've run my own mail server for 10 years and I hardly ever receive spam, maybe 1-2 a week. And I give out my email everywhere.

The only spam mitigation I use is greylisting and blacklisting.
Honestly, what makes you think that, given that multiple corps are saying that they will have autonomous cars on the road this year?

I can see how "this year" could slip into next year under unforeseen circumstances, but when your own prediction is so far away from the collective wisdom of an entire industry sector, it sure looks like a massive case of Dunning-Krueger, so you should have a very solid argument to support your prediction.
To clarify, the parent poster isn't affected by the gambler's fallacy; rather, they're pointing out that it's common practice for any accidents involving spacecraft to be thoroughly scrutinized to ensure that the failure mode is completely understood and can be avoided in the future.
> In essence they are asking people to stay alert without being active, this is actually really fucking hard to do as a human being.

This problem has been studied to death in the airline industry. Surprising to see this repeated all over again.
From everything I've seen on it, Citus makes horizontally scaling a multi-tenant database a transparent operation. This is ideal just because so many applications emphasize recency in the data that you don't want rarely accessed, 3 year old information cluttering up your indexes that are looking up things from this month 99% of the time.

Timescale seems to me more about the analytics side of things, focusing on ingestion speed and aggregation. Correct me if I'm wrong somebody.
Author here - I plan on switching to Let’s Encrypt once they support ECC certificates.
Another reason to strive for financial independence ASAP.

How would this work? You can’t invest in shares, if companies have no consumers. You can’t invest in property if no one can afford rent. You would need not financial independence but independence from finance
And it couldn't be they reduce performance to keep the phone from shutting down prematurely when you have a bad battery- a known issue that people were having?

If they wanted to encourage people to buy new phones wouldn't it just be easier to not support older phones with new iOS updates? Why base the slow down on battery life instead of just slowing the phone down after two years?

There are much easier ways to encourage people to buy new phones if they wanted to be underhanded than the Rube Goldberg conspiracy that you are suggesting.
Not yet no. But curious about such a setup as well.
spamassassin, that's all really. I'm not a huge fan because I still have trouble figuring out how to configure it, but the default seems to work haha. I haven't had much spam yet that didn't get put into the spam folder or auto-deleted. The little bits that I did get also showed up in my gmail before (think parents/grandparents + virus spam).

I do have some publicly harvestable emails (on github and such), but I've never been spammed on those yet. Only on my personal address which I only give out IRL or occasionally reply with.

The catch-all emails are probably the best anti-spam you can have. The moment I get spam addresed to ycombinator.com@mydomain.tld (which matches a regex), I just blacklist it and move on with my life.
OpenSMTPD is by far the easiest to configure, and has very secure default settings. It works very good for a single user server.
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I hate these "almost" stories because "almost" does not get you to MVP.
Yup, the aerospace data acquisition system that I've used works this way - each acquisition cycle finishes by resetting the FPGA and coming up from a blank slate.
So I read this and cannot help but wonder if we really are 5 years away from a massive sea change. People think truck drivers could be obsolete in 5 years time, the bullish ones anyway.

The tech is still developing. We may be in a bit of a hype bubble, but it is as real and clear as it has ever been. I think even as the tech advances rapidly, public acceptance will be way further out than 5, 10 or 15 years. I would venture to say self-driving cars and truck fleets being normalized is 30 years away and in no way because of the tech, but due to all the red tape and public debate that will encase the issue.

If you think all truck drivers are going to be displaced in 5 or even 10 years, you may be living in an HN bubble. Sure jobs will be automated away, but this is going to take more time than lots of people think. For instance, one article like this could delay acceptance for months or years, in my opinion.
I see you can track its current position here: http://www.thehumanitystar.com/#tracker but a flyby predictor is notable by its absence, I wonder why that should be?
Isn't "blinding" self-driving cars with radio waves much more dangerous? Not sure how today's systems work in that case. But for a fully self-driving car, losing radars would probably cause emergency breaking.
If you apply that reliability percentage directly to time driven (inaccurate, I know, but for the sake of argument), a system which takes care of 99% of driving problems will still abandon you to chaos for 18 seconds out of every 30 minute drive. This is an eternity in a moving vehicle where milliseconds can draw the line between life & death.

The only systems safe enough to allow fully automated vehicles in the near future will have to be on dedicated lanes or roads, probably with additional safety mechanisms on the roadway itself.
And people deskill when they don't get enough practice as well. I know I got better over time as a driver and it wasn't just because I wasn't a teenager any longer. It's easy to imagine we'll end up with a lot of people on the roads with not-quite autonomous systems who actually haven't actively driven all that much.
They would need to outsource middle managers first, strangely that never seems to happen
For an API call that requires decrypting data it can add about 5-10ms, most of that comes from reading the values from the token database.
Encrypting will incur a similar performance penalty (again from the database).

The core pieces (API Proxy, Encryption Service, secure/general infrastructure divide) we're done by me in the first 2-4 months.

We now have a team of three (myself included) who maintain those systems (among many other responsibilities).
FWIW, I find "semi-autonomous" features like automatic cruise control & lane keeping to be a net benefit to my alertness on long trips as they reduce fatigue from constant minor adjustments in speed and direction.

Clearly it's possible to use these features in a way that increases risky distraction, but I think it's a mistake to assume such a driving mode can't be safer on net when used properly.
Nice rundown. Eyeroll at the bitcoin subject but, hey, what should I expect?

The biggest thing I've learned about Alexa Skills developing them is that people will say things differently (shocker!). So, take time to think through your intentions and offer many, many, many different implementations of the same phrase (utterances). This prevents people from getting confused, or labeling your skill at buggy; when in reality it just wasn't expecting what they'd say.
Typescript has a readonly directive you can declare for interfaces, and it gives a type error on assignment.
I had a viral chest infection once, a good bit of coughing but i was apart from that feeling fine, so i wanted to go back to them but was told not to.
>Then again, I could be romanticizing these meetings and maybe at your company unsolicited feedback is discouraged

Before I moved and started working remotely for my company, I was in one of these meetings where a coworker who took over one of my projects from ~2012 was commenting on what he was doing, and I offered a suggestion in an attempt to help. My immediate supervisor said "That's not important". This is a guy hired all of 4 months before me -- we're #2 and #3 in terms of tenure among developers, and until about 3 years ago both reported directly to the owner of the company.

I then noted that I believed it was important, and I knew that because I had direct experience with the project where my supervisor did not (because I wrote it), and my supervisor asked me "well then why don't fix it instead of [the newer dev working on the project]?" in a dismissive tone. This is a project I hadn't worked on in half a decade and was no longer in my job description.

Thankfully the owner of the company was in the meeting as well, noticed the tension, and talked to both of us separately about it after the meeting (agreeing profusely with me that I was adding a valuable contribution and that my supervisor was out of line to snip at me). The supervisor later apologized to me directly. That was not the first time he directed uninvited hostility toward me, but it was the most public instance of it, and was the last before I started working remotely. Things are much better now, I imagine because the perceived threat of me trying to usurp his managerial role is now 1000 miles away from the office.

So yeah...sometimes these meetings aren't so great, haha.
> Is this normal in the US. Govt.

HI-EMA is not part of the US Govt.

> that you can not go to work for 2 weeks and there has been zero disciplinary action?

It's true most places, not just in the US and not just in the public sector. They did not indicate whether he was away with or without leave, and if he was on leave for medical (including psychiatric) reasons, there are privacy considerations which might prevent revealing that.

OTOH, if he is away without leave consequences are near certain, but the disciplinary process in the public sector may be slow (and it may deliberately be deferred in this case to maintain leverage for his cooperation in the investigation, which probably had more critical importance—especially if it's not a hunt for a scapegoat—than an attendance problem.)
I read that comment as making an analogy to intrusive advertising.
This revelation brings a lot of things into focus for me. One, is that it finally sheds light onto that very large and disruptive attack on State Dept back in 2014. It was assumed it was a state actor, and now we know it was Russia.

Secondly is how important our allies are in this new era of clandestine cyber-warfare. Who knows how much damage that attack could've done without AIVD's assistance.

Third is that allied intelligence agencies are probably playing a significant role in unraveling the Trump/Russia scandal. Maybe a lot of the intel won't be declassified for some time, but I have to think that the Special Counsel has received tips from our NATO and FVEY partners that will help them crack the case.
I really don't like this kind of writing, it spending too much time gawking at the number and little explaining.

I would rather recommend this video of Graham himself explaing Graham's Number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX8bihEe3nA
Correct, K = potassium
Is your employer a software consulting company with teams working for different clients? I could see how in that kind of meeting there would be very little overlap in situational awareness of what each client's requirements are. I was imaging a team working on different parts of the same large product, where it may not be feasible to identify everyone who might be able to provide constructive criticism ahead of time to get them into one of those ad-hoc meetings.

Although, "that's the idea but it doesn't work in practice" is a fine answer, too.
Is package theft really that bad/fast where you live?
The triangle inequality is precisely the statement that this never happens.
The whole reason for using jq in the first place is to handle json without needing to rely on a high level language runtime being available.
It seemed kinda cynical to me.
If in the very least the autopilot could ring an alarm when it gives up. It seems like the autopilot in this case didn't know it had given up. The engineers had given up...
>the surveillance state that's developing

you mean has been developed and deployed and actively in use for over a decade, and is continually expanding even now?

you can have oppression without murder, or even without the threat of violence... surveillance is a subtle tyrant, but don't mistake that for meaning that it is any less destructive.
> on FreeBSD using Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, and LDAP.

That seems like an awful amount of work / overkill. This is not a good introduction for a normal geek, and die-hard open source fans will figure it out without too much trouble anyway.

Postfix is not the best choice for novices, FreeBSD is not the most well-supported/documented system just because it's not as popular as some others, and a directory service shouldn't be necessary.

We had to setup Exim, Postfix or Sendmail for school. Sendmail was universally hated the most, Postfix came in second, and Exim was... well, not exactly logical or easy, but the best of the three mainstream MTAs.

I'm running hMailServer at home. Windows-only, unfortunately, but until I find a proper replacement, I'll just keep running it in a VM. Nothing else even comes close in admin-friendliness. It's just install and run, with either a local admin interface or a web interface (using PHP, so it runs anywhere).
"Stationary objects either are rare"

I think the problem with this is to set them into the correct context. Around the road (and thus in the visible field of the sensors) you have A LOT of stationary objects such as houses, trees, traffic signs, roadside objects, parked cars, ...
I think there is probably a big challenge determining which of these objects might be in the way and how to correctly ract to them.

Just as an example: Considering the situation the article and enhancing it a bit with guessings, it would have been the right decision to either stop or change lanes (depending on the road). However, if the car decides to change lanes and there is traffic on the other lane, we are in the same trouble of an accident due to autopilot again. Also, if autopilot decides to change lanes (or something similar in the category of "driving around") on a one-lane road (maybe even with missing lane marks), we might end up in oncoming traffic. Or what happens if the system falsely applies the decision to break in a turn with roadside objects (think of a 90° turn with a house in the corner). If the car falsely applies an emergency break here, our hypothetical car might be the one smashed into. Also, how do you set the thresholds for "stationary". If it is set too low, we might not stop infront of a stationary object until it is too late, if we set it too hight, we might stop way too early, say, in a traffic jam, again being the ones provoking accidents or more traffic jam due to unforseen heavy breaking.
I have the opposite experience with lane keeping, it made me space out in a way that when lane keeping didn't work properly I was really scared on how long it took me to react.

Definitely vouch for cruise control as having a cramping leg stuck on the accelerator for 5+ hours driving sucks but, personally, would say otherwise for lane keeping.
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The problem is that hands-on meetings are supposed to be short, so you'll have time to say "we're having this issue", but not enough time to detail all of the different approaches you've already tried, so you get a lot of less-than-helpful advice from people who don't have enough information to go on but think they do.
That's sort of my point though. Every edge case that gets exposed gets another regulation.
>The danger here is that we might be lulling ourselves in a complacent state "it can't happen to us"

this is the perfect chance to plug one of my favorite books, sinclair lewis' "it can't happen here."

the content is predictable, but the implementation of the idea is fantastically detailed and-- in the wake of the US' current political situation-- outrageously predictive for being written decades ago.
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I've done this for my domain parking company too. For my need, it's (probably) a must, since you want to make sure you have a reliable DNS server which you can fully control.

I've used PowerDNS, which was a breeze for me. It's super efficient too. So I set up my DNS on a very cheap VPS on Vultr ($5/month) and everything has been running well.

I do wish PowerDNS had a better web interface, but hey it does the job.
This is utterly, utterly overblown.

The Space Station is thousands of times bigger and throws back a hundred times more light than this will.

Every evening, for most of the populated world, dozens of brighter satellites than this go overhead. I just checked the orbits for my evening here - 57 brighter satellites.

But what about the flashing? Well, we've got those already too. The old, awesome Iridium satellites have giant antennas that act like mirrors. When one beams the sun onto you at night for a few seconds, it's hundreds of times brighter than the Humanity Star. The Hitomi, a failed Japanese weather satellite, flashes every second or so as it spins - again, much brighter than this will ever be.

And worries about Kessler syndrome for this object in a very low earth orbit? Even if every satellite in similar orbit magically exploded tomorrow, the debris would be gone in less than year. In the meantime we could still launch to other orbits. Kessler syndrome is overhyped in general, and a complete non-issue this low.
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Why do you need ECC certificates?
>> it's our job to ask during the interview process a few questions from the Joel test

I know. That was totally amateur on my side. I was excited because it's a nice company and just accepted their offer. And they're nice guys. It's not like they're assholes but their mentality towards coding standards is frustrating.

Anyway, at the end of the day, I know it's my fault for not asking those questions during the recruitment process. :(
I wonder what the AMI risk is for people in respiratory distress in general, and whether the flu risk is distinguishable.
But presumably those other satellites are at least serving a useful purpose.
I largely agree with Dave, but it's important to think about what you wish the alternative to be. If you ban laptops from meetings, what do you do when people pull their phones out? Are you going to ban phones from meetings too? What about daydreams, are you going to ban those too?

I remember being in a military course where we were getting very little sleep, and naturally, there were no personal laptops and personal phones were banned. If people started to nod off from the lack of sleep, they were called out and asked to stand up to keep from falling asleep. Does anybody really want to work in that kind of environment where their attention is not invited, but commanded?

Sure, it's important to make sure people are focused in meetings. But the way to do that isn't just by setting a positive example, but by increasing the focus of the meeting: reducing the number of invitees to only those who are really necessary, having a scheduling framework for who is expected to talk about what and for how long, and making sure that everybody in the meeting is focused on producing, together, the documentation (e.g. a record of the decision made) which is the product of that meeting. People are a lot less likely to "slack off" in meetings if they feel like their presence is necessary, appreciated, and productive.
Why can't it detect a static object on the same path?
I thought Subaru has a system that can do that.. At least according to the commercials it detects when a car in front of the car in front of you has stopped or slowed.
Then why have a steering wheel at all?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638904
I've stopped using tmux locally because vim terminals are so darned convenient
AFAIK pipes are usually replaced every 50 years. That's the common timespan around here at least. And yeah it's expensive.
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So where is my sceptical top hacker news comment saying something negative about theese images?
Author here - happy to respond to any questions.