skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tell from the article whether the automatic braking happens when a sudden incline, decline or both is detected in front of the car. It was one of those three, though, that much is clear.

Do you really regard braking in front of a sudden incline/decline as ridiculous?
The new licence: https://nmap.org/npsl/npsl-annotated.html
I recently discovered Firefox on Android has one if you focus on the address bar there is an option to scan, you just need to give Firefox permission to access the your camera
German Startups to Watch in 2021
Yes, but as I tried to make plausible it's fundamentally different with online media. The analogy is flawed. If the majority of people had been present on radio and TV, had their air time and it would be completely normal to watch their shows, then excluding minorities would have been problematic.
For me, chat history has a huge value.

How many times things looks like meaningless when they are said but have a lot of values at a later date?

For example, sometimes you wonder, "when was it that time when XXX event happened". Or "I remember that one day someone told me that he had the same problem as me, but who was it and what was his solution?"

Otherwise, we are used to share thousands of links and snippets with my friends that we usually discuss. A lot of time, after a very long time (sometimes years), for some reason we remember that something or link about a topic was discussed long time ago, and then it is convenient to look into the history with keywords to find back the links and what was said at that time!
Sure, I would agree it sucks ass relative to what we can imagine.

> these discussions are far inferior to what is typical here.

Thats probably true, people here have political opinions and values but they aren't policy wonks. Perhaps there is (or could be) an hn equivalent for pols and wonks and they would have really invigorating discussions about policy and rarely flame each other because they were past that level. Then every so often someone would post something about programming a universal remote controller and they'd flame each other about technical topics and each others' ignorant opinions on how humans and machines interact.

> There might even be some interesting points being made about the role of technology in all this, but they're being drowned out by the purely political back-and-forth.

I'm just happy that people with different viewpoints are learning from each other. People with different viewpoints don't really learn from each other on most other platforms. They basically only learn to emulate the rhetorical jabs that score points.
I guess the first problem is, that I am not from the US.

What you write makes sense, but it seems weird to me to justify having guns with a hypothetical, apocalyptical scenario. Sounds a bit like fear-mongering to me.

It's probably a cultural thing.
> AIDS denialism

WTF first I thought this was a typo and you meant ASD denialism or ADHS denialism or something, but no, it was right. It really exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism

I am ok with different scientific opinions on a topic when there is strong evidence for multiple theories, or no evidence at all on any theory, but at this point the relationship between HIV and AIDS is crystal clear, just like with climate change.
I don't know where you got the impression that private property means the first amendment no longer applies. The Supreme Court has been very clear if a person or company opens up there property sufficiently they no longer get to ignore it.

> ... noting that ownership "does not always mean absolute dominion." The court pointed out that the more an owner opens his property up to the public in general, the more his rights are circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who are invited in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

We are a very very small jump from this being applied to social media.
This is pretty cool, it is easier to scan around comments and threads more quickly. Reddit could use this.
Well, CNN's Chris Cuomo said: "Please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful."

This led to the legendary response of ramen guy pointing out that the first amendment says exactly that.
Your answer does not address what I wrote or OP's point.
Maintaining JavaScript applications in the long term
This is not just interesting, but amazing!
Chapter One – Searching the Source (Battle Your Fear)
> Connection issues. I couldn’t hear the speaker but others could, for extended periods of time. Missed entire presentations due to this ...

Was the speaker at a podium? Were they spotlighted? Were you close to them?

There are several reasons why you might not have been able to connect that are part of the design. We found initially people were confused by the connection rules, but once they got the hang of it, it all "just worked".

I agree completely that it takes time to get used to, and perhaps you did have genuine connection issues, but we ran with 150 to 200 people for 48 hours without any significant[0] identified connection issues, which is why I wonder if it was mis-identification of a "symptom".

I'll check out "Welcome".

[0] There were occasions when people needed to reload the tab, but doing so always fixed the problem.
For unusual fixed features like this, perhaps car manufacturers should start putting exceptions into their navigation databases, rather than tweaking their automatic detection. You generally don't want to be driving over cattle grids, with their sudden gradient changes, at high speed anyway. So tell the car to slow down as it approaches (or warn the driver loudly to slow down), and briefly disable automatic braking. If it's a rare event, it'll have the drivers' attention.

I see the future of self-driving cars to be one where highway authorities map and sign features in a way that is designed for self-driving cars to be able to parse, rather than requiring them to heuristically sense as much as they do today. This would be a step down the path that's inevitable anyway.
Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems
> God is in a unique position as, by his very nature, is unfalsifiable.

It seems to me that Trump is in the same position if you ask his devotees.

The existance of god is an extraordinary claim with no evidence.
I completely agree on dynamic range, and on the fact that we should use a reference image (or images) more inline with modern camera equipment. I don't believe though that _random_ instagram content would provide a good, balanced reference :-)
Seconding this. So many people are adamant on video being a necessity or suitable substitute for in-person meetings, specifically the aspect of visually seeing people.

Yet, I find most of the things people visually do in person to be fluff that can be done without. Meanwhile, video-conferencing either requires an expensive setup (not everyone here works in the US, let alone FAANG) to really start emulating "in-person", or it forces somebody to self-police themselves to a much larger degree sitting in front of a webcam with no video or audio privacy (I guess this at least emulates the open office disaster). And it still misses the forest for the trees. Additionally, trying to shoehorn fun into work rarely works.

(Also, as far as I know, there is no way to stop looking at your own face in Teams besides turning off the cam. Looking at a mirror 24/7 isn't even close to reality).
It is indeed a Hegelian perspective shift. The prefix is 'auto,' though, which means 'self.'
A little problem with "housewives" here: many of them didn't choose anything, nor had a voice in choosing their lives.
The same applied to monks centuries ago, if you weren't the first born, your destiny would be joining a monk life. But at least that stopped a while ago, while housewives by "force" are still a reality today in many situations.
The lesson here is not "oh look the author is stupid because they installed a shitty QR scanner app and didn't notice the obvious mistake".

The lesson should be; even very experienced technical people fall onto the malware trap. We all have day-to-day problems, unexpected stuff happening, in short life doing its thing. We'll inevitably end up being victims of a scam that happens just the worst possible day of them all, because reasons.

Thus the problem is not if we'll also fall on the trap, but what tools we'll have at our disposal when we do, and to what extent the Operating System will be there helping to protect us (and/or help us diagnose the issue...)
Amateurs.
B...b...b...but Ivanka!

See, isn't this fun?
The notes app also does document scanning in iOS and I’ve found it very very useful.
In plain sight, 8% of Django projects have flaky middleware
Nice way to import coworkers, install https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/refined-microsoft-...
No IPv6 in 2021? Not acceptable
> Google Play Protect was also completely unhelpful, which was a big disappointment.

Google Play Protect performs notoriously poorly compared to dedicated malware apps:

https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/google-play-protect
An overview of engineering at GoCardless, a fintech scale-up
Massive Parler User Data Breach
My (Asperger's) attention span is strange: it's very high (10-15 hours of work at full concentration with hardly any breaks) when I care, and abysmal (0-0.5h of useful work despite exerting my best effort) when I don't care about the work -- despite external consequences like pay -- and even when I really need the pay!

I heard a similar experience from Jonathan Blow (paraphrasing), "I was doing this contract database work I just didn't care about, and my whole motivational structure just shut down and I stopped working. They were paying me money to do it, so I felt guilty about not working, but that didn't actually help me start working again."

He didn't become truly productive until he went all-in on his interests and luckily that worked out for him (in the end).
Somewhat OT but it's a shame the improvements on Shamir's Secret Sharing are rare to find in the wild and everyone still goes straight to SSS. Despite having some neat cryptographic guarantees there's still a few downsides to the scheme which first he first described in the 70's(!)

Adept Secret Sharing (ADSS) by Bellare, Dai and Rogaway is a significant advance, hope more people consider it in future.

Though I don't think there is many implementations around.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/800.pdf
Lazy Giants
> This is an issue with X11

What makes you think this is the case? X11 has an ordered event queue and there is no reason an application can't process the keystrokes in the correct order.

> Another issue is, there's no mapping of pid <-> X11 window. It's simply impossible with the current design of client-server.

What do you need this for? There is _NET_WM_PID [0] which can be set by clients.

[0] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.h...
Not to snipe this post or anything, but you can get a Xilinx zynq 7000/7010 on Aliexpress for ~$20 right now (likely old bitcoin mining boards being tossed).
IMO they really need to think through their branding and communication strategy.

I've downloaded element now and it's simple, but there are lots of things they need to sort from a customer journey perspective:

1. Why is the Matrix homepage so technical? API's? HTTP Calls? What about staying in touch with my family? Contrast the two different opening statements (Matrix vs WhatsApp vs Messenger):

> An open network for secure, decentralized communication [...] Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication, and its Apache licensed reference implementations.

> Simple. Secure. Reliable messaging. With WhatsApp, you'll get fast, simple, secure messaging and calling for free, available on phones all over the world.

> Hang out whenever, wherever. Messenger makes it easy and fun to stay close to your favourite people.

2. It's not clear to me (a consumer) that in order to chat on Matrix I need Element, or that if I'm on Element I'm on Matrix. Or if I'm on Element my friends can have any matrix client, that might be called something else. So if I have Element and they have Nio that's fine. But Kik and Nio isn't.

These are just small details, but they would help a huge amount.
Don't they share the same owners?
I have an Honor5C on Android 7 (with EMUI5) and there's a QR code reader built in, but I only found it by accident.

After taking a picture of a QR code, view the image, tap 'more', wait 10s, if the image is good enough (and it really needs perfect focus and placement, it's very pinickety) then it will show "read QR code", if you choose that option it will then take you to a URL/text preview, and then you can open your browser to that URL, etc..

Worst discoverability ever!
Regular practice in other industries don’t need Agile to work fast, be creative, or hold people to account for their work. How is software different in this regard?
Would anyone use a neural network to drive a car on a freeway? Oh wait...
I think joined-up writing is about making it faster to write, not easier to read.
From the radar's point of view going uphill, the road disappeared. The radar would see a horizon, and empty air in front of the car, like the edge of a cliff.

From its point going downhill it would look like an angled metal wall, or a bump, or something, and then the horizon and empty air beyond it.
> Global warming is a topic that no one understand and hence will never come to an end. We all justify industrialization, yes? But the same is condemned for for promoting global warming. Which one should we choose? A debate that will never end, right?

You're responding to your (understandable, but still mistaken) reading of the headline, not the actual content of the post.

'Global' in this case means "across all or most of an engineering organization's teams", rather than "worldwide, across national boundaries".

A 'campaign' in this context should be understood as a peer concept of an Agile 'Theme', 'Epic', or 'Story', that incorporates aspects of each (though this isn't made explicit in the post).

Like a Theme, Campaigns represent a coordinating goal for an entire organization.

Like an Epic, a Campaign is tied to a particular timeframe, and can be used to group Stories.

Like a Story, a Campaign has a concrete measurable outcome.

Overall, a useful addition to the Agile toolbox, I think.
If any clients had been logging that nonce, we could retrospectively catch any person in the middle.

Far too few services do strategic logging of data useful to catch attackers like this. Many attackers won't attack if they know traces will be left which can point to them.
Parler Databases Disclosed
how does this handle straight up illegal content? If someone uploads say, copyrighted material to the chain, who is voluntarily going to host an instance of this site?
Loss of bitcoin is the primary reason why Bitcoin will be outperforming gold in the long term. The supply is shrinking faster than gold. However that doesn't really explain the bubbles. If you can somehow implement effective recovery wallets the value of Bitcoin will rise much more slowly.
1) It is not a fundamental right at this moment, but I think it should be in the following decades. More and more things are expected to work online, with offline alternatives existing. And you are mixing general internet access with individual platforms.
Sure, nobody has to use Twitter. There are situations where one is forced to use one of these platforms. And I know where you are coming from, the only account I have is from Google.

2) It's not wrong, not to have a free tier. It's not wrong to have paid plans. What I think is wrong, is defining that surveillance should be the default. Give me the option to disable analytics etc. completely. Tying this mechanic to money is wrong. You shouldn't have to pay to not be spied on.
Commenting and reading here, especially under this article, is not needed for your job. As it usually happens with strictly enforced ways of life, people skip the rules because strict rules enforced all the time, are really difficult to actually obey.
And that's good, it's part of the fun of being human. But at the same time it's why I don't like at all those lifestyles.
So Thunderbolt 4 devices and cables always have all USB features? Just buy a thunderbolt 4 hub?
Well FYI, what you needed to say was to look at the second picture. I was looking at the wrong part of the frame, under the arch and didn't see the staircase. Yeah, that looks pretty brutal. The police needed to be a lot more active in putting the protestors down.

But that, at best, upgrades the scene from a mostly peaceful protest torching vehicles to a violent clash with the police officer. Violent protests are not unheard of. It doesn't justify the idea that anyone was trying to irreversibly stain American history with the blood of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in the chain of command of the United states of America.

I mean, the fundamental argument here is that we shouldn't mix the actions of the people on the stairwell facing the police with the rest of the protest. That line of thinking applied to protests was roundly debunked in 2020.
Back in the day, I was selling bikinis.

We shipped them from Hong Kong directly to US customers which cost a mindbogglingly low $9 for the DHL shipping fees and the warehouse, and packaging, and all manual labor.

But to get a single return from somewhere in the US back to our centralized returns collection address (inside the US) would regularly cost $30+.

Average rate was 1.7x bikinis more ordered than kept, so in the end, we sold them at 2x manufacturing price + 1x ads price + 2x stripe fees. In case you're wondering, the ads were our biggest cost factor...
As sad as the incident is: I am glad he is still committed to Android after being a team member and therefore equipped with a deep understanding about the platform and architecture itself.
Same here with my Samsung Galaxy S8+. There's a QR code scanner in the camera app.
Over the past year I've been invited to, and become involved with, several organisations that are not within commuting distance. Video conferencing allows this, but it's still not great. Better video conferencing makes it a better experience, and more conferencing apps gives more choice, and makes providers compete to get better.

We don't need more video conferencing apps, but the end of the pandemic is mostly irrelevant.
Mostly the handiwork of an editor, David Gerard, who is obsessed with me and has no encyclopedic perspective, just anger and agenda. One reason among many not to support Wikipedia.
> The rest of the world clearly sees this.

I’d encourage speaking for yourself

Kind regards
(Part of) The rest of the world
Why must the roads adapt to cars rather than cars adapt to roads? It would be enormously expensive to refit every road to account for the ever-changing stupidities of self-driving cars. It also removes responsibility from manufacturers and puts it on the state.
Fire extinguisher, actually. And after that they continued to beat him with flagpoles and sticks.
Yes but only one of those two lies more than it tells the truth and incites violence.
Kind of unrelated to the point of your post -- what does it mean when any discussion about current events/politics requires every poster to affirm they do not support a particular political candidate. I don't have an answer myself, I'm just wondering if it's considered somethinf like self-censorship or if there's something else to it. Either way, it kinda feels weird to me.
Sure, but wouldn't you want to have control over these backups yourself? Not only do you get increased privacy from it, you also won't be in for a nasty surprise when the service decides to remove old logs/stop doing business.
I don't want to invalidate your experience at all, but I find exactly the opposite.

I do a lot of video pair programming, and I feel supremely comfortable screen/video sharing. Getting to work on my own machine with my own IDE and shell set-up, my own hardware in my comfortable home office, 10000% better than awkwardly scratching at a whiteboard speculating about what may or may not work if committed to code.
The problem with (and for) SiliconValley is their lack of entrepreneurship
I think one of Trump’s biggest mistakes was (attempting to) wage a tariff war with Europe, instead of creating a larger coalition for an economic war against China.

China’s not free trade anyways (not in terms of tariffs, but in terms of foreign businesses operating locally, and in terms of manipulating currency) so there’s only so much they can retaliate...
I had to give up before I got sucked in :)

thank you!
Gather.Town has the ability to move around an entire 2D world designed by the meeting conveners. Multiple rooms with inter-connections, and the teleport portals provide some interesting capabilities for a creative designer to exploit.
I feel like this is a good example of how difficult it is to find a good barcode scanner. It mentions permissions for contacts and full network access. I would have thought that those two permissions should not be necessary for a barcode scanner and point toward something dodgy going on.
I don't condemn housewives, I think it's important that care work is recognised as, well, work. I'd say that calling it a simple yet rewarding lifestyle makes it sound a lot less difficult than it is, it comes off as dismissive. Having gotten a taste of both worlds, I can tell you working as a software developer is a lot more simple and, at times, more rewarding.

Many people are in a situation where they can't make the choice to exclusively do care work, due to financial constraints, and much of the care work is done by women who also work for money alongside of it. So in a way, being wealthy enough to have one person concentrate on maintaining the house is lucky. At the same time, it's a risky choice, because it leads to financial dependency on the partner, and marriages tend to end.
What surprised here is that Android doesn’t have a native QR scanner. I’ve always assumed that iOS was late to the game and that Google Search/Lens handled QRs since 1999. Is that not the case (anymore)?
Completely agree with both you and gp.

IMHO, the "right" way to fix these issues is to make sure people have a choice.

Many girls get into sex work because it's either sex or starve. We need to (as a society), give these people a third alternative. Ideally, this would result in only people who WANT to be sex workers to go down that path (pretty much like only people who WANT to be CEOs are CEOs).
San Francisco police are prepping for a pro-Trump rally at Twitter headquarters
I was referring primarily to slack conversations. Usually when searching for a unfamiliar service or tool, I first do a slack search, then look at a KB/Wiki, then at code etc.

Public slack threads are pretty great since you can follow the decision making process when solving problems. Great slack threads may even include data on what the author tried/didn’t try etc.

I agree with you that video recordings are for the most part useless. Until we find a way to get high quality automatic transcription of videos and add them to a good search index, they will have limited use.
> Conversely on MacOS if you need to do any of those things your only option is to use Finder which really sucks because you then have navigate to wherever you were in the app

While I don't disagree that it would be nice to be able to do more of the same things in file picker as in finder, there is the possibility to right-click -> open in Finder

Filepicker also supposrt Finders "go to" (cmd+shift+g) that let's you type paths, with autocomplete and support for ~, which is a super nice feature.
I've used Terraform for 4~ years.

the providers are ever changing (and so is the terraform language/features). So the "ever-changing" part is certainly still true for Terraform.
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If experience tells me anything, it will be identical but with names changed.