skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TSA is funded via specified, mandatory fees added to the cost of every plane ticket. High or low fares do not affect how much is spent on TSA, other than the indirect effect of low fares --> increased passenger demand --> more fees paid to TSA (along with more passengers to screen).

https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/security-fees
I am pretty sure (but not completely positive) that Ken and Rob don't really do much with Go these days. They have since moved on to other projects for the most part.
Infamous El Chapo Hitman Extradited to US from Mexico to Stand Trial
American towns under cyberattack from an NSA-built software
It's not; full-range YCbCr doesn't exist anywhere in the "pro" or broadcast pipelines that would have been used for GoT.

I think he meant to say that the limited dynamic range of 8-bit video manifests most obviously in dark scenes, since that's where standard gamma curves are the most imprecise relative to our vision (which was fine back when TVs couldn't reproduce that range anyway.) The 14% from full-range doesn't help that much; really you need the 4x finer precision you get from 10bit.
One study says ~38 individual base mutations per generation, but that increases by about 2 bases per year of the father's age, which is still not much given 6 billion base pairs in humans. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3548427/) These studies, however, are missing rearrangements and other spontaneous structural changes which might not modify the genes at all but might change their expression or dosage. We don't have enough data yet about structural mutation rates, the technology to assess that at scale and low cost is only coming online now. Not sure about the incident rate, but since the guidelines for reporting have widened so much in the last decade that might mask any ability to really know.
Words work because we agree what they mean in advance. You can't redefine "shelter" to suit your argument. Just make it with the standard definitions of words.
It doesn't have to be coercive. Some of us would like to know what the people who hire us are up to even if we don't personally have any interest in it.
> The W3C is not open to input from all. If you open a GitHub issue contributing an idea, but do not pay member fees, they cannot incorporate your idea into the spec, because of Intellectual Property Rights concerns. There is no way in the W3C to say "I sign over my IPR rights" without also paying thousands of dollars per year.

This is not true: https://www.w3.org/2019/Process-20190301/#contributor-licens...
Well we know where some of those containers end up.

China has at least 3-6 of 10 rivers that carry 90% of plastic polluting the Oceans.

https://news.sky.com/story/just-10-rivers-carry-90-of-plasti...

From the article:

Yangtze River, China

This was the worst offender, according to research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. It carries up to 1.5 million tonnes of plastic into the sea every year. In contrast, the Thames puts 18 tonnes of plastic into the ocean.

Yellow River, China

After the Yangtze and the Yenisei, this is the third-longest river in Asia - and the sixth-longest river system in the world. It flows through nine provinces before emptying into the Bohai Sea.

Hai he River, China

This waterway connects Beijing to Tianjin and the Bohai Sea. Its annual flow is only one-thirtieth the Yangtze's, and half that of the Yellow River.

Out of control......
Thank you. I really didn't want to go on Facebook.
Indeed! Serendipity.

> In August 2015, the couple were channel-hopping in a Jacksonville motel room, when they caught an episode of John Oliver's satirical news show, Last Week Tonight.
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> "I never watched John Oliver. I had never even heard of the guy," says Larry.
Interesting, thanks for the reference. In the Microsoft case it looks like the decision hinged on the definition of a common law employee. Wikipedia notes that benefits eligibility can be formally defined. Employers don’t have to treat their contractors badly just to imply a tiered system, in other words, as the parent comment suggests.
Aren't SUVs and truck protected from foreign competition by the chicken tax?

VW is also building more SUVs. They have like 4 models not counting Audi, Skoda and Seat.
Well, in Toronto, Canada you get taxed to death, but that's about it.
How long until a community supplements their water supply with lithium?
I am beginning to use a zettelkasten. I think it's an excellent method for doing deep thinking, especially over a long period of time. See https://www.seanlawson.net/2018/02/use-zettelkasten-method-s... and https://zoia.org/2018/11/13/zettelkasten/ for good introductions.

Reading this will change your life: https://www.amazon.com/How-Take-Smart-Notes-Nonfiction/dp/15...

I'm committed to text-only information. No matter how many notes I'm writing, I can always use grep or write my own programs to find what I want.

If you're on a Mac, The Archive is great (https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/). It's what I'm using

zettelkasten.de has lots of good reading (thanks, Sascha and Christian!), but look to the other sources I've listed to get a more thorough idea of what a zettelkasten is (I call mine a thinking-box) and how to use one.
The implicit assumption in most HN discussion is, if the US's doing it, it's fine and good. On the other hand, if China tries, it's doomed to fail.
There are a couple gRPC implementations for the browser[0](officially supported), but it seems to require quite a bit of adaptation, and looked pretty complicated to set up.

[0] https://grpc.io/blog/state-of-grpc-web/
I agree, but it's worth noting that the density of after hours (as in 2 AM) food spots will usually be related to residential density and not commercial/office density. There will always be exceptions (e.g. the East Village) but I suspect they are the overwhelming minority.
Good to hear that Ole Anthony and John Bloom (Joe Bob) are still at it!
> Xbox Kinect

The Xbox Kinect was such a versatile, and well-built device. Its a shame that its been discontinued and didn't find much use in games.
Dark mode using CSS blend-mode technique
Yes, perhaps what I should have said is that somehow money gamifies life and that is pervert.

That being said, I cannot really think of a better system than money at our current scale.
I good way to corroborate this would be to track the "junk dna errors" percentage of newborns and see if there's a statistical trend.
For some data points:

"When it comes to clergy, new Catholic priests, which includes bishops, can expect a salary somewhere in the mid-$20,000 range, with median salaries varying slightly depending on geography. The highest median salary for a new priest is in the Midwest, at $29,856, while the lowest median salary, $24,960, is found in the Central region, which spans from Minnesota to Texas. The maximum salary for priests ranges from $29,744 in the West region to $44,417 in the Midwest."

Now this is Catholicism, so it's going to be regimented, along with mainline protestant ministries.

But even for the more 'American flavours' of Christianity, I suggest the average income is probably lower.

I'd consider these hustlers about the same level of the vast number of people who hustle products on their Instagram accounts which is to say some do very well, most don't.

Oddly, I'm not sure how much authenticity and revenue correlate for this, or any other field of service. It's the 'marketers' that tend to win.

[1] https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/08/11/how-much-do...
Been following this project on Twitter for a while through the creators (Dave DeSandro). Looks great.. Used to use masonry all the time in projects, glad to see he is still creating cool shit.
For HTML and DOM, this is true. There are many more things at the W3C, the most obvious of which is probably CSS. Browsers totally pay attention to what these spec says, and are the dominant participants in producing these specs.
It really is a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology
Raspberry Picking Robots in the UK
Also how they quickly defined GFE to be Google Front End.
Nice eBomb. Describes the problem, offers value, does it politely so it is HN (and other places) friendly, then "there are still problems..." and then the paid solution.

I've seen docker images that do a git clone from the master head to get the source, so basically if their Github account gets hacked. You're f'd.
They will probably use the Windows NT codebase that was leaked...
>I have a high end OLED screen in a very dark room, and I was very disappointed by the picture quality.

Unfortunately for you, high end OLED in a very dark room is literally the most likely conditions under which you'd be annoyed by these problems... :-)

HDR is the way to go.
Like the author I always wanted to go to a buffet as a kid as that was my one chance to decide what I would eat rather than mom and dad deciding.

But as I got older I never went back. I always thought of buffets as a sort of weird corner of the restaurant industry for families with kids and indecisive adults.
Really, then why is Trump getting all this flack for his free associations with Russia?
C’mon -- that was a rhetorical flourish.
Yes, that all is important to consider. My understanding is that this was especially true before the ACA, when certified continuous coverage was a big deal.

The lifetime limit is more complicated than that as they seem to have separate programs for up to a maximum and everything beyond that. For example, Samaritan Ministries (one of these programs) costs ~$500/mo for a family for everything up to $250,000 and about $500/year to cover $250,000 with no limit. I’m guessing that’s done because they have members who live in inexpensive countries, but it seems like the extra annual cost should just be rolled into the monthly so no one makes the wrong choice about how much to cover.
W3C didn't loose Mozilla over EME.
1) Mozilla is still an active participant in W3C (there are many more things than HTML there)
2) Mozilla supported EME. Maybe reluctantly, but supported it nonetheless.
Humans learned about new things for thousands of years without the modern of advertisements.

I have no fear that the news of useful and interesting products will spread just fine even if advertising is massively reduced.
This is probably a bad idea :P Blend modes are VERY expensive operations, running a blend mode over your whole site may set a few of your users computers on fire. I'm exaggerating of course :P but I wouldn't recommend it.
All of the course's video lectures are still available at:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGVa4wp8SWGFtMe6hcdpHlg/pla...
You can get flack for wearing white pants after labor day or any other reason.

You can't make it illegal.

You described passing a law(s).
More Soviet fans than I expected on HN tonight, judging from the downvotes :)
It's not portrayed as being a big deal.

Most newspaper articles are not big deals.
that would seem to be unlikely given 40% of Chinese are subsidence farmers?
iOS 13 Screenshots
Brazil is shock full of these scammers.
So... What do you suppose the chance is you would have hit the tail fin?
That's just it. The 12 core system years from now will have barely aged. CPUs will just have gotten larger and more expensive.

This is changing a past situation where say a CPU would lose half its value in 3 years. This incentivizes spending big and upgrading infrequently.
Not to challenge your own experiences, but this is an overgeneralization of pastors/preachers as a whole.

I personally know multiple pastors who can barely afford the basics, much less luxuries, and who work side jobs to make ends meet. They have soberly made difficult decisions to live out their faith.
>there's no reason to expect SpaceX to be a good citizen of the night sky.

Seems like they are willing to do more than most:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1132908915144794113

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1132908689860415488

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1132902372458418176
I don’t mean to say he’s “held prisoner”, more that the company culture is to post things using the company’s platform, and he’d rather not stick his head out too far from that path. (Which I guess could be seen as “him making a decision”. But it’s not a decision made in a vacuum.)
You are conflating CO2 and all forms of pollution.
"The ANS is an inertial navigation system employing a star tracker to eliminate gyro drift and to limit position error."

Not your run-of-the-mill airplane, that's for sure...
More that the company’s culture says you should post things using the company’s platform, and to not do so might be making a statement he doesn’t want to make.

Otherwise, why would he move away from .plan?
I mean a lot of the complexity in the front end has arisen from the need of the business to provide more feature full experiences, not because some developer thought he could pad his CV. Developers aren't developing complicated front ends to pad CVs, they are developing complicated front ends because the business needs it to solve certain problems.
> Are you American by any chance? I find Americans are more prone to this particular issue of not being able to make exceptions where necessary. People can't walk 4 blocks? Make everyone wait! Have more stops! Build more stations!

Americans have no sense of proportionality or optimizing for the system rather than the individual. It makes living in American cities infuriating.
I think the assumption was that the child would arrive late at school and would suffer some unpleasant consequence as a result, such as being marked tardy where a certain number of tardies results in losing privileges of some kind, or in some kind of punishment like having to stay after class. That was probably a reasonable assumption in 1967; I'm not sure how reasonable it is now. :-)
I don’t mean that he is legally bound to the platform. Just that the company culture is to use the platform, and he may see not using the platform as making a statement he does not want to make.
It's hard to say with certainty. It's not like we can re-run history and try it again. Japan certainly turned out well with what did happen; it's not clear that a better outcome would have resulted from a less total surrender on their part. There's a lot of value in helping to move forward when you admit that you were completely beaten, not just mostly beaten; the latter leaves the door open for a repeat.

And another factor is that we haven't had a nuclear war since Japan, which showed the horrors of nuclear warfare. Had that not happened, maybe real nuclear weapons would have been used by someone later on, when they were much more powerful and more numerous, and even when both sides possessed them? The bombings have helped ensure that something much worse hasn't happened since.

And you know what, the Japanese government deserved it. They started the war, killed millions of people in the process (including many millions of civilians in Asia), and then had the gall to try to bargain for decent surrender terms after all that horror they caused? Nope. Sometimes harsh punishment is necessary.
Could it be easier to change the name of the product?
Flipboard hacks prompt password resets for millions of users
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07854
I remember playing its successor Petz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw2tJj5IX5k

Definitely have memories from 90s childhood gaming.
This isn't limited to the US either, City Harvest Church in Singapore is a great example of the prosperity gospel in action elsewhere. S$50 million (US$36m) of donations were siphoned from the church, of which half went into attempting to launch the pastor's wife into pop stardom, including this distinctly un-churchy video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSZQH_c9jOU

(Yes, that is Wyclef Jean; he was paid almost $2m to produce the song.)

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Harvest_Church_Criminal_B...
The Amazon Endgame (2014)
How do you mean "trust"? Possibilities include:

1. Trust that the person is capable at particular things. (This you might get from credentials, which perhaps also defines a group, and accomplishments.)

2. Trust that the person is truthful with you, and will honor agreements with you. (This you might get from their reputation within your network/group.)

3. Trust that the person will give preferential treatment to you/group, and that they do this because there is mutual advantage to a subgroup doing that, separate from trust in ability and honesty. (Maybe sometimes this is called loyalty to the group, though you might say you trust in their loyalty. Or maybe it's merely understood.)

I'm pretty sure I've seen #3 happen in business/opportunities, read about it in news, and heard people talk firsthand about it, in ways not always covered by #1 and #2.
A rhetorical flourish that conveniently made your argument appear much stronger than it actually was.
I really wish there was a way to know exactly how these hacks happened.

It would be a big help in securing systems to know the ways hacks are happening.
does it though?

what happens if background refresh is on but location -> never?
Could someone please post an archive link?
That's interesting. Most working people I know still have healthy marriages.

There are lots of places where you can trade commits for dollars, remotely. Have you tried topcoder or Upwork? My guess is you thought about it, but they don't pay enough. So the market is clearly sending you a signal that for pay above the commodity code commit, a premium goes to those who also show up and communicate successfully. If you are well paid, you can safely bet it is for more than just your code commits. I think you've got an overly simplified view of reality that you hold onto at your own professional peril.
Caching reverse proxies for local virtual machine use, in my case. Primarily used for Linux repos, but also configured for personal use, eg for webcomics.
Suckless philosophy is basically to change the source code and recompile so there is no need for embedding a language, which seems crazy but makes a fair bit of sense when you think through it. When you embed a language the only audience for that is programmers and most programmers are at least somewhat familiar with C. Relatively simple things you'd find in a config file stay relatively simple, just editing config values in a header file like this, if you wanted to change the colors of your terminal for instance, I'm sure you can work what to change here: (https://git.suckless.org/st/file/config.def.h.html). It's also infinitely extensible, users can do anything and not just what is allowed by the API and it's blazingly fast.
but everything included, so that is basically 35k, tax free, or in a lower tax bracket since so much of the compensation is non monetary, purely disposable.

edit, this says the median is 45k
https://work.chron.com/much-catholic-priests-paid-12915.html
Sure, but in the grand scheme of things Facebook, whose market cap currently sits at 526 billion dollars, the correspondingly inconsequential sum of something-something-millions of dollars is worth the potential benefit.

In exchange for their patronage, employers to the world's technical stars get to use their name in recruitment and other types of marketing, and they're well-positioned to profit from the star's next great achievement, if indeed one ever occurs. This is very similar to the benefit to a record label or a movie studio in signing a deal with the current one-hit wonder or starlet of the hour.

As in any employment transaction, there can be no true guarantees. None of us can promise that we'll be here tomorrow. But the value of investments in strong personal brands has proven profitable enough over the last several decades that many companies are eager and willing to make them. Entire industries are built around them. I don't think it's going to stop any time soon. cf. the Lindy Effect [0]

There is surely some limit to Facebook's tolerance of a single man's foibles, regardless of star power. I would bet my bottom dollar that "blogged off-Facebook" is nowhere near it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
The Amish don't seem particularly interested in this effect: they're growing rapidly. Same thing with the Haredi. This effect whereby "all high growth populations have eventually slowed their population growth as gdp capita and mean years of schooling increased" is a temporary phenomenon we observe while natural selection does its work and selects for those who are able to resist the fecundity-reducing effects of modernity --- people like the Amish and the Haredi.
It's not like there's some central planning committee that sits down and decides what to pay everyone.

Citizens decide where to spend their money -- at least the part that the government doesn't tax and spend for them -- and all of these industries you name exist and pay well because people value them and choose to spend their money on them.
Hey but at least I installed Chinese solar panels on my roof, my part of this puzzle is under control.
People keep bringing it up because it's a serious existential threat to humanity and large swathes of the population are still completely ignorant and still vote for people who (at least pretend to) also are completely ignorant.
"Virtually all of the world's data transmissions go through cables on the bottom of the oceans."

I'd be mildly surprised if me posting this comment went through a cable at the bottom of the ocean, but who knows?
After ProRes became a thing, there was a lot of confusion where the metadata saved within the MOV started to include the HD vs SD color primaries. Some programs were able to correctly read this data. Most did not. Most programs did not include the data including Final Cut. The iTunes team started rejecting files exported from FCP because they claimed they were not made correctly and not a valid file. The iTunes team were just reading the spec and built their automation based on that, but not what the real world output from FCP was doing.
Yes, but maybe they do want to be paid for their posts. They can choose to write for free, but they didn't.
Abortion legislation in the spotlight as Argentina presents new law to Congress
This is really good. I hope the author considered getting this pushed upstream.
In the Reign of Harad IV (2006)
A total average compensation across all contractors and employees of $80k seems pretty far fetched. Assuming a roughly 50/50 split between contracts and temp workers, if the employee compensation average was $145,000 then contractors would have to make an average of $15,000 in order for the combined average to be $80,000.
You mean like Ebola? Because the west is already spending billions preventing this.

Or starvation? Nope, the west is already spending billions preventing this.

Political instability? Nope, the west is already spending billions and taking in millions of refugees to prevent this.

What kind of catastrophe is left that couldn't just happen to us as well?
That attitude is part of the reason why few people take public transit in most US cities. When the transit system is not optimized for the majority, the majority will not use it. That leads to a death spiral where it becomes just a safety net system for the people who have no alternatives.
Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text
> [H]e dresses in a suit, pulls out a Bible and urges viewers to pledge a very specific amount of money. "Don't delay, don't delay," he urges, calmly but emphatically ... drawing in viewers who ... are desperate for change.

Can you imagine if this kind of stunt were pulled in the secular sphere? An aspiring leader dressed up in a suit, urging viewers to raise a specific amount of money. "Don't delay, donate today!" drawing in viewers desperate for change.

Wait a second...
> at least a million people at this point.

This seems a little implausible to me, can this really be the case?

Edit: Oh, I see the reference in the post https://research.swtch.com/gophercount (I'm still skeptical!)