skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a road (Norway, Drammen-Svelvik) that I travel once or twice a week in my 2015 Tesla S 70D that often has a car parked on a particular corner. The car is directly ahead of my car and side on; my car reliably interprets this stationary car as being on the road and that we are on a collision course and applies the brakes even though the road actually bends to the left and the stationary car is not in the way. If I didn't know the road I might well have reacted in the same way. I'm not sure that improving the sensors would necessarily change things, the software that interprets the sensor output must be improved too.
> Judge people by the content of their character and their ability to do the job.

Given that resumes with black-sounding names get fewer callbacks than the identical resume with a different name (http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873), it's pretty clear we're not very good at doing that.
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The incumbents in the insurance/banking industry will have to invest heavily in security and in some cases overhaul entire systems. Personally I think its more cost effective long-term than hiring a bunch of lobby groups and lawyers to find loopholes.

I mean the Equifax security was laughable and no one got in trouble. I wouldn't be surprised if this case takes a complete 180 from common sense.
No, Digital Ocean's Kubernetes product will be similar to the existing Google Kubernetes Engine... this is much more high-level.
Dude the premise of this article was so stupid it almost gave me cancer.
There are many internet only speaker manufacturers that do a great job(Salk Sound) as well as diy. With many large manufactures you're paying for a pretty finish and name brand.
https://www.audioholics.com/how-to-shop/internet-direct-comp...
There's the LA Times article about BYD already linked. The other big agency that's pulling back on Chinese EBs is the Foothill Transit Agency, where I have friends who are part of the team evaluating the EB trial.

There are a few smaller transit agencies that cancelled their plans to acquire BYDs after the LA Metro's failed experiment. If they're not mentioned in the article you'll have to deep dive into the Metro archives to find the reference.
Exactly. As described, it sounds a bit like magic. Of course, it's not. Thus, one wonders about what happens in the lower layers of the stack, namely who gets to run them (GKE or the HW owners):

* DNS (not the Kubernetes in-cluster one like kube-dns)

* DHCP

* LDAP or equivalent

* SSH and its keys

* on-prem security of the cloud identities (does it require TPM? SGX?)

* bootloaders

* base OS image

* drivers for attached storage, GPUs, etc.

* firewall rules

* routing
> Buses have to stop/start on the whims of the driver, so is Google going to make a self-driving bus but still have a driver there to make it start/stop?

Buses have to start/stop based on passengers desiring to exit, passengers waiting, and passengers completing loading. Drivers detect and react to those conditions, but it's not about whim.
There are three solutions:

Build more housing to increase supply.

Build less commercial real estate to curb demand.

Build transit infrastructure so people can commute from somewhere else.
Thermaltake makes what I lovingly call a hard drive toaster. It’s a SATA to USB disk caddy that’s vertical so gravity holds the drive in. I use all my older .75-2TB drives and Time Machine, which you can set up to alternate backups to multiple drives. I should rotate them out to a deposit box but most of my best stuff is out on the internet anyway.
Of course they can, but when I see an act of ingenious evil, my first response is not circumscribed admiration.
Get Aaron Peskin voted out in 2020, and half of this city's problems will go away.

https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/3...

If you live or work in that district, you should actively support whoever his opponent is.
The board of supervisors doesn't have a cafeteria and yet they have no problem ignoring it
Onsite NAS
Google Drive
Everyone has limits. However, people vastly overestimate the impact of intelligence and underestimate knowledge, experience, interest, and work ethic. If you like programming and expose yourself to a sufficient variety of problems and architectures, over time you'll slowly run out of situations where you're running into truly novel problems. At that point your intelligence will matter very little, high or low.
Oh, a fake Zeus scam. That makes more sense then.

> That scam is mostly used through ad network vector not MITM.

Just one more reason why I'm not going to use ads to fund any web-projects I do.

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I agree that HTTPS raises the bar and makes it more difficult for certain scams. Indeed, I'd go as far as to say that any webpage with user-inputtable data (ie: username, passwords, etc. etc.) is required to be HTTPS. The risks are too great and that's the minimum security users expect these days.

But I'm still of the opinion that Web 1.0 style static-sites can be served with HTTP just fine. If there's no usernames, no interativity, and PURELY hosting static content in a community that's relatively lax (again: Minecraft and Eve Online fail. I'd use HTTPS even for a static site if I were doing Minecraft or Eve Online stuff), then I'd think HTTP is just fine.
In my state (Kerala, India), the government run bus company is currently trialing Chinese electric buses. I think some of the metro trains are also Chinese made.

https://www.rushlane.com/kerala-state-transport-electric-bus...
Reading stories like this is really disheartening. This shows how much trust you need to put into the company you're working with to get such a store running. It seems it took a really long time til he got the actual sales figures and could know that they ripped him off.

As much as one might despise big players like patreon, PayPal etc. For being huge players and probably also big in collecting user data they just don't pull shit like this. They might suddenly change policies and conditions which sucks in its own way but they're simply not just keeping your money without telling you.
In my experience one of the hardest parts of dealing with APIs is sticking within their rate limits.

I would expect concurrent API requests made via GraphQL to make this worse - since it's very easy to accidentally construct a GraphQL query which results in a flurry of API requests under the hood.

How are you handling this? Are you doing your own internal rate-limiting, or are modern APIs more generous with their limits than they used to be?
It still seems like Apple’s quality control has gone way done over the last few years.

I doubt it. They've had problems for years... bulging batteries, bad solder, bendy iPhones, etc.

But, is the quality really going down, or is Apple just an easy target? I tend to think it's more of the later. I've had Lenovos and Dells for work and they've not been perfect.
> How hard is it to carry a metal straw with you? You hear news about the ban, and you put a couple plastic ones in your bag until the metal one from amazon arrives.

Metal straws are dangerous due to for many disabled people due to the risk of injuring themselves by biting down involuntarily because of the same disabilities which necessitate their use of straws in the first place. For many others, the inflexibility of metal straws mean that they do not actually enable them to drink independently.

> Why are people so helpless? Jesus christ, it takes half a second to figure out this solution for yourself.

It is indeed very easy to think of this approach. For people with disabilities which make metal straws unusable or dangerous, it probably doesn't take very long to think of why it isn't a solution for them.

(As a minor aside, as a person lacking any such disability: metal straws can be quite a painful experience with hot beverages. Although I'm given to understand that it's traditional in Argentina with mate, and my Argentine in-laws seemed much more comfortable doing so at a higher temperature than I was, so I guess it is probably possible to get used to that.)
Can someone also give us a 20 sentences explanation on how it works, or an example installation? "It does magic" still leaves me wondering if this is worth investigating.
Sure, I would agree if by "quota" you mean quota in hires. I agree that the hiring decision should be based on some "ideal of meritocracy" (with the caveat you should be careful about bias). However, putting a quota like "there should be at least one woman among the interviewees" seems perfectly reasonable and has proven to improve both performance and diversity (a great example is the last UN secretary's policy). Basically, if you ensure that you are not excluding people at the interview stage (which regrettably is very much the status quo), you do get both great hires and (accidentally) diversity.
aww, poor magnets
Synology or QNAP NAS. They collect backups from all computer in the house, encrypt them and ship the encrypted blobs to AWS Glacier.

Synology in particular is a fantastic platform which does way more than a traditional NAS. It's quite polished personal cloud platform (way more so than FreeNAS) and includes hundreds of apps, even the backups into the cloud can be done in different ways.

I also place a premium on the fact that Synology is a piece of hardware. The software comes built-in and taken for granted. What this means is that it's been sitting somewhere in the dark corner of my house since 2012, self-updating and not bothering me with upgrades or expired credit card / subscription, etc. It doesn't care if I run Linux/MacOS/Windows, it's just dumb storage that all of these OSes can backup to using built-in tools.

Another tool I like is Resilio Sync [1], it's a cloudless Dropbox and it's perfect to sync /Documents and /Desktop across computers at home and at work. It's not a backup tool, but very much related, i.e. if I put a file on my desktop at work I know it will end up on Synology at home and eventually will get encrypted and backed up to Glacier, and yes, without any 3rd party servers involved.

[1] https://www.resilio.com/individuals/
At the risk of nit-picking the humor out of your comment, I'd say the city's politicians already do run that gauntlet. City Hall is adjacent to the open-air drug market known as the Tenderloin, and many members of the city's transient population frequent the park in front of City Hall. Also, the closest BART stop (Civic Center station) is arguably the stop in SF with the most persistent hygiene issues.
I have a 4TB Hard Drive attached to an OpenWRT router (Rasberry Pi's are also a popular choice). The router exposes a locked down SSH port (SFTP only) through a cheap $5 a month VPS.

I also use Jottacloud [1] who provide unlimited (yes unlimited) storage for 7.5 EUR a month. Based in Norway, they keep an up to date warrant canary.

Client side, I backup to both of these services using Duplicati [2] which offers client side encryption, block level deduplication and excellent integration with Jottacloud and SFTP. For synchronisation, I use Syncthing [3] since I don't want to expose plaintext documents to Jottacloud. All in all, I'm very pleased and it has required no maintainence since I set it up a year ago.

[1] https://www.jottacloud.com/en/

[2] https://www.duplicati.com/

[3] https://syncthing.net/
That was an nvidia problem. All their laptop chips were affected that were in one family. Dell replaced my motherboard four times over it.

If MacBooks are famous for it, so are all laptops with an nvidia gpu.
I'm not in a startup, but I always try to budget ($/time) for 20% overhead to undo stuff technical debt. When/where that isn't possible, it just gets harder and harder to fix.

These issues are "perfect is the enemy of the good" scenarios. If you don't have "technical debt" or something you don't like or got 80% right, that is a far bigger problem. How to manage really depends on your scenario.
Yeah, you are right. My bad.
maybe circulating exo-skeleton ? with cooling gloves and soles
Banning home ownership so that landlords benefit is not interesting, it's extremely regressive and morally wrong.
Are the hard drives stored in the same location?
Speaking of technical debt, you might want to remember the following 'handy rule' from the book Team Geek[1], chapter "Offensive" Versus "Defensive" Work:

[...] After this bad experience, Ben began to categorize all work as either “offensive” or “defensive.” Offensive work is typically effort toward new user-visible features—shiny things that are easy to show outsiders and get them excited about, or things that noticeably advance the sexiness of a product (e.g., improved UI, speed, or interoperability). Defensive work is effort aimed at the long-term health of a product (e.g., code refactoring, feature rewrites, schema changes, data migra- tion, or improved emergency monitoring). Defensive activities make the product more maintainable, stable, and reliable. And yet, despite the fact that they’re absolutely critical, you get no political credit for doing them. If you spend all your time on them, people perceive your product as holding still. And to make wordplay on an old maxim: “Perception is nine-tenths of the law.”

We now have a handy rule we live by: a team should never spend more than one-third to one-half of its time and energy on defensive work, no matter how much technical debt there is. Any more time spent is a recipe for political suicide.

- - -

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16810092 ("A Taxonomy of Technical Debt")
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They shouldn't. Now, you should make sure that your employees and hiring managers aren't making hires based on race. And that goes for favoring _any_ racial group.
The dampers were closed, so the air pulling inside was accelerated through the cracks. That agitated the soot and made it even worse than if the dampers were open.
I bet if this happened in major US or Chinese beaches they’d actually enact policies to curb this dumping.
Other reason for thermal slowdown: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16689070
There’s an irony in you critiquing someone about being under educated about the justice system, only to turn around and give a naive and starry eyed account of some idealized American justice system. You don’t have to be convicted of a crime to have your life ruined or seriously impaired by the criminal justice system, and prosecutors will routinely charge people with more crimes than they know they can prove in order to pressure plea deals.
Problems are international calls are already in a technically deficient state. e.g. caller IDs are not sent properly and a generic dummy is sent. Telco 1 uses Telco 2 to connect to Telco 3 which finally terminates on Telco 4's network and rings the phone.

There are literally treaties that govern phone traffic that would have to be updated. Most telcos are a monopoly or oligopoly and don't care about customer dissatisfaction. It's not like there's a substitute to the PSTN ready to go. Are you going to tell all of your contacts you are only reachable through Skype/Hangouts/Facetime? Cutting off a spammy foreign telco would also hurt revenue.

Frankly, the definition of telecom fraud should include corporations ripping off their customers not just petty criminals getting free calls.
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Kosovo war. Iraq war. Libya war. Regime change in Ukraine. Syria war. Economic sanctions killing hundreds of thousands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/12/07/hague-trib...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_scokGJga8c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsG32fkm6sE

https://youtu.be/MlNn1v4_Uf0?t=1600

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLkL4Fj3jFw

https://www.globalresearch.ca/obamas-bombing-legacy/5569349

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSIDgAAU4Ww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS2MMTMsdvM&t=21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fV-C1Ag5sI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UHYAfAFG_k&t=6
Why? I'd have thought CI is a place where per-second billing would be an advantage? A CI job is likely to take somewhere between 1 and 15 minutes, per second billing could be a significant saving for many users.
Honest question, what if you told them to just go away or simply ignored it? Are they going to come to your jurisdiction to file a lawsuit?
DNS isn't secure, all they have to do is capture and answer all queries on unauthenticated IPs. No route to the internet needed.
You mention Hyper. Are you running PowerShell connected to Hyper or Console?

If you're running Hyper, note that this alone takes 6s to (warm) start Cmd on my 16GB RAM Core-i7 Surface Pro 4.

PowerShell takes ~1.2s to (warm) start connected to Console, while also starting a half dozen modules and scripts in my PowerShell user profile.

PowerShell takes < .7s to start when run with `-NoProfile`
I guess to me "Teach them how to be a person" includes letting them make their own mistakes and giving them the space to develop the ability to make responsible decisions.
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Persistent memory might enable those sorts of uptimes, but it doesn't inherently mandate it.
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Rent control has bifurcated housing costs. Those who have lived in the same spot for 15+ years and/or who own their property have housing costs much lower than people who have moved this decade. A new lease on a 1 bedroom probably costs $3500 now, but could be <$1000 if you've been here for a while.

"Progressive" SF politicians like Aaron Peskin pander to low-income renters and kowtow to NIMBY homeowners who don't want new housing built, while vilifying newcomers. "These evil techies are gentrifying your neighborhood - elect me to stop them."

(Of course, the cost of living isn't just housing, but it's also the biggest factor in your assumption that "nobody but software engineers can survive.")
We have several days of keynotes at GCP Next and way more to share throughout the week. But for the curious, there's a serverless spotlight session at 1:55 today that will cover this, as well as a Knative-specific talk at 4:35.

We decided to announce this first thing with the blog posts just to get the word out as soon as possible and give our amazing partners (Pivotal, SAP, RedHat, IBM, and more) a chance to share their news as well.

And frankly, it's just more fun to run an open source project out in the open, so we were pretty keen to flip the git repo bits to public as early as we could. : )
I switched to ARQ (https://www.arqbackup.com/) a while back after a near miss with a hard drive failure, and think its an amazing product - the key elements to me are that:

1. It is storage location agnostic (backup to a usb, external HD, network HD, dropbox, amazon, etc)

2. your backup data is encrypted locally before being backed up to any medium

What's great is that i can back up one set of data to an external hard dive manually as needed, another set of data to say dropbox on a nightly basis, and another set to a B2 bucket on a monthly basis (all of which are encrypted so i retain my privacy/data security).

Edit: i suppose that it is a "third party service" but i think it reliably solves for the lock-in and privacy problems you reference
I can't see how you made the jump from "character and ability" to "resume"–one's name is not one's character nor one's ability.

In fact the submission by the founder of interviewing.io seems to imply that more technical evaluations (focus on ability) lead to more diversity:

> At interviewing.io, we rely entirely on performance in anonymous technical interviews - not resumes - to surface top-performing candidates, and 40% of hires are people from non-traditional backgrounds and underrepresented groups
The alternative is this issue came up, and they had a trade off to make with heat + noise vs cooler + quieter, and out of the gate they bet on cooler and quieter; with the backlash, they’re realizing it was the wrong bet, and fixing a “bug.” I have to imagine that basic stress testing would have caught this somewhere.
"Crypto" as a shorthand for "cryptocurrency" continues to be an irritating and confusing trend.
I had one of those problem units, too. After a lot of back and forth, Apple swapped the main board. I had no subsequent problems. Yay, Applecare.
I understand how great this is, but does anyone else get a little upset when GCP, AWS, and Azure are able to buy their way into a market and are pretty much guaranteed to hurt the small players in the infra tooling market?
I think that's the craziest thing, every time we get smaller, we find more stuff. "Atom" means "indivisible". It was supposed to be the smallest unit of matter.

Then we found things smaller. Sub-atomic particles. Literally makes no sense because it literally means smaller than the smallest thing.

The universe is apparently fractal af.
Good catch, I missed the system disk for MacWorks (missed the aspect ratio, too). Definitely booted into emulation mode, then.
I did mention that it makes it harder for an attacker to keep a foothold in your infrastructure, but I think I wasn't as clear as I wanted to be.

But yeah, it's bad that an attacker has been able to get to a critical system, but it's a phenomenal defense if any of their beacons or remote access tools last at most a few hours or days before being wiped. This makes an attacker's life much harder.
I haven't seen any of that research. Overall crime levels are correlated mostly with demographics. A good case has also been made that the prevalence of lead in childhood environments is a leading indicator of crime, but that is also a mostly demographic observation.

Incidentally, if you're looking at violent crime at the state level to convince yourself that overpolicing is not a problem, you're missing out on the fact that St. Louis has the highest murder rate in the nation, and #13 in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
The NSA's typical practices aren't generally thought to include encouraging domestic criminal groups to steal sizable quantities of money from foreign banks. Or sitting idly by as it happens on a regular basis.

We expect the NSA to be compromising foreign systems. We don't expect them to be doing this with them.
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The issue with "simple" backups is that, should your house/office burn down, you lose everything, including the backups. Any alternative (like bringing the usb sticks to a safety box etc) is much more cumbersome than standard cloud-based solutions.

I have a SpiderOak subscription for 2TB that is private enough for my needs, and that's where I backup pretty much any machine i have. I also keep a low-power Linux server at home (a cubox) with two 1TB disks in raid-1, that acts as a Time Machine for the occasional quick restore. Most of my code lives in Gitlab or Bitbucket, and some business stuff in OneDrive. Family pics and videos, that are massive, get pushed every few months to Amazon Glacier.
This makes much more sense indeed. If I'd try to hire 25% minority groups into my company from a pipeline that currently tops out at 5% applications, it wouldn't do any good for my company. I'd LOVE to hire more women for the team, but it's rare they apply.
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Sure, yup, oversimplifying to make the point. They are also transparently redirecting DNS to their own server.

My point is you can't "tunnel" out. Not for DNS, VPN or whatever. It's all blocked. The only services they let you access are their own to get you to authenticate. Even if you walked in with a complete hosts file (so didn't need to query any DNS server), you'd still not be allowed to connect, at firewall level until you authenticated.
> it should contain at least 10 minutes of reading per grade level

Dear god, by the time a kid is in grade 5 or 6 they've lost an hour a night to reading alone. In my experience homework was rarely of use - the in class practice was enough, and home time was for the fun you didn't have while in school.