skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toyota has the Toyota 86, which is very very similar to the Subaru BRZ. Before clicking I didn't have the two model names straight & thought this might be a BRZ related car. Which probably wouldn't really make much sense for where one would want to ship an electric car: a tiny low weight little thing.

For an SUV, looks pretty good. The dark grey around the wheels works well with kind of blocky squatness it has. A more serious grown up Scion xB feel. Definitely has a bit of a Jaguar iPace feel, but less swooshy & with a little more squat, atop the road solidity of a feel. Not a big fan of the Jag's haunches & this has similar-ish geometry but the style feels better, more direct to me.
Fun fact: The surname Pannekoek (pancake) is correctly spelled without the n you find in the nickname pannenkoek2012 which is also correctly spelled. The Dutch rules of spelling changed: if a word is the concatenation of two words of which the first one can be put in plural form by appending ‘en’ the formerly correct spelling of just an ‘e’ became wrong and needed to be spelled with the extra ‘n’, e.g. ‘sterrestof’ -> ‘sterrenstof’ (stardust). This rule holds except when there is only one instance of the first word: Koninginnedag (Queens Day) or zonnesteek (heat stroke, literally sun sting).
Great so moving from display & social ads in Facebook to ads in ... digital spaces.

Can you name a "digital space" or is this still vapor?
Oh I'd missed that announcement - maybe it's a good sign and they're changing courses?
I'd argue Apply leveraged lock-in and the power of defaults.
Does Signal notify the relevant users regarding subpoena? The FBI request asks them not to but only says "Please do not", hardly required it seems
Russian also has this for feminine plural accusative.
Vehicle-to-grid capability is good. Everything else looks 2-3 years behind.
"I'm really looking forward to the insider stories coming out in 30 years, where they explain why every major legacy car manufacturer releases electric cars in a way that makes them undesirable."

We already know the answer - they have billions invested in supply chains, manufacturing and tooling that are all sunk costs with diminishing ROI if they actually make their cars electric.

We are witnessing a (frustrating) balancing act wherein the incumbent manufacturers attempt to squeeze as much return as possible from these old-line investments while simultaneously attempting to remain relevant and hedge their future bets.
It is a limitation. If the VM on the other machine is killed, or kills the thread, you'll never know that happened, and why. Well, you can probably ping the process and what not :)

Compare Erlang's error handling and monitors: https://erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/processes.html#error...
Because, why bother? The symmetric encryption itself is cheap. We have datapoints for

A) 0% SSL handshake workload per connection

and B) 100% SSL handshake workload per connection.

A reasonable step is just to solve the linear system---

800 (s+r) = 1 48000 r = 1

and go from there for preliminary sizing. And, when you need detailed sizing, you should be using the real data from your real application.

E.g., if it's reused 6 times, we'd expect around 4400 reqs/second from one core.
Even in English, the use of it as an adjective for anything except personal identity (specifically, a way to identify personal ethnic identity in a way which was inclusive of non-binary gender identity) seems to be a step detached from its original origin taken by media adopters who just do a global find and replace to swap it for Latino and/or Latina without considering context.

Not quite on the level of an American college newspaper I saw in the 1990s that identified Winnie Mandela as an African-American speaker when she was making an appearance, but the same kind of process.
Speaking of donations (a guy from a food bank whom I see in the Safeway parking lot didn't know this, so I think we can assume not everyone does):

Most "donate" pages do not allow for "donor-advised funds (DAF)." They assume you're giving it with your before-tax money and presumably taking a tax deduction for it.

In a DAF, which your financial institution surely offers, you can donate appreciated assets, e.g. your FAANG stock, and take the entire amount as a tax deduction. So if your 10 shares of Facebook (excuse me, "Meta") stock are at 322, you can take a deduction of $32,200 this year.

What's the catch? That money's gone, and you can't get it back. You can only "advise" your DAF to give it to a 501(c)(3) organization, which Signal is. There are no time limits.

The good part, though, is you can probably have your DAF give the money anonymously, so the charity can't bug you every time they're having a fund drive.
Your rant isn't relevant here. Everyone knows that Fluvoxamine has some negative side effects and risks. As a potential COVID-19 treatment it would be used for only a few days during the acute infection phase. Not as an ongoing treatment like for mental health conditions.
Nope. It's not gonna happen. My wife works for a non-profit where many of its members are in their 50s, 60, 70s and even 80s. They can barely run Windows - and they've been working with Windows for decades. To be fair, there are a few who are quite savvy, however most are not.

Meanwhile we have CS professors lamenting that the incoming CS students don't know basic computer concepts - like what is a file system? They've been raised on tablets. My takeaway is those under 20 aren't going to be running Linux, either.

That leaves those aged 20-50 remaining. Well, you can pretty much write off those aged 30-50. They're dealing with the classic squeeze - taking care of children on the one hand and taking care of aging parents on the other. They simply don't have time to mess around with something like Linux. They're going to keep using whatever they've been using because it works and they're looking to keep things simple as they struggle with all their family responsibilities.

That leaves those in their 20s. The good news is they have financial limitations so Linux is attractive from that point. The bad news is they're the most susceptible to marketing and branding and Linux just isn't cool (unless you're an über geek).

In other words, the majority of everybody who's ever going to be running Linux on their desktop are already running Linux on their desktop.
As an ISP: This is a very boilerplate subpoena. Whether or not the specific FBI agent knows or cares what Signal is, I'm about 99% certain it's just the result of a copy/paste from a template.
> publishing leaked military secrets is not even illegal in the U.S. due to the first amendment right to a free press

How does him not being a citizen affect this? Granted, I won't be too surprised if the double speak is that he's not protected by law, but simultaneously subject to our laws.
FB has so much money they could try literally hundreds of thousands of ideas, have all of them fail, and still have money for hundreds of thousands more. Eventually they will find the next big thing and execute perfectly.

It is inevitable.
Just curious, why does signal have the ACLU respond for them?

I thought the ACLU was more of a protection against smaller entities who didn't have funding/legal firepower?
The GPU designs in Apple chips has nothing to do with ARM, so even if we accepted that "ARM has notorious scaling issues" (a confusing claim, but even if we took the most generous route and assumed it meant "vendors using ARM have scaling issues" -- also not true) it is orthogonal.
> leaving FB to carry on as a kind of AOL for an ever-decreasing userbase until it's sold off for far too much money to some other large corporation which should know better.

Mapping FB onto AOL here feels like an effective way of summing things up. Although I'm trying to remember because it was a long time ago: did AOL make any grandiose product moves that ended up signalling its decline? I'm inclined to say no, but I could be completely wrong and forgetting something. What I recall was just a complete lack of innovation from AOL and a regression to money printing mode on the antiquated ISP with fancy user portal model.

Although perhaps you weren't trying to make a direct comparison between the two.
But you're not quite nailing the reasons behind the EV versions not selling well.

The Honda Fit EV had an 82 mile range, and could only be leased. (And Honda Fits were neat, but never sold that well, and even the gas version was pulled from the United States market.)

The Golf, on the other hand, is very popular, but the Golf EV had a 125-mile range, and was only sold in very limited markets/quantities.

What EV version of a popular vehicle had competitive range, produced in sufficient quality, and priced competitively? I can't think of any.
Sounds like if they choose their materials properly they can easily repurpose into a supermax prison....
Grossly underestimates how complicated email can really be.
yeah, garbage, okay, give me garbage
Sure.

One issue is that for tall buildings a fair bit of thought goes into things like aerodynamics of overall building, ventilation / HVAC control, and internal pressures.

A tall building has an issue with its core / utilities usually, the taller the go generally the worse the ratio of non-livable space to livable. So things that mess with for example HVAC efficiency may be seen as a negative.

If everyone opens a window on one side of a building, over building surface areas and wind speeds at heights, you can get pretty crazy pressure issues. You can also get aero issues. You an also run into HVAC issues (ie, volume of air from 3 open large windows on the 40th floor may overwhelm HVAC system capacity).

Let me ask you, you are building a skyscraper to rent.

If you allow folks to open their windows and the wind blows something out that kills someone on the street - who will be sued? If someone drops something out (trying to put a plant in window or stick a telescope out) and kills someone - who pays. If someone falls out that window, who will be sued (see a cruise line that had a stupid idiot hold a kid through the window and drop them).

Other issues are around maintenance and weather proofing etc etc. Again, environment at height can often be harsh, and now you may have to have someone on side of building to replace a window or related mechanisms. Easy in a house at ground level, a pain at height.

BTW - I like windows that open and would NOT live in a tall res condo. My key point was that all the folks talking about how window exists are required - it's so weird seeing people speak with such certainty on something so easily disprovable.

I think up to 30 floors or so and older places it was common for windows to open (they were also built differently, more open space / daylighting / shallower footprints (ie, H shape buildings vs full block buildings).
Can’t wait to see what happens with the electric f150.
I dunno. It looks like an electric Rav4 to me. With a 300 mile range, I predict that if they price it right they'll sell as many as they can make.
(Disclaimer) As a bare metal provider, I hope more people become aware what I've been saying for years: cloud is great for scaling down, but not that great for scaling up. If you want to have lots of VM's that don't warrant their own hardware that you can conveniently turn up and down, then cloud is fantastic. If you have a big application that needs to scale, you can get further vertically with bare metal, and if you need to scale horizontally, you need to optimize better higher up in the stack anyway, and the much lower cost for equivalent resources (without even taking any virtualization performance hit into account), more flexibility and thus more/better fitted performance of bare metal should have the clear advantage.
A python script could be a text doc if you open it in a markdown editor. A yaml file could execute web call if run through a program with a parser.

It is all up to the interpreter you give the code too. Your program that takes yaml config is an interpreter, though probably a very limited one and hopefully a safe one (though that needs to be tested / checked for to be more sure of)
Things formal verification will not do: fix Poorly conceived business rules, prevent confusing UI, quickly modify code to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, etc…

One could formally verify that if the account number is set in the wash account (plus like six other places) then the loan won’t be repaid due to programming errors. But formal verification doesn’t tell one that the UI is garbage and hard to know that the account number needs entered in six places to get the correct formally verified action to occur instead of the other formally verified action that repays the loan in full.
Sounds like the conclusion Basecamp came to for their apps. https://m.signalvnoise.com/basecamp-3-for-ios-hybrid-archite...

Also see https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1254870450464686080?lang=en
Bolt seeking to raise $777M at up to $11B valuation
FB is pushing AR and VR as I understand it. The VR part is just what's already shipped. I think it'll be similar to iOS/Android because FB will beat Google to the punch.
You don't necessarily need to toggle plover off to write words that aren't in your dictionary. You can just fingerspell them [0]. (although that's generally not as fast as typing them with qwerty).

It's been a little while since I last touched steno now, but I don't remember running into too many words that both weren't already in the default plover dictionary and weren't possible to easily construct with existing words.

[0] https://www.artofchording.com/sounds/fingerspelling.html
What I don't understand about the whole Signal E2EE model is that while your messages themselves may be encrypted, they are still sending push notifications over Apple's servers, which have to go through APNS. Often the entire message contents can be contained in the push notification.

Does anybody know if Apple's notifications are E2EE? I doubt that gov't doesn't have access to the push notifications...
Did you throw money at the storage layer? The IOs are ridiculously slow by default.
I assumed APIs were ruled out when endisneigh said "No need to use something like stripe."

Are there really publicly accessible APIs I use to deploy that idea today?
Virtually all of the artists I know despise NFTs (and by extension the rest of the cryptocurrency ecosystem), largely because of the absolute deluge of fraudsters stealing art and selling it as NFTs without the creators seeing a dime. It's absolutely infuriating to see and does little to modify my view that the primary value of cryptocurrency is to facilitate crime.
Nah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Health_Cigarette_Smokin...
I once saw a coworker get destroyed by a rendering glitch in SSMS - he had GPU acceleration enabled and didn't notice his text selection highlight glitching out, smashed F5 on a query that looked like it had a where clause selected but if you fiddled with the scrollbar suddenly it wasn't actually selected. I noticed his query blocking everything and killed it, walked over to his office like WTF and he reran it right in front of me reproducing the glitch exactly - he couldn't believe what he'd done. disabling GPU acceleration in SSMS fixed it.
>what was left is now Motorola Solutions, a telecom company with 18,000 employees that's losing a billion dollars a year.

Fyi... I just looked up the 2020 10-K and 2021 2Q results for Motorola Solutions and it says they are profitable. $949 million in earnings in 2020.

It looks the other company spun off as Motorola Mobility cellphones was losing money in 2011.

https://sec.report/Document/0000068505-21-000008#:~:text=The....

https://newsroom.motorolasolutions.com/news/motorola-solutio...
Beautiful. That's how you do it.

I actually believe that law enforcement has the legal right to subpoena information, with a judge's consent, while investigating criminal activity. This is exactly the solution to that problem. These platforms should want to know as little about you as possible.
The extraordinary Nazca prehistoric balloon
Well to be fair the other bias is against the prior infection group: those who didn’t survive the infection weren’t included in the study and were sure to drag down the average immune response for that group.
What would you ask in interview to see if a company is a high drama environment
However, a study from 1963 suggested that, if detonated 28 miles
(45 kilometers) above the surface of the Earth, a 10,000-megaton
weapon could set fires over an area 500 miles (800 kilometers)
in diameter. Which is to say, an area about the size of France.

If thousands of such gigaton bombs were developed then MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) would be more taxpayer efficient because we could simply stop funding expensive rocket and submarine weapons delivery systems, as they would only add an unnecessarily complicated step to the process. Just detonate your gigaton arsenal on your own nation's soil. When an animal is in great pain and cannot be saved, we usually consider the most compassionate course of action to euthanize. So in the event of MAD, just instantly vaporize your own population to spare them a few months of clinging to life with radiation sickness, starvation, cannibalism, and the lawless raping and murdering of the earth's final warlords. The multiple gigaton bombs detonated on your own soil will ensure the agonizing death of all your enemies that don't similarly self-euthanize.
Signal is a 501c3 nonprofit- they don't have all that much funding or legal firepower beyond their regular operations. The ACLU also loves them, and getting a letter from the ACLU probably makes matters go away faster then getting a letter from some random lawyer.
Pádraig O'Brien opens up an interesting discussion with great suggestions to ask on your next interview. I think that asking multiple people, "How do they handle conflict within teams?" is incredibly useful. I also liked Erin's suggestions: "What’s the average tenure? What’s the process to take product decisions? Can you give me an example of a recent disagreement and how it was solved? Is blunt feedback good?"
Chipotle promotion.

https://www.ign.com/articles/roblox-servers-down-chipotle-fr...
There’s a massive correlation with decreased age and increased rates of myocarditis for all the mRNA covid vaccines. Looking at the projections from a CDC talk (reports then vs reports now vs vaccination rates), there’s easily more kids at risk of permanent heart damage than at risk of death from covid.
"This idea that companies like Toyota are intentionally not selling products that consumers want ..."

This is, in fact, the case.

If Audi launches electric A4/A6/A8 tomorrow, that will be (roughly) 100% of their sales and they know it.

But they have billions sunk into ... (see my comment downthread about manufacturing and tooling).

So consumers need to wait for their lifetime ROI to satisfy the incumbent manufacturers such that they are willing to jettison those investments and electrify their actual lineup.

The worst offender, by far, is Volvo whose marketing pedigree, target audience and models produces are a perfect match for 21st century electric car buyers ... and yet we're two full model cycles past the Tesla Model S and I still can't get an electric V90 wagon ...
I'm guessing here, but wouldn't they just push the e2ee message through APNS? Then decrypt client side. Or does Apple require plaintext messages for push notifications (that seems bad if they do)?
> just realizing we shouldn't breathe contaminated air

Well....

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-05/the-curio...
Not sure if dorm or... prison.

Wtf UCSB, really?
> The jokes referenced Mr Gabriel's disability and mocked his appearance.

I am ever so grateful to the BBC for not including any examples of the jokes at the center of the case. My delicate sensibilities simply couldn't withstand such offensive humor, so I am all too happy to let the BBC judge them in my stead.
I run an enterprise SaaS and I will say that the process of selling software that has never existed is extremely challenging. We essentially are a software tool that manages the process of selling distressed inventory. It is very easy to get meetings, really hard to close deals.

The main pushback we see is the following:
1) It is hard to get budget carved out for new enterprise software without explicitly showing saved time, saved money or more money. The best bet is to find a "champion" will will work with you to build out case studies and sell internally. The issue for that person though is they are going out on a limb and that is a double edged sword.

2) We were selling software to someone that essentially did the same job as our software. It created a lot of feet dragging and undermining. It wasn't in a malicious way but its hard to go in and disrupt the "old school" way of doing it.

With all that being said, the more customers you get, the easier it gets. The early ones can work with you to build out case studies that let you narrow down the key benefits and that can be used to sell new customers.

My friends that successfully sell software for a living often sell software that everyone already owns a version of and they know exactly who to speak to. I think those are the two hardest parts and once you can get past that, again, its just about saving time, saving money or making more money.
I’d like to have new charges queue up like the Hey email screener for me to approve or deny.
I would (naively) assume that the notification service sends opaque (encrypted) blobs that are processed (decrypted) by the app before display to the user.
Instead of paying expensive consultants to name our products we should just use the random password generator.

https://passwordsgenerator.net/
> Where does the government get money from?

Assuming its a government that operates in its own fiat, it creates it. It may engage in play-acting to pretend that it is working in an external currency where spending must be balanced by revenue plus borrowing, but that is just a fiction and residual habit from a time when it worked in something other than fiat.
They can put one or two people in jail, but they can't put everyone in jail. If everyone has easy access to end-to-end encrypted messaging and relies on it (for non-nefarious purposes), the government will have a tough time changing that.
I'm not too familiar with this, but my understanding is that the push notification just wakes up the Signal app, then the Signal app gets the encrypted message (either from Signal's servers or the push notification payload, I'm not sure) and decrypts it client-side and provides the notification text.
Discovery When Working Remotely – Silicon Valley Product Group
A judge can sign an order commanding a witness or party to preserve documentation and evidence, under penalty of contempt of court. However, there is still a great deal of uncertainty as to what actions the subject of the subpoena must take in order to preserve that evidence. It's pretty clear that you have to disable automated destruction mechanisms, you can't disable any recording functions you may already have, and you can't go and shred relevant papers in your possession; but whether a court can order you to write code or take other burdensome steps in order to record certain electronic records that you didn't record before to assist an ongoing investigation is still a very open question.
Given enormous resources spent on everything COVOD-related, from tests and vaccines to the costs of lockdowns and restrictions, I think we should at least try to analyze the data looking for the low-hanging fruit, then try to account for confounding factors, and if still interesting look at it closer. Not easy, but definitely possible for large hospitals - they do have enough data, they just need competent people to analyze them and make preliminary findings.

On the other hand, we are probably most interested in patients who got infected but did not end up in a hospital. Were they taking any meds routinely? I don't think it's easy to gather this kind of data unless people share them voluntarily with an organization they trust.