skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Revolut is a pre-paid card. You can't expect expect the same level of protection

The hell I can't. If they can't make their service secure and stand behind it when they fail, they have no business providing the service at all.

What Revolut's legal status and responsibilities are, I don't know. (Although the update says that they did eventually refund him, so clearly someone was aware they fucked up.) But implying that it's the user's fault for not anticipating Revolut's insecurity is absurd. He did make a mistake, but so did Revolut, and they should have (and, eventually, did) make it right.
If a hurricane causes an oil platform to release oil, the platform was by definition not sufficiently prepared. The bar for "sufficiently prepared" might be prohibitively high, but that should just be the cost of business.
In their job post[1] title&description, they specifically mentioned that D programming language is used for "Software Verification & Validation". So it's possible that the core tech stack may or may not be written in D.

[1]: https://jobs.lever.co/aid-driving/c4b243bd-c106-47ae-9aec-e3...
Why isn’t there an EU wide recall?

I though the type approval was EU wide
No, we shouldn't ignore it.

But I think there's a risk of sending a lot of bright, productive people off to tilt at technological/interface/regulatory windmills in a way that leaves fundamental trust issues out of scope.

Even if Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, etc. could wave a magic wand and remove every fake review, counterfeit product, scam, personal threat, or piece of false/fraudulent media, there would still be a trust issue. We still have to trust that they did what they said, that whatever disappeared was correctly identified, and that they didn't wrongly remove many legitimate items in the process.

Even if the magic wand that makes these decisions has the utmost ethical and logical integrity, there will still be some mix of skeptics, cynics, malign actors, competitors, bots, etc. who chum the waters with accusations to the contrary. We'd still have to choose whether or not to trust this process and the actors behind it.

So, I think it might be productive to focus on some smaller questions first. To be semi-arbitrary: can we find a protocol for reliably building a 50-person trust network with a limited scope/focus (maybe identifying reliable providers of a single service), where each participant knows a small fraction of the network, which is capable of meeting both its purpose and is capable of detecting and reforming or ejecting exploiters? If the first is tractable, can you expand the scope/focus of the networks and retain these properties? Can you compose a higher-order network that retains these properties?
Yup. For example, look at this paper from Google:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-018-0029-1

The whole thing is about how to build these fancy networks, and it created a fair bit of buzz. Table S1, in the supplement, however shows that it's rather pointless.

The deep model has an AUC (95% CI) of [0.94, 0.96] for in-patient mortality. The "full feature-enhanced" logistic regression baseline has an AUC of [0.92, 0.95]. Same pattern for 30 remission. Length of stay is the only one that's not overlapping, and it just squeaks that out: [0.86, 0.87] for the deep model vs. [0.84, 0.85] for the baseline.
The happens all the time to lesser degrees and is a fact of life on the Internet. No action will be taken.
The original requirements were the same for everyone - white or black, male or female - though thanks to the doctrine of coverture, married women would not have the assets to qualify. (Married women could generally not own property independent of their husband) Coverture was not applied universally however, and many married women still voted. See [0]

> That all inhabitants of this Colony, of full age, who are worth fifty pounds proclamation money, clear estate in the same, and have resided within the county in which they claim a vote for twelve months immediately preceding the election, shall be entitled to vote for Representatives in Council and Assembly; and also for all other public officers, that shall be elected by the people of the county at large.

It's probably also worth noting that these restrictions applied to men, too.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_Jersey_Stat...
I can tell you that a lot of older companies in Seattle have not yet caught up with that change of conditions. Plenty of places are still 20% below that, and they aren't looking for junior people.
Science?foolish!stupide!
Well, we can only deal with whats reasonable. There is no such thing as a "hurricane proof" oil platform, or an "earthquake proof" home, or a "tsunami proof" boat, or a "hacker proof" operating system, or a "idiot proof" UI, or a "bullet proof" vest, etc, etc. The level of damage that nature can deliver far far far surpasses anything us puny humans can build :)

In any case, it would be interesting to see if the data shows that the level of fortification that was used was not sufficient compared to what other oil platforms in similar situations do.
Same thing.

If I am designing a printer and you say "it must be able to output 10 pages per minute printing black and white text, and make it as light as possible", then I, the printer designer go to work, tweaking the design of the printer to meet that goal, while keeping the weight down.

Seeing nothing about the color printing speed, I don't care about that. It's just black and white speed that matters! I make the black cartridge super fast and super wide. Whoa - gotta keep the weight down! Oh well - I'll make this colour cartridge smaller/cheaper/slower/lighter.

Suddenly, we have a printer that does 10ppm of black and white, and only 0.1ppm of colour, because it has to crawl along.

We now have a 'defeat device'. It performs great in test conditions (black and white text), and badly in general use (colour pages are common).

Did the designer explicitly make a defeat device? Not really... They just only made it work well in the test conditions, and performance in all other conditions suffered.
A difference with Java is that new Java releases tend to come with changes to the JVM. The language's semantics and the abstract machine are intertwined in a way where the JVM might be changed to enable a new language feature, or vice-versa. And the JVM itself improving is pretty much always an unalloyed good, so people tend to look forward to releases of Java to see what JVM improvements it has in store.

Elixir doesn't hold the same position for its abstract machine. BEAM, the abstract machine, has its development intertwined with that of Erlang's language development, but not-so-much with Elixir's. Elixir can stabilize while BEAM+Erlang continue to evolve "underneath" it. Given that Erlang syntax is pretty much† always valid Elixir syntax, Elixir doesn't even need to change to expose new Erlang stuff!

† There were big changes when maps were introduced, but another change of that scale seems unlikely at this point. (Unless Erlang gets a mutable byte-array type or something.)
Sorry but I think you’re terribly naive. Almost as if you believe that the reason big tobacco tried to deny that cigarettes caused cancer was on principle. Don’t make me laugh, it’s pure self interest all the way. Not even racism or sexism since that’s just a way to divide and conquer the enemies of corporate interests. No, it’s about something far more prosaic- money and power. Simple as that.

The right- or at least the portion with all the money and influence to control their narrative- is absolutely not making their case on a good faith basis. Why attack Iraq? Money and power. Why run anti-union campaigns? Money and power. Why insist that health care for everyone is impossible? Money and power. I mean just make the absolute worst assumptions about why they do anything and suddenly the world makes a lot more sense.
Airbnb Launches Luxury
Video version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsBjAuexPq4
ctrl + F 'emulator'. lol only 3.
If you don't need any form of accelerated graphics then yeah, you don't want a pi and it's easier to get a more open board architecture. If you're making your own product tho it's way more likely you're not just gonna by someone else's board and jam it in there.

This feels like a dramatically different category of thing than what the Pi is, to the point where comparison starts to get less meaningful.

But frankly I'm not sure the RPi folks should give a damn. They're selling whole computers. That they don't fit into someone else's product pipeline is unsurprising.

It's like complaining you can't turn a MacBook air into a blade. It's true, but it's also a bit wrong to expect you could have in the first place.
> It's not folksy. Almost every architect I've talked to would love to build a mid/high rise with it.

I didn't mean 'folksy' as an insult. I was just surprised that google would propose a material outside the usual brutalist design palette (concrete, glass, steel, etc...)
I'm thinking of doing the same for my kid. Any photos/description?
This is exactly what the OP referring to when he referenced negative externalities. This problem only exists because the oil company took a risk in order to make profits. The potential risk (the negative externally) materialized. If society eats up the cost, we encourage business practices that might be a net-negative for society as a whole. If the oil company has to pay for the cleanup, the market forces can determine if drilling the way they did, where they did is economical.
It was one of the easiest languages for me to learn, and I felt I was as productive in it as Py/Node (that I've used for years) with only about 2 weeks of playing with D on the side. There's a lot of intuitional things that D gets very right imho, from syntax to the standard lib. Also the generic/template support in D is a real pleasure to work with coming from most other languages I've used.

There's a couple challenges though. D's community for library support isn't as rich when comparing to even newer languages like Go. The other issue is D's runtime gc (which is being slowly removed/reduced) is pretty slow compared to Go, and is similar to Python in performance.

The shame is, on paper, D could replace Py or Node for being a very developer productive language. However, it can't compete with them because it doesn't have the same massive community. It also isn't performant enough to stand out against Go and Rust. So D is sitting in an uncanny valley without a silver bullet to stand out against any one particular audience. In many ways, D reminds me of Plan9. For me personally, it's one of my favorite languages to program in (it "gives me joy"), but I currently only use it for side projects. My hope is in these active projects:

a) D minimizes gc use and makes the gc as fast as Go's, allowing it to complete in the performance [web app] category. Vibe.d performance competing fairly in the top of techempower benchmarks.

b) Rust adds more sugar to improve developer 'ergonomics' and finishes the async additions.

c) Go gets "D like" generics and macros (Shh... I can dream)
I have, and yep there were definite clear and strong visual hallucinations, with my eyes open (as far as I can remember). I'd never heard of aphantasia back then so I had no concept I wasn't just the same as everyone else. So there was no closing my eyes and trying to visualise on acid...

I'd do skateboard or cycling by the seat of my pants - it's more a feel, a spatial sense, and a muscle memory thing again. I can definitely get a sense of doing it, so perhaps it stems more from touch than sight?

Same with the sexual - it's the concept, the thought, the emotion, the feels. The sense of touch is definitely quite strong here. Visual needs pornhub. Sorry! :)
I was unable to figure out how to setup accounts, and I am not used to PostgreSQL, I couldnt figure out my root password, which I swear was just "developer" but that didn't seem to work. I'm used to other database engines, despite my love of the idea of using PGSQL.
I wonder if they could have used something like petitboot? That way they don't depend on Pi4 firmware for netbooting. It does require a sd card, but it's read only and tiny.
Dutch emergency services hit by KPN telecoms outage
I worked at a small company that had a kinda internal business social network tool where the devs and customer service people could do this. We called it superadmin. Eventually we anonymized the actual posts and employee names but for a while we could literally see everything. Technically afterward we still could if we had prod db rights and just connected straight to that.
> The ethernet controller was an USB one, and was neither really stable or took load very well

Hmm... that explains a problem I had with a pi of mine. Every time the 10/100 switch it was connected to rebooted, the pi would lose its ethernet link until rebooted. Never had this with other machines on the same switch.
Many interesting comments on a recent previous article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19618927
Punchline: by using microparticulates.

We have been learning a lot of bad things about the effects of tiny particles on respiratory systems. I hope this doesn't turn into another "shocking update" 20 years from now when lawsuits make them admit they've known all along that they are causing cancer or birth defects.
How e-commerce sites manipulate people into buying things
I could see an SRV record style of load balancing being done on containers optimizing that layer by reducing a hop
Privacy by Design in the Age of Big Data [pdf]
That's true, but there's a lot of value in waking people up to the idea that ML works, even if what they're doing has worked for a long time.

There are a lot of situations where before people would have assumed their best option is to carefully tweak a custom statistical model, whereas now they're just happy to throw a black box at it and see what happens. This is as much a cultural change as a technological change, and it's good that it is finally happening. That's what a "paradigm shift" is after all.
Sure, that's Level 3's official position. Unofficially, everyone uses it and there is clearly someone inside making the deliberate decision to keep it publicly available. https://www.tummy.com/articles/famous-dns-server/

As I said, the crux of the problem isn't Google's "blocking", but rather making it intermittent. Obviously it's well within their rights to play whatever games they want - drop every other packet, vary the latency based on your IP, duplicate packets, or make it appear some queue occasionally holds your packets for 3 seconds. It's also within their rights to redirect all DNS lookups to an April Fool's page. And to do any of this selectively based on how many different Google services you use.

But that is not what any user expects, and in the end that's all protocols are - expectations. To me, the pushback I've gotten here fits right in with Surveillance Valley's general attitude of shirking responsibility with some fine print disclaimer, knowing full well what the constructive situation is. "I'm just going to go like this [spinning arms], it's not my fault if you walk into me".

If you can't see how people would expect to be able to reliably ping 8.8.8.8, or how intermittently dropping pings causes confusion (as in the original comment above), then I can't help you.
We hacked together an automatic door opening system controllable via smartphone that notifies you on ringing and sends a video, then opens the doors on button press with a Lego contraption [1].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/bwdv36/a_smar...
This is fascinating. What about visualizing geometrical objects and doing design ? I would assume that architecture or mechanical design would be something you would have a hard time.
Thermal solar can produce constant output. As can any system with sufficient storage capacity, be it battery or otherwise.

It seems like most critiques of alternate energy come from a place of ignorance about alternative energy. No offense, it's just frustrating to hear people say "I care so much!" and then they don't even understand the basic landscape about which they claim to be so deeply concerned.

It also seems to be the one area of technology where people suddenly lose all capacity to understand that technology changes, that the solutions we have today are not the solutions we will have tomorrow, and more investment always leads to more solutions. So many prefer to throw their arms up and say "It's impossible! Sometimes the wind doesn't blow so we're doomed!"
Exactly. Instead, the corporations can extract all of the value of the oil, and we the people feel the losses of the resulting environmental damage for years. If the the expected damage exceeds the expected value, then they should not be building the platforms. In America someone eats the losses, but not them.
If it can't be done safely and the cost of the cleanup exceeds the value of the operation, we shouldn't do it.

If the concern is cost of the outlier accident, then that seems exactly like the problem insurance companies solve.
That said, does the pi have accelerated graphics yet? I was playing with pygame (based on SDL) and I think all the blits and other operations were in software.
I see your point but it's not like we ever just mine a ton of gold and flood the market. New gold gets mined but it's not done at a rate that influences that market price. Theoretically yes, there is an unlimited amount, but in practice most of that gold will never be found.
What's weird is that Atlassian seemingly just gave up on HipChat at a time when Slack was only just emerging in popularity.
I think it makes them look pretty fine to very good
Honestly I dunno why it was the case for me. What I know is that I thought I'd save power pushing pulses over copper rather than using a radio. I didn't. In fact it was consistently about 40% worse than wifi.

That might be unique to the RPi hardware I used. It might not.

Maybe I should have written that article. :)
Been aware of it for a few years since the reports of the university study started coming out. I always assumed everyone was the same too, and any prose talking of "now see that balloon, rotate it, make it bigger..." was just overblown metaphor or their inner internet marketer coming out.

Which was a bit of a surprise as the other 50 years I'd never thought to query anyone about it. I asked quite a few friends when I first found out, and no doubt annoyed them with silly questions.
Spraying nanoparticles sounds like it could easily lead to air pollution, but I am not an expert. Is this something we should be concerned about if this ever becomes industrialized?
You can get cheap NDIR based sensors from aliexpress (around $20) such as MH-Z14A, which I've used with a Pi, via the UART interface. I just hooked it up to the 5V line on the Pi pin header and then used the Pis UART lines for the data, as that runs at 3.3V.
> by the way the say "bag" though (sounds like "beg")

The infamous "northwest vowel shift"! I do this too (grew up in the suburbs of Portland) and it's common from Oregon up into BC. Didn't realize it was different until I moved to the midwest for undergrad.
Yet another fake news title claiming big results for what really turns out to be gold nanoparticles assimilated on and into aquatic plants only.
Note: Gold is NOT a beneficial macronutrient or micronutrient in plant physiology.
The difference between China and Europe are huge.Email is useless in China.This research is soooooo
funny!!!!
Amazing gifs! Just scanning it is enough to understand it.
There is a big difference between Level 2 charging and the Tesla Superchargers.
Level 2 J1772 charging tops out under 20 kW, but most cars can only handle 7kW.
Most of the current DC fast charging points (ChargePoint etc) are 50 kW. Faster ones are coming, but most of the current cars (Bolt, Leaf, i3, Kia) can only accept less than 100 kW. Tesla Superchargers are currently 145 kW, but new installations are 250 kW.
In my personal experience, I forgot my phone on the basketball court of Chinese university campus in 2015, and it took me four hours to remember. When I went back to look for it, it was still in its place. In this study, the owner was asked to contact the owner by email. However, Chinese people do not often use email, and they usually return the lost property to the lost and found office. I hope Science can be more rigorous in future research. Thank you.
I would argue that in the real-world, for emergency use, POTS only has ~60% reliability.

When an emergency happens, what are the chances a POTS phone is nearby? If there isn't a landline within 100 yards of the incident, the POTS network has failed to help.

Now given that, does it really matter if the actual phones have are "3 nines" or "5 nines"?
I have studied the Cold War and SDI ("Star Wars".)

Russian and US leaders thought that MAD was idiotic - that defending your country against your adversaries was of the highest importance, not retaliating after your capital was in ashes.

That was the motivation for the Moscow ABM ring (still exists) and SDI (the ABM part worked, the lasers didn't.)

MAD is for policy wonks and technocrats, and is not what leaders rely on.
FYI a heat wave is relative to the climate in which it occurs, not globally.
Here's my crackpot idea, in case anyone out there is willing and qualified to put in the hard work:

Start with a detailed model of the solar system. Make a million copies of it. In each copy, insert a planet in a random orbit, with random mass. Measure the orbits of everything, perturbed by the new planet.

Feed the measurements of everything, except the new planet, to an A.I., and have it estimate the position of the new planet. Give it feedback on how accurate is was. Repeat a million times. It should learn to pinpoint ninth planets in solar systems like ours, from the perturbations on orbits of known bodies.

Then feed it the real measurement history from the real Solar System. It should output the location of Planet Nine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine
I would say C# dev time is rather fast. I stood up a medium size project recently without ever having used C# in a serious project before and it was pretty fast to set up.

I'd say the main thing hindering dev time would be if you have people you're working with who need things to be done the "enterprise" way (i.e. needlessly extensible and abstracted). But if you don't have those people, it can be much faster to write than Java due to the better tooling and standard libraries.

Also less popular languages might be missing very nice features that make the quality of life of deploying/testing/etc. better, which is really important if you are just setting up a small-medium sized project where you yourself are responsible for the devops. I found C#/.NET (still not exactly sure where one ends and one begins...) very easy to work with in this regard, and I'm sure Java and Go are also probably pretty good here. But I expect C and Rust are not so good.
> before Henry Ford and the discovery of Texas oil

There is a book called Internal Combustion which claims that Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were working together on an electric car but that in 1914 Edison's battery facility was destroyed in a massive blaze of very suspicious origin. With this setback and the beginning of WWI, the electric car was lost. You can read that book and make your own conclusions, of course :)
I'm having identical twins, classified as high risk. The cost is mind-boggling. I've already paid $7000+ out of pocket, and they have not even been born yet. Costs are mostly related to having to do ultrasounds all the time, and one MRI.
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