skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was also revealed he had helped his victim to buy a Land Rover when they were dating and as a consequence had access to the vehicle's VIN, which allowed him to set up the app.

Last I checked the VIN is stamped right into the lower corner of your windshield visible to the public. It’s not intended to be a secret number in any way. Why would the author of this article assume that him buying the car for her was related to him knowing the VIN? I suspect the real story should be: Land Rover let’s attackers track/control a vehicle using only a public VIN for authentication.
Yes, they're real.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21454344

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-05/robinhood...
If I run a website, why doesn't my free association right extend to kicking people off it?
> we expect all civil exchanges to be treated equally

Define civil :)

Take any hot button issue like guns, abortion, etc. where your stance on one side of the issue can be seen as immoral or life threatening to the other side. Take a passionate / borderline tweet from one side and you'll probably get a 50/50 disagreement on wether or not it's "civil". Now what? Block the tweet? Warn the user? How many people need to complain before it's considered a problem?

Now go a step further and look at the Westboro Baptist Church. They think that they're doing a public good by shaming those who have died (because they believe God punishes sinners and their families with death). They believe it's a sin not to tell the families that the recently deceased is a sinner. They believe they're communicating God's message. Now you'll probably get 99% agreement that it's uncivil. But now what do you do? Silence an unpopular opinion?

The problem is finding out where the line is for defining what's appropriate on a platform and what will be censored. Is it 50% + 1 consensus? 95% consensus? And who gets to decide? The users? The CEO? A board of censors?

These are tricky answers and different countries and companies draw the line in different places. But the devil is always in the details.

It would be nice if everyone agreed on what's civil and what's not, but unfortunately that's not the case.
It's the most successful cashout for investors and early employees, but let's not act like Uber isn't still running on borrowed time.
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I am sure if someone actually cared they could add more functionality to their built in editor without confusing people. They could also increase its performance so it’s possible to edit large files.
IMO a single founder doesn't need "high availability" as the term is usually used (five nines stuff with high operational complexity). If you can get it cheaply by using eg Heroku, it's a nice bonus.
It's not successful though. WeWork is still valued at 47B technically speaking today. They are a company that only loses money, has a horrid culture and does some morally reprehensible things.

Their true value is their logistics software. If they would lease/sell that to other industries they would be rich beyond belief.
Yeah it's by default. Learned this the hard way when setting up port forwarding by MAC address on home network. Was wondering why the forward would only last a couple hours
> Delivering decent cross-platform GUI applications.

Qt, Gtk+, WxWidgets... There are lots of ways to skin this cat.
There is a difference between having priority and having the right to be safe.

Priority means that cars must give way, which is the case at pedestrian crossings: Cars must give way BEFORE a pedestrian has started to cross in order to let him cross.

But in any case once a pedestrian is on the road cars have a duty of care not to hit him.
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but I think lyft is losing even more money (scaled)
Worse:

AT+RELEA

NO CARRIER

Unless the car brakes the very instant the connection drops (and not when the timeout propagates through the networking stack), now you have two problems.
Once you add spam to this list, it becomes super fuzzy. Unsolicited marketing is obviously spam and so are the Nigerian scams, but what about some cult manifesto or conspiracy theory or chain mail letter? Or possibly a crowdfunding link that some well meaning, but misguided people sent around a few thousand times? Or possibly a request for donations by some non-profit? Propaganda posts by a political party? Where is the line?
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Having developer tools preinstalled is awesome. When you can launch editor, write some HTML/CSS/JavaScript with proper highlighting, launch it in browser, it greatly reduces gap to start programming and it'll increase number of people who're doing that. Those days I think preinstalling python would be very useful. And that python will be much more valuable than 90% of junk shipped with OS. It's only 25 MB. Sure, it's not about professional-level IDEs but it's not required for useful work. Now typing programming code in notepad.exe is what's terrible.
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You’re correct. Not sure why you were being downvoted.
If nothing else, most filesystems can expose a big file that can be used, with decent efficiency, as though it was a disk. For COW filesystems, turning off COW on the file may improve performance, and, if the FS is on RAID, the resulting performance and correctness properties will be odd.
It's a very common fallacy to think that previous stock price somehow indicates the future price. However, one should remember that whatever caused the price to fall in the first place, probably still exists, and unless remedied will continue to cause problems in the future. I like to buy stocks of companies that are in positive trend, reasonably valuated and have sound finances.
The author does:

> ... although it can be leveraged against big tech companies that are biased in favor of liberals, this line of argument also has implications that conservatives may less readily welcome. For instance, it means that how rich people use their money to promote their ideas may also be a problem, insofar as it distorts the marketplace of ideas.

The principle he's arguing is that when an organization that has a de facto monopoly on a type of information stream (search, microblogging, and social circle media) uses that monopoly to favor one political viewpoint, that is harmful to society because it "distorts the marketplace of ideas" by preventing equal access to said marketplace.

The Federalist is not in this position. For every conservative magazine like The Federalist, there's a liberal one like Mother Jones. This is the "marketplace of ideas" that the author refers to in action, not a distortion of it. So the author is, in fact, arguing from principle, just not the principle you're using.
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I recall a few months ago they released a marketing pack benchmarking themselves against AMD with a small print disclaimer that they hadn't applied the spectre/meltdown fixes.
What would that charges be though? What crime is broken when a trader takes on debt that Robinhood inadvertently allowed?
What morally reprehensible things are done by WeWork?
> a death is on their conscience

How much negligence is required before a death is on their criminal record?
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The post lockup sale was already "priced" into the share price a month ago (or even before). The market react only to NEW information.

In general, it is impossible to know what is priced in or not.
Not everyone can or will upgrade their computer’s RAM.
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Point is, Mill lived in an era where dissemination of information was barely at a steam-engine equivalent, whereas now we've got automated opinion-generating rocket systems in orbit ready to barrage millions of info missiles at any online discussion at any point in any language within 300 nanoseconds.

New realities need new quotes.
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Sometimes that crackdown is because the big pharma companies are happy with their current positions, so they propose cutting all of these expenses across-the-Board.

Then they maintain their incumbency and reduce a lot of their costs without a huge hit to revenue.

And if you’re a new pharma company with a truly awesome product, good luck getting anyone to prescribe it when you didn’t buy them a round of golf a decade ago because you didn’t exist.
No. As a quality guy he probably has a lot of experience with the single units, but not the system as a whole. No line inspector would have a reason to test a full ship-set of units off aircraft, so I can't imagine a lab setup to do this test with the proper staging.
Oh thank god. This is the approach I had when I built my house. This is IMO the most desirable territory: Just try to maximize the easy assets of wind and light using traditional methods, and add in modern insulation.

Few(???) architects and zero builders seem to understand light/wind/circulation like people apparently intuitively did 200 years ago. You might be better off with the average curious engineer designing a house after reading a couple books than the average architect. Everyone is astonishingly lazy, even mansions around here have terrible light/circulation problems. But if you care, you can totally design a good one yourself that has very low operating costs (our electric bills are 50-80 a month in a 2200sqft house. We use maybe 3 cords of wood a year, but that's very approximate).

It does not take a lot of work to design a house, especially if you want to build an efficient Colonial style. My goals were simple: Build something that appears traditional, maximizes light and airflow and wood burning heat. Think about ventilation passageways as the windows and doors, and think of the wind as coming and going. Since heating is easier than cooling (we built in no AC system and zero ducting), make your ceilings taller.

A little wood stove (Vermont Castings Encore) heats the whole thing. Spray foam insulation in the walls (plus fiberglass), tall ceilings, and modern windows (lots of them) is all you need.

Some pics of what I built, with design sketches: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1183143604925190144
Of course not! It's never okay to kill people. But she is at least partially to blame for her own death. If I take a nap on some train tracks and get run over, is my death 100% on the train engineer for not stopping even though I was in plain sight for 30+ seconds?
I know this conversation has gone slightly stale but I've reread that John Rentoul piece a couple of times, and it's very wishy washy but as far as I can make out his argument is this:

1. The Conservative party has proposed some new boundaries.

2. The new boundaries would have given the Conservatives 15 extra seats, according to the 2017 vote share.

3. The current boundaries are very out of date.

4. The new boundaries follow stricter rules about constituency size variation.

5. The new boundaries lead to a reduced number of MPs.

6. 3-5 imply that the new boundaries are fairer than current boundaries.

7. 2 and 6 imply that the current boundaries are biased 15 seats towards Labour.

The hole is in statement 6; points 3 and 5 are irrelevant to the question of fairness and point 4 is weak as there are plenty of ways to gerrymander the boundaries whilst equalising constituency size. What's "utterly bizarre" is that Rentoul expects many people to swallow such a flawed argument.
you are absolutely free to - but in that case you should be held to the same legal standards as newspapers who edit their content.
They used the Intel compiler. We know for a fact Intel’s compilers deliberately don’t optimize as well for non-Intel chips.

That’s damning in and of itself.
Robinhood no longer supports the deep ITM calls which makes the bug more difficult to replicate.
You might want to wait for some sign of a turnaround before assuming this is the bottom of the dip. Usual disclaimer about taking investment advice from internet strangers applies.
Pro tip: generic benchmarks, in general, are misleading.
I think you underestimate the significance of identifying the outbreak as something new. There is a strong tendency to fit our experiences into the framework of what we know, and education might even reinforce that tendency (while the health care professionals tried to explain it as a known disease, the villagers suspected there was something else going on.)

The discovery was not complete at that point, but it did not begin with isolating the virus, either.
There are some comments for this article in a post from 2 days ago [0], but this might deserve a second discussion.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21448601
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Jeez. Maybe they should rename the company 'unter'.

On a more serious note, I'm not sad to see this. I hope companies trying to disavow all corporate responsibility by claiming they're only responsible for the technology behind their platform and not the effects of running the platform the way they do is only a fad. Their stock price obviously isn't a proper indicator of this trend bucking, but I'm glad that they, being the poster child for this sort of foolery, aren't the apple of every tech investor's eye anymore.
Don't most of their problems go away when you fallocate a pile of space and use AIO+O_DIRECT like a database to get the buffer cache and most of the filesystem out of the way?

CoW filesystems like BTRFS proviode ioctls to disable CoW as well, which would be useful here when you've grown your own.

XFS has supported shutting off metadata like ctime/mtime updates for ages.

If you jump through some hoops, with a fully allocated file, you can get a file on a filesystem to behave very closely to a bare block store.
Private valuations are not the same as public ones, especially one post-earnings and post-lockup.
> They shouldn't have been driving in public with someone who wasn't paying attention 100% of the time as any regular driver would.

It's pretty well known that humans' minds wander, that it happens more when monitoring reliable systems for rare problems, and that it makes operators less responsive and lowers their error detection rate [1] - as anyone who's attended a boring meeting or lecture can attest!

I'm not sure that anyone informed would imagine a worker spending 40 hours a week monitoring a self-driving car would be able to watch it with 100% attention.

The truth is nobody realistic expects the safety driver to respond to reliably prevent an accident like this - they're there for slower-developing problems, resetting false alarm stops, and taking the blame.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5633607/
What if my project involves processing lots of data files (not databases), do I also need to move data files to the cloud?

For example, if my project needs to process thousands of csv and xls files, will I be able to do everything in the cloud?
That's the thing - they keep doing it, which means regardless of people coming out with stories like this, it must be effective.
I mean, the vaccines were real. They were just also a front for a government sponsored DNA heist. Given the actions of the US government, it seems reasonable in the current political climate to refuse vaccines and other on-site medical treatment if you don't want your DNA stolen. In recognition of the communal failure to protect privacy which has led to these programs being potential DNA theft operations, vaccination providers should start letting people take their needles home to self-administer vaccines. Whether or not it's likely in any given case is irrelevant, the government used medicine to steal DNA so now we can't trust medicine. Medicine needs to reinvent itself so that vaccines can be widely deployed without risking further data breaches, and the only way they can really do that is by not collecting the data -- even on a needle.
I stopped using the C60 when the C90's came out.
After that I switched to CD's.
The amount of people who routinely spoof their own MAC when on public wifi is so minuscule to be objectively irrelevant to any mass-data-gatherer out there. Unless this becomes something that the OS can automatically randomize for you (are you listening, Apple...?), even a creative attack won’t move the needle.
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In theory people would pick the filesystem which is ideal for their application.

In practice it is a lot of work to research the choices, and there's a high risk that you'll discover something wrong with your filesystem only when it is too late.

It's one thing to pontificate for and against particular file systems, it's another to use one for years, terabytes, etc. ZFS might scrub your data to protect against bitrot, but I remember reading harrowing tales from ZFS enthusiasts who were recovering (or not recovering) from wrecks every week but seemed to think it was a lot of fun, or conferred them status, or was otherwise a good thing.

I stuck with ext4 for a long time before finally building a server that uses ZFS/HDD for media storage (e.g. not a lot of random access)

I remember the time when a project I was involved with chose reiserfs because they thought it was "better" and then they were shocked when once in a while the system crash and we found that a file that had just been created was full of junk.

That's a trade-off they made, they decided it was important to journal filesystem metadata (the length of the file is right) but not to protect the content. If they read the docs, really thought about it, then understood it, they would have known, but they didn't.

This book points out that in cases where there is too much competition, you can switch all you like between flawed alternatives, but have no way to communicate what you really want:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty

And when it comes to the "Filesystem API" probably anybody who has special needs for filesystem performance would find that a different API than the standard filesystem API would be a boon.
That’s a pretty cynical and inaccurate way of looking at it. They did create hundreds of thousands of part-time to full-time jobs which presumably did not benefit only the 1%. They did drastically lower the price of point-to-point transportation, thereby massively expanding the market for it which presumably did not benefit only the 1%. etc
Tesla has arguably a more clear path to a profitable future. Uber's path to profitability is arguably much more speculative and dependent on risky technology advances.
I'd like to think that Adam Neumann will see some manner of ill effect for paying himself $1 billion of other people's money, while delivering negative value, but then reality comes crashing in to remind me that no, he won't.

Consequences are for people who don't have a billion dollars.
I'm not sure what you think you're proving with that link. CDA 230 does something very close to the opposite of what you seem to think that it does. It protects the providers of interactive computer services from liability, but it does not restrict their control over whether to provide those services or not, which would of course obviously be a violation of those interactive computer services' first amendment rights. CDA 230 protects, it does not restrict. The text of the code is really quite straightforward and easy to interpret if you do it in good faith, putting your ideology aside.
> and that’s where the performance benefits of native code shine best anyway

That's right, now you just have to deal with open source OpenGL libraries or of course write it yourself.

Handle unicode, sub/superscripts, RTL text, typography nuances, LaTeX etc. by yourself.

(See more at https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/)

Also do it in your free time because probably you won't make a living out of it.

So I totally understand why anyone would pick a browser engine where all of this is super easy to solve.
The 757 was made to replace the 727 and serves a different market segment than the 737.
I didn’t say “hire everyone who isn’t an armed robber.” I said “don’t hire armed robbers for this job.” Unfortunately past crimes can be good predictors of future work unreliability.
Does anyone remember the article about a Buddhist monk who emulates suicide to heal the patients. It was on HN a while back but I can't find it.
Starts with data logging, everything is logged. Then you inspect that area and look for anomalies in the metals in that area. At 5Gs, a little piece of wire becomes a razor blade and leaves evidence. A lot of odd nicks in an avionics bay will lead to testing, interviews and more testing. A worker has no reason to hide details, it would be criminal, so the interviews look at all the possible anomalies and then narrows down to the root cause.

Really amazing work, read NTSB crash reports and they outline the methods used
>still the largest and most successful company to come out of SF this decade.

That's a lot less reflective of UBER and more reflective of the type of startups SV is trying to take public. Look at any other SV Unicorn that IPO'd...take Twitter that IPO'd in 2013, it turned a profit one year since going public.
They don't need Travis. They need an adult in charge who will shed about 80% of their payroll. Managing a cloud-based mobile logistics service for taxis shouldn't require 22,000 people.
So the WBC is an extreme case. Obviously it’s problematic. Their tactics are disgusting, and really it’s counter productive to their cause, though they are more like nasty trolls.

But we’re seeing issues where things are not problematic but because people are guilty of thinking “wrong”. If I want to discuss international politics and think we should liberate/invade country X or conversely we should leave country X well alone, I should not get penalized for articulating a point of view.

One thing I don’t understand is, if I follow janeblow@ I should not get offended by her tweets. I have the power to unfollow her, I can block her. I don’t see why people’s reaction id to get janeblow@ suspended.
This was an interesting year for S-100, and it's reflected in the ads. The writing was on the wall for the S-100 bus on microcomputers (the PC platform was displacing it), so they were pivoting to the high-end (look at the S-100 SBCs designed to be used in larger installations, the way that VME would eventually be used). There's a good mix of ads for both applications in this issue. The standard was eventually retired 10 years later.
Oh that's interesting, thanks! It seems almost perfectly designed to fit SwiftUI's use case. I wonder what other use cases it enables.
Thin clients are not exactly a new thing and mean that you are completely out of luck if you have a bad/no internet connection.

Also, you probably still want a decent screen and keyboard and need to pay for the remote machine as well, at which point it becomes not really cheaper.

Example from 2012:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/swap-your-laptop-ipad-l...