skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A long time ago I attended a DEFCON where this was discussed. Long before it became a big deal in the industry to have all this tech in cars. CANBUS was broken reliably, and if my memory serves me they even had a car you could take a shot at hacking yourself. After playing with it the entire conference I came to the conclusion I would never own a modern car if I can avoid it.

Any car running CANBUS is vulnerable to a potentially fatal attack. They have not resolved this. However, you also generally cannot avoid it. Even the base model Honda civic is vulnerable to attacks on the drive-by-wire system. In a less morbid sense, most modern cars cannot even be serviced at home without going to the dealer for a reset of whatever subsystem. ABS comes to mind.

I would not detract from an old car. A car 25 years old has 99% of the safety features of a modern car and, in good working order, will protect you just the same. Or maybe I just don't worry about it because the probability of anything greater than a minor fender bender killing you is pretty high even with modern tech.
There's a big difference between telling (third-party) recruiters and employers these things.
and this is bad how?
Sure, except…that particular bill was a response to specific real situations that happened in Florida related to educators not informing parents and specifically using age inappropriate materials in the classroom. Additionally, the coordinated opposition wasn’t arguing that it was unnecessary, but rather the prohibition would not allow educators to do it.
The judge being surprised the FBI conducted studies concluding the technique lacks merit after having published an article about the initial promising result is a problem. Preliminary results without independent verification are notoriously unreliable.

Imagine an engineer designing something safety-critical based on a single scientific paper describing a result that hadn't been replicated elsewhere. Engineers usually don't do that, but if they do they face significant liability and risk losing their licenses.
I’ve never found Lightning connectors to fail, but the cable to connector junction does seem to wear out after a few years, especially on Apple cables with that terrible vinyl-like stress relief material.

But USB-C is pretty young. It remains to be seen if cables and connectors are really durable forever.

I am still suspicious of the complexity of the nested male/female design with the inner male blade being part of the device and hard/impossible to fix if broken. . . but have not seen any problems on my increasing number of USB-C devices yet.
Your link of Sudden unintended acceleration contains a lot of entries related to this issue which don't involve computers at all. It lists pedal misapplication, entrapped pedals, stuck throttles, electrical shorts, and diesel engine runaway as other things which can cause such an issue. A lot of the reported incidents had nothing to do with software.

Either way, if you've had a fuel injected car you were still exposed to these issues. You would have to go buy a carbureted engine from the 80s or before to get away from these "unintended acceleration" issues, as in the end a car with EFI probably has a computer actually controlling the injection. I'd be way more wary of daily driving an 80s or older car from a general safety standpoint than a software issue. You're way more likely to be t-boned at an intersection than a software glitch causing an accident; having a much more modern car will help from a crash safety standpoint than having a carburetor.

There's a ton of things that can go wrong in a car which can cause an accident. The software stack is surely one of those things, but even a 100% mechanical car can have a lot of failures as well. Ever have vacuum hoses fail on an old car? Carburetors get stuck or clogged? Personally, I'd prefer a computer controlling components directly instead of tons of vacuum lines and springs trying to keep things tuned right. On top of that I'll also get much better efficiency and reduce harmful emissions which hurt my family and my neighbors.
I'm in the middle of the Zeihan book right now. Even if his prediction about globalization's end turns out to be wrong (not that I don't think it's possible), the history and worldview in this book has been really enlightening for me.
It's awesome seeing the iteration through the steam controller, then the Index controllers, and now the steam deck.
I'd still interact with computers in some way shape or form if I were a millionaire, but I also hope that such an amount of money and free time would expand my scope of personal fulfillment to some other unknown areas of life and consciousness beyond IT work.

Ironically, I think your MD example provides the exact sort of comparison that should trigger some critical introspection for most tech workers. Most of us are not exactly saving lives with the time we spend in front of the keyboard.
I said "mobile apps" to exclude browsers which do similar validation anyways. And it is the same process for mobile apps, only apps designed in an insecure manner (to choose to ignore cert warnings, use custom TLS clients etc) would fail validation and there is no reason to use such apps, it does not matter whether you use a VPN or public-wifi.

Have you encountered any such apps?

- https://developer.android.com/training/articles/security-ssl
> I moved to a foreign country where I knew no one in order to stretch my savings

I have found NomadList (nomadlist.com) and NomadSphere (nomadsphere.io) invaluable for meeting up with people when abroad, although usually people who are there to work remotely.
In my experience you're overstating the need to be able to instantly brain dump complex algorithms, except maybe at the FAANG level where I have no experience. It's far more important to be comfortable solving any simple coding challenge on demand in front of people in a high-stakes situation like an interview.
I've thought about it, and no, I cannot.
You cannot construct a logical theory of physics in which some aspects of physics are quantum and others aren't. That's what I mean by Quantum Mechanics infecting the rest of physics.

This is why after the discovery of Quantum Mechanics, there was a drive to formulate quantum versions of all fundamental theories.
All of that firmware that isn't a self driving autopilot blackbox is probably quite safe. Such as anti-lock breaks and fuel injection timing.

I am never going to put my life in the hands of some software doing image analysis using machine learning.
That apparently depends on pharmacy, as I had a friend pick up pain meds for me after a surgery.
Seeing that I work at the alphabetically sorted first “A” in FAANG, I don’t think it could be considered a “tier 3” company.

When a recruiter from Amazon Retail reached out to me about an SDE position, I wasn’t interested in either relocating, working as a software developer at any large company or doing the prerequisite DS&A monkey dance.

We kept talking and she suggested that I apply for a fully remote role consulting (yes it’s a full time position) in AWS Professional Services.

I specialize in “application modernization” which is a fancy term for cloud enterprise application development + “Devops” + the standard type of work architects do at other companies.

But as far as the startup I worked for being “desperate”. I got hired at my previous company because of an informal lunch with the then new CTO who needed someone to lead the effort to make the company more “cloud native” and help them pivot toward a micro service architecture because they wanted to sell the services as backend to large health care companies.

Hint: I did that well enough to go from never opening the AWS console in mid 2018 to working at AWS two years later.

My interview was all behavioral where I talked through some of my previous company changing successes at a startup and a company where I led the integration effort when they were on an acquisition spree.

My “TC” is fine. It would be better if my unvested AMZN RSUs didn’t drop by half since I got hired.

(Yes I knew the gatekeeping was going to start when i wrote the first post above)
I agree with the article that it's not facebook. You're depressed, dont feel like doing anything but know you should, so you procrastinate on facebook, and then maybe the whole day passes, and the waste of another day makes it feel like nothing is going to change, helping feed your depression.

Facebook really has little to do with this... if it wasnt facebook, it would be youtube, instagram, watching tv, or sleeping all day.

These people are depressed... they need help to improve their condition. Taking away facebook will not make them un-depressed. Thats not how depression works.
Reversing a binary tree is a reference to a FAANG interview.

Money makes life easier. It isn’t the goal of your life. We aren’t playing a video game where the person who made the most money “wins” at life.
DEA Says Binance Used by Global Drug Conspiracy to Launder Millions
Why is virtue signalling bad? It's demonstrating that you care about something related to human dignity. Do you really think that is so awful that you laugh at it? What would have been better virtue signalling?
It seems contradictory that a good language wouldn't have proponents trying to get people to use it. I'm not sure I've ever heard of a language people think is good but don't think other people should use.
I do not want others to dismiss this line of thinking. Part of the issue is that we started the internet as 'free' ( as in, someone else picked up the tab as admins had to cover the cost of running websites somehow ; and there is an argument to be made that there would be no/less spam if email had some harder USD cost attached to it ).

I would not say ban, but maybe there is a middle ground that would allow less 'attention seeking' content to actually gain solid ground ( I know actually useful stuff is there if you are willing to pay ; it just does not always seem people are aware of it ).
a startup from our university [1] successfully builds on something like this for various automation tasks.

[1] https://www.askui.com/
> Exhibit A of why not to take your day job too seriously. Be professional — but that’s as far as it goes.

+1 on this. His #1 is exactly why you should not let work, and especially work social events, become the "primary shaper of your life" - they can and will get rid of you anytime they think it might be convenient for them. It may not have anything to do with your skills or productivity, it may be just what someone high above you felt like doing for reasons that have nothing to do with you.
There's the expense of maintaining a central A/C, ductwork, etc., that I'd rather not deal with (not to mention electricity is expensive here). Yes, if the air outside is dirty (forest fires, volcanic eruption, etc.) you've got a point. HEPA filters can help some with this, I suppose.

Humidity isn't usually a big issue here most days. If anything, it can be a bit dry (but not as dry as running an A/C would make it). Though, I do have a portable dehumidifier I use when I need to :)
There is a favourite old joke of mine that depends heavily on this pronunciation:

A dog limps into a bar. The barman looks at him and say "What can I do you for?" and
the dog replies "I'm a looking for the man that shot my pa".
That is maintained by third-party just as easy to use. In Nix you also need to enable it

https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
Even if jail were completely ineffective as a deterrent (which isn't true), it would still prevent crime, since the rest of the world is safe from prisoners while they're in jail.
I would love to get hooked into a video game again, but I can’t shake the guilt that I’m wasting my time. Any tips on how to enjoy them again?
Fossil Fuels Brewing appears to be no longer in business. Anybody know what happened to their yeast?

https://untappd.com/FossilFuelsBrewing
I've been enjoying many old games anyway because they're easy to run on Linux.

However, I must say modern games like Cyberpunk 2077 also run very well on Linux in Steam.

And I got the Steam Deck to thank for that, since more development on Proton and vkd3d was done for it!
I'm looking at a system now that is 45 decibels - 10db quieter than my robovacuum which is one of the quietest in the market.
Copper has long been the choice for piping because it's soft enough to bend without cracking. The obvious #2 choice, stainless steel, is often even more expensive.

(I don't like the standard HN analysis technique of assuming that another field has made a really basic error that can be spotted by an autodidact from outside)
Many people consider The 1619 Project to be politically-biased fiction.

I have no opinion myself (haven't read the book, don't know much beyond the official grade school history curriculum), but some of the criticisms come from superficially reasonable people.

If you take the book content to be meaningful, you should at least survey the criticisms. Of course you'll want to ignore the virulently anti brigade, which is numerous, very loud, and insufferably stupid.

Did not downvote. I think this is what the downvoters meant. As a reader, you deserve an explanation, IMO.
Is Google Flutter in Violation of GDPR?
I recently tested Flutter.They mentioned after the installation that Google Analytics is activated and I had to opt out.
This leaves of the question: Is Flutter SDK violating GDPR?
On the other hand, the aftermath of this layoff is making it pretty clear to me that going I got this field was a mistake and I was trying to get a career going for five years that was just going to end up nowhere. This might be what I need to get out for good.
So if you aren’t “learning and producing” at your day job, what are you doing 40 hours a week?
My claim WAS that hormones affect activation patterns. That is a well supported claim.

Changes in activation patterns affect our perceptions, our senses, and literally the medium by which we experience the world. They may not affect our personality instantaneously, but our personality is malleable, and depending on feedback, it changes.

If our brain's activation patterns change s.t. certain things are more enjoyable, then these new patterns integrate in our personality.
Yeah, I was trying not to spoil that, but that's what I meant when I said "(or is it? one passage suggests maybe that's not the case)".

That was interesting to think about when I got to that point, but wasn't enough for me.
It's a product they're looking to commercialize. Naming products after yourself is nearly as old as time.
hiring managers more often than not either respond with some variety of "Oh yeah, I did that too and it was amazing" or "Oh man that sounds so great, I'm jealous."

This only works if you get to even talk to a hiring manager.

Most applications are filtered by automatic systems. Many of those will penalize or discard your application for gaps.

The same AI bots we built when we were employed are now being used against us.
The outcome is the same. They lacked our weapons and immunizations- it would have been hard to catch up in parallel with the Western world. Look at Japan in the 1850s. The isolation of the prior few centuries hurt them.
I'm the sole author and developer of HashBackup, written in Python. I just checked, out of curiosity, and 18% of HashBackup's non-blank lines are comment lines. Considering Perl is usually more dense than Python, I'd say your "very cryptic 100 lines" of Perl should have at least 20 comment lines, and probably more, for me to feel comfortable with them.

I know some people have a philosophy of "ignore the comments, just read/trust the code", but it is such a waste of time to revisit code 5 years later and have to remember or re-learn all of the circumstances and edge cases that lead to the decisions in this concrete implementation. This is true just for myself, having written the code (!), and would be especially true on a team of 80 SWE's: it's more likely you didn't write the code you're looking at, or multiple people have mucked with it, and everyone who has to modify it in the future is going to have to go through this re-learning process to some degree before changing it. Do them a favor and comment everything that is committed to a repo.
Yes, that is the solution to this silly conundrum. Men tend to come equipped with beards once puberty hits, women happen to have fine hairs growing on their legs, both sexes have hair growing in their genital area and under their armpits. Woe to the one who ever came up with the idea of putting a stigma on natural hair growth.
> A repeat offender, vicious offender or someone who has burned up their three strikes is likely going to both get a serious prison sentance and reoffend.

Did you read the actual studies to see if they controlled for this very obvious objection? Seems important when accusing of incompetence.

> We use pretrial detention for criminals who are either more likely to flee or committed more serious offenses

We also use it for people who can't afford to get out, who then often lose their jobs, possibly where they live, etc. I know this because the article states that directly, not your "article goes on to argue that this is because people no longer trust the system" summary which doesn't appear to be part of the article (but maybe I just missed it?).

> “Holding them for a couple days, a couple months pretrial has devastating implications[1] for their lives,” Ghandnoosh says. Many find it hard to keep a job, hard to keep their housing. Such outcomes for a minor offense or no offense at all, she says, makes it more difficult to live a law-abiding life and could tip people into crime.

Seems like lots of evidence in the article, actually, and overall the criminologists quoted seem very careful to not overstate the conclusions the evidence can support.

[1] https://www.cato.org/research-briefs-economic-policy/economi...
Eh, for the first time I got an alert message on my cell phone asking people to reduce their electricity usage during a blizzard here in rural Minnesota.

If everyone is suddenly using electric heat when it’s -20 in an area there might be load issues.
Look good. I start to wonder what if Jupyter Notebook has results shown on the right.
You're playing with words. Let's go there. Perhaps I'm discussing the fire loud enough for people to hear. How do you differentiate between "word" and "action"?
What situation are people in that they have to result to this? Is this an issue with getting laid off and trying to find a FAANG job?

I was laid off from one consulting company back in 2018 or so and had a new gig with more pay a week or so later. No leetcode or dev tests, just talking with people in phone interviews. It was a company I had previously done contract work for, and they called me, but nothing at the FAANG level.

Is it an experience issue (are the people getting laid off junior devs?), because I had maybe 6 years of dev experience across various stacks by that time. In my 10 years of being an employed dev, I have never had to do leetcode interviews.
I was laid off once and didn't find much in common with anything in this article. I had two offers, not interviews, within a day or two of being laid off. Then 2-3 years later, after their outsourcing strategy imploded, they called me offering me that job back - this was the best part. Knowing they were making a mistake from day one and finally confirmation when the Cap Gemini losers were all shown the door. Maybe this is all different if your skills are more niche, but if you know something common like Java, I don't see any reason to have any break in your employment after a layoff unless that's what you want.
Yeah, I can definitely tell that you don't use Facebook because that's not how people use it at all. Instagram is closer to what you describe.
Eating viruses can power microorganism's growth and reproduction
> As just one obvious example streaming is not free, but I'm not sure if it is actually less expensive either.

It's free on the margin, and effectively free when contrasted with equivalent delivery of physical goods.

> There is probably a point at which there are enough instances streaming of a popular Netflix offering that it would be cheaper to broadcast it.

If you view your local CDN as a "transmitter", then we're already pretty close to packet-switched network equivalent of a broadcast transmission.
>such were the levels of toxicity involved that at one point a senior staff member at 86box was bouncing around ideas mid-tirade speculating that a PCem contributor was in a sexual relationship with the project lead (put less delicately), this being drawn from the fact that they occasionally said good things about the project in public forums.

I've been following this for 9 years now and this is the first I've heard of this. Literally.

In short, I literally don't believe you -and considering that there was at least one hanger-on who used to kick up dust between the two projects in the name of "defending" 86box (but in reality was just acting out their own behavioral issues) I'd advise everyone to blow off personality-based issues like this.

> I don’t really think it’s something that should affect anyone else’s decision to use the program at all - it’s very much an individual distaste for it on my part.

Obviously you do think it is or you would not have posted a huge long allegations-filled screed (filled with dubious allegations of a sexual affair) on the subject.

The 86Box lead has expressed regret for his early behavoirs many, many times but sadly the emulator scene attracts a lot of drama and worse people who thrive off of drama.

The 86Box project itself, however, is one of the better handled non-professional (meaning not run by a corporation) that I'm aware of. And the software itself has gotten better and better over the years.

I'd strongly advise everyone reading about 86box just in general to be particularly aware that just because you read a claim on the internet doesn't make it the lords' gospel truth.
There is a difference between having passion for your profession and selling your life to one specific company.

If you have passion, you don't need to care where to follow it. But OP seemingly traded a fulfilling privat life with friends for a company with coworkers.
As someone recently laid off, I strongly ressonate with points #1 and #5 and the amount of platitudes and empty words (but to be honest, some people were truly earnest/helpful on helping me get through this) involved in this makes the whole experience almost feel like being gaslighted by (almost) everyone. I was already quite aware on how unaunthentic and fake things are in the corporate world but this layoff (and several others in the industry right now) was really something else.

And then companies wonder why employees are more and more "mercenary"...
I think the issue at the beginning will be the user base, those voice assistants are trained with huge number of re data and Home Assistan (with also something like a microphone) is used by few people compared to Alexa or Google.

Siri is already the dumbest of the 3 because it has less users/data.
It's EOL and you can't get more.

I'm still kicking myself for not ordering a half-dozen of them when they suddenly went on super-sale on Steam (5€/pop or something)
Exactly my point. Totally a non-starter theory for them to cause this much self-harm for it to be a man-made virus to upend the global order or whatever the latest conspiracy theory is.
Stop reading productivity blogs. You do not have to be productive 24/7. Downtime is important. Do you think going to a concert, or dinner with friends, etc is wasting your time too? It sounds like a deeper problem than just the video games.
Right, there was no friction for 9/11 persons who boarded the planes. They simply walked on.

More surveillance and recording of location of lawful persons does not help security. This is a slowly tightening prison blanket.

> security of DMV's systems

It's a _license_ to operate motor vehicle. Can be on paper without picture to fulfill that purpose.