skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly suspect that there are not enough direct connections that can't use one ~600 seat flight instead of several ~200 seat flights in the same day. When I look for big city to big city flight I usually see several different flights there (when spaced in 1-2 hours that's definitely different plans) - they can be served with one 380 easily, (ignoring other factors).
I wish them success. I didn't back it personally though, since hardware projects are very risky. Even Jolla tablet failed, and as a backer I'm still waiting for my money back. Mobile handsets are a whole level harder to make than tablets. But I'll surely buy Librem 5 once it will come out.

On a side note, when will they add etnaviv to Mesa's features.txt? So far it can't be shown in Mesa matrix: https://mesamatrix.net
And this is why I (and I believe many others) never read anything personal on corporate network, and even if I'm using the guest wifi network, I always VPN outa there, it saves embarrassment/dismissal when NSFW topics come up at work and DuckDuckGo-ing without filtering is required.
Free Report: The Rise of Ransomware
In my experience, conferences are like a vacation where company expenses are wasted on food, and booze. If there is some learning in there, it's minimal. If you really want to hold a conference where people learn, how about we stop having them in Vegas, or some other warm weather, party destination.
also :

Continuous .NET C# and F# IDE by Krueger Systems, Inc.

and

LowRes Coder by Timo Kloss
Relevant excellent TV series [1]. After Raegan/Thatcher privatization there was a 2nd wave Clinton/Blaire of liberalisation. The idea was to dismantle "old hierarchy" / Big Government and replace it with market formed by everyone maximizing their individual self-interest.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_(TV_series)
Safari's JS engine, as far as I know.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I've been looking for something like this for ages. I use QubesOS, and copy + paste between HVM(Windows) and paravirtual domains(Linux) just did not work with Windows 10. I previously used a little webserver on a separate VM on my virtual network where I had to go with a browser to copy and paste stuff in a shared chat window. And files were even worse.

That solution was not as secure as I'd like and necessitates network connectivity between machine where I want to share data. Piknik is still not secure in that sense, but it is much more seamless and can be installed as a drop-in replacement since the environment is so similar to my current solution!
The rest of the post shows it was awful for the employer. Obviously it isn’t actually a bad thing at all.
I didn't realize from the title that this was a CLI network clipboard client/server, and another commenter helpfully pointed out it operates independently of the system clipboard.
Yes and no.

For me it's more the ritual of wearing the appropriate costume: it provides time to enter the role, just like acting.

Going to job-job? Put on job-job costume, mentally rehearse that character. Going to makerspace? Put on work clothes. Going to a Spartan Race? Put on the "ERMAGERD I ATHLETIC" gear.

For me it's less about the actual clothes and more about the mental reset. That said, peoples' reaction to appearance does subtly influence mood, attitude, etc.
How does that now dry out?
Well, I'm very much looking forward to FOSDEM two weeks from now. It doesn't suffer from the high prices either - it's free.
Sure. Its currently 6 degrees F here in Iowa. So I'd die without special clothing when I go out.
Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders
Kakoune code editor
I'm sure if you had some way to app-ize your ideas or generate a return on investment, many people here would back you. (Shouldn't need to be said, but I do feel expedient education of our youth is endlessly valuable despite where it might sit in the capitalistic cabal)
> how about we stop having them in Vegas, or some other warm weather, party destination.

That's already true for the vast majority of conferences out there, so it's easy to fill the year while ignoring the party-destination ones.
Nope, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Maybe it's an age thing.
Can you host your own PushBullet server?
We've been looking at reducing water use this spring; someone else might find these products useful:

OAS(1) showers cap water at 5-10L per use, no matter how long you shower. Getting this installed also means we can swap our water heater to run on the solar array entirely, since you're not flushing all that energy down the drain while you shower.

Waterless urinals(2) use no water at all. They work by keeping a layer of oil in the trap instead. Pee sinks under the oil layer and out of the trap, oil stays in the trap since it floats on top. So, stays just as clean as a regular toilet, with no water hookup.

Disclosure: None, I've got nothing to do with these companies, other than buying their products for my cabin.

(1) https://orbital-systems.com/

(2) https://www.waterless.com/
The reason that breaking net neutrality is a problem is that it allows the carriers to pick winners and losers based on special deals and makes it harder for new entrants. T-mobile doesn't require payment from the video/audio providers and doesn't discriminate. You just have to follow their documented guidelines, have legal content, and sign up with them.

They even have one porn site at least (evidence they aren't discriminating based on content). But they don't advertise it.

In other words, they may be breaking the letter of the concept of Net Neutrality but not the spirit.
API keys can be revoked at any time or the API service can be suddenly terminated. You can't trust them. Scraping is more maintenance, but it is more reliable.
Bruising? You're going to be cooking it, which will break every cell in it.
> The poor in America are richer and have higher living standards than the poor of less-globalized places.

This is complete nonsense and makes you sound like someone who should take some time volunteering with America's poor. Clearly you have no idea what poverty is like and should earn some perspective.

Are you trying to say that hunger in America is any different from hunger in a "less globalized place"? How so? How about homelessness? Is that different in America vs. other places? How about dying of disease because you don't have health care? Is that different in America somehow?
Low key, this guide is how I got into programming and probably plays a big role in why I’m now a Software Engineer. Throwback.
Amazon Chooses 20 Locations as Finalists for New Headquarters
How do you find these? I also work remotely and would love to be part of some communities of that size and nature.
When one wants a “real” person or theory, one strays as far as possible from the unreality-generator that is “academic” economics.

If one would mount an axle on Smith’s grave, we could live off free energy for millenia.
> So we can assume the real price for the contract is lower

Very much so. Common discounts for airframes can be 40-50%. Given the circumstances I'd assume Emirates got somewhere near 50; who knows. But both parties needed this deal and as other comments correctly point out the unusually public manoeuvring has been going on for months.

Of course, no-one in the media has any idea about this very closely guarded commercial information and so they simply go by the list price.
Absolutely! They phrased it in such a way that it sounds as if it is normal that computers just randomly reboot and as if the firmware upgrade simply increases that frequency.

Random reboots should really never happen and the fact that Intel is trying to imply otherwise is deeply worrying.

We all know that things go wrong. The problem is rarely that mistakes are made, but rather that people aren't open about them and don't simply provide concise technical analyses.
Learn to build, test, and deploy microservices powered by Docker, Flask, and React
True, my bad -- it isn't from a developer PoV, and if the developer forwards the cut to the consumer, Steam is more expensive. This actually regularly happens.

The article does mention this, and also mentions a platform who don't take a cut, and explains how it is difficult to compete with these.

I'd argue though that if you self host instead of outsource (to e.g. Steam), this also has costs. So the reasoning that you'd save that 30% would be unreasonable.
We (well my wife) grow basil in our garden. She puts gallons of pesto in the freezer all summer. Without the cheese - its so much better to grate fresh once you thaw out the basil and oil!
In this case I stumbled upon a problem (trying to dig through the SYN handling code, specifically [1]) and sat down to understand it. When I finally "got" it I moved on and forgot everything. After couple of months a colleague asks me a question and I think - oh boy, if only I wrote about it when I still understood it! I also regularly ask smarter people when I'm lost.

On correctness, let me cite my boss:

> Never underestimate the value of shipping. Ships blogs,
> open source, pull requests, tweets, products, etc.
>
> It's better to ship something "wrong" than ship nothing at
> all. You'll get feedback that you'd never get if you just
> talked about an idea.

I don't think being 100% right all the time matters. On every mistake I make I learn and it's easy to fix a problem in a blog post! I generally think for non-trivial technical stuff, it's better to create some documentation when previously there was none, than to get it 100% correct.

Another example: many "man" pages are technically correct but useless. My favorite example [2]. You would be blessed if you could take 10% of the most useful options and actually explain them to human beings.

[1] https://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.14.13/source/net/...
[2] https://linux.die.net/man/1/ps
Amazon chooses 20 finalists for its second headquarters
One of the hurdles is that the traditional multi-rotor design doesn't scale up well. The blades just gain too much mass to be quickly sped up and slowed down. As the craft gets bigger to hold bigger payloads, more energy has to be devoted to fighting rotor momentum, making them less efficient.

It's why most multirotors over a certain size use variable pitch rotors, like a helicopter. And at some point, the complexity of managing multiple variable-pitch rotors just makes the single rotor design of a helicopter more efficient; especially when it can be powered by a gas engine.

Of course, a normal helicopter can be run remotely just as effectively as a multi-rotor.
I still on occasion use MS Paint. I know there have been other tools introduced since MS Paint with more features and such...but much like a trusty *nix command line tool that's always there and always trusty...I hold a special fondness for this classic program. Kudos to the author for this project!
VTech strikes again
My vote is for North Dakota in winter. We'll see how many people sign up for "learning".
I guess I’m just a weirdo, because I do enjoy the talks (if they’re good), and the socialization and networking, such as it is, has never appealed to me much.

I’ve never gotten a job or even an interview after going to a conference. And, I’m sorry, but nerds are not fun or interesting people to be around. Pretty sure I’ve never been to what I would describe as a good party as part of a conference.

If you live in a place where conferences often happen you can save on the airfare and hotel costs and just get the ticket.
India test fires Agni v ballistic missile
How you were describing Jews in all those industries is a clear case of antisemitic canard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canard

They are apparently so powerful they are the "Mafia of the Mafia", no sources just that they are "The Jewish Mafia".
Are there Jewish mafiosi? Sure, like a lot of other nationalities and ethnic groups, but I doubt any mafiosi will see them as above them as the "puppet masters of international crime".

You call this intellectually honest?
> The problem is that state's aren't really motivated to get things done in a cost efficient manner.

And businesses aren't really motivated to provide cheap water or more than bare-minimum health standards.

There are obvious pros and cons on both sides of that debate.
mobile app would be great!
https://github.com/jedisct1/piknik/issues/3
Extreme. The poor can refer to the bottom quintile of socioeconomic class. We don't have to jump to the bottom tenth of a percent. In that view, the comment is valid. The bottom earners in America earn more than most people on the planet. And have better infrastructure.
Also remember that the first few A380s had lots of issues with wiring harnesses, performance, etc and so may not be completely up to spec.
What's great about this is that my daughter and I could use the living room tv to make a game- Even if the game is simple, it'll be a lot more compelling to a kid if they can design it themselves and then play it on a giant tv- Looking forward to trying this!
Even if you aren't interested in "product search" per se, this is a great technical read about search on hierarchical data, with lots of handsome graphics and without being too dense.
They should have been running actual workloads that are common in data centres, rather than synthetic benchmarks.
They also have a blog post on just that:

https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/10/why-we-used-pony-to-wr...
Multi-rotors of that size can handle some pretty serious winds (10-15 ish MPH+, more if you're willing to potentially lose it to save a life). And since the craft itself isn't in the water, it doesn't have to deal with the seas.
5G isn't even standardized, let alone having networks and devices ready for production. That's a ludicrous thing for the Librem 5 team to be concerned about.
For the majority of use cases, involving relatively static workloads, the cloud doesn't offer many financial benefits, as you say, particularly if you have access to a competent infrastructure engineer (which are harder to find than you'd think).

My experience of cloud has generally been around gambling websites, which have a very distinctive use case pattern, with daily peaks and troughs as well as seasonal peaks and troughs. There can be as much as a 25x difference in throughput between these occasions.
For these sites it's a case of implement scaling natively in the cloud and stop worrying about capacity forecasting or invest millions in infrastructure upfront and watch it idle 90% of the time.

The financials simply work in this field, as I'd guess they do in serious online retailers with seasonal demand. However your average 2 web server, load balancer and single db server, not so much.
> The housing price around major airports is lower than it otherwise would be

It causes problems way further out than that. For example the expansion of Schiphol and now Lelystad airport will cause noise problems for people who live over 100 miles from the airport.
I'm not sure I need another threat to my life whizzing toward me, when my life is already in danger. He's drowning! Lets sent an airborn quisinart chopper at him at high speed!

Lets think again.
Finding+The+Right+Cloud+Skills+For+Your+Business
> When car companies will become taxis, repairs will stop being profit centres, so the incentive will be to make more durable cars.

I think manufacturing cost is a much stronger driver of shitty reliability than repairs being a profit center. After all, in the US dealer system the manufacturer isn't getting the profits, the dealer is.

> Uber drivers don't use their cars 24/7. AI Taxi can deliver good between companies in the night.

Keeping complex systems like that running constantly is difficult and expensive. It also wears said systems out faster and increases capital costs.
Regarding the policy being set at national level - I've seen mention of the Western Cape seceding - how realistic was that, and has this had any effect on that? I'm ex Durban/Johannesburg, abandoned the rainbow nation 20 or so years ago with zero confidence in its future, and I'm afraid it was the right call; part of me would love to return, and the WC (there's a pun there) seceding would interest me for a move there.
In my version of the world, podcasts and YouTube video tutorials were alive and thriving 10 years ago; I'm not sure why they would suddenly kill conferences.
Permutive (YC S14) is hiring a front end product engineer (Elm) in London
Permutive (YC S14) is the data platform for today's real-time world. We enable digital product, commercial and marketing managers to customize user experience in real-time, on every device across every channel. We're operating at scale, processing billions of events per day across hundreds of millions of users, and have recently raised a Series A.

We're looking for an engineer to design and develop our core dashboard product. You will be leading the development of our dashboard, used by companies with some of the largest digital audiences in the world to operate and manage our platform.

// Who we are looking for

We're looking for an engineer who relishes ownership and shipping a product. Our ideal candidate is able to mix frontend development, product management, and design.

We hope you'll have:

• Several years’ experience with frontend product work and web technologies

• Strong knowledge of the web stack, including HTML, CSS/Sass, JS, and HTTP APIs

• Strong visual and UX design sense

• Passion for modern web technologies and statically-typed FP, e.g. maybe you've played with Elm or PureScript in one of your pet projects

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a strong attention to detail

// Technologies we use

• Backend: Scala, Java, Haskell

• Frontend: Elm, HTML, CSS

• Infra: Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform

// What you will do

• Define and execute on our front-end technology vision

• Build front-end user interfaces from the ground up—from designing to shipping

• Help figure out what our customers and platform need, and translate complex requirements into simple and beautiful user experiences

• Maintain and re-architect parts of our existing dashboard

• Create composable, reusable units of functionality for dashboard components like analytics, navigation, etc.

• Implement tracking and metrics to measure product use and effectiveness

• Use Git and our CI/CD pipeline to full effect

• We're a small team so you'd also be involved in decisions about the platform direction, as well as the flexibility to help out with the development of other areas of the platform.

// Benefits

• Stock options, so you get to own a piece of the pie

• Weekly lunches and quarterly socials — recent highlights include Mexican food, an escape room, and go karting

• Your own desk, shiny new MacBook, and dual monitors

• Private office in Aldgate (soon to be Farringdon)

• Office snacks: you'll never go hungry or thirsty

If you're interested, drop me an email at tim@permutive.com with your CV and anything else you think's relevant!
Seas are often not flat. The wave height and spray can easily be a threat to a drone.
Atlanta

Austin

Boston

Chicago

Columbus, OH

Dallas

Denver

Indianapolis

Los Angeles

Miami

Montgomery County, MD

Nashville

Newark

NYC

Northern Virginia

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Raleigh

Toronto

Washington D.C.
what note-keeping apps have you tried exactly?
Not sure if you're being facetious, but saltwater kills most plants, with a few exceptions.
Scheduling a conference to minimize attendee preference conflicts [pdf]
The real reason why Spaniards eat late (2017)
Intel tries to recover lost ground after chip flaw debacle
Yeah, who needs choice! Let's appoint someone to decide for everyone. Are you available?
It takes a bit of time to swap hands.
I guess for a popular long-running blog a sendoff is well deserved, but The Awl quickly succumbed to the pitfalls of lazy clickbait content in order to keep their readership lingering. I don't believe freedom or fun for writers is going anywhere in spite of The Awl shuttering.
Boy, they are really milking this damn thing. Woof.
Encrypt your Machine Learning
Uber would only need to raise fares 10% and not increase driver payouts to be in the black. The dire predictions don’t seem connected to the balance sheet I’ve looked at. Everybody wags their tongue at uber quarterly “loss” but they pay no attention to the more important measure of free cash flow
Foundations of the golden ratio base [pdf]
I've also switched to Paint.NET.

One thing that convinced me to switch was when MS Paint switched to the ribbon interface.
Nice to see Toronto on the list, though game theory suggest that we're only here because having a Canadian Candidate has the potential to have all 3 levels of government involved rather than just state and city.

I'm not really sure how to go about handicapping the finalists.

Given the current political climate, Toronto is interesting because it's the only city that gives Amazon some escape form the US government.

You'd want:

- an international airport so you can get to Beijing, London, etc on a single flight. This might eliminate the smaller cities.

- a strong existing tech workforce and universities.

- land in the downtown core to build on, this might eliminate New York?

- perhaps you'd preference the cities that already have an amazon campus in them.

Toronto has all of these..

Ah, who am I kidding. its going to come down to which government gives them the most money and that eliminates Toronto.

Would be fun for someone in each city to make a list of what makes your city a good choice for the headquarters!!
And how much of their pipeline is completely bespoke and how much of that space/people/machinery could just produce A350 instead?
How Quora’s Head of Data Science Conducts Candidate Interviews
API gateway costs on AWS seems like a massive "gotcha", especially considering how access via HTTP is super important for those worried about vendor lock in.

This article was written by someone with a competing service, but I know there are a bunch of projects right now (including mine) that come out of the box with HTTPS, run generic/vendor-agnostic containers, and can even be self hosted.

Self hosted seems to offer the best of both worlds; FAAS with fine grained control over platform costs, at the cost of the devops work to setup and maintain.
This really is good. I might use some of this at our company. I love the stuff about not replying while emotional!
Have you tried Synergy? Mostly just works, from my experience.

Not to mention, with the Linux subshell, you have the potential to automate a SSH tunnel or tar | nc.

Just some thoughts about non-3rd party solutions.
The entire podcast series is great. If you have any interest in C++, I highly recommend subscribing.
Same, but different: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole

Great to copy from any host to another, just by sharing a short secret.
I totally agree, Dave! Do you even sometimes hear music in your head when you are going down the road to an activity/event? I do sometimes :)
On leaking faucets
Seeing this on the front page of HN, my first impression is "wow, people are really desperate for information on this!" Can anyone with experience point to a better starting point?
Delhi parents to watch government schools via CCTV
Layers are the key!
Seconded, and I love magic wormhole. This article's title would be more descriptive as "Network-based shared clipboard"
Black-Grey-Orange Nato Zulu Strap 18, 20 22 24mm
> perhaps things like creativity ( which is risky to your social status )

This is absurd.