skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it has my fingerprints saved on it

Yes! This is a curious thing too. Biometric passports already have biometric data. The USA will already have your biometric information read out from your passport. One possibility is that they have reasons to not trust the biometric passports completely. Perhaps someone found a way to fake them.

Even if not, it seems prudent that they want to check all 3 things. What is in your passport, what are your own biometrics and what the issuing country has on file about you.

> No need to access European databases.

You are stating this as if obvious. X turns up at the border, why wouldn't the USA (or any country really) would want to know if they are all okay as far as their own country is concerned?

"Hey X is at the border, are they ok?" And 95% of the time the answer will be "yup". 4% will be some petty crime which has been already resolved in their own country, and then the admitting country can decide if they want to let them in. (as is their right.) Less than 1% of the cases will be something weird. Like the person is already recorded as deceased, or they are sought in relation to a crime or should be in prison or something. You check because of that small "weird" group.

> The US government has just lost databases with biometric data of millions of afghan people

The US let down the people of Afghanistan in a milliard ways. The whole thing is a shitshow. From the war, through the occupation, the drone strikes. A lot of things are terrible there. If it makes you distrust the USA I understand you.
It seems like a story that works well in a factory setting - where its not particularly creative work and you do the same thing over and over again.

The basic gist of the story is an assembly line improves efficiency in a factory. Well no duh.

The translation of that lesson to a programming environment seems like it would be really fraught, encouraging people to do stupid things like write more unnessary lines of code.
Tesla stock marks lowest close in years as investors worry about Musk’s focus
Can anyone recommend a (Linux CLI) backup tool for incremental encrypted backups via SCP that allows a verification run against the current filesystem state while excluding a configured list of paths from the verification (for some frequently changing files)? I’m currently using duplicity, which is missing that last feature (without post-processing its verification output).
Microdistricts were good… new stuff is usually an unplanned cash grab.
Incredibly tragic.

It's a shame to see so much history being lost.
I like the concept of blue light, seems so simple yet powerful. I am looking forward to use it!
Loved this from one dish on mine:

> expanded anchovy reduction

This is how I will now refer to every ingredient I do not doctor in a recipe.
You live 1 hour away from SFO but 4 hours away from SAC? SFO is two hours away from SAC. How is that possible? Maybe it's 3 hours away if there is traffic.

I realize that this was inconvenient and a big hassle, so I don't want to make light of it, but something seems off with the geography.
It says there that it contains "celery juice".

"Celery has a very high concentration of natural nitrate, and treating celery juice with a bacterial culture produces nitrite. The concentrated juice can then be used to produce “no nitrite added” processed meat."

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/food/celery-juice-viable-a...
Yeah I would say its quite a big problem, lots of people have derogatory views about first nations peoples. Government basically uses marketing tactics to portray us all as a big inclusive happy family, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
After a quick scan of the article you linked:

> ...Like the other targeted artworks, the painting was not damaged by the stunt...

This means that the artwork was not actually damaged, which is also exactly what the person you replied to said, so this article doesn't back up your claim at all
At least for the cave in the article it's thousands of square meters of art. The art looks like parallel lines made by dragging fingers over the surface.

I guess you could take some pictures, but it's not the kind of art that really needs high res 3d scans. In this case it's more the concept of "there was a human that did something here a very long time ago", rather than how the art itself looks.

The vandalism only covered a small portion of it, but I suspect the vandals didn't even realize they were overwriting anything, since it's really not very obvious as art - it just looks like lines.
Hmm, AMD's AM4 socket mobos can take kind of a lot of different Ryzens (though to be fair you might need a bigger PSU I guess). I guess maybe it would be more precise to say that most laptops aren't very futureproof because they've become increasingly everything-soldered, so it isn't even just a question of not being able to drop in a better CPU or GPU at some point, but of not being able to replace a bad SSD at all?
There are always exceptions.

Fundamentally, when both prices and wages go up, there’s no reason to expect companies to lose real value.

AFAIK in 2022 we’re seeing cost-push inflation and wages haven’t really gone up, which could partially explain why companies are having difficulties producing and selling.
> "in the US labeled “nitrate free” or “uncured” still contains just as much nitrates as the unlabeled stuff"

But not in the EU, where products labelled nitrate-free are NOT permitted to contain nitrate analogs such as celery extract.

There are some true nitrate-free bacon products sold in the UK, such as Finnebrogue. They list the only ingredients as "Pork (87%), Water, Salt, Natural Flavouring, Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid". Not as pink as nitrate-cured bacon once cooked, but tastes pretty great!
Wow, very cool. Personally I'm not really interested in trying to go through building something like what you've done for myself, haha.

I've come across Plotters before but last time I checked, the documentation was pretty sparse and I didn't really relish the thought of trying to parse though and tweak the examples at that time. It looks like they're gradually filling out the docs now, though, so maybe I'll give it another go.
That's the issue with my mind, the filter between "I should know it" and "you'll learn it if you need it" is sometimes not working.

Like the post about Numba, the Python compiler.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34148455

I've never used Python, and probably won't ever use it, but some deep part of me "needs" to read the article.

It's harder for me to fight this insatiable desire to learn something unuseful, than to stop reading HN.
Also replying to my own comment shamelessly, but 7-8 years software experience is NOT to short too be a CTO
Southwest does not overbook their flights as a matter of policy.

https://www.southwest.com/help/changes-and-cancellations/ove...
>An update to the node graph is currently in the works

Some more info there would be fantastic.
I'm surprised most of the comments here are in favor of laptops. I find them deficient in almost every way outside of portability (which, admittedly, is a huge positive). The best laptop keyboards are worse than a cheap desktop keyboard, the trackpads are always worse than a mouse, the monitor is deficient, they have no expandability, the ergonomics are horrible, and so on. I've always felt my productivity was way down on a laptop.
probabilities are, by definition, not precisely measured. "Real world" probabilities are derived from imprecise measurements, and model probabilities are dictated by (simplified) model constraints.
> It's worth noting that almost all of this is still the output of the 9/11, where US and Saudi systems did not communicate and resulted in known terrorists in Saudi Arabia being able to travel at will into the USA.

The intelligence community missed a lot of clues right at their finger tips that could have prevented 9/11. Do you think biometric tracking would have prevented 9/11? Because it sure sounds like it.
Cool, I just ordered one to play with. $40 on ebay. The prospect of effective beam forming is appealing. Do you run OpenWRT?
Something that's always bothered me about many-worlds is that it states the number of worlds should always be increasing exponentially. Which means from an anthropic point of view, the most likely time to be born is the last ever human, with insanely exponential odds. But many people have been born in my lifetime, ergo many-worlds seems unlikely.
Most of these claims do not hold water.

What does it mean to have bandwidth "robbed" from me?

What do I care if my gigabytes-of-RAM multi-core CPU is burning some cycles? Have those cycles also been "stolen" by, like, articles I don't want to read or useless comments?

Is there more identity theft risk from targeted ads than, say, the LastPass breach? Google, in particular, keeps that data deeply vaulted and protected.

Am I really exposed to meaningfully targeted disinfo relative to self-sorting by watching Fox News? What about meaningfully-targeted info, like Facebook making it easy to find my elected representatives because they know my address?

Do we have evidence of correlation between targeted ads and phishing? Most phishing I'm aware of just uses big popular names and the law of averages... You don't need targeted info on a consumer to guess they use Amazon.

I worry that bans based on this shaky ground would look more like Prohibition than asbestos bans.
There are now so many visions about the "next web" i wonder if anybody has the full list...

One would think that ruthless darwinian selection would single out the approach that is best fit to the market. Yet it has been a while now and little seems to be standing out. What if the "market" is so thoroughly broken that even solid ideas cant really get attention and traction?
I know most people are gushing with positives ... but to me this reads like the epitome of a clueless consultant who got lucky because the 30 plus years manager missed the basics ... unless the era of the tale was early 60s or something or some middle of nowhere fabrication that sprang up with little idea of how other similar places work ... um great story but what really was this based on.

In the industry it's fairly well known (ok that's a weasel phrase even though I'm sure I'd be right if I used 99.999999%) in regard to the overall benefits of TAs (Trade Assistants.) Typically a TA around welders, they're grinding and readying the surfaces to be welded and helping position the work. Though there's value in setting up, not just making blue light, welders generally receive a much higher pay packet, since ultimately it's their good welding skills that ensures quality welds leave the floor and a long life of the component.

What's obvious is what would have happened if the blue light was 50 or 60% of the time and the welding machines were at capacity. (Higher capacity welding machines are generally a lot more expensive.) To the clueless a lot more can be squeezed out ... and that's what the hero would have aimed to do, in fact no doubt another 25%. The experienced plant manager would have then kindly thanked them at that point perhaps realising the consultant was out of their depth.
The celery juice is added after cooking and the jerky is eaten cold. But yes, the celery juice will have nitrates -- the human body will naturally produce nitrites anyway -- the concerns are about heating the nitrites -- e.g. frying bacon.
I think part of the problem is that a "massive dogmatic bias" isn't needed to arrive at a historical Jesus in conventional historic scholarship.

To plenty of scholars, a "historic X" just means that X was recorded in history, and there's a set of techniques to perform critical reading of written history that is used to reject the incredible.

It's fair to say that Biblical history is especially rich in designing such criteria however ...

As I suspect most engineers do I do see values in systematic, critical approaches to dealing with human-made documents and artifacts, but have a hard time feeling certain without direct physical evidence. By implication this makes a lot of popularly-held history unknowable to me however (as in, the historicity of many people other than Jesus is believed without direct physical evidence as well, based on "records from the time show ...").
Others have mentioned that GoDaddy will park domains that users have searched for or added to cart.

Does this cost them money to do? Or do they get to buy domains at near zero cost by virtue of being a registrar?

I wonder if it's possible to penalize them for this behavior with bots to perform searches of useless word permutations and adding them to the cart at scale. It would probably be too easy to identify and filter the traffic, but just musing out loud.
Restic can do all that, I believe.
> One important component is slack. Every airline at every airport should have a certain number of crews and airplanes capable of providing service in place of a delayed flight.

Airlines have crew on "reserve" at all times near bases to handle this problem. They are being paid to sit around and not actually work unless called in. Pilots love to try to get on the reserve list for obvious reasons.

I don't know how Southwest handles reserve, since they don't have "bases" like other airlines do.
I wasn't comparing US law to EU law. I said take a random labor law and state. Given that law, there are various EU nations the the US' would "surpass" (have more citizen/personal protections) and there are some it would "lose" against (more protections for corporations/big brother).

Take a liberal state like California or New York and the "surpass" count would be much higher (as in this case, this specific example "surpassing" Germany), especially in regards to labor and tenant protections. Take a state like Mississippi and there are very few EU nations it would "surpass". The counter being to the OP's assumption that the EU, in general, is "more liberal than the US"; ergo it's crazy that there's a state that's actually more protective.

Labor laws in Texas have no effect on the 12% of the population that lives in California. So it's disingenuous to compare these laws, something the Federal government specifically doesn't have much say over (due to the enumerated powers clause of the US' limited Federation), to a random nation. The only proper methodology is to compare the scope of where those laws are set. In this specific example, those contexts are: the State level, in the US; a mixture of Bundesrat and Bundesland legislation in Germany.

I never even mentioned the EU assembly or EU laws. It would seem you're creating a straw man to "win" an internet argument or reinforce your own worldview.
Put on Do Not Disturb and listen to some music.
https://youtu.be/2tOJdGaMvVw
Google has been and still is doing it for years.
It's not technical issues, it's shadowbanning.
All those companies doing it should be made to pay 90% of their profits.

HN also does it.
It's interesting then to think about companies like Cloudflare, Airtable, and Notion which seemingly came out of markets that looked like turbid swamps.

They didn't just follow the flow of the rapids, they somehow created their own rapids?
The article you linked to doesn't support your claim. It mentions 3 recent attacks, and all the paintings (Leonardo, Van Gogh, Vermeer) were apparently protected by glass and not damaged.
Sodium nitrate breaks down into sodium nitrite in cured meat products, so it's the same thing by the time it reaches your bowel.
TheScore is the best sports app I’ve found. You can get it to notify you of games and events too.
What are you basing that suspicion on?
Criticism appreciated.

Reasons are now explained in the README.

We promise a future chapter to bridge what is used elsewhere back to the Mac M1. And also, a chapter bridging to what is used on Windows ARM machines.
How much is too much? 15% says the study, 15% of what?
I built something which scratches that basic itch, though my taste differs from yours:

https://www.github.com/marssaxman/ozette.git

I've used this for both hobby projects and professional work, over the years (though I often find myself using VSCode these days).
I simply don't see the problem with areas being highly mapped. For the record, operational areas can be mapped very quickly now - I think I read a Waymo presser that said they mapped their LA operational area from 0 in a few weeks.
This is a really, really good postmortem. It’s frank, it includes what worked along with what didn’t, and I’m likely to refer to it again when I start something new.
I don't think they were claiming that GUI editors are better... more that they have different audiences and comparing them doesn't work well due to that.
Should I think alcohol and marijuana also?
What's a shame is that that they gave up on it. There was clearly a need for new tool in that space. Though, these days where we're at is a shared Google doc with commenting.
Welp, it’s a bit of an odd combination. I started in sw when I was 18. I am 43 now. I started in fire at 25. So been fire almost 20 years now. Mostly truck work.

My city is small but still a “city” at abt 15000 people. We are volly but a few paid. We run abt 700 calls a year.

I’m all the standard training - emr too.

I think when things got thick with my first wife’s cancer, I was 26 and new at fire and making ok money in sw.. so I “used” fire to have “random” encounters that forced me to stop thinking abt cancer. About death. Which is odd. Cause I’m usually one of the regulars at the medicals, traumas, untimelys, etc…

So I got used to that “fire time = me time” feeling. SW didn’t matter and let’s be honest, sw is thick or dense but it’s not hard.

Not hard like what we see or sticks to us at fire.

So yeah. Juggling? I just… “made do” I reckon. Used it as an escape. And when fire is slow, as sometimes it is, I use training as an escape.

When she died when I was 31, fire was there for me. Software - gave me the corporate required bereavement days then it was back to the office because back then wfh was not as common as it should have been.

Maybe I haven’t really juggled well. I think also with adhd that I have - “exercising” both my brain and body in these two ways has helped.
I'm confused by this. Huge parts of Germany (and maybe Greece) are English speaking. In Berlin you hear more English than German being spoken on the street. Denmark and Holland seem to have high numbers of English speakers as well.

I think several other countries conduct a lot of business in English, but I haven't spent enough time in Europe to know this for sure.
Sail-sg/Jax_xc: Exchange correlation functionals translated from libxc to Jax
I use ubo so the web is pretty ok, but yeah today is bad, but not as bad as it used to. Flash, popups omg
And a lot of those buildings just happen to accidentally burn down, such as the White Bay Hotel in Sydney.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Bay_Hotel
I'd agree on the upgrades and repair arguments.

From an ergonomic/setup side, of course using laptops doesn't prevent you from using a dock, with external monitors, external keyboard and all. In fact a docked laptop that you can pick up in seconds when needed is way easier to deal with than two machines.

About the cost, do like we nerds do: buy refurbished thinkpads. For most software dev, having the latest i9 is not necessary. Old thinkpad workstations are perfect as desktop replacement machines and are somewhat upgradeable. I'm sure this doesn't scale that much but small-scale companies can do this without any trouble. Worked perfectly in a previous company I worked for. People were actually pretty happy we didn't buy 2000€ new stuff while 700€ already-on-the-planet stuff was more than enough.
It's the way their model is set up.

As others have pointed out, they don't fly hub-and-spoke.

So when they get planes stranded somewhere, it screws up the entire system and all the planes and all the crew end up at the wrong airports, and it's extremely difficult to get everything back to where it's supposed to be.

They almost have to literally shut down the airline and start it up again, which is what you are seeing now.
Is ChatGPT the helper or the welder?
Isn't "the annihilation of space" what Shevek, the anarchist theoretical physicist says to a Terran diplomat in "The Disposessed" when she asks him what he does? Or am I misremembering. His work leads not to an FTL drive (in most of her books) but to the ansible (instant (literally) messaging).

Just wondering...
> But no, they purposely went out of their way to destroy something extremely rare and utterly irreplaceable.

It's actually not so clear it was purposeful. If you didn't know there was art there, you would not be able to tell. It's very possible they just wanted to write some nonsense, and didn't realize they were overwriting anything significant.

The art looks like parallel lines made by dragging a hand over the surface, and it covers virtually every bit of the surface. The vandalism is only in a small part.

A more useful reaction is to teach people more history, so they would know about their heritage in the cave.
As far as I can tell (as a years-long user of this), this is a generic "here's a server that supports SCP, go nuts" discount. You don't have to use it with Borg or Restic, they're just supported.
Laws are not algorithms, because a human legal system has wiggle room. You can negotiate, persuade, and the system is capable of dealing with unanticipated input. An algorithm is a strict series of steps, executed based on pre-determined allowable inputs. They are preferable to the ones defining them because A) they can be automated and B) they deflect blame: "It's not my fault, it's just policy" or "it's just the way the program works". They thus act as a proxy for the ruling class to operate through.

"Values" are ideas that we, as a society, "value". Compassion, understanding, etc. These tend to involve nuance, which a system designed in advance and applied blindly to a given circumstance inherently lacks.

Thus, in case you aren't simply feigning ignorance, the title could be expanded to: "When individuals with existing power over others design rigid systems to be applied indiscriminately to those beneath them for both convenience and to redirect the perception of responsibility, it leads to inhumane consequences."
> But why?

Because plastic producing companies have spent the last 40 years and a lot of money telling us that plastics are good "because they can be recycled" while not recycling and not addressing the very real problems caused by plastics because profit.

https://www.dailyimpact.net/2020/11/24/the-second-biggest-sc...
Maybe you mean Vanderbilt Ave? Vanderbilt St has no commercial zoning.

What many people don't know is that 3 of the pricier restaurants on Vanderbilt Ave are all actually the same restaurant group. Their background is partially the 3-Michelin star Alinea in Chicago via chef Greg Baxtrom. Olmsted was first, then came Maison Yaki, and then Patti Ann's.

Olmsted is mostly very good (started great, then got bad during part of the pandemic, now is improving again), but you can still joke about being sold $8 vinegar from them for sure, haha. However, since "midwestern" cuisine is now becoming somewhat trendy, jokes about expensive port wine cheese balls at Patti Ann's ($12) may be more appropriate.
Bullshit story the consultant made up to bolster his point (93% efficiency claim from a foreman wtf).

Of course finding some help moving parts around for the welders would be the first thing the foreman would think of, because thats what foremans do all the time in factories.

Maybe the welders chose to work this way (i.e. inefficiently) because continuous welding produces fatigue which risks H&S and lowers the quality of the product.

So if the story was real, the solution would be extra personnel so the welding is done continuously, by rotating people between welding, moving parts and other jobs.