skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pest control and HVAC service may or may not up and leave, but it's not a big deal when they do, because there are many options to choose from and most HVAC servicers will service all kinds of equipment (even if they have a preference for what kinds they install).

Telco is regulated, so if Verizon abandons your market, they will need to have a plan that leaves you with service. Which is most likely to be selling it to Frontier.

That Google is willing to abandon markets for Fiber is really a testament to their strategy here: Google fiber was not a real attempt to be an ISP, they just wanted to show it was possible to inspire incumbents to get gigabit out to people. Once AT&T started rolling out gigabit fiber, Google was done.
Sorry, I should have phrased that differently. I'm not doubting the factual accuracy of your account. I guess I'm not sure why this is supposed to be reassuring?

Oh, don't worry, only the most data-hungry machine ever built has your data.
I respect him even more now.

We are all human. Nobody wins this 'moral crusade' that takes up so much airtime.

We should be much more focused on the existential threats that the entire biosphere is dealing with, not the 'dick pics' of the world's richest man. He's just another dude at his core it seems, happens to be founder of Amazon though.
> The knowledge of the estrogen problem greatly exceeds that of the characteristics of anthropogenic global warming.

Can you provide references for that?
I'm getting strong vibes of Thiel and Gawker here. Attempting to intimidate a billionaire is generally a poor decision.
Congress flaunts its ignorance in House hearing on net neutrality
Risk adjusted its a pretty poor return. Also you are completely ignoring the time value of money.
Queue them up?
Is this something you can do in Rust?
Wonder what the Saudi connection is...
I haven't used it at all, but doesn't Rust have experimental support for coroutines?

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43122
> It was a good execution given the constrains, but there's no real angle or conclusions to draw from the documentary.

Interesting because the thing that kills most documentaries for me is when they have a clear angle or are driving for a conclusion.
Unless he's proud of his body, and either doesn't care or feels positively about strangers looking at it.
Agree, good for him!
YAML is a bit bonkers in that it's a superset of JSON (all valid JSON is valid YAML), so if you don't like the whitespace sensitivity, you can write your YAML like this:

{
a: 42,
# But you can have comments!
b: "hello world",
c: "and
multi-line
strings!", # and trailing commas!
}
> One of the major arguments against this particular attack on oil and coal companies is that those products have vastly benefited society and the average person. That is a very difficult position with which to argue.

This is well explained in the article. As soon as Oil Co. understood the cost of externalities in the business, it had a choice - to add the cost of neutralizing to the product (and possibly close the business) or to get sued.

Don't see any problem here.

What I do see is the problem with the judge - and maybe many judges.
I find YAML to be almost unusable. IMO it's just not intuitive. If I get to choose a format for my config files I would only use TOML, it's just better (again IMO).
No, they went right ahead and published revenge porn.
It's a haskell thing. The main advantage is that each line is independent. You can comment out a line or add a line at the end without modifying anything else.
In this specific case, given what I've told you about the kind of data they collected, how it was used, and how it was surfaced to the consumers of the data, what specifically about that data flow bothers you?
> That's not the right way to do it.

The poster is aware of this, which is why they talked specifically what they did wrong.
You may have missed it with the aside, but GP wrote “useless knowledge--and added complexity-- for a total newbie” (emphasis added)
That's the case for one of my cars, not the other, but (without really knowing) I have a suspicion that it's actually the car doing this. There's a few cues on how its (now outdated) interface seems to want to act like its own full-fledged media playing device, with the phone as merely a backend storage, while my other car is more content to let the phone just act as more of an audio device with a few media controls (pause, skip...).

All of this is speculation.
Using the Presto Package from Presto Software Foundation in Docker-Compose
Ok, then you pay some people to be a sample group who will allow you to do so, not just keep it under the hood and pray you aren't found out. Things like thjs are exactly why every app should make network requests approved by the user.
It's worth giving Ansible some credit here. Alternatives like Chef, can and do contain arbitrary Ruby logic which can make Chef "cookbooks" horrible to figure out and debug.

So while Ansible may not be great, other solutions also have drawbacks, and it isn't quite as easy as do <x>.
Trends, challenge, and shifts in software vulnerability mitigation [pdf]
I mean, that is if Medium doesn't run out of money in the next ~18 months. It's been a savage series of pivots to get to here, and even then, I'm not sure if it's actually sustainable.
From the article:

>I didn’t know much about most of that a few weeks ago when intimate texts messages from me were published in the National Enquirer. I engaged investigators to learn how those texts were obtained, and to determine the motives for the many unusual actions taken by the Enquirer. As it turns out, there are now several independent investigations looking into this matter.

AMI showed up on Bezos's rader after they published his intimate text messages. Gawker showed up on Thiel's radar after they outed him. They both then went investigating to see if there was some illegal activity that these media companies were engaged in.
Ask HN: Any programmers with long arms?
Responding to an old thread by @tboyd47 on May 1, 2017: Yes, I have long arms and most desk/keyboard setups don't work for me because my elbows are nearly at my hips. In regards to armrests, I recieved an ergonomic assessment through my employer and found out that it's better not to have them at all. I've solved the issue of "parallel arms" by making sure that I have a sliding keyboard tray mounted under my desk that nearly sits my lap. I've also gotten a standing desk, and but have to move my keyboard into the lower tray when I transition to sitting. Anyone else out there with "long arm" issues?
If you're going to do unto others,do unto them hard enough that they cannot return the favor.
Yes. I think a lot of people envisage performance improvements like in semiconductors, doubling every 2 years or so. In reality, battery tech seems to be improving at maybe 5% or so annually, doubling every 15 years, or so (please correct me if I’m wrong, I don’t work in the field).

Given the specific energy of kerosene vs batteries, at least two doublings seem necessary for things to get commercially viable. So, 3+ decades seems reasonable, lamentably.
This is worse than Gawker outing Thiel as gay. In this case they're attempting blackmail ahead of time, which may be a crime.
Counterpoint: this is likely how a sterile robot would respond to an extortion attempt.
I deleted the Music app and that stopped it. ️
Yes, that's my impression as well. As mentioned in a sibling post, the car where it's misbehaving seems to treat the phone more as a media storage backend than an audio source.
100% accurate - it is hard to see the head start you have if it is never acknowledged.

Let's use that old adage about if you want to be a successful tech founder, drop out of Harvard.

Let's unpack this a little:

1. Think about what you need to even get to Harvard (access to good schools, with well prepared teachers and the right curriculum)

2. You have to actually know this "tech founder" job exists, is a career and how it is structured and the path to get there (assumes you know some other tech people or at least access to information about tech people)

3. You need to have enough money or access to money to seed your idea and pay your expenses while you are building this idea (rich friends, rich family, inheritance, access to food and shelter - without a paycheck to fund it)

4. Some connections or something to get in the door of an incubator, an angel investor or other person who help you get you the infrastructure you need to build your idea

And that is not even the part of having a good idea.

But most importantly you need enough support so if you fail, whether it is fast or slow, you can get back on your feet again. Less privileged folks don't have the opportunity to fail more than once typically. And that is really what holds you back - no access to be able to take a risk. If you need a paycheck to cover basic necessities, no way you will forgo that for something that may not work out at all.

apply the same logic when thinking about politics, museum curators and a host of other influential roles in our society
It’s really not a scandal to split up with your wife. Or to have sex.

That Pecker and his ilk seem to think it is, is the reason they misjudged this situation so fatally.
I mean, they've lived in an era when being a white collar criminal is basically without legal penalty (as long as you're a white guy). It's really no wonder so many of them are so completely stupid, they would've had nothing to fear if their guy hadn't gotten himself elected.
> If we do not agree to affirmatively publicize that specific lie, they say they’ll publish the photos, and quickly. And there’s an associated threat: They’ll keep the photos on hand and publish them in the future if we ever deviate from that lie.

They never explicitly say that, do they? I'm not enough of a lawyer to know if what they did still counts as extortion/blackmail, but as far as I can see they simply describe the photos, and propose an agreement that would prevent them from publishing the photos. But they never say "Do this or we'll publish the photos" - perhaps they never intended to publish them in the first place.
For a security library to have no updates in a couple of years, I would consider it to be unmaintained and a huge risk.

I don't doubt that 2016 had some great libraries in rust, of which a lot are still used today. But most of them are updated to use new language features like `?` instead of `try!`, new macros system, async libraries, etc..

Take a look at a library like `serde`, which has been around since 2015 (https://crates.io/crates/serde/versions) and is awesome.
Its not immune, no system is absolutely immune to failure, but it is highly resillient because of the wide distribution of its nodes and the fact that each node carries a full copy of the ledger.
OK, Hanlon's razor applies here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

recall Stuxnet, its possible this was an attack, somesort of malicious mod to firmware, but_ Hanlon's razor.

from the reddit:

"throwawayfordays75 1399 points 8 hours ago*2

Throwaway since I have first hand knowledge. Fire suppression went off in one of their main Data Centres from some utility work this morning. No power to any of the network or compute equipment and some failovers did not work as expected. "

At this point im wondering what "utility work" was happening.
This is almost certainly due to the car trying to use the old iPod control protocol to tell your device to play. AFAIK that protocol just talks to the Music app, but it's also been obsolete for years.
I ran a website for a local CU for about 10 years. It was pretty fun doing things for their website that made their Fiserv web tools look like they were from 1970.

There was no interaction with user or account data on my end, just CMS-building, letting them go crazy with coupon promotions or pet shelter PSA's or warnings about ATMs being down, etc. They'd pitch me on a new project, I'd send them a timeline, and we'd add new features or tools to the website. I even hired a local college student to create some super-basic but useful financial tools for the site.

I loved how small-town-feel the whole thing was. At the beginning of the relationship, they gave me a list of broad requirements like "SAS-70", I found a DC to match, I sent them a contract, and I couldn't believe I actually had a banking institution as a client, 4 years out of school and a brand-new business owner.

Eventually they merged with another CU and went away, but apart from the very occasional "server down" notifications while I was on vacation, those are some really fun memories.
That's what all the back-and-forth about 'fair use' and Bezo's competency as a CEO is about.
> How is it that web browsers are able to grab my location, turn on my webcam, etc and yet not offer a way for me to create a web page right there in the console?

var h1 = document.createElement('h1')

h1.innerText = 'Hello World'

document.body.appendChild(h1)

I don't understand your meaning.
Part of the HN charm is that when there's a story pegged to the front page with a title like this, you can just trust that it's worth a click.
the paparazzi exist in a 1st amendment gray area. they cover public figures but the newsworthy nature of their salacious stories and gathering tactics are always getting challenged in court.
Here is another suggestion that is part stylistic, but may save you debugging effort.

When performing boolean condition testing, eg "if (~a & b)", always use "!" for negation instead of "~", "&&" for logical and, and "||" for logical or for exactly the same reasons you should do it for C code.

If the operands are all 1 bit, either option works fine. But if you ever accidentally use a vector where you intended a bit, one generates a warning and the other doesn't.
Which makes the author's pointless aversion to static websites strange. No, you often really don't need to have a database, relational or not, to just do a website.

I've seen so many sites dutifully set up with CMS backends and databases that only ever get updated by one person, and which only actually get updated once in a blue moon.

ETA: I mean, damn, how many people first got started just putting up or editing some static web pages, back in the 1990s and even 2000s?
787 is still to small for some routes. The flights to APAC from the west cost moved to 787 and with in a year where back to 777 because of number of seats. I like the 787 better, windows, cabin pressure and humility all make for a more plesent flight. That being said, I have a much better chance of getting an upgrade on the 777.
Correct.

Couldn't query, but could initiate.
Anti trust in the US has always been measured by consumer impact. This is not new.
Really? I'm at the other extreme: blackmailing me would be pointless as there would be no gain (not to mention in my boring case any unclad selfies would have to be synthesized).

And in the current world[+] there's so much exposure that such pictures will be drowned out by the sheer volume of stuff. Yes, we're still at a point where politicians can lose their jobs because of racialist photos or certain indiscretions, but at least the "indiscretions" have less and less power over non-politicians (actual bad deeds still do, but that's not an issue here).

And these pictures are all about consensual behavior that isn't extraordinary. There's not even a scandal.

[+] or in what I can imagine is a linear projection of today's world forward only a few years from now
Exactly - I'm trying to imagine being in his place and being open about all of this...and it's HARD. It's easy for me to want HIM to do it, but as much as I think being disgustingly wealthy would be great...I'm sure I'd still be really nervous about pressing that button.

And it's easy for us to say "Well I wouldn't be in that place to begin with", but as I much as I not be in this EXACT place, most of us have made mistakes that we deeply regret and fear getting out, or at least have the capability to. I don't have to assume I'd do this particular set of bad acts to be vulnerable. And once socially vulnerable, would money make it go away? No, not entirely, not enough. So how hard must it be for people who AREN'T disgustingly wealthy? Or even wealthy? Or even well-off?

Heck, with the quality of "deepfakes" or whatever now-a-days, all you need to do is find someone vulnerable to BEING vulnerable, and they don't even have to have done wrong. One marriage that has had no infidelity but is struggling, one person with a child/spouse who is suffering from serious depression/anxiety/suicidal/related issues. "hey, I have these pictures, and if you do X they don't have to see the light of day. You can deny them being real all you want...do you think that will really help?"

Or take the gross spectacle of releasing celebrity sex pics, or even just non-celebrity revenge pics. The only answer is for (1) we as a society to reject attempts to abuse this info and (2) to be less puritanical and judgmental about the victims here. To the Bezos example, one person can do wrong and we can oppose another using it to do wrong against them without condoning any of the original wrong.

Bezos has a hard time doing this, and it's far, far easier for him than for anyone else. I didn't care about his personal life before (note: Not the same as saying it doesn't matter) and I still don't, but even if I did I can find the blackmail efforts repugnant without letting adulterers off the hook.

...but that's hard too. Just not nearly as hard.
Hackers Gain Entry to Australian Federal Parliament Network
https://bronxzoo.com/roach
> When your immediate reply is to dismiss the dominant rust crypto library in 2016 as being understandably bad because the development ended in 2016, you're suggesting that the year (and before) was some kind of dark age for rust.

I was there and it actually was.

Rust 1.0 was just released and the ecosystem was mostly maturing at that point.

You're talking about version 0.2.36 of a library that had been in development for less than two years during a quite tempestuous time in Rust. I'm sure they were more concerned with making the code work, making it secure, etc.
> normal syntax.

Right. Ok we have a problem with definitions. No this is obviously not normal syntax.

Unless we take it to mean "whatever new syntax python introduces is normal syntax, since it supports it!", which is tautological and not very useful.

I'm gonna say something, strictly so you can understand where I'm coming from, not to offend you.

You sound very young. And by "young", I mean so young to not remember that Python was always about "duck typing" and not about strict types. I still have books on my bookshelf that tried to dissuade you from using "issinstance(foo, sometype)". So no, it's not python or normal syntax.

Yes, Python now is safer than older Python. But I had 99 problems with Python and that wasn't one of them :(

You, speaking as if Python is progressing so fast while Go is standing still, feels disingenuous. Go fixed their dep/packaging woes in a few years, Python is not even close. Go is adding generics. Go becomes faster in almost every release.

Changing Python into something that doesn't resemble python, its values, or the reasons that people chose it in the first place doesn't make sense, nor does it make it "Python".

I don't want Python to become Haskell, Rust or Go. No one ever chose python for its typing system! Rather its lack of it.

Anyway, there's no accounting for taste and to each their own.

Cheers
> I think Bloomberg can stand to be down for 8 hours to simulate a disaster. Banks with legacy systems and people constantly dependent on them to conduct business can't risk an actual incident happening because they were testing what would happen if an incident happened.

No, it can't. Any loss of customer-facing functionality is a critical outage ("World Problem" in company terminology). There are a relatively small number of customers, but the terminal is critical to the operations of those who buy it. The terminal going down for eight hours would be a world-wide headline in the financial press.

A Tier 1 test that simulates loss of a datacenter takes a cluster one DC virtually offline. This puts an entire subset of services offline in that DC entirely. The test is coordinated with the teams who own the services to ensure their services fail over correctly. Any service disruption during the failover is a test failure. If it passes, the customers don't even know it happened. The goal is to be able to lose an entire DC and have the terminal customers not realize it until they hear about it on the news.
Devil's advocate question: do you (should you) have to agree to be video-taped before entering a store on security cameras? What if you had to do that for every single store?

> In short: fuck you and your advertising.

Nah, I don't want to pay for every single site I visit. Content is not just given out for free. Are there limits to what counts as too much? Sure, and that's the type of discussion we should be having.

> You should be punished for selling them to someone else.

That's not how online advertising works. Rather, it's would be the equivalent of someone on your block knowing that your house is a 3-bedroom 1-bath, but know nothing about the people that live inside.
My approach to this these days is:

* all configuration, without exception, is XML.

* all configuration may be generated from any other format imaginable, but it's sure as fuck going into the Big Main Godlike Application as XML.

Separation, interfaces, etc. Disclaimer: I work in .NET almost exclusively. The .NET configuration APIs generally work, as long as you only ever use them for reading; treating config as something the application itself can fiddle with is a fast route to madness.
Already exists, it's called Matomo and it is awesome.
It’s generally not blackmail to threaten someone with some action that, by itself, is legal. See, for example, the many civil settlements where rich people stop the people they raped from going to the police. And I’m unsure what the status is on publishing salacious private photos. Sure, there is a copyright issue. But that’s a civil matter, not criminal.

If it were a crime, it really wouldn’t be much of a threat because they’d be unlikely to follow through, would they?

Edit: there is one federal law where threatening embarrassment is enough, but that requires a demand for money or property, which this is explicitly not.

And because the downvotes are already rolling in: Note that I find this just as abhorrent as you do, and that sexploitation should absolutely be a crime. But the legal situation unfortunately is not at all as clear as the moral one. And the replies below are mostly embarrassing in that nobody even seems to have a clue on the difference between civil and criminal law. Carry on then...
787 can have a higher pressure because of what it is made of. Air frame life is directly effected by the pressure in the cabin.
> I prefer to stand up, roll this log over, and see what crawls out.

It's going to be fascinating to see what he uncovers. David Pecker has been playing this extortion game for decades (frequently on behalf of his buddy Don Trump). Now Bezos has given a blank check to drain the swamp.

> To lead my investigation, I retained Gavin de Becker. I’ve known Mr. de Becker for twenty years, his expertise in this arena is excellent, and he’s one of the smartest and most capable leaders I know. I asked him to prioritize protecting my time since I have other things I prefer to work on and to proceed with whatever budget he needed to pursue the facts in this matter.
I don't know about Alpaca, but Quantopian lets you do the equivalent and then also backtesting on historic data.
Again I am puzzled how this does not count as fraud - a felony with a jail term measured in years.

And no, re-defining 'tip' to mean whatever Amazon wants it to mean somewhere in the Terms of Service fine print does not absolve them.