skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Silent: nope. Most noise from modern ICE cars is tire noise. Still have tires? Not silent, or even signifigantly quieter.
2. No Gears: maybe no changing array of reduction gears, but with the exception of hub motors, there are, in fact, gears. ICE cars exist with single speeds, they are just more efficient with more.

If you cant even get through a title without lies, how am I supposed to take the rest seriously? This abrasive 'did I mention that Im Vegan and im saving the world and you arent?!?' attitude is why many prospective ecar buyers avoid them. Just sell them on their actual merits, which exist. Unlike the merits expounded here and elsewhere by well-meaning fans.
What are your thoughts on communism as defined in, say, The Conquest of Bread, by Petr Kropotkin?

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-c...
>Pick two markets with similar demographics and a timeframe. Run FB ads in one market as an experiment and traditional media ads in another market as a control. If sales increase in the experiment market vs the control that is strong evidence that FB ads are more effective than traditional marketing.

This sounds like an incredibly naive and expensive experiment, filled to the brim with noise.
That knowledge is created by the company. Why should everyone have access to it? Can’t competitors create their own processes? The formula to Coca Cola is still practically a state secret, but that didn’t stop Pepsi et al from competing.

Secrets of iPhone manufacturing isn’t something that should be considered worthy of the public domain. Nothing is stopping a competitor from developing their own knowledge and processes. You don’t have to steal to compete.
If the police come to arrest Mr Anonymous because my phone activity matches something of interest, they will learn who I am when they knock down my door.

My phone has a cellular account with my name attached to it.
Rhinos Grasshopper, Revit Dynamo (BIM), Houdini all have similar node based editing. Generally it works great in concept, and then in the real world is gets pushed to the extremes.
BVC = flippant curiosities/no sharp info no sharp opinions, just attitudes. get out.
The F-117 was replaced by the F-22 and F-35A, not the B-2. The F-117 continued operating well after B-2 production ended.
Good luck with that, when your part isn't available, you're gonna be waiting and wish you had a backup.
> The risk, he [Barr] said, was acceptable because “we are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications,” and “not talking about protecting the nation’s nuclear launch codes.”

Two things about this odd quote, which dances on the edge of the Orwellian "nothing to hide" argument:

1. I'd put the odds that current president has in fact stored the nuclear launch codes on a "consumer product" at 50:50. He's shown a shocking disregard and disdain for protocol. The way in which diplomacy is carried out through Twitter suggests he's not capable of evaluating the threats posed his uses of consumer-grade technology.

2. Barr assumes a threat model involving petty criminals. The real threat is the US federal government, which has demonstrated repeated disregard, under multiple administrations, for search and seizure boundaries set by the Constitution.
they made it the whole article without calling it a SAFETY deposit box. my father would be thrilled.

(its a safe deposit box, not a safety deposit box)
I believe the common wisdom isn't that high-quality things necessarily are any slower to wear out; but rather that when they do wear out, they do so in non-critical ways, with specially-designated easily-replaceable sacrificial parts wearing out to protect the whole.

E.g. with shoes with leather soles, you can just pry them off and tack on a new sole; with an expensive couch with good framing, you can just reupholster the thing; etc.

Likewise, clothes considered higher-quality are usually made of materials that can "absorb" re-stitching; while clothes made of "expensive" but not "high-quality" materials (e.g. modern sports fabrics) will tear and then there's nothing you can really do; any patch sewn onto them would fall back off the first time they're put through the wash.
I'm curious, what low-level storage interfaces do you recommend?
Because the cost per employee of a useless self help seminar would be way below $5K and the HR might even get a kickback.
Did they see it as neutering cities? Transportation infrastructure is typically seen as a means of supporting growth by connecting regions. Freeways were likely seen as a natural extension of that approach. While many modes of transportation had a negative impact in the immediate vicinity, it is probable that they underestimated the impact of freeways both in terms of environmental factors and encouraging urban sprawl. In other words, they embarked upon a grand experiment without realizing that it was an experiment.
Sort of but it uses the Docker daemon in the Minikube VM currently, but Minikube currently supports a --vm-driver=none option to deploy Minikube Kubernetes without using a VM (which is currently not recommended due to security issues of sharing the Docker daemon). However, deploying Kubernetes in a container (or containers) would greatly speed up the deployment and make it a lot easier to manage than a VM.

Since Podman supports rootless containers it should mitigate this security risk. Really there needs to be an easy way to deploy Kubernetes to Podman on Linux. It would make things a lot easier overall and make Podman the ideal option for local Kubernetes on Linux.
One could make a good case that strong encryption is a form of Arms (certainly the US did, as "Auxiliary Military Equipment"[1]). So if encryption is a form of Arms, then Barr should probably keep his mouth shut or else he's making a case against the holy Second Amendment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
My main beef with this genre of article is that code is for humans, and if you don't think humans like nouns, bring an object to work that nobody there has every seen, and count how many people ask what it is before they ask what it does.

For many people, that kingdom of nouns lives in their brains. I'm not saying I agree with this entirely. I don't even think I'm saying we shouldn't fight it - I certainly have felt the pain of people wanting to pigeonhole me at work by noun instead of looking at what verbs I'm capable of.

But it's out there, and you don't have to look very hard to find it.
> the deadliest attacks really are coordinated through end-to-end encrypted platforms such as WhatsApp?

Most of the recent attacks in America were carried out by lone-wolf far-right extremists. Some of the ones who were caught were actual government employees.

Furthermore, there's more to fear than someone spraying bullets into a crowd; ICE is performing 3am Gestapo raids and imprisoning citizens.

So you bet your ass I'm more afraid of the government than a guy driving a semi-truck. The government can hurt more people in a day than a terror group can in a year.
That blog post makes me uncomfortable. I would’ve gone totally crazy if my company switched project management tools every x months because “it’s just 95% there...”.

Just pick one and stick with it.
Benjamin Franklin is a Founding Father and has been generally accepted as an authority for more than 200 years, especially on the subject of freedoms and rights. He was a renown political theorist, politician, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat in his own day, not to mention the fact his reputation has stood the test of time.

William Barr is none of these thing.
Why the CPU Will Always Matter in DL Training and Inference
Absolutely. I used to work for a small consulting company where most of the work was building fairly boring line of business systems for big corporations. It seemed like we charged way below what other similar consultancies where charging, so I asked why we didn't charge more. The response was not that we couldn't charge more, but that at $X the clients just wanted use to work endless 8 hour days, but at $2X clients would only bring us in for more critical projects but would not want to pay for our time doing routine maintenance, filling out corporate paperwork, support requests, etc. To me it sure sounded like we should have been charging $2X, having to work less, and being treated as a valuable resource. But I guess some people prefer the (implied all though not real) security of consulting contracts without an end date.
Because I’m aware enough of the CS world that I just know that an iterative improvement in an obscure data structure is not enough to become rich and famous.
How was this done before, GNU parallel + curl?
I repeatedly encounter engineers who struggle to write even the most basic JIRA tickets. It was a real eye-opener on how many technical people, while brilliant, tend to take writing skills (or communication skills in general) for granted.

Funny thing is that it's deemed unimportant when they have to do it themselves, but appreciate it when presented with well-documented tooling/libraries.
I still haven't found an easy and reliable way to do this. Do you have some simple instructions, cause it looks way more complicated than it should be.
NASA is just giving away an Apollo-era Saturn rocket to anyone who wants it
> Different people reported different symptoms. Most people did not report hearing any particular sounds. Of those who did, they said they heard very different sounds, and at different times and places. None of the sounds bore any similarity to sonic weapons. Only one person reported permanent hearing loss; and as nobody else did, we can safely assume that it was likely due to natural causes for that person. One reported a concussion with no apparent cause, but nobody else did either. So if we are looking for some external cause for these symptoms, we learn that it was probably not any one cause. It was a number of different causes, suggesting that these people were suffering from various unrelated problems.

The point is that this event is inconsistent with any known diseases or injuries, including sonic devices, but completely consistent with other events of (self-reinforcing) mass hallucinations. No one is saying the affected have not suffered.
FDA issues warning to CBD company for 'unsubstantiated' health claims
Very few of the people who talk about "fascism" have coherent ideologies either. Trump isn't decisive enough to be a fascist. He really only knows how to do a few things well, and together those don't amount to much more than "play the news media like a fiddle". If we actually wanted USA to be less fascist, we could start by violently invading fewer nations who've done nothing to provoke invasion.
> if Apple manufactured their devices in the US or Europe?

Unless I wildly misunderstand something, I'm pretty sure Apple could not produce X amount of devices at Y quality + rate for Z dollars in the US or Europe.
That has nothing to do with seniority, it's 100% about how you draw personal boundaries between work hours and personal hours. You can make it clear that you will be completely unplugged during vacation.
I think many people are, but it's not something that can be put first in your decision making process unless you are already successful.

If you're financially unstable, paying down student debt, etc., it becomes much harder to justify picking a lower-paying job that is more personally motivating if you have other options on the table.
I think the usual devil's advocate argument is that those attacks are not a practical concern at all to anyone's life (except the extremely unfortunate — thoughts & prayers).
It barely registers when compared to boring old regular crime and homicide, all of which is of dwarfed by road accidents.
All of which combined is itself still single-digit chances of dying, the rest being cancer, disease and strokes.

So the argument goes, you should focus on the much more direct and practical impact that laws & politics can have on your life.
Despite its "retirement", the F-117 is still being flown in limited quantities by the USAF.

https://combataircraft.keypublishing.com/2019/02/27/f-117-ni...
I did this a few years ago and the blog post (to my suprise) got covered on Ars Technica and others. It always amazes me how people respond with disbelief or with wonder and awe as if it's some difficult or hard to do thing. At the time there were good, if not better, alternatives for almost everything. The only thing I stuck with was Gmail and Google calendar, but since then I've discovered Fastmail which I think is far better at both (I highly recommend them, they're fairly inexpensive and that means you're not the product, you're the customer). Although for me it was less about privacy (at the time) and more about the fact that I had become dependent on the inter-connections between Google services so when they killed one (ie. Reader) it has a much bigger impact on my personal life than it should have. Now any time a product dies it's easy to move my data over to something else and I never get reliant on interoperability between branded services.

I've also got Google Analytics black holed in Firefox, and run an ad blocker of course which (I hope) catches most of their trackers; this just seems good for anyone to do though, even if they're not giving up Google's other services.
Don't know what happened but the first time I clicked this link it brought me to unrendered HTML and obfuscated JS. Can't reproduce... but perhaps beware of malware.
Yet another old white man, sigh. Tired. It's 2019 after all!
You might need a source showing that attacks would be stopped by backdoors in encryption, since anyone could make encrypted communication using software off of GitHub.
This seems like an incredibly useful feature, and until I read this, I assumed that cURL already did parallel transfers.
> The emphasis there is on the expensive though.

Right, but anything involving substantial marble surfaces in a ktichen, as in the article, is both expensive and impractical.
Declaring it a "genuine question" does not change the fact that you are baiting people with a logical fallacy.
I've lived in a tick infested area (Ozark Mountains) for 25 years now and get bit at least a 100 times a year (probably a lot more, but I don't keep count).

The trick to avoiding Lyme disease is to do a "tick check" everyday and get them off of you asap. It helps a lot to treat clothes with permethrin but you'll still get a few bites if you're out where they're thick.

Here's a link to video I made last year about killing ticks in my yard:

https://youtu.be/TFVDv8swzxQ
I know people who spend large budgets on Facebook and Google ads. What I hear almost universally is that they aren't effective, yet everyone feels compelled to pay for FB ads and Google ads because they see everyone else doing it. The customers I have spoken too feel that it simply isn't working but they're afraid to stop buying the ads for fear of slipping into online oblivion. Numerous people have shared the same experience with me and nobody is happy. Now there is the chance that I just happen to know only statistical outliers, the people who pay a lot of money and feel they aren't getting anything in return but feel compelled to continue. Maybe I just happen to know a dozen or so very unlucky resentful people. I don't have solid "evidence". It's all anecdotal. That said, this experience I've just described is most likely common and hardly unique.
ICE ramps up DNA testing for migrant families along the southern border
More importantly, I don't believe we could prevent another 9/11 even with government mandated backdoors.
Of course I'm in already in trouble. That's why I'm debugging. I tend not to debug things that are working perfectly.

If I can't attach a profiler to find, for example, the code that contains a regex that's doing too much backtracking with production data, then I'm dead in the water. If I can't get a sample out of a system that's received a query of death, then I'm dead in the water. If I can't attach dtrace (or the equivalent) and get stats on how much I/O a system is doing in response to various events, I'm dead in the water.

Being able to dive into the depths of a system is the #1 criteria for confidently being able to put it into production.
A Sci-Fi Veteran Tells His Own (Earthling) Story
Yeah hopefully when FIPS 140-3 finishes we'll start seeing hardware tokens that can do elliptic curves.
In my companies and for my clients, I track up-tick in sales for each campaign on each platform. Sometimes the problem is conversion (that's on me/us), and sometimes bad targeting or whatever.

If FB isn't one of the lowest channels (platforms) for CAC that is greatly exceeded by LTV (or even <3 mo breakeven), then it isn't a channel you use for that product!
Tesla driver mows down 11 construction cones on video and blames Autopilot
Yes I read the paper, but he also makes it clear that there's still lots of work to do (e.g. how to make it work better with macros)
At this point with the proliferation of cameras and listening devices, the only way to stay off Google's servers is to live in the backwoods, or in an undeveloped country, or live on a boat.

Kinda creepy, actually, when I say it like that. If Google is just a front for NSA then I'd say Big Brother is complete.
As a full-time remote worker myself, I absolutely double that. It is so much more effective and better in almost [1] every way.

[1] The socialization might suffer a bit, but you are able to fix that as you wish instead of having only one option (which is office).
> Apple’s suppliers are forbidden from referring to Apple by name or its project code names anywhere in buildings.

In which buildings? Surely (at least vendor specific) codenames are necessary for basic communication. I was affected when a partner team was sidelined by an Apple contract. It was a fireable offense to say <codename> was Apple or leak it, but you could use <codename> internally to indicate that you had mandated commitments and may not meet partnership goals.
>While not being critical to national security, safety in storing your medical, financial records and your conversations with other is mission critical to citizens. Hopefully folks on capital hill see that.

They aren't going to see it. The government will just use the non-backdoored version. If a company gets its data popped because of the backdoor, the government will just blame the company, or it's acceptable losses because they catch some bad guys.

Everyone should be super, super, super pessimistic that attempts like these will be handled in the interests of citizens.
Coca-Cola will sell an alcoholic drink nationwide in Japan
Growth is good, but it means different things to different people. Someone might want more money, another opportunities to attend and present at conferences, third a path to management, fourth a path to "technical expert at large", etc. etc.

And mistakes can backfire: offer a management path to a person who wants more technology and he may think "ouch, bureaucracy and PowerPoint ahead". I think a general (and genuine) statement of support for technical leadership, management and whatever other paths a company offers would go further than a generic "support growth" mantra. My 2c.
We will get access to all of Bob Barr's communications if this passes right?
Thankfully, like virtually all major tech companies, neither GITHUB.COM nor GITHUBUSERCONTENT.COM are DNSSEC-signed, nor are they ever likely to be.
The USAF is making the right call as far as I'm concerned. It is breathtakingly easy for hostile actors to manipulate the behavior of UAVs. Hell, Iran stole one by just spoofing its GPS and landing it exactly where they wanted. Giving every hostile nation and hacker the opportunity to find zero-days on a fleet of supersonic aircraft is stupidly reckless.
For another anecdotal example, I have only met the exact opposite: people who take steps to avoid big tech tracking but happily use credit cards etc
Why bother trying to break encryption when you have backdoors in the hardware and OS? It's far easier to just use a keylogger on your OS keyboard, take a screenshot, access RAM buffers, etc.
Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…
Why would someone downvote this comment? If you don’t like spideroak [1] that’s fine but downvoting for an informative comment seems childish.

1: https://spideroak.com/

Another e2e encrypted storage solution is keybase.io.
Hah that's a good question. I haven't really thought about that or explored type systems that would interact with this pattern. Would be really interested in reading about it though!
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That is more of mark of desorganized workplace then something inherent to senior role.
I think "opportunities for career growth" is very similar to how graphic designers or musicians are always pitched that they should do work for someone for low/no pay because it will get them "more exposure". There is the possibility that the growth opportunity will end up being a good investment with regard to future financial returns, but I think the most likely case is that it will just end up with the person doing the work losing out on money.
Arbitrary byte-to-byte maps using ARM NEON
Ah, I see, I misunderstood; thanks, I didn't know there was a term for this!
The market predicts that Fed will make a deeper cut to rates later this month
Time will tell whether the author, Aaron Greenspan, who knew and interacted with Zuckerberg at Harvard, is right or wrong. Given the lack of good, transparent data, it's hard for me to judge the prevalence of ad fraud. I suspect it's hard for many ad buyers too.

In the meantime, the OP and comments here remind me of the reaction of a media executive, Mel Karmazin, upon realizing, back in 2003, that Google could measure the effectiveness of advertising:

> Karmazin and the networks continued to charge steep rates because, Karmazin says, "advertisers don't know what works and what doesn't. That's a great model." But it's a model, the Google executives told him, that is horribly inefficient. Karmazin, before departing, trained his eyes on his Google hosts and blurted, only half in jest, "You're fucking with the magic!"[a]

Perhaps new media companies like Facebook have come to the realization that they too should not be "fucking with the magic," to use Karmazin's colorful language.

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[a] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120389...
I don't think Amazon is a good comparison here. Yes, they have a lot of data on the things that you buy but at the core, Amazon is a logistics company. Advertising is not their profit center.

Facebook and Google are both advertising companies. That is how they make money so naturally that is also where a lot of their R&D spend goes.
L2 chargers aren't that expensive to install. I paid an electrician $300 to run a line from my fuse box to garage and install the outlet. Then the actual charger, a Siemens VersiCharge, is $450. I still need to do a bit of drywall repair from where the electrician had to cut to run the line, but that's trivial.
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>> It is fair to assume that the general public knows very little about how many dreadful criminal activities they were able to avoid because they could tap into the conversation early on

I'd like to see more of that made public.
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Thiel: An Era of Stagnation and Universal Institutional Failure
What I find particularly annoying is we had a vaccine for the North American strain of Lyme Disease, but no one makes it anymore for humans!

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lym...
And they already have their unmanned swarms completely operational.
My main motivator, "close collaboration within the team", didn't even make the list.

Wonder what were the choices on offer in the survey ?
Critical RCE Flaw in Palo Alto Gateways Hits Uber
Its getting scary out there, my wife has basically banned us going hiking esp in Spring when the nymph ticks are tiny. Going to the movies never looked so good.