skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mentioned "off the battlefield" for a reason. Lots of people have already made paintball "sentry guns" from off the shelf equipment. I don't think it will be long(10-15 years)before we see non-state actors using similar tricks.
I imagine the wiring to the meters is designed to carry the current necessary to run an electric parking meter and wouldn't hold up to the current required to charge an EV.
AI is probably far fetched, but gamified learning where you have to imput your result and you immediately see the correctness is already possible.
The oneweb antenna was never produced or seen: it was a sound byte from the CEO, and they're now bankrupt.
To drift further off, there was also a container shipping simulation called Ports of Call.

https://archive.org/details/PortsOfCall
Microsoft is blocking the Windows 10 May 2020 Update on lots of devices
The pirate bay disagrees with you.
Yes, because an electric parking meter uses only a few watts of electricity and may not even be connected to the grid (the most common ones I've seen just have a tiny solar panel). A electric vehicle charger may use 200 kW and require its own dedicated transformer. A fast charger is a fairly substantial cabinet. Now you're jackhammering the sidewalk to bring an underground electrical service to that spot.
Fair point. Elsewhere in thread it looks like they are using a fixed resolution. I guess at that point it comes down to whether they've left enough mid-frequency content for an algorithm to identify the slightly darker/lighter patches of facial features, and whether that spacing can actually identify a person.
I agree-- it feels 100% like tail chasing, and not like normal problems I encounter in coding up a business-tool related full stack application.

Plus, I have my own personal projects to work on. Plus, I have an open source project available for perusal. Therefore, I refuse to do leetcode/hacker rank problems for interviews.

I lucked out-- For my current job offer, I simply had a 45-minute conversation, answering technical questions about a particular language, as well as behavioral questions, with three people involved in the hiring decision. Two days later they notified me with a verbal offer that they would like to hire me. Note: I also have an open source project which they reviewed during their hiring of me.

So, given that success-- one interview -> hired, I am quite happy, but I know it's not the typical manner of hiring.

That said, since other recruiters are contacting me regularly, I am taking interviews. However, i inform them:

A. I am coding my own business project at the moment.

B. I do not code for free, not even for interviews.

C. I've received a verbal job offer, from an interview which did not require a coding test.

D. I have an open source project featuring a few thousand lines of code which can be reviewed-- if a hiring engineer is actually interested in seeing my code.

(That said, I did notice that learning to solve algorithm-efficient problems via video series has improved my skills. Just not that substantially, and not in a way that is necessary for my projects-- the code already works pretty gosh darn fast at the scale of my projects & past projects for companies which hired me-- they didn't need google or amazon level code efficiency.)
Extensive discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23421797
In Chicago, they were looting. They were burning things. They set over 80 fires and killed 20 people over the weekend. Not a single one of those fatalities was caused by a police officer.

No one wants the world you're asking for:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/war-is-hell/
I've been using Porkbun for a while now
One thing I've wondered about is key less entry could solve a bunch of issues with cars. Like pay the local charging station to deal with charging. As in middle of the night a attendant gets in your car, drives it a couple of minutes to a charging station and plugs it in. Brings it back an hour or two later.
Add at least 30% to the numbers provided by the government hired actuaries. Each percent the assumed discount rate is too high results in ~15% change in liabilities. Not even mentioning additional liabilities due to underfunding, bad investments/corruption, and erroneous assumptions about mortality.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic but this can result in innocent users who don't even know this fact to suddenly overwrite or wipe their files when trying to build someone's project.
"We build this on the face image data of CelebAMask-HQ
[24], which contains high-resolution facial images with semantic masks of facial attributes. For simplicity, we currently focus on front faces, without decorative accessories (e.g., glasses, face masks)."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.01047.pdf
> Generally considered a failure due to massive budget overruns, the design was instrumental in the development of new techniques and systems for programming parallel systems. In the 1980s, several machines based on ILLIAC IV concepts were successfully delivered.

Such as it ever was. Breaking boundaries takes guts, a lot of time and resources, and is rarely appreciated in the moment for the advances generated (even if a 'failure' by original operating criteria).
>When I go to the blogs' about pages, that person barely has any experience working in finance or econ.

From the about page:

Ms. Martens worked on Wall Street for 21 years. The last decade of her career was spent as an outspoken critic of Wall Street’s corrupt practices, its private justice system and the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act. (This YouTube video captures Ms. Martens testifying before the Federal Reserve on June 26, 1998 against the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act.
I can tell you about my experiences with Namecheap when I used fake WHOIS info for my privacy and someone reported me.

Their support staff said that due to ICANN policy, they must have accurate WHOIS info, so they have changed my WHOIS information but also added WhoisGuard to the domain so the details are not visible unless someone gets a Panama court order.

My trust in them increased substantially.
I got a kick out of how Dave Ungar implemented the original Self compiler with a whole lot of hard core C++ code. Implementing such an extremely un-C++-like language as Self in such an extremely un-self-like language as C++.
Yeah, there’s nothing wrong with taking down phishing sites. The problem is when you misapply the restriction and take down a whole domain of a platform.
and then ... "oh crap, left my (phone|charger|book|scarf|lipstick|pocket knife) in the other vehicle" ...
My state is reopening while simultaneously not even having enough tests to be able to test one city's protestors, so this isn't going to end well.
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This is so cool that someone recovered it. Reminds me of all the crazy burned CDs I have with random software from the days of yore.

Here's the previous discussion where it was shown / talked about but thought to be lost:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236132
I remember reading a certain company (not my current employer)'s data retention policy issued by their legal department. It had a schedule for destroying all business records. Product source code was in there as a business record – to be destroyed N years after end of support. Made me want to cry. I hope they don't actually do what their legal department tells them to.
As a paying G Suite customer, all of my support experiences have been horrendous, including trying to unlock an employee’s account that was locked for “spam”.

The support agent couldn’t do a single thing but tell me to wait for the possibly robotic appeals process.
I am excited to use the vanilla JS version in my project, thanks for not being React only :)
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Same for me as well. All my friends and family have been on it for a few years now
While it's always a good time to take the action, I'd expect anyone motivated primarily by morals and not compensation to quit long time ago already, or not join Facebook in the first place.
Depends a lot on your audience. In our case we were making a general consumer product, so we just advertised on Craigslist saying we were doing market research. You get a lot of dross that way, but my cofounder had a sophisticated screener questionnaire and ways to root out most of the goofs.
Why would you make any of this mandatory?

If people are willing to pay for this service, someone will be eager to make a buck and supply.
It's almost like they should offer it themselves...
> The big driver of electric vans is operational cost, AFAIK.

Total taxes on gasoline and diesel are significantly higher in Ireland (2.50 USD/gal) than the highest gas tax states in the US (like California with total gas taxes of 73c/gallon).

The incentive to lower emissions is provided indirectly by those those high taxes on gasoline/petrol, which directly manifests in the form of higher efficiency vehicles. There is far less of that incentive in the US.
> If marketing communications were made opt-in by law (one that's actually enforced) this will dramatically cut down on the noise in people's inboxes.

That didn't even occur to me. That's a very good point. If peoples' physical mail boxes would be spammed like that everybody would be up in arms.

> Privacy is the only thing here I agree with, and I believe that can be solved with public keys embedded in the DNS (itself protected by DNSSEC). The problem with that is lack of mainstream client support (whether for S/MIME or GPG); the protocols email is based on don't seem like a blocker in this case.

It seems to me though that ease of use has got to be a top priority for widespread adoption and that requires digital identities to be maintained by an independent non-profit entity for this to work without compromise. Keybase seemed like a start in the right direction.
Why should a company that has never offered service, and a dubious residential business case be allowed to bid in a class of existing isps?
In terms of technology and innovation the German side is likely similar, though I wouldn't go as far as calling it corruption. Larger companies like Deutsche Telekom have been doing local cloud stuff for years now, leading to amusing overviews such as [1].

Having interacted with some of the folks at conferences I'm pretty sure there's a core of people in there somewhat committed to open source which was nice to see. But in terms of innovation none of the projects branded as "German X as a service" over the last decades stood out as particularly innovative or remotely well managed.

[1] https://cloud.telekom.de/resource/blob/data/90924/6196063473...
The typical answer is that a secure app is useless if no one actually uses it, and the use of phone numbers is an unfortunate tradeoff that had to be made to allow the general public to easily sign up for Signal and find their friends automatically from their phone's contacts.

Often this answer is accompanied by pure sarcasm where if you are concerned about this feature, you are told that Signal is not for you and "you can go play at being a spy and sharing a secret decoder ring with your friends", as these people regard PGP to be. I wish those Signal advocates could lay off the sarcasm, it just makes the project look bad.
I thought we all learned from Iraq that "Weapon of Mass Destruction" is not a super well-defined term?
No, different frequencies and antennas.
Apple doesn't care if developing for their platform is a PITA.

The existence of companies like MacStadium filling rooms with Macs just to bend over backwards for inane license terms proves the paid demand is there. Apple could offer to license their OS for use not on Apple hardware — for a fee. They don't. The objection isn't to the price; the objection is that needing to manage physical hardware (as opposed to spinning up VMs like in the article) is a PITA to manage, comparatively. Companies would — and do — pay to not need to deal with that pain, but it would be a lot less painful to not need to get a third party involved / to be able to make use of the infra I have without having to stuff some Macs into a closet and wonder how I'm going to make that redundant.
I think you could go much further. We should work out how to monitor and test a students progress, push them harder if they are ready, or roll back a bit if we detect they missed something.
On Khan Academy where everything is multiple choice, my kids started guessing rather than knowing the answers. It was up to me to notice the problem and take things back a step, and work out where they got lost.
Maybe this one https://youtu.be/6LmQS4DJl6c
marine mine delivery is done by JDAM these days ... no idea how non-mobile the mines themselves may still be
One of the better HN analogies. Well-played!
I think we need a common online learning platform for K-12.

That at least gives everyone the same access to the best lecturers, independent of the low education budgets from poorer areas, as well as e.g. AP classes that they can't get locally.

It reduces the need for "redundant" teachers there just to deliver a mediocre lecture. Teachers are still needed to provide individual help, something that doesn't scale as easily as online lectures. That could be done locally or remotely.

Students need a computer and internet access. Providing them with that is cheaper than trying to fund local teachers and buildings, though.

Then we need some way to provide the social aspects provided by schools, sports, chemistry labs, as well as all the other services like food and counseling which are not part of education but are provided by the school system.

The same thing applies to the university system. I think this is the way out of the current cost explosion/bubble.
How does this compare to competitors like Ag-Grid?

One simple feature I see lacking in the ability is the ability to resize columns
> So when people get upset with police for their brutality, it's easy to understand why they are outraged - it is simply impossible to do their job without violence.

I think you need to distinguish between force and violence. I expect the police to occasionally need to use force to do their job, but I never want them to use violence. What we have been seeing during the past few days is totally out-of-control violence conducted by the police on non-violent people.
'et al' may be the most published author. But ibidem gets way more citations.

> I mean, by conflating multiple people's work as one (by whatever criteria, in this case a common pseudonym), comparison becomes meaningless.

Meaningless in a strict sense. But good enough as a hook for an article.

Compare also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Maria_Mierscheid
A weird error happens if I try to run the embedded javascript dosbox emulator on iOS Mobile Safari. It launches the PKSFX INSTALL.EXE but most (but not all) files fail to extract with a CRC error. Emulation bug or a flaw in Mobile Safari's javascript engine? It seems strange that it can interpret the entire pksfx x86 code without crashing while still yielding corrupted CRCs? If there are bitflips or miscalculations you would think the interpreted x86 cpu would crash long before even printing the pksfx banner. On a different computer, unzip -t validates the INSTALL.EXE zip contents.
But not with gcc, which releases broken versions since 9.0 and cannot catch up fixing these regressions, mostly in the str library. Just look at their Bugzilla.

clang fixed it in one day. for gcc I expect 5 years to fix their regressions.
Yes, and maybe practicing public speaking can make [those who otherwise might not say anything], participate more in meetings and letting others hear their good ideas

+ Can be teambuilding too
There is no uranium or plutonium in these satellites, nor anything else radioactive. On the other hand, according to [1] the abundances on this page multiplied by [2] 40000 tons per year, the stuff naturally hitting the atmosphere each year includes 0.3 kg uranium, 1.6 kg thorium, 3 kg radioactive isotopes of potassium, 10 kg mercury, 18 kg cadmium, 50 kg lead, 72 kg arsenic, and 120 tons of chromium, among other things. This stuff burns up in the atmosphere all day long, and has for billions of years.

[1] https://periodictable.com/Properties/A/MeteoriteAbundance.v....
[2]https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-8694-...
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This puts a new light on Wuhan thanking their doctors and nurses with a big drone show instead of jet flybys.
> People don’t fight spam. I rarely if ever get spam in my email. Spam filters work well enough. Whitelisting is also available. Most all email clients support smart folders that contain emails only from contacts.

First of all. Not everybody has the desire to became "proficient" in inbox management. Secondly, if you take a step back and reconsider what you're saying: the lengths you have to go through is insane. Imagine you had to deal with this with every online service you're using whether its messaging platforms or otherwise.

> Providers can, but are incentivized to not read their customers’ email, otherwise they would go out of business.

That's a very naive assumption. There was proof that ISPs in the UK did that some years ago and probably still do. And what exactly do you think is Gmail's business model? Or any other supposedly "free" email service?
Not an astronomer, but it looks like the Herschel Space Observatory was in the THz gap [1]. Interestingly, the limit to its lifetime was how much liquid Helium they could keep onboard to cool their detector.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Space_Observatory
Law Enforcement Seizes Masks Meant to Protect Anti-Racist Protesters from Covid
But also, point that speaks for itself. Either you agree that market entrenchment will be a huge obstacle or you don't
When students engage with me to ask questions, I usually just ask them directly: "If you decide that this isn't for you, please let me or someone else on the team know before you do so we understand how we can make this a better learning platform for future students"
Well, salaries are always relative to the local market so to attract the top 5% of talent they will need to offer maybe $180k/yr.
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This might sound terrible ... but this will come from Scandinavia/Finland or not at all. Possibly in the form of one or a few, very well thought out startups and/or standards that the rest of Europe can buy into.

This is not about size, it's about 'getting it right' - and then having the system follow along one way or another.
Cloudflare sells the domain at cost. I think the idea is that its an extra service meant for their customers, not a service for the general public. As they are a DNS provider, their customers will use cloudflare nameservers. If they didn't, they would no longer be customers.
> Namecheap dumping personal info without informing their customer

Something similar happened to me – Namecheap dumped the wrong (private) information into WHOIS immediately after a redesign of their systems. It definitely was not user error.

Dealing with Namecheap's customer support to try to resolve this was possibly the worst customer support experience I've had in 20+ years in the tech industry. Lots of lies about getting back to me the next day, passing the buck, blaming everybody but themselves, extended periods of flat-out ignoring me, and eventually a complete inability to fix it.

I've been a happy user of Hover ever since, but I'm unable to recommend them – ironically because nothing has ever gone wrong with them. I used to recommend Namecheap until that nightmare happened, then I found out just how shockingly useless they are when it comes to customer support and privacy. Ever since, I only recommend services where something has gone wrong so that I know they are capable of resolving problems well. I regret ever recommending Namecheap and don't want to make the same mistake again.

Some more Namecheap horror stories here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18087862
This is one of the things that makes me think we are not living in a computer simulation - the physics is really hard to simulate. Unless the simulation is just fooling us to think that ;)
Yup! Loved it, but I haven't tried Alpine, its successor, yet.

I used it on a Windows 2000 box along with Vim 7.x and a copy of the excellent Par paragraph formatter (http://www.nicemice.net/par/) that someone had kindly ported to Windows. That combination made email on Windows tolerable for this Unix-Xenix hand.

And before that, I supported Z-Mail on various platforms, but was the go-to guy for the terminal-based version, the fastest version we produced.
My favourite is AirWay Sim [0], a massively-multiplayer online airline simulation. Incredibly detailed business sim financially — with full financial statement generation - as well as operationally. One must decide on hubs, airplane types, fuel hedging, scheduling.. the list is endless.

I’ve spent a non-trivial portion of my free time in university building airlines in this game. Highly recommended.

[0] https://www.airwaysim.com/
This is rage-bait passing itself off as an article.
Thanks for the link. It is a much more thorough explanation.

How fast is the fuel used up within the field? Would there be a way to inject the actively fusing reaction with a steady fuel input rate for long term generation (neutron bombardment embrittles superconducting metal containment with the D/T reaction, unlike boron encased in supposed laser induced magnetic field?)

I'd imagine this would occur in a sphere (closed and contained). Tokamak designs aren't spheres, but also closed relying on magnetism to push back against a reaction that is pushing out as fusion occurs:

To produce thrust - what if it was a half sphere somehow? Propellant implies ejection of something, and a fusion reaction ball is magnetically interactive, with no radioactive material byproduct? What if a fusion thruster harvested some energy from the reaction to "push" back against an actively fusing pellet feed rate? Could this propel a craft or am I missing something fundamental here?
> multiple users on one computer??

Last I checked this is something all the mainstream desktop operating systems support, so for you to call this out as a linux weirdness is baffling.
Is Telegram at all trustworthy?

I feel like I’ve repeatedly seen on HN that they’re not a good choice for secure messaging (though I don’t remember the specifics around it).

Signal and Matrix are the two options I’ve settled on.

[Edit]: Looks like the main issues with Telegram are that it doesn't use end to end encryption by default and that they rolled their own encryption protocol that's likely not secure. They also used to leak a ton of metadata, but from searching around it looks like they may have made improvements. Either way seems like something to avoid when there are obviously better alternatives.