skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a self-employed software developer, the CHEAPEST healthcare plan for my family is $1030/month ($10k deductible).

You are referring to a benefit you get from your salaried position. Nice but many developers do not have this luxury.
I once had to be towed because the key stopped working. This was a Smart Roadster (still the greatest car I ever had, nonewithstanding). A battery change didn’t work and the mechanics sent me 100km to get the spare key.

So there are definitely circumstances where the phi’s always artifact alone just isn’t enough to start the car, only to get in.
Urban combat is terrifying. In an open field a tank is pretty hard to counter since they can see further and shoot better than a person. It's very hard to hide, especially from IR.

In a city there is almost an uncountable number of places for someone to hide and launch an ambush. They can get extremely close to a target without being detected, which opens up a lot of options for anti-tank warfare. They can also block paths extremely easily (with say a dried up cement truck) and neutralize combat vehicles. They also have a good idea of where you will be when planting IEDs, unlike in a wide open field.
It's not internal corporate lingo, it's how business that produce products plan the lifecycle of their products, and while it's commonly used in software, it's a very standard term across verticals.
Using human shield is a war crime [1]. But they appealed(?) regardless?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_shields_(law)
Saw this in Alaska when I lived there.
Startup Uncovers the World's Hidden Geniuses to Solve Global Problems
Thats not how it works. You cant put prices unilaterally in a market: a single company offering more would capture all talent.
A lot of people replying to your skepticism with skepticism. Here's some numbers.

If you live in the city:

- Cost of Ubering to/from work could be about $3.50 per trip, or about $1,750 per year.

- TCO of car ownership (based on this tool[1]) is $878 per month, and with $125/month for parking (a lowball), you get $12,036 per year.

If you live in the suburbs:

- Uber estimate one way from Phoenixville to downtown Philadelphia is $43.41 with Uber Pool. That's $21,705 per year.

So if you live in the city, owning a car would cost you 6.87x more money. But if you live in the suburbs, Uber would cost you nearly double that.

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/total-cost-owning-car/

(Keep in mind if you already paid off your car, your yearly TCO is still $4,260 per year, or 2.43x more than using Uber if living in the city)
If you're about to remove the riving knife, or making a cut that may twist the wood you should immediately ask yourself if there's a more appropriate tool to use or way to make the cut. If you continue anyways I'd see that as negligence as opposed to a mistake. (To expand on twisting the wood, the longest side of the piece should always be held against something while cutting. So on a rip cut it should be held against the fence. And on a cross or angled cut it should be held against either a crosscutting sled or miter gauge)

Not saying mistakes don't happen. I'm sure there are instances of people doing everything right and still getting injured. But as I explained I don't think it happens often enough and the injuries aren't serious enough to make the risk so unacceptable that we need to add $500 to the price of every new tablesaw.
Concrete example: Docker for Linux, Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows all implement both networking and mounted volumes in slightly different ways.

This has recently eaten up a nonzero amount of my time in maintaining our integration and acceptance test suites.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this, other than to observe that real-ish isn't necessarily a substitute for real. I suppose the "developer empathy" story is that maybe the more empathetic approach in the long run would have been to have developers work on the target platform rather than letting them pick whatever one they used to use at their old gig.
I still think it would've been an issue to do that for kids as well.

They should've just targeted 18+
Flapping bird robot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBWAcNJf5pM
Not quite. In my view, Prof. C's work is more fundamental in nature; he doesn't prescribe anything particular. But describes what works, based on his observations, and lets us judge for ourselves.

Among other things, he goes in detail (with studies backing up his points) on what provides "optimal experience" to humans. And covers topics like "order in consciousness", "sense of self", "entropy", "freedom", "purpose", and so on.

A couple of random quotes from my notes:

(1) "The inevitable consequence of equally attractive choices is uncertainty of purpose; uncertainty, in turn, saps resolution, and lack of resolve ends up devaluing choice. Therefore fredom does not necessarily help develop meaning in life—on the contrary."

(2) "There is one very important and at first apparently paradoxical relationship between losing the sense of self in a flow experience, and having it emerge stronger afterward. It almost seems that occasionally giving up self-consciousness is necessary for building a strong self-concept. Why this should be so is fairly clear. In flow a person is challenged to do her best, and must constantly improve her skills. At the time, she doesn’t have the opportunity to reflect on what this means in terms of the self—if she did allow herself to become self-conscious, the experience could not have been very deep. But afterward, when the activity is over and self-consciousness has a chance to resume, the self that the person reflects upon is not the same self that existed before the flow experience: it is now enriched by new skills and fresh achievements."
> 3) Tangential but semi-related

So wait... some people think a missile hit the Pentagon instead of an airplane on 9/11? What happened to American Airlines Flight 77, then?
I like to think that a strong military creates security which allows innovation to increase. The US is able to produce and innovate at such a high level because we're kept stable by a strong military.

Battles like this ideally help us learn more efficient and effective tactics and strategies that can be used in future conflicts.

It's a necessary evil but I sincerely believe we're all better off because of these investments. Maybe someday we'll have world peace but for now, we're a violent species.
Thank goodness the liberal democracies of the world have the dominant militaries.
How do you do that cut repeatedly? You have to move the fence each time?

(very amateur woodworker who makes repeated cuts like that with the bulk of the wood on the other side of the blade so he doesn't have to move the fence each time)
It does seem high but even doing tax returns is annoying enough so I've no desire to get involved with EU VAT and tax issues selling to other countries. This way I can set up payment and it runs itself which is worth the cost and Firebase means I don't have to think about DevOps too. Gumroad is another payment option to consider.
I'd bet it's just a function of what people are willing to do the job for. $93k gives you a very comfortable lifestyle, and tech workers tend to be much more motivated by the work itself than their peers. Those who really care about getting rich will go to SV and do a startup. So there's not as much pressure for increase.
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> What is lacking is a solid plan of what to do instead.

One of the issues is that surveillance capitalism is a collective action problem. If companies have more data about people like you then they can capture more of the consumer surplus when they sell you things. But they don't need data about you specifically for that, only aggregate data about people like you. So if you don't sell your privacy but someone else does, you don't get the free services but you still pay the higher prices. So everybody sells out.

Europe tried to address this with the GDPR, but the amount of friction that creates is problematic. What might work better is that instead of regulating collection, regulate third party distribution. Put Equifax out of business because they can't have a giant data breach if no one can give them any data. And if there are no more credit scores and it's harder for people to get a loan, housing prices would come down to what people could afford without having to pay interest on half a million dollars to the bank for thirty years. Probably a good thing.

Combine that with a big honking tax on advertising revenue to reduce the profits from collecting the data for that purpose and you reduce the incentive to collect data on everyone, without affecting smaller companies that don't sell advertising or user data to anyone.

But that would be a huge political feat. You'd be going after multiple hundred billion plus dollar companies in addition to the banks.

The other alternative would be for enough individuals to recognize the collective action problem and selflessly help their neighbors by not patronizing these companies, but that's not a trivial feat either.
That's simply because these remote controls are transmit-only, fire-and-forget devices which spew out a pseudo-random code to the receiver without being able to listen to any response. This is also why you should not click the button on the remote too often (as in 'more than 255 times') when not in range of the car as that gets the transmitter (key) and receiver (car) pseudo-random generators out of sync - the receiver accepts a sliding window of 256 random codes as valid. There might be different implementations of this feature using key fobs but this describes the majority of them.
Ask HN: Why build compilers in Rust instead of C?
I'm not sure the distinction between entertainment and news is clearly discernable for those audiences and seems to just use comedy as a platform for a predefined political agenda, more like Bill Mahr than Jon Stewart.
Open Source Is Free as in Baby
You could just link your account to a retailer and then after the shutdown of UltraViolet you will still have access.
Is your position that lying to federal investigators is okay and should not be punished?
>I am all for SawStop and their invention.

>requiring this to be part of any table saw sold in the US, without paying SawStop any patent fees

I don't think you are for SawStop or their invention. Sorry, you don't get to cheat someone out of their work just because it's a good idea. It's pretty much the exact opposite of that.
Domesticated isn’t the same thing as non-violent or even ‘tame’ as the term is usually used. It doesn’t even mean civilised. Rottweilers are domesticated. A small pet dog ate half the face off its owner, while she was alive, in France when she collapsed at home and it got hungry, yet it was a normal domestic pet dog.

I would agree that communal group living as seen in many primates is a precursor to the sort of domestication we’re talking about here. It’s a first step on a long road.

Yes Genghis Khan was violent and brutal, but he was also an inspiring leader that built alliances and administered a vast empire. He ate his meals using utensils, at regular times of the day, was able to be cordial and open minded about strangers.

He was first and foremost extremely disciplined and self-controlled. He was able to be taught and trained as a child, learn rules and commands and was able to control his immediate biological needs and desires especially when under external discipline.

Even that isn’t the whole story though. Cows and pigs are domesticated and display all the adaptive characteristics that come with it.
Nevada officials had no clue the federal government shipped plutonium to NV
of course! if i can help in any other way, let me know.
Backblaze insists that your data is encrypted and that they can't see it. It's supposedly not like Box/Dropbox/Google Drive.

Do you have any examples where someone's Backblaze account was terminated for backing up pirated media?
Yes and no. Some things take longer and require more practice and skill. I just need to decide if it's worth the time and effort or not. Believe me, if there were an easy way to overcome my fears, then I wood.
Taking the sources of the article on their word...

They said the tools use faded in late 2017 due to apple patches and that compromise required only sending a text message. Examining CVE's up until late 2017 may give more of an idea of how this tool worked. Judging from a cursory review, there are many remote code exploits so it would be hard to narrow down. But this is what I chose to look at when considering CVE's between Jun 2017 and Dec 2017 that could effect iMessage. Many of these are classified as Denial of Service bugs but often those can be extended to code execution with extensive research.

IOKit https://www.cvedetails.com/cve-details.php?t=1&cve_id=CVE-20...

IOMobileFrameBuffer https://www.cvedetails.com/cve-details.php?t=1&cve_id=CVE-20...

CFString https://www.cvedetails.com/cve-details.php?t=1&cve_id=CVE-20...

CoreText https://www.cvedetails.com/cve-details.php?t=1&cve_id=CVE-20...

CoreText https://www.cvedetails.com/cve-details.php?t=1&cve_id=CVE-20...

Fonts? https://www.cvedetails.com/cve-details.php?t=1&cve_id=CVE-20...

ImageIO https://www.cvedetails.com/cve-details.php?t=1&cve_id=CVE-20...

Messages https://www.cvedetails.com/cve-details.php?t=1&cve_id=CVE-20...

SQLite https://www.cvedetails.com/cve-details.php?t=1&cve_id=CVE-20...

SQLite https://www.cvedetails.com/cve-details.php?t=1&cve_id=CVE-20...

SQLite https://www.cvedetails.com/cve-details.php?t=1&cve_id=CVE-20...

SQLite https://www.cvedetails.com/cve-details.php?t=1&cve_id=CVE-20...

SQLite https://www.cvedetails.com/cve-details.php?t=1&cve_id=CVE-20...

Kernel: too many to count

These were compiled by reviewing the apple security mailing list https://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2017
To quote Betteridge's law of headlines, "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
Those same people tend to believe the moon landing was faked as well.
A good article but needs "(2012)" in the title.
Jus soli was a hack, applied to force southern states to stop being terrible to former slaves in the wake of the Dredd Scott decision. That doesn’t make it intrinsically a civil rights issue. It makes it a tool used to solve a civil rights issue. The civil rights issue itself can and (IMO) should be solved directly, and be a separate conversation from that of what constitutes nationality.

IMO jus soli doesn’t make sense as your place of birth doesn’t make you intrinsically any more or less of a given nationality. Living somewhere does, being part of a society does, etc. I’d prefer birthright permanent residency for instance - you can claim PR any time, and if you live in the country for 3/5 years you can petition for citizenship like anyone else.
Sweet, what's your credit card number, expiration date, name on the front, and three digits on the back?
This press release is quite misleading... the only novel aspect here is "flexible". It's less efficient than the existing rectenna solutions. And it's just as useless unless it's placed directly next to a WiFi router that is experiencing unusually high load.
A single AA battery can deliver 40uW for about 4 years, continuously.
This is a good question. I think a more general feature it's lacking is auditing (as far as I've been able to find), from which you could judge whether a user was abusive and revoke permissions. There's profiling tools, which you may be able to hack together something for auditing if you were so inclined: https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/usage/profile
>the worrisome implication is that TSLA has trouble attracting and retaining senior talent given the work pressure and thin financial margin

A lot of "senior talent" are probably entitled, slow, and pedestrian. A lot of companies like these people because they are good at maintaining a caste system and shaking hands.

I think Tesla, as a disruptor, both needs and hates these employees. They need someone who has "done it before" so they can get out ahead of rookie mistakes. But they also need someone who will work hard, fast, and not get caught up thinking that they know everything.

I have never been bothered by high churn for execs at Tesla. Have any of you ever even met or worked for/with "senior talent?"

I bet Musk would rather be in the room with engineers who hate having reports than people-people.
"Overall annual medical liability system costs, including defensive medicine, are estimated to be $55.6 billion in 2008 dollars, or 2.4 percent of total health care spending."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048809/

Litigiousness is an issue but it's not the biggest one.
Good, extensive write up. Note that correctly hashing passwords is a topic in itself and the short answer IMO is: use bcrypt.

It should also mention that after a user changes their password, all login sessions should be invalidated. This lets a user who thinks their account/password may have been compromised prevent an attacker from using prior stolen sessions.

This is accomplished by including a nonce (a "number used once" which is basically just a large random number) in the user record that is also included in the auth session, and verified on each request. It gets set to a new value on password reset, and thus invalidates existing sessions. (The active session issuing the password change should ideally have its value updated to the new value automatically, though.)
How would an automatic system even prevent unwanted deletion of database entries or that users access others' data? Maybe I am lacking imagination but without server-side validation the practical use cases seem very limited.
Yes, but the underlying media is still yours. Just switch to a different media server and you're good to go.
Or add perhaps gaps of 1 cm? Or would that cause wear and tear, or dangerous situations?
I’ve seen the same tactic used in the Syrian Civil War, especially during the battle of Aleppo. I’m on my phone and can’t easily searched for image references but the first image link that I could find [1] is pretty self-explaining. Too bad YT took down almost all of the videos related to the war, even the non-gory ones, it was a good resource for amateurs like myself interested in modern-day warfare and tactics.

[1] https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/en/security/2013/10/syria-d...
Productivity is calculated based on GDP. It's possible that GDP doesn't measure the amount of goods and services we produce.

For example, say we manufacture 2x the number of units(with the same amount of employees), but for half the price per unit. GDP will remain the same, but still, we've doubled our productivity.

A second explanation(that i've seen data supporting it): good tech only improves the productivity of some of the companies, while many companies don't adopt the tech in full, and so enjoy limited to no benefits.
Lung cancer is the least of your problems if you're a smoker.

Smoking greatly increases risks of literally every possible health condition.

(This is why the first question you'll be asked by a doctor is if you smoke or not, no matter what your complaint is.)
Note that Bernie Sanders has a similar position on this issue.
That is true, I just didn't want someone reading about it for the first time to think UV was limited purely to the codes in DVD/Bluray boxes.
xkcd visual field

https://xkcd.com/1080
Just SV unicorns usually, and even then a lot of it is speculated value.

But the unicorns definitely pay if you're above a certain experience level - and if you build the correct professional network you can basically demand it.
Loon will sell its next-gen networking tech to satellite company Telesat
I just disconnected my horn. Has the nice side effect of stopping me from rage beeping at idiots too! I hated having a loud honk in residential areas late at night.

I was thinking I might connect the 12V for the horn to the ACC, so it can only beeps when ignition is on, but I haven't got around to that yet.
In what way are arbitrary values meaningful?
Both sides ignore 'inconvenient facts'. Neither side seems to be willing to admit it. And framed using certain language i.e. 'anti-intellectualism' then one side can frame themselves as less ignorant than the other, even if it's not true.
Google is famous for lowballing and downlevelling so at least in G case it’s not always the case.
For me, part of the fun was finding and fetching mods on BBS's before getting to hear them.
> They just don't care enough about the impact on users to counteract their desire to fight "piracy."

Users rights are a subset of "piracy".
He was most likely a GRU (Soviet military intelligence), not a KGB agent. Still in that era the existence of GRU was not well known. His officer likely wouldn't share too many details.
SV/SF CoL is still horribly high, NYC/DC and SEA probably little better.
> Presuming you meant radiation treatments, those do not leave the patient radioactive at all.

Not categorically true, even with external beam radiation therapy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25271934

Other kinds of treatment can leave the patient significantly radioactive, for example brachytherapy, which involves direct implantation of radiation sources in tissue.
It has this: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/security/rules-st...
This article is ridiculous. Apple is not "merely" enforcing a contract, they're eliminating Facebook's workaround of the app review process, which is prohibited by the enterprise cert contract. It's the app review process that enforces their privacy rules. The whole reason Facebook did this was that Apple started rejecting Onavo in the app review process on privacy grounds.
Er...isn't the general agreement that if you want to get rich you absolutely should not go work for or found a startup but instead get a steady job at big corp and live below your means? People are always on about how shares in a startup should be counted as $0 compensation. Not to mention $93k doesn't go very far in places with large populations and high job prospects.
New security flaw impacts 5G, 4G, and 3G telephony protocols
No that's not correct, they work for the shareholders and board of directors.
Indeed it is hard.

But maybe by relative comparison we could rank them somehow?

For example, some supply chain management software that reduces food spoilage at super markets, might be better for the environment than one that just increases online sales?
Google's Project Sunroof Arrives in Puerto Rico
It mentions "flexible smartphones" with the obvious intent to mislead the reader that a rectenna would be useful for powering such a device, a truly laughable concept. Which was picked up by other press articles leading to headline claims about "WiFi powered cellphones".
It makes more sense to encrypt the entire data store and just sync the entire data store. This is proof against anyone who isn't willing to hack your computer or break into your house while its open.
Yes! As someone coming from Europe to the United States, I am always puzzled by how the country seems to be completely insensitive to noise. The honking cars are a good example: this is really rare where I come from. Yes, cars sometimes do make sounds when you press the button a second time, but those are chirps, rather than full horn honks.

In the US, I've rented cars that sound the main horn every time you lock the car. Bizarre.
I agree with the blog. From my experience that there are a lot of newer inexperienced devs that think that feature tests as unit tests are something valid. (It's not and its flat out wrong, and it is dangerous)
Thanks for sharing @andy_adams! Henry here, happy to chat with y'all (Victor and Tony) if you'd want
The thin crust of liquidity: why crypto needs more market makers