skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it does strike the aircraft, it tends to reflect all over and destroy a person's night vision temporarily. Bonus that it (justifiably) can permanently mess up vision on the reflect. I've not been lazed yet, but folks I fly with have when flying GA planes under the bravo shelf. It is a scary thing. Usually turning off the exterior lights is enough to make it stop.

The FAA does take this sort of thing very seriously and one of the guys even had the FBI swing through to interview. Pretty sure they call the local cops with the general location info too. God help the person who thinks they were having a funny with a green laser - and finds out the felony may get them 5 years....
Why is this significant enough to call it out without explaining why you did so?
HN hates blockchain, sorry.
Sorry for moderately edited title, the site’s headline was over the character limit. BO is Blue Origin.
Why Silicon Valley Is Seeing the Virtues of Nationalism
I suppose my use of the word "ticket" could have been swapped for "fare" but the point stands:

https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2018/09/22/judge-rules-ran...

https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/424036-329673-lawmaker-wa...

https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/02/washington-fare-...

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/11/02/cleveland-police-enfo...

https://ggwash.org/view/69171/a-new-report-highlights-the-st...

Those were the top of a very brief search. If I looked a bit more, I'm sure I could find more examples backing up my original claim. There's nothing ridiculous about the assertion at all.
Huawei as a Cultural Threat
Flagging “America’s most wanted” in public places like train stations or airports. Looking for missing children. Having home automation react differently to different family members.

Those are all usages I am personally totally ok with.
Adding to what others have stated much of China's pollution comes from producing the endless stream of consumerist crap Americans are uniquely addicted to.
Gross...
i can tell you i have insight into 9 figures worth of pay-per-click advertising on Google, Bing and FB yearly. pay per click is very much alive and well on these platforms.
he qualified with "i believe," but whether that was a motivation at the outset or not is the only issue in contention: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-...

it is well known that skype's crypto has always been an obfuscated black box (this may have been primarily to prevent reverse engineered clients using the protocol but it makes backdoors much less detectable), and transitioning from p2p to centralized architecture (which iirc was done after the ebay acquisition) where one party holds the keys obviously makes snooping easier
4 hours ago was the last update to the PR, the pull requests are from years ago.
Why? What has changed? Do you use the plugin functionality of dstat, or do you just use the dstat command? If it's the latter, then you can do everything you could with dead-dstat and more with pcp-dstat.
Maybe I can, but I am failing to grasp how templates or the modules work, we have these resources where only the ami is different (and sometimes the count):

resource "aws_instance" "nomadclients_tick" {
ami = "${data.aws_ami.nomadclient_tick.image_id}"
instance_type = "t2.micro"

count = 3

iam_instance_profile = "${aws_iam_instance_profile.consul-join.name}"
subnet_id = "${element(aws_subnet.consul.*.id, count.index)}"

vpc_security_group_ids = [
"${aws_security_group.rule01.id}",
"${aws_security_group.rule02.id}",
"${aws_security_group.rule03.id}",
"${aws_security_group.rule04.id}",
]
}

resource "aws_instance" "nomadclients_tock" {
ami = "${data.aws_ami.nomadclient_tock.image_id}"
instance_type = "t2.micro"

count = 3

iam_instance_profile = "${aws_iam_instance_profile.consul-join.name}"
subnet_id = "${element(aws_subnet.consul.*.id, count.index)}"

vpc_security_group_ids = [
"${aws_security_group.rule01.id}",
"${aws_security_group.rule02.id}",
"${aws_security_group.rule03.id}",
"${aws_security_group.rule04.id}",
]
}

The examples I have found feels very difficult.
It makes me happy to see companies getting grief for this. It absolutely blows my mind every time I see this in large production systems such as banks and hosting companies.
Wtf google!

Edit: how does this even happen? Why would anyone even try to store passwords in plaintext?
I see what youre saying but

> They think the software is good but the license is holding it down

The issue I'm really trying to point out is

They think the software is cost free but the license is holding it down

Wolfram Engine has always been good, but it seems people are more in a huff because it's priced free but not open source.

I.e expecting that if something is given to you at no cost, it also must be open sourced.
I'm pretty sure that's 100% immaterial to the argument but from 8 seconds on Google, here: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk C++: 13.9% C: 5.4%

Or here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot "Written in C++, Assembly"

Or here: https://blogs.oracle.com/sundararajan/so-you-want-to-read-ho...

I should have said Perl to really bring out the pedants.
So, not a free market. Ok!
Makes a mockery of their famously difficult technical hiring process.
As a curious data point, when I bought a new phone and then signed up for a new SIM-only plan with a UK provider not so long ago, they made a big deal about how I now had access to free WiFi on the Underground. This was not mentioned at all during the sign-up process and not something I requested or opted into.

TfL do say they won't identify individuals, but for the purposes of data protection law anything that could be used to identify a specific individual is in scope, so these kinds of systems (and similar ones that have been used in places like shopping centres for a while) might be skating on thin ice if there are also, for example, sufficient CCTV cameras around and recording for an individual to be identified from those and then matched against their phone.

It looks like TfL have been cagey about exactly what precautions are being taken here, and they certainly have other mechanisms that could potentially be used to identify individuals such as CCTV and data from payments and entry/exit barriers, so given the scale of the Underground network and the number of people likely to be affected, it wouldn't surprise me if these kinds of stealthy phone-tracking systems started to come under greater regulatory scrutiny before long.
A Princeton study in 2014 found that public opinion in the U.S. has virtually no influence on national policy decisions.

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/study-the...

Subsequent studies have found that it's not as bad as all that. But even they found that the public often doesn't get what it wants. Therefore we can't conclude there's no public consensus for a ban just because the government hasn't done it already.
Unfortunately it is difficult to understand without experience and "learning" it. It was completely different from what I expected, but I was going to try anything.
Basically by mounting a few EEG electrodes on your head it can measure 3 types of frequencies(Delta, Gamma and Alpha, although don't quote me on this). These frequencies relate to the "focus", "relaxation" and "cross-talk" functions of the brain that primarily are controlled by the Sensory-Motor Cortex. Most people who have trouble concentrating and functioning probably have difficulty in all these areas.

Once you are hooked up you are expected look at a screen and listen to some music(usually classical), and try to get your frequency responses below some baseline. Basically strengthening them like a muscle. You actually train yourself based on the feedback the sensors are giving you.

I managed to do some reverse engineering and figure out how the brain works to blow the numbers out of the water. Going from far below average to way above in a matter of months changed my life. I even figured out some things the center never tried before. Like significantly increasing the time I try to maintain the baseline, which allowed me get above average results. There was a lot more I figured out, but far to much for a HN post. Feel free to email for more info. I might make a post on it one day.
Are you planning on going outside with it? If so, the answer is "Probably less than 5mW" - the legal limit for a Class 3R laser. Anything higher presents a risk of blinding.

So, 10,000x less power than the lasers on that webpage above.
And that is good news. Company should focus on making good services and good profit, not virtue signaling on political fluff
It's simple code. It can be moved to a separate package and imported with the same name.
Reminds me of https://www.pinterest.com/pin/252342385347648601/
There's a couple of areas that's not actually true. For example their "insights" package which has rule based detection of problems to fix etc is open source but the actual ruleset is not.
>There is an inherent assymetry: a trillion dollar corporation can influence the government at a scale so staggeringly huge and pervasive there isn't even a comparison that can be made with the power and influence of a regular Joe.

Where does Amazon's power originate from?
I think it makes sense as a sort of order-of-magnitude figure.

for example there are a few ways to count the lines of code
of sel4[1] kernel maybe 10,000 lines, maybe 60,000 lines.

But to gauge it vs the linux kernel both 10k vs 20m and 60k vs 20m both give you the orders of magnitude to make a good comparison.

[1] https://github.com/seL4/seL4
Not everything goes on github though. I occasionally use patch for local things because it keeps such a clean change log.

I've also used it for various translation hacks. eg: delete everything between quotes in a copy, create the diff, edit everything in a significantly reduced file with the necessary changes being one right after another, and then using patch to complete the translation.

It might sound round-about, but it is amazingly efficient.
Python Logging: A Stroll Through the Source Code
I don't buy it; at the end of the day everybody has some moral responsibility when human lives are involved. Not to Godwin the argument, but I would have hoped WW2 would have taught us that much. But I'm not familiar with US work culture. Again, clearly upper management aren't blameless either, but the fact remains responsibility cannot or should not be so easily passed on.
Nasa Invites Public to Help Asteroid Mission Choose Sample Site
True, but the figures can be misleading. The US economy is probably 4x the size it was in 1978, so without these productivity advances we'd need 4x as many book-keepers and accountants.

Whether the economy could have grown to 4x the size without productivity advances like spreadsheets is a related question.
http://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-arctic/
It's not just the UK. Prospect Council in Adelaide Australia have "Prospect Fast WiFi" https://networkprospect.com.au/prospect-fast-wifi/. It costs a little to provide, but they get back actionable metrics for assessing how much foot traffic there is and then evaluate policy effectiveness for their main street. A much richer data source for next to nothing compared to other methods of tracking visitors to the area. Still I'm surprised that TfL wants that level of detail as they already log people in and out of the (transport) system, so can easily measure how well things work (or not).
The US has been retreating from the free market for many years. 25% of GDP is healthcare, insurance and education.

Key drivers of the economy, like housing, exist in their present form to due explicit and implicit subsidy. I think China is more like the US then we care to admit, except they think on a longer timescale.
I had one of those dedicated fishing games back in the day with a crappy LCD display and a crank. Played it to death.

https://i.imgur.com/tdESids.jpg
For me yes. I can do things like: Spinup a kubernetes cluster, add a deployment with the latest image from my docker registry, add a loadbalancer with an external IP and create a cloudflare A record for my domain with that IP - all within the same tool.
At the risk of sounding inflammatory (which is not my intention), what I'd like to see is the FP and RIIR crowds getting their hands dirty and write a hobby OS like this up to this level in their language of choice. If that means they need to assemble a stable ABI/API that other programmers can build against, then that's the challenge.

C/C++ programmers have been building their own hobby OS's non-stop since Linux came out. There's lots of example code out there for initializing the bare metal, writing bootloaders, task switching, controlling the MMU there for those languages. I even got a certain distance myself nearly 20 years ago, and I'm a complete hack. I only gave up because I never figured out how to initialize VESA graphics from protected mode, and I sure as hell didn't want do it with 16-bit code from the bootloader.

We all know what a disaster area C/C++ are, the number of CVE's we see in the Linux kernel and userland because of this, etc etc, we hear about it every day on HN. So I personally like to see some of those people put their money where their mouth is. I think that would be an innovation.
Also note the inventors of VisiCalc failed to patent it for various reasons[1]. This led to quick improvements of the spreadsheet by Lotus, Borland and Microsoft. If it had been patented, it is unlikely innovation would have been so fast with VisiCalc having a monopoly.

[1] http://www.bricklin.com/patenting.htm
Even locally is bad. Retail will use this right away to track everyone and what products they look at.
Use unique, randomly generated passwords for each online service and encrypt these passwords locally with a passphrase you won't forget. Then there oughtn't be any surprise nor disappointment when the online service is inevitably compromised. Don't forget to enable multi-factor authentication.
This is a dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19975640 and the headline is pretty misleading.
Making Fire That Freezes Things Instead of Burns Them
I was just reading that Mars was found to have the remains of an icecap one mile under the surface, so was Mars also hit with a meteor?
So, what about for use as a CNC cutter for wood or metal?
The motorman has to move from the back to front, if he's staying on. Or he's off and someone else is taking over. So yeah they're there for at least like 10min.

Or the train is being removed from service. That's not really going to happen in the middle of the night but definitely happens during times when they are decreasing service (after rush hour, after like 11pn)
Sigh. There's no way they're getting a 50w out of a single diode. 50w is what our co2 laser is at our hackerspace, and requires a 1.5' tube, specialized PSU and watercooling.

These pictures look like the 2w and 2.5w variants on Aliexpress.
Well, as a C++/Python/C# programmer, I see it as a combination of ways to

(a) organise procedural programs using language features that make abstract data types more powerful,

or

(b) obfuscate procedural programs using language features that make abstract data types more confusing.

If there is in fact some other, non procedural, paradigm called OOP that we can learn about, then maybe dead languages are the place to look for it.
Sure, Amazon shareholders can "make or break the lives of millions"... but only if the government lets them. Neither Amazon nor its shareholders can really overrule what the American government decides. In theory, this means that you and I hold ultimate power, and Amazon operates at our discretion.

The real problem is that the American government is beholden to corporations like Amazon, and the ultra wealthy like Amazon's shareholders. Not you and me. This in turn comes back to campaign finance reform. As long as politicians are beholden to the wealthy to fund their election campaigns, you and I aren't going to have nearly as much say.
On the other hand, I went over 20 years with an undiagnosed condition because nobody ever suggested to me that I might in fact have a problem that isn't me just being lazy.
I edited in a 2nd paragraph about trendlines while you were responding, sorry about that.

Country boundaries aren't arbitrary because they are where policies are made. If you could just pick the top 1-billion polluting individual humans in the world and focus on them, that would be ideal. But that obviously doesn't work. You have to operate on the level of political groups. Nation states are the most obvious groups because they can respond to geopolitical pressures.
The Terraform language extension in VSCode is very good.
Agree. When you have a digital product or service, intended or not, you have a global customer base. Sales tax, VAT is just one of the burdens a company will face to keep on the right side of the rules. Denied party screening, export controls, various data protection and privacy laws, to name a few.

By selecting a provider that acts as the “merchant of record” (or reseller of your product), you offload many of those regulatory burdens to a party that has the proper economies of scale to provide the service for a lower cost than you can do it on your own.

Modern platforms that provide you with the option to be the merchant of record usually provide a host of other features that making running an online SaaS business much easier. And to your customers, it won’t feel like your sending them off to some unrelated store to buy your product, you can generally customize your integration so that the transition during the purchase process is mostly seamless.

Source: I’ve been in the business of providing a service that acts as merchant of record for more than 20 years. In the early days, people came to us mostly to for the online payment processing. These days, many of our customers express that it was the reduction in regulatory burden that they value the most.
Visualizing PostgreSQL Vacuum Progress
Law firm websites like this are the most reliable source that I’ve found:
https://www.strtrade.com/f-tariff-actions-resources.html
I miss the GP2X and related...
I was once helping troubleshoot a UV laser in a lab. It was an IR Nd:YAG pulsed laser with two frequency doublers, and I think the rated output was something like 1 J. The measured UV output was essentially nil. We took off the second doubler and fired the laser at the side of a desktop computer we didn’t care about while wearing serious goggles. There was a little snap and the paint got replaced with a shiny metal spot. :) You do not want a laser like that anywhere near your eyes.
Z has been around for 40 years. Used to have a book on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_notation
If you have not seen it, check out the BeOS-inspired Haiku

https://www.haiku-os.org/
Soon you will also be able to see a rating next to their name showing their social credit score so you will know how much interacting with them will affect your score.
Venezuelan civilians were disarmed in 2014.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29308509
> WestJet pilot's eyes burned by laser on flight from Newfoundland to Florida

Sounds like this would break the laws of physics.

Burns from a non military laser, miles in the distance sounds like some serious BS.
A landline could prevent a burglar from walking on my property.
Wicked tongues have called AppleScript "Visual COBOL".
A rare look inside Huawei, China’s tech giant
How about enforcing a DMZ?
EMR Notebooks: A managed analytics environment based on Jupyter notebooks
>Flagging “America’s most wanted” in public places

And what happens if we descend into military rule or a dictatorship? With "America's most wanted" fliers, the general public can just refuse to participate. With facial recognition, anyone deemed an "enemy of the state" can easily be tracked and eliminated.

Always assume the worst and work your way back to the good when doing the cost-benefit analysis.
I see no reason that brain makeup would be any more a choice than eye color or height.

But even if it is, that just pushes the question back another stage. People make choices for reasons, based on their experience and predictions. Lucky to be someone who had the appropriate experiences and made appropriate predictions to choose drive and motivation. There should be no reason to doubt this unless you believe in some kind of external soul or intervening deity - a child who is hit every time they speak or move without being told to, will make different choices about "drive and motivation" as a child who is encouraged and praised when they do things of their own accord. It can't be otherwise, to suggest that people do things /without/ their environment affecting them at all is so absurd as to be instantly dismissible. The idea that infants might know what "drive and motivation" even are, without being taught, that everyone must learn that they are effective and valuable, independent of all experiences, doesn't stand up to any scrutiny whatsoever.

Put simply, if what you say was true, /everyone would choose that/.
Those seem to show up in the 500mW+ range, with 2000mW being enough for most softwoods (among other things). Industrial applications seem to range from 50 to 5000+ watts, but the lasers used there are likely to be better focused than the laser pointers you'd find off a site like the above.

And if you buy a laser CNC machine, it'll typically have interlocks present to keep you from accidentally blinding yourself. (which is a real possibility - if the material you're cutting has shiny inclusions, the wrong reflection can blind you)
Kite building is actually fairly easy, and can be very inexpensive. With just wooden dowels, fabric, simple sewing and simple rope & knots you can have something flying in a few hours.

Takes a while to get the hang of troubleshooting the problems of flying, but the basics aren't complicated. Good cheap fun.
EU residents, not EU citizens. An EU citizen resident outside the EU falls outside GDPR, while a non-EU citizen resident in EU falls within.
Interesting. This goes against the philosophy of [working to failure + enough recovery] that I’ve been following so far. I’ll have to do some more research here.
Preventable Cancer Burden Associated with Poor Diet in the United States
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjvo_l6sSNQ, Seems like someone using a feature he had no idea how to use on the most aggressive setting.
Laws have a tendency not to stop dictators. They are the law.

In reality laws are only as powerful as their enforcement, and if there is no will to enforce, like what happens during transitions to dictatorships, then they’ll just be ignored.
My “Dumb” Watch
Well, I feel the same about terraform. I much prefer cloudformation.
Not a new idea, Tokyo Narita has had holes, benches, vending machines etc for ages https://www.narita-airport.jp/en/fun/view/ The only thing they could possibly do more are cabins for the cold in winter. Still low cost and makes the airport's position on photography clear, friendly...
Probably not, because the passwords were encrypted (with a google-owned key)
Traveler IV, the first entirely student-designed rocket to pass the Kármán line
Shouldn't there be a visual "ShotSpotter" system around airports that can track origins of high-intensity lasers being aimed into the sky around airports?
Though iOS also randomizes and regularly rotates the MAC address used for WiFi probing and only uses your real MAC once you connect.

So in disconnected mode, or, if you've never actually connected to that wifi network, you'd think that wouldn't really work?