skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll assume the two stakeholder groups referred to are travellers and CBSA.

I believe they should let the advocacy and informative message run.

The message is sensational, but no more so than any other ad with an agenda (i.e. all of them) and many travellers through YVR (Canadian or otherwise) would benefit from considering what they may be compelled to share, without warrant or regular safeguards, with CBSA.

And if CBSA wants to run a sensational, informative, and fear-based campaign of their own, let them. (As if they already aren't.)
"No poaching" is underselling it. It was wage fixing plain and simple.

He was also the one who, with a straight face, said "if you don't have anything to hide, you don't have anything to fear" in response to widespread surveillance. Of course, he would not then open himself up to any scrutiny.
It's meant to be alpha-bet, where alpha is investment return above benchmark.
No one is saying that is all you need. Being pleasant is necessary, but not sufficient, for succeeding in life.
Having been raised in a Commonwealth nation (Canada), I've come to realize how dreadful our education system is in teaching about WW1. That war, the events leading to it, and the events resulting from it are absolutely critical to understanding why the world is the way it is today. Everything from the Russian Revolution to the modern-day borders in the middle east to Irish independence to the reason why New York City became the financial capital of the world are a direct result of that war.

And all that schoolkids here are taught is "The noble British Empire led the glorious allied fight against some bad German people because reasons, here's some pictures of trenches, sometimes soldiers played soccer, now shut up and don't ask any more uncomfortable questions."

I also find it truly repulsive that so many people in this country keep repeating the lie that Canada was "born on Vimy Ridge", as if sending wave after wave of terrified and browbeaten conscripts to die in some shell-blasted hellhole is what "made" us. I'd argue that the true birth of Canada was the Suez Canal crisis, when we openly defied the motherland on the world stage and instead spearheaded a peaceful solution to the mess via an international consensus.

Fun fact: the Canadian politician who led that peaceful solution to the Suez crisis and would later keep Canada out of the Vietnam War, Lester Pearson, volunteered as a field medic for most of WW1. I can't think of any job more likely to permanently rewire one's brain into a "Never again!" orientation.
It seems to me that you have never worked on cars before.
(I'm not trying to be mean here it's easier than you think!)
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This might be too flippant, but I'm not sure how much stock I would put in any academic/intellectual that hasn't directly challenged at least one professor/advisor/mentor/peer's thinking with rigorously researched/reasoned/argued scholarship.
I agree. Where I saw it used, I'd say 99% of the application logic was in the web server, 1% in functions.

The 1% in functions was for processing large PDF files where users were sitting their looking at a progress bar waiting for the file to be processed in real time.

Another use case might be for something that is very low load, and say you have a lot of these services you may not want a VM for each one. However Docker provides a nicer solution for that: Get a VM (reserve if required) and run some kind of Docker host/orchestration on it, and run all your little services from there.
You can rely on competent people, you can give them a task and forget about it. That forgives a hell of a lot of abrasiveness. I 100% prefer being able to rely on someone rather than have to handhold or redo their work myself.
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Haven't had to travel, but had been thinking of just using a burner/dumb phone with my google voice setup to it (purchased overseas) as well as a chromebook, and setup the chromebook to VPN back and just use SSH+RDP for any actual interaction over the VPN.

Similar plans wrt if I ever go to something like blackhat or defcon.
There are lots of Facebook groups I like. No one is talking about my neighborhood on HN! But besides interesting local groups, there are amazing niche technical groups on Facebook that would crossover with HN. A few I find useful:

Apple ][ Enthusiasts:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/5251478676/

BMW i3 Worldwide:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BMWi3/

Monoprice Mini (3d printer group)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/710952782398723/

Commodore Amiga:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CommodoreAmiga/
One the one hand I agree with you, sometimes a career is just a thing one does to live comfortably. On the other hand, it's 80,000 hours of one's life, and it can be squandered if one does not at least occasionally think about what they're doing with that chunk of time and whether they can improve how they spend it.
Looks like the only ones doing well are the traders.
I have seen a paper that says it's undecidable, and then seems to choose a continuation in which it is. I am not equipped to evaluate it.

http://phys.lsu.edu/~fmoxley/bbm.pdf
This is of the same flavor as wondering if said species would invent money, a collective fiction of usefulness so obvious it has been created many times. Or perhaps it’s closer to wondering if they would develop futures on a stock market.
Most people, not you :P
I always failed to understand what the "consciousness isn't local" can predict. I mean, come on. You either take the egocentric view that you're the only conscious being in the universe, or you realize other humans are similar enough to you that the only conclusion is that they are all similarly conscious.

From there you don't need to look far to realize that the brain is really all there is. Just look at all the brain malfunctions. You've got people forgetting from dementia, so clearly the brain has most of your memories. You've got people with all sorts of weird phenomena from strokes.

Even if you take the most egocentric worldview, you can still drink alcohol and watch and realize how your internal logic and consistency and personality is changed by an external chemical. I can't see any possible conclusion from that other than the fact that this brain really is all you are.

Suggesting there's anything non-materialistic in consciousness means there's an aspect of human consciousness that remains immutable under all internal brain malfunctions, under drugs, under different education, under different environment, under different circumstances. I've yet to find a single counterexample.
> Those eyeballs weren't worth as much to intelligence agencies
XenForo is the consensus pick amongst forum folks (admins and users) I know, and it's significantly better than phpBB while not getting weird and silly like Discourse.
"if you look nowadays at people under 30 for them the Internet is represented by social networks, be it Facebook"

I'm not under 30, and can't really say, but I've read frequently in the media that young people don't use Facebook. I use it to a limited extent, and I think everyone I know that uses it is 30-40ish.
I've heard they deliberate over-hire to capture talent, keeping them from winding up with competitors. Not sure if true, but sounds plausible. Or to be able to always have a reserve to tap if a project suddenly needs engineers.
Most people spend their first few years of adult life in unpaid education producing things to help them get good full-time jobs later on and most see that as a reasonable thing to do.
That’s crazy that you don’t know anyone like that. It’s a common thing for people to take very seriously.
If a government agency openly announced, today, that they would be indiscriminately collecting phone and internet data from Americans for the express purpose of putting it in a time capsule to be opened in 1,000 years, would you be pleased?

(FWIW, I would not.)
I don't use PyQt's documentation (wasn't even aware it really existed), it's such a literal wrapper that you can just use Qt's documentation.

And the only churn was a change about five years ago from a less pythonic API (using wrapped Qt types for most things) to a more pythonic one (using Python's native types where it makes sense). And that wasn't even that bad. Other than that it has no more churn than Qt itself does.
> I'm not an OOP person, but to me, dataclasses seem like a solution in search of a problem.

As an OOP person, I would say that dataclasses are an incomplete solution to a complex, multi-faceted problem, and a solution which doesn't really solve any of those facets. It is pretty much unusable as it is; for any practical use you need to extend it based on the specific needs of your application. But then it makes more sense to use a more complete solution such as attrs, which covers a much wider set of problems.
And even if you could only replace 95% of the volume of gasoline with renewable-sourced options, is it suddenly a bad idea?
Can’t we target mobile users that just arrived within a geo fence from a long-distance-away geofence?
Some people don't have a choice. It sounds lovely to have anything else in your life worth taking seriously, but that's not an opportunity that is available to everybody.

What if you have no community, no chosen family, no friendly acquaintances, and you know that will never change? If your choices are essentially between dedication to work and dying of despair in an empty room, what's wrong with choosing the path that tries to help those who will follow?
The point of having the reserves in US Dollars is that Tether could theoretically buy back surplus USDT's from an exchange that trades in it. Otherwise an exchange could be left holding millions of worthless USDT with no means to move that back to US dollars.
I think the transhumanism that she talks about is very specific in the way that it is one that believes in the capacity to upload consciousness in some sort of computer hardware which wholly differentiate itself from transhumanism that sees more simple improvements like say eyesight repairs through hardware augmentations which is the more realistic one.
I imagine the engine is optimized to run on "average" gasoline for a given octane level, tuning compression ratio, spark timing, air mixture, etc.

I'm not an ICE engineer, so I would love to know how much of a performance change can be expected from this guy's machine.
Being pleasant is one of my personal rules/goals for life.

But it is interesting to analyze great leaders who have been jerks. This 30 minute Youtube documentary on the topic is very interesting: "DICKS: Do you need to be one to be a successful leader?" https://youtu.be/gRRvjZ_XNog
The Google Alerts thing is one of the more unique suggestions and one I haven't heard before. What kind of Google Alert would both be relevant to your career and be rare enough that it only triggers a result roughly once every 15 years (assuming the numbers from the post are accurate)?
Show HN: Warpist – route any URL to any domain
Warpist.com is a managed reverse proxy, that allows to route any given URL or website to a domain that you control.
It is a user friendly, non-technical, managed alternative to configuring nginx or haproxy, and deploying a server for this sole purpose.

The idea came by as I had to setup reverse proxies for several hosted Google Sheets and Script apps, and I reached a repeatable process that's both solid and relatively easy to automate. I've also used it for several websites (hosted for free :D) to put them directly on a regular domain.

As I'm reaching the MVP stage soon product-wise, I thought I could try to generate some traction already and validate the idea further.

Is this something you have a need for? Make sure to sign up if it's something you could make use of. Constructive feedback is also very welcome.

https://warpist.com
Looks like its currently experience the hug. Unless a search for 'cat' returning no results is expected behavior.
I got the die-hard DC public/private/nonprofit bureaucrat vibe from it--which is pretty frightening.

Garlic and crucifixes don't work on those.
That was because you couldn't "sign up" for Orkut. You had to receive an invitation from someone who already has an account. Therefore it spread in regions where people knew one another, instead of spreading smoothly.

The reason why they kept it like that was because of the processing power that was needed to serve the pages. That was more than search. Every individual had to be served a different page. And computing at that time weren't as cheap.

Facebook was the first large practical social network among these where you can actually go and signup an account on your own when it was fully open. And they did it by heavily optimizing their code and hardware. That was a separate challenge, which seemed to me Google was unwilling to take for Orkut or anything social at that time.

That's what I felt was happening as an outsider.
I think this largely depends on ear shape, so those with "funny" ears have a hard time I guess :/
This somehow reminded me of John Carmack's .plan files [0].

[0] https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive
France, it varies from region to region. Brittany for example has a reputation of heavy drinkers, and having lived there for a while it's a bit deserved.

Also, students parties can be quite alcohol heavy, specially the start of the year parties. For example, in business and engineering schools, you have the WEI (Week End of Integration), basically, most of the students go in a remote location to get drunk for most of a Week-End (including during the 3 or 4 hours bus trip), there, you see some people completely passing out. After that, during the year, you see people getting drunk, but very rarely to the point of passing out.

However, the consumption of alcohol as a student can easily be continuous, for example, in my school of ~450 students, we had a bar managed by the students, with a license to serve alcohols like beer or cider, and some students ended-up border line alcoholics.
It's clear that for some people Google has become synonymous with "the Internet".
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Lots of mainstream compilers already have passes that check if every field in an object is definitely assigned. They use this to provide errors or warnings.

That step is 90% of the work. Once you can do that, it's straightforward to assess that every field is assigned after a memset, with no intervening reads, and then remove the memset.
The truly sad part is that continual media theatrics like this will make 99% of the public believe FB has changed and is now privacy conscious.
This line of thinking is only valid if the mindset causes success. It seems far more likely that success causes the mindset.
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You should always strive to be a generally pleasant person, especially when things get tough.

This not an excuse to lye though. When bad news or a disagreement emerges tell it like it is. Don’t bullshit around it. Don’t sugarcoat it. Be direct, honest, accurate, and objective. If that makes somebody sad then so be it. The best way to cushion a devastating blow is with directness and offers, meaningful offers, of support.

Violating your integrity for kindness exposes you as weak and suggests you struggle with communication skills. You will come across as untrustworthy and unreliable.
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What ?!

I've been seeing so many recently in public transport, worn by the sort of people I wouldn't expect to be Apple customers, that I distinctly remember wondering a couple of days ago whether cheaper knock-offs had been released in the Android world.
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well in the context of developing drugs that cure disease (esp rare ones), pharma says its so expensive to do, it costs billions to develop a drug. but if in fact it "costs" billions to "market" a drug then is that the same thing? i dont have a strong opinion on this
That wasn't just him, it was the whole valley.
This is also my only major complaint (I otherwise love them enough to have upgraded to the new ones when they were released). I would love for the case to be able to beep when pinged by Find My iPhone. Presumably there's cost involved in adding Bluetooth to the case, or adding some kind of communication from the pods to the case, but if it's in the < $50 range I'd probably be ok with it.
> A practical flying car would also solve the housing price crisis in cities as people could fly in from the exurbs.

Doesn't this just reinvent the problem? You're currently spending a long time commuting due to congestion; you'll now spend a long time commuting due to sheer distance.
Generally however they don’t become liable for the time you aren’t working because you’re dealing with them, and that ignores the actual up front costs in hiring a lawyer. A lot of this theft is targeted at people who literally cannot afford to make a claim, and for some reason you can’t just report the theft to the police.
I do not confuse pleasantness with decency. Pleasantness is how you appear. Decency is what you are.
Wouldn't it need to be "the internet" for _all_ people to be a monopoly?
This is horrifying.

My wife and I have 3 kids, we had a few miscarriages in between. To know that a child, living in the womb, has been lost is a terrible loss.

Deepest sympathies to the mother and to the medical personnel involved in the error.
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If Silicon Valley were a country, it would be among the richest on Earth
There's no way Google had tens of thousands of employees in 2006. Although it was probably large enough (between 5,000 and 10,000) that your point still stands.
Yes we love zooniverse. Of course, we could do this with some non-medical tasks also. In fact, if you download the app now try out the “study break” category to classify dog breeds!
I was travelling recently with a group of people and wondered whether something like this might exist. My use case was to have a way of easily sharing photos with people close by (we were all being driven around in the same car) without the need to involve anything dodgy like Facebook. WiFi did cross my mind as we were all connected via the same pocket WiFi adapter although I was wondering if it could be made to work without an internet connection. Especially useful when you're travelling through regions with patchy cell coverage.
Most people with money.
That should probably be linked somewhere prominently then (I was aware it exists, but unsure if it is still current, given that there have been little changes to that page in the last decade). And I guess I have to hope I end up in Common Crawl?
Until in their efforts to be competent, they be unpleasant to the wrong person--and now you have a new and different and harder problem.
If it's a fake number, it's an interesting choice.

They aren't claiming to be 99% or 90% backed, which would be similarly disbelieved by the same people who disbelieved the 100% claim.
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I find this pretty interesting. On the one hand, it's similar to the situation a lot of lenders are in. But on the other hand Tether isn't owed that money back as far as I understand it. You also have the fact that a lot of crypto people are very against fractional reserve.
You should read about process heat from nuclear. There's several companies aiming to do this: https://usnc.com/MMR.html
I'm sure Larry Page is a smart guy, and Page Rank was clever, but I'm not really sure there's any particular reason to believe he knows where any industry is moving. Schmidt could predict technology trends well, while Page seems to just throw acquisitions at a wall, see what sticks, then sunset anything that doesn't.
In content sure, but not in reach.
I’m sure a lot of places have excess energy production that batteries can’t store. Gas is relatively easy to transport long distances. Seems like a variety of ways to decrease fossil fuel outputs seem likely. Then, at a future state, you could just do this as a way to terraform the planet (if that’s the right term?) back to a pre industrial state, as much as possible
It could be confiscated
Absolutely. Biopsy proven is great, but often not available. This is especially true when you want a very large dataset, or if it’s something like a fracture or a bleed and not cancer.
You don't know all that much about the US military I'm guessing? I've attended mission planning sessions that included the net cost of replacement for warfighters lost in regards to cost minimization. The fact is, people will die at times (due to both training and combat), and they have to factor that in to their budget. It's cold and calculating, which is EXACTLY what our military does. It makes it a great military, but a very bad employer.
Convenience is what ultimatly will paralyze us all into eternal slavery and ownership by the happy few.
Nah, it's the folks who sell shovels to the traders.

Just like every other gold rush in history. Fortunes get created, but often not for the folks who think they're going to get rich.
That comes down to whether you are primarily looking for harmony or success.
>Where does the extra energy come from?

It doesn't particularly matter. Centralized clean energy production is often significantly easier to solve than figuring out clean alternatives to gasoline use. Especially when the problem with clean alternatives to gasoline is political - it's hard for the US to ban ICE engines in China, but it's significantly easier to sell them carbon-neutral gasoline.

>What is the efficiency of the conversion?

Generally speaking it's pretty atrocious. I don't remember exact numbers the last time I looked into things, but the sense I got is that it's roughly an order of magnitude away from economic viability at current prices.

Also, a significant switch to carbon-neutral fuel would be a significant bump up in electricity and energy consumption. So it's not a cure-all, we'd still need a massive investment in low-carbon energy production.
Schools have tests. I get a newsletter from my local government a few times a year that says how they are spending my money, especially if they are pushing for a levy.
Any program that is in jeopardy of losing funding publishing some sort of "this is why you should keep giving us money" like NASA or an arts program.
For example:
https://www.nasa.gov/news/budget/index.html
“Nanotubes + marketing budget”?

In all seriousness, I hope there’s more to it than that. I just can’t help feeling like nanoscale carbon is the blockchain of chemistry.
Many cars are designed nowadays for "topside oil changes" (as a factory recommended procedure).

You stick a vacuum line down the dipstick hole, suck out all the oil, replace the filter, fill the oil, put the dipstick back in. I didn't trust it the first time, so I sucked the oil out and then removed the drain plug to see how much oil I was missing; it was less than a shot glass worth.

Brake jobs don't require putting your body under the rotor/hub, making the risk of serious injury low. You could use jackstands, but I generally don't as I don't have my head or limbs in a crush area.
> Someone has to pay for that server.

True, but hosting is super cheap. Unless your forum is wildly popular, you can get a full, reliable host for about $5/mo. If it becomes wildly popular (but not Facebook-level popular), this would rise -- but you're not likely to need to pay more than $20/mo.
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Imagine if Bitfinex shut down with no warning. All the USDT stored in Bitfinex would simply be lost so it wouldn't cause a bank run. But massive amounts of USDT would flow from Bittrex, Hitbtc, and Poloniex to Kraken where the price would drop to pennies due to lack of liquidity. Maybe then Kraken suspends trading "to calm the market" and never resumes.

I am reminded of the default of BTCST which I guess no one remembers.
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