skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't want operation to stop because someone dropped something in the floor, bumped into the rack or if a minor earthquake occurred.

Correct, that's why you need some software/firmware to integrate sensor outputs into an ignore vs. self-destruct-recoverably vs. self-destruct-unrecoverably (perhaps) decision.

That's obviously a lesson from the 737MAX case.

> Resin is common, but attackers have gone as far as decapping and done wire bonding on FIB workstations to get past tamper resistance - a solic block of epoxy is only a minor inconvenience.

In a way that fails to trip the other sensors? Sure, if the device is powered down and its internal battery has run down, then the sensors will not help in any way, but then the devices should have gone into recovery mode where an admin and/or vendor unlock procedure is required.

> Most of the other things are simple to circumvent for someone already in the business of tampering with operational HSMs (pressurized work area, dark work area with particular wavelength light that doesn't trigger thubgsu, etc.), and without any direct compounding effect they end up not really being relevant outside padding a sales deck.

Yes, pressure and water sensors can be defeated, but first you need to either move the device or prepare the space where it is, and that's where the accelerometers and vibration detectors come in. Altogether the whole thing can be defeated, but there's enough to make the process slower and more likely to fail.

But at least now I understand the motivation for the spinning thing. Thanks!
"ahead of time"
In the 90's and aughts there was very little love for Microsoft among IT professionals.

It's a little embarrassing to think about right now when you realize that Microsoft has never poisoned a river or sent thugs with billy clubs to bust a union, and so all of us had bigger fish to fry. But there was never love.
Yeah it’s just a tutorial. I don’t really have any kind of platform for saving links I find useful so figured I’d post it here to save it for myself and maybe someone else would like it. I expected it to be completely ignored.
O2 Day (2023) – Misha Burnett (SF short story)
Vast destruction is almost never used because of the consequences and collateral damage. Surgical, cheap attacks would be used on an everyday basis. This is what makes it terrifying. It doesn’t even have to be murder, even surveillance would be the end of a way of life.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Can Chrome Sync or Firefox Sync be trusted with sensitive data? (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37309189 - Aug 2023 (28 comments)

Google moderates Google Collections items - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37301600 - Aug 2023 (38 comments)

Are there others?
Is 6 seconds not a huge margin in drone racing?
I didn't brains were the only way to achieve consciousness, nor did I imply that.

I believe it is entirely possible that we could eventually create AI that is conscious, or at least, would be able to convince it is. Whether this is achievable is different from whether it is possible, but I do think that if we continue down the current line with LLMs and other models, we'll eventually end up with a system that can articulate its consciousness to the point where the Supreme Court will have to make a decision about AI rights.
AFAICT, Python won over Ruby because the support was largely in English, not Japanese, and because English is the language of global science and commerce and Japanese is the language of…Japan. Boosted by Python having a much better experience on the most common desktop environment (even though Python also favored Linux and, IIRC, other Unix-ish environments); Ruby experience on Windows eventually got tolerable, but even now that’s largely because there is a third-party project providing the main Ruby-on-Windows installer.

The overwhelming advantage in ecosystem breadth and depth it had for this reason was insurmountable, even once Rails drew more attention to Ruby. There’s a whole bunch of technical advantages and disadvantages of each when you look at the language and core implementations, but I don’t think they were really the factors that led to the different relative popularity of the two.
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Don't ever build anything large on top of Google Maps.

Beyond the free tier and 200$ credit, prices are so insane that they would make Musk and that Reddit CEO blush. Have a look yourself:

https://mapsplatform.google.com/pricing/#pricing-grid

Hosting the simplest of maps (static map) cost 2$ per 1,000 requests. Imagine you integrate such a map into content. Even for smaller projects it's not uncommon to get traffic into the hundreds of thousands or even millions on a monthly basis. I'm talking page views, not unique visitors. That would set you back hundreds per month or even 1,000$. Just to show a bloody map. Actually, not a map. It's a static picture of a map.

Add some basic map interactivity, even just things like pins using the JavaScript API, and it becomes 7 times more expensive than that. I'm not kidding.

Say you make a map with pins showing current wildfires. Now consider this costing 14$ per every 1,000 requests. Do the math of your page gaining some basic popularity. 100,000 page hits? Not a big deal. That'll be 1,400$ please.

In most projects you want your map to be more useful. Add (reverse) geocoding, place details, etc. That's 3 APIs. Assuming equal usage, that's over 5,000$.

In one month. For a smallish audience. To enable fairly basic functionality. You can rent a goddamn Mercedes AMG for that kind of money.
Australia simply banned component pricing altogether.

You are simply not permitted to communicate any price other the total price, which must include government fees and sales taxes.

What makes this especially nice is that Australia also doesn’t allow employers to pay under a living wage (currently about USD $21 for casual staff), which means tipping culture never took off here, so your total out of pocket is always exactly equal to the advertised amount.

Aide: I believe in some jurisdictions in Australia it’s actually illegal to solicit tips, as it’s known to be discriminatory (since tipped amounts are known to vary by race, gender, age etc..).
The issue is not with the non-Indians, at least not directly. And with the Indians, it's that a few do, have moved to positions of responsibility, and can influence opinion enough to make life difficult (at least that is my external view).

Google and Cisco's issues last year [1] [2] made a lot of folks aware that something was inside a lot of big tech because of all the H1B's, foreign hiring, outsourcing, ect... The behavior was being brought over from India and then existing in the corporate ladder. (avoiding the word "hide")

It's also subtle. It's not, "you're dalit, act like a dalit." It's leaving you out of meetings, getting assignments that don't matter, not listening when you talk. It's a bit like a dance. They don't sneer at you, they don't act openly racist, they just don't dance with you. "why are you touching me?"

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/googles-caste-bias-pr...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/big-techs-big-pro...
I grew up poor, by every measure I still am. However, I don’t have the debt that others do. It’s actually cheaper to eat healthy than eat McDonald’s. I’m not talking Non-GMO, certified organic overpriced food for a guilt sale. I mean cans, beans, rice, flour, etc.

Those who are struggling are continuing to attempt to do the same thing and it isn’t working for them. If you worked hard for a decade, without getting anywhere, whose fault is that? Society for keeping you down? Or you for staying so long? Everything is constant effort. I’m not talking FIRE movement, I’m just saying you don’t need that TV. You don’t need that Apple Watch. You don’t need that Tesla. I realize making atonement for your financial troubles is going to hurt even more. The other option is, like many here, start a company. I do know that it was extremely painful for me to become debt free, it’s still a struggle not to fall into it for all the reasons you describe. I choose to ignore ads, not watch media, ignore the pressures to buy buy buy, and I’m doing fine. Not rich, but not hurting anymore.
Best outcome is to require BK to give claimants coupons for free Big Macs.
This is still misrepresenting it, though? They are free to not pass the fees through directly to users. They are required to pay the fee to the municipality. These are not, necessarily, linked things.

You are correct that it would somewhat increase their costs, such that they may have to increase their billing rate, but they are in no way required to pass the bill through directly to the customer.

Note that this is very different from taxes. Those are typically collected by the business, but owed by the purchaser. Right?
The Saga is Antipattern
https://sergiy-yevtushenko.medium.com/the-saga-is-antipatter...

Microservices distributed transactions are an anti pattern
I am not making a claim about the truthiness of the "joke". I'm saying it's old, not funny, and frankly annoying. And, to be clear, I have no stake in defending large vehicle ownership; I'm just saying you will elicit more agreement and fewer eye-rolls if you drop the "compensating" joke.
Maps also carries significant ad revenue, you buy them the same way you do search ads.
> Anyone who claims that KiwiFarms is not a site for harassing and doxxing people has done zero research and is trusting some lying "news" source that tells them something else.

Two notes:

1. Kiwifarms, by volume, based on the sampling of posts I've read today, is first and foremost a site for talking about, insulting and mocking people. The harassing and doxxing do not seem to have focus and it would require a relatively minor change (banning and removing doxxing) in order for it to claim innocence of harassment and doxxing.

2. "Does more than zero research" is a very high bar that few meet. The number of people I've found on the internet who cite primary sources, government stats/papers and scientific papers is less than 0% to the nearest tenth of a percent. While its true that sometimes research can take half an hour or more, so often it takes five minutes (like checking out stats on the uk gov website regarding criminal convictions of British Pakistanis for having sex with under 16 year olds to settle the myth of Pakistani child rape).

Ideally everyone would do research and cite real sources, in practice less than one in a thousand do.
From my experience certain IP addresses are now less privileged than other IP addresses.

It worked for me up until I changed my ISP. Captchas usually use the IP address to determine how difficult to make the challenge. Abusive ip ranges get worse experiences than others.
Absolutely not. In my next job, I’ll only work for a company that works in-office with no remote workers.
I might do this, but the servo still works. So long as I can still drive the servo, I think I'm good. It's open loop, so I'll need to watch something to determine when the door is fully shut.
What about google docs or google drive links? Can‘t those also be made public to an unlimites number od users?
> What if they were 100% Gelgameks?

that's the nonsense question. This isn't 100%, but there were Google managers who prided themselves on having very disproportionately large numbers of black or female employees. SRE groups, especially.

In addition, there are plenty of teams that are almost all Chinese. Or Indian. Or, of course, white male.
It's not slavery, it's just insecurity from who demands the loyalty. Employees are free to leave.
Tribler 7.13.0
They've only had over a decade to get their act together. I'm being generous, seeing IPv6 is older than the original IPv4 internet was when it went mainstream.
I'm not sure this Mac/Windows, Text Editor/IDE makes sense. Apple platform (macOS/iOS) development centers on Xcode, which is of course an IDE.
"I didn't have very good tooling in Emacs to find the definition of a function"

Emacs is not really an IDE unless you spend like a week full time configuring it.
Neither is Vim.
could even include something like a single page self editing wiki as your home page (like tiddlywiki)
Interesting, it looks like the US Army is switching from 5.56mm NATO ammo to 6.8mm ammo at the squad level, which seems like a big change.
Moving theory into practice: digital imaging for libraries and archives
Yea, but "working on" is a bit different than "readily available and trusted to function well". Everything is harder with two delivery pumps.
You should watch more combat footage on Reddit. Artillery is woefully ineffective against even lightly protected troops. It takes about a dozen expensive 155mm shells to get one kill against troops out in the open.

It still takes about two of the much more expensive cluster munitions to get one kill. The submunitions in those things are about as expensive as a “murder bot” would be.

An actual person-seeking drone might have a failure rate lower than 50%.

A single shell with 20 mini drones could take out a dozen troops, even if they’re in a trench, or spread out, or lying on the ground to avoid shrapnel.

It would be the end of infantry warfare, forever.

Squishy meat troops can’t evade tiny bots with 1000 fps cameras and inhuman reaction times.
I know you asked specifically about books, but I can’t help but recommend the two online courses that Josh Comeau makes available. I have found both the “CSS for JavaScript Developers” and the “Joy of React” courses to be absolutely phenomenal!

Josh’s teaching style is exceptional, and the courses’ exercises challenge you to work just at the edge of your abilities. I cannot recommend these courses enough!!

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/courses/
https://kapeli.com/dash

Somewhat similar tool to Autokey for MacOS that I use as a text expander.

Allows for great customization - appending ; to a phrase ensures you don't accidentally expand a keystroke into a phrase/URL/etc

";url" expands into "whatever string you configure"
Don't worry, depending on the state, they have plenty of other ways to personally identify you. No need.
Why not just play a new song, or a song in a different way? Maybe speedrun some set of etudes challenge.
Aren't there plenty of tools to compile down to native? I'm always seeing stuff on the Microsoft blogs about options for doing this which I've not looked at.
I don't believe that imperialistic tanks and infantry vs. freedom loving tanks and infantry are a thing.

It's just tanks made out of steel, and infantry recruited (or mobilized) from rural (or rust belt) poor. They work in the same way.
> A car feels much better and is more convenient as well.

That is unsurprising. Though, when you are stuck in gridlock, do you think to yourself, "this is exactly where I want to be?"

The car commutes I had in Seattle were 90% gridlock, very common to spend about 30 minutes to travel 7 miles. I went into office one night and it took 14 minutes total. One evening trying to get home during rush hour it took 45 minutes just to get down the on-ramp onto the actual highway! In total that was a two hour commute to travel 12 miles. The 2 hours was atypical, but spending 60-90 minutes to get home was typical.
Cool it looks like the creator is looking for just this feedback here:

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/osm-river-basins-websi...
I've been to the Seattle office you described for interviews and to the Scottsdale HQ, which is a normal very modern but not bespoke office building; it's in Scottsdale where they had the display of tasers and the offer to be tased if you wanted to see how it was.

(I was just interviewing, and the people seemed quite normal, but i hadn't worked on what i was being interviewed for, and screwed up a puzzle, so never joined.)
Minio is easy enough to spin up, S3-compatible. That seems like my default path to persistence going forward. More and more deployments options seem like they'll benefit from not using the disk directly but instead using the dedicated storage service path, so might as well use a tool designed for that.

S3 can be a bit of a mismatch for people who want to work with FS objects as well, but there are a couple options that are a lot easier than dealing with blob files in PGsql. S3cmd, S3fs; perhaps SSHfs to the backing directory of Minio or direct access on the host (direct routes untested, unsure if it maps 1:1).
I'd expect method of use, especially method of smoking, to have a greater impact than the cannabis itself (i.e. a metal pipe lit by a BIC lighter VS a glass pipe lit by hemp cord)
Are howto articles considered spam? I found it useful and wanted to share it as well as save the link so I could find it later. If this post violates some code of etiquette I’ll not do it again.
While things like FERPA broadly protect most student information in the US, it doesn't exist so that people don't feel bad about their test scores. It limits schools and their staff to using student data for legitimate academic purposes and prohibits other uses that could be bad. That data goes beyond just test scores and could be things related to the students health, social life, behavior, etc. This kind of data doesn't need to shared with anyone that doesn't need to know it.
YES, another rickdate enthusiast!

I even made a little demo page to help calculate for me: https://lastres0rt.github.io/rick-date/
I don't think the GP was at significant risk of dying from a fall in stationary heels; this is a distraction.

> The alternatives to tazing someone are pepper spray (has it's own deaths caused by it) or 9mm which is quite a bit more fatal.

The alternative is none of the above. American police use "less-lethal" weaponry to a far greater extent (and with far more ease) than comparable countries.
That makes sense, but I guess what I'm saying is that a rapid fall is priced in, in the sense that the market doesn't find it to be very likely. So it's only mispriced if you think the odds of that happening are higher than what the market believes as a whole, and again, it's unlikely (but not impossible) that you have good reasons for believing that as a retail investor.

With that said, I just want to make clear that I don't believe in the random walk theory, and I believe it's perfectly possible to be contrarian and be correct if you have information and/or insight that most other investors don't. I just don't think that the average person on HN (myself included) fits that bill, and I wouldn't hang your life savings on a whim like this unless you're comfortable treating it as what it is: gambling. :)
It totally depends on how you're using Visual Studio. If you're like me and use about 1% of the features, the VS Code probably covers all your bases.
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It's about the confidentiality of electronic medical records, not about patient privacy.
On the flip side, Twitter CEO and vocal remote work critic Elon Musk recently ordered Seattle employees to WFH as a cost-cutting measure.—MK

Hilarious!
Full Speed Ahead: EV Study Reveals Impacts of Fast Charging
Are you paying attention to their current argument about why it was legal to conspire to overthrow the government?
> Why would we go extinct? We will transform earth to our needs and when the time is right we expand to space.

At present, we are transforming Earth to our short term needs, but against our long term needs. The timescales don't match, because expanding to space should take several centuries, but we are risking wrecking the planet after only two centuries of industrial civilization, roughly. So it's wise to be afraid of extinction.
By developing is generally meant the chemical process of converting the invisible image created by photons changing the electron state of silvery stuff on the plate or film, into a fixed, visible image.

What you describe is the process of inverting a negative image into a positive. (Black to white and vice versa.) Also very important because as you say, the images can fade over time.
More:

- Excel on iOS won’t let you open files without signing in. Then it loses the session and you have to sign in again.

- Microsoft AutoUpdate on macOS jumps in your face every day multiple times. No way to uninstall it.

At this point, I treat Microsoft as cancer. Avoid touching anything from them at all cost.
"If you genuinely believe the lives of mammals are morally equivalent to human lives"

I didn't say this ;)

Of course all human agriculture leads to animal suffering.

A more pertinent (and difficult to measure) metric would be suffering per calorie. Industrialized dairy is brutal. Momma cow is forcefully impregnated and separated from her baby so you can have that baby's milk in your coffee.

One could also argue that you have a higher moral obligations to a cow that you are exploiting than a mouse attempting to eat your grain.
I was responsible for the S4TF effort at Google. In my opinion, it validated that some of the ideas are good (e.g. Graph Program Extraction is the algorithm that torch dynamo uses internally), that an efficient compiled language has benefits etc. However, I also learned that it should not be based on Swift and should not be based on TensorFlow. Other than those two things, everything is great ;-)

More on GPE if you're curious: https://llvm.org/devmtg/2018-10/slides/Hong-Lattner-SwiftFor...
My point is why the enormous amount of energy directed at reservations when there are mountains of evidence that corruption is several orders of magnitude more destructive? It's an elephant vs an ant in the room thing. You ignore the elephant and think the ant is causing systemic malaise. Why is that?

Is it because Hindu dharma dictates that certain classes are meant to do certain jobs? Like a person availing reservation is born stupid - because of bad karma from a past life - and so can never learn how to do administrative work competently?
What a nasty bit of work, loss of privacy is a "minor harm"? So post your medical records on the internet, leave mine alone.
The pigs go around chanting the new slogan after they've changed it. That doesn't seem like a silent change.
Absolutely! Evan and the early team laid a strong foundation when Figma was ported to WASM + WebGL. It happened before my time at Figma, but check out these earlier posts from Evan and Jamie on the transition, perf testing, and graphs back from 2017-2018:

https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...
https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-faster/
If that's something you do then obviously this isn't for you. I personally haven't typed on someone else's computer in at least 13 years. Since whenever I got my first laptop.
I think there is a difference between getting shocked by the police, and willingly in a controlled environment.

The police doesn't know or doesn't care about the conditions of their victims, who are often on drugs. In the article, the victim was "really, really, really bad” and wanted to go to the hospital before getting tased.

Here, hopefully, the employees are most likely asked for medical conditions and they are not on drugs. They are shot from the back (probably safer than on the front), there are people next to them to cover their fall and they are wearing safety goggles. They are also not shocked repeatedly. These are ideal conditions that almost never happen in real life, and I guess that although there is a risk, it is very safe.

And high heels have definitely caused (often minor) injuries to the wearer, like from falls. And maybe a death or two, who knows.

I am no saying that getting tased is good, just that in these controlled conditions, you most likely won't die. It fact, it may be less dangerous than alcohol fueled "after work" parties, which is also the kind of thing where "opting out" may be difficult in some companies (which may also include Axon).