skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/daodejing41.php

But I can also laugh with you :-) The dao is a tautology. To say that it can be found in science is to say that water can be found in the ocean. The dao is neither right nor wrong because it exists due to its definition. Whether helpful or unhelpful, it depends on your point of view.

To the author, his observations are helpful so we can celebrate his enlightenment. To you you they are ridiculous, so we can enjoy our laughter.
Typical day as an Electrical engineer at a autonomous vehicles company.

- Work on Schematics and layout for various different boards (usually only get time for one each day).
- Go to meetings with multiple different engineering teams to make sure that cross-functional requirements are being met (usually the software and mechanical guys making demands of what they need which just means what they want to make their life easier by making the EE's suffer).
- troubleshoot issues on the already built hardware and add the fixes to upcoming revisions.
- Argue with purchasing department about the reason I need to get a certain type of testing equipment.

-A lot of component research and validation and meetings with vendors to determine if that components is right one.

and this is just the pure hardware tasks. There is always potential to have to deal with firmware issues as well.

I may spent half my day at my desk, at least an hour or two in a lab and the rest is for meetings.
"Systems have so much memory, it doesn't matter if I increase memory usage for simplicity or maintainability."

Now look at your stack and count how many developers could have uttered this phrase when designing each module, subsystem, library, protocol, service, daemon, file type, interface, or plug-in that's part of it.

We should count ourselves lucky that hardware engineers have afforded us the ability to make such trades but we shouldn't take it for granted.
Actually yu can and someone already built and sold a business around it to the tune of nearly $100M.
I'm an electrical engineer by trade, and do embedded systems design for a living. I do a lot of board placement and layout planning, plus writing test plans for verifying that what we build is good at scale. I also do a reasonable amount of debug, as that just comes with the territory. I'd say it's about 70% software time for planning and CAD work, 30% hands-on lab time. Note that it's not uniform - I might be in the lab for two months straight, then not go in for six.

Generally, "embedded systems" implies some programming as well, but I do little to none of that. I think I'm the exception rather than the rule in that sense.

If you wanna get simplistic about it, I spend half my time playing "connect the dots" in overpriced software, and the other half arguing with people about where I decided to put the lines.

On the one hand, there's a lot more standardization in the components I string together to make a working system. On the other hand, it can be just as hard to track down the source of a problem. You happen to have caught me at a point where I'm stuck trying to figure out the proper answer to a mysterious boot issue, and let me tell you what - it's about as frustrating as frustrating gets. You have to push yourself to think hard about what you haven't done, even when you've done everything by the book. ("The book" in this context is documentation, design guides, processor reference manuals - things that tell you what to do to get your system working.)

Point I'm trying to illustrate - don't think that hardware is any easier than software. It's very, very gratifying to see something real, that you can hold in your hands, work. Doubly so when people actually use your stuff and tell you how much they love it. (Yay, consumer electronics!)
If I may ask, how does Uber/Lift work for musicians who play larger instruments? I'm a double bassist. For now, playing music is pretty much my main use of a car.

Can you request a bigger car?
This whole thing related to such excessive pricing for such an essential thing in life for some, so vividly shows the ugly side of capitalism.
Quite. That was my point.
And the drug isn't patented.

I've seen multiple people try to figure out why there is no competition, and some consensus around the fact that while the drug is not patented, the particular delivery device design (or combination of it and the drug) is patented, and due to issues of needing to train people on multiple different delivery devices, there's no room to break into the market with an equivalent that evades the patent concern.
Supporting Windows 7 on hardware from that era and making it forward compatible are two different things.

If Windows 7 came with your machine you're covered. If you're looking to build or buy a new system you need to go Windows 10. If you don't like that, you have other non-Windows options.
Indeed. The system works, most of the time.
I don't see a mistake. In the real world, success is not guaranteed from effort. College is just the beginning for finding that out. Thomas Edison would say that he didn't fail, he just discovered 99 ways that don't work.

You discovered that you like creating apps and businesses, and don't care much for CS theory. Great! That means you won't waste more years on it.

Unlike you, I wasn't so fortunate as to fail my classes early in a major I didn't enjoy. I even ended up getting a Masters in it. Now I'm much older than you and creating apps.

See what I'm getting at? Failure might actually be success.
Just to be clear: you believe SpaceX has "a blatant disregard for even basic elements of safety in their design and operation," and you base this on two anecdotes from friends (which you won't share), and an element of the Falcon 9 that has never caused a loss of vehicle, and is arguably a point of reliability (Falcon 9 can still complete its mission with an engine out, while most other launchers cannot).
Do you actually believe that kids with peanut allergies should die, or is this some sort of economics game of chicken where you try to stick to the script longer than anyone else?
God, meetings. So many meetings. Why? Why?!
This made a lot more sense after I saw your profile:

> Working as shift engineer in power plant
Somewhat related to the topic, but as time passes, electrical engineering becomes more and more about choosing which software remedy to apply to what once were pure hardware solutions.

And when that is not the case, when hardware is going to be built, the decisions about circuitry and methods are increasingly determined in advance with software.

Here's an example -- in my career as an electrical engineer (30 years ago) I designed any number of phase locked loops in circuitry. Now I design them with a keyboard and a computer monitor, [using methods like this](http://arachnoid.com/phase_locked_loop/). The new PLLs work much, much better than the hardware-based ones, as well as requiring far less guesswork and effort.

So my advice is not to abandon a software-based approach, it increases your employability compared to someone who only knows hardware.
My twenty one year old daughter died two months ago. A young policeman came to my door. It was the first time he had to do the job mentioned in the article and he did it very well.

I have very little memory of those first few hours. I now know what it is to be insane. I was so disconnected from reality that people have told me that I had long conversations with them that I have zero recollection of. The only thing I clearly remember was telling the officer that I had a gun upstairs and that if he didn't take it, I was going to murder the man responsible for her death within the hour. It was the most matter of fact confession of planning a murder imaginable.

After a couple of hours, I saw a Facebook post of hers and lost it, the insane calm left me and I bawled my eyes out.

It's her birthday tomorrow. I miss her so, so much.

Anyway, the point of this post: my daughter died of an overdose. She was at a party, a man gave her powdered pure fentanyl claiming it was cocaine. I have no idea why. She snorted some and overdosed soon after.

All I want to happen is that someone somewhere reads about what happened to my daughter and reminds their kids that without proper testing kits, they have no idea what the fuck they are taking. Drugs may not be bad, but some people certainly are.
Are dam projects ever a good idea? I'm not being flip or sarcastic.

When I think of dams, I think of catastrophic failure which almost always ends in thousands of deaths. I think of how quickly untended dams will fail. I think of what kind of target a dam makes. I think of flooding and burying wilderness and wildlife and even towns like this.

I also think of hydro-electric power and water availability... but aren't there other ways to tackle those problems?

Are dams ever a good idea?
> That's because young people don't have families.

I fit that profile. I've lived in LA for >15 years & didn't use my car much.

I now have two small children.

Still don't use my car much.

Groceries? Google Express. Diapers & other random things? Amazon. Taking my son to preschool? I hooked up a trailer to my bike & drop him off on the way to work.

My son loves trains, so taking the Metro is a blast with him. It's maybe a 30 minute walk to the closest stop & from there we can hit the beach, downtown SM, the Science Center & so on.

To be fair we do have a car. Rare is obviously rare, but when it happens, I use the car. Along with trips to home depot or to see a friend on the other side of town.

But honestly, LA is a great to live car free. If you develop your life around a car it naturally becomes hard to remove the car. But if you start off developing your life w/o the car, it's much, much easier to ditch it.
They don't. They are different people. Their old life ended the day their child died.
>That's because young people don't have families. You see this play out with every generation. I read an article recently that incredulously reported that Millenials - the car rejecting generation! - have started buying cars. Of course they have, because they're coming into the age where they get married, have kids and move to the suburbs.

If that was the case, you'd see it repeated in every generation, but we don't. People in the 50s and 80s still wanted a car even when they were 16, and bought one as soon as they could afford it.

People in general buy less cars nowadays, and those that do buy, also buy smaller cars increasingly more.
Unfortunately it's kind of a joke here in Chicago too. You'll hear everyone saying "Suns out guns out" and crap like that. Especially holiday weekends are the worst. I'm not sure why it's this way, but I have a cop neighbor and he tells me summer holiday weekends are the worst for the force. Tons of overtime to be had and tons of hooligans shooting each other. This year the police union told the officers not to take overtime [1]. Unfortunately I'm worried it will end up in more shootings.

1. http://wgntv.com/2016/09/01/police-union-tells-cops-to-avoid...
I think KDE was my first Linux GUI ... can't remember. I do know that I really liked it.
Your assertion that there would be "some clustering by random chance" is correct, however rocket failures are most definitely not described well by a Poisson distribution. The simplest reasonable model would be to assume each launch campaign has a fixed probability of failure, and that the probability of any given failure event is independent of the others. In other words, a binomial distribution. And this is a commonly applied model, I've seen a number of people doing such calculations in the last few days.

However, these assumptions do not accurately reflect reality. When a failure occurs launches are stopped, the problem is identified, and the problem is fixed. A failure event should cause reliability to increase for subsequent launches; failures are not conditionally independent.
>Not a lot of medium-or-larger-sized-dog-friendly public transport that I've found

Why would you want to transport your dog inside the city? Apart from the occasional visit to the vet maybe?

For their walks, you could always use your neighborhood and peripheral places -- shouldn't there be some suitable spot within 1 mile or so at least?
Why is this "how to tell a mother her child is dead" instead of "how to tell parents that their child is dead"?
If the largest shareholder is a mutual fund, then the shareholders so far removed from the actual situation that I think the onus for ethical decision-making falls on the executives and the board of directors. They're the ones with the knowledge and focus to be able understand the consequences of their decisions on the people who rely on their products.
How much time do you spend these days being chased by ISO 26262 requirements, and the like?
You should probably explain more why you think SITAX and that guy are relevant.

The Vanguard Health Care Fund owns ~$1 billion of Mylan (out of $48.6 billion under management). SITAX manages around $2.7 million.

I don't see why SITAX and the guy that manages it matter to this story at all. The Vanguard fund having a big stake in Mylan certainly means that lots of people have a stake in Mylan though.
It is not the case. Evernote was created by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Pachikov who also founded Parascript company http://www.parascript.com, which was doing OCR long before Abbyy and is mostly specialized on handwriting. So both technologies are from Russia, but teams are independent.
I basically agree with your comment. Let me just add that I get the impression that Putin didn't go ahead and try to grab the rest of Ukraine was he was afraid NATO and the US would intervene. In addition a lot of the Russian public was unhappy with the military deaths, and much of his limited military got diverted to Syria.

The broader picture, as you indicate, is yes, he is imperialistic and nasty, but he hasn't gotten very far and probably won't in the future if the West stays united against him. Oh, and that is one reason he has this massive online troll campaign, it is to confuse and weaken the West.

Lets remember this whole discussion started because I said that Putin has a zero-sum, win-lose view of international relations, and people said my view was just speculation, so I elaborated it, and you are giving further confirmation.

Let me add that Putin's win-lose approach to the rest of the world is in part because he is a Russian, and as a consequence of Russian history he sees the world as a constant struggle of nations where you either defeat your enemies or are defeated yourself. This means it is best to strike first and grab as much land and power as possible.

Just as in economics, Russia has never figured out that in the modern, especially post-WWII and nuclear world, things have moved to a considerably more secure and win-win sort of situation. So Putin and the Russians have this wacky belief that the US is out to conquer Russia and turn it into a colony, whereas actually the US would just like to have reasonably peaceful relations.
He's talking about opportunities. For sure, if you keep doing what you're doing, you will have consistent income. But what if, one day, your boss came to you with a novel, difficult problem that no one in the company, and perhaps in your industry, had already solved? The argument goes, having an arsenal of advanced math at your disposal would make you more likely to solve that difficult, novel problem, and set you up to be handsomely rewarded.
And when they act improperly, as these have, it is the responsibility of shareholders to get rid of them.
What subfield are u in?
It isn't really that terrible an idea for the owner of the bridge to allow vehicles across that will only fit in the center lanes.

They just need to make sure that the drivers understand that the height limit is lower in the outer lanes.
"At the time it was granted, the award was potentially worth as much as $82 million overall to the company’s top five executives. But it would be worthless if the company—whose star product is the EpiPen—fails to achieve at least 90% of its 2018 earnings target."

And let's not forget that capitalism is people, not faceless, nameless machinery. Five people promised $82m between them had their greed overshadow anything else. This was spurred on by the greed of the board that would do anything to aggressively increase profits - but put the "how" on someone else for plausible deniability.

Greed is the part of capitalism that regulation stands in the way of. Too aggressively rid the system of regulation and greed will consume everything.
There's actual data on this. The correlation between summer and increased violent crime is real.
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/spcvt.pdf
Boring addition: 139 mail ("important user" listed on WoSign's [comparison] before the page's [removal]), azure.cn (who used CNNIC before switching to WoSign), and cnnic.cn (yes, CNNIC root CA) all switched to DigiCert for their sites. Great alternative it seems like.

[comparison]: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20160828045112/https://www.wo...

[removal]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/...
I think we shouldn't create an incentive structure where making the next Tinder is a better way to make money than making the next Epipen. Talented drug developers aren't born any more charitably-minded than talented app-developers, and if you impose an artificial charity function on drug development you'll just drive talented people to other fields where they can make more money.

Every year a ton of MIT, Stanford, and Harvard graduates go into Silicon Valley or Wall Street instead of getting a PhD in biology or physics because we've got this perverse idea that the more "important" something is the more people who go into that field should be willing to forgo material interests. "Greed is good" if you're building a Pokemon game, but "evil" if you're saving lives or feeding the world. That's backward.

Obviously kids shouldn't die because they can't afford essential medicines. But that means that the government should pay for those at market rates--not that companies doing important things should take on obligations to be quasi charities.
> the ugly side of capitalism

True if you mean the thing we call capitalism in the US.

The only reason the price of a $1 piece of plastic can possibly be so high is because of a very noncompetitive situation created by various cronies and abetted by regulators.

Let's call it what it is. It's not capitalism, it's simply a corrupt regulatory system and firms that have learned how to exploit it to their advantage. it's nothing like a market that allows competition, and the regulation is nothing like a fair referee that allows the best player to win.

Under actual capitalism, there would have been price competition and perhaps (gasp) a startup would have started selling epi pens for a reasonable price just as Google started offering massive email storage for a reasonable price, etc.

While I understand the emotional reaction that it is "essential for life" (I have family members who rely upon them), let's blame what is actually at fault, laws that allow firms to do this sort of thing and prevent solutions from emerging.
You only have a "monthly Costco haul" because you are stuck in a car-dominated mindset where you drive however many miles to get to that Costco.

I buy fresh weekly...
It fits his actions, and so I assume he really believes it and is acting on it. As I said above, he is an authoritarian leader, and so what the government actually does may be very different than the laws and policies it presents to the public.
I've been a private military contractor for more than thirty years.
Some of the companies I was working for had very impersonal procedures to handle deaths.
I offered a few times to personally inform the family / next of kin for the guys that were working with me directly but that request was always denied because it was not "cost efficient".

So I always did the trip on my own.

The loss hit them like a truck every time, I have a few memories that make me wake up in the middle of the night three days a week but the look on a mother's face when you tell her that her son is dead is something you will never forget as long as you live.

Still, I am glad I went to see every family of everyone I lost in all those years. There was crying and screaming and tears and a lot of blaming, I even got slapped a few times but I always told them I'll be in a hotel nearby for the next days and if they want to talk they can call me any time of the day.

Some never called but after a day or two most invited me back to their home or came by and we had a few long talks over the next days until I had to go.

I've been in touch with most of those families over the years and I heard a lot of times that it gave them peace to know that I was there when their son / brother / husband / grandson died and that I came by personally to try to comfort them before they got "the letter".

I wish everyone that you will never come into this situation because it's almost as hard and unfair to be the messenger as it is to be the recipient of that message.
It's a good design for 99% of the time and a very good design from a high speed traffic flow point of view. It requires minimal ramp up to crossing a feature that is nearly at the level of surrounding land.

The correct engineering solution is to have diversity of designs, including an 'open top' bridge near by, which can serve the other cases as well as critical backup traffic during the failure.

You might note that most of the preventative measures outlined do not modify the design of the bridge, but focus on actually keeping records that track the more critical /minimum/ clearance value, as well as more accurately detecting and reporting to the traveling 'over-sized' vehicle that an abort condition has been reached.
In this case I think the tradeoff is not worthy. We're not in the 80s anymore and its ok for a desktop to load an app icon with an additional file access. Even more if its a well known vector format.

Imagine what would have happened if HTML had been a non human-readable binary format just to spare a few bytes.

Some optimizations are counter productive.
The opposite of rent seeking is not prices set in monopsony systems.
Sure, but the premise here is that the population no longer trusts the government to serve their best interests, nor perhaps abide by the constitution.

It's all about checks and balances. The second amendment gives some power to the people to revolt (in theory), as a check against government power. If the people need to trust the government not to do something unconstitutional (i.e. not confiscate weapons) for that to be effective, then the check is no longer useful and it defeats the purpose of the second amendment.
> P.S.: as an anecdote, I just recently used my (minimal) category theory knowledge to change the way I take notes, so that I can smoothly use outlining tools (like org-mode) more like mindmaps when taking notes on complex topics.

I, and likely many others, would love to see a writeup of this if you ever felt inclined to write one.