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Withdrawn; apologies.

@dang - sorry to ask this, but the KIRO link is probably better here.

I pasted it because this is from a different, newer article than the link that described the attack in more detail and identified the victim. Sorry for the confusion.

(withdrawn; apologies)

More details; victim is recovering: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/microsoft-employee-improvin...

There's no mention of Raspberry Pi in the website

https://bkhome.org/news/202101/easyos-dunfell-26-released-fo...

even a Pi3B with 1GB RAM will work, or rather "just work" -- I recommend at least a Pi4 with 2GB RAM -- I have the 8GB RAM board.

EasyOS is a container-focused OS with its own in-house containerization mechanism,[2] and it's seemingly not designed for or aimed at Pis specifically.

2: https://bkhome.org/news/202204/some-handy-tricks-with-easy-c...

Probably not related, but I didn't realize until a Wikipedia glance[1] that Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs's widow, owns The Atlantic. And that she was also an investor/board member of Ozy and co-founder of a previous venture (College Track) with its CEO, Carlos Watson, both of which have, uh, been in the news lately.[2][3]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurene_Powell_Jobs

2: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3873431-ozy-media-head-ca...

3: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/business/carlos-watson-oz...

As a team of one, we were able to support 250k users, and now that we've crossed that bridge, our goal is to support two million users with our 2-person team for a 1M-to-1 ratio.

Is it weird then that they have an open req for a support engineer: https://railway.app/careers/support-engineer

As noted in my link, "primarily due to business mix change in Networks and previously announced charges for contract exits and portfolio adjustments in Cloud Software and Services".

If they took that hit and missed significantly on revenue, a layoff wouldn't be as unexpected. To take that hit and then beat on revenue, both quarterly and YoY, and then kick off an 8% layoff, is just corporations being corporations for the sake of it.

I love that the page still requires 39 requests, 2MB transfer, and 4MB of resources.

Ericsson revenue in SEK:

March 2022: 55.06B

June 2022: 62.46B

Sept. 2022: 68.04B

Dec. 2022: 85.98B

Dec. 2022: 7% profit margin, 11.36B operating income, 1.6B net change in cash on hand, 50.32B cost of revenue

Beat revenue in four consecutive quarters, all while dealing with IPR agreements and DOJ provisions. Sales up YoY and full year.

"A dividend for 2022 of SEK 2.70 (2.50) per share will be proposed to the AGM by the Board of Directors."

https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2023/1/ericsson-r...

Got it. To really enjoy life, I need to chew ginger gum while wearing a baggy t-shirt in front of a fan so I can drive a Miata slowly and safely for 10 minutes at a time.

1999: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-14-me-33510...

Vicky Vosk got her red Nissan truck, the one she always wanted, on her 16th birthday. It was supposed to be the culmination of a childhood master plan: She would get her driver’s license that day, marking the start of an era of independence from her parents.

But today her truck sits in the garage, banned from being used in any type of cruising expedition with friends. Because of a new law in California, Vosk has put on hold her long-awaited freedom at the wheel, joining a generation of California teenagers who must pay their dues before obtaining full driving privileges.

“It’s frustrating. With the old law, everyone was looking forward to the day they turned 16. Now you have to wait so long to get your license,” she said.

...

* The provisional license stage, which comes after passing a driving test and lasts until the teenager turns 18. During the first six months of this phase, teenagers are allowed to drive on their own, but they can’t transport any passengers younger than 20 without someone 25 or older in the car. In addition, they are not allowed to drive between midnight and 5 a.m. unless accompanied by a driver 25 or older.

GDL programs were hailed as a fatality reduction, but they only delayed them, while increasing the frequency of unlicensed teen drivers (and unlicensed teen driver deaths): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00224...

IRR analysis found California 16-year-old drivers subject to the GDL experienced a 15% fatality decline (95% CI, 0.70–0.99), while 18 year-old drivers experienced a 15% increase (95% CI, 1.02–1.27). ARIMA analysis found 16 year-old drivers experienced a near-significant 20% fatality decline (p = 0.07), while 18 year-olds experienced a 24% increase (p = 0.01). Unlicensed teenage drivers and older teen drivers driving alone and transporting teenage passengers suffered significant fatality increases.

...

California's GDL may negatively affect older teenagers and other driver subpopulations and merits reevaluation.

Now the wealthiest community in the United States has the unique distinction of also being the first community in the Bay Area to have a Builder’s Remedy project proposed. A young homeowner and computer engineer, frustrated that the town has been slow to permit the reconstruction of his water-damaged home, has announced plans to use the zoning holiday to build a 15-unit apartment complex and five townhomes on his property. Per the rules, four of those homes will house Los Altos Hills’ first low-income families.

...

Local media speculates that this project may be out of spite by the young engineer regarding the NIMBY government of his town. Maybe, but it’s good nevertheless. Undoubtedly, this project will be sued by neighbors, but the courts have mostly ruled in favor of the Builder’s Remedy and other state housing laws so far.

More details about that part here: https://www.siliconvalley.com/2023/02/13/homeowner-invokes-b...

Zbrozek previously made the news with Los Altos Hills Community Fiber, after fighting a $210,000 Comcast quote for fiber internet service: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/comcast-wanted-2...

Don't overthink it. It's just incompetence on the contest and judges.

They used GitHub pages as a dumb host for HTML files, JavaScript, images, CSS. Repo link in the story, here for convenience: https://github.com/thstsa/spacetourism

Even has a .nojekyll file in the repo, and they since moved publishing to Netlify.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34894922

Considering that many states now prohibit teens from driving at night, or driving with other teens as passengers without an adult -- or in some states driving without an adult, period -- even with the highest permit level available to them, and sometimes up til age 18... I mean, I don't know or want to know how much of that you got up to in broad daylight with a parent in the car, but I'm going to bet it's close to zero.

Not mentioned, or glossed over, in this story in favor of psychologists saying teens are scared:

- gas prices

- changes to license and permit laws for minors since 2000,[1] particularly the widespread introduction of graduated driver licensing programs that mean getting a license before age 18 doesn't grant the independence that it once did[2]

- teen employment levels, even in recovery from steep decades-long lows, remain well below those of 25 years ago[3][4]

- recent history; the decline was already steep in 2013, and 37% of a cohort of teens said they simply didn't have enough time to prioritize learning how to drive[5]

- context of almost all age groups also declining in license attainment rates over the same period[5]

- US auto manufacturers eliminating lower-priced models by converting everything to more expensive crossovers, SUVs, and trucks, with more-expensive EVs replacing compacts; even though a plurality of GenZers (36%) buying used vehicles in 2018 bought either compact or midsize cars, "Detroit is betting that even if young people wait longer to buy a car, they eventually will when finances improve and they start families. And then, they’ll buy an SUV or truck"[6]

- preparing for student loan debt is a higher priority to teens and their families even before they incur any of it; a teen who bought a used car for $2,500 says "it was a relief to avoid car payments and debt"[6]

- licenses require more formal training than ever, and the training costs hundreds or thousands of dollars when it used to be free, because public school drivers' ed programs were eliminated as states slashed education budgets alongside the introduction of GDL programs, leaving only expensive private classes[6]

- increased urbanization has given more teens better access to walkable, bikable, transit-accessible, and rideshare-accessible neighborhoods[6]

1: https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2015/02/oregon_teen_dri...

2: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00224...

3: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/21/after-dropp...

4: PDF: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/youth.pdf

5: https://news.umich.edu/percentage-of-teen-drivers-continues-...

6: https://archive.ph/20200101222010/https://www.wsj.com/articl...

not to mention expansion of women's soccer ... It might make me fall in love with the game, however, because I have seen how relegation is a high stakes event for teams and the fans

Amusingly, Chelsea's women's coach thinks England's league should look into the US model without pro/rel: https://www.90min.com/posts/emma-hayes-wsl-should-be-open-fr...

England in particular's struggled with pro/rel in the women's game because from a financial sustainability standpoint, there's effectively no place to promote from or relegate to -- if you aren't Liverpool or Man United, promotion can be a financial bullet to the head. And if you're Liverpool, the stakes of relegation are next to nil, but if you're Doncaster, the stakes are utter destruction and demotion past the second and third tiers because of unattainable financial requirements. (Mexico's leagues, men's and women's, have had similar problems with pro/rel.)

The US has a similar, more systemic problem on the women's side. Even with new pro second-division leagues starting, our real women's second division is the NCAA, with all the legal baggage that carries.

“The Union have definitely broken through, but it’s not as big a deal as the Phillies being in the World Series,” says Jonah Gardner of sports data website, Sports Reference. “When people talk about how Philly sports is having a moment, they mention the Phillies and the World Series and the Union in [MLS] Cup and the Eagles [reaching the Super Bowl]. They’re being presented alongside the others as part of the city’s sports.”

Hey, Sports Reference. They ran a graphic last year that showed the most-viewed team pages on their FBRef subsite in 2022.[1] Not a spoiler to say MLS didn't do well; their teams didn't rank in in-market states, including Oregon (NWSL's Thorns FC), Colorado (Crystal Palace), Minnesota (the US national team), California, Washington, Illinois (Chelsea), Florida (Liverpool), New York (Man City), and New Jersey (Liverpool).

So... MLS maybe still has a ways to go.

1: https://the18.com/en/soccer-entertainment/us-map-most-viewed...

Their tech writers were under their marketing team, and the CMO got exited as part of this. At least one tech writing team got laid off.[1] Their opt-in list includes six technical writers or editors out of about 152, but I've seen more writers announce on LinkedIn than are listed here. (Engineering took it on the chin, 73 listed.)[2]

DO had invested a lot over the last few years into expanding its technical content library as a SEO strategy. They seem to have completely backed out of that investment.

Coyier's $4M exit was nice, sure. Built on 15 years of work, though, alongside his primary job being a developer/designer and CodePen founder who also wrote, not as a full-time writer.

Still standing by my guarantee that no technical writer here got north of $1M of salary or compensation for two years of work. Not even close. If any got north of $500k they're both role models and were probably overpaid for the market.

1: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bphogan_hey-all-a-whole-bunch...

2: http://do.co/sharks

many tech workers working for hot startups or big tech have made in the past couple years

I can guarantee you no tech writer has made $1 million in salary or compensation in two years.

I got recruited for DO's technical writing team a few years back but passed because I was happy in the role I had at the time. Feels like a dodged bullet.

The oscillation between brands wanting consistent weights and spacing within logos to look "cleaner", and wanting inconsistency to look "authentic", all of it happening on an almost subconscious level for everyone subjected to it, employs so many graphic designers. It's mind-boggling.

The capacity in Portland isn't there regardless of quality: 615 shelter units available for adults at 98.7% daily utilization, up from 84.8% in August and 90.1% in October.[1]

1: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/johs/viz/ShelterUtili...

One-third of those swept accepted offers of shelter. Half of those couldn't find a path to even temporary housing.

Without even considering the point of jailing or rehabbing 1,100 homeless people in a city that has neither the jail nor rehab capacity for its housed population,[1] the city is failing to help even the half of the fraction of homeless people who want and accept help.

1: https://www.mailtribune.com/top-stories/2022/01/29/oregon-is...

This kit, as noted on the page, is just the NexDock,[1] which itself is essentially a DisplayPort-over-USB-C or mini-HDMI 13" 16:9 1080p touchscreen display on a fold-over hinge, keyboard, trackpad, speakers, micro SDXC reader, headphone jack, and 44Wh battery in a 1.2kg laptop shell.

The NexDock is $299 and its desktop mode features are already compatible with several Samsung, Huawei, Motorola, and a few other Android phones with video output. Since it's basically just a display, it also works with any USB-C/HDMI device, including Raspberry Pis, Steam Decks and other PCs, Nintendo Switches, etc.

Purism charges $40 more and adds a magnetic mount (if not this $15 mount on Amazon,[2] then one very similar to it) and USB-C cable.

1: https://nexdock.com/explore-nexdock/

2: https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Desktop-Monitor-Foldable-Por...

In the tools space, cf. open source GeoJSON-to-vector tile tool Tippecanoe, which recently got a new non-Mapbox home at Felt: https://felt.com/blog/erica-fischer-tippecanoe-at-felt, https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe

Previously:

"ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology" discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32258854

"ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed" discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31958201

"Lobbying and lawsuits: How ShotSpotter convinced Portland to spend big on gunshot detection", OPB: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/11/07/shotspotter-convinced...,

"How ShotSpotter fights criticism and leverages federal cash to win police contracts", NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shotspotter-police-guns...

"Deployment of Controversial Urban Sensor System Aided by Aggressive Lobbying", The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2015/03/26/rapid-deployment-shotspo...