skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who are going around in masks, with clubs and guns committing assaults and other violent crimes need to be recognized as the terrorists and proto-terrorists they are.

And my question to you is what you do about people like that.

The remedy for violent extremist tendencies is to let people talk. It's when people feel like they can't talk, that they seek more extreme means.

[Citation needed]

There are lots of extremists who have little to no difficulty in getting their opinions off their chest and who continue to maintain or escalate their extremist views. You whole theory seems to be that people just need an opportunity to vent their feels and that will cause aggressive or atrocious feelings to subside. This may work great in therapeutic contexts but I'm not willing to accept that it holds true in the world at large. Look at all the people recruited by ISIS; why didn't they just vent their feelings and then go back to their everyday lives?
Made this to watch videos with friend when abroad. Works surprisingly well!
I've used Libratone [0] for years. Superb products. Excellent audio.

[0] https://www.libratone.com/
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True, although many families aren't willing to deal with the pressure and risk of the NYC high school application process.
Why? China's per capita emissions are less than half of the US.
Apple's podcast app has always been horrible at syncing between devices. Overcast was like a breath of fresh air.
>I'm actually worried that podcasts are going the way of the web. What, for a while, was a weird world of enthusiasts talking about things that interests them seems to be morphing into a world of a few big corporate entities calling the shots.

I think podcasting is somewhat shielded from this by the fact that you really don't need an insane amount of capital to put out a good product. There definitely are podcasts that have expensive, professional studio set ups, but there are others I've listened to that are just straight up recorded on an iPhone and they can actually sound very decent. This low barrier of entry makes it easy for people to make their own weird podcast without having to water down their product and pitch it to investors. I guess with time that could change if your podcast is considered dead if its not on one of these big corporate channels. As someone who really enjoys the "homemade" feels, I hope this never happens, a podcast feeling overproduced is a big turn off IMO.
Maybe "Notes from a Dead House" by Dostoevsky?
Thank you for posting this. I met the man once--as it happens, over beers. He was pleasant to talk with, for the hour or so. Yet I gather he was pretty good at making enemies.

As for "Mrs. 'Stoner'"--the misogyny in the depiction of Stoner's wife in that novel is breathtaking. Comparing a woman to that character is the sort of offense that deserves ostracism. I am amazed at the title.

[Edit: No, I don't think that the Paris Review means to compary Nancy Gardner Williams to the wife in Stoner; clearly this is short for "Mrs. [the fellow who wrote] 'Stoner'". Still, it is jarring.]
This breaks when the password reset link is passed through click-tracking services. Seems like a good thing - you shouldn’t be leaking password reset links (which are almost equivalent to passwords themselves) to email stalking providers.
> body parts filling with snow and falling off

I'm embarrassed about how many times it took me to read that to understand the article was not referring to human body parts.
Could still trace the point/time of sale and pull security footage

Have you seen the security video that comes out of most convenience stores? You can't even make out people who rob the place at gunpoint.

90% of convenience store surveillance cameras make Ring doorbells look like tools of the NSA. (In terms of image quality, not the other way.)
In some countries it's no longer possible to buy prepaid SIMs anonymously. You can buy prepaid SIMs, but they need to be activated online, with a government issued ID.
Security concerns aside, I thought the cameras were there so you could swipe in front of it to turn the infotainment system on? Is there proof they are recording? Planes have weight limitations. A long-haul 8-12hr flight for 300 passengers is a significant commitment to storage space and the weight of said drives.
Yet the prejudice against UBI always assumes the poor and disadvantaged will always take the lazy option. They tend not to make that choice either as poor people need a purpose too.

It's politics all the way down.
> If you have a family, a $1.5m house (which barely gets you a shabby 3-bedroom in a high cost city)

Uh... median house price in Seattle is less than half that. $1.5 million for a house in Seattle will get you an extremely nice house. Extremely nice.

If you disagree, it's because you have incredibly high standards for what constitutes "nice". That's fine, but it makes it more than a bit silly to complain that you "can't afford" a different lifestyle.

You're just making bad choices at that point.
ST is quite probably the market leader for embedded micros (though NXP may be getting there).
They're hardly the up and coming underdog, they're the 800lb gorilla in the market and the things you mention are pretty much par for the course.

This combined A7+M4 device is unusual, but is simply a cost saving over what would simply be an A7 device serially attached to an M4 (for example). There does not seem to be any new features here other than the cost saving from combining them.
I flew on a plane similar to the one cited in the article this past Monday. It was a late night flight and I turned the screen off to try and sleep, only to have the screen turn itself back on (and disable the power button) to show me advertisements. Between this and "smart" TVs that secretly surveil the end user, I'm not optimistic about the future of humane consumer electronics.
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It's quite expensive for the specs, but it's a niche product. You're looking at a 1.5x-2x markup for hardware prices. What you get is mainly a new laptop that can run coreboot. Other than chromebooks, there aren't any other devices that do that right now.
And the volume?
No, but I have switch to solely using the contactless feature of my debit card.
You don’t mention which ecosystem you live in. I’m very happy with my Apple Homepods. The sound quality is great and I trust Apple with privacy. I don’t use Siri at all (I have disabled the microphone) and so for me they’re purely network speakers which are very easy to use and look after themselves with updates.
Yeah, it's hard to imagine myself ever recommending my company buy TravisCI now.
> With laws changing, sports gambling is becoming a reality in all states.

What is the current status in the US? Isnt it federally prohibit, in addition to state level regulation ?

And i any case, dont u have to be specifically registered (and i guess taxed and fee-ed) for various betting activities ?
I can't wait for the MKBHD breakdown of them.
The best you can count on is the Pinephone [0]: $150, approx. 165x77mm (bigger than my Nexus 5x, so bigger than 5.2", but we all have lost here).

[0] https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093&pid=43850#p...
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$100,000 per year for 50 years with a $2,500,000 base has a 79.67% success rate.

So pretty likely. But not guaranteed. And for sure not indefinite. Not if you pull the same 4% during down years.

My dream is 5,000,000 and a paid off house. I can live off 3% of that for sure.
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It's amazing how much quality-of-life improvement can be had with a relatively cheap Android tablet. I gave one as a gift to a relative who's in a care facility (no issues with microphone or cameras there, so I didn't have to do any modifications) and it's made a noticeable difference.
The "hedging" point is, VCs can't hedge away the risk of making 100 little bets which are only expected to make a mean profit of $10m each (private equity might). They need the triple bagger $1b unicorns to make up for all the firms who don't make it, or their business model falls apart. Just like with trend following. The game has negative expectations; it's only the bet sizing which makes it profitable.

I'll say it a different way: VCs don't give a shit about the company _ever_ making a profit. They give a shit about ther VC making a profit. It's not the same thing at all! VC makes a profit if they invest at good valuations and sell at much higher valuations when the company goes public. The company doesn't have to be profitable! For all they care it will never be profitable! Pets dot com made some VCs a bunch of money!

(thx for kind words -good luck with your startup!)
You being willing to bet money gives me little confidence.
> One might say "But what about hackers?", luckily unlike Alexa or Google Home, it's hard for hackers to tinker with one these devices and find remotely-triggerable exploits.

Yes, very hard for people with skills, indeed.

https://thehackernews.com/2016/12/hacking-in-flight-system.h...

https://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-com...

https://ioactive.com/in-flight-hacking-system/
You're assuming a random distribution of skimmers at pumps across the nation.

Such criminal activity tends to occur in concentrated pockets.

Gas stations around Joshua Tree, CA had been rumored to be skimming people's cards, and some now carry large official stickers warning users of their cards likely getting frozen for 72 hours should they be used at the pump, confirming the rumors.

I imagine the active number is probably more in the thousands nationally. There are a lot of lower income, high-crime areas where pumps are neglected. The Venn diagram of gas stations lacking squeegees and those compromised I suspect has a lot of overlap.
If you go this route, you could also just dual boot on the same machine. No need to buy separate hardware :)
So you mean to say that I can use matrix.org to talk to someone on Telegram? How? I just went to riot.im and I don't get it.
Also, on Windows, KeePass at least offers the option to always ask for the master password only in the same secure desktop that UAC and login/logout use. (I don't know why this isn't the default behavior, other than maybe cross-platform compat, but it is not the default. First thing I turn on for fresh installs.) That at least helps mitigate against most software keyloggers / remote automation hack attempts. (Leading the threat concerns back to rootkits and physical hardware access.)
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@backblaze: Have you done the math to determine the intersection between SSD capacity and cost, and TCO power and cooling costs (versus spinning disk) over the life of drives? Also, would write count be a critical measure for your use case? I would assume not, as backed up bits are mostly static (files split into blocks, blocks saved indefinitely) except when you're performing garbage cleanup of user data when they leave or they've removed the file locally.

There's something majestic about a datacenter with no moving parts except fans.
There's a browser extension for it too. Outline has been super convenient when dealing with bloated news sites. Now I'm just thinking about how I'll get my browser to do this automatically for certain sites without having to click the outline button every time
I do, after my card was skimmed and it created quite a headache.
By exactly the same reasoning, every algorithm is O(1) because your computer is a finite object and so the size of the data is bounded.
There's Incanter[1], but I've never used it, so can't comment on how good or complete it is. And of course there are the article author's libraries: https://dragan.rocks/software/

[1] https://data-sorcery.org/
TLDR, for people like you and me, who want to do useful things that help people, money can be very useful for that.

For an extreme version, look up Effective Altrusim. Some argue that the best way you can help others in this world, is to earn as much as possible (for example at a trading desk) and then give all your surplus earnings to the most charitable causes.

Personally, I would like to earn money so that I can work on projects that I think are worth doing and have a chance of using my particular skills and drives to good effect.

For example, I feel ready to take open hardware to a new level by building a small-scale chip (IC) factory capable of manufacturing open source designs (or any designs) at a realistic cost for customisation. And that's just one step in a series of related things, each of which will contribute something to the world if they are successful. That's just an example: Other people have their own grand projects they think are worthwhile.

But that venture is both challenging and expensive, and I'm still paying off debts from the last failed bootstrap. So my next big project is paused, until I have earned enough to be able to bootstrap all over again.

Something like HFT would be rather useful at providing the money, and its on my list of things to explore in the short term, because it's also a good match for my experience in several areas. But it's not something I'd want to do for a long time for its own sake. It would be for the money, so that I can do other useful things down the line.
"he felt locked into a lifestyle that made this pay cut impossible"

That's all there is to it.
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I've been using travis Enterprise for over two years and what has kept that going has been the amazing support and development team at Travis who have always helped us during an emergency, been very responsive and informative in all our interactions. They are the reasons I have backlogged the project to migrate.

Keys issues i've seen in our Enterprise install...
* Upgrades can go bad, very quickly and very silently.
* Build images are out-dated, missing security patches, bloated, and not easily provisioned with custom features to integrate our tools with theirs.
* no tooling for docker builds/deployments
* long start up time on the build images.
* Enterprise documentation (though it's been improved a lot recently)

Best of luck to #travisAlums, I hope you get picked up quickly.
It's ironic that in the book 1984 all the citizens have hidden cameras in their TVs. Today, in 2019, all the citizens have non-hidden cameras and microphones in pretty much every electronic device they use. We also have the customary day of rage, where we all direct our collective rage at some political opponent. Don't get me started on the butchering of the English language...
That's nothing for someone who makes 7 figures a year. Two kids going to $70k/year top boarding schools still leaves a ton left over after tax for saving $600k over 18 years.
Is it that hard? I've seen one get stuck on an Ubuntu boot screen (of a 5+ year old Ubuntu version, no less) with messages about loading MySQL.

I mean, at least they weren't using Win98, but that's a pretty low bar.
I was really hoping this would actually contain some failure rates. Compared to this blog post, the wikipedia page for SSDs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive) is more informative overall, and also doesn't advertise any cloud backup products.
I would've expected yc's mission statement to shed some light on how they justified funding a bookie. Turns out yc has no ethical/moral/etc grounds in their mission or about us. Spend your money how you see fit, but I would've hoped you'd build some ethics into your business.

https://www.ycombinator.com/principles/

https://www.ycombinator.com/about/

(For context - I've worked closely with a number of large betting websites like mybookie.ag. 100% of my contact with them has been toxic. My employer explicitly does not fire clients but an exception was made after I recorded a call with them. Similar situations occurred freelancing.)
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I have pretty much no exposure to that world, and about half the comments here seem to agree with you, but I still don't understand.

I can appreciate that you might need a wardrobe with nice suits, a respectable looking car, and a few stories about places you've been and things you've done. It doesn't seem like it would super hard to craft that image without spending a lot of money.

How'd you get into the management consulting world? Is there a 500k/yr salary just waiting for me if I fake like I'm a Wall St guy from the 80s?
1 TB fits on a flash drive these days. If they were transferring semi-regularly when grounded and recording in SD, you'd be talking on the order of a few pounds.
What seems more likely to me is just that the frames they put these things in cover the cameras anyway.
The article has been updated (turns out it’s a totally unrelated piece of tech someone left behind) but even if it was true, what’s the big deal?

What’s so groundbreaking about Bluetooth skimmers and a central hub with long-range comms (GSM, etc)?

This seems like a logical evolution, and frankly I’m surprised it hasn’t been done already (or maybe it has, but those guys were good enough to not get caught yet).

In any case I was pretty disappointed by the alarmist tone of the article. Are the people who investigate these things that far out of touch with the state of technology nowadays ?

Anyone can buy a Raspberry Pi and a GSM module and get up and running with a bunch of tutorials from Google. It’s not rocket science.
The summary is great:

> If a function is only called from a single place, consider inlining it.

> If a function is called from multiple places, see if it is possible to arrange for the work to be done in a single place, perhaps with flags, and inline that.

> If there are multiple versions of a function, consider making a single function with more, possibly defaulted, parameters.

> If the work is close to purely functional, with few references to global state, try to make it completely functional.

> Try to use const on both parameters and functions when the function really must be used in multiple places.

> Minimize control flow complexity and "area under ifs", favoring consistent execution paths and times over "optimally" avoiding unnecessary work.
> ST is quite probably the market leader for embedded micros (though NXP may be getting there).

This report from 2016 puts NXP at twice the marketshare over STmicro who are sitting steadily in the fifth place:

https://epsnews.com/2017/05/01/nxp-tops-microcontroller-supp...

Although at least part of the sales volume difference can be explained by NXP having had more expensive i.MX range available (and others), so in terms of chips sold they might be closer to each other.

> This combined A7+M4 device is unusual

I'm not sure if I'd say that, previously NXP did the exact same thing with i.MX7, and TI with their AM5x. And of course don't forget the classic AM3x which had PRUs filling part of the same role.
It would be really awesome if someone could package this into a Latex package. Then you could directly define your neural net inside of Latex instead of having to generate the Tex from python.

Otherwise, these graphics are wonderful to look at.
AA isn’t a tech company. There revenue isn’t based on selling eyeballs.
I did some work with eBPF measuring block i/o latencies on SSDs a few weeks ago. I wish I had a testbench the scale that Backblaze does to really get some data at scale.

https://www.circonus.com/2019/01/which-block-i-o-scheduler-i...
With a little firmware hacking this thing could indeed be a remote bluetooth->SMS relay. Why build a custom solution when you can just repurpose one already produced?

Seems more likely than someone discovering a GPS tracker on their car and sticking it to a gas pump that just happened to also contain a skimmer device. I'd more likely attach the thing to a random landscaping vehicle so the "stalker" could see it going to all sorts of upscale houses.

--edit--

Or, after a bit of googling and not being able to find the specs on that thing, it could be a canary device to tell the skimmers "the jig is up" as it has motion tracking.
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This is a list where an oat milk company is 9th. While one can definitely debate Apple's innovation, I wouldn't treat this list as any kind of objective indicator.
That isn't how most people work.

Would you rather be the worst lover in the world but everyone think you are the best? Or the best lover in the world but everyone think you are the worst?

For most people, work is their identity, it is status, it is the ability to abuse underlings terribly with no consequences. Constructing your self-image this way leads to, imo, a great deal of emotional vulnerability. If I leave my job, what will other people think? I am not the boss anymore. I am just another normal person.

And btw, if you feel that you are doing whatever you are doing until you reach $X in the bank. Then that is the same.

The point of the article is that you can be happy working a shitty job for no money. But you have to understand what makes you happy, what is fulfilling to you, etc. Although it is true that some jobs/working environments are just shitty.
I didn't mention Seattle...I'm referring to NYC or SF.
In a similar fashion, why does Google Play needs access to my Contacts each time I want to use Maps?
> It's like everything I buy is slightly discounted.

You do realize that the price is marked up to account for this “discount”, right?
That's the point. They can easily afford the $140k/year in education expenses if they keep working the 7 figure job they hate, but they couldn't really afford it if they took a huge pay cut.
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A CCTV camera from an angle far(relatively) away at the front and back of the cabin isn't the same level as one in the device staring you in the face.

How long until that camera gets enabled to do eyetracking for ad and premium services tracking. Whos to say its not already?

Mixed it in with facial recognition so they can sell that data to other ad agencies and now you see the problem with allowing the camera to exist at that location in the first place.
I know it's cool to hate on advertising these days, but (un)fortunately advertising does create value -- it connects people to products they didn't know they could buy or wanted to buy. People are consumers, whether we like it or not, and they enjoy consuming things. If people didn't click ads, then it would eventually not be a thing.
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People by and large keep to themselves on airplanes. If someone was recording you with their cell phone for the duration of the flight, I promise you, you wouldn't like it. The resultant footage wouldn't particularly be any different than if it was recorded by the seatback in front of you, though.

If I'm going to, say, a concert, or especially a taping of a TV show, I have a much higher expectation of ending up in some video footage. But people often sleep on planes. They're not expecting to be recorded.
One 10TB drive, maybe more if you want a redundant array? I can't see this taking up any weight.