skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overall, it's operational fragility. Back in 2017 or 2018 there was engine failure, that started inspection of all planes, that triggered massive flights cancellation, revenue drops and calls for reconsidering their seating policy and baggage fees. Who would forget that SW had to park their fleet after that Boeing catastrophe and investigation. Gary Kelly spending too much time lobbying instead of improving company efficiency. 2020 was almost a catastrophe for the company has it not been for billions in cash injections, subsidies and loans from federal government. Another one is, SW used to be quite unusually employee oriented for an airline company. This has changed in last 3-4 years based on their negotiations with pilots and flight attendants unions, which does reflect on company's performance.
That seems like a massive amount of battery degradation if that is the cause. I would not expect battery degradation to amount to more than 10-20% in a year based on my experience.
> What's a logical reason why "mean girls" is egregious enough to require reeducation, but "bro culture" doesn't bat an eye?

Maybe its not a difference between the words, but between describing a broad social trend in the latter case and “referred to a group of female employees” in the former.
Eric Clapton Is Now Funding an Anti-Vaccine Band for 'Great Work' They're Doing
How much of a facade would you have had to build to be useful to the point where you run into the same problem? It seems like it would be very very easy for implementation specific behavior to leak this way.

At least with IndexedDB there's a large enough impedence between SQLite and IndexedDB that there's far less chance of details getting through.
Is anyone sending sqlite binary blobs over the wire? Foreign keys as a replacement for recursive arrays sounds like a win...
To me it seems like there was way more leverage from Apple’s side, so the “negotiation” was really a nicety, which was subsequently reverted.

The company was eventually sold at a loss rather than breaking even, so the true market value was ultimately less than what Jobs was offering when the claim was it was worth 3x more.
Getting to the bottom of web map performance
https://archive.is/dITl1/
For those unfamiliar with these attack vectors, there code injection and denial-of-service issues that in previous version of Python, were exploitable by default. Projects like https://pypi.org/project/defusedxml/ were designed to be secure against these issues by default, rather than requiring the library user to opt in.

The defusedxml project has an excellent matrix showing viability of the attack types against various python XML implementations: https://pypi.org/project/defusedxml/#python-xml-libraries
Thanks for digging out the links. I thought I read about it using more than that, but I've probably mis-remembered.
This is a trend post covid where a variety of agencies are trying to squeeze the data toothpaste out of the tube. It's utterly cynical and should be resisted at every encounter.

The people behind making these plays for data don't care about "trust and confidence," in instutions because from their perspective, when they have data, the power, and are specially protected by the law, they don't need your trust or confidence. Police with access to medical records means a source of blackmail to leverage against potential witnesses, political dissidents, and basically, anyone they please. I can see the argument now, "You mean you will give access to these random university researchers to explore it, but you won't give it to us to solve this very henious crime? Tsk.."

It's so egregious for anyone who understands what it is, but there is so little popular resistance I can only assume nobody else cares.
Stop crying and get vaccinated, or find a way to make money without endangering other people.
This is really a great tool. It works like a charm...

But: How do I know you are not scanning my uploaded photos? I have to trust you more than those I want to redact the photo for. Right?

PS: Just checked your twitter profile. You are living my dream life :) So I guess you are trustworthy. But it does not show on the landing page yet.
What kind of stuff are people needing to scrape?
If 100% of patients survive with the treatment, vs only 50% without, that's a high survival rate.

However, if the treatment only went to 5 patients, it's possible that you just happened to get 5 straight patients who would have survived anyway. The probability of that is pretty low (~3%) but you'd need more patients to conclusively prove it.
Mastercard's BRAM rules involve blocking quite a lot of things that are legal though - you're not allowed to mention hypnosis, or blood, or vampires in adult content, even in a completely fictional context.
"Deanna Doucette was the first pregnant girl to attend the home after Teen Challenge took over. She arrived in 2001, when she was fourteen. A few weeks from her due date, she snuck out of a window and ran away to a gas station, where she called her boyfriend, the father of her child. But before help arrived the police showed up and returned her to Teen Challenge. In the car, she told the officers, “Don’t take me back—they’re forcing me to give away my baby.” Five months were added to her program at Teen Challenge, for running away."

Damn, this is some demonic shit. I love all the political connections they talked about in the article which keep this legal
While those things that you cite have been transformative, they are at best a minor part of everyone's lives. Standards of living have decreased in much of the US and EU even if today we have Netflix in our pockets. Vacations, home ownership, good food, participation in clubs, free time - these have all gone down for the majority of the population, even as they are more able to see their peers succeed (or seem to).
My pigs do a decent job of mowing parts of the back acreage. They prefer to hang near the house for shade (still need to finish building the stalls in th barn). We give them pig feed and fresh fruits/vegetables but they're purpose built eaters, so they just graze and graze. Keeping them warm in the TX freeze last year took aot of work but that was a freak incident (for now). Access to fresh water (dog pools) and lots of grassy acreage means they can pretty well take care of themselves.
In a rocky Israeli crater, scientists simulate life on Mars Reuters
That is both a weak and dangerous argument if you place any value at all on individual freedom. As a vaccinated person I have a MUCH MUCH greater risk of dying in a car accident on the way to the grocery store than I do of contracting a deadly case of COVID.

Before the vaccine was widely available you may have had a case but once you become vaccinated your risk level drops to well below other risks we already accept as part of having a free society.
Any major business is going to have an army of lawyers to look into any potential business practice. It would be trivial for them to shoot off an email to legal asking, "can we jack up the prices of our parts based on inventory levels?"

The answer might be affirmative, but that doesn't mean that doing so is a good business move. If you were in charge of sourcing at a company, and a supplier pulled that shit on you, you'd be finding a replacement supplier rightquick. If a supply will gouge you for this reason, you can be sure they will be looking for other reasons in the future.

TL;DR: price gouging, even if legal, is bad optics.
i work on heavy equipment such as tractors, diesel trucks and excavators in the USA. this is an excellent start, but its a long way from a tractor.

some of the pitfalls that need to be addressed:

"Modular Power Unit" is undefined. can i run it on white gas? diesel? kerosene? what is the engine displacement? air cooled or liquid? If we mean to say this tractor is all-electric, keep in mind most small farms arent equipped to charge anything more advanced than a cordless drill or flashlight.

Cab frame has no safety glass or panels, so the operator enjoys every rock and every tree branch :(. a shade canopy is a nice add as well.

no lights. this is a nonstarter for every farmer that wakes up at 4 am.

quick hoses are nice, but I cant find a PTO knuckle so its restricted to things like lifting and towing (and maybe ripping). this is okay, but for an un-weatherized vehicle ill need to use barn real-estate to store, its certainly lacking.
You do realise that web servers often store logs of all requests, right? Those log records include the requesting IP address, from which all this information is derived.
It can work but the biggest problem is current capacity is generally compromised this way. The best way is to simply design the power supply right in the first place! Today that's using a buck-boost isolating switcher to create BOTH the +5V and -5V at the same time. Or a linear with the proper center-tapped transformer.

Power supply design is NOT something to leave to the last step or to give short shrift.

When I worked at Hewlett-Packard, there was a story going around that a division decided to give a summer intern the job of designing a new product's power supply. It did NOT end well - the product suffered field failures, cost a ton in warranty costs and delayed the full release of the product by a year. After that, power supply design was something that the top engineer had to be involved with especially in an intern was involved. This pairing actually resulted in both a better product and in having the intern learn more and be more likely to work for HP full time eventually.
Frankly, I don't even get outraged by this kind of news anymore. I am desensitized. I expect this kind of things to become more and more common.

But I am really curious about which bullshit justification they came up with for that. It must be really creative.
I don't really know a good solution to the problem of "if platform vendor does something it doesn't naturally cross a security boundary but if 3rd party app or website does the same thing it would."

Because we deal with this kind of stuff all the time in totally benign ways -- people aren't too upset that the kernel can do things that userspace processes can't and that certain privileged functionality has to be built-in.

Chromecast isn't that magic. If you wanted to build a CC competitor you have to provide a browser extension or an app that uses native messaging which seems fine, it's the same as what Google themselves do. Google's advantage is that they get to be bundled with Chrome (heyooo Pocket). I think you could make a case that maybe it shouldn't be necessary and that a sandboxed webpage with local network access is better than an extension or native app that isn't sandboxed at all but tomato potato.
Ordering in: The rapid evolution of food delivery
American Indian Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools
Happens in the community center lawn across the street from my house in the Seattle area. I can hear the music in my front yard but not inside my house.

I do wish mainland Chinese were a little more mindful of others, especially in foreign countries.
Airlines with government backing end up with the only rational choice being to take more risk.

I'm reading a book right now called "The Power of Nothing to Lose" which explores the primary and second order effects of individuals and companies being put into situations where they literally have nothing to lose. It's been an interesting read so far - recommended.
Oldest footprints of pre-humans identified in Crete
You guess based on data and do your best, that is more or less how all expert opinion works. An actuarial table also doesn't tell you anything about what will happen, but it allows you to do your best.
I'm the same in those views. It's not for me.
I wanted to build a more secure image redaction tool but not resort to black (which is I suspect the best way to redact)

So instead of blurring, this tool first scales down the image, then scrambles pixels randomly, and then blurs. This should (disclaimer: not a scientist) make it impossible to revert information back to its original state.

It should also prevent uncensored characters giving away the blurred shape of censored characters as those will be randomly scrambled.

Additionally the resolution of the blurred version of the image will be lowered when large parts of the image are redacted.

I thought I'd post it here on HN because I'm genuinely interested in if my assumptions are correct.
Is there an overview of what this does, how it works, etc besides just the commit messages?
Right, c++ has no builtin discriminated union, and std::optional<T&> is actually not valid in C++ (unfortunately).

But discriminant-less custom optionals classes with 'zero' type support via traits are easy to do (and I have done it many times). You do not have to rely on the compiler identifying a safe empty state and you can define any application specific one. For example if for one specific
(and common) use case strings are always non null, optional<string, non_null_trait> has an obvious implementation.

So, yes, these sorts of optimizations are not done by the compiler has it has no notion of discriminated types (one day maybe...), but can be done generically by the programmer. In fact you could in principle optimize multiple layers of variant<optional<...>,... > and collapse everything in one discriminant,as long as you do not provide reference access to the sub variants; the required metaprogram is not going to be pretty though.

One of the advantages of C++ is that it allows this sort of control.
I will certainly agree that it is for the better if people who see no intrinsic value in children do not become parents.
Yup, and a loss is called a loss, not a gain.

When you invest, you are dealing in probabilities and potentialities. When you exit, you are dealing with actualities. When you actually lose money, it is one of your failures, not one of your successes.

I think what actually happened was the deal fell through and Apple ate their lunch anyway, right? What do you call that?
Office worker finds working in hobby garden freeing, strengthening body and sharpening skills. However, for farmer it is a lot of work and duty.

Hunting for food, when you have to do it often is work like any other. No matter how much you like aspects of it initially.
That is true if you believe that humanity will not meet climate goals over the next century.

On the other hand, if within a generation or two each person is net carbon negative (through labour, taxes, innovation or other support towards climate efforts) then children born today will be helping to mitigate the crisis.

This is the "incremental" scenario. The plausibility of this depends on how you think system change happens and your assessment of what is possible or likely.
> anti-vaxxers have now adopted a near cult-like delusion

I think you’re right, but I also think that anti-anti-vaxxers are at least as cult-like - disparaging Ivermectin as “horse dewormer” is as disconcerting as insisting that their healthy 20-year-old cousins friend dropped dead after getting the vaccine.
GoFish, a Homebrew-like cross-platform systems package manager
The US sure could use groups of people exercising in parks. Think about the reduction in medical costs from the attack on type 2 diabetes.
Can the journalist describe what happens there with actual descriptions of the behavior that occurs along with how often it may happen?

Taking a quote like bro culture is as lazy as saying hoodlum or hooligan culture, etc. What are they trying to say and have us imagine? Just tell us what the behavior is.
Yes, indeed, I’ve been annoyed that there isn’t a maintainer for the Debian port for a while. I will maintain the code based on the final pure-GPL version of the code, to avoid the entire licensing issue.

If Eric Youngdale could come out of the woodwork and retroactively add a “CDR tools, as a special GPL exception, can integrate CDDL licensed code” clause, that might allow us to use Schilling’s more recent code, but, to be safe, I prefer to work with the older codebase to keep the license simple.
This is site lays out a good plan https://teachyourselfcs.com/

Courses on there can be substituted for equivalents from MIT, eg. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2020/ for the Berkeley OS course. I just worked through that MIT course and the 6.824 Distributed systems (https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html), also listed on that site [[personally, I recommend both of the forementioned classes taught by Robert Morris (also a cofounder of ycombinator)]] Both courses were fully available (lectures,assignments,projects) from the current course sites.

The MIT sites hosted there are incredibly open in general - https://courses.csail.mit.edu/, absolutely amazing institution.
Far easier than parsing Markdown at least.
The prize in economics sciences 2021: Natural experiments
Fighting in Brussels bogs down plans to regulate Big Tech
https://archive.is/bSOWr/
Do you know why those features never got adopted into GNU tar?
You don't have to kill them. They're great pets. With a decent sized yard, the mess is minimal. We periodically scoop where the kids play but that's it. My ground is more fertile for it.
Thanks!

That's a good point. In theory you could check network tab to see that I'm not sending any data over the line.

Suggestions on how I could create that trust are more then welcome :)
To add to that, I suppose I'm far from an expert, but I'd suggest that it's worthwhile for any musician to learn how to use a tuning fork.

Maybe not to start with, and those Snark tuners certainly are indispensable if you need to tune your instrument in a noisy environment. And perhaps I'm just showing my age here. (We didn't have digital tuners when I was a kid, or at least I could never afford one.) But I would guess that learning how to tune your instrument the analog way is a useful step in developing your musical ear.
The Evolution of The Human Workforce:

hunter-gatherers
farmers
slaves
serfs
employees on-site
employees WFH
contractors
temps
freelancers
China-fication
Uberization (gig workers)
Robotization
Fair enough, without electricity you might still be able to drill holes in things, it just takes a good while.

Mind you, I've seen some... interesting welders cobbled together, I saw one that was a load of wire wrapped around a rubber inner tyre. Here [1] is one made from a microwave transformer.

[1] https://www.instructables.com/Build-a-Microwave-Transformer-...
Gliding (non motor powered aviation) is HUGE in Europe.

And Cheese?! I'm not even in to cheese but my Instagram gets cheese posts because I follow some UK stuff. I don't know what this guy is on about.
If a home has a heat pump (most AC systems), heating primarily with electricity isn’t that hard, at least in milder cold temperatures.

Most homes in the colder areas of the US heat with gas because the cost per joule of gas is a lot less than for the equivalent electricity. But a lot of homes can supply most their heat with electricity, and would if the economics made sense. And even more would build that capability if gas was 2x the cost per joule as electricity.
There is no logical reason. The emotional reason, of course, is that one targets men and the other targets women. Most activism these days is retalitory, not consolidatory. So you are allowed to attack white men, because they are always in a position of power.

But both outlets are owned by Bezos, so maybe both outlets are just toxic. The fish rots from the head.
From the article:

> Last year one group in Lanzhou city, Gansu, found a solution that make everyone happy by using bluetooth earphones, holding their own version of a silent disco.
For me it's more accurate (in the correct state) but still off by a lot (several towns over)
Is there more information on what the "power cube" is? I poked around the site and couldn't find details.
I remember years ago hoping Apple would acquire iLike. I was one of their earlier users that was at first just using the iTunes sidebar plug-in with a few friends and if I recall correctly this was shortly before Facebook announced they were becoming a platform, possibly before my first Facebook account where iLike was at least for a very short time one of the more popular widgets you could stick on your profile.

Well all this time later, it’s fairly interesting to see how that Apple acquisition I wanted to see didn’t come to be. Ah well.

What did we get instead. I think iLike went to MySpace, and Apple announced Ping?
>US really underutilizes public spaces and many things become a financial transaction

I cannot understand the underutilization of public spaces. That's very far from my experiences but it may just be regional.

I have no idea what you mean about "many things become a financial transaction".
“Square dancing is a problem left over from history."

If only I'd thought of that line in junior high gym class. Of course, it would probably just have earned me twenty push ups and an even worse reputation.
Loud music isn't a perquisite to gather and do things.

Unless you are the dancing grannies, apparently.
Well I don't really see intrinsic value in anything (I'm a Buddhist), but that isn't what I said, I said intrinsic value _compared to other species_. I meant that many people don't see humans as superior to other animals or to plants.
> pro-vax people, like myself, who are strongly anti-mandate

I’m vaccinated, but very uncomfortable with the government ordering me to be.
Section 6 pretty much lets you choose between:

- Bundling the source with the program (a)

- Letting people download the source from the same place as they can download the program (d)

- A written offer to hand over the source on request (b, c, e)

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
Please don't. He's doing great work with Brave and I'm enjoying watching Mozilla commit suicide.
Study saying Covid-19 vaccines cause heart inflammation withdrawn
This kind of subverts union leadership though. How can the union leadership negotiate in good faith when there's no evidence that they are in a position to control or act on behalf of members?

Then again, I think it's technically illegal for members of the airline industry to actively strike. So maybe this is how it's done for plausible deniability sake.
London Startups Leading Global BlockChain Industry
Can't help but feel there's got to be a connection to school shootings here. Perhaps American teens are canaries in a coal mine, where the 'coal mine' is American culture at home, at school, and on the 'net, and the dangerous gasses are those of cruelty, hatred, anger, violence, and fear. Teens are going through a lot, individuating and becoming adults, yet they live in the same confusing stew we all do now, and do not have the tools to deal with these unprecedented cultural toxins.

IMO these re-education camps are problematic, even when done "correctly", because they don't address the underlying cause of teen misery. And in fact they do more harm than good, for the simple reason that the teen is held accountable for our systemic failures. It is the parents' philosophy of rugged individualism acted out for profit using children as guinea pigs.
Fuck Nestle.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckNestle/comments/hmv0nv/the_reas...