skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the use of an escrow service would be an excellent idea. There's some complexity to deal with in order to make this fair for both companies and consumers, but I think that these difficulties are surmountable.

An open source firmware model doesn't always make sense for businesses, but I think that for most hardware-oriented businesses, it makes perfect sense. There are plenty of business models in which the hardware itself is deeply discounted or even sold at a loss in order to sell the overall service -- the IoT portion. Right, wrong, or indifferent, that is a model that many businesses pursue. If their business model makes sense in the marketplace, I think that's fine. Plenty of consumers choose proprietary and service-oriented systems -- e.g. Apple's closed ecosystem -- and that's fine as long as the consumer safety and security is prioritized. However, I think that regulation should ensure that the right for consumers to maintain their devices should fall back to the consumers if or when these companies fail.

That being said, I think that consumers should always have a right to root their devices. If consumers decide that the iPhone or IoT light switch that they purchased does not meet their needs, there is no reason why they shouldn't be allowed to flash any firmware they want on it. In the case that hardware is sold at a loss, there should be an up-front contract with a buy-out clause, which also should be regulated to ensure that the company charges a reasonable and non-discriminatory "regular fee" for hardware independent of contracts, much like how many cellular carriers work. If the consumer chooses to "buy out" this contract in order to root their device, then that should be allowed if they pay the pro-rated "regular fee", adjusted for the amount of time they have paid into the contract.

I've considered governance models that can exist beyond the lifetime of a company that would guarantee escrow access to source code. Pitching this to a company is of course quite difficult, since no company thinks that far ahead, and many in leadership refuse to consider what happens if and when their venture fails. I think that the only way to build such a governance model is to provide an open source framework for managing both builds and OTAs that can ensure this. Escrow as a service could be built into this, using one of various cryptographic election strategies for recovering key details if an organization goes dark.

Either way, having the FCC seriously consider the security of IoT devices is a great first step, as long as it is a step and not a hurdle for innovation.
And I think this is really crummy and unfortunate. Myself, my wife, and my one child would be very happy in a 1,300 sqft house but really don't need or want a 2,600 sqft house. So house prices increasing along with house size is still problematic.
I don't give a care how much more difficult it is for the employer. It's unambiguously GOOD for the applicant to know the expected compensation before applying. If you're opposed to wage transparency, I can only assume it's for manipulative & dishonest reasons.
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Nah, that's just government auctions.

I was looking at ground based inflatable satcom rigs - these things run 250k+. All the descriptions are a model number and _maybe_ what bands it targets.
It's far too difficult to predict. Growth is exponential. So the difference between a 3.5% growth rate and 4.0% growth is miniscule to the average person, but the latter leads to twice the economy after 50 years.

It's not that I don't trust economists--It's just that they have an impossibly difficult task. Tiny variations in the growth rate make huge differences after decades.
This os definitely most of it. Also, someone figured out they could do something with the parameters of the convection oven and get close to an air frier. Got the mode a year later. Lastly, when the meat thermometer hits temp, I get a notification. That is actually useful.
I've been using termux + neovim as my default text editor on my phone. And it is surprisingly comfortable even with a touch screen keyboard.
Based on all these sorts of articles, it feels like the only way to advance your career in the US is to get into management at some point. In the EU, and Finland where I'm from, there's nothing wrong and there's a path for being a more senior IC long term, working on more and more complex tasks. The culture is different though, there is not always the same kind of hierarchy as in the US either.

I guess in the US a similar path could be a Staff Engineer role where you could stay more technical I guess.
watchdog timer is not hardware protection. It might seem like it is, as the timer itself is in hardware, and it does occasionally protect from hardware related lockups, but it's all too easy mistake to stick a watchdog refresh in a timer somewhere that still works even when rest of the code went tits up
From memory: "i deserv it"
This isn't even to advertise what everyone is being paid right now, just how much they expect to pay for roles they're hiring for.
>It's work in progress. We're working on getting it finished.

So finish it and then I will merge your PR ;) What's the use of putting it in master if it's not finished?

It's the author's responsibility to get it merged successfully. If they're taking too long and have to rebase and re-work their code to integrate, that's on them. Pushing it into master is either wasting a reader's time (per the original comment) or, worse, inviting an uninitiated collaborator to use it and cause an incident.
> a Disneyland for nerds

Another side of “for nerds” is that early Google managed to attract employees from academia. I remember the buzz in the academic world when a professor (Matt Welsh) gave up tenure at Harvard to join Google: some others followed. Even more, it attracted top students who otherwise had their heart set on academia: within the (delusional) world of students who consider being a professor as the highest ideal, I remember hearing the opinion that if you can't get a tenure-track job, Google is a pretty good second choice because it's “just like a university”: you had (so the story went) freedom to do whatever you wanted, smart peers, “talks at Google” from the best speakers, … and there were perks (free food, laundry, etc) that appealed to students.

I myself ended up joining Google when my academic path was interrupted, despite thinking I'd never do that. Google employees were already complaining in the early 2010s about the changing culture, but there was still enough of it left, and by all accounts, early Google was a magical place.
I'm sorry but I browsed the first two of these and they're 10x the price of Ikea while almost certainly not being 10x the quality. I randomly picked a modern-styled wooden dresser[0] comparable to the Ikea Malm 6 drawer dresser and it's 12x the price. There are clearly no shortage of companies willing to sell you very high margin wood furniture but I agree with the other commenters that there is a missing middle that's 2-3x the price of Ikea and that's maybe 50% better. Really I don't need some beautiful handmade wooden masterpiece (nor do 95% of other people), I'd just like something that isn't horribly flimsy and soft like MDF.
> Not all req/s are made the same.
> Amazon search is made of 100s of services, and Amazon's search page loads 20 products per page, that means 80k search req/s translates to 1.6 MM product API req/s for example.

That's their problem, no? Nobody's forcing them to have an architecture where a request propagates to hundreds of services.
Coincidentally I just picked up a Greaseweazle[0] recently with the purpose of recovering data from some very old 5.25" floppies. A family member worked at a magazine and has given me some disks that should contain original digital docs from some of the earliest issues of that magazine (hopefully including the cover/title layout, based on one of the disk labels). Looking forward to seeing what I can dig up... Hopefully the disks are still vaguely-readable after ~40 years!

[0] https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle/wiki
You attempt to solve the problem of chaos (think grey-hat) by expanding law enforcement--by enforcing order on every internet user world wide. That's going to require a lot of boots to squash a lot of faces. Curious kids who run port scans will stand before judges, journalists who press F12 will face the ire of the most powerful and decades in prison[0]. This will probably require some national firewalls as well. This will continue the status quo where companies leak the private information of countless millions and nothing happens, while individuals must be careful what they do with their own computer and their own physical devices.

I attempt to solve the problem by embracing chaos and empowering those who seek to do good in the chaos. I'd like to see our IT systems become so hardened that no amount of chaos can harm them. Let the grey-hats and black-hats run wild, it is possible to build our technology well enough that they can do no harm. This would require those with the most wealth and power in our society to do a little more, to take on some additional responsibility and demonstrate they are worthy of the trust and power we have given them. Let individuals be free and make the creators of our technology responsible for their own creations.

What you have proposed is what we already have, it is the status quo. When you hear about a major breach every other week, ask yourself whether or not it's working.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/f12-isnt-hacking-missouri-...
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The system I'm describing does no such thing. Urgent care is the doctor's office. It takes less self-assessment, not more, to go to urgent care, because you can go inexpensively and with no notice or appointment. Got a weird itchy bump? Stop in on your way back from work. If it's a rash, they'll tell you take Benadryl. If it's Fatal Familial Itchy-Bump-Itis, they'll square things away with your PCP and get serious diagnosis and care expedited.

It works extremely well with my doctor's health system, and I'll add that my doctor's health system is notorious in the area for sucking to work with, so if I switched to, like, Rush or Northwestern, presumably it'd be even better.
Condescending AND wrong. A two-fer!
When you're trying to triage a production problem or explain what happened between Saturday and today, orthogonality isn't a feature, it's a challenge to be overcome.
Hmm maybe but that puts a lot of trust in the system. Do you think taxing inheritance will result in the democratizing of said assets to society at large?

Looking at the last three decades I see wealth just accumulate in mega corporations who now seem to operate at levels above that of many nation states. Large banks that can demand bailouts and demand “quantitive easing” which simply aggregates wealth in these banks and corporations. Literally transferring wealth from the bottom to the top by government decree.
Interestingly you guys successfully listed up Five Eyes.
Also a heavy case of survivor bias, but my career history was also imperfect around the same time as OP when I applied to Facebook. No college degree, born in the wrong city and economic level, etc.

I had a huge bit of luck working for a startup in early 2000s that was acquired by Yahoo (ha ha shut up). They overworked me and even screwed me out of my promised shares but I had that pip on my CV. Went to work at a couple of other places later, mostly chosen for interesting work. Later later had the dubious luck to be bought by Yahoo again, and parleyed that plus contacts to get an invite to Facebook.

I bombed the first round of interviews. Only by the strength of my contacts and unexpected help from people I didn't know but for some reason wanted me there, I got another chance and joined a couple years before the IPO.

TLDR: this story has almost nothing to teach you or replicate. Except! Not having a mainline pedigree is a handicap but not necessarily a career death sentence.
When I bought my wife's engagement ring the jeweler showed me 3 different diamonds in my price range and then had me pick the one that I thought looked the best.

I ended up picking a lab grown diamond and was able to get a larger and (in my opinion) prettier diamond. My wife didn't seem to mind that it was lab grown when I eventually told her.
Surely it does - the fact that most people—or large numbers of people—are still incapable of distinguishing between when they are exchanging their dollars for something that has no value beyond the hype behind it and making good financial decisions shows we, as a society, have a long ways to go in improving how we teach ourselves and others to value stuff. It’s one of many things we have to improve on, but rocks purchased for tens-of-thousands-of-dollars are a prime example of supremely poor financial decision making. At least cars are modes of transportation, watches tell time, and bags hold things. Diamonds are truly just bullshit.
The world’s longest subsea power cable is now complete
AGPL doesn't address the issue that is driving many of these license changes.

The problem they are trying to deal with is that they have some product that is useful on servers that they have released under a license like Apache or GPL, and they make their money by selling hosting and support, and big hosting companies like AWS start including the product for free as part of their own hosting offerings or start selling support.

AGPL would only discourage that if the big hosting company wanted to make modifications to the project and keep those private. But the threat to the project is not that say AWS is going to make a better version of the product. It is that they are going to make it more convenient and cheap for their hosting customers. They will either not need to make any changes for that, or the changes they make would probably not be useful to anyone else and releasing them won't bother them.

Look at MongoDB. That was under AGPL for several years and they switched away because it was not stopping cloud providers from competing with them on MongoDB hosting.
I think outsourcing the “dangerous parts” i.e. buying a power supply instead of building one. Apart from that, most applications stay in the 5V range and few mA. If you are using something that requires more current then just over engineer. A motor that uses 0.5A? Buy a 3A mosfet, flipping 120v electricity? Buy a premade relay module that is already optically decoupled and just feed it 5V signals.

When it comes to stuff failing in general at hobby level you either burn something instantly (plug the power to an IC backwards and see the magic smoke go away) or it just heats up VERY VERY FAST!

I once plugged an external 5V power to a development board that was already USB powered but I didn’t know it… it started smelling like something was burning within a few seconds and I burned myself by touching it instead of pulling the heat camera :-)
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Less government and more wild west would be appreciated.
UK Online Safety Bill Teardown
A feature length special episode of The Cybershow marking the start of
Season 2. Hear the team and members of the public tear apart (and
lovingly put back together) the UK Online Safety Bill, currently
progressing through British parliament. After countless revisions,
modifications and additions, is the premise of the bill still what it
was originally intended to be?
> It seems like many places in Europe have better options for second chances from the legal perspective. Perhaps better from a financial standpoint with the support programs too.

One reason Europe doesn't have startups is that it's so shameful for your company to fail that nobody would ever consider risking it.
As per the plan: https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency...
This is the best advice. And even within large companies, choose teams that will grow. If your team and org all grow you too have a very high chance of growing. If your Director/VP is not growing/getting a bigger org, your own growth chances are inherently limited for very senior roles.

It becomes a bigger risk/reward scenario for joining companies.
Just buy used quality stuff, find local smaller woodworkers that are getting established, etc...

If you bought IKEA you are already part of the problem. Real furniture IS expensive and worth it considering you use it almost everyday.
In Deno you can load your code from any URL on the Internet, instead of relying on a namespace within a single package manager.
Inflation will eat the pay of people sitting on a good check because the company will give terrible updates to the pay knowing there isn't a good rock to hop to.
wow I can't facepalm any harder, I hadn't seen the architecture docs etc in the top level repo... and they're at the top level.
>Hashicorp did it the right way round. Open source, friendly, rug pull, profit, obsolete, forgotten.

Not entirely. If they were cleverer about this, the open source fork would not have been so viable. Perhaps they didn't consider people would fork?
So if furniture used to be significantly better ages ago, but IKEA, the king of cheap particle board furniture and Swedish meatballs as a service, is one of the wealthiest companies on Earth, then wouldn't it stand to reason that high-quality furniture was _not_ something that the market valued?
Yeah I was about to raise the pitchforks, I hadn't heard of MariaDB abandoning open source!
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Past behaviour predicts future behaviour.
AirDrop for the Rest of Us
Unfortunately has a significant delay over bluetooth; I was somewhat hopeful I could get the gratifying clacking sound along with quiet, tactile switches without annoying people, but being so out of sync makes it fairly awful to use.

It might be okay with wired headphones, but that's not what I've got.
What kind of loaded question are you asking here?
Bug fix releases never get deployed.

If you want people to keep up to date with your releases, you either have to provide an automatic update facility that they have to manually turn off (ugh, too hard), or you have to dangle desirable features as carrots in front of them, so that upgrading is exciting instead of a social obligation.
Saving your contact info :-)

I’m not there yet but I’m working on transitioning from software to hardware… so I want to get there eventually!
So comparing the two...

Unique to Restfox

- a nice "beautify json" button

- in addition to response code and time, shows size and exact timestamp of response

- Can drag and drop to reorganize folders and items in sidebar

Unique to RecipeUI

- TypeScript interface definitions

- Generates cURL, Javascript and Python code snippets you can copy

Probably other things, but these are what stood out.
Those who are busy at the principal level and above don’t usually write blog posts about how they got there. You read more about management because of the very nature of management. It’s a people thing. I’ve read equally as important articles from distinguished engineers. No, you do NOT need to go into management to advance your career. In fact, most engineers I’ve met in my 20-odd years engineering and leading, would make lousy managers.

Most companies worth the weight will have IC tracks all the way to Director or even VP.
Oh... "Chaos systems"=="event-driven development". For those confused about an analogy to chaos theory... as far as i can tell, there isn't one. In physics a chaos system has small perturbations that lead to an instability. I would argue this is just a large perturbation that leads to certain instabilities. I would also classify this as "network systems fault tolerance" engineering.

As a stand-alone article it is fine, and is likely to trip the more fluff than stuff alarm on many people's bs-detectors.
I like to say "being good is good; being lucky is great."
> these devices are now being permanently affixed to real estate

I predict the NEC will start demanding the use of Wago style splices, no more wire nuts, due to how frequently people are swapping out smart switches and the like. Even non-smart dimmers have been changed multiple times in my residence due to evolving LED compatibility (another "wild west" situation right now). I haven't broken any copper, but the increased likelihood is pretty obvious. Electricians may start seeing more pigtails installed for no other reason than breakage.
Yep, it actually wasn’t so bad too. However the environment I was supporting had a bunch of proprietary applications that were intended for OpenWindows and I was better off eating the dog food.
So, read 'one of the most dangerous'. I've also seen articles that list it as the most dangerous, I don't have access to raw statistics nor do I care to argue the finer points of this for the sake of fake internet points, the fact is: trucking is super dangerous, far more dangerous than IT jobs ever will be and is on average comparably badly compensated. If you disagree with that in principle feel free to state why.
You can get away with it if there is some resistance in series with each one but yeah, the enemy here is that each of the regulators will have slightly different voltage and the unlucky one with highest will handle most of the current.

Although I'd imagine you got lucky here because IIRC this particular's chip voltage drops with temperature a tiny bit so technically the one that starts to heat up would drop voltage, letting other pick up the slack
The thing is the IC role has an implicit ceiling unless your org is deeply technical with a complex technical product. The US has the same path with arguably more options and better compensation at higher IC levels, but the non IC path has both of these even better, and you will have a much better chance of influencing what exact gets done.
Plus the system lets you do highly risky things and be paid handsomely if you are right, so by definition you will get these guys and this is wonderful because we keep a lot of the benefit they create. This is the main end feature that makes it work in my opinion. There is a smart and large part of the population motivated to take huge risks on their ideas by guys winning like this and when they win we usually benefit because they cant capture 100% of the value they create and if they lose they absorb the cost. As more of the downside is socialized (i.e. crony capitalism and marxism) the system breaks down.
You're taking what I said to mean a very pedantic definition of "reproducible builds" that even Linux distros largely only aspire to achieve.

By reproducible I meant they can recreate their binaries from source code, not necessarily bit-for-bit.

There's zero reason to ship a Warez group's cracked version of a game when you're the copyright holder in possession of the source and ability to simply build an executable without the copy protection crap the crack is bypassing.

It's pathetic on Rockstar's part.
It would be easier if they went missing at the later half of the game, as you could compare new data with relatively fixed positions from child objects earlier on.
If DDG was actually good people would be using it. "It's not Google" doesn't cut it.
Your random thief is just going to grab the bag based on the brand and run off, they won't know or care if it is an 'M' series or not, just like your average Rolex thief isn't going to care beyond the basics of 'expensive brand'. That's all.