skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll take it a step further. We need a total paradigm redesign of airports.

Imagine and airport designed to the point where you can literally drive up (or be dropped by an autonomous vehicle) 10 minutes before your flight, Throw your luggage onto a belt where a robot auto tags it based on your a facial recognition algorithm, and walk through an unobtrusive security point that's totally AI driven, and walk direct to your plane ready to go. As someone who travels a lot, I say forget shoes, this is the ultimate dream. The "arrive 2 hours before your flight" nonsense should be automated into oblivion on both ends. I think we just accept this paradigm of air travel now and our airports have become these bohemoths of capture to sell you food, beverage and overpriced trinkets with abhorent wait times for the actual flight logistics. Why cant I just be dropped off directly at my gate and bumble on in less then 5 minutes!
TK1476 in 2006. Flying from an EU country to Turkey on a major airline.

"Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato reported that the hijacker slipped into the cockpit with a package which could have been a bomb when flight attendants opened the cockpit door, and the pilots acted according to the international rules in the matter and did what the hijacker wanted."
It depends on the social dynamic of the group; for example I don't expect a plane full of mainland Chinese passengers would attack a terrorist.
I think the solution would be to allow customers to set hard limits, so they at least have an upper bound on their monthly spend, while still being charged on their actual usage (in a nonrealtime fashion).

This also solves the problem of "what to cut". If I hit my bandwidth limit AWS simply stops routing requests to my servers, if I hit my CPU limit AWS should throttle me, etc.
It's all incompetent theatre. I remember around 2006 or 2007 snaking through a terribly managed security line in ATL taking off my shoes, doing all the questions and scanning and pat downs and irradiation and getting through and then some random person shouted "did someone drop their passport?" and realizing it was mine and my passport had fallen out of my bag. So I call back "yep, I did" and it gets handed to me by said random person (who hadn't passed screening yet), with nobody in TSA even batting an eyelash or checking to verify that I didn't just grab someone else's passport (or taken something else of security concern.)

Meanwhile I remember flying through Frankfurt in 1994 and opening my (inspected before baggage drop) suitcase briefly to move something and getting pulled politely aside and my items re-inspected. Security policies that made sense and were executed competently by respectful and well-trained staff.

Since 9/11 I just try to avoid flying to or from the US entirely.
Taking belt off because it trip off the metal detector.
I recommend reading A Philosophy of Software Design. Gets into some fundamental principles of writing software without getting too prescriptive.

A part of the book covers balancing the cost of abstraction with the amount of complexity it is hiding. The ideal is: simple interface (DSL in this context) and lot of hidden complexity.

I agree with your point, but the threshold for writing a DSL needs to be carefully considered.
How does this work with virtualized machines? Do you pay per underlying core, but if yes, how do you know how many physical cores you are using ?
It's a supply issue from what I've read. Most bomb sniffing dogs are sourced from overseas and there's a high demand for them globally. There simply aren't enough dogs that are capable. Even from a litter, there's a chance none of them will qualify after training, much like legit service dogs. We also use a lot of dogs to sniff for drugs.
belt off in London, shoes off in NY.
If you're an unfit middle aged male flying between London and New York will make you consider flying private sooner rather than later. That's my hypothesis anyway.
Yes and: non-human carbon emitters are now in a positive feedback loop. Thawing tundra, burning forests, ocean acidification, etc.

We need to restore 350ppm asap. Meaning carbon negative.

I know you know this. Just expounding for the lurkers.
We do? Depends on who "we" is, I suppose...

I've seen golf bags mentioned quite often. But, come to think of it, that's about equivalent to a body, isn't it?
I don't know if we can nail it down to any one factor. I think that there were many small factors that have slowly torn away at the values of personal responsibility, accountability, and others.
I always though taking off a belt it was bcause if not the metal sensor would trigger, so to avoid it, they just ask to remove your belt in case it contains metal?
That would work if the tax was high enough to offset rent seekers
I asked about this a few years ago. The answer I was given by various friends throughout AWS was consistently that of "oh, our customers don't want that" for whatever that's worth.
I do intense reading projects that don't quite make my eyes bleed but that sometimes destabilize my psyche, forcing me to take a break.

Lately I have been reading about "love" (novels, memoirs, psychoanalysis, psychology, philosophy, literature reviews, feminist and other sociology, ...) and I also hurt my leg so I am doing less exercise, less hacking on the computer, etc. At some point my brain was overloading on that kind of content but still felt like reading (if I watched TV or movies I would see them through that lens) so I started slumming on old sci-fi like "Donovan's Brain" (about somebody who never loved anybody at all) and that put me straight.

Straight enough that I have a bunch of call numbers written down and am about to raid the library again.

For me serious reading campaigns revolve around getting a book and then looking up some fraction of references in that book, then looking up references from that book and so on. I am probably at the half shelf mark at this point.
I know Fujitsu have a version of Postgres made for LinuxOne (which is just Linux on z/Architecture) No idea what they are taking for support of it though.
> But there is some, there are formal ethical codices (i.e. see NPR's https://www.npr.org/ethics), there is proper journalism training (see e.g. the Annenberg schools).

Publishing a code of ethics means absolutely nothing if it is not followed.

For example, NPR’s code of ethics says “We know that truth is not possible without the active pursuit of a diversity of voices, especially those most at risk of being left out.” and “In all our stories, especially matters of controversy, we strive to consider the strongest arguments we can find on all sides, seeking to deliver both nuance and clarity.”

but just recently they had a segment where they spent an hour trashing free speech without a single person to argue in favor of free speech. So much for “diversity of voices.”

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/npr-trashes-free-speech-a-brie...

> I'd argue that your standards are probably too high. Accountability is a shitshow and virtually nonexistent across the globe. It's a darn lucky situation if you even have some.

I’d argue your standards are too low. Just because things are worse elsewhere doesn’t mean we should be content that things aren’t quite as bad here.
This really depended on the university. Some of them were not affected at all, some other had sections where you could not do any research or teaching without being from the "right obedience" (communist, Maoist, etc.)

The most extreme being (in French - https://www.deepl.com/fr/translator) the Vincennes university:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_universitaire_de_Vincen...

[ TL;Dr: The most Maoist university at that time, with communists fighting (with violence) against Maoists inside the university ]

Note that this was a more "experimental" university, aimed to attract the most radical teachers (!)

There are plenty of research for the years between 65-75
According to him. And even if that were true. So what? The university should investigate claims. They seemed to find that he shouldn't be fired based on the findings. What's the problem? He's just whining. And now he's trying to get a bigger stage.
Most people do not hand wash 144 items at once though. If there's only one person with a plate, fork, knife, glass and pan that's roughly 30 wash cycles.
I laughed when I saw websphere and Oracle preinstalled.
Source? This is at best an indirect consequence

EDIT post downvotes: what I mean is that even without a lock on the cockpit to prevent their copilot from entering, it seems difficult to prevent a determined pilot from crashing a plane.
> I have friends who have been unable to leave the country to see dying parents.

Im somewhat neutral on most of Australia's restrictions: my opinion is that theyre unnecessarily draconian, and that some of them are not in accordance with pretty well-established science (1 hour of outdoor time is ludicrous).

But this is a relatively low-confidence belief, as I don't have a strong rebuttal to those championing the minimal-Covid-until-vaccinated strategy and its relative success. I wouldn't pick the same spot on the freedom/safety spectrum, but I have no basis for claiming those who do are "wrong".

But how on earth do the restriction apologists justify forbidding _leaving the country_? It has, by definition, zero safety justification. Plus, forbidding people yo leave a country is quite reasonably considered a violation of international human rights law. With respect to this specific policy, what on earth are policymakers thinking?
The danger of traffic stops is severely overstated: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/daunte-wright-da...
If a cooperative is inflexible, couldn't another cooperative out-compete it? Provided the market is competitive, this doesn't seem like a big problem.

One thing I have read is that cooperatives are less likely to grow into monopolizing behemoths because they approximately maximize profit in proportion to the number of workers rather than overall; they will only grow to the most efficient size. I can't remember where I read this, but it makes sense to me (although I'm not an economist.)
"My biggest challenge over the years was remembering what to do in each place as the security people at the airports had a tendency to get upset if you didn't do it their preferred way."

It can differ from airport to airport. I traveled from Ottawa to Toronto often enough for it to be mindless but differences between two national airports in same province of same country on same airline still caught me if I went too much on autopilot.

And then I'd fly to Halifax and all my instincts went out the window :).

Sometimes it'd differ shift to shift. Agents would get mad at me for taking or not taking tablet from my bag. Mentioning "your colleague instructed me otherwise, can you kindly confirm the rule so I can comply in future" only gets you marked as belligerent - the power trip is definitely there :-/
Agreed. But if they (at some point) include it in an official report on inauthentic behavior, then that's added credibility.
Go out, socialize with other kids, experience a broader variety of things, grow up. I'm now absolutely certain my using video games as an excuse to stay inside as a teenager and young adult severely delayed my emotional and social growth. I was always a rather solitary kid but there was no merit in reinforcing those habits.
The inverse take on this is that entrenched rich interests made all their money during such periods and have now used regulation to "pull up the ladder behind them". People who are foolish with their money will always find a way to lose it.
On a lot of things, universal health care, how strongly they are in favor of nuclear disarmament, gun control, etc. Remember President Biden is the head of the Democratic Party, And the US itself has been pushed further to the right by a conservative dominated supreme court.

Here's the 2021 Labor party platform https://alp.org.au/media/2594/2021-alp-national-platform-fin...

Here's the 2020 Democratic Party platform https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/202...
My tip: use the soap dispenser to tell you if the dishwasher is clean or not.

After unloading, put a new tablet in and close the dispenser.

Voila, closed dispenser == dirty dishes (or your dishwasher is broken :) )
Yes, but it also filters and traps the chunks in the tray that you're supposed to clean.
Ship / Show / Ask – A modern branching strategy
No doubt paving the way for edge to edge advertising
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As i barely recall... It annoyed me too, then.
I don't know, I quite enjoy washing dishes by hand. As someone who spends most of the day typing in front of a screen, it's nice to do a fairly mindless manual task and let my thoughts wander.
It's amazing that we still have to take our shoes off in airports 20 years after 9/11, yet we still don't have mandatory paid sick leave in the US despite Covid killing 20 times the amount of people.
He did it to show lax-to-nonexistent standards in review.

The committee’s finding is damning of the journals, not him.
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What Are Biometrics? The Pros/Cons of Biometric Security
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Climate Policy Should Pay More Attention to Climate Economics
> Let's clarify. You're sorry that I find your insults offensive?

No, they're sorry that you're being such an arsehole. HTH!
> anything over something like $2,000 is going to severely limit your customer pool.

Eh, not necessarily, early BCIs if actually useful will likely be targeted towards people with disabilities and thus funded through private or socialized health insurance. Once the hardware undergoes commoditization consumer grade BCI will become inevitable with low price points. VR evolved slower because there was no middleman like insurance buying hardware for their customer pool (the counterpoint being Apple Watch which you have been able to get at a huge discount with some insurers).
You keep asking the question.

I'll make it simple.

The reason you wont find the answer you seem is also the reason there wont be a competitor (3rd competitor for xero and qbo) in the space.

There is no 1 killer feature to solve for.

There is a long list of pain points that need to be addressed. This is why any accounting software needs to be built by an accountant for accountants. Otherwise its just another piece of software.
And of course everybody ignores trains, they don't even look at you...like the 300 souls aboard a train don't matter.

Also the 10000+ souls at the departing and arrival train station also don't matter.

Not to mention the 4000 souls aboard cruise ships.

It ain't about safety from ill-intentioned people...it's about protecting the POTUS from having to give the order to open fire on an hijacked civilian plane.

That's the reason why every administration is so concerned with planes and so lax about trains and buses and cruise ships.
It’s far worse than that. They literally kidnapped a Swedish citizen and tortured him into a confession, and claimed jurisdiction just because he used to be a Chinese citizen.
> methods like the Sokal hoax to create stories that seem scandalous on the surface

No, it doesn't seem scandalous "on the surface." If you are in a field with so called "peer reviewed research" and someone can publish complete made up bullshit, then your entire field of study is garbage. You see these morons complain about his tactics, but you never see them fight back in kind. That's because you would never be able to get bullshit through the peer review process in physics, because it's, you know, real.
It’s about control, of course, but someone will end up with control (as always happens in a power vacuum). The decision is whether you want your government in control or enormously powerful corporations. China picked the former, other countries picked the latter.
It's even more obvious when you flip the relationship around. What's it called when your broker lends you money, at a fixed interest rate, for you to then go and invest in risk assets?

It's a margin loan. Which I hope I don't need to say is NOT risk-free.
Ah yes, gmailfs[1] in 2004 used Linux FUSE (Filesystem in USEerspace) to translate local directories to your (at that time, rapidly and absurdly growing) GMAIL quota.

FUSE let Linux do all kinds of interesting things. Forgot about this one, thanks!

[1] DSLreports discussion from 2004 https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r11192502-GmailFS
There's a huge spectrum of opinion between libertarianism and wilfully endorsing authoritarianism because you happen to agree with a particular policy. You don't fight a common threat individually, but the government isn't always the best organ either. In my country the pandemic response has primarily been an exercise in tearing up civil liberties (there's now permanent legislation against protests for example which I doubt could have happened without the climate of panic that the pandemic precipitated), enriching a self-serving sociopolitical elite with all kinds of unethical behaviour such as dodgy PPE contracts, and arguably failing anyway at preventing widespread loss of life despite the immense collateral damage. That's not even mentioning the devestating effect on generational inequality which was a terrible problem to begin with.

I'm particularly disgusted by the use of military-style behavioural psychology tactics against our own citizens to terrify people, I cannot conceive of the kind of person who'd think that's okay in a free country. The only thing we've actually done with any distinction is the vaccine rollout, which was excellent mostly because the government left the details alone and simply gave the existing infrastructure the resources to do its commendable work (I'm willing to be proven wrong on this, as my information is conflicting).

All the "all in this together" talk is complete crap in the cold light of day, sometimes collectivism is required but parliaments and certainly partisan politicians in a power-drunk executive branch aren't a good organ to do it with. We do not need to build a permanent surveillance state or other organs of tyranny to defeat COVID, nor do we need to build a society of mean-spirited, curtain-twitching moral authoritarians which will takes decades to undo.

EDIT: made some clarifications
It is cost effective in the sense that it managed to effect the most cost, right?
I wonder if they should have separate external door for the cockpit and no door from the cabin to the cockpit. Absolutely no chance of hijacking whatsoever.
For comparison I think I've been asked once out of my last 50 flights to take my shoes off in Europe and it still feels too stringent here.
Not everyone is comfortable talking about attempted murder. (Not everyone is comfortable around dogs, either.)
Funny fact is that conscription largely lowers the risk of prolonged civil wars, Syrian being one fat exception.
Looks like it's the AstroPi program: https://www.esa.int/Education/AstroPI
I have a rock that deters tigers you might want to buy
> My only gripe with modern machines is how narrow their interface is, I wish they exposed more of their internals.

Modern machines are quite the opposite. It's the current crop of main stream OS's and their associated API's which are to blame, not the hardware designs.

> e.g., I'm too young to remember the Commodore computers, but it's my understanding that you could change the display colors and sprites by poking a memory address.

The commodore 64 was a very simple machine with little memory. Only one program ran at a time so no OS was needed. And the memory registers you poked at was the API as things were very simple back then.

However, you can certainly do the same with modern GPUs[1] but they are so massively complex that the manual for the Intel graphics controllers are well over 1000 pages, some manuals exceeding 2000 pages[2]. For comparison, the manual for the voodoo2 is 132 pages[3].

> I'm not advocating for specifically that, modern computers are connected to the Internet and it would be a security disaster, but that kind of interaction with the machine is something that's missing.

That's why we have an OS to control access to those bits of hardware. The internet has nothing to do with it.

The problem you face is most modern operating systems are massive, bloated even, to the point where the interfaces are buried underneath miles of code. How does one approach a simple hardware project of poke at bitmaps and pixels stored in the Intel GPU from a "modern" Operating system.

The Linux kernel is something like 10% AMD GPU driver code, mostly auto-generated by massive build tools which are as complex as the kernel itself. So no wonder you see the system as narrow, its so massive it blurs into one indistinguishable monolithic blob which gives it that narrow feel.

[1] https://wiki.osdev.org/Accelerated_Graphic_Cards

[2] https://www.x.org/docs/intel/

[3] http://darwin-3dfx.sourceforge.net/
This should be on the front page.
A 2080ti makes around $5.50 per day in ethereum, so about 30*5.5=165 usd to train a face model.
I always refer to it as "security Kabuki theatre"...
> The fault is with the people, not the tool they use.

No. The fault here is clearly with Facebook, they've allowed their report function to be weaponised. They need to stop automating shit and actually get human eyeballs on reports.

And if a post/account gets x numbers of false reports, then ignore future reports of that post/account, and disable the accounts (or set to ignore reports from) the accounts doing the reporting.

It's beyond trivial to fix, they don't want too though, else they would have.
To be clear my knowledge of this topic is limited to that found in 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' by Jared Diamond. I haven't checked his sources.
I didn’t vote, but the accusations part was from years ago and described as resolved / ruled on.

Not a likely catalyst for the recent departure.
A carbon tax could easily be coupled with a dividend...
Yeah, and he was roundly despised for it (and justly so!)

I do not believe that anyone ever converted to Christianity as a consequence of reading any of Jack Chick’s gospel tracts. But I do believe that thousands of Christians were converted by them into something else — something more like the ugly dishonesty and nasty triumphalism that were those tracts’ main attributes. He helped persuade such Christians that bearing false witness against their neighbors should be the hallmark and cornerstone of their religion.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2016/10/24/haw-haw...

If he was just an angry bitter old man, it'd be easier to pity him: how awful to live your life in that headspace, right? But he did damage, too, and that's harder to just feel sorry for.
Programming with Implicit Values, Functions, and Control
There was never a technical limitation to running software over a network, unless you go back to before computer networking was invented, far far before the internet. Putting all the capability into the browser is what people have a problem with.

The modern web is anxiety-inducing and incredibly scary to people that pay attention. I don't want to spend an hour checking the js on sites before I use them to make sure they aren't malicious/mining bitcoin/whatever, so disabling JS is an easy out that preserves my sanity, and gives me a better experience. No cookies, no popups, no paywalls, no ads, no lag.
Focus more on what you want to see: there are great uses for this tech that would make life better. You can be apart of building it or you can support the people and organizations that are in this for the right reasons.
it's 100% the norm in the UK to wash dishes in a tub (as opposed to under the tap; dishwashers are common too). You change the water when it gets mucky, but if you've scraped off your solid food & rinsed off sauce residue beforehand, that takes a while.