skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would have a difficult time finding an airborne system that does not already do this:

> I just hope these are thoroughly tested and actually solve real world problems

Changing from a legacy style to a new one is not cheap, and aerospace companies are not the type to spend money on useless, less reliable technology.
BMW and Mercedes have always had physical dials to control the infotainment system.
Best zoom alternative?
Thin air, but I believe also whatever was living in the flour and bran one uses to make the starter mix.

Flour meal naturally contains a lot of yeast and bacteria.
I think of "the bar" as being basically our industry's equivalent to a law degree: it's just a way to show that you have some foundational knowledge in the subject, even if it bears little resemblance to day-to-day work. All of the flaws you enumerated could also apply to law school, but at least "the bar" is reasonably accessible and doesn't cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
No, they're using the (deprecated) Authorization Services API from the (renamed) BLAuthentication.
Over the past 27 years, I've worked for 8 different organizations, including two FAANGs, and I've never technically prepared for any interview. This is not some kind of indirect boasting about how smart I am. Far from it. I feel positively dumb compared to my peers.

I rarely fully nail the most difficult algorithmic interviews, and I don't think that's the point. I think I get most of my 'points' by taking a very direct, easy going and open approach to things. The phrases "I don't know" and "I'm not sure" will get practically worn out at the end of my interviews.

I don't think it's what one knows as much as it is about how one approaches and thinks about problems.

Second item: do the interviews anyway, even if you don't necessarily intend on leaving.

I'll tell recruiters that I'm pretty happy where I'm at, and that it would take some kind of enormous comp package to entice me to move. But we'll still do the whole process, and I'll often end up turning down a pretty solid offer.

For many/most companies, turning down an offer 'locks' you out for a year or so; no big deal.

I really enjoy interviewing at the top tier companies, because, in the end, I always learn a great deal.

Like most things, interviewing is something you can get good at with practice. What's nice is that you have the opportunity to get several hours of face to face time with really smart people at no out of pocket cost, except for a day of PTO from your current job if you live local.
Is this going to impact PBX systems that use ANI Information Elements to route calls and provide caller information to customer service applications, etc? Spoofing is kind of at the heart of those things.
Sigh is right. I used and paid for dark sky on Android, and now it's dead.

This is one way Apple tries to lock people in, and it's really frustrating. This isn't an efficient market situation, this is a monopolist protecting their walled garden kingdom by slurping up the cross platform innovators. I'm terribly disappointed in the Dark Sky authors for doing this to long time loyal customers, no matter what their paychecks look like.
I would say that an API that requires authorization keys is incomplete if it doesn't provide the tools to manage them securely. How could a service even offer scalability and security if it doesn't support two keys with rotation? It's a "non-trivial problem" because consistent, available, distributed API key rotation is not just hard, it's impossible. (See: CAP)

That doesn't solve your problem, but it means that you should take this complaint to whatever API service offering you are using.
Myself and a few fellow HNers are interested in discussing building an open source alternative to Dark Sky's API. I will have to find/build something that meets this need for my business (bractlet.com), anyway.

If you are interested in helping contribute in any way (by coding, providing requirements, etc.), or just want to lurk, please email me: `brian${'at'}bractlet${'dot'}com`

I'll get us into a discussion forum of some sort so we can confer.

I would clarify that I'm mostly interested in weather data for the United States right now, but am certainly not limiting this effort based on that.
Quasi-serious home baker here: think of those pieces of advice as possible inputs, instead of contradictory! How often you feed your starter, and how much water is included, are both factors you can use to control the final properties of the bread. For example, wetter starters tend to lean more lactic (milky) in flavor while drier ones tend more acetic (vinegary). Temperature, time, ingredients, kneading, etc. are all part of a big interconnected system that will have different results in your brand :)

I recommend checking out recipes and the forums on www.thefreshloaf.com. I also really recommend keeping some simple notes when you bake sourdough - what you did, how everything seemed, and how the bread came out. Over time, you’ll adjust and manipulate your own processes to get closer and closer to the bread you want.
This is good advice for dealing with squirrels and rabbits: Irish Spring - https://homeguides.sfgate.com/use-irish-spring-soap-repel-ga.... I first heard of this a few years back and it works wonders!
pgtyped looks awesome, fantastic work! We're huge fans of type-safety at Prisma so anything that makes working with DBs type-safe is right down our alley! :D

I think one thing that distinguishes Prisma (on the longer run) from a library like pgtyped is that Prisma will enable more database workflows than just database access. With Prisma Migrate, you can alter your DB schema and keep a migration history, Prisma Studio will enable lots of DB workflows on a GUI level, and Prisma Cloud will have great integrations for teams and larger scale organizations eventually.

All that being said, because Prisma is a DB toolkit, you can also pick and choose any tools you like from it. Nothing would e.g. speak against using Prisma Migrate to run your schema migrations but keep accessing your DB with pgtyped, in fact I think this would be an awesome combination :)
Thank you for the recommendation, will look into it.

Do you know of any epics close to Hyperion? I have been searching for a long time and have not found anything on par with it.

Dune (often named) and The Expanse were not meant for me and have been ruined for me by the movies/TV shows. The old Asimov stories are... old.

I read many larger volumes such as the Commonwealth Saga, Three Body Problem etc. but nothing caught the way Hyperion did for me.

Funnily, from the many books and series I read, the ones I remember most fondly were on the other end of the spectrum of Hyperion: Bobiverse and The Murderbot Diaries - both short, much less beautiful language and more on the funny side but original and thought provoking.
I paid $10 for this pre-Corona and have made several loaves so far. https://www.udemy.com/join/login-popup/?next=/course/sourdou...
I wonder if Rob Greenfield would consider himself to be a modern day Garden Hermit?[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr5s0ps9rAQ
I expect that tomorrow's "Who's Hiring" story will have a strange vibe compared to past months.
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Longer than that. As long as ISDN/T1 PRI lines have been around. A completely unhindered spoofing playground.
> Is the change even a net positive if the average person uses one three times and throws it out?

Well, the point of the aluminum drinking straws is that you don't throw them. What's the point if you're gonna throw them in the end anyways? Just wash it, like the rest of utensils that you use.

Anyways, I think we can all survive without straws. McDonals where I live has started just not giving you straws at all, and the cup has a message that if you want straws, ask the people working there for one. Looking around me when eating there, most people seems to be able to drink their sodas just fine without straws.
Dynamic interface can still be useful in some cases. Cars do require the driver’s active attention, but certainly not the passenger’s, who can operate the touchscreen. Further, undoubtably part of what makes controls intuitive is familiarity, and thanks to smartphones, tablets, and to some degree even modern laptops, it’s hard to argue against it from a familiarity standpoint. I’m sure it’s been attempted but, It’s hard to imagine a good mapping interface in a car with no touchscreen at all.

I’m still glad for what Honda is actually doing, which is not unilaterally removing touch screen controls but instead moving climate control back to physical buttons. These are things a driver ought to be able to operate safely while in motion, and touch controls only ever made them more complicated I think.
You can plant onions now and probably lettuce in a couple of weeks.
Why open source developers are trying to manipulate GitHub?
Have you tried looking the history of every "popular" open source framework or library? I myself have been checking this for a couple of months now and I can surely guarantee you that most maintainers are updating their outdated projects with bull$hit commits (docs/deps) just to manipulate the "Latest commit" to the users. I'm so frustrated because it's cheap, dirty and completely unethical. You can't just force the users to believe it's updated till today when your last "true" (bug or feature) commit was 2 years ago just to persuade someone to use your thing. Some developers are actually doing hilarious commits only ONCE per month for years. I have seen many examples but I won't point fingers directly and blame them publicly. I just want this to be stopped, many great projects have their last commit a year ago for example but everyone knows it's maintained, you don't have to cheat users just to gain downloads/stars for your next job application.
The desire to explore untouched wilderness is something that has been strongly selected for. The world has been colonized by those who had the greatest inclination to explore the unknown.

Non-human animals also, eventually, colonize areas beyond their point of origin, and this is no doubt driven partly by a desire to "explore". But humans, perhaps more than any other animal, are capable of having the idea of "exploring" as something that they can be obsessed by. And humans are less constrained by the need to constantly satisfy the basic necessities of life, which makes it possible for the dedicated explorer to go on extended exploring trips, exploring the world for its own sake.

Also, it is part of human nature that different people in a social group develop different interests, which benefits the tribe via division of labour. So not everyone needs to be a committed explorer - it is enough for one mad explorer to go out exploring, and then come back to the tribe to report if they found something worth reporting.
How many times do I have to re-quote your own words to yourself? Did you not say the following?

> Many see getting called slurs as a small price to pay to get a chance to break into tech.

Because that's a breath-takingly racist assertion. And I did not say that. I suggest re-reading your post so that you understand that you wrote those words.

> First of all, it is a common practice at least as far as what I've experienced.

Funny, because I've literally never experienced or even heard of this practice at a single place I've worked at. So I guess that makes it a very uncommon practice?

> Studies in university STEM faculty recruiting found a 2:1 bias in favor of women

I'm referring to tech hiring in the private sector. Your citation is about tenure-track academic hiring in STEM, which encompasses a broad range of fields including ones that aren't male-dominated and is a very different can of worms than SV tech. But go ahead and continue to minimize the very real, disparate impact that discrimination in tech has, while insisting that trying to rectify that problem is, in fact, the real bias in hiring.
Marriott says 5.2M guests exposed in new data breach
One could easily argue that Apple is sunsetting the Android app for one of the same reasons we can't install MacOS on a non-Apple PC (without violating the EULA): Apple doesn't like supporting unpredictable platforms, and doesn't want to be in a situation where people blame them for other people's bugs and unexpected under-the-hood changes.
Orangesite Transparency
Have you watched a younger person search? Most of them don't have any clue what they're doing either. Presumably it's just more socially acceptable for older people to admit their ignorance. :)
> "Hi Professor, I just read this webpage [link], which outlines some privacy concerns with Zoom. I know some other classes are running Software X, could we try that instead?"

Hi [Student],

I appreciate your concern; however, our university has conducted a thorough audit of this software and found that it satisfies our needs. We will continue using it for our lectures.

Regards,
Dr. [Professor]

Senior tenured chair of [Department], distinguished lecturer, [University]
There are tons of great bread making resources. A beginner is really well served at King Arthur:

Creating a starter: https://www.kingarthurflour.com/blog/2012/04/05/creating-you...

Maintaining a starter: https://www.kingarthurflour.com/blog/2012/04/08/maintaining-...

and the remainder of the starter-specific articles under the tag https://www.kingarthurflour.com/blog/tag/sourdough-starter

Anyone starting out should also try a no-knead preparation. The NY Times's recipe is famous: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread

If you have a large enough dutch oven with a lid, those trap steam and you don't have to have a tray of water in the oven.
> There's prestige, salary, and quality of life that just can't be matched by any other tech companies.

Not sure about prestige and quality of life. Salary, yes!. I happily quit my Microsoft for a slightly lower pay and way better quality of life.

Right now AAMFGN are hiring tons of engineers. So their quality really varies and different teams have different bars. You can't say they worked at Google so they must be good. We are humans and we have our biases. Like it or not, hiring is biased (mostly towards white/asian males from prestigious universities). To counteract, there's also diversity hires (with various degrees of definition what it exactly is).

For some people, money is much higher priority, for others it's not. Just be sure what you really want from life. Remember, it's not a race.
The only feedback I've seen has echoed my own sentiment: "Good". What is the opposing point of view? Is there anyone out there who is willing to defend touch-screen interfaces in vehicles? What's the advantage to the driver? Is it even that much cheaper to the manufacturer? Surely plastic knobs are not a big hit to the bottom line of car makers.
Cool, thanks for those details. I'm certainly not succumbing to any sort of naturalistic fallacy, or any illusion that plastic is in an intrinsically unique category compared to other products. I'm more operating from a general Precautionary Principle, where I want the burden of proof to be on demonstrating long-term ecological and health safety, especially for substances that come into contact with food and water.
thank you very much. :)
I agree, this was the biggest striking difference I saw between the engineering workforces at FAANG companies vs "everywhere else". You'll encounter a similar percentage of geniuses and top performers at both types of companies. You'll see plenty of regular 1X to 2X engineers, too. But somehow the FAANGs have, for the most part, figured out how to filter out the programmers who literally cannot program, whereas many other companies have not. You'll never see The Brilliant Paula Bean [1] at FAANG, but you will encounter them once in a while pretty much everywhere else.

1: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean
Good question. I recently started getting Internet-originated SMS spam on AT&T, which Verizon gave consumers the means to block a decade ago.

When confronted with it, AT&T whined that they can't block it... which is absolute bullshit. Not only does Verizon let you block it, but it isn't even shown as coming from a phone number, but rather a GMail address or other non-numeric source. So obviously this pattern could be used to filter it.

AT&T also pummels customers with multiple texts for several days a month to tell them that there's nothing wrong with their accounts. No exaggeration: They badger you to tell you that your monthly auto-pay is going to happen, and then WHOA it DID happen! They wake you up for this, and insist on sending these idiotic notices via TEXT and not E-mail.

Again, when confronted on it, AT&T whined that they can't do anything, and that customers should put themselves on the Do Not Call list... which expressly ALLOWS companies you DO BUSINESS WITH to communicate with you.

AT&T: hating its own customers.
Probably the one thing that bugs me about my M3. 90% of the time, it's fine... but that once or twice a week where I'm actively driving and need to turn on AC or whatever and have to navigate while trying to interact with the touchscreen is rough.
After 15 years of cell phone spam, anything that shows up as a number on my personal phone, and not a contact, is reflexively ignored. I don't think I'll ever shake this habit: if it is important, they will leave a message.
Circom 0.5: a big step towards production ready ZK-snark circuits
Show HN: Downloadable Zoom backgrounds so you can be a weather presenter
My take on the linked demand list was the included terms were broad and generic for public consumption, not the actual demands submitted to WF. Maybe they are the actual demands, in which case, it's like they are just be the employee's first ask, fully expecting to negotiate back to something more reasonable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring#In_negotiations

Either way, PTO that allows workers to take enough time off to clear a quarantine order isn't unreasonable. All this chit-chat about all the workers staying home and grocers shutting down is missing the forest for the tress.
If you drop Mississippi, Idaho, West Virginia, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Alabama from the US numbers, then the US GDP per capita number would look bigger. Anyone can get different numbers by cherry-picking higher performers and dropping lower performers, but OP wrote "Europe" not "this list of rich countries in Europe".
Which foods will survive the apocalypse?
I have always thought maybe there should be a path for people who are terrible at coding interviews but are confident in their abilities? Perhaps maybe a pass on the interview but then you work provisionally for little to no pay at first until after a discretionary period where they can decide whether they want to keep you or not.
Yes, when we talk about type safety, we generally mean "compile time" type safety. Python is also "type safe" at runtime (which is to say, "it's strongly typed"), but we don't conventionally consider Python to be type-safe.
Google Voice impact?
Repairability and features as software instead of hardware. For example, Tesla was able to enable Spotify in all its cars with an OTA update. Hell, you can enable rear heated seats in the Model 3 SR+ via an OTA.
> Most people use the standalone app because indeed it "just works".

Most people use the standalone app because Zoom aggressively pushes it.
Jitsi, Google Meet, bigbluebutton -- anything can runs in a browser tab and is more or less confined within it.
The US isn't homogenous either. DC, Massachusetts, New York, California, Alaska, and Washington have much higher GDPs per capita than other states / provinces.
Why Life in a Pandemic Feels So Surreal
C is the lingua franca of the programming world. Of course people are going to compare xyz language to C.
why not? the US is a large country (with more land area than the "entire continent" it's being compared against) with fifty states that are also quite different from each other. the US states are less autonomous than EU, but the country is large and diverse enough that it makes more sense to compare it to the entire EU than a very wealthy subset of US state-sized countries.
Apps _and_ websites. jpost.com, the domain of the submission, is making calls to Twitter, Google, spot.im (???) and CloudFlare. I don't remember giving them permission to send my data there.

Bit ridiculous. I feel like browsers gonna have to get a lot better/locked down before we can actually enforce anyone to be responsible for sending data all over the place.
Well I think the analogy is not just not "not perfect" it's very very misleading IMO.
If they lie to us about masks and can’t properly monitor the risk of a potential pandemic, what good are they exactly? Defund them and move on. There is too much rot in these institutions for them to relied on.
I believe the article is wrong, eg, see:
https://developer.okta.com/docs/guides/updating-saml-cert/ge...
To me, this seems like retaliation, but he offered Amazon plausible deniability by not complying with job instructions. If you're told to work from home but you refuse, it seems within reason that you might be let go.
I actually like the non-consumerist, non-fossil-fuel-consuming aspects of our current situation. If it wasn't for the omnipresent dread and social isolation, I'd say things were pretty good. The air is clear, there are people walking outside, CO2 emissions are down.
Oh cool, thanks. I mis-interpreted the "last updated" date on the BigQuery dataset page.
With NOOA/weather.gov you can even link directly to an animated gif for radar, such as this one for Minneapolis: https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/lite/N0R/MPX_loop.gif
The UK Cabinet is meeting on Zoom here’s the meeting ID
> I’ve started installing stuff from source again just to prevent a cascade of Homebrew upgrades breaking everything.

Since you crossed that line, do yourself a favour and check out nixpkg.
But then they'd need to opt-in to sandboxing and other "onerous" requirements and couldn't pull shady things like this.
Worth noting this is only a district court ruling, and as the article notes there are a number of conflicting circuit court rulings on the issue. Until a case makes it to the Supreme Court, it's not safe to take this as a given nationally.
Unfortunately, that kind of arrogance is common on this forum.
I develop Flowx, an Android weather app, and I agree, it is difficult to pull data from NOAA and other weather services around the world.

Depending on your needs, I may have data you can use. I only process forecast weather simulation data - not weather stations. I'm a solo dev so I can't offer high levels of service, etc... but feel free to contact me.
Taking Smart Decissions
The US is a nation state, the European Union is not. Comparing the two should only be done with a truckload of caveats to begin with. If anything, compare the Eurozone to the US.
I have a much worse criminal record (multiple federal felonies, also under similar laws) and it has never prevented me from finding a job.

Avoid the finance industry or anything related to financial transactions. The risk is too high for them, they won't hire you.
Man I miss Kodachrome. Of course, I hadn’t shot it in decades. I miss the idea of it more, I guess.
It's not cherry picking. One of these entities is a nation and the other is not. It's a bad comparison.
Évariste Galois, the Teenager Who Revolutionized Mathematics (2016)
Weight Watchers: Principles, Cost, Advantages and Disadvantages
How would one go about obtaining prior permission for sick leave? You don't know you're going to get COVID, or break an arm, or whatever.

It doesn't seem unreasonable to me for an employee to be able to call in and say "Hey, [I have | my kid has] [condition], I need some time off" (and get that time off without fearing for their job, house, and food supply).