skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that’s not likely to have been the outcome without a union in place. The more likely outcome would have been a policy within their contract requiring the pilot to work in the case of a holiday period crunch, if the pilot were lucky enough to have any contract at all.

The 150% maximum pay was also likely a negotiation point between the airline and the union when agreeing on a contract.

You seem to think that negotiations between an at will pilot and an airline are on equal ground, they are not. The pilot is very unlikely to get a better deal outside of collective bargaining. That is why people are willing to pay a due and give up some freedoms in order to use them as leverage in compensation negotiations.
That's basically what I wrote
Uber Lawyer Says Board, Ex-CEO Knew of Evidence Withheld from Waymo Case
Nice resource. I'll take a look.
I also remember the early Bitcoin days. I didn't get any until over $100 but I came across it before it was worth anything. I remember the faucets, the alpaca socks, the triumphant day when a bitcoin reached parity with a dollar, all of it. It was a glorious, happy community of idealists back then.

Those days are gone for Bitcoin, but I've found a cryptocurrency community elsewhere that reminds me of those early Bitcoin days. I jumped in full-time and I'm having a blast.
This is weak
As an avid amateur student of human behaviour, I appreciate your keen eye for this. I actually don't think it's tricky to reconcile the two.

The people conducting the analytics are doing it 'for the right reasons'. The people being analysed don't trust anyone to do anything 'for the right reasons' or without some amount of scope creep around the edges of 'the right reasons'. Self versus someone else. I've got the best intentions, but I don't think anyone else has.

It touches on the theory of: if a company was a person it would have the traits of a psychopath / sociopath. The ends justifies the means. Grow the business, and analytics is the best way to do it, or to visualise the progress and adjust the method.

Human as part of the business:
We gotta do these things to give ourselves the greatest chance of success

Human as consumer of app:
Why would they possibly need access to THAT?

There are definitely multi-personalities involved. WHich seems increasingly normal. Wasn't there an HN article on that recently?

The brain is a denial-machine. It enables hypocrisy, and I can only theorise that this is due to our inability to survive if that wasn't the case.
Yeah, if you know your domain and know you're creating only an acceptable amount of error, by all means float it up. Floats are easy to use and predictable nearly everywhere, since nearly everyone follows the same spec.

Generally though, I think people don't quite do due-diligence here. And/or the domain changes enough that numbers get large enough to invalidate the earlier analysis. There are obviously exceptions to this though, and for them, they know what they're doing and why they're doing it and it's all good.
There are, but compensation is probably not one of them.
Wills usually change many times in your lifetime, and with a smart contract you'd have to build in safe void clauses that can't be exploited.
A well known insurance scam is changing lanes immediately in front of another car then coming to a sudden stop, forcing a rear end collision. It's hard to prove unless you have a dash cam and even then you might be found at fault if the other party is convincing enough to the officer who investigates the accident.
how do you prove to the bank the non-existence of a clause that would void the trust if this is done(and noticed)?

the main point I tried to make above was this: in normal life there is the "human factor"; like, if you look at a situation, you can reasonably comment on whether it's a positive situation from an actor's perspective; whether the actors were engaging in fraudulent activity etc. In digital-only world, there is no such thing as "probable cause", "reasonable doubt" etc.

which makes the application of smart contracts to real life intractable(IMHO borderline impossible for complex situations for the near future[~10 years?]).
The Nature paper is free to read:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01842-4
President Trump touts tax plan, promises more winning
That is likely based on the Japanese story of the dog Hachiko, (sort of the Japanese version of Lassie) the dog who waited for his master at the train station every day. And when the master, a university professor, died while at school, the dog continued to go to the station every day until his death. There is a statue outside the train station where he waited. There were two movies made about the story, the Japanese original reduces everyone to tears. The American one with Richard Gere, not so much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D
Bitcoin is Bitcoin Cash. We immediately restored the ability for Bitcoin to be adopted with low fees and fast confirmations by using 8 MB blocks.

The median income for the world is $6/day. High fees are unaffordable and unadoptable. The Core team has done Bitcoin an enormous disservice; like setting autopilot into the terrain.
Curiously I went to school around the corner from the Greyfriars church yard and must have walked past the statue thousands of times. I noticed that the statue has been defaced in recent years by tourists touching its nose for good luck.
Maybe the person out of boot camp just performed better or were in a role that was better suited? Years of experience is not everything (I wish it were at my age :P)
Are they allowed to sell the "fingerprint" packaged with your name to advertising agencies? If so it should only be a matter of time before those Minority Report inspired advertising screens start popping up everywhere..

The advertisers can always protect that system with some DRM to get the mighty DMCA on their side. That way they don't need to build a robust solution and can still wipe their hands clean if they loose it all to a 12 year old script kiddie.
Congratulations. You have the technical acumen to do that — along with, at a guess, 0.0001% of the population of the entire planet.

Not really a solution, seen in that light, is it?
Wowow. Time to build an open microphone array for impeoved speech pickup. That can be connected to RPi for voice control that respects privacy.
Why are there at least 3 ways to configure an emr cluster from a main file and many of the property names don't match? (data pipeline, cloud formation and emr's own syntax)

Amazon's internal structure seems to leak a lot.
> retailers who ask for the TFN

Why would a retailer ask for it? I don't think I've been asked for my NI number (the UK equivalent) by anyone except people dealing with my tax (including banks) or by the government directly when registering for services.
Wow. Automatic security update locks me out of my computer without any explicit notice given. How very nice of them.
I do hope they'll keep maintaining it - I've been working with an ESP32 lately and the stuff Espressif has been able to build using FreeRTOS as a base is nothing short of incredible. $7 for wifi and bluetooth on a development board.
It actually was vitamins from a foreign shop that took international payments thru bitcoin. I could have shown them if they wanted proof. However they never let me have any recourse. Just instaban, goodbye. As hard as it might be to believe its their job to remain professional. And they failed at that. My account didn't get flagged - I got outright banned- lets not mince words. Coinbase is ran by a bunch of assholes.
Could. Free-market AA could also say, we're canceling your vacation, if you don't show up you're fired. Why is your scenario more likely?
The 2017 Chevy Camaro ZL1 Is an Amazing Bargain for $65,000
For those looking for context around this acqui-hire/stewardship, here's our take from late 2016 when Silicon Labs acquired FreeRTOS competitor Micrium:

Going forward, we expect to see non-traditional IoT software and infrastructure platform vendors looking closely at the embedded OS space. A compelling OS offering could drive millions of device signups for IoT services platforms, such as AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure, and GE Predix, which derive recurring revenue from services rendered to an installed base of devices. Onboarding an OS offering (or complementing Windows 10 IoT Core with an MCU-focused OS in Microsoft’s case) would allow these players to potentially hook analytics and connectivity services into a portion of the billions of MCUs that are shipped yearly, bumping up services revenue substantially.

We see this acquisition as a substantial, missed opportunity for leading MCU vendors, such as Renesas, Microchip/Atmel, and Qualcomm/NXP/Freescale, who we had shortlisted as likely acquirers. Micrium competitors Express Logic and WITTENSTEIN would be rational targets for the next round of RTOS acquisitions.

We had expected Microsoft to refocus its attention on the MCU space (perhaps with a derivative of WinCE) but they have been more focused on providing runtimes for maker boards and playing catch up with AWS, than building out the bottom end of their OS portfolio. Ditto Google with Android Things.

Think this is a great move on Amazon's part providing, but not forcing, an easy on-ramp to AWS for the billions of MCU-powered devices that ship every year.
I consider commuting as part of my working hours. If I'm driving to a client, it is billable time, if I'm using public transit it is a reimbursed fare plus I do work on the train/bus for them or another client (so it's billable). Commuting especially in heavily congested cities should be calculated as part of your "work hours". If not to increase your pay, so you know what your hourly rate actually is.
you'd need them to install a custom root cert if you wanted to MITM their secure traffic, and still wouldn't be able to do much with any app or service that pins or bundles its own certs without going through PKI system though?

I guess you could just block that traffic and let people deal with the breakage, maybe. I wonder how common it actually is.
Pilots have leverage because you can’t replace them with other pilots. Imagine if Java developers weren’t legally allowed to write C# until they got certified… keep in mind it’s just an analogy.
> For example if a client has come to see you and your boss wants to take everyone for a work dinner you wouldn't say 'sorry it's after hours' - you're paid full time and you're supposed to be there as required, and you don't quibble about the hours, within reason.

I'm paid a certain amount to do a job, with technically unspecified hours, although with the cultural expectation that it'll be 40 hours per week. If I'm going to spend a few hours with a customer (presumably part of my job, in this hypothetical situation), I'll expect some flexibility next time I've got a couple hours of errands to run during the week.

I'm not so worried about one-off occurrences, but I'll take exception if I start to see a pattern of my hours inching up. 42 hours a week? Doesn't sound like much (24 minutes a day). What do you think would happen if I asked for a 5% raise for 5% more work? Right now, my manager would tell me that we don't have the budget, and his manager would start probing around to see how to spread out my current workload to other employees.
Interesting. Could you use the mouse to interact with scrollback using your workflow? I mostly use keyboard but sometimes I just want to flick upwards and copy a block of scrollback text using the mouse.
Satoshi Nakamoto hasn't touched the account in years. There can be multiple reasons:

1. He's doing this for the good of the ecosystem

2. He values privacy over money

3. He's dead.

4. He's confined somewhere without access to the Internet, like prison.
> Trump doesn't make "shitty" decisions

Shouldn't he have a string of some kind of victories by now, then? The only thing he can point to as an achievement to date appears to be the Gorsuch confirmation.
Bitcoin plunges 18% after topping $11,000 in extremely volatile trading
Which community?
I don't know about him but I'm mad.

Of course I'd have to have got in early and had the balls not the sell, not lose the keys, not get hacked and not leave them on an exchange, for years.
Yea but we already use automated systems in the air. We're talking about going from human+computer to only computer. Unlike with driving, where split second reaction time for humans is at more of a premium, i cant imagine this wouldnt be strictly worse.
Really?

That's actually awesome!
CPU's and GPU's are capable of breakneck speeds, so I love to see things that really make the most out of the capacity available.
How can we count votes of people who don't have the money for a single transaction fee? I thought Bitcoin was supposed to be better because it was the cheapest?
How is it different than ECS? I tried to apply for it and just end up on my ECS Page.
Clearing Up Some Myths About Victorian ‘Post-Mortem’ Photographs
What's the advantage of a RTOS?
That sucks, they were doing gangbusters earlier in the year, rumors of them buying a downtown LA building even.

Two of my friends in the video department got the axe because of this.
OP specified Bitcoin, so hey. Maybe there's a reason. OP?
Finally, the performance of C combined with the readability of perl.
Why Females Decide What’s Beautiful
It's not clear what all the rules are and how this prevents the grandfather paradox.

What ever mechanism that prevents the paradoxical violations also makes this not very exciting (as far as time travel goes): you have to spend the "40 years" between you visiting one end of the wormhole and you entering the other at near-luminal velocity (hence you would only perceive it as 1 anyway). It's not so much "time travel" as an instant return ticket (where only your personal real time is spent, assuming your ship is exactly as fast as the one that carried the wormhole).

Which does actually have an interesting effect if you make them in pairs. It makes books like The Commonwealth Saga technically almost viable (e.g. where they build networks of portals and then just run trains through them non-stop to travel between worlds). Except that instead of using portals to explore new worlds, they would have to send a probe to those planets with a wormhole on board, at near the speed of light. And trips might cost you a bit of relative time to make a trip and return (e.g. the difference between the speed of light and the speed the probe delivered the wormhole from both portals added together would be how far in the relative future a trip would send you).

This all of course requires exotic matter which probably doesn't exist; which is why this whole thing probably doesn't work in the first place (e.g. why stable wormholes probably don't exist). Still might make it's own excellent sci-fi book if someone ran with the constrains of this, and it would technically be harder sci-fi than most.
How much did the value of Peter Thiels Facebook stock go up since he initially invested?
Clear and to the point, hopefully sparks conversations about how to fix these issues moving forward.
> I change one pixel → That produces a drastically different hash

If they're hashing the raw bytes, sure. If they're hashing a representation of the face that encodes meaning (like the relative locations of facial features), then changing one pixel is unlikely to affect that.
I _think_ what's going on is that they asked for the Aadhaar card as a "Photo ID". If you read the chat, the AMZN link that the rep points to asks for a place to upload a Photo ID. The Aadhaar card does function as a Photo ID as it has your picture and name on it. So it's similar to being asked to upload your Driver's License as a photo ID. It's possible that Amazon India has a policy of asking for Photo ID for investigating any complaints about big purchases because of fraud (I could just claim that I didn't get the phone). Since this user bought a Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime, it was probably greater than the threshold where the photo ID requirement was mandated. It's also possible that this user account was flagged as a suspicious user.

Either way, the whole biometric scare in this case is nonsense.
First-of-its-kind mummy study reveals clues to girl's story
Reading the tone of Union's response to all of this - including the grievance they filed, I'm inclined to think it's the latter.

[1]https://www.alliedpilots.org/News/ID/5646/Holiday-Scheduling...
Funny 2020 presidential campaign rally with cute adorable dog
> You seem to think that negotiations between an at will pilot and an airline are on equal ground, they are not. The pilot is very unlikely to get a better deal outside of collective bargainin

The pilots would most definitely get a better deal outside of the collective bargaining. That is, all the ones that get left out because of this contract receive no benefits at all.
This is fantastic! Great work! Thanks for sharing!
Also: "Didn’t have the resources to support a customised register file. A synthesised register file resulted in huge congestion when routing the wires from the flip-flops. Instead, black-boxed the register file and hand-wrote some Verilog to instantiate specific flip-flops, muxes, and tri-state buffers. Effectively hand-crafting their own bit block out of standard cells."

That just sounds insane to me that the tools can't handle synthesis of straightforward stuff like this. My personal fantasy startup is a next generation, mostly open-source EDA simulation, synthesis/optimization and place & route toolchain. You can expose the analog cell design to the world, but generate revenue from the per-fab process-specific partnering required to work the customers through the process of making real hardware. Who's got funding for me?
Verifying jurisdiction doesn't require you to know the whole address, just the country code and possibly the state.

Verifying if someone is legally an adult doesn't require you to know the exact age and definitely not the birthday, simply "yes" would be sufficient.
Well there was the Corvair (unsafe at any speed) and the Vega (exploded if hit from behind) and I'm sure others. Where did your 1 in 109 stat come from?

Edit: I take back the Vega. While that was an awful car, I was actually thinking of the Ford Pinto.
Yes, he's so effective that all of his major executive actions and legislative priorities have failed so far.

And this doesn't even get into his goals whose impossibility is obvious to people with real information--like getting Mexico to pay for the wall, or boosting the U.S. economy by starting trade wars, or getting China to put a leash on North Korea's nuclear program, or growing jobs in the coal power industry, etc.
The New Tech Startup That Is Disrupting Phones (And the Sharing Economy)
Don’t rely on primitives without open alternatives unless you want to be chained to your vendor. Today it’s roasting Oracle during the keynote, tomorrow it’ll be today’s “underdog”. It’s easy to talk customer success when the money firehose flows.

MariaDB and PostgreSQL both work well outside of RDS.
I think you're right.

I think a lot of people hear "Digital Currency" and think 'something like Apple Pay', when Bitcoin's competition is closer to ACH/wire transfers.

It's not a tech that everyone needs to use, and most people will pay an expert to use it for them. But if successful, could be a valuable medium for receiving payments from low-trust entities.

For example, if a stock exchange accepted Bitcoin for funding accounts, you could get your account up, funded and ready to trade in less than an hour. Most stock exchanges now take several days for funds to clear.
Instagram is Facebook
Have you checked out the Bitcoin Cash community on r/BTC? There’s plenty of hatred for Core developers on there, but there’s also a lot of grassroots projects going on, like the Bitcoin Cash Fund that recently raised about $85k to fund projects that spread adoption of Bitcoin Cash — feels a lot more like the early days.

https://thebitcoincash.fund/

https://www.yours.org/content/a-new-model-for-bcf-project-or...
Yup, enjoyed reading it. Your on-boarding example has some o erlap with another checklist example given in another book (The E-Myth?) whereby employees at a hotel used comprehensive checklists to ensure that every visitor had the same consistently high quality service during their stay.
Can't speak to the peculiarities of this situation, but in general, unions have the exact opposite effect: they benefit SOME workers at the expense of MOST workers outside the bargain.

Argentina is a model example of what happens when the pilots have a strong union: they have the highest pilot salary in south america and there are consistent service outages due to strikes on holidays.

Fear not that if union workers could collect a paycheck without showing up to work and no consequence, you would not see any working.
> notification .. Jekyll rebuilds

I chuckled, I use Hugo :)

By the time I save my post and glance towards the browser in other monitor, rebuilding has already finished, and the browser live reload has already displayed the updated post.
51% Attack
This is yet another sign, if one was needed, that the rich can afford to buy themselves privacy while the poor can not.
I refactored some Python junior developer code recently.

Non standard style (there is a PEP for that) and not consistently non standard.

Obfuscated variable names.

A for loop over a list with ifs on most of the indices.

A sequential scan with remote API calls instead of a binary search.

My favorite is a get_info function returning an object of class Info with a couple of string attributes. Digging into it, the function looked for the CSRF token in a HTML page. I renamed it get_csrf_token, made it return one string, deleted the class.

However the code did work and I'm sure I did those things or worse when I was young.
Especially since it really doesn't seem to have anything to do with the rest of the piece. Why choose to open with a paragraph that is unnecessarily gendered and insulting because of it? The author surely knows that it's going to be immediately divisive -- they could have left it out completely and just said that McPhee's writing pulls you in and is difficult to put down.
I'm truly stunned that someone with only 5-7 years of experience is considered 'senior' in this field. Is that really the case, or is TripleBytes using funny numbers?
What is Facebook's "main functionality"?
Scarily similar to this:
https://imgur.com/a/uQrKn
I just signed up for Mastodon, and it was super easy to do. I don't what it could be considered difficult, even for non technical users.
How do these numbers stack up to equivalent algorithms in C and Fortran?

Are we going to see a RustBLAS soon? Something open-source that could go up against MKL for performance would be really amazing.
There is also now a patch available.
Of course, taxes are for little people and really little taxes ($14/yr) are both unimportant and worthy of a personal letter from a Senator.

Now you might wonder how the taxes are so low for a parcel in one of if not the most exclusive pieces of real estate in SF. That would be because of Prop 13 which locked in that $14/year way back in 1978. Most of the houses on that private block are also the beneficiary of Prop 13 because you wouldn't want to raise taxes on grandma. For example, here's the tax bill for 5 Presidio Terrace:

https://ttxonlineportal.sfgov.org/content/San-Francisco-Form...

Not bad for a $10M house. Now I'm sure that grandma really appreciates Howard Jarvis (and Dianne Feinstein) but for us little people, we pay more so they can pay less.

https://www.zillow.com/homes/5-Presidio-Ter,-San-Francisco,-...

This reeks.
Sure, and it's more complex than that even. You might be qualified to fly an A320, but not over open water. And not without being checked on airline X's specific A320 configuration.
Supreme court considers limits on police tracking via mobile phone data