skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the overhead costs scale as a function of headcount irrespective of how many hours each employee works. For example, let's say you work in a regulated industry where each employee needs to follow a certain training every year. Having twice as many employees each working 20 hrs will double the training costs. Management overhead will also go up since there will be more one-on-ones etc.
Probably a reporter/reporting issue. No company that just have been hacked would run a binary received from the hackers in order to restore the systems, they cannot be that stupid. But then again, they did pay the ransom and also seemingly can't restore their systems from backups, so who knows how stupid they really are?

More charitable reading is that the encryption key was sent over, and they started restoring with that but using standard OSS tooling.
That would be good for Digimon - arguably what that brand should have been all along.
Principled Procedural Parsing (2019) [pdf]
I suppose you can call it moderation; it lost 1/3 of its worth (along with 1/3 of the life savings of those people.)
MRP and MAP mostly.

Retailers usually have agreements with vendors to sell at the manufacturer's retail price and to advertise at the manufacturer's advertised price. This came out of a 2007 Supreme Court decision: Leegin Leather Products vs. PSKS Inc.

I only know about this because I used to purchase a lot of cigars from a large volume discounter and they were forced to raise prices dramatically due to the outcome of that ruling.

Pokemon cards are a gambling racket. No manufacturer is going to be happy with their direct customers raising the bar to entry on said racket.
I find Google's drop fascinating, not sure I understand what caused that nosedive in the last year. Any folks with a theory?
It's not the same situation at all. The car industry is a known quantity in terms of sales potential, margins, costs and possible overall scale.

Tesla will never exceed today's version of Toyota or VW in terms of size. There's your cap. And that's all before the market is entirely flooded with EV competition.

AWS is a better profit machine than anything Tesla will ever produce. Tesla will never own half the automobile market, nor will they ever have AWS operating income margins (Tesla's operating income margins are typically 5-10% in a good quarter, and that's normal for the auto industry; which is half to 1/4 that of AWS). That's the reason Tesla will never have an Amazon-like result. It wasn't retail that made Amazon worth so much.

There's nothing special about electric cars, there's no magic that will expand the car market by ten fold just because they're EVs; there's no super margin jump that makes electric cars two or three times as profitable compared to selling a $45,000 BMW or Mercedes.

AWS can generate $20 to $30 billion in operating income on $100b-$120b in sales. It's very likely to get there at this point. There is almost no scenario where Tesla makes that much money selling expensive electric vehicles (and solar panels are a horrific business for generating profit, as is the battery industry). Tesla needs tens of billions of dollars in annual profit to float its market cap (and that's just to support where it's already at).

I was defending Tesla when a zillion people on HN were saying they could never mass produce the Model 3. I was right. I was defending Tesla when a zillion people on HN were claiming it was going to go bankrupt. I was right. Before that I was defending the Model S in its early days. I was right. And I'm right about this too, and it's very obvious Tesla's just going to end up as another automobile company (best case scenario). There's nothing special about being the next Mercedes, it isn't worth $500-$900 billion to be that.
Why trust anyone ever?
Because it looks corporations are the government. I really like the idea of democracy, but it looks like politics and democracy are two very different things. Actually I would love to see some usable digital democracy project coming out. I imagine things like:

- always having the possibility for a direct voting for e.g. a new law/regulation

- a (deep) hierarchy of delegates/representatives on a per topic basis

- immediate retraction of trust/support from a representative

- maybe some micro monetary support for representatives
Replied elsewhere, but repeating here: It's not a security feature! A driver nag (not unique to Tesla at all) is a reminder to a presumptively-good-faith driver who may have lost attention or fallen asleep, etc...

Cars are dangerous and almost by definition can be used maliciously to terrifying effect, and we just accept that. You don't expect your Civic to protect the world against you running them over, why demand it from another manufacturer?
report on some tests about this:
https://www.consumerreports.org/autonomous-driving/cr-engine...
>Blockchain is a brilliant solution to an extremely rare problem.

This is the most concise way I have seen of summarizing blockchain and its problems.
You could be; there’s not much way for anyone here to tell for sure one way or the other. Learning is also a skill which takes time and practice to become good at.

Incidentally, in order to write a good C++ program it is necessary that you follow pretty much the same rules that the borrow checker enforces. The difference is that in Rust the compiler tells you when you fail to do this, while in C++ your program just crashes, or corrupts some data, or has race conditions. You could feel like you’re making a lot of progress in C++, only to end up with a program that is a buggy unstable mess.

The alternatives are to either face the pain up–front, or to use a language with garbage collection. For most tasks, garbage–collected languages are actually the superior solution. This is because the time we spend writing a program has a cost, and that cost is frequently greater than the extra cpu cycles spent scanning the heap or waiting for locks.
I happened to have the local news on yesterday evening and watched this ridiculous interview with him [1].

He is comically arrogant. Not someone I'd like to hangout with, but an interesting (although dangerous) character for sure.

[1] https://www.ktvu.com/news/man-arrested-for-riding-in-back-of...
I once witnessed an airplane crash that everyone survived. I was a preteen hanging around outside the Scotts Valley roller rink with a friend in the early eighties. The roller rink is next to the now defunct airfield. The airfield was lower than the rink by an embankment. We had recently been watching Jaws on Betamax and my most persistent memory is seeing only the tail crossing the field. It reminded me of a shark fin moving through the water, as the embankment was high enough that I could not see the body of the plane. Then bam, the plane hit the embankment right in front of me, caught air then crashed nose down. I think the plane was a Piper but my knowledge of small craft is limited. It was definitely a wing under. My friend ran to get his father and we all ran over to the wreck. My friend's father opened the doors and everyone but the pilot was able to get out by themselves. The pilot had hit his head on something and his face was covered in blood but alive. I found out from press reports later that was the only time I "met" Steve Wozniak.

Edit: just looked it up. The plane was a Beechcraft Bonanza A36TC.
Google already started charging for recpatcha for big sites.

https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha-enterprise/pricing

This is one of the reasons Cloudflare jumped to hcaptcha

https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptch...
Me too! I wonder if this is as common as the “final exam for a course I forgot I signed up for” scenario.
Good point. If only they paid software engineers who work on critical infrastructure the same as they paid software engineers who work on ads.
Show HN: Instagram Year Progress Bot
Why shouldn’t it be done? Weighing items before buying seems completely legit to me.
No, right below that: "[congress shall have the power] to declare War, *grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal*, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; "
This reminds me of those championship decks they sell every year (with different backs so you can't use the cards officially.) Playing with a pre-built pro deck is super fun. It's amazing how fast they set up with their little engines.
So the "details" are a little off. There wasn't rain, it was an outright winter storm. The pilot was VFR and should not have been flying in that weather.

I don't know what the characteristics are of that airport but I've been in the plane during a really touchy landing in bad snow, before. The occupants described that "everything seemed fine", they were coming out of the clouds and expecting to see the runway up ahead, but instead found tree-tops.

In the case of landing with my Dad in similar weather, the clouds were very low, he had no visual and was reaching the point where he'd have to put it down or abort the landing[0] when he suddenly flung the clipboard at my mom's lap and grabbed onto the yoke.

We were on the ground in a few tense seconds and I've never seen my Dad jump like that -- it seriously freaked me the hell out. His explanation was that he had already decided to abort the landing when the clouds broke and he realized he was in a good position to put it down. I get the impression that he was a little surprised about the position he was actually in -- and it was an uncharacteristically violent landing.

[0] I'm not sure what the technical details are or if I am getting that right...
The pump and dump hype around cryptocurrency turns a lot of people off.
Part of the problem is it's very hard to value security because, frankly, so much security is theatrics and snake oil.

For instance, look at the consumer market, which is where an executive without security knowledge is coming from. All the big VPN vendors make security promises that are, frankly, false advertising. AV products are notorious for including warnings for viruses that pad their counts. That's not counting all the security applications that are malware.

And if they talk to someone familiar with the industry side, they should hear some skepticism. All the static analyzers are full of flags for things that are there to drive up their numbers. There have been a few HN stories on junk CVEs that are filed so people can put them on their resume. I had to set up a WAF at work that proudly said it mitigated the OWASP top-ten (why the top ten? is #11 not important?) which include recommendations like logging that a WAF is plainly not doing. And then I tested its defense against SQL injection and it was trivial to bypass.

And if a business that isn't a tech company hires contractors to fix security issues, most of the time, those guys will do a lot of check the box BS. It's fundamentally difficult, from a business operations perspective, for a company to do security because: 1. the horizon problem that you bring up 2. it's a cost-center 3. it's not their core expertise 4. if you even ask what secure looks like, you either get filibustered with long lists of best practices, or a lot of hand waving but strident proclamations.
I've always seen (at Walmart and other department stores) collectibles and trading cards in a special isle near checkout seemingly to thwart theft. Some items were/are actually behind checkout, not accessible without asking.
You can say the same about Java and C#. These claims about golang are all baseless as far as I'm concerned, especially since they're contradicted by reality.
Matwood - This post speaks to how we often look at the 90s with rose-colored lenses and often see the computers as better. As much as I'm a collector of older machines and the tech of the era, I can also admit that things were more simplistic, slow, and with plenty of barrier-to-entry. Simple example, the first iPhone did not even have video capability. Right before the 2008 release, nobody was walking around with a video camera in their pocket. You'd had to have carried around a clunky and very expensive camcorder and nobody was just taking videos, anywhere, on a short whim. Even cameras just a few years before that were just terrible. Nostalgia all that we will, the tech was terrible. ASCII warez, and all that stuff was awesome. BBS was awesome, but there is just far more for kids today than what we had.
Physical property registries: if you guess my password (or extort it from me with a crowbar) you get to keep my house.
One day anti-Tether simpletons will realize Tether is more liquid than 99% of retail banks used by regular Americans
Exactly, wall street journal can write shit like this because most people do not read the company's earning report.
This kind of thought exercise is frequently misleading, though, because it relies on the assumptions that (1) effects are essentially linear and (2) that if something is provably bad at the extreme, it's bad at virtually any amount. If someone makes $10M capital gains through investment and "only" gets to take home $9M because of the 10% tax rate, they've still made nine million dollars. As long as that's objectively a good rate of return, there's little to no disincentive. The effects of a 10% tax vs. a 100% tax are obviously not linear.
I'm excited to see orders open up. I'm not overly familiar with current computer pricing but I'm pretty happy with what these are selling for.
There are some issues that I think would make this difficult to do:

- Two employees at 50% salary and time are not equivalent to a single employee at 100% of salary. They're strictly worse if always run in series, all else being equal. Alice starts project X on Monday and Tuesday, and hands it off to Bob on Wednesday because it's urgent. There's some inefficiency there. Good management could help avoid it, but would be hard-pressed to prevent it in all cases. At best, it's one more thing to worry about.

- There are benefits outside of your salary that are more difficult to cut in half. Health plans, headcount taxes, etc.

That being said, there are some experiments being done (not at 50%): https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/part-time-tech
its a good problem to have
Correcting what?
Git is very much used in a distributed fashion. Eg, on github.

Right now, I'm working on one of the forks of a dead commercial project.

Our fork in turn has 61 forks right now, some of which may diverge further and have multiple people working on them, which at some point may or not contribute things upstream.
An old friend and co-worker from southern Ohio has an amusing accent which I always ribbed him about. "Pin" and "pen" are indistinguishable, as are "color" and "collar", and "Dell" and "Dale".

The last one was caused some communications difficulties when we were dealing with a Customer contact named Dale and also dealing with technical support from Dell simultaneously.
Ooooor..you can just print and sell limited paper cards and whoever physically owns the card is the owner.

Just as decentralized of ownership as an NFT lol
Word of mouth works, but can be very slow and still faces the problem of getting those first users. Where did the first person in the chain hear about it if not for marketing or self promotion? At some point the word has to reach someone who can actually spread it before anything will happen. So many awesome products and services die because they aren't flashy or cool enough to drive viral word of mouth spread.

I'm quite familiar with this, as my reverse image search service SauceNAO has never done any kind of paid marketing. It took years for users to spread the word to any significant degree. Even now, nearly 13 years later, there are many people who would benefit from it greatly who have never even heard of us...
> Only if it gets noticed.

True, but they are getting better at noticing.

>> and this sometimes comes from binary dylibs that the developer didn't write.
>Which are detected through analysis if they are common spyware.

> Facebook got away with it for many years.

You know about that because they were stopped. And since then Apple has tightened the rules and stepped up detection.

>>The whole thing is a scam.
>Clearly not.
> If it weren't then they would let people choose to use the App Store.

No, because that would enable social engineering attacks once again.

> It only exists to protect Apple's services from competition.

This is straight up bullshit. You keep saying it, but it’s false at face value.

Millions of scams have been stopped.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/app-store-stopped-ove...
Sorry that's unclear - we have security measures in place for our app as a whole, regardless of the plan. "Advanced security" refers to the fact that we'll work with enterprise teams to implement custom security measures they might request.

For all plans, we have: encryption at rest, encryption in transit, data stored in SOC 1, SOC 2, and ISO 27001-certified data centers, single sign on and mandatory 2FA for employees, secure SDLC (protected branches, PRs), centralized logging and alerting, incident response plan, business continuity plan, and data deletion and retention policies.

Happy to go into more detail and share our official infosec policy over email.
It is insane to compare a single self-inflicted death based upon misunderstanding to hundreds of thousands of deaths resulting from the corporate norms.
Biden signs executive order to strengthen US cybersecurity
Foil weighs more than paper. Don’t think I could do it now, but when I was a little kid with little kid arms, I could slightly perceive the difference in weight between Yu-Gi-Oh packs. Had a pretty good success rate too, but it annoyed the folks at Blockbuster watching me rummage through the box at the register doing this so the real challenge was finding a store that would let me pick my packs.
> Whether it's 100m or 2bn doesn't really matter.

...yet, it will absolutely matter if it's $20B - Google's 2020 operating income was $41B.

You're making the claim that since Google wasn't fined enough, fines don't work - which is absurd.

Try making the fines a reasonably large percentage of gross revenue from the previous year - say, 10%. 10% of Google's 2020 gross revenue ($182B) is $18B, which is almost half of their operating income. That will have an effect.
If people are this desperate for attention at the risk of their safety, consider that all the other drivers on the road just have to move their hands clockwise a few inches to “disable the safety features” and cause total chaos. In most cars the only “safety feature” is the general sanity of the driver.
exactly haha
like such a beautiful kind of idealism to me

dreaming of some alternate reality where GUIs were never invented

This is the ideal dream state you send your students to absorb? A bunch of terminal-users obsessed with building everything in the terminal? Why indoctrinate your students into that?

Note: Reading over the above I realize it sounds antagonistic, probably because I formed everything as a question. I don't mean it to be antagonistic. It's just me not understanding where you're coming from.

if we stopped treating our users like 12 year olds would they stop interacting with our sites like 12 year olds

Yeah, maybe. But... I'm not sure if you want my dad to be part of your idealized future, but if you do, the terminal is not going to be the way to do it

I'm all for finding ways to empower users, but how does that lead to you getting off the train at no GUIs, instead of better GUIs?
You could have some kind of wrapper that installs legacy web sites as a separate app and starts a locked down embedded IE with a set of security policies.
I doubt any of this is true.
Thank you so much for starting this project and hopefully long-term investment. Incredibly refreshing.

The site is down for the moment. What is the situation about warranty?

Do you plan to offer multi-year options? I’m all for repairing my own laptop, but if there is an option to pay upfront for some peace of mind on at least the parts, I’d bite.
anyone who's interested in American English accents/dialects should check out https://aschmann.net/AmEng/ it's a bit clunky and old-school as far as websites go but there's a lot of good information there
I don't know why you got downvoted because this is a good idea.

The only criticism I have is that usually the dotted underline is associated with adwords on some sites. I don't know if there's a better way to do it. Superscript question marks at the end of the phrase?
Good question — leaving out comparison with a traditional state machine wasn't intentional so I'm glad you asked.

A state machine will typically fully describe all the state at any given node in it. i.e. there's no additional state or context not represented by the state machine itself.

In our case, we have (1) the directed graph and (2) the session state. These two are related but don't have a direct correlation. The session state accrues new values as the graph is walked. As an example, theoretically the user could walk through a graph that has a cycle and get back to an earlier node but the session state would be different. In that case the same node would be "current" but there would be a different session state the second time it was visited.
I used rubber bands and a water bottle. The general motion of the autopilot moves the bottle enough to trick it. Of course my hands were a millimeter from the wheel the whole time and it was just for my own amusement... my wife refuses to even try Autopilot. I only used it to see how it works. Some people love it, but I don't trust it, or at least myself with it. Tesla adaptive cruise is very good and does enough to reduce driving fatigue for me. AutoPilot has made far to many sketchy decisions in the short time I used it for me to trust it, Tesla statistics about its safety or not.
This could easily be defeated by simply having a holographic card in every pack - just most of the time it's a relatively worthless one.
Tesla isn't special. Tesla and all other growth companies benefited from the macro landscape of the 2010's. Zero interest rates drove capital out of (low) interest bearing treasuries and bonds and into tech. Look at foreign purchases of each over the last 10 years. I don't think we'll see this trend continue into the 2020's.
There is no such thing as "original English". At most there are snapshots taken of mainstream English, or of some offshoot, from some past moment, since evolving more slowly. The greatest variety of forms and accents is found in England, Scotland, and Wales, far exceeding variation in all the colonies combined.

English tabloid newspapers have absurdly popular columns peeving about some abominable usage in one or other colony that, in every case, originated in mainland England and was very common typically between 400 and 100 years ago, and just fell out of fashion there. English peeving, thus, always turns out to be complaints that colonies do not slavishly follow London fashions.

Yosemite Sam represents a snapshot of Victorian English.