skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kalanick said that self-driving was “existential” to the company.

But in context, he didn’t mean Uber needed self-driving to exist. He meant Uber can’t be left out if self-driving becomes a reality.

In that sense, the sale seems pessimistic. They no longer see self-driving on the horizon, or they aren’t on track to deliver the technology themselves.
If I was President, I'd declare some offshore zones as National Parks. No fishing or motorized boats would be allowed in them.
corrected- thanks. I hate being off by two orders of magnitude.
I doubt idiots in modified trucks are a major component of our problem here.
The Atlantic'a piece about the sinking of the ferry Estonia contains some interesting pieces of information for anybody who might like to survive a sinking in the future. It might also put you off getting on ships.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/a-sea-s...
I don't think that's an accurate recounting of the dispute. She wanted some data included; the government didn't because it thought it was invalid/made them look bad; and she disobeyed orders around how and which data to publish, which is what got her fired. I don't think any of that is even in dispute.

The big question is whether you trust Ron DeSantis more to make scientific judgments, or a random low level professional.
The reason most of people went to CA is the same as the reason people went to US. Opportunity and money. People come, people go. Why does SF's supremacy matter? There is always next Silicon Valley.
You do develop an internal model for the behaviour of machines, though.

Examples:

Elevators where the doors take extremely long to close on their own.

Elevators where the doors close too soon after opening.

Elevators where the limb sensors are not very responsive.

Cars that take a couple of tries to start in cold weather.

Automatic doors that are a little bit slow to open.

Etc.
From a business standpoint, it's hard to justify paying support to be technical enough to diagnose an issue such as this. Let's be honest, even senior network engineers would have a hard time debugging and diagnosing this. AT&T doesn't want to pay support staff six figure salaries and I assume most senior network engineers don't want to be support agents (customer facing).

AT&T (though applies to lost of companies) probably need a "unicorn" role of a very technical person that is paid as such, but able to interface with customers on specific highly technical issues.
Yeah, the biggest cost by far in any department is personnel, especially unionized personnel.
Motorists are IIRC the third-biggest killer of young people.
Synology 2021 and Beyond
Not a rebuttal of the Zip2 seed investment point, but the ability to leave SA when he was 17 for CA/USA with a suitcase of books is not something most South Africans would be able to do. Kudos to him for doing it, but most of the population of SA wouldn't have even seen that many books.

It's pretty clear that Elon was from a wealthy*N background so the details are kind of irrelevant. Who bought the plain ticket?

There is also security, it's easier to take risks with strong familial support and fallback. Not saying this is a bad thing at all, it just is what it is.
"nature": beaches, mountains, ski resorts, redwood forests... Seattle is like that or even better but 9 months out of a year the weather is just a big no no.
Data point: I’m on Sonic fiber (resold AT&T fiber) and this script has been running without errors for 5+ minutes.
A couple of weeks ago I found an MFA bypass in Azure. I jumped through the hoops and filled out their security vulnerability report form.

I got one automated email from them since, that's all.

I don't expect to get paid, I was just curious to see what the "process" is, and how they treat security vulnerability reports.

The verdict: Badly.
There's a video corroborating exactly what she says happened in the article that is linked.

You can click the link and see for yourself.
I wonder how many people start out making pledges like that because they wish other companies would and they want to be the change they wish to see in the world. And they don’t realize that taking investor money means you no longer have the power to keep your promises even if you want to because you’re promising with other people’s money.
Oh man what a classic
I actually happen to agree with you, but I deliberately decided to take the worst possible interpretation of the lowest reliability system (that is worse by orders of magnitude than the average) to highlight the differences in outcome. If the absolute dead-last system, a system that most would view as shameful and many an unconscionable deathtrap, is an order of magnitude better than best-practices in commercial software, it is probably not a good idea to learn from commercial software vendors or use any knowledge based on their inexperience as they can not even consistently make systems as unreliable as an unconscionable deathtrap, so there is no reason to believe they actually know how to make systems of higher reliability than that.
I’m not sure how to respond but no their success comes from being in Silicon Valley at the right time and developing relationships within this ecosystem. So no I disagree that if Rabois was somehow not in Silicon Valley that he’d be just as successful and wealthy as he is now.

And I’m speaking about his investments. Cutting a check is not “hard work”. You could argue Musk is different because he’s actually the CEO of the his company.
I have the Awair 2nd Edition. It is similar to the Awair Element. However, as I don't have a smart home I sometime wish I had an Awair Glow C instead (disclaimer, it does not have as many sensors). It's a smart plug, so it can turn off the device you plug into it... I would plug my air purifier or maybe my air humidifier to it.

If you want to use one suche device on the go, at friends places, etc., I'd recommend the Atmotube Plus or Atmotube Pro by Atmotube (depending on your needs).

My purchase was a few years ago now. I've heard that the market is bigger now, so you may want to shop around. I also have the big Dyson purifier at home which comes with built-in sensors.
In 2019, the NYPD spent $230 million on lawsuit settlements, including $95 million on police misconduct alone.

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/annual-claims-report/.
In that vein, there's actually an experiment in progress where cops are not always dispatched but instead a paramedic and social worker are sent. Turns out they can resolve many issues.

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/09/06/denver-star-program-me...
> There's no reason to pull a gun on an unarmed child in a household of people who have demonstrated no danger to the police executing the warrant, even if it took forever to enter the property. There is no planet upon which "she hung up on us and didn't answer the door for 20 minutes" is by itself a reason to threaten to kill someone.

Fully agree. Wasn't trying to justify it.
I am on Kubuntu 18.04.

Quite frankly I don't expect much from gaming on Linux regarding ease-of-use and I am okay with that. I am sure all those games could run but when I want to play a game I don't want to fiddle with config files so I either boot a console or reboot into windows. It's been my experience for years that ubuntu/Linux isn't as versatile and as accommodating as windows regarding gaming but it doesn't mean that those games couldn't run with a bit of elbow grease (they most likely would but it's not pain-free).

I always try to stick to Intel IGP because I read (and I suppose it's still true) that they have the best support for desktop usage. I don't want to fight nvidia or ati drivers, I don't even know wwhich's the darling of gaming GPU for Linux these days. Been there, done that.
It's like when you're studying for a test and fail to study that one topic cause you think it's never gonna show up, only to find that not only did it show up, it ended up being 20% of the entire test.
You'd be wrong. One of those trucks can emit hundreds of times more particulate matter than a compliant vehicle.

Even when they aren't shooting visible smoke they are outputting a massively excess amount of pollution.
The police went through the house with their weapons drawn because they had a search warrant that was being ignored.

They spent almost half of an hour politely requesting that these people allow them to carry it out, and these people refused to comply with what amounts to a legal court order.

A functioning state requires that the state has a monopoly on violence. If you are ordered to allow the police to seize some of your property, and you refuse, force will be escalated within the limits of the law until you the property is taken. That is a good thing. If the police show up at your house with a warrant, COMPLY WITH THEM. You aren't going to win a physical battle against them because, again, they have an ultimate monopoly on violence and the only way to change that is going to be the creation of a new state.
I was worried that leading with `attachEvent` would get a response about only `attachEvent`.

The `with` statement is described on page 75 of the ES3 standard[0]. It does not work in an ES Module or in a strict mode context. This is a breaking change.

[0]: https://www-archive.mozilla.org/js/language/E262-3.pdf
IKEA stops making its catalog
Greyhats with good anonymization need to start forcing companies to take their bounty programs seriously instead of the joke that it is now. We are too nice.

This is a bug that should have a minimum payment of $1 million.
Wait so you have your main cable plugged into their modem, their router plugged into their modem, and then your own router plugged into their router?
They drew guns on her and her kids.

I'd say we should be outraged, but we're awash in outrage because the rule of law has become a one sided bludgeoning instrument for the government to suppress dissent.

I can't wait to get out of here. To hell with this place any more.
Things which drive TSLA's price are myriad. Assigning it to a single policy of the current administration is unlikely to be right. A good indication that there is something else at play would be if TSLA shot up much more than other stocks in the renewable market.
Sometimes they try to drive through floods. They also seem to randomly run red lights. Also, what's with the way they keep veering out of their lanes?
That supposes that we've reached the flattening upper section of the S-curve of technology, right about now. There's nothing that suggests that. Various techs do reach that stage periodically, but nothing indicates that technology in general does, quite the contrary.

And what the past sees as hard often becomes less hard (I'm not going to say easy, because technology is never easy) in the future thanks to the accumulation of knowledge and increased speed of processing data.
I'm not sold that what she did was a terrible crime. I do think it was foolish and likely pointless, but not something which merits police pointing guns at her kids and going to prison.
Many inventions, these days, are often the result of expensive research and trial.

Also, inventing is not enough, you need to "develop".
Music streaming makes major labels rich, while musicians like me go broke
>I'd lose my mind if some swine pointed a gun at my child.

How to avoid this:

1) When they show up at your house with a search warrant, let them execute it.

That's it.
Right. We call them accountants. That's why the market expanded. ;)
I'm sure that's true. There just aren't enough of them to matter that much.
It's not really federal funds either. It's surplus equiptment. Perhaps there's a more accurate term rather than defund.
I suspect paying them would just mark you as easy money and they would harass you more.

It's an interesting DDoS, if an attacker sends a lot of requests to a website, there are solutions against it, but what about a lot of calls to a number?
You don't seem to be accounting for how widely covered Dylan material has historically been. There are plenty of Dylan songs that as far back as the 1960s brought more sales for others than for him. This has continued throughout his career. For example, one 1997 Dylan song was in the top 50 UK sales in 2010 and all told has been covered by more than 450 other artists. In the last five years, official releases of past Grateful Dead concerts have contained at least 30 Dylan songs. It's 600 Dylan songs and at least 10 times that in cover versions which continue earning money.
Taxi medallions used to cost hundreds of thousands (SF) to more than half a million (NYC). Nowadays they still cost tens of thousands in SF and hundreds of thousands in some areas like NYC.

Also, more efficient use of time from app-based routing.
I said people receiving the fcc funding. As far as I know, none of the LTE players have been taking funds. If they have been I guess I don’t really care if it’s a 5x or 500x increase, it’s a reasonable requirement in 2029 IMO. The cost of transit bandwidth is nothing.
What do you feed your Correspondence Monkey? Was it ethically sourced? These are important questions
Why wouldn't the first conclusion be that the example.com service was flipping bits? Load balancing TLS requests to a different front-end pool is very common.

Has anyone claimed to see these flipped bits on a domain other than example.com?
Maybe humans can be better.
Speed, their main selling point.
The default config uses a <del>8</del>2 core + 7.5g memory runner and capable to build simple projects in literal one minutes(includes deploy) after you push even without cache.

And it seems they maintain their own apt mirror or whatever, the package install speed looks unreasonably fast.

But they currently only give 250 minute (default config) per week to free account now, probably due to the runner cost.
I just ported the continuous build for https://www.oilshell.org/ to sr.ht for this reason:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/11/fixes-and-updates.html#...

A contributor added .travis.yml about 3 years ago, before I had ever used it. But I've been around the block enough to know that getting stuff for free is temporary. (And to be fair, I did like Travis CI free service a lot better than I thought I would.)

So when I needed to enhance the continuous build back in January, I did it with a PORTABLE SHELL SCRIPT, NOT with yaml. Both Travis CI and sr.ht provide Linux VMs, which are easily operated with a shell script.

The script called "Toil" does the following:

1. Configures which steps are run in which build tasks (both Travis CI and sr.ht can run multiple tasks in parallel for each commit)

2. Logs each step, times it, summarizes failure/success

3. Archives/compresses the logs

3. Publishes the result to my own domain, which is A LOT FASTER than the Travis CI dashboard. (sr.ht is very fast too; it has a great web design.)

This ended up working great, so I have multiple CI services running the same jobs, and publishing to the same place: http://travis-ci.oilshell.org/

(I plan to create srht.oilshell.org for security reasons; it isn't ideal that both services have a key to publish to the same domain.)

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I think this is the future of the Oil project: shell scripts to enable portability across clouds. If you want to be fancy, it's a distributed or decentralized shell.

This is natural because shell already coordinates processes on a single machine.

- A distributed shell coordinates processes across multiple machines (under the same domain of trust)

- A decentralized one does so across domains of trust (across clouds)

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Really great work in this direction is gg:

https://buttondown.email/nelhage/archive/papers-i-love-gg/ comments: https://lobste.rs/s/virbxa/papers_i_love_gg

which is a tool that runs distributed programs across multiple FaaS providers like Amazon Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, etc.

https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg

My "toil" script is a lot more basic, but an analogous idea. I would like to create a slightly tighter but improved abstraction that runs on multiple cloud services. Notes on gg here:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Distributed-Shell

If anyone wants to help, get in touch! If you are pissed off about Travis then you might want this :) I think these kinds of multi-cloud setups are inevitable given the incentives and resources of each party, and they already exist (probably in a pretty ugly/fragile form).
Give a bunch of high school bullies a few hours of training and all the 'tacticool' gear they want (vests, drop leg holsters, armored vehicles, ar's etc) and it's hard to imagine any other result. Poor muzzle discipline, innocents (and dogs) killed, the list goes on.
What should happen when the police show up with a search warrant and you refuse to allow them into your house?

Can you do this forever? Just ignore them and stay in your house forever, or at some point are they allowed to escalate the situation?

(serious question)
Yes exactly. Their router has a LAN with my router as the only other device, which it's bridged with, and then my router has the true home LAN.

A weird side effect of this is that I'm not using the 192.168.x.x range like usual (because that's what theirs is using), but instead the 10.0.x.x range
Personally, I think drunk driving isn't that much of a factor: drinking is a relatively short term kind of planned activity. What I think has a much bigger impact is long term stuff, like the desire to live downtown and/or housing prices (with downtown condos and midtown townhouses being more affordable than big detached homes in burbs)

I know families that are rather against the idea of owning a car and arrange housing around that consideration. They prefer to rely more heavily on public transit and the occasional car rental or cab/rideshare.
Yes, in my current tech stack our entire backend is in Node with TypeScript, and the front end is React with TypeScript.

> You could argue here there are much better languages and platforms for that.

You could, but I think you'd be wrong. I come from a background of using Java on the backend for over a decade, then some time with various backend languages including Python and Ruby. This is the first time in my career when everything (front end and back end) are essentially on the same stack, and there are huge, gigantic productivity improvements to that. Most of it stems from it being easy for developers to switch between front end and back end code. E.g. it's very easy for front end developers to dig in and debug something that's not right on the back end, and usually to fix it themselves. Same thing goes for backend devs investigating how APIs are used by the front end. In all my previous jobs it was relatively rare (certainly not never but not that common) for devs to cross that divide, mainly because setting up the environment in a totally different stack was time consuming and annoying, and mentally context switching into a different language was difficult, if all you wanted to do was dig in on one particular endpoint, for example.

But even discounting that, I am much more productive in TS than I ever was with Java, primarily because the structural typing of TS makes thing much easier to refactor compared to the nominal typing of Java. Sure, there are some cases (mainly WRT scalability) where Java may be a better choice, but the idea that TS/Node is not an awesome choice for the server is outdated IMO.
Then you keep interviewing until you get the ones you know. There's luck involved with everything. Luck in the sense of the right time at the right place.
I've read that book a couple times, it's fantastic. I gave a copy to my brother, a Navy officer, and he agreed.
Whats bad for the whole might be better for you.

People in the WTC were told to chill out, no worries, all is well. Screw that — if something hits the fan, I will gtfo.
A lot has to do with percentages. Let’s say you cut back human produced levels from 12 to 8, a 50% reduction. However, if the average non-human level was say 100, you would actually be cutting the total level 4% which may or may not show a difference in health, however the cost of a 50% reduction in human produced levels may be a lot.
It is interesting how you can gloss over the signifcance of the inventor of the transistor moving to the bay area, and then use the example how his former laboratory in New Jersey failed to commercialize the transistor as an example of how Silicon Valley is uniquely situated to allow innovation to happen.

A much more reasonable interpretation is that Shockley was going succeed no matter where he went, not that Silicon Valley is uniquely situated, especially with the dominance of east coast companies in defense contracting.
google search, netflix, facebook, gmail, roomba, apple, microsoft, slack, youtube, AWS, wordpress, github, jira, the list goes on
Ouch.

The problem is, if you assume good will from Travis, then this is a VERY drastic action to take since it strongly contradicts their past statements. From that you would infer, Travis is in serious trouble and I would worry a lot about building in dependencies on it as a paying customer.

On the other hand, if you assume bad will from Travis .... well, then that also would mean you should not use them as a paying customer.

So it's just bad.
I agree with you on the mouse acceleration part. Linux distributions are bad in some aspects, and mouse acceleration is one of them.

About the Netflix part, I don't think that's Linux's fault.
I'm not convinced. Do you have evidence that "more efficient use of time from app-based routing" actually results in drivers making more money?
When Titanic aired on broadcast TV earlier this year, I was struck by the horror of the situation in a way I hadn't been when it first came out (my being 7-years-old at the time might have something to do with that, of course). I came to similar conclusions at the time: situational awareness (especially listening to what the people around you are saying and reading between the lines), willingness to break rules, willingness to fall in line, humility and thoughtfulness enough to know when to do which. Also, an understanding that rich people will cause catastrophic failure and skate out scot-free; accept that, yes, in their hubris, they did do the unthinkable and now your little corner of the world is headed towards oblivion. Get out.

9/11 also comes to mind. The people who got out were lucky enough to be on lower floors and realized that none of the assurances held water. They ignored shelter-in-place orders and left.
> Combine that with the fact being that gun ownership is a Constitutional right--that means the chance that anyone can have a gun is above 0.

This chance is always above zero, unless you've just full-body-and-orifice searched the person.

I am not american, but isn't there some constitutional clause on bodily integrity or something like that? And isn't that more important
than this right on owning guns/pointing guns at people that might own guns, and/or carry said guns?

> So as long as guns are as easily available as they are currently, it's not unreasonable to expect a law officer to start the interaction in this way which is a manner that protects the officer the most.

Going into a home gun-first is something I would expect from armed burglars, not from police that are there for a digital media search warrant.

[edit]

So, after a search, TIL: the USA does not have constitutional bodily integrity, but does grant you the right to own a gun... What ?
Saw the note about GitLab (I work there) and thought I'd chime in.

For those who don't know, we have a GitLab for Open Source program which gives our top tiers and 50K CI minutes/month for free to OSS projects: https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/

Hope this helps!
And they don't show any guns being pointed at anybody.
And just like that tutanota loses trust. Sad, it's a great service
Having vaccines doesn’t mean we should abandon other ways to manage Covid-19
“You can’t just give people more data and expect them to act differently”
Regarding all the stories about this, with number spoofing and whatnot:

With all this surveillance and tracking going on everywhere at every level, are telecom companies seriously not able to see where someone is calling from??