skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those not familiar with the lady he's referring to, her name is Justine Sacco. She was a senior director of corporate communications, and this (among several tweets making fun of people or places) is the one that presumably got her fires:

“Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-t...
"Finally, your basic consumer (read: free) account at Experian does not give users the option to enable any sort of multi-factor authentication that might help stymie some of these PIN retrieval attacks on credit freezes.

Unless, that is, you subscribe to Experian’s heavily-marketed and confusingly-worded “CreditLock” service, which charges between $14.99 and $24.99 a month"

It's great to see theyre taking the knowledge that being hacked doesn't matter and putting it to good use
There are applications for refugees, even wealthy ones, to use blockchain asset storage. A worldwide ledger means that I just need to get myself and my family out with iut brains in tacked and then I could access my savings from the country that took me in. A few thousand dollars stored under your "cloud" mattress is a nice modern backup plan if you arent of a particularly liked group
I think at a minimum all the cars need to be taking to each other over a protocol.
I generate random 2-4 word phrases instead of random passwords specifically for this reason.
The key is to generate incorrect answers that are reasonable matches to the question.

Like if they ask for a city, then give a city. If they ask for a name, give a name. Etc.
i was just thinking about this after I posted this. To be fair there's probably plenty of ways to smooth talk a customer representative. Most of these conversations end up emailing you a link to reset your password anyways, I would hope.
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IIRC yes but they were relegated to academic study. Something being successful on the market is a huge catalyst for other pharma companies to invest on the tech.
A point of contention as someone who uses write blockers and forensic tools... write blockers protect the connection of dumb storage to a computer but a phone is not a dumb storage device (it's not a SATA drive), it's actually a full device which manages it's own storage.

For mobile forensics, it's actually done through the built-in backup systems included in each of the major OS providers (Android/iOS).

This is a back and forth that has been ongoing since we began moving away from Hard Disks, as SSDs tend to manage their own internal state so an image of "an SSD" can change even if the underlying media hasn't changed as the SSD cell balancing can actually shift around deleted data or delay to clear certain cells.
Isn't it also confusing for the average user when they end up with identical looking files? I didn't realize that macOS had per-file extension hiding until I synced some images over from my iPad. I ended up with files that I couldn't tell apart at a glance because they had the same name but were different image file types. I'm now torn if I actually want to force all extensions to show because I think showing applications as "Foo.app" is ugly (I know, it's a stupid reason to dislike the option...)
I used to be a nurse (and am male). When people asked me what I did, and I replied that I was a nurse, they would often say "a male nurse?". I couldn't resist saying "no, I'm just a bit butch".
2020 Q4 Earnings call, 27th Jan 2021 (according to https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2021/01/27/te... )

Musk: So -- and this is -- basically I'm highly confident the car will drive itself for the reliability in excess of a human this year. [...]

<later>

Director of Investor Relations: [...] The next question is, why are you confident Tesla will achieve Level 5 autonomy in 2021? [...]

Musk: I guess, I'm confident based on my understanding of the technical roadmap and the progress that we're making between each beta iteration.
Buying very well might be a better option for you, but there are downside you aren't listing from owning:

* high transactions costs (if you decide to move after a few years, say goodbye to all of those savings)

* lower liquidity (if you rent, you can just call the landlord and break the lease. if you buy, you have to find an agent, stage the house, and wait for offers)

* highly concentrated market risks
Or you're making less but think you could make more eventually.
So as with everything agile, the process is -nothing- without the culture. You can't fix culture with process.

If the culture is right, it's enabling. If the culture is wrong, it's patronizing. It's not intended to be a public accountability ritual; it's intended to make it so you're participating in setting the expectations of the team, and if you're not living up to them, the team looks to figure out how to better support and enable you.
> The way it sits today, the majority of people are afraid to speak their thoughts for fear of workplace retaliation.

I hear this argument regularly. Can you cite evidence showing it's actually true?
IMO, protocols are way better than interfaces. They're essentially the same, except you don't need to inherit from a protocol for your object to be compliant.
> trust Cellebrite to send read-only commands over the USB interface, and trust the device firmware not to write data when it receives those commands.

So most of these suites really just automate the backup extraction process and the automated analysis piece.

In the real world, you don't interface down at the USB interface other than just to kick off a backup (think an iTunes or adb backup) of the device and just grab it via USB then extract it on your computer and analyze it.
Python was originally written as a reaction to C & C++. It didn't really hit the mainstream for web apps until much later, granted, but when we compare it to the languages it was originally competing against, the difference is pretty clear.
That’s giving way too much credit. I’m sure if you asked 100 people if ISAs from a bootcamp were the same as government backed student loans, you’d get pretty close to 100 “no.”
I'm not sure it's an indictment of our pre-2020 society that we didn't try to cure the common cold sooner. Imagine it costs $20 billion to have a 90% shot at coming up with a cure. You might spend a ton of money and come up with a cure, but it's also possible that you'd spend all that money (which could have been spent on more immediate/important issues) and end up with nothing.

The situation is different when COVID is a catalyst because we are already spending $19 billion (for example) on a COVID cure, and along the way we have learned that if we spend another $1 billion there's a 90% chance we'll cure the common cold.

Having been forced into this situation, it makes sense to go the last mile. That doesn't mean the whole trip would have been clearly worthwhile from the start.
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Based on comments in the thread, it's certainly possible to get homophone or near-homophone w3w codes that go to places many miles apart.

It strikes me the solution is to go back to basics - a numerical GPS location is usually given with a precision (calculated by the receiver), and the two grid coordinates.

To me it seems the first step is to ensure that the accuracy is encoded into any encoded output, so that a recipient can have an idea of the receiver's perceived accuracy, and thus whether to rely on it.

Next seems to be the need to avoid homophones and partial homophones - tree and trees for example. In an idea world there would also be a check word, acting as an error check and erasure code, to help account for typos and mistakes like plurals etc.

I'm not really sure I understand why everyone wants to get behind w3w, but it does seem like they've missed the opportunity to build in even basic fault detection or tolerance. The accuracy could even just be a prefix letter - Alpha for within 10m, Bravo for 100m, X-ray for 1km and Yankee for anything poorer than 1km (which also avoids letter pronunciations being confused hopefully, in the way C, D, E could be on a poor voice channel used by someone unfamiliar with NATO alphabet).
end of last year.
> Waymo has given up on ever getting L5 capabilities.

Except Waymo has never tried to claim L5 capabilities. They are and have always been a strictly L4 technology and they have said multiple times that L5 is not possible to achieve.
Respectfully, I think some introspection would be helpful here. You're responding to someone with a seemingly reasonable question about "cancel culture", and providing an explanation that the concept was made up by angry people with bad politics who don't want to be good humans. Do you see how this might be incompatible with the kinds of constructive conversations you're looking for?
How big was your down payment?
For quick sketches of architectures, try https://isoflow.io (a tool I'm building). It's designed with a strong visual language in mind.
I call them "insecurity questions" because they just render accounts less secure.
One thing that worries me is if we 'exterminate the common cold' will we then preferentially encourage the evolution of something worse? e.g. if the existing Rhinoviruses are somewhat symbiotic, that is, they cause sickness in the host to spread themselves, but they are an annoyance, not life threatening in most cases.

Now if we have a vaccine for those, do those relatively benign viruses evolve to bypass the vaccine, but in doing so pick up more dangerous mutations in that process?
Nah, in San Francisco, you have to be a landlord three decades ago to be able to do this, you can't break even on a rental building or condo today.
She's talking about delaying the fundamental concept of a function, and using the absence of the function syntax in order to motivate the need for it.

Do you have kids? My nephew has been learning math. He won't be told about f(x) until he reaches algebra. Until then the presence of parentheses would just be arbitrary added complexity. In fact he hasn't even been shown parentheses in the context of application order yet.

I agree with you that you could start with that syntax. I also think you could start with = instead of "is". In both of those cases though we've introduced distinct concepts - function application and operators - and her entire approach is based on introducing one concept per learning step.
> But you make plenty of statements claiming it's been proven.

Citation needed.

I wrote

> That accusation appears to be false

> What Greg claims w.r.t. Aditya seems to be false

> It now appears that Aditya’s patch was submitted in good faith.

Those aren’t claims of proof. appears, seems, appears.

They are weighing evidence and making a conclusion.

> I cannot yet rule out the possibility, nor do I think it is low, that Pakki was also participating in a new, similar experiment.

Cool we’re close to on the same page, do you think it’s more likely he was participating in a new, similar hypocrite commit experiment or more likely he was submitting buggy patches inadvertently?
> I think I enjoy the discovery and research aspects and have romanticized visions of the end goal but end up never going deep enough before moving onto something else.

I think I recall reading somewhere this is a sign of intelligence; so embrace it ;)
If you don't mind me asking, how did you find programming on meds? I can't do it.
Yes, but that's among all those previous commits from anyone with a University of Minnesota address that mr Kroah-Hartman ripped out; some going back over a decade ago, others five or six years. AFAICT those were from totally unrelated people, many of whom may not even be there any more, and who had nothing to do with this project. If there are bugs in those, then I think we must conclude that those are "genuine" inadvertent bugs. Unless we were to assume there have been similar research projects there before... Which were never publicised anywhere at all and remain secret to this day? That wouldn't be a research project but genuine black-hat activity. But AFAICS there's no more logical reason to suspect former UMinn contributors of that than any other former contributors.
You're right. I said implied because of "subject to the limitations". But they claimed directly it was a qualified educational loan.
Does it actually have onboard 10Base5 or an AUI connector? If the latter, there are millions, or at least dozens, of 10BaseT to AUI transceivers sitting in people's junk drawers. EBay has a bunch at $10 and $15 price points.

Then it's just plugging it into a switch port.
It's a bet on the inflation rates not being accurate, or at least not staying at "low inflation" levels.

Personally I would take their side of the bet. I think that inflation rates are going to be extremely high over the next decade, exceeding the 1970s and potentially flirting with hyperinflation, and that folks who are betting on status-quo inflation are about to get screwed the same way folks who didn't see globalization coming in the 90s or Millenials who bought the "study whatever you want and the money will come" line got screwed. But that's why we have financial markets, so each firm can bet on the version of the future they think is most likely, and ultimately one side makes a lot of money and the other goes bankrupt.
Paid out "this year" - pretty weaselly. Are they going to pay out the value next year too or just cut it from the budget?
> Are you assuming that it's somehow sensible to buy property and leave it empty?

Yes if it has been financed in certain ways.

An empty space is assumed to be rented at the same rate as it was before being empty and that empty rent can normally be tacked onto the end of the financing as it is assumed to be a "temporary" thing.

However, if that space gets occupied for less money, the basis of the real estate adjusts and the financer can call up the owner and demand more cash since the basis changed.

Consequently, I have seen quite a bit of real-estate remain empty for years just to avoid having to adjust the cash basis.

This is one of those stupid-ass financial things that absolutely needs to get blasted in law.
YouTube’s complexities are based around audio, video and copyright.
But this particular situation seems pretty clear cut to me: a banned image could be hashed, cross referenced and restricted from being reuploaded to the platform, surely?
What makes you think a Silicon Valley company will result in a better outcome than a non-Silicon Valley company? There are a lot of people angry at Silicon Valley companies.
> In Auckland, New Zealand, average capital gains exceed $40,000 per month. Land banking is incredibly lucrative.

On what property value?
My first argument to any court on this "magical boxes" is to provide the original backup from adb or iTunes.

Seriously, these things just use the built-in device backup and analyze it, you can even do it yourself for free using Autopsy which is a GUI for TSK.
Other manufacturers are manage prices with consumer and dealer incentives. If you pay attention to car promotions, there's almost always a lot of differences in consumer cash back by model. Some manufacturers almost always have a baseline cash back, but if they want to raise prices, they can reduce that; if there's a model they want to move, it gets more, etc. Premium brands like to push leases and run promotions there. For the manufacturers with a captive finance company, there's even more room to play with pricing there.

I don't think Tesla runs promotions like that, so if they want to change the price, they have to change the price.
My prediction, this thing will be built into pivots.

Most farms irrigate with a giant automated system that sweeps around the field in regular intervals. These weed death lasers could be integrated to the base of the system and ran from the same power that moves the pivot.

Since these things don't move all that fast, you could have a central track and move the killer box up and down the line.
>The techniques used to smear individual observations over vast swathes of territory tend to leave much to be desired.

I am by no means an expert, but after farting around with climate data, even today I'm curious how they smear data across comparatively smaller swathes of territory.

I've noticed, in my area (south west), that many of the stations are located in seemingly unique microclimates--like the tops of mountains, on the shores of rivers, etc.

It roadblocked my layman research because distance to a given station was not very indicative of how that area's climate is.
See [1] for further discussion of this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26947875
Pointing at other people doesn't help either—you're supposed to follow the site guidelines whether others do so or not; to put it in terms that most people's mothers have explained, two wrongs don't make a right.

I've flagged comments on both sides of this flamewar. If I haven't gone further, that's because I don't want to give rise to howls of protest about moderating HN to somehow benefit YC companies. Moderating less in such cases is literally the first thing pg taught me about moderating HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I understand what it feels like to be an embattled minority in a forum thread, but if you represent your community the way you've been doing here, you're actually hurting it, which is a bad trade to make for the momentary relief of venting frustration. I don't disagree with you about the underlying points. But as I tell startups all the time (YC and others) the important thing is always the silent audience. To the extent that there are undecided readers weighing arguments, you're giving them additional reasons to disagree with your position, which (again) doesn't help. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
To be fair, humans are literally the best species on earth at driving cars
It took me a long time to understand that a lot of people use small talk to filter out crazy people. You have to pass the small talk test to be allowed to have meaningful conversations.
It's less about voice search and more about having an always on microphone.
What are your circumstances where you simply couldn't get a driver? If I could at all afford it, I would in that case same as I do in very remote 4WD territory.
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> if the company had any interest in making things better the regulator would never have needed to get involved in the first place.

Kind of precludes alternate motives, like "the regulator is captured by existing interests and is prosecuting the company despite the company's sincere intention to make things better".
Yet driving deaths are the leading cause of death in older children and young adults.

It's not that we're bad at driving, I suppose, it's that we do an awful lot of it and it's quite a risky activity - especially if you're not 100% engaged.

That being said, if the US cared about road safety, there's quite a lot they could do to improve it already. Many techniques have been used successfully in other countries to significantly reduce road deaths, for example, a nationwide vehicle safety inspection standard and lowering speeds on urban roads.

The fact that these aren't being done leads me to think the concerns about road safety are actually rather irrelevant for the country as a whole. When self driving cars exist and are convenient, people probably will switch to them, as long as the accident rate is vaguely comparable.
For those unfamiliar, mbcook's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20187663) captures it:

Ken White’s rule of goats:

“The Rule of Goats applies. Slightly paraphrased — for this family newspaper — the rule states: If you kiss a goat, even if you say you're doing it ironically, you're still a goat-kisser.”

You don’t get off scott-free just because you say “I was only being ironic“.
That wouldn't work with these, experien uses its own information about you to generate the questions and answers
Super cool and useful. In the page there is this link about A guide for accessing the features of PostgreSQL in test-driven development which is nice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vigf4NG6-s
I'm just wondering how it reinforces stereotypes.
It's not extortion, because the credit agencies don't want anything from you.

If you could fix a bad credit score by wiring Experian $50, that would be extortion.
I live near the area where they announced the North Carolina 'investment'. A land holding company associated with Apple bought some land in the RTP area years ago around the time they announced the new Austin headquarters. NC had just passed a controversial law (HB2) which scared away a lot of business from the state (it has since been mostly reversed). There's speculation the announcement for the NC campus could've probably happened years ago if it weren't for that law.
So refreshing. Yes, focus on the business (because it is, after all, a business).

The job people are hired for is not politics or activism. Also glad to see the weird new-age peer review crap and "soft" stuff eliminated, too. A lot of that is accumulated trendiness from the 90s onward.

I love the new policy and attitude, as its emphasis is more about the professional than the personality.
Plan 9 is definitely not a second system from UNIX; the aspects of it that failed are not due to over-complexity. Far from it.

Plan 9 failed for a combination of reasons:

1) Gratuitous NIH: the whole lack of support for a POSIX runtime, C++ compiler, etc. meant you couldn't run "normal programs" on it. So no web browser, no access to the gigantic pile of programs that run everywhere else.

There was a project called "APE" (The ANSI Posix Environment) but it was never really kept up to date.

What this meant was first, you couldn't run stuff like a web browser on Plan 9 (and you still can't; please no-one write to inform me that some dweebish half-assed attempt at a web browser is a solution), so you were always using other machines, and second, the design of the system was never impacted by the idea of running "Lots of Software Written By Other People".

It's pretty easy to decide you don't need shared libraries, for example, when your graphics/UI library is written by one guy.

2) The assumptions made about hardware went rapidly wrong: the gap between "CPU servers" and the thin-client-ish things you logged on to were substantial at the time; this assumption went out of date rather rapidly with the explosion of fast PC hardware. Similarly, "everything is a file" based windowing/graphics systems ("/dev/bltblt") started to look nutty with 3D acceleration. Many of the things that looked great in 1992 started to look kinda weird in by 1998.

3) Somewhat related: it never was entirely clear what Plan 9 was for. People keep calling it a research OS, but aside from the early 'research-ish' ideas, I don't think there was a lot of actual research. It was sort of more a "daily driver that won't go" (see point 1). There wasn't a whole lot of reevaluation of design decisions either (point 2). There were some really good ideas in it, right from its inception, but calling it a research OS is weird.
"Not me of course, a bunch of other people"
Even ignoring the calories that’s a huge volume of food to eat in 20 minutes. I legitimately couldn’t eat two pieces of toast and drink 8oz of milk that quickly without getting sick.