skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using Machine Learning to “Nowcast” Precipitation in High Resolution
Most frameless window cars now have a drip edge around the window that's supposed to keep moisture away from the door seals. The window goes down a bit in order for the window to clear the drip edge. If your battery goes dead in one, then the window will catch a little and pull. It's okay if it happens a few times, but over time it will probably pull the window off of the tracks.
That is just not in any way practical.
Only sort of.

John Q. Public has no reason to buy an EV. Today's gas prices don't put the same dent in his pocket that $5/gallon* gas did. And there's good reason to believe that $5/gallon gas is probably never coming back.

I am for EVs, Tesla, and anything that can keep us from making large portions of Earth unarable and uninhabitable. But most people's car-buying decisions are driven by economic realities, not environmental concern.

*$5/gallon US average price - I understand it's frequently this high on the coasts and in large cities, and it's almost always higher in countries with appropriately levied fuel taxes.
Yes, you absolutely can. They make a sharper alternative to cabbage in a slaw. I tend to slice then fairly thin, as they can be tough to chew, but having done that you can use them in a lot of raw applications.
Many of the method parameter names are indeed changed in this situation. Changing the thrown exception is an incompatible change in Java.

>However, the whole discussion is moot, because Google had no intention of being compatible with anything, as shown by the fact that there is no real-world Java program that runs as-is on Android.

The vast majority of Java code runs on perfectly well in Android. APKs are packaged differently than JARs but that's a different discussion.

>Also, copyright only applies to actual copies of the original work. Google could have done a clean-room redesign of the Java API starting from Java programs, they could have arrived at the same API that they have today, and could not have been successfully accused of copying.

This is what they did. Oracle's argument is that a clean room implementation of the Java API is also copyright infringement.
I sort of regret having not done this in my 20s, but decades later, there's no way I'm putting up with that, when so many better alternatives are available.
Actually stealing ip sabotage ones own scientific ability as a nation if not to careful. Suddenly everyone is just waiting for Santa spyalot to bring the presents.
> This is just one type of company and limiting yourself to just that is limiting and a driver to some of the mind bubble issues in SV.

I think the idea is that since such a high percentage of startups fail or provide low returns you need to find these huge wins to make money in the long run.

And finding one huge win every ~5 years might be easier than finding a bunch of smaller wins every year.
I've got a car that just passed 200,000 miles. I suspect that on foot, I have not surpassed that in my lifetime. Let's see: Five miles a day might be a reasonable average of just walking around (not hiking, etc). I'm at about 19,000 days, so my "just everyday walking" might be in the neighborhood of 100,000 miles. That would leave hiking, jogging, playing games, etc, as needing to make up another 100,000 miles. I'm pretty sure I haven't done that. (I might average more than five miles a day of just everyday walking. Probably not 10, though.)

So I think my car might still be winning.
Actually, the first one wasn't in that much demand, because it had laughably slow processor and cell standard support even by 2007 standards (no UMTS, which was already available on cell networks back then, just not with an iPhone). Apple fanboys stood in line for it and since Apple wasn't able to even produce enough for them, it seemed like "everyone wanted one".

The iPhone 3G changed this fundamentally; you didn't have to be a die-hard Apple fanboy to justify wanting one of those, because it was the only phone on the market that actually gave you sufficiently usable mobile access to "the real Internet".
the definiton on wikipedia fits here. reverse engineering isn't always some clandestine thing

> Reverse engineering, also called back engineering, is the process by which a man-made object is deconstructed to reveal its designs, architecture, or to extract knowledge from the object; similar to scientific research, the only difference being that scientific research is about a natural phenomenon
If there is one thing this entire saga has revealed, its that Boeing was criminally culpable at nearly every step of the way.

Starting with the design goals of the 737 Max, continuing with penny pinching during the implementation, then bullying and lying during the certification process, then further bullying during the sales and training process, then massive amounts of blame shifting after the first crash, trying to pin it on the airlines and the pilots, then repeating the same thing after the second crash, then not providing documentation and data during the investigation, then further trying to get away with half baked fixes, then bullying the FAA to try and allow the Maxes to fly well before they were ready, etc.

At every stage of the process Boeing has led with lies and bullying. There is absolutely no reason to give them the slightest of the benefit of the doubt.

For every action, the best approach is probably to consider what would be the worst thing Boeing could have done as a response, because that’s likely what they did.
Assange targeted America, because America is actually doing the most evil in the world. Its heinous Coalition essentially started World War 3 in 2003, and it is consistently meddling in the sovereignty of other states, to the extent that their civilisation is doomed, entirely, to the whims of the American oligarchical classes.

So yes, America #1 Problem in the World, Russia .. #5? #6? Maybe after dismantling the American military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex, Wikileaks will go on to tackle China, #2. There is clear activity still happening in that regard.

One thing is for sure, if Assange dies from the chemical lobotomy that he's currently suffering in Belmarsh, the gloves will be coming off. From Assange' suffering, will come many, many more leakers ..
It feels different and I was prepared to not like it. My previous car and wife's current car is BMW (leather seats, wood dash etc.). I loved the BMW feel. But these days I try to avoid ending up in my wife's BMW as much as possible.

Whenever I'm in any luxury car it feels nice, but also feels dated. Hard to explain. Kind of like you might enjoy your AirBnb stay in an old chateau but won't want to live there for good.
In the US, what sells the most (sadly) are pickup trucks and SUVs. The numbers aren't even close. The big automakers here know this, and have tailored their product lines accordingly. Ford is basically kept afloat singularly by F-series pickup sales, and have cancelled many sedans entirely. They have an entire range of different sized trucks and SUVs for every market segment. Same with Chevrolet. Now pan over to Tesla. Tesla has one single SUV offering, and sales of that SUV are dismal. They just teased a pickup truck release with their 'cybertruck' product, but the design was purposely off-putting, and it only served to make a mockery of the market segment. So with one SUV that doesn't sell, and a parody of what is currently the highest selling platform in the US, I'm not sure why anyone speculates Tesla is in a place of upward trajectory. I don't buy the argument that other car companies can't/won't pivot to counter either. Porsche reverse engineered one of their Model S vehicles, admitted it was quite well-constructed, and then countered with the Taycan (by all reviews a better car) a mere 3-4 years later. I'm glad a company like Tesla exists to force the market to the EV concept, but most people will buy an EV when they know it's supported by a long established and trusted automaker like Toyota, Ford, Chevy, or Honda. Tesla then exists as a proof-of-concept model for the bigger players to follow, not as a displacement.

It should also be noted, many motor companies are also investing quite a bit of money into alternative fuels like synthetic petrol and hydrogen, and don't want to rely on an energy source which is primarily derived from conflict zones. They aren't 100% sold yet that the EV platform is indeed the way forward.
I wrote a lot of sequence diagrams for tasks I worked on and saved the interesting ones. Also, finding somebody senior to explain a module pays off big time. Also, learn the database schema: all an app really does is manipulate data
Sounds like the ocean.
Every single fair transaction has a net value of $0. If I buy a chocolate bar for $1 that's worth a dollar to me, I'm up one chocolate bar worth $1 and down a dollar. No net worth change, but it is validation the chocolate bar is worth $1.
"The spectral signatures of the best companies I’ve invested in are remarkably similar. "

I want to say something snarky about bombarding a company with electrons to ionize it, but it's actually a pretty good metaphor.

I think the "help them" bit is good, too, and something a lot of VC's don't seem to be that good at.
You can disable them, which is the same thing as far as the user is concerned. Uninstalling from a read-only partition doesn't make sense.
"isn't US misbehavior what got Assange in prison in the first place?"
> here's no competition for a shell when you need to do what shells are meant to do: chaining invocations, gluing and piping output, and so on

There is no reason this shouldn't be easy to do in Python too, if it is then it is something a library should fix.
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"We tortured some folks."
It can. I think the lack of coupling between the two is the crux of the matter here.
Pick a part (like maybe the part that you're first going to have to work on). Get a tour of that part from someone on the team. Then dive into that part. When you have questions, ask.
It's probably a bad idea, but has anyone thought of sending nuclear waste into space? I've always thought that it might be possible to launch it into space using a space elevator (if that is even feasible), but then I can also see the disaster if something bad happened during the launch, resulting in cataclysmic event.
That's because they want the goals of the business to align with the goals of your team. Non-technical managers can't read software nor can they talk the talk, so this is the primary way of making sure every employee rows the same direction.
What are you talking about, my blog that has an astounding 2 visitors a month (one or both of which are accidental clicks) definitely needs to be on kubernetes!
This article is indeed relevant, thanks for sharing!
You realize the main driver of escalating education costs is the government reducing how much it chips in? The actual amount universities spend on education hasn't gone up unreasonably, it's just a lot has been shifted from the government to the students.
California law as of Jan 1 requires all new houses to have solar panels, EV charging port, no natural gas allowed. This 100% electric future being forced is attractive to Wall Street as it forces change, despite adding ~300k to the house price.
Wall Street bares no relation to the street where cars are powered by gasoline or diesel with few exceptions. It takes 75 minutes to charge a Tesla EV, much longer in cold climates (I have a Tesla owning acquaintance in Denver who confirms this).
We are n a giant stock market bubble. Tesla is a good example if this aspirational earnings exuberance IMO
> The only pattern is "resourceful" founders and plenty of money.

The market is pretty important too.
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Using Cable Haunt vulnerability to open a shell for the Sagemcom FAST 3890
This isn't "my formula" - it's the textbook finance formula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_value
(2018) 4 of the top 5 US defense firms to be led by women
If you swap the context of investing in start-ups to the extreme of praying to the correct Gods to get rainfall, you'll be hard pressed to find any differences.

From personal experience, if you pray on Tuesday evening and if it's a colder than usual morning on Wednesday, you pray on Thursday, I've found that it appeases the rain Gods.

This is comparable to 'founders need to have X quality and Y quality, and respond to emails quickly'. It's silly.

Except it's not silly if what these guys are doing is taking other people's money to invest. Then it all begins to make sense - in the past the priests talked to Gods via special powers. Today, nerds speak to the God of intellect and science. They need to put out predictions and rationalizations to reinforce faith in their ability to talk to the God of intellect and science. It's the same mechanism, the Gods have changed. We're playing a confidence and faith game over and over again.

The entire scientific grant system is based on priesthood, which is why anytime somebody actually makes a scientific breakthrough, the existing priest caste tries their best to ridicule and ex-communicate them while another set of priest-potentials fights to take credit for the discovery and establish themselves as new priests. Real science gets in the way of the priesthood system by undermining the credibility of existing priests.

Hence my bold prediction - within the next 10 years, there'll be a billion dollar start-up with founders who don't quickly reply to emails and whatever other voodoo Sam believes he possesses to tell success from failure apart - it's all hubris, besides the trivialities of 'willing to work hard, intelligent, goal oriented'.
So it sounds like it doesn't "just run" after all.
Some examples:
Matter/anti-matter asymmetry, arrow of time direction, why CP violations, neutrino mass questions, why masses are what they are, dark matter and energy nature, what cancels out zero point energy, many structures on universe scale don't fit models, firewall paradox, why is gravity so weak, are there gravitons (other particles..), do magnetic monopoles exist (widely conjectured to work from models, none yet seen), why 3 generations of particles, proton radius discrepancies, exotic and pentaquark (and higher) particles, Navier-Stokes open problems, lots of superconductor and metamaterial questions results not explained theoretically, and so on...
> I think the "help them" bit is good, too, and something a lot of VC's don't seem to be that good at.

I look forward to the day I meet a VC good at helping a company. I think, most of them are good at motivating founders by creating economics that displease the founder if they don't perform, but that's more of a stick than a carrot. I'd love to meet and hear about a VC truly focused on the carrot side of things.
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I do not own one, but I had a Lyft driver show up in a Model S once.

The interior was nice but spartan. The ride quality was absolute garbage. I felt every single bump, crack, and pothole in the road. Tesla does not compete in the luxury space, only in the luxury price range.
What's predatory is the for-profit colleges that generally turn out students with basically worthless credentials. In plenty of cases it's even been found the signatures on the loan documents were forged.
I never said bald men cannot be handsome. I was saying "get a nice haircut" implies that.
The early build quality was poor and they had a lot of problems with ordinary things breaking that had nothing to do with being electric and everything to do with being inexperienced at making cars. They could be doing better now but it's a little early to say because the more recent cars aren't that old yet. Either way it seems more like teething issues than something they won't get right eventually.

Meanwhile it's fairly unambiguously true that electric drivetrains are a lot simpler and should require less maintenance in general.
Yes, more tech folks should read "The Millionaire Next Door."
> Iran-Contra - We sold a bunch of weapons to a country that we're now apparently enemies with. The funded Contras committed a series of human rights violations and then fizzled out.

Our current attorney general was involved in pardoning a bunch of the people behind this.
I meant for audio, thou was temped to add a 3.5 inch floppy to my new pc build might be difficult to fin a TREX board though
> How can you own the interface to an implementation? Can someone copyright toString() or appendToKeyValueDataStore() in a given language?

How? The same exact way I own copyright to all of the code I write. It's the same exact system.

Yes, someone could copyright those if they weren't fundamental, obvious, and preexisting. The same way that if I write a novel new implementation of a String it is copyrighted under whatever license I choose. The same way that a new codec is copyrighted, etc.
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> There's a resulting explosion of cognitive complexity as I have to keep track of what's part of the application and what's a system-level service.

If you can start them up with additional lines in a docker file (containers in a pod), it's just another ExecStart line in the unit file that calls Docker with a different container name.

EDIT: You do have to think a bit differently about networking, since the containers will have separate networks by default with Docker, in comparison to a k8s pod. You can make it match, however, by creating a network for the shared containers.

If, however, there's a "this service must be started before the next", systemd's dependency system will be more comprehensible than Kubernetes (since Kubernetes does not create dependency trees; the recommended method is to use init containers for such).

As a side note, unit files can also do things like init containers using the ExecStartPre hook.
Of course. We are seeing the IVF specialist my clinic recommends. My wife has been tested to not be a genetic carrier for CF; all embryos are screen for CF and other conditions before implantation.
Eleven tips for working with large data sets
Education and Men without Work
To further this point about the ecosystem, and this is AWS specific. You need, or have needed, to install a handful of extra services/controllers onto your EKS cluster to get it to integrate the way most would expect with AWS. Autoscalling? Install and configure the autoscaler. IAM roles? Install Kube2IAM. DNS/ALB/etc etc? etc etc etc.

After a slog you get everything going. Suddenly a service is throwing errors because it doesn't have IAM permissions. You look into it and it's not getting the role from the kube2iam proxy. Kube2iam is throwing some strange error about a nil or interface cast. Let's pretend you know Go like I do. The error message still tells you nothing specific about what the issue may be. Google leads you to github and you locate an issue with the same symptoms. It's been open for over a year and nobody seems to have any clue what's going on.

Good times :) Stay safe everyone, and run a staging cluster!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20113623
Nice talking points, to bad they are verifiable nonsense:

> One piece of evidence for that is that they have moved to focusing on publishing only what will advance the goals of Russian inteigence.

https://wikileaks.org//spyfiles/russia/ You think Russian intel is happy about this?

> Another is that when journalists receive a leak they work to authenticate it, ensure it's in the public interest, redact unnecessary personal information, work with whoever is being leaked from (eg the US government) to provide advance notice to minimize harms to ongoing operations, and then release commentery on the leak. WikiLeaks doesn't.

Wikileaks goes through rigorous protocols to guarantee the authenticity of its material, as far as I know there has been zero claims against the correctness of the materials published. Show me one other journalistic organisation with such a track record.
Wikipedia has also made several attempts to coordinate with stakeholders towards responsible disclosure, including with the US government. They were simply stonewalled and would not take "don't publish any of it" as an answer.
I'm reminded a bit of systemd. Whatever their problems, when things went south, it was usually fairly easy for someone who could code to walk through the init scripts involved and figure it out. The config files of systemd at first glance look quite simple and declarative, but if things don't work, one almost immediately slams into a wall of complexity.

Sometimes one doesn't "need" a coder because the system is such that it wouldn't do you any good anyway.
> for a 100 percent satisfaction guaranteed working modem.

Importantly, the company I mention historically had such a bad satisfaction experience that it was rated lowest for customer experience. Such issues that they rebranded. With their contractor model it was regularly the experience of customers that the install goes through 2 or 3 cheap cable modems until one worked; in combination with their Mac locking, dns poisoning data caps, almost daily scheduled downtimes.

Though I'm still not sure how it's a decent price to pay $120 for something that retails for $60.
Portugal has the fourth most expensive electricity in the EU. You are unfortunately above our level, because of taxation (Germany holds the top spot). Throughout the EU, the calculation is better for EVs. The median is at about 15¢/kWh.
TBH for me my threat model looks like this:

Passwords - protect against unauthorized access of my service accounts, and 1Password - can be compromised via logging or breaches or just plain peeping

Secret key - acts as 2FA for my 1Password and thus protects my master password from unauthorized use - can be compromised if someone steals the physical paper on which it's stored

TOTP - protect against unauthorized use of my service accounts - can be compromised if someone compromises my mobile phone or phone number. Highly unlikely someone would spend that kind of effort and €€€ on me though

All in all its a pretty nicely tiered system. If someone gets my master password, they still need the secret key. If a burglar steals my secret key, they don't have my master password. If someone somehow compromises both of those, they still don't have access to my TOTPs and thus can't login into any of my 'cricital' accounts (basically e-mail, hosting providers, finance, etc. etc.)

Now imagine you have an malicious spouse or housemate or whatever: they could easily learn your master password by peeping over your shoulder, piecing it together bit by bit (ha). They have a lot of opportunity to search for your secret key as well. If you put your TOTPs on 1Password, you're boned. But if you have them in an authenticator app, even having access to your password manager means jack because they can't login without your TOTPs.

I know one of the big faux pas is to talk about your security but most of this stuff can be deducted pretty easily so I don't feel too exposed.
Link dynamically if you care about security upgrades.
The purpose of this is to make the successor function S an injection. That is, it assures us that all natural numbers are the successor to exactly one other natural number, except that zero is first and so it isn't the successor to anything (in the natural numbers). The number line you saw in primary school is fundamental to arithmetic.

Without this rule we might worry that perhaps there can be other numbers between five and six, or that if we all count up from one some of us might never reach a hundred because we inadvertently divert and get to six million early. These concerns seem intuitively nonsensical, but Peano doesn't want to rely on intuition, he wants to use logic.
Nice product!

https://dontport.com/

Do you know if something like this exists in europe?
Can you say "strategic bankruptcy"?

A new graduate with a high priced degree is almost certainly better off declaring chapter 7 the day they graduate. If you want student loans to exist that option must be denied.