skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. So? I make decision regardless I don't spend time developing a career around it to claim my answer is better because it isn't.

2. You don't think flipping a coin is adequate and I agree it's not adequate. The problem is, no one has the adequate way of solving the problem. It doesn't exist... the best we can do is as good as flipping a coin. To claim that god exists when we don't know whether he exists is the same instinctual human drive that lays the foundation for the need of an ethicist to come in and answer questions no human knows the answer to.

I don't equate it to painting art. I equate it to fraud or delusion. The artist makes no claim that his creation is real, he exists for entertainment. The incredulous attempt to claim that an ethicists answer is better than a layman is fraudulent. You truly think an ethicist can tell me the right answer to whether you want to murder the fat man to save 20 people? To make a judgment on murder and killing and claim that his answer is better than my answer when no answer exists is not only arrogant but flat out wrong.

Nobody wants to flip a coin on moral decisions such as murder and life. But sometimes for hard ethical questions that's the best outcome. And for someone to claim that they can do better than a coin flip. Well... that's fraud or delusion.

The need for answers causes humanity to make up answers. It's the basis of religion, and only in recent times does the discovery of science, logic and the scientific method are we able to break from this mold and realize our self delusion. Yet this knowledge is hard to obtain and self delusion still permeates our behavior. You're right in the sense that there will probably always be people who think they "need" ethicists just like there will always be people who "need" religion. It's just another lie we tell ourselves to get us through the day.
Doesn't Google offer haircuts on campus? Seems like the cleanup of a fresh haircut is likely a solved problem for anyone that knows what they're doing.
gcc has options for intercepting various intermediate representations of a translation unit; look into that.

I just found this in the man page (for a fairly dated version of gcc):

-fdump-translation-unit (C++ only)
-fdump-translation-unit-options (C++ only)
Dump a representation of the tree structure for the entire
translation unit to a file. The file name is made by appending .tu
to the source file name, and the file is created in the same
directory as the output file. If the -options form is used,
options controls the details of the dump as described for the
-fdump-tree options.

If this were Lisp, we wouldn't be scared of what "representation of the tree structure" will look like.

It doesn't say anything about whether templates are expanded/instantiated.
You don't need to print money to have cheap loans. And isn't a very large amount of the pressure behind property prices people trying to invest?
I am very interested to know what you mean by the cult of metrics?
I can start a Patreon account right now if you want and you can put your money where your mouth is...
Nobody, I repeat NOBODY ever gets fired for adding more security, no matter how asinine or counterproductive it is. That is the unfortunate fact & it is not limited to Airport security.
“If we had known it was impossible, we never would have succeeded.”
Doesn’t this mean that the default Rails treatment of time stamps (created and updated at) in Postgres is wrong? Any plans to change that?
Whitelisting, and you can press a button to refund after the call.
Liquid explosives, it was inspired by the 2006 plot to bring down a transatlantic flight.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_...

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=563298...
There's no need to goodfaithsplain Zuck. Nobody cares. As a Russian proverb goes, "we're not gonna christen babies with him". You fuck up, you own it. Owning mistakes gives a hope, that you will learn from them.

>> How many companies would make historical all-company emails accessible and searchable by future staff?

I don't know. Most of them? It's not really that hard...
depends on if you treat TSA like massage parlors: you know you are paying less than $100 bucks but you still aren't sure what you are going to get
in Colombia, there's an app that allows the person soliciting the ride to offer a price, then various drivers can either counter offer or take the fare as bid
That reminds me of the time, sometime before the statute of limitations expired, I was coming back to the US from Montreal with a bunch of illegal raw milk cheese in my carry-on. No problem.
Similarly, mass shootings per year compared by country where mass shooting is defined as 4 people getting shot.
Horner's Method
I have my own home server on a standard consumer Comcast internet (cheap plan at 60mbps) running c0d3.com, and the students that are learning how to code on it never had any issues with stability (except that one time where I had a power outage at home).

I also have my router configured to use our server as a DNS server and the speed is incredible. Since I'm hosting my sites at home, when people in my WiFi network use my sites it feels almost instantaneous (because network request resolves locally)

3 of my students were inspired to set up their own servers and they love the experience so far. Finding people who run their own services is so rare, I hope more people do it.

I am concerned about security implications though. Could people hack into my home server, then hack into the router, and then launch a man in the middle attack?
What as disgraceful comment.
とにかく、昭和時代の音楽は一番。
By "Uber for X" do you mean "services that can only be offered in person and come to you"? Because that business model was present long before Uber and will likely be present until the extinction of mankind. Just because you've associated it with a meme doesn't make it a phase.
Don't try this at home, but in a past life I worked with a powerful laser whose pump source was a xenon lamp bathed in water, including the high voltage terminals. The water had to be purified to the point of being nonconductive. Since there's no such thing as perfectly pure anything, the system did exhibit some gradual corrosion.
shitty ones.
How to Email a File from Your Ubuntu Server
> Exploit them for a while and when they realize they aren’t making money

Between all the happy drivers who you begin to notice are just 2 weeks in, and also knowing they are homeless while they are driving in this area makes it harder to support the service

But there is also a reason they drove 100 miles from Sacramento and turned on the app.
Re-thinking open source license?
1. there are more and more discussions about open source license, one major one is whether cloud providers can just use the open source software to get tons of money without paying to the main contributor.

2. recently another interesting thing is many chinese engineers are proposing a license to not allow companies that force engineers to work long hours over time (this is happening a lot in China) to use the open source softwares https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/blob/master/LICENSE

I feel there are something common behind these things
is it a time to re-thinking open source license?
Rate of change is as important a concept as change itself.
Does it support vim plugins?
honest question, would you be willing to do exactly that - jump ship then give your too much to e.g. charity?

won't help systematically but it seems like a way to personally work towards the mission you've outlined.
high ketamine doses are much more warped than even high lsd doses. You are unable to move and your consciousness watches a totally different reality. It's quite scary, but it passes... when you come back though normal stresses seem to have passed away and you look at problems differently which is why I think it helps depression. It's like they don't matter so much so don't cause the same mental stresses.
I had an emergency pocket knife at the bottom of my bag -- I totally forgot about it, I went through 2 US airports and 2 European airports before it was found in London.

Our screening is worthless
"Finally, regulation should guarantee the principle of data portability. If you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another. This gives people choice and enables developers to innovate and compete."

Facebook blocks you exporting your contacts, to prevent you from taking your social network elsewhere.
If you have a decent credit card it will provide you tsa precheck coverage as a 'benefit' and it is valid for 5 years
Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
Advanced Topics in Cryptography: Lattices (Fall 2015)
"While the CT pilot program didn’t show reduced wait times at participating airports, the agency is expecting the technology will speed up lines as passengers and staffers get used to the new processes. "

So, they just agreed to $97 million worth of new technology with no proven benefit. Great.
Why aren't more "knowledge workers" able to work from home 2 or 3 days a week?

I know some people have noisy kids/distractions at home, but seems like it would work for many engineers. Yet every company I've been at, I suggest it, and people give me a sarcastic look like, "yeah, right, we can't do that!"

Possibly a fear that not being seen at work will hamper advancement?
If you’re transferring 5GB over 1KB packets over UDP or a satellite, the benefits are very clear. Without a fountain code, there are 5,000,000 packets you need to receive. Miss one packet, and your have to sit through another 4,999,999 packets and pray very hard that you get your packet reliably the next time.

With a fountain code, it’s not a problem. If you miss one packet, you have a 99% chance of making do with the 5,000,001st packet that comes. 99.9% of making do with the 5,000,002nd packet etc.

In other words, without a fountain code, if you want to reliably receive 1GB, and you miss a packet, your satellite will have to transmit 2GB just for your sake, which is expensive af. With a fountain code, it’ll only need to send 1.01GB.
That's what was inconclusive.

> Given the strengths and weaknesses of this study, the need for a routine radiation dosimetry program for TSA screeners can neither be justified nor refuted at this time.

I assumed above that people would read the link before responding.
IMO proper huge slow fans are silent. No need to compromise.
Well, consider the Catholic Church, it's been able to keep the story alive for 1500 years without ever, once, demoing a working product to it's investors. Sometimes people just want something to believe in, and old white guys Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger and Rupert Murdoch weren't looking for a product, or an ROI, they were looking for a savior. While Holmes will never unlock the gates of heaven, she demonstrated clearly that she will fight at all costs to keep that dream alive, she made her value proposition and she delivers, she is still fighting.

You can declare that kind of religiosity unethical, but it comes off sounding slightly disingenuous when that kind of religiosity was instrumental in forming the ethical foundations of western civilization.

The traditional religions, of course, aren't super compatible with the modern world and we're moving away from them. Still, people need things to believe in as much as they ever did so it shouldn't be surprising that non-traditional religions such as Musk or Theranos will emerge.

With the most deeply held beliefs it's essential that they can never be proven true, because they'll stop being beliefs and become facts, which don't serve the intended purpose. For Theranos to fulfill it's mission, that blood testing device can never materialize.

For most startups it's about having blind faith that an idea can be turned into a meaningful service or product. With Theranos blind faith is the product, and it's the most meaningful product of all.
I’m sorry about your brother, but I’m not going say Uber’s responsible for his heart attacks and pack a day cigarette habit. Uber might be short changing him on money but you can’t blame them for poor lifestyle decisions.
If you listen closely, you can hear touch ID-based phones make an audible sound when you place your finger on the sensor.
What do you need to support the assertion? The operating costs of a 'match x with y' service are negligible compared to Uber's revenue take.

They're pissing all that money away on loosely related r&d and their hopes/dreams of an autonomous future. They now also need to somehow continue justifying their mind boggling 72 billion dollar valuation.

I expect in the coming years Uber will die and be replaced by a service that works exactly the same way but for a far smaller revenue take and without any of the lofty ambitions.
I used to keep a rather large pocket knife clipped to the lighter pocket in my jeans. I accidentally took it through security a few times. Once when I was on the plane I was looking at it thinking, “Holy shit, how is this possible?” I looked it up and it turns out the scanners actually have a hard time seeing objects on your hip because of the way they scan. They are good at seeing objects in front of you or behind you, but an object perfectly aligned with the plane of your hips will often be missed.
I accidentally left my MacBook in the bin at MIA. I didn’t notice till I got home a few states away. It made it to lost and found and my father was able to pick it up for me. I was pretty shocked. This was before Pre. Since I’ve had Pre it’s not necessary to remove the laptop.
In general, invest in things with higher returns and lower risk. They're not necessarily correlated.

Things which you understand better than anyone, that you believe in but others don't.
Sounds pretty similar to Flywheel
Looks like Packet is sold out in all regions.
Don't say "no," don't be confrontational, don't say anything. They'll be obvious about it if it's not optional.
> dealing with fears rationally.

people as an individual also don't deal with fears rationally. This is exploited by those in power (or whoever that can) to further their own agenda - whether it's greed or control or whatever.
Please rope me in on this as well, I am interested to know your findings :)
I was flying form Twin Falls to L.A. and when I went through the metal detector I set it off. So, what to the TSA people do? They don't use the metal detector wand, they take some paper and rub it on my hands and put it in a machine to detect for explosive residue/powder...
Teardown of a 50-Year-Old Modem
> It’s totally silent — 0dB.

Sigh. Totally silent is -∞dB. 0dB just means that it matches the reference volume, which is nominally the threshold of human hearing. (And the definitions vary depending on whether it's dbA, dbC, or something else.)
Anthropologist Richard Wrangham on the emergence of homo sapiens
Speaking as a tire/lube shop technician, a large percentage of the general populace has a warning light of some sort on at any time... Maybe %20 (that we see, if course) in our coverage area, which is a 20k population city and the surrounding rural area.
> I'm fine getting on a plane if everyone went through a metal detector and kept their shoes on.

that's an interesting thought. May be if the price of a ticket could be made cheaper by cutting out these TSA bullshit, the market could correct this problem.
The Superbook Format
> I'm not following your logic, are you suggesting you wouldn't ask for a raise?

A raise is a negotiation. You ask for a raise, they say yes or no. If they say no, you go find another job that pays what you want, and you take that one instead. Which is why, when you have that option, they may say yes to begin with.

> That may mean better services to provide jobs or providing a minimum pay with which basic needs can be guaranteed.

Expecting this to be provided by the employer of last resort is ridiculously inefficient.

The underlying problem is that the cost of living is more than the value of the labor of some people. The two main solutions that are to reduce the cost of living (e.g. housing costs), or to give up and subsidize their compensation somehow as a humanitarian gesture. The first is vastly preferable, but even when you resign yourself to the second, you want something like a UBI rather than price controls because it spreads the burden more evenly across everyone rather than imposing it only on the companies who employ the people at the bottom.

Price controls, by contrast, create a bunch of weird cliffs and perverse incentives. They cause reductions in hours or unemployment, and they're arbitrary lines. So if you raise the minimum to $10 then you do nothing for someone who is currently making $10, even though they're struggling too and it would be preferable for them to have some assistance as well. e.g. because they receive the same UBI but since they make more money than the person making $6 they also pay proportionally more taxes and give a small amount of it back. The person making $25/hour ends up paying even more taxes, and so on, until the taxes exceed the UBI.

Whereas if you raise the minimum to $25 to try to also help the person at $10 then you cause a lot more unemployment.
Fyi, calling normal phone numbers costs your carrier anywhere from $0.05 to $0.00007 per minute in the US for normal numbers. The more rural a number is, the higher the cost
Secure Computation and Storage Course (with videos)
I don't believe that any widespread group (as a whole) tends to avoid fallibility at an unusual rate. So psychologists aren't more sane, police more lawful, judges more just ... People are people.
These scans are theatre. Actual security is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1kJpHBn50 , and most people in the USA would not agree with this sort of checks.
I've been thinking there could be a kind of NUC with cable or DSL or fiber adapter cards, and a bunch of basic services, with a good firewall and whatnot. And an update service, ideally free, for as forever as possible.
I got pat down by an older gentleman. I jokingly said "I wish my girlfriend touched me like this" and then I was threatened with assault.
Fade it instead of a straight line. It looks better, too.
It's also interesting to compare the prevailing opinion here on the TSA with that of the FAA, given that they serve the same industry.

It appears that most people on HN feel that TSA regulations are pointless theater and should be weakened or eliminated, while the FAA is to be blamed for not exercising their regulatory power strongly enough (especially in light of the 737 MAX).

Both agencies seem to follow a similar methodology: when there's an incident, analyze the cause and enact regulations that would have prevented it, building up a system leads to fewer incidents over time. And they seem to have led to similar results -- over the past decade, there has been only one passenger fatality on commercial flights within the US due to accidents, and zero due to hijackings/bombings.

Why the difference in opinion? Is it that TSA regulations are personally annoying to travelers while FAA
regulations are mostly invisible to passengers?
this hasn't really changed. Yesteryear it was Visual Basic, reviled by anyone coming from a Computer Science background. Most if it was "connect to database". Prior to that, 4GL's: dBase III derivatives, right through Microsoft's (eventually) FoxPro. Before that COBOL. There has always been "plumbing" for as long as computers have been "business machines".
> The precedent for Open Source is quite clear: Patents cannot be used to impose onward conditions that the copyright licence doesn’t.

Does this mean that MongoDB and others who have changed their licenses to be "everyone but cloud providers can do this for free" is not able to do that because the work has been presumably licensed?

I'm currently working on an externally modular keyboard with standardized modules. It relies on the open source Arduino IDE, Visual Studio Code (Open Source), and the electrical designing was entirely done in KiCAD, but the mechanical bits themselves were designed in Solidworks and Inventor. Is patenting my work okay? What parts? The individual parts themselves are nothing new (RS-485, microcontrollers, Cherry switches [patent expired], NeoPixels, and a ton of adapted example code). I like the idea of Open Source, but at the same time I don't want to get stuck maintaining the code forever without profiting from it (I would love to do it for free, but like the analogy of paid-for LiveCD's, I still need a truck to move the sand around in, and lunch would be nice. What do I do?
SRH vs. RCB: Match Preview and Probable Playing Xi
Here you go [1]. It's a lengthy and tedious process but it is there.

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[1] https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...
Python 3.8 on Windows is getting a new fix for DLL Hell [Twitter]
About 10 years ago I purchased a Dell mini 10 laptop that has no fan and SSD. I was satisfied with the silence. Now the closest I could find is intel NUC. With Linux and proper fan control it is quiet (no fan turning) most of the time - almost all times. And I kind ma like the fact that the fan is there just in case. The noise from the environment is the major issue for me now.
Pihole's default lists and using opendns upstream is pretty solid. In my experience their databases are thorough.
If the function is called scan_hosts, then if the parameter is n, it's more or less obvious to me that n it's number of hosts to scan. I'm willing to read a block comment to remind me what n is.
First, a slight clarification: while the main charge and the detonator were separated during transit and intended to be assembled on the plane, the explosive liquid itself was not a binary compound; it was live in the soft drink bottles.

It sounds like you're arguing that this regulation is not necessary any more because that particular plot was foiled. I find that line of reasoning odd, given that the 2006 attack was the last in a string of plots using liquid explosives to target airliners. The type of group which carried out attacks like this still exists, with similar goals.

Given that it's reasonably effective at deterring a technique which has actually been used (the Japan test run in the 90s) and which has been attempted multiple times, I think it's possibly the least objectionable regulation. It doesn't address all modes of attack (obviously), and it's very debatable whether the likelihood of attack makes the invasiveness of the countermeasure acceptable, but unlike body scanners it's at least effective at deterring the specific modality it's aimed at.
What’s your blood type? I have a double trouble situation with being super sweaty and being o negative (which seems to also be an attractant).
> I don't really understand this argument. Uber didn't create the conditions causing these people not to be able to find better jobs. If Uber stopped "preying on" these people, would they be better off? It seems like they'd just be unemployed.

Uber didn't necessarily create the conditions, but it does knowingly exploit them. That kind exploitation is not value neutral and can be wrong.
Even worse than requiring email responses: heavy use of text messages outside of "normal" hours.
Does it still provide the DoS protection SipHash offered, or does that mean that Rust is moving from secure-by-default to fastest-by-default when it comes to HashMap ? If so it's kind of a big philosophical switch.
3 applies to almost every job with a manager. Even if you're just a janitor, being the eyes and ears of your manager lands you the best benefits.