skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there some resource that lists out all these different stories or a timeline of them even going back before the recent whistleblower stories from WSJ? I feel like it is hard to hold onto the context of these companies' overall track record over a longer period of time. The reason I ask this, is I feel like these stories will enter public conscience and quickly fade away without any accountability or changes. Same for Google with the recent allegations from the court filing.
what do you use for the display?
Pseudonymity is where its at if it can be done well...where its verified that this is an actual person and not a sovereign or political party troll farm. But at the same time protecting ones true identity. Platforms right now are in charge of that vetting process and try their best but its really just not working well.
I wonder how the fan noise is going to be. My old (late 2013) MBP is dead silent unless I'm running something heavy like a video game.
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer[0] covers the issues that are causing this. They are quite complex, and counter-intuitive to the way streets have been designed after WWII.

Traffic engineers aim for speed and volume on roadways (point A to point B), but they also do the same for streets, which should be more focused on the surrounding environment and the neighborhood, a destination for some locals. Why would we want to maximize traffic volume and speed in a neighborhood where people are out and about? For safety, we should be slowing down speeds on streets. Speed is the primary factor in whether a collision will result in death or injury.

But the speed a driver will go is dependent on the how risky it is. Most people will exceed the speed limit, because roads have been designed to be safe at even higher speeds than the speed limit. Throw some obstacles near streets (trees, parked cars, sharp turns with blind spots, kids playing outside nearby), and usually people will slow down at least a bit.

If we want safer streets, we need to make it riskier to speed. An interesting statistic provided by the book was that insurance companies found that Massachusetts was the state most likely to involve car crashes per vehicle mile traveled. But another study showed that Massachusetts has the least amount of fatalities from traffic collisions. Because the roads are hard to navigate with many variables all around, increasing the risk of speeding. The states with the highest fatality percentage were mostly in the midwest where roads are long, straight, and safe to speed on.

We need to slow cars down. Drive safely everyone, or better yet, don't drive.

[0]https://www.confessions.engineer/
Ok, so it’s 35%. That’s still a fairly large number.
Not at all. I'd be leery of somebody who jumped to a big, complicated, expensive solution instead of something simple for a simple problem. Been there, done that, it sucks, and if you're not in a position where you can slap it down early, you end up having to support that poor decision after the person who instigated it has departed.
Noted social commentator “the unabomber”.
> when it was several orders of magnitude lower than when I should even have begun worrying about that

Really confused by this phrase. What does it mean?
> Pedestrian fatalities have increased by over 50% since 2010.

2010 in the US was 11.4 death per 100 K population. 2019 is 11.9 / 100 K. So it went a bit up but overall the curve seems to be going down.

> Might the regulatory capture of the car and Highway industries

Highway deaths in, say, France aren't even 10% of the secondary roads + cities deaths. Not sure what the highway has to do with all this.
Past related threads:

Risky business: linking Toxoplasma infection and entrepreneurship behavior - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18762544 - Dec 2018 (30 comments)

Toxoplasma gondii may help promote the entrepreneurial spirit? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17615209 - July 2018 (4 comments)
at some point in time you could crash solaris kernel by running a dtrace program that would divide INT_MIN by -1.
What do you mean “force them to invest”? This is a tax on unrealized capital gains. The money is already invested. If anything they’d need to sell investments to pay the tax.
At this be point wasn't holding wrongfully imprisoned people justified by "well if they didn't hate the USA before they most certainly do now"
It’s positive for their market position in that it raises the barrier of entry for new competitors, but it’s bad for them in terms of retention and time spent on site.

Outrage keeps people hooked and engaged. Misinformation is big business. They’ll lose ad revenue as well, both if there are stricter controls on/around having children on these sites and the ad revenue for the misinformation campaigns.

Not to mention that the crazy will move elsewhere. Maybe that’s fine, but those people both create and consumer a lot of content. We’ve seen this with YouTube. The reason the quickly recommend more intense, controversial, conspiratorial content is that people engage with more videos for longer.
It depends on what you conceive of the school as - is it an educational institution that has an incentive to improve the lives of each one of its students, incurring variable cost for each? Or is it a fishing expedition to land as many students as possible for as cheaply as possible, and letting the ones who were going to get jobs on their own anyway pay for the rest?
>A shame that thermal/power limitations aren't investigated.

It's covered in the comments, along with when the "crank up the fans" mode would be useful.

>Any pure CPU or GPU workload doesn't come close to the thermal limits of the machine. And even a moderate mixed workload like Premiere Pro didn't benefit from High Power mode.

It has a reason to exist, but that reason is close to rendering a video overnight - as in a very hard and very sustained total system workload.

https://www.anandtech.com/comments/17024/apple-m1-max-perfor...
Pics?! I would love to see this setup. I am so jelly. I've just got a single 32inch 4k dell and a U2719DC on the right.
Not the best example, as school busses are actually some of the safest vehicles on the road.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/road-safety/school-bus-safety
Facebook Became Boomerbook
I have the somewhat weird inverse problem. I've inherited so many services and such that deal with data in the 100MB-10GB range (much of which could even be streamed!) and all have been written to do ridiculous things to distribute the work. They even manage to sometimes make it not fit at first because they're loading UTF-8 into UTF-32 or quadruple indirecting uninterned strings or whatnot. (You ain't seen nothing until you've seen a Java UUID class implemented as `List<Byte>` - with length 32!) Most of the company looked at me like I was crazy when I said we'd be fine loading our next-gen 2TB datasets directly into RAM with some trivial sharding.

I have also worked with people who could cram an unbelievable amount of content into a GBA ROM but struggled to get a 10 node webserver cluster to do 10k/sec.

So yeah, I don't think the knowledge automatically works both ways from either side. Some people know how scaling works, but even more only know how to operate at specific scales.
Same here. As a consultant I often find large “enterprise-style” and I get paid to make them a tenth of the size and with much less redirection. Simple is better.
It limits how many menus your apps can have or makes them draw around it. If you enable compatibility mode you'll be back to an even fatter bezel which looks like dog shit.

Rationalize that away.
If the image is accurate I think "motion led" would also be in scope for initial collection. There is a filtering process after the search term net that determines whether it is in scope for the warrant. Given the dubious framing of these search terms and past examples like the NSA watching every Linux Journal visitor I'm disinclined to trust such a process. RIP to work schedule of the poor intern who has to weed out all the results for suburban parents setting up Halloween decorations with glowing eyes.
CDC says there are "60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year." That's a lot of people protecting themselves and their loved ones while using a firearm.

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/fastfact.htm...
USB-C adoption mostly went fine, though. Or as fine as could be expected.

I think the past five years can be more easily explained with — ironically — a Steve Jobs quote:

> When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks, because that's what you needed on the farm. But as vehicles started to be used in the urban centers, cars got more popular … PCs are going to be like trucks. They're still going to be around, they're still going to have a lot of value, but they're going to be used by one out of X people.

And that's what the Mac team lost sight of; they tried to make Pro Macs that were sports cars. Maybe the Macbook Air is an affordable sports car of sorts (do they still make Mazda Miatas?), but the Macbook Pro is and should be a truck.
Ever think that its people like you that drive people to not want to turn on their cameras? The fear of constantly being watched and judged? If someone is working remotely the way they look or if they have not showered is completely irrelevant. Only questions that matter are is the work getting done and is the person answering questions competently. Nothing else should matter, least of all if you can watch them on cam.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/24/golden-hamm...

This is a painful read. $814 for a container for pencils? Really? Even more egregious is highly-paid (and I really mean, highly paid, even more than most SV people) employees who do not show up for work (the kicker: they also got bonuses, apparently)!

But this is chump change compared to some of the excesses of last year. The Paycheck Protection Program was basically a huge stimulus program, with many loans being 'forgiven'. That's right, going concerns that anticipated difficulties in operating their businesses (note that they had not actually run into trouble) took out these loans that were later forgiven. This program was nearly a trillion. That's a Trillion. With a T. I'm sure some of this saved businesses from going under, tiding them over until they could recover, but in a highly inefficient, wasteful way. Of course, it will be cast as 'Stimulus' when fiscally-minded people ask for an accounting, and more taxes, such as this one, which lays hands on unrealized gains, will be proposed to fund such 'Stimulus' benders!
You've created quite a strawman here. None of that is really necessary. Each individual country can legislate how they want Visa to operate within their borders and Visa can take it or leave it. Most major countries or regions have their own payment rails, and if Visa wants to play, they'll have to play by the rules. It's not nearly as hard as you make it out to be. No UN needed.
Honestly, this is just Microsoft being Microsoft. I was never convinced that their F/OSS strategy ("MS <3 Linux") was anything other than either a move for power, or to promote lock-in – we now have it from the horse's mouth: they want both.
This is why you have a full product line, right? You can make one laptop that prioritises weight and thinness, and you can make another one that prioritises power, features, etc.

The problem with the previous Macbook product line was that all products had the same compromises. Design purity, and thinness over everything else. There was no choice for a "pro" machine that had a different set of tradeoffs to achieve pro features.
Having lived around the Amish, I've taken some inspiration from them in various aspects of life. I feel they have a lot to teach us in regards to living a content life. Being here now, I obviously don't subscribe to their philosophy wholesale, but I do sometimes ask myself what the Amish might do in certain situations.

Just one example: If I can accomplish a task with unpowered hand tools, I'll do so, even if it's less "efficient" than buying/renting an internal combustion engine or electric powered device that would do the same. I've built many things this way and have taken greater satisfaction from not just the end result, but the creation process. Other healthy side effects are increased independence from external industry, skills development, less cost to the environment, and sometimes free exercise.
Nope but you can easily charge your phone, get service, or just ask someone on the station when the train is coming in NYC.
African Cyberthreat Assessment Report [pdf]
>You know, you can always do a bank transfer.

Lol. In my country there is no easy way to do an international bank transfer. Crypto is literally the only solution I can imagine if I want to donate a few bucks to a FOSS project, all other options would be too much effort and too expensive.
What disingenuous nonsense. The press would have been ALL OVER this story if it was Don Jr.'s laptop. How much press did the Steele "dossier" get even though it was total fabrication?

If the establishment refuses to even look at evidence, then *of course" no evidence will be passed to them.
Hi I wrote this piece and am perhaps still better known here as the founder of CoderPad, etc. I'm happy to answer any questions throughout the day, so long as they are on-topic and civil.
This is why you don't wipe glass(es) with paper cloths, micro scratches will eventually make it look like sanded glass.
"That’s countered, or partially, with the ability to not get in an accident being higher due to lower mass though."

I'm not sure that's really true. There are tons of variables that can affect performance. Like tire size/type, center of gravity, brakes, etc.

Driver attention, knowledge, and skill are much more important. I believe 90% of driving is mental and the majority of accidents are due to poor choices, which seem from things like not understanding vehicle capability and limits, not knowing the law, or not paying attention.
off topic but I recently started working with an Israeli tech company and I'm amazed by the culture they have, what about Israel produces such high levels of entrepreneurship?
Your ID is your face, etc. If you're protesting in a place that you need to worry about being identified and targeted by the ruling authority, covering your face alone likely isn't enough anyhow.
Too bad those people can spread it to others who have a lesser chance of survival even with mitigations. What’s to respect about that? If it only effected them, sure, do whatever. But it doesn’t.
Car crashes are still news worthy. My local news org reports on them daily. Sometimes they are the website equivalent of front-page news.

Americans definitely care a lot about car accidents. There's an entire government organization (NHSTA) dedicated to collecting statistics on car accidents and working with manufactures to reduce car fatalities by designing crash tests that simulate the most deadly types of accidents. There's also a separate organization funded by insurance companies (IIHS) that does roughly the same thing.
I read it as "the database could increase in size by several orders of magnitude and still fit in memory"
I posted a BBC article and a quote to directly answer someone's question about why this may have been important during the campaign, specifically how the laptop story would relate back to Joe Biden. I posted this because a lot of people, at the time, thought the story was just about Hunter Biden smoking crack with escorts.

People might remember we were all bombarded with odd stories about "pee tapes," and I'm supposed to just believe that the Hunter Biden laptop story was discredited simply because Fox News or NYPost were involved in breaking it? The fucking National Enquirer broke the story that completely ruined John Edwards career in politics.

And for clarity, I'm not saying I know what is true or not about the Hunter Biden laptop story, I'm only saying it was worth allowing it to circulate on social media like any other news story from pee tapes to John Edwards.
In a similar case in Ireland they ruled in favor of the data controller:

> Following an eight-month investigation, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) have ruled that individuals do not have an 'absolute right' to have their names spelled with fadas.

https://ireland.bloomsburyprofessional.com/blog/no-right-to-...
Thank you for this wonderful piece of software.

my use of it for hobbyist projects helped me get my foot in the door for my current employment in automation and controls.
I have multiple instances of it running to track various things, run my chicken coop door, send alerts, aggregate data... It's uses are endless and I enjoy the puzzle of using the new updates to the software to make my old flows better.
Correction: the suspect was holding an object resembling an improvised explosive device when he was fatally shot.
I have a few Pis around the house, but likewise, the primary use-case that has stuck has been as an Airplay target (using shairport-sync). I'm not using a RPi specific DAC, but rather a cheap USB DAC. I have two of these around the house and haven't had to touch them for years.

The second use-case I have is as an Octopi server to run my 3D printer. I have found this interface to be significantly more user friendly than uploading new designs to an SD card.
Offensive Leak Strategy: Leak something, leak often.

After awhile few will care about what you are hiding.
Wouldn't that rule also effectively ban HN and Reddit?
The big thing to look at here is perf-per-watt and heat output.

For a little bit I had a laptop with a Ryzen 5900HS and though its performance was great, utilizing that performance meant turning the laptop into a cooking surface with fans raging while being plugged into a barrel-style power brick that delivered more power than USB PD could handle. A laptop delivering that same performance without the crazy heat and fan noise while on battery while still delivering good battery life is a big deal.
Maybe define with CUE and generate the Yaml. https://cuelang.org

You'd then get reusable sections and imports.
Without knowing much about the author's time at Google, I'd suspect that they weren't actually responsible for solving the harder problem - they just used a service which did that for them (like spanner, or whatever) and maybe set some configuration values.
I haven't heard of a shorter duration with vaccination. Could you please post the source for this?
Iron v1.1.2 (A type constraint system for Scala) is available
Dude was extremely smart and observant. I get that it’s hard to see past the bombings, but they don’t exactly bear on the strength of his philosophical work.
> particularly serving the Nextcloud UI

Nextcloud is an absolute dog. Even on a server with loads of power and an SSD-based database over a local connection with all the caching options turned on… it’s still not snappy. I wish we had better FOSS options in this space.
> Another page that doesn't render at all without JS

I find it ironic. For a site that discusses privacy/cybercrime/surveillance you would expect it works with JS turned off. I imagine many of their visitors visit the site with the Tor Browser Bundle. And I'd say roughly 33% of those have the 'safety slider' set to 'safest' which blocks JS globally.
Shrinkflation is back as ingredient prices rocket
TBH author sounds like a bit of a broccoli from their time at Google. The public sees this same attitude "in the wild" though, with Kubernetes, which is a thoroughly inappropriate solution in many cases (but is absolutely right in some). But once you've bitten that bug, if there's a computer problem, step 1 is going to always be "first, set up a kubernetes cluster because I've forgotten how to computer without that".

If, during an interview, someone couldn't move past "well, I'd just use kubernetes" or give other possible solutions then I could see myself questioning how appropriate they are for a role and consider other candidates.
I'm curious about the future of Lambda School. Apparently, the co-founders have been lying about the numbers for years like there's no tomorrow, but the money still came in.

It's pretty clear that the business is not sustainable nor does it have much hope of becoming profitable even in the short term.In addition, the school's reputation is tarnishing, and there have also been a few clashes with the institutions that must provide the certifications necessary for the school to operate.

The co-founders, particularly Allred, between the constant lies, problems with reporters, and personalities that many psychiatrists would call delusional do not bode well.Even the casual observer would easily notice his bizarre statements, the furious backpedaling observed over and over, the constant distractions that can be inferred from his almost pathological tweeting about anything but what concerns his position as CEO of a company that is making promises to people who are often in need.

You could say that these visionary leaders are what is needed to disrupt entrenched industries, and that the fight with the authorities are the result of the status quo trying to hold the line, and that some lies are nothing more than making the future, present. I just don't see it for Lambda School.
Look up "gravitational lensing"
Encrypted Messaging in Elixir – ElixirConf 2021 [video]
I could scale to billions of users as a one-man engineer, but I would need a marketing team. :D What I am trying to say is that I could make a WhatsApp-equivalent relatively quickly, alone, yes, but that is definitely not enough to gain billions of users.
Algorithm:

1) Only listen to sources I agree with
2) if a source I don't agree with says something, disbelieve it
3) PROFIT!
You didn’t just claim $421,926 per year for a family in the Bay Area is “basically poverty level” did you?
An Open Letter to an Open Ecosystem
Here you go:

>https://www.anandtech.com/comments/17024/apple-m1-max-perfor...
I'm not sure that I "get" Turo. this is ... Airbnb for cars?

In any case, I don't think it would have worked for us, we handed the car back days later, in a different city. Which is fine for Hertz, but probably not for a Turo "host"?

It's likely that by the next time we're there, things will be different.
I think the numbers on traffic injuries and fatalities really do speak for themselves. A full percent of the US population gets injured by cars every year — that's a pretty staggering number.

I'm not a fan of the reasoning the article gives behind why we have normalized them ("toxic individualism"), because I think there are a lot more obvious culprits. For example, the auto industry is extremely effective at lobbying, and has been for a very long time. The reason there are jaywalking laws on the books, for example, was in large part because the auto industry pushed for them [1][2]. Urban streets were not really built with fast-moving cars in mind, and people treated them as safe places to be. Cars were much faster than anything else using the streets, so their introduction caused a sharp uptick in fatalities. A really successful PR campaign painted the people crossing the street as the ones at fault over the drivers, and the resulting laws still exist in many places in the US.

We normalize a lot of stuff, and it's easy to argue that it's because of a stereotype about Americans (that we're all aggressively individualist, which may be true to some extent). But decades of policies that require parking in new buildings, that encourage driving for even small errands, and that rezone urban areas to accommodate car traffic make it really hard to imagine a world without them. No one thinks car crashes are good, but few people have alternatives (even in denser urban areas). Crashes feel like an unavoidable side-effect.

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25497772
I had it to read it a few times to. I think they were trying to say that database was so small that obviously you wouldn't need to think about distributed systems.

I'd be surprised if that was the reason they failed the interview.