skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They make cars significantly cheaper to produce - both in terms of parts and construction time. Evey button you lose is a button you don't have source and install when building the car. There's less wiring, less replacement parts to stock. It's a win in all kinds of situations for the manufacturer.

It's no coincidence that the company with most manufacturing issues - Tesla - also went with completely touchscreen based cabin with pretty much no additional cost. This is further confirmed by the fact that they didn't offset the screen issue by installing a projected HUD display (which is these days available in most 20.000$ cars) - it's complicated to install.
Tech companies in general and Amazon specifically seem scared to death of unionization. I think Amazon's actions in this matter are going to backfire tremendously.
Thank for you for the response. I apologize for asking the obvious question, you must get that alot. If it helps, my lovely godmother decked out her living room and kitchen in Mackenzie-Childs (teapots, tables, napkins), so I have positive design associations.

There is another software engineer in CA with same (unique) first and last name as I. Fortunately he's career-successful, so I'll survive if SEO confusion occurs. He accepted my Linked-In connection.
Why switch from VS Code to Codium?

For me, it was because I don't want to be spied on by Microsoft. VS Codium is VS Code without the telemetry and tracking.
Bison in northern Yellowstone proving to be too much of a good thing
I've been using https://www.ventusky.com/ for ever and it's better in my opinion then dark sky.
I think it's built into our simian hindbrains to keep following the asshole who is winning instead of following the potential loser who we like.
Yes, tediously, with auditors who understand SAML and the (very informal) literature on SAML attacks. Hence, the concern.
>there are reports of cases with an incubation period of up to 27 days.

There is only one report based on one case of a 70 year old man in Hubei province, based on contact testing, and did not rule out that he contacted it later.
yes, that's the best split--make frequently-used features and/or features used primarily while driving physical controls, while rarely-used features and/or features used while parked can be touch-based.

however, address input should be primarily by voice control rather than touch entry. changing destinations (for whatever reason) mid-drive on a navigation system is dangerous and somewhat common, and voice control is the best option for keeping your eyes on the road (absent a passenger who can do the touchscreen data entry).
It is my anecdata, and take it as what it is. I've seen it myself a few times.

Take it as what it is, downvote it all you want. A freedom of speech for everyone.
My preference in cars is touchscreen for rarely used functionality, and then dials, buttons and sliders for everything else.

Messing with audio is a peripheral task so expecting me to take my eyes off the road etc is still unacceptable. Especially to change the track or adjust volume.

That said, we're all used to small touchscreens. These tend to require the user to maintain the current context on what is on screen. The whole screen is subject to change and this complicates / weakens muscle memory. I've used larger touchscreens where controls don't change around so much and muscle memory can easily kick in if the design is sane. The difference is tangible. Eg you can blind press using peripheral vision and it can work well.

The real answer might just be that we're in the early days of touchscreen use. The technology and application thereof is still immature. The design language, for want of a better term, is still evolving.
That is not in keeping with the tradition of trespass, and is probably a similar mistake in the (relatively few) jurisdictions that have tried to craft such a framework.

Also, using biblical proportions to describe undesirables traversing your land is melodrama in the extreme.
> There wasn’t really any actionable thing in this article that I found, or applicable advice. The end.

This could honestly be a single-line summary for every blog post I've read on interviewing.io.
Considering humans often use masks like these to conceal their identity, it's probably going to be difficult if not impossible to make it work reliably.
For those using an Apple Watch it will be easier to pay that way.
Ironic that Bloomberg is reporting it, since Bloomberg spied on clients, and spied on employees' computers 30 years ago.
Erm, how does it make less sense? Codium is literally more vscode than VS Code itself. So if you're on VS Code, just use Codium.
Ya, Volvo has gone to a unified interface for their whole lineup. The standard stuff can be controlled with a few knobs and buttons and all the minor differences between models and trim levels are controlled on screen. I'm sure it saves them a ton since the part count would be very low now.

They've done a pretty good job at it too, but it needs to be customizable to be great. If I ordered the surround camera option, I want that to be easy to access, not buried a few gestures deep. Chrysler nailed it, they let you rearrange the touch screen icons and have a bar along the bottom where you can put items that are always visible. They also have more buttons and dials.
boo hoo, they won't let us use the least accurate source (outside US) anymore, I'm crying...

>AccuWeather’s predictions were best for temperature averages and highs, probability of precipitation and wind speed. The Weather Channel and Weather Underground came top for low temperature predictions. Dark Sky came last in all these categories.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/30/weather-f...

do yourself a favor and on Android install Geometric weather (open source, AccuWeather, simple layout), Today weather (more sources, quite nice looking), Windy (great maps) or Weather M8 (many sources, require adblock)
In my experience interviewing candidates for a FAANG, people say that they weight "CQ" heavily behind closed doors, but it is mostly used as a way to enforce various -isms under the guise of "probably would[n't] be a good cultural fit". It's how they screen out people who might have or develop a family life, among other things.

But that's just my anecdotal experience.
It should be impossible with SIP enabled, as in OS X 10.14 Apple protected the files in /var/db/dslocal where the user shadow files are stored so that root could not read them (unless triggered by an Apple signed executable, like Software Update). If you are running with SIP disabled you've taken the risk of it happening, and if you are on a corporate laptop (or 99% of personal machines) it is engaged.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/344117/mac-10-13-1...
Graphene-based conversion of ambient THz waves into DC
Thankfully, Barry Lee Myers's nomination was finally withdrawn in December 2019, but he won't be the last nominee to pull this sort of thing.
hostname:port is not a valid destination according to ssh syntax. A destination may either be [user@]hostname or a URI of the form ssh://[user@]hostname[:port].
I own a Honda HRV and I agree. The fucking touch-slider for volume control is absolutely atrocious.

There are buttons on the wheel but these are slow compared to a good old knob.
Is Apple working on some sort of serverless/Firebase type thing?
> Google requires you to have a Google account

Not for joining a meeting, no. You just type your name.
I think you may have both misunderstood my comment and made my point.

1) if that's the case, how could spending time and resources in complicated interviewing processes help with that?

2) if you don't f*ck with candidates and have them jump through stupid rounds of interview, hiring may not be that hard.

3) Bad culture comes from the top, not from the code monkey.

Sure projects fail, sure they end up being not very satisfactory, but it's not because your complicated interviewing process didn't prevent you from hiring bad people.
Never had such issues with signal on android or iOS. Maybe you have bad luck?
The sound of a lot of paper money being processed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehFImqzVWos
styling native input elements is a major pain in the ass. I would say input is probably the most styleable native input. Checkboxes, radiobuttons, select, file input need a lot of fighting to style them. In many cases, what ends up happening is we create a styled div, and have a transparent input behind it to do the right thing.

The web form elements in that way just feels quite broken. There's a reason why there are tons of design systems that replicate a number of form elements using plain div/span elements with css and javascript. https://github.com/alexpate/awesome-design-systems

I wish the people designing the spec weren't so disconnected from reality of what people actually want to do with the web. A lot of the problems can be easily solved by giving more styling ability to native form elements and extensibility.
IMO the grueling FAANG interviews actually optimize for how much people want to work at the company. If you're sitting through 10 interviews and grinding on LeetCode problems every night then really all you are proving is how badly you want the job. It's effectively a hazing ritual.
Yes, but in the case one side is well known for abusing the other side, the benefit of the doubt goes to the abused.

Amazon has an abusive culture. Let's not "both sides" that out of existence, shall we?
Not exactly the same thing, but when I was in boy scouts I attended a massive jamboree in Florida with (I think) at least thousands of other scouts.

Some friends and I went on a long hike, over an earthen dike and back into the woods for the day, well out of site of the main camp.

Late afternoon coming back, we started seeing smoke from the general direction of the camp. Cresting the dike we saw a huge grass/brush fire ripping through the heart of the camp and scouts and leaders running around like ants, moving tents and vehicles, and trying to beat the fire out with towels. It did no good.

Turns out someone had been playing with their campfire, it got into some dry grass, and with a high wind took off extremely fast, running right through the camp and out into the trees. We missed it all but the finale. The others at our camp had already moved our stuff to safety.

(off topic I know but the event was pretty dramatic)
If you are in to plants, I can strongly recommend installing the http://inaturalist.org/ app. Great community any ML based identifications, providing open citizen science data to researchers and objective collated data such as range, seasonality, etc. per species.

Australia: Shots of ants pollinating a native tea tree I took recently: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/40225415 + somewhat dated but broad scientific review of Australian pollinators: https://moscow.sci-hub.tw/3455/c6d90a9c9485aa772e97f4c6932cc... + upcoming April 12-19 wild pollinator count event https://wildpollinatorcount.com/
Whole Foods is part of Amazon, and there are lots of competing grocery stores.

Instacart is not the only game in town, either.
Create value.
An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis
Hey, not sure if this is a side-effect of you taking this post down but I was interested in reading another of your posts about B2 vs S3 Glacier and am getting "Error establishing a database connection".

https://tyler.io/followup-comparing-my-current-b2-storage-co...

Actually now I look at it, a lot of pages don't seem to work. I guess it's just the classic Hacker News friendly DDOS.
Focus is likely the reason they don't want to do it.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
try Geometric weather, Today weather or Windy
I'm aware of that, but the comment blamed this on needing to be "treated like operating an airliner". In reality, tourist helicopters are much better (and more expensive) than an R44 principally for reasons other than the FAA's treatment of them. Also, I believe that the Bell 206 is well under $2 million as well.
I think this lets you copy it around, e.g. when you have a struct that you have partially initialized.
??? That's not how you measure deflation....

edit: for those wondering you wanna look at a Consumer Price Index (CPI) to dertemine inflation/deflation
My partner is a first officer, and frequently describes his job as being a glorified babysitter outside of takeoff and landing.

Worth noting that a significant amount of the information pilots use in the cockpit (at major US carriers, at least), things like flight plans, are on an iPad.
TBD :)
Google Meet supports up to 250 participants in the enterprise version.
They're really not - what's something that you're able to find at Amazon and unable to find at a different online retailer?
Here's another resource from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which includes a couple places not found in the linked site: https://www.fws.gov/pollinators/
>So for those FAANG engineers that were able to get in early, whether by acquihire, by diversity hire, by luck, by normal hire

Can we please stop assuming that being a minority or woman is some kind of hiring free pass? It's often quite the opposite.

But more to your point, I've been cynically wondering if the untenably high bar set for technical interviews serves as an industry-wide means of lowering turnover.

Also very confused about what constitutes a pass or failure, with the opaquely-defined expectations. I'd love to be able to prepare for my technicals, but usually end up wildly misleading information from recruiters about what the technical entails. (Why are you testing me on Java!? I never claimed to have any experience with Java. I was told this would be a behavioral interview!)
I think java has very good tooling.

Java's main issue is the barrier to entry is lower because it has good tooling, which means really bad, inexperienced programmers can write bad code, and have more tooling to bail them out, allowing them to continue down that path until they have a huge ball of mud.

There ought to be some kind of phrase for this "the tooling curse".

GDB isn't bad, IMHO, but the inability of IDEs to deterministically parse templates / index code without huge problems is problematic.
Skimming-as-a-Service: Anatomy of a Magecart Attack Toolkit
> it still almost entirely ignores the EQ (emotional intelligence) and CQ (cultural intelligence) factors which comprise the other 2 legs of the "good hire" stool.

all of them have "behavioral round" which is similarly hacked as white board rounds. Check leetcode discuss.

Describe the time you had a conflict with your team == Invert a binary tree.
Well, this sucks.

Can you remember the last time you were happy to hear about an acquisition? Have these ever been anything but negative in the past decade?
When I was 19, I had an economics professor who did a great job of explaining that idiom to our young ears.

He talked about feudal times when landowners had to store their gold. So they had to build these massive castles with walls, hire professional soldiers, train their kids to wield weapons and even give some of their land to particularly good soldiers. That system was really expensive so they needed slaves to keep the whole system going. Since all the other landowners knew that you had all your gold in your castle, when they came upon hard times they would often attack. So, you would give your slaves primitive weapons and have them fight to defend ‘their homes’.

From the serf’s perspective, that system sucked. They worked hard, didn’t get paid and occasionally had to go into battle to protect their landowner. After a few generations, when you say “you know, Grandpa died in a battle. Dad and all my uncles died in battles. Three of my siblings died as infants. And they want me to take a fucking spear and protect that system?

Over the years, the system collapsed because slaves could get a better deal in cities. Landowners couldn’t afford their fortunes and castles fell into disrepair.

Basically, banks seem like a real ripoff until you consider the reality of having to store all your money in an environment where everyone knows whereabouts you have it stored!
That probably means you're underselling yourself. Have you tried taking their advice?
Don't allow the application to do any of it, and when the app asks for access, have the system instead say "{processName}.app is requesting {permissionFlavorText}. Enter a name and password to continue."
How long does the coronavirus live on surfaces? – FitnessHealths
So does the employee.
This is an unfortunate side effect of how it's worded in many English articles. And like a game of telephone, the precision is lost in communication in social settings/media and people are telling each other to not wear masks (at least that's what I'm seeing)
Aren't sites like leetcode partially to blame for this?
Years ago asking a candidate to push all zeros to the end of an array , in place, probably eliminated 75% of the pool. Now anyone who adequately prepares can probably solve that optimally in 10 minutes. I remember when asking for optimal solution to isPalindrome was a "bar raiser".
I was recently told that I am expected to solve 2 medium-hard questions with clean code and good variable names and test cases in 30 minutes for phone screen. The recruiter emphasized that speed was a factor. The bar will keep increasing as people optimize for the test.
I'm confused. Clojure doesn't have Reagent either. ClojureScript does. And Reagent is a pretty straightforward React wrapper, not so different from Rum. What do you think makes it special? Even Rum renders server-side.
Digital activists raise concern over Covid-19 patients’ privacy invasion
Google Meet supports up to 250 participants, on the Enterprise version. Also it doesn't require an account to join.
My primary use of the Dark Sky API is for minute-by-minute forecasts. I've yet to find another API that can answer the question "Do I have enough time to walk my dog before it starts raining?"
https://redwoodjs.com/
Untangling the Social Lives of Spiders
I'm always surprised how little CHE gets talked about. Is there an alternative that has better traction? I tried it a few years ago and conceptually it was really ahead of its time in terms of spinning up a dev environment on the fly. Unfortunately the latest version, now based on k8s, was much more finicky to get setup in a home lab.
Reads? I think so; I believe the bad part is when you try to use it.
> I can usually spot the candidates who are leetcode junkies.

what are some of the tells ?
Unless you mean something different... yes you can. I'm using it right now.
https://mobile.weather.gov is a good one for mobile devices.
There are different definitions of "fever" in medical websites. Some say anything above a person's normal average temperature is a fever, with it being considered a serious fever if the temperature is above 100.4°F.
Six-foot rule to protect against coronavirus is questionable
Hooray! That’s why I didn’t get the EX-L and went with the EX, didn’t want a touchscreen, give me knobs and dials!
The big companies don't care if some great candidates can't do these kinds of problems, there are many others who can. They care about not hiring bad candidates, period.

Anyway, I've done both types and for me the false positive rate for take-home assignments is far greater. I've seen people ace home assignments and later turn out to be mediocre engineers. Maybe they were cheating. Maybe not.

But I've never seen anyone really ace an on-site coding question and not being great (I'm sure there are some, this is just my own experience).
What's your problem with Meet? We've switched to it massively after issues with Webex, and it's all very good.
What's the relationship between this and a service mesh like Istio? Is Service Directory just for external/public clients? Wouldn't most of the changes to service endpoints be hidden behind load balancers?

They mention Redis and MongoDB as examples of services that could be discovered through Service Directory, but those seem like they would traditionally be used by internal clients.
Just because something is connected to the public internet doesn't mean that you can hack it. Most homes are accessible from public roads, that doesn't mean you are allowed to climb through any open window that you see.

You used a vulnerability to hack into some server associated with the FBI, I don't see any ambiguity here.
Mine don't. They've only ever really had tablets, and I just recently got a Pi for one of them to learn physical touch typing on.

I'm always annoyed phone typing specifically because I can't do anything but focus on the damn on screen keyboard until the message is complete. I remember being able to write reams of text on my old cell with a pop out keyboard, or even with the T9 setup on a Nokia brick entirely by feel, and nigh-automatic.

I don't think I've ever communicated/operated as smoothly as When I have a haptic interface to work with. That even comes down to learning unfamiliar interfaces too. With a strictly defined series of controls to be actuated in a particular order, I tend to be able to permute and learn faster when I have some level of feel to work with.
the biggest recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537944
Content Delivery Networks and clouds join MANRS internet security effort
Fitts’s Law is really relevant here, even if the buttons were physical, but especially if they are touch based. Not all hit targets are the same in terms of safety.
Ain't pretty matches my experience.

My team pulls a lot of weather data for utility engineering work we do, and the NOAA APIs have proven very hard to navigate. Some data only available via FTP, lots of different weather station networks with different metrics (e.g. lots of variety in the cloud/irradiance data).

Darksky provided a nice clean interface, but I guess we'll go back to cobbling things together directly from NOAA.
The only criminal act in trespassing is coming back after being banned. Whatever you did to get banned is not a criminal issue.

And as far as I know trespassing bans have to be a manual blacklist or whitelist. You can't define some arbitrarily complex behavior that makes you into a trespasser. Maybe I'm wrong on that?
>Deflation should be the natural order of things

Yes, and it is, for existing unchanging things. But as productivity grows we invent and buy new and improved things.
Moss launches Covid-19 Solutions Fund
There are plenty of good laptops and Windows is absolutely fine.
I have seen side mirrors controlled by touch screen, as well as some headlight functions. Which is are critical safety systems, though rarely an issue.

Still, if you’re borrowing your wife’s car it’s easy to realize you don’t have great blindspot visibility at which point looking at a touch screen is very distracting.
Apparently only websites that steal photos feel monkeys can own things.
I thought Homebrew patched OpensSSH using Apple's keychain patch, but looking at the formula right now I see

# Please don't resubmit the keychain patch option. It will never be accepted.
# https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes/pull/482#issuecomment-118994372

Sadly the homebrew-dupes repo seems to have been deleted so this comment can't be read anymore.
> 4:00pm – 7:00pm Dinner with wife & friends

Do people really eat dinner at this time on the weekend?
What about on weekdays; you have 30 mins to 'hang out with wife' then it's meditation and algorithm practice till bed time? A little depressing.
It seems like a lot of these discussions end up being something along the lines of "the standards are bad because they exclude me, therefore there shouldn't be any standards at all" (just with a lot more words).
They've jumped straight to Extinguish without any of the Embrace or Extend.
Didn't Mazda do it first?

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1148040/Mazda-3-to...
I've been in Google Meet meetings with 100 to 150 participants, it worked fine.