skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to have to disagree -- and this is based on first hand knowledge (albeit from a few years ago), and from second-hand knowledge from friends that I trust who are working in/around Kroger now.

Kroger is in a difficult position -- Grocery is a low-margin space: it is the true "race to the bottom," and now, with Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods, and Target's acquisition of shipt (Kroger has looked at other delivery services, but, can't find one for the same price point), they're struggling to find the same portfolio matrix to keep them competitive to other startups.

They want to use GCE, but, they're truly struggling to use it. They refuse to use AWS for competitive reasons. They don't want to pay for talent (they were offering an Enterprise Architect $25/hour on a contract in the Cincinnati area , they don't want to pay for commercial tooling). Admittedly, in order for them to make money, they have to run truly Lean IT...but, they also make really foolish decisions. They were considering building their own cloud until it was pointed out just the sheer amount of capex needed for that project....and then the VMWare Licensing costs. They spend a crazy amount of money on SurePOS, but, then don't pay for any of the Verifone branding/customization/contactless enablement for their terminals. Technologies like LaneHawk help their cashiers catch shrink, but, their cashiers comment that it's ineffective and do not work 95% of the time.

If it was my job to move Kroger's technology forward, I'd probably do the following:

* Look at ways to help the cashiers do their job better and more effectively. Finding ways to shave transaction time will add up, enabling more customers per hour to flow through the transaction lines.

* Microservices in the store level for things that need to have store level availability, but, push things to cloud services where it's feasible. Yes -- let's buy bigger pipes to the cloud, but, keep a smaller server at the store in case things fail. We can manage that farm in the cloud more efficiently at scale, and then deploy out to the stores nightly or weekly versus continuous delivery in the cloud.

* Vendor Selection: Use the right vendors for the right things. Look at how you're spending your money with your vendors, and do a double check to make sure you're not being foolish with your spending (ala, vendors like Pomeory -- 99.99% of the time, you can do it better in house)
What does "recording" mean in this context? The way these devices work is they're always "recording" in a loop on a secondary processor looking for the wake word. If we take this request literally the LED would never be off.
Perhaps not “executioner”, but we have every right to be jury.

I’m open to the observation that prohibition seldom (or never) fully achieves its goals, and the possibility that it can make things worse, but right now — based on all I know — my metaphorical jury vote would be “bitcoin is bad even for the goals people state when trying to promote it”.
> Civilization survived for ages without the internet, so I'm sure that we'll be able to find some way to keep people occupied while in space without it.

Yes, but they weren't trapped in a metal box for years.
Yeah, I would recommend embedding wikipedia, duolingo, a whole bunch of TV series and movies, the top 10% of spotify, the top 10% of youtube, and the top 10% of steam.

It's not perfect but assuming you can make a static version of these I'm sure you can fit it under a few terabytes.
I doubt you really mean unlimited?
Rehabilitation is unrelated to improving the stability and security of society.
I wouldn't recommend drinking gasoline or diesel either, but cars seem to work pretty well with it.
The pricing on this seems out of line with other VPN providers unless I'm missing something. $12-14/month = $144/year give or take. Even if they do a "2 months free if you pay annually" it's still $120/year while something like privateinternetaccess is $7/mo, $40/year or $70/2 years.

Unfortunately the vpnhub site appears to have been hammered into the ground as of time of posting.
Actually, they do. It's called Google Analytics, and it exists on a very large portion of the web.

TLS isn't going to help protect you when the site you're on is loaded with user tracking and analytics scripts anyway.
That's a pretty good analogy, because nobody thinks that bars employing bouncers to check ID is some sort of conspiracy or conflict-of-interest.
> ...proof of stake will make this sort of attack 10k worse. With proof of stake there is essentially no resource cost.

This is not true. For a 51% style attack on a PoS chain, you need to acquire a majority of staked coins. Each coin you buy increases the cost of the next coin, (demand/supply and all that), and the price of the coin increases exponentially as an attacker accumulates 51% of the coins.

With PoW, cost of acquiring hashpower is linear (acquiring the last 1% costs the same as the first 1%), which is why PoW is easier to attack.
Reducing poverty and figuring out why people steal is unrelated to improving the safety and stability of society.
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I suppose people (at least those targeted by this ad) worry about snooping in transit, not about endpoints. A porn site you visit will have plenty of data on you from your browser anyway - and compromised public Wi-Fi spots are a real risk.
It wasn't put on GitHub back then, and I don't want to publish it now.

But I've sent it to you in email - check it out if you're interested.
I wonder how would you even do that?
It's not a tape recorder, where someone has to physically press a button, there are no moving parts, thus it must be software controlled.
> But assuming Tether was legitimate, wouldn't they also need to create new Tether units during extreme market crashes because that's when the highest demand for Tether would be, so they'd run out of the existing Tether?

BTC crashes inherently would create BTC -> USDT interest, sure, but not inherently create USD availability for backing new USDT.

Creation of legitimate USDT would mainly seem to happen when there is high USD -> BTC interest, because that is, in many cases, realized by USD -> USDT conversion (with, in principle, the USDT created at that time and the USD in reserve backing the new USDT) followed by USDT -> BTC exchange.

You might see new legitimate, large-scale USDT creation in a crash if, say, bargain-hunting new USD money is flowing into BTC, but the people exiting BTC and driving the price down are holding USDT without converting to USD.

> They wouldn't need to create new Tether during bull runs, because nobody cares about putting their money into Tether then.

Yes, they would, unless “bull runs” in the USDT-denominated BTC market are just money already held in USDT rushing back into BTC, rather than new USD flowing into the USDT/BTC market.
> The device did not audibly advise that it was preparing to send the recording, something it’s programmed to do.

Apparently it's not programmed to do that. Unless this was a hardware glitch or cosmic-ray event.
I'd say creative doesn't hurt: honestly, I know quite a few folks who would kill to run a D&D campaign or the like uninterrupted for months on end. And your players won't have other obligations to catch them off guard :)
That's just embarassing.
I love JavaScript, but also recognize when some other things are better (in the useful, pragmatic, non-edgy, non-trendy sense). Bucklescript/reasonML seem to be a way to use something better and keep what I like about JS without starting at zero in the job market or ecosystem. Specific example: if reasonML gets big enough then all react jobs are potentially reasonML jobs. In the bigger picture, purescript/elm/bucklescript/reasonML/clojurescript all have one problem. There's a lot of hype about how much better they are, but also the job market for them is nearly empty. This makes it difficult to justify spending a lot of time evaluating them before the jobs exist. I end up using flow or typescript in the short run.
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How soon until Amazon starts sending the private conversations of people discussing illegal things directly to law enforcement?

It will be pretty easy to justify by bringing up bomb threats, but it would mostly be people buying/using drugs.
10 years from now frontpage HN: "Thanks to cameras placed in every room of every Chinese house, 10,000 people have been saved from otherwise being abused, kidnapped, raped or trafficked this month alone!"

Yay!
In my town there is super suppers which does just this. Buy meals you can freeze that you just drop in the oven.
I'm not entirely sure that this would be a bad thing. It would set the expectation in customers' minds that the device is always listening, which is at least somewhat true.
Why not license the software system from Volvo, which obviously works (people drive Volvos with this turned on every day without erratic breaking), instead of disabling theirs because it was apparently broken?

This is beyond incompetence. There is a different level of software engineering when making a website vs making a pacemaker, rocket or flight avionics. You need the quality control of NASA, SpaceX or Boeing, not that of .. whoever they have running their self driving division.
I second the motion.
I assume they mean that the light should not be accessible to software, just wired so that "if camera is on, light is on"
2 manager and 4 devs for 1 month to make an app.
If you bug your own home and consent to third-party, opaque management of the surveillance, things like this will happen[1].

I expect worse to come.

[1] Am not saying anyone deserves this, or that AZON is either evil or beneficent, or anything else other than precisely what was stated.
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Yeah, imagine if some hackers or NSA could find an exploit for this devices, having the LED that can't be turned off would be helpful but not enough.
it would be nice if TOR had reciprocity where a user using it will also donate some network bandwidth. But i guess that might not really work since it forces you to run an exit node, which is where the dangers of running TOR is currently.
>>> ISL 18 minutes ago [-]

"If the company is private, a link to a fiscal summary equivalent to the SEC's 10-K."

Good luck with that.
The journalism on this is awful. The Ukrainian statements are ridiculous and should have been challenged by VICE rather than sensationalized.

A state actor isn't going to run the kill command on 500,000 routers to disrupt a soccer match.

The intention of the compromise is for surveillance.

Not nearly as sophisticated as the NSA capabilities - nearly every router in the world (besides the small percentage not produced in the United States) are compromised by the NSA. It's telling how weak the Russian cyber security program is that they need to compromise routers with an active exploit to get some small surveillance capability. It also sounds like the C&C network didn't get a lot of investment, as its design was easy to subvert.
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down-tempo.

If I'm not doing architecture, emails, or thought provoking tasks, I can get away with lyrical music.
Ask HN: Security checklist for relative's PC?
I'd like to help my older relative keep her devices secure (PC, iPad, online services, etc)

I know a lot of things I COULD do, but is there a good checklist online?

So I can be thorough, without making it hard for her to use things.
That seems overly simplistic to me.

It's like saying that someone buys a car that's powered by an explosive liquid, and then complains when all the gas in the tank explodes at the same time.
It makes perfect sense. If many people are trying to BUY USDT (increasing demand for USDT) the price of USDT will increase. Tether tries to prevent this by printing more USDT (increasing supply). They are not "magicking" Dollars, they are magicking a commodity (USDT) pegged to Dollar.

I'm not saying that I'm a big Tether fan or anything. However to say that it "doesn't make sense" when they print more Tether during market crashes is false.
Who is to say it did not turn on it's LED and the owners did not happen to be looking at it.

With that said, my Sonos Alexa has a tiny LED but does respond with an audible tone when the keyword is heard.

That is... when it's not randomly laughing https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/7/17092334/am...
People are volunteerelly paying for their houses to be tapped for the convenience of being able to shout: play me some song.

I’m so out of touch with this world it’s scary.
That's a rather nice feature that Transact-SQL (both Sybase and Microsoft) has had for a long time. It should make it easier for some folks to convert over.
Oh, they'll get crucified for it, I'm sure -- because the public doesn't understand that integration is never trivial, and that "obvious" integrations aren't always good ideas.

I had thought an audience of developers would "get it," since we deal with fallout from ill-conceived integrations every day, although admittedly in a far less spectacular form than control system engineers.

Unfortunately, the uber hate train has already left the station and there's no slowing it down until the investigation finds (or doesn't) actual evidence of negligence rather than clickbait guesswork by armchair engineers. Too bad.
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The device is not always visible when you are using it. Amazon Echo has such an LED (at least the one I am familiar with). But it will misinterpret conversations happening in other rooms now and then. It does get confirmations for most things, so the normal scenario for us is this:

Talking loudly in another room.
Alexa: "Do you want to send this message to Jim?"
"Alexa, you suck"
Yikes, it had not occurred to me that even Uber would ignore their automation system's pleas to emergency brake because it was making their cars look too jumpy.
great way to just have companies add an annoying, always on LED, that wastes energy to avoid lawsuits. how about we let the market regulate, as it is doing currently. did amazon respond faster than the government has on surveillance? yes. should companies that don't abuse their power/neglect their software be punished for all eternity because of amazon's actions? i think not.
I can't speak to alternatives (I don't know of any with a comparable feature set unfortunately) but I do want to clarify that this was not due to the acquisition. You'll have to take my word for it, but the planning for this deprecation was underway more than a year before we started talking to buyers. This product was just not commercially viable despite being very useful.
They even solved the debugging complaint of TCO by having a shadow stack but to be fair chrome is way ahead in implemented JS features.
Yes, Perl is widely known as a write-only programming language.
How vulnerable is our data?
Well luckily newer versions of npm and all versions of yarn handle the lockfiles for you, no extra effort required at all.

If you install something, it will find and lock the dependency versions at install time. When you update that dependency, it will repeat then lock in again. You actually have to go out of your way now to not use lockfiles in the js ecosystem.

And if you really do have some js projects, take 30 minutes and look into yarn. Not only is it significantly faster in my experience, but it's also mostly a drop-in replacement and provides some much needed features like the ability to install while offline from a local cache, and interactive upgrade tools.
Uber should bail on doing their own and work a deal with Waymo.
Inline voltage to the microphone? A microphone is still a physical device.
It's an interesting way to think about programming. Curmudgeon is the word that comes to mind, but I'm sure that young programmers would think that I'm a curmudgeon too.

His dislike for data structures in favor of parallel array is kind of how like mostly just use lists and dictionaries in Python instead of fancy classes.
except people have vested interest in not keeping it very open and potential contributors also have vested interests. I don't think 'blockchain' adds value here
Hacker News hug of death. Here's the cached site:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:q53MB1...
It sounds like she had the voice-activated equivalent of butt-dialing.
We should have reality television because people find it to be entertaining.

That doesn't answer the question about small cryptocurrencies though. Or perhaps it does.
Yup! You can assign negative points to a thing, too -- I use that if I succumb to a distraction. Oddly enough, the points themselves are the reward. Brains are crazy. :)
No, it would get customers used to ignoring the LEDs on it.
I’d be interested to know if anyone living in these areas has had trouble with insurance rates over this period. I realize many people aren’t fans of insurance but some of these areas seem quantifiably troublesome to live in short term.
I don't know about her but I would be upset not because Amazon recorded private conversation but because they sent it to some random contact on my contact list. I don't want to bother my contacts with my inane ramblings in the privacy of my room.
The device is always recording. How else would it detect the keyword?
The TL;DR as I read were

1. Regulators want aggressive breaking but carmakers want smoother driving

2. Manually tuning all the edge cases for cases where the software is uncertain what's happening will lead to fragile monolith black boxes
It's already illegal in many states in the US. Possibly at the local level as well.

Here's the relevant law for Virginia.

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter9/secti...

It's a class 6 felony, which in VA means you'll be looking at "a term of imprisonment of not less than one year nor more than five years, or in the discretion of the jury or the court trying the case without a jury, confinement in jail for not more than 12 months and a fine of not more than $2,500, either or both".
Because more context makes for a more comprehensive story.

Fact of the matter is, the person was not allowed to cross there. Not only was it not allowed [0], it was also extremely dangerous. Why would she do this?

That's one part of the conversation.

The other part of the story is that the self-driving car was mismanaged and misprogrammed, and that this was likely also a reason why the woman died.

There is therefore reason to believe both parties could have prevented this death. You're not sure. Perhaps drugs weren't a factor. And perhaps a driving person could not have braked quickly enough either to save her. You don't really know. But when you have information which lets you speculate plausibly to explain unknowns, I think it's relevant to include that information as a journalist. Meth use falls within that range of relevant information in this case, if you ask me.

It feels a bit analogous to saying a woman got shot and killed at a gun range. She ran into the shooting range and got shot. Why would she do this? The person shooting wasn't paying attention and was just firing casually down the range. Knowing the woman was on meth helps explain a lot. As a journalist I'd think that was relevant, and as a reader it offers a possible explanation for this kind of behaviour. It doesn't negate the fact the shooter didn't follow procedure and could have prevented this death, too.

I thought it was fitting at the very end of the article like it was in the original analysis that they refer to. Not so much in the subtitle, I feel that was in poor taste and driven by clickbait. It shouldn't be the focus of the article.

[0] http://darychuklaw.com/legal-services/personal-injury-claims...
It's a common part of NTSB reports. Nationally, these are tracked by police in accidents for national statistics.

I guess they didn't have to include it, but it's in the report.
> This would light a home for an hour, with LED bulbs and careful usage.

Do you have the equivalent of 50 LED bulbs (60W equivalent [1]) burning at a time? Do you consider that careful usage?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Classic-Glass-Non-Dimmable-Li...
Thanks. I agree. I think I did more when it wasn't my job too.
> where someone has to physically press a button, there are no moving parts, thus it must be software controlled.

If the microphone uses an amplifier, you could wire an LED to light when power is supplied to the amp. The indicator light is physically part of the circuit, so its operation cannot be modified by software. There are probably other, better, ways to do it, I'm not an electronics guy.
According to the OpenVPN docs, running it in static key mode makes the traffic indistinguishable from ordinary HTTPS. Regardless, my university network still manages to block it even though I use TCP mode + port 443. What gives?
QE extracts wealth from the public through seignorage, and redistributes it to private parties.
Ah, so you were not able to work with json in Erlang a decade ago, and still hold grudge about it! Jeez.

If your understanding of "underlying language infrastructure" is also based on your experience 10 years ago, then that is the same with all languages, pal. With every version, programming languages evolve, they become better. Erlang is no different.
Considering the price of even business-class bed seats, which when you're looking at them don't look that comfortable, looking at these pictures of rows of comfortable-looking bunks makes me wonder what exactly Airbus is trying to achieve here. Surely these bunks will be hideously expensive due to the space they take up.

Safety is also questionable, and since most frustration of air travel centres around what we're always told is 'passenger safety', I'm taking a long look at this. The article mentions the lack of windows, but also fails to mention that humans rarely enter the cargo hold during flights for one specific reason - they are not designed to accommodate humans while in the air. The air is not heated or circulated to the same degree. There are no emergency exits. In the event of an emergency landing, you'd have to get everyone up the stairs and onto the main deck to the exits. Retrofitting this setup sounds like it would need a lot of modifications to the aircraft to accommodate safety, and the costs of this will probably drive up the cost of seats in sections where you don't even get this benefit.

I've long thought that replacing the pathetically cramped Economy-class seats with stacked pods like those used in Japanese honeycomb hotels would be a very viable solution - claustrophobic, sure, but planes already are... Similar passenger density, some semblance of privacy due to being all-enclosed, quite safe in turbulence or an emergency landing if you're laying down, and relatively uncomplicated egress. True, for persons with limited mobility it could be infeasible, but it's an option...
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Infocom, Sierra, and LucasArts all built proprietary VMs and it seems to have worked out very well for them. People are still making new games that run on Infocom's Z-Machine, and ScummVM has helped keep those LucasArts games running to the modern day.

Unreal Engine was very successful with a custom scripting language up until UE4, too. And Naughty Dog hardly seems to have suffered from their decision to build a Lisp-based system -- apparently they're still using Racket to script their (wildly successful) games.

Really, it's only quite recently that the off-the-shelf tooling like UE4 or Unity has gotten sophisticated and powerful enough that people can make complex games without having to build a little software ecosystem around them.
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