skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s past 10 million miles and it’s driving more than 500k mi per month.
If the last version of the software was in August that it’s more than 2 million miles by now.
The miles per month figure will only increase.
Agreed, that's the way disclosure should work and it was very nice to go from reading the news of the vuln to reading the GKE security bulletin stating that all masters had already been upgraded.
Yeah have you ever tried plugging an exception with the function name into Bing or DDG? It doesn't work on those, it does work on Google.

I'm quite a privacy-conscious individual but I'm not going to significantly hamper my engineering abilities to prevent google from knowing what technical problems I'm having.
Seems pretty clearly tenable to me. It is, in fact, being tened. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Chat & Meet are for businesses, and Allo is ending. So the vast majority need to only keep up with 3.
It is unlikely that countries with oil and gas will leave it in the ground. However, quite a bit of the coal is in countries that are prosperous and which should be able to muster the political will to leave the coal in the ground. That would be a great improvement.
Hangout was good but it feels like Google whiteanted this product in the hope people would head to Allo/Duo. While in reality they just pushed people away completely.

I find it amazing how these decisions are made... it seems like most people here could see the train wreck coming from this at the beginning. Are the descion makers that bad? Did no-one have the guts to discuss how bad these things looked or were they arrogant enought to feel they can fly above market sentiment... I always find it interesting how bad decisions are made in such seemingly obvious circumstances.
Cool project, I can imagine how many people would find this immensely useful
I seem to have reinvented parts of that in python by total happenstance with my latest little project[0]. Have to check out the docs some more to see what ideas I can steal.

[0] https://github.com/eponymous/python3-property_tree
I think this might be dumb, but, what if negative mass was just positive mass in some alternative dimension? If mass could be negative with respect to our observable space time, does that actually mean it is a binary kind of thing, or could there be lots of mass in lots of others semi-or-non-interacting dimensions? Maybe even the mass we can observe is only part of anything’s actual substance...
When I was a grad student, my parking permit put me in the law school parking lot. Problem solved.
Boundary-layer aerodynamics. The head is literally flying on a cushion of air.
So what, I’m only expected to bring 40% of my abilities to my next job? That makes mathematical sense, but it’s impossible in practice. It would be like trying to use 40% of your arms.

If an honest engineer sees a problem which is exactly the same as one she solved at a previous company, and it is still the best solution, she will solve it in the same way. This has nothing to do with company secrets, it’s basic tradecraft. But it’s covered in many of these agreements. They’ve got to go, plain and simple.
Delusions of grandeur.
Callcentric can do sms now if you need that
I'd like that, and thanks :)

As I understand it from Burroughs, there are seven souls in the Egyptian theory. Three of them are eternal. Sort of like components of Ramana's Self: Ren (meaning, destiny), Sekem (energy, power) and Khu (guardian). Then there's Ba (emotion), Ka (the double) and Khaibit (memory). And Sekhu (remains). The only one left after ones death is Ka, which has the chance at eternity in the Western Lands.
Does anyone think that now is Microsoft's best chance to revive Skype as a household name synonymous with chat and video calls? I doubt anyone would want to use any chat app from Google anymore, Facebook is getting really bad PR which could affect WhatsApp as well soon enough. Signal and Telegram are good alternatives but lack marketing muscle. Slack and Discord are mainly used for group chat in professional and gaming circles.

Skype was almost a genericized trademark meaning video call, that seems to have been taken over by Facetime to some extent. If Microsoft would make it easy to chat with friends and businesses from the same app, and threw some fresh paint on it, they might take some of the market back.
FWIW, the UK Parliament already has unfettered power , so we're already well down that road.
Email Sent, very interested in speaking with you about this project.
Oh no! Used to be my favorite
You misspelled "rilkef": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18577758
Apparently so: https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/transportatio...

But, he may be saying he's vulnerable for long periods because the idle timer won't kick in for him.
This is basically the solution. Light travels about 1 foot in one nanosecond, so the car needs to reject latent replies.

I did research in this area a few years ago. Here's a research paper [1] from 1993 that goes into more detail about this type of "distance bounding" solution (i.e. authenticating received signal only if 1) it is received within a few nanoseconds AND 2) the decrypted received signal contains the previously sent random number) in order to defend against "relay attacks". The paper discloses many variations to this general solution as well.

[1] Brands and Chaum, "Distance-Bounding Protocols"

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-48285-7_30
Origins of D Programming Language (WIP) [pdf]
It's great but can be a pain if you develop on a mac and try to replicate your env on linux because the env files are not portable.

The CLI can be confusing at times too, I always have to google how to create a new env or export it.
Used to be that entire series of HDDs had data corruption problems, too.
I think a much better strategy would be to use the Japanese style buy partial ownership and then integrate each companies tech like how Toyota owns 16.5% of Subaru [0] and now Subaru is going to use Toyota's hybrid tech for their new crosstrek PHEV [1].

[0]: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=4627795&page=1

[1]: https://autoweek.com/article/hybrid-electric-vehicles/subaru...
[1] is a claim by some guy without any proof. In addition, the guy is clearly interested in selling his security services.

As for [2], [3]: I don't think there's any special law about people who use US dollars being under US jurisdiction.
> Do employees at facebook really feel the heat?

No, they are still rolling in money. If that ever changes, then FB are in trouble.

Until then, carry on everyone.
There’s a Googler in here who wrote a comment on this post: “I think it's good to see that Hangouts Chat/Meet will be open to consumers eventually.”

I just don’t know. I’m at a complete loss for words on how Google can screw this up so badly.

We actually use Hangouts every day for our business. I have been advocating a move to Slack.
I don't think they were insinuating that all Chinese are money launderers but it is a real issue that has an impact on the real estate market.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4149818/vancouver-cautionary-tale...
That's not actually true. The cited regulation permits cheddar cheese produced "by the procedure set forth in paragraph (a)(3) of this section, or by any other procedure which produces a finished cheese having the same physical and chemical properties." 21 C.F.R. § 133.113(a)(1) (emphasis added), available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/133.113.
First the UK and now Australia. Next New Zealand and then Canada. Then the USA will have its five-eyes partners outsourced and fully-equiped to do all its internal spying.
It's great that they've simplified their story. Totally makes sense now. Texting app and AV app for consumers, texting app and AV app for teams.

But this leaves a giant hole in their consumer texting product. Have they given up on making a private, cross-platform texting product for consumers? Messages seems like it must use an Android phone as the user's primary device – as SMS requires OS integration and presumably RCS does too.

And neither SMS or RCS are private. Carriers have full visibility to all messages. That's light-years less secure than the end-to-end encryption offered by iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal, and even less private than the former Hangouts. (Say what you will about Google, I'd trust them with my private messages far more than any pair of cellular carriers.)
Please hack my server and take my 1.0 eth
US can very well do both.
I wonder what goes on in the mind of politicians who support this kind of laws.

Do they not understand it? Did they get paid to pass it? Do they hate freedom? Do they actually think it's a good law? Would they like to have lived in the USSR so they can experience the peak non-freedom experience? Are they masochists?
Looks like you need a login to create a room, but not to join one.

Someone at some point in the past has created this one, for example:

https://appear.in/lolbutts

And you can join it as a guest.
Does anyone understand how this affects fastmail?

their blog post seems to say it isn't a big deal
https://fastmail.blog/2018/09/10/access-and-assistance-bill/
Hasn't passed the Senate yet.

There is an arm-wrestle over a nasty piece of refugee legislation that might see both acts not get voted on today. That means it won't be back in parliament until next year and the government is looking so shaky it might not be in power then so... who knows!
One of the most interesting properties of matter with negative mass is that if something collides with it it accelerates in the opposite direction of the incoming object.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_matter#Negative_mass
The paper uses the version where both gravitational and inertial mass is negative. This means that everything wants to accelerate towards positive mass and away from negative mass. So positive mass naturally forms clusters (galaxies) and negative mass naturally spreads out evenly but concentrates around the galaxies (forming the dark-matter halos).
Good point. I guess the prevalence of the genes in the existing population could explain it. If we took some Europeans and and left them to interbreed in South Africa for 2 millennium we'd probably find much less neanderthal DNA than in their now distant cousins in Europe.

Or more likely is that my simple mathematical thought model breaks down with real world genetics. Any geneticists in the house?
> Hangouts is... something special.

Would you, please, elaborate?
I use skype right now to chat with some friends and it actually works really well for me. Cross platform, video calls, captioning now available is really awesome.
The main reason I still use Google Meet is that appear.in has a full-fat P2P model where your video and audio must stream to every user and vice versa. Even with 4 people that can get pretty taxing on a poor connection.

Google does smarter muxing of video and audio streams and is better about throttling video quality to preserve bandwidth when required.
Facebook intentional engineered methods to access user's call history on Android
This is the brilliance of iMessage where it gets critical mass- fallback to SMS but pushing the iMessage identity tied to an account that follows you to new phones/devices.

I think that iMessage network effect is a big reason for the steady market share growth of iPhone in the US- none of the competitive apps have cross-generational appeal, just iMessage.
From any of these 6 Google apps, I should be able to message/voice as appropriate, to users on any of the other apps. Protocol over apps. It's the only way forward.
No.

> What price Apple to buy Tesla in 2019?

Also, what’s up with the very first sentence of the article? Is that even a sentence?
I saw her first at Joe Rogan's podcast[1].
Far beyond the athletic achievement, I was amazed by her humility, how modest was she was during the entire conversation!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8DfjXnIk6c
It's classic side-project marketing to increase brand visibility, etc
Really? You're genuinely arguing that every single edible substance and combination thereof ought to be recorded in written law?
Of course it is. The whole site is made by them[1]. Clever marketing move!

[1] YCDB is made in San Francisco by the team at Snappr, which is a YC company (W17). Why? Because we love YC companies and discovering new ones! Edited by Matt Schiller.
It's not even a tax on cars. It's a tax on fuel for cars. They could:
Drive less. Just go other places less.
Increase fuel efficiency, such as with a smaller vehicle.
Switch to a hybrid or electric car.

These are all choices that otherwise, they would not make, because it's cheap enough and easy enough to run a diesel car that alternatives aren't important. The point of a carbon tax is to change that equation, such that people start looking for alternatives.
What about the opportunity loss that results from taking a less relevant job with worse career prospects?
> You have a pile of saving and a severance package.

You might also have a family whose food, shelter, education and medical care still need to be paid for. And even if you're a single person in your twenties, you might want to use that pile of savings for your retirement (or to buy a home in the future) instead of impulsively blowing it on a wild trip.
Email providers already have the keys to all the data they store, so this bill does not affect them. They can already fulfill any lawful warrant that is requesting data.

The fear is that a service that is encrypted end-to-end will be forced to add a backdoor to accommodate warrants for data. But email is not encrypted E2E.
Meanwhile for highly redundant tape cartridges, you can store that amount for maybe $100-200, but the device to read it back is about 10x more expensive used unless I am just struggling the find the real deals :/
skype feels too slow for casual messaging. WhatsApp is the best solution right now - both messaging and video/calls.
That's it? I was expecting something more at the end.
Also, a complete lack of understanding of the problem and/or wilful ignoring of the effects of the proposed solution.
> that repulsive force will, by definition, move the negative mass further toward you.

only if the repulsive force is negative gravity.

If a positive-mass electron attracts a negative-mass electron, the repulsive electromagnetic force will still keep them from making it all the way there.
I've always thought this would be an interesting experiment. Assume that spacetime does live in a higher dimensional space, and try to arrange masses so that spacetime is forced to intersect itself. See if anything interesting happens.

Of course this probably requires some stellar engineering.
color me shocked
You can still be held responsible. The law requires you to check on who the final customer is and to take some actions on any suspicious transaction. Someone will come knocking on your door and you will need to show documentation to support your assertion that you "couldn't have known". If a product is subject to a trade embargo you can't just "sell it to a middleman" and turn a blind eye.
This is cool. I think it will be helpful to have more sports that don’t have gender or sex separated categories and finding activities where there aren’t biological advantages is important.
Uh I mean, maybe not officially but there's a whole lot of precedent that if you engage in trade using USD that you're under US jurisdiction.
I had a 2011 3-series that required the fob to go into the slot to power or start the car.
Tangential, but the article badly malfunctions in Chrome with JavaScript disabled. It seems to redirect to https://www.gizmodo.com.au/?nojs=1, which then starts to reload the page over-and-over at about half-second intervals on my machine.

Anyone know what's going on with the article?
Me too, did people tell you that its better now and its just they way it was?
The old four main branches of engineering (mechanical, electric, chemical, and civil)
It's hypothetical, but less so than a lot of the things theoretical physicists consider.

Any quantum theory which reduces to general relativity in the classical limit will look like a theory of gravitons when quantum effects are small. This is just how the math works out in effective quantum field theories involving massless spin-2 particles.
Exactly. His argument would make sense if there were ONLY supply side differences but there are clearly HUGE demand side differences with Chrome making up a large majority of internet traffic.
In python being cool is more important than AsYMpTOtic aNAlysIS
The Wedding Sting
It should probably be more than 100%. You don’t just miss out on salary. You miss out on raises and promotions, which might put you behind. You miss out on opportunities that may be gone with the NC period is over. Depending on the work, keeping your skills honed might be impossible from home.

The problem is that 60% is not about making you whole. It’s about discouraging NCs in general.
Is this even technically possible? What happens to all the businesses in Australia that built products around crypto where it’s impossible to go backwards.
Updating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_Australia ...
It's called industry standards, and it's common practice and already in place in written legislation.

Written laws give Government bodies power to maintain and enforce theses standards, independent of legislation that needs to be passed through long slow processes involving many politicians who have no knowledge of the relevant field.
I suspect the problem with hangouts is that it's free. The new gsuite meeting, or whatever it's called, looks a lot like an upgraded version of hangouts, but you have to pay for it. (Pay for gsuite)
Yes, I realised that but I couldn't edit the post anymore :) I mean the action, not the Lagrangian, must have a minimum.
"CVs should be tailored to the position."

Makes sense, but then what's a good way to handle one's linkedin profile? it's the same profile no matter who looks at it. I'm assuming HR people and others will look at my linkedin page after seeing my resume.
Migraines and Eyestrain from Smartphone?
Hi,

I'm looking for a new Android device (currently using an old Samsung Galaxy S5) and I've found that almost all devices (Pixel 3, Pixel 2, Samsung Galaxy S9, LG G7) cause me severe eyestrain, dizziness and migraine. I can't find a modern device that's usable for me.

I suspect that some kind of flickering, like temporal dithering, is the root cause. Does anyone know if Android phones are using temporal dithering or some other kind of flicker?

I'm aware of PWM flicker in OLED displays, but that seems to not be my problem, since Galaxy S5 is OLED, and it works great for me. I've been to several doctors (MDs), optometrists, opthamologists and neurologists -- and they've all declared me healthy. Clearly something is different about these newer devices that are causing this issue, since when I return to my Galaxy S5, my symptoms will go away. Certainly, there's something different about me, but modern medicine has no answers. So I am desperately turning to the smart folks of HN.

There's a whole community of people like me at ledstrain.org. The only "test" I've seen for temporal dithering is to connect to an e-ink display, as shown in this video's "moving dots": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y-I3hqQgCQ

Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? I am willing to fund research into this.
No. I didn't argue that. Happy to keep talking if you want to respond to what I actually did say.
173 Amendments = One wish for every politician granted to buy the bill?
It would presumably be composed of units which could well join together into larger structures. But these would have to be small scale (the size of atoms or molecules) because gravity causes negative masses to move away from each other. So it wouldn't clump together into planets and galaxies.
You have very restricted definition of market. Market != Stock Market. Slap of market does not mean you go down, it means the profits goes to your compititors. Rise of China is textbook example here. China made the bank, while everyone who did not have compititive labor regulations got slapped for it. Globalisation basically means States getting slapped for not being competitive.

There are whole categories of companies/products (OVH/ProtonMail/etc) due to NSA. So yes USA got slapped for it too just not as visible as Rise-of-China.
China has been doing this for a long time already to Australian business people.

Several Australian Mining and Casino executives and employees have been imprisoned for considerable time by China's opaque justice system.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-04/stern-hu-explainer-wh...

https://www.smh.com.au/business/crown-says-detained-staff-in...
Interesting. I think the lowered floor in a conversion still removes that space as there isn't a 2nd row of seats in a converted van.
How does it come to a stop, the vehicle gains too much mass?
> I’m curious what voltage the pack runs at and how long it would take to charge

It's surely not a new battery chemistry. Lithium cells have a voltage in the 3-3.5V range. If you want more, you put them in series. And fed with an appropriately regulated supply, all common cell types will charge to full capacity from empty in 4 hours or so, reaching 50% sometime inside of 1 hour (that is, most of the time spent is in "topping off" the thing, broadly you can get energy into a battery at least as fast as you can get it out). It's literally no different than your phone battery.
I don't have anything backing this up, buty personal experience is that NIMBY is partly because of the lack of proper building code. People are TERRIFIED of neighbor noise, most of which could be dealt with with better insulation.
Posted here a while back:

https://github.com/illacceptanything/illacceptanything
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-bullet-cluster-...
Industry standards don't have the force of law unless they are given the force of law.

> Written laws give Government bodies power to maintain and enforce theses standards, independent of legislation that needs to be passed through long slow processes involving many politicians who have no knowledge of the relevant field.

"Written laws ... independent of legislation" doesn't make sense. What are you trying to say here?
Hangouts Chat is such a botched launch. It is backwards compatible with single user chat and not group chats. It effectively ensures that people cannot completely migrate to it. The overhead of keeping 2 apps and getting the same notification twice was too much - ended up going back to classic Hangouts.
They often do not understand it, and more importantly they usually get nice dinner invitations (etc) from lobbyists with vested corporate interests.
Some email providers like Protonmail provide E2E emails. :)
My apologies, perhaps you need to elaborate on what you meant when you wrote:

> Seems pretty clearly tenable to me. It is, in fact, being tened. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

in response to:

> Attempting to maintain in written law explicit definitions of every food that humans can fathom, and how they are presently produced, is clearly untenable.