skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The environment is the only crisis we assume you can solve from your kitchen
Profit margin can be an indicator of monopolistic behavior, ie if you have a monopoly, you may be able to charge unusually high profit margins and maintain customers.

It's not absolute PROOF though, because maybe you can charge high profit margins because you make really good stuff and people and are willing to pay more.

But in general, in normal competitive markets, if you have a high markup people will tend to seek\buy cheaper alternatives.
They've got a fundamentally different society and lockdown is a luxury policy that only rich nations (and people) can afford.
I don't understand all the "green" claims either. It takes a lot of energy, resources, shipping miles and manhours to manufacture an HDD/SSD. Then you waste several hours of energy to "plot" the disk. Then you've got to keep the disk filled with random junk data and the hosting rig powered and connected to the internet to "farm" it. Plainly less resource-intensive than PoW (Proof of Work), but also very plainly far from a "green" solution.

It just seems so monumentally wasteful. At least with the liked of Filecoin the disks can be used for actual storage.

Does this Proof of Space approach have any real benefits over PoS (Proof of Stake)?
Simple; rent a vehicle for the trip.
> But a lot of things where money meets art are also weird

I liked David Bowie's solution:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bowie-bond.asp
I'm still waiting for this NFT craze to die off. There is nothing to see here.
Fundamentally this is about respect for the autonomy of my time. I am paid to deliver value. Sometimes that is best served by direct in-person collaboration, but not every single day. The deal I offer to prospective employers is this: I do my best not to be a blocker when I can't be physically present, and you realize that I am a whole human being who does not exist solely to pad your bank account.

Pre-pandemic, I had a CFO say to me "I don't pay for all this expensive office space so you can work from home." I had a CTO tell me "WFH sends a message to your reports that you don't want to be here." I was too obsequious at the time, not to mention afraid to lose my job, to push back, so I relented despite a punishing balance of childcare when my son was very young. But today I call bullshit on this ancient relic of Taylor's "scientific management" peddled by the HBR-reading neocons populating finance departments all across tech. A job that requires my ass to be in a seat is not a job, it's a prison.
Pardon me if it's a stupid question, but a backdoor to what? I don't really understand what it's about. In my mind a backdoor is hidden feature built into another _useful_ piece of software.

Is this "just a backdoor"? Like, its sole purpose is to give remote access / exfiltrate information? If so, how does it end up on systems? What is the vector?
The answer to a lot of these questions is "because they wanted deniability" or to maintain the pretence that they did nothing wrong. It's true that they could have been a lot less covert about it in which case they'd be in even deeper shit legally and reputationally.

One thing that I never really understood is why they degraded performance when the battery was at 30-100% if the random reboots didn't kick in until the battery was at 30%. Perhaps you know.

Or why I can easily replace the battery on my phone but the iPhone battery is sealed in and has to be replaced by apple. Hmmm...
Most RV campsites are set up for 30A at 120V over a NEMA TT-30R receptacle. Three pins, looks like a typical cord but the blades are rotated outwards by degrees:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#NEMA_TT-30

Only the really, really big ones are 240V split-phase with a NEMA 14-50R receptacle. It's a 4-pin connector, with an additional neutral blade, but it's not a twist-lock:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#NEMA_14

It's not likely to break anything or hurt anyone if you know what you're doing, but with the ridiculous number of variations and non-standard wiring you'll find out there, be sure you do know what you're doing!
The lack of buttons for additional fingers also seems like an issue. Unless you use the awkward claw grip that I know some people did for certain PSP games, you're limited to just your thumbs for input.

There's actually more controllers now than ever before that have even more buttons accessible to non-thumb fingers. A phone just seems like a poor choice for a game like Fortnite.
Devil's argument: sometimes specialization in widely used, but "boring" platforms can be lucrative. The requests by companies using the platform tend to be pretty similar, and once you build a solid understanding of the ecosystem, you can usually crank out valuable changes with minimal effort.

This model works well on the contracting end of the spectrum. I have lots of friends who pay the bills doing Wordpress/SF contracting part time and spend the free time this model affords doing fun stuff.
It's fascinating how the "techno" moniker nowadays really just means any non festival non house dance music.
I'm extremely bullish on Salesforce: they execute well, launch products consistently, acquire companies successfully, and generally understand marketing well.

The problem with a lot of technical folks is they disregard Salesforce, but they aren't the target market. Salesforce is for all the large and mid-sized companies out there who need to move from an old process to a new one, which is why Salesforce focuses so much on "digital transformation" messaging. You can make millions in this space if you can align yourself with Salesforce + the skills needed there, and actually solve problems for executives.

On your certifications concern: I'd bet that each product can go quite deep and also a lot of large companies need people to do very specific things, which is why they look for niche certifications. I find most technically specialized folks can skip certifications and actually focus on solving problems for users.
The skills transfer to Power BI on the Microsoft side, as another example.

Finding the best version of the role is part of being a professional too. At least where I am, there are lots of opportunities with mid-to-huge insurance/finance/healthcare companies that need this type of reporting.

They outsource a lot of the work, but they also have many slot for people with the tech skill and domain experience. If you were doing sales reporting, you could easily slot into one these roles because there is a need for someone locally who can talk to stakeholders versus someone at an outsource provider who can could be a great communicator, but has too many blockers at that type of inside company communication.
Where to turn to? Company's D&I Initiatives are racist and sexist
I'm posting from a fake account because I fear being identified and fired.

The company I work for has established diversity programs to specifically train and promote diverse employees.

I am a white man in America, no matter what path my family took to get here, no matter the hardships we have faced. I believe black/asian/hispanic/european/white/whatever-the-heck-you-are lives matter - sincerely.

I get no special attention at my company, and there is no conscious bias towards me or the diverse employees.

I've had a long, successful career here, but zero real support from management. I earned it all. And now I'm not allowed to get support?

Is it legal for my company to provide the support to these diverse employees, but I get nothing?

I was also told by my manager that in order hire someone, they need to be a rock star, or diverse.
While software isn't really the right place for that per se, I can definitely see the temptation. After all, you are providing something absolutely free, and you aren't including ads, tracking people, pestering about payment etc.. all this work has earned you a huge audience, and you want to use it to honor the memory of lives lost. Honoring the dead is pretty universally accepted as good thing.

It's a really big jump to say people who honor the dead with their software are going to insert malware in it next.

Use or don't use whatever you like, it's free and open source, but this seems like a pretty terrible reason to avoid otherwise great software.
As soon as Apple allows multiple app stores, it's going to be the same crappy situation as we have on PCs: Every goddamned software developer is going to insist on having its own app store. Want an Adobe product? You have to install Adobe's store. Want an Epic product? Epic's store. Want Minecraft? Microsoft store. You'll end up with all these crappy little stores all over your device. Then you'll have store exclusives, and you'll need to search through dozens of stores whenever you want to find something. Yuck!
Notice the sleight of hand in this comment. Those who oppose development posture as if it’s urbanists who are interested in enforcing their way of life on everyone else, but it’s quite plainly the other way around.

Only one side in this debate wants to make laws that encode their particular housing preferences in law. It’s the side that wants to prevent new construction, not the side that wants to allow people to make free choices in an open market.
Yup. Having insufficient bed space and medical supplies will kill people that might otherwise have survived a Covid-19 infection.

Anything and everything must be done in each country to prevent the hospitals from filling up.
You start off saying "they are more likely to see some propaganda for what it is than I am", then go into 2.5 more paragraphs how that's not really true and they are susceptible.

I find Amazon worker susceptibility to propaganda to be a little silly. And I'm talking about "fake news" propaganda, not promotion of a true, but pro-Amazon viewpoint.

Most folks I worked with a lower-paying, manual labor jobs had zero illusions about their employer. They aren't getting the "bring your whole self to work" and "help us change the world" bullshit that the big companies feed their white collar workers. It was very clear that the employer looked out for themselves (e.g. profit) and workers were easily replaceable.

I think people who claim they were manipulated need to give the workers a little more credit.
It might be a bit of a shock for those coming only from interpreted languages though.
Something I haven't found is detailed breakdowns of who is actually being infected this time around.

India did have very strict lockdowns. Yet, very high rates of antibodies were also measured in some areas. Those strict lockdowns may have been successful in shielding some of the population from covid, and that part of the population is getting infected now. India is a very unequal society, with a very wide range of wealth present in the same areas.

In the US in some lockdown states there have been dramatic differences between infection rates between different socioeconomic levels. While in other states that were more open, that has tended to be less true.
Why not go for a bike ride wherever you want every morning and evening?
It would be WeChat, which is an entire ecosystem and OS within itself. Apple seems to regret letting that one through and is determined to not let it happen again.
Shameless plug, lots of good people (admins, devs, MVPs, SFDC internal) that can help you along your journey in the SFXD discord as well [0].

https://join.sfxd.org
Tesla vehicles already can, with adapters.
Is it my impression or nowadays the emerging technology in this sense is OPA (Open Policy Agent)?

It looks like a flexible system to build cross-language and cross-framework authorization systems.
COBOL is a programming language. Salesforce is a product.

Learning a product is good. Basing your career from it is limiting.
Look at all the reaction/talk about this in recent posts to get an idea:

34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26727678

I hope work from home continues
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26712524
It's systemd-daemon. The authors knew that systemd was so huge and opaque that it'd go unnoticed. It even has its own systemd unit file.

It doesn't even do "normal" rootkit level of hiding that rootkit detectors might notice; it just hides in plain site as an innocent root process, right out in the open.
That's a really great point, I hadn't considered that.
It's also equally lazy for you to demand such an in depth and thorough argument and sources when you can pop into a search browser and do some fact checking yourself. No one owes you anything. This is a discussion board, not a dissertation defense.
Tax ICE luxury cars. If you're purchasing a $50k vehicle, then you likely could afford a tax that subsidizes non-luxury EV vehicles.
The user (perhaps running as root) was tricked into installed it. It has nothing to do with the kernel installation.

The file name is chosen by the attackers to look like a legit executable - systemd-daemon if installed as root, $HOME/.gvfsd/.profile/gvfsd-helper if installed without root privileges. That way victims who are looking at file names won't be alarmed because they look like an expected file e.g. hiding in the forest of legit "systemd-*" files.
How many vehicles a year do you think get sold to folks who are going to be so far off the grid, they might consider jerrycans for fuel security? 10k? 20k? 17 million new cars a year are sold, for comparison.

I admit you adventurous folks exist (and commend your wild spirit), just not in sufficient quantity to sell vehicles at volume, considering the average American light vehicle use case (a few road trips a year, ~40 mile daily round trip commutes).
It's super anecdotal but my dad has done home improvement work for decades and has found Home Depot to be completely incompetent with stocking their stores these last few years. Many of the employees who have been around say its all due to centralized inventory management (computerized and non-local). The impression is that up until a few years ago, a store could order what they needed based on local demand and not be restricted to only what the algorithm decides.
This is going to depend which place and group of people you talk about. Suicides of Jews in Germany went up by the start of WW2 - source is Richard J Evans; Third Reich Trilogy. He had no stats about non-jews. But, being oppressed and humiliated definitely made some Jewish Germans to kill themselves. (Convolute phrase, but plenty of them considered themselves Germans, so.)

And it was much easier to commit suicide by lettin other people kill you too.

America is might be different, because it did not happened on their soil.
Agreed, if they can't even run their own store properly, will they spend the time and effort to police the apps to the same standards as Apple? Doesn't seem likely.
German ISPs don't do that ('sniff all transport' and automatically sue? for copyright infringement). ISPs have no business in doing this (Why would they? DPI infrastructure is expensive, so it setting up some magical automation to detect torrents, check against some database, etc. Plus, pre-preemptively suing someone will likely cause them to not be a repeat customer.).

Traffic inspection by ISPs (let alone sharing of collected data with third-party entities) in the EU is required to have a legal/technical basis and/or user consent, depending on what is being done and for what purpose [1]. Even attempts at blanket (meta)data retention for law enforcement agencies have pretty much been ruled illegal in the EU [2] and Germany [3].

What probably happened is your friends were torrenting, and some entity acting on behalf of copyright holders got their IP from public trackers/DHT. Then they came knocking to the ISP with a cour order, asking for information about the person behind that IP address, and the ISP gave them that [4]. Finally, the entity sent a C&D to your friends.

[1] - See the EU DPS' opinion on how the existing EU legal framework affets ISPs' data inspection abilities: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...

[2] - See Directive 2006/24/EC, tl;dr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention#European_Union

[3] - htps://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Sachgebiete/Telekommunikation/Unternehmen_Institutionen/Anbieterpflichten/OeffentlicheSicherheit/Umsetzung110TKG/VDS_113aTKG/VDS.html

[4] - https://blog.raychenon.com/file-sharing-violations-in-german...
The main constraint on taller buildings is elevators. The taller a building is, the more elevators it needs, and the more elevator shafts there are the lower the percentage of square footage available for other, paying uses.

The sweet spot for residential in Hong Kong is about 30-40 stories.
Showing that people do it doesn't make it good...
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> You can use new without exceptions, but you can't detect OOM then, if I'm not mistaken.

You can detect the same errors with and without exceptions - the nothrow variant returns nullptr on error. Due to overcommit, neither can be relied on to detect OOM in practice.

> If you construct your object and then acquire a resource in it later, from a function that can return an error without throwing, then you introduce complexity in the destructor and may risk errors more.

Not neccessrily, e.g. free and delete are both no-ops for nullptr.
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> it just isn't the place

I think you've fallen into trying to moderate the internet as a user here. The verbiage of this post just isn't that strong, as evident by the primary reply being far from alone
You can choose not to install their app unless it’s provided through the App Store.

It would be a significant barrier to entry for them to completely remove it, and I imagine they would lose many users if they did so.
I say amazing and thoughtful things that are real
You might be interested in this line of work: https://eng.uber.com/neural-networks-jpeg/

Training straight from DCT coefficients to avoid spending time learning a similar representation in the bottom layers of the net.
I've personally toyed with something similar on GANs to gauge the computational benefits of not doing convolutions in the bottom layers of a net but learning directly in a FFT-like compressed space instead.
Big problem with this type of calculation: it is based on the prior n-years of data. These figures do not consider that the just this year, the leading edge of Baby Boomers are achieving their average life expectancy and dying. There needs to be some corrective math that takes the birth rate at (current year - average life expectancy) into account.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/centurylink-fron...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...

There are tons of articles about the corruption of carriers using these funds properly.

IMO - Ajit Pai should be in prison for his coddling of the industry.
Okay, it's almost always necessary but not sufficient.
Yeah, I would gamble on it if there were no examples of it happening.
I'm curious what the intended audience for micro is? It seems like if you want extensibility you use vi or emacs. If you want a very quick and dirty program where you use the same 4 or 5 commands every time you open it, you use nano since it's already installed. I don't know a lot of people in the middle, personally, so I'm curious what people who are using micro like about it in particular.
I considered that, but it seems way too fragile to trust, expecially if you want to test complex relationships for authorization.
> Also recognize that "a charger" is any building with an electrical drop. A regular 120v 15a plug in someone's wall will give you 100 miles of range in 6-7 hours.

I wonder if this will drive business owners to secure their outlets better or perhaps fast chargers will be cheap and ubiquitous such that few people feel the need to "steal" electricity ("steal" is in quotes because I don't mean to imply judgment).
It's true that it's in international waters, but there is an International Seabed Authority that administers the area. We can argue whether they should have allowed mining here, but it's not a naked land grab. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipperton_Fracture_Zone
From what I gather, they're a:

Expensive and hugely expansible webapp built on top of Oracle that allows admins to make and track customers through the sales pipeline using various methods.

The software's intent is for marketing, sales, and execs to see how various campaigns are running and how to control them.

They're usually outside of standard devops pipeline by a good distance.

The downside: Salesforce seems to be at the whim of Oracle, who has their own competing product in the CRM category.

And I'm also studying it, and working towards the certs myself. May not be looooong term, but people with this knowledge do tend to get paid well. (Anything connected with marketing/sales does)
A Zanzibar-style service does not need _every_ object from your DB replicated into it, but only the relationships between the objects that matter for authorizing access. Many of these relationships require little/no metadata in your DB so they can live _solely_ in Zanzibar rather than being in both your DB and Zanzibar. This is pretty great because when permissions requirements change, you can often address them by only changing the Zanzibar schema, completely avoiding a database migration.

>does that become a chokepoint in a distributed microservice architecture?

It actually does the opposite because now all of your microservices can query Zanzibar at any time to get answers to authorization questions that were previously isolated to only a single application.

Full disclosure: I work on https://authzed.com (YC W21) -- a permission system as a service inspired by Zanzibar. We're also planning on doing a PapersWeLove NYC on Zanzibar in the coming months, so stay tuned!
Oh, you didn't do it like some do, you just expressed that you didn't understand something, which is something everyone should probably do more often. Almost every time iPads come up on here there are several much more angry-seeming "LOL they're just toys for stupid consumer couch-potatoes to watch Netflix while conspicuously consuming Apple products, it's impossible to create things using a computer if you don't have root access" posts, which isn't at all the kind of thing you posted.
there are dark mode chrome browser plugins for this you could try
Patent pending!
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If we're talking about Tesla (which IMO is the only serious player in the space right now) I'd just say take a look at the SuperCharging network and see if things are covered based on what you might want to do. Right now it definitely requires some planning, but so far I haven't run into many issues except the UP.

Tesla-wise there is already a reliable fast-charging infrastructure. The question is what will happen with the rest of the industry. I would say in 8 years we will definitely have electric vehicles with 600+ mile ranges. I think the Plaid Model S is over 500 already, but I think there will be less emphasis on milage and more emphasis on fast and available charging. It's going to be more feasible to expand infrastructure (as far as I can tell) than to build the batteries. Likely both will happen simultaneously. For Tesla, I think if they thought larger batteries were the answer they'd probably slowly stop expanding the SuperCharger network - but doesn't appear that's happening. Could be wrong here and would welcome a more thoughtful discussion.

TBH I'd say gas on the whole is more inconvenient to me than electric charging. 95% of the time I charge at home, car is always just ready to go. 5% of the time I stop after 2 hours, charge for 15-25 minutes, take a quick break, and move on. But I don't have to go to a gas station once/week or more, stand outside my car in the cold, pump gas, w/e. Personal preference though. My back cramps up sitting in a car for 3+ hours between gas stations and would prefer more stops (and this gives me an excuse).
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