skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity a few months back I spent a few hours looking at this exact hashtag (#boardingpass) and other travel related hashtags.

I ended up thinking that Instagram was actively removing pictures of boarding passes because I could only find a surprisingly low amount of pictures containing valid Lastname/BookingRef. As for the few pictures available, the references were often either too old, or partially covered.

I'm still wondering if Instagram does remove such photos.
> Since you're only doing this when you've got breaking changes coming in anyway, i.e., you've already got to fix the code

Just because the module broke compat doesn't mean you were using the things that broke though. Maybe they dropped or changed functions that you didn't use.
Some Grade A zingers in there:

> The man in question is Tony Abbott, one of Australia’s many former Prime Ministers.

> For security reasons, we try to change our Prime Minister every six months, and to never use the same Prime Minister on multiple websites.

> Harold Holt was another former Prime Minster and we… lost him? He disappeared while going for a swim one morning. This is not a joke. We named Harold Holt Memorial Swim Centre after him. I repeat, this is not a joke.
Deactivating this optional feature is somehow worse than buying a car without such feature in the first place? The latter is neither illegal nor immoral.

The safety driver had an actual job to do, he wasn't there "instead" of automatic emergency braking - which is not certified for driverless operation btw. But he was distracted with a phone instead of looking at the road.

The halo effect here is unreal.
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> high bullshit scores of immigrants

I'm culturally from the US west coast. I have an instinct that directly asking someone from a face culture to admit ignorance is 'sensitive'
I am dumb. I was thinking about Snapchat. Sorry.
You can find an old example here:

https://github.com/eliasdorneles/tictactoe-voc

Looks like this was back when beeware was using VOC, which AFAICT is no longer being used.

I've been trying to find more recent examples but it doesn't look like there are many public projects using beeware.
sole proprietorships and other unincorporated ventures are getting a lot more respect and seamlessness lately!

the stimulus programs specifically included them and the SBA asked no questions

you do still want the liability protections, more disciplined separation of assets and accounting by having an incorporated name, and deterrent to people looking to sue, alongside additional levels of anonymity if you choose which can further deter potential creditors

they can also make elections to parallel regulatory or tax regimes, which you don't want to alter on your personal body. such as election 475 for active traders, converting capital gains and losses into ordinary income allowing for unlimited tax deductions on losses, instead of the default status for capital.

or setting up "blocker" corporations in other jurisdictions to help other people avoid onerous default tax regimes.
I just vaguely remembered seeing something stating that the stack on Stadia is noticeably different than the stack on desktop.

However, upon doing further research, I can't find any credible sources supporting that. It's obviously a boost to Vulkan, as you note, and that's a boost to Linux.

Sounds like a win to me! (Even if they don't release on Linux, developers supporting Vulkan more seems like a Good Thing.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryocooler

I have two of the Twinbird FPSC Portable Freezers which utilize this technology, nice and quiet and sips electricity.
The British counterpart to HUAC was the assumption that anyone in a trade union was a communist and anyone who who went to public school couldn't be. So the security services spent a lot of time on the labour party and missed the Cambridge Four because they were "the right sort of chap".
People who grew up with good fathers, have no idea how fortunate they are. Even after they think they do. Having a bad father puts wounds in your psyche that most people can never heal.
I found his advice to Tony on how to get better with computers remarkably insightful:

> I said there probably was a book out there about “the basics of IT”, but it wouldn’t help much. I didn’t learn from a book. 13 year old TikTok influencers don’t learn from a book. They just vibe.

> My mum always said when I was growing up that:

> There were “too many buttons”
She was afraid to press the buttons, because she didn’t know what they did
I can understand that, since grown ups don’t have the sheer dumb hubris of a child, and that’s what makes them afraid of the buttons.

> Like, when a toddler uses a spoon for the first time, they don’t know what a spoon is, where they are, or who the current Prime Minister is. But they see the spoon, and they see the cereal, and their dumb baby brain is just like “yeA” and they have a red hot go. And like, they get it wrong the first few times, but it doesn’t matter, because they don’t know to be afraid of getting it wrong. So eventually, they get it right.

> Okay so I didn’t tell the spoon thing to Tony Abbott, but I did tell him what I always told my mum, which was: “Mum you just gotta press all the buttons, to find out what they do”.
When people are bored they get distracted and do other things. This is well known human nature and very few people are suited to this sort of task. The people who set up the self-driving car should have known better than the uneducated poor person who is being sacrificed.
Yeah, this is Musk's stated goal, to make other manufacturers go electric.

It's also interesting how all Musk's enterprises seem to align with being useful and viable on Mars. You'd certainly need EVs to move around, solar panels to power the base, batteries to get through nights and maybe bore some tunnels as well.

And you'd certainly need a good "machine to build the machine" -- that is, you'd need a lot of manufacturing experience to start off an industry on Mars. Building factories there might very well be the key.

Will be interesting to see how well Musk's visions will come to fruition.
I guess I’m still don’t understand the fundamental shock and sense of waste you describe. Frenzy didn’t hurt anyone here and provided a net benefit to society.
virtual threads are go routines in java. in golang they made a huge difference - for example you can have low overhead generators http://www.golangpatterns.info/concurrency/generators (go routines is one of the selling points of the go language/runtime).
Ask the Netscape people how evil they think it was...
The vehicle was travelling the posted speed limit at night, as designed. The NHTSA pointed this out that the law may require you to travel at a "safe" speed, and simply choosing to always move at the posted limit is potentially a moving violation and a design flaw.

The vehicle was travelling 20mph faster than it's own "safe clear ahead" zone allowed for. Simply ignoring it's own safety limits and travelling at a higher rate of speed is a design flaw.

Designing a large public road autonomous vehicle test and not taking into account an easily predicted human vulnerability that's been known in other automation experiments for decades is a project design flaw.

Whether or not the driver is at some fault, I think the court will be capable of determining that. Arizona's willingness to completely disregard the mountains of negligence on part of a giant corporation is disturbing.
Does it still convert only two levels by default?
This guy ported it to the web.

http://epicport.com/en
https://github.com/caiiiycuk/play-dune
> Only one thing could possibly improve the travesty that is fintech: a per-transaction tax. Even a $.0001 tax per trasaction would buy universal college education and universal medical care, with plenty left over to replace all coal and oil-fired power with renewables and storage and replace the air fleet with hydrogen-powered craft.

That would only happen if fintech didn't change their behavior in response to such a tax. I do not find that to be a reasonable assumption.
Sounds ready for most news aggregators. Just gotta be good at clickbait titles.
I'm not sure if this is still the case, but one of the reasons I learned Ada in college is because it was used by the DOD. I'm not sure if it's still a requirement for DOD projects, but I believe it was at the time. Which would perhaps explain why Airbus chose Ada. Either that or simply the engineers who are on the project were exposed to/ used Ada during other DOD projects.

Since college, I've never touched it again.
> Guy was using his phone not paying attention to the road when testing experimental equipment on a public road. He was there specifically to mitigate potential malfunctions of said experimental equipment, but he was reading reddit or whatever instead of keeping lookout.

> I can't see how this is not clear cut negligence.

1) The driver is a woman.

2) While I think the driver does bear some fault here, they don't bear all the fault. Uber designed an unsafe system that relied on an unnatural amount of vigilance from a single person while simultaneously discouraging that vigilance [1]. They didn't design the car to shut down when one of it's critical safety components (the driver) was not operating correctly, and they didn't even give that driver amphetamines or something to increase their vigilance to artificial levels.

[1] Basically: pay close attention to a boring process while doing absolutely nothing for hours on end. I'm pretty sure that's a classic "humans suck at this" task.
As I understand, the isothermal transitions in the Stirling cycle need to happen relatively slowly to preserve efficiency, which means the cycle can only run at a low frequency, which generally results in a low power density.
Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it
The energy generated is related to the difference in temperature. So if you're using AC out as hot and ambient as cold, the generation will be small, and it's necessarily much less than the energy spent to run the AC.
I hope that if this feature requires permission from the user. Otherwise it allows one more variable for fingerprinting the browser.
There will be no CTRL + Z, as it can only be used to save to a new document (just like scanning).

Under the hood, you created a new document, rasterize the original document page by page as JPEG, and insert the JPEGs back to the new document.

You can even create a fake "printer", that outputs a PDF with rasterized images as pages, so you don't have to teach the office clerks to anything extra.

To me, it seems to be indistinguishable from printing and scanning.

PS: It's pretty easy to verify if the page contains nothing but an image, programmically, especially if you also wrote the software that rasterize it in the first place.
I mean this with the utmost respect, but why is squash so damn popular with wealthy middle aged tech dudes?
The next pandemic could be bioengineered
A single member LLC in California is treated exactly like a sole proprietorship for tax purposes, except it costs you $800 per year. Unless you know you need it, you probably don’t need it. It won’t protect you from lawsuits, you’ll still have to provide personal guarantees on loans, etc.

Source: had single member CA LLC and wasted $800/year for a few years on it.
S corps are generally preferable to LLCs if you are eligible to form one, but it also depends on your goals, i.e. if you intend to raise money, you need an LLC or C Corp.

I formed an S corp for my personal protects for tax reasons. I also used legalzoom, because it's good enough for most small businesses. (And even big ones; Panda Express is an S corp.)
It seems like compilers get harder to maintain based mostly on the size of the grammar, along with how much it changes. For a small grammar, just about anything works, but for large grammars, any code that maps one-to-one with grammar nodes gets unwieldy and removing small constant factors in the amount of code per node starts looking worthwhile.
Just because someone else does it doesn't mean you shouldn't, no matter how big they are. If anything, I'd expect MS to leave openings for alternatives because they can only solve problems their way.
Stadia itself offers some original features related especially to multiplayer, but they are optional. I.e. unless the game has a hard dependency on them, it shouldn't be a blocker.
Great read.

I really like the bit about learn "the IT", there's no book or anything to be good at computers you just gotta fuck around and find out a bunch.

> Like, when a toddler uses a spoon for the first time, they don’t know what a spoon is, where they are, or who the current Prime Minister is. But they see the spoon, and they see the cereal, and their dumb baby brain is just like “yeA” and they have a red hot go. And like, they get it wrong the first few times, but it doesn’t matter, because they don’t know to be afraid of getting it wrong. So eventually, they get it right.
I live in a city and the bylaws prohibit burning garbage. I imagine the main rationale is avoiding the smoke and the smell. I am sure there are also concerns about environmental effects and fire risk.
It hasn't been a requirement for a long time, though it is used in some DOD projects still.
Looking at the road when sitting in the drivers seat without being absorbed by your phone is not, in any way, a hard task. Truck drivers, train drivers, pilots and other equipment operators exist. Millions of people do it every day. Those that don't, and end up killing someone are held responsible if found out.

Don't take a boring job if you can't handle it. The required basic level of continued attention is not a superhuman skill. It's not a job for everyone but it's not exceptional at all.
Yeah, the blue/white combo has indeed revolutionized the TV viewing experience. We need more characters in the commentary box too though. Joey Barrington is good at what he does, but others are "Meh" so far.

A spot in the summer olympics would go a long way to improve everything, of course.
"...I called up and was all like “yeah bloody g’day, day for it ay, hot enough for ya?”. Once the formalities were out of the way..."
He still has some questionable values. Most notably, he seems to oppose E2EE being legal. It demonstrates a certain ruthlessness in achieving his social agenda, in that it disregards other people's rights.
This is the first of many such cases to come.

It's unreasonable to hold someone accountable for a "self-driving car" that suddenly decides at a split-seconds notice that it can't cope driving.

Of course this is extra bad because it's an experimental car, but it's the same in my opinion with those Teslas on the road now that do the same thing.
Yes, but no. The point that was trying to be made was that he was hired for a task that's fundamentally extremely difficult for humans. You can pay a person all you want to stare at paint drying so they can note down the exact moment it's perfectly dry, but don't be surprised when they do a poor job.

The guy screwed up. Uber knew he almost certainly would. I won't say the guy isn't responsible at all, but pretending this is purely on him and Uber bears 0% of the responsibility is just silly. Humans are not capable of anything and everything simply because they are provided pay.
Just had a look at my keyboard and yup
The hacker known as "Alex" also gave a really fun talk at PyCon AU in 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlNkIFipKZ4
It definitely sounds like a terrible client, especially making you jump through these hoops just to work with them. Sometimes it's hard to know until you've started working with them how the relationship will turn out. A client forcing you to form an S-corp and put yourself on payroll doesn't exactly establish trust and is probably a bad sign of things to come.

Despite this, I wouldn't let it sour your view of self-employed work. I was an independent contractor for 6 years and then started a more formal business after. The freedom of picking where, when and how you work, who you work with, how much you'll charge, and most rewarding of all, building and owning your own thing, can be very fulfilling. Maybe you had other reasons to desire employment again, this is certainly not for everyone, but if it's all interesting to you, it's worth it just for the personal growth.
If this wasn't a self driving car and it was just a normal driver texting while driving at night, it would never have gone to court. The driver would have said "I didn't see her", and the police wouldn't have even charged her. This is particularly true since the victim was homeless.
I don’t see how sacrifice and suffering is necessary tied to charity, gratitude, humility and brotherhood.

Sacrifice can be a demonstration of love and caring, but is the latter that is important. Sacrifice is just evidence. Would you agree?
How can the problem seem too massive to you but invisible to me? Could to explain the problem and quantify why you believe it's a massive problem?
Except they're not driving, they're just watching as the car drives itself. Driving implies you are perform actions in response to the environment, these people do not, they simply sit and watch.
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And the engineers involved will have had no idea such a thing would happen. After all, they only had the best of intentions, right? And if they didn’t do it someone else would have, right?
Feels like you are arguing that boring mainstream success is the only thing we can judge by. Disagree.
Accessing and Reading Text from the Web in Python
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A pedophile ringleader was once caught by reversing a graphical swirl he used to try to hide his face in a picture.
> I personally recommend blacking out (add a black rectangle) instead of blurring, and if it is a PDF, convert to an image afterwards because too many PDF editors use non-destructive operations to add a new object instead of changing what's underneath.

We had a similar issue in Australia as well.

Politicians phone bills are published on the government website in summary form.

Someone in 2017 decided to blank out their phone numbers by changing the phone number text colour to white (same as background).

End result - hundreds of politicians and former prime ministers had their phone numbers leaked.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-20/phone-numbers-of-fede...
Goldeneye 007 on the N64 contained the original Rare Replay?
Your napkin math says this? So it must be right then... Surely all that is required for such a decision on the scale of every human doing this every year is some napkin math.
Maybe because you want a robot with more than 30 minutes' autonomy?

Wheels (if practical) are best. Then legs (or wheel/leg hybrids). Then fixed wing (if you have somewhere you can take off and land). Multirotors are easy and fun but only practical for short missions.
I think that was more about the client having a hang up than the state or AB5. You either pay payroll taxes as an S-Corp, or you pay self-employment taxes if you take pass-through taxation. Regardless of which taxation method you selected, the company would still be on the hook if you later complain to the Department of Labor that you were misclassified.
Convenience implies a reduction in cost. These businesses are doing well and their customers are happy.

What do you think is happening? How are consumers getting screwed?
"Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery, but of liberty. It denotes that he is subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master."

Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations.
It is a very "efficient" sport in terms of calories burned per unit time. And great fun too. This makes it popular with busy people - tech, finance - who are likely to pick a sport based on an excel sheet analysis :)

But I wish that the squash courts in US are not located within expensive athletic clubs, like in UK or Pakistan. That would've popularized the amazing sport more here in US.
> There's a kind of writing that is actively aspiring to a smooth, shallow, facile surface, a certain kind of boring flawlessness. The writing that most corporations do. That's who GPT-3 will get to first. Not the novelists and the poets but the corporate copy-writers. They came for the writers of car brochures, but I wasn't a writer of car brochures, so I said nothing.

I'm not at all convinced. A car brochure at least has to tell you what's good about the car. Poetry seems to actively aspire to saying nothing substantive, and so does a lot of "literary" fiction and a certain kind of magazine article.
I like the acronym they suggest actually.

The only problem is that the usage of "Free" worries me. I recognize that it's for "Freedom", but Joe McConsumer both doesn't, and doesn't care enough to listen about it.

I got told the other day that Linux is bad because it's "Off brand Windows" because it's "free". This was after explaining the gratis/libre difference.
Reminds me of a similar but slightly more direct module I wrote named boombox:

https://pypi.org/project/boombox/
I was there, writing software, and... it wasn't like that?

This is much easier to say in retrospect, of course, but it's truth nevertheless: ActiveX was never going to "win" the web because it was fundamentally tied to one CPU architecture. It wasn't close at all, for all the same reasons that MS never made a successful mobile device. Or that Flash failed. Some technologies are just dead ends, even if they seem popular for a while.
Somehow thousands of people can form and run CA LLCs and S corps just fine without issue.

If you can't handle a little bit of paperwork you have no business trying to run a company.
User goes to shoes.com, which loads ads from adserver.com, which sets a tracking cookie on domain adserver.com

User goes to news.com, which loads ads from adserver.com. Adserver.com sees the cookie, and shows the ads about shoes.

If you do everything on the server side, shoes.com won't be able to place a global tracking cookie. So when the user goes to news.com, they'll have to see the generic ad, and not a targeted one.
I am very impressed by this piece. Something about how “Alex” manages to blend the kind of humor not typically associated with compassion or competence, with a story that is most spectacular because of the very compassionate and competent actions of its protagonist...I literally couldn’t stop reading.

So well done.
The calculation of business income tax really is that simple...

It only gets complicated of you want to make it complicated.
I put 'say Data Prep phase 1 complete' in my training scripts.

It works pretty well, but can be annoying when it goes off in a Zoom call...
Balance is the wrong word. you might want to check first who was AG's doctor father. Surprise, it was Rubin.