skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left an iPad in a seat back once, and didn't realize until I was outside of security. When I told security what happened, I was given a special pass to go back and get it, and the gate agent let me have it only after I accurately described it.

As you mention, experiences vary. For me, the most frustrating and awful part of airports and flying is consistently the other travelers, not TSA or airline employees.
> "They should be writing a story about how autonomous cars are really safe," Musk said in his Wednesday earnings call. "But that's not a story that people want to click on. They write inflammatory headlines that are fundamentally misleading to readers. It's really outrageous."

I'm so very tired of the attack-the-messenger (i.e., attack-the-media) strategy. Musk provides no support for his claim that autopilots are safer, but he does try to change the subject from autopilots to the reporters. What a cheap strategy, even if trendy, for such a smart person.

IME, usually the reporters turn out to have raised important questions, and perhaps the more the subjects of the report complain, the closer to home the news report has struck. (I'm excepting editorials, columns, blogs, etc. - I mean real journalism in serious publications.)
Someone I know wanted to take apart an old car I had for a project to take parts he needed. When I declined he came back when nobody was home and tried to cut the parts out in a hurry, damaging a lot of the engine and smashing both headlights for fun. I filed a police report and even gave them a name, address, and phone number. There was no doubt in anyones mind who had committed the crime, but because Police work in a small town must be so difficult nothing ever happened. No phone calls, no follow-ups, no consequences. Makes me wonder if the police only take action in personal loss cases when the person losing is a business. They'll send three cruisers and half a dozen cops to a shoplifting incident at a grocery store with an impoverished perp, but if there's going to be any kind of he-said-she-said and nobody's dead or injured you're on your own.

I believe that policing in the United States is becoming more and more a method for controlling the masses rather than means to an end.
When my family lived in Japan years ago, we noticed that when taking the train, approximately three attendants checked our tickets before we boarded a train. At least two of those jobs are "bullshit" in terms of producing wealth, but they are socially beneficial in a culture where the social contract requires near-zero unemployment. (I, apparently like you, can't help but remember this kind of arrangement when listening to "jobs guarantee" rhetoric from various politicians.)
That doesn't help with the problem that the companies are trying to address, which is that their own employees and hires are having trouble finding housing.
For an expansive definition of "gun" you can absolutely make them yourself. The term "zip gun" refers to homemade or improvised guns and there's a huge variety.

A gun is a lot simpler than a quadcopter. You need a place to hold a bullet, a barrel to direct the bullet, and a hammer to strike the bullet, and that's about it.
That reminds me of the forgotten employee, which is very awesome, and slightly relevant.

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
Hi would you like to setup a call to talk more about these issues?
Please read the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html again. Videos of pratfalls are off-topic.

I personally see the recent submitted "water beetle named after actor Leonardo DiCaprio, "Railway fined for using water from toilet to make tea", "Serial killer caught after 40 Years" similar off-topic for HN.
You've just touched on why it's so hard to get a job in tech. As a culture, we've taken an attitude that credentials don't matter, and no matter what our past achievements are, we've got to prove ourselves over and over again. Maybe credentials should matter.
>To put it in your words, these are "transactional" activities towards an offline goal.

I wasn't using "transactional" in a that loose of a sense so it can apply to nearly everthing. I was thinking of "transactions" in a very money-oriented way. To start a "job search" is to interact with others where "money" defines the relationship ("I want to be paid $$.") That's what LinkedIn is built on. (Yes, money is a crass subject but that's ok because we're on LinkedIn!) Even if an employee and employer become "real friends" later instead of just economic actors in a business transaction, the undertone of the website is still a financial transaction. By its nature, it's going to be a "boring" website.

Facebook ... or "TheFacebook.com" in 2004... was built on students who knew each other. Before it had ads or corporate media inserted into the newsfeed, students were entranced by the "voyeurism" and likewise, the need to express themselves which then feeds the voyeurism of others. The undertone was non-business and non-money things like "mating rituals" and later expanded to friends & family updates like "photos".

Twitter and Reddit don't replace that. Reddit uses handles instead of real names. Both Twitter & Reddit have their own set of addictive attractions. Messaging apps like WhatsApp don't have a "news feed" which many Facebook users like. Instagram and Snapchat are probably the closest substitutes for Facebook for non-text type of sharing.

Many people want the utility provided by Facebook; they just don't want the targeted ads and privacy leaks. Therefore, a 1-to-1 replacement for Facebook accurately captures the (yet-to-be-invented?) alternative they want.
This is why I use one of those "TSA friendly" bags for my laptop: it never leaves the bag, I just unzip it and lay the bag flat.

I'd be furious if this was me tho.
Digital marketing and programmatic advertising - TRAFFICKING. Everyone hates it. It's 100% required but no one has solved the issue. It can eat up so much time and if you make a mistake can cost valueable data.
I talk to people about changing the world so work is optional, and people are really attached to the idea that everyone should work all the time. Our world is sufficiently productive (a trend I expect to continue rising) that we could offer a modest life to everyone regardless of how much they work. Or more conservatively, we could build a world where everyone has 8 weeks of vacation a year or could take 6 months off every few years.

I believe this is doable from a technical perspective and it’s the problem I’m trying to devote my life to. We ultimately need to build optional societies where people who choose to join can opt out of consumerism, a major driver of our need for endless work.

My vision is for systems of robotics that are totally open source (modifiable and royalty free) that can create the basic goods for survival. Then groups of people fund corporations with bylaws like a constitution that guarantee rights to shareholders. The machines provide for the people and excess goods are sold to a market to support growth of the community.

I think something like that in the future is one very useful aspect of a society where unnecessary work is over and regular people get to enjoy the benefits of modern productivity (instead of a small percentage of the population enjoying that while most people miss out).

But in general when I talk to people I find that the hardest idea for them to grasp is the idea that we could all work less and things wouldn’t collapse. We just need to alter the distribution of wealth so that everyone benefits.
That link is easily the greatest thing I've seen on HN. Thank you

Until 42, that was a buzzkill
Hilarious - Are they right?

How would one find out? If as OP stated, their skills lined up and matched the job requirements, how will they ever know?

Startup recruiting seems a lot like modern dating: a lot of terribly communicated expectations resulting one party effectively "ghosting" on the other, ending in a lot of frustration and apathy from one party at the other because of said terrible communication-and that resentment or 'baggage' being unknowingly carried with them to the next interview cycle.

"Not a good fit" can mean anything from asking too much salary, to being just a month short of the necessary 5 years of experience for a tech stack that's been around for 3, to not wearing the right color shirt to the interview. You'll never know what "not a good fit" means because it seems like once a company decides you're not the perfect unicorn, rockstar candidate with a pocket full of ninja stars, you never hear from them again.

But don't worry, your resume is kept on file for other roles.
360 Google Doodles/Spotlight Stories: Back to the Moon [video]
Singapore has the best system, you are given a plastic token with a number corresponding to the number on your tray. When you come out the other side of security and want to collect your tray, you have to present the plastic token otherwise they won't give you your tray back.

That other airports don't implement this system continues to astonish me.
Thanks a lot! That’s why the comments are sometimes worth reading before the text! You saved time to many potential readers.
Google didn't have a choice but to "open source" Android to compete for OEMs against Microsoft. But as soon as they gained dominance, they started closing off more and more of what makes Android what it is to most people. Look at how many of Google Services are not only not available on Amazon devices, Google actively blocked YouTube from being on Amazon devices.

Besides, Android itself doesn't make Google money - advertising and to a lesser extent Google Play does. Why else would Google pay Apple $2 billion a year to be the preferred search provider on iOS?
Out of curiosity, how is this different from the crystals used for timing in a small electronic device like an arduino? Is this an effect different from the piezoelectric effect?
TL;DR: for the author's test, Java 9 had better performance and creating native code didn't work. So not quite there yet, but interesting to watch.
Like here https://www.codeproject.com/articles/108830/inheritance-and-.... For examples of this you can check gnu tools like gcc or gdb, or glib-based libraries or the kernel source.
The only counter example to this story I’ve heard involved San Francisco International.

The TSA / luggage handlers were repeatedly stealing things from checked luggage. Of course, nothing was done to follow up on the police reports that were filed.

Then, one day, airport security stole a checked service revolver from a retired cop. Once that was reported, the police immediately ran a sting operation, and arrested the perpetrators.

Not sure what the moral of the story is.
Hi I did this for Pakistan.

Https://getsafepay.com

We partnered with a bank and built a custome Cybersource integration that supports visa and MasterCard cards

Let me know if you have questions
IMO WeChat is bloated. While the app itself only uses n MB, it stores all chat history and embedded multimedia on the device itself. Eventually each group chat will hog >1GB. I uninstalled after they made the app refuse to run without constant GPS permission.
Sure you can, because those features aren't just there for the driver's own good: they protect all the other people on the road.
The ADC (Analog-digital-converter) will always have an anti-aliasing lowpass filter to remove any frequencies above the nyquist and prevent aliasing in the recording. Sometimes it's analog, nowadays it's often a 2-stage system with oversampling and a digital anti-aliasing filter. But the result that goes into the recorder is the same, any frequencies above the Nyquist (which would become aliased and mirrored) are removed or reduced to inaudible levels before being finally digitized.

So while cymbals do have lots of high frequency content, in a 44.1khz recording any frequencies at or above 22.05khz should be removed first. (In reality it's not a brickwall filter at that frequency, but tends to steeply roll off once it gets nearer).

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're asking.
I do some illustration and have noticed on twitter how much every illustrator who gets some experience with 3d-tools likes to use 3d modelling to create block-outs for scenes they want to draw. By creating a simple scene out of blocks and shapes you can make your perspective work while drawing a lot easier.
A tool that could be really populair would be something that makes making 3d mock-ups easier for 2d artstists without 3d experience.
This VR pioneer had a radical idea – girls’ games shouldn’t be dumbed down
This is why we proposed this at our company:

https://qbix.com/blog/2016/11/17/properly-valuing-contributi...
I agree that it's a potentially miserable reality however if I'm still capable of skipping forward, and it means that my favorite podcasts and creation networks are able to sustain themselves, I'm okay with this outcome.
I wonder if developers targeting emerging markets curb storage bloat.
Kudos to this guy. As the maintainer of an open source project, the hardest job is to tell people "your idea is stupid and I won't do it"
This isn't an ad hominem. I didn't call any name on it. But to be honest if written in Arial 12 and without any clue I'll have a hard time to recognise if an article is from ars, wired, techcrunch ...etc because for me they're all the same. Do you fellow hn reader can distinguish btween all these medias or are they all the same noise on your screen ? ( for me except for people like Sirracusa it's the same, and as times goes on I find that there are more pandas in China that qualified tech journalists)
Some backpack makers (such as North Face) make TSA Approved backpacks that allow you to keep your laptop in the bag through the scanner. They basically open up like a book and the laptop is held in a pocket where the shoulder straps attach, so there is nothing above or below it.
Fasting boosts stem cells’ regenerative capacity
OneSignal is hiring – now sending 2.2B notifications per day
Yes, it does, and it is beautful. I however found it a little too slow.
Or even stuff that has real meaning. Rebuilding our crumbling highway system, laying fiber to the home for a next gen telecoms infrastructure. Just going back to school and getting information job skills. Child care. The list goes on and on without resorting to telephone handset cleaners.
The mistale here is thinking that a "fancier DBMS" MUST be off-process.

I totally wish for a fancier DBMS that can be embebed (firebird fit here!) and work on mobile (but not here yet).

And not only "fancier" in the limited sense that most believe. I truly mean A LOT FANCIER.
Not baremetal, but I did some benchmarks before and after the free upgrade of my VC1 to Start1 hardware.

With UnixBench single thread:

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Old VC1: Intel Atom C2750 @ 2.40GHz

Dhrystone 2: 12029634 lps

Double-Precision Whetstone: 1984 MWIPS

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New Start1: Intel Atom C3955 @ 2.10GHz

Dhrystone 2: 22143815 lps

Double-Precision Whetstone: 3165 MWIPS

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Other tests that I performed also showed a ~60% performance increase, except for some compression tests that only gained ~45%.
Mersenne Twister, with a seed based on the amount of Americum-241 detected by a Geiger counter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium#Occurrence if you’re curious how much there generally is and how much it might fluctuate.
SQLite is a fantastic database for desktop applications. https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html is a great essay on its benefits for this kind of use-case.
I'd recommend OnePlus 5T or the upcoming 6. Switched from iPhone a few months ago and happy.
Well, as long you are using only xprivacylua, it shouldn't be a problem. I have reviewed the code for it and netguard (doesnt need root) and it is clean (for netguard there are some callhome functionalities, but it doesn't submit anything relevant back or doing something fishy - I am talking only for paid version). Also Bokhorst is donationwaring it, so there is a money trail to physical person.

Regarding softbricking, TWRP should solve that.
One other way to observe these steps a bit more clearly is to look at the startup code provided by a chip's manufacturer or generated by an IDE that targets the chip, such as Keil.

Most will put this type of code in '.S' startup assembly files, which often also contain information like the memory addresses for hardware interrupts to use, and linker scripts for telling the compiler about the memory available on the chip.

For example, ST's 'CubeF0' package has some example projects for their simpler ARM chips:

http://www.st.com/en/embedded-software/stm32cubef0.html

I think that it is good practice with microcontrollers to tell GCC not to include generic startup logic in order to ensure that you are doing the right thing for your particular chip, by using flags such as --specs=nosys.specs, and even -nostdlib with -lgcc and -lc only if necessary.
> "provided their capabilities do not infringe on our rights as citizens"

For example blowing people up with a robot bomb without giving them a trial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police...
A little light on pointers, considering how important they are and what a conceptual stumbling block they can be.

I wrote C/C++ for years in a scientific setting and didn't completely conquer the damn things until I had to write some assembly for a hobby project.
Abstract the persistence layer, document the contract, build a conformance suite, and write your one impl that uses sqlite. I know sometimes there seems to be an impedance mismatch between callers and databases, but often it's not that bad. And no, don't use an ORM or existing DB abstraction to do this. Sure it takes work, but pluggable storage is nice on some of these types of things.
Zoning is an instance of local government oppressing individuals. “Local control” means the person who owns a property cannot build an apartment. Marin County is so adverse to housing development, they illegally stopped even one new home from being added. Now it can go forward because of state law.

https://carlaef.org/2018/04/20/we-sued-sausalito-and-then-we...

The Bay Area has really dysfunctional governance. We have 9 counties and lots of cities. Each one independently has incentives to attract jobs and offload housing to the other counties; though, some towns were incorporated specifically to prevent integration for racist reasons. The total result is that we have way more jobs than homes in the region, and unfunded pension liabilities, and mega-commutes, and advanced gentrification. It’s in the best interests for California as a state to override this whole mess with some reasonable baseline standards. That is what SB 827 was about.

https://sf.curbed.com/2016/10/12/12945854/bay-area-cities-jo...

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-unfunded/
https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-raise-gdp-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/california-today-super...

https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/sb-827-retains-an-awful-lot...
It's interesting that they noted he was 100 pounds overweight. I would suspect that gluttony is a trait that affects every action in a persons mental framework.
> As for macOS support, I don’t own a Mac, so I can’t build anything for macOS. If you’re a macOS user and want to use seiri, and are familiar with macOS development, let me know if you’re interested in being a macOS maintainer.

This is only partially correct. The Electron part should be quite trivial, since it downloads pre-built binaries anyway (and the packaging process works on any platform).

The somewhat tricky part is getting the Rust code to cross compile since you need a macOS SDK. [1] shows how to make it work, though. You can't sign apps that way, which means the user has to go through an extra menu to open it the first time, I don't consider this a problem though.

Alternatively you could always use Travis CI and run your build script in a Mac VM (this is free for public projects).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6rxoty/tutorial_cross...
It depends on your use case and what you're looking to get out of it. How much data will you need to crunch? 1 million rows of data should be fairly easy to crunch through on a personal computer.
There will always be people who want the best, but good enough solution serves most people. Smart phones have reached a point where most are at least good enough.

A flagship Samsung is say $700. That is $500 more which is more than a couple bucks a month. Clearly well worth for you but probably not for a good portion of society.
I think that once you've paid for enough school, you can't afford not to backup your dissertation.
FWIW; you're not allowed to do this in Europe (at least in the airports I've been in). I spent extra money on a TSA friendly backpack too, so I'm bummed. :(

All items must be in a tray, electronics have to be in a separate tray and not stacked.
Well at least for me the best of Vim includes running my editor in a terminal, so I wouldn't quite say that Oni has the best of Vim.
there was a movie about this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_(film)
Nice username :)
It surprises me that other major airports choose to independently innovate without just copying Changi (Singapore's airport). Everything from free cinemas, to carpeted walkways, to water taps, to efficent immigration and security and more.
Kubernetes is just a really small part of knowing AWS infrastructure. I would go as far as saying that k8s is just another level of complexity that most implementations don't need. Serverless Docker solutions like AWS Fargate and native AWS services on top of it are a lot easier to set up and maintain.
If the policy setters can't possibly (by their own admission) determine the mere truth of comments, how could they determine something as subjective as negativity? [1]

After all, I personally already feel the chilling effect of the stated "no complaints" policy, as I mentioned originally, in that I now would not even post what I would have thought to be obviously helpful/constructive criticism such as a broken URL, since that could be construed as a complaint.

That gets back to my original request: If this is to be a post-only thread, with no commentary allowed, then just make it that. There would be no ambiguity and no pretending there might be room for discussion.

[1] That is, in the context of an otherwise civil, well thought-out comment that would otherwise be welcome elsewhere on the forum. I'm not advocating permitting the equivalent of corporate ad-hominem attacks here, and I'd even go so far as to say that discussions that are merely about a particular company (e.g. the ethics of working somewhere with a recent high-profile scandal) and not about the hiring process or working environment itself could be reasonably deemed off-topic.
And being available on most distros, even if it's a basic version or just old school vi.
Sketching an escape from steam-engine time
Antarctica ;)
"Human driving has basically capped out at its potential to improve. It may even be starting to get worse..."

That's not true at all. If you've driven in other states and especially other countries, you know there is a lot of variations on average driving abilities. California drivers are among the worst and German drivers are among the best I've personally encountered. It's not that CA drivers are dipshits but if you look around enough as a pedestrian or while riding a bus passing other cars, you'll notice MANY of them are on their phones. This isn't humans reaching our cap but a recent degradation that can be corrected.
I doubt they will inflate BOM by $100. Excessive RAM also hurts battery life.
SFO is weird. Last time I travelled, an older officer asked me to keep my (not smart, but metal for sure) watch on, unless I wanted to lose it. Didn't inspire a lot of confidence in the security check or the system.