skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be. I lack the data at the moment but I seem to remember when deaths were higher 20 years ago (3400 a year vs 1700), exceeding the speed limit was higher in the causes.

What cameras may have done is change the culture of speeding, making it far more antisocial - like the drunk driving campaigns did.

If others don’t speed, then you generally can’t speed, especially in towns where it’s most dangerous.

My parents used to speed all over the place in the 90s, my peers don’t today. Perhaps the cameras don’t make any local difference, but are part of a larger cultural shift.

More people are killed by car drivers knocking down pedestrians than by car drivers speeding.
Definitely, and we've benefitted tremendously from the subsequent competition and innovation in telecom after that. Don't know if you realize this, but there used to be a time when you'd spend a lot of money just to make long distance phone calls. The fees charged were of course disproportionate to the cost of carrying those calls. They were rent-seekers, and deserved to be broken up.
What's wrong with Al Jazeera as a source?

Reuters is a newswire, although you can get their work directly there's nothing untoward about a network republishing it: that's their principal business model.
It's not meant to be an allegation; my point is that the government asking to increase test diversity isn't inherently a negative. However, the parent comment interpreted that it was, because it was stated earlier that it "slowed things down", without showing that such a request was frivolous.
Some monitors do have pwm backlights which flicker extremely fast, and can worsen eyestrain or cause headaches for some. I've seen it even on monitors that advertise being flicker free.
Only in Holland? Rest of the Netherlands has different rules?
It would be more sensible to just build more housing. That way Chinese dollars will end up employing Americans instead of just changing the title on a home. It's quite funny how backwards America is in this regard. They are unwilling to produce more of their primary "export" even though there is no way for production of it to be moved to any other country. Instead every property owner wants a larger slice at the expense of everyone else.
The bluetooth support certainly could be improved in many respects, although I have to say that it does seem like things have been getting considerably better as compared to ~4 years ago when I first started using bluetooth on Linux.

I've also wondered if a lot of the bluetooth problems on Linux are actually caused by the desktop manager.

Most of the problems I've personally experienced have seemingly been tied to using old versions of Gnome on Ubuntu. In fact, Gnome in general has always been rough for me on bluetooth; the bluetooth connection app still needs some love, but I've noticed it being more reliable with recent versions. I particularly noticed this when I was running a newer version of Gnome on Fedora 31, but then running an older version of Gnome on Ubuntu 18.04 (for work). The older version of Gnome's bluetooth was considerably worse.

For about the past year, however, I've been using Fedora / KDE on desktop and OpenSUSE / KDE on my laptop. This has been by far the best bluetooth experience I've had on Linux. Thank you to whoever wrote the KDE bluetooth code, because it is consistent and reliable.

So I don't think it is totally a kernel problem. YMMV depending on what cards/adapters you're using (I'm using a mix of Intel and some USB sticks from a fly-by-night vendor).
IIRC the Snowden leaks revealed the NSA's data "exfiltration" practices which used a similar technique.
Their sponsor is Digital Harbor Foundation on Baltimore's Light St. Why am I not surprised? They run a makerspace. It's awesome for Baltimore. It was the first ever location I went to in that city, for a Baltimore Node School event in 2014: https://nodeschool.io/baltimore/
> Why do you feel it is inappropriate?

Because my understanding is that most Chinese people do not consider the CCP to be virtuous nor do they "identify" with it. That's not to say they're dissidents, but more semi-deliberately indifferent and have knowledge of and experience with government corruption. Even people who work for the party are often just going through the motions.
Could the very low age of 16 be a reason? Not based in the US so I'm probably wrong
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No surprise that no one cares about their privacy.
Don't forget they started forcing people to use their app (in some subs).

If your business doesn't work in a browser, I'm out.
WordPress Pagespeed Optimization as a Case-Study
This case study based text is nothing new but a guide on how a slow site heavily dependent on third-party scripts was optimized for a better load-time.
It seems that there is a a autobiography book, and another one called pigeon stories. Which is the one you are referring to?
> There are many lessons to learn from the Netherlands with regard to bicycle infrastructure, and for our sake I certainly hope it doesn't involve the death of children.

It doesn't have to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_in_Copenhagen

Like the Netherlands, the city of Copenhagen has a highly evolved bicycle infrastructure, but the catalyst for change was the dual oil crises in the 1970s which led to car-free Sundays and other oil preservation measures. People disovered that they actually appreciated the lack of cars and many started using bicycles as an alternative. This resulted in a grassroots movement campaigning for bicycle infrastructure in the city. The municipality caught on and today almost two thirds commute by bicycle.
> There's not much that can stop attacks like this.

Not giving people RCE on your machine will stop attacks like this.
>Banning foreign investment will force them to dump dollars and treasury bonds and will accelerate the development of an alternative to it for international trade.

Only if they don't find a better alternative than real estate.
> spike in NXDOMAIN DNS responses

For those following at home, these are caused by Domain Generation Algorithms that try a ton of (deterministically generated) top level domains. The attacker need only register one of them, and if the domain gets frozen they can often just register another -- until the generator algorithm is integrated into the registrars' blocking system, which takes time and work.

Personally I'm surprised we don't see more malware using the various DNS replacements that sit on top of Ethereum. They were using Namecoin for a while.
> Toyota pickups and corolla are highly sought after on the secondary markets overseas in Asia and Africa because they will go 500k miles routinely.

Holy shit. What years? And thanks.
> I just don't see much more innovation outside battery tech happening.

This is where I feel the self driving part will come in.

1) First to market and length of lag for other manufactures there.

Imagine there 2 car companies with working self-driving 10+ years before others can catch-up. That will shift the market for domestic and commercial.

2) Self-driving safety stats - this is going to become huge when there are self driving choices.

If one company can say 'we are half as likely to have an accident' type marketing, this is going to become a new and significant factor in vehicle purchase, more so than safety rating are today (I believe anyway) as we are taking out the 'Im in control of my experience' factor.

3) Self driving will flow to other innovation. Cars will no-longer need to be 4 seats facing forward. Huge opportunity to re-think transport once you dont need a driver seat.
Not in a dictionary that would be okay for scrabble I guess
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We used to do it at my previous company, maybe 30-40 engineers, but only 10%.
It didn't really work, in the sense that no project went anywhere.
Based on the feedback here, it seems to work if you can contribute to external projects, where it's easier to add marginal value.

In our case, everyone worked on the same project, so it was either develop some new features for the existing project, or create something brand new.
We would develop some POC, and every time the answer by management was "that's cool, but we don't have the resources to polish it up/bring it to market and it's low priority". It was pretty depressing to me.
Been commuting daily through forests in different parts of Europe and had no problem, people regularly walked to work through the same paths. What's your concern?
In my observation, in the Netherlands someone with a flashy car is quicker seen as a show-off. Generally speaking, it has a somewhat more grounded and egalitarian culture. Someone calling themselves a "Baron such and such" or "Sir so and so" like they do in the UK? The entire country will roll their eyes.

In the UK, it's somewhere in-between the mainland European and American attitudes, where someone with a flashy car is seen as deserving of it through their hard work.

And not everyone who drives like an idiot has a flashy car by the way; lots of those pumped VW things and whatnot as well (in both countries).
Solarwinds is not your average software company. Look at their customer list. They would have had ISO certifications and independent 3rd party audits done a billion times. Those type of companies don't even speak to you if you don't have those credentials.

You think you are supplying software to all the armed forces branches and "forgot" to update a Jenkins plugin?
I see you're getting downvoted to near invisibility, but...As a pedestrian in the SF Bay area, the times I've been hit or nearly hit by vehicles - each time it's been clueless cyclists blowing stop signs/lights, or riding the wrong way, or on sidewalks.
> they have an uphill battle to fight and need to pull a rabbit out of their hats

The Renault Zoe is the best selling electric car in Europe in 2020.

It's not like car manufacturers are standing still. They'll be pumping out electric cars year after year. When there's so much choice of EV, what's the reason to choose a Tesla? Europe is choosing the Zoe ahead of all other models right now.
Never went into a company that did this, but it would surely fit my brain, I often need personal outlet (unless the main tasks are already providing me this). It would probably drive my productivity up so I can finish the boring parts and enjoy a mind-free 20%
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It's what they do for cars, and trucks, and anything that the municipality seems useful, so what's the difference?
This is number-stations level obfuscation. Wow.
Are you using an Intel wireless chipset or the terrible Broadcom one that Dell used to use? Not sure what Dell was using in 2018, but I replaced the garbage Broadcom chip in my 2015-era XPS 13 with a much more reliable Intel model, and most of by bluetooth problems were immediately fixed.

That said, the replacement process is pretty fiddly...Dell likes using lots of very small screws made of very soft metal.

I've also found that Gnome's bluetooth handling varies from barely acceptable to confusingly horrible. KDE's bluetooth handling has been way more reliable for me across multiple machines and distros. So the problem may very well be in userspace.
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Depends what you call news. We're pretty spoiled when it comes to Tesla news; there's been no shortage.

In the last year they've announced and built most of the Berlin factory. It seems on track to start producing next year. That's on the home turf of Volkswagen, Daimler, and BMW. Pretty big news. The same year also saw the announcement of the Texas factory where they are also executing rapidly. And that of course came on the back of the Chinese factory. The news for Tesla in the last few months has been of them executing extremely well. They're growing production and turning profits in a market where all their competitors are shrinking production and losing money. There's also been some minor news about them ramping up production of their in house designed batteries a few new models and model variants. The cyber truck announcement was only a year ago; so that counts as well and half a million reservations for such a thing is nothing to sneeze at. Then there was a minor thing called Corona which should have put the brakes on profits; except it didn't in Tesla's case.

Tesla's valuation is based on their historic ability to execute and their competitors apparent struggle to do so. Turning profits in the middle of two major lock downs is pretty hard evidence that they are doing something right. So, maybe it's not that irrational for investors to look at Tesla and see a strategy that while ballsy is apparently working and looking like it might be just the right strategy for the foreseeable future as well.

Your picking nits over government subsidies. Everybody else has that same advantage. In any case, without government subsidies, most of the Detroit based car manufacturers would have gone bust around the 2008 crisis already. I'd say 700M is peanuts compared to that probably; and they are still losing money. General Motors' losses alone this year exceed that.
I write very little shippable code in first day of a 3 day task. Also my itch for unfinished work is very unhealthy. Does 20% favour guys who compartmentalize unfinished business to a fixed day every week and ramp up quickly?
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Less often than the Intel Manglement Engine.
That "bad infrastructure" bit was in their response to my first comment, which I did not address at all on in my second comment.

Your observations on "to artificially give people a reason to use cars" is more of the same thing because it's also not at all relevant to the linked essay.

I get what you're both complaining about, but I'll again point out that you're missing the art in the story linked here and if you focus on that it's pretty good stuff.
a. That's not what he meant. He meant that, "A person riding a bicycle or operating a pedicab upon a highway has all the rights and is subject to all the provisions applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this division,", from VEH 21200. (There's more nuance to it than that quote too, of course.)

b. Some bikes do have a non-human power source.
If I get hurt or killed because you're either careless or not experienced enough to drive a heavy vehicle what's the alternative solution you have in mind?
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Hi Greg! :)

I was mainly referring to something I read many years ago (regarding new kernel devs), e.g., this from 2013 [0]. However, from your response, looks like that's not a problem.

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/graying-linux-developers-look-...
Look up the history of leaded gasoline sometime... There were studies asserting a certain 'natural' level of lead in the bloodstream which we now consider quite toxic. But everyone was poisoned together, due to ubiquity, so it took a massive effort to get people to understand that something was wrong.
Al Jazeera is a clownish propoganada mouthpiece for the Qatar regime. You can read here:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera
Chill just wash your food before you eat it.
I agree, except for the part where they immediately contradict themselves:

> If you choose to give me your email address, I will treat it with the utmost respect. I’ll never spam you, or give it to anyone else.

> In 2019 I moved from Mailchimp, whose business model started to make me uncomfortable, to Buttondown. It’s run by one guy who I trust to do the right thing.
I now have a P14s, as a weird compromise between what I wanted (14", under 2kg), company requirements for the size class (Lenovo with Intel i7 or i9 and NVIDIA discrete graphics), and what the supplier had available with short notice. Given free choice, I'd probably got a T495 or T14 with AMD.

Mostly the P14s feels the same as the T480 did. I have none but the usual complaints (+ too new hardware so drivers are still a bit flaky), though I think the underpowered discrete graphics is a waste of money at least for my use.
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>>Without writing a "toy" from scratch, one would never understand professional programming or codebases either. They wouldn't understand why they oftentimes poorly designed, full of bugs, etc. Tracing own "from scratch" steps, with self-reflection, is the best way to be prepared to "professional" programming.

I disagree. All the toy from scratch provides is a way to get the student to go from zero to poorly designed solution during the course, which he can just forget it ever existed as soon as the grade is in.

Meanwhile, you have no experience onboarding to an unfamiliar codebase, have to find a bug and fix it, implement a feature, or refactor it to reduce technical debt and improve it according to some criteria. And that's pretty much at least 3/4ths of a developer's work.
In case you didnt know, the person whom you replied to is the creator of zig language.
One point that i haven't seen mentioned here today is the ecological damage that bitcoin causes. We're in the middle of a climate catastrophe. A lot of investors are defunding industries and assets that are harmful for the climate.

In my opinion, bitcoin is one of these assets. If you want to invest in crypto, find better alternatives.
Agreed this is too simple and common sense for the government to do.
Buying bitcoin right now while it’s still under 20K will be one of the best investment opportunities of 2021. IMHO. Even if there is a small crash in price it will quickly recover and will start growing exponentially for most of 2021. Why? Limited supply and lots of new buyers - companies and wealthy people are buying now. (not a financial advice).
Do you know how to filter a search on openlibrary by books that are in the library? It's annoying to search and get hundreds of "Not in Library" results.
Theres a buch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

And seems to one missing where there was a test message sent as a real one to a US commander.

And likely more than here we'll never hear of.
Market capitalization is based purely on the value of the stock itself and doesn't take into account any other factors such as projections, profitability or debt. It's an odd way to value a company in my opinion and just leads to inevitable debacles like WeWork.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketcapitalization.as...
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Wow. I can't even.

So basically it's a way for the city administration to say they do something while doing less than nothing.
It stands indeed.

It stands a few lines below the answer.
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You really think people working for the UK consulate and major Western corporations would disclose their CCP membership on their job applications? Seems a bit naive to me, unless I’m missing some sarcasm...
Attribution is indeed always the part that make me doubt about entire security related articles. Each and every time I looked into how such attacks were attributed to this or that country the evidence, if not the reasonning, were severely lacking at best.
There is too much at stake in those affairs that it is safer to assume that only fabricated stories and counter fires are told about it all.
Occam's razor says that Solarwinds just... signed it. Just like Juniper shipped breakable VPNs and RSA shipped a bad random number generator. No need to look too far for why.
That's not what happened with Prohibition. Crime syndicates providing black-market alcohol didn't just set up as legitimate alcohol vendors, they moved into unrelated markets like controlling labor unions.

Note that labor unions were a legitimate type of enterprise, but organized crime ran them illegitimately anyway. The willingness to break the law is their competitive advantage; it would make no sense to give it up.
Saw this yesterday on Reddit ("First evidence of microplastics in human placenta"):

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/kbwac0/first_evi...
Plus there’s no monetisation strategy. Where’s the hustle? I don’t get it.

I’m 19 and get paid 600k (graduated from a boot camp last month), I could build this in a weekend too.
The movie is very well done but it just doesn't have enough time to really fit the novel in.
You can disagree, but you're wrong. The kinds of people who watch dark marketplaces for exploits are not dreaming of the super interested information they can get off a random backoffice system.

One time, about 15 "bug bounties are a ripoff" threads ago, someone actually made a non-ironic case for a high valuation for logout CSRF bugs. A competing image service could employ it to ruthlessly log users out, degrading service and jacking up their own signups. A logout CSRF. That's the kind of logic we're talking about here.

Nobody buys these kinds of bugs speculatively.
I know. But it's like pager duty. When it breaks, I have to manually intervene to fix it, and in the meantime stuff is not working. And anything I build on top of that needs to take that into account.

It turns fun projects into something like a job.