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I was very sad to see several north new jersey airports on this list.

Chalk it up to far too many hours in the Sci Li but I quite like this.

They make the data available on that page for you to do your own research.

Mentioned in passing in a recent Practical Engineering video on tunnels. https://youtu.be/Ssw5bdx1HKw?si=DfOLWszK4erDPe3n

https://waymo.com/blog/2025/05/waymo-making-streets-safer-fo...

I wonder if there's a bet to be made on future 8K disclosures following quietly updated signing keys. A bet against F5 placed this morning would've only made 3.6%.

I think Shape Security qualifies for this list. They raised $100M before having a customer, seemed to die, quietly got adopted by a large pool of F50 companies, and exited to F5 for a $1B valuation. That’s a big chunk of change for a security play, especially back in 2019.

Their moat ended up being two fold. One, they were the only tech stack that could handle the scale needed back then. Two, they had a crazy culture of never letting adversaries win and would push daily updates to keep attackers off their customers. Both took a long time to iterate and build towards and nobody thought it was cool while they worked through it.

Same! Big shoutout to Dr Thuillier at UCSF. Really changed my life.

Rumor mill explanations range from flock of birds to Russian air defense systems. Pilots appeared to be trying very hard to safe it.

If you’re in San Francisco stop in at Derco. They’re underneath the Airbnb building.

Some of us prefer to enjoy sex as a beautiful act of human connection and condoms detract from being in the moment of joy.

This is like saying to someone killed in a motorcycle accident why didn’t you use a car. It’s a reductive, unempathetic and frankly unproductive take. Please think before asking this again.

It would be rather silly to assume all bears have the same last name "bear"! It's not as if people all walk around saying "Oh hi I'm Timothy Human" "Nice to meet you, I'm Rachel Human, are we related?"

Which, come to think of it, is kind of a funny notion, and a nice reminder that despite our differences we really are all related!

I was concerned that the author might have been running into the Scunthorpe Problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem).

My last name contains a naughty substring. I feel for the author and their hyphen!

Schneier is wrong that "hey google" is always listening. Google does on-device processing with dedicated hardware for the wake-words and only then forwards audio upstream. Believe it or not, the privacy people at Google really do try to do the right things. They don't always succeed, but they did with our hardware and wake-word listening.

Am Google employee, not in hardware.

Having recently purchased an engagement ring, I am amazed by how inexpensive synthetic diamonds have become. Back in 2015 I paid for a natural stone. Prices then were nuts. You can get so much more weight, color, and clarity now. I really hope the extraction of natural diamonds becomes a historical shame soon.

I do not understand people who want a natural stone. My buddy is marrying a woman who insisted on a natural rock. It’s one of many things wrong with her, and fits the pattern I’ve seen with her to a T.

CEO of Tenable publishing an open letter pushing Microsoft to disclose and patch a cross-customer data access vulnerability in their service.

In my opinion, this is the kind of issue that could undermine trust not just in Azure, but potentially in other Clouds as well. It feels to me that MSFT is being a poor ecosystem steward if they are allowing this kind of vulnerability to fester and not provide complete transparency to their customers.

On the heels of their O365 breach targeting US Gov customers, it is remarkably bad timing for them to leave themselves vulnerable to these charges in the court of public opinion. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/12/1187208383/china-hack-us-gove...

There's a name given in the article for the mechanism by which the planet's orbit became weird, and the same mechanism has been active in our own solar system. I am not convinced that "defies the rules of physics" is an appropriate title for this article.

Perhaps "This Exoplanet's Orbit Has Been Significantly Shifted Relative to Most Orbits" and while that isn't as interesting, it is significantly more accurate.

One opportunity with this kind of technology is to identify when a plate is mismatched with the car. If you assume that stolen plates and stolen cars are a problem, which I think is a good assumption, you can make the adversary's life harder by forcing them to match plate to car make/model/color/year by deploying an ALPR that alerts on mismatches.

There's a good story here about flipping the current economics for criminals--it's trivially cheap to steal plates and cars--towards a world where they have the harder problem of matching plate to car.

How fun: the first one that loaded for me is an airport I flew out of last week! What a fun coincidence to get Samui airport!

Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,- Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

Chapter 94, A Squeeze of the Hand, Moby Dick. https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick/775/chapter-94-a-squ....

Unforgettable passage about the hand processing of this substance.

Stripe's money is not there

I think the author's point would be that Apple is doing this to non-serious or not-serious-yet podcasters.

Let he who is without a data loss event cast the first "their own backups" stone.

Given that nobody else DRMs podcast audio, this is deeply surprising.

Nice to see the Bay Area police doing something though a helicopter seems an expensive way to get a stolen car back.

Cash doesn't really exist in the payments stack for an online business. Credit card chargebacks can roll in months after a compute instance is closed down and companies like Google have little recourse here.

"Just take cash" isn't an option.

At least in PM land, director comp starts at $1M/yr, I'm sure VP comp is a multiple of that. The link you've provided is not accurate. Am Google PM.

Yeah I think this is rather disconnected from my experience building products inside of GCP.

I'd be curious where you think we could have done better on the annealing with specifics :)

Editorialization serves a valuable role of making writing better. IMO, language that is more inclusive is better than language that is less inclusive. Keeping needlessly gendered phrases around simply because they're a "set phrase" doesn't serve any compelling interest.

Language evolves. You can fight the ocean with a rake, or you can be supportive of changes that make language better for your friends and neighbors.

Notably the attack in this article occurred on land. Also surprising the name and details of the arrested person haven’t been shared.

This is a tradition that can go the way of other great old traditions like catching polio. In my experience it did nothing but find a way for me to be forced to spend more time with bullies and suffer trying to explain something to them that they were decidedly uninterested in learning.

Shame on me for not realizing the joke about HN on HN would be seen as outside :shrug: