skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So that we're on the same page: the TSA was founded in 2001, as a response to 9/11. Nobody is saying that there shouldn't be any security at airports.

When people talk about the TSA's security theater, they typically mean:

1. Non-evidence-backed methodologies and screening requirements, such as the 3oz liquid limit and requiring passengers to remove their shoes (but only some of the time?)

2. Arbitrary "secondary screening" procedures and rampant pretextual justifications for screening selection (read: "looking too much like a terrorist")

3. Overdependence on questionably useful scanning technologies[1][2]. I chose millimeter wave scanners arbitrarily, but "backscatter" scanners have similar problems.

If x-raying luggage keeps people from bringing AK-47s onto airplanes, then we should continue to do that. But we can skip the rest of the theater and save some time and money in the process.

[1]: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/tsa-agent-slips-through-df...

[2]: https://www.propublica.org/article/sweating-bullets-body-sca...
I had this problem before and a handnote to the neighbor did the trick. It turns out they were keeping their dog crate next to the window for entertainment, but in reality it was stressing the dog out, because he could see all the people walking past on the sidewalk. They relocated the crate and the problem was solved. And if direct engagement leads you nowhere then I would reach out to the landlord.
Enforcement of almost all driving offenses is next to nonexistent in the US. Need more automated enforcement in my opinion.
Ask HN: Tips on finding mentors?
I've always been intrigued by the idea of having mentors, whether it's for professional or personal purposes, research projects, start-ups, etc., but never dared to put it into action.

I've had some success getting one-off advice from some very generous people, but it seems that any sort of longer-term mentorship only exist if one were formally obligated in some way (e.g., start-up investors, research advisors/committee, paid coaches).

Have any of you had success finding mentors? How did you go about it? Any tips, advice, suggestions, warnings?
It's also possible to surface roads such that cars on them are significantly quieter. This is more expensive, but you'd think it'd be done in at least some places in North American style cities. To my knowledge it really is not, although I'd be curious if anyone could tell me if it's used anywhere.
> as well as filtering to reject commits that use your real email address

This is both novel and incredibly useful to me. I know that I'm going to have to go through my old commits and do something awful like filter-branch in order to rewrite all of the email addresses, but this feature will at least make sure that I don't then accidentally push a commit with my real address again. Thank you!
> Structurally there are two distinctive things about heresy: (1) that it takes priority over the question of truth or falsity, and (2) that it outweighs everything else the speaker has done.

I would amend #1 to “the adherents of the conventional view are convinced its truth is beyond question.”

Truth is actually really important, maybe the most important thing for heresy. A defining feature of heresies is that those enforcing them believe strongly that the heresy is untrue.¹

Take PG’s example of doubting the divinity of Christ. Truth isn’t secondary in that case - just the opposite. Believing it, literally, is the core feature of Christianity.

> The clearest evidence of this is that whether a statement is considered x-ist often depends on who said it. Truth doesn't work that way. The same statement can't be true when one person says it, but x-ist, and therefore false, when another person does.

This is a fallacy. Insofar as this phenomenon exists (less than people think), it’s because the belief content of the statement is different depending on who says it. There’s a common view on the identitarian left that “minorities can’t be racist because racism is about power and they don’t have any.” But a Latino professor who spends his time arguing that Black people are genetically inferior to other groups will get cancelled just as quickly as a white one.

¹Or need to be seen as believing it 100%
Unless you're living in a place that really heavily regulates the web, I don't think you need to fear having user accounts in hobby projects.

I've built dozens if not hundreds of hobby projects that had accounts. This includes a blog I ran from 2005-2017, flash games in 2010-2011, an ear-trainer for recognizing relative pitches, a couple of apps that do things with photos, half a dozen language learning apps and all kinds of other little projects. In aggregate, having user accounts brought essentially zero concerns other beyond spam management.

Taking payment is a much bigger deal, but even that is something that millions of people do online and the majority haven't even set up a business entity.
It was strange the article focused so much on airport noise when there is another kind of noise pollution for city residents so much more widespread – ambulances/emergency vehicles.

I've lived in San Francisco for awhile (and still come back to live there some of the time), and this is the thing that I notice increases my heart rate every time I come back. In SF, they're so loud! Even late in the evening! I didn't pay too much attention to it until my grandmother (living in a different and European country) was on the phone with me one day, and hearing the alarm from a fire truck comme ambulance, she asked – what is that highly disturbing noise?

I thought about it and realized she was right. The wail was very disturbing and did make my heart beat faster when I heard it.

I wish San Francisco lowered the noise of the ambulances later at night. The noise ricochets off the buildings so much that I wonder if we can't introduce legislation to make the vehicles automatically lower the volume of ambulance noise used when leaving the highway. I understand it needs to be that loud on a busy freeway or LA-esque (very wide) street, but in an alley in Chinatown? Can't we consider the heart palpitations of the residents subjected to it day in day out if they live near either a hospital or a fire department?
> Also, this is the B1M, which isn't that good

Do you have a better medium-length video content producer about large civil engineering projects? I'd be interested to watch.

> From the title I expected this to be about the Fehmarntunnel between Denmark and Germany.

Here's the b1m video about that project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLBv87VulPM
+1 to "Effective Python" [1]. It's a great book if you're already familiar with the language, and interested in learning more about Python internals.

"Serious Python" [2] and "Python Distilled" [3] are two other good options for intermediate-advanced programmers.

[1] https://effectivepython.com/

[2] https://nostarch.com/seriouspython

[3] http://www.dabeaz.com/python-distilled/
The absolute best thing about leaving the US several years ago is the silence.

I can go to bed every night knowing some random guy won't decide 3 AM on a Wednesday morning is the best day to crank up the bass to max and start a party. I can sleep knowing some old guy isn't going to compensate for his masculinity by revving up his modded motorcycle at 4:30 AM everyday. I can sleep knowing people aren't going to start screaming and fighting in the middle of the street at 11:30 PM and again at 7 AM, even in a nice neighborhood. I can relax and not have to hear someone blasting the action movies and advertisements from their TV from 6 AM to 10 PM every single day. I can take a bus and not be surrounded by people shouting at someone on speakerphone, and needing to repeat their every statement several times because 5 other people are doing the same thing.

And yeah. People who blast music while outside, especially in natural parks, are assholes without exception. I like that I can hike here and it's absolute silence, every single time.
Cache Is the Root of All Evil (2020)
So by preventing people from taking drugs on planes you are preventing terrorism? You do realize some airports have explicit policies on not looking or caring about drugs? Eg https://www.flylax.com/lax-marijuana-policy

Also your example is from Canada where there is no TSA yet people don't do similar things on planes, it's not an ideal example.
This was posted a bit ago and it struck a nerve. It basically packs in every one of these patterns into one demo site.

- https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28280051

Agreed 100% that I'm increasingly more inclined to instantly close a site and move on instead of put up with all the attention hi-jacks.

I like the reader-mode ideas folks have mentioned. In some cases I maintain custom Tampermonkey scripts for automating this, but have yet to try any add-ons around pop-up management. Maybe it is time...
By law car companies have to certify pass-by regulations that include exhaust and tire noise, since the microphone doesn’t differentiate between the two.
BTFS 2.0 – Scalable Decentralized Storage System
If you want to write, write. The funny thing about writing is that everybody wants to have written but almost nobody wants to write.

If you start writing, it’s going to be bad, but that’s what almost all writing is. If you want to get better, keep practicing, start sharing it with others, get feedback, and repeat. Or show it to nobody and write for yourself.

I studied creative non-fiction writing in college. A big part of programs like that are showing your work to other people then listening to them discuss and critique it without saying anything yourself. You get over the fear of other people thinking your work stinks very quickly — and very quickly you realize your work does stink.
I would love a concrete study demonstrating the benefits of random screenings. Absent that, I'm not convinced that they are either beneficial or random.
"Wrong"?
To spell it out: just because someone seems unhappy writing about something, doesn't make them wrong, and it doesn't mean that they should stop writing about it.

I selected "feminists" as an "across-the-aisle" example.
They'll also gag researchers if they think they might leak state secrets. Perhaps intelligence agencies know about adversaries' backdoors, and exposing them further would risk their current advantageous position in an arms race with those adversaries.
If you think that your government is keeping you safe, good luck to you!
If you think about it, Microsoft and Apple have considerable advantage when it comes to peripherals and bug fixing. With peripherals they have decades of experience working with vendors who are enticed to support them - I walked through the halls at building 27 (which was Windows engineering before I lived in Redmond in 1997) and the halls were decorated floor to ceiling with hardware peripheral boxes everywhere. That would have been Windows 95 or NT or something like that. Multiply that experience 25 years forward and you have a rough idea how much depth and breadth you'd get across every person, peripheral, and PC involved. No Linux vendor is close. Now consider the situation for bug resolution: you have dramatically narrower focus when you consider the source, tools, and binaries. Linux has numerous breadth and depth across kernel, hardware, peripherals, toolchains, and so on. There's really no one outside canonical and redhat and IBM driving that commercially. Compare to Apple or Microsoft who can afford to fund development across vendors for decades with no impact to their bottom line. If you wanted to have something approaching macos or windows, it's simple: reduce the features and focus on a single distro running a single desktop environment running on a single hardware environment. Fix those bugs and those bugs only. Ship! That's pretty much what you've got here minus the funding (AFAIK): https://pop.system76.com/ Outside that, I'd vote for Garuda Sway, Manjaro Sway, or maybe Regolith Linux since I believe that Sway will eventually win the Linux Desktop war once people realize form follows function and those three have a headstart with the last having an easy port given i3 and ubuntu. I believe arch is a better base so I'd pick either of the arch-based distros, but garuda is ahead of manjaro given it's keybindings being ahead by a year or so.
Life is short for all of us. Don't put off living.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MBMp085x5-Q
> Confusing the wider shadow radius on windows with the bounds of the screenshot utility

If you zoom in you'll see that the gap between the last shade of grey and the end of the screenshot is still big. Also, the inconsistency: depending on the window, the shadow/margin is different. Still, why the screenshot tool do not remove the shadows? It's useless for screenshots.

> Referring to Mobian as a for-profit company

My mistake. Thanks for pointing this out. It's fixed now.

> implying PINE64 is driving libadwaita

I didn't say that. I said these companies are pushing this PC/mobile coexistence crap, which is simply true.

> Suggesting a library written in cross-platform C "carries code for other platforms"

I'm not 'suggesting'. It's just a fact: GNOME has 'mobile ready' code all over the place, regardless if you compile it for PC or not.

> Claiming GNOME is replacing Terminal with Console, when it has been explicitly communicated that is not the case

I didn't say it replaced Terminal, but that it's the new recommended default and that Terminal misses important updates to be consistent with the rest of GNOME 42.

> Stating a feature has been removed from Tweaks, when it has actually been moved into GNOME Settings

You're right here. It's already fixed.

> It's difficult to find anything accurate in this article, other than the screenshots

Actually, I said A LOT and most of the things are very accurate and you decided to point out just a few (some right, some wrong ;), ignoring everything else that simply can't be refuted. This a classic falacy.
You didn't understand the point of my comment.

If you sign up for something (e.g. by purchasing goods from a legitimate store), those will virtually never be classified as spam. The reality is that it is hard to get off those lists - a lot of them have an "Unsubscribe" link that purports to get you off their list, but do not actually do so.

If you have a provider that is classifying them as spam, then you have a crappy provider.
As someone who has regularly ridden Amtrak trains the past 15 years, I've actually always been surprised at the lack of passenger possession screening before boarding. Anyone can bring anything they want onto a train, at any time.

A lot of the comments here are laughing at the absurdity of a train hijacking, but I think the greater threat is someone or some group of people choosing a packed train as the very soft target it is for a domestic terrorist attack or mass shooting.

To be clear, most places in America are soft targets for people who want to perpetrate mass casualty events. But while generally people can run and hide, there is no where to run and nowhere to hide on a train.

I'm surprised we don't see more of it, being honest. Only a matter of time.
The TSA today is a federal agency, bundled into DHS. Before that there were plenty of people doing screenings at airports that, today, we would describe as TSA. The fact that they were employed by local agencies rather than the feds doesn't change the fact that they searched everyone in basically the same manner as today. I had my bags x-rayed and walked through metal detectors every time I flew in the 80s and 90s.
I haven’t seen anything about devtools altering runtime semantics but I may be wrong, that is something I think I disagree with because of the possibility to have bugs that go away when trying to debug
Yes, many.

Here is the best way to get mentorship.

1. Identify someone who already has something that you want.

2. Figure out what they most want to accomplish next.

3. Do whatever it takes to help them accomplish their next goal.

Note:
Do not ask to be paid.
Do not ask for anything in return.
Do not even ask them to “mentor you”.

By virtue of helping them
Accomplish their next goal,
You will aquire the mindset and knowledge you need to accomplish your goal, it happens almost as if by magic.

No one teaches this, and it’s proven to be the single greatest way to get a mentor that I have found.
thanks, that's good for smart contracts. but I guess not everything is about contracts, right? I mean, there are other potential areas of interest in crypto besides these contracts?
We'll do what we always did: ignore the drivel and the disjointed garbage and sift out the information.

In this case, it doesn't matter whether it's GP-3 or not, it is a no-content blog post of which you can find hundreds of thousands of other examples, none of which have any new information in them. We get it: the way some people have built up tech careers as being something exciting can prove to be very disappointing when you're on your 3rd CRUD page of the day. It's still better than being a soul-less HR monkey or a Jira happy middle manager.
This was the origin of proof of work.
The issue is while your system volume can be the same, media volume varies immensely. Listening to one album, it could be all relatively low and gentle. The next one could be noise that blasts your ears but you don't really think about it due to focusing on something else.

Sometimes I'll try adjusting my volume down to half and notice everything still sounds fine. It's a sign that I was listening to something way too loud without even realizing it.
> These were devices designed to mimic bombs, bombs built to best sneak past security checks.

If I was a terrorist looking to bring a bomb onto a plane, I would probably also build it to sneak past security checks. Isn't that the point?
This sadly only works when your neighbors aren't outright assholes and only using their dogs as protection and to scare people from their house.
I ran a blog for over a decade, with comments open. A typical post would get 10 to 30 real comments and tons of spam that got filtered out.

Why was this such a disastrous choice? I enjoyed having the site and with the exception of a couple of heated arguments in the comments, and spam, it was never a concern at all. Even the spam was very minor inconvenience since the filters caught pretty much all of it.

Many of my friends walso ran blogs in the late 2000s to early 2010s and the majority were smaller and had zero arguments in the comments and less spam as well. Just a comment or two on the occasional post.
Oh, for fucks' sake, why? Have we learned nothing???

This ranks right up there with the decision to make Microsoft Word macros Turing complete.
The New Yorker wrote a great article on the process. [0]

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
Yeah, I do see it now, thanks.

I still think it depends on certain assumptions about my positions and why I hold them. Like, I oppose market-based healthcare access because it causes injustice, death, and suffering on a large scale. To me that is very consistent with opposing eg racism because it causes injustice, suffering and death.

I did, honestly, momentarily forget that this state of affairs is the status quo and so probably has wider explicit support than the others. It's all part of the same hell to me though.
wow u got that high with drinking alcohol? did u went to see a doctor? i love drinking beer but i consider stopping everytime i feel my bpm increasing, it triggered panic attacks on me back in the day
I had a similar idea that I would just add daily notes to in markdown/tex to add to a knowledge graph, but then I lost motivation.

I just started using the iPad to make handwritten notes. What I really want is a way for the handwritten stuff to be integrated into a knowledge graph, or even automatically generating tex/diagrams for me.

On top of that, daily scribbles don’t necessarily go anywhere, or are even wrong, so it can generate noise anyway. What was more valuable was consolidating a few weeks+ of progress into a more complete summary or set of notes. You can still explain the reasoning of how you got to something finished, but it’s just all correct.
Indeed - I'm all for common sense and rules. So, whether you/the OP like it or not, the present 'formal and informal rules' of intellectual street-fighting do allow for the baseball bat of cancellation, rather than mere 'pushing-back', to be used against the 'push' of perceived prejudice. So if that is the 'push' one wants to make, better find an intellectual dojo that only allows pushing, not complain that your opponent didn't behave as you wanted them to.
Hmm, thats actually quite decent. Enough to play 95% of games at 1080p currently.
On the companies that create these products, you mean.
In all the jobs I've ever had, I was soon working on stuff completely different from whatever I was tasked with when I started, undoubtedly because they were much smaller companies than Amazon/Microsoft/Oracle and so plans and projects were much more dynamic, but it did make for much more interesting work. In any case, it taught me that no matter what I was promised at the beginning, things change, so be careful making the assumption your assignments will remain as originally described to you.
How long would this last in a conflict with Russia.
and the dogs. Don't forget about the fucking barking dogs that get left alone outside all day long and sometimes into the night as well.
> instruments being practiced

As a musician... although I understand that, in the end, instrument practice is still noise, it hurts to see this listed among the rest of your items. Last year, I had to move out of an apartment complex because our neighbors would not tolerate even 30 minutes of practice a day (in spite of the ~2 daily hours of lawn care racket, but whatever) and complained to building management.

I get that listening to me repetitously work out a song or musical phrase for an hour might not be pleasant... but is it really as bad as noise from motorcycles, lawnmowers, and car alarms? For those who enjoy hearing their own music but still feel this way: how do you expect new musicians to come into existence, new music to be made? Is it not a racket worth its trouble? Is there any solace in knowing that the person making such noise is doing so with the specific goal of creating enjoyable noise in the future?

These are genuine questions. I want to practice a lot, but I hate noise pollution myself and don't want to be a nusiance to others.
Just to be pedantic: in The West Wing, season 1, episode 8, this is a key plot point. According to this episode, the Antiquities Act does give the president this power.

Since this is a really silly but rewarding conclusion to the episode, I'm going to have to disagree with you on this.

[0] https://westwing.fandom.com/wiki/Enemies
You could but eero doesn't support manual channel selection and automatic channel selection is one of the things that gets disabled in bridge mode:

https://support.eero.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000825206-What...
>>Canada where there is no TSA

You really think that Canada doesn't have a TSA? They do. It is even called the CATSA, ie the CAnadian TSA. In fact, to comply pre-screening, CATSA is largely forced to mirror all US TSA rules. Literally the only difference between Canadian and American screening procedures is the colour of the uniforms.

https://www.catsa-acsta.gc.ca/en/about-us
Calling city council sounds simple. I will say that if you want to get anywhere with local policy, you either need to have money, or lots of people asking for your policy. Both of those things come from organizing, which is a months to years long effort. That’s what you’re signing up for when you want to change laws.

You may get better mileage hiring a contractor, if you own a home, or talking to your property manager if you rent for upgrades to your dwelling.