skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm always astonished that some (random) people feel more confident on their brand analysis than the best people at this specific topic paid thousands of dollars at Apple to do just that. Or maybe I'm the one who is wrong

I'm afraid you are wrong.

I'm also astonished that Google has allowed search to detoriate to a point where competition actually has a chance.

I'm astonished that Microsoft cheapest their brand by serving me ads on my Windows with Professional license.

and probably a few other things.
also:

Section 6 subsection d, sentence 3: If the place to copy the object code is a network server, the Corresponding Source may be on a different server (operated by you or a third party) that supports equivalent copying facilities, provided you maintain clear directions next to the object code saying where to find the Corresponding Source. Regardless of what server hosts the Corresponding Source, you remain obligated to ensure that it is available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements.
You believe that retailers secretly hate the mentally ill and drug addicts, and are engaging in a decades long nation wide secret conspiracy to get them thrown in prison?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that they probably just don't like people stealing from them.
Ask HN: Should you say your product is in beta in the website or not?
In our website we clearly state that we are in beta testing phase and that we're looking for beta testers.

I was convinced that being clear on this was good. But three times already other people have told me to, at the very least, hide it a bit as it will scare away potential users.

So, I'm confused. Should I just stick to a "try it for free" msg (as in fact, as of today, you cannot yet buy the product) instead of saying we're beta testing?
In context, it means that the people being put in charge, the "majors and lt colonels," have never done the job, so they're unqualified, no matter how smart and dedicated.
Automotive EE here. Worth noting that almost every infotainment system is android or Linux-based right now.

They crash all the time. They’re absolutely awful quality. they are made almost exclusively with cheap foreign engineering. It’s really the wild west when it comes to things.

The vehicle interfaces are usually subsystem modules in the radio. Your Linux side talks to your “vehicle side” over usb, uart, SPI, etc. There is still a good module there most of the time, but it has 100% trust of its main processor.

Since 2018, US vehicles since almost all come with a firewall to separate the radio/telemetric/infotainment busses from the vehicle busses.

Their solution wasn’t to harden the fancy systems, it was just to separate them from the important ones. So the vulnerabilities are still there, just moved a little.

I despise these big stupid complicated displays that encourage accidents.
I recently started using hosted codespaces (because I bought a apple M1 and ran into a lot of issues with compilation)

I started with gitpod and then moved to GitHub codespaces after 1 weeks.

GitHub codespaces is just miles better in terms of features AND first class integration AND reliability (I gave up on gitpod after 2 consecutive nights of not being able to connect into my pod).

While I hope gitpod all the best and want them to do super well. It is hard for me to imagine going back
If you're into rainy days, you might also want to try Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
I've always tried to encourage the following format for all professional questions of that sort:

"a) I do exactly this, b) expected this outcome, c) but got this instead"

Short and to the point, it's remarkable how much easier it makes things for everyone. I think I got it off usenet at some time.
I'm honestly surprised this is on HN, but it's good that it is.

I worked with Nic on and off for almost his entire tenure while I was CTO for Kessel Run and I can state with full confidence that this is at best him mis-representing his importance and the problems with the DoD IT; and at worst this is his attempt to spin his being fired (or being asked to resign ala Nixon) by the incoming Secretary (timing here is not just a coincidence).

A couple of core points, that are important to keep in mind that have nothing to do with Nic's character, integrity, communication style or technical capabilities (which is a separate and important topic but not suitable for this public forum IMO):

- The CSO position was made up by him, it's not related to any GSA Schedule and it had about the kind of charter you would expect for the position: Namely ill-defined and loosely empowered.

- There was no office of the CSO in the sense that it was not congressionally funded, had no budget, no personnel and no real authority for writing, implementing policy or actually doing engineering.

- Nic never held a clearance, and as a result was never actually involved or aware of most of the programs that he intended to impact

- His primary mission seemed to be to push any organization that was developing software for the USAF to immediately adopt microservices architectures, containers/kubernetes and a couple of very specific "DevSecOps" practices - and specifically to the specifications that he approved/suggested. Make of that what you will.

That said, a lot of what he says is true and IT/network infrastructure, development and test etc... in the DoD is far from modern and in some places completely broken. Other places, where it matters a lot it's like nothing you've ever seen or will likely see in the commercial sector for decades.

Bottom line, I suggest taking this tirade with an EXTREME amount of salt.
I've run into a very similar issue, but it was bots - not the CDN provider.

Every day (to this day) we're getting thousands of requests for images that no longer exist on our CDN (because they were stale/deleted). The CDN normally does not hit the origin machine (where the images are hosted) unless it cannot find the images on the CDN, at which point it queries the origin for the image. Problem was, the image no longer existed on the origin. I didn't expect the origin would receive much traffic, but suddenly it's receiving a ton of traffic.

I was very confused because, at first glance, it looked like I was being attacked by my own CDN provider given the tremendous traffic and the fact that the CDN provider was the only thing allowed to access that box (the origin).

At any rate, I contacted the CDN provider and informed them that thousands of requests that resulted in 404's were taking down my website. They told me there was nothing they could do.

In any case, I managed to wrangle together some new infra to handle it. I don't think whoever was hitting the CDN for those images was malicious. However, it occurred to me that had they been malicious, then they could have just hit random non-existent file-names at a much higher rate and done a lot more damage.
> This is 100% a problem with younger, bootcamp-"educated" devs, in my experience.

You'll get a lot of pushback here but it's definitely true.

That doesn't mean it doesn't happen with CS grads as well, but it's quite rampant among bootcamp devs. I think the reason for that is that, since the bootcamps are so short, they "stay on rails" and mostly work on simple projects (that will give out something they can push to a github repo and use as a portfolio).

It's the same with git. Every bootcamp will use git and claim to teach it to their grads, but then watch them do anything on a repo with multiple users. A lot of them just rote memorized commands to pull and push to main and that's it. Branching? Rebase? Using the commit history? Never heard of.

For new hires from serious Engineering or CS Degree, they should have had at least a few classes dedicated to projects where they built something non-trivial. On top of theoretical classes teaching the fundamentals.
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The best way to send me your request is probably to send me a DM on Instagram or to email me (josh@everymanbio.com). Depending on how many requests there are, it may take me some time to get it to you - but I will.

A few $ donation for shipping would be helpful, but not required.

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Restrictions unfortunately play a large part, e.g. changes to Production can only be done by request.

Requests then take weeks to be completed even though the actual work involved can be measured in minutes

Another core issue for me is the ratio between challenging tasks and more simple tasks.

There should always be a few tasks to work on that are challenging, otherwise procrastination sets in which can turn into some form of burnout if nothing is done.
Apples and oranges. Tesla AutoPilot is a driver assistance system not an autonomous vehicle. It doesn’t even claim to avoid these situations, hence the need for full attention by the driver.

AP has billions, not millions of miles driven FWIW.
unfortunately your example doesnt do that
Fun fact about the USAF: pilots are selected based on personnel's assessment of a cadet's probability of making general officer. Aptitude for flying and piloting ability have nothing to do with the assessment, which occurs before pilot training. As a result, many Air Force pilots are awful pilots, but they are world class ass kisssers and social climbers.
Initially I was considering this would be farming more senseless production to China where you can feel good about the pollution because it isn’t seen, it isn’t tallied, and they won’t conform to economic policies designed to curb it. Ignoring the potential for slave labor and poor working conditions. Then you have the shipping of vending machines from China to all over the USA. Power, parts, these are made cheaply to fail so probably while more replacements than parts.

All to treat 99% of people like criminals because we lack the conviction to actually do something about a shoplifting problem.

But I have changed my mind. I was not aware vending machines are available on Amazon.
...what? The average Texan, as it turns out, isn't literally Wyatt Earp. It would be shocking if a random Best Buy manager stopped a shoplifter with a firearm—not to mention probably in violation of Best Buy's policies for handling shoplifting.

The average cashier's ability to administer lethal force is probably not a major influence on the prevalence of shoplifting in Texas.
I think this exists already. It's just an LED sign where there is normally a speed limit sign, and it adjusts up and down depending on conditions.
It is also the opinion of the people who wrote the built-in webserver. If you try to run it in production mode, it'll emits this warning on startup:

> WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
> Use a production WSGI server instead.

I don't expect junior devs to have a sense for what is production-grade and what is not, but if they try to ship software that explicitly warns against being used in production, you've got a real liability on your hands.
I'm more skeptical of MS/Github taking over the entire developer ecosystem. Have to admire their execution of this strategy so far
Im not sure we’ll “go back” to the happy days anymore. Even with booster shots my impression is we have a deadly disease that’s here to stay. But people lived with constant plague for hundreds of years, we just convinced ourselves we’d “left that behind” and that might not be true anymore. HIV and COVID demonstrate modern plagues can still come and overwhelm us.

No one ever went back to pre-HIV, we still use condoms. We just don’t let people die of it quite so easily anymore. But there was never a moment where HIV has stopped being a problem or having ended the possibility of non-deadly unprotected sex. Maybe COVID is the same - we will remember the pre COVID days as this wonderful time where we didn’t have to shoot RNA onto our arms every six months.
Always remember the law of unintended consequences.

Solving one problem by “building up” might create an endless variety of new quality of life issues.

Take it from a current city-dweller, living in a dense concrete jungle can be a miserable, soul-crushing existence that’s a particularly horrendous place for raising children.
Depending on whether you count internal properties, there's the MSN icon on the desktop by default on Win95.
Ok, thanks. I appreciate your opinion on it and guess you are right.
While Tesla Delays, Rivals and Drivers Move On
WebAuthn is the good case, which is the case you didn't break since it doesn't care about any of this. And you made the bad cases worse. So good news I guess, "At least Microsoft aren't as bad at this as tinus_hn".
Just a note here that using loaded adjectives like "Nazi" makes your writing look thoughtless, uncritical and unperceptive.

TLDR: "Nazi" gets you ignored.
I would wager that Etsy (and most big cloud-native unicorns) probably has far, far, far superior infra, SW & ops in place than just about any gov agency... and the ones that don't (Zoom) get called out and are forced to fix it.
Two notes on this:

1) If the military gets it right with anything, it's encryption. This isn't connecting to the aircraft over the Internet using Verisign PKI. You're not gonna man-in-the-middle inject your own code into the update. The only attack vector is the software supply chain itself, but that is already an attack vector regardless of how the software gets loaded.

2) Part of the purpose of being able to do something like this is to push new software capabilities to platforms that can't be brought back to manually do it at all, like satellites in orbit. A software update that doesn't require you to launch a new rocket into space can save billions.
By default it doesnt, and although I'd certainly advise going over all Brave's settings once, then you have the safest (as in not outdated like some other privacy forks) and privacy respecting Chrome based browser around.
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> caused by misinformation

It's so deadly it requires misinformation to kill people? Why do you think it's taking years for the public to reach consensus, if this is such a threat?
The passive-aggressive lie that is "unlimited PTO" is part of the growing toxicity of startup work environments.
In the first weeks of the pandemic when there was a shortage of surgical masks? Any cloth was better than nothing. Several months into the pandemic? Would have liked to see a program to distribute "better" masks and retire the bad ones.
When I've been at this stage, I've already signed an NDA for the interview and can be told the relevant info.
You're not looking very hard for counter examples.

Is the screen actors guild punishing Will Smith and rewarding struggling, untalented commercial actors?

Is the NBA player's association punishing LeBron and rewarding D league players?

Is there even such a thing a "superstar" plumber? I mean, I'm sure there are awful plumbers and amazing plumbers - but do how much can they scale, realistically?
Definitely not just European, everywhere around the world. I am in Canada and am feeling this very strongly. Can't image Australia right now
Does it though? It seems instead the incentive might be to create broad and accessible works that will appeal to the widest audience. Marvel movies are produced and performed with a high level of quality; yet the stories are simple, unchallenging, and easily accessible.

It's also possible to create content that's more experimental and creative, by focusing on more niche audiences. This is evidenced by the current golden age of TV and streaming, with a wide variety of dramas, comedies, documentaries, etc.
A lot of unions can be very 'by the book' and there can be malicious compliance. There can also be multiple unions with very specific roles.

From a quick search:

> If your booth is a 10×10 or smaller, you may install and dismantle your own exhibit – provided you meet these requirements:

> 1. The Set-up can be accomplished in 1/2 hour or less.

> 2. No tools are required.

> 3. Individuals performing the work must be full-time employees of the exhibiting company and cary identification to verify this fact.

> Exhibitors are allowed to unpack and repack their own product (if it is cartons, not crates). They are also allowed to do technical work on their machines, such as balancing, programming, cleaning of machines, etc. Exhibitors may “hand carry” or use nothing larger than a two wheel baggage cart (rubber or plastic wheels only) to move their items.

* http://www.absoluteiandd.com/union-rules/new-york-trade-show...

> Convention center guidelines dictate that any gear one person can't carry with their hands alone must be handled by official union labor. In other words, you have to pay for people to lug your TVs and booth props from the loading dock to your booth, and it's not exactly cheap.

* https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-02-21-the-costs-...

Now if you have similar rules internal to your company, if you annoy the wrong people, they can simply act in a strictly 'compliant fashion'.
> Apple has repeatedly assured its customers that the devices they buy are theirs

That is definetly not true. Apple has always been anti-ownership. By making the OS closed source, preventing installation of other OS, preventing sideloading applications, preventing self repair, preventing parts distribution etc etc.

What they used to say is that what's on your device stays on your device, and that you decide what you share. And they stay true to that promise. If you don't want to share you pictures with Apple, you don't use iCloud photos, end of the story.

> openly installing a backdoor on my phone

A backdoor is defined by two characteristics: one, the user do not know the existence of the backdoor. Two, the backdoor allows the attacker to bypass device security in order to gain access. You know the existence of the scanning feature, and this feature does not allow Apple nor anyone to gain access or information about what's on your phone without your consent. It is not a backdoor in any way you can think of it.
> And I thank god both my app developers and operations people aren't assholes like you.

Uhh... can we chill with the personal insults a bit?
WOW... there's a lot of insight and work put into that rant.

I personally have little faith those leading the CDC et al, yet I and my family are all fully vaccinated. At this point I'm trusting the inertia built up in the system, not the people leading it.

I wish things would improve, but I'm too exhausted (by long covid) to waste my energy on hope.
You probably walk by people carrying guns every day and never notice
Others have already sung the praises of Synology boxes, so I won't repeat (and do a worse job of it) what has already been said. But I will say this, the DS410 in the garage is still plugging away after all these years. How many years? The last two digits of Synology model numbers represent the year they were made. Eleven years of hourly Mac backups, document and picture storage, and I paid the eye-watering sum for the camera storage license, so cameras are hitting disks all day, too. Without looking, there are four of what I believe to be WD Greens, and I've had just the one die. Still have a backup in the closet that I've never used. (Granted, drive longevity probably has little to do with the NAS brand.)

Yeah, it's slow, long in the tooth, and maybe I should replace it this year. But I'll replace it with another Synology.
you only think that because you equivocated on what the word exchange means in this context
I see this a lot on some leisure area in Berlin here (the old airport Tempelhof). The problem is that there usually is a big difference in skill level betwen cyclists and rollerbladers. Cyclists are normally quite experienced in what they do, and can control their space usage pretty well. Rollerbladers only do it once a week at best, and stumble around like drunk teenagers, going very wide and slow. A skilled rollerblader wouldn't really need more space than a cyclist.
Stop drinking the kool aid, buh.

If you have to go over the settings... A safe, privacy respecting browser wouldn't resort to any shady tactics in the first place.
It's all real.

Violent crimes had a multi-decade drop. SF is a very localized anomaly in regards to property crimes.
Same, I switched to FireFox recently as well. Lol if they think they can make these changes, and remain dominant (speaking Apple as well), then they should look at what happened to Freenode. Personally, I'm really just lazy, but I can go back to compiling my own Linux distros if it means I can control my system.
> You might argue that a store will charge higher prices in an environment with shoplifting than without, but how much does that really boil down to in terms of the customer's final bill?

This is clearly not about meat and cheese. This is about stamping out the attitude that some people have that allow them to walk into a store and just ...take stuff. This time it was from a large company. Next time it's from your house or car.
What is the cost of living in a civil society where people don't routinely steal? Apparently, in a world where police are unwilling to respond it's acts like this. Thank you OP.
Unpopular opinion but I mostly donate to charities that are confirmed to spend the money on more than administrative people. Open source donations I make for software I use. If an open source thing comes around that can replace my Samsung phone I'd buy in a heartbeat.
They'd probably say "smartly written". But of course that wasn't the original phrase. My point was solely that it's not strange to us.
> 50-something or older executive

Do you mean to imply or assume that 50-somethings are unfamiliar with marijuana? It was already common for Baby Boomers, who are older than that.

What happens is that open-minded, pot-smoking 20-somethings think 50-somethings are close-minded and ignorant. Then 30 years later many of those 20-somethings are the exact same as their predecessors. Instead of dismissing the older generation, the 20-somethings might consider how they will avoid that fate.
This hasn't caught up to the change in presentation of the pistol emoji: the version presented clearly depicts a revolver:

https://openmoji.org/library/#emoji=1F52B