skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe autopilot's safety features were disabled so these statistics are meaningless. I'm not talking about simply forcing it into autopilot, but disabling autopilot's ability to control the vehicle's acceleration. The reason I think this is the case is due largely to the speed the vehicle was traveling which is... unlikely under autopilot which limits speeds to 5 MPH over the speed limit.

If you are pushing on the gas pedal, the car can only steer and has no control over speed.

This weird sort of hybrid riding where the car is controlling the steering and the driver is controlling the speed puts the car in an untenable situation. It is a driver with no brakes and no control over the gas pedal.

Maybe Tesla should disable this mode entirely. Tesla (very reasonably) limits speeds to 5MPH over the speed limit when you are in autosteer mode, so lots of people like the ability to bypass the speed. Personally, I very much like being able to push the speed when it's reasonably safe to do so. If you are operating the system as designed, it's no less safe than cruise control.
Yet it led to the least competitve major league. 17 teams feeding Bayern, not really fun
Yep buzz cut here. I do it about every month. I've buzzed myself now for over 14 years. I usually trim my beard the same time. Anyone can do it. Trimmers are easy to use. I even cut my brothers hair a couple times. I even styled it a little.
When I was a kid in the early 90s our family car caught fire while parked in the driveway and turned off.

It'd been parked for an hour or two, and the trigger was something electrical in the engine cavity.
They are fairly common. 233,300 fires and 329 deaths per year in the US according to http://www.nfpa.org/news-and-research/fire-statistics-and-re...
Social media is not intentionally designed to cause harm. It simply has the potential to cause harm.
It uses a Chrome fork, so most likely Sony added LibGNM backend to ANGLE instead of redoing the whole graphics stack for Chrome.
Time to check out https://vantage.sh/ :)
It's a combination of static + cloud functions (AWS Lambda) + CDN.

AFAIK even though it's running AWS Lambda, the cloud functions can't be integrated directly with other AWS services.
Have you considered just using lambda to http server adapter? That way you can just write a normal http server and test against that locally as normal, then when you publish to a lambda, the adapter turns AWS lambda json to http requests?
I feel news was of better quality 15 years ago than today so I wouldn't mind going back to that state of the world. And 15 years ago pervasive tracking wasn't a thing. So yes, please, let's kill it with fire.
I'm sure the "other" Steve didn't feel that way.
Depending on what you mean by 'hacked' that's still newsworthy.

In this article 'wiretapped' means that they had uncontrolled and unlimited access to all conversations. The problem isn't so much that it could have happened but that it might have happened.
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Everybody else keeps trying to tell you ICE cars store more energy, or could spontaneously combust just as easily, and they're not wrong.

But when I'm filling up my car with a jerry can, I'm literally holding it. I know to have some sense of caution, and I can see spills. I do not leave it to slowly trickle fill overnight, like one would with an EV; not only am I not there in that scenario, but odds are I'm not even awake.

The odds are minuscule, and you're more likely to die in many other ways. But the fix is so easy - assuming it's not going to hit -30, just keep it outside. And the risk (probability multiplied by chances for it to happen) is going to get so great when everyone has an EV, that I can at least see your point.

I don't agree, and were I able to afford a house with a garage and a Tesla to park in it, I probably would. Doubly so as it hits -50 with wind chill here. But to dismiss your concerns outright doesn't feel quite right to me.
A pharmacy is a covered entity, a retail store is not. Does not appear this falls under HIPAA
I guarantee this type of tracking is going. And I'm sure that the marketing industry is aware that these tactics are running on borrowed time. Once the mechanics of how it's being done are collated by EFF type activists it will turn into a political narrative and action will be taken. Right now people are too confused by their strange experiences, doubting themselves and swayed by less outlandish alternative explanations. Sometimes the hooves you hear are in fact zebras not horses.

The players in the surveillance ecosystem have shaped themselves into narrow forms that allow for plausible deniability. App makers, device makers, the monetization SDK providers, the re-targeting platforms with their Orwellian forecasting & optimization calculations and especially the data brokers each play their part in a division of labor as powerful as Adam Smith's pin factory.

The pushback will come from the EU in my opinion. The U.S Big Tech file is going to be taken up with tackling the monopoly power of platforms for the next few years.

In the meantime beware of free apps on your phone and look up how to opt out of marketing on your smart TV. Pay for sensitive items with cash. If your phone is Android use the Firefox browser with the uBlock Origin plugin.
> Conventional closing-doors elevators are just absurdly safe, even stairs (moving or non-moving) are more dangerous.

I used this argument when my workplace was encouraging people to "take the stairs" for supposed health reasons. It was rejected because science and statistics are only accepted when they support one's desired conclusions.
The spin on this situation is dumb. What it amounts to is that KPN hired Huawei on a contract basis to administer its equipment, and as a result those contract administrators had... administrator privileges on the Huawei equipment. Now, obviously telco equipment can be used for spying, but there's absolutely no allegation of wrongdoing here at all.

If there is any finger to point, it's at KPN for hiring an untrusted contractor and giving them sensitive access.
I did a senior design project in school with the Coors Brewery, largest in the US (world?). I'll always remember their "manlifts" that never stop, and can take you to all floors of the Brewery. Like these...

https://youtu.be/fCPRAjWn8hU
Public housing as typically formulated in the US (and pardon some very hazy recollections and understanding) has been more an assistance/entitlement system offering only usefruct rights (that is: a roof over one's head), and no equity valuation.

The Shane Phillips / Lewis Centre proposal specifically addresses equity rights in addition, which is at the very least rare, if not novel.

(There are some co-housing / co-op structures which have some similarities, these are largely smaller scale.)
Only if you have reason to suspect that those who opt-in are a skewed sample with respect to the things you want to measure.
I interpreted it as "I would never want an EV with the current tech in my garage". Considering he probably keeps his ICE car with a 12volt lead battery in his garage.
Hm. I'd say that wasn't my experience so far -- plenty of gratitude and recognition. But I kind of wish I would have focused more on things I was actually excited to work on instead of prioritizing stability above everything else.
If all it's using is surplus green energy (something regulators can enforce), then efficiency isn't a concern. That energy was wasted either way.

Re: PoW, the thing it does provide that no other tech can't is Sybil-resistant open-membership replicated state machines. Anyone can join in deciding state transitions because the barrier to entry (access to mining tech and electricity) is decoupled from the system's operation -- there are no protocol-defined gate keepers. Sybil-resistance comes from the fact that votes on the next epoch of state transitions comes from an irreversible expenditure on the voter's part (i.e. you can't vote for 2 conflicting blocks in PoW without having 2x the mining power). Making the system process state transitions at a fixed pace under these two constraints is the scientific breakthrough that PoW contributes.
To be fair, I eat sugary foods regularly and I too find Mars bar disgustingly sweet. Same with Snickers bar. They're just too sweet, regardless of who is eating them.
Upvoted, this is a great comment. Thanks for finding the words to sum it up so concisely.
From a response to another comment it seems most (all?) have a pricing API
Glad to have been of help!
I’m not the right person to estimate cost savings, but in my experience these choices go in a cycle:

1. Startups use aws /digital ocean because its so easy and $5-10/month isn’t much

2. Startup or consultancy with traction: either you have too many projects or they start getting real traffic so the instances sizes and bandwidth / storage costs grow

3. Small company: You realize self hosting is probably cheaper and the machines are way faster self hosted

4. Medium size company: You self host and seem be saving money, but eventually you scale to need a team to support the infrastructure itself

5. Large company / enterprise: You go back to aws because the costs are high, but that is still preferable to having a bad version of aws written adhoc internally :)

For you it probably doesn’t matter as you’re probably 1-3 above. So it mostly depends on if you like managing infrastructure yourself. The cost savings are likely there, but only if it’s easy and fun for you to support it
FWIW, streaming voice over the Internet isn't required for this attack - all the software needs is to send a few bytes long tag indicating the topic of an overheard conversation.

The processing power required for this isn't big either - remember that 12+ years ago Microsoft Windows shipped with a speech recognition system that was in many ways better than what the phones currently offer, and worked off-line and with almost unnoticeable performance penalty. And if you're interested in probabilistic reporting ("there's 86% I've heard a word matching this tag in the last hour..."), you can relax performance requirements even further.

So, out of the things you mention, the only somewhat convincing piece of evidence would be that the apps in question are not accessing microphone in the background.
Fundamentally better for whom? Do you think Google has never considered that business model? I think it’s much more likely that they’ve put a considerable amount of effort and research into it, and concluded that their current business model will let them extract the most money from their products.

That’s why we need regulation. Under these market conditions, Google’s business model does appear to be the best for them.
that seems like a pretty nitpicky response. I mean contextually it's clear what was meant
> What on earth does not equitable mean in terms of distributing losses?

That is literally explained in your quote. An inequitable distribution is one where a higher percentage of individuals in specific minority groups suffer losses compared to society as a whole.
Ski lifts & air trams solved this problem by uncoupling the passenger unit from the cable at the entry / exit stations - the chairs therefore "loiter" around the passenger area for longer. I think another commenter mentioned a similar system, too.
Don't know about NeWS, but Display Postscript was performant.
If you're referencing the LTV, no it doesn't
MAC is something entirely different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
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The university that I went to in the late eighties had a paternoster in a tall (10+ floor) building and they were great fun. Very quick and easy to move between floors. I always liked using them.

I remember zoneing out once while riding them and accidentally going over the top. From what I remember there was a sign on the wall that faced the compartment after it passed the top floor cautioning you to keep still - presumbly so you didn't trigger a motion sensor while your cab engaged with the drive wheel. It was no big deal.

Second year students used to scare the nervous first year newbies by going under or over and emerging standing on their hands.
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naturally, mac isn't an acronym, it's just shortened. I would have to ask the GP if they write steve in place of Stephen or cat in place of Catherine. A name is a name; use a cap.
For some, the meetings are a way to avoid loneliness. I have sympathy for that, but no tolerance. Every wasted minute is one I have to make up at the end of the day.

My tip: Don't even start the meeting unless you know the criteria for ending it. Most people just run out the clock or try and use the time for something else -- deny them this.
> Name one career where rent is 60% of the income yet only exists in the largest cities.

Suggesting that there are careers that only exist in the largest cities seems like an odd thing for you to introduce into the conversation.
Have seen them at libraries. Somehow they are able to dump off containers of books at the proper floor for reshelving.
Prostitution has some unfortunate connotations (not all of which are warranted) and isn't the only way people make money by having sex. Pornographic acting and live shows immediately spring to mind, and I'm sure I'm missing more
To check my understanding, you basically deploy a place holder lambda which proxies events to your dev machine?

That's pretty neat if so, I might have to try that out. Are there any downsides to this approach do you think?

Thanks for your thoughts on emulators/tests too.
> fire extinguishers are not suitable to put out lithium fires

Only Class D fire extinguishers can put out lithium metal fires. But lithium-ion batteries do not contain lithium metal. Lithium metal batteries do so, but no EV uses lithium metal batteries because they're too dangerous. Class B fire extinguishers work just fine on lithium-ion battery fires. The difficulty with lithium-ion EV fires is that they tend to re-light, but water is still the tool of choice for putting them out.
Nah, that place I leave for C, the number one reason we keep having memory corruption issues during the last 50 years of computer history, and having taited every language that has some level of compatibility with it.
One shouldn't even consider colo without IPMI or an equivalent.

And I wouldn't do it unless I had enough redundancy I could let failed machines (or disks) sit unused for a few months, then get them fixed all at once.
correct.

Its a weird situation.

People want the UEFA / FIFA monopoly broken... but competition coming from....USA cartel holders?

This is what makes it so interesting, too

NOTE: its important to note that the "proposal" is led by clubs that are directly held by american sports ownership.
ManU is owned by Glazer, who also owns an NFL franchise.

That's why there is a reference to the NFL.

Glazer & co are effectively trying to de-risk the business by proposing a league where results don't impact the bottom line
There is great statistical power in these ML models, in many cases the "random shit" will become the topic of conversation due to shared social factors that can be predicted, you simply neglect to recognize all the times the modeling failed.
Vehicles with self driving capabilities should in my opinion be required by law to have black boxes like the ones from jetliners. And the tools to read the data must be given to the the government.
> for hiring an untrusted contractor

So you agree Huawei cannot be trusted. I think that is the whole point of the discussion.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/why-tesla-cars-catch-on-fire...

Now you have.
I'm entirely against submissions along the lines of "Real Madrid win unprecedented 14th Champions League" but this proposal has some interesting facets that I think some HNers might find intellectually interesting.

There's a lot of broadly applicable questions here about the extent to which governments should interfere in the free market for the common good.
Why do you prefer to breathe rather than hold your breath?
I think there is still a place for government action to help prevent historic populations of a community from getting displaced.

But those programs should be implemented as subsidies, not price controls! The only reason we're so reliant on the latter is it is more easy politically to put the costs on suppliers and hope the electorate doesn't notice that you're actually exacerbating the problem.
The name was the most interesting part for me:

> The name paternoster ("Our Father", the first two words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin) was originally applied to the device because the elevator is in the form of a loop and is thus similar to rosary beads used as an aid in reciting prayers.
You need to look at the whole system. The end result (of autopilot + human) is no accident.

If the human prevents 99% of autopilot could-have-been accidents, and as a result, 10 people die per X miles driven whereas through purely human driving 20 people die, then driving with autopilot is safer.

Unless you're trying to answer "is autopilot ready for L5", this is the right metric to look at.
Laws of physics

The moment you will get a number of wires needed to provide an equivalent quality to a lens, you will be better off with a lens

Adaptive optics will work if you already have a good wavefront to work with, and you can remove more distortions from it with AO than you add
Original title : Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report

Dupe : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26842733 ( 65 comments )
Even if they are at fault for not doing their due diligence that doesn't remove the fault of someone spying
I dunno how newsworthy the "Huawei" part of this is. The options seem to be go with a local provider or accept some level of risk of exfiltrated data. For example, nobody is pretending that Cisco is trustworthy.

I'm sure the Chinese spies made off with some stuff that they shouldn't have because they'd be stupid not to - but if anything this sounds so brazen that I assume the access was mostly for routine tech support. KPN clearly needs some help with their IT.
I have considered it, yes, and there are a couple of projects that make the HTTP aspect of lambda easier, it's true. However running HTTP requests through lambdas is just one use case for them! For other kinds of events there doesn't really seem to be an equivalent.

It would be great if there was a consistent way to do all of them.
Run less or no meetings.

If you have to run meetings, consider the option to temporarily institute an approval process by senior management whereby the thesis for any meeting (proposed agenda, attendees, etc.) is first proposed in private. Then senior management has the opportunity to ask questions and give feedback. This alone will force those convening to think twice. If necessary, quantify the cost of the meeting as attendees × (time + loss of focus).

Scheduling-wise, optimize meetings for less productive periods (late afternoon, first thing in the morning pre-coffee, right after lunch, etc.).

Anonymous feedback. Let participants share feedback so they can explain what they liked/didn't like about the format, agenda, hosting and 'other' (always have an other option on surveys!) without appearing quarrelsome to others.

Use the Amazon approach: https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/jeff-bezos-knows-how-to-ru...
CNN's 24/7 death clock seems to have disappeared when Biden was inaugurated. It's almost as if .... :-)
This shit is added without even a thought of what the hell you are trying to evaluate. Insecure middle management types that want to have this noise added should be required to write up a study proposal and register a hypothesis.

Instead its everywhere and for what? What is the actionable information?
Ash258 is not one of the official maintainers, but he's a very active member of the community (more active than the actual maintainers), commenting on most PRs to official buckets and maintaining his own bucket https://github.com/Ash258/Scoop-Ash258 as well as a Scoop fork https://github.com/Ash258/Scoop-Ash258 with many improvements and issue fixes over the upstream. He also mods the Scoop Discord server.

However, his comments are often harsh, like you noticed. He's mostly on-point, but is very quick to rudely shoot down anything he disagrees with. Also he bans discussing or even mentioning his fork of Scoop on the Discord server, which is super weird since he put it publicly on GitHub in the first place.
Land values are already captured in property taxes. There's certainly places where property taxes are too low and not doing enough to encourage better usage of the land, but that's straightforward to solve (though admittedly often not that easy politically)
You're threatening violence. And what then. Do you intend to take love by force, Laurent92?

Blaming old farts. Well, I'm younger than you, but you still will not hear, from anyone, that what you're asking is far beyond "illegitimate", will you?

What is someone to do after hearing you?
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Trees sure. But a disabled car or something drops out/off of a car? That seems plausible.
< KPN says in a response that it has no indications that lines were tapped or that customer data was stolen.

So there is no story, but a potential story on a potential (fill in the blanks)

< The Capgemini report stated that Huawei staff, both from within KPN buildings and from China, could eavesdrop on unauthorized, uncontrolled, and unlimited KPN mobile numbers. The company gained unauthorized access to the heart of the mobile network from China. How often that happened is not clear because it was not recorded anywhere.

So you outsourced some services as many companies do and failed to keep tabs on it, just like many companies do.

Forgetting to audit outsourced work is extremely prevalent.

< Based on the Capgemini report, KPN decided to refrain from outsourcing the full maintenance of the mobile core network. To this day, the telecom company maintains its mobile core network itself, with the help of Western suppliers. To tackle the risks in the systems of the network, KPN said it was implementing an improvement plan.

A report by Capgemini, a leading Western supplier for outsourced personnel to telecommuncations companies. No conflict of interest there.
1. Set an agenda and share that agenda with participants in advance,

2. Make sure the agenda includes specific desired outcomes (e.g. We will decide on the scope for release x and choose what gets dropped,)

3. Keep meetings short. Likely, you’ll only need more than 30 minutes to discuss and make a decision. If you regularly need longer than that, you probably have too many invitees.
I don't understand the benefit of that. Could you explain please? It sounds to me like doing what you describe would prevent all the wins of serverless - scaling and only paying for the runtime you use. In what you describe, you get zero auto-scaling unless you implement it yourself, and you pay more than just lambda or just a http server. It sounds like adding another layer of complexity on top for no benefit
This kind of comments are forgetting all the good that C did bring in the last 50 years of computer history.

<sarcasm>Too bad those shitty engineers in the 70s didn't think of Rust...</sarcasm>
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Happened to me. The manager seemed like a really nice guy. Turned out to be all smoke and mirrors he was a total slimeball.
What in the world means "borked"?
Is it some kind of hybrid of "botched" and "broken"?
I bet swimming is good for vo2. I'm not that fit and I'm double fast twitch so endurance sports aren't my thing. I've just noticed that elliptical machines, climbers, and stationary bikes can make me sweat but not wheeze for breath like when I'm running or rowing.