skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol, what’s the concern? Someone will blow up their private jet with 5 people on board? boo-hoo.

There are no hardened (or any) cockpit doors on PJs, you eat with metal cutlery and often serve yourself drinks from large glass bottles.

Want to fly a plane into a building? Anyone can get a pilots license, there are no background checks. You can just rent a plane and pull off “the next 9/11”, no amount of terminal security can solve this.

What exactly is your concern? What would better security at a private jet terminal prevent?

It’s super unusual that there were any pre-departure controls at all. I’ve never had my stuff checked while flying private, except occasionally by customs, at arrival.
Musk says Twitter deal should go ahead if it provides proof of real accounts
Since late 2019 I have been using Lenovo P53 fitted with 128Gb of RAM and RT3000 NVidia GPU. I run Arch on it, I plan to stay on this laptop until something fatally breaks (my guess is it will be SSD, which I will replace)

This laptop is more of a mobile workstation, very heavy and bulky. But I don't mind.
dotnet core is not supported
Well I hope you haven’t been driven totally away from HN. Some of us enjoy your content.
One step at a time.

Prosecuting this does not mean that the others will be forgiven and can help to destroy the impunity feeling.
Good fun! As a FPS player, I want an option to bind A and D to strafe and use mouse or arrow keys to turn.

Also, maybe have the music fade in so I have a chance to save my ears. "Blast" indeed. :)
The author is just as wrong as the people he criticizes.

A much better measure of “the economy” is median income because that is a more accurate reflection of the economic well being of most people.

This is a problem in many fields including engineering.

A median or average has a measurement error (and just because one bar is higher than another it doesn't really mean it is actually higher).

The distribution is what is interesting and important.

Which gives, start publishing numbers as (x1,x2,x3,x4,x5) at 10,30,50,70,90th percentile or whatever. And give up pretending complex system are simple.
This reminds me of another deep sea mystery trace, Paleodictyon[1]. Once an unconnected set of geometric fossils and modern hole patterns, it's been discovered that this phenomenon has occurred in a consistent form for half a billion years up to the present day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleodictyon
What do you mean "what computer"? You think I have only one?? :)

Desktops:

Daily driver: Skylake NUC with 16GB RAM, FreeBSD with KDE

Gaming: Ryzen 5 5600X, RTX 3080 Ti, 64GB, Windows 10

Work: Mac Mini M1 with 8GB (meh, 8GB is not enough but my work only buys off-the-shelf SKUs and these are not upgradable :( )

- The above 3 are all connected to the same 4k 24" screen (200% scaling) :)

Laptops:

Work 2: Thinkpad T490s 16GB RAM, Windows 11

On the go: Ultra-cheap "Chuwi" Atom laptop with an old Ubuntu version (been meaning to change it as I hate Ubuntu). I rately do laptopey stuff anyway.

That's about it in terms of workstations :P Servers is another story (mostly a Linux and ESXi one)
It’s so sad, I wonder if we’ll ever learn the full impact on kids from their parents’ phone addictions. I recently took my daughter to a playground and watched in horror another young couple there. Their 5 year old was nearly crying for them to pay attention and play with her, but there were mom and dad: hunched over their phones, doing that zoned-out zombie stumble-walk that people do when they are addict-scrolling. Really heartbreaking.
The biggest roadblock is that today there is no incentive to go green.

Consumers might like to buy their metal drinking straws knowing they were made with green steel.

But the vast majority of steel is used for unseen things... Like building the piling machine that built the flood defences for your city. There is no consumer pressure to go green there. Just commercial pressure to be cheap.

Companies are investigating so they are ready incase such an incentive appears. But I see nothing on the horizon.

Note that this is pretty much out of the hands of government too - if any government mandated that all steel produced in the country was green, then all steel would just be imported and local industry would die. If the government put an import tariff on non-green steel, then makers of steel products like cars would become uncompetitive and close down. If the government gave those steel users a subsidy, it would be against WTO anti-dumping rules.

There is no good solution.
From Roots to Polynomials
Given their inability to deliver packages the first try, I'm not sure I'd trust them with transporting vital organs.
Coffeezilla is usually a good watch…
EVs and the ability to power your house for several days. I think the combination of solar and and EV provide the ability to store power when the sun goes down. This starts to solve one of solar's paradoxes IMO.
> Laws, including custom checks, passport checks, etc. are for regular people. There was even a recent program on NPR how different is the life of super-wealthy.

Customs checks hardly affect regular people. Security checks are an optional service you can pay for, but probably won’t bother if it’s your own plane and isn’t full of hundreds of random people.
Rich people still have passport checks, they just pay the government to send the passport control people to their private terminal (which is no different than how regular privately owned commercial airports work)

It’s all exactly the same, except as a rich person you’re far more likely to be picked for a customs check.

> The NVIDIA director on the other hand totally lawyered up, and there have since then been uncountable motions/hearings/etc. with no sign of progress.

due process bad!
I'm currently on call.

A 5 minute response time means to respond to the call out and start working on it. If you're on call, you should have a suitable WFH setup and it should be on standby, so 5 minutes is ample time. It doesn't means you have to have it resolved within 5 minutes of being called out, that would be absurd.
The idea that Fossil has as an SCM is that all your workflow ought to belong in the source repository; so, for example, the issue tracker that comes with Fossil stores all of its data inside of the same repo as the code. If you work on an issue and update it, the update travels with the code commits. If you raise an issue and push it to an upstream repo, everyone who syncs against it will see the issue, and so on and so forth.
why can't I find anyone to kill??
My assumption here is that, like you, other people will continue to use strict JSON for APIs and interchange, and use JSON5 for configuration as appropriate.
Maybe expressing feelings about the topic, as a guess behind the motivation for the mocking repo, was my intention ? (like I said in the second part of the post)

Left-pad shitshow showed how relevant NPM dependency chain is as a measure of quality and what it does for the ecosystem. This is left-pad with added complexity to sneak in malicious code.
This might be a preference revealed in which libraries people choose but I think it is not really exhibited in the kind of libraries or code that people write. You aren’t seeing the vast majority of libraries that aren’t convenient because they don’t get released as open source or become popular.

In my experience, some of the projects which have been most valuable have been those which follow a theme of ‘do something really horrible or annoying inside our program so that the users don’t need to deal with the nastiness’. For example it might mean having to write code with some unpleasant hacks or in a very weird way to fit underlying apis or performance requirements; or it could mean spending a bunch of time manually tuning some heuristics because those heuristics improve the library.
You may be confusing burglary with robbery.
My lecturer taught us this book in college. It was a really nice course : )
You’re right it didn’t. I believe the main benefit vs binary search in arrays is that it’s linked list like nature makes insertion and removal Faster
Earth isn't a closed system.
Continuing to dig out carbon and inserting it into the carbon cycle is guaranteed to exceed what we can offset with plants. What you describe is still a trajectory to doom or whatever awaits us.
There's a nice PBS video about them with footage of the holes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1fccY3S84
Here's the old (2012) HN thread with the haters in it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031699 . Happy to see an old (positive) comment of my own that I had forgotten about, which I think sums the whole thing up quite well. It still applies, so I'll repost it here:

You know that something has gone very deeply wrong somewhere when people oppose your project because they are ideologically opposed to comments. In my own experience, finding out that many JSON parsers reject comments was a real WTF moment, and a deal breaker for my config-file application, so I ended up using JSON-plus-comments for it instead of JSON. At the same time, lack of support for trailing commas and unquoted member names have been a minor but persistent thorn in my side for no good reason.
The justification for not having comments in JSON is that in the great disaster that was XML, some projects would parse the comments and take them as semantically significant. However, the real problem there was that parser libraries would expose the comments, and that some generators would put important information only in comments. But I think that these mistakes are unlikely to be repeated, and that the proposed alternative - moving all comments into the markup, or eliminating them entirely - is just obviously worse.

One of the things that ruined the XML ecosystem was a persistent belief that XML was to be read and written by machines, combined with a reality in which it was mostly used for human-written config files, leading to a tolerance for awful syntax (like prefixing every single attribute with a namespace, and the ridiculous CDATA notation). I'm seeing the same thing with JSON: A significant fraction of its use is for human-written and human-read config files (which often desperately need comments) and people are pretending it's strictly a data interchange format that shouldn't be used for that.

It is sometimes said that JSON was discovered, rather than invented - that the syntax was already out there. So it is with JSON5: There is nothing new in this, it is simply return to JavaScript Object Notation and bringing in the rest of what Javascript has.

So, all you pooh-poohing ideologists: please seriously rethink whether disallowing comments, trailing commas, and quoteless member names is actually a good idea. Consider this in light of the fact that JSON is widely used, today, as a config-file language, and that {"--":"This is a comment"} is ridiculous enough that no one does it in practice, can't be inserted on any line, and invites consumers of your data to parse the comments.
I had a P51 from work but I hated it. It was too laptopy to be a good desktop, and wayyyy too heavy to be a good laptop :P Seriously, along with the power supply it's like 3,5kg. Not fun to travel with or even carry home on the subway.

I really prefer a lightweight laptop and a separate desktop. Which is what I have now, luckily. Our work has a strict "one laptop per employee" policy but I got a desktop for "testing" purposes which is now my daily work driver :P
You really think Pratchett was aimed solely at children or really had it in for shamanism? Did you ever read Small Gods?
> they can sense when they're being lied to

What sense is this? Do you have evidence of its existence? An explanation of how it works? Because in my experience the public is severely deficient in critical thinking skills. They don't really have a good sense of truth or falsehood. They make guesses about who's telling the truth based more on presentation, politics, or popularity than on facts or logic.

Right now, there's an anti-intellectual and anti-authoritarian fashion causing many to conclude that anything a professional scientist says is a lie, but it would be wrong to cherry-pick a few examples where they're right as evidence of anything. How do such people "sense when they're being lied to" other than by using heuristics (see above) which are more likely to be gamed by entertainers and politicians than by scientists?
Since OP is coming from SF, 100k+ feels like an absurdly low bar.

That said, it shouldn't be too hard to get something close to Bay Area compensation in NYC.
No one does this. And Wikipedia myths spread to other media until it's hard to pinpoint where it started.
"The ‘be lenient in what you accept’ philosophy is a disaster" - I've seen that stated before, and I don't think I quite agree. It depends on how much market power you have - if you're Chrome or Safari, I agree, you should display non-compliant pages in a way that makes it obvious that they're broken.
But if you're just developing a backend component that happens to consume data in a particular format and it's not part of a system that millions depend on daily, ensuring it can handle non-strictly-conforming input well usually pays off (but by all means, do what you can to warn relevant users).
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Show HN: Vlly – A simple API to powerful 3D/VR/AR delivery
I’m an ex-YouTube infrastructure engineer iterating through building infra to support streaming high-quality AR experiences.

Vlly allows you to build high-quality 3D/VR/AR into your applications with just a few lines of code - going from 0 to production 3D pipeline in minutes. I built Vlly as a simple API to take the pain out of 3D file conversion, optimization, and distribution.

I'm around to get people started and to chat about current and future state of streaming media.
> Want to fly a plane into a building? Anyone can get a pilots license, there are no background checks. You can just rent a plane and pull off “the next 9/11”, no amount of terminal security can solve this.

Yes, those are concerns.
It is remarkable how many things listed in this manual will still work, more than 40 years on, in modern emacs. It is probably not surprising that the basic text navigation is unchanged, but it had incremental search (on C-S/C-R). Many computer users might have imagined that this was a recent invention.

The M-S keybinding, to centre a paragraph has only be recycled in recent versions of emacs.

And the tags tables (with the visit-tags-table function and M-.) is also there, though I note that language support, particularly for languages that had not been invented, has been widened in recent years.
I don't understand how he made full colonel after that. In the Navy, that kind of thing is normally a career-ender.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=46421

https://www.jetlinx.com/chris-stricklin-today-is-the-tomorro...
How many years ago was this? I’m sure Mitchell has grown a lot and matured since then. Just like everybody else. He did something a little mean spirited. Maybe even something he regrets now. I think he deserves a little bit of grace.
If I'm at home cooking dinner, I'm not "waiting to work" though.

Yes, you cannot go on a hike, which is why you get paid. You don't get paid more than you do for your normal time working though.
I will chime in in agreement with you, since the replies here are mostly to the contrary. Writing Makefiles by hand sucks eggs.

It's really worse than this because this probably assumed a specific Linux setup at least, but everything goes out the window once Windows is in the mix. If having to deal with potentially multiple shells was a problem with Make, having to deal with multiple shells on Windows (where it could be CMD, PowerShell, or a UNIX like shell under MSys or Cygwin...) is untenable.

Today the only obviously valid reason to use Make is because you have to or already are. Most Linux distros ship Ninja. Hell, MSVC ships Ninja.

There are many examples of Makefiles for open source projects that validate how ugly things can get without needing to be Google scale. One of the most elegant Makefile setups I can think of is Near's setup for bsnes/higan,and honest to goodness, it's still a pretty horrific mess.

I don't want to be hyperbolic, but also it's irresponsible for people to suggest you should just use Make. You shouldn't just use Make. Not even as a beginner. If you wanted a nice turnkey solution for a beginner, I'd suggest CMake or Meson, both of which happily generate Ninja files and also have the bonus of supporting Windows well. CMake has broad ecosystem support, despite it's many shortcomings. It's far from elegant, but definitely practical.
Isn’t it up to the judge?
I still hold that the peak of the Discworld games was Discworld Noir.
>>Fox/Netflix’s Lucifer which according to the blogosphere departs quite a bit from the source material

That's the understatement of the century :) "Lucifer" was a fun show to watch but it has NOTHING to do with the comic books except that it reuses few main character names, and the fact that Lucifer runs a bar/club in LA. It was created by Tom Kapinos, the same guy who made "Californication", and is one part that, one part "Analyze This", and one part "Miami Vice".
That’s my hope too. In fact the idea is very neat, but it involves humans. So I’ll just observe. :)
Curly bracket languages don't require braces around every statement.

If C was written like

{if {x == 1}{
{return {x + 1};}
}

Maybe you'd have a point
I see there's a website for Code with interactive examples (in another thread), I wonder if he has a perspective on using interactive games for teaching this kind of "build a computer from logic gates" material. Examples are the recent "Turing Complete", goes back at least to Rocky's Boots on the Apple II.

Has he seen any of these he thought were effective, does he think it's a useful approach?
Imo oncall engineer should seize the opportunity and fix that warning alert that’s been firing for ages before it becomes an active fire. So consequently there’s usually no lack of things to do even if no fires occured
This really misses the point of the claim. Carbon Credits are greenwashing because as it currently exists doesn't work. And almost every approach is based an unfounded schemes. Furthermore, carbon offsets are used to justify ecological damage; they exist for no other purpose.

The problem with carbon offsetting is that almost none of the solutions work for long term. For example, if you're digging up oil and burning it, planting a tree wont help. The carbon you dug up from miles underneath our feet is removed from the global carbon cycle for millions of years, the carbon in a tree lasts as long as that tree is alive. Every living organism should be assumed to be decayed and returned to the carbon cycle unless specifically proven otherwise. For example, most of the carbon offset operations in California are being destroyed by wild fires [(1)](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wildfires-are-destroying-ca...)

If we want to be honest and about what is effective, it's not taking that flight and keeping that oil in the ground. We will delude ourselves if we think any growing any lifeform to capture carbon will work unless humans directly put it into the ground in old oil fields. The only other possibly viable alternative is through mineral reactions with carbon, turning it into stone
It’s not 5 seconds! There are definitely a few activities I do at my home that I can’t drop in a few minutes notice (extended toilet break?) but I I can think of a ton of things I can do that would still let me be able to start working on my pc with a few minutes heads up.
they don't work on-call over night.
But why? Why do you think oncall should be paid the same as full work? Perhaps you have a different definition of oncall than me, where you expect to be paged once or twice a week, and spend maybe an hour or so fixing it each time?

Why would I not charge less for this than real work? It involves much less actual work.
Not always that simple. 2-3 times a week is nothing! Try being on call in AWS, or any product/service at that scale. How often you get paged has less to do with your organization and more to do with the scale of your systems and business.
The PDF I got from the Microsoft Press Store was watermarked but DRM free.
You can do USB-PD reception using no computers up to 5V3A. A simple resistor across two wires is enough.

Also, circular connectors isn't the best thing. They tend to use up more thickness for the same amount of power. I feel USB-C is a great compromise.
I lived in SF for 10 years and recently moved to Manhattan. I feel like there's a lot more stigma associated with having roommates in NYC or LA than in SF, at least among the yuppie millennial crowd.
I’m not sure that’s accurate. When I read and subvocalize I do have the sensation of “hearing” the voice in my head. Same for thinking. It’s more like remembering what someone said though since there isn’t an actual external source. For example I can read a sentence in Sean Connery’s voice but it’s more like remembering what he sounds like but transferred to the words I’m reading. My own inner voice does have a unique sound to it too, not quite the same as my speaking voice though.
> Engine noise. Some cars/motorbikes are specifically designed/modified to be loud because that’s what the customer wants.

Then there are the cars that aren't loud, so they play recordings of engine noise over the audio system.

BMW has apparently gone as far as making the fake engine noise user-configurable, except that you can't turn it off. Because if you don't want to be forced to listen to fake engine noise, you're not the type of customer BMW wants, I guess. You probably shouldn't be allowed to vote or own property either.
He is ignoring the haters. He continued despite their comments. He is mindful that the haters exist (which you have to be, in order to ignore them), but is ignoring them with respect to the advice they offer.

The haters were also wrong. They completely misunderstood the needs of the target audience for JSON5. They forgot the world is a messy place, no matter how clean and clear the JSON spec may be, the input from random users may well be messy...

I'm guessing even you simplify your life by using autocorrect and spell check from time to time. Autocorrect has its issues too, it probably makes us lazy and sloppy, but on the whole, it improves the input experience for a lot of users, so on balance, people choose to keep it around.
I'm having a bit of trouble reproducing your results. How exactly are you coming up with 2/3 > 3/2?
I often use conversation with an "other" to think through concepts by the "explaining to a five year old method", so that's not really strange to me, but the voices don't come into it. I'm not sure how to quite describe it, but my thoughts only take the form of language when I try to express them, before that they are very abstract and unrelated to language or senses.
How are “The staff at the charter jet terminal” supposed to address this? Those are the people GP called “criminally clueless”, suggesting that the lack of pre-departure controls for private jets will cause the next 9/11.
They shouldn't be working at all. Prison labor is exploitation

We should encourage reading and education in prisons instead
First time hearing this, super interesting. Got any links to read more on how this prevents a dangerous accident? What does it do to stop the accident, from sparking the oil and ignoring it if the cord is accidentally sheered and exposed?
You can basically rationalise against any investment, because there is no limit to your imagined opportunity. Just keep the cash always so you always have the opportunity!
Start a company, make this a policy and advertise. If engineers truly care about this, they’ll come to you. Perhaps they just care about total compensation And their RSUs more than this minutiae?