skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My cat is too large to fit under the seat. FAA regulations no longer allow you to purchase a seat for a cat either. The only option is to put the cat in cargo. This has led to a problem almost every time I've flown. Problems I've had include:

1. It's too cold to transport the cat to cargo.

2. My flight gets rerouted, but in a way that's different from my cat's flight.

3. The health certificate must be the salmon copy, not the canary copy.

4. Here is the regulation that I found that says in the state I'm coming from, it's the canary copy that gets given to the airline. What do you mean I have to get a second health certificate from a vet in this state? I've flown multiple times and I've never had to go through this before.

5. Here is your goddamned salmon copy of the health
certificate. What do you mean the letter of acclimation expired? Last week he could withstand temperatures of 35 degrees for brief periods of time, but all of a sudden this week he can't?

6. The letter of acclimation is missing, or incorrect, or I forgot it and the vet says she'll fax a new one to the office, but then half an hour later it still isn't there and I missed the flight cutoff.

7. A change in flights means the health certificate is no longer valid and I have to get another one.

8. Cargo is closed at that time. Their system shouldn't have even let me book that flight. Nobody is sure how this even possible.

Mostly it's just the first one, but this means sometimes I have to repeatedly cancel and rebook my flight which is expensive and annoying.
The problem of "access" is an insidious one, even for independent journalism that isn't beholden to corporate advertisers. Ask too many hard-hitting questions, and you don't get invited back for the next interview.
Fifth row? That sounds closer to a bus than a car.

Not sure if serious.
retweet.
I agree worked there too, had a KB article. Can't say I learned much only thing I remember that was new and I use to this day was (windows + pause key) to bring up system info.
Please don't take HN threads straight into partisan flamewar hell. There are many other places to play that game. Here, we're trying to play a different one: curious conversation. Like (say) chess and football, the two are not compatible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thank you so much for the kind words! Buildium found a good market opportunity and built solid technology, but culture and how the business was run was definitely part of its special sauce and a major contributing factor to this sort of outcome. The Advantage is a great read! -Geoff
http://archive.md/2OHmI
Please name me one piece of any STEM undergraduate curriculum that I can't learn for free on the internet, and then I'll take back my statement.
With the growing amount of consciousness towards ethically-sourced meat, I'm not sure your statement is 100% true
To me the report sounds like an amateur job TBH and there's nothing in it to tie anything to anybody conclusively. They don't have the malware. They don't know which data was exfiltrated or where it went. They don't know how the supposed "malware" achieved persistence. They don't know how it worked around Apple's (rather elaborate) encryption and sandboxing.

Basically if you read the report all they really have is "Bezos received a video, and the phone started sending a bunch of data afterwards, we don't know to who, what data, or how any this was done. That'll be one million dollars in fees, Jeff, thank you very much". Maybe Bezos was just sending a bunch of dick pics to his girlfriend? Have they considered this possibility?

Could an actual, prominent security researcher take a look and confirm/disprove my suspicions?
I agree with that. I don't know how that's a defense of this specific instance though. I'm sure there are valuable things to learn here... but I'm not sure how you can justify these methods, even though they are the way to get the answer most surely and quickly.
My ex worked at a medical research school for a while - part of her job was snapping the necks of test mice. They do it that way because it's the most humane (as in, quick and painless) way. Killing thousands of mice did have a non-zero impact on her emotionally.
If you think lab mice are treated badly, read something about chicken or cow industrial farming. (And then we kill them to eat their dismembered corpses. Sorry about that. I hope artificial meat becomes good enough soon.)
You know, avoiding white/grey hair is not the only reason to go on vacation...
>Glad to see that BSD is catching up with Linux a bit in terms of having lots of random distributions. ;-/

GhostBSD has been around for years, since 2010. It's actually the first and only BSD distro I tried, many years ago.
You'd love Guix.
CS fundamentals are great, thankfully you don't need to physically go to any university and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition to learn them.

The alternative isn't just being an intern taking on grunt work, there are many who forego college to work full-time jobs in industry.
Someone managed to upgrade the RAM of the Nexus 5X from 2GB to 4GB; for $60 via some repairman in Shenzhen. https://hackaday.com/2017/04/18/upgrading-ram-on-a-nexus-5x/
PwC is literally the name of the company. This is like complaining IBM wasn't expanded to 'International Business Machines'.
That might also be why he enjoys the company of that box of randomness going by the name "Rob Schrab".
The desktop component of this very same application requires the VB6 runtime. And the server side requires Korn shell (for Windows)!
I mean, the answer is no, in that the course I actually took didn't cover any of that.

You're essentially creating a course you want taught. You can go look at the descriptions of some civics courses for non-majors. I don't think you're going to find much discussion of AI surveillance. They have to cram what they can into a semester or quarter.
I'm aware of basic biological research. This just seemed extreme to me. The neck breaking procedure is designed to reduce suffering btw...
I'm sure there is plenty of room for improvement in how sustainable and environmentally friendly the manufacturing processes for batteries are.

However, such activities are certainly greener than dumping 20 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year.
Yea those would be the exception.

But then again, how many people majoring in biology or chemistry actually end up using anything they learn? I'd wager it's probably a small minority.
Multidimensional arrays are first-class in Fortran, so there's no need to use pointers there. There are some rules around pointers and subarrays that I expect make any possible aliasing undefined behaviour.
> ...this flap is a battle of billionaires. whoever loses, we win

Why? Does power or wealth leak back to society amid the Game of Thrones?
Count me in as being one who is disappointed that the code is not being made available. I know releasing it to the public is inherently dangerous, but, I can't help but to be curious as to how these programs work top to bottom.
Some people feel very uncomfortable with the idea that a non-human animal can experience pain as we do, it can make ones reality much more complex.
The rest of us know this. We rediscovered a long-forgotten technique that keeps the animal safe: we don't take them on a plane at all.

We leave them with friends, in boarding kennels and catteries.

Having your pet with you 24/7 is —for most people— an unnecessary kink, an expression that we've got too used to getting our own way.

It's not healthy. Get a grip.
That's mighty kind of you. However, I'd just rather continue using Linux. It fits my use cases pretty well.
What has frustrated you about SendGrid?
while you're speculating, why isn't the true solution of building more dense housing to increase supply in your list?
Cool but the most of us will probably get irreversibly gray already by the time they release a drug.
Internet Explorer has a COM API which enterprise software (or worse, weird company-specific VBA scripts) can and likely does use to drive it directly. That API launches the actual iexplore.exe GUI executable and lets your code control it and interact with web pages, much like you might do with something like Selenium these days - except that this dates back to the nineties.
The argument isn't primarily a quantitative one. It's asking what it says about the so-called life sciences that they are based on torturing living beings.
Because it’s way better than what we had before. SystemD doesn’t care to be portable so it can expose a ton of nice Linux specifics and it centralizes a ton of stuff that was all over the place previously. I understand people hate it just consuming functionality one by one as it grows but from an end user perspective it’s been helpful.
My hypothesis is that all this QE will eventually show up in terms of higher inflation. A ton of money has been pushed into the market and yet amazingly, inflation is still incredibly low.

If inflation doubles to ~5% (which is closer to the historic norm), interest rates will also rise to ~6% (again, a historic norm). Suddenly, people who could swing an $800K mortgage, can now only do $600K (keeping payments the same). That will have a huge impact on housing prices.

I doubt it will crash (50%+ drop in price), but no doubt we'll see some sort of slow burn, where houses drop 10-20% over a 5-10 year period.

Once income catches up with prices, we'll see a recovery.
Then would you agree that when police act with reckless disregard for public safety with unnecessary high-speed pursuits of non-felony suspects who don't pose an immediate danger to anyone, the fault for any collateral damage caused lies at least somewhat with those police?
> with 10s or 100s of cores

You could probably even add another zero (almost two) to this
I mostly agree with the concepts mentioned in the article but on a high-level, I do not. I truly believe some people are born to lead while others are not (even though everyone certainly has the potential to be).

For ex. at my work place, there is a PM which I truly believe is a pure leader. Every single person on the PM's team (engineer, designer, marketing, and other PMs) likes working with the PM. It's uncanny and I have a hard time figuring out why. I suspect it's natural charisma and the way the PM leads without ordering. To counter that, another PM recently joined the company and this new PM is the exact opposite. The new PM's interactions are like orders or commands. To me, this new PM (however educated the PM is...), has already lost my trust after a month. Does anyone else have similar experiences?
I really don’t like this take. You should consider the fact that an equivalent volume of fossil fuel vehicles would be shipped around the world if electric cars did not exist. The carbon cost of shipping can thus be cancelled out and it becomes clear that this is a massive step in the right direction.
The creator died 16 years ago... but the (rather small) community has made a lot of patches and continues to work on filters. Given that it's basically the equivalent of running all the sites you visit through sed, with a syntax that's more suited for filtering HTML than plaintext, the strength lies in its flexibility and generality.

Yes, the UI is still skinnable, and the default skin is rather... psychedelic.
Tech people should reflect a bit on our responsibility for this situation.

It's not that housing is scarce in absolute terms. There's a ton of housing in rural or suburban areas. There's even a lot of housing in cities - just not the "desirable" cities. And what are the "desirable" cities? Almost without exception, they are places where tech workers tend to cluster - SF, NYC, Seattle, Boston, Austin, etc.

We should try to alleviate this problem by lobbying the leadership of big tech companies to open more branch offices in middle-tier cities, and also to increase support for remote workers.
> As Twitter discovered, its style of writing doesn't fit into the model of RSS.

It doesn't?

> People were disappointed when they stopped publishing tweets via RSS. But this was the right thing to do, in hindsight. It wasn't working.

Why wasn't it working?

I'll admit I've never used Twitter's RSS feeds—because at the time it was around, I was a teenager with no use for RSS. But I can't imagine why RSS as a protocol would be unable to represent tweets.

Whether any given RSS reader has an optimal UI for displaying tweets is another matter. But the great thing about interoperable protocols is that the content and client are separate. The client can be adapted and improved to fit your needs, if you want.
If you’re part of an organization where security is important, you would force all of your employees to register with your MDM solution and prohibit any iCloud backups, you would probably have them using Office for iOS and tell them to save their files to OneDrive for Business and enable encryption.

I doubt many businesses are using iWorks with iCloud.
A Connectome of the Adult Drosophila Central Brain
Brexit Deal Clears U.K. Parliament, Ending Years of Deadlock
I once saw an original Mini, a BMW Mini and a Hummer H2 waiting next to each other at the traffic lights. The latter two looked almost same size next to that original Mini.
Too bad for science purposes that Trump dyes his hair.
This is a great point.

Go back to the 70's, San Francisco was losing population. By the 90's it had dropped from a peak of 775K (1950) to 670K (1980). It's now ~880K, so only 14% higher than 70 years ago.
Learning Through Level Design with Mario (2013)
I recently read this article about rent control does not reduce the housing supply https://jwmason.org/slackwire/considerations-on-rent-control...
I can't claim expertise comparing particular funds. But for example, hasn't Vanguard's Real Estate EFT outperformed the S&P 500 by a wide margin?

And beside serious investors, for the typical individual, a home loan allows them to leverage funds that are unimaginably beyond what they could raise for investment with vastly more safety. Not that I suggest it would be better if half the population could and did buy stocks on unlimited margin or the like.

I just want to point out that even on this one particular issue, we gradually made policy and decided and made it such that one kind of loan is vital and the other insanely too risky. That at this point, this is so ingrained that it's hard to imagine any alternative. But I suggest we should probably try.
Swift is replacing Objective-C (a systems programming language a dialect of C). So indeed it is a direct competitor to Rust as it also provides hardware abstraction in a safe manner to replace C dialect.

I will wait and watch when Rust will be used to control Apple or Android hardware as performant with similar safety guarantee like Swift or now Kotlin.

It's also same as C++ used by Microsoft to provide underlying abstraction of hardware on Windows.
Boeing CEO says company won't scrap 737 Max
I have used SCCS in two ways:

(1) first encounter was browsing Kirk McKusick’s CSRG archives of BSD source code, by which I learned the very basics

(2) close encounter was to uplift a project with nearly 25 years of history from SCCS to git: https://www.dns.cam.ac.uk/news/2014-11-27-sccs-to-git.html
attach the word "extra" to the end of the current line?

s/$/ extra/p
What?

s/$/ extra/p

Ahem.
Operating the .org domain is not creating new wealth. It’s the same as a VA selling toll roads or someone buys old songs. They all spend some money maximize their income stream. However, that spending is not creating something useful.

Operations spending is required, but does not generate any long term wealth. You keep cleaning a hotel ever day and it does not get ever cleaner over time the way an actual investment does when you keep investing more money.
Would it be any different in a non-capitalist world? If we’re being honest, corruption eventually permeates everything given time. IMO the biggest difference between capitalism and socialism is the massive centralization of power in socialist systems. The effects of corruption tend to be much worse the more power is concentrated. These systems of finite resource distribution are ultimately just hacks to mitigate the real problem: people or individual nodes tend to seek the optimal outcome for themselves even if it’s at the expense of the system as a whole

Everyone tends to forget that sociopaths adapt
While it's true that electric cars still use tons of fossil fuels and the marketing can be misleading, I think the big picture goal is to simply have cars that can actually run on electricity.

Generating electricity in an environmentally-friendly way is almost an entirely separate problem from using electricity to run things that used to not run on electricity. Electric cars try to solve the latter problem, and the hope is that the widespread existence of electric cars will make the transition to clean energy easier in the future.
Upon further consideration, you're absolutely right.
Lake Salagou was designed to drown the village of Celles, but never did
It's actually a bit sad how this element has been progressively forgotten through the years. In the early '00s, everything-python had to make an effort to drop a Monty Python reference somewhere, anywhere, even just in docs; but nowadays it's pretty hard to spot one in the wild. Popularity inevitably waters down this sort of eccentricity.
Kiss My Converse: “The Last Dragon” Is a Cinematic Masterpiece
Do you think Go's developers and users are simply unaware of exceptions, optionals etc? Or is it that the trade offs that they made aren't net positive for most use cases? Even if the second was true, that isn't necessarily a bad decision; since C# continues to exist, there may be more use for a language targeted to some niche than just a copy of C#.

I've used C# and Go extensively and like both languages. In some big ways they are similar: garbage collected, (fairly) fast compile times, large ecosystems, good tooling (if you include the JetBrains tooling for Go), built in lightweight concurrency, etc. It's not surprising people compare them.

For the areas where they differ, Go in general is more explicit and more low level. Handling errors as return values instead of exceptions is more typing, but I find it easier to check that error handling has been done correctly in my own code and in third party libraries. Instead of the class/struct dichotomy pointers are explicit and any type can be used as a value type (there's also more flexibility in using Go types with unmanaged memory, and the ability to take interior pointers). The way interfaces are implemented they can be used in more places without boxing.

C# has generics but I've run into frustrating limitations with them, for example not being able to write numeric code that works with either 32 bit or 64 bit floats. Go's generics are currently limited to some built in types but the proposals being iterated on seem like they'll be more useful to me than C#'s implementation if they make it into the language.

Other things: Go has a single concurrency story so the ecosystem isn't divided into sync/async worlds, is a less complex language overall, and is a bit less verbose aside from error handling (no public static void etc). Overall I probably prefer Go, but I like C# also and could easily imagine projects where it might be a better choice especially in areas where the lower level aspects of Go aren't useful.

Reading HN, it seems like a lot of people believe that people who use Go (and even the language designers) are simply ignorant. I'm open to the possibility, but can you flesh it out for me a little bit more? What am I missing here?
I wonder if we can use a Python wrapper for that?
Isn't it too GNU? I want all of my system (including all the hardware) to actually function and this is hardly possible without non-free code.
Are there ten popular micropayment services? Does it cost anything in time and effort to use them? Who do you trust to tell you which micropayment services are good and trustworthy?
If you buy a house today for $500k on a 30-year you'll spend close to a million dollars before you own it if you ride the loan out, and adjusted for inflation, you will probably take a loss on it.

What's the basis for that conclusion?

Just like the last 30 years, some markets will decline, while others will appreciate. Not sure why you think things will be so drastically different.
Mice aren't "beings".
Mumble also has the lowest latency of any VOIP software out there, at least to my knowledge. It's something the developers prioritize a great deal.

In my experience, this improves the quality of every conversation. They just flow more naturally.

I wish other solutions would prioritize latency. Skype went very noticeably backward after they switched away from P2P.
It appears to, however I haven't completed the process yet.
The Toyota Tacoma is a US-only car and is well-known in truck circles for starting out as a "compact" pickup and becoming midsize. Per Google, the 2000 model was 67" wide, the 2020 is 75". An 8" increase is in line with what the article describes.

I don't think compact pickups exist today.
Could that be a later development than the original Twitter thread?
They probably don't have the quote. It's not surprising that they don't, because whoever heard it probably wasn't taking notes or something, they're just recollecting what was said. I think it's still pretty clear from the article that the term "grooming" was used as part of a larger analogy between reporters and sexual predators though. Either way, and regardless of how "damning" this actually is, Quibi's response isn't really denying that it happened.
This is awesome, I honestly learned more about floating point in five minutes of playing with this tool than I have in all my years as a coder. One of the main takeaways should be that 64 bits is usually way more precision than we need, 32 is usually more than enough. It would be cool if the tool also showed the new Bfloat16 type, so we could get some intuition for that as well. IIRC, Intel created Bfloat16 to better suit the needs of deep learning practitioners, who don't need much precision (especially for large values).
I had actually heard of SatNOGS before but forgot about it. I'm definitely going to look into the project in more detail. Thank you for sharing!
That fascist is turning my hair white.
Jeff Bezos’ iPhone X Was Hacked
The most significant security response to the novel parts of the 9/11 attacks was done by the passengers on flight 93. It took an hour and seventeen minutes for them to get the news and adapt the strategy to hijackings.
Guy mentioned in the article here using a throwaway (I'm active on this site). Never went to trial, never went to prison, charges were withdrawn.

> An investigation by infosec journalist Brian Krebs claimed that a second suspect, a US man named Jeremy Wade, was also behind the service. He was never charged

According to American prosecutors, freedom of speech prevents prosecution in America without intent to commit a crime.
This article explained some things clearly.

ISOC didn't "buy" the rights to administer .org in the first place. They were given it. Along with $5 million actually; they paid, like, negative for it, they were paid to take it.

Now they get to sell it for $1.1 billion? How does that make any sense at all?

We're literally at "Russian oligarch-type" transaction here. America!
The problem is that without Citizens United, all that kept the FEC from banning reporting on political candidates was that the law didn't extend there yet. Because what is a front-page article on a candidate if not an in-kind contribution? Why should the Wall Street Journal be allowed to run an article praising the most recent Republican candidate, if the Sierra Club can't publish a documentary condemning their policies?

People throw a lot of hate towards Citizens United. But the alternative was worse.
A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidden code
At that point I'd just use Python.