skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no shortage of pilots, just like there's never a shortage of any type of employee--companies just don't want to pay enough.

For pilots, airlines refuse to hire people with zero experience and pay for them to go through pilot school: they expect people to pay for all that on their own: get their licenses and enough hours of flying time to be eligible for working for the big airlines. Guess what? That costs a lot of money and not many people want to do it any more. If the airlines really want to hire more pilots, then they need to invest in their training, all the way from zero experience. Of course, they don't want to do that, so they whine and complain.
It’s a good time for them to be relevant with the Boeing scandal exploding.

$17.99 for their app’s lack of features and poor typography are not appealing, unfortunately.
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Who the hell on this forum isn't interested in the little things when the little things refer to alien life?!
You're right to be apprehensive and skeptical, most of the Firefox forks leave a lot to be desired. Usually maintained by anonymous randoms that most likely aren't experts on the technology. That's why I would instead recommend the Mullvad browser which is also a Firefox fork, but is being maintained by a profitable company with reputable engineers. Whose main product focuses around protecting your privacy and securing you.

https://mullvad.net/en/browser

The only potential issue with it is that it might be TOO good at anonymizing you, to the point that you set off security measures, ala Cloudflare, simply by NOT leaking any juicy data to identify you.
The inefficiency is now.

I could sell my clunker for $5k if I waited a few weeks or so on Craigslist; with all the issues associated with selling used valuables.

Or I could sell it to carmax for some amount less than they’ll get for it, and they can do an efficient cleanup pass and offer a warranty.
Until there is a new zero day on sshd.

You want to keep these things behind multiple locked doors, not just one.

For the servers themselves, you shouldn't be able to get to sshd unless you're coming from one of the approved bastion servers.

You shouldn't be able to get to one of the approved bastion servers unless you're coming from one of the approved trusted sources, on the approved user access list, and using your short-lived sshd certificate that was signed through the use of a hardware key.

And all those approved sources should be managed by your corporate IT department, and appropriately locked down by the corporate MDM process.

And you might want to think about whether you should also be required to be on the corporate VPN. Or, to be using comparable technologies to access those approved sources.
Russia made similar demands on Finland and Austria during the Cold War, and those 2 countries complied, and I'd rather live in Finland or Austria during any 2-year interval during the Cold War than in Ukraine these last 2 years.

The point is that maybe fighting was the right choice for Kiev to make on behalf of its constituents, but it wasn't obviously the right choice, like you seem to think it was.
> The problem is burning fossil fuels and producing CO2.

That's one problem. But I'm aware that CO2 is not the ONLY danger to the environment. Hopefully you are also aware of that and can discuss the topic beyond only CO2. We obviously wouldn't replace CO2 with methane, right? So let's talk about the environment, not just CO2.

>Mining lithium doesn't require gasoline.

Name one mine that doesn't use gasoline to mine, haul, store, or transport. Good luck.

>The radioactive products decay on short time scale.

At least 3% of the waste from any reactor is extremely harmful for many thousands of years. The other 97% is irrelevant. Why did you bring it up? Seems dishonest.

Citation: https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...

>Lithium batteries aren't a problem if they did decay.

Sure if you manage to keep them all really far away from each other. High concentrations of anything is a problem. Even a basic Wikipedia search can help you here. Leaked evaporation pools, water contamination, huge amounts of water usage in production, etc.

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

Go ahead and keep downvoting. Each downvote proves exactly what I'm saying; it's unacceptable to even discuss better solutions.
In the sense that a senile rapist wearing diapers while trying to set himself up as Americas Hitler with brown people playing the role of dangerous menace instead of Jewish people can be said to be cool. Nothing says Übermensch like a full pair of depends and the heady smell of shit mixing with the smell of clown like greasepaint.

I'd say he should have done this when he was young in the 80s but the role of TV star cosplaying as President was taken back then and we really both the apprentice to bring Trump into the popular consciousness and a drastic overreaction to a black man becoming president to make his ranting resonate.
Believe me, it was tried multiple times to understand it -> rewrite it. The code was incomprehensible, the new business analysts didn't seem to know exactly what it was doing.

By the time I left, the spreadsheet was still relied on heavily.
That stood out to me as well - just one more day and, legally speaking, the situation would've been totally different.
Mostly it says it’s hard and the machine would have to be big. So?

Same for galvanic whatever. “It would be hard to make it so precise as to not make you sick”. Ok, try hard then.
Deny by default, allow only those sources that are considered trustworthy. And frequently re-evaluate who and what should be considered trustworthy.
It's largely a wetware problem.

I am fascinated with extreme malpractice in the software field such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

which are mainly software development being eclipsed by business concerns but also everyday malpractice such as when you come across a registration form on the web that doesn't let you use certain characters such as quotes or words like "INSERT" or "DELETE" in your password. Last week there was this weird case,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39078372

because (1) they are not in control of quoting strings in their app because they aren't quoting systematically, (2) they are not in control of quoting strings in their app because their web application firewall quietly mutates form submissions according to arbitrary rules, and (3) are likely to be storing passwords in the databases in plain text, but in their case (4) they say they aren't storing passwords at all which makes me wonder why they ask for them, are they (5) passing the password on to some other application, making it a possible nexus to steal passwords? Bell Labs wrote on how to do it the (almost) right way but I bet people are still (6) hashing passwords without a salt, but at least I got the last laugh on folks who (7) thought "authentication is hard lets go shopping" cause their authentication-as-a-service vendor got bought and got shut down.

There are various selfish memes that take a good idea but become a substitute for critical thinking such as: test-driven development, agile, "learn a programming language", functional programming (e.g. use the real Y Combinator and you lose, sorry,) "OO Sux", etc.

There are also non-overlapping communities of practice such as

* Windows devs vs Linux devs
* People who use stored procs in databases and those who don't, ...

which make it hard for the software developer community to rise up against ignorance and malice.
That's what terraforming is - it creates/modifies/brings what is needed for an atmosphere and water and everything else.

We can't keep our current planet habitable because of current forcings that are not present on Mars, like varying governments, greed, incentives, etc. Plus, trying to live sustainably on Mars is likely to teach us more about how to live sustainably here.

It's quite a logical fallacy to suggest we shouldn't/can't try to make Mars human habitably simply because we're struggling with Earth right now. Doing both things at the same time would be related to each other and help each other.
There are so many areas of science that you could argue don’t make any difference to us. Should we stop research into black holes? How about astronomy all together? Why even spend money on NASA and any of its space exploration programs? Are all the people involved in these areas wasting their lives away? I mean all they’re doing is adding to the corpus of human knowledge. /s
Most of the cloud works this way unless you are using bare metal / largest size instances.
"Got around to" means "did alllllll the other things they thought might find a pet more quickly." There's nothing lackadaisical about it. It's just well down the list of things you try immediately after a pet is lost.

I have never seen a date on such a poster and it would never have occurred to me to expect one or put one if I lost my own pet. You seem to be the outlier with this expectation.
Businesses need to decide if they’re market makers or speculators. Often they masquerade as market makers but they’re really speculators.

Example: Las Vegas casinos aren’t economical to build. They got built by property developers speculating on real estate and using those gains to fund a casino. Property developers really shouldn’t be speculators.

So if your business is used cars, what are you? If you’re a market maker you maintain a small inventory and sell quickly. If you keep cars on your books you’re speculating on used car values. That was a good bet (it is gambling) in 2021. Now? Not so much.

The trap companies fall into is that the margins are too small or the volumes too low so they end up speculating whether they intended to or not. To be a good market maker you have to be really good at buying. Accidental speculation is gambling. A good year convinces you that you know what you’re doing until it blows up in your face.
And it's good. The point was that part of it was clearly a counter culture in opposition of white dominated main culture. This is completely something that a state level adversary may attempt to infiltrate given an opportunity.

And they tried and keep trying. A little recent refresher

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/30/560042987/russians-targeted-u...
[dupe] misleading again, we're days into this story.

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156492

Official post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39148422
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Isn’t blocking regions just going to block the legitimate traffic, and push determined adversaries to use proxies?
It’s still important to know you don’t know as opposed to not knowing you don’t know. In the former you have a chance of finding out.
I only see this opinion on HN really. HN as a community is obviously large and split, but the virtriol here against people that are interested in Mars science, habitability, etc is so intense. People here have told me to go live in my mom's basement and shut up about my interest in Mars. Or to go bury myself in Nevada. Or go live in Antarctica. And it's always said with such disdain, effectively insulting and hate-filled comments towards those who are interested or curious about something.

I'll never let the HN Mars-hate-fest ruin my curiousity - but boy is it annoying to read sarcastic comments about how dumb people are for being interested in something.

Go ahead though I guess. We all know you are well aware that living on a different planet is quite different from living under Nevada. Your hyberbole is ridiculous and it's like, do you want us to really think that humanity as a whole would agree that living on Mars is "exactly" the same as like, living in a basement in Nevada?? Uh-huh.
It probably means nothing coming from a stranger, but I want to say it anyway: I'm so sorry you went through that. Hugs!
This is a version I haven't seen before of my favorite piece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXoVo16pTg
doas.conf makes things clear to me what I'm enabling.

And we have the OpenBSD folks focused on clarity and security.
Try installing a new launcher/home screen app, like Nova, instead of using the default: https://novalauncher.com/
Passive learning. One can memorize stuff without comprehending its purpose, finding a direct use for it. But having information stored or encoded in long-term memory allows for new experiences or findings to be augmented by stuff one has picked up in the past. I think all kinds of magic can happen when an individual has a 'mind-library' and can combine it with newer learnings.
What will the creditors even get? Unfinished projects? That seems like more of a burden than anything. Zoinks!
It’s kind of an absurd notion to think the Internet would just allow Cloudflare to make any kind of unilateral decisions like what you suggest.
Examining AMD's RDNA 4 Changes in LLVM
That is such a weird perspective not at all relevant to this discussion.

Obviously all the examples you named are not a good fit for radio buttons. Except maybe the last one where you can just add an “invalid vote“ radio button choice.

But that doesn’t mean that for a fairly standard “pick one” vote radio buttons aren’t a good choice! You don’t have to be consistent within the concept of voting, you just have to be consistent for the one relevant use case!
Should you buy inexpensive laptops frequently or expensive ones for longterm?
My first question is - are these spams fishing for direct victims, or some dirty SEO trick?
What?

Someone uses their sexuality to sell so it’s okay to create and post images of them engaging in sexual acts?
Well funny story about that. I was at CarMax recently at the sales person told me how fucked over CarMax was on their Tesla fleet after buying so many…while the prices were dropping rapidly.

She said the CEO had to do a fire sale to move them all off their inventory sheets quickly, and they still lost a lot of money
Nearing the finish line? https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12525

> One of the plan’s priorities is the retirement of the Business
Master File by FY2027 and the Individual Master File by
FY2028

But it's not at all clear whether there's funding available to execute this plan.

I mean, yes, it's been 15 years and now only about five remains (because these projects never meet deadlines, let's face it) so they are nearer the finish line ... but it's very far still.
[dupe]

Official post 3 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39137641
Thank you, such a silly mistake
You do have "right eye" in there twice with opposite instructions.
It's a lot of people here - HN does occasionally love a space story, but typically Mars stories are met with insults, sarcasm and vitriol for those who are interested in it.

Edit: The effect is so strong, I have occasionally wondered if it is a concerted effort to get more people to start Mars startups, like nerd sniping. "Hurr you can't go to Mars like ever!!" -> "....just watch me". lol.
We're almost at (or are already at) the stage where the packaging of the chip costs more than the computer inside it.
Silurian hypothesis is specific to Earth’s geologic record which we’ve sampled all over the world millions of times. It’s less ridiculous to posit the same happening on Mars where we’ve only sent awkward robotic explorers. We haven’t explored any of the lava tubes or done ground penetrating radar studies or cut thousands of core samples all over the planet so we really have no idea what’s buried there like we do on Earth.
No it doesn't. 16-bit protected mode code will run natively even on 64-bit kernels - and there is a system call that can create the segment descriptors needed for that: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/modify_ldt.2.html
One of the things that I've thought about back in the days of poorly looped animated gifs and Java applets was those annoying flame gifs that didn't loop right. A project that I tinkered with (never finished) was creating a cellular automata that creates a flame like structure.

For a Java applet, it would have just continued on forever with random fuel being added. However, a different application of the 'fuel' for the flame would have had it loop over some period.

The other part is that with animated gifs and a 256 color pallet, one could index the flame color. Roughly for RGB this is step 3 through 0,0,0 -> 255,0,0 -> 255,255,0 -> 255,255,255 (not perfect, but it kind of works for a proof of concept).

And then, the value of a cell is a function of the cells below it in the previous time iteration.

With the fuel rows at some point looping (if written that way), so too would the overall frame loop at some point... and you could have a perfectly looping flame gif.

While that's all well and good, flame gifs are kind of a 90s thing... but my interest in reviving that old code coincides with me occasionally wondering "what could I do if I made a volumetric display?"
If it was an SEO trick, you'd think they wouldn't bother at-mentioning people. Usually SEO stuff tries to fly under the radar so it can stay online, and visible to search engines, for as long as possible. (Like the classic technique of spamming generic "nice post!" comments on WordPress blogs with your profile URL set to the spam site.)
You need to document everything you do.
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Yes, it's mostly a new training technique (that is impressive: "PIXART-α only takes 10.8% of Stable Diffusion v1.5's training time"). I'm not really sure if it really improves the image quality over SDXL, but it may a bit: https://pixart-alpha.github.io
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39134934

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39136967

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39139868

And of course more discussion on the App Store news story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132453
> It really would be something if you could just like go buy a used car at a fixed fair price with literally zero hassle.

Is this not exactly what Carmax does, as said above?
AMUSEd: Efficient Text-to-Image Generation
I think leftists who are losing their minds over Elon Musk's Twitter are a loud minority. If Nitter goes down, nothing at all will change. Twitter will continue to thrive and people will continue to use it and link to it.
[dupe]

recently,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39110663

And weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38931869
Because it can answer, and complicate, questions and theories from everything like theology to biology.
This is the correct pattern. It's usually a good idea to also add a tooltip that clarifies the action (although that doesn't help on mobile).
There are too many Americans on HN.
Hassle is inherent to the used car market, because the product has inherently inconsistent and diminished quality, supply inherently mismatched with demand, etc. A good website or a clever business plan will never fix the problem that used cars cannot be manufactured.

“No haggle” pricing is hardly a differentiator. Many traditional dealers in volume markets have done this for decades now. And buyers who really are willing to pay a premium to not haggle can simply pay sticker and choose to not haggle.

Buyers who are frustrated with the used car experience and have the money to spend buy new cars. These disruptors are left fighting over some slice of buyers in the mid-market using the same limited sourcing ability thousands of other competitors suffer from.
But that doesn't address the neuroplasticity that's possible with this kind of learning. It's not just a matter of training yourself, is that, when you train yourself, the movements become natural, and feel like a reasonable way to move yourself through space.
I'm assuming this is sarcasm for the above comment
Also called the gambler's fallacy.
I’m out of the self-hosting game now, but back in the day we just tried to keep up on security announcements.
Ah that's good to know. I use Brave and didn't know that!
[dupe]

Official site message a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39099763
Uncensored hateful content after Hamas attack uncovered on Chinese social media
It is hard to know if you have fixed or broke something when there are hundreds of distinct variants of it and no way to test its correctness.

Also, not all maintenance involves correcting inborn defects.
You really think declaring neutrality and abandoning NATO was far worse than the current war?

>There'd be literally nothing stoping Russia from resuming war at their convenience

The worst peace is better than the best war.
This is not secret. Buffett said before his receipt of investment success - he don't consider minor share (less then 10%), only major, and sure, his best consultants dive deep into specifics of invested entity.

Sure, this is extremely time consuming, and this mean, such investment business could only have very few wards, but this is extremely effective.

You may wonder, why such simple rules are not widely used, but in reality many humans are not serious investors, they just like to play games with real money.
It’s probably more useful for working out the memorization muscle than the information itself.
Trivial, but salient: sale drops for things like electronics or tickets. The only reason I got Pax East passes in 2014 is because I got a Twitter alert. They were gone 10 minutes later. An email alert showed up a half-hour later. I'm sure people have had similar experiences with more significant events.
I didn't imply that. I'm clearly stating, without hidden implications, that destroying a forest to build a solar panel is not environmentally sound. I don't care what the CO2 reduction is. It's negligible in comparison to the damage you're causing to the environment.
It's not really a duplicate if the other discussion had 2 comments.
Prospect of life tease in the headline and intro required to draw in the reader.
Now we need to write parquet files from Postgres. Its essentially what do we need to do for end to end solution with PG by leveraging extensions
This is massively popular in the medical student scene. They can't get enough of it, but also complain about it's restrictiveness at the same time. I wonder if there are any other platforms / if this is a space for disruption...
> Bayesian filters worked very well for email spam.

As someone flagged me, I'd like to know how well current filters catch LLM-generated spam? By hypothesis, not well, especially given that you can always run a LLM output through f(g(h(...))).
The parent didn't dismiss just this story. They seem to have pre-emptively dismissed the actual discovery of life on Mars if it were to ever happen, because it would be just the little things anyway…
I fully agree with this sentiment - but what is the solution? I think most people do agree that such uses of this technology are horrible, but what can we really do about it? We can't put the cat back in the bag, and while efforts to censor the more popular services are commendable (if it's even possible to do so), that's not really going to stop bad actors from doing it
Normal people don’t care. That’s why there are still people running 7 or 8 and MS has been trying to convince them for a decade to upgrade, even giving 10 and 11 away.

“If you give up everything you were used to and learn something completely new that may not be quite as good for you as what you have and no one you know can help you with then in five years you might not be forced to do the thing you weren’t going to do anyway!” is not a winning argument.

You have to argue things that help them, NOW. If arguments about what’s better in the future worked everyone would have much much bigger savings accounts.
We are probably just a few years away until everyone carries some LLM on their body that sees and hears everything and it will give us contextual information about everything via some AR glasses. Humans will forget how to memorize things, most likely. I already have lost this till a long time ago. It got replaced with a skill of vaguely remembering where I can find that information again (A book? Google? Some social media platform? Somewhere on my disk? Some USB stick?)