skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if you ignore the specifics, and just change it to “6am - arrive at airport 2 hrs before flight”, it’s pretty normal. They recommend you arrive at least an hour ahead for domestic flights, and if you’re factoring time for things like parking or the risk of traffic delays, arriving 90 - 120 minutes early is reasonable. (It’s what I do an any rate, reasonable or not).

I would basically never take a 1 hour flight (unless it’s a connection). It’s just not worth it. A train or bus is more comfortable and less of a hassle.

(It’s suspect to include packing for the flight but not the bus, though. Whether you have to do that has nothing to do with your mode of transportation.)
In my experience, when most people talk about "software development methodologies" they mean something like "the kinds of things captured by labels like Scrum, XP, Crystal, RUP, AUP, waterfall, etc." In that sense, I wouldn't say that "open source" has traditionally been thought of as a "development methodology", but by the same token, I can see how it would be fair to refer to it that way.

Maybe it would be better to say "open source is a development philosophy" or "open source is a development approach" or something, but I actually think it fits as a "development methodology" with the caveat that it's not just a development methodology. For a lot of people, (myself included) it's more of an ideology or even a way of life.

Anyway, there are companies that actively talk about running projects as "internal open source" and in that sense, I would argue that referring to "open source" as a "development methodology" is reasonable.
Isn't most of the Europe like that? Salary on contract is halfway between before-all-taxes and take home pay. Some taxes are paid by the employer, some others deducted from the employees salary. Way too unintuitive, but it is what it is.
Wow, fantastic stories, thanks for sharing!
If you knew it was a joke, you could have asked for an explanation instead. ;)
The rotating cylinder may have been a Leslie speaker which were pretty commonly paired w/ Wurlitzers, Hammonds, Farfisas, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker
Debt is valuable, man. It fuels growth. Frequently the guy who can do things isn't the guy with money. Debt is one means of the doer guy acquiring the money to do.
Why on earth are you using chrome if you cared about that kind of stuff so much?

No,it isn't a bug. It has always been that on android,using chrome browser or the youtube app meant that whatever google account was used in play store is also used to log you into google both on on chrome,yt,maps,etc...

They just brought that feature to desktop,I suppose now you'll be logged into whatever google account last used?

This includes payment info you inputted on the play store or anywhere else.

What exactly is your concern,I can't imagine you'd expect boundaries and privacy to be a thing google would respect with any of their products. They say "don't be evil" but they're pretty wishy-washy and flexible as to what they consider evil. I'd equate complaining about privacy and boundaries with google and fb to complaining about the rude staff and unpleasant patrons in prison.
The 128 bit encryption is probably going to be the last thing to break if there is an active attack against your network.
Another interesting question is if these companies can spot the writing on the wall and make regulation unnecessary..

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google all seem to be playing a very long game. So why wouldn't they try to moderate the trading platform on Amazon as fairly as possible.
In the long run, that's how they can avoid regulation.
But doesn't the fact that top girls are more well-rounded than top boys also follow from the GMVH? (I am not sure, genuine question.)
show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927200
I'm not convinced the part of ray tracing implemented in hardware on the new NVidia cards (primarily bvh traversal and ray triangle intersection) is significantly more complex than things that are already implemented in hardware (rasterization, anisotropic filtering, tesselation, scheduling, compression, etc.) and those tend to be pretty solid.

I also expect the hardware ray tracing to be heavily used for offline rendering before it becomes mainstream for real time so there will be plenty of usage from demanding customers to iron out any issues.
They have another category of language, though, in which Go, Scala, etc are listed but Clojure was not.
Just some background information on the drug patent (which washington post's link to the patent is paywalled, so here: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/85/96/76/8ba72da...). It's basically buprenorphine (an opioid agonist that is technically non-addictive and indicated for pain control in opioid dependent patients) in a different delivery package that is quite frankly superior to our current versions of buprenorphine.

Our current methods of providing buprenorphine are via sublingual (under your tongue, Subutex) or orally (Suboxone, which is actually buprenorphine plus naloxone).
It's a wafer that immediately dissolves when taken delivering the drug orally.

Now, these methods of administration are pretty good. Subutex will dissolve relatively quickly and you've got good pain management in recovering addicts. However, patients will sometimes take these out of their mouth quickly before the healthcare provider notices, so that they can inject it later (which can definitely provide the euphoria associated with opioids).

Suboxone gets around that somewhat, by combining the buprenorphine with naloxone, an opioid antagonist. This works because if the provider wants to give the patient a longer term supply, the user can't abuse it by dissolving the med and injecting it. Why? Because the opioid antagonist that is built in only works when injected, causing severe withdrawal. The issue with this, however, is that opioid addicts are smart. They burn off the naloxone and then inject.

So this drug patent offers an alternative: give wafers of buprenorphine at addiction centers that dissolve immediately in front of the healthcare provider. This avoids the hiding issue of subutex, and provides the same route of administration which is the benefit of subutex over suboxone.

Now, at the end of the day, does any of this matter? Not really. Subutex is still hard to get covered by insurance, so most providers stick with Suboxone (or generics, as I think that's available now) anyways. Do you think that this new medication will make it into practice? We don't even have phase 1 trial data on the drug, just a patent.

If you're really outraged over a drug being patented, though, then the discussion becomes far more complicated. Smarter individuals than myself argue that on HN all the time.
I believe that Add N to (X) used one in the intro to Revenge of the Black Regent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO1mLmgDW4A
Is there a reason that you prefer wc over /dev/null?
I didn't know that! But it seems difficult to me to justify this system. Cost incurred for paying an employee is tax, anything else is make-believe -- the market forces are decided on cost to the employer, not quoted salary.
Yes, it's interesting.

Not appreciating the mental scaffolding that takes you to the next point is a serious problem. Developmental economics and artificial intelligence - the scaffolding is neglected.

In developmental economics we only thought we knew how we got rich. Regressive planning (working backwards) failed because we are unaware of most of our past, even the recent past - we had a false consciousness about what actually took place. What we have is a bunch of just-so stories for grown ups and this is normal for humans in everything.

Neuroscientists say this is feature of how our memory works.

AI is similar because of Moravec's Paradox. People have been going around saying that more intelligent machines will come and replace physical labour for some time but the opposite is true. The paradoxical results of Moravec's Paradox occur because again we are unaware of the scaffolding required to replicate an artificial cerebellum system aka a brain/nerves/muscles - a body that knows how to move.

If you watch the most recent videos of walking computers you'll notice we are heavily implying we need very effective computer algorithms and vast quantities of data to produce a robot that can walk across the floor.

There is something wrong with that picture. I wonder if sea slugs brute forced traveling across the ocean floor with their supercomputers (now lost to us!).
The preponderance of people who developed an addiction to prescription opioids were following their doctor's instructions in good faith — which instructions were taken from Purdue's disclosures, and included things like "take every 12h" for a drug they knew was only effective for 8.

In that context, "it doesn't take a genius" and "personal responsibility" are rather victim-blaming.
SnapChat doesn’t understand the decentralized web
git grep is 8 chars and rg is 2.

yes, that's the primary reason for me :)
Agreed. To put it in concrete terms, someone claiming to have a truly balanced view of a subject should be able to pass an ideological Turing test for any of the major positions on that subject.
It's interesting there is more concern and discussion regarding social media privacy but very little discussion of this PII information that consumers are not able to control at the moment. Why should consumers not be able to control who can access this PII data and when they can request it be deleted? They can do so with social media data, so why not this? If they do choose to delete it with a given company another company can retain it who has exercised more fiduciary responsibility by keeping consumers secure. If the company changes and fixes the holes then consumers should be able to start sharing data again with that company from that point forward.
now that the commonly used hostnames are published.

The problem I see with that is that apps could easily start proxying the requests though their own servers.
How Steve Jobs poached a Microsoft employee with a restaurant menu
I see it as more like, the defenders of public broadcasting are infuriated that public radio ($4M) is put on the chopping block and the DoD ($600B) is to be increased.

It's not that cuts to public radio is unthinkable, but when someone proposed they will fix the federal budget by cutting NPR (0.0001% of the budget) they are looking for a fight, not really trying to solve the problem.
> That method would need to be secure, reliable, and traceable.

And that's why it will never happen. This is one of my biggest complaints about the Hacker News community: so many of us are engineers who see a problem and immediately think "here's a solution, technical or otherwise."

We can't "solve" humanity -- it's pure hubris to think otherwise. Any national ID will run the same risks the befall SSNs, passports, licenses, passwords, or any other form of identification. Which, simply put, is that the weakest link is always the person behind them. All it takes is one screw-up -- your passport falls out of your bag on a busy street, a thief breaks into your home and steals the safe with your SSN card inside, someone accidentally makes a list of password hashes public -- and the "secure, reliable, traceable" goes out the window.

I don't have a solution. But I think those of us who are engineers owe it to the general public to stop kidding ourselves into thinking we can come up with "solutions" -- technical or otherwise -- that aren't (1) flawed in some other fashion, (2) unacceptable due to societal norms, or (3) require the elimination of personal freedoms and liberties that at least we in the U.S./Canada/Europe seem to enjoy.
That explains the beard but what about the accusation of sexism?

>It is perhaps relevant that only one of the 12 authors or experts in the issue is female.

Hopefully that's not all that was said in support of it.
Well, that's embarrassing... Past the edit window too.
Ripgrep feels a lot faster (basically instant) to me than the alternatives.
Even on very large repositories.

That's why I've switched to using it pretty exclusively now.
Yup, plus IoT, internet of things, internet of everything, virtual reality, mixed reality, machine learning, AI, artificial intelligence...
The correct response should have been for credit card holders to sue their credit card companies.

Which we won't be able to do at all in a few years thanks to the ubiquitousness of forced arbitration clauses?
> This is the same fallacy as the fallacy that nothing can actually fall into a black hole because it looks like it takes forever from the outside. Oppenheimer and Snyder published a mathematical model way back in 1939 that shows how a black hole can form in a finite time from the gravitational collapse of a massive object, as seen by an observer falling inward on the surface of the object. The collapse appears to take forever as seen by a distant observer, but this is an optical illusion caused by the effect of spacetime curvature on the paths of light rays. This has been studied for decades and is thoroughly understood.

But isn't equating the two observers incorrect? That is, when speaking of 'formation time', we are speaking of the formation time by observers at infinity, free from the effects of local curvature. What I understand is that all observers must agree on reality, thus on whether the BH forms at all: if the infalling observer makes it through an EH and into a singularity, then those exist (by definition) as unique reality. But evaporation seems to complicate this classical GR view understood for a while: since now outside observers see finite-time quasi-evaporation, infalling observers must observe this phenomenom while infalling, and actually before reaching the EH.

There's no way I can see that:

1) EHs and singularities (i.e. Black Holes as a steady-state phenomenon) exist;

2) All observers agree on reality of their formation and evaporation.

I defiantly conclude they don't exist (or I'm missing something major) :)

That is, black holes in nature would be something akin to a extremely time-dilated "Object trap" without singularties (although perhaps it must gain an apparent horizon?).
Poll Maker
OT: is blockchain now a mass noun?
I was assuming the parent post was referencing the Java implementation as described in the article.
Exactly. Think of it almost like advertising. Local newspapers mostly don't run routine local sports because they like to or think there's any great societal value in it but because it helps to pay the bills--in this case through subscriptions they otherwise wouldn't have.

At the end of the day, it's the coverage of government and related things that directly affect the lives of the citizens. Human interest etc. is nice but it's optional (and is relatively easy in any case).
In my area, Facebook authenticated commenters conducted themselves poorly as ever and comments were permanently switched off.
after authorities complained that the videos would violate an election silence law before Sunday’s vote for regional governors, an aide to Navalny said on Saturday.
Not sure, quite a while ago. rough estimate: Sessions at a "school" every 3 weeks or so for a few months, maybe an hour each, and 10 minutes at home most days? (supposed to do it daily, but I was a kid and certainly didn't actually remember it daily)

Seems like this kind of therapy is quite controversial though, with not much scientific consensus it actually helps.
Economic incentives were likely the only reason for this development, though. Claim civil asset forfeiture on drug patents and watch how quickly the well dries. Oxy won't be the last dangerous, addictive drug that society faces.
Building a newspaper business for the digital age is a hard problem that has yet to be solved.
It is important that neither videos nor demonstration against proposed pension changes have anything to do with the vote.

Vote is simply an excuse used by the government to silence protest.
> gender cannot be used while calculating car insurance premiums. But sadly they can still ask for your profession, marital status, etc.

How is that bad? An insurance works by collecting slightly higher premiums than the expected insurance payout. The more acurately the insurance can predict risk, the better. And if they calulate that some profession/gender/lifestyle/whatever carries a higher risk, it's only fair that those people have to pay more, after all they also cost the insurance more.

Having people pay for their risk is also a net-positive force for society. If some profession causes people to be sleep-deprived and have more car accidents, their premiums go up, producing pressure to either reduce the risks or choose other professions. If you don't let insurances factor this in, you are just subsidizing those with riskier lifes.
I was talking specifically about DXR.
Although my heavy scifi reading occurred many years ago, during the 60s and 70s, I must admit I've never heard of any of those authors. Granted, I focused on a smallish group of the more well-known authors, its still a bit surprising that I'd never come across at least some of these people.
> primarily bvh traversal and ray triangle intersection

I've been waiting for a concise explanation of that the damn hardware on these cards actually does since the release announcement. Thank-you.

So meshes are still pivotal. I was hoping for something that might lend itself to accelerating rendering of other types of object representation.
What exactly are the barriers to entry that would then prevent another site from starting up and offering strictly lower prices?
Looks cool. You should add a license.
But videos don't violate election silence because pension changes is not even a matter of regional government.
Perhaps "machine learning company" is a better description. Their primary economic moat is the scale of their established customer base, allowing for product recommendations, trusted reviews etc.

> their core business is sales,
> warehousing and order fulfillment

Are you seriously suggesting that if I had even half a billion dollars and bought a sales agency, a warehouse, and an order fulfillment business that I'd be in any position to compete with Amazon?

> We don't call Airbus a Tech
> company either.

Perhaps we would if there were only 3-5 airlines in the world, and all of them made their own planes (had their own proprietary server technology and top-down tech stacks), and some had de-facto monopolies in certain areas of the world (Kindle for books, YouTube for video).

What does being banned from YouTube even mean in this comparison? I have no idea. This is why these new business models are something regulators are still catching up to.
You're misrepresenting the article.

It's not so much about taking the videos down, as the recommendation algorithms pushing people in the extremist direction.
If users do abort their usage of the site, the site is effectively bricked. If they don't, then HPKP accomplished nothing because users are using the site despite a possible mitm.

That's exactly the same situation as any other TLS failure, not at all unique to HPKP in any way that I'm seeing.

It's still effectively bricked for non-advanced users and partially bricked for careful advanced users in the way you noted, but at least users can choose for themselves how to proceed, and admins of bricked sites can give them guidance that doesn't involve following convoluted instructions to navigate about:config or chrome://net-internals.

It's not that it's hard to understand, it's that it's hard to actually implement it. You need to have multiple certs in case one of them gets compromised. And if you mess that up, then you either self brick yourself or you need to keep using a known compromised cert.

More accurately, multiple keys, not multiple certs. All you need is to back up the spare key somewhere without throwing it out, which is a minor annoyance but not at all technically difficult.

If users are having trouble with understanding and/or following through with this, I would start with building a better interface than the openssl CLI (possibly as a certbot command) before deciding that the entire concept of key pinning is somehow inherently too difficult to be useful.

HPKP just wasn't worth it for most websites - a reduction in the risk of someone presenting a forged cert in exchange for the risk of accidentally self bricking your website.

Yeah, it should certainly be highly discouraged for almost everyone, but getting rid of it after we already have it is a huge step backwards for the 1% of sites with strict enough security requirements to justify it.
Buprenorphine has been on the streets for years. This article talks about yet another buprenorphine formulation.
Also, all forms of buprenorphine (aka Suboxone) often end up being a heroin substitute rather than weaning the addict from heroin. Kinda like how Oxy functions in real-world application.

The difference is, Suboxone is mandated in alternative sentencing programs by the judiciary of certain states. And in some states, with no consideration of whether the addict was addicted to opiates/opioids.
Society plays a role in that metric just like it does the CxO/prison metric. Fewer girls were encouraged to take the SAT compared to boys (only the top girls would really push for it), just like women were held back in the working world, and controlled more domestically (as well as treated with more lenience in the courts). It's really hard to factor out societal bias in gender studies.
His readme on github claims copyright and uses the MIT licence. Hmm.
Personally I feel like I would happily pay small amounts for news, but nobody has figured out how to frictionlessly pay $0.00004 to read a news article I'm interested in.

We're stuck right now with only two models, $15-30/mo subscriptions subsidizing hordes of non-payers, or ads.
How much consciousness is enough to justify living?

They make the point that this can prevent unnecessary care but ignore this. It's unlikely to be a simple yes or no.
I think it’s misleading to characterise Sabine Hossenfelder’s blog as “some blogspot blog”. She is a serious and respected theoretical physicist, not some random blogger.
Buprenorphine has been a drug for decades.
The Weird History of the Super NES CD-ROM, Nintendo's Most Notorious Vaporware
There is a link in it, to Yale Law Journal article. It's a lengthy read, but that just reflects the underlying complexity: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...
Apple prices may increase because of Tariffs we may be imposing on China
And if you haven't heard of him, Cordwainer Smith is well worth reading too.
There is one, actually: https://github.com/UbiquityDotNET/Llvm.NET
More than a quarter of Americans say they’ve deleted Facebook from their phones
I would love to hear more about your experience, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. Were you employed to maintain your project full-time? Did you consider working for more than one of those conpanies, as an independent contractor? What about starting a services or product company around your project?

Thank you!
From the article:

"According to a police report on the death, on the evening of Aug. 11, Davis was walking along the railroad tracks, with his back to an oncoming train, when he turned and faced the train before it hit him. The train engineer considered it a suicide, according to the report."

In this incident at least, there might have been enough time to halt trains on that section of the tracks until police arrived. There are signals beside the track and radios in the driver's compartment. This happens semi-regularly in my city. The train operator will come on the PA and announce that we are standing while police attend to a person on the tracks at the next station.
What if because of the opportunities available, San Francisco creates more rich people. I know many tech workers who start out in small apartments with many roommates and then end up quite wealthy.