skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This video is just over 10 years old today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE

It shows a waymo/google driverless car driving a multi-mile route on public streets with no supervision.

And today we're seeing... Pretty much the exact same thing!
Ah, okay thank you.
I think it's incumbent on those professing a job can't be done remotely to demonstrate it. My mgmt hasn't done it beyond bland platitudes about culture and teamwork, despite record setting sales and profits the last 2 years.

It's about control for most mgmt.
While this seems generally true, Don Knuth was 37 when he won.
Or smoke season sort of anywhere downwind from the west coast of North America.
I am struggling to remember the name of this sci-fi book I had read about twenty-five years ago. Someone encounters a civilization where things are going pretty darned well for the humans, and there are these spider-aliens who make sure that the trains are running on time. It's just that a small portion of the population is abducted by the spider-aliens, for a long period of agonizing torture before being consumed. Everyone knows and accepts this. Nobody knows who is going to get snatched and tormented and eaten. But otherwise things are just great!

Omelas aside, I think of this every time I read about someone's work or life or memories or whatever just getting zapped by Google, for a reason that is probably contained in a 500kb EULA, but one you will never find. It's free! You can do all of this stuff! It's great! Except for when your stuff gets randomly eaten.
Dude it's 98% because the feds only take slam dunk cases to trial, and they're extremely professional. Seriously, read up on bad convictions, it's nearly always state or local judicial systems. Frequently it is federal prosecutors that break open the corruption.

All governments are corrupt, but is it remotely plausible they are equally corrupt? Are they not comparable?
Maybe you're thinking of this - the data structure used by datasources for Grafana dashboards:

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/plugins/d...
I've met the Doppler founders and greatly respect them (even played some poker with them!). Doppler has great design and UX.

That said, I'd say the key difference is that EnvKey places much more emphasis on security and privacy. Doppler is cloud-hosted and doesn't use end-to-end encryption, so it requires that you trust them to keep your data safe and not make any mistakes in their data security, network security, who they hire, what sub-processors they trust, etc. In my (very biased) opinion, that is not sufficient protection for the most sensitive data.

Doppler also uses a web interface, which is great for convenience and UX, but leaves you vulnerable to compromised browser plugins, XSS, etc. I don't believe browsers are sufficiently secure currently for secrets management (if this changes, we'll add a web interface to EnvKey ASAP!).

There are real costs in terms of UX to end-to-end encryption. EnvKey tries to be as user-friendly as possible, but doesn't compromise on security or privacy. Doppler's design, as I understand it, leans more toward the other side of this tradeoff.

On Terraform--yes, it's easy to use EnvKey with Terraform. The general pattern for integrating EnvKey with any tool or platform is to set your ENVKEYs as secrets in whatever way the platform handles them, then expose each ENVKEY as an environment variable to your VMs, containers, or whatever else you're running. We'll write up a Terraform-specific guide soon to make it as easy as possible.
> Parser generators

Controversial opinion!

I think most people these days generally think parser generators are a bad idea.
I don't think it hurts from a technical perspective but from an ethical and moral perspective facebook is harmful to society. The good news is someone in a job interview is looking to get away from facebook and that should carry some weight.
If there's multiple competitors for a product they compete and prices are lower overall? If there are no competitors you can charge a higher price. There really isn't much alternatives for eInk that don't totally alter the product. A Kindle with an LCD screen would just be a shitty limited tablet and so Amazon is forced to pay a higher price per unit for an eInk screen than a similar sized LCD.
There were older attempts at this stuff, in the 90s with "Beowulf" clusters that had cross-machine process management and whatnot. It's a lot harder than it seems to make this approach make sense in the real world, as the abstraction hides important operational details. The explicit container + orchestration abstraction is probably closer to the ideal than trying to stretch linux/systemd/cgroups across the network "seamlessly". It's clearer what's going on and what the operational trade-offs are.
Researchers Say LinkedIn Is Overrun with Fake, AI-Generated Profiles
For Google Workspace (previously called GSuite), you do get support. Anecdotal but I recently used their live chat and the person was very helpful and helped me figure out a weird issue with a lot of patience. I would say it was a pleasant experience but this was the only time I needed them so far so you never know :)
I think LAPACK and later work were much more important than his work in the 80s. But those were intensely collaborative and required enormous amounts of collective work. Well deserving of the Turing, but how can it be attributed to one person?
Yes this one is excellent and very clean and language neutral as well.
Doesn't take very many more calories per day (on average) to pack on a lot of pounds over a few years. And soda doesn't fill you up.
Doesn’t this imply they have given even a seconds consideration to following generations? I bet they haven’t. Soon they will die and simply cease to exist. Why would they care if humanity continues on after them? From their perspective, humanity will completely cease to exist at the moment of their death.
> and that ban was transitively applied to their personal account as well
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It's mostly pigs. Remember that they're omnivores, so they eat the same things humans eat. Cattle eat grass, they're also fed grain commercially, and after the mad cow outbreaks, cattle are no longer fed meat and bone meal. Chickens mostly eat grain and worms, though I assume they're getting some meat and bone meal.

Found this on youtube. I grew up around farms, and it looks about right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrRprZ8C93g

Also, classic scene from Snatch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xUynRdzzsM
Care to include sources for any of these claims that you say have been observed?

I definitely don’t sell software, but I do see it as my responsibility to make sure all of my team members are heard.

On the exploitation, unfortunately domestic abuse is possible regardless of work styles and homes are not always the safe space we expect them to be. That problem exists with or without ability to work remotely. Society and employers should be aware of that and have means of helping those affected. There are many great NGOs and non-profits doing great work in this area and I’d encourage all of us to donate more to such causes and do volunteer work.

EDIT: On self segregation, that may have started that way, but demanding that people leave family ties and their friends to move for job opportunities is not all that positive either. Give people a choice and the ability to, but don’t require it. That is much friendlier and fairer.
> Sure - but they've been working on the last 1% for years now.

Indeed, and we aren't any closer compared to say 5 years ago. That is more or less my point: you can solve for some of this and then you are still left with a mountain more. And then at some point there is an even harder problem to deal with: how to ensure that fixing one problem won't regress one or more others.
I think it would be more accurate to say, when an employee leaves, it's imperative to cut that associated account, regardless of whether you're on good terms with them or not.
C to Checked C by 3C
"...spatial safety violations (e.g., buffer overflows) still constitute one of today’s most dangerous and prevalent security vulnerabilities. To combat these violations, Checked C extends C with bounds-enforced checked pointer types.

Checked C is essentially a gradually typed spatially safe C—checked pointers are backwards-binary compatible with legacy pointers, and the language allows them to be added piecemeal, rather than necessarily all at once, so that safety retrofitting can be incremental.

This paper presents a semi-automated process for porting a legacy C program to Checked C. The process centers on 3C, a static analysis-based annotation tool. 3C employs two novel static analysis algorithms—typ3c and boun3c—to annotate legacy pointers as checked pointers, and to infer array bounds annotations for pointers that need them...

Experiments on 11 programs totaling 319KLoC show 3C to be effective at inferring checked pointer types, and experience with previously and newly ported code finds 3C works well when combined with human-driven refactoring...."

PDF: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2203/2203.13445.pdf

Checked C Project:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/checked-c/

https://github.com/microsoft/checkedc

"Checked C: Making C Safe by Extension":

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...
Rap Song Helped Sentence a 17-Year-Old to Prison for Life
Baby Einstein and Wiggles might work.
I like unlimited time off because its available instantly, whereas fixed time off accrues slowly per pay period and I am always chomping off small pieces of it or in the negative.

The people disliking unlimited PTO are too intimidated to take it. Most people have no leverage or need the job, so that's real, for them. I prefer unlimited and I'm never at a company long enough for accruals to add up 3-4 years in.
I skipped over Vista... and 10, and 11.
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'Wrecking crew' politics: deliberately governing badly to advance an agenda
SOLID.
It sounds like Google have other means to establish links between accounts, though? An employee using their personal account and a company account from the same browser is likely to result in a "link" or association being established between those accounts.
Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/opinion/rap-music-crimina...
Nah, your understanding is incorrect. I've used it in Phoenix and it goes places a bus wouldn't like residential culdesacs and parking lots (whithin the geofence).
This just sounds extremely manipulative and I don't see how I can trust this opinion. It also seems wrong:

the average person expels 300-500ml of this fluid a day in the form of a fine mist- an aerosol. You can see it in cold weather.

That's condensation from humidity in the air you breathed out. That's why you can only see it in cold weather. Does it really contain viruses? Any data on this?
FCC Call Authentication Trust Anchor Final Rule (Jan 2022)
Theory:

I think the problem is the only solid connection google has are developer accounts / that's the only club they have to swing. So bad actors may jump from account to account and Google's method of whack a mole is to just associate accounts.

Way back in the day I worked on an old forum where we used to try to do that for spammers and such. But we didn't automate it. We just had a checking mechanism that would indicate if some accounts might be from the same person ... maybe.

But beyond anecdotes and the above story I've no idea how widespread this is.
Facebook makes a big show of being a progressive company (internally) with a nominally neutral political outlook.

Ask any progressive, they will say there's nothing politically neutral about preventing unionization: https://theintercept.com/2020/06/11/facebook-workplace-union...

I also don't think people are falling for rainbow capitalism internally or not. I think people generally understand that it is just a show and the only color on the rainbow they care about is green.
Most of the self driving cars should be fleet, so I doubt any of these specifically will occur. It will be more like having cheap reliable taxis around, and anyone who has lived in a cheaper country (like China) might understand that.

Coupled with electrification going on at the same time (many countries and states have set 2030 or 2035 deadlines), the CO2 impact won't be as bad, although we should still focus on public mass transit.
Do you happen to know if this is because of Waymo? I've always wondered how much of a feedback loop there is between Waymo and Google Maps. They've never officially confirmed anything and I can't find any literature on it.
I'm not who you are talking to, but the bar to having a successful outcome for this type of suit is very high. Anyone who is familiar with litigation and the bad PR that comes with this type of suit would run from this as quickly as possible. Remember, ediscovery goes both ways in a suit like this.
Not all comments need to be read as aggressive.
This sounded more informative, and personally as an ESL, helps me improve.
It's I guess tangentially related, but in terms of de-googling, I've been using docker mailserver https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver for a few years now and it is great. Combined with bluemail, thunderbird clients, backblaze for backup, and solar panels, it runs in my house and is basically free. For resiliency I do pay for a backup MX, which is about $5/year per domain.
It took a few hours to set up, supports many users (family and friends) and maybe 1h every 3 months to update and check all is good.
Yeah, survival bias.
Fake Profile Detector (Deepfake, GAN) for Chrome Web Browser
Just in case you all still think they are on the right track with these methods of treating mood disorders, look at the data you are basing your claims on.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/many-antidepressa...

"Meta-analyses by industry employees were 22 times less likely to have negative statements about a drug than those run by unaffiliated researchers. The rate of bias in the results is similar to a 2006 study examining industry impact on clinical trials of psychiatric medications, which found that industry-sponsored trials reported favorable outcomes 78 per cent of the time, compared with 48 percent in independently funded trials."

And if you think MDMA treatment is not about money you are worse than ignorant:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90720911/mindstate-psychedelics

Venture capital firms have taken notice—pouring money into startups developing psychedelic treatments for everything from PTSD to smoking cessation. A January analysis by Business Insider identified 11 venture capital firms (most of them founded in the past three years) that have collectively invested roughly $140 million in the psychedelics category. Funding accelerated after psychedelic startup Compass Pathways raised $146 million in its September 2020 initial public offering and an additional $144 million in a secondary offering in April 2021.
I would say the biggest reason is that not all of the nodes were compromised. It would have been much easier to just have access to all the validator nodes, but they only gained access to 4 of them and needed to exploit an old and unused RPC to get the 5th signature. This is likely an inside job for sure...but not a rug pull.
The last few percent of any project, takes the longest.
> The difference is that most people here really like Apple hardware, so they get a free pass

I think it’s pretty clear the difference isn’t Apple vs Facebook (e.g. CSAM blowback) but boasting about yourself versus hiring someone to attack a competitor.

An analogous comparison would be if Facebook said their algorithms benefited mental health more than competitors, or if Apple paid to have an op-ed in a newspaper talking about how Intel’s GPU’s might explode or something. The difference is that Apple’s slide was Apple’s slide and any bias was clear. Facebook went through backdoors and PR firms to sway local journalists and congressmen in an actually dark game of chess.

> I’d need to see more evidence that Facebook was deliberately lying to really be concerned about this

That’s the whole point. Facebook wasn’t lying, Targeted Victory was. Take your pick of the evidence:

Firm director’s email:

> get the message out that while Meta is the current punching bag, TikTok is the real threat especially as a foreign owned app

> Campaign operatives were also encouraged to use TikTok’s prominence as a way to deflect from Meta’s own privacy and antitrust concerns.

> rumors of the “devious licks” challenge initially spread on Facebook, not TikTok.

> Targeted Victory worked to spread rumors of the “Slap a Teacher TikTok challenge” in local news… In reality, no such challenge existed on TikTok. Again, the rumor started on Facebook

> In addition to planting local news stories, the firm has helped place op-eds targeting TikTok around the country, especially in key congressional districts.

If that feels like a wall of text, it’s because it is, chock full of specific evidence Targeted Victory was manipulating congressmen and newspapers to report in a way benefitting them, all because they know that the TikTok algorithm is leagues superior and more user curated than their own outrage-bate dumpster fire.

The authors aren’t relying on “anti-Facebook anger” anymore than it’s Facebook’s bed and now they need to lie in it after years of turning the web into a partisan surveillance state. This was a targeted campaign of disinformation ranging far further than one slide on a keynote.
Echoing sentiments expressed...

Automation: Coding automation, test automation, devops, Ci, cd; hopefully goes without saying these days, but it wasn't in your list and ought to be x10 at least.

Knowledge Transfer: be x10 while on holiday.

Delegation: for many its harder than learning something new.

There are tricks that make you personally more productive, but the key to overall productivity is effective team work, or all your productivity is x1.
> Looks like it's 100% a valid tactic.

It is valid and I’m sure quite effective but it isn’t perfect. You need to provide escape hatches for real people in all anti-fraud systems you create. Even if those escape hatches sometimes let fraudsters through as well.

I’m not Google and I don’t know the kinds of fraud they attract (note: probably all kinds of fraud imaginable) nor do I know the level of effort those fraudsters are willing to put in (note: probably unimaginable amounts of effort)… but I do know that all anti-fraud work needs to allow ways for real people to escape. Your job in this space is to protect real users… and sometimes those real users inadvertently behave like fraudsters and get flagged. There has to be ways out.
> judging from the pictures can be tricky: the Waveshare WS-18295 as seen at https://www.waveshare.com/5.65inch-e-Paper-Module-F.htm seems to show many more colours than the seven full-discreet.

I don't agree at all. Zoom in to the pictures of any of that 5.65 panel. It is literally very visibly dithered and shows discrete 7 colors only! There is no "subpixel complexity". You can choose one value of 7 colors for any pixel and that's it. You can't mix. You don't have "range" within each color. https://www.waveshare.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/imag...
No one washes their hands perfectly (e.g., ready for surgery), so when you dry them there’s still a lot of bacteria present. Dyson dryers aerosolize those particulates, and they do it far more than other dryers.

Think of it this way — they don’t dry your hands, they blow the water off. Where does the water go? All over the bathroom. Dyson dryers disperse fluids up to 3 meters away.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dyson-dryers-hurl-60...
That’s not at all what Linux namespaces permit. It’s a side effect of using them that could be leveraged using something like CRIU, sure, but it’s not what they’re for and they’re not a building block for anything mentioned in the portion of their comment you quoted.

Namespaces simply make the kernel lie when asked about sockets and users and such. It’s intended for isolation on a single server. They’re next to useless in distributed work, particularly the kind being discussed here (Plan 9ish). You actually want the opposite: to accomplish that, you want the kernel to lie even harder and make things up in the context of those interfaces, rather than hide things. Namespaces don’t really get you there in their current form.
That's not particularly useful without a reputation system.

In particular, any federated identity provider has a problem for this use case in that malicious actors can simply create their own domain - or multiple - and spam/troll from those. Blacklists essentially don't work as long as new domains can be created, so you end up with a whitelist, which kinda counteracts the federation concept.

It needs something where getting blemishes on your ID is actually something you want to avoid. And where fresh IDs is not effective to bypass this.
It's been about a year now, but I used to skate around the city all the time -- even then I found the self-driving test cars to be way less treacherous than the human-driven ones!

Pulling your kid in a bike trailer in SF is awesome and admirable, but also a little bit crazy :-)
I agree: Computing is terrific stuff, an historic opportunity, but by itself is like an ingot of steel -- needs an application. So, need steel AND something else. So, need computing AND something else. My something else is some pure/applied math that is an advantage in my startup.
Sending your kid by themselves in a taxi isn't an uncommon thing in China. I can't imagine that changing much with self driving cars, but I understand the American perspective isn't already used to such things.
Gen-Z doesn't give a damn about Facebook, or Republicans.
This is super interesting and well-written. Also, wow, that generated-assembly-viewer widget is slick.
My favorite trick is putting sand or scrap metal inside something to make it seem more expensive. Works every time.
That’s a good fit when each route needs a lot of custom styles and each one is developed by a separate team.

However, it doesn’t really fit well if a brand-themed app is developed by a single team. Consistency is easier to maintain when styles can be reused across the application, and things like styled-components don’t work that well there since they tightly couple components to styles, so you need a theming system on top of them… which is silly, because CSS itself is a theming system.

CSS modules is a bit better, but even that encourages encapsulation which is necessarily broken if the styles need to be shared between components.
But with that you also had other fossil fuel companies working hard to make sure that didn't happen
Precisely how do you define definitive so that we might better understand what you assert to be wrong?

My naive intuition suspects he knows, so here's a contrarian curveball pulled directly out of JEDEC JESD88 Dictionary of Terms for Solid-State Technology[1] to consider (my emphasis):

> drain power voltage (VDD): The primary power voltage on MOS devices that require a potential that differs from the normal system logic voltage. The term VDD is used interchangeably with VCC on devices that use 5‑V supplies.

[1] https://www.jedec.org/standards-documents/dictionary/terms/d...
Their wealth and power rivals many states, yet they act with a level of impunity that most dictatorships will never attain. We can and should break Google and others up into many smaller companies. They'll be less efficient that way, but efficiency is not in itself a goal.
Cortex, Thanos and Mimir all support "remote-read" protocol (documented in Prometheus: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/storage/#remote...), so external systems (eg Prometheus) can read data from them easily.
Data can be both, in which case GDPR right still apply. Several GDPR fines have been handed down for processing business data about a person. Especially (but not only) data about sole proprietors/solo traders.