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FYI it was a bicyclist (singular) but they were walking their bike across a crosswalk at 10pm.

Not to victim blame but if they were not wearing lights or a reflective vest I think a human could have made the same tragic error.

As you point out the system actually DID detect them.

You can also add a lock icon to the touch bar.

I read a comment in a reddit thread and they said the "pro-tip" was to take a picture of the pregnancy test and up the contrast to be able to better interpret results. So a less wasteful idea would be a companion app to help with that process vs. more electronics in a landfill. (Although obvious privacy implications exist).

This is super common in many countries. Mexico for instance...

Are there any good ways to protect yourself on mac, windows, linux, etc. from random USB keys?

Perhaps have a raspberry pi off the network since linux in of itself would greatly diminish the attack surface?

An "evil maid" can always swipe your own USB key and install malware so I'd prefer a belt and suspenders strategy. Likewise someone walking by your workstation could do a drive-by plugin too.

I guess it would have to be some OS level intervention that would say "you plugged in an HID/file mount/etc., what do you want to do?"

I do recall a population distribution map of the USSR vs. the US from a book I owned 30iah years ago and they were far more evenly distributed than the US.

I read recently there are less than 20 cars for sale in the US under 20k.

https://jalopnik.com/heres-all-17-cars-available-in-the-u-s-...

Yesterday Chadwick Bozeman, the actor who played Black Panther in the Marvel movies among other notable movies, died of colon cancer at age 43. He was diagnosed in 2016 and it progressed from stage 3 to stage 4 in that time. Obviously anecdata but perhaps his death will call some attention to this because of his relative youth and fame and not be in vain.

https://ew.com/movies/chadwick-boseman-dead-black-panther-42...

Exactly. I don't understand why people don't understand this.

It's a huge chilling effect on employee turnover. Until ACA pre-existing conditions was a huge aspect of that. Even now IIRC when I changed jobs once I recall any existing conditions would not be covered for 1 month.

And it's the biggest cost increase over the past 2 decades and has soaked up almost all the profits that could have gone to employee salaries.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...

It's not just HN. It's generally accepted that over 20 year spans almost no actively managed fund beats index funds.

Example PDF showing this: https://us.spindices.com/documents/spiva/spiva-us-year-end-2...

IIRC the stanford prison experiment has been thoroughly criticized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment.

The result of that experiment seems to imply even random people being "promoted" to have power over others with little demonstrable accountability is a recipe for disaster.

From the dim recesses of my memory what I took away from Plato's Republic is that you never want those who seek power to receive it and only those who don't care about it "deserve" it. (Clearly a bit of an oxymoron)

https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosopher-king

> On this view, philosophers are the last people who should or would want to rule. The Republic turns this claim upside down, arguing that it is precisely the fact that philosophers are the last people who would want to rule that qualifies them to do so. Only those who do not wish for political power can be trusted with it.

> Thus, the key to the notion of the “philosopher king” is that the philosopher is the only person who can be trusted to rule well. Philosophers are both morally and intellectually suited to rule: morally because it is in their nature to love truth and learning so much that they are free from the greed and lust that tempts others to abuse power and intellectually because they alone can gain full knowledge of reality, which in Books V through VII of the Republic is argued to culminate in knowledge of the forms of Virtue, Beauty, and, above all, the Good. The city can foster such knowledge by putting aspiring philosophers through a demanding education, and the philosophers will use their knowledge of goodness and virtue to help other citizens achieve these so far as possible.

I am a fairly optimistic person and believe people are mostly good. I agree some and perhaps many people that become police officers do it because they wish to do good. However, at a minimum I think the job attracts a lot of bullies and people that enjoy having power over others. And I think there is such a code of support of the "thin blue line" that ostensibly "good cops" can't be good cops because they allow "bad cop" behavior by their inaction.

This is a powerful article on that topic: https://www.theroot.com/maybe-there-are-no-good-cops-1790856...

I'd fix it all tomorrow by making a law that all wrongful violence/death/etc. judgements come out of the police pension and fraternal order of police funds instead of a city's budget. I bet that code of "omerta" would end in a heartbeat.

I was just at Big Basin Headquarters on August 17th for a hike and some trails were closed due to fire then.

It's hard to believe that's all gone but I am really happy the huge ancient trees survived. It's one of my favorite places in the world.

I did the skyline to the sea trail with my wife a few years ago and it was fantastic. The redwoods are really incredible.

An article about their fire resistance: https://sempervirens.org/redwoods-and-wildfires/

A donation link to the Sempervirens Fund which helps protect these incredible trees: https://secure.sempervirens.org/onlineactions/l2kebl2BfkqzEy...

Paragraph 8: > The design relies on a new smartglass technology that turns the walls opaque when the door is locked. “At night, they light up the parks like a beautiful lantern,” according to The Nippon Foundation.

It's common sense but spending time listening and learning before spouting opinions will probably help smooth relationships with the locals.

It's obvious but that sounds like heaven for some and hell for others...

I run and bike so I often notice how many people are looking down at their phone at stop lights and while driving.

Just sit at an intersection and count sometime. It's terrifying.

That's one of the things I like about chef. You have an extensible DSL and templating but you can also write Ruby if needed.

I had the first impression as you but IIUC they are saying the rep's poor ethics/judgement are enough to make them unemployable and we should all realize and agree or our judgement is also questionable.

E.g. Bob's super smart and gets 10 times the work done as anyone else but he also sexually harasses the secretary and dips into the petty cash drawer at least once a week.

It should be clear we don't want to have Bob as our employee. See Susan Fowler's experience with her boss at Uber who sexually propositioned her repeatedly but HR said they would not remove because he was a high performer... https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...

Agree who you are responding to is out there but this bit is critical: "unless someone who didn’t speak it was in the room." I was always raised to consider it rude to essentially exclude people from a conversation that way.

They mention aws library support as another major concern too.

Is it possible to enable in app purchase at a higher rate exposing the "Apple Tax"? In this case show $129 for in app and $99 if you go to this website... Or is that against the TOS?

It's a canary in the coal mine. Presumably they still checked other critical things but based on the canary could determine how closely they needed to check everything.

This is usually expressed as the long term value (LTV) of the customer. It costs X to get a customer but once they know you they may use you again, refer you to others, etc. and take Y days/weeks/months to repay you for customer acquisition costs. For instance with magazines people used to subscribe for 3 years on average which is why so many companies love subscriptions. They have enough inertia and friction that people just keep paying in many cases.

All of the above should (hopefully) improve with time: vaccination (which will take on the order of years and not weeks or months), more effective treatment, more learning about the disease and risk factors, more ventilators and PPE produced and more widespread testing.

The US is especially poorly suited to deal with a lot of people with a life-long debilitating illness from damaged lungs.

Off topic but I enjoy blowing off Oracle recruiters in similar fashion.

What version of istio? mTLS was a big pain point at my place until 1.14 which now has has "auto mtls": https://archive.istio.io/v1.4/docs/tasks/security/authentica...

It really depends on your security posture. We wanted traffic between services within the service mesh to be encrypted too.

Never Argue With a Fool, Onlookers May Not Be Able To Tell the Difference. - Mark Twain

That's exactly my thought. Hard drives and ram (and frankly batteries where applicable) should be externally accessible for service and replacement. Apple's eco-talk is bullshit until their repairability scores are on average a bit better than 1 or 2 out of 10.

Examples: https://www.ifixit.com/laptop-repairability

It can last. It's fairly unlikely especially if people are considerate with minimum precautions.

E.g. If one sneezes uncovered into air with the right humidity, etc. it COULD survive for a while airborne. That's not to say merely by breathing a person's usual exhalations they could get it.

The virus is transmitted through droplets, or little bits of liquid, mostly through sneezing or coughing, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, told reporters during a virtual news conference on Monday. “When you do an aerosol-generating procedure like in a medical care facility, you have the possibility to what we call aerosolize these particles, which means they can stay in the air a little bit longer.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/coronavirus-lives-for-hours-...

I see what you are saying but prices are completely out of control precisely because an insurance company will pay a 6 or 7 digit bill.

If insurance was gone tomorrow and there was a cap on how much a single payer system would pay I am pretty sure million dollar surgeries would go down significantly in price.

I mean surgeons are paid well but a million dollars for a few hours of their labor?

Constraints on how many people are permitted to become doctor's also reinforce this issue.