skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a wild guess this would be Garmin too. Between this and the problems evidenced by their ransomware payout, their software engineering could use a serious overhaul.

A shame, because their hardware is generally good.
Because of money and or mix of politics and imagined power.

In addition, the systems are vast and complex, too big for one person to capture and understand. This means you get into the area of design teams, business teams, politics and geo stuff by default. Even re-implementing the specification (or most of it) in FOSS is extremely hard, and that's with all the information being publicly available. Designing it is an order of magnitude harder.

Besides the systems in isolation, we also have to deal with various governments, businesses, and legacy and migration paths in both cases.

Ironically, because all of this and the huge amount of people involved, consumers _are_ involved in this. It's not like the GSM, 3GPP etc. don't use their own stuff.
"old man yells at cloud"
> FTDI does quite well on their chips [...] and are still winning at it.

You are making a guess.

FTDI is a private company, and unless you are an insider or have done original research, you have no way of knowing whether the company is doing well financially.

The price-per-reel on Digi-Key and how many chips you see in teardowns of legacy products and on cost-is-no-object FPGA boards isn't necessarily going to paint an accurate picture of this for you.
No one has ever interpreted the question as "which came first, the chicken or the fish egg?"

It's not interesting even when you don't intentionally misinterpret it. If a chicken egg is an egg from which a chicken will hatch, then the egg came first by definition. If a chicken egg is an egg laid by a chicken, then the chicken came first by definition.
gVisor, for better or for worse, does a whole lot of other things than just seccomp filtering, and it shows in performance tests.
From what I have read (I'm not a psychologist, so take everything I say with a grain of salt), the Milgram experiment had some major ethical issues and doesn't meet modern standards for statistical evidence. There's also accusations that the data may have been manipulated and the results don't directly support the claim that Milgram was making. For example, a large number of participants may have been aware that the actor wasn't really suffering when they administered the punishment. This would seriously skew the results.
You might try to get longish distance walkie-talkies. They are cheap and probably go far enough. I let my (similar age) kids free range a block or two, especially if they go together and bring a walkie talkie.
Personal anecdote about a book of his: I had a lunch interview and the CEO winced when I quoted What the Dog Saw, and corrected me using their actual experience running a large corporation. I think about not having to get along with coworkers, and the CEO said that was nonsense.

*No I didn't say I don't get along. They asked what books I was reading
Taking a course, reading books, watching lectures, and actually building projects in new domains. I'm not going to learn machine learning by googling each step and copy/pasting stack overflow. I'm not going to learn how TCP works by Googling and copy/pasting stack overflow at each requirement.

Skill development is something that takes a lot of time and practice.

None of that is to say that stack overflow isn't useful, or that I won't learn things when I run into a problem by reading a blog entry. But to me that isn't the same thing as learning a new skill, unless that skill is so small and shallow that a single blog entry is all of the knowledge you'd ever need.
SEC Annual Regulatory Agenda
which, taken to an extreme, also makes me think of "pizzagate" and obsessive conspiracy theories about imaginary pedophilia.
Experimenting with Practical Leadership Development
> We're planning to compromise by letting her do it, but only after we get her her first phone.

Might I suggest looking into one of those cell phone watches for kids. They allow you to lock down who they can send and receive calls/messages from and have gps and geofencing so you can keep an eye on them. It basically allows you to give them the advantages of a phone, without having to give them a phone.
> but also reasons to prefer rim brakes

Like? I honestly can't think of any. They don't save enough on weight to be worth the hassle for all but the tour de france. They don't improve areo.

Why?
Dulles brothers laundered money for the nazis during the war. Allen went on to secretly negotiate for surrender of Nazi/SS troops, who were then protected from prosecution and used for Gladio and later ratlined out to South America to train death squads.

To your second point: no. You aren’t the arbiter of what qualifies as an atrocity or not. Go tell the countless people in Latin America that their continued torture and suffering isn’t a big deal, cause hey at least they aren’t in a Russian gulag. You are as deranged as our government if you truly think that.
I was responding to the word "stopping" the crime, which means all, and was clearly the intent of the post.
> And the obvious push toward low/no-sugar options.

It's borderline evil to formulate even sweeter versions, but with zero calorie sweeteners: people drink them freely because they don't have calories, but the sweetness could be causing insulin resistance, which can turn into diabetes.

Pushing for low sugar and moderation is better than no sugar and no moderation.
I'm not familiar with later development, but AFAIK Firecracker came much later and now you can actually use Firecracker as Kata Container's hypervisor in addition to QEMU.
That's the sad truth, these laws were written with a dedication for the white collar and the rich. We will never get better as a nation if we don't don't address these issues first. Or the alternative is to wait for the house of cards to collapse and start over.
Open interest on futures isn't public info?
No, the high value part of the chain is putting your brand label on the final box. There isn't much USA is manufacturing that Asian manufacturers cannot do today except the branding.
Windows 7 and 8.1 Users May Upgrade to Windows 11 for Free
Someone is eventually going to get a clue that you either do the SLS model (which is all about milking the compliance / regulation space for every nickle), or you have an engineering first approach (which pushes back on bogus crap). SpaceX has CLEARLY chosen the latter. My guess is as in most cases like this, they will clean up, and eventually even the govt agencies they are fighting with will start to use them more and more.

In terms of astronomy, again, you have a fight between a group of cant-do-ers and what will likely be a future group of can do ers who will launch a fleet of space based instruments that will absolutely crush ground based observations. They should track the complainers here and shut them off from that future funding for space based options.

My one big hope is that the FAA actually have some real domain experts in space launch and risk management there - physics etc etc. They have that on flight side , not sure about space side.
If you are interested in this I really recommend you look at writings from the fields that have descended from what was called "Laboratory Studies" and now variously calls itself "Science studies", or "science and technology studies" or "science, technology and society" (STS is a common acronym). For the stuff that's very lab-focused I'd say you could start with Bruno Latour and Steven Shapin, both classics of the older guard of the field.
See the note above about not trusting the claims of proven liars.

For years Tether said they were backed 1:1 by dollars, but blocked audits. The audits would have been simple. It turns out Tethers were not backed 1:1.

It would also be simple to audit their dollar deposits now, but they haven’t done that either. And no one in the commercial paper market has heard of them.

So, if they were bonafide, there are claims it would be simple to audit. They have not audited them.
I guess my overall point is that the specific, nitty-gritty reasons militaries do one thing over the other is more interesting and enlightening when put into context.

If drones are the weapon of the future, then they will have some kind of advantage over their predecessor. A lot of people in this page are talking as if drones will replace fighters (lol no), cruise missiles (lol no), and other weaponry.

Lets really think about things: What does a Predator Drone really do? How is the military using drones TODAY, and how does that change in the future?

We can see that the #1 advantage of a drone is its __loitering__ capabilities. Missiles can't loiter, and sending a pilot in there to loiter is higher-risk than sending in a drone.

Can __loitering__ help in a fight vs a tank? Yes: if the loitering drone is faster than air support (which it will be, because its at the time/place to support the infantry), then it is reasonable to expect infantry to use a drone rather than call on air-support.

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This is how combat changes. One step at a time, as people incrementally think about the distinct advantages a weapon has over its predecessor. Musket-warfare was such because shooting a bullet-per-minute was better than shooting a bullet-per-1.5 minutes.

Rifle warfare (thanks to the Minié ball) allowed accurate rifles to shoot faster than once-per-minute AND do so accurately. And as such, tactics changed. It was no longer a question of "bullet throughput vs bullet accuracy", an invention happened that allowed both simultaneously.

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What advantages do drones have in combat? That's really the big question that needs to be discussed. Today's modern theory of combat is "Combined Arms". We want to invent devices where "Device X" requires special weaponry, while "Device Y" requires OPPOSITE weaponry.

RPGs kill tanks, but are terrible vs infantry. Machine guns kill infantry, but are terrible vs tanks. SAM kill airplanes, but are terrible vs tanks and infantry.

Each "leg" of your combined arms forces the opponent to make a difficult choice. What gun do I pack in my bags today? Where do drones fit in this puzzle?

As far as I'm concerned, drones are looking increasingly like "infantry replacement", more than anything. Their ability to "loiter" in an area, and probably have specialized weaponry (through with a small payload) means you can carry a wide variety of weapons on a wide variety of different drones, in support of a greater overall mission. At least, if future drones are as cheap as everyone seems to be making them sound...
Author of the post here. When I submitted my resignation last month quite a few Googlers told me they were considering doing something similar. I heard through the grapevine that Facebook is also experiencing somewhat of a mass exodus. And there seems to be quite a bit of zeitgeist around the idea of taking some time off to enjoy life more. I figured I would share my motivations, fears, and plans to help others decide whether or not to go for a sabbatical also. Regardless of the current zeitgeist this sabbatical is also a bet that taking work breaks will actually improve my long-term work success.
Horizontal scaling within TimescaleDB is still geared around time-series data and (distributed) hypertables.

https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/how-to-guides/...

https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/how-to-guides/...
Is this what gvisor is? https://github.com/google/gvisor
> For example, putting line numbers in the first column is non-trivial.

What about linum-mode?
Why don't large businesses want children walking to the park by themselves? What's the large business interest here?
Zero trust security is stupid
> Since Brown didn't trade I fail to see where he violated the law

This article suggests that he may have engaged in conspiracy to commit securities fraud. https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-supreme-court-insider...
Reverse Engineering the NASA Apollo Computer Buffer Unit
I'm going to call BS on that... Ignoring 2020 and looking at their 2019 report (that was released in Jan 2020) we see they had their 47th consecutive year of profit [0]. They are making plenty of money and margin doesn't factor into it when they are pulling down massive profits like this.

[0] https://www.southwestairlinesinvestorrelations.com/news-and-...
Another classic on this subject is Shapin's "Pump and Circumstance" - which is also freely available:

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shapin/files/shapin-pump_c...
That doesn't legitimize it in my eyes, it's still a scam. Ancient Rome was also the leading regional superpower in its day, that doesn't make it OK for them to debase their currency by filling the silver coinage with lead.
No, we need editors so half-cocked idiots don't ruin the credibility of their entire organization.
Before cloud it was frustratingly common for QA to have lesser hardware than the production hardware, but the problem with that is that at best you could get a vendor to overnight you replacements for a hardware failure.

Meanwhile if your QA team has the same hardware as prod, you can cannibalize a QA machine to replace the production hardware that failed.

Your QA probably cares less about being down overnight than your customers do.
A journal can publish a retraction.

The website Retraction Watch[1] aggregates these retractions and provides a database that you can query. Reference management software like Zotero[2] can use this to monitor your collection of papers and notify you when one is retracted.

[1] https://retractionwatch.com/

[2] https://www.zotero.org/blog/retracted-item-notifications/
If you would have clicked on the link to the article, it's explained in a little more detail and a few experts weigh in with what likely happened: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/justice-dept-claws-back-...
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" (1841) is still worth reading. You get to see the first versions of the classic large-scale scams. John Law's bank, the South Sea bubble, tulipomania. Scams go much further back, but mass-market scams had to wait for mass communications. Newspapers powered the first round of large-scale scams.

Most scams today are very similar to some classic scam mentioned in that book. There's not that much innovation.

Kids should be taught the classics in school - the short con, the long con, the big store, the pigeon drop, the badger game, the protection racket, the bait and switch, the Ponzi scheme... The list is not that long.
Who said anything about violent crimes? He brought up that in Victorian England pickpocketing (a non violent crime) carried the death penalty. Even with the ultimate punishment pickpocketing still happened.
It's not that Gladwell just place loose with his facts, conveniently leaving out things that contradict his central thesis. It's that he's often just flat out wrong. So wrong that he doesn't even realize how he blows up his own credibility:

"The sole thing the Marianas had going for them was that they were within range of Japan. But even that was an exaggeration. The truth is that they were within range only under perfect conditions. To reach Japan, a B-29 first needed to be loaded up with twenty thousand pounds of extra fuel. And because that made the plane dangerously overweight, each B-29 also needed a ferocious tailwind to lift it off the runway. This was as crazy a situation as anyone faced throughout the whole war."
Have any details on this? I find those numbers implausible without a context or a citation.
> A collection of 3182 classic 88x31 buttons ...

Seriously, we couldn't find 6 more to get to ... 3188 ?
Sure, some HN comments and their ensuing discussions may be completely unrelated to the posted topic. I've learned a lot from these over the years, and I'm happy to ignore the ones that I don't care about.

But just as there is now a guideline against making irrelevant and unsolicited nitpicky website design complaints, it would be useful to have a guideline against "I thought the article would be about X" types of comments as well. These are similarly pervasive, and of similarly low value. It might be different if they started a discussion about X (power transformers in this case), but they almost never do.
The shifting of population regionally, and the aging of the population, are both good points to consider for proper controls. (In Australia, a fair-skinned population in high-UV latitudes suffers melanoma rates 50% or higher than the US. Accordingly, the promotion of sun-avoidance & sunscreen is even more intense than the US. Their age-adjusted malanoma rate reporting shows the same increase, from the 1980s through 2016: https://www.canceraustralia.gov.au/affected-cancer/cancer-ty...).

But as a longtime observer of trends, I'm pretty confident: people of all ages are conspicuously, consciously avoiding the sun more than in the 60s-80s. Indoor time has risen. Our palest most-sun-sensitive subgroups haven't increased as a proportion of the population - they've shrunk, compared to darker-skinned populations with lower base rates of melanoma.

If contra my impressions, sun exposure time has gone up, that could be due to overconfidence in sunscreens, one of the effects I'm concerned about.

If sunscreens provided the protection claimed, & this drumbeat of "slather it on always!" was an effective message, shouldn't there have been some dent in melanoma rates over the decades?

Lung cancer deaths have gone down with smoking warnings & reduced sales.

Motor vehicle deaths per mile traveled have gone down with new rules & education.

Melanoma rates seem to go up no matter how much more sunscreen is touted, is sold/used, or is strengthened in SPF or formats/staying-power.
The infographic appears to contain a major factual error: "prop 14" should be "prop 47." That doesn't inspire confidence in the rest of the data or its presentation.
You could use Google Lens.

However we're not talking about a domain she knows zero about. We're talking about her building web pages. I'm guessing she's not suggesting that you could throw at her 'build a new OS kernel that brings cryptographic signatures as a base primitive for all operations'. So the reality is she'll be able to Google for n+1 things, not n+1000.

Either way, my point is n+1 Googling isn't the same thing as learning a new skill. It's expanding your knowledge right at the periphery of what you understand.
To add to that: that particular site isn't a cute preschool sandbox for children to go and play in.

We're talking about very active construction, large space rocket, launches, tanks, gasses, cranes, lifts and various other hazards.

At least they are being responsible and have people's safety in mind by controlling accesses. I imagine the local residents are well aware of SpaceX's operations and keep their whereabouts safe.

What is the alternative? No security guards?

Yeah no. I'd rather have my legal department battle it out with the authorities. They made the right call until the babies can all agree.
I'm trying to shoot for the moon, but yeah, so far I keep getting told it's too expensive. Sounds like this 'labor shortage' is definitely just companies don't want to pay, or haven't gotten the memo yet.

I'm still getting told ranges I expected to see two years ago for senior engineers (like pre-pandemic, where Chicago's market just kinda sucks compared to elsewhere and if you're here there's almost no remote jobs elsewhere to get higher compensation, but now there is), not even for principal engineers, which some of these roles are for.

And yet I've had about 25 recruiters reach out to me in the past few days. So there's got to be a lot of demand out there.
I'd be fine with a joke which somehow manages to pun NN transformers, electrical transformers, and the series about robots. That would be an interesting and sufficiently novel joke. It's high surprisal.

I have no problem policing the low-effort, un-novel, unsurprising, lame quips about expecting other use of the word transformer. It adds nothing of value and dilutes threads. I've gotten downvoted for doing it, most of us have, it's a right of passage, and one that I appreciate, since it makes HN comment threads jam-packed with interesting info.
All of the GSM algorithms were weak, and deliberately so. It is well known that the French wanted it that way, while the German side wanted a bit more safety on account of the ongoing Cold War. So compromises like the infamous A5 algorithm were created whose security was mainly based on the algorithm itself being kept a secret - the cardinal sin of cryptography.
He's the only one I'd heard of.
>operators don't deploy GEA-1 any more

in 1st world maybe
He also called for Bush to be prosecuted for “war crimes,” opposes the death penalty, etc. And lots of Hacker News liberals opposed Obama for drone strikes, surveillance, etc.

I recall a pretty strong civil libertarian wing among democrats during the Bush era. I’d say Howard Dean at least had some libertarian tendencies, such as supporting gun rights.
A substantial chunk of DAI is backed by USDC. USDC has never been audited, and has been curiously late with its attestations at precisely the same time the supply of USDC has massively increased.

And the value of ETH backing DAI is dependent on Tether not being fraduluent and instead being worth $1.
Sure it sounds ridiculous if you frame it like that. A prediction from 2000 that, by 2020, you will be able to control your house with your voice and can ask your computer assistant about the weather doesn't seem so absurd. People have been talking about this type of home automation since the 50s. The hot mics connected to the internet are just an implementation detail, people actually care about capability.
Can you cite me a single case of a politically-timed release of information from any of those? And I don't just mean that it had a political impact, I mean that editors deliberately held a story until it could have more effect on an election.
> an agenda to smear the whole American nation, including its people, and including its current government

I think this speaks to a sensitivity on your part, to which you're overreacting. OP never alleged anything of the sort. You inferred that yourself.

The fact that I'm arguing is that the CIA committed coups against democratically elected leaders in many countries, which was ethically wrong, and you seem to agree with that. Great. Afghanistan and Cuba can be their own different examples for the sake of argument. I'm talking about the countries I listed above.

Moving on from that, I would argue that a nation-state has the ultimate authority to decide what is done with the natural resources it controls. If people fairly elect a government which decides to stop selling its resources to foreign companies and keep the resources for its own people, that trumps previous business agreements made by a different regime. Full stop.

But, for the sake of argument, let's say the above scenario is immoral. Is it so immoral that it deserves a coup and installation of a CIA-friendly dictator? I don't think anyone would argue that. The worst it merits is financial compensation to the affected company which can't extract resources anymore.

Finally, I'll elaborate and say that I don't believe any of those coups were entirely for resources - it was for resource access as well as the broader American geopolitical strategy at the time of toppling any regimes deemed too leftist in favor of right-wing dictators. Similar to the Iron Curtain of the Soviet Union; it was about installing puppet states who are loyal to you so that you can extend your sphere of influence as an empire. Neocolonialism at its finest. But the resources were always part of the picture too.