skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As amusing as this is, it highlights how fragile air travel is -- someone managed to fly a 200 lb payload within a couple hundred feet of an airliner on final approach. And apparently did so anonymously since there was no mention of who or exactly what it was.

It wouldn't be hard to maneuver it right in front of the airliner and cause a collision. While the aircraft would likely survive an engine strike, at only a few thousand feet of altitude it doesn't give much time to recover.
Is it really that hard to work on python2 code if you've only done python3, provide you have proper documentation and the web to look up quirks?
Initial reaction to seeing HN showing me “AWS Boilerplate (github.com)” was I thought AWS had launched a new service and it was potentially open source.

Please consider renaming to something like ‘Boilerplate for AWS’ since it would avoid confusion that this is something official from AWS, and because such a name is less likely to cause trademark issues per the AWS Trademark Guidelines.

https://aws.amazon.com/trademark-guidelines/
Interesting! I wonder what these were actually used for. Word on the street was communication with spies using a one-time-pad or something. I'm sure it was important or they wouldn't have built all this stuff for it. It wouldn't have been for the "what are those soviets up to now???" effect :D

And the more esoteric explanations like triggering preprogrammed behaviour (like the plot of Black Ops I refers to) are clearly nonsense. So I suppose it must have been something like that, the comms with spies thing.

After all the mysterious woodpecker only turned out oto be a poorly functioning OTH radar.
It seems obviously fabricated that a pile of phones hang from a tree and not one person turns them off, smashes them, or takes them.
> Prenda Law operated for 1 year ...

While technically yes. They just opened another company and kept on going. Guess I should have said "Prenda Law and it's various incarnations". ;)

> ... it's impossible to prevent someone from doing paperwork crimes if they aren't in prison.

That's the whole point. ;)

On that note, it looks like Paul Hansmeier is now attempting to start that racket back up again, even from behind bars.
Ask Apple. It's one of the most persistent annoyances of MacOS as a Unix.
Cats seem to have a lot of issues caused by their own immune system, other one that comes to my mind is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine-associated_sarcoma
Well then you're going to be banning a lot of companies. Or you'll be putting a lot of businesses in a position where they have to decide whether they want a relationship with China (growing economy, growing global influence) or the United States (stagnant economy, shrinking global influence).
Mick West on YouTube has some pretty good explanations behind the UFO sightings by the US Navy.

Here he goes through why the glare rotates while the horizon does not (and recreates the phenomenon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_bX9Hx1H0

Here he highlights the relevant gimbal information on the Navy display that explains the "sudden" movements of the UFO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1di0XIa9RQ&t=251s

He's a retired developer who is now a science writer and skeptical investigator (just to give you an idea of where his expertise/bias may lie)
If you are on an island that has no wired comms and you are restricted to a 4g connection that thousands seem to share the thought of re downloading 100s of gb at 9kb/sec isn’t something to look forward to.
htop has been on my list of applications I must install immediately on every system for at least 14 years now. I am always a bit shocked when I am reminded about how young of a project it is. I think the only younger tool that I always install is jq.
I recommend listening to the flight director loops from the Apollo missions. There are thousands of recorded hours available (various places, but try lunarmodule5’s playlists on Youtube, or https://apolloinrealtime.org/ for a museum exhibit style) - including practically the entirety of missions 8 to 13, and most especially try the notorious manual burn of 13 during which everyone sounds like they’re discussing where to have lunch, not undertaking an extraordinarily difficult and dangerous manoeuvre in a crippled spacecraft.

Sometimes I put them on as working background audio, it’s tremendously soothing.
You've got ignorant views of what 'sex' and 'work' are. Not all sex is in-person. And these people spend a huge amount of time and effort building their brands and followers. Less with the sex negativity, please.
Why? We are used to that a lot of stuff can have the same name. Many humans have the same name.

Having a unique name is uncommon.
Why is JWT still the default go-to thing despite all its security shortcomings?
Ah, the Trump method!
> you can publish macOS software without paying $99 year.

Can you point to straightforward apple instructions for doing so?

I publish an open source project used in classrooms, mostly used by my own students but also others. Despite strong and principled objections, which I hung on to for years, I have simply given up and now pay the fee. I'd love to not have apple be the gatekeeper. But they are. Every release, every update, every summer when I go to fix a few bugs, the restrictions get tighter and tighter, and old workarounds stop working.

I work entirely on Linux and Win10, but I maintain a mac laptop and pay the $99/yr out of pocket just to keep this project alive. I've spent tens of days trying to find a way around either of these requirements, but it's just too difficult (for me, or for my students, or for others wanting to try my software).
Ask HN: Where Can I Find a Dell XPS Developer Ed with 32GB RAM?
Seems that 8GB is the only option without customization ability.
Free Thought by Outlandish Thinking
There’s free speech and the question of free will, but lately I’ve been wondering how free our thoughts are. And I’m pretty sure they’re not free to roam wherever they may like, but constrained by unseen guardrails and self-censoring mechanisms that arrest the development of interesting ideas before they can be fully articulated.
Do they have a release of this? Github or otherwise?
A good way to *spread wealth is to tax it.
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> If we educated everyone on logic and reasoning, then each person could do their own fact checking.

I'm a mathematician, my colleagues are mathematicians, yet a good portion of them don't use logic and reasoning when it comes to news or other non-math Internet information.

The battle is lost..
I'd say just knowing about a bias is necessary but not sufficient to protect yourself from it.

Practically speaking, think about organizational design and policy.
This is true but a little misleading. On Windows Go uses GetAddrInfo and DNSQuery which does the right thing. But on Linux there are two options: netgo and netcgo -- a pure Go implementation that doesn't know about NSS, and a C wrapper that uses NSS.

Since netgo is faster, by default Go will try its best to determine if it must use netcgo by parsing /etc/nsswitch.conf, looking at the tld, reading env variables, etc..

If you're building the code you can force it to use netcgo by adding the netcgo build tag.

If you're an administrator the least intrusive method I think would be setting LOCALDOMAIN to something or '' if you can't think of anything which will force it to use NSS.
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Your solution assumes that logic and reasoning is somthing that can be ingrained in a person's thinking and lifestyle through education. Maybe you can train those skills to a certain extent but it also seems entierly possible that there will always be a portion of the human population (maybe even most of the population) that simply doesn't possess the cognitive trait or ability required to seriously interrogate various viewpoints or even their own ideas.
Forums that don't require you to use your real time, don't track your location, and are text only are not synonymous with the modern sense of social media.
> There's a paradox, though. If we say e.g. YouTube is not allowed to remove content, that's actually a restriction of freedom of speech. In particular, YouTube's freedom of speech.

Putting aside whether or not this is nonsense to begin with, it certainly doesn't apply to China, which is a government. A law requiring companies serving the US market to not comply with censorship by China is restricting what China can do, not what those companies can do. The companies then have a problem if they exist in two jurisdictions which now have conflicting laws, but they can solve it by moving out of whichever jurisdiction they please.
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Venture capitalists fund ten businesses in all sectors, expecting to get nine flops and one mega-success. A large company doing an internal software project is not a venture capitalist. They have a specific goal in mind and must use their existing assets like manpower, server time, consulting hours, software licenses, hardware, etc. A new software initiative will need to collaborate with provisioning teams, DBAs, business analysts, HR, QA, offshore teams, etc. to succeed. All these employees are not going to collaborate with two different teams working on the same project simultaneously, much less ten teams. So they will have ten failures at the end.
I'm not still talking about TikTok. I support banning Chinese social networks or any network where China has censorship power (either explicit or through back doors).

I was responding narrowly about the idea that "free speech" demands that the US govt can force companies to choose what to publish.

Forcing a company to stop operating here is an entirely different concept.
Coronavirus cases are on the rise again across more than half of the U.S.
Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS (2015)
The bureaucrats who set curriculum are accountable to no one but themselves. If they were actually accountable to politicians and ultimately to the common people, that would be a vast improvement over the status quo - after all, most people are well aware of the sorry state of our K12 education.
Notarized apps are allowed to run by macOS Gatekeeper. Non-notarized apps are rejected by macOS Gatekeeper. You can quibble about the word "approved", but notarization is very important nonetheless.
I'm not sure you want to look at the SIU as some paragon of justice holding police to account. The SIU is not a division of the police, being under the purview of the provincial government, but it sure is staffed by a whole lot of former police (nearly all white too) who seem to have no problem finding other police innocent of any wrongdoing. The most recent stats I read were that 97% of cases are cleared without charges and you can count on 1 hand the number of cops who actually went to jail over their 30 year existence. Their "mental health unit" didn't do much to save Regis Korchinski-Paquet, and the feckless SIU wasn't much better in investigating. They also don't deserve any credit for the current investigation of Ejaz Choudry's murder, another person with mental health problems being "assisted" by police while in distress.

Absolutely police systems work, as long as you're not on the side that's being policed.
Just on bikes in particular, I also can't say enough good stuff about folding bikes, especially if you have a private office. My commuter bike is a Brompton: it's stupid expensive (around $1,500), but I literally can just fold it up, carry it up a flight of stairs, and stick it next to my desk in my office, and it's basically thief-proof. At home, it lives in a closet.
MAME emulation coming in 3, 2, 1...
You can use a browser extension to always load old reddit.
It's built and ready to use. We've started inviting people from the waitlist and happy to engage with those who want to interact 1:1 and provide feedback so we can provide a compelling experience for developers.
You'd have to go off expected values.

Throwing numbers out: If you expect 1 death per 1,000 residents with a Cat 4 strike, and the city is 1,000,000 people, you'd get 1,000 deaths. If there is a 25% chance of a strike, then you expect 250 deaths. I know that math is a bit funky, but that's what seems to be done. You compare that to the added deaths due to an evacuation event, and then whatever the math says, you should then do.

I agree, it seems strange. But I'm at a loss as to how else you should calculate things.
Show HN: Nibble – Food Recommendation Engine
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Restaurant Menus - See what there is to eat before you go! We provide access to online menus at restaurants you plan to go to in order for you to see if you'll like it before you try it.

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The Intersection of Hard, Important, and Profitless Problems
>> falling hundreds of feet into water is more survivable than hundreds of feet into earth or concrete.

No, not really - hitting watter as damaging as hitting concrete once you get above 100 feet high. But at least you're not going to kill an unlucky pederastian by falling on them.
It may well be this classic from my old office colleague https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Rich...
> [the $99 fee] seems like a reasonable way to ensure that the world isn't flooded with incredibly low-effort apps

Lol. In my experience a fee is a way to _ensure_ it is filled with incredibly low-effort apps (which tend to be the most profitable).
Walk up to the phones and check to see if you can see any software running?

Wouldn't it be a prime target for cell phone theft?
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You have excellent points, and I hope I had known them many years ago.

One of the main issues for non-lawyers is that the first time you need to hire a lawyer, you have no idea what you are doing, so there's a huge learning curve and a lot of information asymmetry to overcome.
Yeah, my first thought was oh shit Amplify has been replaced here we go again.
Please submit a "Show HN" once this launches. I'd joyfully watch any recordings.

FWIW: I started a study group in the late 90s, which continues today.

Our original topic (theme) was Design Patterns. Took three attempts to become self-sustaining. Mostly for an in-group to congeal. We had to experiment with the format, work out the details. Stuff like meeting frequency, best way to do the food, delegating tasks.

After each book, the group gets together to choose the next book. Over the last 20+ years, we tackled most vogue programming languages, Prolog, SICP, concurrency, ML & big data, k8s, methodologies, algos. (One notable omission are the consensus algos.)

So here's my unsolicited advice:

#1 As soon as you can, delegate the discussion leader task, then step back and focus on coordination (hosting). Once you figure out a mostly working format. After showing everyone how it's done, hand it off. Ideally, do round robin with the participants. After a while it becomes clear who's good at discussions.

First reason is coordinator is a full time job itself. Preparing to lead a discussion is a lot of work and a different headspace. Reading the source material, doing background research (reading other reviews of same), distilling 3-5 essential open-ended questions about the chapter, etc.

Second reason is emotional engagement, investment. Everyone has to pull their weight. Just like with a church, there's no commitment without sacrifice. You're hosting a discussion group, not a seminar.

#2 Experiment, have a plan, make decisions democratically, do post mortems after each series. Ask each participant to write what worked, what didn't, what they'd change (aka The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly). Send all write-ups to group pre meeting. Then discuss.

As coordinator, my job was to facilitate, carry out the group's will, keep everything on track. (Well, mostly the job was to show up.) There have now been a handful of coordinators; so apparently our culture and format were successful.

So if I was going to tackle AOSP today with a new crew, I'd draft a plan, invite everyone to also propose plans, present plans to the group, have a list of open questions to be decided, keep a list of new questions raised, keep minutes, send out a recap. I'd probably host every thing on git, to ease collaboration.

My opening position would be to suggest a first "season" 4-6 months long, meet alternate weeks, use a survey to divine which chapters to cover (based on group interest), another survey to divine meeting schedule.

Ok. Enough of my brain dump.

Again, whatever you end up doing, please do a Show HN.

What you're doing is very exciting. Happy hunting.
So, car insurance should be the same price for everyone as no one is more likely to be an at-fault cause of an accident?
"in a jetpack" is just a colloquial way of saying "wearing a jetpack". other examples of this type of language include:

"Do you see that man in the suit over there?"

"the suspect in body armor was described as being 6 feet tall."

"man in an orange shirt" is the title of a popular pbs show.

etc etc etc.
Unless you're on mobile
Algebra Driven Design
For folks who want a tool to help them accomplish this, I have heard good things about cookiecutter: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter
The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that corporations have 1st Amendment rights.

You have to remember that "corporation" can mean any group organized for a purpose. It can be Exxon, but it can also be Planned Parenthood or AARP.

People who can't speak loudly enough by themselves have a right to organize into a corporation, pool their money, and speak loudly together.

You can argue that a business should not be both a commercial enterprise and a holder of 1st Amendment rights, but that's not what the law says. And anyway, it would be an impossible line to draw.
Perhaps you underestimate just how much people like to be fans: Some people spend thousands of dollars on a baseball if it's signed by a particular person. And $200 is cheap compared to a print of Elvis that's been signed by him. It's not even a nude print and you're not even giving him the money!

Broadly speaking I have found many people aching for the smallest shred of sentimentality. This is what she's selling. The only amazing thing is just how little people will buy.
>The writers of the constitution understood that if you didn't like doing business with a company you could just take your business to their competitor.

Is there actually something in the Federalist Papers talking about free market competition? I'm not aware they considered this at all.
Capping access to reach is akin to current editorial media — politicians and celebrities get more reach than others. When those in a position of reach choose to share outlandish misinformation we still as a society don’t seem to have good ways to hold them to accounnt. Once those large reach accounts share out then smaller ones can disseminate to all the untracked nooks and crannies and amplify further.