skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vendor was right: you’re using unreasonably short buffers for a non-interactive use case (i.e. video playback).

With such short buffers (16.6ms) and a user-space timer (i.e. basically usleep) driving the whole thing I’m actually surprised that this didn’t broke earlier...
This is so well-written that I cannot tell if it is irony or not.
No Highway in the Sky (1951)
A large investment is quite an understatement. At say, ten million USD per kilometre (a low estimate compared to actual costs borne by France for building the TGV [0]), and a bird's eye distance of 3966 kilometres between LA and NYC [1], that's almost 400 billion dollars, or about 60% of the non-defense discretionary budget of the US for a single year. Keep in mind that's a very generous cost per kilometre; California's HSR projected costs are north of 60 million USD per kilometre.

And that's for a single pair of cities, with no cost overruns, no tunnels, straight line distance. It also excludes things like stations, rolling stock, and maintenance.

It's not impossible to build, but having high speed rail throughout the US is an investment that would be a multiple of the costs of building the entire interstate highway system.

Mind you, I'd love it if that were to happen, riding high speed rail is much more pleasant than flying. Speaking as someone who has gone across the continent a few times on Amtrak and enjoyed riding high speed trains in Asia and Europe, it's just hard to see it happening. Recent US infrastructure projects have had massive cost overruns, and there is a seemingly low political appetite for building large infrastructure compared to the 20th century.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/764486/cost-construction...

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+between+los+a...
I do not assume I'm better than any body of you until I hear you talking about things...

friendly yours.
So, to summarize, you go to bank and you say "your back door is vulnerable can you check", instead of checking and giving you some kind of praise, they call police to beat the hell out of you...

This is exactly sort of thing that will make community of white hackers stop caring, and leave open door to foreign agency malicious hackers to do as they please.

I would like to know what was really going inside of their heads, was someone internally trying to steal the thunder, was it vanity/pride, was it lack of funds?!, was it fear?
It forces you to understand what you are doing!
To some extent, education in schools in regards to consent, relationships, and how issues like this effect people could help to reduce the number of incidences of revenge porn. It isn't just harmless fun, it has very serious consequences.

Sadly, it'll be impossible to stop it entirely with the unverified upload model.
Simplify your work around moving sensor data
He's certainly above average in thinking he is below average.
In today's world it doesn't seem unreasonable to simply purify all water before human consumption.

Ie. Your faucet at home boils and recondenses all water before you put it in your glass.

Humans only drink a couple of liters of water per day, so the energy cost isn't large.

Then you don't need to worry about keeping massive pipe networks and storage tanks 100% sterile or pure.
10 tablets OTC is exactly same as 1000 tablets OTC.
...who are you? Everything you said in this subthread is false, and you seem to have a weird chip on your shoulder regarding this.
My family got roped into fostering some baby squirrels that had lost their nest. They're very cute, but in my experience they were very skittish and frankly their claws are too sharp to make comfortable pets. I wish it were otherwise, since I really admire them as highly capable animals.

We raised them with the intent of releasing them into "the wild" (of Burbank) and eventually did get them to be pretty much independent of us. So that worked pretty well.
The "buffering" parts of the graph show the "fill the buffer" behavior described in (3). The time between calls is very short and large amounts of data are moved.
We did use Reason and ReasonReact. Not sure where you're getting your info. And no we don't use TypeScript on the team...
It's not by default, and still hasn't rolled out here.
An important part of palm oil is burnt in western cars to provide a "green alternative" to oil. How ironic? Plantations have grown as a consequence...

Also palm oil feeds many families in SE Asia. Boycott is not a solution.
For example youtube should have defaulted to the logged out experiance. No one forced them to use the same identity platform for completly unrelated services.
Gmail dose raise hard issues but people logged in should not have needed to recontact a auth service.
Makes sense until you realize you'd have to prohibit everyone else's own crawling as well (can't single out and put Google at a disadvantage) and then you'd just have turned Google's de facto-monopoly into an actual, government-mandated crawling monopoly.

I'd rather make http://commoncrawl.org more current, accessible and more commonly used so website publishers can see a benefit in actively supporting it to lighten the load on their servers.
Well I couldn’t wait, and the airline that cancelled my flight had to pay up to €400 costs anyway. The ticket to Paris was €60 for a 400 mile journey that takes 2hr15 pretty cheap. The cheapest option for that leg if we’d got up really early was €33, this was booking less than 12hrs before travel. That’s on the SNCF which is state run. The Eurostar from Paris to London is privatised and is much more expensive for some reason. Trains in the U.K. tend to be ridiculously expensive and slow compared to France but we have a privatised system that’s based on a poorly designed artificially created competitive market that just created a huge amount of expensive contract bureaucracy and no coordination between operations and maintenance.
our sense of averages is also greatly skewed.
if you are a degree bearing professional in a competitive field, the amount of time you spend measuring yourself against the 50th percentile and below is in all likelihood close to zero.
you see this in review scores as well. there is a strong cultural bias towards the upper third, an album/ movie or game is often considered a critical failure if it scores a 7 or below even though that would, broadly speaking, mean it is better than average.
This is great news, but it's also compleytely artificial. People are now spending 3-5h doing a 1h flight, when it could theoretically be done a lot quicker. When I fly from my regional airport I arrive 30 minutes before departure, if I have luggage to drop. 20 if I don't. That's how flying should work, even at larger airports.
Messari's 10 crypto theses for 2021 [pdf]
> You're in an incredible amount of pain for a long time.

Just take some tylenol.
Note IAM is also global in AWS, perhaps the only global service other than those that are effectively global by requiring you to use us-east-1
Is there anything that leads you to believe that democrats had something to do with negotiating it down?
First off, I'm of the opinion that history moves forward by the actions of individuals and that technology is a main driving factor, not ideas.

That being said, people like Pythagoras, Thales, Goethe, da Vinci, and many others were simultaneously artists, scientists, as well as philosophers. I agree to a certain degree with the GP that philosophy is mostly post-rationalising of existing phenomena. It's the creation of these ideas that allow for deeper thought and exchange of these ideas. Einstein had the idea of relativity before he could prove it.

When it comes to creating 'new things', it seems an individual's curiosity and serendipity is what drives innovation. But I think one must not underestimate the role philosophy plays in this as it can give one's thought direction.
If anyone should be holding them to account, it should be the courts and / or society. Credit card companies shouldn't be able to play judge, jury and executioner. If our laws are insufficient to deal with the problem of major tube sites, we can enact new ones.

Related: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/visa-and-mastercard-ar...
I only tried cutting regular gloves but I can't touch type efficiently with them. I could indeed try liner gloves, good idea thanks!
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As an Italian, my experience is that I can’t have any satisfaction with less than 180g of pasta.
Therefore I only eat it like once a week and make it a little event. Growing up I had similar portions almost on a daily basis and I was never overweight. Trick: do sports. A lot.
I bet that he really meant "This story really exemplifies an aspect of my job I hate" and won't miss at a future next job. The positive spin was only there because it got on the company blog.
> I imagine once they knew what the issue was, they would have been able to fix it as i'm pretty sure that service doesn't need to be authorised by itself to be configured ;)

You'd be surprised at the circular dependencies that creep up at Google scale...

(I used to work there and we had last resort secure access mechanisms, but I wouldn't be surprised if the normal front door wound up shut pretty hard for this one)
> I'm not honestly convinced the fallout from a company being breached is that high

The market clearly doesn't care, and so neither do executives. What needs to happen is a household company gets exploited/hacked/pwned/whatever so hard that their entire business collapses, maybe not entirely but significantly. Then the market will price these breaches very differently.
I wonder how the 3000 residents are doing, with tourism basically shut down. Any other work options?
It was while I worked there that I read something briefly about them being uncorrelated, but it was probably just some popular press miss-characterization. I'd done over 100 interviews for Google SWEs, and wasn't aware of where to look up the data internally. In any case, the article I read wasn't interesting enough for me to do more digging.

I guess I should have been more critical at the time. Thanks for the clarification. Is it widely known where to look up this data internally now? I left Google over a decade ago.
I think the people who punch above their weight are the ones who genuinely want to solve the problems in said domain. It is a signal of drive. If you are working in a domain and not punching above your station, then you are probably not driven in that domain. Coasters get nowhere. People who push boundaries are often the most likely ones to get past them.
By the way while reading this, I was expecting happy ending, something nice to start the day, but, alas, this is almost like a heavy Russian drama, starts with light tone and ends so depressive I would rather go back to bed crawling under the blanker and into fetal position.
And yet there are more lawyers than ever, to the extent that average incomes have declined (at least outside the top tier law firms).
convincing people to adjust their thermostats and wardrobe

That’s the missing chasm in the plan: how are we going to convince people to abandon luxury (real or perceived), comfort, and status in the name of efficiency? Especially when we’re talking about something so fundamental as warmth, as expressed as clause two in the phrase safe and warm when describing basic necessities. The image of someone turning down their thermostat and wearing thermals at home evokes images of hardship that will be difficult to dislodge (not to mention all the impracticalities and flat out dangerous aspects others have pointed out).

By comparison (in a technologically advanced capitalist society with a mature consumer culture) the challenges of developing and scaling renewable technology that fulfils people’s wants and needs are child’s play.
Yet another standard library for OCaml? You sure it wasn't a parody? :)

I can think of: TheActualStdlib, Base/Core_kernel/Core, Batteries, Containers, Belt, ...
Other than not accepting the republican offer that was twice the size of this one before the election?

No, not really.

In the same way I have no proof that a coin which lands heads 50 times in a row is biased.
Does Signal still fore you to use a phone number?
This is a huge deal breaker for a privacy concerned messenger. That's why I prefer using Threema.
I think it was harder before industrial IDEs
Being above/below average doesn't necessarily imply not being also the opposite. There are different aspects in everything you can measure yourself by. You can be slightly more stupid than others (e.g. I don't think I can score at a whiteboard interview, I never am the first one to solve a puzzle) but the fact you are actively aware of that, accept that (but don't give up) and take that in conscious account already makes you superior to others in some very important aspects. Also, being above average doesn't mean stopping improving, it means your can improve better and easier so you probably should.
Surprising amount of distrust of CWMP in this thread. As someone who implemented this and manages it at an ISP we really only use it to configure the WAN or VoIP connections.
They get away with it because there is no competition. Well there is eBay, but that has an even worse api.

What are you doing to do? Deal with it or decide to not sell your products?
Based on FB's official rebuttal, he had mentioned his company affiliation on the bug bounty portal account and had used a company email address for the communications. To me, this indicates that he was acting in an official company capacity.

Further, they didn't reach out to the CEO of the company until after he'd exfil'd data from the IG S3 bucket outside the scope of the bug report to try and leverage a bigger payout.

I have no reason to doubt any of that.

There's a lot of negatives about working at Facebook, but a lack of professionalism is not one of them.
The problem is that Twitter is acting illegally with its censorship, since it enjoys platform status and all the perks associated, but can ban conservative content.

Everyone should be on Twitter, saying whatever non-illegal political content they want, but they can't because Twitter is disobeying the law.
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How common is child pornon there?

Given PornHub's actions, it seems not even they could given an confident answer to that question. PornHub may have stepped up its efforts but it has been mostly a reactive response to media pressure (which has been mounting), not a proactive one.
>The New York Times once experimented by predicting the moods of readers based on article content to better target ads, enabling marketers to find audiences when they were sad or fearful

Can we maybe go one step back in the discussion and not only discuss what we should do about it, but simply ask does it even work?

There's Zuboff's book about surveillance capitalism that echoes much of what the blog post talks about, that recent netflix documentary that everyone was talking bout and so on, but how much evidence is there that this isn't all just mostly bullshit?

When the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke they used the buzzword 'psychographic targeting'. turns out, psychographic targeting doesn't even really work[1]. A relative recently sent me an article about China allegedly using mind-control helmets to control their thoughts of children attached with a picture of children wearing helmets with blinking lights. I have yet to see a facial emotion detection system that labels Harold[2] of the "Hide The Pain" meme fame as anything other than 'happy'.

I'm more afraid of how bogus all these systems are and the unquestioning power people attribute to tech, which itself enables these firms. It's no wonder they keep inviting Yuval Noah Harari for talks, they must feel flattered.

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03880-4

[2]https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/imag...
"There are high costs, but a lot is down to attitude, willingness and management focus," says Smith, who praises ÖBB CEO Andreas Matthä, who took over in 2016, for "making night trains wash their faces commercially."

Well that is an understatement. Last time I checked to get a night train to Vienna they started at €200 per person. You can fly there for €30.

It's nice that they're expanding, sure. But at this rate you're not going to convince the masses of going electric on their middle-distance travels.
> apps are close to malware installers

I'm probably out of the loop, do you mind expanding on this?
In retrospect, I really wish the USD suffered hyperinflation in 1974 for several reasons,
including for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip_inflation_now, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Commission_to_Inve...
Managing IPv4 Islands with Jool and OpenWrt
Are general/topical political posts ok as long as through a ycombinator company intermediary (substack)?
yeah. i follow that news
Lime plans for ‘modes’ beyond bikes and scooters in 2021
Their culture of continuous (and I do mean continuous) performance review ensures they're always focused on not losing their jobs. If you know someone who works there, ask 'em.
Imagine taxation, or inflation of a fiat currency with legal tender laws forcing acceptance.
That's true. I've cut it.
> Also palm oil feeds many families in SE Asia. Boycott is not a solution.

Does it really? Palm trees are not exactly grown by small scale artisan farmers.
Except that the earlier one proposed to remove all business liability for negligent or even malicious coronavirus safety practices and this one doesn't have anything on that yet, right?
Not really. But I can tell you that, as a compiler writer, reaching for the disassembler is what you do a lot of!
No, you can't be Twitter, a platform under the law and enjoying all the associated perks, and then censor the New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop. You step into publisher territory at that point and open yourself up to liability. You also can't go and ban the whitehouse press secretary, same deal.

If Twitter would act honorably and allow open conversation, conversations that obviously don't contain death threats, etc, then there would be no need or even desire for an alternate platform.
IEEE’s Refusal to Issue Corrections
> Well things are not quite so easy ...

It's not easy to put on and take off warm clothes to manage your personal temperature?
Except HP is not retiring and no-ones grandparent.
Professionally End an Email the Do’s and Don’ts
Yup, as I was reading this I was wondering how this could possibly lead to a critical vuln since nothing would ever depend o... and then I read about how SAML works.

Kill it with fire. This stuff's broken. We know better than to do things this way no. Just no. You sign binary blobs. Signature check fails, your binary blob is garbage and never gets parsed. End of story.

(Mental note: never deploy SAML anywhere)

Aside: I've seen a credit card processor implement nonsense like this, where I had to parse XML with regular expressions to extract the to-be-signed segment, because it was never going to round trip through a typical XML parser. But then again, this was only about the 25th batshit insane and likely insecure thing they were doing, just like every other banking related company, so shrug.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1480002
Corset Piercing Ideas for Extreme Sexiness
Isn't outbound cloudfront traffic just as outrageously expensive as outbound EC2 traffic? My impression is that AWS is simply unaffordable when you have large amounts of traffic.
Designer Tools Survey Summary
"Ninety percent of students think they are more intelligent than the average student."

Does anyone know which study this came from? I was trying to figure out exactly how the survey question was worded because this statistic seems somewhat amazing to me. The driving one I get because drivers are not being routinely graded, but students are.

I googled the phrase and I basically got related quotes, this article (from 2010), and a couple of studies that came after this article was posted, and they were mostly looking at gender differences in preceived intelligence and after a quick glance, didn't seem to support this statement.
> One problem, particularly in the US, is that portion sizes are so large.

This is true for every food in the US..
(I'm an overweight French guy who eat too much but in the US even the "small" portions were far too much for me)
As a non lawyer, what really gets me annoyed is the fact that lawyers never seemed to be punished for bringing totally frivolous claims. Rarely do the plaintiffs, but I don't think the lawyers ever do. I think that would push said lawyers to make sure they have the full info before they actually take a case to court, and in tern reduce the number of frivolous litigation and the cost on the public system.

I have personally been sued frivolously. After 6 months of stress during which the plaintiff decided to fire a lawyer and started to harass my attorney and expect them to spend time explaining the law (time for which I eventually was billed), we decided to settle. The plaintiff was supposed to pay me $6000, but decided to reduce that amount to roughly half. I just didn't have any energy to go to small claims court arguing that she still owed me the rest of it.

Had their initial lawyer been on the hook for a frivolous lawsuit, the whole thing would probably have never happened. Rather than getting all of the info, they were more than happy to only get one side of the story (truncated email threads, not preparing them to answer to a discovery packet and so on) and to get their money, only to find a way to bailed once they realized it was not going to be worth it.

Another thing that I found absurd is the fact that "reasonable attorney fee" doesn't seem to cover more than half the reasonable fees. My lawyer suggested filing motions to compel and/or motions for sanctions, but also warned me that it would cost me more than what the judge would award me for the fees. And of course, nothing for my time...
Better SEO and discoverability, likely.
Interesting question. Interesting too that we've become so self-confident in our machines and our studies that we think to ask it. Seeking to regulate something like the use of psychology, which we understand so little of, seems like an 18th century pirate asking his captain whether they should regulate the ocean. Like no, we only know a minuscule amount of information about it, about the bare surface of it at that - ask me again in 2,000 years.
> Attacking an entrenched monopoly or cartel is pretty hard to bootstrap.

But that doesn't mean you can 'scrape' a monopoly's content and hope to get away with it (or pay for someone to create data that relies on scraping content). I'm not a lawyer but if Ross technology/product was built using Westlaw content there seems to be a case to answer there. However groundbreaking their tech or product was.
Disruptive cyber crisis engulfs multiple agencies