skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I flew enough as a child and then with my first job to be comfortable with flying. Never really considered fear. Then I took a flight back from Vegas to NYC and it ended up in an emergency state as both hydraulic systems were lost on takeoff [1]. It was fascinating to experience fear creep into the physical environment. Fear of the unknown as we all heard the obviously-bad noise during takeoff. You could tell we were flying in circles above the desert.

The crew did not communicate anything for a long time, so imaginations took over. That was the worst part, the inciting incident.

Then one passenger started freaking out. Then another. It snowballed so quickly. Crying, screaming, drinking, trying to call loved ones. The college-aged girl in front of me was in tears and the older man next to her held her as if he were her father. My buddy seated next to me had a full panic attack, drenched in sweat. Bottles of prescription pills were passed around from row to row.

The stench of vomit was unavoidable. Flying in turbulent skies for hours didn't help the situation.

About 4-5 hours later we made an emergency landing - one of those in which we were instructed to lean all the way forward with our head on our arms. The landing was relatively smooth. Then I realized we were really far from the airport, on the outskirts of the runways, and a bunch of emergency fire and rescue vehicles were staged, waiting for us.

I've never seen so many people de-board a plane and sprint for the bar so fast.

Since then, I have a low level of anxiety when flying, mostly during the takeoff. My senses stay on guard in anticipation of hearing something go wrong. But it's not fear. I try not to allow that to happen.

[1] https://www.avweb.com/news/jetblue-flight-194-weve-lost-two-...
Oh yeah I totally agree. You're going to need a brand manager with brass balls and knuckles to match to maintain that separation.
Yes, that would be good, but knowing the Wikimedia Foundation I am quite certain that it will not happen. And volunteers won't do it either.
> I can assure you the average person is not much dumber than the average American.

If you have two scales and used them to weight the difference in mass of two objects, and one says there is a difference and the other doesn’t, you cannot just conclude that there must not be any difference. Obviously one scale is wrong.
So in this case we have to ask which scale is wrong, the collective results of hundreds of well documented scientifically conducted studies or your “gut feeling”.
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On Upwork.

I know marketplaces are seen negatively by many here on HN. But I think this approach to work makes total sense.

It is just the most logical thing on multiple levels. First, a structured database of supply and demand. Of freelancers with all their skills and of jobs with all their attributes. Second, to have a standard way to collaborate. All invoices look the same, all reporting looks the same. Makes collaboration so much smoother. Starting a contract is a click. Work gets invoiced automatically. Invoices get paid automatically.
I don't know why Discord has replaced a good forum in a lot of communities. A subreddit is free too and better for discussion. Most people say "Join my Discord to learn more about X" but really that information is just pinned at the top of an announcements channel. Everything else about that Discord is useless for most people. It just serves as a way for the owner to @everyone and push a notification out.

My Discord server is just a place for me and a few friends to post random stuff and voice chat. That's what it's good for.

Plus, the more Discords you join, the more you get spammed by hacked accounts running down the user list. That's another reason why I won't join a Discord for every single thing I'm interested in. I've never gotten spammed from subscribing to a subreddit or joining a forum.
> ...robbery, stealing, fraud...

Those aren't commercial activities. One of the parties doesn't agree to the deal, so they are violations of property rights.

The justification for forbidding them isn't that the government has concerns about the transaction (the robber probably needs the goods more than the person they are robbing, on a needs basis most robberies might be justifiable for all I know). The problem is the involuntary nature of a robbery. That isn't a factor here.
today I learned.
Ignoring the fact that H-1B visa holders have to be paid a “prevailing wage”, which makes extremely difficult for them to be 50% underpaid, are you suggesting that your friend has kept the same work profile as recently arrived workers for well over ten years?

I have know Indians who, after almost two decades in the country, finally managed to get ahold a green card. Most I have worked with, have been on H-1B visas for at least eight years. It is hard to believe that someone would have left his or her home country, for a specialized and well paid job in the US, but haven’t progressed at all in the seniority scale in decades.
>It's not like there has been a shortage of covid related research in the last ~2 years.

And yet there has been. Where is the definitive research on aerosols? What is long covid? Why do vaccinated people get long covid? Why does COVID-19 arrive in fairly regular waves? Is Zinc helpful if you catch COVID-19? How does superspreading happen? It seems like a lot of research was abandoned when the pandemic seemed to be ending after the vaccine distribution started which turned out to be the exactly wrong thing to do when Delta showed up.
64-bit support was added in Dwarf Fortress 0.43.05, released in July 2016.
I think this article should be understood in the context of the 2020 US presidential campaign. At the time, Pete Buttigieg was a candidate showing promise. This article attempts to portray candidate Buttigieg as a member of the 1% elite, at a time when the progressive wing of the Democratic party was gaining ground on the traditional Democratic party establishment. The Atlantic tends to be read by educated urbanites and surburbanites, a key constituency of the Democratic party.
That sounds pretty much like other business regulations, and is not too intrusive in my book.

There is another point about abundant regulations helping Europe capture yet another brilliant opportunity to complain about foreign companies monopolizing everything, but in case of crypto mining we might be in a low risk area
Intravenous route to choroidal neovascularization by macrophage-disguised
Isn’t Amex a no interest, pay in full every month type of CC? Or am I thinking of something else?
I think the problem is that list is basically in reverse order of what's easiest to assess in a candidate.
How to become millionaire as a Software Developer without working too hard
Read the article: They are replacing touch-screens with a non-touch screen and a touchpad controller thing. They are not doing the sensible thing and moving back to analog controls!
I guess because reddit tends to gravitate towards big subrreddits that have been taken by their mods 10+ years ago and there is no space for newcomers. The Discord rush looks like a land grab race that will rot very fast as soon as the race is over.
You’re right: those were claims that the state attorneys general are comfortable defending in court so presumably they have pretty good evidence but we’ll see how they hold up under defense.
I hate discord. It is centralized. It's UI is terrible. It is buggy with terrible performance issues. Unfortunately I am forced to use it.
Surely mass is a red herring in all this. The masses involved must be waaaaaay too small to detect, especially in the presence of earth's gravity.

Why would a slime mold even evolve this capability of detecting tiny mass differences?

None of it makes sense. It's much more likely there's an ultra-thin tendril they haven't noticed.
What's the big deal, find another job.

Why would you want to work for a company that abruptly fires people for nothing? Seems masochistic.
M1 Pro / Max: Tom Boger and Tim Millet Interviewed by Rene Ritchie
Personally I think the reason they were faster than today is abstractions. Today developing a video game for a browser doesn’t require you to know anything about the details of graphics or pixels or GPU. Such abstractions - such as the V8 engine or a video game library - allows ease of development, hence easier to hire people that can manage and understand it.

Unfortunately the abstraction comes at a cost - in CPU cycles.
It’s statistics. You have constant infection attempts over time, especially indoors, so you have to keep factoring and multiplying the likelihood you won’t get infected to get a better sense.

E.g consider the likelihood you flip five heads in a row as analogous to how likely you wont get infected after five separate extended exposure events (eg hour in doors with no air filtration).
I've been pleased with the DragonRuby Game Toolkit 'server', which has 12 channels in a category called 'Open Spaces' named after various video game characters.

The community uses them freely and naturally. It gives a means to talk about a niche / ad-hoc stuff without stepping on anyone's toes.

If you have a project going, you can effectively claim one of the unused channels for a while by simply posting in it.

Because everyone is present without explicitly joining, the conversations are more discoverable and inviting, without having to nag anyone to do anything.
Of course the unstated reality appears to be that it works. That is, the middle management was not necessary. Elite students really do make better executives than former burger flippers and rivet drivers.

I know some corporations still maintain a culture of promote from the bottom, but they are the exception. It's nice to think that hands-on experience would give companies an advantage, but let's not conflate our desire for how the world ought to work with how it does.

I see this as yet another way in which capitalism's brutal efficiency finds more and more things to trim.
It isn't. There are lots of negative externalities that the government doesn't get involved in.
Bad news for crypto.
At least on Model S 2020 the windshield wipers are controlled normally on a stick to the left of the wheel. Maybe it's an EU/US difference.
Working hard or being motivated to work hard isn’t the same thing as being a good employee though. We’ve all known employees who work hard (or think they do) but don’t contribute much, or cause problems in other ways.
An epic thing you can do with PDF though is show an image of the font you want to show, and have a super common font like Helvetica hanging out behind it, so the end-user doesn't even need to render the font, it's just an image.
I've read books that were scanned with OCR. You learn to deal with typical errors that occur, but overall the texts were mostly accurate.
Yup. Great, well balanced light editor with almost 0 installation worries. Just copy the binary over.
Also it is really cool that it prefers to move towards objects with shapes, it prefers moving towards them over the clean walls and it prefers them more when there are more of those shapes. And the movement is very deliberate, it doesn't just meander in that direction but instead just heads straight to it.
Descent blew my mind, as well. IIRC it predated Quake and was the first ’true’ 3DoF FPS?

The source code has since been released on GitHub, if you’re ever interested in seeing it!
They're not replacing anything; they're simply not installing the required components to make touch screens work.

The idrive module has been in every bmw with an infotainment system since the 745i in 2003; a touchpad was slowly introduced to the center control wheel about a decade later.

The one in the video was also present in my 2014 model. It works well; they haven't had much of a reason to change it. The touchscreen was intended as an added input method.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/ogtptv/how...
Have you ever worked at a warehouse? Companies keep inventories in a database. This database often does not reflect reality

I bought some lumber a few weeks ago. Bought a cedar board that they had in their inventory, went out to the lumberyard to find they were out of stock. Ended up swapping the it out for some cedar deck board they happened to have
Interesting discussions about credit card and more!
An erstwhile Londoner here who now lives in Stockholm. Technically I'm Swedish having been granted citizenship this year - another plus, it's relatively easy to get residence and citizenship is mostly a matter of waiting.

I've been here for a few years and would agree with most of your points. I absolutely love it. Boat trips into the archipelago in the summer months are the icing on the cake of an amazing place to live.

As for the language thing - you can (and lots do) live here without learning Swedish. There are also various intensive courses (e.g. at Folkuniversitetet) that will get you up to a dull-conversational level quite quickly.

As an ex-Londoner, the house prices seem very reasonable - we've just moved into a 3 bedroom apartment in the suburbs with a view of the lake and adjacent to a nature reserve. In London the same money might have bought us a pokey 1 or 2 bedroom flat.

London had more arts and so on, and I miss the English language theatre stuff, but in general it's just an amazing place to live. Now, you must excuse me, we're off to see Candide at Kunliga Operan :P
You are right.
I write about it here:

https://dev.to/stexx/check-if-a-github-ticket-is-closed-with...

I should update the description.
I’d be interested to know the implications if you have time to share.
Communism has arrived in the USofA
This is a weird one. Google is notoriously slow to fire people for performance reasons. People get Needs Improvement ratings. They go on PIPs. It takes ages. A sudden termination typically means something else. This can either mean that the individual did something especially foolish or a lot of people are doing the wrong thing to get this person fired (a manager, a skip, some people in HR, and probably a director would be involved in this sort of thing).

But the complaints here seem to be related to performance management. Getting a frustratingly low rating. Being told that they aren't doing enough work. For this sort of situation I'd expect the firing process to take months.

"CME for missing a meeting" is strange, but the good news is that manager calibration notes are stored in durable systems and in many locales people have the legal right to see them. So it'd be possible to see if this was actually the reason for a rating.

We'll see if more information comes out.
Qt runs on platforms where there is literally only a kernel + the Qt app running, through for instance EGL for rendering. So it has to have its own way.
BMW have deals to do reuse old batteries for static storage. https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/united-kingdom/article/detail...
It's that they optimize for 1) what people like when they see it in the showroom, 2) costs, 3) what people like when they actually drive. In that order.
The funny part about Ohio v Amex is the same lawyers who defending Amex and the anti-steering measure are now on the other side in the Epic vs Apple case.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore was the law firm defending Amex and the anti-steering measures, and now they're Epic Games' lawyers attacking anti-steering measures.
Yeah I was expecting someone to drop the "everything is political" hot take.
Suppose you own a car rental. You can represent the available cars as NFTs and use a blockchain to make reservations and payments

And either give that information away to your competitors if the chain is public, or just implement a far more complex tech that could have been a straightforward database if it's private. Either way you lose.
And in these results is the info on what percentage of coinbase has been sold via the IPO? Where?
While I don't disagree with the spirit of most of this, some exceptions.

1. Server is used in the "classic" meaning of the word as it relates to online gaming. It's an old use of the term that probably predates about half the userbase on hn.

2. I doubt it's intentional. I don't think a lack of features is cause for an attention hacking conspiracy. Yes, all of those features you mentioned are desirable - but you can get halfway there by not having a movies channel to begin with.

Discord has never been a particularly good bit of software. That's all there is to it.
For a while, I recommended the fte editor[1] to people coming in from the Windows/DOS camp, but that went out of development quite a long time ago. Good to have a go-to non-proselytizing replacement that works in a terminal and isn't nano.

[1]: http://fte.sourceforge.net
Sadly, there's no chip that's responsible for their dreadful font and color choices.
A fantastic early example of memory limitations in games are that the clouds and bushes in Mario 1 are the same sprite with a different palette.

Those were certainly different times. :) It was so much cooler to see what developers and artists did within those limitations than what we are doing today. The entire game dev community was like a demoscene in a way.
China’s Deafening Silence Speaks Loudest at Global Climate Talks
Sweden stopped expanding the exploitation of that natural resource in the 1960s. Most of it has been exploited already, but I think there is one additional river that could be utilized, but the plan to do that was shot down in 1970.

With today's more rigorous environmental policies, constructing more hydro power seems infeasible due to the adverse effects on wildlife diversity.
I don't mean to suggest that the process is inevitable, just frequent.
This. When my team hit the issue we just made a subprocess replacement which relied on clone instead. Before that, we would trigger OOM when trying to run external commands while still having 30% free memory.
Yes. A trojan horse has to be pretty, else nobody will pull it inside their gate.
Traditional dial-up internet over some GSM voice codec probably won't work well. (https://superuser.com/questions/748154/use-a-smartphone-as-a...)
I feel like Wikipedia could take some small steps to make amends to Mr White.

Now that all of this has happened, it feels like he is now a minor pubic figure worthy of his own wiki page. Something like "Nathaniel White (not serial killer)" with an article describing the mistake. Ask a newspaper to do a small article about it, interviewing him, and taking a really nice photo of him- which can go on the wiki page.

Yes, it would probably be the exact kind of page that Wikipedia would take down saying this person isn't important enough. But they can choose when and how those rules apply. Give him five years with it up, protected from take down.

It doesn't make up for the problem, but it is something they can do, at no cost to anyone, and it would make a difference. A small amount of compassion can matter.
Sounds cool until it's your turn to sacrifice yourself to the sun god
Did you read the underlying research? That might explain why they think this.
In addition to what was mentioned, the hope is that once cryptocurrencies stabilize (especially the bigger ones like bitcoin, eth), they will be a hedge against government induced inflation.
Here's a tangentially related fun fact! Before you take the uniform bar examination in New York, you first have to take an at-home section called the New York Law Examination. There is a book[1] that covers all the New York specific law that could be on the examination. It used to be provided as a simple PDF, where you could potentially search it, but people seemed to feel it made the test too easy - since everything was in that book. So they made it an image PDF.

Then, they put a warning on their site saying that they explicitly consider it to be misconduct search the book (e.g., by making the book searchable with OCR):

> The NYLC/NYLE Course Materials are locked in a non-searchable format in accordance with the Board’s misconduct rule prohibiting candidates from electronically searching the Course Materials when taking the NYLE. If a candidate, because of a disability, uses a screen reader to access written material, please contact the Board office by phone (518-453-5990), mail, or fax.

Kind of silly, sure! They don't want you searching the book during the exam, but they're fine with you going through it. And, following passing the bar exam, there is a character and fitness process, so students are fairly terrified of doing anything unethical, particularly things the bar explicitly says is unethical. So, it's basically an honor system, but with a big stick (although I haven't heard of any actual enforcement). If you OCR it, brag about it to your friends, and your friends really hate you, I guess they could report it.

[1]https://www.nybarexam.org/Content/NewYorkCourseMaterials.pdf
Sure but nitpicking does not lead to productive discussions.
Person Furious That Someone Right Click Saved Their Precious NFT
I think you are responding to this passage from the article?

> The Wikimedia Foundation has in the recent past cited the fate of George Floyd and the resulting Black Lives Matter protests as its inspiration for the Knowledge Equity Fund, a $4.5 million fund set up last year to support racial equity initiatives outside the Wikimedia movement. It has declared "We stand for racial justice"…

Taking a step back, I wonder what things count as a "political alignment". Like, in general. Is, say, being "against murder" a poltical alignment? Or being for "being kind to people"? Probably not.

So, back to this passage, what aspects strike you as a "political alignment", and why? Is being against racism a "political alignment", or perhaps it becomes so when expressed with the term "racial justice"?

Are all "moral values" also "political alignments", are these things the same or different? I think they are not quite the same, although probably have overlap. And people can and do certainly disagree on moral values too. But I don't think we would suggest people, including people working on an encyclopedia, either can or should be without "moral values". Where is the boundary at which it becomes a "political alignment"?

One obvious one to me, and what I first think of when I hear "political alignment", is supporting a particular political party or candidate or other electoral cause. I don't think wikipedia does that, and generally I don't think it should.

(Although even here... supporting or opposing the literal 1930s German Nazi Party, in the 1930s, would I suppose, actually indeed be a "political alignment", but... now that makes me think I wouldn't always want to put "political alignment" off the table either. It may be impossible to act morally in the world without some political alignment... but I still don't want wikipedia supporting particular US parties or candidates -- mainly because it would put into question the fairness or truth-goals of it's articles. I'm honestly not sure where the line is.)
In the newest models the drive selection is on the screen. There's a 'hidden' set of touch selectors down low on the console but they aren't intended for daily use.

https://youtu.be/dJdhzFCVkg8?t=49
You might want to buy a Mazda next time.

[1] - https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-pur...
True, thanks. Will repost with the correct URL
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/06/house-sends-inf...

Tl;dr it will be a felony offense to receive >$10k of any digital asset without filing a report including KYC information on the sender.
I know the 'server' term smells bad to anyone who knows better.

But to me, the encouragement to explore / read conversations you may have no interest in is a good thing. Just like forums.

The alternative experience on IRC can be stifling. People really do atomize their conversations there. And often avoid chatting from fear of stepping on someone's disinterested toes, or going even slightly off topic.

At least on Discord, ~everyone in a server is present in all of the channels.

So relocating a topic isn't "switch to a room with hardly anyone in it". It's more like a category move on a forum.

Getting people to join in a new channel on IRC is like pulling calcified teeth!