skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The possibility that someone flood the server even for static resources causing bandwidth spiked Bill is scary.

Genuinely curious, is this just a side-effect of the cloud craze or did DDoS attacks become so powerful that old-school approaches of appropriately-sized bare-metal infrastructure with finite but unmetered bandwidth are no longer viable?

The way I see it, you can provision enough unmetered bandwidth to cover your typical load + a safety margin at a flat rate per month, and worst case scenario if the attack is big enough you merely get downtime (allowing you to re-evaluate the situation and decide whether to throw more bandwidth at the problem or purchase attack mitigation services) instead of an infinite bill?

My current ISP gives me 1Gbps unmetered. Worst case scenario the connection is saturated but at no point the ISP will come to me and ask for extra money.
I don't think their culture aligns with the definitions written in the definitions section:

Women is [a] gender term based on self-identification.

but then immediately after when defining Privilege we get

On average women were paid $0.78 for every $1 a man makes.

Pretty likely that what they mean here is female and male rather than man and woman - the person writing this is probably not that used to talking about women and females differently.
1040EZ is basically what you describe. It may not be pre filled but it’s something like two pages, and there’s not much to it.
And how would you solve the compression problem of dealing with all that data? Our brains are running a similar algorithm to mpeg-4 where we discard redundant data and make some basic predictions about movement. If they didn’t we’d waste a lot of time paying attention to unimportant things in our visual field.
We’re not talking about the same thing are we? This conversation is specifically about where dispatchers are sent after a person makes a call requesting law enforcement, giving their address.
I just found one of the products mugin sells is this - https://www.muginuav.com/product/cuav-new-x7-pro-flight-cont... which mentions it can run ArduPilot firmware.
Cities with well thought out public transportation sometimes feel like magic. As a country girl who once moved to a metropolis, the fact that I could walk into literally any subway station and go wherever I wanted in a matter of 30 minutes to an hour at most felt more liberating than I could think of. In a city bigger than some European countries, I had the option to go anywhere I wanted on the weekend for the low price of R$4 and an hour or so listening to music with no stress in my mind.

I hope one day people in the US can experience this feeling as well.
It is legal to sell 100 pennies for more than a $1. Junk silver is this same concept with a different metal, instead of copper it's silver coins.
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Great idea. Just FYI on mobile home page looks good and even the tutorials look good, but the Explore page was offset so as to be unreadable. Also feel like Explore page should put top 5 examples at the top instead of random test examples.

Will definitely try it out.
Are they giving it for free?
Oh man, I'd love to use a betting platform for that if I could. I'd literally bet the vast majority of my net worth in a heartbeat.

Also

>The information is out there for people to make up their own mind.

if this is intended to counter claims of being part of a QAnon-like cult...
Great story, but you've never dreamt in C++.
Wow. Muse Group went from questionable to shady as fuck in 0.01 seconds.
Most people own a car no longer than 10-12 years. If governments are phasing out combustion vehicle sales, I don’t see how 20+ year longevity is relevant when the infrastructure to support such a vehicle might not even exist at that point. Gas stations will wind down at some point as consumption tipping points are reached. Bosch in Germany is already preparing to close some facilities that produce ICE specific components.
It's a separate violation because you'd be breaking then also the military laws and regulations (see other comments why)
I find that these people don't read studies but rather treat scientists as Science.

Scientists are Authority, not science.

It was mind boggling how many scientists made this mistake.
Well the real issue is that we're using N instead of A and D. It is A X (D X D / 2).

And why the sudden helplessness? Just sort the 2 arguments before passing them to the internal Impl.
aka cloud seeding, a lot of country does this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding
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Wow.
Just WOW.

Here I was thinking I was being hyperbolic.
Without paywall/registerwall: https://archive.ph/Lzfwc
We are working very hard to reduce the latency and think we could reach there.
> Other than that, your side project will be seen as a hobby and not an achievement, and will be disregarded.

I think you’ve misunderstood the purpose of a side project for engineers. They’re supposed to be hobby projects that demonstrate the developer’s abilities as well as their commitment to following through on projects.

The OP’s projects are perfect for listing as completed side projects on a Senior Engineer resume. I wouldn’t hesitate to include them on a resume and describe the technologies used to build them.

You definitely don’t need to demonstrate significant traction or revenue for an engineering side project, nor do you need to write a book about it or build a significant community around it. These are ridiculously high standards for including a development side project on a senior engineer resume.

Frankly, if someone were to list “side projects” with significant revenue and a large community, I’m going to assume it’s a business and not a side project. We’d have to have a conversation about how much time and energy it’s going to take away from their employment, and how we can cleanly separate it from interfering with their job. Showing employers that you’re running a side business with significant revenue and therefore significant needs isn’t exactly a bonus when it comes to hiring someone. A fun side project that demonstrates their skills is a bonus, however.
A couple of examples from the UK that I am familiar with of charitable organisations who provide completely awesome services:

https://www.scottishmountainrescue.org/

https://rnli.org/

I'm sure there are many more in the UK and other countries.
Whenever someone says USPS is great, my mind immediately jumps to Newman trying to indict Seinfeld for mail fraud.

Also, "Because the mail never stops..."
I agree completely. We need a way to facilitate interoperability without requiring normal humans to know/care about bytes on a disk in some hierarchy (directory tree) where, frankly, your hierarchy WILL eventually be wrong.

Remember back in the old days, organizing your music files into a directory hierarchy- often organized by band? Then, inevitably, two bands you listen to release a song where they collaborated. Now your system is fucked- where do you put that song? It's why "tagging" things became a thing (emails, magical "Pictures" directory in your OS's file manager, etc).

There has to be some kind of extension to the idea of "tags"...
No doubt I’ll be voted down, but… if you’re going to ask for mature, open discussions, perhaps you ought to also avoid labeling those on the other side of the discussion as “scumbags”. I’m not a fan of Audacity’s current tracking kerfluffle, but this response swings the pendulum too far in the other direction.
And surprise, surprise Wata was just sold to collectorsuniverse.com
I have heard in german-speaking countries they call those style of automobiles "hausfraupanzers". For me, it evokes a silly image of a militant soccer-mom in a tank. I love it.
Ask HN: Should everyone who work on software be called an Engineer?
What's your opinion?
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The automobile did not clean up the streets. The personal automobile was much too expensive for that.

Buses and trams and metros and transport trucks and railways and bicycles cleaned up the streets. The average person didn't own a car and use it daily until much after the streets "cleaned up".
I wish Digital Ocean would allow this. My country's debit/credit cards don't work online reliably, my attached cards can start getting rejected randomly any time. I'm always nervous about getting my account suspended due to missed payments, DO is pretty forgiving thankfully.
Here is the fork:
https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity
My understanding is that a "flying car" is pretty much just a lower-maintenance, easier-to-use, safer and less noisy helicopter. Any helicopter that doesn't have these properties wouldn't work as a flying car, but once (if) someone figures out how to do it, I guess it'll become a feature of other helicopter designs as well.
> Not sure what your last sentence means - without evidence, there are cases when we guess right, and those when we guess wrong. Are you just choosing to ignore the latter?

What I'm saying is that truth is a matter of debate. We believe lots of things based on evidence much less rigorous than a formal proof in many cases - like most modern legal systems, which rely on various types of evidence, and then a jury that must form a consensus.

So saying "there is no evidence" is sort of missing the point. Safe Rust does not have memory safety issues, barring compiler bugs, therefor common sense as well as experience with other languages (Java, C#, etc), would show that that memory safety issues are likely to be far less common. Maybe that isn't the evidence that you're after, but I find that compelling.

To me, the question of "does rust improve upon memory safety relative to C/C++" is obvious to the point that it really doesn't require justification, but that's just me.

I could try to find more evidence, but I'm not sure what would convince you. There's people fuzzing rust code and finding far fewer relevant vulns - but you could find that that's not compelling, or whatever.
> The French government has custom made phones by Thales, ..., for secure, important communications.
Secured ... by Thales?
This is a good distinction.

Side projects = Fun project that demonstrates skills

Side business = Ongoing obligation that could distract from your job.

Be careful in how you present them.
I'll be honest, if someone described me as "scumbags who have tried to turn <n> into spyware" on the issue tracker for a project I maintain, I'd probably block them too. That kind of language really doesn't achieve anything, and any issue-tracker is better off without it.
From what I’ve observed working with users, a pretty huge chunk of them (if not an outright majority) really struggle with file management. Some might not be motivated enough to organize files, and others just fundamentally do not understand how the abstract concept of hierarchical file systems work (programmers are great at dealing with these abstractions; end users generally are not)
That's easily among some of the most disgusting things you could threaten someone with.
So manufacturer says MTOW is 90kg, which likely means they barely got it in the air once at freezing temperatures on a very long tarmac strip. Max speed of 170 km/h would indicate that it's happy cruising at around 120-150 km/h. The place they found it in a barn is 170km away from the Morrocan coast around El Hoceima, so about two hours of flight including take-off and climb. Compared to a specified 7hr max flight time, they'd have to fill it up to about one third, so 9 liters of fuel, or 7kg.

An empty weight of 25kg and 7kg of fuel gives us rougly 32kg of empty take-off mass, and you then could load it up with not-quite 50kg of payload. Significant, but a far cry from the 150kg that was reported.
Intuit is to blame for much of our current US tax fiasco, as are politicians, and key to the bs is this guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist
That's exactly what it is, but it's accurate.
I think it means that neither P=NP nor P!=NP is provable.
Structure is function at this level. Many proteins simply provide binding sites for a specific molecule. Others have multiple binding sites and combine molecules together into larger ones. All of these interactions are governed by the positions of the atoms in the protein, creating a 3D "lock and key" model for specific molecules to fit.
Fastly edge compute now supports JavaScript
> Followed by Khronos refusal that it isn't part of their job to define an SDK, so each newbie has to go through the ritual of passage to learn how to get OS abstraction libraries to show up a 3D accelerated window, math library, font handling library, texture and image loading library, shader compiling infrastructure, scene graph to handle meshes,

That seems to me like a reasonable decision that graphics API does not try to encompass and duplicate many other unrelated APIs and stays focused on graphics.
Worth noting that if someone is a contractor they'll need to file taxes, even if they pay themselves a lower wage (and thus wouldn't show up in the high earners stats). If they're an NHS doctor/nurse who also does some private work, same. Or anyone who has more than one employer, or is in the gig economy. It's not vast swathes of people, but I think it'd be more than 2 or 3%.
So setting aside the specific circumstances of this case, if this guy was unmasked by de-anonymizing data, this should send a shiver up the spines of politicians, journalists, or anyone else who might be targets of blackmail, smear campaigns, etc. With the millions of independent datapoints people are unknowingly emitting every day, I can only imagine this becoming easier and easier.

Maybe this will finally be what it takes to rein in surveillance capitalism. If politicians are threatened, maybe they'll start to take it seriously.
All apps on our platform are either ephemeral or persistent as the user chooses. Ephemeral workspaces by nature are short-lived as long as the user is using them and would be deleted (along with all the user data) immediately after the session ends while persisted workspaces will persist user data across sessions with multiple layers of security. Please read the faqs and privacy policy.
Shouldn't housing be the primary concern here?

It's gone up so much as to eat all those cost savings, where it's only the rich benefitting from the cheaper phone. They're just as unapproachable because people have less to spend after rent
Hmm. I am not even slightly a mechanic, but people do seem to say electric cars need less maintenance than ICE cars. Would electric helicopters (and not just quadcopters) “take off”? I do see a lot of news-or-press-releases about passenger drones, but I can’t tell how realistic any of them are.
People become very accustomed to uncomfortable things in their environment.

I had a terrible neighbor once, and long story short, I had to put up some security cameras on my property to ensure they were no longer doing damage to it. The first week they were up, they called the police on us several times absolutely freaking out that there were all seeing eyes watching them. The next few weeks after that their behavior changed to that of people who knew they were being watched. Within a couple of months, having gotten so used to the cameras being there, they had started resuming their previous behavior problems.

Not long after that I had collected enough evidence to have them removed from the property under criminal and civil threat based almost entirely on things they did on cameras they knew I had setup watching them. It was honestly quite amazing.
It is literally true and Bezos knows it, so he probably is quite sincere.
>people naturally have an instinct to suspect and react against bad behavior in other people, but this instinct is muted when they interact with technology.

That seems like an evolutionary trait where survival considers if you're being closely watched, the thing watching you is a predator and the predator is closely connected to the observation: they're right there using their eyes watching you waiting on an opportunity to attack you in some way.

With technology, specifically cameras, the predators are removed from the observation by distance and perhaps even significant time. A camera by itself isn't going to hurt you, it's largely an inanimate object as far as an immediate danger is concerned.

People may be watching and they may even be doing so predatorily but they're not registered as a threat to us even if they are a threat because we don't see them. Those instincts lack assessment for long reactionary time horizons. Your consciousness needs to perform a risk assessment because lower functions just don't see an immediate danger there, there's no evolutionary precedent. Cameraman mentioned illustrated the difference because he reconnected the surveillance to the potential predator.

We don't have a consciously educated population about the dangerous of surveillance so this is what we see.
"I think you’ve misunderstood the purpose of a side project for engineers. They’re supposed to be hobby projects that demonstrate the developer’s abilities as well as their commitment to following through on projects."

Most managers at my company view side projects positively. One of the main reasons is that it shows the person has a creative mind and is at least a little passionate about technology/coding and learning on their own.
Just like it was the case with planes and even cars at the beginning, they once were a toy for only the rich.
Why isn’t law enforcement being held accountable as well? As long as it’s possible to wreak havoc with a single phone call or text message, there will always be people who will do it. Law enforcement needs to be prepared for that. Why is this still happening?
Just closing the issue with no further comment on such an important allegation is not good though.

I know my wife recently installed Audacity; I'm going to scramble to figure out what the state of this is now.

Thanks Antisol for bringing it to my attention!
In my book you lose the right to not be called a scumbag when you start acting like a scumbag.

Blocking me without comment for asking a legitimate question which is not in violation of the code of conduct is the act of a scumbag.

If you'd like to debate me on this point, please begin.
I’d honestly list a side project that highlights the skills relevant to the job over a job where you used irrelevant skills.

But you have to come strong with the side project. The site/app better be up, you better have a repo, and it better be something beyond a todo-app or a bootcamp project.
Yep, Mugin are reselling the majority of the stuff in their electronics category - they mostly make airframes AFAIK.

A Pixhawk Cube or similar is around the £250 mark.
My experience with used book stores lately is the opposite of many other comments here.

It’s hard to find anything that’s not books 2 through the penultimate book of a airport novel trade paperback at my local second-hand book store. There is a bit of a “no one goes there anymore, it’s too crowded” feeling.

Because of how easy it is to look up the going rate for a used book online these days, a lot of books go straight to eBay/Amazon and don’t even make it to the store. Those that make it to the store are set aside to be sold online and don’t make it to the shelves. Those that make it to the shelves are almost immediately bought if there is any interest in them at all before you even make it to the store. The end result is that the books on the shelves are the books no one wants and you probably won’t either.

The same thing has been happening with used video games where the only games on the shelves are old versions of yearly licensed sports games.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27905788
lol the OP saying "I was just curious" about "these scumbags" is about as honest as the "this totally was not a threat" from the MuseScore guy.

Why be so tone-deaf or intellectually dishonest.
Audacity is dead, thanks to the psychos at MuseGroup. One of the forks will take over, no worries.

Until a clear fork wins out, people can always use Debian's version [1], which will of course not contain the the shenanigans as they are DFSG-incompatible [2].

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/audacity

[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990737
I guess the sentiment is that some people believe it'd have been better if he'd paid his employees better, rather than join the existing group of companies on a venture that doesn't show obvious benefits for the current world (aside from R&D, which might be tricky to explain the joys of to a delivery driver stressed from their 9-9 job). The bit that stings is that he could have done both and still been the richest man in the world.
Counterpoint: Afghanistan.

It's become a rite of passage for empires to try and fail there. Next up, China?
City cores are typically concrete, commercial wastelands.

The "good stuff" that brings character to a city overall is almost never megadevelopments, but preserving neighborhoods.

East Austin is an example.
One of the features I used to love on "classic" MacOS was the Stationery Pad.

Basically you could create a file, then mark it as a "Stationery Pad". Next time you double-clicked it in the Finder, it created a copy and then opened the associated application.

Instant templating in a way that ordinary users understood.

(And yes, it still works on OSX/macOS)
> Moreover, ignoring racial issues only reinforces racism by making it harder to denounce.

This is interesting. Shouldn't it be as easy as "this guy here thinks races exist and that some are somehow better/worse"?
It is probably best for them to develop their own solutions based upon their own needs and what they have access to. Offering suggestions is certainly valid, but recognizing that they may not be heeded for various reasons is important. Just look at what happened when the author told his brother that he needed a laptop.
Basically not a concern worth trying to mitigate up front.

The amount of engineering effort that gets wasted trying to avoid cloud vendor lock-in far outweighs any benefits.

In my experience, teams who go out of their way to avoid using cloud vendor tools for fear of lock-in end up needing more engineers and more time to accomplish the same task. Are you really gaining any benefits by avoiding vendor lock-in if you have to invest another $200-400K per year or more in hiring additional engineers to get the job done? The answer is almost always no.

I always advise teams to use whatever cloud vendor tools are available to accelerate their timelines and lighten the engineering load. If you arrive at an unlikely situation that requires vendor change, you can always invest the extra engineering effort after that decision is made. Don’t invest the effort for a hypothetical vendor change that will likely never happen.
On what grounds is this downvoted?
Basically, there's no solution at this level of granularity. One can also argue that the desktop is where the most important stuff is that we least want hacked, e.g., your family photos, documents, other stuff with a high priority of not being backed up, so we must treat security even higher than a server at this point.

I call these the "already lost" situations. You've already lost, we're just arguing about how to distribute the lossage. While those discussions aren't completely pointless, it is important to keep it clear in our head we're arguing about how to pick up the bodies at a crash site and not how to prevent the crash in the first place; it's a different mindset.

Despite some moderately-justified mockery in the other messages in this thread, the answer really is "just don't crash and have secure code here", which is to say, "don't lose". It's exceeding hard to write and it's a very high bar, but at the same time, it's very difficult to imagine how to secure a single system when you can't even stipulate a core of trusted software exists. If you don't even have a foundation, you're not going to build a secure structure. In this case, by "secure" I don't just mean security, but also, functionality and everything else.