skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its funny. Im creating a multi-os application platform based on Chrome runtime, and thats how im packaging my multi-target binaries.

Im using a SQLite btree file as backend, working basically as a key-value store. On the header i define what target triples are supported (the ones the dev built the binaries), and on the runtime open, see if the current host is supported and unpack the bynary payload always checking the hash before running it. (If its on the filesystem already see of the hash matches with the one saved before on the DB as a record)

Giving its a db the owner of the public-key signature(the creator of the file), can modify and add others binaries latter.

Im not disclosing it now, because its just part of a bigger platform, and you dont distribute only the apps, but a whole "container"(not in a Docker sense, but as a multiplatform container more focused on final users instead of cloud backends).

I hope i can launch it soon here on HN.
Warmer climates increase agricultural productivity and available farmland. The bigger risk to farmland is desertification due to overcultuvation and other manmade causes (that are mostly not global warming).
And you know it's stolen, because they didn't pay Facebook for it the way they should have.
Question for professional pilots here: does this feel like normal behaviour for a pilot?

From my limited experience of pilots, this seems entirely unlike the kind of behaviour you'd expect - they're usually conservative when it comes to safety or is that just the projected image to reassure the public?!
From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> In Submissions

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

Also, this is more like making a a game that is somewhat similar to life (like the classic Conway's life game), but in a small quantum computer with 8 qbits. It's very far away from realy creating a living thing.
It used to be bad but using apps like MrNumber solved it for a while but not anymore. The last six months it got horrible. Now it is more difficult because they are local numbers and you never know who is who.
Breach of Pentagon travel records exposes defense personnel PII
At that speed you can measure the "echos" of light, using femto-photography and some computing, it's possible to image objects around corners, outside of the cameras line of sight.

More info: http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/cornar/

Theres a few videos around of Raskar demonstrating this.
Indeed. Subtle humor doesn't work on hn.
Doubly so if you’re on-call and your organization owns the entire block of numbers...

You have no choice but to answer.
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I did NOT abbreviate, tamper or shorten the quote. I copy and pasted from the article. See "CONCLUSIONS" on page 15. The author(s) appears to have abbreviated themselves in the conclusion.
For everyone west of the Hudson, going to JFK or LGA to save a little on fare is definitely Not Worth It.

- If a friend/family is driving you, that's at least 2-3 extra hours of driving for them, plus extra time buffer up front for NYC traffic, multiplied by rush hour depending on flight time.

- If you take train or bus it will be many, many more hours for you.

- If you take cab or Uber you'll probably lose any savings on the cab fare

- If you drive your own car, long-term parking is substantially more expensive, plus extra travel time the day of and traffic considerations from above car-pool case.

Hard to overstate how much worse it is going to NYC airports from west of the Hudson River.
This is awesome! $5000 a year for equipment and "office" space is a great deal. Anything closer to the east coast like this?
No, it isn't normal behavior. And it is not unknown that some airlines are more lax than others.
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You should know that AEI (the source you linked) is not trustworthy on these issues.

David Frum was fired by AEI for daring to say that Obamacare might be good, due to "donor pressure" (cite: Axios). (Notwithstanding the fact that some conservatives have tried to deny that's the reason AEI fired Frum)

AEI uses motivated reasoning (you might call it propaganda) to achieve their goals - pro-business, pro-billionaire, anti-worker.

Anyway. Take any pro-deregulation paper you read from AEI with a HUGE grain of salt.

https://www.thenation.com/article/dont-cry-david-frum/

(This comment is /not/ politics - it's important to know the agenda behind sources we cite if we want to evaluate them fairly.)
Here's one for Lua: https://github.com/ers35/luastatic
I did a presentation at our local software meetup on this topic a month ago, and wow, I could have really used this. It's way clearer and more organized than my muddled slides.. :-)

Very nice work !
I have seen this surge of local numbers too.
My favourite response was this one where they flooded the callback numbers with robocalls 28x/second for 3 days until they killed the number.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EzedMdx6QG4

More details here: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj8wg4/we-talked-...
Over at http://pprune.org the suggestion is that the pilot's seat was not locked into position correctly and slid back during takeoff. This caused the pilot to pull back on the stick too early and his instinct was the push forward to keep the plane on the correct trajectory. He likely over-corrected and ended up flying 6ft off the ground at the end of the runway where the landing gear caught an antenna and the chainlink fence on top of the brick wall.

It's all speculation at this point.
As I understand it, you need to provide a functional way to opt out of tracking, and access to a service must not be blocked if you do not opt into the tracking. There's a bunch of other stuff (i.e. if you request the data a website has on you they have to hand it over, and if you request your information be deleted they have to actually do it within reason) but that's the gist of it.

Naturally, this results in a bunch of sites geoblocking European users- why would any sane person or company spend server time on people who can no longer legally pay you for accessing it?

But then again, protectionism is one of the two main goals of GDPR (the idea is that EU folks will be forced to read European sources that follow EU law); the other is getting American tech companies to pay their taxes in a way they can't just dodge by moving to Ireland.

Privacy's just the fig leaf over it all- while it's a nice side-effect of the law it most certainly was not the primary goal.
Out of interest, what size of dataset are you talking about? Thousands of records? Millions?
Higher levels of urinary fluoride associated with ADHD in children
other way around - reduced air pressure is reduced oxygen, which is lower metabolism. Higher metabolism causes EtOH degradation to go more quickly. Fever is higher metabolism.
In other news, the psychiatric industrial complex is making untold billions by profiting off of depression and related forms of acute and chronic mental trauma. Which is part of the plan, therefore not newsworthy.
> They have their freedom to loose and nothing to gain by not sending in an anonymous tips.

Sending an anonymous tip that could result in their company losing a lot of money if not going out of business has a highly undesired effect on their continued employment, future raises, stock options, etc.

> You have groups of multiple peoples there, where only one has to talk for everyone to go to jail. This is how organized crime has been prosecuted for years. The only one of the guilty who gets out is the snitch.

Prosecuting organized crime works by busting the little fish and cutting a deal to go after the big fish. There is no starting point for that process when you're dealing with an otherwise non-criminal organization. If you're not already aware of their offense you have no reason to be investigating them to begin with and nobody there has the incentive to tell you when they don't expect you to have any other way to find out.

"The only one of the guilty who gets out is the snitch" is also obviously incompatible with remaining anonymous. Anyone would be able to deduce what happened.

You get whistleblowers when someone is outraged at what the company is doing sufficiently to take the risk to try and stop them. Not when the government is threatening severe penalties for a past mistake that has already been remediated.

The NTSB method produces better outcomes than the War On Drugs method.
> Why do you think the millions of investment bankers or consultants or lawyers or medical residents work long hours?

I thought lawyers worked reasonable hours. The medical industry is it's own special situation. Those investment bankers must be bad at math - for overtime-exempt employees, each extra hour worked past 40 reduces your hourly pay rate by 2.5%.

Retail, fast food, office, IT, software development - all jobs pay 150% pay after 40 hours, and 200% pay after 80 hours. At least in WA State, it's the law for non-exempt employees.

Aren't sweat shops illegal?

You did have the opportunity to work somewhere better. Were you suffering out of a solidarity with the less fortunate?

At least you admit this was your plan from the beginning.
I have a theory that phone companies are letting these crimes happen because they want to tank the old phone system so they can sell more data, or something along those lines.
A "gap" seems to be almost like a crime no tech worker should dare do. I have seen otherwise rational coworkers reject resumes only for having a "gap". Most want to relax, but the same people also punish those who do just that. I thought it was a quirk of the society I live in, but from comments here, it looks like it's the norm in all countries.
It was a relatively large paid/private high school.

What Pete27 mentions in regards to higher level is also applicable in high schools, at least where I am (Indonesia). They have varying requirements and while they sometimes look for off the shelf solutions in places it still involves a lot of tying systems together.

> Even for billing and payments?

Funnily enough - thats why I was there. We have built a platform for that. But due to the complexities of payments infrastructure it looks very different to what you would typically find in developed countries. And that particular integration was API based to a system they were building in house.
The wording of this is so off.

Hackers stole personal information stored by FACEBOOK not 'people'.

It sounds like they are creating a new way for their company to avoid responsibility, just like banks created 'identity theft'.
It's only possible with a very different set of tradeoffs around risk and innovation than are the norm in software. It takes NASA-grade layers of slow development processes to be 100% certain that there will never be any incidents.

Most companies, most developers, and most consumers would not be happy with the cost and speed this would result in.

In short: it's not that it's impossible. We know how to do it. It just comes with a cost attached that nobody wants to pay.
WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton gives the story on why he left $850M behind
Named volumes are hacky to no end and you shouldn't be using them to make sure it's empty; you should be using `.dockerignore` or being careful about what you copy in.

The pipenv bit is probably more reasonable, and I'm afraid I haven't used it enough to be sure what rough edges are likely there.
> Even if you were to take a cyncical view that companies don't care about people, they sure as heck would not want to lose a $300 million plane.

If safety didn't matter, you might have $200 million planes with a 3% chance of crashing during their service life.

Nobody 'wants' to lose equipment, but optimizing for zero crashes ever is not done for cost reasons.
Just fill the gap with something relatively interesting and your ok. You will of course need to keep your skills in practice though.
In Canada, also get a few of those every day, even though I barely ever give my number out. I noticed that some of those numbers are within the same area code as mine, but not the area I live in. I attempted to call some of these back on occasion, and was surprised to have an actual person on the other end of the line, absolutely clueless as to why I was calling them. I'm not sure whether hijacking a caller ID could allow that, or if some those phones have been compromised and become part of one of the great botnet...

Meanwhile, I'm still dealing with large organizations (BestBuy, Fido/Rogers, TD, etc.) still sending promotional offers through all possible media, despite Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation being in full effect since 2017 and me having never explicitly consented to that garbage in the first place.

Maybe we ought to bring the hammer down on all spammers, "legitimate" or not...
Yeah I went into it expecting to work up a righteous rage and mostly just nodded along agreeing with everything instead.
Honestly compared to bad food in US or Europe for that matter Japanese bad food is not bad. You have to go to really shitty all you can drink bars to get really shit food.
Gmail Ads and Trackers
On brave browser, almost 10 Ads and trackers are blocked while accessing my Gmail account. I do not see any difference in my email account functionality. In comparison, yandex has 4 and protonmail has 0 Ads/trackers. So, why is it even necessary to allow google to have such Ads and trackers?
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I wish the article weren’t so light on details about the purchasing of license plate reader data. Does anyone know who is supplying this data? I suppose it’s possible that they went to every 7-11 in the country and asked them if they can buy a feed of their external cameras, but that seems haphazard at best. Is there some central clearinghouse where private security camera feeds are being aggregated? I can’t think of an upside for any business to participate in such a thing.
Have you seen the total returns of VC money? Too lazy to link stuff now but a perfunctory search will reveal that the returns are not what you think they are. They essentially approach 0% outside of the few powerhouses.

Can’t really use the Andreessen-Horowitz / Sequoia returns as representative to the entire industry.
If You Traveled Far Enough Through Space, Would You Return to Your Start Point?
I hate how convincing this is. It makes me rethink my optimism on new libraries...
I don’t know. I’ve had to actively hide my unemployment as well to get people to take me seriously. Even switching to ‘I am a freelancer’ makes you so much more desirable as a conversation partner...
At least for the major US airlines (Delta, United, AA):

- Group 0/pre-boarding is active military, disabled, and infants

- Group 1 is first class & mileage club people

- Group 2 is business class

- Group 3/4 is usually economy

- Group 5 is usually the cheapest basic economy people

You can usually get bumped up to Group 2 by getting the airline's credit card or having a bunch of miles
There already are some spaceports in the US. So I guess it kind of makes sense to have some oversight. Although I assumed this was just covered by the FAA since they're basically just airplanes at this point.
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Edit: Oh and I forgot Korean, but only because it’s so ingrained I wouldn’t consider it exotic, so Chinese was maybe a bit odd on that list because the same holds.
I have, their customer service also sucks. I really do like 99 percent of the Uber drivers. But Uber eats is a crappy service, Uber as a company simply has consistently shitty customer service.

They need to get their act together of they have any intention of competitors with GrubHub and the other twenty food delivery services.
Your eyes are terahertz radio receivers!
So, instead of helping these people with their "predisposition", these countries are helping with their habit. How is this admirable?
Or, don’t vacation in Hawaii. You have choices whether you like them or not.
Except now it'll be $540 while fuel is still low. It's going to go up even higher when fuel goes up.
Or, if the FTC was on the ball, they might call it Deceptive Advertising.
Involving random data gives everybody who gets to pick the random data (so in TLS that's both client and server) a freshness guarantee.

Because the other party needed to know you'd picked this particular random data to make the keys, the messages from them encrypted with those keys couldn't possibly have been pre-recorded / replayed.

In the ephemeral Diffie Hellman modes both parties contribute to the key anyway so this isn't as important, but with old school RSA the random values are the only thing preventing Replay attacks.

TLS 1.3 capable servers also scribble "DOWNGRD" in part of the random field if a client message says it can't do TLS 1.3. If a TLS 1.3 client sees that unusual "random" choice it knows bad guys tampered with the connection (attempted a downgrade attack). If bad guys just change the values, they won't match between client and server and the connection aborts. Older clients think nothing of the unusual random value and carry on as before.
That's great for people with land-line phones and who regularly use phones to talk to people they know.

For a ton of people, I'd bet most people on HN, phone is a medium of last resort, used exclusively for emergencies, delivery drivers, and grandma.
And those choices include choosing to protest the crappy state of things and suggesting it needs to change rather than happily working around all the crappiness and accepting it as inevitable.
Umm good luck getting enough photons to see anything. Shot noise
Not credible. The original source makes one bogus claim that the journalist’s fingerprint was used to unlock Apple Watch. Nice idea, but Touch ID doesn’t exist for watch. It would be active on his phone, but the same source reports that his phone was left with his fiancé, thus it wasn’t on the guy when he disappeared.

CNN should do basic fact checking before reporting stuff like this.
It also eliminates the Fentanyl contamination.
"...for the rest of us" :)
It makes you wonder what the memory bandwidth is like in their capture rig
I'm talking about "transaction costs" in the economics sense - the cost to the company of tracking who's paid for what, to the customer of comparing complex pricing schemes, etc.
>9.4 x 10^14

Can you explain how did you get this number for the red wavelength?

Also can we fundamentally "see" a photon?
Airport costs (landing fees, gate rental, etc) aren't a particularly large component of airfares though. Fuel, staff, and planes dominate.
No. Go-around and assess the damage on the deck.
Calls from unknown/faked numbers auto-go to answering service.

Robocalls never leave messages.

Real person leaves message and I call back.
Yes, they would say that, they stand to profit from it.
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Professional Help Needed for Law Firms Still Vulnerable to Phishing Attacks
For what it's worth, the IlLinker can get Hello World down to 20MB and as many files:

https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/samples/linker-in...

If you use some extra options to disable crossgen and link System.Private.CoreLib, you can get the size down to 10MB, at the expense of startup time:

https://github.com/AustinWise/IlLinkerExample
Same, I am not really sure what this is supposed to prove..

He got to a conference and partied with some other attendees ? You could do this with any other field; including tech.
"It's ok if you need to leave your apartment so long as you can find another apartment nearby. No one has a right to live in a particular city, and scarce resources will go to those most willing to pay for them."

I've always found this to be a shitty argument, because in the vast majority of cases, the person making it isn't someone who's being told they don't deserve to live where they grew up, and isn't someone who would end up being someone who gets priced out of their home.

I'll say it again: If you remove rent control without having more housing being built already, the people who have been living there since before the tech boom will have their rents raised astronomically, to the point where they will become homeless. That is absolutely wrong, and telling them to just leave town is even more wrong.
I used to work as a flight instructor and flew corporate. I’ve flown small airplanes with a bunch of airline pilots, whatever that is worth.

This does not seem like normal behavior from an airline pilot at all. I can see about 10% of private pilots doing something like this. It would probably be someone who has been flying a long time and gotten way too comfortable. Things always work out, so why not this time? The difference with an airline is its incredibly public flying. Even if the pilots disregard everyone’s safety (including their own) they know that they’ll be caught. You do something dumb and it’s going to be on the news, even if it all works out. How many of us can say that about or jobs?

The fact that the crew thought that this was a risk worth taking reflects really poorly on the safety culture of that airline. They thought that flying an airplane that was compromised some unknown amount was worth keeping the schedule going (or maybe people just wouldn’t find out?). That idea got informed somehow.
I don't think anyone fits that description.
I get a phone call about once a month from someone claiming I called them and asking what I want. I've had only varying success in convincing them I didn't call them, even after explaining what's going on.
Twitter Under Formal Investigation for How It Tracks Users in the GDPR Era
"airplane mode" if you can trust the software is respecting your soft toggle button :) But yeah, that's 2 other great uses for old phones, GPS and radio are pretty useful.
Their customer service sucks big time. If I order 4 meals and only 3 arrive how do you not fix that immediately? Can’t call anyone so you put a ticket in that sits for 24 hours.

Screw their line item refunds too. If I have to drive somewhere because someone is left out of the meal there was no point in ordering at all.
In my own experience in SV, companies just want good engineers. If you have good experience and good projects recruiters will still find you, despite having a gap.
Typing me some Nim and shaking my head.
Passing -static to the linker, I get neat, robust, non-dynamic executables, typically in the low MB or even kB size-range.

const varname = staticRead"filename" embeds a given resource at compile time - to make the project completely selfcontained if need be, and just for the hell of it.

I know you can do this in several other languages, but the Nim way is - unsurprisingly - the most ready-made, obvious and transparent one I've come across.
Microsoft's upcoming HoloLens may have leaked
What the fuck is a "creative"?
Thanks for sharing @Cursuviam. The unstructured working part is something that I've grappled with for a long time!
I can't say I've found this to be that strong of a thing. Even big companies don't seem to mind my gap.

I'm frankly confused as to why a resume gap would be relevant to anyone. If anything, my resume gap cleared up my head and I've dabbled in some things I don't usually touch so it made me a better employee, if we want to use that language.

This just seems like a cultural holdover and one we could eliminate with more people taking breaks.