skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently travelled to Paris a few times as a tourist. I normally travelled by train and metro. But on the last trip, a bus was much faster according to google maps.

Researched and knew the bus that would take me to my hotel. Checked google and the physical sign at the bustop at Gare de L'est. It confirmed you can buy a ticket on the bus. Tried to board a bus and got yelled at by another customer and the driver for not knowing I have to buy a ticket ahead of time at a machine or use "SMS ticket" which I wasn't eager to use and probably wouldn't even have worked on my foreign phone plan.

OK, I happen to know from previous bad experience I can't buy a ticket anywhere nearby the bus stop but have to go to the basement in the station to buy a ticket which is located at the entrance to the metro. The lineup is 20 people deep and the machine is SLOW to use. Definitely takes 2-3 minutes per person. After 10 minutes of googling about cards for tourists I have learned that you can only get a card if you live in Paris, confirm your address, and even then it takes 2-3 weeks to get one. There is a card you can get as a tourist, but it's only useful for expensive day passes, not for taking 1-2 euro trips. Is there another solution for paying for transit? Maybe, but good luck finding out what it is, I certainly could not in 10 minutes of googling or asking my French friends.

The solution was a 30 euro taxi ride.

Paris the the number 1 tourist destination on the planet, a travel hub city, has a great public transportation system, and from my experience is a great place for travel and probably to live. It's sad that they discontinued a simple metro ticket and require a special card to travel that is not readily available to tourists (or if it is, I certainly couldn't figure out a way to board a bus or predict how to board the metro next year). From personal experience, throughout the entire world, I have never experienced not being able to board public transit by using cash or credit card either on board or from a nearby, working ticket machine. I have experienced simply using cash, using my tap to pay card, or missing one train/bus due to figuring out how to find a local ticket card or transit card. Only in Paris have I literally given up and taken a taxi.
> The government literally tells people what to do on private property all the time.

That doesn't mean it's automatically a good thing.
Factory might be recycling, city probably just treats and puts back into the environment (just a guess but doubt they are recycling water in NY).
The US went off the gold standard in 1933. Since it was illegal to trade dollars for gold, any "gold standard" was a legal fiction.
Ugh, not used to humor on HN haha.
Yes.
Although it's difficult to define, I feel that the default public space should be unpolluted by advertising/solicitations.
IFTTT Smart Home: Google Assistant Changes - Existing Applets will be archived
Who cares though? All connections to SQL servers are going to be localhost or over a VPN, if your setup for postgres has a SSL certificate you're doing something terribly wrong to begin with. I'm not even sure why the option exists to begin with, there's no use case.
The new “eco” dynos work the same way as free do today — they draw down a shared pool of hours across multiple apps. So you could run tens (or hundreds) of infrequently used apps for a total of $5/month. That’s in contrast to the originally-announced plan, which had Hobby as the lowest cost option which costs $7 per dyno per month, which can get expensive with lots of rarely-used apps.
http://rikfarrow.com/Network/net0103.html

> Switches were not designed as security devices. Their use as such simply evolved over time, and is ancillary to their main use as devices that improve network performance. If you use a switch for security reasons, you are relying on the correct configuration of the switch, including understanding not only the standards that the switch software is based upon, but also the correct implementation of those standards. The 802.1Q spec itself is 211 pages long, and is only one of a handful of standards that a compliant switch manufacturer must support. Any time that you need to segregate networks for serious security purposes, I recommend that you not use a switch.

"Framework for Layer 2 attacks" (2005), https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-05/BH_EU_05...
Rampant online cheating? Hm:

> At the outset, we want to make clear that while these events highlight a critical topic in chess—cheating
the vast majority of chess games do not involve any cheating. We estimate that fewer than 0.14% of
players on Chess.com ever cheat, and that our events are by and large free from cheating. We firmly
believe that cheating in chess is rare, preventable, and much less pervasive than is currently being
portrayed in the media
Comment from Saurik Regarding SaurikIT, LLC vs. Apple Inc
Tesla is technically Model 3, not M3
> You know what word of mouth is? [...] It is absolutely nothing for growth.

When I joined the company some years ago, we were the 5th largest in our sector. We since grew to 2nd largest using almost entirely word of mouth for sales. We didn't have any dedicated sales people, and did hardly any advertising.

Instead, users would call friends in the industry and tell them to get our software. If they switched jobs they'd persuade their new boss to get our software.

Since reaching #2 spot we got some sales and marketing people, and we're now at the top.

So while I'll disagree that word of mouth can't be used for growth, I've seen first hand how good sales and marketing can put you on a steeper curve.
Do QSL cards count?
>I'm genuinely curious in your perspective.

Thanks, that helps a lot.

Let me explain to the extent that I have explored. My memory is sketchy, but I did it several years back while cross checking the infamous anti-vaxxers, to see if they were making things up.

>So how do you explain this graph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#/media/File:Global_nu... which shows the global number of reported smallpox cases.

Treat mainstream graphs/statistics with suspicion. They hide ground realities and sometimes the numbers can be outright made up.

> There's a pretty dramatic drop in the 1970s. Do you have any explanation for that if the vaccines were poor performing?

There were villages in the world were the smallpox vaccine did not work at all. ( I vaguely recollect UK, and India). I also have some first hand account of form previous generations in a place that i lived (obviously I'm not going to give myself away) where smallpox was supposed to be rampant. It was rampant only among the poor and underfed that were living in squalor, The well fed did not have it. Part of the success of the vaccine can be attributed to the cleaning up of the filthy conditions where people with small pox lived.

>How about polio? [2]

>I'm just trying to understand how you reconcile your suspicion with those facts? Are Polio and Smallpox the "less frequent diseases" you mention?

They were very less frequent ( almost non-existent) among the well fed and healthy. If you look at contemporary literature by medical practitioners during the time Polio ( and SP) were prevalent you see see a lot of speculation as to what the reasons were - ranging form contaminated wells, bed-bugs to DDT. DDT was one of the chemicals supposed to result in polio. I think Pakistan still uses DDT and polio indeed exists there. There are also conditions which I believe I now labeled by other names which are similar to polio. The renaming of conditions in every generation is also something you will discover if you were to read the works of medical practitioners of the past.

>They definitely were not less frequent for a long part of human history. My grandmother knew kids who died of Polio and everyone from her generation I've talked to had horror stories about this disease

No one is denying that people died, it's just that I have come to believe that the causes have been covered up, and every thing has been blamed on a difficult to prove virus. My point is that the hard link between a vaccine introduction and disease eradication is not consistent, infact in some cases you will find that the vaccine administration actually introduced the disease.

>(also why people her generation were a lot less reluctant to vaccines.. )

People will actually do anything when they are scared, including prayer, sacrifices, and the modern day educated version - vaccines, without critical evaluation.

There is a larger point that I want to make, That is when you doubt the mainstream narrative, you really have to go outside of your comfort zone and look for obscure literature that is counter-narrative. That's countless hours of investigation that will not show up in a simple google search.
They're saying 190 mile range and 170 MPH cruise speed. So I guess that's around 60 minutes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilium_Jet#Specifications
I never said anything about platforms. You're misunderstanding me, I'm not talking about replacement institutions, I don't want to have to pay for a power point course and a printable PDF with my name in block letters on it.

I'm glad to see publicly funded institutions go under as well. There should be no gatekeepers to information.

The information you need to get the skills universities claim only they can give you is freely available. You want to learn how to do residential electricity? Commercial HVAC? Programming, data analysis, and/or statistics? A handful of search queries and a ton of reading are all you need to get started. About the only things you can't do professionally by just following your interests on the internet right now are medicine and law. I expect that to change too.
Emacs Debugging Basics
So let's flip it: how long will it stay that way: where law enforcement is unaware they've left ostensibly seized assets unsecured?
>May 2018 The Trump Administration disbands the White House pandemic response team.

Ah yes, yet another person who a) uses Snopes to "fact check" and b) looked at the Snopes piece's headline and nothing else. One would think reading only that, or the Twitter thread (!) the piece is based on, that to save money (or because the Trump administration hated science, or something) the entire "US Pandemic Response Team" agency was eliminated and everyone in a large DC office building was fired.

Actually reading the contemporary NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/tom-bossert-t... and Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0... articles the Snopes piece cites in the body, they seem to have been a handful of people in one team in the National Security Council hierarchy, that the new National Security Advisor reassigned to related agencies, as part of a desire to have his own hierarchical structure. Ziemer resigned because he wanted to keep his team the way it was.

COVID19 was not a surprise; that is, it was known to exist in China some time before the first cases appeared in the US. It is not unreasonable for a government to assemble a team to respond to something like a pandemic as needed, as opposed to having people dedicated solely to the purpose and nothing else. And that's exactly what the US did, implementing the ban on non-American travelers who'd been to China in late January 2020, among other things.

You may or may not agree with this. But please don't claim that this is somehow prima facie proof of the Trump administration's malfeasance/evilness.

PS - No, Trump did not "cut the CDC budget" either. https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104
I've worked just about every day with Java for the past 22 years, and you've hit the nail on the head with the problems.

I really prefer environments where you could start with main() and figure out the behavior from there, and things like Spring make that impossible.

Really, if java only had lambdas and lisp-y macros from the beginning, we wouldn't have these problems.
> They raise prices all the time because they can.

Why don't they raise the iphone to $10,000?

> Right now gas prices are at an all time high, and so are gas profits.

Have you ever noticed gas pump prices going down? I'm curious as to your explanation for that? Do you notice that pump prices change on a daily basis? What's your explanation for that?
Your hope is validated! I'm one of the greenest, least energy-consuming people on Earth. I live next to a hydro plant with capacity to spare, don't eat meat, don't own a car, have no drivers license, never fly, and my last holiday I cycled 600km [1].

[1] https://hypertele.fi/fbd0998dd2834f08
I read the highlighted bit several times. Still can't make heads of tales of it :)
I'm surprised people still bring up carbon capture tech as a solution.

It happens a lot around here lately but it's just such wishful thinking IMO.

If you have that much carbon-neutral energy, carbon-neutral materials, space, maintenance to really make a dent... And all those things don't displace green resources that could have been used for other necessary things instead... You wouldn't have had any problem to begin with.

See how much shit we get here when we get a few % less natural gas here in
Europe. We're in a huge crisis over just that. That's a promille of what we'd need to capture enough carbon for 0.01 degree cooling.

It's just some distraction from the hard things that are needed to solve it. And a big paycheck for the industry behind it obviously.
The thing is, FB already owns the real estate.

Unless they're going to lease our part of the FB HQ to a third party, the expenditures will stay roughly the same.
This might actually be the first thing I've seen pop up organically about Elixir that isn't red hot glowing praise. Can you elaborate on what was going wrong and if it was anything specific to Elixir/Typescript?
It's also telling to read the top two tone-deaf comments here on HN talking about preparedness as if one is going on a fishing expedition instead of addressing the elephant in the room that is potential nuclear war.
Ask HN: Opportunities to get paid to learn software engineering or data science?
I'd like to pivot from biotech to software engineering or data science. However, I am at a level in my career and financial situation where I cannot take a pay cut. What is the best way to transition into this field so I can still make $150-$170k? Thanks
From personal experience, there’s nothing “good” poker players hate more than losing to a “bad” poker player who “shouldn’t have even been in the band.”
Any signal jammer is illegal (at least in the USA as per the FCC)
Yikes Toronto. I grew up there (immigrant parents first destination before moving down south) but despise it now for what it has become. An over expensive cesspool of the house owning NIMBY class with terrible traffic and disregard for driving rules or anything really that Canada I grew up in used to stand for like good manners. Lived in Syracuse as well before moving to the west coast. Don’t miss the snow or the cold. Only if there wasn’t so many wildfire.
It depends.

David Epstein's Range is a good way to look at outcome based learning.

There are 'Kind Learning Environments'. Things like chess, golf, concert piano, etc. The goal is easy to define, you can rank yourself against others, and the feedback on effort is quick. In such scenarios, so argues Epstein, the 10,000 hour grind is a best way to achieve success.

There are 'Unkind Leaning Environments'. Things like tennis, jazz, business, etc. The goal is difficult to define, you cannot easily rank yourself against others, and the feedback on effort is slow or nonexistent. In these environments, Epstein says that a 'browsing' approach is best. One where you learn as much as you can about as many disparate things as possible and to still deep degrees all the same. You want as many pegs to hang a hat on as you can get, curiosity is not wasted time.

I would say that, in terms of education for the masses, learning Calculus is a great way to develop the 'browser' side of things. General/public education is inherently to be made for the 'unkind learning environment'. Specializing and 10,000 hour grind-fests obviously aren't suitable.

Calc is especially useful as it gives the ideas of derivatives, rates, limits, and integrals for your mental toolset. These are powerfully broad ideas ripe for application. Additionally, as it is traditionally taught, it helps expand the mind to true higher math and lets pupils see how deep that logic/math rabbit hole can go. Lastly, the inescapable history behind it's development is another great dive and gives another avenue for the 'browser' mentality.

I can scarce think of a better subject outside of religious texts that provides such great tutelage for the 'unkind' learning environment that is life.
I don’t know either way but it’s probable they got big tax breaks in this case
I'll be the controversial one here and say... I actually like billboard advertising?

Most of them are not being built in particularly scenic areas, and they add a lot of visual interest. Especially as a chronic user of public transit, I have SO MUCH appreciated having something to look at in a subway or bus stop. Each city and location has their own flavor, and it can actually be kind of fun to see what is in other cities/countries.
And dramatic meme :) Pliers works too.
I assume you meant this as a comparison against Segcache?

We touched upon the CLOCK-Pro a bit in related work of the paper (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi21-yang.pdf, Section 6.1). I haven't done a deep dive, but can see two general issues. 1. CLOCK-Pro is designed for fixed-size elements, and doesn't work naturally for mixed-size workloads. Naively evicting "cold keys" may not even meet the memory size and contingency requirement needed for the new key. This is why memcached's slab design focuses primarily on size, and using a secondary data structure (LRUq) to manage recency. Something like CLOCK-Pro may be modified to handle mixed size, but I suspect that significantly complicates the design. 2. An algorithm without the notion of a TTL obviously doesn't take the strong hint of TTL. Given the workloads we have, we concluded that TTL is an excellent signal to use to make memory related decisions, and hence went for a TTL centric design.
If The Tale of the Crosseyed Lefthander from Tula taught anything, it was not to polish rifles with sand. But the memo's still not getting through despite the upgraded steel fleas.

Book: The Steel Flea, Nikolai Leskov, 1881
Time for some prevention.
Yup this is the new meta for pushing dirty money through the VC system.
i don't know how chess ratings work, but i suspect it could be done with a secured and monitored computer in a secure facility where some small number of games could produce a rating with decent confidence interval on it?
Yes.
Public spaces should be unpolluted by advertising
Does it have to be strictly historical radio content? I have a radio app I used to showcase some of my compositions but I'm not sure it'd qualify.
> Boris Johnson, playing the role of Henry Kissinger, killing an early peace deal and keeping this mess going. Putin might have been looking just to keep NATO out of Ukraine.

This is odd revisionism. You can look back at articles that took place during the negotiations in late March and early April and see exactly what the Russians were saying then. The big sticking point was that Russia wanted Ukraine to agree to giving control of the Donbas and Crimea to Russia[1] before any meeting between Zelensky and Putin, while Ukraine wanted to discuss those two during a direct meeting between the two presidents.

You can see the Russian foreign minister[2] as well as the head Russian negotiator[3] saying that Ukrainian proposals were unacceptable because they didn't agree to give up territory before Zelensky and Putin even met. A few days later, Putin called the peace talks a dead end because Ukrainians wouldn't cede territory and complained about crimes in occupied territories[4].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-nazi-demand-for-ukrai...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20220407172040/https://www.reute...
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20220403075439/https://www.reute...
[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20220414093437/https://www.reute...
Electric motors and batteries are the technologies that will put paid to the petrodollar. Semiconductors are just the garnish on top.
> > The conventional wisdom is that if you are not a GM by age 14, it is unlikely that you can reach the top levels of chess.

This is confusing correlation and causation.

One thing that people don't realize is the sheer amount of money required to become a "GM". You have to get a certain number of "norms" from FIDE and the requirements list is a PITA:
https://chessgoals.com/how-to-get-a-grandmaster-norm/

If you don't have a lot of money and a lot of free time to go to a lot of chess tournaments around the world, you are not getting a "GM" title in this day and age. This favors children (few time constraints) with rich parents (lots of coaching along with the ability to travel).

The problem is that if you aren't a "chess prodigy" by 15 it generally isn't worth continuing to pursue--what does sinking the resources into being a "GM" get you at the end? If you're one of the "Chess Gods", you have entry into the tournaments anyway, and, if you're not, it doesn't really matter.
Billboards are pop up window ads of real life. We solved the problem online. Lets get rid of billboards too.
This anti-pattern is predicated by two underlying truths.

1. The gatekeeping behavior is individually beneficial even if they are globally detrimental.

Blocking access costs nothing, and may benefit them as people pay the toll to gain access to the resource. They may not be Machiavellian schemers. It could just be mismatched incentives or a departments only way to deal with the 'externalized costs' imposed by other departments. For example the account manager may guard their customers because an ambitious sales team is incentivized to aggressively cross sale, and the sales team does not get dinged for souring the customer relationship.

2. The gatekeeping behavior may be globally beneficial even if it is annoying to those who must go through it.

Raising the bar for access to a valuable resource keeps that resource from being squandered, even if it is more frustrating to use when needed. It is why we have to break the glass to get to the fire extinguisher. Anyone who's been in a position where they are the 'valuable resource' knows that there is a constant cacophony of poorly thought out requests, meetings, proposals, demands, etc... And without some means of filtering, or pushing requirements back to the requestor, valuable time is wasted.

Designing an organization to avoid T1 gatekeeping involves identifying why this behavior benefits the individuals involved, and following that thread to find the root cause. Directly discouraging T1 gatekeeping without changing incentives is the management strategy of Sisyphus.

Most organizations could benefit from an increased and more formal approach to T2 gatekeeping. It can go too far, but I've observed many teams held back because everyone is informally asking one or two experts for all the answers.
Still, Oracle is the worst.

All the SQL transit is cleartext by default.

A "wallet" can be defined for TLS, but the Oracle Instant Client doesn't (appear to) support this functionality.

I push all my local Oracle database links over stunnel.

Oracle SQL Developer even has an SSH pane, because wallets are so very unusable.
Inside, in the most inside part of wherever you can get to within 10 minutes of the blast (before the fallout starts snowing down). If you stay sheltered, you can survive. Try to minimize airflow. Try to stay inside for 2 weeks. The first hours are by far the worst.

If you're outside 10 minutes after the blast, and it starts snowing, you've probably already gotten a fatal dose and will likely die a painful death from acute radiation syndrome within the next two weeks.

JUST GO INSIDE
The system only works on 30 second chunks, the system needs padding (and the CLI does the padding for you).