skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you like NH as it is (or close to it) you should be rooting for the commute to stay terrible or get worse. NH can only be NH and not MA-lite as long as it's impossible for all but the most dedicated to live in NH and work in the Boston area.
Roads are modified and maintained, but only in a completely ad-hoc manner. So some localities have good roads and maintenance, and others have terrible roads and maintenance and even road design. You can't expect any kind of consistency, because roads are mostly handled at the local level in the US, and many localities are completely incompetent, or refuse to spend any money on it. What you're describing would require consistency, and that's a completely impossible expectation in America.
These are both examples of the British child services, the supposed "child protection" either directly sexually exploiting the children (their employees getting paid to pimp out vulnerable children), or helping others do that (not stated as such, but let's be realistic here, they were also getting paid for it).

As for the involvement of immigrants in both cases the immigrants came from former commonwealth countries (since child services pay is total shit, they hire immigrants. Even those don't last, so they're fresh immigrants with often very limited language skills, never mind actual training in caring for children. That this is a horrible idea as it removed children even further from their known environment, which is bound to damage them further, doesn't matter to anyone).

But none of it has anything to do with Europe. Only 1 out of 32 involved immigrants may have had something to do with Europe (the Afghan, as allowing that immigration is an EU policy). Pakistani immigrate under British law.

So does this have to do with Europe ? Child protection services in the UK, like everywhere else, is a cesspool of misery, locking children up, despair, desperate poverty and abuses of power. But the UK service is very much British.

So what does it have to do with Europe ? What does it have to do with Brexit ?
Luck has a lot to do with it, but in my case I actually had control over the part of the product I owned, the pay was decent and even if you do work hard you are not risking any of your assets.

I am not sure why do you assume lack of control, obviously a jerk founder can make your life miserable but usually young startups bring senior engineer exactly for the opposite reason- to help the company build a better product using someone's experience
It should also be made illegal to pay so few fares to couriers. It's under the level of acceptance
In terms of CO2, aviation accounts for roughly 2% of global man-made emissions. This is not nothing, but eliminating it would not be the same as eliminating all of its emissions. Shipping and travel done via aviation would simply shift to land and water based options, which would in turn increase their emissions. It would also have quit an impact on the infrastructure of modern civilization and economy. Banned overnight would result in mass disruption and probably deaths due to inability to shift material resources quickly. Alternative would take years to upgrade the infrastructure and logistics needed to truly replace aviation.

I'm not saying we shouldn't consider and focus on better efficiency and other technology in the aviation sector, but there are lower hanging fruits. It would be much more viable in the short term to fractionally decrease, say, a fraction of industrial emissions equivalent to all of aviation emissions. Or improve carbon sequestration technology.
The article says "Emits more pollution than all of Europe's Cars", which is a bit of a garbage claim, because obviously all of the CO2 is coming from the cars.
It's a USB keyboard that opens types some commands to open a hard-coded website.

You can't really prevent that.
Despite any problems they have, they are able to retain enough devs to get their work done. Are they losing out on even $1 of earnings because of their inability to hire devs? Even with the arbitrary hazing ritual in place?
I am running DOSBox with default settings. I draw a square and then a circle with these lines of Logo code:

REPEAT 4 [FD 1 RT 90]

REPEAT 360 [FD 1 RT 1]

I find that both the square and the circle appear squashed. On measuring the pixel height and width of these figures as they appear on my desktop, I see that the square is 400 pixels in width and 320 pixels in height. That's an aspect ratio of 5:4. Similarly, the circle is 460 pixels in width and 364 pixels in height. That's an aspect ratio of 1.26:1.

I find the same aspect ratio in full screen (Alt + Enter) mode too. In the full screen mode, the square is 200 pixels in width and 160 pixels in height and the circle is 230 pixels in width and 182 pixels in height.

Here are the screenshots:

- https://imgur.com/l9YpTqp

- https://imgur.com/WTwfSzq

- https://imgur.com/CjMYJN6
I have this suspicion that it’s intentional. If I were trying to sow doubt about climate change, this sort of article is exactly what I’d push.
I read often on HN how Excel is used a lot, but I don't really understand the use cases. If you're a software developer, what would you use Excel for? Maybe it's because I work for small companies, but I've almost never had Excel come up at work, and in the few cases where it did, LibreOffice was sufficient because those were very small and simple sheets.

95% of my work has always been in the source tree (so git), some kind of ticket or project software (Jira, redmine, etc), and a wiki-like documentation system (Confluence, mediawiki). And of the remaining 5% most would be some kind of stuff with a Web interface on the network. I'm pretty sure I haven't edited a Word doc for 5 years. Is this really the exception I get to encounter because of avoiding "corporate" companies?
Could you just install a full-fat Linux desktop VM on your Windows workstation and live in it?
What about all the people that started at a job recently?
Maps and audio (music/podcasts) are the two main reasons I use carplay. Built in options in all vehicles I've used since carplay has been available are horrible in comparison.
So as someone trained in the sciences, I'm well aware of this. The fact is that sulphur oxide is not a contributor to global warming, and I wanted to post an accessible article expressing this fact for those who are swayed by similar articles, like the one posted
Think of the impact if the site is blocked by the browser's red malware warning UI (Google's safe browsing or smartscreen in IE) because a compromised file was hosted on the main domain.

It is much harder to get the site whitelisted once it has been compromised since it is on the same domain.

In my job, we had a site domain that was falsely flagged as malware-infected and it took about a few days before it was confirmed as removed (it is not automated apparently). It was never made clear why it was flagged in the first place but it scared us and we had to isolate any downloadable files (installer, ads, etc) away from the main domain as much as possible.
...but it's unlikely to be accidentally used as an exponent, since you can't dereference a number.
I see many offers from Philips and LG TVs that have "Smart TV: No" next to them.
Taxi drivers were once largely independent operators, or they worked as employees of taxi companies. In recent decades this was "disrupted". Drivers became contractors who rented their cars and licenses (medallions) from wealthy investors. That's how NYC medallions started being worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now a taxi driver neither enjoys the freedoms of being independent nor the security of being an employee. They live the worst of both thanks to the disruption of the industry.
This is pretty much the way a Yubikey or other 2FA token works, no? The only difference being that it doesn't send the text until the sensor is covered.
Slightly unrelated, but maybe we should start calling TVs with cameras "telescreens"? Like, "don't forget to check your telescreen for viruses every several days".
Little FYI to other HNers out there: You do not need a membership to buy alcohol at Costco.

Also, Costco liquors are high quality relative to their prices.
Skin elasticity is directly useful. Stronger bones are probably less likely to break, although this isn’t quite a given. Improved mitochondria are improved mitochondria and are not at all guaranteed to be beneficial.
See e.g. Vladimir Bukovsky's Judgment in Moscow, currently being reissued in English translation. It just goes to prove that Russian interference in Western politics is nothing new, much less out of the ordinary. But the direction it points towards is very different from what you hear these days in the mainstream media!
Voyager-class cruise ship: 12.8-passenger-miles per gallon

Boeing 747-400: 91 passenger-miles per gallon

Of course passenger aircraft are tightly packed and cruise ships have large cabins, swimming pools, etc.

Both numbers from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport
I have a smart TV that has some kind of integration with Roku, and never had any issues with ads, bad UI, etc. It also has a tangibly better UI than other TVs I've used, with features such as showing on the start-up screen what's being fed into all the HDMI inputs so you don't have to guess which one is connected to the cable box and which one is connected to the Wii. You can easily ignore all the other stuff it does and just use it as a dumb TV without much trouble. Not affiliated in any way, just something to look into if you're trying to avoid adware and the like.
Direct GPU access requires way more than just virtual machine.

You would need PCIe pass through, so the VM could control the GPU. For that, you would need either separate GPU, or a GPU that supports SR-IOV, and a board that supports IOMMU.

ROCm specifically is not only userland, but also a kernel driver (amdkfd/amdgpu). To use it, you are going to dual boot into native Linux for a while.
2 centuries? You might want to check your math on that. And also language. Illegal is not the same as extinct. So if you're looking for things that have been overlooked, you might start right here.
> Most imperial units seem to be based on simple laymen measurements.

I would not label the nautical mile as "imperial". It was based on mathematical properties of the planet:

> Historically, it was defined as one minute (1/60 of a degree) of latitude.

Just like the metre originally was:

> The metre was originally defined as 1⁄10,000,000 of the meridian arc from the North pole to the equator passing through Dunkirk.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile
The student loan crisis is really an underemployment catastrophe
@smachiz, totally agree. With all the cruise and shipping companies this article feels like a political attack on Carnival. Wonder what happened if they ran the stats on Maersk who has the largest fleet of 700 ships in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship...
What a terrible article. It's just a report of customers tweet's... No info on what caused the issue or why it effected all stores. Is this journalism now?
I don't think so. It's more the result of enterprise users needing full access to source code so that it can be audited for security issues and modified to meet their needs. This is where computing began, before piracy was a concept. In the 80's the industry moved to "object code only," as IBM called it, and what we are seeing now is the ultimate backlash against that. Enterprise businesses don't pirate software anyway so I don't think that's a significant factor.
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14217 seems to indicate not so much unless VirtualBox has switched to using it as a backend.
California Tests a Digital ‘Fire Alarm’ for Mental Distress
> Self driving cars are already dependent on standard infrastructure markings such as lane lines, and whenever those markings are confusing or faded it has lead to fatal crashes, such as the fatal Tesla crash on 401.

A Tesla is not a self-driving car and they won't become one with that approach.

Waymo vehicles have virtual maps that include the lines (along with a LOT of other data) so they are not affected by fading lines as they always know where the lines are supposed to be.

Basically Waymo is building the infrastructure you all want, but in a virtual sense instead of the extremely expensive and impossible physical one.
Gitlab is refusing to allow integration from third-parties (like Sonarqube)
Excuse me sir, but swastikas aren't just offensive to Jewish people. They gassed slavs too (among a multitude of other demographics), and in case you haven't realized: the nazis invaded Poland and created ghettos there. So no, this isn't just about Jewish people.
With the 3.5mm jack, you need to handle your phone for the uses the parent mentioned. This is much more dangerous than using phone integration in the vehicle and illegal in many jurisdictions.
Serious question, has having a smart fridge really helped you in any meaningful way? I'm not sure if I'm just missing something because I've never owned one but they seem useless.
The problem is.. it's a feature.

All kinds of legitimate (well, this is legitimate too really, it's just weird) devices have similar behaviour, and in their cases it's what the user expects and wants.
My knee-jerk reaction was "I'm not going to buy a car if it does not support CarPlay"[1], but Mazda isn't eliminating CarPlay functionality as part of this process.

On-screen selections will involve tactile controls and I find that diable.

Why? CarPlay is a reasonably good UI unlike virtually anything pretty much any car manufacturer can create, Maps, Podcasts/music interface, etc.
Ok. I still prefer that to being driven over by a car honestly.
Once again, just leaving this here.

https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

It has been posted before, but a day can't seem to go by without new people being taken by surprise that this type of thing happens.

Information is power, and there are many people in high places that realize it. A modest investment in keeping an eye on your opponent, and ruffling feathers on line is the new border skirmish or airspace invasion.

If you have an odd feeling in the back of your head that someone or something is actively making it more difficult to discuss something without disruption, distraction or usurpation of the public forum; odds are that is exactly what is happening. If it isn't your platform, and it's big enough to attract a large audience, then it becomes increasingly likely somebody else has been bothered to implement some sort of filter.

Is it good, bad, or indifferent? That I leave to the reader's sensibilities. However, in my opinion, there is a growing trend brought about by a tendency for increased centralization where this type of "forum engineering" is increasingly valuable to nation-state actors. Be careful out there folks, and double check your information consumption. The Signal can't be stopped, but it can be made hard to find through all the equivocation.
Overly Attached: Know when to let go of emotional attachment to your work
A proper carbon tax would capture the externalities. If that results in a cost of $50 to ship a package, that just means we’re paying $50 now, but most of that cost is borne by other people who get no say.
As of 1.9, haproxy can cache files as well. Well, 1.8 technically had caching, but more controls have been added around the cache in 1.9. The controls are not as fine grained as in NGinx, but it's fine for when you just need a small object caching layer.

Up until HAProxy 1.8, I used to have Haproxy -> NGinx caching layer -> Apache. I have since been able to remove all the NGinx servers. (For my use case, won't work for everyone)
Cue the angel choir.

Touch screens in vehicles drive me nuts! Requiring the driver to divert their attention from the road makes all tablet-style interfaces a degradation of UX. In all the cars I learned to drive in, I could adjust every thermostat control as well as every audio interface completely by touch, without taking my eyes off the road.

Not to mention the software issues! In one vehicle, you literally could not turn off the radio. Your options were to press the mute button (which would only hold until you restarted your car - at which point you'd get blaring music or static) or to just turn the volume as low as you could.

And every car is now different and unpredictable! My dashboard should be a utility, not a visually stimulating video game where I need to learn every menu and submenu just to fade the audio to the rear.

All I can say is THANK GOD, Mazda. I hope all other manufacturers follow your lead.
I bought a samsung SmatTV in 2017 in Costco. The tv is ridden with software bug: it would turn off itself randomly or cannot turn on the tv unless I remove the remote batteries and reinstall them. The ui is really slow. I also owned a series of samsung Android phones since the S2 to S5, a samsung security camera. They are all ridden with a lot of bugs. I have vowed not to buy a single samsung product anymore.
Not that this will stop every cosmetics line having a pomegranate version with adverts extolling "proven by science!" in a matter of months, if they don't already have one nearly ready to ship.
Shouldn't the the contractor be responsible for running a background check on the sub-contractor..?

If the sub-contractor fails, then the contractor is on the hook.
A world where we have cheap shipping/flights but pay the same excessive total or more elsewhere to deal with the externalities isnt better, it is just shifting the misery around.
On all new and old versions of all major operative systems out there you'll be able to plug in any standard USB keyboard, and it'll start working automatically.

That's exactly what's happening there, but the "keyboard" is pre-programmed to enter keys presses automatically in a way that makes a website pop up.
This is a big step toward the full merger of Windows and Linux on the desktop, which is the most logical way forward for both platforms. Kudos to Docker for taking a primary role and following Microsoft in this direction.
Cruise ships are almost certainly
cleaner than commercial air travel
as a whole.

Not according to [1] and [2] - after all, the "Queen Mary 2" is 29 tonnes per passenger whereas the A380 is less than 1 tonne per passenger even with a full fuel load.

[1] https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/ask-mr-green/which-better-...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2006/dec/20/cruises.green
I'm still stuck with Cmder/ConEmu, but it does something worse for me than breaking copy/paste: Breaking arrow-keys in insert mode in VI. I'm only a very light VI user, but it's still very bothersome.
They are all pretty dumb if you don't connect them to the network. :) I cable the TV's up to do software updates and then remove the cable and leave them unconnected. I handle streaming with a "less ad invasive" box.
Don’t hire superstar employees, grow them
My experience as a PHP (among other things) developer was that "senior" roles pay half what comparable roles with pretty much any other Web language do.

So I'm not a PHP developer anymore, and haven't been for years. Neither is anyone else with options, I'd guess, unless they've found some rare shop that pays real money for them, which I'm sure do exist. I don't actually hate the language. It's OK for what it does. It's a helluva lot less yak-shavey than most of the other popular web languages, so that's nice. I'd work in it again if it paid alright and I wasn't worried the next role wouldn't (that is, that I was killing my earning potential by gaining yet more years of experience in it).
My main issue with ConEmu was output performance. Paging through files in Vim over SSH was painfully slow. I recently switched the wsltty [0] and after changing some display prefences (Font: Consolas 9pt, Theme: dracula, Cursor: blinking block) I'm really satisfied with it as a terminal. Vim paging performance is greatly improved, and it's smaller and faster than Hyper.

Also, copy/paste works perfectly and I found that fewer of the default keybindings conflict with those in my shell, tmux and vim.

[0] https://github.com/mintty/wsltty
Yep. So I might get a fine in the future. Maybe.
Paying them more will drive up costs. When costs go up, less people use the apps. When less people use the apps, delivery drivers get less money. Nothing exists in a bubble and it's important to look at underlying issues rather than crying foul play
I think a lot of cellular technologies rely on GPS on their base stations as a timing reference. Most cellular capabilities might fall off a cliff if GPS isn’t available.
The thing is, those don't have DVB-T receiver, which some people out there still require to watch cable TV.
Yes, but Barcelona (where I live) would not do anything that could hinder tourist money. As an example, almost no stores are allowed to be open on Sundays by law. But they made an exception close to the port because enough tourists get off the boats for a day or 2 during the weekend and want to shop.

Its a hard battle to "force" any of these cruise lines or shipping for that matter, to change. It would have to be a EU law, etc etc, but thats 5+ (probably 10+) years to get passed.
Android Auto actually works quite well with Audi's jog wheel thing. The 2018 Q5 I rented last year had no touch screen, just this knob. Worked totally fine and required no touching a screen.
Elon Musk Says He Is Deleting His Twitter Account
Yeah. VirtualBox installs its own kernel extension at this point in time.
MB, it was megabytes ;-)
When I worked as a public defender (in CA) we were winning roughly 2/3rds of our cases...the same as the private defense bar managed.. and securing much better plea deals than private counsel could, since the DAs were more inclined to negotiate with people they had to see every day.
you get what you give. As a father, my kids have taught me at least as much as i've taught them.
There are some tech-related employers in Nashua but it's mostly fizzled in other small NH cities like Portsmouth. I think there may have actually been larger tech employers in NH a couple decades back when all the Rte 128 computer companies had a fair number of locations scattered around southern NH and Maine.

Honestly though I'm not sure the commute situation with southern NH is really all that different from people commuting from the further flung Massachusetts suburbs/exurbs into either the city or the closer-in Rte 128 ring where companies are more concentrated.
>Apparently (I'm told) small town papers still do this.

They do. My grandmother writes them for my hometown newspaper.
As has been pointed out, you couldn't block this kind of thing without blocking USB keyboards altogether.

I wonder what it would look like to have a background program that would detect and intercept any newly connected device by default, give it a fake (VM?) environment, and log everything it tried to do to the screen while prompting to ask if you want to let it into the "real" system. Obviously this is what security professionals do manually, but I'm talking about a totally transparent and automatic version that could be left running all the time.
But can you run VBox and (say) Docker at the same time?
Note that GPS and "GPS technology" are different things. When people say "GPS" they normally mean the US system and that is the one the article is talking about. But there are several satellite networks that each act as a global positioning systems using "GPS technology".

We are seeing more and more devices that can access many different networks. This is a good thing. Not only does it increase redundancy in case of a widespread outage of one network, it diminishes any one nation's ability to disrupt positioning. No longer can the US simply turn off or obfuscate location data (they used to blur it. Google "GPS selective availability"). The existence of competitor networks allows users to quickly identify and ignore such actions.