skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll see about Deutsche and Trump soon too!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/nyregion/trump-taxes-vanc...
"The problem is taking the word of the system at face value and not investigating further even when dozens of people's livelihood and freedom are hanging in the balance."

We do the same thing with breathalyzers in most of the US. No independent people allowed to inspect the system for bugs.
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Why would you disagree with something that isn’t wrong?
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How often? I set mine to discard after 60 minutes, except for slack, WhatsApp and a couple of others; cost is reload when I do venture into discarded tabs - e.g. I scan HN and Reddit headlines in the morning, open each interesting comments page in a tab; much later, when I have downtime, I visit them - but I used to reload to get the new comments. Now with ATD, they get reloaded automatically, so for that use it is even bette than the real thing.
5 years at Google is forever, and it's not uncommon at all for people to jump around projects at the company. It's also a full year beyond what's necessary to vest. Really silly way to write that.
> Starting new missions from outside a strong gravity field seems like such a huge advantage.

You don’t get to do this, period. All your crew and all your materials are ultimately coming from Earth (or, in some plans, are mined in-situ). You use considerably more resources getting to your waypoint than you save by leaving from there.

Being farther out of the gravity well isn’t entirely positive either; you’re losing out on significant savings from the Oberth effect. Earth-Moon Lagrange points are well past the minimum-cost orbit.
Germany's behavior was listed in my globalization MBA course as an example of negative effects of globalization and why it is not perceived favorably in some countries, so I am curious how it looked from inside?
Generally, you don't want to stop an engine that's running fine. It might just not restart...
Related articles that submitters and commenters have pointed out:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56859357 (also from today)

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252496560/Fujitsu-bosses...

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justi... [pdf]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000jf7j [podcast series]

Edit: posted later but might as well add it here:

Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26924882 - April 2021 (152 comments and counting)

Some past related threads - pretty sure there have been others:

UK Post Office: Error-laden software ruined staff lives - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26905528 - April 2021 (3 comments)

UK legal system assumes that computers don't have bugs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25518936 - Dec 2020 (24 comments)

Post Office scandal: Postmasters celebrate victory against convictions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24661321 - Oct 2020 (2 comments)

Faults in Post Office accounting system led to workers being convicted of theft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21795219 - Dec 2019 (103 comments)

Post Office hires accountants to review sub-postmasters' computer claims - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4143107 - June 2012 (1 comment)
subaru is also shutting down some plant(s) temporarily due to chip availability.
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It's silly because most employers have no ability to match "0xffff2" or "pbhjpbhj" or "kixiQu". To a person in the real world.

I've never identified myself as an employee of my company on this account and I'm certainly not identifying myself as an employee of my company in this post, so since I don't work for the NSA, I post whatever I want, no disclaimer necessary.

If for some reason I did want to identify my employer sometimes, it would make infinitely more sense to make a separate account for those times than to attach a meaningless boilerplate disclaimer to every single post I make on Hackernews.
Just be thankful: Give thanks to the Lord, for He alone deserves to be praised, in every situation,

let your voice be thankful and don’t let the melody of thanks flee from your mouth, every good

thing comes from the Lord, so He’s worthy to be praised.
This fab is in an ultraconservative city where masks and social distancing are not practiced. The workers have been getting COVID from the community, not at work.
Would mosquito extinction even be a good idea? There would be substantial impacts to ecosystems if mosquitos were completely eliminated.
There’s Geometry Nodes now which let you write smaller procedurals that you can combine together the way you’re describing: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/geometry_...

They’re extremely new (2.92 I think) so the framework is there but there aren’t many nodes yet; 2.93 introduced a whole bunch of new nodes though.
maybe if software engineers were asked about security instead of ds/algos then IT wouldnt be such a shit show

- poorly performing algo can always be rewritten, leak/damage cannot be realisticly reverted
Re: “we prefer our 33-year-old Kenmore top loaders that can still actually be repaired rather than replaced” http://recraigslist.com/2015/10/they-used-to-last-50-years/
> It's really sad to see X86 development digging itself into a ditch with "40 years binary compatibility at any cost."

Probably some of that is because they did try to do something different once - and Itanium was an unmitigated disaster.
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I thought that was crazy at first but the Orion capsule uses proven reentry tech. SpaceX hasn't landed Starship successfully yet and hasn't proven their reentry strategy, and coming back from the moon will be harder because they'll be coming in faster. I can't blame NASA for not committing their astronauts to it yet.

But yeah, I think SpaceX will prove it all works and then NASA has the option to change the plan. In the meantime, officially keeping SLS keeps Congress happy.
> Am I a criminal now anyway after all that work?

You legally purchased the music and legally made backup copies of it. You are not a criminal.

> I can't prove I own my own music if challenged

I don't think that matters. Someone would need to prove you stole it, which they can't do since you didn't.
It'll still be silly then, it'll just be technologically enshrined silliness!

I work at a company with a social media policy. My understanding of it (garnered by clicking through the slides as quickly as humanly possible once a year) is that they only want me to consider these sorts of disclosures if I'm speaking in a capacity where people MIGHT mistake what I say as coming from the company.

My employer is certainly discoverable from my HN account but there's no more value in me adding such boilerplate to my HN posts than there is me signing emails with my mom the same way.
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Infants can also be infected before their first year of life, via vertical transmission:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4259075/
>What has made the auto industry particularly vulnerable is its reliance on just-in-time delivery

Invented by Toyota, ironically the reason why Japanese cars took over the industry a few decades ago
I think this is a real Columbus Egg situation. There was no Reddit when 4chan popped up. It was 2003. As much as /b/ was an ocean of piss, so much of what we now consider "internet culture" consolidated or spawned there.

Of course parts of it were absolutely terrible then, but to distill it down solely to OP's post is a lot of selective editing.
I doubt the piracy moralist you replied to will respond with an apology for calling you a thief and a criminal; but I really appreciate that you explained your situation.

It's unreasonable to lump all people who pirate media into some cesspool of common criminality -- each use-case is different. Sure, there are people who aggressively collect more pirated content than they could ever hope to personally consume and refuse to pay for any media; but there are also people who want a secondary copy of something they've already purchased, or who can't even legally buy the media that they'd want access to in the first place.

Easier to just vilify a strawman (for what reason, even?), I guess.
anyone knows the beer game from the Fifth Discipline?
"Googling" is a subset of "querying" or "searching"

I know I'm being pedantic, but it's just free advertisement when we use a name brand to describe something instead of a brand-neutral word.
Which is why incarceration exists. The death penalty was necessary back when society simply couldn't afford prisons, but not today.
Same here - I was tempted to upgrade when the newer mac intel models came out, but the soldered RAM / SSD bullshit kept me off them. I've hear that the 2012 mac mini can theoretically support 32 GB RAM (as other similar i7 processor devices can) - I think I'll try that 5 years down the lane for the heck of it. For now, 16 GB RAM and an SSD disk make it a very capable machine, that can (as you rightly pointed out) last for another decade.
> It's fascinating that the response is to close production rather than increase prices.

Those aren't mutually exclusive...

But you can't keep production running when you have no chips. Throwing money at the complete lack of chips doesn't help.
Maybe this is a bit cheating, but there's chip with 2.5 trillion transistors.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210420005955/en/Cer...

https://wccftech.com/cerebras-unveils-7nm-wafe-scale-engine-...
Then whoever was second in command at the company sells off the ship (probably at a loss) and uses some of the money to send the first officer home. If they can't afford to keep the ship then they shouldn't sit on the title and trap one of their own employees in a derelict floating prison.
This is one of the reasons that I'm hyper protective of my kids right now. I have never really fully understood the shoulder shrugging around kids exposure to COVID (having them in school etc.) simply because their reactions are so less severe.

We've never known what the full impact of getting COVID over the span of a lifetime though, and for kids that have it young we could be seeing lifetimes of health related issues that could have potentially been avoided.
Inflation means some things become economically impossible to produce, that is why the rest of the stuff becomes more expensive.

Prices always lag behind because they are the result of all the economic processes that take place, not the cause, and this is just the beginning of the process.
The most successful measure was carpet bombing the USA with DDT for years[1]. Most people don't know this now, but malaria used to be endemic in the USA as far north as the border with Canada. DDT's environmental persistence is obviously a double-edged sword, but it made the eradication possible.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/elimination_us.htm...
A way to have more people like Thibault is to make it so the cost of living is extremely cheap, if not totally guaranteed. A society creates its people.
Would that be the same as "HTML CSS"?
So what happened to the rest of his unit?
I don’t know any chip manufacturers that shutdown due to COVID. Everyone has been shipping the entire time and fabs are at capacity. The way chip manufacturing works is that you get a slot and if you cancel they fill your slot with something else. There have been fab issues but these have been unrelated to COVID and would have happened anyway.

To me this seems like auto industry trying to shift blame away from their supply chain management to their vendors.
I'm even seeing stories about U-Haul trucks all being rented out by tourists because rental cars are unavailable, causing a shortage of rental trucks for movers.
I wonder if they have spare parts to repair existing cars or if they would have taken some of their spares for new vehicles.
Couldn't the same thing largely be said about any major social network? Facebook isn't really a uniform community I would argue, nor is Whatsapp. Sure they have certain demographics that are larger than others and so on, but so does 4chan and reddit.
> "Always show full URLs"

Show what? Https? They still don't include www the acronym and symbol of World Wide Web.
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One of the most common additional requirements on automotive parts is extended range, often below -20 C and above 70 C. That is often not relevant for medical products which operate only inside, near room temperatures.
It seems common sense enough that no citation is required.

Get a judge having a bad day in France and your case could go belly up regardless of merits, customs or precedent.

“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” So why retread the same legal wheel over and over? Why not study prior similar cases to at least see if they thought of something you didn’t?
FWIW, Sony just backtracked on the PS3 and Vita store shutdowns, for now (but still moving forward with PSP store shutdown, last I heard):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2021/04/20/sony-isnt-c...

I agree that there's been some highly questionable shutdowns of DRM and content servers by a few major companies, later disabling things that they claimed customers were buying.

It seems we're lacking sufficient regulatory/judicial disincentives for companies to hoover up much of the market for selling content products, then fly-by-night shutdown of the DRM and content servers that they'd intentionally made part of the products.
Just thought the same thing. Funny that they spent probably an entire minute worth of skit on it.
Interestingly enough, Toyota modified their supply chain operating model post-Fukushima. So the solution isn't as coarse as a binary "stockpiles or JIT", but an intelligent assessment of risk and managing that risk granularly. Kaizen at its best.

"Toyota may have pioneered the just-in-time manufacturing strategy but when it comes to chips, its decision to stockpile what have become key components in cars goes back a decade to the Fukushima disaster."

"After the catastrophe severed Toyota’s supply chains on March 11, 2011, the world’s biggest automaker realised the lead-time for semiconductors was way too long to cope with devastating shocks such as natural disasters.

That’s why Toyota came up with a business continuity plan (BCP) that required suppliers to stockpile anywhere from two to six months’ worth of chips for the Japanese carmaker, depending on the time it takes from order to delivery, four sources said."

"“Toyota was, as far as we can tell, the only automaker properly equipped to deal with chip shortages,” said a person familiar with Harman International, which specialises in car audio systems, displays and driver assistance technology."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-fukushima-anniversa...
Perhaps it is, but if there had been credible evidence of a theft 'I would not have been able to spend all that money in cash' is not the basis of a solid defense.

There have been genuine cases where accountants, bank managers, and so on have embezzled large sums of money, including in cash, and spent it all untraceably on things like feeding a gambling addiction.
Good point but not quite. TN for example and most southern states are doing fairly well.
As with anything, everyone has their own style of learning.

Yes, a large portion of developers just copy/paste from SO. However, many people also use the results of what they find on Google to learn concepts that the actual docs for just aren't that good.
> Those very nice buildings in Dubai come from some nasty labour practices

I’ve spent the past few months taking a deep dive into the Dubai real estate market. Excluding some villas, there are maybe 2 or 3 “very nice” buildings.

Many look nice on the outside, but rarely on the inside.
We even had USB 3.0 type B (a connector that take two different kinds of USB type B) - but we've moved on from that. It's understandable that if you have a interface that is compatible with another (Thunderbolt 3 can run USB 3.2) that the connector is the same, but it's frustrating.

At least usually you'll get something that kinda works.
I've spent a fair amount of time on 4chan/pol/ for over a decade and my opinion is moot is a decent guy who sold it after he tried to reign in GamerGate and was loudly criticized on the site for it. I don't think Google would have hired him if it weren't for that redeeming quality.

I'm fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. It's anonymous so people around the world can express themselves - even in a way I might find horrifying - and I can get an idea of concerns people have, though they might be concerns left unsaid im polite society.

It's anonymous but your national flag is automatically assigned, and if you hide this or use a "meme flag'
like a pirate flag, you will be criticized and ignored as a likely troll, trying a "false flag" operation.

4chan/pol/ is interesting, I don't know about the other boards since I don't visit them.
Typewriter repair was our family business too. My dad opened a repair shop in our garage in about 1980, and at its peak he had a handful of employees, repairing mostly IBM Selectrics for offices and schools in the Seattle metro area. I would wander out there when I was off school and watch him working, or any of the employees who didn't mind me hanging around. The timing was not great, and the family business didn't make it even all the way to his retirement, let alone to the next generation, but I can still smell that repair shop.
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He was unpaid and the Egyptian courts won't let him leave.
Just wanted to say THANK YOU as I read your guide to network programming way back in 2000, over 20 years ago! I was just starting out in C network programming on VxWorks :) Glad to see you're still updating your guides.
European here - what's it mean to vest shares? It sounds like some sort of stock options became unlocked? I haven't heard of this thing before, just of stocks being part of salary for small startups that don't have actual money to pay you (or at least, that's what I've heard warnings for on HN).
The driver would be derived work of Postgres, thus AGPL, and already problematic in use because of that.
It sort of does help; chip prices have risen because customers are out-bidding each other. If you're willing to pay 10x 2019 prices you can probably get whatever chips you need. Many companies are deciding that's not worthwhile.
There are automotive rated parts which comes down to an increased temperature range and (where applicable) vibration tolerance, electrical transients, etc.

Sometimes it involves different materials but usually it’s just more testing on an increased range.

For example a part which handles electric current might be rated to 100mA at an ambient temperature of 20C but only 40mA at 60C or -40C.

Regular consumer electronics you can just ignore these ranges as unreasonable but a car is going to get that hot or that cold so you have to have parts rated for those conditions.
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Love this. Moving to CM4 will make the form factor even better. If you're interested, here's an AI camera paired with a steerable hyperdirectional speaker that uses the Raspberry Pi and Google Coral: https://www.toutaudio.com/
Why focus on a politically fraught issue like taxes/wealth redistribution as a path to addressing issues which are are not constrained by party politics? Surely it would be easier to gain a broad base of bipartisan support for legislation addressing corruption, if corruption is the problem, or concentration of power, if that's the problem.

It seems to me that wealth equality is nothing more than a handy wedge issue. The concept of 'fairness' is baked into our monkey brains[0], which makes it easy mechanism for engendering anger, in the hopes of turning anger into votes.

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/110/6/2070
For carts this is (mostly[1]) true but honestly I'd be pretty surprised if the average CD outlasts a console that used mostly flash to store the games on. Sure if the flash has had consistent write cycles for years it might fail eventually but probably people will be finding games intact on wiis for a long time yet.

A lot of video game CDs barely lasted the life of their console without becoming basically useless.

[1] There are mask roms that are prone to failure, and some NES for eg. games are vulnerable to progressive failure of their battery backed RAM chips, which were not just for save backup but were also often used as extra RAM with a lot of write cycles (and to be clear, I don't mean the battery dying - I mean stuck or flipped bits on the ram itself).
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yes. mosquitos do quite a bit of pollination.
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I am making an email inbox
(Before you go any further, let me tell you that this being an email inbox, you can't really play around with it so don't go the below website expecting to see an inbox!)

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I made an email inbox built on top of AWS SES which runs on your own domain.

You get:

- Unlimited emails on your own domain (a Mailinator on your own domain)
- Shared inbox for your team. No restrictions on team sizes!
- A SEO aware blog where you can post straight from your inbox (like Hey World @ https://hey.com/world/)
- Private comments to emails (your inbox becomes a basic CRM)
- Convert any email into a webpage, then share the link on Slack etc

If you would like a demo of this, let me know in the comments.

PS - I am terrible at marketing so if there is a better way to present what I have made, please let me know in the comments.
It was interesting to see that the timeline accurately reflects the changeover from sodium vapor to LED street lighting in my community. Still too much light, but better.
I see a lot of people making opinions that clearly shows that they have not audited the entire guide. For the intended audience that the author wanted to reach. I will say that he accomplished it.

For anything that one finds as mistakes, the author went out of his way (via references) for the reader to dig further.
That's just an astounding incidence rate. That kind of selective pressure makes the reason for the sickle cell mutation in hemoglobin more obvious.

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/index.html

> Inheritance of this mutated gene from both parents leads to sickle cell disease and people with this disease have shorter life expectancy. On the contrary, individuals who are carriers for the sickle cell disease (with one sickle gene and one normal hemoglobin gene, also known as sickle cell trait) have some protective advantage against malaria. As a result, the frequencies of sickle cell carriers are high in malaria-endemic areas.

> . . .It was found that that the sickle cell trait provides 60% protection against overall mortality.
Duckduckgo for search,
Lavabit for email service,
Mutt for email client,
/e/ for my phones OS,
Firefox for my browser.

Other than those, I don't really use anything google has a foot in.
I bought a used car last year for 13k after taxes and fees. 9 months later, I sold to Carvana for 16k (even with a few scratches that would have been $300 to fix, plus a $200 scheduled service coming up in a few weeks). Carvana needs to make a profit, so presumably they're going to mark it up further. It's a crazy world right now.
I'd even take an imageboard with reddit or HN moderation over the reddit-style of social media sites we have today. I'd even allow mandatory registration if the posts themselves are still anonymous to other users

Anonymous posting prevents weird popularity cliches from taking over, and post linking via ID allows multiple conversations to flow much smoother than reddit's tree-structured comments. I'd also say that sequential ranking over popularity upvote would prevent as many low-effort hot takes/jokes from always being at the top of each thread, but I'm practice that doesn't really seem to play out like it should.