skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well for all but the last two years of the Corcorde's existence there was no TSA or security lines. Also I know at JFK at least the Concorde had it's own private departure lounge called the The Concorde Room(it's actually still there) and it also had its' own private jetway as well. So it was definitely a premium experience all the way around.
I mean, police in both countries can be over-militarized, violent, and racist. That's literally the origin of police in most countries: to coercively enforce the will of the state, usually against working-class and otherwise minority groups

(Also, you must really be willfully blind to think that militarization of American police is an "emotional" statement. It's been happening for decades and has been documented by every newspaper you could care to look at.)
I found this:[0]

> In February 2005, the Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs (a traditional Haudenosaunee government), the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe , and the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne signed an agreement with Governor George Pataki to resolve their historic claim to lands in Northern New York.

> Represented by the Indian Law Resource Center, the Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs approved the agreement only after years of vigorous advocacy to ensure that the deal adequately protected the interests of their community and of future generations of Mohawks. “Through a lot of hard work at home and at the negotiating table, the Council of Chiefs has forged an agreement they can be very proud of,” said Indian Law Resource Center attorney Alex Page.

> The settlement agreement resolves legal claims first filed in federal court nearly twenty-five years ago. Those claims site repeated violations of a federal treaty confirming Mohawk land rights. Under the settlement, the Mohawks will receive lands and monetary compensation, as well as the opportunity to further expand their territory through purchases from willing sellers. The agreement does not include casinos or taxation, two issues the Mohawks successfully fought to keep separate from the land claim.

But near the end, I see this:

> Although legislation implementing the settlement passed the New York Assembly in 2005, the State Senate was not able to vote on the measure. We hope to see such legislation passed in the near future.

So maybe it's still in limbo.

Edit: From ciabattabread's comment, I gather that it remains unresolved.[1]

0) https://indianlaw.org/molr/landrights/mohawk

1) https://www.srmt-nsn.gov/resolve-the-boundary
I ran Gentoo for a few years, and it was a great balance of being low level and customizable but practical for day to day use. When you have set things up from scratch, you can fix it when it breaks. The Gentoo install disk helped me recover many a server. I got tired of the endless compilation, though.
Another stupid thing is stuff like ~/.config/<stupidprogram>/Cache.

The cache is not a config, assholes. What do you think ~/.cache is for?!
Kindness for Mean Girls: a discussion on type-level programming in Haskell
It’s not a complete work yet.

FTA:

> The aim of only discussing a topic if public data is available, has been slightly bent in places (because I thought data would turn up, and it didn’t, or I wanted to connect two datasets, or I have not yet deleted what has been written).

> The outcome of these two aims is that the flow of discussion is very disjoint, even disconnected. Another reason might be that I have not yet figured out how to connect the material in a sensible way. I’m the first person to go through this exercise, so I have no idea where it’s going.
I just want to make sure I'm following your train of thought correctly regarding this object.

So, say, an hourly contractor who orders delivery so they can get back to work sooner still makes sense to you, right?
When I applied to college (recently, not that recently), AP test results were definitely used as part of admissions, in a similar fashion to SAT IIs.
I got kinda burned when I tried to order direct from a restaurant.

If it's a "mom and pop joint" with 1 or maybe at most a handful of locations located in the area, skip the app and just call it in. Nothing to download or sign up for, no chance for an unseen middle-man. These non-chain restaurants are literally the "service industry", I've found I always get a higher level of service when talking to a human on the phone, at a couple of our regular places the servers that pickup ask how I'm doing, have an idea of how we like things, politely inquire about the kids, etc... A couple of them offer online ordering, but I always just pickup the phone and hand over my credit card when they bring the food out, IMO it's a better experience for all parties involved.

Edit: Caveat, I'm old enough that to-go/delivery over the phone was the only option at one point, not app first; and even before the pandemic found DoorDash and their ilk to be parasites that I wouldn't use.
That might make a good basis for a story. Or film.
What's the check on the president hitting the button?

Is it just the willingness for military officials to follow the order? I'm pretty sure the president doesn't have to consult with congress or the supreme court before doing this.
The one in the picture is a reduced scale prototype. Then they hope to build a full scale plane. And then roll that out five years from now.

Given how many years we've been hearing about this, I wouldn't hold my breath. I personally give it less than a 50/50 shot at even getting the prototype into the air.
In the Netherlands life imprisonment means exactly that: imprisonment for life. There is no option for parole, other than by royal decree (which seems to have happened 3 times since 1970) [1]

According to Wikipedia[2], there are several countries where this is the case:

> In Europe, there are many countries where the law expressly provides for life sentences without the possibility of parole. These countries are England and Wales (within the United Kingdom), the Netherlands, Moldova, Bulgaria, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Malta, Cyprus, Albania, Ukraine and the Republic of Ireland.

This seems much clearer to me than a 200-year sentence which needs to undergo a calculation to get the actual sentence length.

As I understand it, the way trails are done are also a bit different: rather than "two counts of X", people are judged based on "did X two times". In other words, you don't get a separate conviction for both Xs. So if someone killed three people, they're judged based on killing three people, rather than based on every individual killing. In those cases someone can receive a life sentence, rather than "3x30=90 years" or some such.

[1]: Details in Dutch: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenslange_gevangenisstraf#Ne...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment
When I found out that local delivery service here is charging around 30% fee my mind was blown. I asked my friend who owns a small restaurant how he puts up with it and he basically said he has no choice, especially during covid. This made me think I should go out more and support the local businesses more as my country opened up already. Well my favorite mexican place was actually charging 30% more for me to eat in person there so it was actually cheaper to sit at home and have food delivered, I was almost tempted to sit down there and order via the app.

The whole restaurant industry is so messed up with coupons and all sorts of marketing tricks and manipulations that I just wish there was static price with single delivery fee so I could enjoy my meal and get over it without having to be constantly vigilant to not feel ripped off. I hope more places follow Portland.
Depends a bit on your ideas of "reputable"; IIRC, hardware OEMs tend to employ devs to implement hardware support for their boards, but a rather lot of those have a poor reputation in terms of code quality - i.e., "We've successfully shipped the device with kernel 5.1.0 (current when we started); time to forget about that and implement the next board! What do you mean, upstreaming? That sounds like extra work. Bug fixes? Don't be absurd!".
I get the US made an agreement. I was talking more of a general principle than this specific case.

I have seen several comments here saying the US was wrong to take land through violent means and as such the US should return the land.

When the natives did the same thing to other natives nobody seems to think they should return it to the people they took it from.

There is a double standard and I don't like it. If we are going to return the land we should return it to the original inhabitants. Of course there isn't actually a way to figure out who occupied the land thousands of years ago.
I don't tip for takeout. If they deliver, I tip the delivery person, but if the restaurant isn't the one delivering that's not relevant.

(I hate tips, restaurants should just charge what they need to charge. But that's not how things are done in the US, and it's hard to change the culture...)
I was fascinated with the history of the Sami when I visited Karasjok in the dead of winter, and spoke to a few who still tried to keep a somewhat traditional lifestyle. It did feel like it was a fight against time to keep those nomadic herding ways alive, and a really interesting philosophical debate about what really defines the Sami other than blood and (partly forgotten or purged) shared history if most are living lives indistinguishable from Norwegians and Swedes in their community.
I remember when this first started, back then it was apparent that this was a for profit coding school/low cost outsourcing play. They tried to get an in into some volunteer tech training work I was doing down in South Africa, but I turned them down because it seemed exploitative. The social justice angle pulled in all of the people who were too naive to look past the hype. Nice to see that people are finally waking up to this. There are lots more where that came from including in the US not for profit space that use lofty mission statements as a thin veil for the upper middle class and rich to line their pockets in the name of otherwise noble causes.
> It. does. not.

OK 'brah', whatever works for you!

> If it did, PHP wouldn't be running half the world

PHP has a style guide, and there is such a thing as clean, readable PHP code.

https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-1/

I bet massive scale PHP based apps (like you know, Facebook) probably enforce style in their codebase.
Yeah I've run a home fileserver at home before and it's just not fun continually worrying about updates and having to maintain a bunch of monitoring if some cron job broke or something.

They're not exactly cheap, but I'm another one who went the Synology route. They slap a user-friendly UI ontop of linux mdraid and BTRFS, so you can RAID together a few drives, set up automatic BTRFS snapshots with retention rules (keep 12 hourly snapshots, 7 daily, 3 monthly, etc), set up disk scrubbing schedules etc all just by clicking around.
I replaced Node.js with Rust ages ago.

It was a brutal learning curve but having the compiler cover everything I do is a massive advantage that never stops paying dividends.
A new approach to carbon capture: electro-swing adsorption
Yes, I agree. Is there anything we can do in the meantime?
This is also misleading. Medical benefits are comparable to white-collar professional services jobs. Most teachers have payroll deductions to pay for a portion of their insurance. In 15 states where teachers receive pensions, they receive them in lieu of Social Security benefits. They don't pay into Social Security, and they don't receive Social Security upon retirement. They only receive their pension. If they don't work as teachers long enough to receive a full pension, they're losing out. Even if they switch to a qualifying job, those years of non-contribution to Social Security reduce their eventual benefits. Most states are phasing out pensions and replacing them with 403(b) plans, and/or making teachers contribute to the pension plans out of their salaries. Aside from insurance and retirement, teachers don't have nearly as many benefits and perks as corporate workers do.

Part of the reason teacher salaries are lower on an annualized basis is that they don't work during the summer, but considering that their salaries are already on the low side given the education requirements, that washes out.

I'm not trying to paint a sob story for teachers. They're usually comfortably middle class, and if they put in 20-30 years, they're usually retiring comfortably. But you're making it sound like they have a benefits package above and beyond other employment. It's simply not true. Plenty of other jobs (and I don't just mean tech jobs) that require a four-year degree come with far better benefits, 401(k) matching, and you don't have to gamble on committing your entire career to staying in the same career in the same state in order to retain the value.
I think this is a pretty unfair reading of the situation. The grievance came directly from the people working for the company. You can certainly dig in to the situation and have an opinion about whether those grievances are valid, but I don’t see how that can be seen as a case of people “biasing towards their own set of experiences and points of view.” Who else’s point of view should they be considering?

Also we definitely live in a global, interconnected world but it feels like a hell of a stretch to invoke BLM here. African workers sharing their feelings about their place of work are just “riding the wave” because they happen to black?
"Notably, Epstein, who was known for his interest in obtaining blackmail through the sexual abuse of the underaged girls he exploited, also claimed to have “damaging information” on prominent figures in Silicon Valley. In a conversation last year with New York Times reporter James Stewart, Epstein claimed to have “potentially damaging or embarrassing” information on Silicon Valley’s elite and told Stewart that these top figures in the American tech industry “were hedonistic and regular users of recreational drugs.” Epstein also told Stewart that he had “witnessed prominent tech figures taking drugs and arranging for sex” and claimed to know “details about their supposed sexual proclivities.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...
Romania GDP per capita grew more that 6 times in the last 30 years. Talk about being clueless:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...

Still on the subject of Romania, no, it's not the mythical EU funds that fuel this growth, because the funds are tiny compared to the size of the economy and 2/3 end up not being spent at all because extremely strict anti-corruption measures that make it a massive pain in the ass to try and access EU funds. Government debt is at 35% of GDP, growth rate is constantly among best 3 in EU, constantly over 5%, unemployment under 4%, wages grow between 5-7% annually, inflation is under 3%, criminality is way lower than the West etc. Is that bad? And I think Romania could do even better if not for EU's idiotic trade policy and regulation bullshit.
Thank you for writing this book! I'm currently working on a music creation program based on modular synthesis, and I expect the filters chapter of your book will really come in handy.
How to Use Huawei AR Engine in Unity?
For those who don't speak Bulgarian (like me), google translate of "не сме народ, а мърша" is "we are not a people, but a carcass". Though I'm sure a native speaker would probably have a better translation.
> I have found they are literally 2x-10x better than their peers.

So either your organisation is horribly sexist by not promoting these women or you are horribly sexist and think they are better because they are women.
i feel like linux from scratch is kind of overkill

1. format a disk a bootable active partition with ext4

1. download the kernel, make defconfig && make

1. copy the kernel to the partition with syslinux mbr.bin and probably extlinux.conf (probably copy modules too)

1. copy busybox over

1. voila
If you're not ready for the LFS plunge, install and configure an Arch Linux system with a graphical desktop environment. I learned more about Linux in that 8 (non-consecutive) hours than I had in the couple of years preceding.

Then study for the RHCSA and RHCE v7 (v8 is all Ansible now). Arch Linux and RHCSA and RHCE taught me a ton about Linux and made me super comfortable with my Linux desktops and servers.
The Product Manager’s Guide to Web Scraping
I’m glad on HN people have opinions like “the direct election of senators was a mistake.” I mean, I agree, but I’m usually the only one in the room.
I did recently write a script to read the room brightness value from a Hue Light Sensor and adjust my external monitor brightness, with some smoothing applied. It was triggered by being stuck at home like everyone else.

Funny how similar thought processes can be sometimes. I’m now up to motorising my blinds so that the light sensor also controls the blinds to keep the room at the same light level through the day.
Who is this 'we' you reference? Many people came to the US long after the Trail of Tears. Are they responsible for crimes committed on Native Americans before they or their ancestors/families arrived in a recognized (at the time of arrival) Sovereign Country.

Would be interested in your justification for holding citizens of today's US responsible for an event that happened more than 100 years ago, before they lived or breathed.
> Yet its strategy misfires and communication blunders have left its African developers in a lurch, underscoring how difficult blending capitalism and social good can be. Stung by the experience, some developers informally refer to the company as “The Plantation.”
Roughly half of the greenhouse forcing in this century is expected to result from hydrofluorocarbons vented from refrigeration systems and industrial processes. Thus, just cutting CO2 accumulation is not enough; we have to remove enough CO2 to make up for the HFC load. HFC is overwhelmingly harder to remove from the air once vented, and no natural process does.

Anything that can be done to remove and incinerate HFCs before they get vented pays handsomely. A ton of HFC traps as much heat as 2500 tons of CO2.

HFCs, ironically, were once considered world saviors, supplanting CFCs that were destroying the ozone. Now We Know. Ammonia is the best refrigerant I know of, now. I gather it is heavily used in big industrial applications, but people still worry about it in consumer applications. Toxicity is extremely unlikely to be an actual problem, but people panic if they smell a trace amount.
> It stands to reason that there are going to be women (in particular) with the innate abilities you want

Since when was hiring about innate abilities?

> if you hire based on what people already did, not what you assess they can do in the future

That’s literally how the majority of tech companies both hire and promote.

Good luck getting a promotion at Google (for example) based on potential.
I would like to offer what I believe is a counterpoint, but I am not a trained ML researcher so I am not sure if it is even a counter-point. Maybe it is just an observation.

I recently participated in the following Kaggle competition:

https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-resear...

Now, you can see the kinds of questions the contest expects the ML to answer, just to take an example:

"Effectiveness of movement control strategies to prevent secondary transmission in health care and community settings"

All I can say is that the contest results, on the whole, were completely underwhelming. You can check out the Contributions page to verify this for yourself. If the consequences of the failure weren't so potentially catastrophic, some might even call it a little comical. I mean, its not as if a pandemic comes around every few months, so we can all just wait for the computational power to catch up to solve these problems like the author suggests.

Also, I couldn't help but feel that nearly all participants were more interested in applying the latest and greatest ML advancement (Bert QA!), often with no regard to the problem which was being solved.

I wish I could tell you I have some special insight into a better way to solve it, given that there is a friggin pandemic going on, and we could all very well do with some real friggin answers! I don't have any such special insight at all. All I found out was that everyone was so obsessed with using the latest and greatest ML techniques, that there was practically no first principles thinking. At the end, everyone just sort of got too drained and gave up, which is reflected by a single participant winning pretty much the entire second round of 7-8 task prizes by the virtue of being the last man standing :-)

I have realized two things.

1) ML, at least when it comes to understanding text, is really overhyped

2) Nearly everyone who works in ML research is probably overpaid by a factor of 100 (just pulling some number out of my you know what), given that the results they have actually produced have fallen so short precisely when they were so desperately needed
Somewhat noob here. Would you suggest LocalCDN instead of Decentraleyes?
There's a long and brutal history of Western countries and businesses exploiting African people and resources.

Is Andela an NGO/charity, or it is a VC-backed unicorn-track startup?

If it's a startup, have the employees been getting equity?

The article mentions some employees taking a pay cut to join.
I mean, yeah. It does. The fundamental assumption of all democracies are that the people are competent enough to govern themselves.

Ultimately, I'm not sure a free society, a welfare state, and universal suffrage can all co-exist in the long term.

I think any two could survive, but all three seem like a longshot.

I'm actually having trouble figuring out which two I'm rooting for.
Didn't they just fire a Michigan State University prof for having a different opinion?

Honestly, just drain the system as much as you can.
Tell HN: Make HN UI larger so that we don't need to zoom in all the time
I like HN's UI. However, it's too small on some machines such as MBP 13in. +125% looks fine tho.

@dang, is it possible to make the whole UI a bit larger?

On a side note, it's very cumbersome to work with the UI on mobile devices. At least for me, I always have to pinch in to tap on the right links, and often times, I still can't click on the right link. I guess using buttons instead of plain text could help with that, esp. cause the borders would be shown and UX would improve. The buttons don't even have to be objects; just some border around the clickable text (e.g. Windows Phone buttons).
I find that busting my ass to the same workout that I did when I was a dozen years younger has a certain charm. Also, I get to imagine how old and out of shape the people in the video are (excepting Tony Horton, of course).
> Where have you all been?

The pressure on management to hire diverse candidates has increased 100 fold over the past decade.
It's good enough for government work! I didn't translate it because it can come off as far too inflammatory - it happens to be a line from a well-known poem by one of the founders of modern Bulgarian written literature.
I don't understand why everyone cares so much about stock price, an almost arbitrary measure of the value of a company, based on sentiments and not facts.
Isn't total equity the real indicator of the company's value in money?
This was one of my favorite museums in the world.

My wife and I have many good memories playing checkmo against a beautifully maintained PDP-8 At the museum. She just yelled out a genuine “No!” when I relayed the closure.

At one point they kept a binder of photos of victorious players.

We never made that binder and I guess we never will.