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by drewda 3y ago
First reported in the Chronicle of Higher Ed: https://archive.is/0zOU8
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by drewda 3y ago
Sharp eyes. I can also see "University of California, Berkeley" near the top of the figure and "UC Berkeley" near the bottom of the figure. But agreed that the point of this dataset is not accuracy or explanatory power..
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by drewda 3y ago
Also written up as a story by ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/underride-crashes-nhtsa-d... And here are the HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36332086
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by drewda 3y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic
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by drewda 3y ago
According to the blog post, the vulnerability is not within SQL Server itself, the vulnerability is in the security layer that Google built on top of SQL Server in order to offer it as a managed service on GCP.
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by drewda 3y ago
> P.S. Android users, you're next! ChatGPT will be coming to your devices soon. I'm getting a good chuckle out of this. The thought-leaders have been warning us that large language models will put 99% of professionals out of wo
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by drewda 3y ago
At least the 2012 live demo went better than the 2010 keynote live demo when they unveiled Google TV... and the lead presenter was stuck on stage for 10 or 15 minutes because no one could figure out how to pair the wireless keyboard. Appare
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by drewda 3y ago
That's because the Town of Los Altos Hills has effectively banned all businesses within its city limits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Altos_Hills,_California#St...
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by drewda 3y ago
Those are good, meaty questions. In an election, the vote is the measure of popular support for a candidate/policy/platform. Democracy doesn't necessarily need polls. I've found interesting some related essays by Jill
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by drewda 3y ago
What's so terrible about the California DMV? In recent years, they've done a huge digital modernization effort. When I had to renew my license in person within the last year, I completed almost all of the application online. I cou
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by drewda 3y ago
Los Altos Hills also recently installed Flock ALPRs. It's amusing how they allow residents to fill out a form on the town website to opt-out: https://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/455/Automatic-License-Plate... In othe
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by drewda 3y ago
California has required dealers to put temporary license plates with unique IDs on all cars that don't already have license plates. The change took effect January 1, 2019: https://us.dealertrack.com/content/dealert
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by drewda 3y ago
Another example: What used to be called the Stanford Linear Accelerator is now officially just "SLAC" (as the university holds trademark for "Stanford" and didn't want to share with the US Department of Energy)
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by drewda 3y ago
If you don't know the acronym SRI, then you probably aren't likely their target customer :) The S used to stand for Stanford. Just like RAND or Battelle or a half dozen others, it's nominally a non-profit organization that ma
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by drewda 3y ago
Ha, no, I didn't... but I just did :)
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by drewda 3y ago
I just went to check the date and it was 23 years ago that Bill Joy (of Sun Microsystems) caused a tizzy with an essay on the cover of Wired magazine with the headline of "The Future Doesn't Need Us: Our most powerful 21st-century
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by drewda 3y ago
It's not just Apple making this kind of deal with California cities regarding sales taxes from online sales within state: > Best Buy has been in Dinuba for 17 years, employing around 370 workers, but seven years ago it became even m
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by drewda 3y ago
That's similar to my own experience. I quite liked my Blackberry Key2. I bought a Titan Pocket, but it's just not that well made either physically or in terms of software. It's quite heavy. The keyboard has an odd layout. The
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by drewda 3y ago
A great read on that very topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_of_the_Witch:_Enchantme...
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by drewda 3y ago
> It boggles the mind how anyone could suggest with a straight face that your personal usecases should be automated away even though it screws over everyone else using it. Should the orgs that have exposed private data in S3 to the publi
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by drewda 3y ago
Given how many major data breaches have been the result of unintentional public access to orgaanizations' data on S3, I almost think Amazon should remove all public access to buckets and objects from the entire S3 product. Instead make
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by drewda 4y ago
In recent years, political scientists have been starting to talk about "electoral authoritarian regimes" — how dictators make use of some amount of popular support, media, and other tools to stay in power. For example "Popula
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by drewda 4y ago
USDOT does have an important role to play. But the link (which I admittedly didn't follow) has a headline about the CDC. EPA is also an important agency, maybe the most important one for this clean-up. All that to say I'm somewha
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by drewda 4y ago
Yeah, Google Cloud Storage pricing increases were a meaningful (negative) change. AWS and Azure storage costs are roughly the same at the list prices. Some SKU unit costs are a bit cheaper on Azure, but you could also probably realize the s
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by drewda 4y ago
If one of the co-founders/owners is writing the devops tooling from scratch... well, that's a decision. Not saying it's necessarily a bad decision. But it's potentially driven more by personal interests than a dispassion
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by drewda 4y ago
It does look like Clickhouse transmogrified from a Russia-based Yandex open-source project into a San Francisco-based VC-back C-corp incorporated in Delaware just in the nick of time. (Not suggesting this is wrong. I'm just offering an
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by drewda 4y ago
I wonder if this will be a repeat of what happened with speech recognition. It used to be a specialized field dominated by smaller companies like Nuance. More recently Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. decided they wanted to have speech recogn
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by drewda 4y ago
Then I guess that also means I've now been using newsblur.com and its Android app for 10 years. NewsBlur (and a handful of other RSS feed aggregators/reader apps) have continued to survive and offer some really useful functionalit
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by drewda 4y ago
In September 2008, I was in Amsterdam for a conference. I remember waking up and seeing a TV in the hotel lobby with the cable news headline about the receivership of Washington Mutual. It was a little bit of a strange feeling to realize th
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by drewda 4y ago
Many grad students are employed as research assistants in labs. It's federal agencies like NIH and NSF that are supporting those labs with grants. For grad students who are serving as teaching assistants or as full "instructors of

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