skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Fi, as a Google product, has effectively zero customer support, so I don't think an attacker could social engineer their way to a sim swap. /s, only a little.
These boxes are labeled as Official and fashioned as if administered by some relevant level of government. That's already a huge problem, especially because these boxes have nobody responsible guarding them. I could steal them and nobody would be responsible for the negligence.

Nobody should be allowed to pose as government.
> The specific assertion regarding recruiters is that without any side-project that showcases your skills with specific technologies then recruiters have no objective way to evaluate your skills.

This is a tough argument to have constructively because it's really going to depend on our own experiences at our jobs and in recruiting. But lets just say that I would have to work full-time on a side project for it to outshine my industry experience, which makes sense, because I worked full time in order to get that experience.

I guess that's why this is a pain point for me. I see around me extremely skilled developers putting in real work solving real problems from 9-5, but according to the grandparent comment, their skills are suspect because they haven't spent their afternoons writing dead end projects for fun.

I would hire any of them in a heartbeat over the guy with the New Tech laden github.
People are simply creeps. The cesspools that allow them to be creeps are the biggest social networks out there. I know there is a difference between a video of me (male) vs featuring my daughter. The disgusting pigs come out at that time. I think every woman who gets views on social media will be subjected to this. I've personally had 20+ million views on YouTube, these types of comments rarely show up.
Is this the risk of, say, a randomly chosen person happening to be North Korean or the risk of the USA turning into North Korea? If the latter, I'd love to see how you end up at that number.
Yes, this! I worked at a large US CPU company (Not AMD). There were several buildings on the campus. When nature called, I often had to go one or even two buildings away to find an open toilet stall. It was a nightmare. God help you if you had to poop near the top of the hour when meetings were getting out. There were lineups in the restrooms. I used to joke that it was like a concert but without the music and beer. I couldn't believe that a company that designs CPUs couldn't anticipate something simple like restroom loading.
"Pivoted" is a generous description. Scrambled is more like it.

Ballmers tenure did almost irreperable damage to the thesis that Microsoft was a modern technology company that could operate outside cloth-walled cubicles and quarterly corporate financial planners. With every advance in Linux, Ballmer doubled down on in-house developed analogues and near-Khrushchev rhetoric against not just the OS but the fundamentals of open source. While Google and AWS catered with open arms to all, Ballmers vitriol led redmond down a myopic path of scorched earth ideations in the service of a dead business model.

A cogent argument could be formented that XBox revenue and corporate license renewals were the only thing that kept Redmond from cutting staff and folding divisions during Steves tenure....divisions that in bitter retrospect should have folded far sooner than they did (Phone and the physical store for example.) Steve kept his corner office and the favour of the board thanks to quietly dipping into the coffers of these underappreciated touchstones of the company but in the 21st century...these werent growth.

After saying in 2008 that he intended to remain CEO for another decade, Ballmer announced his retirement in 2013. Microsoft was running on fumes and while Steve managed to coast the hills, Satya was ready at the pump.

The insensitive truth is that the real cancer all along was Steve.
Genuinely Secret ballots aren't actually that common in elections. For example Britain doesn't use them. Periodically the Parliament gets people to come in and talk about this, basically the discussion always goes like this:

Expert: We should probably use a secret ballot

Politician: Do you have any evidence we've used the fact that ballots aren't secret in the modern period?

Expert: No, but that's sort of the point. Courts are allowed to use this but they never do, so, just use secret ballots.

Politician: There are rumours that Military Intelligence uses it to find out who votes Communist and so on right?

Expert: Yes, there are rumours but we aren't able to substantiate them.

Politician: How about you, ex-spy, can you do better?

Ex-spy: I have heard these rumours too.

Politician: So they're true?

Ex-spy: Well like I said, they are rumours. I've never seen it personally.

And then the politicians decide actually maybe we'll think about this some more before making a decision and another decade passes with the ballots still not actually secret.

[In England you will notice that the ballots are identical on a big pile when you arrive, but then when you show them or tell them who you are, they read out a number (a locally unique voter registration number), that number is written on a serial paper counterfoil, and the current number from the counterfoil is written to the ballot paper. This means that in principle it is possible (but laborious) to unwind parts or the entire election if you wanted to until the counterfoils are destroyed, a year later typically.]
Unreal undoubtedly has more features built-in, which is an advantage, although it's tempered by quite a few of them being buggy or broken (e.g. SoundVisualization, parts of Cascade).

> It's incredibly useful to visually see at a glance what functions are pure with no side effects.

You can use the const keyword for this in C++.

> I code in blueprints as much as possible.

I also code mostly in Blueprints. The fast compile/iteration time is the main reason. But it has it's downsides (code review is largely impractical, no merging, physically much bigger and longer to read than equivalent C++).

Imposters and IK are actually both things that Unreal has built-in, but the built-in versions are limited or poor quality. Unreal has two-bone IK, and more recently, a FABRIK solver, but it didn't support multiple end-effectors or joint constraints. So basically, if you wanted something like a multiplayer VR game where the character poses somewhat realistically to match the positions of the headset and hands of the player, you couldn't do that. The main use for Unreal's two-bone IK (which was the only built-in IK for a long time) is for smaller tweaks like adjusting the position of a characters foot to be in contact with the ground.

UE5 looks very cool. I'm looking forward to its release.
They were monsters for at least 20 years. It has been 6 since Ballmer left, and it takes a few years for an organization to start rebound from the personality of the previous boss.

6 years and a single CEO does not constitute a rebirth. When the next CEO is still doing the same thing, you can talk about what Microsoft is.
For my personal application, I needed access to the actual data, and wanted my map render to be in-sync with the data layer. For that, there aren't any companies (that I'm aware of) offering services; that would also be really tough to do, because your database data model/schema for that is always going to be application-dependent. So I think that Mapbox and co fill that particular role fairly well. But, I don't believe they offer route planning (it looks like there are other companies that do, but for DDG, their SLAs would be important), and route planning needs access to the raw data as well. So really I think the biggest impact would be in improved tooling.

If I had the time, I'd personally focus on writing a loader replacement (ie, imposm/osm2pgsql "competitor") that:

1. supported arbitrary data transforms into postgres -- basically, can load data into any database schema, do on-load data transforms, enrichment, i18n, etc.

2. was distributable via some distributed message queue (I'd personally choose SQS, but you could do something like celery for less-opinionated solution)

3. was not opinionated about deployment compute environment (ie, neither requiring nor forbidding containerization)

Basically, the ability to have a proper, production-grade, not-just-meant-for-slippymaps ETL pipeline on OSM data would be a really big deal. I haven't ever seen an open source solution for that.
>I don't doubt that this is true at all, but it still points to major systemic flaws in how police are managed throughout the country.

I think that's what Jocko's point is, there's a systemic lack of training in police forces across the country, and some portion of the newsworthy interaction with the general public stem from that.

>Such failure warrants massive overhauls to the system, regardless of whether it's a training issue or something more sinister.

Unless the federal government takes control of law enforcement nationwide, it's not even obvious where how you would start a 'massive overhaul to the system'. You'd probably have to start with declaring martial law then plan to operate that way for the next 5-10 years as law enforcement is reshaped from the ground up.

The likelihood that anyone in our current administration or on deck would attempt that is vanishingly small, and the likelihood that they would actually pull it off even less so. It's likely going to take decades to fully repair this, and I think we need to consider incremental improvements vs some kind of big bang change.

> "Lack of training" is, frankly, a really piss-poor excuse when you're seeing videos like George Floyd. How much training do you need to know not to kneel on someone's neck for almost 9 minutes?

It's not piss-poor, it's just not a complete explanation. There isn't one. More training isn't going to help if you don't have sound policies at their foundation. Policies need to be adjusted for sure, practices need to be expanded to build a relationship with the community, and then training needs to be increased to navigate the broad set of circumstances that police officers may counter. All of this might not have prevented Chauvin from doing what he did, but it seems likely that if the other officers at the scene were better equipped across those dimensions we wouldn't have had the same result.
Oh that is good to know! I measured 20V/3,?A on my barrel jack adaptor, now wondering if it can actually do 5A as advertised. Is there a way to query the cable for what it will actually report as supported voltages / current?
Yeah, while Google immediately scrapped their blackberry like phone project to quickly accelerate an iPhone-ish design for the first android phone, Ballmer made MSFT's probably largest strategic mistake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycUOENFIBs

I don't buy the 'things were in motion' while he was there, I think if they were it was in spite of his direction, not because of it.
Calling any phone, tablet, or Chromebook "Linux" is only true in the strictest sense that they us a Linux kernel. Everything that is the Linux Desktop experience was scrapped and replaced.
Downvoters:

"US President Donald Trump has been lambasted by the medical community after suggesting research into whether coronavirus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into the body."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177
Yeah, I see the point you’re making, and I don’t necessarily disagree with it. I didn’t mean to say that no religion has obviously falsifiable claims in them, and the example you gave is a perfectly fine demonstration. I’d even say obviously Jesus didn’t literally rise from the dead, because that’s clearly not possible (and probably besides the point if you are simultaneously a serious, critical believe - I should point add that I’m not Christian by the way).

So what did I mean? As part of a broader concept I’d say that there is a lot we don’t know about the world, that there are problems to solve that are beyond our current abilities to do so, and at a certain point there will always be a need to simply believe, because we don’t have the luxury of not making choices. My concept of religion in this sense then is by definition a system of thought pertaining to the things that we don’t get to know the answers to, but we still have to make choices on because that’s life.

I’ll add that I don’t think the big name brand religions get to dictate what counts as a religion, any more than people in the past have had the right to have a monopoly on what counts as legitimate science. Everyone has a brain and therefore has a right to pursue truth, both for things that are falsifiable and not.

I’ll add that this isn’t static either and hopefully, with time, progress will be made and things will transition from unknowable to knowable. When those things happen I hope that people will continue to update their beliefs (ie religions), and I don’t think that’s too controversial.

With regards to the name brand religions, yeah they definitely have obviously false aspects to them, and I don’t know if people believe them as fact, even though they may say that or even think it. I do however think that they all have aspects to them that are applicable in the religious sense I defined above. For example the concept of a god, etc...

My last thought is I think all of the concepts that are being discussed in this thread are very hard problems. The definitions themselves are hard, what we consider good and bad outcomes are hard, and in a way it’s hard to be compassionate when it feels like people are saying things that are dangerous. That’s basically it, I think it’s important to just remind ourselves that these problems are hard, because I know I have a tendency, or a mental limitation if you will, to get mad or impatient when I forget that. I don’t mean to imply you are btw, but as I was writing I could literally feel a sense of empathy and understanding in the more general sense by reminding myself that this stuff is hard.

Sorry, wrote this on my phone, so sentences, spelling, grammar, structure, etc might suck lol.
There is already a git compatible VCS called got, it is developed from some OpenBSD pople.

https://gameoftrees.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201012172005if_/https://www.ec...
G7 bankers set to block Facebook's Libra currency
Zig's comptime is surprisingly powerful and does not suffer C++ template problem when an error message at the instantiation site is extremely unhelpful. And Zig managed it without constrains or traits just via bunch of useful compile-time operations on types. Still I do not see how one can have, for example, a struct field or enum case available only at certain compile-time condition like OS version.
I get what you're saying, but:

> The fact that the manufacturer can remote into their cars, does not automatically mean that the car is vulnerable to remote hacking.

I mean, it pretty much does.
Well you can at least rest assured this doesn't infringe on the rights protected in the 1st amendment; FB not being the government and all...
Hearing '.wonderbrush' file format for the first time. It seems that wonderbrush is Haiku Graphics Tool.

https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/stippi/2012-10-25_new_wonderbr...
Does this include MVNOs that use AT&T's network such as Net10?
Actually, their customer service support is very good. Source: I've had to call their customer support. I had an issue with my VOIP number I ported over not working properly, they fixed it.

They'll probably prevent a sim swap, but I don't know about not using my personal data.
Oh I want to give them the benefit of doubt but metropolitan Atlanta's Doraville Police department made headlines a decade ago with their tank video.

Frankly, as a Libertarian, I see zero reason that any police department have at its disposal any equipment the military has used or discarded that can lead to physical harm. This includes no vehicle that is not street legal; and no making exceptions to grant them legality does not count. As for automatic weapons, they should require a court order to unseal usage of if not by a committee which must be alerted to any request to use them.

If there is an excuse for heavy weapons or such, call in the national guard or local military to assist. The police still do not need this hardware.

Oh, the video is cringe heaven

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/sep/30/help-crow...
Must resurrect deluxe.
I stopped and read this. Thank you very much for sharing. It is excellent and very well-written.

For anyone who hasn't read it, this is a similar, excellent article in the New Yorker on an ex-CIA officer's experience working as a beat cop on the streets of Atlanta. It dovetails magnificently with the ProPublica piece.

The Spy Who Came Home:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/the-spy-who-ca...

I believe that the following three paragraph-long quotes serve as a sufficient tl;dr:

"According to David M. Kennedy, one of the nation’s leading criminologists, American policing is practiced more as a craft than as a profession. “The kind of thinking that should go into framing and refining what a profession of public safety should be has still not been done,” he told me. Officers are deployed as enforcers of the state, without being taught psychology, anthropology, sociology, community dynamics, local history, or criminology. Lethal force is prioritized above other options. When Skinner joined the police force, everyone in his class was given a pistol, but none were given Tasers, because the department had run out."

"At Georgia’s state police-training facilities, the focus is “all tactics and law,” Skinner told me. Officers are taught that “once you give a lawful order it has to be followed—and that means immediately.” But the recipient of a “lawful order” may not understand why it’s being issued, or that his or her failure to comply may lead to the use of force. There’s no training on how to de-escalate tense scenarios in which no crime has been committed, even though the majority of police calls fall into that category. It is up to the officer’s discretion to shape these interactions, and the most straightforward option is to order belligerent people to the ground and, if they resist, tackle them and put them in cuffs."

"“This is how situations go so, so badly—yet justifiably, legally,” Skinner said. Police officers often encounter people during the worst moments of their lives, and Skinner believes that his role is partly to resolve trouble and partly to prevent people from crossing the line from what he calls “near-crime” into “actual crime.” The goal, he said, is “to slow things down, using the power of human interaction more than the power of the state.”"
It's fair to wonder what is truly motivating Microsoft executives, but you can follow the money fairly easily.

In their quarterly earnings reports you can see that about 1/3 of their revenue is from "more personal computing."[0] We know that this category includes Windows licensing, devices (Surface, etc), gaming, and search. About $11 billion per quarter, on average.

They don't neatly break this down in their report, as far as I can see, but some other internet sleuths have made educated guesses based on things that are directly reported. As far as anyone can guess, Windows is no more than 10-15% of Microsoft revenue.

It seems fairly obvious to me that Windows is no longer the backbone of Microsoft. 10-15% still represents billions of dollars, but I think Microsoft would be perfectly content to replace all of that Windows revenue with O365 licenses or Azure billings.

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2020-Q1...
Except they're totally not, and saying that is dangerous.

Go look at crash tests of "child car seats" that are nothing more than a box ticking exercise which uses the adult seat, versus a properly engineering seat and you'll see what you are completely wrong.
Ah fair enough. It's been a little while. I'm surprised the Office buildings (16-18) turned hybrid, since weren't the buildings themselves architected to basically only have window offices? It was shaped like a snake to optimize for that.
I agree with your sentiment. It really shows that COVID-19 has been politicised so much that people can't debate on the topic anymore in good faith, because nobody wants to admit that they might have been wrong. Especially people like Donald Trump make a scientific debate extremely difficult, because he has been undermining the virus from the beginning and even if science was to find that the virus was less dangerous than initially thought many scientists, especially those who had public exposure, wouldn't want to support/admit an idea which could play into Trump's favour. The whole thing is just a bloody mess.

> Nobody seems to seriously doubt that at some point almost all humans will be exposed to the virus.

Unfortunately there are many people who really believe we can eliminate the virus through strict measures. Just read many responses here on Hacker News and you'll find plenty of those people.
No one (prop/hedge funds) really does that anymore. Hiring poker players directly that is. Outside of really niche small firms with really specific cultures. It kinda almost happened with SIG and Jeans89 but Jeans already had a relevant degree on top of being a top 0.00001% player.

The direct analogies between poker and market making are already way thinner than many people make it out to be though they still exist. But I’d argue poker experience is basically completely useless for quant investing.
This is the same effect JPEG chroma subsampling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling
encoding takes advantage of.
I used to work a chartered fishing boat with my father out of Blaine and we'd often get orcas swimming alongside us so close that you could reach out and pet them, which some customers did. They are very curious.
You've already proven when present with extraordinary evidence your reply will remain "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
I do. Got an older F430. My son 5 years old loves to sit next to me. And me as well. On the F430 and I believe most other models you can disable the airbag as well. Sometimes safer when the seat is positioned reversed.
I don't know why everyone is convinced this is satire. Satire of what? To me it reads as a straight piece on a very opinionated way to hire people.
Stacking and twisting graphene unlocks a rare form of magnetism
Yeah, if you're fine with unqualified politicians making inaccurate claims about the virus in order to intensify lockdowns (which, frankly, has been most of the lockdown justifications) then that's pretty unfair.

The burden of proof should be on the lockdown proponents, not people trying to return to the status quo.
Prefab is the wrong optimization. It targets a minor improvement in a small part of the overall budget. Most of the time and money of construction in America is tied up in land prices, permitting, and regulation. Prefab solves zero of these issues.

There is a building going up in Oakland right now where Factory_OS put out a press release that they had built it in ten days. But they spent 7 years getting approvals, 18 months in site prep, and they've been detailing and finishing the building for more than a year since the press release, so it doesn't seem like the method of construction was a very important factor.
I am commenting on a combination of the motives and the qualifications of speaking as an authority - not on the position of the speaker.
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