skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The team leader clearly said they wanted someone who knew more about wifi drivers.

Being a manager is a difficult and thankless task.
I don't know how many stores they currently have worldwide, but 160 new stores across the entire world is nothing.

That's less than one new store per country on average.

To put it in perspective there are 37,000 McDonald's and 11,766 Wal-Marts in the world. Even Levi's has 750 of their own stores worldwide.
Where I live, in the tropics, a mosquito killing bot that is highly effective and safe to use indoors would be a big seller if it was priced right. It would have to work better than the passive approaches like screens and traps, which are pretty effective and fairly inexpensive.
Fastly is building a WebAssembly runtime on its edge servers so customers can run their own sandboxed WebAssembly closer to clients:

https://www.fastly.com/blog/announcing-lucet-fastly-native-w...
what flags do you use for espeak, just -s 1000 seems incomprehensible to me
Cashless society would be a pain for kids, homeless, people with trash credit history, etc. So either we need to force all banks to give their internet bank access and some sort of debit card to absolutely anybody who just asks that without any fees, or cash must be accepted.
The bit about the cell phone discharge seems pretty unlikely. A charged car battery has at least 2MJ of stored energy. GSM in its highest-power mobile station state draws 800mW. Add maybe another 150mW for the GPS, call it 1W total. The battery should power such a phone for weeks.

You should be able to smell-test this fact by considering that your mobile weighs nothing and runs all day whereas a car battery weighs 20kg.
I think the drone industry is to a drone producer what the cloud is to hard drive manufacturers. Many of the startups were creating value adds atop DJI.
Show HN: Quadiq – A Simple, Relaxing, Strategy Game
I'm making this post before I go to bed. I'll check comments tomorrow if there are any to check! I just wanted to show off a simple game I built somewhat inspired by Hexiq and similar games. It's called Quadiq. You can play it at the link below. Let me know what you think! What does it need? How can it be better?

http://quadiq.binarycocoa.com/
Ticked Off: Clock Bug Leads to False Ryzen Benchmark Scores
Making malloc take a long long on 32b archs is a _real_ perf hit. At least make it an ssize_t.
I'm assuming that their bank cards and debit cards are two different things

Presumably their "bank cards" only use some local payment scheme rather than visa or MasterCard (explaining why it can't be used online)

The newer "debit card" uses Visa or MasterCard which means it is accepted anywhere Visa/MasterCard is
But if you abandon cash, people would themselves find an alternative means of bartering. A means of which the government would not be in control. Even if only a miniscule of transactions are done with cash, surely the government would like to remain in control of said transactions, and thus would not be so quick to abandon it?
>hands-off alert intervals are measured in minutes for the accident scenario

Since January 2018 there have been software updates that reduce the time that the car will allow you to not signal to it that you are paying attention. You now have to apply a little turning force to the wheel much more often than before.
Privacy Sandbox: Google's New Initiative for Open Standards on Privacy
Oh, sounds interesting! How're you hitting Cloudinary from 8base - do you have an example?
Radio signals could definitely interfere with LIGO, and show up with consistent time delays corresponding to some sky position. There are two defenses against this:

1. At the LIGO observatories there are numerous auxiliary sensors, including radio receivers, that are used as "vetoes" for candidate gravitational wave events.

2. For binary black hole or neutron star inspirals, the gravitational wave waveforms are well-modeled using numerical general relativity. The fact that the observed detection matches the prediction so well lends additional credibility to the detection.

Regarding #2, we are of course hoping to detect something unexpected, with an unknown waveform. In those cases we'll rely on the veto channels to ensure that we have not detected contamination from a radio event.
You weave unsubstantiated comments into you arguments. They would be stronger if you didn't.
Because self driving car companies are putting a dangerous product onto the road, citing “safer than human drivers” in a disingenuous manner. Musk likes to cite autopilot as safer than human drivers, based upon accidents per miles driven. However, where are autopilot miles primarily being driven? On the highway. I expect a sober human driver to have a much lower accident rate than Tesla’s autopilot when driving the same highway miles. And yet Musk pushes his agenda... which is possibly an overreach. When I see cars plowing into the rear of fire trucks, into freeway split barriers, into tow trucks or under turning semis, I have to ask myself if I would have been able to avoid those, and I can honestly say that I would have. Would a drunken high schooler? Probably not.

I simply don’t believe the “safer than humans” narrative is being honest with the number of caveats.

Until self driving car executives are willing to send their children into the street in a real life game of frogger with their cars being driven by a bunch of drunken frat boys in a blizzard, they shouldn’t expect the general public to blindly agree to be their guinea pigs either.
Reminds me of someone bitching about spending a decade developing a solid business and then a bunch of VC funded companies came like locusts, eating everything, and then promptly died.
What a joy! That I also didn’t get a real fire for learning until around age 20 makes this relatable. That it’s Churchill makes it fun to read.
I totally agree with this. Japan is still mostly a cash based society. One of the things I love about it is that I can still rent a car or book a hotel room without a credit card. This keeps people on an even footing. If you are homeless without an address (and therefore a bank account), you can still buy things. If you have poor credit, then you can still pay with cash for anything.

The anonymity of cash is nice, but the lack of discrimination of cash is its real feature.
I also see how Brave likes to thrive on anti-Google pro-privacy camp and I personally pick Firefox over Brave any day if the week.

There is de-Googled Chromium OS project, but Brave takes a few steps sideways by making further changes such as proxying location services, safe browsing API, etc. I doubt a 12 y/o could compile it though, let alone in 2 hours.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20880576
Hi, I wrote that post. I don’t think that this is quite the same issue.

The 2019 post is vague but I think what happened is an attacker stole the credentials for e.g CircleCI’s account for Google Analytics. So an attacker could see URL’s that were visited, IP addresses, but they couldn’t run JavaScript on CircleCI’s domain.

The difference is between an attacker compromising the Google Analytics JavaScript snippet CDN and an attacker compromising a Google Analytics user account. The latter only lets you read the metadata not make any of the juicy AJAX calls.

(Also, it’s probably not actually Google Analytics, just listing a tool most people are familiar with).

It’s obviously not good but it’s not the same vulnerability I wrote about nor as bad as the one I described two years ago.
Better to build strong privacy by default into the one crypto with an 11-year track record for withstanding all attacks against it's network: Bitcoin. Of course, since consensus changes are really hard, and to preserve the 21 million coin hard limit, I suspect strong privacy will necessarily be built on layer 2 technologies like the Lightning Network. What's needed, and what Austrians (by citizenship or economic theory) want, is digital cash with real privacy.
Don't copy!! Ariana Grande's $ 10 million lawsuit The reason is?
> It is open source

Not by contemporary language standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
Porsche debuts Tesla’s newest competition with the all-electric Taycan
Is calculating the new size really the bottleneck here?
I think I understand what's being said, but taken literally it seems backwards? Body temperature probably was not regulated by dumping heat when the ambient temperature was cold. In those conditions heat should be conserved. Rather, heat is dumped (as much as possible) when the ambient temperature is warm.

Also, alligators are not usually considered homeothermic.
I agree, it's about much more than privacy - the right to have transactions (financial and otherwise) without intermediation and ubiquitous surveillance by governments/corporations is a huge moral issue of whether we live in a free society or a human farm. This is the stuff cyberpunk dystopia are made of!
Hmm... then perhaps it's good that I'm extremely particular about how I type my LaTeX, down to microadjustments to the kerning to make it look nicer.
You can pass Espeak recordings around legally. It's just GPL. The license applies to the software, not the content produced via it.

I will attempt to remember and find the time to take my demo recording of this on Rust compiler source code that's currently in dropbox and put it up somewhere more permanent. I doubt Dropbox will care for me much if I allow HN-volume traffic to hit my account. It's Espeak using an NVDA fork with an additional voice that some of us like, so vanilla espeak is in the ballpark.

What I don't remember is if vanilla non-libsonic espeak softcaps the speech rate. It might. I believe new versions of espeak integrate libsonic directly, but that old versions just silently bump the speaking rate down if it's over the max. I haven't used command line espeak directly for anything in a very long time.

Libsonic is an optimized library specifically for the use case of screen readers that need to push synths further: https://github.com/waywardgeek/sonic
It’s like when you upload a photo with your friend (who doesn’t use Facebook) and it pops up ‘Did you want to tag [friend]?’
I’ve confirmed this same type of behavior in several of Google’s products as well, as part of an experiment a couple friends and I ran a several months back, using fake personas, to see how feasible it’d be for one to simply exist w/o creating a digital footprint (let’s just say that our overall conclusions left me feeling very sad).
Anecdotal, but if I leave a USB charger plugged into the cigarette socket, without even anything plugged into the usb, it drains my battery overnight.
Yup, same here.

I had to leave my home town for work after getting laid off during the Great Recession. It was supposed to be very temporary, well, turns out it ended up being more permanent than I ever imagined.

I use Facebook to keep in contact with all my hometown friends. On top of that Facebook has allowed me to get back in touch with a childhood friend I haven't seen or heard from in 15+ years and it's also given me a great way to connect to new friends.

One of my best friends now I met once at an event in person, we connected on Facebook, and got talking on there. Now we talk most days over text message and we see each other a couple times a month, sometimes going on trips together. Without Facebook we would have had a single conversation ever. Sure, without Facebook we might have exchanged phone numbers after meeting, except that Facebook lends itself to friction-free low "risk" interactions in the way that phone just doesn't.
Wikipedia lists hoːənˈtsɔlɐn if you can read IPA, though without citation, which may provide a starting point.
Even VLC can play Blurays now, with the correct library and configuration.
What I've come to realize over the past couple years (as my taxes got considerably more complex) is that what's lost with the 'autonomous IRS' is essentially the ability to self-declare your expenditures based on their purpose (albeit with the risk of being audited). The algorithm, which in my interpretation of the suggestion just reads in all your transactional data, would be burdened with some very complex interpretation of supporting documentation. Unless of course it's very simple (e.g. flat tax)
The algorithm exists. Just because it’s not machine-executable doesn’t make it not an algorithm.
It's also written in third-party speech, with emphasis on spooky details rather than technical details.
No one is being made to pay for it. The intern wasn't good enough. The fact that she didn't get the message when they told her she won't be rejoining her team isn't someone else's responsibility. Probably the best learning experience.. your company will let you down when you least expect it.
I see nothing wrong with denying anyone guns for a limited period of time because their state of mind is in question. I don't see who is losing out when this happens.
It would be interesting to see if there are ghost account numbers in the dataset. Depending on the country or region, would there be grounds for litigation if there were?
How so? You can work for cash and never interact with a bank at all.
One of these things is very much not like the others. Red flag laws have been associated with huge reductions in gun-related suicides. The confiscation orders are also only temporary. You are being disingenuous lumping them in with terror watch lists and no fly lists that provide no due process or way to get off them, all in exchange for little to no benefit.
Good $deity. The author has no clue what "Never Saved" means.

The author actually has no clue at all.
Get a refund.

I leave a phone plugged into my car's USB port 24x7 and the car has its own GSM modem too and obviously it starts right up every time.
The Saved Address is what you let Chrome store to automatically fill forms. It's not your addresses in your Google Account. These are different things.
How do you work for cash in a future cashless society?
Nationalized banks with universal service obligations do/did exist. Even for a private bank it's pretty sweet deal though, practically every kid in Australia for the last 50 years got a savings account from ours, even though it was fully privatized 20 years ago many of us still use the same account, they've made some massive profits from that obligation.
My question to the group here is, are you individually willing to research the background of the people and funds you, as founders take as investors, and to what extent? Said more bluntly, would you shut your company down if you couldn't find other sources of financing?

I think the obvious answer is yes, but that's too obvious in some sense because these things lie on a spectrum.

Epstein post revelations should be outcast, that much is obvious. What of less egregious actors or associations? There are more than a few lecherous investors with less public exposure of their acts and equally deep pockets, wandering Sand Hill road.

Examples like the massive amount of Saudi national money [1] that is fueling funds like Softbank and Sequoia, and directly to companies like Uber, call into question where exactly the line is. You could replace Saudi with your particular questionable investor de jure.

In fact, when I've had conversations like this in the past, most recipients look at the question as pragmatic: "All money is dirty, and this was our best option." Point noted, but that just means founders and CEO are drawing their own arbitrary lines in the sand.

I don't have some kind of magic formula, but I think it's worth being introspective about this.
> Every bank is a private company and can choose their customers.

Not really, basic payment accounts are backed by quite a few legislations with pretty strict exceptions (i.e. money laundering or terrorism financing in the EU wide case):

EU (since 2014): https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/financial-pr...

Germany (over a century): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https:/...
Not necessarily. My first yellow pages as a kid were all one color.

(Small city)
Things You Should Say “No” to to Become the Person You Want to Be in Life
Your smell test is a bit misleading in that most car batteries have a drastically lower energy density than Lithium Ion cells. There’s still a lot more energy in the car battery, of course, but not by nearly as much as a naive comparison of the weights would suggest. If it had the energy density of your cell phone, the lead acid battery in your car would only weigh 5 or so kgs.

Your cellphone will also last a lot less than “all day” if you take it somewhere where it has to run the radio at full power to try to maintain a connection. I’ve seen otherwise reliable and long lasting phones easily end up burning 1% a minute in areas of really bad signal.
Everyone here doesn't mean literally everyone. It means enough of everyone. And he's arguing it's already happened. And I agree.
I'm amazed that it's less than a picojoule to do an 8 bit add.
Tails 3.16 Is Out
From a study of 1: It definitely works for me.

I would take 30+ minutes to get to sleep tuning 15-20 times as I dozed off.

Since adding the blanket (9kg / 20lb), I find I'm asleep in less than 5 minutes. With 2-3 turns at most.

I didn't initially get it for sleep - just tried it and now it stays mostly on my bed.
I can imagine that a law could be made to mandate car manufacturers or dealers or rental companies to list all the possible failure scenarios that cars might not work properly, and present the drivers some warning labels or sort. It shouldn't take that much effort to list all the possible cases by hierarchically inspect smaller modules (just like checked exceptions in Java), and it doesn't have to be very precise. Like most drugs warn about possible death due to its use, there's no reason that we couldn't expect cars and other safety related industry to follow a similar standard. Just like drugs, scaring potential customers away is a part of its cost (and benefit).
In practice this is rarely ever done (right).

Row-level permissions are possible, but it can get more complicated when certain users are only allowed to change a certain row in a certain kind of way but not in another.
Carpool management on Slack

https://twitter.com/moflome/status/1165689379420946432?s=21
It will be a sad day when the only services and products you can buy or use require fealty to their world view.
These "jump boxes" are amazing! I used to keep big jumper cables and have AAA in case of a dead battery. Last time AAA came (after I waited hours...), they just pulled out a little "jump box" and instantly started my car. I found and bought a random one on Amazon (there are dozens -- https://www.amazon.com/s?k=car+jumpstart). It's very small, can also be used to charge a cell phone, as a flashlight, etc., and really works. Every ICE should have one of these in the trunk.
They effectively already have that power by freezing your account(s). So what's the big deal now?
None of which support chargebacks, fraud prevention, anti money laundering, or the other benefits to a centralized reversible money system.
This circles back to the anonymity issue though.. what level of authentication is required to obtain said card? Can I stand there and blatantly collect 20 cards under different names? How does the bank know I'm not a terrorist which they are legally bound not to transact with?

I suppose if they're just freely distributed from a vending machine, it just becomes plastic bills of arbitrary denomination.
Why not just use Lua?
Feds scold Tesla for slow response on driver monitoring
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/185/3/203/2915143

The study seems pretty sound and they did a multivariate regression for inference too. What is your concern? Confounding factors? Lack of calibration?

> This study design also cannot show causation, just correlation. The control group is self selecting

Sure but then again, causation models are currently barely picking up steam in term of being studied and more of a PhD academia study right now. All you have are statistical inference models that we've been using for most research papers that are doing inference.

While a statistician is going to word conclusion carefully, at the end of the day, somebody is going to have the paint a picture and make some plausible leap.

And then other researchers can build upon the paper and redo it with better data set or a different inference models.
JMeter Basics Part 2 of 4 – Assertions – That’s a Bug
Notably, Jibo started before the Amazon Echo was announced, and their core bet that home voice assistants would be popular actually ended up being true. Unfortunately for them, they took so long to get to market and arrived at such a high price point that they still lost.
GDPR enforcement is 15 months old and regulators aren't the fastest bunch. They're also cooperation based as the goal isn't to serve fines but to ensure compliance: If you cooperate, you might get away with no fine at all (depending on circumstances).

Also the 4% global revenue fine wasn't exercised yet because it's the maximum fine, and there needs to be room for escalation: hard to serve a bigger punch if you're already at the maximum.
Still, I think accessing a single database in RDBMs like Postgres or MySQL from multiple codebases or even languages means asking for trouble.

Providing some kind of API as a library, REST, RPC or whatever would almost always be preferable, if only to centralize permissions and validation.
I was agreeing with you
Wasmer

Lucet

wasm-jit-prototype

None of them will let your WebAssembly code call an exported function from a shared library.

As an exercise, try to call https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/n... from WebAssembly.
None of the problems you mentioned with credit/debit cards is actually a practical concern for 99.99% of people.
As if the store that can't be bothered to accept cash is going to accept some hard to use fringe coin.
Samsung launches its first 5G-integrated CPU
Honestly, these doors are terrible. I just moved out of an apartment building where they were for some reason required and everything from carrying in furniture to carrying in groceries. I know this is extremely tangential, but if anyone can speak to exactly how/why these are supposed to improve outcomes in the event of a fire, I'd love to hear it.
Friend in Seattle had this experience when trying to use a zipcar truck out of a garage while moving (i.e. Limited time window to get stuff out of one area to another). Ended up calling support, dealing with multiple hours of delays. Despite the issues which has led him to avoid Zipcar these days, he uses ReachNow (now defunct) and car2go (now called ShareNow) regularly and AFAIK ReachNow didn't have these limitations when on long out-of-range trips - they solved the problem by doing sortof a two-factor of having an RFID card (to unlock, on window) and a pin code (entered via the BMW iDrive system to start engine).

I could argue Zipcar has a deep integration problem needed to solve the out-of-comms scenario. They try to support several car vendors in order to have different car types (toyotas, mercedes, ford vans) which limits them to having this cellular-dependent setup. Whereas Reachnow (BMW), car2go / Sharenow (mercedes / smart), and limepod (fiat, for now) have limit the car type for better integration.

In a related front, a friend moved into an apartment building with some bluetooth-based laundry vending machines. The machine requires blootooth, and the payment is done via phone which requires a cellular connection. The laundry room (like any basement area) has a spotty cell connecition, so the friend does some weird positioning exercise to find the area where he can have a cellular connection while still being connected over bluetooth to the laundry machine. Strange future.