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endianswap··on Tell HN: Azure outage
It's red right now.
endianswap··on China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide
They export tens of billions of dollars in seafood every year, why does it matter where they're fishing if they're selling it worldwide?
endianswap··on Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?
Wish they would've gone into more detail about the sales exemption - it seems to undermine many of the other points on the page...
endianswap··on Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
What regulators lol
endianswap··on Show HN: Cleverb.ee – open-source agent that writes a cited research report
lol what

> Reference to failed web browser attempt for Rush University

endianswap··on Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders
> Proposals typically include a limited “override” feature allowing further acceleration during an emergency.

Very cool and certainly effective design for people who already go 30+ mph over the speed limit.

endianswap··on GTA 5 source code leaks online
ransomware
endianswap··on .NET 8
Can you share any details about .NET Core 7's monetization? I couldn't find anything on Google.
endianswap··on Poland may seek extradition of Ukrainian Nazi WW2 veteran Hunka from Canada
One and a half million Ukrainian Jews were killed by the Nazis, with the full support of the "local SS militias".
endianswap··on Poland may seek extradition of Ukrainian Nazi WW2 veteran Hunka from Canada
This was in Ukraine, though, where 1.5 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.
endianswap··on SEC charges Impact Theory for unregistered offering of NFTs
Here's a link to the actual SEC press release, not the dissent over the action by two of the commissioners:

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-163

endianswap··on Cicada: Private on-chain voting using time-lock puzzles
My confidence in the accuracy of this article diminished once I read this bit:

> As such, it is only suitable if the expected final tally is reasonably small (e.g. less than 2^32, or about 4.3 million votes).

endianswap··on UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal
What are you talking about? The deal hasn't closed yet AND was only announced a year ago.
endianswap··on TikTok banned on government devices under spending bill passed by Congress
According to TFA they're blocked from being accessed from school wi-fi, not only from state property.
endianswap··on Never trust a system that seems to be working
> no one is getting dehumanized

[citation needed]

endianswap··on Taking a Break
I would love to hear more about this part:

> For one example: when interviewing it didn’t even occur to me to ask if the company used email, though of course the answer to that question has big cultural implications.

endianswap··on [dead]
I'm fine with this because it sounds like the free market at work - if you don't like what Nature is doing feel free to start your own publication.
endianswap··on Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings
At least in my case as an engineer at a smaller tech company my 401k (and corresponding match) maxes out each January because that's when bonuses are granted.
endianswap··on New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
"how large America is" doesn't make sense here when the subject of the discussion is literally New York City
endianswap··on TPM Sniffing
Yes, see libtpms for the most prominent software TPM implementation for emulators: https://github.com/stefanberger/libtpms
endianswap··on Tesla FSD Beta Barely Avoids Crashing into Pole
I wonder if the driver would've been able to successfully swerve if they had the new rectangular steering wheel.
endianswap··on Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices
Hard to call something like this "mandatory" if you can just opt-out for non-verifiable personal reasons.
endianswap··on Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices
> We will have a process for those who cannot be vaccinated for medical or other reasons

What might "other reasons" be?

endianswap··on Update from Chef
Eh, maybe? It "worked" in that they're choosing to not renew the contracts over the next year, but he admitted that over the last year employees have been fighting for this and have been ignored until now, which is pretty shitty. For revenue that appears to be only $95k USD (the amount they're earning from the contract that they're instead going to match to charity)?

https://twitter.com/DannyPage/status/1176155955173552133

endianswap··on Google ML/AI Comic
Ah yes, the common scenario of engineers getting time-and-a-half for their overtime work.
endianswap··on AT&T loses nearly 1M TV customers after raising DirecTV prices
They lost US customers in Q2, which is probably what OP is referring to.
endianswap··on Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash
What? I have three cars with AEB/adaptive cruise control and I've experienced two of them doing exactly what you describe and saved me a bunch of damage.
endianswap··on Gatwick airport trial for valet-parking robots
I assume I have to leave my car off, but in neutral with the parking brake off? How else could they drag around an AWD/RWD car by just pushing it around from the front?
endianswap··on GitLab’s CEO reflects on GitHub’s move to offer free private repos
As it says in TFA...
endianswap··on How China Systematically Pries Technology from U.S. Companies
What does GDPR have to do with this?
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