skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that difficult to believe. For example, Shenzhen just achieved a milestone of 100% electric buses, and it alone has way more buses on the road than Seattle. Your point on 3rd-tier cities stands, but I think it's misleading to say that there are more electric buses on the road in the USA. Other Chinese cities won't be far behind Shenzhen.
Yes. When you make a website your obligation is to your users. Can you imagine any other engineeting field where people were willing to say "well that's a problem for my customers and not a problem for me" and think that was okay?
You're discounting hobby projects or small side businesses that don't generate a lot of revenue. For those, much more than a few bucks a month may be a deal-breaker.
The examples reference the use of an Amazon Web Service product for the abstraction. I don’t see a problem here.
Could've been something like this: https://samy.pl/magspoof/
I don't think there is a right answer to this.

Given enough time, it's certainly possible if not even probable. But whether that is within 20 years or 200 years is likely impossible to predict.
I'm assuming you don't know how oceans work. Eventually, we'll all be ingesting that.
This may be of interest to you. It talks about how this group pulled off the physical presence aspect too:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/malware-m...
Retail price maintenance protects the manufacturer's margin. If your retailers get into a price war, their margin will get squeezed down to almost nothing. At that point, they'll either drop your product, nudge customers towards an alternative product that they can make a profit on, or demand bigger discounts from the manufacturer. If your retailers can't make a healthy profit from selling your product, they're not particularly inclined to sell it.

Excessively tight retail margins also degrade the customer experience. As a manufacturer, you generally want retailers who can provide good pre- and post-sales support. If a retailer makes almost nothing from selling a product, they aren't particularly inclined to help customers. They'll spend more time upselling accessories or additional warranties than actually advising the customer and will just deflect all problems to the manufacturer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resale_price_maintenance
I also don't understand the American idea that "only people who have no other option take public transit."

I could easily afford a car – I had a pretty nice car that I ended up selling because I never used it – but I enjoy taking public transit, because I hate traffic, finding parking, etc. If I can currently get along fine without a car in Los Angeles, then maybe, with some more investment around the country, other people would willingly ditch their cars, too.
What the hell does that have to do with "if you have nothing to hide"?

I'm saying if you do have something to hide, then freaking hide it.

Besides, aren't regular drug tests a condition of most parole? So what exactly was your hypothetical genius parolee planning to do with those drugs anyway?
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2018? Netflix has been streaming 4K since 2014. I don't disagree that it's generally unneeded[1] but it didn't show up in 2018.

[1] 4K does matter for large projection screens, and is a generally good thing because denser screens spill over to monitors, too.
Wouldn't have anything to do with the EU desperately wanting a Silicon Valley of their own, would it?
"not producing electric cars fast enough"
Oh, you mean literally lying about how many cars he is producing, fabricating timelines when he knows they are 100% impossible, libel-ing people, lying about self driving and giving a dangerous name (autopilot) to his driver assist, going on insane witchunts, and taking all the credit for other peoples work (e.g. martin eberhard)? All while producing crap tons of scrap and rework in his factory that literally invalidates the thesis that the cars are somehow environmentally friendly? Cars that are great at accelerating and suck at stopping, and thus have a much higher fatality rate than other luxury vehicles (on par with sports cars)? Yep pretty sure we're still calling elon a scammer and a fraud.
Really? It'd be surprising if they hadn't.

I'd expect utilities to be one of the softest targets out there, based on prior interaction with the industry...

edit: About 8-10 years ago I used to collect news articles, reports to congress, etc, about ICS (industrial control systems, the superset of utilities) being hacked. It was regular, comprehensive, and depressing. The ICS industry was running 15-20 years behind in grasping the fact that hacking could be a problem. Think 1990 era security mindsets in 2010.
Yeah and you need a new one for every message.
Please explain to me how you can drink without the liquid touching your teeth. Do you stick the straw directly down your throat?
How can a human being evolve to this level?
Alphabet earnings and the jaws of antitrust
Don't forget Microsoft! They have indicated a total interest in brick and mortar skin in the game with all their surface stuff.
Yeah, what was that, really? Typing QBASIC programs from paper into the computer? Using it as a fancy typewriter? Calculating ballistic trajectories? That's all I can remember.
Hm, I only got calls from Windows so far..
The primary example they gave was on AWS.
It's funny how almost one hundred years after the Phoebus cartel[0], Philips is still participating in anti-competitive behavior. Apparently the invisible hand of the market is not so well suited after all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
With a basic DO droplet, you can still do that for $5/month, and hey, if it takes off your app won't depend on a bunch of expensive proprietary software. Also I'm guessing that if cost is a concern, denial of service is preferable to blowing the bank under unanticipated high loads. Maybe I need to drink more AWS/GCP kool-aid though and see the light.
7 steps to successfully launch and grow your startup
"Tech Debt" and "Code Quality" are myths. I know that is an unpopular perspective, but allow me to explain. To start with, for me everything is just a problem described in terms of its properties.

What are some examples of problems I have encountered that were worth solving?

1. We have a server rendered site and an API. Changes to the server rendered site require matching changes in the API code effectively duplicating our efforts. If we re-implement the site as a single page app consuming the API we can kill two birds with one stone.

2. The lacking test coverage of a critical section of code matched against the frequency of changes to that code results in a frequent regressions and delays.

3. Unifying two divergent implementations will allow us realize a shared, multi-tenant deployment model for our partners. The load characteristics will give us the same point of presence for half the hardware.

Why are these worth solving? Because they have objective rationales. The third embodies a strategic direction with real bottom line consequences. The case can be made "If you want this outcome here are the steps" Then the only question becomes "Do we want this outcome?"

Many times "tech debt" and "code quality" are tossed around as easy justifications. They lack the intellectual rigor or organizational context to make a compelling case that its worth the opportunity cost. The person using those terms generally has strong feelings that its the right path, but can't really articulate why. In many cases there is no "why" and its more a of a "just because"

In my experience "Tech Debt" projects that are actually undertaken or not called "Tech Debt" they are called "Lets do this because its important to the business and here is why" projects.
At the risk of sounding snarky, I feel like a block of code comments explaining the naiive approach that was rejected, as well as the particular edge cases that this is handling which the simpler generalized case doesn't handle, would help a lot for that.

I realize that as developers we often glaze over the comments (my editor even shows them as low contrast grey), but docstrings and code comments can be tremendously valuable when trying to understand why something needs to do things a particular way.
In cases such as these fines are usually determined based on the estimated profits, exactly to ensure deterrence.
Joining in, Markus from IBM and OpenWhisk. Been involved with knative for quite some time now as well.

Happy to answer any questions that might arise as well. Answers might be biased and opinions are my own.

See IBM's statement: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2018/07/24/ibm-clo...
If you think you were raised well, then by all means reproduce it. If not, fix what's broken. Don't overcompensate for perceived weaknesses in your upbringing, be honest.

For example, were you fat as a teenager? OK, make sure your kids have good eating habits. Notice this is not: put them in crossfit, feed them only vegetables.
NY state actually maintains its roads pretty well. For a snow belt state they by and large have the best infrastructure with wide shoulders consistently used to minimize damage from plows and heaving. Poorer counties and large cities are less consistently good but the majority of the state's roads are nice. Compared to midwest concrete abominations that are allowed to deteriorate into crumbled messes 20 years past their design life I'll take the continuously improved NY asphalt.
4K isn't particularly beneficial for most users, but properly implemented HDR makes a massive difference.
> As long as you don't have high turnover, technical debt is fine.

"If you tell them to shut up enough times, eventually they will."

> They are eager to fix things, to stop their daily grind.

Yes, because being ground down daily will eventually wear you down.

> You have a team who is aware of all the quirks of the codebase(s) and knows how to deal with it.

But that's not a good thing. If your technical debt adds an hour to a dev's day, every day, you're running at ~85% capacity. If you have tests that need to be babysat, or code that takes a long time to add new features to (or fix bugs in) because of tech debt, you're losing valuable time.

Even if it's not necessarily the sort of thing that brings a codebase to its knees, or the kind of thing that sinks a business, but it is the equivalent of refusing to tie your shoes and tripping and falling as you keep trying to walk to your destination.
The Source of Dr Seuss’ Lorax?
There is no way individual transportation will ever be as efficient as public transportation in an urban setting. If their math says that autonomous vehicles will be cheaper than buses then it must be ignoring that autonomous buses will also be cheaper and more efficient than they are now.
See also:

https://medium.com/@mchmarny/build-deploy-manage-modern-serv...

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2018/07/24/ibm-clo...

and one by this "Google" thing:

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/bringing-the-be...
Easier said than done. First you have to develop the infrastructure (garbage trucks, dumps, entire departments in local government, etc...). Then you have to convince the villagers to change their way of life through littering fines that everybody will hate.

I don't think anybody is happy with the situation, but practical alternatives are in short supply. Worse, you have to apply the situation throughout the whole country or the people who follow the law but still get smothered in garbage from upstream will be angry and disincentiveized to continue trying to clean up.
It's not all good banning straws - Starbucks, for one, is finding out it uses more plastic with their new lids[1][2][3][4].

Sure, they're more recyclable, but a big part of the problem is many people don't throw their Starbucks cup in the recycle bin as it is! So, more plastic is being manufactured and used, and maybe some of it will be recycled... not such a clear cut win after all...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/23/starbucks-s...

[2] https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/12/starbucks-straw-ban-will-...

[3] https://www.thekitchn.com/starbucks-no-straws-new-lids-more-...

[4] https://www.vox.com/2018/6/25/17488336/starbucks-plastic-str...
Microsoft Maims Skype's Full Screen Feature – For No Apparent Reason
my startup uses elm in production.

There are plenty bugs with the current featureset in the elm compiler. The next version is going to break many things. This puts users of the platform in an awkward position where they have to put up with bugs for an indefinite amount of time, and when a release does come it is going to break a lot of code.

this isn't something I'd expect in a "production ready" language.

frequent patch releases would be ideal. Though the version scheme of elm does not respect semantic versions. Which introduces another problem - unless you're "in the know" about elm, its difficult to even tell that the new release is going to break your code.
Are (Chinese) solar panels environmentally neutral yet?
That is in fact my point. There are no free services.
> Even in cities of >250,000 people, it's common for there to be no sidewalks, and possibly not even any proper crosswalks

This seems like a failure at city planning. Anyways shouldn't there be a school bus?
If you build an army why would they remain loyal to a rich person once riches and legal ownership cease to become meaningful concepts?
SWAT is called special weapons and tactics for a reason. They get sent out in dangerous situations such as hostages, or when the suspect is known to be very armed, not for any old call. It costs money to train and deploy them, and it's not done as often as you imply.

Being swatted is a thing, but it's not going to happen over a $25 Venmo transaction titled as "drugs". Or even one titled as "weapons". There needs to be actual intent to harm someone immediately declared. Last year's swatting was because the person claimed he "had fatally shot his father, and was holding family members at gunpoint."

Law enforcement is different than SWAT, so I won't even entertain your second anecdote except for saying in order for Interpol to get involved, they needed far more evidence than a Paypal transaction with that description.
> The biggest question is not whether or not these facilities are compromised, it's whether or not a bad actor is going to use it for malicious purpose.

> Notice how the article is based entirely on "what ifs".

Doing something about the compromise issue would make your biggest question correspondingly less speculative, which is a good reason for discussing the scope for compromise, no matter how much you hate it.
QUESTION: How did you validate your SaaS?
The thing is you don't need an "AV system" for it to be better than shitty laptop speakers. AV receiver systems are generally a pain for most people, with the need to run audio cables, buy separate speakers, etc. Soundbars are popular because they are easy and still check the "way better than the built-in speaker" box.

I do have a dedicated receiver, but I wouldn't recommend it for most people because it's not worth the hassle.
Old shaky hands aiming a looking glass at one of two moving elephants standing close by each other would tell a different story, perhaps.

I'm not sure how well established Virtual Quantum Noise is, but saying that an empty place contains this is just wrong. If it has an effect in the propagation of a real particle in to said space, it wouldn't be empty anymore. That's confusing, and it might be helpful to note that these quantum fluctuations happen on the boundaries of the space, not just everywhere (and if they did, they wouldn't matter any more than my imaginary friend the pink elephant Safr riding the fluctuations).

You are talking of black holes, by the way, aren't you?
and then you get Password1990!!!!!!
They wanted the parents to be liable for the damage, claiming they have breached their obligatory supervision to the child.

The judge said that the parents are not obligated to surveillance their child 24/7 in the flat as it would hinder the development of the child.
It isn't all roses however, Los Angeles has had serious issues with their BYD fleet [1].

I have posted many times the best place to put EVs is in the nations school bus fleet. they have fixed routes, obvious and accessible places to charge at, would introduce new generations to EV travel, and insulate school systems from fuel prices. The negatives are higher cost of entry, poor cold weather performance, and sheer number of buses to replace.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-electric-buses-2018...
The coffee situation is actually the reverse for me. The coffee at work is the worst and I refuse to drink it heh. So I only have the one in the morning.

On the weekends I enjoy multiple cups but when I get an attack then I usually only would have had time for one since I mostly get them early after waking up.

Edit: I'm prolly a bad example on migraine triggers. I sleep too little, I use a lot of nicotine, I don't eat breakfast, I go out multiple times a week, I eat too little during the weekdays...
> preferably with a dashboard

Nope.

Daily / weekly / monthly plain text email or emailed spreadsheet is way better. The problem with dashboards is that when the underlying numbers change, they can change the figures for the past and there won't be a record of it. If it's in an email someone can bring up this discrepancy.

Also, lots of startups waste a lot of time building a dashboard not realizing that they're now building two apps. "We don't need login, we'll just IP whitelist it." Then a VC wants to see the numbers. Then he wants to forward it to his partners. Now if your dashboard goes down the CEO starts freaking out about how it makes the company look during their raise.

The rest of the advice is spot on though. Especially keeping the number of KPIs down.

This isn't to rule out pulling in other sets of numbers, but those should be done by a Data Analyst and they should be one-time analyses that can be re-run by the analyst later if needed.
In Boston on the T-lines they will just announce that the subway is expressing to skip the next two stations. Every one who wants to get off at the skip station needs to exit and catch the train behind.
Don't forget the tech cartel that suppressed wages by non-poaching agreements.

Several of the most prominent tech employers in the US illegally colluded for years to deprive employees of billions of dollars of wages.

It was an open and shut case, with chief executives going on record about this illegal collusion.

Result? Department of Labor investigates, finds them guilty... and they get a slap on the wrist for the tune of a few million dollars.

To repeat, this collusion is a crime by US law. It's a violation of Section One of the Sherman Act.

In the US, the legal balance of power has been tipped for decades in favor of employers: non-competes, mandatory arbitration agreements (which practically mean you can't sue your employer no matter how badly they mistreat you), etc. Both the laws themselves and their enforcement have steadily moved to favor and empower employers, while employees are deprived of any benefit of the legal system or their most basic rights (such as to change jobs).

Most of us live in a bubble because we are engineers and work in California, which is relatively labor-friendly. Just wait until you get into a serious disagreement with your employer, or seek employment outside of California, say in New York or Seattle, where both non-competes and forced arbitration are perfectly enforceable.
That point always being 30 years away.

To me, TARGET2 is a politically acceptable way for rich euro countries (Germany) to transfer money to the poor ones (Greece), in exchange for the poor ones accepting the fact that the rich countries deciding EU policies.
It might be possible, but is it a future you want to live in? How do you want to spend your time, effort and money, fighting it or preparing for it?
I am skeptical there will be an 'Event', something more like a gradual decline seems more likely (so, more British Empire than Roman). But if there were a complete collapse, I doubt your preparations could be really save you. Or in other words, it isn't the apocalypse if you can survive it.
> fined a record €2.4 billion ($2.7 billion) for using its search engine to steer internet users towards its own shopping platform

The EU is totally bonkers!!! And these fines are largely uncalled for. It's their site; why shouldn't a business up-sell to their customers? I know plenty of people who do it all the time. That's part of the point of being in business. If a user doesn't want to buy from Google, simply don't click the buy button.
> fewer people means less energy consumption

Is that how markets work?
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Generally in these cases spoofed cards + access to back end system. They just look like ordinary customers from the ATM perspective.
Does law enforcement actually look at Venmo as a source of evidence? I don't think I've ever put an actual reason for my transactions in the memo box. It's always something silly, and if you're actually buying drugs you're not going to say "this is for drugs" .
That one is IMO different. Manufacturers are running out of things to improve so they're adding premium gimmicks to their phones. If you're looking for a flagship level phone without useless features, you should consider the likes of OP6, Honor 10 and Xiaomi's Mi series.
> In fact, all the books I read said that you have to apply the techniques with total consistency and regularity, or the method doesn't work.

Note that's long been a line used when people are selling stuff they know doesn't work, because people don't do much of anything with total consistency and regularity, so when the inevitable failures occur, you've pre-biased the buyer of your woo to find an excuse to blame themselves, rather than the snake-oil you sold them.

Even if it's not knowing fraud, any parenting approach that doesn't accommodate and specifically address the reality that parents are fallible isn't going to work with real people very well, even if it might work for the mythical beasts it must be designed for.
The problem with inconsistencies and surprises in languages, is that these are often the basis of conundrums that are more expensive to detect, figure out, and fix by a factor of 10X or more. I say this with appreciation and without irony: It turns out that "Blub" is actually a good thing, so long as it's done right.

All languages are going to suck, somewhere. The trick is to actually optimize a language for the difficult, expensive parts of development. Many languages seemingly optimize for writing things from scratch slickly. They're "blog example optimized." Instead, languages should be optimized for debugging, reading code, and deployment.

The fact that Go is not afraid of boilerplate is often actually a good thing. I've had to debug C++ in the confluence of 2 templates, such that there was no source code to display in the debugger. I don't expect to have this problem in Go, ever.
How Internet of Things (IoT ) Is Redefining the Entertainment Sector
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From one example? Hardly.

What about Equifax?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_3

> Purporting to be an investigation into the UK's contemporary "brain drain", Alternative 3 uncovered a plan to make the Moon and Mars habitable in the event of climate change and a terminal environmental catastrophe on Earth.[1]

> The programme was originally meant to be broadcast on April Fools' Day, 1977.
Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine – Square Peg
So the solution is to run code that I have no idea if it will function properly on my host to see if it will work? But this is all supposed to be super easy, right? I was just supposed to be able to run certbot, and now I just need to run this random package that I hadn't heard of until 5 minutes ago.

It's almost like this isn't a super simple process for everyone.

> "Conditional support for OpenBSD's sandbox, Mac OS X, or experimentally on Linux."

What now? I get to experience experimental functionality?