skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pay the TSA Pre shakedown fee and you don't need to take your shoes off.

The problem is we created a monetary incentive to keep the current policy in place.
Not in Texas or 18 other states! Get up to date on the gun laws.
It's insane to me to see so many other countries have ways to verify you're a citizen of the country when going to vote, but in America it's such a controversial issue that anybody mentioning it is immediately bombarded with heinous accusations and name-calling.
Aside from the interview, the government already has all the background check data in their databases already. It’s not like you’re applying for a security clearance where agents go around your friends, family and neighbors digging up undocumented dirt.
Then use Clang, or port the code.
>I genuinely wonder how people get up to 100 litres of water, or if my intuition regarding nr. of items vs water volume is just that far off. Are we sure this isn't measured by comparing to people using a constantly running tap for this instead of filling up one sink for washing and one for rinsing?

A quick search says faucets run between 1.5 to 2 gallons per minute. That works out to 13.2 to 17.6 minutes of water. Dividing that by 144 items works out to 5.5 to 7.3 seconds of "on" water per item. That's on the high side, but not unreasonable if you're doing a through rinse.
Very likely, if anyone cares enough.
> In internet slang, a troll is a person who posts inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.), a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog), with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses, or manipulating others' perception.

From Wikipedia. Inflammatory, digressive, and off-topic = trolling.
But how does that advance the cause of terrorist organizations?
This is probably technically accurate. After all, I'm sure Amazon, as any business, weights customer voices by the amount of spend. The people spending millions don't want a hard stop (i.e., kill our production services when we hit a certain amount of spend); the only people who want it are the people spending comparatively small amounts, pre-revenue startups, individuals, etc.

This is an example where being data driven to the exclusion of all else can hurt a company; I suspect having this feature would pay dividends down the road (by being the first to provide a safety net for a startup with a fixed budget that doesn't have production workloads yet you offer a competitive advantage between cloud providers), but the effect is completely impossible to predict or track currently since it doesn't have an immediate impact on revenue or the satisfaction of large, paying customers.
Silicon Valley’s billionaires want to hack the ageing process
https://archive.is/rYDpv
>USA is so large it basically HAS to be a car based society.

No it does not. Infrastructure that accommodates cars is extremely expensive. We subsidize car lifestyles to an extreme degree, at great financial and environmental cost. If you assure that rural locations will have near-equal (or superior) access to broadband and medical facilities, use funds from the entire state to subsidize expensive roads and bus drivers for those rural and suburban places, focus all services on highways rather than in productive places, shielding consumers from all those costs, it should not surprise anyone that people will normally respond to financial incentives rather than choosing more pleasant and sustainable lifestyles.

>Interesting point that EVs reinforce this.
Absolutely. EVs as a solution are green-washing, and self driving cars as a solution are pretending that there is no component of transportation problems that revolves around physical space.
I think what he's mentioning has nothing to do with 9/11 though, right? He's talking about football hooligans. I only know that there are such scenes in soccer here in Europe and it can get pretty rough when they clash.
Switching pages and search are infuriatingly slow on Notion. I still love the rest of it, but my god switch to using a local cache for searching or something please
BTC is designed to be highly limited in supply and thus all prices denominated in BTC should drop over time by design of the currency. Everything else in society, if it was all on BTC, would do similarly. Basically your salary this year should be smaller than it was last year but your buying power should be similar.

This encourages people to hold BTC because its relative value increases over time. Thus BTC by being deflationary encourages holding and not spending. It will lead to a less dynamic economy than if we had an inflationary currency which encouraged spending/investment.
> No one will let a plane get commandeered ever again.

Won't do much good when the controls are hijacked from terra. This narrative on 9/11 being played on this thread is poppycock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Zj1fnGtjk
There's nothing wrong with using a school bus to carry 30 children to a school, just like there's nothing wrong with using JS to render a highly-interactive SPA.

But the vast majority of websites that use React are the moral equivalent of driving an empty school bus to the store to buy a loaf of bread: It's massively wasteful and frankly stupid.
I'm old (57), so this happened back in the 1980s, and isn't very relevant to current market conditions.

I started out in amateur radio, and made connections through a friend with a Man who had a small computer repair shop. I started fixing things while still in high school. One day he got an EPROM programmer, and there was a program that talked to it written in Turbo Pascal. The next thing you know, I was programming in Pascal, having already done things in BASIC.

I went to College, but I picked poorly, and couldn't afford it, coupled with bad time management, ended up dropping out. I eventually got a job as a programmer. I wrote BASIC code that talked to Industrial Programmable Controllers (PLCs).

For about a decade I ended up writing, then supporting in the field, a system that used portable computers to record inspections of fire protection equipment. I loved that job, because I had written the software, and could definitely fix ANY issue that arose.

It was during this time that I wrote a cooperative multitasking library for Turbo Pascal 5, under MS-DOS.

After that I went to work for a small firm that repaired Industrial electronics, and ran an Internet Service. I did both of those for a few years.

It was about this point that I wrote Forth/2 a native code Forth for OS/2, mostly because I was told you couldn't program OS/2 in assembler.

Eventually I ended up as a system administrator for a trade show marketing firm for 15 years. I fell into a trap, there was less and less work over time, and they didn't want to risk the running systems to phase in improvements I had written in my free time. Don't repeat my mistake... if you find yourself with more than half of your time free, it's time to move jobs.

Next I took a job making gears, it paid less, but was interesting.

I have a friend that I've been helping do repairs... it was interesting helping him get his bucket list item working... he always wanted an Atomic Clock, and by the end, we had repaired a few of them.

Then Covid hit, and now my programming skills are old, and I've been sick for a year.

Update to answer questions:
Love/Hate - I love that you can build anything you want, provided sufficient time and effort. It used to be that everyone built their own tools for navigating the file system, etc. and had fun showing them off to friends. Shareware was an amazing way to learn and share programming knowledge, and even make a few bucks.

I hate the fashion aspect that seems to have swallowed the industry. It used to be that knowing how to program was the key, you could learn the details of a language on the job, and usually only took a few days/weeks to get up to speed. Now everyone wants 5 years experience on the 6 year old platform.
No wonder US schools are so poorly rated. They get very basic stuff very wrong like this. 2+2=5 is probably in the previous chapter.
I was not naming courts in general. I was naming the specific appeals court that takes on all patent cases, and has essentially constructed most of current patent law unsupervised.

See https://www.obwbip.com/newsletter/why-does-the-u-s-supreme-c... for some background on this.
Right. GE is $100/5 years. So, might as well pay the extra $3/yr for faster passport lines too.
The politics-is-off-topic ship sailed a long time ago.
What bugs me is how every airport is a completely custom design.

Somehow, no two airports are ever alike, and I have a hard time understanding how that happened. There’s no clones at all.

Like, I understand they each have their own geographical constraints, but so does a McDonalds or a Walmart, and somehow I can walk into any of those on the planet without feeling too confused.

Every airport is a multi-billion dollar project designed anew from the ground up. Even when it’s a greenfield build. Dunno why they can’t just pick an existing airport design and say “build that”.

Even roller-coasters will have their clones at different parks (authorized or unauthorized).
I was tempted for a moment to agree. Maybe for the flight companies and airports it could be true. But since many of those measures became law, then it is a political problem. It would bring bad reputation to any politician trying to remove the law. So it is a much bigger issue now.
I have the feeling your response just highlights the misconceptions from another angle.

From my personal experience living abroad, we westerners highly overestimate the consumption of our entertainment (movies/shows/music/games) in the non-western world. E.g. log into your favorite western online game in Japan and see what players you end up playing with. Hint: It's basically noone Japanese.

Regarding economy: based on the wikipedia data available here [1] USA+EU+Australia (with GB i think still included in EU there) makes up less than 50% of the global economy, tendency downwards.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_economy
Shoes off.
Belt off
Backpack ready for search
Full body genital scan
Mask scanner with RFID chip reader
Vaccine passport
Passport/drivers license or state ID
Credit or bank card only
Social media must be free of x/y posts

-Or-

Pay to skip the line
Gotta say, I never had good luck with AWS Lambda Serverless. Blew through the free quota playing around with a django app deployed using Zappa. Never got out of the "let me make sure this works when deployed" phase.
"... and that admins for IBM systems are as available as x86."

Yep. My organization is trying to move away from mainframe and COBOL due to limitations in available personnel. The systems perform well, but that doesn't matter if we can't find people to keep them running.
To simplify a bit: the key difference between our thinking is that you think tbills and base money are different things. I think they're the same thing - because they are guaranteed to be always convertible from one into another, at unlimited quantities.
There's a distinction between a voluntary practice and a compulsory practice. The distinction centers around individuals being compelled by violence. The kind thing to do would be to minimize our use of compulsion as much as pragmatically possible.

>Can we kindly stop using hyperbole... anti-maskers have almost certainly killed more Americans
This site is beautiful from the in- and outside.
This is super cool! Thanks for posting!
Climate Disaster Preparation Is More Urgent Than Ever
It's called a smear campaign perpetrated by the Chinese government (or it's compatriots) in order to discredit or demean someone and their opinions.

Hope the 50 cents was worth it!
Helen Toner Joins OpenAI’s Board of Directors
Did a bachelor into the little brother of CS: information science. Then went on to do a master in computer science. There I had a course that was about "learn anything you want", so I took Paul Hegarty's course on iOS development. That course landed me a job as an iOS dev at the uni for a year. I didn't like the stressful manager, so I got back to my studies again.

I hated my thesis and went to a coding bootcamp to apply as a student. They noticed I could explain things well and understood every slide instantly (thanks to my CS education). They asked me to immediately become an instructor provided I could build a NodeJS app within a month to prove my skills. I've built 4 NodeJS apps within that timeframe [1]. Then I freelanced for a bit.

After graduating I applied to FAANG companies and didn't hear back from any of them and got really disheartened. I always wanted to work at FAANG and they didn't care about my resume or the fact that I completed a master in computer science! That part of my life took 2 years. Don't apply to FAANG when you just finished your CS master and expect them to call back [2]. Now I work at a small company.

If I could do it all over again:

Skip bachelor and master [3]. Why? All I needed was some guidance in the beginning. I knew I wanted to create web apps and websites. Back when I started coding bootcamps weren't a thing, but that's what I needed. What good coding bootcamps allow you to do is teach you how to self-teach yourself whatever you need to learn with computers.

Was university useless? No not at all, but it wasn't efficient with my time. I believe that at least 50% of my time was wasted on stuff I didn't need. The other 50% helped me with learning many tools to understand things very quickly, mostly because I've already seen them before. An example was when I was debugging an issue with EmberJS and needed to dive in the core internals of it. Then I realized that EmberJS its rendering engine is designed as a virtual machine! Since I did a course on computer systems it was easy to see understand what they meant with opcodes, a stack and system calls. I think it'd have been magic to me if I didn't follow a course on computer systems.

[1]

* An app that analyzes and displays sentiment on Twitter (basically my bachelor thesis in a web app)

* Their penultimate assignment (a blog in NodeJS) as their ultimate assignment is to make whatever they want to make

* A small app that people could use with the game Maffia to vote people out

* A small website to track hackathons that had a small CMS behind it (I had some designs from a few years ago and always wanted to make it)

[2]

Note: I live in Europe, YMMV in the US (since even coding bootcamp grads sometimes get invited).

[3] Maybe get a degree for credentialism, but only on the side and only if it'd be cheap
Is the primary goal of security at a college football game to stop a suicide bomber? I strongly doubt that's how they see it.
> The unstated (and unacknowledged function) that has perpetuated the practice despite every traveler hating it (and its obvious futility), is to intimidate travelers and provide a convenient mechanism of crowd-control.

I think you're misguided here. I certainly do understand the viewpoint that this security theater is harmful (and agree, actually). But lets be honest: The TSA has nothing to do with "Scaring the sheep" and everything to do with "Politically acceptable jobs program".

Way too many soldiers coming home from our senseless oversea wars? Great - put them to work "Guarding" our airports. Super convenient that all states have airports that will "need" these jobs, so it's easier to pass than targeted jobs programs that would actually be useful.
This looks like a scheme to siphon off money.

No one in the military would be that stupid.
Yes. I've been on both sides of the equation. If you are mired in legacy tech and using outdated process, you aren't going to be attractive to many developers. I did a stint with a company that turned into a VC Software holding company. IE they buy good stuff from other people and milk it dry while it rots on the vine. Recruiting and retention were both challenging.

On the other hand if you are flashing all the new hotness, you will get a lot of attention.

I think the best place is somewhere in the middle. Now if you are using the new hotness but in a niche tech you will probably have to try harder to recruit and as others have mentioned show a commitment to developing talent.
The article has some data, but IMHO it's a bit too sparse to support the title's hypothesis. It says "33% of survey respondents say they participate in sustainability activities “daily” and 27% report weekly sustainability practices." referring to a survey[0], but this survey doesn't appear to specify what exactly these practices are. From looking at the questions, I'm lead to believe that even merely using a recycling bin qualifies.

It then goes on to say that the director of the Environmental Studies program at USC has seen "an uptick in student enrollment within her department, particularly over the last five to 10 years". It'd be interesting to see what enrollment looks like in other departments for comparison since an uptick due to, say, population growth is a non-story (and it's also worth noting that USC is just one university, and in California - a very liberal-leaning state, to boot)

The one piece of data that seems encouraging is the part about median salaries (they're reportedly above average), but at best that merely supports the idea that environment jobs are no longer gambles as they had a reputation of being in the past. This is good, but it's a pretty big stretch to go from that to "students are flocking to environment jobs".

[0] https://green.usc.edu/files/2020/03/2028_Survey_Results_3192...
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clearly, that's distortion from the wide angle lens. put that into PS, hit the distortion correction button and whatch it pull back out straight.
Even if not realtime, it sounds like a better option than AWS' current "not supported at all; you'll have to manually shut things down if costs overrun".
Writing an effective slur filter is undesirable. No one can stop people saying completely shit headed things. For one, people just work around it. And more importantly for every shit headed thing you restrict you also cut out someone else, even if it's just because of their perception of constraints. The mind has a funny way of editing thought before it even arrives. We can't afford this anymore in our online spaces.
20 years after covid: will we ever stop having mandatory masking and monthly lockdowns?

Sounds facetious. I'm sure most people assumed 9/11 restrictions to be temporary as well.
Thanks, gotcha!
There are some reports of bad things happening with inefficient QPainter usage, and some bugs related to text drawing especially after qt5, after a cursory look...would be better to provide specific examples. I do rather suspect something machine or even program specific, though.
Saudi Arabia's decades long record of cultivating extremist outfits, and "influence operations" is, thought, not a conspiracy theory, but a fact.

When I first seen 9/11 on TV as an 11 year old, I instantly thought that Ryadh will be turned into a crater within a few hours.

I dropped my jaw out of suprise, when I heard US going to declare war on Iraq — Saudis' biggest enemy. It made zero sense. I kept on watching the satellite TV at my neighbour's house, and was hoping that it was my knowledge of English failing me. It didn't.
To quibble: terrorism is using dramatic violence to achieve political ends. It just so happens that the victimized society often wants to increase security.

The US had at least 3 major responses to 9/11:

1) seek revenge (invade Afghanistan, kill Bin Laden),
2) armor up (Dept. of Homeland Security), and
3) unify under nationalism (flags everywhere).

It's pretty easy to imagine a timeline where some or none of those happened.
I just noticed you can actually leverage `into-array` at critical parts - if you just need a data collection for quick traversal.
(It's not.)
There are countless other "free" image hosting services
Gay characters, black characters...

Maybe next it'll be european/american actors that get put on the chopping block?
> As long as these young people vote out the climate change deniers

The gigantic problem is that we can’t. Old people have by far the most voting power.

And in the US those seem to be pretty securely glued to their TVs running Fox News (I know my american relatives were).
Not a lawyer here, but if I just apply the Howey Test based on my own intuition after reading it on investopedia(1), I haven't availed myself of the full range of arguments that the professionals apply.

I would not, for instance, get this conclusion:
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/06/14/court-holds-that-...

(1) https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/howey-test.asp
Given that literally everything is software, probably yes.
Having a team in a different timezone from the main cluster of office timezones can be a win for ops-related activities, but I've found as an employee it risks work-life balance because people want real-time help (example: UTC+8 workers asking questions to UTC-8 workers). I've explored switching to a smaller company like Notion, but it seems offices everywhere is becoming the norm, so it's difficult to find roles that don't require cross-timezone collaboration.
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Thank you for conflating "not willing" with "unable". Also on suggesting how a 20-40h project will make me appear as an expert in embedded programming.
The fact the person responsible for the TSA also had a massive profit stake in body scanners says everything one needs to know about airport "security".
I'd like to share a view on this that I found for myself, I am curious if anyone finds it interesting. For years I thought of talent as an effort multiplier. "Intelligence is speed" etc.

I recently remapped it in my head slightly and migrated to a definition that talent is a degree of competence and productivity which you can achieve in a given field "effortlessly".

Let's say you are a top 5% software engineer off high school, because of your specific circumstances of nature and nurture. You will still need hard deliberate work, introspection and patience in overcoming plateaus if you want to climb the remaining 5% and become better or the best.

So, some people have a head start, some have a very big one, but true improvement in a field is only possible through deep work, and if you can organise yourself to do it, that's a meta-skill for 21st century.
It is extraordinarily difficult to kill or maim people on land using a ship as a weapon - it will simply run aground, and there are guides aboard on ships big enough to cause damage when they are near the shore, as an additional defensive measure against incompetence and hijackings (insert obligatory Ever Given meme here).

For trains, the situation is similar. Even if you manage to bomb a train, it's unlikely to cause a major, deadly disaster. Rail infrastructure is built with the assumption that trains will get out of control, and the industry has nearly 200 years of experience.

Trains, ships and airplanes are ineffective weapons that need a lot of knowledge to turn into an actual weapon. A truck is way more effective: easy to acquire, easy to use, and even right in the middle of an attack people will assume that the driver has lost control or has medical issues instead of being a terrorist.
It's not so much the fact that an issue occurred, but rather the fact that this type of issue can occur at all. They have coupled nagware into the core of the OS.
One of those is a conspiracy theory. The other isn't. WMD?
TIL that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, believed to be the planner of the 9/11 attacks as well as the failed Bojinka plot linked above, had his trial for numerous charges (including 9/11) restarted just yesterday.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/trial-of-ac...
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