skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To beat your analogy into the ground, go to a car show and see what happens if you flick a single grain of sand onto some of the cars.

My only point is to draw attention to there being wildly different views on where the line should be drawn.

I am way over on the permissive side, if you're curious. I do think it needs to be disclosed and separate records kept/established.
During the Manhattan Project some were motivated by solving a technological frontier and didnt really think about the consequences.
If you are looking into a good electric vehicle def look into electric unicycles (EUCs.) There is a steep 3-6 hour learning curve but once you can ride one well it's hard to see other options as better alternatives, I love mine and it's a super versatile way to get around.
I have a friend who was a recreational climber. One day she's at the climbing wall with her boyfriend. She's climbing, he's on the ground holding her line.

For those who don't climb, and I don't (although I've been on a climbing wall), the idea is that if you fall the other person is holding on to the rope and and managing the slack so that you don't fall any distance and can be gently lowered or grab back onto the wall.

Her boyfriend wasn't paying attention; he was chatting to some friends of his and hadn't noticed how much slack there was in the line. She's quite high up the wall, loses grip, falls, and doesn't stop until she hits the ground because there's so much slack.

She's paralysed from the waist down, in a wheelchair for life. The boyfriend is, well, not her boyfriend any more.

She's made the best of the situation, has a good career, and has met someone else she's now engaged to, but she's still angry about it, and I can't say I blame her.
> The tests that start as attempts to evaluate and quantify effectiveness become the goals themselves, rather than measures of the true goals.

I think you need a second factor to make flawed metrics a big problem: increased competition.

More competition strongly incentivizes all actors in a complex system to favor optimizing over the currently-measured metrics rather than the true goal.

You see this playing out across all parts of society today: academics that chase impact score rather than groundbreaking research, bankers that chase short-term profits to the detriment of actual sound banking, and now we have a Navy that can't do basic seamanship.

I think we really need to recognize as a society that if the thing you care about is inherently hard to measure (e.g. science, the overall stability of the financial sector, the ability to fight the next war while still at peacetime), there are no shortcuts, you just need to suck it up and keep trying to measure the real thing rather than only relying on proxies.

Throwing more and more effort at optimizing over bad metrics will only lead to long term disaster.
It's simple, have two leagues.

1. Human performance only - no drugs, no implants, no performance boosts.
2. Unlimited league. Take all the drugs you want, when we have them, install new muscles, cybernetic implants, whatever. Go wild.

This way, the real purists, who want to push the envelope of human capability get to do so without having to compete with dopers.

AND

High dollar/prestige sports will fund new and interesting areas of biomedical research. It will be like indy car racing for human bodies.
>Sometimes I wonder, how it is to be an engineer to work for a crazy dictator.

Luckily we know the answer already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36MSXRPjfLk
not in military, but the joke among colleagues has been that we are very in following our processes, not so good in getting anything done. sadly this is excused because the process was followed and the auditors are happy
Indeed. Some people think North Korea _acts_ being irrational because it is the rational thing to do.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/26/kim-jong-un-is-a-survivo...:

"While North Korea’s nuclear program is defensive, it still makes sense to remind the world about its existence and use what President Richard Nixon once described as “madman strategy,” that is, to appear to one’s opponents to be irrational, volatile, and willing to disregard costs. That’s why North Korean propaganda uses such fiercely colorful language. When North Korean TV promises to “make Seoul into a sea of fire,” or threatens to nuke Canberra, or shows Kim Jong Un in front of a map of the United States with cities marked as targets of nuclear strikes, they are delivering the same message: “we are here, we are volatile, and will stop at nothing if our opponents do something threatening.”"

Madman strategy has a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory, which states Machiavelli wroet sometimes it is "a very wise thing to simulate madness"
For some perspective here, the maternal mortality rate in the USA is 28 per 100,000 births. So skydiving is about 50x safer than giving birth.
For context, it should be noted that it's not the first time a NK test missile crosses over into a neighbour's air space, see [1] for recent example, although I'm pretty sure they did the same thing a few year ago.

So basically: nothing new.

[1] http://safeairspace.net/information/north-korea/
I'm sure. They are officially incorporated under the umbrella WARR organization which also has the rocketry and satellite student projects of the TUM, but doesn't receive any funding either. They basically have financial compliance oversight and that's it.
The U.S. government is in disarray (to understate it) and is in a moment of weakness. I am sure Pyongyang knows this and is testing the waters to see what it can get away with. Will a meaningful, competent retaliation come?

Maybe they went this far because all the previous probings confirmed the weakness. How much further will they go? Who else will come out of the woodwork and start strutting around now that nobody has the will or know-how to stop them?
Growing up a popular Chinese restaurant in my hometown had a system like that. Their main business was phone orders for pickup. After a while when I called they would ask if I wanted what I got last time and if I would like to ask anything. Occasionally they would put an extra item in my order and then next time ask if I enjoyed it. Great place, but for whatever reason they eventually fell out of popularity and closed.
"I was just following orders", right? Turns out that's not a great defense anywhere in the world.
Yeah that's a good sign that Bitcoin is not an investment its a lottery ticket, or more realistically an entry in a pyramid scheme.
No .. it just "displays" those icons, the origin code is still valid and verbose, you can think it as a kind of code highlighting.
Greetings from your friends at TUfast Driverless :)
Oddly enough, I first learned about this fact from a movie, Behind Enemy Lines 2 I believe, or one of the Splinter Cell games...
Maybe it does not in fact matter what they say.
> Also, know, that as soon as war starts with NK, they will start shelling Seoul with traditional artillery within a few minutes before we could do anything about it. I think Bannon estimated it at 20 million deaths within a few hours.

Just to make that clear: This isn't a revelation Bannon had, at least not remotely first. That military solutions to the NK problem would involve tremendous human cost has widely been publicly reported on, often enough with well documented sources. Before the last few weeks the US govt admitted as much.
Relevant RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2033-expe...

This looks like a huge win for Rust. The syntax seems to follow the C# and ES async/await syntaxes. With stuff like this, I can see Rust-based webdev becoming popular.
Someone posted this on Twitter: "Alarm from JP Gov. 'A missile was fired from North Korea. Please evacuate to a sturdy building or basement.'"

https://twitter.com/Chihokomoriya/status/902276766705664000
North Korea is absolutely at, or very near, a strategic position wherein attacking better-armed foes is a winning strategy. Consider:

1. NK's economy is in shambles. The regime has almost nothing to lose.

2. NK's regime does not care about human life (as evidenced by abuses against the people of NK). They would have no qualms about killing many many foreign civilians.

3. NK's populace/military would either not know about such an attack, would be convinced by state media that it was a justified attack on a military target, or would not be in a position to do anything about it.

4. Every country which NK has threatened (US, Japan, SK) is in all ways the opposite of the above: economically robust; government/military respecting of human life (of course there is room for debate there); populace respecting of human life and wary of war.

That means that any attack from NK against one of the above countries plays out as follows:

1. NK obliterates a population center. It has now demonstrated a capable threat.

2. NK makes demands (food, money, land, autonomy, whatever).

3. Victim country (say Japan) can either retaliate with precision strikes, retaliate in kind, retaliate with massive force, do nothing, or give in to demands.

3.a. Retaliating with precision strikes takes too long. NK launches another devastating attack. It is clearly not an option for the victim to lose another population center.

3.b. Retaliating in kind would be unacceptable to the government and populace of the victim country and the world at large. And if it were, it would not be worth the chance of a second attack from NK.

3.c. Retaliating with massive force (the "Trump" option) is absolutely not an option. Like the previous response, it would be completely unacceptable to the rest of the world, but most importantly, you would now be in a war with China who has to contend with a flood of refugees from a destroyed country.

3.d. Do nothing. Another city gets destroyed. NK is desperate, and there are lots of cities it can blow up until it gets its way.

3.e. Give in to demands. This is the only outcome that is all-around tenable. NK is happy, and further massive loss of human life is prevented.

NK is in an even better position if they can win their demands by merely demonstrating capability of destroying – or accidentally destroying – a city (e.g. by launching missiles over Japan), because they can repeat that trick more frequently than by actually destroying a city.
Is anyone else having this feeling (and I'll immediately add the disclaimer that I mean "irrational gut feeling with no factual back-up") that the current cryptocurrency hype is going to end similar to the information superhighway hype of the nineties, with a lot of disappointments, a few big new players, and then a kind of "revival" a decade later where we get it right?

Again, I have no evidence to back this up, I just have a feeling that spectacular mistakes will be made, things will crash and burn when idealism can no longer paper over the parts where naive hopes cannot be reconciled with harsher realities, learn from that, and then get it right the second time around.

EDIT: Note that this is basically a criticism of human nature, not of cryptocurrencies
As my mother used to say, "Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first."

Because of the proximity of the two countries, what you hope for is logistically impossible. Traditional artillery can't be intercepted in the way your describing. Unless sabotaged beforehand(which is unlikely since North Korea is an intelligence services black hole), by the time we scramble a response to take out their artillery, the damage is done. Nukes are largely out of the question as well, unless you plan to blanket South Korea and Japan in radioactive fallout.
I am going to reserve judgment for a year, to see how banning garbage bags works out for a country with a huge garbage problem
The students went out and got their own sponsorship from external bodies. The university provides no money.
Anti-missile defense systems on the ballistic scale are pretty much a 50/50 proposition. There's signs they may have been testing multiple re-entry vehicles as well, which makes it even more difficult.

But just because anti-missile systems weren't used here doesn't mean they don't exist. US/Japan could have decided the missile was probably headed for the Pacific and decided not to intercept. The location and capability of US anti-missile batteries would be strategically useful information for NK, so better to keep them quiet if you don't have to use them.
Shouldn't the title be OVER Japan since it is reported to have gone over Japan?
All of this is very helpful! Thanks for taking the time to respond so thoroughly. I'm quite fascinated now, and am going to dig deeper into much of the advice you've given. Thank you!
The Untold History of Palestine & Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUZaR3op1qw
I tried setting up a usable mastadon and distopia account, not only are the interfaces shit, but during my signup I had 0 explanation about the process (where's the FAQ and blog posts explaining stuff?).

Also, during the sign-up, both Mastadon and Distopia give me a list of instances , but close to Zero information about the instances, so after some failed google searches i just randomly picked one and was dumped into shitty web UI with no information whatsoever.

In the end I had a bunch of unanswered questions (how do i link instances, or do i have to do a seperate sign up for each one?), so i just gave up.
In your opinion, are high level commanders well educated? field experienced ?
Here's a rendered version of the documentation added in that commit: https://github.com/Zoxc/rust/blob/a996d5eec70ba6733e23f2e56e...
On salaries:
If your senior engineers are making less than the entry-level engineers at Google / Facebook / Amazon / Other large employer in your area, then make no mistake about it - they're unhappy because you're underpaying them.
Will a meaningful, competent retaliation come?

So please explain what that can possibly be. Economic sanctions against China?
In my experience firmware is developed by an underclass who are happy to have any decent-paying job at all.

Or maybe the people who work on the ME realize that it's far from the largest risk in the system.
Everyone being aware of the dangers of, say, heart disease doesn't miraculously make a cure appear.

And within the game of MAD North Korea is playing against the US and South Korea, I'm pretty sure it would be beneficial for the US to publicise the ability to neutralise the threat against Seoul. Because that threat is what gives NK the safety to continue the development of nuclear weapons and ICBMs.

The only reason not to publicise such capabilities would be the possibility to, in turn, neutralise this "instant-reaction type airforce" (or whatever it may be). And I'm having a hard time coming up with any realistic scenario.
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Russian aircraft semi-regularly test British air response times.
Lab space is provided by TUM makerspace, which is a separate commercial venture, affiliated with but organizationally separate from the university.

I posted to distinguish the TUM team from for example Swissloop, who receive direct funding and R&D support from ETH.
I'm confused what this has to do with what I wrote? I'm not sure I'm interpreting it correctly, as I can't seem to see how it applies to my own point. I was addressing "That seems to be canonically false, however, due to the fact that they had the metaphorical "gun to S. Korea's Head" long before they had nukes".

I'm just noting that "ability to cause a lot of damage to ally" and "ability to cause a lot of damage to you" can have different weights in the decision process.
You must be fast, I was relatively leisurely biking to work in Oakland, usually about 14-16mph, and a guy on a e-skateboard zipped right by me.
They have been doing this for decades. It is the same spiel every year to show off power to their people. I don't think they care much about the rest of the world.
I'd suggest if you could map all your movement, navigation, pre-configured layouts to a command box with fuzzy matching available with Ctrl-Space or the like you would quickly become more proficient than with the mouse.

Spacemacs and the Hydra package for Emacs are interesting as well but I actually prefer to just start typing commands until I get the match I want.
Crew resource management is non-existent: Listen to the officer of the watch shout down the other person in the lead up to the USS Porter collision.
http://gcaptain.com/intense-bridge-conversation-porter/
There is a convenient unit for assessing risk : the micromort. 1 micromort = 1 in a million chance of dying.

Micromort values from wikipedia :

- skydiving : 8 per jump

- hang gliding : 8 per trip

- motorcycle : 1 per 10km

- Ecstasy (MDMA, drug) : 0.5-13 per pill

- BASE-jumping : 430 per jump

So as you can see; skydiving, hang-gliding, motorcycling and drugs are in the same ballpark. BASE-jumping is way worse.

When you are young, you "spend" around 1 micromort per day just being alive, it goes up steeply as you get older.
I think relevant game theory is happening within the leader's cabinet, if the leader feels their position is under threat and things are spiraling out of control, one risky option is to create a crisis and use it as an opportunity to cull dissenters and shore up loyalists.
Considering what happened to Iraq, Libya, soon Syria and all the others, yes, nuclear capabilities are among the only things to protect you.

And to think the countries were destroyed for the mere fact that they happened to have 'the wrong system of government'...
So, downtown streets are currently dry again, and we're doing fine. Drove out there myself to drop donations at the George R. Brown convention center.

You don't know what the hell you're talking about and, frankly, most of the folks who don't live in this area (including media) don't either.

There's a lot of fun to be had in jerking off over how evil and terrible the storm is, but the fact is that we are getting it handled and that we are coming together and doing better.
The accuracy of those studies has been questioned and the ethics of using that data, independent of their accuracy, debated, extensively.
Ah indeed, context is everything, the context is a different US president and different tension levels. Let's just hope that this incident is just another one hey.
Well, at least for the purely engineering part (aside from sales), I've seen the contrary more often than not.

Earlier I my career, I've seen projects understaffed with tight deadlines. When management finally released that the said deadlines could not be met, they hired really fast, and not carefully, a bunch of people to try to reach that deadline. Those new people needed to be on-boarded, trained, and sometimes put aside because they didn't have the required competences. In the end it put us even more behind schedule than before.

I've also worked at former startup bought by a big company, with more than ample resources. Yet there were tons of issues. Many teams having huge difficulties to communicate with one another, tons of features in the roadmap but very few made it into production and those in production were barely working and were a pain to keep up, the core functionalities of the product were slowly rotting away, long, annoying and not understood processes just cluttered everything and pieces of knowledge/information spread more like rumors with all that entailed of inaccuracies and wrong ideas...
I could not shake the feeling that with fewer people, we could actually have had a better and faster output. It may be an extreme case of scale-up (in term of headcount) gone bad, but I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one with a story like that...

I'm a fervent believer that flat organizations are way better, you can discuss directly with people, the pain points and challenges are clearly identified and solved together. In the end everything goes way faster and it's far more rewarding as an employee to work in that kind of environment. The issue is that past a certain headcount, flat organizations don't work anymore, however, when designing our products, maintaining the headcount as low as possible should really be a big item in the requirements.

Growing the headcount for growing the headcount seems ludicrous from a purely technical point of view. But I can understand that a larger headcount might make a company more credible and valuable from an external eye. I understand it but I'm far from a big fan of it.
If you ever get to go to SK, you may notice that the average citizen doesn't really fear NK. Why? Because they have been subjected to this for a long time.

Hell, in the past decade, NK has sent a threat to SK - by fax.

In other words, it's pretty reasonable to believe this is just Un trying to rile people up until someone sends them some more aid. As we haven't sent any, the behavior gets more and more outlandish. Inside the Hermit Kingdom, I'm pretty sure the leaders are well aware of the futility of actual war.

Mr. Un is just doing what his father and grandfather have done. They are basically screaming until mommy buys them some candy.
This doesn't work like that. You will have dopers in first (clean) league, because there will be all the fame, prestige and money. Unlimited league would be marginal and no one would promote drug users.
Likely another example of how bureaucracies become complacent, increasingly incompetent, and begin to structurally fail until some sort of catalyzing external event forces a restructuring and systemic reset.

As the saying goes, nothing changes until it has to. The military is a bureaucracy like any other, from personal experience. The problem with government bureaucracies is that there's no market pressure to fix things. Failure is rewarded and even encouraged since there is no real consequence.
Do you only mean professional athletics?

My only issue is that athletics start at a young age for most. For some sports, people routinely go pro in their teenage years (tennis, baseball, etc.). We would have parents PEDing up their kids just to get the college scholarships or drafted out of high school. Feels like that would do more harm than good.
Not a diplomat, so I have no idea. But I'd guess the responses are much more often diplomatic or covert than military.
Revenue definitely doesn't equal profit. Headcount is easier to measure than revenue, which is easier to measure than profit. :-)

A rule of thumb I've heard for SaaS startups is after they reach $50MM in ARR, Revenue + Margins should equal 40%. So if you're growing 20%, you should have profits of 20%. If you're growing 50%, it's ok to lose 10%. Just a rough rule of thumb.
While they often violate other countries' air space, this is the first time he has flown a missile OVER a Japanese land mass. This is a major big deal to the Japanese. Source: I'm in Tokyo right now... :/