skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, Alaska. It’s a bit of a different world up there. I’m not sure it would compare to flying a regional airline in the lower 48. The vast majority of the airports down here still have some form of terminal and TSA even if you’re boarding a Dash 8. The only way to escape TSA in the lower 48 is to fly on a charter.

Edit: Did some research and found there’s a special exemption on TSA for aircraft over 12,500 lbs but under 61 passengers that most of the companies in Alaska use to avoid TSA. I’m not aware of it being used in the lower 48. Business opportunity?

https://thepointsguy.com/news/flights-without-tsa-screening/
In this vein, I set my PS1 to bold red capital letters on bastion hosts and alias sudo="echo 'You're on a jump box moron :p'"

I do the tmux color trick too-- color coded by environment for each bastion.
Is this automated?
No but it’s obvious there could be.
> Should the government prop up 10 competitors in every industry?

This questions seems answered by the comment it's replying to. The previous poster said:

> There's nothing necessarily wrong with a segment where there's essentially one one or two providers; some things may be natural monopolies.

So, that seems like an answer to your question: no. There are some segments where it doesn't make sense.
Wingspan was the first thing I thought of too ;-) I should be getting the Europe expansion any day now.
What a treat to read a well written piece based on decent research. It's a long read but well worth your time. Kudo's to the journalists who helped uncover it.

And the 'coup of the century' is far from clickbait, it's definitionally warranted for what the CIA and BND did here.

It's a little ironic as well, especially since the US is so keen on blocking Huawei over espionage concerns.
Another small screw-up anecdote: I once tried symlinking a file into my home directory, only to realize I had actually symlinked it into my current directory into a file called '~'. I did the only sensible thing I could think of, which was to run `rm -rf ~` to get rid of it... After about half a second I realized what I had done, but by then enough of my home directory had been wiped clean that I needed to restore from backup.

Always a fun one to share. :)
We need to stop dehumanizing prisoners. Prisoners are people and they shouldn't be "stored" anywhere. They're humans. They live places.
I don't understand how I can unpack Image.lzma, if "unlzma Image.lzma" doesn't work but "Binwalk -e Image.lzma" work correct?
My biggest takeaway from recovering from burnout is this:

There is a lot of bad burnout-related advice and discussion on the internet. Be careful about where you get your advice.

Specifically: A lot of the burnout-related discussion on the internet is from people who are currently dealing with burnout. Burnout generates a lot of feelings of anger, resentment, and helplessness, and this is reflected in the writings of people in the midst of burnout. Consume too much of this material, and you'll find yourself moving deeper into burnout rather than getting better. If you find yourself thinking things like "burnout is inevitable" or "everyone is burned out in today's world" or "there is no cure for burnout" then you've gone off track.

The key is to identify burnout-related advice that is more reinforcing than helpful, and to ignore it. You need to immerse yourself in advice that helps with stress resilience, time management, emotion management, self-awareness, and gradually regaining your sense of control over your life.

To that end: You want to add variety to your life. Social interaction, new hobbies, new exercises, traveling to new destinations. If you find yourself thinking you don't have time or energy to do that, you've got it backward. You can't afford to not do this. Socializing, exercising, and other activities will give you extra energy and time, not deplete it.

You also need to work on stress management and emotion management. Some people have good success with therapy, others enjoy meditation, and others find that simple journaling or talking it out with friends is enough to regain control. The important thing is to understand your own emotions, your own triggers, and start to understand how you can shape and influence your mood.

Consider switching things up at work. Transferring to a new team or moving to a different company is a nice way to hit the reset button on the drudgery of your accumulated responsibilities. A clean slate and some new faces can go a long way toward rebooting your burnout. If you're overwhelmed or buried at work, take control of the situation and request additional headcount to normalize the workload. Learn the art of pushing back on management.
Usually through tribal knowledge contained in experienced employees who “retire” when they get too old and expensive
I have not seen this one (AUS-based) but can strongly recommend a similar piece from a US intel analyst pairing- Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence, by Katherine Hibbs Pherson and Randolph Pherson. Niche domain but for discussion of the work of strategy production of any kind, very valuable.
A blockchain doesn't ensure trust either. The blockchain "trusts" whoever has the most powerful hash cracking array.
That's easier said than done. Often times, refusing to allow a merger will mean that one of the competitors will just go out of business, and avoiding that will require propping up a competitor.
I wish it was. Mainstream media are often relaying it, as they relay almost all the new liberal leftism/feminism, just a bit less so far. And I am not even talking about the USA but somewhere in Europe where that American stuff was imported in a blink, in spite of the fact that local situation, culture and history do no match that story and the American situation, culture and history at all.
Being able to read diplomatic messages is a definite gold-mine.

Of course, knowing the contents of diplomatic messages isn't always enough. A good example is described in Peter Wright's Spycatcher: the Brits were breaking the French diplomatic cipher, using an ingenuous attack on the electromagnetic noise of the cipher machine in the embassy.
But all this intelligence was unable to stop De Gaulle thwarting their entering the European Common Market.
Well, it's not just a wrapper around "tar xf"
There are moderators for egregious indisputable violations, just like there are police for lawbreaking. But there are also murky or less clear-cut cases that nevertheless clearly degrade the quality of the discussion over time, just like there are lots of mean things people do to each other in the real world that appropriately are not punished by the police. The way these are dealt with is by telling the person they shouldn't do what they've done, and by arguing to others that it shouldn't be supported.
Link seems to be accidentally pasted twice.
There’s a key difference: ML was solving real problems from day one - not everything, not as well as some boosters claimed but real products did useful work. Bitcoin a decade in has … ?
And to loop it back around to a video game if that's more in your comfort zone, there is Fantasy Birding where you pick a virtual location every day and are credited with seeing whatever real people really reported in that location that day.

Only the truly intrepid fantasy-bird themselves.
System76 added a 'HiDPI daemon' for handling mixed-DPI multimonitor setups in GNOME to their PopOS distro, in my experience it works less badly than the alternatives.

https://blog.system76.com/post/168340008923/hidpi-is-release...
I agree with you in some points, but overall I do believe that a lot of progress is being made with respect to qualified POC and women rising ranks - it just takes time to reflect.

It's easy to dissect on one company and criticize them for their lack of diversity, but amazon is only a little over 20 years old despite its immense success and most of its S-Team has stuck around since its inception.

I'm reminded of a quote from 30 Rock about corporate structure, "When a big one falls, four little ones rise up". Its just the case that the 'big ones' have rarely fallen in the S-team. For positions like these, in the apex of the business world, only time will tell.
I tell them that they will pay more for a plane ticket than others if they don't hide their Apple products or their profession. Suddenly they understand that there IS something to hide...
If you go on reddit pharmacy, you see people say Costco is by far the best retail pharmacy and almost impossible to get a full-time gig with.
A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians
What should I do with this product?
Heres some background. A couple of years ago I created a SaaS product where the idea was to manage reusable checklists for teams.
To market the product I thought I needed a "link magnet"/marketing-site [1] that would drive people to the real product.
I built the marketing site and nothing more happend.

Now fast forward to today, I have hosted the marketing site for a couple of years without really doing anything with it.
So now I'm reaching out to the HN community for some help, do you have any ideas what to do with it? Anybody else want to run it?

Thanks,
Frej

[1]: https://checkliststack.com
Thanks will check it out
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Warren Buffett Has Started the Biggest Energy Revolution
Some of the examples provided in the paper are eloquent:

•df[df.a>3]

•df[df["a"]>3]

•df.loc[df.a>3]

•df.loc[df["a"]>3]
HN is still tame. Blind is cancer about comp related dick swinging.
Ancient Well Found to Be Oldest Wooden Structure Ever Discovered
I take this plainly without irony as evidence for the restriction of foreign government-controlled infastructure in series with trusted communication.
That isn't strictly true. Christianity has a concept of what should be dealt by God and what should be dealt with by man. The very term "Religion" is a Christian one as before that generally the state, religion, your life etc were all bound up as one. It wasn't until the Roman Empire did anyone even consider that these were separate.
For the topic of "how to make a browser", it is a completely ridiculous reason.

That's the point of the parent, I believe. They didn't act as a technology foundation, they acted as a political grass roots organization. As a tech-spinoff of a progressive party, you couldn't keep Eich. As a browser manufacturer, his private political ideas are irrelevant and firing him because of it is clearly ridiculous.
It really seems like this might be the start of the collapse of an incompetent monopoly. Lots of new business opportunities here, this is a rare event.
Early versions of the Phoenix frameworks ORM would select every record if you didn't pass it an ID. I didn't know that and wrote a deletion endpoint forgetting to put said ID in. Tests passed (I mean it did delete...) and off to prod it went. Long story short: I deleted data for all our users. Thank God for backups.
Less windows = less chance an aircraft would depressurize. An array of small roof windows could be a solution.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/gallery/stephen-chang-imagina...
Allowing a child to participate in a hearing does not grant them emancipation as an adult. Teens are in court every weekday, all day in the U.S. Only a small fraction of them are granted emancipation as an adult and only for very rare and specific limited conditions. Could you please highlight the part that you believe provides emancipation for the child?

In addition, to the best of my knowledge, a country can not provide legal emancipation for another countries citizen that is not under their jurisdiction. I am not a lawyer, but it sounds like one should step in here.
ERPNext in my opinion: https://erpnext.com/
> But I can imagine that if I had sent it to a bunch of other people who have no interest in KDE they would have closed the page again.

The OMGUbuntu site did a decent write-up:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/kde-plasma-5-18-lts-feat...

Anyway, updating KDE Neon as I'm typing this. Looking forward to new bits of polish :)
Related question: do modern diplomats/negotiators automatically assume their comms are compromised? Are their "secure" lines ever truly secure? Surely they know the NSA/CIA would be listening.
Right on!

And the CEO, Shawn Braden (evidently the founders granddaughter) - has a rather thin profile.

Unusual for a savvy FinTech-ish firm > https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-braden-8a4467120/

Still, good on you Mustang, Oklahoma!
You should also acknowledge it is just your belief, and that a person who does not advocate for gay rights, can be moral too.

Advocating for/against gay rights is a spectrum, and you need to see where they fall on it.

Tolerance is a 2-way street.
This week I've had some success using something like the Pomodoro technique. Though I've tried it a few times before I never quite got it to stick. Some thoughts / changes I made:

- Doubled the length of time to somewhere between 45-80 minutes, loosely based on the perceived complexity of the task

- Didn't time my breaks. This sounds counter-intuitive but they never lasted more than 5-10 minutes for me anyway, but having an open-ended "breathing-session" helped psychologically

- No notifications during this period, at all. Phone and laptop on DnD, no messaging apps running - I really mean all notifications.

- Having the "guarantee" that I'll see missed notifications during my break, with some sane max delay (1-2 hours) instead of an indefinite amount of time helped my brain unplug considerably

- Working with no notifications is incredible

- You have to believe you won't be interrupted to do deep work.
The same report by the ZDF (second german television): https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/cryptoleaks-bnd-cia-o...
It's easy, people don't like getting politics shoved in their faces when they're using some product that has nothing to do with poltiics. Especially when they disagree with the message.

Of course, in the Mozilla case it's more than their pander to wokeness that made them become unrelevant. It's their focus on shitty products that no one asked for or wanted. For example, Pocket. Such a waste of money, I'm sure they have some users and so on but come on.

There is no way of donating to the development of Firefox. You can only donate to Mozilla and the money won't be used for development but rather for pushing woke politics.

They have used a lot of money afaik on that purpose alone. To be more inclusive, which basically translates to excluding white men (because that is what it's always about).

But if you want some concrete list, check this one out:

https://www.oneangrygamer.net/get-woke-go-broke-the-master-l...

I'm sure Brendan wouldn't have spent millions on shit products and woke politics but rather to have improved on the core products and stuff like privacy which people actually care about.

This is why Brave will be bigger than Firefox in the long run, because they care about what actually matters. Which is the product they offer.
Looking for feedback on a drag and drop Kubernetes editor concept
25 meters is pretty reasonable for a NYC apartment. I think it has more to do with the additional plumbing and ventilation setup that's missing. The old pre-war buildings are too expensive to renovate to add that kind of thing and a lot of the newer construction is aimed at maximizing profit by cutting every possible corner and those buildings were competing with the older buildings that didn't have them so they skipped it too. I also wouldn't be surprised if there's some NYC regulation or code that makes it extra complicated and expensive to add them.
>2. Why would anyone want people to post illegal material on a blockchain when it is immutable? Let's assume the culprit goes to jail, but then you have billions of people now able to access illegal content, that can never be removed because it is on a blockchain

>What a sales pitch.

Makes sense to me. It hampers government censorship by making something illegal. While I'm sure people have exceptions they think should be illegal and inaccessible, the end result with technology is you either have a technology that is resistant to censorship for everything or nothing, and I prefer everything.

It is the same thing with encryption. You can give the government a backdoor just for the super illegal stuff you really want to stop, but the backdoor will exist for all material and thus compromise encryption in general, even if the government super duper pinky promises to only use it on the original illegal stuff.

Too much of this is all or nothing and I think the powers that wish for censorship keep pushing for 'just one exception' for a specific kind of illegal material to get public support for compromising the system for just that one thing, betting on the average individual not realizing that the compromise compromises the whole systems resistance against government censorship at any level.
Alternatives:

build a startup and pray to get acquired

join a startup and pray to get acquired (there's still a post acquisition interview though)

contribute to OSS and pray G/F noticed and maybe ask to hire you (still have to go through some interview)

This ain't the old Silicon Valley anymore. Majority of the companies in SF applies Leetcode as filters.
Pitching Bitcoin would be just as sad.
> to work harder for less if they are able to get the employees to develop some sort of emotional attachment to the company

You're implying as if it's inherently a fraud. Which means that you're implying that "emotional attachement to the company" is something that has no real value for employee - or at least not as much value as money would have.

Why do you think so?
I'm struggling to see how wearing a specific style of clothing as connected to the following ideas

A. common professional manners ethics and customs
B. total breakdown of communication and culture*

(exception that clothing correlates to the aesthetic aspect of culture)

A shirt doesn't cause you to be on time, sincerely follow up on commitments, and solve business problems. (Part A)

Do people struggle to communicate with people in different clothing? I don't quite get this. (Part B)

What I do see is the insistence on wearing specific clothes to work being an unwelcome intrusion on people's lives.

I'm very interested in your point of view on how the traditional clothing culture makes a difference in the workplace. This is one of those things that has always felt alien to me and I just go along with it to please management.
Helpful list, and a good reminder for everyone to check their own lists. Would have loved to see a "total" :)
> 1) the antibodies from the drugs were unable to break up the plaques (in which case the drug is the issue)

Shouldn't it be possible to have a look at the patients brains to see if there's any difference in plaque formation in those that underwent treatment vs those who had the placebo.
To put into perspective: IIRC, one should set aside $5M for a mask set if planning to use advanced processes. Our multi-project wafers, from 130 to 22 nm, cost us ~€10k per mm².
You have to multiply by the number of different circuits.

Inkjet (or more generally fabless) allow you to get closer to individual unit costs right away for prototyping.

I'm not sure everyone could buy one such printer (I haven't looked at the prices), but a billion-dollars fab sure isn't affordable.

As an aside, IPs for integrated circuits are so expensive rightly because they generally have to be prototyped trough before being sold. I guess it's one of a few domains where engineering costs are quite low compared to fabrication costs.
This is really scary. I discovered this because we're working on converting and re-hosting popular datasets in many popular formats for easy use across models... I first noticed that there were a bunch of completely unlabeled images.

Upon digging in, I was appalled that fully 1/3 of the images contained errors or omissions! Some are small (eg a part of a car on the edge of the frame or a ways in the distance not being labeled) but some are egregious (like the woman in the crosswalk with a baby stroller).

I think this really calls out the importance of rigorously inspecting any data you plan to use with your models. Garbage in, garbage out... and self-driving cars should be treated seriously.

I went ahead and corrected by hand the missing bounding boxes and fixed a bunch of other errors like phantom annotations and duplicated boxes. There are still quite a few duplicate boxes (especially around traffic lights) that would have been tedious to fix manually, but if there's enough demand I'll go back and clean those as well.
Users do not connect directly to the database. Turkey definitely didn't blackhole traffic to Wikipedia's database.
A Few Principles of Clean Code
Those are all self-fulfilling prophecies. And the opposite maxims would also be pretty effective ones.
Explain Anything with a GIF
Python asyncio and await'ing multiple functions
The enlightenment moment is when you realize that messy code that models the business domain well is far, far easier to maintain than clean code that lives in its own clean code bubble. The former can be cleaned at any time. The latter will immediately revert to a state of pandemonium on the next requirements change.

This isn't the main thrust of Sandi Metz's famous "All The Little Things" talk, but it's front-and-center in the approach she takes to cleaning up the code. Half the talk - basically all the parts where she keeps mentioning, "You'll notice our complexity metrics are still getting worse even though the code is getting better" - largely consists of getting the way the software models the business domain whipped into shape.

Or, to go full analogy, no number of trips to The Container Store will leave your house feeling clean and organized if half your possessions are junk that you don't need and the furniture arrangement is awful.
Ask HN: Can Email Scammers Bypass SPF, DKIM and Dmarc Verification? Maybe
I just got an email from paypal saying they were going to send me a debit card unless I wanted to opt out. It was positioned as a "free business account upgrade" email.

It had no typos, it was fully branded and it looked legit. The headers showed that it was indeed sent from mail.paypal.com and SPF, DKIM and DMARC passed verification.

But all of the links lead to this domain: https://epl.paypal-communication.com

The "Received" header came from: mta113b.pmx1.epsl1.com (mta113b.pmx1.epsl1.com. [142.54.244.113])

And that 142.54.244.113 IP address is also used for the Received-SPF header which passed.

Can someone explain how this happened? That IP address according to Google has a number of abuse complaints filed against it so I doubt it's really from PayPal.
I remember reading about an issue on some Linux systems, not sure if they fixed it, but do report these issues if you can.
The 36c3 talk about this device and TamaGo:

- https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/events...

- https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10597-tamago_-_bare_metal_go_fra...
A static day off in an otherwise rotating schedule increases the quality of life for a retail worker considerably. It also happens to be a day off that many of your friends and family are also likely to have off, rather than often having random days off during the work week. A retail worker might actually be able to maintain a normal social life with a recurring Sunday off.
U.S. companies cut back on installing robots in 2019
Notes on Living Creatively
I've seen this in 2019! One of our api partners has a deletion endpoint. It's

.../delete/:id

If you don't pass an id... it deletes all records. Because that is a thing you would want, rather than a bug where you somehow got a null id.
Sometimes the comments are gross.
I live on a farm. When we talk about cryptosporidium we always just say crypto.
> What I find fascinating is that the person pushing Jimmy to use crypto for Wikipedia does not seem to fully grasp the technology they are pitching.

I find this pretty perfectly describes the majority of crypto enthusiasts.
Amazed.
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