skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, seems like a buried lede. SolarWinds was owned pretty badly and the attack that lead to that isn't described. Once they had access they have free reign to send malware to any one of their clients masquerading as routine patches. Sounds like they went the extra mile to deliver an extremely subtle exploit to avoid detection.
Weird, I thought #3 was by far the most exciting of the 4. It outlined the path to the tipping point where EVs with decent range are cheaper than low end ICE cars.
1) people aren't what it is, but what they expect it to be

2) Cars are just one thing in Tesla's portfolio. Both home and grid scale energy storage is another.
They’re also not _settings_. They are unwelcome clutter that are not there to make my device serve me better while I go about my life. Just send me a marketing email so that I can mark it as spam.
I'm not denying their agency (or that of other actors, e.g., in the media), I'm pointing out the interest toward which their agency is directed.

I'm explaining why a choice is made, not denying it is a choice.
Tesla has like 28% of the global BEV market and has been growing that % every year. They have been doing that essentially with 1 car program and another 1 that is half ramped.

There are gigantic segments, like trucks in the US, they they don't even have an offering in yet.

Tesla also controlled a huge amount of the global battery supply and threw its own production will control even more.

This transition will take another 10 years, what matters is not now, but what the situation will be in 2030.
We should be concerned because the plastic acts like xenoestrogens in the body. Hormone disruption is bad.
Visa cards tend to be the tastiest, followed by American Express. Discover comes in a number of flavors, but they are all a bit spicy for my taste. Occasionally I’ll grate one over my lego sushi for a bit of a kick, otherwise I stick with the classics. And you can’t beat Julia Child’s original recipe for Beef Bourguignon with Braised Debit Card.
> Mine was close to the last generation of car nuts.

Surely not! Certainly the car is no longer the poster child for societal progress, but there is no shortage of car enthusiasts.
> Amazon doesn't have any other good shows that I'm willing to tune into.

If you like The Boys, then you'll also like Utopia.
True, Teslas these days come with a J1772 to Tesla AC adapter. IIRC they're not compatible with CCS but CCS chargers are more rare than J1772 at the moment. However I often see only J1772 plugs or only Tesla plugs around me. It's rare for places to have both options.

Tesla was forced to make CCS compatible versions in Germany IIRC, so they could adopt the industry standard globally but instead choose to continue pushing vendor lock-in instead of open standards.

Either way that doesn't change the fact Tesla might be the single biggest network of chargers out there, but they're not the most common chargers out there. The majority of chargers out there will not work on a Tesla without an adapter.

If having the largest network of charging systems was really a long term play of theirs, you'd think they'd move to actually supporting the plugs which will probably be on ultimately the majority of cars on the road and take money from everyone instead of only customers of their cars. I question the long term importance of their charging network as more and more J1772/CCS cars get on the market and more J1772/CCS continue coming online. Imagine of Ford and Exxon had some exclusive pump and port agreement where Exxon stations could only sell gas to Ford cars but Ford gave adapters to allow Ford owners to fill anywhere, albeit with a bit more work. Sounds pretty dumb, right?
Did investors really sell because of this news?

It just so happened that bitcoin dropped about 5% on the same day. Microstrategy is quickly turning into a defacto bitcoin ETF. Maybe the bitcoin price drop had something to do with the stock price drop.
Once upon a time my first stop before buying a particular car was to buy the Haynes manual and work through it (they are all essentially the same manual varied by car, taking you through the same procedures). If the car didn't look maintenance friendly then I'd let it go because I wasn't rich enough to pay for a garage.

The last decade I've had two modern cars and I absolutely hated them. Nothing - and really, I mean it - was user serviceable. Every little thing required a trip to the nearest dealership eating up half a day or more. Anything made after 1990 or so is so locked up that the 'right to repair' is mostly meaningless, yes, you have the right. But you don't have the $200K in special tools, besides the complexity and the number of sensors make it super hard to work on these anyway.

There are some pretty gifted people out there for who this is not a hindrance, but your average 'wrench' type of person is without a chance to work on anything but the most superficial parts of a modern vehicle.
- The dollar buys less than ever before and will continue to do so.

- Real wages suck compared to, let's say, the "golden age" of driving.

- Because of the above, high quality widgets cost more than ever. You can still find them, but you'd have to see it as an investment.
Like the Weeknd and Obama over the last month or so, my man Elon needs to rediscover the value of mystique. In other words, STFU and do science.

He's just not ever going to be as cool as Bill Gates. Like really, we get it. You're ambitious. You're pushing the boundaries of human technology. That's enough. We would like you for that alone.

When he opens up more than that, it's just reading lists like this and twitter spats with fucking small town mayors, and unfortunate stories about his dad or about his ex-wives and he's really just cringy as a mfer once we get past all the science, but seriously the science is great.

Mystique my man. You don't need to talk to us plebs. Stop.
Private cars has in many cases been a disaster for most cities. I got so fed up driving 20 km an hour for 20 years to pick up four kids in kindergarten, that I eventually sold the car smd started bicycling. I still get stressed out just by sitting in some of those cars. Autonomous cars is at best a distraction. Cars makes cities spread out across too larhe areas.
I’d also love to know how long it took to plan. Was this a years in the making kind of thing? Or just months? Was there a perfect storm that presented the opportunity and so they seized it or was this a concerted and determined effort to infiltrate some specific agency no matter what it took and this happened to be the weak point they could exploit?
> making fun of the attribution to “sophisticated” and “with resources of a nation-state.” Oops.

This annoys me.

1) I'm equally breached whether the hacker used a sophisticated attack or not.

2) A "nation-state" attacker is more than willing to use "unsophisticated" attacks to accomplish their goals.

In fact, a "nation-state" attacker is probably less likely to use "sophisticated" attacks as they will want to save those for the cases where they really need to get through security.
> Once you get over the fact that the code makes your eyes bleed, it has a sort of beauty.

as a c2rust contributor, this made me smile :) thx friend!
Marissa Mayer also said it didn't exist [0].

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/mayer-google-20-time-does-no...
Why I'm so excited about solar and batteries
Java .. Javascript .. Python
> If a car hits a walking or cycling person, whatever the situation they are at fault.

This is insane. Cyclists run stop signs, red lights, etc. all the time. Pedestrians run out in to traffic from behind parked cars. If they get hit when they do that it's their own fault.

What everyone needs to understand in every mixed traffic environment is that sharing the road goes both ways. Drivers have a responsibility to look out for cyclists, but cyclists have a responsibility to make themselves able to be seen. Everyone has a responsibility act in a way that allows their actions to be predicted by other users of the road, you never want to be surprising people.

If your actions cause someone to have to hit their brakes or make evasive maneuvers and you had a reasonable choice to not do those things, you're the one in the wrong even if you're legally right.
I agree it's the mother's fault, but I disagree it's "totally" her fault.

These games are created and finely tuned to addict people into playing but even more so into spending, and a lot of them - including this one by the looks of it - are specifically targeting kids. The microtransactions scheme is designed to make it harder for people to track how much they are actually spending.

To me, this isn't any different then cigarette companies marketing to children. Sonic is the Joe Camel of today, but even more nefarious it seems.

The fault here is surely the fault of the mother, being inattentive to what her kid was doing and inattentive to her finances at least for some time, but it's also the fault of game companies promoting virtual drugs to kids in the first place and a fault of Apple (and Google and other supposedly "curated" stores) acting as a middle man for these drug pushers, proving them financial services and taking their own cut, of course. This game, which is basically digital crack, is on Apple's App Store rated "9+". Right...
Yeah but CAN bus is all about the various electronic modules talking together. The parking brake assembly has a switch on it to detect if the pedal is depressed, IE the parking brake is applied. I could understand not detailing those too much, because even the knowledge won’t help you when your “entertainment module” AKA radio is VIN locked and you HAVE to go to the dealership to deal with it.

There was no mention of the parking brake, the cables, or the fact that the parking brake is tied to the rear brakes in the entire manual.

It was honestly the first time I’ve ever been disappointed with a manual. Then again, all my old books prior to ‘01 are a Chilton which are IMO more technical and precise. Of 8 books, only two are Hayne’s. And Hayne’s bought Chilton some time ago, so I’d be interested if Chilton is more like Hayne’s these days.
>Since there were big headlines ~2010 about food in plastic heated in microwaves, I've switched to using glass containers for leftovers. Does that decrease the amount described in this article?

AFAIK that's for BPA? I don't think microplastics are generated just by having the food being in contact with the plastic, so I doubt that makes a difference. If you read the study[1], it looks like most of the plastic comes from the drinking water, not through food.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/nxvyl3v5s9d0a1v/PLASTIC%20INGESTIO...
"I asked Putin if he hacked us and he said they didn't."
The word "risk" is overloaded in finance, unfortunately.
Your usage is not affected by the price being near all time highs. The parent's use is affected.
> Seems like he doesn't make money off of wannabees but rather the successful ones, no?

Depends on your definition of success. Founding a business that operates at loss but is subsidized in a false economy of other businesses doing the exact same thing is not a good definition of mine, and that's the vast majority of bay area startups.

> What was the turning point for you?

I've always found him to be an anti-intellectual, like much of modern tech.
One of my professors was the student of the don at Oxford who recruited John le Carré into MI6. I love le Carré's books so I was really intrigued by this, and asked him if he ever got recruited to MI6.

To my surprise, he said yes. But it was done in a very le Carré-esque style. My professor had an interview with MI6 which he thought he bombed, and then didn't hear back from them, confirming his assumption... until he got a completely out-of-the blue job offer from an obscure UK government agency that involved lots of travel to Norwegian fisheries. He told me with a smile that it wasn't until he turned down the offer that he realized that he had gotten the MI6 gig, but he failed the final test!
It appears to me (based on the morningstar citation) that the SHE fund under-performs the index that it tracks, which is a gender-diversity index. So unless I'm missing something, this tells us nothing except that SHE's performance has been lousy relative to the SSGA gender-diversity index.
The whole usermode side of input handling depends on a project (libinput) that's been developed by a single guy over the last decade. He asked for help numerous times, reminding everyone that libinput has a bus factor of one, and received none. So either go ahead and help, or stop complaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HllUoT_WE7Y
Yes it's a fabulous cast. Colin Firth is fantastic, especially as a lothario, but Ian Richardson is marvelous too, so toffy. But there is so much material cut to make it fit into a feature film, so if you can tolerate the slow burn pace, check out the series.
Yes he tweeted:- "...Best books in recent years imo are Iain Banks & George Martin."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1007667617060941824
Because of EU regulation all car makers have dropped all their plug in cars into Europe. Yes that dropped Tesla market share in Europe, but it also means that many cars wont even be sold in the US.

Many of those cars in Europe are also plug-in hybrid, a pass over solution that also has to be replaced. Even more of them are small city cars with short range.

The same stories btw were going around about China. Tesla is losing market share in China and so on. And then Tesla opened a factory there, and guess what happened.

The same thing will be with Europe, once Tesla has a huge factory there, their market share will grow again.

That Tesla has even 12% (again with plug-in hybrids) share in Europe with a factory in California, compared to all the German and French companies who are producing locally is actually impressive.

Tesla globally has 28% of the pure BEV market, and that what matter the most.
By this logic, every startup should have practically zero value until it's brain dead obvious they've cornered the market. Clearly past projections about the future prove this strategy to be ill advised purely on this standard.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/
> This is particularly a problem when people are leaving buildings onto sidewalks unaware of cross traffic moving at 10+ kph. Bicycles belong on the road with other vehicles.

I can never understand how anyone can make this argument without seeing how it applies even harder to why bicycles shouldn't be on the road with cars going 45+ MPH (~70+ km/h).

Bicycles are closer to pedestrians than cars outside of the slowest city roads.
> But then it was killed because it was linking to gdb internals rather than using gdb's official api or something

Oh? Their git repo[1] seems active.

[1]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=insight.git
This is cool! I have a similar game I play with friends called GUCHAT. Same game - nonsense words on a Scrabble board. But everyone has to approve your word. (And you do get a chance to defend the word if there is pushback.)

Neat to see the concept extended. And perhaps others out there are playing variations of this under different names...
People are self-centered assholes and this is reflected in their driving. An “accident” is an innocent, honest mistake. Incidents involving vehicles and pedestrians are cyclists are closer to negligence than an innocent mistake.
Indian labor is known to quite unruly, undisciplined and not very productive, and likely illiterate - both in their own mother tongues and in English. The unions have sapped out once productive PSUs; they've killed/burnt management if they haven't gotten their way (Suzuki's Manesar plant); and all of them want more subsidies and freebies.

The Indian state itself inherits the worst of Communism, Democracy and Colonial administrations. India probably has some more ways to go (down), before it realizes the folly in its self-conceit. Meanwhile, every bureaucrat in the kleptocracy is accumulating close to $50-100M in assets before retirement.

With the internet we now have dim-witted drunk Americans of all colors supporting assorted idiots here (recent agitations, being a case in point).

Humanity you suck. You really do.
I’m afraid you are dead wrong there. Goodreads book listings still contain links to a wide variety of online bookshops other than Amazon: Barnes & Noble, Walmart, Better World Books, etc.
Go look up how the global battery supply chain works.
Good. Punishments for bad driving ought to be much more severe.
Does "for fun" include trips taken for leasure activities? If i am driving to the waterpark, and cause an accident, was i not driving for fun, for no other purpose than my own pleasure? If we crack dowm on driving "for fun" we should really look into all forms of unnecesary driving. Or shall we admit that many trips are unnecessary and adress the accidents rather than the motivation for why the person took to the road in the first place?
OSS – What is it, why does it help you and how to create an AWS S3 account?
I love it. Back then when internet used to be weird and fun, and not all about profit or fame...
> As of yours loop, such thing, when renaming files in bash, you can do `mv {,OLD-}foo*.txt`

I don't think so. Doesn't this break when the glob matches more than one?
US companies riddled with members of Chinese Communist Party
Is Flutter Similar to React?
Perhaps you could, rather than taking criticism personally, use these comments as an opportunity to get a broader understanding of how others perceive your work.

I imagine it's a minority view here (well, pretty much everywhere), but I relish getting constructive criticism of my works, whether it's on a site like this or a review by my peers/customers/employers.

That's because I have my own perspective, point of view and view of the world. Others have different ones.

When other folks share their opinions/perspective, it gives me an opportunity to examine my own preconceptions -- which usually winds up giving me a better understanding of the topic at hand.

Granted, in a setting like HN, there will be those who will be uncharitable or dismissive, and those voices can be ignored.

However, those who criticize specific stuff and provide the assumptions/reasoning/thought processes behind those criticisms can provide valuable insight into how you and/or your product/service are perceived outside of your small circle of shared views and assumptions.

I hope the bulk of the comments here are of the latter kind rather than the former, and that you get new perspectives that can drive positive growth for your activities.
Why oops, at least in relation to parent's comment? The process, while perhaps complicated to detect, is not particularly complicated to design from scratch. The technique as described by OPs post could probably be designed by a single individual in a day.

Just from the target I'd suspect it is not someone doing it for the lulz, but I didn't see anything in OPs quote that indicates that it must be a nation state.
If so, that's really cool and I didn't know that! Thanks for the link.
Awesome privacy policy!

https://johnnydecimal.com/privacy/
I mean this has and is already happening. Example a foster kid was suggested to be friends with his father, in some cases it’s great, two long lost siblings or parents/children’s reunited. In other cases people complain.

The consent thing can both be good and bad, just like the invention of the internet and electricity before that. I’m trying to make that point that giving away your data is gonna be a commodity once everyone realizes they’re not a special snowflake
Absolutely. I found myself completely bewildered on my first watch of the film. For whatever reason I watched it a second time a little while later and found it absolutely enthralling.

FWIW, the 1979 miniseries can be found in full on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjB5DuunpEyZQt2u70ziI...
Microstrategy is not storing their own bitcoin. There are well respected custody solutions available these days.
Execution is outsourced and insured, Microstrategy is bearing very little of that risk.
How so? As I understand it, WebRTC gives you the ability to do a p2p web, you just need a bootstrap server to load scripts and do STUN. WebTorrent has DHTs working in the browser, not sure how much more decentralized you're talking about.
Where I work we don't get 20% but we do get 1 day a month (so about 5%). We're a lot smaller than Google.

When I first started with the company I used the time to gain experience using the products we make. That gave me more insight into our user's perspectives and paid dividends in future tasks like bug fixing.

Sometimes people use the time for small things that they want to add but aren't important enough to be scheduled. I work with people that are passionate about what we do so it's nice to be able to make improvements in the spots we care about.

Sometimes people will use the time to throw together a proof of concept for a bigger feature. The real feature might take months to get working to the point where it is stable and polished enough for an end user but you can get a lot of management buy in if you have something tangible that can show people what the feature could do.
"Risk is measured by volatility"

Consider a hypothetical security issued by the central bank. In one year's time, the security will be redeemed. An official will roll a pair of dice. Snake eyes means the holder gets $3600; otherwise, the holder gets $0.

How would the market value such a security? The expected value on the expiry date is $100, so let's say $98 today to account for the time value of money.

How volatile would the price of this security be over the next 1 month, next 3 months, next 6 months? Very low, right? The price would edge up slowly from $98 to $100, with maybe some small fluctuations due to changes in interest rate expectations.

This security has a greater than 90% chance that you lose 100% of your initial investment. If volatility is a good measure of risk, how can volatility be so low when there's such a high risk that you lose your shirt?

EDIT: Corrected the payoff: should have been $3600, not $1200.
Consistency is key! Even 5 minutes per day is good. Over time as you start seeing incremental improvements you get addicted to playing and naturally spend more time practicing.
I disagree with your metaphor. Apple is less like a cigarette company making nicotine patches and more like a pharmacy selling cigarettes with warnings on the labels _and_ offering store-brand nicotine patches. A related note: it was only recently that CVS stopped selling cigarettes.

Does that distinction make Apple less ethically problematic? Heck yeah. And I imagine many people, myself included, are okay with where it lies on the gray line.
The problem is with identifying which items are priced representative of their quality, and which are overpriced. Everyone advertises quality, reviews are faked, forums are astroturfed. I’d gladly pay for quality if there was some way to know what I was getting.
People said the same thing about Apple, and watched while it eventually decimated Nokia, Blackberry etc. Both Tesla and Apple have that premium brand reputation, and older brands are perceived as legacy. Doesn't mean that the car brands will fall to a similar fate, but they have an uphill battle to fight and need to pull a rabbit out of their hats.
Wouldn't they be more likely to just enter the market as legal participants? Cartels kill and do heinous things to their competitors because they can't take them to court and sue them and get an injunction to stop bad behavior.
Companies typically run multiple on premise and SAAS systems which are glued together with several integration tools and are pushed to multiple downstream logging and reporting systems. Most companies hire different consultants every few years who also subcontract their work. It is a miracle that outright theft doesn’t happen more often. In other words there is a reason why execs are willing to pay through the nose for enterprise software with a proven record for reliability and security.