SteveNuts

Anecdotal of course, but in my 20 years of driving I've never once seen a vehicle activate the red light override sensors that wasn't obviously a legitimate emergency vehicle.

IMO a huge majority of people realize how illegal it would be to mess with these things, and the risk/reward is very low. Anyone who would take that risk would probably just run a red light instead.

How to draw an owl:

1. Start by drawing some circles.

2. Erase everything that isn't an owl, until your drawing resembles an owl.

The Datadog IoT agents are cheaper, but still probably more than you’d want to spend on a lab.

You also only get system metrics, no integrations - but most metrics and checks can be done remotely with a single dedicated agent

Yes, I am paranoid of S3. Not only could a once in a lifetime event happen, an attacker could get in and delete all my data. Data could be accidentally deleted. Corrupted data could be written...

I feel like that could still be accomplished by allowing multiple payment backends, and charging them a reasonable fee to integrate (to cover the cost of development/maintenance of the APIs and whatever overhead to account for dealing with abuse/fraud).

I'll never understand what people actually get out of cheating in games. I'll admit I've tried it a few times just for giggles (way back in the Age of Empires II/MSN Gaming Zone days), but the novelty quickly wears off and then it's just not even fun anymore.

There must be some very interesting psychology behind this.

What do you propose instead?

That doesn't help whatsoever in this situation, the wording does not leave any room for distinguishing bugs/maintenance and feature development.

>You'd think that if you're investing $1M+, there's budget for at least getting an intern / assistant to do that.

Or having an AI Agent do it...

>A little further on and it'll be writers, actors, etc.

The tech is going to have to be absolutely flawless, otherwise the uncanny-valley nature of AI "actors" in a movie will be as annoying as when the audio and video aren't perfectly synced in a stream. At least that's how I see it..

There's likely over a trillion active SQLite databases in use right now.

Simple to use from an external interface yes, the backend is wildly impressive.

Some previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36900147

It's funny that things that are pinnacles of human engineering exist like this where the general public has no idea it even exists, though they (most likely) use it every single day.

Have you ever heard of Guacamole? https://guacamole.apache.org/

That's one of my favorite obscure projects

Sure, but whose (compatible) API is GCS using again? Also keep in mind that S3 is creeping up on 20 years old, so backing a change in like that is incredible.

Is that some sort of a replay attack? If so why isn't the timestamp embedded in the encrypted payload

You’d be surprised. Big telcos use CSV and SFTP for CDR data, and there’s a lot of it.

It seems like all we’ve been able to do is churn out diploma mills with dubious (or outright fraudulent) accreditation.

That much wealth could probably fund every food bank in the country indefinitely, even at extremely conservative returns.

> the only road left is escalation.

The other road is isolation, which I find much more likely. They'll just cut us off completely and deal with it.

> knowledge that the data will definitely be there is way more important than having "free" access to a large pool of bytes

Until Amazon inexplicably deletes your AWS account because your Amazon.com account had an expired credit card and was trying and failing to renew a subscription.

Ask me how I know

Totally unrelated, but I was once contacted by an Amazon recruiter and sent him my resume.

He called me to discuss my experience, one of which mentioned that I worked in an environment where my team managed "30,000+ servers". He took the opportunity to say something along the lines of "that's irrelevant, that's smaller than one datacenter in one of our regions".

I honestly have no idea why the recruiters from these places have such a superiority complex that they need to belittle people like that. It's not even the manager of the team you'd be working on, just some recruiter that probably doesn't have any of the skills/background the job they're recruiting for requires. Yet they need to make you feel small and worthless right out of the gate.

Is it just prepping you for how you'll be treated there? Trying to select for people that are okay with being belittled?

Does writing a library that does an RPC to AGPL licensed software count? Even if you don’t modify the AGPL code in any way?

All the way up to the SCOTUS, at which point it'll be a 7-2 vote in Trump's favor.

I mean the alternative is they get nothing from me at all once I hit their paywall..

And I don't think ad revenue is paying the bills so I'm not sure what other options there are. I just went to a few major news sites:

Wapo: $120/yr Reuters: $45/yr WSJ: $349/yr NYT: $195/yr Bloomberg: $299/yr

That's just a few. Is it better if I just choose one and only get my news from a single site? Or should it really cost thousands of dollars per year to be informed?

No idea but I'd use it over maintaining 15 subscriptions

There must be a reason someone hasn't invented a browser plugin for microtransactions on the internet?

I'll gladly pay 25 cents to read an article from a news website, but I won't subscribe for a whole year for $25+, especially when there's dozens/hundreds of sites.

Obviously credit card transaction fees would be a problem, but that could be mitigated by depositing say $15 at a time and deducting from the balance each time.

Maybe we should enumerate the types of emergencies it applies to so there’s a limit beyond a gentleman’s agreement.

Yeah I definitely didn't say I agree with the methods proposed, only that it's clear that it struck a chord with the population.

Dems really need to focus on messaging that can resonate with those people. Things like vouchers for trade school to boost higher end blue collar jobs, etc.

I mean, I watched and participated in the US Election last year, it was extremely clear to me that Republicans focused on economy, and Democrats focused on social issues.

The Republicans won, which is an indictment on the Democrats messaging in my opinion.

I'm not even talking about the merits of which party has better ideas, or if people are voting against their own best interests. But I think the party that said they'd do "something" to make the economy better is the one that won.

Why Democrats don't hammer on retraining and education so that more people can participate in the services and information economy confuses me greatly. Manufacturing isn't coming back, at least not immediately.