skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s called worker safety, for one thing. Eleven workers died during construction, and this was considered better than average for its era!
A ride in NYC is crazy cheap compared to other parts of the world. I live in Europe (grew up in NYC) and a single ride costs $4.50 where I am. But the public transport is clean, well-maintained and safe.
It's not so much I think "All people are good", as "All people are incompetent", and "All people are the hero of their own story". And people are very, very poor judges of risk, generally - how many people are more afraid of terrorists than car crashes?

This dovetails into your last paragraph, by way of saying that the fact that paranoid behavior is counterproductive is in no way inhibiting paranoid behavior. People believe it works. What people believe is far, far more important to them than what actually is. We engage in counterproductive, even self-destructive behavior all the time. And not just the "incompetent" people, but everyone I know. We are all stupid. (fwiw, I do not consider "smart" and "stupid" to be opposites, but rather different qualities that happily coexist. Just because you're smart doesn't mean you aren't also stupid.)

This is also aggravated by the human distrust of those who are different. How many employees think their managers are ignorant fools at best, and actively malicious at worst? A majority, probably. How many of those people really have a good understanding of their manager's job, and the pressures and conflicts the manager deals with? Not many, I'd wager. This is the root of racism, nationalism, and other forms of tribalism, if you think about it. Those feelings are irrational, but they're common as dirt.

This view of humans as stupid rather than malicious was reinforced for me recently, when I read Factfulness, by Hans Rosling (which you should definitely read!). Rosling, a doctor/professor/world health expert, tested thousands of people with basic multiple-choice three-options questions regarding well-documented facts on the subjects of poverty, global health, and the link. What he found was that every audience, no matter how smart, well-educated, caring, or involved in the field, actually performed worse than random chance. Start on his questions, without reading his book first, and you'll find yourself doing worse than if you'd just pulled letters out of a hat. Don't feel bad, the same is true of UN leaders, CEOs, med students, etc. Rosling went on to identify ten different thought patterns that lead us to misunderstand the world, even the most basic facts about it.

Read it, and then look around the corporate workplace, seeing it through Rosling's eyes. You'll see very few snakes and a tremendous number of idiots.
Seems like a better fit than Socialcam
> Praying to god for business to pick up instead of starting the day searching for ways to improve the business sounds like the exact sort of thing that "No one plans to fail, they just fail to plan" quote is aimed at.

Prayer is not necessarily contradictory with action, and the optimistic mindset it enables for some people can be invaluable in stressful situations.
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This is poppycock.

$10,000 a person is a lie unless maybe if you moved all the homeless from the West Coast to the middle of nowhere in Midwest, but then you would have homeless activists and Midwest NIMBY activists saying that the government is shipping people out to solve the problem.

The activists have politicized every direction of this issue to the point where it's easier to just forget about the homeless rather than try to solve the problem. Most homeless need mental health care and should be forced into mental wards but then you have mental health activists that will protest against this. Other activists would complain that they are gentrifying SF and kicking out all the poor people.

Basically anyone who tries to solve this problem politically can't win because there will be some activist that protests against it to make a name for themselves and it turns into a hotbed issue by the media.
This is a good post for anyone using core.async because a lot of this I had to discover by hand and it takes a long time to unearth this knowledge. Thanks for the write up!
came to the thread to say exactly that and you beat me to it. upvoted :)
But, you can do things like making arbitration or assumptions of guilt illegal in contracts. Also, limiting effective APR to a reasonable extreme goes a long way too.
Neither one of those actually speaks to our spend.
Here's how you know they aren't just reporting but have an angle:

"...one of three major, climate change-charged conflagrations now afflicting California"

You know it's climate change charged? As in for sure, have evidence?
> How do you pay for it?

You'll be diverting people away from the criminal justice system and away from involuntary mental health hospital stays. Those can be fantastically expensive, and not particularly useful.

> How do you get that funding source to go along with your plans to pay for it?

Yes, that's a problem that seems hard to fix.
Yeah, options are either traded on an exchange, in which case the exchange should ensure that its members/participants have enough capital to cover the trades, and that makes the exchange itself liable (i.e. the exchange is the counterparty) - see e.g. the recent case of an energy trader going belly up in Norway [1] - he wiped out the whole emergency fund set up by the exchange itself, as well as a huge chunk of the secondary emergency fund set up by the exchange members. Otherwise, you're trading options OTC i.e. directly with another counterparty (e.g. an investment bank, private trader, etc), in which case the other party bears "counterparty risk" (i.e. the proximal cause of the last financial crisis - "will the bank that I've $100bn of exposure to still exist tomorrow or not") which they should manage and/or enforce in court if necessary (i.e. options are just contracts).

TL;DR: the person on the other side of the transaction needs to be reasonably sure you can hold your end of the deal.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/heatherfarmbrough/2018/09/14/no...
> If you do ask, you find that there is no consistent answer!

I'm not sure what's the problem. Why do have to "ask" if the answer doesn't really matter? What answer more consistent than "it doesn't really matter" would you like? Anyway (standard) QM is a non-relativistic theory, QFT may be more satisfactory from that point of view.

Re: "interference tagging" - what I mean is that first you detect the photons and later check if they "did happen" to go through two slits (interference appears) or one slit (no interference). But the interference pattern is not visible for a single photon and at that point the individual events are still a superposition of both possibilities (so for the events at a certain position part of them will be in the end identified as coming trough one slit and some of them from both). Only after the second measurement is done you know how to group the previoulsy recorded events to see the interference. It's not that the later measurement causes interference to appear. Or at least it doesn't affect at all where the photons were detected, it just lets you know how to group the existing events to make it apparent (selecting only those where, once the full mesurement on the pair has been done, the path taken remains uncertain).

Edit: maybe this picture helps https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/De...

If all the events are taken together there is no interference pattern. But when they are grouped according to where the second photon is detected in two cases there is still no interference but in the other cases complementary interference patterns appear.
Better not go to New Jersey, those NJ Transit tunnels aren't up to much either!
Its a bit funny to ask this question in this thread, but here we go:

What are the important topics & technologies to learn about with these types of topics? My uni experience didn't really include things like distributed systems or containerization.

Ideally fundamentals that won't be invalidated in 5 years when 'the new thing' becomes something else.

(Love good book recommendations on any subject a new grad should learn, not just this topic)
And the ferries are heavily subsidized and very expensive to operate, and they pollute quite heavily.

They don't compare remotely favorably to the subway along any axis except start-up cost (it's cheaper to buy a boat and build some piers than to build a subway tunnel).
Isn’t she just complaining that nobody is listening to her? That sounds a lot like a crackpot to me. Instead of complaining she should better work on a useful new theory explaining the masses of neutrinos or dark matter and dark energy. But of course this is much harder than writing blog posts.
No worries -- based on their names, I'd say the girl and her uncle are Finnish as well. :)
And additional public transport reduces the need for roads and road maintenance as well.
Homelessness is a condition, it's not a character trait. I still find it shocking that so many find it so easy to hate the poor and the homeless and to blame them for those problems. Usually those people know the least about homelessness and poverty, but that rarely stops them from having an opinion.
> If you really feel that way, charitable organizations can effectively distribute donations far more efficiently and effectively than any government organization has ever been able to.

The hundreds of billions of dollars per year paid out with minimum fuss by Social Security suggest otherwise.
It's not insanely cheap compared to the rest of the developed world. Paris metro costs 1.90 Euros or more likely 1.49 if you buy books of 10 tickets or whatever.

I've been to plenty of developed world cities where the cost is under $3.
.5 = ½ = 50%
What you describe is still not an idempotent build process, which is all I'm arguing against.

I'm happy to admit docker images are more portable than declarative shell script's output.

You're arguing against something I'm not saying. I'm talking about how easy it is to make script/docker-image-definitions idempotent, not about their usability, not about their distribution.

When I wrote "is this any different from what you do", I meant "what you do to make it idempotent", not is the resulting artifact and usability any different.

Same with "any of this easy", "any of this" was "idempotency", not anything else.

Everything you are arguing against is a strawman based on misreading the intent of my comment I think.
Aren't you "manipulating graphical elements" when you type in textual commands?
If you use DO, Vultr, Heroku, or AWS, each have different ways of accomplishing backups, redundancy, etc.
No coincidence that this is literally the first time I've heard of his product.
People here seem to think that this is someone's weekend project, not the result of serious engineering from an institute of the Fraunhofer Society (which it is).

The spec can be found at https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Publications/TechnicalGuidelines/... (63 pages, the BSI is the German Federal Office for Information Security, a government agency), and this is slated to become an ISO standard.

Here's the Google translation (original in German provided somewhere else by @JdeBP) of an article introducing the tech:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

I agree with others that the master/slave terminology is unfortunate in new tech like this. Otherwise this looks pretty good.
I don’t think that sort of hack would have been taken down any less quickly in the past. The only time dome hacks have lasted a while have been when they’re extremely tricky to take down.

I have some further opinions about what you allude to at the end of your comment, but that should probably be taken offline.
The one that provides people (the illusion of) liberty through movement.
FYI: Here's a static JavaScript version I whipped-up ( as a lunch-time challenge ) that will reversable rotate everything except whitespace...

https://github.com/jeffallen6767/rot0x8000
I suspect Heinlein gets categorized all over the map (from "hippie" to "fascist") because critics looking at only one of his books don't realize that he's using science fiction to explore (but not necessarily fully endorse) different sociopolitical and cultural arrangements. He constructs a Sparta-style government of the military elect which gets mistaken for fascism in Starship Troopers. He describes a free-love new religious movement in Stranger in a Strange Land. He engineers a libertarian-anarchist[1] revolution in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Heinlein portrayed none of these systems as perfect and seemed, to my eyes, to be exploring their implications in a scifi setting rather than plugging for any one of them.

[1]: Libertarian used here in an American context, though some members of the lunar revolution in the novel are monarchists, syndicalists, and anarchists as well.
Right now we're 4 weeks in and IT and 2 guys want it. We're 3 server nodes + 2 client nodes big, 128G RAM, 16 cores, 32 threads. Please go ahead and call this tiny and irrelevant. I'm aware and under the same assumption. I've dealt with individual servers around 4x that size.

But, go ahead and ask me again in 3 or 6 month. We'll migrate around 10 HW servers as nomad clients, we'll probably get HW capacity from our sister company and then we'll start interacting with the 2 other sister companies. If we get all of their resources into nomad, we'd be up to 60 - 80 beefy metal servers. And those 2 other sister companies are in pain for easy windows resources. If nomad can do that properly, I'll be sold for it quite hard. It'll be fun.
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There's a compromise solution to achieve something equivalent. And I say so after having tried many possibilities.

Buy a Pixel or any other phone that supports AOSP (Sony does too, with some caveats) and install plain AOSP.

It's not perfect as you need a bit of infrastructure to compile it yourself and keep OTA updates. But it's the most practical secure and privacy-respecting option, I think.
I think that's splitting hairs.

We all understand the difference between "texual" and "manipulating colored boxes, drawing arrows and generally using a non-textual interface". I'd rather we addressed this rather than the accuracy of the author's wording...

I partially agree with the author in that programming is inherently complex, and that "visual" UIs are inadequate once the program reaches a sufficient complexity level. Also, textual manipulation tools tend to be ubiquitous and more importantly, non-propietary; I'm naturally wary of other tools.

I disagree with the author in that I think there's still room for exploring graphical UIs.
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I really want to snowboard with the NYPD.
No, not in the sense the author is talking about. See my response to the sibling comment.
From Part II of this:

> What to do with a contributor to your open-source project who turns out to be a very bad person—is worth contrasting with what would unfold were you his manager at a firm: You'd fire the person.

You'd better be damn careful about that. It's illegal in New York, for example, to fire someone for their (legal) associations outside of work, when not representing the company. If they say something objectionable to a coworker, you're probably fine. But you can't fire someone for being a member of an objectionable group or taking part in a protest or anything remotely like that unless they somehow represent the company while engaging in the objectionable activity.
Thanks so much for responding and sharing your story! "We have a sort of moral attitude about debt," is spot on! So much so, I was a tentative sharing my experience, afraid I'd get blasted for missing the payments in the first place by people who've never had to deal with the system before. It really was an eye-opening experience for me, and a window into what tens of thousands of people deal with every year.

I forgot to mention I was broke because of my own self-financed startup as well, which didn't work out. (It turns out, I'm a horrible business person. Happily, I was able to sell the assets of the company to a BigCo for a small amount and pay off my debts.)

Lessons for future entrepreneurs in debt: You can ignore the daily credit card robo-calls, make arrangements with your landlord and the electric company, but they'll come for your car faster than you think. (They grabbed mine the day after Christmas).
I'm not saying "give people who are dependent more opioids" I'm saying that while you're treating the problems that drove them to become dependent in the first place, it makes sense to give them easy access to clean drugs so they don't have to deal with 2 personal crises at once. For example, Heroin Assisted Treatment:

http://www.sdf.org.uk/heroin-assisted-treatment-provided-gla...
It seems like no one learned anything after the last one 5 months ago: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-04-18/index.html

IIRC the first outbreak was from farmers in Yuma watering their fields with water that had been contaminated by runoff from a large cattle farm upstream.

(The article says the two aren't related, but it seems like more than a coincidence unless romaine lettuce is more succeptible to contracting and retaining e. coli somehow..)
I don't think that criticism really understands what Everett says-- the evolution of the universal wavefunction is unitary. There is no "splitting". There is only uncertainty about what part of phase space you are in (and any measurement that tightens your certainty in one axis of phase space will broaden it along some other axis).
Experiments on the edge
R2D2 hack was left up for more than a day...

http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1999/r2d2/

Several Lobby 7 hacks were also left up for a while (though admittedly less obvious and dangerous perhaps than Great Dome hacks).
When I was fresh out of college, I worked as a contractor for a prominent agricultural equipment manufacturer. I was responsible for building out the touch-screen interface for the radio (a Qt app). I was told by an engineer who worked for the equipment manufacturer that my application wasn't good enough because needed to be able to operate correctly in the face of arbitrary bit flips "from lightning strikes"--I kindly asked her to show me the requirements which was sufficient to get her to relent, but that was still the wackiest request I've ever received.
The homeless problem always gets worse when a population grows, like most problems.

Even if you hold the homeless % constant, the problem got worse.
I’ve heard it claimed that those in leadership use it to justify the purchase of a product. Sort of a “nobody ever got fired for buying what Gartner recommended.”
Thanks for the info - it sounds like you've got things locked down pretty well already. The key bit as you say is the fact that the emails are stored on a system that is not publicly accessible.

My biggest worry with anything like this is that if there is a breach at Blogsend that affects the readers of my blog, I'm still responsible for it as I'm the one who put the form on my site and encouraged my readers to enter their email address.

The last thing I want to have to do is use Blogsend to send a "Notice of data breach" email! :)

I've run my own similar system before (just for my blog) where readers could enter their email address, verify it and then receive notifications when I post. However, I discontinued this system as I didn't want the burden of storing personal data like that.

One think you could check out is adding security HTTP response headers - your site is pretty clean and simple so it should be relatively easy to get it locked down tightly. See https://securityheaders.com/.
Intelligence automatically emerging in nature is very likely and an obvious requirement to humans rising to be the dominant species on earth. FEP makes it seem like this is a new idea. How we think about the meta, and reconstruct ideas from our own perspective has been embedded in human adaptation as long as recorded history. To model "true" AI from a human perspective using FEP you need to model AI from the initial frame of reference, where human intelligence emerged automatically. This could perhaps be done through manipulating a fundamental components of our brains or simulating scenarios where this could of happened.
You mean like where you're threatening people over a fundamentally peaceful activity like copying code? Yeah, definitely.
This is important. I agree that taxing / mandating one house per person / family is probably the only way to reign in rent seeking.
As far as I know those have the exact same issues with their kernels. The problem isn't the Android side of things, that's workable with Android One phones too. The problem is what is described in the article, the kernels at best get some patches but are never upgraded to new versions. Imagine if your Linux laptop was restricted to the specific kernel version the particular vendor had decided to ship initially.
I am. Why do the washing machines keep washing pensioners' clothes, if they're dead weight to the economy? Because we (the intelligent / sentient / human civilisation) decided so.
Whenever I'm evangelizing the PPACA, I always hit on the regulations around the MLR - the "medical loss ratio", ie, what percentage of premiums are paid back out as medical claims.

One insurance company had a plan with a ten-percent MLR! (Marketing plans that didn't cover anything to college kids, of course.) They took in premiums and kept ninety-percent of it as profit.
I hope one day they say the same thing about us programmers of the present time.

Hello from 2018 and sorry about JavaScript!
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I've found the Gartner hype cycle paradigm to be vastly overrated after experiencing real hype cycles in several industries.

If you examine their hype cycle charts over about a decade, you'll notice that technologies join or leave the chart randomly, and very few actually move in a linear fashion along the hype cycle: the charts offer no real predictive power.

I think the "hype cycle" narrative only matches a small fraction of tech innovations. Sometimes tech is adopted in a fairly smooth sigmoid. Sometimes it dies suddenly pre-plateau because it was actually vaporware or a substitute became more competitive. Sometimes there's a single giant hype cycle (dot-com?). Sometimes there are several repeating cycles (looking at you today, cryptocurrencies).
I remember that! Made me want to go to a fancy tech school. Didn't get in to MIT or Caltech, tho.
Federal taxpayers might be willing to house homeless folks in cheap places like western Kansas or Oklahoma. They'd be less willing to pay for a nice place like San Francisco. They've been paying taxes for years, and no one ever offered them free digs in a swanky cosmopolitan city. How many of the San Francisco homeless would want to live in western Kansas, even in a free apartment? These "obvious" solutions hide lots of assumptions.
Yes, I think it's more about signaling and CYA than fact-finding.
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Is there is a way to know what is the first link about bitcoin posted on HackerNews?
Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, right?
Is there a better corporate insights and research firm that you know of?

Their trends seem dated because they're not going to feed enterprises bleeding edge tech trends; they're going to go with trends that are mostly proven, so yes at that point they're probably going to be a bit stale. Large enterprises with minimal tech advocacy/leadership in the senior leadership team eat this stuff up because they don't know much better.

Frankly, if your business is struggling with operations to a point where they are bringing in third parties to get told to outsource operations, I feel like your business has a competency problem that you can't place squarely on the shoulders of Gartner.