skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This argument doesn’t hold though because a single bad actor who figures out how to spoof the interface has tremendous leverage to hurt a lot of people at once. And it’s likely they could leave a device at night and trigger it days or weeks later. One instance of this could literally cause enough public fear to get AVs banned for years.

I agree with OP that each car managing its own cameras and radar makes the most sense. Cooperation by way of individual optimization is the cornerstone of modern society and something we should absolutely imbue our autonomous vehicles with.
Right, which is exactly big Cloud companies such as Azure and GCP have a huge advantage over most other smaller companies, as they have their own dedicated backbone, allowing them to minimize the number of hops.
I think you overestimate how hard it is to create yet another software as a service CRUD app or a bespoke internal app using your chosen framework.

As far as creating software that last for years, I also think you overestimate the longevity of most software that is being used today.
I'm extremely conflicted about this kind of thing. On the one hand, student debt is extremely burdensome and the system in the U.S. is terrible. This was also obviously very generous.

But a one-off donation like this leaves me wondering how it must feel to be someone who graduated from Morehouse last year or will graduate next year. It just reinforces the idea that getting ahead in the U.S. is often really a matter of luck or, worse yet, the whims of oligarchs.

I wish the U.S. wasn't so consistently operated like a giant series of perverse lottery drawings around race, genetics, birthplace, schools, etc.
But their records wouldn't show the first phone as delivered. And the second wouldn't show as delivered either if he refused delivery.
Driving on highways is relatively trivial with current tech (with a bit of exaggeration for effect) compared to surface streets which don't lend themselves to these neat type of solutions. This is the last mile problem once again and as always that's where the majority of difficulty and cost lay.
A few emails later in the thread[0], it is noted...

> ...who actually maintains the "official" Docker images for 8u and 11u? Github history for
Dockerfiles points to no one I recognize from around OpenJDK.

That, I think, is the main problem.

[0]: https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2019-May/0...

Edit: Actually linking to source (which I should've done from the beginning…)
Would love to get that script to track which Mobile Network Code I’m connected to. As soon as the Librem 5 comes out, I'm leaving Fi. I'd like to use which ever network that script indicates, if it supports the phone.
The messages team doesn't want to talk to you. Their app is used by 1.5 Billion people.

If just 0.1% of them had some issue with their app, that would be 1.5 million phone calls.

There are ~3 people working on the messaging app usually. Thats half a million calls each. Thats 52 years to answer all those calls!

The TL;DR is that you will never make a bugfree app, and the remaining bugs will always leave some unhappy customers. At some point the team needs to decide that they need to move on to making new features rather than bugfixing, and that point is well before they start talking to random users on the phone about rare bugs. Sorry - the app isn't for you - go use another app or another phone.
That is part of the teaching process, no?
For me it is not so much that my wife and kids would sneak in, as that I would constantly be tempted to sneak out.

Working in the office is better that way, but given the choice I think I’d rent a private spot at the nearest co-working space (right now my company does not allow remote work).
I had a similar experience with them. When the phone started rebooting constantly, they offered to send me a used phone as a replacement. While I balked, I had little choice. As I was on a business trip, I asked if they could overnight it to me, at my own expense.

The could not.

Never buying another Google product again.
this but unironically. If I was Javert from Les Miserables the novel would last 10 pages because Javert didn't hate felons as much as I do
I admire this man's patience and I would have lost my shi* way earlier. I'd probably have them reported to VISA for charging my card.
Colour me not surprised in the least.

Speaking as someone in tech talking to others in tech I'm constantly surprised how optimistic people are about the timetable for fully self-driving cars. Honestly, I think we're still 20+ years away.

Here's another thing to consider: people act differently when its a machine vs a person they're affecting. There are countless examples of this eg:

- I live in a building with a doorman. The main purpose of a doorman is to be a person to prevent criminal action from starting. After all a person can be fooled, distracted or bribed but people seem less inclined to mess with an unpredictable person vs, say, an unmanned security system on a similar building.

- Forget humans, this applies to animals. It's well-documented that just having a dog (or even saying you do) reduces the likelihood you'll get burgled. Thieves will generally pick easier, more predictable prey.

- ... and this brings us back to cars. Reading some of the coverage of Waymo, Uber, Tesla, etc you see that other drivers act in ways around a car they realize has no human driver than they would if it were a human-driven car. Cutting it off, messing with it, etc.

How exactly does an autonomous car deal with that aspect of human nature?
As a counterpoint I have contacted Google Fi support four times and was very happy with the level of service. Though it's possible that all the issues I had was within the scope of the first line of defence, and if you outside of that you get OP's experience.

Disclosure: I work for Google, but honestly I don't think it has particularly biased me to say nice things about Google Fi.
The POSIX specification for vfork() is a poor match for reality. Linux and NetBSD, and all good OSes, provide a vfork() that is actually useful. There have been some bad OSes that mapped it to fork(), just like there are bad OSes that restrict you to the portable character set (not even full ASCII) or that don't have coherency between mmap() and read(). Somewhere you must draw the line, or you'll spend forever trying to deal with obscure portability issues that are mostly theoretical.

After a vfork(), the memory image is shared and the parent is prevented from running. The child is a fully separate process in all other ways. This special vfork state ends when the child does an exit or exec. This is how it works, no matter if POSIX wants to add weasel words or not.

Even with the lame POSIX specification, the "executable you're execing into" is perfectly safe messing with file descriptors. Once that exec happens, the child becomes like any other. Systems with a proper vfork() are also safe before the exec.

It certainly would be nice to have an interface similar to vfork that would take a function pointer and allocate a stack, optionally letting the parent continue on. Linux itself actually can support this, but glibc is uncooperative in exposing it.
The pot challenge is one group is they get graded just on number of pots made vs. the other on a single pot they can submit. The group trying to perfect one pot ends up making worse quality pots than the quantity group because the quantity group ends up getting way more practice.

That anecdote gives me lots of hope. I hope it's accurate! :)
There are plenty of open source third party stories such as FDroid and Aptoide and Amazon's own store. On Android, you can even load APKs directly.
It was very spongy indeed - but (when using the OS - so pretty much universal in GEM apps, and very common for TOS programs) there was a brief sound chip blip each time a keypress was registered. I for one never minded it. If the blip was there to compensate for the lack of feedback, it worked well.
There don't seem to be any debian emails about it: https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2019/05/threads.html
With his recent tweets it looks like this exactly what has happened!
Moderately depressed in 40's. Doing engineering stuff for clumsy startup that doesn't really matter.

By the time I hit 50 I also hit the highest debt owed due to bad past financial decisions.

Got laid off at 50. Got offered the job at lowest salary ever. That was the lowest point in my life.
No future. Huge dept. Age. Miserable pay (Canada). Driving miserable dying, rusty Ford escort.

Got hired as a consultant for bank. While working as a consultant I built some prototypes for data analytics company that I liked.

In a year offered the management job at that same data analytics company + relocation to Bay area.

Accepted.

Paid all debts. Got green card. Accumulated savings. Working in a great place. Mostly from home. Travel at my leisure. Visiting and training customers. Doing lots of things i love now. Driving BMW 5xx.

Super happy now!
Synchrony, one of the US's last active demoparties
Peculairly enough, ive had our management ask how to show what we do, and how we allocate out time. And as many times we have ticket after ticket from Jira, nothing adequately shows how we work.

That's why I equated Sysads as service workers. Some assistance may be 5m, and others may have looked like a 10m issue but turns into 3h timesink. We're serving others, or serving machines for serving others.

Whereas I see Agile, or the Kanban system, to be set up to send work to either internal or external devs. The only reason why real factories don't use international work is because sending lines and parts is onerous on a short cycle... Whereas software Kanban seems fit for each other.

Sure there's dev work that requires specialty knowledge, but most dev work is a CRUD web app with a DB backend. And those jobs are especially prone to outsourced via a thousand cuts.
Do you consider Samsung a premium Android manufacturer? I assume you're not defining "premium" == "Apple". If you admit that there are premium Android phones, and that Samsung is one of the manufacturers, well, Huawei is on track to surpass Samsung in units sold, AND it has the best reviewed camera. It blows away the iPhone X series, especially at low light, but also produces incredible night/low light protography beating even the Google Pixel Night Sight mode.

in China, they are now the most expensive phones, people are willing to pay more $$$ to get the top of the line Huawei than an iPhone which used to be the previous "look am me, I'm rich and trendy" device to own there. It's one reason why iPhone sales in China have declined.

There's no world in which you can't claim they are not a world leading phone manufacturer and that their devices aren't premium. Sure, the heavy modded Android sucks and is probably spyware and you can't get vanilla android on it, but hardware wise, it is premium. The P30 Pro runs for almost $1000.

People who live in the US kind of live in a reality distortion field around Apple, and are somewhat blind to what is happening in Europe and Asia. And this complacence is a pretty bad way to evaluate your competitors.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-threatening-Samsung-for...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18221598/huawei-apple-chi...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/10/18285123/huawei-p30-pro-r...
Sometimes it's less effort to change the billing address of the card...

Some of those 'app based' credit cards let you change the billing address with just a tap of a button. It's particularly useful when you're away from home and the company won't ship to anywhere except the billing address.
I'm not sure if you just intended to reply to someone else, or just ignored the words I wrote completely. Comparing these professions on a global basis is dumb. Nurses who work in environments where they are exposed to convicts or the mentally ill are at a higher risk of assault than those who work in pediactrics. Comparing risk-laden professions by just putting everyone into a gigantic bucket by a job title in order to say "which job is more dangerous" defies a basic understanding of what people in these fields actually experience depending on where their job is, their position, and their role (disclosure: son of a firefighter, brother in law of a cop, husband to a physician)
This could work well for commercial transit - have standby drivers for last mile, and have them board at the off-ramp and disembark at the on-ramp. For personal transport this could be more difficult though.
This is a very interesting philosophy. A few years ago, a former coworker and good friend of mine introduced me to an algorithm for solving problems. This is a slightly different purpose than doing something hard, but there are some interesting similarities. In my experience as an engineer in software and operations, this algorithm has never come in reach of failing me, and until I was introduced to it, my own system was seriously lacking even though I didn’t know it! You can be successful without it. But you can be so confident and efficient with it! The algorithm and it’s philosophy are described in none other than Zen and the Art of Motorcyle maintenance. I think there’s also an XKCD of it, Flowchart maybe is the name.
Windows Phone was in a way worse situation. They had to solve an M to N problem, getting apps to attract users while also getting users to attract developers. They tried to leverage their PC install base, but that apparently failed.

The Chinese market on the other hand will always have users, is huge and I presume most developers won't be willing to give up on it. If they do, someone else will serve their customers and might become a future competitor globally.

China-focused apps will only have to re-implement google services. That sound a lot easier to me than supporting an entirely different OS. If those versions can run on google phones as well, devs have the option to drop the play store version down the line to save cost.

I wouldn't bet a lot on it, but this might be the best chance we ever had to get a real play store competitor.
I hit the bar of what's expected of me, and that can typically be done with constant interaction with my wife & cats. Work performance is like 5th at best on my priority list so it works out.

Just because I could give my employer more output doesn't mean I should. Especially if I'm already doing plenty to not draw any criticism.
I tried to do the same thing with an expensive bottle of liquor a few weeks ago. It only worked for a week :/
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> There's a lot of what I'd consider to be non-trivial transformation going on between the code you pass to the Svelte compiler and what comes out of it and runs in the browser. Personally, I'm less comfortable with that compared to React's runtime library approach.

I initially had a similar concern, but so far, the opposite appears to be true. The Svelte compiled code is quite readable and easy to follow, and because there is no runtime, it's much easier to walk through exactly what is happening. With a complex runtime, it can sometimes be difficult to figure why something isn't working as expected without having a deep understanding of the runtime codebase.
> The last thing China wants during a trade war is to have the 3 million people in Apple's supply chain unemployed and angry.

As an autocracy, China could easily compensate workers for any loss of work. But another obvious answer is that if Apple were banned in China, Huawei and Xiaomi would pick up the slack.

If China really wanted to, they could shut down all iPhone production for the immediate future.
I'm not sure if I'd agree. Python was pretty lucky to have numpy/pandas when "data science" started taking off a few years ago. It easily could have been another language.
Bet ya they did... Fedex will claim, on investigation, that the package was delivered and just missed the final scan at the customers door.
Is there a decent thin-and-light AMD laptop? Looking to buy the successor to my Dell XPS 13 and would strongly prefer AMD if I can find something ultrabook-like with a QHD or above resolution screen
Isn't there some irony in fact that SQL was meant to abstract away the "how" of getting records? If you need to optimize through implementation specific quirks, then wouldn't a more direct api be preferable?
> She originally only sued for medical costs; McDonald's offered $800

Plaintiff sues the Defendants in the amount of $125,000 for physical pain, mental pain and anguish, and loss of life’s enjoyment during the pendency of treatment.

Liebeck initially approached McDonald’s with a demand of $20,000 to cover her medical bills, future medical expenses, and lost income. McDonald’s countered with an offer of $800. (Gerlin, Andrea. “A Matter of Degree,” The Wall Street Journal, September 1, 1994). As trial approached, Liebeck’s settlement demand increased to approximately $300,000.
Related from 3 days ago: "Sony and Microsoft set rivalry aside for cloud gaming alliance (nikkei.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19930955
I have lots of criticisms of Google, but let's not spread misinformation. GCP does offer paid support options, depending on your business requirements. If it's critical for your business then you can afford to pay a few extra hundred dollars a month
What I wood need; good condition house or unit with 2 bed room, fast internet, safe area, no shortage of good food, beach
Right, but the contentID system essentially _is_ them deciding what fair use is.
Not completely related, but this is one of the reasons why I prefer to add commits bumping the version number when a release is made instead of before–it means that any builds made from source don't have version number they shouldn't.
I’ve enjoyed Yegge’s posts before but this felt a little.... manic.
Agree in principle, though can't we get that by just allowing unauthorized sources?

I guess you don't get the relative security of app stores, and there's no widespread culture of free apps on phones like on PCs.

I'd really love, not a new phone or OS, but just an app store that works under a different model. Cheap or free for developers to post, but curated to exclude the most predatory forms of monetization.
But the ST is good for this, as (unless you're a demo coder) it's mostly otherwise useless - and unless it's an STe, not even that.

And its 70Hz mono monitor is still decent by modern standards. (If you've only seen 70Hz colour CRTs: the ST's mono monitor is not the same! Mono phosphors look quite different. No flicker, like an LCD, but with restful, paper-like contrast levels, like a Kindle.)
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Well Play Store is not accessible in China, so they kinda have to.
Search intensifies for primordial gravitational waves
Required gamer viewing: The history of M2’s Japanese retro-port empire
> Samsung can make its own app store tomorrow

What do you mean, tomorrow? Go to http://samsungapps.com/ and start to sell all your apps on Samsung Galaxy Store!
I have also experienced this phenomenon. Why do you suppose we come to these surprises, and why do you suppose we experience them?

Is it because we are confident? Or because we lack sedulity? Or because our analysis was incomplete?

Is the surprise time consuming because we want/expect it to be easy? Or because we are focused on a different problem really. Or because our focus was interrupted.
- avoid subqueries if possible (not sure if this still holds true with the latest versions of mysql),

- avoid using offset and limit for pagination, it's a killer on big datasets,

- on huge datasets sometimes breaking a complex query into 2-3 smaller ones can speed up things a lot, so always use explain and common sense when writing queries,

- even with billion rows if query is really slow, it's probably missing a proper index in like 9 of 10 times
He teaches them. In my experience, only a few people in an undergrad EE EM class understand divergence and curl. Those that don’t probably won’t do well in certain EE disciplines.
> (I can't remember the thing now)

Don’t worry about the details; it was just a made-up story in the book Art & Fear; I have never seen any evidence such a pottery class ever existed. https://kk.org/cooltools/art-fear/

> The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the "quantity" group: fifty pound of pots rated an "A", forty pounds a "B", and so on. Those being graded on "quality", however, needed to produce only one pot -albeit a perfect one - to get an "A". Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the "quantity" group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes - the "quality" group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
Under the FDCPA you have the right to demand no contact with you, your workplace, or your family members.

If they willfully violate this non-contact demand, they can be on the hook for $1,000 in statutory damages. They can also be on the hook for disruption they caused at a work-place, or emotional of physical distress.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/damages-fdcpa-violat...

If a debt-collector is getting overly aggressive, send a certified letter to their headquarters explicitly invoking the FDCPA and demanding that they not contact you further. Document the letter, and save the certified letter receipt.

If they contact you further, or harass your family, document it thoroughly and then speak to a lawyer about filing a lawsuit.
>And it’s likely they could leave a device at night and trigger it days or weeks later.

same could be said about leaving a bomb on a bus, and yet there aren't bombs going off on busses every day, and even when it does happen, it's not enough to scare people away from busses for good.

Society kinda works because the vast majority of people are not homicidal.
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When I first got interested in tech it was called "being a geek". Now with the broification of tech, and the influx of people from cultures that optimize solely for income and prestige rather than passion, it seems to be forgotten that some people are just geeks and some (most) aren't.
The timeline is 2 months long... over 1 month between the phone being lost and the new one being returned.

Packages get lost for all kinds of reasons. If you ship things regularly, it happens occasionally. You open a case with Fedex, the driver gets a week to find the package. If he can't, the package is declared lost, and the insurance on the package is paid out.

You're ridiculous if you think Google is calling the police for every lost package. What would they even base a case on? Fedex tracking of a package delivered without a signature? Geez. The cops would just ignore their calls.
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