skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're only laughing because you're not the one who has to make it work in production :-)
Please someone help me get Notion. It's slow, it's missing big features like offline mode and localization. What is the attraction to this app? I've tired it 3 times now and I just don't get it.
Ask HN: Remote Work for Refugees and Asylum Seekers?
There really needs to be a freelance job board or something that allows refugees and asylum seekers in dangerous countries to do remote work and get paid safely (Bitcoin for instance) so they can support themselves. Imagine being an engineer hiding out in Afghanistan right now with no way to support yourself because you can't "verify your identity". You may have to hide for years or face death. That's a big issue that needs to be solved. My question is has this been solved and I just can't find anything? Or is it just something that can't be solved and we leave these people helpless? Seems like a major humanitarian issue that could be easily solved.
EU ‘seeking to turn migrant database into mass surveillance tool’
2 + 2 = 5, for sufficiently large values of 2 and sufficiently small values of 5.
How would you eliminate the risk of hijackings?
Few things are as useless as watching TV and playing video games. Especially when you're young, the world is your oyster, you should hang out with friends and do things in the real world.

Yes, playing video games occasionally with friends or watching the odd film can be good things but that's obviously not what we're talking about here.

I'm very happy most of my childhood memories revolve around tree houses, bicycles and gangs of friends roaming the streets.
> wait a few seconds for the UI to catch up

When loading it absolutely takes 4-6 seconds to complete rendering.

If you’re talking about intra-page actions like adding a complex ui element after load you’re right it is better then Jira in that regard.
Going to court is the “fight”? And at any rate, the SEC, in my experience, is exceedingly reasonable. If you have a cogent argument to put forth they’re more than willing to hear you out. In fact, I’d say they much prefer to hear you out over taking you to court.
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Try https://www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/uk/exhaustion...

It's quite a complex issue that to be honest is not that relevant for people who aren't book publishers, and I'm curious why the Guardian felt a leader in it was justified.
I don't think anyone uses them as exact units of measure but rather to communicate a size in relatable terms. When you relate scale to something familiar it elicits connotations from an individual's experience that makes things easier to comprehend.

Most people have seen a football or soccer field and understand the approximate size.
A friend of mine in the neighborhood started playing around with RPG Maker 2000, and then sat us all down and taught us how to use it. Later, the older kid whose house we'd hang out at, his parents bought him Visual Studio 6 (C++), hoping that his constant time on the computer would make him a programmer (it didn't).

The RPG kid and I copied the compiler, though, and went to town.

I later went to college at the state school and studied Physics (out of interest) and Music (out of not wanting to stop playing). I've since stopped playing.

When graduation was near, I didn't do well on standardized tests for Physics graduate schools, and really I don't think my heart was in it. I didn't get accepted to any schools, so I went to the job fair, since my engineer/comp-sci roommates were doing that.

I interviewed with Microsoft and Bloomberg. Microsoft told me no in the last on-campus round. I didn't know that the traveling salesman did not have a polynomial solution (if P != NP ;))

Bloomberg said yes. I think that my over the top nerdiness and perhaps confidence helped. There's one thing I remember, though. They asked me my SAT scores and when I told them, they seemed deeply impressed. This makes me wonder if the rest of the interview was just a show.

Once I had a good paying job at a reputable firm in a big city... I guess that makes me a programmer. Once you're in, you're in.

Now it's ten years later and I'm working at Datadog, doing C++ stuff (Bloomberg is largely a C++ shop, and I have yet to pivot in any significant way). I like my job. I'd be coding for fun anyway, though. I still code for fun. No kids yet.

Thanks for asking. :)
By the Numbers: Who’s Refusing Covid Vaccinations–and Why
It has been conveniently memory holed by Western media but Saudi Arabia and Pakistan had deep ties with Al Qaeda.

How many Americans even know Bin Laden was hiding out in Pakistan for years after 11/9?
> so you have to wonder what would motivate someone to only point out their ideological enemies flaws.

In the article it clearly states that he was surrounded by these illiberal ideologues and being harassed by them even before he started publishing these papers, simply for using critical thinking.
So they are the best candidate to point out the Western media's double standards, right? There is no better assuser of the villain than the victims...
See also: historical Unix system manuals, in web format [0].

[0]: http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/
Well, YOU may not have a problem complying with every government mandated health intervention required of you to travel, but others might. Oddly, lots of people on HN seem not to view compulsion as a form of force when it's cloaked in paternalism, while at the same time believing the most indirect forms of social influence as oppressive forms of institutional violence if the 'right' people are impacted.

Putting that aside, it's fairly obvious given the human taboos concerning disease that if you have a mechanism for flagging a person as non-compliant with a health policy, that person is effectively tagged as diseased by implication. This is a convenient way to unperson members of a political class who are non-compliant with the policy (e.g., for personal/political/scientific/ethical/religious reasons). You needn't eliminate the enemy when their opposition to your power is embodied in their non-compliance. You merely need to make them compliant to eliminate their opposition.
Yeah the job is not exactly widespread. I guess because most of that stuff is just "ship it and not our problem" (the user is used to buying new hardware every 5 years to do the same tasks anyway).
I've seen places where the juniors don't even really send email. They are essentially apprentices for their senior in like the medieval blacksmithing tradition. Working the bellows while the senior pounds out the sword. Eventually they graduate up but at first they aren't really trusted with anything but the most basic tasks.
You're right. It was by the industrial revolution that people started working longer hours, and because of that industrial revolution, we had to adjust to a more humane 40h / week.

I can't edit my post now, but thanks for the correction.
Agreed. I'm a mainframe fan, even, and this whole article is just a load of bullshit.

Starting with making a comparison on list pricing, when commodity hardware has huge discounts, mainframes don't. Then moving on to comparisons of running Oracle on a slew of tiny VMs with ~2GB RAM each. And, no benchmarks anyway, so what does "beats" mean?
Through Linux initially.

In my early teens, I started tinkering with Slackware and then Debian. I eventually started following tutorials to add cron jobs to do things I needed. I started adding some logic around them.

I kept at it. Kept getting familiar with command line tools, bash scripting, logic, and so on.

I was going to go to Uni for Computer Engineering but changed to Computer Science because the code and logic part appealed more to me.

I went to University for a few years and I was freelancing. There was a strike at the university and other projects fell in my lap. I was making money in my field, so I just kept doing that.
I got in to programming because of my other hobbies. I remember playing an NFL game on the Dreamcast. It wouldn't keep statistics from the past years, only the current year. I remember researching and learning about the LAMP stack and made my own statistics tracker for the game.

I've thought about volunteering in my local community with kids who are interested in computers. I think finding out about their other hobbies and finding a way to tie in programming with them would be a great way to get them interested and stay motivated.
First got into programming with FIRST Robotics in high school. Did some game stuff as well at the very beginning but never really stuck with it all.

Went to uni for Aeronautical Engineering. Switched to CS for all the wrong reasons. I'm in the camp that if you're going to be doing what "most" software engineering is, you absolutely do not need a CS degree. You'd be better off with Electrical or Computer Engineering (if you're gonna get a degree at all). They open up way more doors than they close by not being CS (dumb example but: EE/CompE masters with a CS bachelors is a v tough thing to manage, much more doable the other way around).

First paid work was an internship I got through a career fair doing web-development which I absolutely hated.

I'm a vulnerability engineer currently. Not what I want to be doing long-term, but certainly a lot closer to it. Still making up for mistakes I made when I was 18 smh
Faraday’s Paradox
That and the fact that one terrorist actually packed his sneakers with explosives and tried to detonate them on a plane.
What is and isn't government overreach is a contentious topic, and I can't say your personal opinion is invalid.

But to be clear, you're just saying one of those is OK for the government to do and the other isn't. That's not an argument. Do you have some rationale behind that, like a philosophy or a reference to some constitutional clause? Or is that just how you feel?
The disease transmits to and reproduces in a huge pool of humans (vaccinated and unvaccinated) where it can mutate and evolve. That too is a problem which needs to be solved. Humans created this problem and humans can solve it, if certain Govt agencies get out of the way.
I wonder why nobody has a service to receive these billing alert emails and react to them by shutting down your AWS entities.
That’s wonderful for Albania et al, more prosperity is always a good thing. My point is just that people should compare apples to apples, especially with US vs Europe, or US vs city states/tiny countries like New Zealand
Honestly, the pitch here is so over the top, so brazen, and so patently unbelievable, I don't think he should be charged with fraud.

I think the people he defrauded should be charged with incompetence.
For me, it's simply better than Confluence. I much prefer creating my documentation in Notion.

Also, it's just generally a good note taking app IMO.
The code that controls our money
Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bulani defended the use of the ADE 651.
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Even the Belgian government bought them - it's not like it was just less educated countries.
Not wearing a seat belt was also not a problem pre-1984.
Ok, but that's already illegal (since we need accurate mileage for used car sales)
Maybe you can make an NFT of them...
Detecting fake bombs might be quite useful in some cases. I think it's well worth the price.
Marketing. However, there is value in it but you’re mainly seeing the power of marketing at play here.
I'm surprised to see you didn't mention the 1983 bombing on board a TGV!

That said, there's a lot more (remote, exposed) infrastructure one could target.
Larry Ellison wasn’t mentioned in the article, but he apparently also setup a foundation with the goal to prolong life: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc
All of these digital coins have failed to fulfill their promise to be used as digital currency, but each has caused serious problems. Bitcoin is wasting a titanic amount of energy, and this coin is destroying SSDs. Maybe we should just use our conventional currencies and elect governments we trust to run those currencies in an intelligent way?
Maybe, but it's a handle with a hole in it and a rod with a 90 degree bend at one end. Pretty sure you could find a cheaper source :)
thank you for the response, i was actually asking for information; apologies if the tone sounded sarcastic.

This detail seems relevant:

> Yousef smuggled the nitroglycerin on board by putting it inside a small container, reputedly containing contact lens cleaning solution.

if that's the basis of "no liquids on planes" rules then its horseshit. make people shake the bottle at the security checkin.

Almost all the security theater relies on things being to scary for people to think about. Nitroglycerin when liquid is not yer friend. Ricin was never the boogeyman the media made it out to be. And on and on for years now.
It worked in Paris a few years ago. Two suicide bombers were stopped at security and detonated their suicide vests - no other people were killed besides the terrorists.
>saving water is not all that matters. actually, saving soap is a lot more important. the more concentrated the dirt and soap is in the water, the harder it is for the biological wastewater treatment to work. i can't find the reference but i remember reading an article in a german magazine lamenting about exactly that problem, suggesting that people don't use enough water instead of to much.

That link would be worth its length in gold for me to show my spouse!
I doubt they’re replacing the video at any point, it’s all probably prerendered videos for each time.

For a user who’s clock changes midplay, you would simply check the time with seconds before choosing the video to render, if it’s MM:35 or after you would play the MM+1 video instead of MM
Exhibit A: Australia
Exhibit B: Canada
Exhibit C: New Zealand
Here's a $930 EV on Alibaba, reviewed by Jalopnik. Seats 4:

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How about water bottles?
At last, my hours of watching lawyer TV shows comes in handy!

A lawyer never assumes what the other side’s argument is, because your rebuttal hinges on exactly how their argument is constructed. Plus you don’t want to give your “opponent” ideas, nor do you want to essentially negotiate against yourself. If you lay out a defense, without a clear thing you are arguing against, the other side could just change their planned argument and say “ok THIS is our actual argument now”. The defense responds, not initiates.

So this article makes sense to me - while Coinbase can clearly guess what the SEC might argue, the fact is the SEC hasn’t told them yet. So there’s nothing to respond to (yet).
I've had to take my shoes off in a few other places, including in Ethiopia and a few places in S.E. Asia. But I confirm that the US takes things to a level beyond anything anywhere I've been, with some airports being worst than others. Nowadays when I buy plane tickets, I usually try to avoid any transit through LGA or JFK.
"Terrorism" in the broad sense of the act does not have a goal. Because it is a means to an end, not an end itself.

Terrorists do what they do for many reasons. Some are political, some are due to sectarianism. Sometimes its because they are crazy and have irrational motivations.

Rarely is it the goal of the terrorist to force a society into tyranny.

Timothy McVeigh was seeking revenge.

Bin Laden was trying to force the US to change its foreign policy.

ISIS was trying to conquer the middle east.

Aum Shinrikyo were a doomsday cult.

So on and so on.
I suggest that you read "Mindstorms" by Seymour Papert (inventor of Logo). I think he gets to the heart of the (healthy) resonance between young minds and computers -- efficacy. This is a different relationship than those engendered by, for example, the casino-like air of social media apps and many (if not most) games.

My own observation is that, because modern computers are so small and so fast, you have to intentionally zoom in and slow things down to understand them. This requires special tools and special knowledge that takes patience and practice to acquire. For better or worse these actions aren't very granular: you're either using an app, or you're looking at text, and everything in-between has to fit between your ears. Plus, there are many competing "coordinate systems of thought" (language, but also tools, architecture, convention, idioms) so this is where a lot of people fall over.

Comparatively, we had it easy with the Apple IIe. The distance between running and editing was smaller; the mental model was (mostly) unitary - Basic, or in my case, Logo. The runtime model was beautifully simple, and physical, and easy to understand. It's not easy, but I think the best teachers do their best to recreate this simplicity.
Buying only 25% sounds good from Notion’s perspective but is absolutely the worst possible deal for Automate’s shareholders. The value of the remaining 75% Automate shares would tank after that deal because Notion basically owns you with their 25% shares, board seat and preferred contract.
How do computers generate random numbers?
> Taking shoes off is that value, so yeah it’s never going away.

REMOVE_SHOES is one in probably a thousand settings in TSA's airport security makefile. Like all makefiles of any complexity, the trick is separating out the bona fide settings from the mountains of ineffectual ones that disappear somewhere deep in the nasty bowl of bureaucratic spaghetti.

As programmers, we should all inherently understand the value in not touching that goddamned mess unless someone really understands what they are doing. Even then, that almost always involves building a new system that runs in parallel to the spaghetti so that the "no touching" rule is obeyed at all times.

That's not to say TSA isn't a mess. It's just when I imagine what Libertarian International airport security looks like, the one thing I'm certain of is that they have set the RANDOMIZED_SCREENING flag incorrectly.
Isn't that what I said? People have vaccine hesitancy because of propaganda from other countries undermining confidence in the government.
Really dislike the "written in Rust" suffix all the time...
My cynical hot take is you are actually talking about most software engineering jobs.
> In fact, the very fact that they went to the SEC to tell them what they were up to and check if it was legal is a bit of a red flag.

You might come to this conclusion if you think of laws as creating a fine boundary between legal and illegal. In crypto in particular, there are a ton of open legal questions that the SEC has not given explicit guidance about and certainly have no settled legal precedent in court.

The SEC has the ability to write you a get out of jail free card, actually. You write to them and ask them to give you a letter saying they OK'd the thing you're doing as a one-off and that they are not issuing a general rule that that kind of thing is ok (in case they change their minds later).
any combination is possible but, e.g., all blue videos with g3 will have same g segment.
An image of a Web asset is useful for archival purposes and may be indexed using text recognition ML.
> Solarpunk is radical in that it imagines a society where people and the planet are prioritized over the individual and profit.

tldr; no capitalism in the solarpunk future. Am I grokking that right?
It's just naivete. The man is a military Veteran, he believes in the system, maybe he's a Blue Lives Matter supporter. Does he know that highway robbery via cop occurs all the time? Does he know not to trust cops who get massive kickbacks? Does he know he's not obligated to answer their questions and submit to their searches without cause?

To me, this all says: naivete, a lack of learning. If the cops want to escalate it and infringe on his rights, he can then lawyer up and fight it.
Wirecard Bank was up for crabs...
Yup - look at the sleds in the opencompute project, or the rack product Oxide is working on. Whole servers swap about as easily as hot-swap SATA trays
Sure, get in touch at stanislav.ltb[at]gmail[dot]com :D
Do you know for a fact that your background screening does not now or will not ever include calling out to a social media extremist detection service? I'm not so confident.
Not a claim anyone has made.
Same here! Hours and hours searching.

I'll admit though, the shady reseller hosts were pretty good. Terrible control panel aside, they had very generous CPU/bandwidth/storage limits compared to the free cPanel hosts that had to cut down the costs there.
The issue is I don't think that scenario is realistic.

We don't have declining global CO2 emissions and there are no signs we will have that any time soon. In fact, annual CO2 emissions continue to increase at an almost exponential rate.

So first of all we'd have to decrease emissions and invent and deploy some CO2 extraction tech to help lower the current atmospheric CO2 concentration.

To me, it seems far more likely that if SRM was deployed many would just see it as a way to continue with business as usual without having to suffer the effects of global warming.
I believe this is intended to beat America to the punch on a "movie filmed in space".

Tom Cruise has been planning his own movie filmed in space for a couple years and the Russians like to win space races when they can.

Also now they have the "first" one. That sells. Tom Cruise will be relegated to "second movie shot in space".
Wait, how is Facebook not liable but the OP of a post is?
Why don't they?

Energy consumption. No grinder means the whole system can be driven by the pump motor alone which uses less power. Simpler (cheaper) construction as well.

the upper spinning thing is no longer spinning

The sprayer arms aren't driven by motors, they're driven by the force of the water coming out. So that means you probably have food particles stuck in the ports where water comes out. I'd remove the arm and clean it by hand. Use a toothpick to open up the ports.
I just finished Islamic imperialism: a history. The fact that one man could change everyone’s lives like this is really amazing. It doesn’t seem like these measures are going to be necessary forever though.
Nobody gets fired for buying IBM.
I guess they tried it without the ants, and it didn't work?
What percentage of TSA employees are former military?
Spilling coffee of innocent people, shame on you!
> BTC is superior to gold in every respect as a store-of-value)

Maybe in some respects, but every respect? Is it really beneficial for a store of value to have wild fluctuations in its value on a timescale of days/weeks?
Okay, now I want one of those. Not sure what I’d use it for, but hey, it’s a Raspberry. You always find an application for it.
The great thing about three-word replies is that nobody can accuse you of making any claims.
But the broker-dealer who made the margin loan is extremely heavily regulated by the SEC- margin loans are some of the things that they have the longest history with!