skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How much more is it to fly in a private jet? I feel that would be a different story, given you can schedule it so it picks you up whenever is convenient for you.

In a recent hn thread about private jets, someone was saying that unless you go all out on a private jet, the experience is almost certainly going to be worse than flying commercial. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23732841
Whenever I see a person or API use URI instead of URL I feel like I'm in an alternate universe. Turns out the distinction is that URIs can include things like ISBN numbers, but everything with a protocol string is a URL so really URL is probably the right term for most modern uses.
This looks like a great infrastructure as a service company. Is there a way to build an AB testing tool on Shopify that finds the right price by zeroing in on it, rather than having the customer input several? Did you consider that approach?
https://www.beyondcorp.com/

Yes, basically you should consider all networks untrusted including your internal network. You can still have a VPN but it shouldn't be the thing that protects the services inside your corp net because if it is then any breach means the intruder gets access to all your stuff.
Upsetting to see the negative reception to this. I know as a consumer this sort of experimentation might leave a bad taste in your mouth, but on the flip side I don't think you can blame a seller for trying to systematically find the fairest price for their product in a market. Overall, I think this is a cool idea with a simple but effective premise.
Excel: Is this a date?
As I mentioned in a different thread, I love it because it's so stable. There's no constant shaking or rocking, and you don't get woken up every 5 minutes by random minor turbulence - it just powers through it like the beast that it is.
The deal is for one year and is valued at $124,950.00. I’m not sure if that’s a good deal or not, but it seems... reasonable?

Original title was wordy and vague. It was:

U.S. Internal Revenue Service inks deal with Coinbase for blockchain analytics software
For all the people talking about how much BS there is in big consulting, dont any of you think there could be a business model that could usurp the way the BS'ing boys club siphons money through narcissism, lies, and incompetence by replacing them with better quality development for a smaller price tag (but still with very well paid developers - from the looks of it)?

I'm personally thinking of a team building model where developers can join together and form teams to bid on projects and win financial rewards for delivering, reviewing, and passing quality benchmarks, with some sort of rating system in place to keep bad actors and bs-er's out.
I've been on both sides of the argument and there's plenty of blame to go around.

On the client side there's the utter lack of clarity, plus in-fighting and adversarial dynamics between departments and execs.

On the consulting side, it's just too easy to milk all the issues on the client side. Including playing one side off another - like lawyers in a never ending divorce settlement.
Australia has been drumming rhetoric about China for a long time now. They’ve been talking about decoupling.

And now China is actually decoupling. Shouldn’t Australia be happy that they’re getting what they want? Why did it suddenly turn into “China is bullying us with tariffs”?

As for Hong Kong, are you aware that most of the protesters are young people with poor backgrounds and without higher education? And that many protesters are not so peaceful, and rioted? Yet Australia announced the other day that they will only accept people without a criminal record, and only people who are highly skilled. What?? Is Australia genuine in wanting to help Hong Kong citizen?

Do you believe Australia’s push for COVID-19 is genuine? Yes China did make mistakes in the beginning, but for more than a month after the Wuhan lockdown, at which point countries outside China had almost no cases, various countries neglected to take action despite obvious warning signs. So if an investigation is to be initiated, it should not only be about China’s mistakes, but everybody else’s mistakes too. Why does Australia not talk about investigating everybody? Do you think Australia would accept a bidirectional investigation?

Is Australia really as innocent as you believe?

Does China have no right to disagree?
Right that's what I thought. Maybe in North America where labour costs are high this will be popular, but the article talks about developing countries where lower labour costs and less regulations make deployment of fibre a lot cheaper.
Nice!

Who says that you have to download from arbitrary URLs? If you have to use public modules you are free to copy the source to some internal server first. It's just a single file!

It looks like modules can't import other modules so this shouldn't get too out of hand.
Middle management can run distraction on the owners so that they don't see the misery of the operations people who actually keep the buisness going.
println is a macro in Rust because 1) the language currently lacks support for variadic functions and 2) being a macro allows the format string to be parsed at compile time.
> And last but not least, they all kept their jobs

Police unions are some of the most powerful organizations. Not being able to fire bad actors is one of the worst parts of unions. I've never understood why there hasn't been a movement to reform them. Their coworkers get stuck with them too and bringing the whole unit down.

Instead we're always sold some nostalgic narrative of past golden eras of unions. Glossing over all the warts and cruft built up over time. We're long overdue for modernized unions.
They grossly overestimated their leverage in that story though.

Anything illegal might've been actually good for black mail purposes, but dick pics? As if someone would actually look for that or even take a business decision based on that.
Wrong link?
Article is about "How a Struggling Company Won $1.6 Billion to Make a Coronavirus Vaccine"
Using Custom Domains for React Apps Deployed to GitHub Pages
Ask HN: How to Start a Startup as a Pessimist?
To me it seems that to start a startup you need delusional levels of optimism. Founders I talk to seem to be convinced they are doing the right thing even if their product market fit, revenue, audience etc doesn't exist. Eventually some of these people do end up "making it". The ability to think something like a pricing app would change the world, also seems to require a delusional level of optimism. Do you think there is any truth to this?

Where does this leave people who are more pessimistic/realistic or who have an ability to detect bullshit? It's tough for me to convince my self that something will change the world. Before going to a venture I like to have some metrics that I am tracking that keep reality in check. All of this has worked well for me with indie businesses so far, the cost to experiment and re-align seems rather cheap.

Is unbridled optimism something that can be cultivated?
Is GitHub Search Down?
For the ladt couple of hours even the most basic queries show 0 results. This one shows 0 results https://github.com/search?q=int&type=Code
Sounds like a fun HN comment game, let’s go:

Formaldehyde.
One thing not addressed here is that the surge of estrogen during puberty is what causes your long bones to fuse at the ends and you stop growing. It is possible that this young man's growth may have been permanently capped by this irresponsible behavior.
Most economy seats on a 747 are 3-4-3. It’s really similar to a 777, it’s only the person in a window seat who had to climb over two people, while overhead is similar from either seat since it also goes down the middle. Wide bodies rarely run out of convenient overhead space, especially on international trips that they are mostly used for.

Really all the planes are similar and kind of boring unless you fly an old Russian one.
Goodbye to Grommet
An positive example of how passionate founders operated to serve both shareholders and the wider community comes to an unexpected end.
Is this a part of your company’s product or internal tooling, or is this 2FA part of a software you use? If it’s the latter, please give a recommendation if it’s good!
Unlock the mysteries of time, Python's datetime that is
I wonder why they even need to peform traffic stops. I think the practice of cops writing tickets as a way to raise revenue is a terrible idea.

I drove 1700 miles around France for two weeks and was surprised at how few police were writing traffic citations.

I’d like to see some efficacy studies to see how it improves safety to have police write tickets for broken tail lights and illegal left turns.

I’m sure we all have stories of unnecessary tickets, but my favorite was when I was driving 79 in a 70 zone through the desert in Utah. Zero cars around, middle of the day. Why in the world would the police officer even bother?
I get what you're saying, but I think you're missing the point. They're obsolete, yeah, but so is the Commodore 64, the Chevy Stingray, the Saturn V, the Nokia 3310...

It was the symbol of an era. The current era is objectively better -- you're not wrong -- but while nostalgia isn't necessarily rational, it's not irrational either.
Longer term consulting contracts should 100% be waterfall. How would it even work any other way? These firms aren't delivering the latest smartphone app for their clients.
In a postnuclear world this comparison is absurd.
Simply replacing “men” with “people” in that sentence would work fine.
> He was "punished" by going to a club med like rehab facility where he was taught about the wrongs of his actions by horse back riding.

And you read that where?
Trust is a loaded concept.

What people trust is generally what fits their worldview which is increasingly reinforced by the filter bubbles provided by tech companies. The increasing polarisation and tribalism is made worse by the traditional network programming and now algorithms that present what the audience is comfortable to see and hear.

I like using DDG because it doesn't filter, but at the same time I hate wading through utter crap and being the filter.

Twitter for all its flaws is pretty good at giving everyone a voice so you can read something and then the criticisms without having to aggregate that from multiple sites.
> You can Send an &mut T to another thread, and it will be able to mutate your memory.

Mutable references are exclusive. If you Send an &mut T to another thread then it isn't really your memory any more—you can't read from it or write to it unless the other thread somehow Sends the reference back.
>and the planes that are flightworthy require violating federal law (in the US) to access them.

That doesn't really answer the question though. Breaking into a house also violates laws, yet it happens all the time. If you've made it onto an airport tarmac, can you just steal a plane?
> bomb could have ignited the atmosphere

This appears to be a misunderstanding or myth. It was well understood prior to Trinity that such an occurrence was not possible. The issue was carefully studied by multiple top physicists affiliated with the Manhattan Project.

See here: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/bethe-telle...
Does freedom of speech mean freedom from consequences?

If you are my supplier, and I accuse you of various crimes (which may or may not be true), and as a result you stop supplying me, then are you shutting down my free speech? Do you have an obligation to keep doing business with me no matter what I say?
> They no doubt billed the customer ten times what they were paying the employee while claiming cost savings.

You forgot the part about how the engineer is very aware of this hourly arrangement and feels their job security depends on their ability to get work done in less time, and so they they take tons of shortcuts and pile up technical debt like crazy.

Then the other engineer has to make changes through that technical debt, and he’s also very aware that his time is the company’s money (because the managers remind him of it constantly), so he does 20 hours of work over the weekend and logs it as 4 hours so his boss won’t get mad at him.

And the part about how half of them will lose their visa and have to leave the country if they complain about any of it.

If you’re reading this, and you write software for one company that later becomes the property of another company: QUIT. YOUR. JOB. RIGHT. NOW. Interview at ANY other company, your life can be 10x better in a few weeks, just go.
Dark mode still needs some work. It doesn't detect black text, and keeps it black on the dark background.
And here I thought these would be the ideal planes with enough space for proper physical distancing in pandemic times...
This sort of thing is terrifying to me. I've read a little bit about the Stasi, and back then the whole idea behind it seemed too absurd to believe. Now we're living it. If you question or protest the status quo, you are literally putting your life in danger.
Not the OP, but I think they mean the first time they flew internationally, it was in a 747?
Why is Splunk among the bests for you? What is the cheaper alternative?
Wait, service now is 3rd party software? It's so bad I assumed it was internal, by a team of 2-3 utterly incompetent web developers. This is paid for? Oh my god...
thanks for the integrated openpgp support. finally.
This, definitely. I've flown Emirates A380 first class a few times and done the onboard shower thing. You're drinking $1500/bottle booze and taking a shower on a plane. You're not going to do that on a private jet unless you're the cofounder of Google or an oligarch or a head of (a large) state.

...but, for about $3000-5000, you can experience this on a transatlantic flight. Where else can someone in the upper middle class save their pennies and get to live like royalty for a day? It's a pretty amazing thing.

Well, it _was_ an amazing thing. It's possible that the era of showers and A380s and maybe even international first class as we knew it is gone forever.

Here's what you could get for $3000 if you are ready to be flexible on travel dates and have a knack for obsessive pouring-over of schedules:

https://flickr.com/photos/69697531@N00/sets/7215770666398705...
> updates can be made on any DNS server (e.g., "multi-master")

This cannot be overstated. I'm currently in the process of trying to rehabilitate an existing DNS infrastructure based on BIND, and it is a complete disaster. All the "high availability" stuff is focused around replicating zone databases from a single master to many slaves, which will indeed continue answering queries even if the master is down. It appears there is basically zero concern for ensuring that updates will continue to be accepted and distributed to slaves if the master fails. The documentation doesn't address it, and none of the many conversations I found through Google had good answers. I have no idea how large DNS installations are built on this software.
What if a biological male is assigned female gender at birth? Would they be transgender, or just female?
They should realize that being too vigilant has its own downsides. Autosell is no magic. It fails to see into the future, it might as well go up the second the shares are sold. Tough luck...
That's fetch
2mg of E2 for only 13 days and he needs surgery? Sounds very much like something a lawyer would say. At most a few mm of development/widening of the areola with the start of development under. Not noticeable unless you are actually measuring them weekly. It is common enough that a someone will have to go off HRT after only a few weeks and anything underlying breast development will undo itself, but not the areola. But full blown gynecomastia that is irreversible? That takes a lot longer.

Perhaps he was already overweight, high fat percentage (which results in high e2 in males) and some gynecomastia already?

Further I would be willing to bet that he was swallowing all 2mg at once and not taking the pills sublingually or buccally split across the day.

It is up to the lawyers to decide and maybe he had better breast development than any trans woman I know, but everything in my experience tells me that noticeable gynecomastia takes longer than 13 days on e2.
Hosting for millions of visitors/hour isn't that hard. Maybe the cloud companies want to make you think otherwise, but a handful of bare metal servers around the world should be enough to handle that kind of load unless you're streaming video or running a really heavy web framework. Those can easily be obtained for free if you're already a criminal and have access to compromised servers or stolen credit cards to buy them with.
You’re getting hammered for this, but you’re probably correct. One could imagine a parallel universe where our test didn’t go so favorably.

One could also imagine a future physics breakthrough that we’re fairly confident about, which turns out to be horribly wrong.

However, with each decade that the standard model turns out to be correct, one could also imagine that this chance will never happen again; that we’ll be forever confident in our predictions. (This seems the most arrogant statement of all, though.)
There are nomads who actively use Bir Tawil, it is not uninhabited.

As soon as you put anything of value there you would suddenly discover that it is not as unclaimed as you thought, you would have to defend it from both Egypt and Sudan.

It certainly wouldn't be a technical challenge though. We know how to live in deserts.
If you are taking non-bioidentical hormones yes, but if you are taking bioidentical hormones it is a different story.
You could say "people with male/masculine bodies" or you could specify you mean sex rather than gender.
Extra white space makes the window nearly twice the size for no apparent reason.

The old window was twice as big as it needs to be too, but I agree the new one is even worse.

I don't like the flat buttons either. I don't use macOS much, but the old ones with a subtle border look like they're native UI, whereas the new flat ones don't. A random image I found confirms that the old buttons and checkbox look the same as what the OS itself uses, while the new ones look very out-of-place:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/5ACES.png
I had this exact same feeling.
"They worried about this, and were fairly confident in their calculations. "

The problem with saying it this way, is that it's implied 'there was a risk but it was within threshold'.

There was no risk. It wasn't a thing.

It's not like putting 100lbs in the elevator and knowing it will 'be ok' because it's way below the 1000lb threshold.

It's not really 'safe' by calculation, it's mostly 'safe' by rationalisation.
Nice, I wandered on to the Zulip Chatroom for Quarkus. It didn’t take me very long to figure out the interface: it was very intuitive, and I absolutely LOVE the syntax highlighting support AND topic centered conversations! For technical conversations when you gotta share a lot of code, it makes a HUGE difference when you can share code snippets that are easy to read. Slack allows this with the upload a snippet feature but it’s hard to use and the UX of snippets is kinda atrocious.

If I were to start a new community, I would absolutely go with Zulip.
>> You label the NYT as biased not because of its bias, but because you disagree with its reporting

That's really impressive psychoanalysis on your part. NOT. I've considered that and looked at it from a number of angles and the conclusion is that they are biased.

My own biases are not partisan, but tend toward a dislike of things like hypocrisy and misconstruing facts - behavior I see often at NYT and WaPo.
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First class is on the way out on many international routes since all the demand and money is in biz class. Ya, you can get your own private cabin with big screen tv and full sized bed (on a Singapore 380 if they still fly those), but most aren’t going to pay for it and are flying on an upgrade (business class is full, bump someone to first!).

Business class is nice because you can sleep on a lie flat, which is the only thing I care about on an 11 hour flight.
The value changed hands, it wasn't erased. The stock market doesn't change the underlying fundamentals of the companies.
It depends on the type of economic power. US is a bigger market, by virtue of bigger real GDP. Chinese can produce more by virtue of bigger PPP GDP.

I agree that for TSMC, market size is more important, but the blanket statement about global economic power is a little bit excessive. If we want to have COVID19 PPE, mass-produce medical equipment, or rapidly build military equipment, China can out-manufacture the US.

I know 2 of those three will be controversial (esp. military equipment), but I think they're true. The US military is probably superior to China's today, but the US had an inferior military at the start of WWII as well. However, the US was a manufacturing superpower and produced a superior military quite quickly. If China were to focus its manufacturing and engineering prowess on military technology, I think it would pass the US rather quickly at this point too. Yes, I'm aware of US technological superiority, and yes, I've seen estimates of how long it would take China to bridge the gap. No, I don't believe those estimates. I think there are a lot of mistaken assumptions in them, and it's to everyone's benefit (US' and China's) to believe the US is further ahead than it is.
the sino-soviet split happened long before we started off shoring to china
Are you scripting Excel to run at 3am?
Did you know if the Uighur s were to take the university entrance exam in china they would get extra points due to the fact they are minority?
Despite what the western media reports (in this case a opinion piece lol, where the proof is a spreadsheet) there is a system in china that actually sets minority up for success.

>In China there is no freedom of speech. Foreign companies can have their IP taken from them

Lolz if you look on Weibo you can find tons of voices critical of the government,

https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4461664625535361
Interestingly this site is almost completely unreadable[0] on Android Chrome

[0]http://imgur.com/gallery/5LZ6leC
Yep, automatic testing will be coming soon! :)
I'm really curious about this too. I haven't been able to find this information anywhere.
A war of tweets maybe. If this hack could start a war then any state actor could manipulate us into war.

Let’s not speculate war here. We’re on HN:)
Yeah, I personally use scuttlebutt and would rather folks use it for encrypted group chat, but it seems that everyone I know has settled on Signal for now.
asana, looker, google sheets, vscode
At my last employer (large US bank you’ve definitely heard of), they had something like this internally. Tools/scripts were packaged up as modules and you could/would “module load foo”. It knew what OS you were running, so Windows users could do the same thing for cross-platform tools.

It was very handy and I’m looking forward to trying this as a substitute.
Rider runs ReSharper underneath
I’ve only ever flown on a 380 for a domestic route (Guangzhou to Beijing), couldn’t really tell anything special about it, it was just lots of economy class.