skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post by Marty Cagan is more relevant than ever given the current situation where many teams work remotely, even if they used to work co-located before. The dynamics shift, and it happens quickly unless you pay attention and look for ways to compensate.
I bet if you ask 10 people what the metaverse was, you'd get 10 completely different answers. I'd say your answer is as good as any.
Archaeologists find the world’s largest ‘mass child sacrifice’ site
I think this is a perfect example of taking for granted certain privacies.

See, you never actually had privacy when you were in public. It was not a right. It was just assumed to be a right, because no one was bothering to record where you went. It was impractical.

What we had was a false belief that--barring we were not under active FBI surveillance or something--our comings and goings were secret. But I don't think this was ever explicitly inscribed in law. This drone is just shattering that illusion.

We are going to keep having technology vanquish our illusions. Consider that Tesla could in theory have their dashcam in every car they manufacture record every license plate number it sees, with time and location. They could make this information public if they wanted to. With enough Teslas in an area, you could effectively lookup where and when every vehcile has been. And there is nothing wrong they are doing because it's not a fundamental change. In theory, they could hire a million people to drive around and record the license plates manually. It was only the impracticality it that stopped anyway.

I don't know what the solution is. We are going to have to accept that certain assumptions we had are now gone, or re-write the rules.
When you craft a push notification server-side, it contains the payload in plaintext. Now, that is probably encrypted in Apple-land, but my point is that the gov't probably has sunk its teeth into Apple already. So, yea signal's encryption may be open source and proven, but I doubt Apple's doesn't have a backdoor.
> “bZ” stands for “beyond zero,” which is Toyota’s latest electrification strategy and a sort of sub-brand for its upcoming electric vehicles, starting with the bZ4X
the question is: with him gone, if it needs more money (which it will), where's it going to come from?
Which is horrible and in desperate need of reform. If the law applies differently to foreigners, you are essentially a proto-fascist state.
I don't know how Signal works but it is possible to send a silent encrypted push notification that the app can decrypt and show as a local notification.
I'm very interested to see testing on the solar panel, specifically if the benefits offset the added weight and cost.

Their quote:

> generates electricity equivalent to 1,800 km of driving distance per year

Is too vague. Is this taking away the distance lost from added panel weight? What are the assumptions (e.g. how many hours of light/day)? Is this electricity-distance at exit of the panel or after storage<->release from the batteries? What is the panel efficiency curve over the vehicles' life (e.g. do you have to replace/refurb the panel)?

Obviously we would all love for this to work, we get cooler cars in the summer and bonus driving range. But it isn't exactly the first time vehicle makers have tried it and have been panned (or it has been outright vaporware) previously.

EVs work. We know they work. They can work from renewables, including solar. The questions here are around onboard solar specifically and if they actually make sense (and frankly if this is a marketing gimmick).
I think “the cloud” never claimed to be cheaper, though. Its promise is mainly that you’ll offset a lot of risks with it against a higher price. And of course the workflow with the cloud is very different, with virtual machine images and whatnot.

Whether that’s worth the price is up debate, though. I hope we’ll get more mature bare metal management software, perhaps even standardized in some remote management hardware so you can flash entire bare metal systems.

Right now I’m mostly running Debian stable and everything inside Docker on the host machine, making it effectively a Docker “hypervisor”. It can get you quite far, without leaking any application state to the host machine.
Glad to have helped! I often get asked to explain things by family and friends so I've got a knack for 'dumbing things down'.
That's Motorola Solutions.

The Motorola of old was broken up in 2011, into Motorola Mobility (for consumer products, including phones) + Motorola Solutions (professional products) + a cell network division which was sold to Nokia Siemens Networks.

Motorola Mobility is the one most likely known by the average person. It was bought by Google in 2012, then sold on to Lenovo in 2014. Its main legacy these days is the Moto line of phones.
The language being gendered doesn't really matter: Wokeness is primarily a cultural fashion of American baizuo, and as such woke ideas are prevalent in places where people try to fashion themselves as baizuo. Even inside America, it's the domain of terminally online upper-class whites and little else.

A far more fundamental correlation than the genderedness of language is, I think, abstraction. The classic baizuo type is terminally online, and sees words as defining the world. If you can make a sentence and replace one word with another of the same class, you should just treat them as equal because you grammatically can. Whether the real-world things the words point at are remotely similar enough is irrelevant, since to the woke, the real world isn't primary. They live in the world of words.

Most people in the world, of course, inhabit a precisely opposite situation: Physical reality is primary, and words are first and foremost pointers to things in that physical world. To people more bound in reality, woke fashions are by and large absurd. You can see it within the States too.
The legitimacy process of peer review may also be called into question in reference to the recent joint works done by James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose. And they aren't even "right-wing" though the mainstream portrays them to be.
It is hard to say with Apple, it seems highly dependent upon the reviewer. In one case, I just resubmitted the same app with a different build number and it then passed through review just fine. /shrug
Yes, you are absolutely right.

In the same time, you cannot go wrong with selling to 10 clients if this is something withing the reach. In the same time this can be very strenuous when you run on small budget and the runway is within sight.
One big difference - a lot of these billionaires are willing to try out ideas and ignore folks who say they won't work.

If you try out a few ideas, some will pan out.

And brain implants are certainly coming. Parkinsons and other diseases are already being treated with them.
"While Toyota has offered all-electric vehicles in China in the past, the bZ4X could be considered its first battery-electric vehicle since it’s the first to use a BEV-dedicated platform and to be available globally."

This is gibberish.

So... NOT its first all-electric car by any means.
Teenage-me once found a DOS porn text adventure on a used 286 I bought from someone up the street, at a garage sale. This was shortly before dual-core processors hit the market as a common item, so the 286 was already ancient by then. Never found it anywhere else, but I later scrapped the thing without thinking to preserve any of the stuff on the disk, in part because I didn't yet realize this was rare software, and just assumed it existed other places. It was really simple even by the standards of that kind of thing, just a single encounter that started with specifying some physical stats for your, ah, partner, which affected some of the in-game descriptions. For all I know the previous owner wrote it themselves in BASIC or something, and that was the only copy in existence.
Before interpreting A/B results, the main question that needs to be asked: "what is it that you're A/B testing?"

For too many companies, it's testing "engagement" which leads to hiding functionality (more clicks is more engagement), reducing info density (more time spent is more engagement) etc.

And coming from Netflix... I don't think there's a single person who likes that when you browse Netflix it autoplays random videos (not even trailers) with audio at full volume. But yeah, A/B tests something something. So I wish Netflix learned from their own teachings.
1. Remote employees have less to none access to peripheral hardware. Make sure the remote employees will get a 1/2 yearly budget to order the items that they need to perform their job. Like headphones, keyboard, and more.
For salesman, it is possible to rent them a printer with support to avoid any possible wasted time to support the printer remotely.
Some companies gives to new employees money to by any computer that they need, and they will get the warranty and even OS support from the shop.

2. Look for a software deployment tool over the WAN to push the required software and update for new and existing employees. In addition, use a tool that performs software asset management to see which programs and their versions are installed on the remote computers.

3. Use remote tools like Jamf for Mac to get more control of the computers that you manage.

4. Perform a periodically questionnaire to understand their needs and make the required changes in the IT process to fit their needs.

5. More security hardening is required to avoid any possible breaches or data leaks.
Use MDM and DLP solutions for such purposes.

6. Collaboration is a must to stay productive in this way of work. Training the management level with the available collaboration features that are exist in solutions like Google Apps and Office 365, will fill up this void.

7. Send the employees the available channels to communicate with IT. Never let employees contact IT representatives directly. This is to ensure the quality of service in case an IT representative isn't available.

8. Monitor the Helpdesk ticketing system to learn about the employees' problems.

9. Create an internal public documentation website that employees can enter to seek for solutions for known problems. When an employee encounter a problem, just send him the link with a step-by-step solution instead of wasting time on support.

10. In the past, employees came to the IT office for support and assistance . Today, IT need to initiate the communication with the employees to ensure that their environment and remote quality is sufficient for them to be productive.

Good luck...
Great post that provides an overview of recent changes in banking.

Something you should add here is that free banking is also made possible due to the economics of the Durbin Amendment of the 2010 Dodd Frank act that allows smaller financial institutions to charge a higher interchange fees on debit transactions.

Most Fintech/Neobank players like Chime fall into this bucket and they are able to fund the operational cost of the checking account with the interchange fees of the debit card.
And, how and why Old English was rediscovered. Fascinating piece.
"Paying attention to the constraints of the spec" doesn't sound like benefits of formal proof - it sounds like benefits of documentation.
You think owners of EV cars don't care about reliability? They are even in a worse spot, needing to pay $1000 for a door handle failure because they can only get all their service from the dealer.

A rock solid EV that doesn't need a lot of repairs, and when it does, is simple/cheap to repair would be a huge win for EV buyers.
I think people you're underestimating how poor the conditions in most jails are. Maybe at Riker's island you share a toilet with less people, but it's dirtier, the healthcare will take 20 years off your life and there's good chance you'll get murdered before you get out.
Sophia Vicent shared observations from DoorDash's Technical Program Manager organization that I related to as we consider how to build ours. This one is critical: "The team should be incentivized to operate with openness and honesty and to create clarity. They need to work with engineering to set aggressive goals and milestones, without padding, and report accurately on where the program is against those goals, particularly if there are key work streams that are yellow or red against plans. [...] TPMs need to bridge these gaps between teams, and neutrality paves the path for that to happen in a blameless way."
Why "instead of Latin"? Your requirement seems to be orthogonal to the existence of Latin.

Latin's a dead language; we can't submit pull-requests.

English (etc.) are living languages; people are committing changes to them all the time, with no maintainer to oversee the project.

Sure, I'd be happy not having had to spend schooldays learning French and Latin irregular verbs. But these languages weren't developed for dealing with science and engineering.
I am! Turtl is my baby.
Can you find sources for those "less than 5%"-numbers form people who aren't selling kubernetes or cloud-related services?

It's generally pretty easy to construct benchmarks that make look favorable. It's why there's constantly blog posts to the effect of "$INTERPRETED_HIGH_LEVEL_LANGUAGE is faster than C++".
It's easy to find better explanations with a quick search, but the general idea is that as habitats change, animals will move toward the poles and come into contact with other species that they historically haven't, creating lots of new opportunities for diseases to jump between species and mutate and do all the things they love to do.

There are also studies implying that animals like rodents and bats that spread the most diseases to humans are also adapting the best to climate change and human environments, which implies increased risk of new diseases: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.273...

There's also the idea of frozen pathogens thawing and infecting animals, which has happened recently: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/08/03/4884009...

In general it's not that climate change makes pandemics worse, but it makes the chance of a new disease infecting a human more likely.
I'm glad that you find that a fun fact. A little esoteric for me, but for those that like it, go nuts. /non-s
FYI I clicked on “get a dedicated server” on your site and ended up getting a 404

https://astuteinternet.com/services/dedicated-servers-order

{"error":"URI Not Found"}
That's largely because you do actually need a new platform for your EV. The component packaging needs are significantly different, so EVs stuffed into conventional platforms need to make a lot of compromises.

But that's all under the skin. The styling and interiors can look as mundane or wild as the maker chooses.
The masks thing has been talked over a bunch on HN so I won’t revisit that argument but it’s a dead end: it was a potentially incorrect measure to take but also not as big of a deal as you are making it out to be.

Percentage of people/herd immunity: they straight up did not lie. They said that based on what we know of similar diseases the guess would be 75-95% of the population need to be vaccinated. Everyone immediately latched onto the 75% mark and also this was in 2020 when we knew comparatively approximately nothing about COVID. This is like saying “based on our knowledge of Toyota Corollas, a Ferrari will do 0-60 in at most 5 seconds”. Technically true, but not backed by studies until studies are able to be completed.

Your last sentence sounds like you formed an opinion before doing the research so I see no point in addressing it.

Sounds like there is no study you can point to that was compromised?
John Carmack issues some words of warning for Meta and its metaverse plans
Honey bees increase social distancing when facing ectoparasite
Last I checked signal still required a phone number to use so it is an instant deal breaker for a lot of people. I have 3 kids I communicate with but they don’t have a cell number just use wifi when they can. If I could use signal with them I would. Instead I use Wire since it seems secure and doesn’t require a phone number. I can only imagine there are lots of other people with kids in my situation.
Alphabet's stock ticker is GOOG so I think 'G' still works.
> "We want to help parents have kids when it otherwise wouldn’t be possible."

get over it, adopt a child already. there's plenty of them.
> When encryption and secure messaging is outlawed, only outlaws will have and use it.

They don't necessarily need to outlaw it. They may just throw up enough hurdles that it doesn't become a major success. Developing a communication system that is secure, featureful and convenient to use for the general population is not a trivial task. A large effort that can be undermined.

E.g. if they only require logging from communication service providers but not from application developers then this would force a decentralized solution. If they lean on payment providers it might get difficult to charge for phone apps or get donations.

The software could continue to legally exist but see little adoption. Which is enough to enable surveillance.
I'm not a fan of Facebook/Meta, but I'm also not sure about this take. Rewind the clock 30-40 years, and I feel like it'd be easy to say something like "This is a bad sign for IBM. They are betting on everyone sitting around staring at a monitor sending electronic messages instead of talking."

That's not to say that they'll actually deliver on this idea, but we've definitely seen the transformative power of tech on society. Whether that's a good thing or not is left as an exercise to the reader.
Are you sure they use APNS? They could simply use app notifications.
> A particularly nasty aspect of SQL UPDATE syntax is the predicate order, i.e. SET is before WHERE.

Given the annoyance of this and its ability to really, really ruin your day, I don't know why someone hasn't updated their parser to allow 'update X where [cond] set [blah]' as an alternate phrasing.
Ask HN: Foreign Language Technical Forums?
Hey HN,

For people fluent in two or more languages, what technical forums do you read that are not available in English? I'm mainly interested in sites like Hackaday, HN, or Habr.

I'm specifically looking for Chinese (Mandarin) language forums on embedded software and hardware. I know they must exist, I'm just not sure how to find them.
This is by design. Flash loans are intended to allow people to arbitrage markets without needing capital.
Because that's what this proposal is replacing.
> he will be basically dead as soon as they get their filthy hands on him.

I admire your impartiality
Reading the comments feels like everyone went to college in bizarro world. The dorms I lived in always had shared bedrooms. In one 4 people across two bunk beds. Having a room to call my own in a dorm would have been an extraordinary improvement. Wouldn't have cared in the slightest bit about a window.
WinFS sounded cool back in the day. Too bad it got thrown out along with a few other audacious ideas when Longhorn got reset and came out as Windows Vista.

Meanwhile, search in Windows feels like its been getting worse.
FWIW Fox has some of the highest rated political polling as per 538. And I personally think their news is garbage.
Most manufacturers have already moved from hydraulic to electric motor steering systems, and steer-by-wire is the next step. It's not very common today, but the pace is picking up because the advantages (far fewer mechanical parts, automation) are tempting.

Reliability is going to come down to implementation. In some cases you actually have advantages in control-by-wire (less mechanical parts to fail). You can also implement mechanical overrides for emergency situations.
This seems indeed the key to most sales, almost regardless of what the product does (to some extent).
Talking to the right people internally, showing how they can make more money and save time.

Getting there thought might take quite a while :)
Oh yeah, it could happen. Happened to a, um, friend of mine. This friend never uses that feature anymore, no matter how convenient it looks.
You’re saying Fauci isn’t a scientist? Ridiculous.
An electric drivetrain should have more of all of that. The motors can last much longer and the only part that degrades is the battery that's on a steeply descending cost curve. Toyota could make an EV truck that lasts forever mechanically with a battery that's easy to replace with new technology at a third of the price years down the line. Toyota's value proposition of longevity could easily be reinforced in an EV world and they've squandered the brand head start from the Prius too.
I believe they are encrypted (and decrypted on device by the Signal app).
They recently had to do some rewriting of the code for iOS15 - they share some comments about that here: https://community.signalusers.org/t/beta-feedback-for-the-up...
Hope it helps

Edit: wow people were fast to reply…
Yes, it's extremely common to share, especially in the first couple years. Many many colleges require students to live on campus freshman year and the provided housing is forced doubles (or even triples) and sometimes even temporary housing. As for why -- it's cheaper to stuff 2 or 3 students into 1 dorm room, obviously.
Not sure if Signal is doing this, but they could send a notification with title "New message" and encrypted payload. The payload can be processed by a client-side notification extension which decrypts the payload and chooses what notification text the user will see.
Makes sense, thanks for the expert input!

If you don't mind me asking, how did you get into embedded development? I'm trying to sample various types of development and see what I enjoy, and embedded development seems quite interesting to me though I've never done more than an arduino.
Auto-antonyms: "literally", meaning literally "not literally" (i.e. meaning figuratively). See M-W on "literally". If you don't already know what the word means, you won't find out from M-W.

They define the word using the word itself; recursion is divine, but it's an impentrable tangle because they're defining that word recursively, while saying it means the opposite of itself. It's like self-modifying code.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
One alternative theory is that the mind is immaterial.
Recently I've noticed I have an issue distinguishing 8 from 0 with some dotted zero fonts. That'd be a nice one to see also.
ETAG fingerprinting is perhaps the most reliable non JS approach.
I think the idea is that someone buys the "number" with 5m to turn it from dirty to clean. The person with 5m can just point to the purchase as the source of funds, and they don't have to account for where the money came before that.

So you have 5m in dirty money under a mattress. You buy crypto with it. Put up a 5m NFT, buy it with the "dirty" crypto, then cash out the crypto into a bank, and no one can prove you were the original owner of the crypto, so it's all clean.
Watching old people solve the "problem" of young people not socializing enough by turning their living quarters into a prison is exactly the sort of thing I've come to expect.
I view it as exactly the other way around: if you're building barracks in any normal year, sure, don't care about pandemics.

But for any long-lived building, thinking how it will work in various disaster scenarios is crucial, as your design will affect the life or death of thousands living there, even if it's "just" for one-two years. And given everything we know about the recurrence of pandemics, it's virtually certain that at least another one will come around within 100 years.
> They are even in a worse spot, needing to pay $1000 for a door handle failure because they can only get all their service from the dealer

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but this isn't an EV thing, it's a Tesla thing.
The electric F150 will primarily consume the market share of the Tacoma, Honda Pilot and other four-door people haulers that are staples of high class suburbs and gated communities. Being able to check the EV box will give it the proper image and they'll buy it in droves.