skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing a $5000/mo price tag indicates is that they think their target demo will pay $5000/mo
Taxes should be based on weight, particularly because road damage is primarily driven by vehicle weight. (by a cubed factor)

We current subsidize, to a LARGE extent, goods shipped via semi truck. A large portion of the damage done to infrastructure is from shipping.

The solution? Trains. Whatever we can do to get more goods shipped by rail or ships the better. Those are the most CO^2 and infrastructure efficient ways to move goods. Even better if some day in the future we get those trains powered by electricity.
SSO is important because it's the best mechanism to show that employee lifecycle events are being appropriately mapped into access controls.

You only activate the SSO account when the employee onboards. You deactivate the account when the employee off-boards. You can suspend the account if the employee is on an extended leave-of-absence.

You can do this in one place, as single source of truth, rather than having to demonstrate that all the different identity systems in which Bob is represented have deactivated him when you have to let Bob go.

Ideally this happens automatically due to an integration between your HR system and your identity platform.

The alternative is that you have some kind of runbook that tells you exactly who to speak to about removing accounts from what systems (etc) which rapidly becomes unmanageable as scope of applications and number of employees increases.

Even for small firms, you can run into problems when the person you need to let go is the person that knows how to run the process.
The median home value in SF is ~$1.5 million. A typical mortgage on a home like that is ~$4-5k per month. So you're assuming folks have $25-30k in liquid cash hanging around all the time. Not unrealistic but certainly not everyone working at tech companies there has that kinda cash. And that's before you factor in other costs like property taxes, insurance, etc. that you'll need to cover too.
Like the sibling, I've been through a SOC2 process, and there were screenshots, lots of screenshots, to try to "prove" things to the auditor.

(I say "prove", as sometimes the question is malformed, and so you're trying to make the best of it as you can.)
No. 2 Theranos Executive Found Guilty of 12 Counts of Fraud
Where is it 80 or 90% fossil?
I’m expecting Microsoft to gain control of Linux at some point. I thought they might merge with IBM/Red Hat, but if they got Poettering, maybe that’s not necessary. We appear to be at the end stage of “embrace”, and MS is leading Google, especially after picking up GitHub.

Will Google make a successful end run to control web consumption with Chrome and AMP?
It is a failed state. Or call it a puppet state. After the Maidan coup it became pretty fast s fascist autocracy. And it was corrupt since the gain of independence. How else would you call it? A pinnacle of democracy certainly not.
I saw a Linkedin post from a recruiting coordinator who was laid off.

Edit: This was a different person than the author of the submitted post. Uff da.
He's not saying that new stuff will always not be zero sum, just that the space of potential non zero sum new things is bigger than the space of things that already exist.
Doesn't 80% of the world's population live within 100km of the sea as well. And I'd guess most of the remainder live close to major rivers and lakes.
> SOC2 is the best-known infosec certification, and the only one routinely demanded by customers

Maybe in the US. For the rest of the world, ISO27001 is arguably better known.
Once they leave the company they are free to sell the stock. They are not beholden to a stock blackout anymore.
>Fuel prices and registration fees are only slightly higher in California but that small economic nudge is enough to knock trucks completely out of the ranks of best-selling vehicles in that state.

I'd be cautious about blaming it all on fuel prices. I'd argue that the increased wealth of California residents relative to the rest of the country also plays a part in why a vehicle that is too expensive for most people made it so high on that list in California.
Could anyone explain to me in simple terms how it's possible to have a blackout on Vested stock?

I was under the impression that once I'm "vested" the stock is now mine and I own it like any normal stock.

Are "vested" shares something different? Could I say for example sell my shares on Robinhood if the blackout wasn't in effect or are they held by some third party?
Australia is basically Hot Canada.
Thank you. At work we've been having a look at these. Decent for in house stuff.
> Ukrainians would have been much better off had they worked with Russia to avoid or quickly settle the war, especially after heroically successfully resisting the blitzkrieg-style initial invasion

The war started immediately after Ukraine threw out the Russian puppet government.

They didn't successfully resist the initial anything; Russia seized Crimea and infiltrated and set up proxies in Eastern Ukraine, and Ukraine was unable to do much about it.

> Instead, goaded on the by the USA and Europe, they are fighting a losing war that will hurt tens or hundreds of thousands over the coming years.

The war Russia initiated and bears full responsibility for has hurt millions already (and in fact had hurt millions before the 2022 escalation), not mere tens or hundreds of thousands.

> There is 0 chance Russia will back off

They will back off before or after they collapse from the cost of the war, but either way they will back off. They’ve lost vastly more in lives and treasure in a few months than the much larger USSR did in a decade in Afghanistan. Putin may dream of recreating the Empire of Peter the Great, but he's heading more toward Nicholas II.

> Putin fell right into their trap

I mean, if you mean by the 2022 escalation, it was a pretty well-marked trap. The US and other friends of Ukraine spend most of a decade openly arming and training Ukraine after the 2014 invasion, repeatedly saying Russia should stop interfering and warning, with increasing urgency, of their knowledge of and commitment to opposing Russia’s plan for a new, large scale invasion in 2022, going so far as to release detailed intelligence of the orders for that invasion that Putin has given.

Pretty easy trap to avoid if you don't want to fall into it, what with everyone pointing out where it is, how bad it would be to step in it, and how to avoid it.
They don't really care about a lot of the externalities, like more land used per parking spot, more energy used by transportation, increased road wear from heavier vehicles, etc.
What are you optimizing for? Once you clarify that your answer will be clear.

- Access to capital?
- close to "action"?
- Airport hub city?
I am aware of situations like this. An employee I know was given a completely false performance evaluations despite having been one of the most productive people in her team. Members of her team and other teams had previously praised her for her contributions towards helping them and their organization. One day out of the blue one day she was told she was under-performing. Then she was given a "test task" to "improve her performance". The task given was extremely challenging with very short timescales and after she delivered it in time, she was told it was not good enough for nitpicky reasons.

I do not find this situation unusual at all. I am even aware of cases that led to suicides. Issues like this are prevalent in every organization, private or governmental that I have any knowledge of. Even the UN is not free of such issues : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018ljw

There is an opportunity here for a sociologist to do some good research to explain why this is such a common problem and what can be done about. However at the root of the problem is the fact that laws pertaining to work place bullying are almost non-existent in most countries. There are some laws pertaining to "harassment" which is like bullying but only when applied to protected categories. This is another opportunity for a political scientist to investigate why do almost all countries not have well developed laws against workplace bullying. It doesn't take a genius to propose hypothesis regarding both these questions. It may take a genius to provide incontrovertible scientific evidence substantiating any such hypothesis.

If any such scholarly work is made available and widely circulate, it could be used to raise public awareness and apply political pressure for better legislation. Which family has not had to deal with stress due to work ? Which family has not felt strained by these experiences ?

There is also an opportunity for some bold and enterprising technical person to start a social platform that allows sharing of information with legal protection. Information that would allow prospective job applicants to get authentic and potentially verifiable information about organizations and individuals. If such a platform can be created, protected and made self sustaining it would make a big difference.

Finally these is an opportunity for artists to create moving works of art and literature that raise social consciousness and change attitudes so that the "bosses" get the social experience they deserve out side their offices where they pretend to be "normal people" (who don't drive others to suicide and don't feel guilty about anything).

As much as I would like to hope for a better future, progress in these matters in the near future seems unlikely to me, for reasons explained very clearly in this sources

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE
Former Theranos executive Sunny Balwani is convicted of fraud
If this merger wasn't going on twitter stock would be down XX% and so would their "emergency fund". Pretty sure i heard on a podcast that twitter has historically mirrored Meta stock so that's roughly a 50% drop.

edit: over the past 6 months. so the duration of this process
Or more commonly, someone who drives a compact car drunk habitually through a dangerous neighborhood is higher risk than a high-income person with a good driving record who drives a heavy car in a quiet suburb.

The people who cause the most insurance losses are often people who really don't have their lives together. They're driving cheap pieces of junk and wrecking them frequently.
That's a neat document. Is there something like this also for ISO 27001?
FYI, the reason the pw change requirement went away is because NIST published an updated set of guidelines that explicitly disrecommend it: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-FAQ/#q-b05

On the vendor / policy side, many/most of these questions trickle down from NIST or similar institutional guidance. The auditors pick up on that and on practices from comparable companies they've audited, which can be helpful when your industry is moving towards sanity and painful when there's a meme that makes no sense in your context.

(If you spend significant time dealing with customer compliance issues, I would definitely vote that it's worth being familiar with the relevant subset of NIST pubs.)
> Killing a victim can often be cheaper than the medical costs required to treat a severely injured person.

Maybe, but I am rather skeptical of this claim being true under most circumstances.

And even if it is true that the payout from insurance is bigger in the case of injury than death, there's potentially lost revenue if the insured goes to jail.
I guess they'll have to lower their cost of living like the rest of us?
I've faced such bosses multiple times in my career. Once upon a time I put up with it and rationalized it as some necessary evil. More recently I've left jobs because of it.

Nowadays, I recognize it as an inherent consequence of capitalism; with few exceptions, workers lack the bargaining power to resist abuse, be it from the ownership class or from fellow workers appointed as "managers" and given the bare minimum scraps of power over the rest of us for them to feel like honorary members of the ownership class. The rational play is to accept that no corporation is your friend; your boss will drop you in the blink of an eye, and it's in your best interests to maximize your ability and willingness to reciprocate.
Moving the contractor's fleet of F-150 and the likes into EV is a good thing. With that background Hummers is just a noise not worth the bandwidth we are spending discussing it. Instead, muster some empathy and compassion for and have a pity on the guys who feel the need for such a car.
> dig a hole in a geologically boring mountain away from people

Where?

Where on Earth will you find a place that will still be like that in 200,000 years.
It will be interesting to see who gets a longer sentence. The CEO or COO? What would it say about our society if it is the latter?
Is panel production energy intensive or toxic these days?
It’s a proxy for having your shit together.

The bankrupt dude with a felony DWI is a liability for anything involving cash, driving or public contact.
> You [...] absolutely don't get to bitch

First, this is unacceptable language. Don't talk to me like that.

Second,

> what you're really saying is "I'd like to force the people working on wayland to continue working on X, because it's beneficial to me".

I never said such. Don't put words in my mouth.
It’s not good to do this analysis with figures from the entire U.S., which has a wildly variable mix of electricity sources depending on where you are and what time of day it is. This also obscures the difference between unavoidable C02 emissions from burning gasoline with emissions from industrial processes that may not emit carbon in the future.

In general people are not careful readers, and in my opinion, headlines like this tend to feed cynicism and inaction.

What I see here is enormous opportunity in decarbonizing the processes that lead to high lifecycle emissions for this and other vehicles.
> The challenge is that this specific group in this specific location has an outsized number of people that are aiding terrorist organizations.

Racism
Josh with the publisher (Holloway) here. Yes, indeed, that's a key feature of our format. Especially expect we can see updates on the chapter on recent/emerging developments and companies/teams.

Readers can also make marginal comments. Do feel free to use these to suggest corrections or additions for the future!
No pricing from UK ip either.
How is this thing supposed to get installed on a Linux machine?
Personally I don't see it as a general trend because its uneconomical and I think the notion of 'ownership of data' is confused.

One issue is that local and online isn't an either/or situation. People bring up keepass and self-hosting for example, but pretty much any online pw manager stores your data both locally and online, and you can export it. Going local only or self-managing my data has no benefit to me.

Second point is about control. We have encryption nowadays. I'm always confused when people hide their password vault or throw it on a next cloud home instance or something. The entire point of encryption is to enable the transport of secure data across insecure or adversarial channels. You can either own things and keep them secret, or encrypt them. Doing both kind of defeats the purpose of the latter.

Third thing is that empirically speaking, Google has a better track record of not losing my stuff than I do, so I think there's also a lot of illusions going on when people think that data is more safe if they have close on hand.
Compared to what their architecture should enable. Sure, it's more satellites consumed per request but there aren't _that_ many satellites between some random point in the Pacific and the nearest base station. Certainly seems like it's not scaling that well if the price jumps from ~$120 to $5000.
I care but I don't understand the craziness about tiling wms, xfce etc. I like the convenience that KDE provides for me.

To me the guys who casually always mention "btw yeah I'm using this tiling wm and ..." are just smugly showing off, like vegans or people who own too expensive bicycles.
SOC2 is a deal breaker. It is already a pain to work for large American companies. You are forced to not be honest in the audits. The audits are complete bs by the way. Some external off shored company that wants screenshots of some specifics that they somehow found important. It is more Kafka than actual value. Miss those days, not…

It is better how it works in EU. Track money and stock activity + GDPR. SOC does not prevent Enrons. I mean, even if there was a complete ledger of everything ever done in a company you could still not prevent Enrons. The fraud part should have been detected anyway. And would have in EU, I would say.

Edit: D'oh! I mixed it up with SOX that is mandatory.
Equity isn’t an emergency fund.
“…and it absolutely Will. Not. Stop. until you are…” a shot rings out, and Sarah Connor drops to the ground with a bullet hole dead center in her forehead as a terminator drone whizzes by.

Yes, I know xkcd did it years back. I suggested this concept to an Air Force general at a 2002/3 planning meeting for the DARPA Grand Challenge. He looked at me cross-eyed and said “We don’t deploy systems like that.”
Trucks aren't especially cheap.
Overlapping business hours
There's very little value with Iridium -- do you work for them or something?
When I saw the first presentation for the iPhone I absolutely saw it as the future. And that was 15 years ago.
Companies routinely have blackout periods where employees are not allowed to sell their shares. Typically the shares from equity grants or ESPP are done by a brokerage and they can block those shares from being sold during these blackout periods.

However, when someone leaves the company, they can transfer those shares out to their e-trade account or whatnot. I've done that before and it only takes a few days. After that you aren't beholden to stock blackout periods, unless you have Material Non-Public Information, which means you will probably have to figure out if you can sell without being considered insider trading.
Russia is better off without a NATO presence at its borders, threatening regime change at the press of a button. Sure, NATO would avoid openly invading Russia, but just like we are currently fighting in Ukraine with everything except (overt) manpower, our expansion would not stop at Russia's current borders. Every separatist movement inside the Russian Federation would (will) find a good friend in NATO.

Stopping this expansion at Ukraine, and reminding their people the immoral lengths they are willing to go to when their interests are threatened, is a major strategic goal for Russian leaders.

> By that logic wouldn’t the Russians be much better off if they had worked with the international community to avoid this war as their industrial base is crumbling around them and they are losing massive amounts of manpower?

Absolutely, and what I'm saying is not justification for this disturbing invasion. The invasion obviously puts Putin and other Russian elites' interest above those of their citizens, as can be expected from an authoritarian oligarchy.
Considering the coverage map is mostly coastal waters, private LTE and 5g are the 'budget' competition (for now). In some areas like the Gulf of Mexico, a not insignificant portion of the water is serviced by LTE that you can roam onto using a conventional TMobile, Sprint or AT&T SIM, often without an additional cost.
I agree. I’m just telling you what the terms of service say.
I’ll second those questions; I work at Twitter and am on vacation at the moment. I saw this and immediately checked my work email and major slack channels and I see no signs of any layoffs being announced. It’s possible the person claiming it has some inside information or that the layoffs are targeting specific departments and not mine I suppose, but I’d love to see a second source or more detailed information.
> and still have a single portable executable at the end.

You're quoting selectively in a way that elides meaningful parts of the sentence, and then stating that the description lacks meaning.
It is! But their architecture should enable them to hit a much lower price point. Maybe it's just charging what the market will bear? If this is what they need to charge to be profitable, though, that indicates the satellite-to-satellite approach doesn't scale well, or they've been losing money.
guess, first, need to figure out why he does not deliver as promised?

- is he technical incapable of doing it, cannot figure out things, underestimate the effort? if he is not strong technically, you may want let him go not waiting longer... some senior dev maybe not as strong as written on resume...

- or it is issue with his work attitude? if no improvement with clear kanban/scrume process defined, may want to let him go... ha
The public key by definition is public. For eg: the recipient needs to know that public key to validate a signature made with that public key.

The issue is if you are emailing a counterparty with whom you have no trust established yet, there is no way for them to trust your public key (or for you to trust their public key) unless you have somehow exchanged keys in a secure manner. This is the key distribution problem.

Certificate authorities help manage this by notarizing your public key with theirs and if the CA is trusted by the counterparty, they can use it to validate the public key is from you.

Having said that, it would be great if mobile operating systems had services that could support key notarization and if you could configure say 4-5 of your trusted contacts to act as notaries and they vouch for your public key automatically. With DID-core, this may become possible.
It is weird because the scorpion, of course, dies too. And the frog was just doing him a favor.

I think the moral is supposed to be: "Some people are just irredeemably awful to the point that they'll self destruct and take you down with them if you try to help them" which... I guess is true but pretty jaded for a children's story, haha. Although, old fashioned fables do tend to have that dark aspect.
> Microsoft knows you can't beat free.

That doesn't explain why Windows and Office (both paid products) have edge over desktop Linux and LibreOffice (free).
That would seriously depend on 'what part' of California you are talking about. In the cities and down south where parking and traffic are huge factors, you bet. But the farther north you go the more trucks and large SUVs you will see on the road. California is far too big to be treated as a single entity when it comes to anything.
In the rust belt when a factory closes or when people lose their farms, they move to where it makes economic sense. But these (ex-Twitter emps) are some of the most mobile people on Earth! It is sad when someone anyone loses their source of income -on the other hand these are among the most capable of landing on their feet.
>>Ah yes. Appeasement. Always a winning strategy.

It worked fabulously for Neville Chamberlain didn't it? </sarc>
American cities need to grow up, and let housing be built
I assume it's both, a pun.
>> What's going on at Amazon?

Amazon is customer-centric, but employee-abusive. They use employees like disposable paper products and always need more.

>> They are needing to hire SWEs this bad?

Yes. They have natural attrition due to employee burn out and an "unregretted attrition" quota where they fire 6% of their employees [1].

>> Is this new?

No.

>> Have they always operated like this?

Yes, for quite some time.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/internal-amazon...
I don’t have any data myself, but it is a common argument in the United States that automobile drivers enjoy ridiculously little legal liability for injuring or killing pedestrians and cyclists in all but the grossest cases of recklessness or negligence.
Is there an epub/mobi version? I'd love to read it on a kindle.