skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much; they ask a few questions but really what would they know to ask?

The whole idea of needing ID to fly is quite recent; you used to by cheap unused tickets on craigslist (and before that from classified ads in newspapers). Round trip tickets were much cheaper than one way so people would buy a round trip and then sell the unused segment. Or a company would book a ticket and then due to a change of plans someone else would take the flight. On some flights you bought the ticket on the plane.

Then again on a few occasions I got on the wrong flight and end up some place unexpected.

The destructive permissions culture that we see online expanded along with parallel development in the physical world.
Commentary by Intel: https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/softwa...

Commentary by RedHat: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/understanding-mds-vulnerabili... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19912108)

Commentary by Ubuntu: https://blog.ubuntu.com/2019/05/14/ubuntu-updates-to-mitigat...
While there are some pretty huge electrical links in place already, there is a large political and public resistance towards expanding this.

For the public, they know that the endgame is more expensive electricity. No good. For local industry, it basically amounts to taking the increasingly large competitive advantage they have of cheap, low emission electricity and just giving it away to Europe.
Creative Tech Thesis Live Stream (NYU ITP)
I never knew about the .fail TLD.
I used Mercurial exclusively for a long time. I reluctantly switched to Git when it became obvious Github was the place to be if you wanted your open-source project to get any attention.

I think the way forward for Mercurial would be to become a Git frontend, or "porcelain" as they call it. That way we would get the best of both worlds: the ubiquitous git format and hosting infrastructure; and the superior UI and workflow of Mercurial. I'm sure it would be a difficult undertaking, and might require difficult trade offs between compatibility, performance and usability. But I think it would be worth it. For one, Mercurial would become relevant again, and probably get a lot of new users. A lot of users would probably come back. And Git users would also benefit from the renewed competition between competing frontends.
Ikr, "opt out" for the government means, put on theatre to act like people can opt out.
> Go has certain things out of the box that I think attributed to it's success:

Yes, Google's backing. :)

> I think if Nim could have a usable web server in the std lib (same with Rust and D) it would be a game changer.

Nim does have an HTTP server in its stdlib[1], but I wouldn't go as far as to say that this is a game changer.

> The first thing I test when I try any language is the web frameworks

You should give my web framework, Jester[2], a try :)

1 - https://nim-lang.org/docs/asynchttpserver.html

2 - https://github.com/dom96/jester
To the extent people previously paid for tickets, free public transportation does cost money of course. But that is not really a disadvantage: The people of Estonia gains just as much by not having to pay for tickets individually as they lose by paying for them collectively by way of their state.

If the increased ridership necessitates an increase in capacity, that clearly does have a cost. But often, a route has much higher capacity than necessary in order to increase frequency or to keep the schedule more regular. No one should decide against using public transportation in such a case in order to save money. Making it free prevents that.

Paying money to people is also effectively free for the state to the extent that they use it to purchase tickets for spare capacity of public transportation or other things the state provides that have zero marginal cost. But people almost certainly spend a smaller share of that on spare capacity than if they receive it as "tickets".

So free public transport may not be free, but it is cheaper than paying people the money their tickets would have cost.
Some relevant numbers (TWh) from that graphic:

2002 2018
Total 503 545
Coal + Oil 253 205
Gas 40 44
Nuclear 156 72
All very good questions, hopefully we can get some more information as time progresses (maybe a PoC, or at least a technical write-up on the specifics)
Twenty years ago banks (at least in the US) shut down over the weekend. Some pioneers like BoA had Saturday morning hours, but if there was a national holiday good effin luck getting anything from them outside of what was available at an ATM. You have to remember banks, even now, are and were way behind the technology curve. There was no online banking. No customer focus. No check deposits at an ATM (you had to drop it into an overnight bin). Payroll companies followed suit, and any financially-centric company did as well.
Netflix permits blacklisting on kids' accounts. I've very happily used it to suppress the especially inane stuff.

(Account > Parental controls > Restrict specific titles)
I mostly agree with what you're saying, but I will add that is is also possible to write well-designed, modular, easy-to-test (minimal mocks) OOP code. It does provide more guns to shoot yourself in the foot with, I will admit.
What are the rates of arrest? I've seen a couple reports, but n=2 is not a data set.
Self-reflection when taken to the extreme becomes ruminating and dwelling on the past. I'd say bound your self-reflection time as well. And part of the mindset I guess is that you are imperfect and it's okay making mistakes. From my experience, the unbounded self-reflection mindset often becomes the always self-critical mindset. I've often found myself in a self-improvement loop where I'm so focused on improving that I'm not kind to myself. I had to consciously recognize and break that, and then go read some about self-compassion :)
400 hours of commercial-watching is not being "saved"

If Netflix and other streaming services didn't exist, kids would not be watching 1600 hours of terrestrial TV with ads
paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/459.pdf
When life begins is clearly a scientific question. Perhaps you mean the question of when society should recognize and protect personhood?
>netflix has a lot of hidden marketing in their shows

I really believe there's hidden cigarette marketing. Maybe directors are just taking artistic license that they can't on cable, but it just really feels like there's a noticeable increase of on-screen smoking in a lot of their originals.
Am I reading this right? It looks like this bug lets you read any part of an intel chip's processing payload in-flight?

That's gnarly if true.
Theo (of OpenBSD) famously ranted about Intel's implementation of SMT/hyperthreading ~12 years ago https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631&w=2
There was a theory going around that the whole story was just and elaborate stock manipulation scheme.
Long ago? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/russia-reverts... (also https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp78-0...)

But assuming a typewriter has no attack vectors is just as foolish as insecure networks IMO.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-s...

Also: detecting text through keystrokes previously discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7448976 (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Keyboard_Acou...)

Heck while I can't find a quick source, I remember a story about how the CIA designs rooms/walls and buildings to prevent sound from predictably bouncing through rooms in ways that could be captured from afar.

Spooks are usually 10 steps ahead of the public common sense this sense.
Rich Rebuilds zonks Tesla, again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-7b1waoj9Q
Probably depends on the area and other factors... in my area it was totally normal for kids to walk some half a mile to a mile home in middle school just over a decade ago and I don't think it's changed. I think even elementary school was normal with possibly a smaller distance (not sure how far kids went, but a couple blocks was fine).
This seems like a bad decision to me. We have a crime epidemic and it seems to me like facial recognition can help. My house has been broken into several times and I've been assaulted in areas of SF with clear video footage; why wouldn't we want to use tech to solve this problem? Forgetting my own situations, why wouldn't we want it for sex traffickers or terrorists? I don't understand why the tech issues should prevent it from being used- it isn't as if people are being locked up solely based on what the technology sees, there are humans involved too, and I think we should enable the humans with better tech. What are some good counter arguments?
This is a sincere question: what's your background that you have such a skewed perspective of US travel tendencies?
> dedicated machines for each application of each customer.

I don't think you don't need to go this far. You can probably get away with circuit switching small blocks of hardware, and fully resetting them between handovers. Although you'd have to ensure sufficient randomisation / granularity to destroy side channels in the switching logic.
Amazing for Netflix. But if we are talking about kids, lets just not forget how much garbage ideology exists in most Netflix series (or much of TV).
"Another example is Stranger Things and some cereal brand."

Obviously a less than successful product placement. /s

Pretty sure it was the Eggo waffle thing you are referring to. IMO they did a pretty decent job integrating that plot-wise.

Like it or not productions cost money and the people who pay those bills will always look for a way to share the load. If you don't like it prepare for $40/month Netflix.
Those were quite entertaining to read through!

It really made me think that not all product placement is created equal. Sometimes there are products that don't serve a purpose just sitting somewhere really conspicuously, but something like the Snack Packs in Billy Madison never once struck me as a product placement, they just seemed like a goofy thing that a kid would get really worked up over, and it ended up being one of the most quotable lines of the movie.

And that got me thinking about product placement in general, and how much stuff on that list is just products being on screen, period. I'm sure none of that ever happens on accident, but at least for me personally, it can contribute to the art to have a certain brand be present (like the Wayne's World example).

In my own life, there are brands that evoke specific feelings like road trips, or sporting events, or drunkenness, or LAN parties, or childhood in general and seeing a generic bag of burgers on screen doesn't have the same effect as seeing a bag of McDonalds... I mean, it doesn't really matter and this is all silly conjecture, but people's reactions to seeing real life brands on screen are quite interesting!
PG-13 would mean leaving out Marvel films like Deadpool though. Are they willing to leave out content in order to stay at PG-13?

Hulu is also only a US domestic service. Disney surely wants to sell subscriptions to its more mature material worldwide, just like Disney+.
> till I dove in and looked at the underlying data model.

Everyone says that and I've done the same. Quickly forgotten and left with the same inscrutable commands and looking up explanations on stack overflow.
I would love to see an experiment that randomly granted people Netflix or YouTube Premium, and explore health/wealth/etc. impacts going forward.

This could also be added as feature to existing large scale longitudinal studies.
If you've seen my nephew's toy hoard with hundreds of small plastic figurines from Thomas, Paw Patrol, and Daniel Tiger, you wouldn't say there are zero product placements in kids' shows.
Just a quick point: they don't necessarily need to move upward. They can move laterally. They can work in package delivery, in restaurants, at Starbucks, in health care, in tourism, in solar panel and home battery installation, in environment cleanup sites, in converting homes to greater energy efficiency, and so on. Honestly a lot of the new jobs 20 years from now we have a hard time guessing what they'll even be (if you magically know, you'll make billions investing), which makes "planning" for it a bit handwavy anyways. (Remember, nobody "planned" for web developers to be an exploding new career.)
> But defined-benefit pensions are a form of deferred compensation.

Defined-benefit pensions are basically a scam. They promise you a lot of "guaranteed" money with hidden risks (what if the investment returns are lower than expected? what if the company's business fails?) and then the managers who made that deal are long gone by the time the workers find out whether the gamble that was quietly made with their retirement money actually paid out or not.

It's possible to structure them as an annuity from a financial institution that actually has the assets to back them up, but then the lower risk would be priced in, which reduces the ROI so much that it makes them highly unattractive compared to investment vehicles with greater variability and correspondingly higher returns.

People only like them because they're perceived as guaranteed even though they carry significant risk. It feels a lot like the mortgage crisis in that way -- people rating high risk mortgages as AAA because they expect to be long gone by the time the dust settles.
Like when someone asks for an address I simply give the address of the place I am (i.e. the shop asking for it). This works online too, Again, because the person asking (or the person who wrote the web form) typically isn't the person who made the rule, so rather than make life difficult I just inject chaff into the system.
Slack

Created a slack for myself and do all kinds of integrations. Including several rss channels.

Usage:
/feed http://...
So, when you produce the acceptable code faster you can go home earlier? No more work in a week? If not, you are paid by the hour, you just wish you would be paid for producing acceptable code by the deadline (me too btw).
I think comparison with Israel/Palestine is wrong because Koreans do not explode bombs in Japan.

Also, I don't understand why anyone could dislike Korean people. They didn't invade Japan, and probably they never invaded any country.
Nope. SHA-2 (known to developers as SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, and SHA512) was the replacement for SHA-1. SHA-3 was created as an insurance policy in case the SHA-2 family was broken too. So far, it hasn't been.

We won't need a SHA-4 any time soon. SHA-2 is fine, BLAKE2 is fine (and faster), SHA-3 is fine.
The productivity bar keeps going up. People end up doing work while at home etc to keep up.
Many years ago, OpenBSD's Theo De Raadt made a sneer at virtualization, saying something the lines of "they can't even build a secure system, let alone a secure virtualized system". I can't remember who he was referring to specifically, but we've certainly been seeing a lot of similar vulnerabilities.
From an employer's perspective:

We already understand our own value. We probably overlook our faults. We don't trust potential employees to be as good as we want. We'll make it hard for you to work for us, and try not to pay you more than the value you provide. You need a job - try to prove your worth to us, and we'll consider letting you work for us.

From an employee's perspective:

We know we're one of the worthwhile employees. (We probably overlook our faults.) We don't trust potential employers to be a place we'll actually enjoy working. We don't want to work hard to prove ourselves - we expect you to win us over. We expect you to pay us a little above market value (since we're above average.) You need employees to exist and get work done - try to prove we'll enjoy working for you, and we'll consider giving you our expertise and time.

Both parties will withhold information in an attempt to appear better than the other so that initial negotiations go in their favor. The interview process will fail to disclose all relevant and interesting information about how well the two parties are suited to each other.

Beyond the general negotiation/trust problem, what are problems unique to engineers and their prospective employers, and how do we improve upon them in mutually beneficial ways?
Also, HT is not such a great performance win - on a few different 4-core/8-thread machines, I had access to, loading all 8 threads to "100% CPU" (whatever that means) usually only delivers 20-30% faster computation than with HT off (4-core/4-thread) - which is inline with your 30% number.

And that's an improvement - some 15 years ago, with similar computational loads, most of my tests ran 10-20% faster with the HT off (using 2 core / 2 threads) than with HT on (using 2 core / 4 threads) - there just wasn't enough cache to support those many threads.
I just looked up the 2015 numbers for you (I do not have newer data at my desk right now, but the number for Germany is supposed to shrink). In USA and France, energy hungry industries pay 4 cents/KwH, Germany pays 5 cents, China 6, UK 8 and Japan 12. As said, consumers pay more than in most or all other countries. But due to more energy efficient technologies, the actual percentage of income that is paid for electricity stayed about the same.
It is funny how ChromeOS is the most ridiculously secure of the commonly available operating systems. It is not as if you can do much other than surf the internet with it.

It makes me chuckle to think that my not-so-computer-literate friend whom I gave a Chromebook to is protected from anyone snooping in on Youtube, Hotmail and Youtube running on this toy machine (designed for 9 year olds). There really is nothing to hide there. Meanwhile, people doing important work on proper computers are properly vulnerable to this new Hyperthreading theoretical attack.

I will be interested to find out if there is a drop-off in performance on ChromeOS, e.g. Youtube stuttering whilst the whatsapp web tab updates itself with a new message. If there is nobody complaining then why did we need Hyper-Threading in the first place?
I don't love Git because it’s got a great UX. I love Git because of what can be done once you get past the awful UX.

The first year or two of Git usage ended in many, many incidents of lost work. That is not good UX for source control, its the most catastrophic UX imaginable for something designed to track source changes...

That’s why the site this post is about exists. If you don’t know about reflog, you are severely disadvantaged... and many of my coworkers at my previous employer certainly did not.
Video Games Let Me Be Competitive Without the Need to Be Physical
You are right but at the same time one does not expect a component of the dashboard to actually brick a car. I guess.
Everything that can't be fixed with a ten minute phone call to my bank is already public knowledge thanks to Experian, so I really don't have anything left to fear.
Citation needed.

There are plenty of studies showing how kids watch way too much TV or equivalents.

https://www.livestrong.com/article/222032-how-much-tv-does-t...
That's one spin on it, but more fear-mongered.

The more accurate one is that elements of the Federal Government are "unhappy" that some States will issue a Drivers License based on understanding of road laws and practical skills, and not based on demonstration of legal residence or citizenship.

Washington, for example, is one. You pass your test, written, practical, pay your fee. They don't ask about your citizenship.

So the Federal Government says "Well, we won't allow your DLs to be used federally (or for flying), then".
As the author I probably can't change your mind without revealing his real identity, but i'm glad you thought the writing was well calibrated :) so thanks I guess?
In a related note, I have come to realize the different levels of quality in children's television:

- Public television shows (PBS) stuff is so lovingly created and charming. You can really tell they had experts and creatives work side by side to craft positive stories. Even if it's not particularly exciting.

- Super-smart and creative shows (like the first couple seasons of Spongebob, or Gravity Falls). Great shows on their own merit, super funny and creative. But they are an art first and not necessarily focused on development. Good at clueing kids in on structuring jokes or references, not much else.

- Bland and harmless. Shows that drive a story or characters, but not necessarily lovingly made or particularly funny. I have found most of the Netflix/Amazon/Hulu stuff falls in here.

- Colorful garbage. It's a lights and noise show, with huge focus on licensing. Cartoons of my era are particularly susceptible to this (Dragonball Z, Yu Gi Oh, Transformers, etc).
You forgot a few:

Government watch lists / no fly lists which have little to no oversight and no appeal process.

National Security Letters (NSLs) which have overly broad powers, minimal oversight, and include permanent gag orders.
Can we stop letting the government make deals? They are doing a terrible job.

When AT&T couldn't maintain connection at my home, and wasted 3 half days fixing it, and didn't fix it, I stopped doing business with them.

This is a failure of government making one sided deals.
Nearly a year, at least, judging by when the CVE numbers were assigned.
> They delete the photo after 12 hours

The claim they do this. Who knows if they really do?
apple makes macs / macbooks etc, microsoft makes surfaces / surface pros...
That's a pretty strange statement. Lots of industrial facilities meet very high standards of safety, say for instance battery and electric vehicle factories, yet we still place them out in the desert? Nobody is campaigning to build those in their neighbourhoods?
The fact that "a handful of people" in "several places" over "the last 20 years" becomes "People get arrested all around the country" like it's an epidemic or something is one of many negative, and one of the worst, things about the internet.

That and the fact that "oh and then the charges were dropped and in some cases local laws changed" is inevitably (I think purposefully) left out.

Reason.com went on a year-long bender of self-promotion and half-truthing about 3 years ago when three women were arrested in three states, claiming that "jack-booted big gubmint was comin to take yer kerdz" and plastered people's pictures and stories on fundraising materials and tried to get people to buy their "free range kids" books, as though three incidents in a country of 300 million was an epidemic.

Of course, the most confusing thing about all of this is that a Venn diagram of "people who think that the government is rounding up mothers all over the country" and "people who immediately, vocally, and vociferously criticize the government for NOT protecting the welfare of children" is a perfect circle.
Ruby Chocolate
Unemployment is at low levels globally, not just USA. I would say it's some sort of global trend not because of tax cuts in the USA.

https://www.ft.com/content/1e8f4cf4-f257-11e8-ae55-df4bf40f9...

> economists attribute to changes including more flexible working practices, lower wages and rock-bottom interest rates.