skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damn! Were you/they able to start the car?? Yes, I get that other automakers are bad, but my complaint to the parent commenter was more about the so-called click-baitiness of the title. And if you weren't able to start the car that you accidentally unlocked, then this Tesla vuln is technically more serious.
Back then no one was running mission critical enterprise software from typings in magazines.

Now entire stacks of the internet rely on libraries developed by one or two people who are bus factors, and humans prone to burnout.
There’s a Reddit dump on big query so you can do this idea at relative scale with sum sql
What's in your list Top10 in Istanbul ? Curious
Even things like printf/sprintf act differently from library to library. trust me, read the docs on your lib.
Most of the time they are the same but not always. It is one of those things that looks like it works but in practice there are a ton of gotchas. Most of the more mature libraries are getting better but there are some edge cases out there.
> To make the list, companies must hit the following criteria: headquartered in Europe; founded in 2000 or later; private

Founded in 2000 or later seems odd definition for a "unicorn", the last one on the list, vente-privee was founded in 2001, that's 4 years before YouTube (2005), a year before LinkedIn (2002)... doesn't a unicorn loose its unicorn status after some point if not going public?

Speaking of going public, not quite sure how up to date the list is, UiPath, which is about to go public, is headquartered in New York, USA, so does it still count as a Europe unicorn? :https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-14/software-...
I think their problem was they just tried to be too clever about the whole thing. If Google just produced a modern looking phone with top-tier specs and a nice clean Android install with no bloatware and some extra AI smarts, they'd be having trouble keeping up with the demand. Instead, they came to market with ugly outdated designs to support wizz-bang features that nobody cared about. I feel like they almost hit the mark with the Pixel 5 line, but for some reason they lost the confidence to stick a 8XX series processor in it.
BioNTech produced it but Pfizer financed it. And the Oxford one is in the UK where all the "unicorns" come from.
Want to Encrypt All the Things? Firefox Has You Covered with HTTPS-Only Mode
Yeah this is the first time I've read a Substack post as a website and wow that UI even looks almost exactly like Medium. "Medium but for email" seems to be a pretty accurate description.
I think the answer to this is painfully clear: because no one makes hardware anywhere near close to the quality of mac and iphone hardware in those verticals.

We'd like to use the best available software, running on the best available hardware.

Criticizing Apple's software censorship choices is thus the natural logical target. Otherwise, we have to use things like the PinePhone for the next 10-15 years until someone makes something comparable to an iPhone 6 that can run whatever software the owner wants.
But then how come some of them have so much power over retailers?
My mnemonic for lose vs loose:
A "loser" is someone who loses, i.e. does not win/gain.
I think this is easier to remember, because we are exposed to this word "loser" quite a lot.
So "lose" is the word for "not winning" (or similar worded).

"Looser" on the other hand we don't see very often. The meaning is "more loose".
Here are some facts before you make any conclusions based on a cursory reading of a news article:

- ABC News Australia is funded by the Australian government

- There are Facebook groups named "Hate China" in support of Honk Kong, these groups are free to operate, why are they not removed under hate speech laws? [0] [1]

- Separatists (Anti-Communists if you read NYT) use social media platforms to create violent mobs, beating anyone in support of Hong Kong unity [2] [3]

- Facebook bans groups and individuals in the US almost immediately if they lean far-right or otherwise disagree with establish norms set by organizations like SPLC (not laws)

- Facebook and Google see themselves as stop gap to prevent bad ideas from forming in the first place or "to prevent the next Trump situation." [4]

- Facebook spies on millions of Americans and sells that information, what would it do to the citizens of a foreign nation?

[0] https://www.facebook.com/hate.china/

[1] https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Community/We-hate-Ch...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/leeminhohkpalace/videos/81320658571...

[3] https://www.facebook.com/chinadaily/videos/2452021925065490

[4] https://www.facebook.com/ProjectVeritas/videos/2445258202376...
Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
What happened was Nixon devauled the US Dollar, before it ws pegged to $35 per oz Gold and the US had to pay debts in Gold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock
We should have drug bounties for that, rather than trying to make up R&D costs with per-dose price gouging.

This ensures equitable access, ...you know, that the whole world is actually saved.
Not accounting for accidents seems inexcusable considering the subject matter. Why bother even spending the time writing this up? The downside is that a bunch of click bait “news” sites will pick this up and publish a load of nonsense without context.
A 40-50% reduction in share price would have most probably eliminated the dividends completely, especially in a very adverse deflationary market, which most definitely would have seen the most of that $10 billion sum allocated to other things than R&D.
War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

Censorship is Unity
reminds me of the Lamborghini barn find in Poland on Wheeler Dealers.

http://wheelerdealers.discoveryuk.com/gallery/lamborghini-ur...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Urraco

I wonder how a party apparatchik obtained this one during the Cold War.
on the roadmap is config file but for now devs can just ignore the advice :)
“The government held the $35 per ounce price until August 15, 1971, when President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, thus completely abandoning the gold standard.”

These graphs are why I invest in Bitcoin.

I see so many similarities to assignats and the lead up to the French Revolution, from the wiki-

“The economy did poorly in 1790–96 as industrial and agricultural output dropped, foreign trade plunged, and prices soared. The government decided not to repudiate old debts. Instead it issued more and more paper money (assignats) supposedly backed by seized lands. The result was escalating inflation. The government imposed price controls and persecuted speculators and traders in the black market. People increasingly refused to pay taxes and the annual government deficit increased from 10% of gross national product in 1789 to 64% in 1793. By 1795, after the bad harvest of 1794 and the removal of price controls, inflation reached a level of 3500%. The assignats were withdrawn in 1796 but their replacements also fuelled inflation. Inflation was finally ended by Napoleon in 1803 with the franc as the new currency.”

Https://www.usdebtclock.org

I don’t mean to be alarmist, but the US Dollar is a devalued currency and you need to leave it any way you can. More than 23% of all USD ever created were created in 2020 to prop up the sham we call the stock market, which is at all time highs amidst a pandemic.
For bridges we have decided to only allow licensed engineers anywhere near the process. Maybe it's time to do the same for (parts of) tech.
HDMI 2.0 can do 4k at 60Hz without chroma subsampling, though not all devices support it. HDMI 2.1 can go much higher.
I've said this so many times, but we wanted to carry Docker in RHEL 8, but we couldn't. We would have been forced to use Moby and it's not a well contributed to project anymore. The whole Docker contributor community has fallen apart, and Red Hat needs to be able to support a container engine until the mid 2030s.

You can get access to Moby in Fedora, but it just wasn't viable to include docker in RHEL 8 for both legal and community risks.
The limiting factor with BlobBackup will be the number of files the storage backend can handle in one directory. Generally speaking BlobBackup will create slightly more files in your destination than your original source.

With object storage like s3, b2, azure, wasabi etc, this just isn't a problem since you can effectively have as many objects in one "directory" as you want.

With local, nas or hard drive storage, you'd be limited by the number of files per directory the file system allows (4.2 billion for NTFS for example). So you're probably fine here too.

Google drive (which isn't recommended for large backups with BlobBackup) has much stricter restrictions on files per directory. So really it depends on the backend but for most use cases it isn't a problem.

BlobBackup has been tested on millions of files backed up to NTFS and object storage yes.
>It does hurt to see non-technical people inventing their own terrible VCSs, though ("Copy of Important Document 2020-11-21 (2) (Updated PB).docx")

To be honest, for most purposes, shared docs do revision control well enough for the purposes of text docs and presentations. I've used GitHub for some larger collaborations, but it's really overkill for most day-to-day docs.
For most airliners, it is allowed for crew to take 'companion' passengers, like friends or family on a flight. The companion must still pay for the ticket, but it is usually sold with a hefty discount.

Companions also have no guarantee of a seat, if the flight is overbooked, you're out of luck. But.... on most flights it is allowed to have more passengers than seats, this all has to do with regulations on cabin-crew members vs number of passengers. So, it is not unusual for companions to sit in the cabin or cockpit jumpseat, or, you guessed it, the crew rest. As long as the regulations allow this of course.

I have flown many times as a companion, mostly in smaller planes (that do not have a crew restroom), but also a couple of times in a 747, which have crew rests in the cockpit (2 full-size bunkbeds, and 2 business class seats and a bathroom).
I think you’re overestimating the package in question. It’s about 50 significant lines of code total:

https://github.com/feross/safe-buffer/blob/master/index.js

It’s a tiny API wrapper in JavaScript for older Node versions. While useful for someone on older Node, it doesn’t really say anything about the author’s embedded system chops.
“Poorly planned vegan diets” is key. Oreos are vegan. Being vegan doesn’t necessarily meant you eat a lot of fruit and vegetables and pulses and nuts and seeds.

As a “vegan” I prefer the term Whole Food, Plant Based, which at least avoids the Oreos and other manufactured crap that suffers from the same deficiencies as non-vegan manufactured crap.
A waiter sees hundreds of people every single night. Unless you were particularly rude or did something memorable, I don't think they'd remember. People always believe people are paying more attention to them than they really are.

Hell you probably weren't the only person not tipping that same night.
It's easy for me to end up existentially depressed if I go too far down this line of thinking.

But, frankly, we are fucked here on Earth. We're consuming resources at an exponential rate with a population way, way outside what the planet can support sustainably. And we won't fix it before it's too late, because our base human nature wants more, bigger, better at the expense of all else.

I'm with Musk on this, the only way we survive is to get the hell off Earth. But the reasons why are more than just to have a "backup plan" for humanity.

One of humanity's best traits is our adaptability. Put us under stressors and we inevitably adapt to any situation, no matter how dire. Now stick a group of humans in space (or Mars, no difference), task them with creating a self-sustaining technological society, give them a lot of time, and when you come back what you find will be a radically different culture than anything we could relate to on Earth.

That group of humans will have been forced, for generations, to be ruthlessly efficient with their sustainability and use of resources. We are social creatures, and with that comes the social pressure to conform for the survival of the group. Because of these pressures, the base nature of individual greed we witness here on Earth won't have the space to thrive. Given even more time, we may even be lucky enough to see that trait bred out of us. If that were to happen, we may just have a shot at long-term survival as a species.
I think what they are trying to say, is that if you have a huge max_length it is possibly because you accept any type of text, and you felt the number was high enough.

If you use postgres, you want to restrict the length (even if it is 5000) ? => CharField, you don't care about the length => TextField
Lol, calm down - no need to godwinize. As I said, it will never happen. It would be pretty cool though, IMHO, even just as a temporary experiment. And yes, if the Pantheon were to be "restored", Raffaello should be moved too.

> if you just enjoy the stratification of history and art that Rome, Italy and the Pantheon represent

I can do that while still expressing a personal preference for some elements over others.

> is not up to you, tourists, a party or even a government to decide

I disagree on this point. Short of blowing it up, the community of today has a right to decide on the sorts of a historic building in the same way their predecessors did. Rome is a living city, not just a museum, and it has a right to change today like it did in the past. Respect for the accumulation and stratification of cultural elements does not mean the passive acceptance of everything our predecessors did, particularly when some of them were not particularly nice people either.
Considering that feross’s code in required by a ton of other open source libraries, I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t included from somewhere else.

And isn’t this the same feross that spammed everyone’s npm begging for money?
Splunk can be used for any type of data. Mostly its used for unstructured data. I've used splunk to track planes in real time to tracking cyclist performance in real time.

Start here:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/SearchTut...
Besides the technical difficulties, Linus is very outspoken against the GPL3
The Linux kernel is fine. It's probably even better thanks to the GPL.

A big chunk of WebKit is LGPL and Blink too as a consequence. They might be successful thanks to that too.

Honestly, I don't find your obvious so obvious.
You are right. I forgot about LightPeak, which was designed to work over optical cables.

Apple came in when Intel decided to build a version for standardized cables, and helped Intel develop the spec (and even supplied the name).

But my point remains. Apple knows Thunderbolt as well as Intel does by this time.
>but the first couple just seemed pretty like they thought it would be neat if he got a Switch

How much did he paid for the compiler?
When minimum viable product becomes the actual product.

To be blunt it's probably more cost-effective for them to hack something like that together, then to take time to actually fix it. If you bought a ps4/5 you're effectively stuck with using that interface. I think they're moving to flutter now, but this is just how big companies work.

Not enough customers are going to not buy a PS4 because the web store is a little clunky.
Not directly related but linked via crew rest:

Back in grad school, one of my friends was married to a gentleman who was a pilot in the Air Force and his job was flying aerial refuelling tankers (aka KC-130s).

I learned two interesting facts from him:

- Even with the "War on Terror" going on in full swing, Air Force pilots were under the same FAA crew rest procedures as commercial (e.g. Delta, United etc) aviators

- In the event that a hostile air force was targeting the AWACS (giant airborne RADAR platforms), the combat air traffic controllers would route the KC-130s in between the attackers and the AWACS. The idea was that the attackers would be confused and take out the tankers instead. The thinking here was that losing a tanker (essentially a giant flying gas can) was more acceptable than a complex electronics platform filled with specialists. Makes sense but still sobering from the perspective of the tanker crew.
I didn’t try and start the car, the seat was in a very different position so I quickly noticed something was wrong. However, one of my friends did.
I can confirm same experience. It went backwards over time.
Maybe some AI/ML "cleverness" V2. /rant
You're unfortunately right that Google is closing down Android. I dislike Apple with a passion, but the noose over hear in Android-land is getting tighter too.

One example is how in newer phones it will be impossible for apps to bypass root detection. I don't know why it should be anyone's business whether I want to run my banking app on a rooted phone or not, but this is the state of modern technology unfortunately...
I've been looking for something between Heroku (too expensive, too many features) and Dokkku (too much hassle, I have to maintain my own security and patches) and this looks like exactly the thing I wanted, except it looks like it's only for Ruby? I use a combination of Python, Elixir, and Haskell, so I'd love it if they did support other langs.
except we've had unambiguously massive economic growth the unending poverty (that I'd remind you has always been worse historically it's just below the poor back then were slaves or indentured servants) is a policy consequence of increasing the share of income paid to the wealthiest (by reducing their taxes and globalization undermining labor power).
This appears to be the entirety of the code:

https://github.com/feross/safe-buffer/blob/master/index.js

It is 65 lines of Javascript that's mostly boilerplate. I doubt it saved them significantly more than the cost of manufacturing + shipping a Switch, or that they even used it directly. More likely this was just pulled in as an indirect dependency.
The Defense Industry Adopts Lean Startup Strategies
I'm the German founder of a UK startup: It's a number of environmental factors:

1. Funding: UK has 3-4x total deal volume compared to Germany [1]. I've heard somebody say UK (London) is comparable to NY, which is a 2nd tier US VC market.

2. Tax incentives: Early-stage investors get significant tax reliefs under the UK government's Enterprise Investment Scheme (S)EIS. They made a big difference when fundraising, almost every startup I know has used EIS. I see nothing of the sort in Germany.

3. Policy backing: My understanding is that around 2010 the startup sector was seen as a strategic investment both by UK and local governments, in particular the City of London. Which lead to the establishment of Tech City ('Silicon roundabout') as we know it today. In Germany, on the other hand, most politicians aren't aware of how bad the current state is. Of course there is a lip service, but in a way the success of the 'Mittelstand' (SMEs) never made it a necessity to foster startups.

4. Culture: One factor is risk aversion, for certain, but also how Germans perceive innovation plays a big role. I would describe it as an incremental view of innovation rather than disruptive technology, like a new type of car paint that dries 30% faster.

I'm not a pessimist at all, but that's really one of the things that makes me bearish for Germany going forward.

[1] https://news.crunchbase.com/news/european-venture-report-vc-...
5G on the top? That's gonna be someone burning this down because it gives them COVID for sure.
Having a bluetooth thermal printer in my bag seems more handy than having it attached to the device all the time. Should be very cheap.
“Whole Food, Plant Based” for the win! We need to jettison terms like Vegan which are too watered down to mean anything and politicized enough that they manage to divide rather than unite toward a goal of overall health improvement.
"Secret tunnel" is one of my favorite TikTok genres. I find these fascinating as well.
How do you do the metallurgy, manufacture the concrete, or synthesize the petrochemicals in the absence of fossil fuel energy?

Examples given in the article were on the scale of post nuclear conflict societal collapse. No ports, no highways, no railways, no dual use infrastructure at all. No more fossil fuel deliveries happening. No deliveries of anything.

Rebuilding in that environment would be challenging in the extreme. I'm not sure that any rebuilding happens in the vast majority of places.
So, I'm seeing a lot of dislike for the GPL in these threads.

Just curious, as a side question... suppose one really does believe that users should be able to improve and modify the software on devices they own and share those improvements with others; is there a better license out there?

(The current situation reminds me a lot of a Prisoner's Dilemma problem -- if the open-source community typically used the GPL, there'd be significant economic pressure on companies to work with GPL'd software, but in our current world, the individual developer has to choose between giving their code away as non-GPL open-source or toiling in complete obscurity, and it's no surprise that individuals choose to at least get the cred of seeing their code used.)
That quote is specifically in reference to this flat device. I agree that with a laptop you can achieve a relatively ergonomic posture if you set it up the way you describe, which minimises the "hunch" and strain, although you can do much better with some accessories. When I work away from home I use a laptop with a laptop stand ( https://www.therooststand.com/ ) and external HIDs.

Of course, any good physical therapist will tell you that no hardware can offset the damage of long-term sedentary work. One might say that more active time is the best ergonomic solution.
I think the implication is that software is easier than hot wiring or breaking a window.

This is the stance I take when I’m looking at replacing my door locks. I read reviews that talk about the super secure Schlege lock being picked easily and feel like there’s no recourse, until I remember a criminal is more likely to simply put a brick through a window to get in than pick the lock.
This website is primarily a news website. That's it's role. Sure, recognition is great on Twitter, but why did it have to leak here? What's the news here? "Developer was happy that open source code was being used"? Is this the story here?
so, if a company had offices in NYC and Dallas (just making up an example) -- where the default reaction to masks are the opposite, is'nt the company not taking any stance at all the best option?
To add to this (because the difference was really not clear to me from your suggested rhymes):

The difference is in the sound of the final s. "loose" ends with "s" from "set", whereas "lose" ends with the z from "zoo".

And while the vocal sound is the same according to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lose and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loose, I feel that there is (or can be) some difference there. Just like in "jews" vs "juice".
Wars are fought now primarily with information, not violence. I would like to keep it that way; extremely effective systems of state censorship of publishing and communications, such as implemented presently on iOS (remember when the US was about to ban TikTok?) is a good way to force large groups to revert to those bad, old ways if all other options are removed.

I don't want the majority of the population to only have immediate access to devices that are similarly censored, centrally controlled, and able to be remotely surveilled (such as the unencrypted OCSP data leak extant in macOS the last two+ years, and all of the telemetry built into Windows by design).

Privacy and freedom and peace are all deeply interlinked. It's an ecosystem, and damaging one part can have deep consequences for the others.