skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The car hit Elaine Herzberg.

Elaine's Obituary

Elaine Marie Wood-Herzberg, 49, of Tempe, AZ passed away
on march 18, 2018. A graveside service took place on
Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 2:00pm at Resthaven/Carr-
Tenney Memorial Gardens in Phoenix.

Elaine was born on August 2, 1969 in Phoenix, AZ to Danny
Wood and Sharon Daly.

Elaine grew up in the Mesa/Apache Junction area and
attended Apache Junction High School.

Elaine was married to Mike Herzberg until he passed away.

She was very creative and enjoyed drawing, coloring, and
writing poems. She always had a smile on her face for
everyone she met and loved to make people laugh. She
would do anything she could to help you, and was there to
listen when you needed it.

Elaine is survived by her mother Sharon, of Apache
Junction, AZ; her father Danny, of Mayor, AZ; her son
Cody, of Apache Junction, AZ; her daughter Christine, of
Tempe, AZ; her grandchildren Charlie, Adrian, and Madelyn;
her sister Sheila, of Apache Junction, AZ; and many other
relatives.

But a homeless person is only ten points. So let's remember the car.

https://www.sonoranskiesmortuaryaz.com/obituary/6216521

https://afscarizona.org/2018/05/14/the-untold-story-of-elain...
Illegal comes in two forms: illegal to publish like calls to violence and libel laws which refer to newspapers and "publishers". While the government can sway #2 to introduce political biases, it's not easy to change the definintion of the first in an obviously biased way

The companies can still choose to remain nonpublishers, i.e. platforms - but they have to be impartial. That doesn't mean that censored communities can 't exist in their platforms - but the censoring can only be done by an entity unrelated to them. I think it's a good compromise to separate the platform from the censors.
It's hard to tell, but if T* foo can be NULL (and I assume that it can, though there's no visible indication), your first function is gonna segfault.

It's easy to tell that in the second function.

Second function makes for a better code review.
Actually it was 11,258.372 scientists, you know, for accuracy.
Tweens, Teens, and Phones
The November 2019 release of Azure Data Studio is now available
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You're getting stuck up in pedantry when only one thing matters: Do AI drivers kill fewer pedestrians than human drivers?
Even if you designed a pathogen to do that, once released into the wild it would almost certainly spread to other populations.

Viruses and bacteria already can jump zoonotically (between distant species), it would be trivial to adapt to within-species targets.
I was referring to Uber
Simply because I know C#, and have no intention of learning javascript
What I'm more worried about are probe requests, because sometimes I forget to turn off the wifi. Do you know whether the MAC address, or other identifying data, is sent in this case?
He or she would spend time mentally running through the avionics system to think of what to trouble shoot. Experienced pilots know how their craft works just like you know how to debug a failing drive and not waste time looking at your network cable.

My neighbor is a pilot and I asked him completely off hand how to troubleshoot non responsive flaps and he went into detail about the hydraulics system, where the pumps are and the steps he would take to troubleshoot. This was off the top of his head without a checklist.
Knowing whether someone has a Qualcomm, Broadcomm, Intel, or Foxconn WiFi card doesn't seem that useful for profiling.

Of course, the location tracking based on your device's network discovery packets is a whole bigger issue.
I'm using market cap as a proxy for success not profit...

Twitter isn't really a shining example of success either - their share price has been sideways for 6 years.
Based on the screenshots it looks like the mac address is leaking out because its in the referer. I would guess this isn't intentional and shouldn't be hard to fix.

I've worked with a number of captive portal systems and they all basically work the same way. The AP/controller intercepts http requests and redirects to the captive portal page with identifying information about the device (ip,mac,ssid,ap_mac,etc.). The captive portal http server shows the user a splash page to accept terms or enter a username/password or a credit card. Once the captive portal server decides the user should be allowed onto the network it needs to communicate that back to the wireless hardware which is done with the user's mac address.

Based on the requests it looks like they have some ads/trackers on the splash page that are getting requests with a referer set to the original splash page url (which includes the client mac address). A no-referrer meta tag or an intermediate redirect would prevent this from happening.
I wonder if we’ll ever have to make today’s software “64-bit clean”.
I was under the impression that they were still subsidizing rides. Are they actually making a profit?
"I need this billion dollars to avoid the consequences of taking this billion dollars."
Hey, Shields creator here. One of the most important features of Shields since the very beginning was to offer a conventional usable and user-centered style to fight the vendor badge arms race between all the developer SaaS companies that were sprouting up around 2012/2013. See: https://olivierlacan.com/posts/an-open-source-rage-diamond/

Please consider contributing to Shields if you want to improve Python ecosystem support. We already support PyPI, Pipenv/GitHub, and a host of others. I'll gladly admit the interface for discovering badge types could use some improvement but the Shields community and maintainers have been working on that for a while.

We spent a lot of time designing, refining, adding support for hundreds of services and package managers, and offering a ridiculously simple to use API for everyone's metadata badge needs. So check out img.shields.io and see for yourself how you can already (lightly) customize badge styles to suit your taste.

https://img.shields.io/badge/contribute-please-red?style=fla...

Thanks :-)
> IMO if you can't even try to use an alternative microblogging platform for fear of being labeled an extremist by "polite company"

I downvoted you because this is a ridiculous claim. If you use a platform like Gab that embraces bigots and extremists perhaps, but that's not the only other platform.
I don't have a chair at work. I stand up.
Notepad++ is still too heavy. I prefer Notepad2. It doesn't need to be installed and there is a portable version that saves its options in a file instead of the registry.
CU Marketing Corner: 4 Best Benefits of Blogging
>Uhh, you just said that is up for debate.

Back of the napkin: following Wikipedia world energy consumption is roughly 1/10,000 of the yearly radiation input by the sun. This means about 450,000 km² of area for harvesting if we assume roughly 10% efficiency. This larger than the size of Germany. I don't think this is realistic in the short term. For keeping population only stable at current levels by providing everyone the lifestyle let's say of Europe we would need much more energy than that.

For our current technology population is too high in my opinion. I cannot provide a solution but if we strive for providing everyone Europe's life style, nature will show us another way of reducing population, I fear.
This (marketing) piece oddly leaves out Firebase which is the only successful baas that I know of. My understanding is that baas never really took off and the concept is kind of dead now. Does anyone have more current perspective?
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It's profitable through Uber's own non GAAP numbers, the GAAP numbers are still unprofitable.
Tesla is building a product. Automated dispatch is not protectable.
Hehe you'd be doing it if you were in a boiling pot with gun to your head, desperately trying to find an upside buying intel chips.

They are really trying, much harder then making better chips :)
If Uber counts as a successful company by SV standards, that's a pretty strong condemnation of SV standards.
> “Will this trend lead to haptic computer modeling interfaces, as tactile and accessible as folding cardboard, molding clay, or bending a strip of wood?”

The most interesting point of the article for me.

I'd never really considered how intuitive/organic it can be for humans to create three dimensional shapes, and how few of these techniques are in use with 3d modelling (although I haven't had any experience with 3d modelling in the last 8 years)

Splines are so intuitive that I remember using them pretty effectively in elementary school. Can we get there with 3d modelling? What will that look like?
I used to be a proponent of municipal broadband, and I still am, but as a person now living on the outer edge of a minor municipality, and looking to move further from municipal jurisdiction, I personally find offerings like Starlink a solution to a problem municipal broadband can't solve. At some point there isn't a city that provides utilities to an otherwise inhabitable location, but with existing well water and septic technology combined with emerging renewable energy options, a low-latency high-bandwidth internet option is the last piece of the puzzle to allow a rural technologist to live the life they want.
I like Matt Levine's take on this: (re: Adam Neumann)

If you want, you can imagine him as a diabolical genius who explicitly set out to short the unicorn bubble and then walked away barefoot with a jaunty whistle and $700 million of SoftBank’s money, but that does not strike me as necessary or accurate. My model doesn’t require you to think that your startup is dumb! You don’t need to worry about Neumann’s personal beliefs and motivations at all, really. You can just think of him as a product of the invisible hand of the market. A lot of money was pouring into startups, there was a lot of demand, and the demand called forth supply, and the people who supplied the supply got rich; it is elemental and straightforward and has very little to do with questions like “is this a good business model?”[0]

“Capitalism occasionally makes huge mistakes,” is part of the story, but the other part is that there are rich rewards for those who spot the mistakes and bet against them. This is a lesson specifically of financial capitalism: In most businesses you can notice a competitor doing a dumb thing and create value by doing a better thing, but the financial markets are special because you can notice a competitor doing a dumb thing and get rich by taking the other side, without creating value or doing a better thing. If you notice that people are buying dumb unicorn shares for too much money, you don’t have to invent a better way of doing business or of funding companies. You can just sell them as many as possible of the dumbest possible unicorn shares; when the bubble bursts, you collect your winnings. This sort of thing—getting rich by being smarter than your counterparties, making markets more efficient by being on the right side of bets—is a classic path to wealth creation in the financial business. Tech, traditionally, has a different ethos, one of getting rich by changing the world. But sometimes there are crossovers, and anyway maybe WeWork was never really a tech company.[1]

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-02/the-tr...

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-23/how-do...
macchanger

Also extends time limites wifi.

Or use my gypsy code

import random

import os

mac=''

os.system('/etc/init.d/networking stop')

os.system('ifconfig wlan1 down')

os.system('ifconfig eth1 down')

os.system('ifconfig wlp8s0 down')

os.system('ifconfig wlp7s0 down')

for i in range(0,3):

__r=random.randint(16, 256)

__mac=mac+":"+str(hex(r))[2:]

mac="00:07:E9"+mac

print mac

os.system('/etc/init.d/networking stop')

os.system('ifconfig wlan1 hw ether '+mac)

os.system('ifconfig wlp8s0 hw ether '+mac)

os.system('ifconfig wlp7s0 hw ether '+mac)

os.system('ifconfig eth1 hw ether '+mac)

os.system('ifconfig wlan1 up')

os.system('ifconfig eth1 up')

os.system('ifconfig wlp8s0 up')

os.system('ifconfig wlp7s0 up')

os.system('/etc/init.d/networking start')

os.system('ifconfig')

print "echo 'MAC changed..."

print "new random MAC "+mac
And one of the benefits of an IPO is that the market discipline management to focus on being profitable (assuming they're not playing games with from multi-class voting shenanigans.) It's funny that this role of the market is often derided ("Management isn't thinking long term -- they'll do anything to make next quarters numbers...") but it's very important.
Hey congrats! People will complain about the package being to small or trivial, but just keep on creating. We all start somewhere, and hooks are a fun thing to experiment with.

It's true that most folks probably would do their own implementation of this and the GPL license would be a non-starter for most projects, but if it suits your needs and you've learned something in the process, more power to you. :)
Agreed. Not only did Tesla have a clear path, but they had a product that could sell at much higher margins, better quality control, not-so dubious legal ways of selling them, paid their employees decent wages (Uber... does not), and they won't have technology that can be copied and repeated by a second year student at uni.

Uber and Tesla are not anywhere close to directly comparable.
Of course. (And I think Apple does/might do that?)

I'm suggesting that if we discover/think that these advertisers/trackers are using it for anything interesting, there could be some fun to be had at their expense by picking up a suitcase full of junk wifi devices, configuring them to deliberately spoof their own MAC, and visiting that airport. I think you'd only need to spend hundreds on junk devices to taint their system with tens of millions of addresses.

If there's any observable result, I think it'd be fun to do and write it up/present it at a Chaos Computing Congress (or similar) event.
This will sound very naive (because it is), but I thought that the free market would see through the bullshit and value them appropriately. That is happening, just far more slowly than I imagined.
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Uber moved from stock options to RSUs in December 2014. People who got RSUs are OK. Those that got options in late 2014 are probably the worst off but unsure what the strike price was for those.
Apple launches new privacy website
I found "Stasiland" by Anna Funder a good read if you don't mind reading a more general history of the Stasi. There are a few examples in there I believe.
Won’t that cause problems if 2 people do this in the same session (and generate duplicate MAC addresses)?

I guess you could get around it by hashing the ssid + a personal salt.
Indeed. And 'flexibly sticking to guidelines' goes a long way too. There's a balance to find between pleasing your patient and doing the 'medically correct' thing. That's where the difficulty lies.
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"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." ( J. Paul Getty )

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/j_paul_getty_129274
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My love for the German People is adequadely illustrated by the fact that this is, I quote, "a very controversial subject".
> it does not restrict their control

this whole thread is about the hypothetical situation in which the two are linked by new laws
The hypocrisy is ridiculous. Try ordering something off AliExpress/Taobao shipped to HK/Taiwan and you're directed to "international shipping".

In particular, they should change Taiwan's entry in ISO-3166 before scowling at foreign companies for using a standardized country list.
I'm going to bet that he has several months of hard reflection about life and maybe write a book about it. Maybe he'll try to pull a Steve Jobs and try a few new companies to redeem himself.

But you know, the next few years of his life are going to be mildly unpleasant, and we shouldn't forget about the emotional impact about that. Maybe he'll have a very public come-to-Jesus moment that will be cathartic for everyone involved, or maybe he'll disappear from public life forever with his vast WeWork wealth and live on some estate in an exotic locale.

But either way, this failure isn't going to be easy for him. He's going to feel several emotions and not all of them will be pleasant.
I think very clearly, I’m not a Tesla fan but the solar roof and car are both unique and the core fan base is very strong.
For a while Veritas claimed to offer full genome sequencing for $1000, but I believe they've recently reduced the price to $600. Also, in refreshing my memory on this company with some light research, I found this published 40 minutes ago:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-06/breach-at...

Whoops!
Thanks. However if they are sealed I would assume that you can't test them destruction free, either.
The daily stoic emails are awesome. Ryan Holiday does an amazing job of making stoism practical to modern life. HIghly recommended.

https://dailystoic.com/email/
At an abstract level, ignoring the politics, it seems like this is a story of successful international scientific collaboration. Some countries have more scientific resources than others, often for bad historical reasons. Working together to achieve important scientific goals still seems like a good response to that?

But scientists are people too and there can be conflicts over who does the work and who gets the credit. This is fundamentally political, where people have conflicting interests and somehow need to make a decision anyway.

Such decisions might be made based on scientific ideals and practical considerations, but compensating the people who lose in a political fight is still important. Telling their story is certainly part of that. Maybe there should be other compensation too?
By your logic, it should have been priced in at IPO, since we knew back then that it would happen.

However, note that back then we also didn't know what else was going to happen. We didn't know if earnings would go up or down, or a lawsuit would emerge etc.

After earnings (a few days ago), we had a "purer" expression of the effect of the lockup expiry.

In other words, we had the information but there was also a lot of noise at IPO (or a month ago etc).
Dropbox Paper works similarly.
I guess it depends on the question we're asking and answering. Maybe the wrong question was asked? Does an armed and trained populace prevent a constitutional disorder? It seems that no-one would say the Swiss system was worth imitating if, two or three times since they instituted it, there were military coups including a multi-generational dictatorship. A refined question certainly improves the appearance of the Swiss system without seeming arbitrary.

On the other hand, who knows. Maybe the Swiss democracy is like the American democracy - and primarily exists to serve the interests of a well connected minority. It's hard to say it's good to keep a system that preserves the interests of a powerful minority in that kind of context.
It's actually a bit worse than that. American Airlines actually announced the "new" 737 variant before Boeing was even thinking of it[0]. At which point Boeing needed to figure out how to make the next 737 happen.

[0] http://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2011/AMR-Corporation-An...
Wow, this really drives home how absurd the whole WeWork thing was. And even until recently people were talking about how apparently Masayoshi San was playing some kind of three-dimensional chess and would come out the winner from WeWork. A fool and his money are soon parted, I guess.

Also, the post title is a nice nod to an Audrey Hepburn/Peter O'Toole movie dripping with '60s cool: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060522/
I reckon that's generally true, but I'm trying to think through if it applies when composition of "the market" changes, e.g. when people that couldn't participate before (in lockup period) can participate now.

Is it still the case?
This assumes (like everyone else seems to do) that the code was perfect, the APIs that were called were perfect, and that the process never changed. This is almost never the case.
I think the theory is that when the user right-click and select “open”, this is more of a conscious choice. Because of this extra effort, you get the option to go around the default security.

I find this to be a good trade off between running any unsigned binary and complete lockdown. It’s enough of a barrier to make you stop and think, but doesn’t take too much effort to get past.
Older Intel chipsets don't support more than 4 Gb. New chipsets and motherboards also have a limitation, typically about 16 or 32 Gb. Doesn't it look artificial? What is the reason for it? Of course, to make sure that the consumer won't be able to use them for too long without paying for a new one.
There are companies that use and sponsor[1] PostgREST development now.

There are also Haskell shops that use it. So, if a bug happens, at worst you'd have to open an issue, offer a bounty and watch it get solved.

> Having a bit of experience with OCaml

When I started as a PostgREST contributor I had zero experience on Haskell(not even a college course). I think the bar to contribution is not that high given that you know the domain — PostgreSQL and REST.

Not to say the codebase couldn't be improved. Commenting and refactoring is happening continuously.

[1]: http://postgrest.org/en/v6.0/#sponsors
>We knew that their future was purely dependent on a self-driving car fleet where they could ditch drivers (and their pay) completely.

Nah. Right now their business model relies on having their labor bring their own capital. I've always seriously doubted that cutting the labor out of the equation and replacing it with capital that Uber now has to furnish and maintain was going to save all THAT much money.

The numbers are all over the place, but from what I've been told once you factor in mileage costs, gas, and maintenance + cleaning of the vehicles most rideshare drivers are only earning somewhere from $1.50 to $3.00 an hour. If Uber then has to internalize all those costs plus add all the software maintenance/development costs of their self-driving AI how much is that saving them really? Is it going to be enough to defray the billion and a half dollars they're bleeding every year?

No, their long-term game was always going to be to undermine public transit and personal vehicle ownership through an artificially cheap business model and then once their monopoly (or oligopoly with Lyft) is firmly entrenched to boondoggle municipal governments into subsidizing rides for them instead of spending money on building out transit.
Great. Guess they have the MAC address of my laptop from when I was there last week then. Fortunately it was a burner Chromebook running Gallium Linux so that makes me care a little less.
Tesla is toxic because the founder has a vision, sets tight constraints and pushes hard on people to meet them (hello Amazon). Uber is toxic because there are too many people sitting on a pile of investor money, hence politics and infighting. As an employee, you may want to avoid both, but as an investor, you need to see the difference.
Why would a “conspiracy theory” be considered spam? A chain mail letter might be spam. A “cult manifesto” is probably not.

I don’t think it’s too fuzzy, as long as companies don’t arbitrarily define “things we don’t like” as “spam”.
NTSB releases documents for Uber self-driving crash in Tempe, Arizona
i do have a colleague that would be shocked if i created a gab account.
What are some other platforms?