skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> imagine some nice dirt-loving wasps have built nests in all of your pitot tubes

All of them? And I didn't notice any of them during preflight? And none of them were there on the previous flight? And I didn't notice that the airspeed was not alive on the takeoff roll? Not going to happen.

> or they've iced over

Again, pretty freakin' unlikely on takeoff flying out of Addis Ababa. And this is another thing a pilot can rule out by looking out of the window. If you're not in clouds, you're not picking up ice.

Also, there are OAT (outside air temperature) sensors.

> your engines to have failed

Another thing that would be pretty apparent to the pilots.

No matter how you slice it, Boeing screwed the pooch bigly.
Alternatively, it is excellent practice that we all are really going to need. Also, again, go explain that point of view to the Dutch - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_control_in_the_Netherlan...
Fighting the entire USA coastline against rising oceans is batshit crazy and would bankrupt the country if we tried.

I always found it crazy that flood insurance would pay people to rebuild... on a flood plain. I've read stories where people rebuild once a decade or so. Seems clearly irrational and people living outside of floodplains should subsidize those that don't.

Similarly if you are high risk of fires or earthquakes you should pay a premium on insurance and that insurance should depend on reasonable mitigations. A friend moved into high risk area and they required a clear area near the house and a rooftop watering system to get the insurance that was required to get the home loan.

So yes, the country should either pay for mitigation (levees, fire control, earthquake resistant building costs etc) where it makes sense or ban developments in high risk areas. Paying for people to live below ocean level makes no sense.
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Wake me when I don't have to learn a new language to use it or compile anything from source.
I don't even understand where it came from. At work we've cycled through various audio/video conference providers over the last 10 years. All of a sudden in the last 6 months we're fully in bed with zoom, IT has zoom-ified 5 of the conference rooms and it seems most/all of our customers and contractors are hosting zoom meetings as well.

I don't quite understand where the previous software we've tried fell short (I hardly host web conference meetings) but it does seem pretty painless to fumble through.
Policies will be outright cancelled before that happens, except through the national flood insurance program, which could be used to slowly migrate folks out over time. But let's not think that some sort of twisted Manifest Destiny requires we pour hundreds of millions or billions of dollars into New Orleans when there are other options available.

The only thing that is constant is change. We must be willing to adapt.
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Trello (Atlassian) limits teams on free tier to 10 boards
moot point when you consider that military spending takes up more than half of the budget
New Orleans is a pretty great place, but in no way is it a major city.
Do you mean mental disease, or physical disease? It is a well researched understanding that sex is very important for both mental and physical health, and with the massive amount of money spent on sex education, I'd hope it's clear how to avoid physical disease. And I never mentioned promiscuous behavior. It's quite possible to have sex, with have sex with many different people.
I've read about some of the early British colonies in Australia, and doesn't seem to have taken long before they were laying out farms, making bricks and quarrying stone blocks, constructing solid buildings, setting up blacksmiths, newspapers, etc. But by then it was getting into the 19th century.
It seems like there are two possibilities- either they do understand the impact of their conduct and just don't care, or they don't understand the impact of their conduct (whether due to mental impairment or some other cause). Am I leaving any other possibilities out, or is that an exhaustive list?

The reason I ask is this:

If they do understand the impact, then they're intentionally endangering public health, harming quality of life for the city's other inhabitants, and possibly committing a crime for which they are of sound mind and body to be (hopefully) held accountable.

And if they don't understand the impact of this choice, odds are that the same applies their other various life choices as well. And if that's indeed the case, can we as a society please stop treating their choice to live on the streets as one that should be respected? We wouldn't let a child make that decision on their own, so why should we let someone whose mental faculties are arguably just as lacking, if not more so?

I'm not arguing that homelessness should be a crime for which people should be jailed. In fact I'm aware already that the courts in the US have barred cities from jailing homeless when no other alternatives are available.

I don't pretend to know what the solution to homelessness is, but I think we need to at least discuss whether a person who is homeless due to mental disfunction can simultaneously be mentally sound enough to decide for themselves to live on the street. I think "respect their decision to live on the streets" lets us avoid making tough decisions about how to help people who are impaired from helping themselves.

Note that I'm only referring to people who are homeless due to mental illness, not due to other factors (domestic abuse, job loss, etc.).
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Better stock up on picture postcards and souvenirs.
Wow, very impressive.

I have been meaning to check out this book on C64 game programming, for anyone interested:
https://www.amazon.com/Retro-Game-Dev-Derek-Morris/dp/069298...
Not exactly correct. There was a lot of movement in Mozilla to become a services provider rather than just a software vendor. Firefox Account is the manifestation of that.

I can't tell what exactly their management is thinking, but from my sofa it looks like that just as everyone else, Mozilla wants you to be a part of their proprietary[1] ecosystem.

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[1] Proprietary as in "unique to the company, not compatible with anything else and in full control of that company", not as in "closed source" or "non-free/non-libre software".
> Similarly if you are high risk of fires or earthquakes you should pay a premium on insurance

You do for fire risk and standard homeowners insurance doesn't cover earthquakes, you need a separate policy, which is non-free, so you are clearly paying a premium for it.
Being contrarian, I would say, that he should be thankful to US immigration authorities. If they issues a visa first time he applied he might have become just an SDE at Amazon.
If Insurance is priced right who cares. Your insurance factors in the risk of loosing the home, and should ensure the insurance company always wins long term.
How is a blockchain a practical way to ensure no cheating? Why not just write software that doesn't let you cheat? Or referees....
>> training staff not to plug random USB devices...

Nothing like some high-consequences IRL training!

Perhaps curricula for the Inspector Clouseau police academy?
Excerpt:

"There are three main factors that could be encouraging professional environmentalists in their denial that our societies will collapse in the near- term. The first is the way the natural scientific community operates. Eminent climate scientist James Hansen has always been ahead of the conservative consensus in his analyses and predictions. Using the case study of sea level rise, he threw light on processes that lead to “scientific reticence” to conclude and communicate scenarios that would be disturbing to employers, funders, governments and the public (Hansen, 2007). A more detailed study of this process across issues and institutions found that climate-change scientists routinely underestimate impacts “by erring on the side of least drama” - (Brysse et al, 2013). Combined with the norms of scientific analysis and reporting to be cautious and avoid bombast, and the time it takes to fund, research, produce and publish peer-reviewed scientific studies, this means that the information available to environmental professionals about the state of the climate is not as frightening as it could be. In this paper I have had to mix information from peer-reviewed articles with recent data from individual scientists and their research institutions to provide the evidence which suggests we are now in a non-linear situation of climactic changes and effects."
I completely understand the desire to do this. Universities do things that make you want to obliterate them with a meteor. What I don't understand is recording yourself committing a crime.
Nope. It takes up about a third of the budget and is itself in large part a social program.
These are fantastic ideas. I feel like the pseudonym idea alone would make such a difference.

On the downside, now I have to accept no one ever thinks of me as Temperature Jeans.
Needs more citations of xkcd #927 in response to the words "new" or "create". Also, more loopy weekend comments about how mainstream physics can't handle the truth.
No new tactics there. Australia has been doing that for a long time. Then when you are so frustrated with being stonewalled and come by boat (our version of crossing the desert from Mexico) and claim asylum you get locked up on an island for 10 years whilst they try to come up with any excuse to not let you in.

However, if you have a million+ dollars you can waltz straight in no questions asked. "Here's a passport, why not buy a house whilst you're here? We don't ask questions about your criminal or corrupt past in your country of origin."

Who's in genuine need there?
You'd need opto-isolated data lines. I can't see any common devices having that.
Compared to the moon, it was stupendously easy. There was air to breathe, water to drink, and plants to eat, and reasonably safe levels of radiation. So easy even a caveman could do it.

The only thing the moon has going for it is the apparent absence of microorganisms that cause human disease.
>New Orleans isn't the most unsustainable place around

You can't really treat New Orleans as a single entity. The French Quarter and where the high rises are is (relatively) comfortably above sea level. The sprawl that stretches towards Lake Ponchartrain isn't. That area is well and truly screwed. They keep sinking, the sea keeps rising, and the hurricanes get stronger.

There's no real solution. You can keep building the levees higher, but that's sort of like paying off a credit card with anotehr credit card. It's a temporary solution that makes the reckoning a lot worse when the piper comes calling.
It is fascinating how differently the neck is constructed, compared to an adult. Maybe adults didn't need to look around, as much, to see what might be sneaking up on them? Or maybe they fished. So much we don't know.
As of 2017 Louisiana has a Balance of Payments of $17.7B, meaning they receive that much more in federal funding than they pay in taxes [1]

I say it’s time to move people to somewhere above sea level and let NOLA return to being the river delta it is so desperately trying to be.

[1] https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-...
Yes. It was hard for Commander Keen because DOS used a screen buffer that was written to first before rendering the pixels to screen, which was quite slow back then.

In comparison, game consoles used blitting, and would directly send the lines to the CRT to draw. I assume C64 is the same.
Being alive does involve a level of risk. My understanding is the number of hurricanes, for example, are expected to a little-less-than-double [0]. So, if you experience a hurricane it is still probably not due to global warming. Probably broadly true of the others, too.

We have words for these things because they've been threats since the dawn of time - nowhere has ever been especially safe safe from things going horribly wrong. The biggest problem always has been and will remain a lack of preparedness by communities for disasters.

[0] https://www.c2es.org/content/hurricanes-and-climate-change/
I'm nobody compared to the person on the story, but I was refused a US visa that I needed to speak at a tech conference.

The US visa system needs to get out there and see what people are doing. I'm a full-time freelancer and I am 27. The officer said that I don't have ties to my home country and that I'm still young...

Damn right I am! I traveled to over 30coubtries so far and had spoken at various tech conferences. There is a lot of travel history on the passport. Unless you got to this outdated image of a person that's risk-free, you won't make it to US. It doesn't matter if your talk is selected among 700 others, you just won't make it. Bye.
Perhaps they can teach us how they drove off the hurricanes.
Do you want the punisher (tm)? This is how we get the punisher(tm).
[0], [1],[2], etc. could be reasonably see as part of the Australian government's relative unfriendliness to tech companies and privacy laws at least compared to other countries. Whether the australian government is in fact friendly or not is immaterial if capital investment and companies do not want to put a large amount of money/effort into the Australian tech scene.

[0]: https://kvoa.com/news/national-news/2019/04/14/foreign-gover...

[1]: https://hothardware.com/news/australia-controversial-encrypt...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/technology/australia-cell...
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I guess if there's such a thing as an "internal leak", that's what this is. The word "leak", by itself, connotes an exposure that is not in evidence, and given the sensitivity of the topic, I think precision is called for.
I find this emphasis strange. "Illegal" immigration is a relatively recent invention as far as US policy is concerned with several notable lapses for racist policies. Who knows how many potential Eric Yuans we are turning away or discouraging from coming to the United States?
> ...arbitrary and flawed value system

All ethical guidelines are, in some sense, arbitrary, but the one that says one should try to treat people equally is a pretty good one, and better than any that needs tendentious arguments to make. One of the reasons that it is a good one is that there is, as you have pointed out, an almost unlimited range of variation from which to fabricate tendentious arguments.

Slippery-slope arguments are not, in general, very good ones, but in this case, the number of times that various factions have actually gone down the slope from "these people are not the same as us" to "it's better if we get rid of them" (just in the 20th. century, even) is good reason to stay away from it.

And your argument is, indeed, tendentious -- too much for its own good, in fact. As, in your view, saving the most lives for a given expenditure is the only thing that matters, then all expenditure on facial recognition should immediately be redirected into life-saving activities that save more lives for the buck, of which there are plenty.

But this is moot, because your arguments are just armchair pedantry, devoid of real-world relevance.
The amount of misinformation on this point is astounding. That's not true in any way.
How about the fact that one plane full of people going down was not enough to wake everyone up. No, we need two planes to go down, and still the FAA was telling us we have nothing to be concerned about. The biggest problem here is not the engineering or even the management. Its regulatory capture.
Yes, of course humans already colonized most of the world in prehistory. Even remote Pacific islands had been colonized before 1000AD.
> Currently, 6% of our community identifies as Black, 6% identifies as Latina or Latino, and 0.2% identify as Native American.

Objective reality is an illusion. Whatever someone feels xhey are, that’s what xhzxey are.
>Paying for people to live below ocean level makes no sense.

Well, Amsterdam is currently 2 meters below sea level already and it will be pretty interesting to see what happens to New Amsterdam, I mean, York. For one thing, Manhatten is essentially floating already, they have to pump it out continuously otherwise it sinks.

edit - ok, around sea level, it isn't at 2 meters below. I stupidly thought google would be correct.
It does illustrate his tenacity and resourcefulness (nice traits to have as an entrepreneur).
Did you have a return ticket scheduled and could prove you had the necessary funds to sustain yourself? From what I have read/watched those in combination with the "ties to home country" check are the biggest red flags for CBP.
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The failure mode of clever is asshole.
This evaluation kind of fails though. Even if (for example) California is worth lots of aid because of its massive economic value, who's to say it will still be massively valuable economically after a decade of storms? That could decimate agriculture and other infrastructure, undermining its ability to host businesses.

It seems pretty hard to account for this in advance.
I understand that. But New Orleans is subsiding. It's sinking every year. It's easier to maintain levees if the land beneath them isn't sinking. I don't know why my comment is getting downvoted.
People rebuild all sorts of stuff all the time. Look around your average city or drive around and tell me how old all the buildings are. You’ll notice most of them are less than 20-40 years old. And the ones that aren’t have almost certainly been essentially rebuilt recently in practice.

We knock stuff down and change or rebuild it all the time, there’s no such thing as permanent against the weather. Or just changing tastes and technology, I mean indoor plumbing is less than 100 years old. Shit changes.
And six years ago, mobile was a quick-growing massive and ubiquitous field. How did that pan out for Mozilla? A failed operating system and the beginning of a huge decline in both marketshare and performance for Firefox.
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So you're encouraging Mozilla to create more abandonware?
I know of someone who went on to interview at Google a total of sixteen times.
Normally I agree with you, but I am told in the US flood insurance is basically a government fund and doesn't operate like a private profit-seeking insurance at all. This leads to weird cases where people just rebuild in the same place in full knowledge that they will rebuild again in a few years, with flood insurance covering the expense.
I'm confused, wouldn't this be expected? More people, especially people who tend to make expensive additional people, would make the rate go up. Is your point that it went up more than double, instead of exactly double?
Alarmism. Societal change is inevitable, societal collapse is not. Society has survived a hell of a lot. Chinese society survived the Mongols. European society survived losing a third of its population to the black plague. Is climate change going to wipe out a third of the world population anytime soon? I doubt it.
It's far lower than that. There's a fake pie chart floating around the internet showing Defense at 57% of the federal budget. For 2019, the real number was 12%. In previous years it was about 15%.
It's like hiring a gunman to start shooting up your office to train people about the dangers of social engineering, to prove that some people shouldn't be trusted.
How about easier barriers to entry with tougher reporting requirements? I personally fear the FDA is too optimized for bad headline avoidance to the detriment of allowing more experimental leeway. Not saying it should be the Wild West, just suggesting that perhaps the risk tolerance is currently too low. What if it were easier to perform more experiments, but if you hid/covered up any bad data there would be hell to pay?
Similarly, Adi Shamir, bazillionaire founder of RSA (he’s the “S”), couldn’t get a visa this year to attend the RSA conference.

https://www.cnet.com/news/adi-shamir-couldnt-get-us-visa-to-...
This is something I noticed different to Python. Go modules love to hide all their internals, and its made impossible to access the privates. If you need to tweak behavior, you are forced to fork. Unlike Python, where it is not unusual to reach in, ignoring the suggestions about privates, and mess around at runtime ('monkey patching'). Both approaches have problems, but the Python approach seems faster.
There's a download button at the bottom of the player.
Amsterdam is an interesting example. Is Amsterdam asking anyone else to subsidize them? From what I've read they made a conscious decision that the pumping, levees and related was worth the cost of the extra acres of land they provided.

New Orleans seems to be arguing that it only makes sense if 75% of it is paid by someone else... forever.
"Masters of Doom"
Not the OP but it's likely the question he is referring to happened at the consulate not at the port of entry. Buying a ticket without a visa (as I did once) was pretentious and therefore my visa was denied
I love to code at home, but it depends on the individual. I generally find that those who program on their own for their own reasons tend to be the best coders.
I'm curious how you're determining how most people perceive things. (Also, baseball probably has the most strict testing of the major sports. Most of the people I know that follow the game casually seem to think there were steroid problems, but they're out of the game now)
Really? Time-and-a-half over 40 hours?

Thought not.
If the effort required to mark-disable/comment out/rm a known-unhealthy test is more than a few seconds beyond the efforts to navigate through a tool like the one you describe, I think the problem is likely in the change control/source control processes being employed. That seems like it should be so easy as to not need an additional tool (unless tests are flaking out so often that even the <1min of overhead to disable them is adding up, in which case I suspect that people are misinterpreting something fundamental about the role of tests in their development processes).
Wow, he has a bachelor's AND a PhD?
Source for the supposed "eating" of global marketshare? I can't find any marketshare report that even mentions such an OS.
Off the coast of Louisiana is the Mad Dog spar oil platform, installed in 2005, which at maximum production is pumping 100,000 barrels of oil a day. Louisiana receives no tax revenue from it.
Zoom is interesting. They don't really seem to have done anything particularly novel, they just made a product that works better than the competition. We use Zoom heavily on our fully remote team because it works better than free alternatives like Skype and paid alternatives that we're already paying for like Slack.

It's quite refreshing to see a tech company succeed by just making a better product and expecting that people will be willing to pay for it. They were able to grow so quickly in part because it was relatively easy for people to switch from other video conferencing solutions however. I'm not sure they will be able to build much competitive advantage other than just continuing to be a better product though. If Slack worked just as well we'd happily use it and stop paying for an additional service.
I empathize with the powerful craving to see reprehensible climate change denialists punished, but giving in to it results in a just-world fallacy. The universe is indifferent to scum. Only humans judge.
~16%: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...