skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I boarded a cross-country flight a while back and watched them loading luggage into the hold, put a dog in a crate up the moving ramp and one guy knock the water bottle upside-down so there was no way the dog could drink. The guy looked at what he'd done and then just ignored it. I alerted the flight attendant to this. She seemed bothered, wandered off and came back later and told me it was fine, she'd told them about it. I had my doubts.
I once took our dog on a transatlantic flight. The flight attendants loved it and a lot of kids stopped by to pet the dog. But our dog is very well behaved and she sat on my lap quietly for 11 hours.
Software patents and patents on business processes should not be allowed. Period.
An idea has no cost and society does not benefit from granting monopolies on ideas.

Note that I am referring specifically to patents, not Copyright.
Copyright protects a specific _expression_ of an idea and is an important concept. This is true for both proprietary and open source software.

Also other areas where research is an enormous cost factor (for example medical research) patents are essential to protect the cost of such research (or nobody would do it).

Edit: Spelling
I like the post, but I was surprised with this use as well, I thought it was an anachronism at this point in any context. I remember it being used to refer to "rice rockets" or modded cars in the late 90s, early 2000s, but it fell out of use in any circles I'm in by then, but it must have survived in some community. It'll probably be hard to get an honest answer without doing your own research since it's been (I think reasonably) labeled as derogatory here, as those using it may not be aware/think of it as such.
Beat Saber. Anybody who fenced with a stick in their childhood is bound to love it.

I also lost more than a few pounds thanks to it.
>By your logic, the state should only be able to enforce their laws on the resident customer, but that's not true, they can apply their law to the online retailer who doesn't have a presence in the state and force them to collect the taxes on the state's behalf and remit the taxes to the state. [0]

Which of course is insane and shows the dire state of constitutional crisis in our nation.

>minimum wage laws

Another horrible kick in the teeth to the poor -- outlawing work for the lowest on the rung of the economic latter. Minimum wage laws are an argument against this legislative tyranny, not for it.

>We do disagree, but your opinion also disagrees with one-hundred years of U.S. employment case law, and so I would argue is factually incorrect.

I count that as a pro, not a con. The last 100 years of legislation in the US is the biggest swath of which ought to be eliminated, IMO. Starting with the 16th amendment.
As depressing as this may be - we're talking about the legal system so ethical standards aren't really relevant. America (and well, everywhere mostly) has historically had a lot of extremely unethical laws. Currently on the ground most weapon sales don't require extensive background checks which frees the seller of any legal liability - it is illegal to sell a gun to a dangerous person, but it's not illegal to clamp your hands over your eyes and ears and never run a background check in the first place... thus, legally, remaining ignorant of the individual's fitness to own a firearm.

This is an extremely divisive topic in America so I'd really just suggest avoiding any gun or self-defense related analogies whenever possible.
Super relevant! And there are tons of companies looking for Rails developers!

I know some people of the community moved to Rust or Node. But the Rails ecosystem is still the most complete out there.

The framework, as the language, is still evolving, getting quicker and integrating will all sorts of other tools (GraphQL, Elastic, etc).

Ruby is much faster in 2.7/3.x as it was in 1.9/2.0 era.

Rails is starting to try dropping node and all the JS package craziness. But still supports all them. So you can pretty much do HTML-over-the-wire, plain jQuery or go full-blown React/GraphQL/API using webpack or similar.
what's the team or product?
As pointed out by a sibling comment, cockpit resource management training solves this very simply by verbally declaring who should have control.
Another great use for the iPad is for sheet music. IME it is better than paper and much, much, much better than trying to use an iPhone or PC (which I've done sporadically).
Yeah, simple enough. Also simple enough to go-around when you're obviously slow and going to be short of the runway, but look at Asiana 214.

I do wonder if there's some training deficiency or cultural issue that leads to this scenario in Air France flights.
Durham team raises possibility 'Tech Exec-1' in Sussmann case committed fraud
They still keep it secret though. The patent system didn't allow us to work out how all the proprietary microcontrollers and SoCs work so we have projects like the one trying to reverse engineer the M1. And the publish this reverse engineering for free without the help of the patent system.

Half of the patents are on absolutely trivial stuff that reverse engineering means looking at it for 1 minute.
Sure, just make sure that happens exactly that way 1,000,000 times without any failures…

And that’s the root of many issues in aviation. It works 99.99% of the time is not always good enough.
Isn’t that one of the problems the article is getting at though?

Someone who has done “it” in another environment will have scar tissue formed from issues they ran into doing “it” there.

When you hire them to do “it” here, they will avoid things that didn’t work there and try to do things that did - but here is not there and maybe the situation aligns differently and what didn’t work there would work here.

Like, maybe they ran into an issue with doing “it” using approach A because it required a more skilled operations team than they had there. But maybe here you have a better ops team and approach A would be much easier.
Applying the same principle to other rules would make for weird situations.

For instance, let’s imagine a US business decides to make surprise changes to its T&CO and put penalties on some random behavior, but only applicable to EU users. It would proceed to take exorbitant amounts from EU cards, and refuse chargebacks pointing at the T&CO.

Would it be completely shielded from any fines and lawsuit from EU users ?

My gut instinct would be that even if the US company doesn’t have a EU presence, its service providers do, and a gov. could request any of them to recover legal fines on behalf of the country.
Why not both? You can buy pokemon cards to play the game, but you can also sell them later.

Even if you can only live in one at a time, you may want to temporarily live somewhere else. What if you feel like going to the beach for a weekend?
Came here to say the same. I don’t know of any computational heavy engineering software available for the Mac. Unfortunately I’m stuck on Windows for all my software.
As far as I understand a lot of airlines have climate controlled compartments for animals now. Too many died in the luggage compartment.
Built a startup to help developers land more interviews
Update: reading a review there is no controller. All of the controls are simple on the device itself. This is exactly what I want - I’m not trying to capture amazing drone footage for the sake of it, I’m trying to capture a moment in life without exiting it. I ordered one.. at this price point will be fun to try.
On the other hand, how do developers sleep at night after updating their dependencies as it will now be littered with new unknown vulnerabilities.

The biggest correlated constant for bugs is that more lines of code = more bugs. As dependencies get updated they add more new features that I probably don't care about which adds more lines of code and therefore more bugs and security vulnerabilities.

I appreciate there is a balance between the two, but in my experience updating dependencies has broken things a lot more often than not updating things has broken things, and when that happens I find it a bit of a ridiculous idea that the maintainer has somehow made their product "more secure"(something that is usually a low dev priority) while at the same time introducing new bugs with the new features (something which is a higher dev priority) and they didn't even get that right.
You can do it with dogs up to around 15 pounds.
Darn straight. IP values could be self-assessed: you tell the IRS (or equivalent) how much they're worth. However, if you're suing over a violation, that's the official value of the asset. You can't claim $100M in damages on an asset if you're only paying taxes on $30,000 worth of property.
What’s the solution here?

seems like something more centralized like deno which has a big set of standard libs with stability guarantees?

Cuz I have avoided upgrading nativebase for 3 years now.

Our react native codebase is pretty small but still a pain to build.
Perhaps those people just aren't performing at the level that the posters like GP are at. If you feel the need to work nights and weekends to keep pace then unless your entire division is working that pace, you're the problem. And clearly we have anecdotes that this isn't true universally.
Those are solvable problems with technology:

1) Muzzle
2) Diaper
3) Muzzle
This! I love this!!

Either patents have a place and value, and they should be taxed (even when you are not using them to actually build anything). Or they shouldn't exist.
Given any GPS coordinates, couldn't one simply calculate the location of the sun in the sky to point directly toward it?
AF447 was (I read the WP article on it) at 38,000 feet and ice seems to be implicated and quite a few other things.

This incident was at 1670 ft. My reading of the article is a P and CP being twats:

"During the go-around on the Air France flight, the captain was making nose-down inputs, while the first officer was pulling back on the controls."

I'm just a simple civvy but I was an air cadet and learned enough about flying in a single engine trainer to know that only one person should have control. You literally say "I have control" - "You have control" - "I have control". These muppets didn't seem to do that:

"It took until 07:52:06, for the captain to become the only person making control inputs."

In the very guarded language of accident review I would say that is a damning indictment of the behaviour of the pilot and co-pilot as being completely reckless and bloody stupid.
site is utterly borked on safari
LinkedIn alerts cover most use cases. For startups: https://topstartups.io/
My wife and I are looking to buy a lakehouse/property up in Oscoda because we love watching the sun come up and swimming in the lake.
An expedient way to hide another photo (or any data) in another photo is to simply append it to the original photo. It's certainly not as secure as OP's method, but it has the advantage of not requiring any third party app, just standard command line tools.

Example: you have duck.jpg (21500 bytes) and you want to hide flower.jpg (37733 bytes). Do this to create a larger file (59233 bytes):

cat duck.jpeg flower.jpeg > bigger-duck-file.jpg

Anyone looking at bigger-duck-file.jpg will see the duck. Every image viewing program I tried displays the duck and none of them complain about the extra bytes (the hidden image) at the end of the file.

The recipient can extract the hidden file as follows:

tail -c 37733 bigger-duck-file.jpg > flower.jpg

You would have to tell the recipient the size of the hidden file by some other means. But there might be a simple command-line way to determine where the image data for duck.jpg really ends in the bigger file, so maybe you wouldn't need that step.
Looks like the pet shippers put your pet on a commercial airline, as cargo, same as you'd do it. They just deal with the logistics, and transport to/from the airport for you.
You’re not forced to go on an airplane. If you don’t want to be around other humans, stay home.

The comfort of other humans is more important than anyone’s selfish desire to drag their pet to each and every place they happen to go.
If you're asking the government to protect your property from people encroaching on it, provide court systems to address disputes over it, or accept other government services to maintain it, you should be taxed on it.
Ask HN: Amazon locked my account and demands copy of my billing statement?
I tried to buy a Macbook Pro on sale two days ago from Amazon USA. Ten minutes later, I get an email saying my account is “on hold” (full message pasted below) to verify that I am the “authorized owner of the payment method”, and requiring me to upload a copy of my billing statement. This seems like an unorthodox process, and from a privacy perspective it seems deleterious for me to send that type of information?

Further, it is trivial to modify a PDF billing statement, so it seems like unreliable proof of anything. Amazon says the hold is “for my protection”, but aren’t I already protected by my credit card and bank for unauthorized transactions? So what is the purpose and process of this verification?

Also, my account has several hundred dollars of gift card credit that I've been using for purchases, including necessities like groceries, and that is inaccessible when it is locked.

This experience is eliciting some deja vu from prior posts on HN about people getting locked out of their Apple ID or Google accounts. It seems like despite massive fintech fundings and innovation, online payments is still not a fully solved problem, if situations like this are still occurring? If, for instance, I paid with crypto, merchants probably wouldn’t care much because the transaction is irreversible?

(If any Amazon people see this, I would be grateful for help looking into this and getting my account unlocked as soon as possible. My contact info is on my HN profile. No response from the executive contacts (found on https://www.elliott.org/company-contacts/amazon) so far.)

Original email from Amazon:

Hello,

We have detected unusual payment activity on your Amazon account. For your protection, we have placed your account on hold temporarily and placed any pending orders or subscriptions on hold as well.

If we are unable to confirm your payment information within 72 hours, your pending orders will be canceled. Your account will remain on hold until we are able to confirm that you are the authorized owner of the payment method used in the recent transaction.

To restore access to your account, sign in to your Amazon US store account and follow the on-screen instructions. Once you have provided the required information, we will review it and respond within 24 hours.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Account Specialist
Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com
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Yes, the keyword you are looking for is "watermark"
I don't know about that. I knew a guy in high school who threw big, decently wild parties (with more than nerds present), and was also a legitimate piano prodigy. Sometimes after a few drinks he'd sit down at his piano and play something, and every time the house would quickly fall silent and everyone listened. People, even drunken teenagers, respected his obviously great skill, and not just privately.
I've started doing breathing exercises by wim hof.

Also started doing ice cold baths and now i can stay in the chilled water for many minutes without feeling any cold. It feels soóoo good.

I also feel so much happier and energetic and no longer take any meds or ssri like before.

I think wim has discovered something really amazing and I have so much gratitude that he shares this knowledge on yt.
Three cheers for the Osprey Porter, it's a really excellent pack. I've got the Porter 65, which supposedly is too large for carry-on -- but I've taken several dozen flights with it and never gotten a word from the check-in people or attendants. Just don't fully load it and use the compression straps liberally.
GNOME did not pay in the original settlement.

- "I can confirm that we have not paid RPI or Leigh Rothschild for this settlement."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23264806
I only played a tiny bit of it a few years back but my impression was that the biggest flaw of the game was that it had all these cool mechanics and systems, but then no real direction as to where the overall game would go. very cool tech though, neat to see it open-sourced now
Generally it's frowned upon to put your toddler in a kennel for a week.
While I assume this comment was mostly a joke - most of these cases are covered by either the GOA or the Senate/House Ethics Committees - but partisanship has caused these tools to be de-toothed: @see continued insistence by elected officials that the 2020 election was rigged and the lack of consequences.
> it’s not far off what I imagine traveling in cargo hold is like for pets.

The cargo hold is too hot on the ground, too cold in the air, pitch-black, and poorly-ventilated. They're also left alone and unmonitored.
Against the College Admissions Essay
Speaking of drivers on the GPU: https://github.com/enfiskutensykkel/ssd-gpu-dma

> Build userspace NVMe drivers and storage applications with CUDA support

> libnvm can be linked with CUDA programs, enabling high-performance storage access directly from your CUDA kernels. This is achieved by placing IO queues and data buffers directly in GPU memory, eliminating the need to involve the CPU in the IO path entirely.
Noble move but I hope this doesn't cause unintended consequences. If costs go up because alternative methods are more expensive, people will end up importing from countries that don't have these bans. Are these economic side-effects ever considered in these decisions?
FWIW it’s worth (not much, obviously) I’m allergic to cats but I would much rather sit next to someone with a cat on an airplane than the absolutely noxious scents so many people insist in dousing themselves in before flying. The headaches from the latter are excruciating.
I think a similar argument could be applied to babies on planes
Ya your product is your entire world. But it's just a small thing for customers (esp. before you find traction)

Helps to know exactly what type of feedback you're looking for. Frame any ask as a way to help them [save time / money etc]. And come up with open-ended questions.

Some good templates here: https://giddy-amusement-c74.notion.site/Interview-customers-...
I think there could be negative feedback loop here.

If there’s enough demand to justify the change, then it’s going to turn into a barn yard atmosphere when you’re the only airline that does this and every flight has 20 untrained dogs on board.

If there’s not that much demand, then what do you have to gain by risking the loss of profitable business fliers for some occasional pet flyers?

People want to take their pets with them, but will they foot the bill for that cabin space and put up with everyone else’s pet, and do it in large enough numbers to fill planes?
It should be abundantly clear that no one is actually blaming the children.

> If they didn't, the human race would end.

> Oh, lastly, families need to travel, and bring their youngest members with them.

My parents reproduced exactly enough to replace themselves, and needed to travel great distances with their children, and still never once used an airplane. This was also very common among my peers growing up. It's ludicrous to suggest that the human race's survival depends on children routinely flying commercial to go on vacations.
Then there was a slight whisper, a sudden spacious whisper of open ambient sound. Every hi-fi set in the world, every radio, every television, every cassette recorder, every woofer, every tweeter, every mid-range drive in the world quietly turned itself on.

Every tin can, every dustbin, every window, every car, every wineglass, every sheet of rusty metal became activated as an acoustically perfect sounding board.

Before the Earth passed away it was going to be treated to the very ultimate in sound reproduction, the greatest public address system ever built.

-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I'd like someone to examine M.I.T.'s granting agencies for Vogon influences.

In other news: having used a 13.3" e-ink tablet as my main driver for the past year, I'm finding that the audio quality of that large, flat surface, at least for podcast listening, is surprisingly good. Not the full richness of a large woofer, but definitely not the thin tin of your typical smartphone, or even smaller tablets.
It seems like the idea is to increase property taxes so much that the land value is zero. However, the tax isn't zero. You are effectively paying rent, but to the government. In desirable areas like cities, the rent on the land may be quite high, because the land is desirable.

A Manhattan where the property owners pay huge taxes to the government (because that's what it would take the drive the land value to zero) would still be an extremely expensive place to own property. This might be a good way for the government to raise revenue, but it's not really a "cheap land" situation. It's one where the government is effectively the landlord and everyone pays high "rents" to the government.

It's plausible that such a scheme would lower the cost of living in some places when it's due to speculation, by popping the bubble. But it doesn't lower the cost of living when it's due to the fundamental value of owning property there.
Shoulda got into phreaking!

It’s fun to think about it now since 0% of the tricks still work but you could have called him for free fairly easily.
That’s all correct, but AF447 was exacerbated by the pilot and copilot (actually 2 copilots, IIRC, the senior pilot was on break) fighting each others controls as the plane flew towards the ocean. The pitot tube was giving bad readings (frozen over), but from what investigators can tell, one control was trying to pull up and even out and the other was still pitching down to gain speed (per the warnings given by the faulty pitot tube).
Is it a tech bubble, or a mergers and acquisitions bubble?
> Without [patents], companies would develop new technology and keep it secret, forcing others to guess or reverse-engineer the process

That would be awful! Thank god we avoided this dystopian nightmare.
I do not want your dog anywhere near me.
Gotta respect them for trying new things
Babies are people. Dogs are not. We prioritize people over dogs. It’s really not that complicated.
Haven't updated yet but I see the notification pending. Any one else bite the hook?
We pay ~$100 each way to put our small dog under the seat on flights. He just curls up and hangs out. Definitely a little stressed but not panicking or anything.

edit: On Alaska
Sorry for the off-topic. I think if just 10% of the efforts were put on improving mini/micro/pico hydro electric generator rather than on solar systems, most of the rural areas will probably better off now with reliable power supply than relying solely on the intermittent solar power[1], [2].

[1]Micro hydro:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_hydro

[2]Micro hydro power with turgo generator:

https://youtu.be/njNYuEKW-ek
Heh, the last flight to florida i was on someone had urinated on the seat.

if only.
Intel has integrated graphics. If you only care about CPU perf you don't need more for a GPU.
it's not so simple, there are almost surely federal court cases about this that concluded with people paying to the relevant states.