skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also worth remembering that this kind of equipment, beyond being available to militaries, is also routinely in use by governments everywhere to enforce local RF regulations. Even in times of perfect calm, if you start illegally transmitting and disrupting legit radio activity, you can expect the local equivalent of FCC to quickly track you down.
The top 100 list includes 6 other companies from W15 (Equipment Share, RazorPay, Ironclad, GrubMarket, Notable, and Atomwise). So prediction 3) has definitely come true.
LORA based mesh could help here

https://nootropicdesign.com/projectlab/2018/10/20/lora-mesh-...
> it seems like the majority of them are either local privilege escalation or exploit a listening service, all of which won't much affect the typical situation of a single-user PC behind a NAT with no forwarded ports and a user who won't be downloading and running random binaries from strangers

Browser exploit chains often end up attacking the kernel or local services as part of escaping the sandbox, so it's important to patch these vulnerabilities.

> Fortunately, the truly scary scenario of an attacker taking control over the Internet of a machine that is just left on and with no action needed on the part of the user seems quite rare; in fact, something like that would be very memorable, yet I don't remember any in at least the decade.

EternalBlue, which exploited a vulnerability in SMB, is probably the most prominent example in recent times. BlueKeep, an RDP exploit, was another serious threat from earlier this year.
Are they uniquely free riders or just joining the rest in their free riding? The majority of people are not net tax contributors. There's a fascinating gender difference as well, with only men as a group being net tax contributors.

Being shackled to the mediocre majority is never fun, some feel the shackles more than others.
The Case for Eliminating Fines on Overdue Library Books
Discussed briefly in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7813216
Peter is clearly not the type who can travel for fun or really enjoy it the way most people do. He has no "off" switch. I would guess if you spent any real time with him he'd probably come across as fairly abnormal.
As others have said, this is going to vary a lot depending on where you are. For the most part, the enforcement powers of the NHTSA are limited to things like prohibiting the sale of vehicles that don't meet safety standards. What you actually do with the vehicle once you have it is between you and your local law enforcement.
Don't forget about the huge amount of spending on hospitals and morgues required for the 40,000 dead every single year (more than guns shots), and 2.35 million that are injured or disabled.
Types, among the most performant garbage collected languages out there, very mature dev tooling that can speed you up in many ways, large library set, history of being more open than C#. Also many data libraries are made with it and interface well with it, such as kafka, hadoop, etc.

And there are many good engineers who are well versed with the language.
> And it's a flagship device. I can only imagine what happens at the lower end of the product range.

I wouldn't really expect any difference. It's not like Apple's lower end products are buggier than their higher end ones.
The GIF format is over 30 years old. One would think that decoding them was a problem solved long ago, and that decoding libraries would have all the bugs found and fixed by now.

As someone who has also written a GIF decoder, more for learning purposes than anything, I checked what mine would do with that GIF: it does reallocate twice, but since the first time already nulls the buffer pointer, it doesn't actually double-free (since free()'ing a NULL pointer is defined by the standard to have no effect.)
It’s very hard to have solid product, engineering, marketing, sales, and support on any scale without taking VC money.
Automated ransomware-trojan that is delivered to your browser with ads doesn't care.

This is probably mostly about government or small buisness installs that run an Active Directory and the whole company would be dead without that infrastructure.

> it seems like the majority of them are either local privilege escalation

look up mimikatz, your automated ransomware just got domain-admin on your Active Directory because the part-time admin just used his domain admin login to run an anti-rootkit antivirus tool to fight the trojan the intern somehow got installed...

> exploit a listening service

your automated ransomware bot just got access to all your machines.
It's true, Apple has deviously engineered it so their operating systems only run applications written for those operating systems. It's a good thing nobody else does that!
Road crashes cost the U.S. $230.6 billion per year, or an average of $820 per person.

https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/
The real problem here is that Tesla is operating under the assumption that people obey warnings they give them, and that they behave rationally around their luxury cars. They do not. In a perfectly rational world, people would read the warnings and understand the risks, and thus not "expect" the Tesla to detect things that it warns that it cannot detect.

The warnings say you need direct line of sight, that the system isn't perfect, and that it may not detect all obstacles. Even ones expected to be in parking lots. Those warnings all make sense, but the people recording the videos don't care. They're just pressing the button and being shocked that it doesn't work.

Ultimately, regulators will step in if they feel that people still get into crashes despite having the warnings. If the warnings don't stop people from doing stupid things, they'll require more warnings or kill the feature. Unfortunately for Tesla, the regulator focus is public safety (and the underlying statistics). If the tables turn then it doesn't matter how safe the feature is when used correctly. Instead, it matters how safe the feature is when used incorrectly.

And that will only hurt Tesla in the long run. And that's a shame, because it will make true self driving cars that much harder to get to market.
How do you define a trade “war?” Is it simply affecting free trade in some shape or form?

If so does devaluating your own currency or propping up industries via government backed loans count?

I’d argue that these initiatives affect trade and force other governments to enact their own measures. And of course, there are winners and losers.
I think you may be referring to the Labor Theory of Value (LTV)? Certainly, early versions of currencies were created to streamline the bartering process between different kinds of labor and store that value for future purposes. I'm not sure what attempting to remove debt from a market would look like in the modem world as I only have the current context to compare to (for better or worse). What do you propose as an alternative?
digital watches are a pretty neat idea. they're vastly more accurate than mechanical watches while using incredibly little energy.
For others who might be interested, the lowest starting salary listed is Montanta ($31,418), highest is DC ($55,209).

Scaled up from 10 months to 12 months of work, that's $37,702 and $66,251, respectively. The median household income is $53,386 in Montana and $82,372 in DC [1][2]. In both cases, even the un-scaled teacher's salary easily accounts for half of a typical household's income.

So even without tenure and averaging effects, this data backs up the article's claims.

1. https://datausa.io/profile/geo/washington-dc/

2. https://datausa.io/profile/geo/montana
The mechanics of turning are one of those things that seem simple and mundane at first but become increasingly more interesting the more you analyze them.

For instance:

How do trains turn if the outside wheels can't spin faster than the interior wheels?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku8BOBwD4hc

How do you create stable train wheels?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agd8B-31bjE

How do automotive differentials work?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85CA4_cgZ5U

How do 6 wheel truck differentials work?
- https://youtu.be/LwZBnMQ40rI?t=261

And on and on down the rabbit hole
(hashtag) Not all women.

My ex has discovered that spending 10 years living with your best friend easily leads to neglecting friendships, and more specifically neglecting to form new ones. She's currently without a local "best mate" to spontaneously hang out with/share with and misses that. I suspect she'd happily pay $15/mo to join a community of similar folk. But it would need to be physically local, if there's no face to face contact it's pretty pointless. Which means it's "like Meetup, but significantly more expensive"... what's the value proposition?

But I suspect there will be a fair bit of churn if the community works, because quite a few people will use it to find friends rather than maintain friendships. Might be worth building that into your financial plans.
Amazon was profitable for nearly all years after 2003.

2003: $35 Million profit

2004: $588 Million profit

2005: $359 Million

2006: $190 Million

2007: $476 Million

2008: $645 Million

2009: $902 Million

2010: $1,152 Million

2011: $631 Million

2012: $(39) Million <--- First loss

2013: $274 Million

2014: $(241) Million <--- 2nd loss

2015: $596 Million

2016: $2,371 Million

2017: $3,033 Million

2018: $10,073 Million

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Aside from 2012 and 2014, Amazon was both profitable AND cash flow positive. Amazon was Cash flow positive all 15 years in this time period as well. But I'm talking net profit / net loss here.

IMO: there's no valid comparison to Tesla here. Amazon is not the company you want to compare against Tesla's performance.

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Anyway, yes, Jeff Bezos sacrificing one year or two years of profits (over 15 years) for greater long-term growth could make sense. That doesn't actually mean its healthy for Tesla to consistently lose money for 10 years straight.
Sounds like a perfectly classic version of the growth trajectory characterized in "Innovator's Dilemma" (Clayton Christensen). Company grows into a big fat dinosaur, leaving a soft underbelly for a scrappy little mammal to claw at.

Except in this case the scrappy little mammals are big fat dinosaurs themselves.
Great to know. Thank you for sharing.

Would you know how adblocking factors into these revenues? It can be 50% on traditional web content depending on the demographic, but this gotta be dramatically lower on youtube.

For these videos, the article says the primary audience is women aged 18-24, probably in the US. Adblocking must be rescinding toward zero given the raise of smartphones and google Chrome, that can't block ads.
I went to Syncthing as well and it works, but it's still no match for the DropBox of a few years ago.
onboarding cost might be annoying, but at least it's upfront. i'd take 100% at the start for more efficient sync later.
Mining operations rarely find pure metals in the ground. Ore is a dilute mixture of rock with trace metals which must be extracted through processing.
Banning categories of plastic is an action. Choosing to expend political capital on banning certain plastics is an act of triage.
I'm from the inner city. Growing up, I always recalled just seeing a twinkle here and there in the night sky.

However, my mother's side of the family is from the deep south. I remember visiting relatives, and one time staring at the night sky. There were so many "things up there" I was both in awe and a little bit frightened.
I have no idea the right way of posting long posts. Here's the rest: https://pastebin.com/k0tYZYgY
It has a very precise and important meaning in the context of American case law.
Europe doesn't have to do anything if it doesn't want to. They can just not let in refugees (whether legitimate refugees or pretenders).
Ku and mid ka, high ka band spectrum analyzers are no longer a $40,000 item anymore. I'm pretty confident I could put together a (starlink, kuiper, oneweb) locating kit for under $10k USD. The knowledge to run a spectrum analyzer just to locate on class of equipment could be taught to any moderately educated local police in one day.
Doesn't execve() end in the same syscall as system()? Not as comfortable for exploitation, but maybe still feasible? (Embedded systems I take a look at usually don't have an OS with either of the two, so I honestly don't know how the implementations look like).
I've done about 3 of these kinds of "interviews" in my career.. basically a small work for hire each. Didn't get the jobs.. but took great joy in checking in on each of these companies after 6 months to find they no longer existed.
Yeah, if only it did that...
Dropbox is a US company, I don't see how you get better privacy protection there. Plus Microsoft has a petty good track record, they've challenged US government requests for information in court, and fought to prevent the government from accessing data stored outside the country.
According to Wikipedia the Muslim population of the country is split 64–69% Shia and 29-34% Sunni.

The Sunni minority once ruled but now the Shia majority rule and the government is said to be aligned with Shia-majority Iran.
“Dropbox always works, everywhere.”

This used to be true, but has gradually become less true. Linux support has certainly taken quite a dive.

They also removed features I really liked. I used the Public folder a lot :(

(I actually used to pay for Dropbox, because I genuinely thought it was a great product. It’s still probably one of the best syncing services, but at this point I’ve just moved off of syncing services.)
If you want, you can use the OpenDomain HelpHer.Com
so the Sun has both a vertical orbit as well as a horizontal one, with the vertical orbit in 1/4 phase with the horizontal orbit. interesting.
Given how satellites don't respect national borders by default, I wonder whether there will be - or maybe already are - international agreements that would make it easier for a nation's government to coerce a foreign operator to deny service over that nation.
So do they front run then?
Interesting discussion from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4210868
That $70/year gets you the 1TB of storage and everything else you mention, per person, for up to five people. That's a total of up to 5TB. Perfect for a family.

(at least, that's the standard offering here in Europe...)
> Cisgender men and women have different brain structures,

I'm skeptical of this to begin with.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/24/meet-the-neu...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00677-x

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/confirmed-theres-n...

When it comes to brains, there is far more variation, on pretty much anything you choose to measure, within the group of 'men' or 'women', then there is between the groups.

As far as cognitive empathy, sorry fellow men, we can't blame our lack of cognitive empathy on biology, it's probably pure socialization/education. And we can get better at it by trying/learning/practicing.
Updating the User Agent of Googlebot
Anyone successfully pull off an "Office Space"?
Microsoft didn't recover from the post-dot-com-bust slump until 2012(!), but it's done amazingly well since. It's a magical tail of recovery and/or proof that having a nice monopo gives you an extra long lease on life.
Another thing to consider is that the quality of the teacher might not map to improved results in the same way it does in tech. A programmer tends to have a lot more choice in how they go about solving the problem, whereas teachers tend to have very little leeway. Furthermore, it's very difficult to quantify how well a teacher is doing as well.
I can't see every other nation being too happy about US-controlled global Internet service. They will demand some degree of control over their territories. I can see the space law getting some updates sometime soon.
Feeling the competition from Robinhood app?
> Amazingly, it turns out that in a vacuum, the activity of programming a computer isn't actually gendered.

Also mirrored by the fact that other cultures do not experience this issue so acutely.
Somu, tiny+open security key, campaign almost over
Why would an airborne camera be able to pick ground-based lasers up easily? Wouldn't you need to fly directly between the satellite and the ground terminal?

Same goes for laser-guided bombs - those home in on where the laser pointer is pointing, not the pointer itself.
This comment is of a similar nature, I feel.
Fair; it does make sense to re-evaluate the whole thing and find the most generic of solutions, but the issue that triggered this discussion was a sort of regression on systems that do have disks.

(Your point also raises the question: on systems that don't have disks, how are requests for early-boot entropy handled?)
Nope, the GP is still correct. If your custom allocator fails, anything created with Box::new or similar will panic.
This shows how great America is.
Definitely a fair concern, and thanks for the kind words :).

We haven't had to fund-raise, so our company performance has actually been a bit under-the-radar. But I can assure you everything's been going well, and most people would be surprised at the numbers. We've been profitable since day one, but this year we've been making enough to hire three more full-time developers: https://explosion.ai/about .

Our revenue all comes from our annotation tool Prodigy: https://prodi.gy . Prodigy's very popular, we have a few thousand users in total. There aren't many alternative tools that are scriptable like Prodigy is, and annotation is something that has to be done on almost every project. Even if you don't need to annotate training data (e.g. if you're training on click data or something), you'll usually want to do small annotation tasks to do error analysis and understand your performance.
Absolutely! It's relational data that could map to a defined relational schema, so why not?
Web Development Trends to Skip in 2019
This article is listicle blog spam trash. Additionally offensive is it conflates "hacker" with "startup founder" (said with irony on "hacker news").
For certain wavelengths, yes. But others go straight through.
That's true, but it also means their product is no longer the feature I want or signed up to.

They can do what they like with their business. But I, like jonknee upthread, don't want their new changed thing, and an=m somewhat disappointed at having the feature I'm subscribed to turn into a product/business I would not have subscribed to if they'd told me up front.
"I expected the Tesla to ‘see’ it and stop, however I had to take my finger off the (app) button when I saw that my Tesla wasn’t slowing down,”

Your car is not a fucking toy. He could have injured the occupants of the other car while he watched and filmed because he wanted to play with a cool feature without first learning how it works.

If you don't know what's going to happen, don't assume your automated car knows how to avoid a collision.
Teachers should just work their contractual hours. Now that would be a protest!
> That would still be illegal, just because no one is enforcing it doesn't make it legal

What is it you think would be illegal? You appear to be pretty confused between "liable to pay tax", "resident enough to convince your home tax jurisdiction that you're no longer resident there" and "resident enough to qualify for citizenship programme", all of which are quite different.
Of course not! They just sell your data to the people who do.
It breaks the site guidelines to post shallow dismissals of other people's experience, so please don't. Taking HN threads into ideological flamewar is even worse, so please don't either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Knowing a person is a perfectly cromulent reason to say something in a conversation. Conversations is all HN threads are. Anecdotes are great for conversation (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
Those who do not study ~~history~~ ~~Unix~~ rsync are doomed to repeat it poorly.
But how do you keep people from abusing the service? When there are no consequences people tend to abuse it.

I used to buy books with the idea that eventually I would read them. I have a bookcase of books that I've yet to read but every time I borrow a book from the library I read it within the allotted time. To me fines and deadlines are a nice nudge to read the book.
True, but "ok we will have interest but periodically massacre the people interest is owed to", is much like not having interest, except nastier. You are, in a sense, avoiding the problem of an interest load spiraling up out of control.

But, it's true, it was not a perfect ban, but it certainly did have the practical impact of not allowing those to whom interest is owed, from hijacking control of the state. Again, not in a good way, but I think it shows that long-lived civilizations eventually find that the Mathew Effect is particularly strong with interest, and must be reined in somehow.

Hopefully in a better way than the medieval Christian one.
For me, the power of the Redbol approach lies in the rich set of datatypes, so you can create dialects at the block/value level, leveraging the syntax without having to tokenize at the string level. It's no small thing to be able to create languages that natively understand values like email addresses, URLs, IP addresses, files as distinct from strings, and more.
E*Trade and Ameritrade followed suit:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/robinhood-e-trade-schwab-a...
Not much is using these bands anyway, especially in places like Iraq. Wouldn't it be even simpler to skip the spectrum analyzer and sweep the area with high-gain antennas tuned for these bands, the fox-hunting way?
> Sick of people in this industry making you feel you're not smart enough, that you're not enough no matter how many times you prove yourself in past work.

Dealing with this in the heavy right now.

I've built a lot in my 10 years as a programmer. Infinitely, and automatically scaled application server based on load. Hasn't crashed or had a single downtime ever since release.

I've built mobile applications 100% myself being used by thousands still today.

I've learned 7 different programming languages. I've done web, mobile, server, and even bare metal firmware. The only 'domain' I haven't touched yet is ML.

Yet.... I truly feel DUMB. I feel like I'm nothing in this industry when one phone screen call puts you into an 'online assessment' where I can't solve the problem in better than O(N^2) time.

These fucking algorithms are killing me, and making me have a hard realization that maybe I'm just not cut out for this. Yea, I've built shit... but you know what... anyone could. I've plugged together a bunch of work other people did, and wallah, working server. Working app. Working whatever. But I can't write the libraries. I can't code a hyper scalable function that could handle petabytes of data.

The only reason my fucking amazing server hasn't crashed is because it doesn't handle anything close to the scale that many companies need. Hence why these algorithms are so important. But I can't fucking get better at them.