skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to fly a lot as an unaccompanied minor[1].

It's way different now in the post-911 aviation world, but on several of those flights the flight attendants keeping tabs on me would take me up to the cockpit at some point during the flight to say hello to the pilots and get a wing pin[2]. And on one occasion I got to spend the majority of the flight in a cockpit jumpseat.

Man, those were fun times. One trip I got pawned onto the maintenance crew afterwards due to the person picking me up being late, and got to drive the vehicle thing that pushes back planes from the gate. As a kid, I think I enjoyed that experience (and the feeling of power over an airplane) more than the jumpseat experience.

[1] https://thepointsguy.com/news/airline-unaccompanied-minor-po...

[2] https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-children/1437386-real...
As long as it’s on the same planet, it’s still all our eggs in one basket.
You're right, thanks for pointing out. They made a SD looking MCU board with WiFi, but that didn't work as SD emulator they just used the connector because it was cheap and ubiquitous.

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/electric-imp-breakout-h...
Reputation risk avoidance. "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM"
You do understand that the corporate world runs on Microsoft Windows and Active Directory, right?

DNS is an absolutely critical component of Active Directory (there's even an old joke that, when dealing with Active Directory issues, "it's always DNS").

In an AD environment, clients are almost always configured to use Windows DNS servers as their DNS servers, with the Windows DNS servers then performing forwarding (of any unanswerable queries) on their behalf. This way is, by far, a helluva lot easier.

You could have non-Microsoft DNS servers that slave the zones from the Windows DNS servers and point the clients at those.

You can even go a step further and avoid using Microsoft DNS entirely. Despite what some people (even some here, apparently), you absolutely CAN run Active Directory without using Microsoft DNS at all (although there are several advantages to using Microsoft DNS)! BIND, for instance, can be used instead of Microsoft DNS. It completely supports all the features that are needed for Active Directory -- in fact, it provides a number of additional features that are often "nice to have" as well.

Because it is a PITA to set up and support, though, these type of deployments are fairly uncommon. In most cases, it's much "easier" to just use Microsoft DNS (which can be installed and set up for you automatically when first deploying Active Directory) -- especially when the folks managing Active Directory don't really have a great understanding of DNS itself. For example, I imagine the average Windows administrator would be completely dumbfounded if you asked them to hand-edit a BIND zone file! Instead, with Microsoft DNS, they can just point and click their way around.

This, of course, leaves out all discussion of DHCP which (in a corporate Windows environment) is pretty much always required as well. Running all of this on Windows means you don't have to deal with integrating all of the various pieces yourself.
T&M only works for contracts for a few resources in a blended team in my view, with the only risk being a 2 or 4 week price on getting rid of them. Then you’re basically hiring overflow individuals you can get rid of easily who may have particular skills.

Accountability only works with fixed price IMO
The average temperature on earth is 57F and the pressure at sea level is 32 psi. The average temperature on Mars is -81F and the atmosphere is .095 psi and mostly carbon dioxide. Mars has a gravity of 0.376 g. Visiting sounds like a fine idea, but I'm not sure why anybody thinks that its likely that people can live for any length of time on Mars.
"It should not be much less than me thousand tons unless there is an actual malfunctioning of some of the components."

"me" == "meh"?
But why is preserving humanity in that case even a goal? Everyone on Earth still dies in that disaster scenario. I understand wanting to prevent people from dying in the disaster, but just letting them die and then repopulating from somewhere else just doesn't seem like a worthy goal to me.
Thank you for sharing! My father used to tell me about this story. It's good to know it's apocryphal.
For the forseeable future, life on Mars could plausibly be ended by one rogue computer virus in the HVAC system.
>If colonizing Antarctica was in any way worthwhile, someone would have done it 100s (or 1000s, or 10,000s) of years ago.

except technology has advanced since then.
Maybe that's why everyone signed the treaty in the first place. They didn't have the tech but now that they do, it's worth giving it another shot.
We've had the means and ability to colonize it since the end of WW2. Chile and Argentina have civilian towns there, since the 50s&60s. Very teeny tiny towns, but they exist.
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I'm sure it's been said before, but I just continue to be surprised that the admin panel used to carry out this attack wasn't locked behind a VPN.

I've worked for multiple fully-remote companies that were easily able to protect tools like this from the outside world.

The company I currently work for (fully remote) has tons of internal services that our engineers (who we trust) can access as needed in order to debug problems and help our clients. None of it is accessible from the Internet.
Airbnb can survive the pandemic. Can the hosts?
"One" I think. Probably was "ne" and got autocorrected to "me" instead of "one" (would make sense, "less than me" probably occurs more often than "less than one").
I share your puzzlement.

One could similarly say: "A co-pilot is, at best, no less likely to make a mistake than a captain. Why have two pilots in the cockpit then?"

The author writes:

> Of course, potentially halving our existential crises by doubling our presence in the solar system is not to be sniffed at [...]

Having a backup planet doesn't "halve" the risk of existential crisis, just like the second pilot doesn't halve the risk of plane crash or having a backup of your main HD doesn't halve the risk of you losing all your data. It reduces it much more (assuming, as you point out, that the risks are at least somewhat independent).

This is so obvious that I'm wondering whether the author just wishes to push this dream of an O’Neill cylinder habitat.
Some people are reporting that they got similar emails, even if they didn't tweet anything (example: https://twitter.com/BradyHaran/status/1283685874941808640).

The hackers may have saved the DMs from lots of accounts and only publicly used big accounts which don't have any DMs to publicize the hacks
Questions for the WHO team in China investigating pandemic origins
species die off. one day humans might. if so, it was a good run. my bet is we won’t get off this rock before we destroy it.
A380s are relatively new arent they? Compared to 747s I mean.
Once the Martian population reaches any significant number there will be violent crimes.
The K-T event obviously didn't eliminate life on Earth.
I've actually got good experiences with t&m, but that'd be anecdotal. The problems grow from when incentives become misaligned, and external work/consultancy is being used against coworkers.
But going underground here on Earth also insulates you from like 99% of planet-scale disaster scenarios, especially if you're growing your crops underground and recirculating your breathing air, both of which you'd be doing in a Mars underground settlement.

I'm totally down for how nifty it would be to have off-world colonies, but trying to sell it to the public with these "what if" arguments doesn't even begin to pass the sniff test. Gates has been sounding the alarm for years about viral pandemics and basically nothing was prepared for it; how capable would we be of spending trillions on a "backup Earth" when we can't even spend a few million a year on stockpiling medical PPE?
Not surprised one bit. This is brilliant.
Better that half of humanity dies than all of it.
You are correct. I hate to defend these companies, but they deliver exactly what is asked for, no more.

If you provide a vague spec or don’t have good governance of a more dynamic/agile project, the consultants aren’t the root cause of failure.
Like a lot of terms doxing can mean different things. Sometimes it means holding people accountable and sometimes it means releasing the home address and workplace of a person misidentified as a wrongdoer by an internet mob.

A recent example was the biker misidentified as a man who assaulted a child putting up posters.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52978880
"within Twitter’s admin tools, apparently you can update the email address of any Twitter user, and it does this without sending any kind of notification to the user."

How is this acceptable? That's practically (thus effectively) identity theft.
If it was really that great, one would think the article would be able to point out some great things that came out of it. Instead it just points to a bunch of people saying how great it was.

I can't help but feel that twitter uses are kind of a self-hating bunch. Its a totally optional site where you can follow whomever you want, and the best thing to happen is for it to break for popular people? I don't understand why people use twitter if they don't want twitter to work. Nobody is forcing you; just quit if you don't like it.
Its almost as if we shouldn't centralize such communication in a single giant private corporation.
I actually think less states. Like, even 15 rural states is probably a stretch, it probably would be closer to 8. There really isn't a point to having like 30 states that have less than a half million people in them.

I would slice it into something like:

* Appalachia Region

* Gulf Region

* Great Lakes Region

* Heartland region

* Rockies Region

* Cascadia Region

* Desert Region (Southwest US - need a better name but I'm coming up with a blank.)

* Maybe a Northern Shield region? Could just be part of the rockies region.

Those areas all have common environmental concerns and life experiences, and would bring a sufficient number of residents to be worth bothering over. Then you have the metro areas as their own states, enclaves within the larger regions. If metro areas grow out you would probably would have to have some mechanism to vote to transfer counties/districts between states.

Never going to happen of course, the number of political barriers is insane. And Republicans would never ratify any such plan that rearranged states as any sensible arrangement would unwind the disproportionate power they wield based on the current arrangement.

The only mechanism that could conceivably be achieved is splitting blue states up, and it's not really a good one since populations are so concentrated - imagine trying to split New York City into like 5 independent states, it would just be completely impossible to administer in practice.

In reality we will just keep bumbling along with our current system that immensely, disproportionately advantages the rural states and rural populations. Unless the country goes into an actual civil war, of course, which is not as unthinkable as it was 4 years ago.
Can anyone recommend an inexpensive fingertip oximeter?
The actions you take in this world are real yes, but the scale at which the internet enables retribution is unprecedented. If you punch someone in the street maybe three people will beat you up. If you punch someone online, tens of thousands of people might pile on and start kicking.
Airliners generally do not.
> $150k+ isn't uncommon for somebody with a few years under their belt.

I don't think that's much higher than government employees make these days. In DC an engineer "with a few years under their belt" can easily make that at a startup and be working on much more interesting problems for a much less slimy company. There are plenty of jobs outside of FAANG that pay that or better.

The parent isn't wrong, at least in my experience, nobody who is technically competent would take a job at one of those places (and in my experience none of the technical people coming out of them have been competent).
I'm guessing because the costs to the consumer for a ticket don't reflect the costs to the world in carbon emissions.
They’re looking to be increasingly more interesting as a biomarker for MS among other things [0]. There’s a lot we still don’t know about our visual systems and the advent of lower cost hardware is allowing huge amount of interesting questions to be hypothesized and tested. It’s a great time to be in the science behind all of this, like the authors at Brown on this paper!

[0] https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2670267
Please stop downvoting comments just because you disapprove. This is probably the worst practice on HN of late.

This post is entirely independent of the subject being discussed. I have no opinion on these particular podcasters.
Should drop bags of these extremeophiles onto the solar system's moons and planets.
Mars is only the beginning? Gravity wells take a lot of fuel to escape. Doubtful we'll be bouncing around the stars without some major breakthroughs in physics.
They're even bigger though, so they have the same problem as the 747 in a post-COVID world only worse.

In hindsight it was a mistake ever developing them. They're a huge loss for Airbus and will never remotely turn a profit.
Yep it can totally work, but I think it’s a bit of a coin toss and I wouldn’t risk it with these sized contracts.
This is the best YouTube video I've watched in a long time. Thanks for posting it. (The same lecture from the previous year is also there, and though it overlaps a lot, also worth watching.)
I would be careful abour this one, some managers do everything they can to get rid of exemplary employees. If you're going to this make it as public as possible and make sure you have sound reasoning for why you are singing the praises of your co-worker. Include managers as close to the top of the organization as possible as well.
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So if you're onboard for signing up for a waterfall process, you're going to be alright?

You know, the process that's been shown again and again to be pretty useless in delivering a working software product?

Great way to highlight how incompetent you all are! Honestly can't tell if you're trolling or being serious.
Android does not have an iCloud equivalent, so naturally Android is not going to have a setting to disable sharing cloud data with the Chinese government. Google Drive doesn't work in China because Google isn't kowtowing the way Apple is.
Thanks! I've sort of considered moving into a business role and becoming a business analyst. Seems like a huge pay cut (that I can't afford) and years of wasted effort.

I actually have a business administration minor and trade options and equities, so I have a better understanding of finance and the business than most people I work with in IT. I work for a large financial company and my previous team was amazed that I passed my CFA Foundations class without studying (it's not difficult like the CFA level 2 or anything).

Maybe I'll reconsider becoming a business person.
> that I despair at the reports I keep getting from the USA. ARe things realy getting that bad?

The US press is pretty good at finding the bad reports. So count them - then count the population, and realize that, while even 1 case is too many, as a percentage, this kind of horrible stuff is very rare.
Wow! I had not, but that looks like it might do the trick. Thanks!
The authentication method is knowing how to fly said plane and getting in said plane in the first place.

The planes that are relatively accessible aren't flightworthy without effort, and the planes that are flightworthy require violating federal law (in the US) to access them.
That sounds like a pretty horrible existence. I often spend more time with my colleagues than my family, and luckily I have formed great friendships with them. I care about them and vice versa. This contributes greatly to my quality of life.

Luckily we all have decent jobs that we enjoy that presents interesting challenges, and earn a decent amount too.
Could cohort based on geo-location instead of completely at random. Makes analysis a bit more challenging though and doesn't completely solve the problem of course.
It's definitely not a line item on paychecks in my state. It's structured as an insurance premium paid by companies to the state. The company's premiums increase when there's a claim against the "policy." Smaller companies like to try denying claims in an attempt to prevent this increase.

One could certainly argue that if this 'premium' didn't exist, it could be paid out in salaries.
Youtube served me the Bill Gates bitcoin scam on Monday, 2 days before the Twitter hack, as opening ad for a video from their recommendation algorithm. The ad's site clearly perpetuated the scam for at least a couple days before changing the website to an innocent iframe link to Bill's foundation page.

Alphabet Inc should be held liable.
Thanks! Maybe I'll reconsider becoming a chief of staff.
Or, just possibly, world leaders shouldn't be on Twitter.

Seems to me having them there is about 99% downside, 1% upside.

Disclosure: I dislike Twitter on principle.
NASA delays JWST launch by seven months
There are no "primary domain controllers" in Active Directory. It's multimaster. There is one "primary domain controller emulator" in each domain that-- erm-- emulates an NT 4.0 primary domain controller-- but that's it.
It really is nice, I use the Neo Vim extension and it's night and day.

Check out Onivim 2 as well for a VSCode like editor that natively uses Vim, but can use VSCode plugins and is generally easier to use than Vim. It also isn't built on Electron so it's super fast and lightweight. Currently it's in beta I think.
6 to 7 figures for the API and DB? Literally the ELT?
Interesting. I wonder if you could factor in “views” for measuring activity, like how many people have visited a thread and for how long. It’s my understanding that most big websites are extremely interested in minutia like where someone spends most of their time on the page, where their cursor is etc. that may be a useful metric for determining engagement.
The Pi isn't going to work after 200 years. Its flash will be wiped. Never mind aging on all the other parts.
But the risk to the target outweighs the potential benefit to the doxxer. Consequences can be unequal. And if the doxee ends up being the perpetrator, then the bad things were already on their way via the legal system.
Do you have an invitation? I'd like to check it out.
They may have sold 100 contracts for something that looks vaguely similar, but there will be zero continuity between the team or the code. At most, you'll get the same managing partner overseeing the sales end, taking the credit for it. This concept of the "safety" of Deloitte, et al, is an illusion.

Cut the project budget to 10% but spend it 10 times. Make 10 smaller firms compete to make the thing and you will get what you need.
Do you think Krebs got it wrong?

But regardless, harassment is harassment. If the public starts harassing the dude, even if he is guilty, they're just as guilty of their own offenses. Two wrongs don't make a right.
How TiDB's HTAP Makes Truly Hybrid Workloads Possible
Thanks for the offer. I don't need them actually, although if they became mass produced again, their availability at decent prices (now they're way overpriced as every rare chip) could spark some ideas.

I don't understand why they never replaced them; the glorious MC1648 itself was upgraded as MC12148 and MC100EL1648.
Paying attention to closing costs is important. Because who likes getting screwed even if you come out ahead. Which you will because dropping your rate from 4.2% to 3% will break even around 18 months and save about $140k in interest.
The Geneva Conventions require display of insignia, though not necessarily uniforms. Similar clothing or large enough patches would suffice. There are exceptions for people who spontaneously take up arms to defend their homes or towns.

If, on the other hand, one side systematically avoids identification of combatants and related personnel, that side is responsible for any civilian deaths (as well as not being entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions).
Sadly, if I had it in the early 2000s I would have done it, but now that I have it I can't.
How about trying https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/ . It seems you legal counsel ASAP.
Vote-piling is so obvious on Reddit but it's more than that.

On a personal level, even when the numbers are hidden from the public like on HN, it has a weird effect on me. It's nice to post something and get a bunch of upvotes, but (even though it doesn't really matter) just getting that single point drop to zero hurts so much more. I don't know if it's loss aversion or the idea that some random internet person dislikes me. I don't dwell on it, I'm notice it and move on, but I still get that little sinking feeling for some reason.

Over time, just like a dog being trained we'll learn to conform to the consensus.
Show HN: A completely different way to write responsive, vanilla, CSS
I know the docs need a little love but I think this has potential to be a game changer for writing responsive CSS. It has named breakpoints, lets you write DRY selectors, doesn't rely on JS or any sort of build step, and if you're already used to seeing --css-variables it's easier to read/maintain too.

I've created a couple JS Bins if you want to play around with it a bit, resize the "output" pane to see it update:

Minimal example: https://jsbin.com/giqedowale/edit?css,output

More involved example: https://jsbin.com/yicuqujehe/1/edit?html,css,output

If you're familiar with CSS, it may seem like it's impossible for this to work without scripts, but while working on another project I realized in the CSS Spec for custom properties that combining a few small details they've highlighted, in a specific order, it makes it possible to do all kinds of things that have never been possible before in CSS. This is the first project I've released using the idea.

Anyway, it's totally free and open source too so hack away if you'd like!
https://github.com/propjockey/css-media-vars

I'll probably be refreshing this page for a while, so I'm happy to answer any questions or dive into the CSS Spec with you and talk about the tech if you're curious!
A decimal digit is encoded in 4 bits as its usual encoding plus 3. Thus 0 is 0011 and 5 is 1000.

Some nice things which happen are…

- the carry bit out of your 4 bit adder is the carry bit from the decimal add. (Your two digits plus their two threes makes sixteen)

- you never have more than three identical bits in a row (5 if you concatenate digits). This can be important for any kind of self clocked data stream. Too long without transitions and you aren’t really sure how many bits the sender meant because your clocks are a little off.

- it has a reasonable way to represent negative numbers.

One significant downside was that on each add you had to take a 3 back out.
Yeah I doubt they get investigated. They would have already talked about it by now.
A "win" w/ Active Directory-based DNS servers (and storing the DNS records within Active Directory) is that you get replication between the DNS servers by way of AD replication "for free". There's a certain component of "snake eating its own tail" to it, insofar as you have to bootstrap new Domain Controller computers by having them use another DNS server while they pull their initial replica. Active Directory-integrated DNS gets you per-record ACLs to authenticate dynamic updates, too.
You’ll find many instances where companies like this have been kicked out early in the process.

Unemployment systems really aren’t that complex in the grand scheme of things. The problem domain is well defined — the program is almost identical to what it was 50 years ago (or more).

When you look at the examples cited, failure is not exactly a surprise. Florida isn’t exactly a poster child for competent governance.