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This stuff gets me paranoid, i have a nest doorbell, because i don't care who can look at my front lawn, and a nest camera that only gets plugged in when no one is at the house. Other than that i have a closed circuit camera system with motioneyeos (motion activated) and a few POE cameras with no wifi and send the footage offsite.

I know it is not as convenient, but these cameras are getting scary. These are only the stories we know about. imagine who else is watching.
Teach them to be more skeptical/less trusting about all interactions with strangers (not just scam calls). On some level, I don't like doing this because most people are good and skepticism puts a dark cloud over a lot of good/positive human interactions. But, I also hate to see people get tricked and taken advantage of by con men.

The criminals who prey on the elderly using tech scams (I just need your credit card number to deposit the funds) use the same emotional cons and tactics as those who prey on kids (can you help me find my lost puppy) and they ought to be handled the same.

I've found the best way to address this is to deflect the request. Give me your phone number and I'll call you back or let's report the lost puppy to that policeman over there. And, also practice con-like scenarios. Make a game out of it.
"Turks have invaded and slaughtered scores of European peoples in the last thousand years. Recently in Cyprus, Syria, and Kurdistan. They're like the Germans of Central Asia"

See what I did there? Keep your opinions of Italians to your self.
I agree. 360 reviews are completely useless. Business and marketing folks always give out quid pro quo great reviews. There is no reason not to. Why would you burn a bridge? And possibly a later career move?

The only people who seem to take 360s seriously are engineers who are usually too competitive with each other to review someone fairly. And that is a major detriment to team cohesion.
He's also has a husband, so it goes a bit beyond 'ally'.
Laws mandating seatbelts work exceptionally well, though.
> Things get dicier when there’s no records of you being a citizen

Perhaps because you successfully applied for British citizenship in the UK forty years ago but the government deleted all the records! Several instances of this came to light in the Windrush scandal a couple of years ago.

The moral: if your citizenship is even slightly interesting you need to keep your passport current.
> They haven't kept pace with the industry in technology

This is among the reasons Ghosn was proposing a merger: the alliance was supposed to help them share R&D costs, particularly on electric vehicles, but they weren't doing nearly enough on that front.
Another excellent philosophy podcast is The Partially Examined Life:

https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/
Ask HN: How do you find startup mentors from outside your network ?
Hi HNers,

I am a solo startup founder from a small french town.

There is no unicorns here so noone has a real experience on being part of this kind of companies.

Most mentors here either built profitable SMEs, managed big companies they haven't founded or are people with an MBA.

Most advises I get are contradictory to what I read from more "reputable" startup writer as PG.

Any idea how to get a mentor from outside your network ?
For suburb to city center, you want multi-track train lines which only stop at a few stations and then switch over to a middle track which then goes the rest of the way downtown without stopping. The suburb I grew up in was about 20 miles outside of Chicago and the rush hour express train would get you downtown in about 25 minutes whereas doing the same route by car would take you 40-100 minutes during rush hour.
True, but cancellation tokens allow you to alleviate backpressure by safely dropping in-flight requests once you hit a given threshold instead of adding to an unbounded scope.
Of course both alcohol and drug abuse are bad. But anytime the government is given more power, it’s always applied unevenly to poor and minorities.

As much as some people love their guns for instance, the NRA and conservative politicians like Reagan were all for gun control when minorities were “exercising their rights”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
He is saying that the only people who preach about the "electric universe" are non-scientists. It really isn't unclear.
It looks like a car would need to be over 2 years behind Tesla's OTA updates for it to still have version 2.6.36 and be vulnerable to this exploit.

https://electrek.co/2017/06/30/tesla-new-linux-kernel-update...

EDIT: See nils2014's comments below. The WiFi chip is connected to the entertainment system which received an updated kernel, but it is seems like the kernel on the WiFi chip itself may not have been updated.
If your attack vector is adversaries ready to deep freeze your laptop, perhaps you should do your computing in a more secure location :)
States will be the battlegrounds for 2020 tech policy fights
Every travelagent can tell you this, and a passport is like 50 bucks.
A balance ideally struck within actual court rooms, not outside it. Otherwise the prosecutors turn into judge, jury and executioner and you lose the point of the court system to begin with.
Since it only shows stills, could it be some kind of race condition? Don't get me wrong, the major problem is of course that it has access to other people's camera feeds but since it only gains access for what seems like a moment maybe the access getting denied is raced by the update of the screen?
I don't know, why am I even thinking too deeply about this. A major company screwing up IoT. It happens way too often and there are a million ways they could do it.
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>There will never be shortages or famines like the Irish potato famine.

There will, because the potato famine wasn't caused by lack of money, it was caused by monoculture, historically poor land management practices encouraged by foreign interests, and genocidal tendencies on the part of the English.

If the Irish people had the ability to arbitrarily print money the way you suggest, they still would have been starving because the English would have taken the money AND the food.
> They have their own sauce. I personally called it the Pivotal Process

What Pivotal does is fairly vanilla Extreme Programming. Indeed, the vanillaness of it is something of a selling point. In the London office, we would start projects by giving client PMs and programmers a copy of Extreme Programming Explained and telling them that was what we were going to do. It's easier to coax them into following a process if it's a documented industry-standard one rather than some special sauce.

Pivotal does have a few extra bells and whistles that fill in spaces around the XP core - "discovery and framing" [1] and "inception" [2] being two that spring to mind. And as you say, there is less emphasis on iterations as a unit of work - the planning meeting is weekly, but it feeds a continuous flow of development and delivery. But the daily pattern of work should be familiar to anyone who knows XP.

[1] https://content.pivotal.io/blog/what-we-did-on-our-summer-in...

[2] https://www.infoq.com/articles/project-inception-meeting/
What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk?
We do support research and development in renewable technologies. It gets farmed out to China because they are better at building things cost effectively than we are [0, 1]. And again, while Australia is quite strong per-capita, renewable energy is a very hot focus in any number of research universities with billions of dollars being spent globally with results that are nothing short of miraculous. It isn't obvious that more investment is needed, solar and wind are improving at an amazing pace led by major players.

Germany showed enormous leadership with their Energiewende. It was expensive, convinced nobody and has had what appears to be a marginal effect on their actual emissions emitted. Hoping that Australia charging into the breach would help in any meaningful way is wishful thinking. Business as usual until economic forces cause the US and China to switch away from fossil fuels is what is going to happen, we can't make their decisions for them. Fight that diplomatically, sure. But tank our standard of living for a symbolic gesture and there is going to be very stiff resistance.

[0] https://www.smh.com.au/technology/csiro-sells-concentrated-s...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Zhengrong
Right... They shared the 0 day.

NSA and Comment Crew just sit on them like a dragon hording gold.
Some latency benchmarks: https://kafkaesque.io/performance-comparison-between-apache-...
I agree, but even traffic laws are unfairly enforced to give police officers a reason to stop “suspicious looking people”.
(Note that this article is only talking about the dashboard entertainment machine, which probably isn't the one the wifi chip's connected to. Perhaps that one got slower updates.)
One issue with that is based on current physics, a deep space ship that isn't some millenia generation ship but accelerates to a decent percentage of c will expel a fuckton of energy in some type of fusion/fission/antimatter reaction, which tends toward being very, very visible. The first sign of a torchship-capable civilization wouldn't be random radio emissions, but would instead be some star system suddenly gaining another star that ignores orbital physics and instead ends up leaving said system at some absurd speed, probably with a bowshock measured in AUs from all the interstellar dust going nuclear as it collides with said ship.
No, in Sweden we also cross when there are no cars nearby. At least in Stockholm and Gothenburg.
> I'm sure they're using a stable branch and keeping up with security patches

Surely you must be joking... The last kernel 2.6.x LTS version to be maintained is 2.6.32.71, and its maintenance ended in March 2016 [1].

No Security patches were released for 2.6.x since then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_version_history#R...
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Is that easily bypassed? I don't need my car nagging me because I put a large box in my back seat.
A drive wipe might take too long though, especially if they grab the laptop and shut if off. After a simple shutdown or lock, disk encryption really is the primary protection here.
As of recently. They've identified privacy as a wedge issue and appear to believe they can leverage it in the minds of their potential userbase as "we respect your privacy, our competitors do not" (nevermind they still maintain a cloud copy of your iPhone contents if you switch that on, or collect your app usage analytics and do only-Apple-knows what they do with that data, not at all unlike their competitors).
While true, the distractedness (on the part of the pedestrian or the driver) doesn't absolve the driver of their responsibility to yield in this scenario. A driver who hits a pedestrian in this scenario will be subject to criminal and civil penalties, and rightly so.
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I was straight up offered weed in or around Detroit on a couple occasions. I found it more amusing than insulting, but I do wonder what this says about my appearance. Maybe it’s the long hair.
It's not lower than Vulkan (Vulkan pretty much matches GPU functionality already). Lower would be GPU assembly or machine code.

And older isn't the reason not to offer Vulkan for developers. Nintendo managed to figure that out. So it's not "no", unless they are dumb and stuck in extreme lock-in mentality.
I was extremely worried about buying a VR headset for similar reasons, I had heard a lot about the magic of it but was concerned that it would be buggy or basically a glorified screen strapped to my face. I finally made the leap and bought a Quest since it doesn't require a gaming PC and is completely cordless. The first time my girlfriend and I put it on we were stunned by the seamless experience of being instantly transported to a different reality. So much so that she went from being peeved at me for spending money on a toy to laughing with glee in about 30 seconds flat.

I haven't had any difficulties with controller or position tracking at all with the Quest. The only time it can't find the controllers is when they are out of site in the case or placed behind something. The position tracking has been 100% solid. There are no tethers or requirements for a play area, I've brought it around to various places to show friends and family and it's worked every time. I honestly can't think of any serious complaints other than that I wish there was more content for it but that's just a matter of time. Granted the graphics have to be scaled back due to the limited hardware for some titles so you won't see photorealistic games for it but it has the option to play those games when connected to a computer using Oculus Link. Most games make good use of stylistic effects and shrewd design to hide the low poly count and you definitely don't notice it when you're caught up in an experience or playing a game. A lot of the lofi ones even seem better in some ways because they are just having fun with the media and embracing the limitations and focusing on gameplay and interactivity instead.

Sorry for the rant but they got me, I'm a convert now and I'm never going back ;)
My personal opinion as an engineering manager who worked closely with that org for years.
I know you probably asked yourself this, but could that call also have been a scam?

I mention it because (and this is I think a good contribution to the thread) "getting upset" correlates strongly with "hiding something" and with "axe to grind with the world" and with "not disciplined or patient enough to get a job."
Python Tuple Syntax Is Confusing
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RISC is not MISC (minimal instruction set computer)

The "Reduced" refers to reduced workload per instruction, not number or complexity of instructions for programmer. For example adding explicit load/store instructions.

Many modern RISC ISA's have more instructions than CISC processors.
That interpretation of prohibition looks past the very reasons why it was advocated for and ultimately instituted.

You mention yourself that drinking caused real harmful societal issues, and it was these issues which prohibitionists sought to confront. You downplay this by trying to make it seem like the prohibitionists were guided by a petty morality, but their moral qualms with alcohol were rooted in its causing many social problems I think all could agree are wrong and harmful.

The desire to create a more just, peaceful, "moral" society is not inherently conservative. The Left is just as willing and eager to legislate its own morality in pursuit of creating a world that is more consistent with its own moral vision.
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If Mac OS X has a secret shame, it's the Finder (2003)
Making a list of prejudices against particular groups and discussing their negative effects sounds beneficial. Shouting out a bunch of derogatory stereotypes with no consideration or discussion does not. How these things are handled matters and how failures to handle these things well is then handled also matters.
As far as I can tell I actually tend to use something like this also (semver annotated with some form of timestamp, if only so I can tell at a glance how old something is, but usually as two distinct fields), but even after looking at the linked site I'm confused by what "the age of the software in days and minutes" means exactly.

The current version is reported as 2.1.2329.415.

Does that mean this release (roughly v2.1.something) was compiled/packaged/released 2329 days and 415 minutes after some arbitrary project-start timestamp? That this was compiled/packaged/released 2329 days and 415 minutes _ago_? Are those literally the "days" and "minutes" fields they're talking about?

The former seems kinda crazy (as the version number would be mutable) but to be honest that's how I'd naively interpret "the age of the software" - I want to know how long ago this build was created, not how long after the project was first started.

If the version number is days-after-project start, why not just use the actual date? What's the value of the arbitrary baseline?

(Actually, now that I think about it I guess the arbitrary baseline does have an advantage if you are intentionally trying to obscure how old the build is in calendar time. *.2329.415 provides an easily interpreted, monotonically increasing identifier without making it obvious if this release happened yesterday or 10 years ago. I.e., this solves the problem that products with the year-of-release in their name have - surely people are eventually stop buying FooBar2015, whether or not there's a real need for an update in the past 5 years.)
The Virtual Memorial Garden
>Laws should only be passed when you’re harming someone else.

Cough cough DUI cough cough liver disease cough cough domestic violence
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Good on him for escaping. The japanese judicial system is an outright farce and they deserve to be humiliated on the world stage.